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Why is it "highly misleading" to characterize technically possible but undocumented and unsupported capabilities as "internal". Internal APIs are often undocumented and unsupported, how is this different?

I don't think it's just a monopoly thing. Does the PIF file under Windows (16 bit derivatives and Win9x) allow you to specify kernel, config.sys, autoexec.bat?(1) Without those capabilities I don't see the Windows DOS environment as comparable to OS/2 where you are basically booting DOS in a virtualized BIOS environment.

In Windows you might be able to modify the provided DOS environment after the fact, but as far as I know you are going to be starting from the DOS provided by Windows. The level of DOS integration was actually a benefit in later versions as portions of the DOS kernel got replaced with 32 bit counterparts.

I think LOADLIN worked more because of the lack of security in DOS. As far as I know it generally doesn't work in any of the virtualized DOS environments, so I (somewhat ironically) consider it at the very least highly misleading for LOADLIN to be characterized as "more or less the way DOS works".

It's sometimes possible with security vulnerabilities to red pill modern versions of Windows and insert some other kernel underneath, but I don't think that would typically be considered 'the way Windows works'.

(1) I know NT allows config.sys and autoexec.bat, but it's not "booting" a real DOS environment, but using the files as part of an emulated DOS environment.
> What's this obsession with words about?

There's a few different cases here, but the general principle is that, for many people, words carry emotional or semantic connotations, and we want to use different words to manage these connotations.

1) For the "sexual assault vs. rape" case - Some words may be more unpleasant for many people to hear. Many people may find the word "rape" to evoke more unpleasant emotions than the more muted "sexual assault," so may use the latter in situations where we prefer not to elicit a strong emotional reaction, such as in a professional or therapeutic environment.

2) For the other cases - many people find certain terms more dehumanizing than others. With the homeless example, many people feel that "homeless" has become not just a descriptive term, but a term that carries connotations such as "crazy," "disgusting," "failed," and maybe above-all, "other" - outside the realm of people we consider "us". In contrast, the term "unhoused" carries more of a connotation of a temporary state a person is in, rather than an inherent label or trait of that person.

There is certainly a treadmill phenomenon to this - in a few years, if "unhoused" catches on, and if homeless people are still dehumanized, it's likely that the word will take on a dehumanizing connotation and many will seek to replace it.

> What do we achieve by focusing on words

All that said, while I think language is important, I do agree with you that there is an excessive focus on language and an inadequate focus on actual solutions. I would say that the current economic system and power structures make solving these problems very very hard, and as a result many people focus on policing and adjusting language because it is something that they feel they can actually change.
I'm currently upgrading my home network, trying various options, and one of the headaches is provenance of the equipment.

By provenance, I mean where it's designed, where it's manufactured, who has brand oversight of it, who controls the firmware, who runs the IoT phoning-home servers, etc.

(I don't have high security requirements for home, but I pay attention to such things out of curiosity.)
If a paper advances false claims it should be retracted. What those claims are and who might find said claims politically convenient are utterly irrelevant. This is not a political issue. Attempting to frame it as such accomplishes nothing of value.
Except that, in at least some circles, "y'all" can be used to refer to one person.
Conversely, I find Ubiquiti to provide a better product
Yes, 100% - because as the "business owner" I've been the one responsible for actually passing the signed agreements back and forth, so I would have seen the notarization.
Do you mean on vultr or in general? Because $2.5/month VPS are still widely available on lowendbox: https://lowendbox.com/.
So what are my options here now? I run an omada system - do I move over to ubiquiti or DIY with opnsense ? if firmware is the issue then an entirely open system is what makes sense here.
I use Vultr for a couple of VPSes. They are great!
I don't know about unhoused but the other two seem like genuinely useful improvements in terms of communication. I don't think using words that better communicate the idea has a negative effect on working against the thing.
They add value for the capitalist elite. End of article.
What you're saying is interesting but I think the causality is backwards here and I can provide some examples to show why.

(By male hormone I'm assuming you mean testosterone, and by female hormone I assume you mean oestrogen.)
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If being "more male" came from having more testosterone (and vice versa), then logically when children go through puberty and develop into adults, they would become "more" male or "more" female.

As adults become elderly and naturally produce less sex-associated hormones, they would become "less" male or female.

(Fetuses do not all begin in the womb as female, that's a common misunderstanding. We start off physically undifferentiated, and develop along a genetically predetermined pathway as we grow. Some animals use temperature or other environmental triggers to pick, humans use genes.)

Would that mean a male bodybuilder who injects testosterone is more male than a man that doesn't? His phenotype may become visibly more masculine, but that doesn't change his sex at all. Same for a female bodybuilder that injects testosterone - she may develop stereotypically male physical characteristics like large muscles and a deeper voice, but her sex is unaffected.

The causality is the other way: being male - or - female results in a physiology (adult testicles/ovaries) that produces sex associated hormones in larger or lesser degrees depending on the person (and in some cases very low amounts or not at all).

This makes sense if sex is a binary (with rare differences of sex development - detailed here https://www.theparadoxinstitute.com/read/sex-development-cha... ) that results in different levels of sex hormones in the body and resulting phenotype. So yes, everyone is male or female.

(I'm not referring to gender here - I'm talking only about sex)

If there's a spectrum then some men could be biologically "more male" than others and vice versa for women. I've not seen any evidence of this myself, but I'm happy to be proven wrong!
> The issue here has less to do with climate change itself and more to do with a combination of regulatory and economic factors.

The issue is not that the insurance regulations have tightened or changed. The issue is that the climate risks have heightened and the regulations have NOT changed to match the heightened climate risks.

Small increases in average temperature of the air leads to large decreases in average moisture content of brush and vegetation, making fires more common and more likely to impact more homes. The insurers have the data, that's why they are acting the way they are. Fires are more common and fires are larger. Not politics. Actuarial data compiled by insurance companies. If you've spent any time with insurance CEOs, you'll know they are not bleeding heart liberals. They tend to be very conservative and very data driven. And they have the data and it impacts their business.

The regulatory issue is that, to prevent historical forms of bad behavior on the part of insurers, state regulators require that insurers can only set pricing for fire insurance (for example) on the basis of historical data, not on the basis of forward-looking projections. That's the right thing for regulators to do in normal circumstances, when the risk environment isn't changing, but if the risk environment is changing it means you as an insurer will need to pay out money in the future at a higher rate than you did in the past, but you can only collect money based on lower historical payout rates. You are, in practice, required by the regulators to now offer your product at a loss not because the regulations changed but because the average daily temperature is increasing ever so slightly but just enough to significantly increase your cost. You don't want to offer a product at a loss, so you leave the market.

As to why insurance is a regulated industry, in large part that's because insurance is one of the few products the government requires you to purchase, distorting the market, and also in large part because there are massive asymmetries of information between consumer and provider - insurance companies have much more information about risks than insurance customers do, which prior to regulation led to abusive practices on the part of the insurers, in ways that led voters to say "this is a problem that needs to be fixed."

All big problems are hard, and insurance regulation is a big hard problem. If you just say "the environment is changing, so insurers should be able to set prices based on forward-looking projections" you help with the climate pricing increases but are likely to get other unrelated bad behavior at the same time (forward-looking projections are notoriously easy to fudge or fake in ways that are massively favorable to the person making the projections). If you don't allow for forward-looking projections, you lose insurers, if you do allow for it, you get abuses. "Just do it the right way" is much easier to demand in a blog post or comment thread than it is to deliver in legislation.
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Meh. Can the people hyperventilating about this change show it's actually operationally affecting Interpol in any way, or do you just enjoy the dopamine rush.
Literally hundreds of papers. Basically any paper published about masks during the pandemic was bad, save for a few RCTs. But I'll give you one particularly egregious example that comes to mind. The "Boston school mask study" in NEJM [1] claimed that mask mandates led to an almost 30% reduction in school cases during the pandemic. Subsequent reanalysis of the work -- including going back to the original source data -- showed that not only is that not true, the researchers blatantly cherry-picked their data, and also chose analysis time windows to optimize their desired outcome.

The original paper should be retracted. Full stop.

[1] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2211029

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.11974
I somewhat answered that in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42450085

In short, since `ruby/json` ships with Ruby, it has to be compatible with its constraints, which today means plain c99, and no c++. There would also probably be a licensing issue with simdjson (Apache 2), but not sure.

Overall there's a bunch of really nice c++ libraries I'd love to use, like dragonbox, but just can't.

Another thing is that last time I checked, simdjson only provided a parser, the ruby/json gem does both parsing and encoding so it would only help on half the problem space.
As long as the consequences of then producing something which was not-quite-what-they-mean but them being unable to recognize that are not too high.
Do you have an example of someone who does it right?
I would be interested to see how you can compare LLMs capabilities - as a layman it looks like a hard problem...
I just made a reply to a sibling comment with an egregious example. This is far from the only one.
The last sentence of the abstract indicates the goal is to be able to run at higher utilization without sacrificing latency. The outcome of that is you need less hardware for a given load which for Google undoubtedly means massive cost savings and higher profitability.

> Prequal has dramatically decreased tail latency, error rates, and resource
> use, enabling YouTube and other production systems at Google to run at much
> higher utilization.
> there is no software priced between $1000 and $100,000

Nitpick, but this is the price range for most professional film restoration software.

The target is often small restoration houses with workstations at 10 or so seats.
I don't know about this specific example, but the concept is sometimes referred to as the "euphemism treadmill", which suggests a sort of cyclical nature to it.
It’s not new: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/euphemism_treadmill
I really don't get (jupyter) notebooks. It always feels like an over-engineered solution to a simple problem. The only advantage they have over 'proper' code generating a 'proper' report is being able to modify code directly on the report (i.e. as opposed to having to change the code in a separate file instead). Which sounds good and all, but this is rarely what I see notebooks actually used for. For the most part, people use them as an IDE, and a notebook is a terrible choice of IDE compared to even something as simple as editing in nano. And the disadvantages of using one generally completely outweigh the benefit of live-editing in the first place, and encourage all sorts of bad programming habits / hacky code structure.

Whenever I've required a report which intermingles code, text, and outputs, a simple bash-script processing my (literate programming) codebase has always done a far more impressive job of generating a useful report. And, without having to sacrifice proper packaging / code-organisation semantics just for the sake of a report.

I find it a big shame that the iodide / pyodide notebooks didn't take off in the same way, at least. Those seemed tightly integrated to html in a way that was very elegant.

(they're not completely gone though, it was nice to see this example on the front page earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42425489 )
Things get dumber by the day. I'm very happy with my TP-Link Deco mesh router.

The US outsourced absolutely everything to China and is now banning it up down and centre. Shizophrenic much?
The military can obviously take precautions over nothing. It's made of people. But they're probably just taking precautions over fools flying DJI drones to find the mystery drones.

And yes, there are plenty of good low light cameras out there, but strangely we still don't have good video of unexplainable drones. Maybe they're using cloaking devices! /s
I think this misses the forest for the trees. At the end of the day, if you're competing to be the world champion in chess, your goal isn't to play as close to the engine as possible, it's to win games. If you play with 100% accuracy, but lose on time, you don't get to be the champion.
Not one person in any health insurance company has the job to help someone heal. Insurance is a clerk function, jammed in between patient and doctor. They do no service that medicare doesn't do already.

Confusing things is the ACA is cheap for people who get subsidies (if you're near poverty) but for those us self employed or make medium income, our payments to health insurance companies are $1500 or more per month. For what? We get denials at our most vulnerable moments.

Abolish insurance. Let us buy into medicare or make M4A like most other countries have. Insurance is a old sick system that way outlived it's grifting life.
The 10 bit/s processing rate doesn't explain why a human talks better than a LLM that consumed terabytes of data traffic during learning.
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That's true, TP-Link isn't great about keeping their consumer product firmware secured or updated. ASUS isn't much better but when it comes to network gear, you kind of do get what you pay for.

Selling models close to EOL or trying to hold hardware makers responsible for firmware security has been an issue for decades.
> and your keys

Ah, so no worries then. I've still got a passkey for all the services I really care about.

If I'm not supposed to have cloud-synced credentials like so many here dislike with those implementations of passkeys, chances are the copies of my password safes and my SSH keys to the VPS are all cooked as well.
CEO's have historically blamed AI and despite the massive layoffs, it seems like you're also attributing the reduction in quality to AI.
Most realistically, the main alternative will be processes focused on product release. With a statistical acceptance of mistakes. Consider that Coke has a specific shade that they have used for a long time.

My main problems with efforts like this is that they cannot distinguish between different organizational priorities on design considerations and they make virtually no allowance for what different practitioners are using today.

That later point is the one that drives me the most crazy. We have very few tools that can help reconcile a graphic design to a website. Most of what we have are attempts to change how graphic designs are created so that they can be more directly transferred.
It is substantially easier to replace the entire computer system of most gasoline engines if something critical like the ECU is no longer commanding the engine to deliver fuel or spark. In the US this constitutes a "defeat device" and is prohibited by federal law
I am not a US citizen, nor I live there. However, I trust the Chinese goverment much less than the US one. So I get the banning if they really believe they could have a trojan horse. What I don't get is, what guarantees you that there is not a trojan jorse on any electronic device they produce?
Probability models are an attempt to cope with a lack of information. But you not having complete information doesn’t mean the world is like that.
Perhaps the ban / tariff / regulation should be applied to companies making networking hardware that's riddled with flaws and exploitable vulnerabilities, rather than by naming specific companies or countries of origin.
Nice to see this posted. Understated in this is that BND also helped North Dakota avoid the worst of the mortgage crisis, and that the student loan program (combined with decent state universities) make education more affordable. As far as banks go, BND is a gem.
Was going to post this if someone else hadn’t already
They will build the Aegis, THAAD, and Patriot, and its not a provocation. But let the common person be empowered to do something within their own capabilities on that and now its provocation. Telling how that works. Maybe if bomb shelters were sold and built by one politically connected business, it also wouldn’t be a provocation.
I will take this opportunity to ask if anyone want Apple to make AirPort Extreme again?
> New Go users: most of the time returning an error without checking its value or adding extra context is the right thing to do

Thank you.

Feels like Go is having its Java moment: lots of people started using it, so questions of practice arise despite the language aiming at simplicity, leading to the proliferation of questionable advice by people who can't recognize it as such. The next phase of this is the belief that the std library is somehow inadequate even for tiny prototypes because people have it beaten over their heads that "everybody" uses SuperUltraLogger now, so it becomes orthodox to pull that dependency in without questioning it.

After a bunch of iterations of this cycle, you're now far away from simplicity the language was meant to create. And the users created this situation.
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I agree, and I'm saying that what actually gets retracted is basically a function of the activism of people who are particularly motivated, which is a matter of politics.
Isn't the concept so generic that it's kind of hard to standardize? I.e. some of the values are structured (e.g. margins can have four values), some are colors and some are pixels or rem or whatever... why no just use an existing schema language like JSON Schema?
If the US was serious about this or TikTok, they would create security and privacy rules that applied to everyone. Instead they are targeting individual companies, which means it has little to do with security or privacy.
That's impressive! Between the advancement in robotics, chat/voice AI, and image generation it's going to become so hard to distinguish fiction from reality in a few years. You'll just have to see things in person to trust they are real.
Exactly. Remembering that our own NSA has intentionally compromised devices makes all of the "ban China" calls sound like jealousy.
I wouldn't expect the average person to set anything up. I'd expect the AP to isolate all devices by default. Most of these devices and their corresponding apps are just reaching out to "the cloud" anyway. It's not like they actually treat the LAN they're on as a LAN.

That having been said, I don't know for sure that most generally available consumer devices would actually work under this arrangement.
How balcony solar is taking off
How we made our AI code review bot stop leaving nitpicky comments
>Can't read the article but it does make you wonder.
How would they know this unless they were already making them barely good enough to last beyond the warranty period in northern climates?

Sorry to be a stick in the ass, but RTFA. The Arrhenius equation is mentioned and is quite interesting.
Yeah it’s way too much of a cliché at this point.
People still use rape but there's a thing there around understanding exactly what that might mean. I've been "sexually assaulted" but not raped, legally, because of UK laws.

Unhoused may be because homeless covers people living in homes. But I'm not arguing this case because I don't trust that's a real issue you're raising given the others.

> Interpol argues that the term 'pig butchering' dehumanizes and shames victims of such frauds, deterring people from coming forward to seek help and provide information to the authorities."

There you go.

You're arguing this like this is instead of, rather than alongside, targeting criminals.

How victims feel and how likely they are to report issues is important. If you called fraud "scammed an idiot" would you get as many people reporting? Pig butchering is a shockingly dehumanising term.
I wonder what happens to their Kasa brand of smart devices then. I have bunch of wall switches and smart power plugs with them.
I think Volvo is a good example for why most companies don't care about safety any more than the law and basic PR requires: the market does not reward companies that try to use safety as a selling point. Volvo is the only major car company that consistently manufactures cars that widely exceed legal safety requirements, but have a global market share of less than half a percent.

That's probably about the number of people who take safety into consideration as a major factor when making purchasing decisions.
You do it once the first time you log in, then add another passkey for the service to the laptop. Now you don't need your phone to log in. Also, if you lose your phone, you can log back into the service on your new phone with your laptop.
I like this vision, but I'm not optimistic about it coming to fruition. IoT vendors want their devices phoning home over the Internet, it gives them traceability and platform lock-in.
>I'll never be able to read about us digitally unrolling fragile scrolls without it seemingly like otherworldly sci-fi technology.

I similarly had my mind blown reading an article last week, about how sports & game card collectors are now having their packs CT scanned so they can identify what cards are inside (and the value of the pack) while keeping them sealed.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5987857/2024/12/12/trading-...
I still rock a Latitude E6220 from 2011 or so after my main one broke and I just never replaced it.

It had 4gb ram, upgraded it to 8gb for $10 via Amazon, running Alpine with awesomewm and it works perfectly fine, firefox runs fine, compiling works fine, VLC works fine, etc.

Even Windows 10 ran on it fine. Really, CPU's haven't changed so much in the last 10 years, the focus has all bee on graphics.
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