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> This isn't about privacy. Not directly anyway.

Agree fully. Don’t know why you’re being downvoted. I accept the risk or tradeoff of Apple or MS spying on me. It’s not that, but the right to repair, to tinker, to hack. Those things have brought us so much interesting wonderful things. My entire generation (millennial) has superior tech literacy to both those that came before and after (no shade to the older gen - some of you are better than us, but with millennials it’s so much more widespread than eg gen X). Many younger gens never use ”real” computers (only tablet & phone). The gilded age was an anomaly, and is over.

> the case does need to be made as to why this is a market failure and not just consumer choice working as expected

I swear this consumer choice navel gazing will be the death of innovation. The US is obsessed with this narrative, that the magic market hand will self-correct, without any justification or scrutiny. Yes, consumer choice is necessary, but not sufficient. Just look at the developments in tech over the last decade+. I don’t have the solution but anyone who’s not entirely lost in dogma should be able to see the failures.
I love how this article embraces the complexity of the phenomenon : at least one time, not only """cargo culting""" actually worked, it even did so for a logical reason !

> In one unusual case, the islanders built an airstrip and airplanes did come. Specifically, the Miyanmin people of New Guinea hacked an airstrip out of the forest in 1966 using hand tools. The airstrip was discovered by a patrol and turned out to be usable, so Baptist missionaries made monthly landings, bringing medicine and goods for a store. It is pointed out that the only thing preventing this activity from being considered a cargo cult is that in this case, it was effective. See A Small Footnote to the 'Big Walk', p. 59.
It seems to me that you're believing cherry picked statistics that show what you want to believe, and you think that I'm doing the same, which is entirely fair.

It's clear we're not gonna agree, but thanks for the discussion regardless. It's always interesting to see the perspective of the people I disagree with. Cheers
Unfortunately people stopped posting on Craigslist, and offerup is almost as dead. Facebook marketplace and local free stuff groups are the best places to find used goods.
Generally, these "conversations" have not been:

>Telling to others which word they might consider

Instead the pattern seems to be a group of people on Twitter/Mastadon/social media de jur all taking a quote and sharing talking about how awful it is that someone use the word "blah" in this day and age and how they are a horrible person and we should call up their work and get them fired...

Sometimes even completely misunderstanding what the person is talking about; as one of the first examples of this rousing to cancel people was a guy telling his friend that he would fork that code and someone misunderstood it to be sexual....followed by much ado about dongles.
Or it's working exactly as intended. Pay-to-win isn't just for the game itself.
I majored in biology. A shell script would be a much more cumbersome tool for making a scatterplot, running a linear regression on a csv, etc.

The things that people are using Python for are significantly easier with Python. There are libraries designed to make these tasks super simple, and with the right IDE you wouldn't ever have to touch the shell.
Also pushed by The Hill, which is generally Trump friendly. This is a classic regime change operation by advocacy and indoctrination of the Greenland population.

If Greenland votes to join the U.S., they will get a reservation and the U.S. will get the minerals. Ask the Inuit in Alaska.
> influential "Jargon File" defined cargo-cult programming as "A style of (incompetent) programming dominated by ritual inclusion of code or program structures that serve no real purpose."34 Note that the metaphor in cargo-cult programming is the opposite of the metaphor in cargo-cult science: Feyman's cargo-cult science has no chance of working, while cargo-cult programming works but isn't understood.

These are not oppositional, dead code that does nothing doesn't make the planes land.
The universal symbols for gambling since ancient times are dices. Are those banned too?
The JBC has adjustable temperature, which lets you solder faster if you crank it up. The risk is that you will cook either the board or the component you are attaching to the board. This decreases the reliability of the finished assembly, and it is not always visually obvious when you have cooked something. So it is like the gas pedal on a Ferrari, dangerous if you overdo it.

The Metcal does not have adjustable temperature, the temperature is set by the tips you choose. So it only has one "speed" and this reduces the risk of cooking the board.

Both Metcal and JBC are good, ultimately it turns into a sort of Vim vs. Emacs sort of thing, aka personal preference.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42629256
> Yes, perhaps the problem of using disrespectful words is not very serious, and there are more important social problems. But this is not a reason to ignore them...

That is, in fact, a reason to ignore them. Even if you agree it's a problem (I don't), triage is important. Use your social capital on solving problems of importance, not on annoying people with solutions to minor problems.
> If you grew up in certain communities or religious groups, standard playing cards were forbidden items because of their association with gambling.

I was told it was because the face cards were derived from Tarot cards. Playing Uno or Rook (which had only numbers on their cards) at functions was considered just fine -- although of course any poker chips would have been so obviously Right Out that nobody even thought to ask.

(FYI later on I looked it up and the face cards do not derive from Tarot cards; but these discussions happened before the World Wide Web.)
I think it's not fair :) that you quoted from that comment here without pointing out my sentence in the immediate response:

> I absolutely think literate programs are a strict improvement on non-literate ones.

The whole article is about how good the airplanes are, and how much better they could be!
The article mentions that booking sites may come up with ways to neutralize the use of VPNs to circumvent geolocation-based pricing. I rarely book rooms in advance (most of my stays away from home are in motels on road trips), and I almost always prefer booking directly with the hotel when I do book in advance. I wonder to what extent fingerprinting the computer will defeat the use of VPN in this situation?

I also wonder if/when AirBnB/VRBO may start doing a similar thing? But I guess that would involve the private property owner participating in the scheme.
Best stick with “cargo cult” then! No, but seriously, that’s a good point.
You guys would have been really happy in the Soviet Union. Planned economies sound great on paper, I guess. (Though, to make my point: the standard of living there was below that of the West.)
Here you go: https://us.starlabs.systems/

Now, how many of you guys have this? Or anything like this? I bet 95% of the HN crowd happily uses iOS/Android daily.
Turning my laptop into a Search Relevance Judge with local LLMs
Another potentially dangerous windstorm headed to Southern California
They could have easily offered a free license to use the trademark. This project wasn't harming them in the slightest. Demanding the map's removal and implying that he will have to pay to put it back up shows a lack of empathy.
Successful in academia. Not at all successful in terms of real-world use.
> Minorities have been trying to get society to wake up to police brutality

And it happened, to a degree. Then it got overplayed, in part because the prigs Graham criticises were less concerned with police violence than they were with arguing online about it.

That in turn not only animated a pro-police backlash on the right, it also sapped the police/sentencing reform movement of the legitimacy it would need to survive mistakes, e.g. Chesa.
Unfortunately, a release that bad is the norm for most companies. The reason it hurt Sonos so hard is that they only have the one product.
> think it's bizarre that we treat computers as the most dangerous products in the world

We do not? You don't even need a license to buy /operate a computer unlike with some other examples on your list
The generation of gambling addicts who were raised into it with mobile gacha games isn't quite grown into adulthood yet.

Anti-gambling activists have limited resources too. They're going after what they recognize, which is casino gambling and simulations of it. This new shape of gambling just isn't on the radar of non-tech people yet.
Why is this such a huge issue if it merely shows it's busy, but the performance of it indicates that it actually isn't? Switching to Linux can be a good choice for a lot of people, the reason just seems a bit odd here. Maybe it was simply the straw that broke the camel's back.
Pretty ineffective, though. You don't need playing cards to gamble. The cards and the games that use them bring some established context and process which is certainly convenient, but they're not required to gamble. If people want to gamble, they'll tend to find a way. All you really need is 2 or more participants and an outcome to observe.

Two shepherds watching a flock of sheep can gamble between themselves on which side of the field the sheep will mostly be on at mid-day.

For my own perspective as someone who did grow up in a "no playing cards" religious group, it didn't help much regarding gambling. My siblings and I made wagers on random things all the time, including card games we made up ourselves with Rook decks.

The "evil" connotation did have some particular effects, personally. I remember around age 8 or so, some classmates with a standard card deck taught me how to play "Go Fish". No wagers, just playing the game. I was still apprehensive to join the game, and I spent the rest of the day alternating between being afraid of my parents finding out and worrying that my soul had been damned.
I've had a Sonos system going back 10 years now. I started with 6 or 7 speakers and now it is at 15 [9 zones] Sonos speakers and 12 HomePods [6 pairs]. There have been hiccups along the way:

- Migration from S1 to S2 having to replace early, older models such as Amp and Port. But have received some discounts on new speakers

- Unifi network & Sonosnet issues with STP. Mostly solved by disabling Sonosnet

- Sonos Roam speakers failing

While having occasional issues with the new app design, it hasn't impacted much on a day to day basis. I didn't use much of the features that were lost initially, though I can see how it would be damaging to those who do.

For playing whole home audio, I generally use Airplay integration and just group the speakers through AppleTV or iPad. I occasionally use the app to do so.

The value I receive from each:
- Sonos supports surround sound, whereas the HomePods do not.

- Sonos is tied into home automation and some custom TTS announcements

- Sonos Amp works with outdoor speakers and can update the speakers

- The HomePod minis are small and less intrusive in certain areas of the home

- HomePods have access to Siri and home control

At one point I had several Echo devices, but it was annoying to constantly update that system for home automation integration. HomePods replaced all of those except for an Echo Show in the Kitchen.

I never use bluetooth, nor felt it is a missing feature of my Sonos system or HomePods.
My parent post is notably not about the context that drove the cultists to adopt their practice. Even so. The pop-sci definition, directly quoted:

> During the war they saw airplanes land with lots of good materials, and they want the same thing to happen now. So they’ve arranged to make things like runways, to put fires along the sides of the runways, to make a wooden hut for a man to sit in, with two wooden pieces on his head like headphones and bars of bamboo sticking out like antennas

Incomplete? Yes, since the practice predated planes. But it is accurate to say that the cults persisted during / after WW2 and that cargo from colonial powers drew the (understandable!) envy of the cultists. And it is undeniable that they undertook rituals to obtain cargo, and that those rituals could not have worked.
Why should the U.S. steal 2 trillions in minerals from the EU just because Denmark is incompetent?
Having talked to Ukrainian refugees I strongly believe there's is some civilizational gap between certain countries in how they perceive systematic violence, especially killing people for resources. In Western civilization, there is no universal support for it. That's why when Bush prepared for the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, he couldn't really count for a wide coalition (his infamous "you forgot Poland!") and there were the biggest anti-war protests in the history of modern Europe, with millions of people going out on the streets.

We, Westerners, hate killing people - whether they are Arabs, Afghans, Vietnamese. As for Russians, I'm not so sure - it was enough to convince people that Ukrainians are Nazi and the killing started.
> Graham’s point, generously, is you’ll always have pearl-clutching prigs. What matters is if they’re empowered.

That idea gets very close to

https://jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/question/2009/march.htm

> “I am a middle-aged white person and even I know that blacks and other racial minorities cannot be racist, just like women can not be sexists. Racism equals power. Whites are not hurt by the everyday flow of society.”

I’m Black and I can go into a long rant about how I disagree with every word of that sentence.

But the Christian Right has had most of the power in the US for most of its existence until the rise of tech during the last 20 years. The entire crusade against “woke” is that demographic shifts are going to make the US a “minority majority” country within our lifetimes and that people who were usually in the shadows are now able to speak out.
> guaranteed a right to an independence referendum

exactly a independence referendum

and that is what Greenland wants independence not being a US territory

like think about it why would they want to be US territory it's pretty clear cut worse for them in close to every aspect. Like they would have less self control then under Denmark, they would have a way worse health care system, way worse labor rights, way less democracy, worse legal system etc. No one (who is well informed) in Greenland wants to be a US territory.
> To remove the whole site because of that seems petty.

How have they removed the whole site? It literally says "My traintimes.org.uk is still there." at the bottom of the page. Looks like only the maps have been removed.

(Edited to add: I'm a long time traintimes.org.uk user who never even realised they had maps on the site, so consequently I am happy the whole site has not been taken down)
They asked 416 people out of 56000 total in Greenland (~1%). They dialed randomized landline numbers (which is a biased group of people if you ask me).

It also leaves a bit of an after taste that this poll was done by an American organization which has the word "patriot" in it.
There was nothing in your comment subtle enough to miss, or that I haven't seen a hundred times in threads like this, and my reply stands.
I disagree. The most important documentation is for people who don't want to read your code just use it. Thus API documentation is important. Tests sort of do that, but they get into the wrong details - I don't want to read through a dozen different edge conditions for the first argument before you get to what the second argument does...
On the other hand building Linux binaries and keeping them running for years without maintenance has proven far more difficult than emulating Windows.

For an example track down the ports Loki games did many years ago and try to get them running on a modern machine. The most reliable way for me has been to install a very old version of Linux (Redhat 8, note: Not RHEL 8) on a VM and run them in there.
My original comment is flagged to death, fuck, HN has too many tucking morons. Just because I'm saying why the "enemy" might have a point, doesn't mean I'm supporting the enemy, you fucking downvoting snowflakes..

I'ved hated Zuck even before he became a Nazi-acquiescer, but the design/layout of Pixelfed which is almost identical to Instagram give Zuck's army a plausible reason to ban them...
HN doesn't like politics, which is not a totally bad thing. I figured it'd get flagged and killed but someone would find it interesting.
Perhaps it imposes some restrictions, like using TPMs, but I don't think it excludes what the author is suggesting, which is the ability to run as root.

Case in point: every popular desktop PC let's you run as root, and also watch DRM content. They aren't totally mutually exclusive.
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And we're all thankful you did, for various reasons ;-)
> we're flagging pg now?

I assume it's because the term "woke" will almost always derail a thread.
SCIM and CIAM
>If you have an assigned CSAM

That's an unfortunate acronym. I assume you mean Customer Service Account Manager.
The article attempts to subtly link Trump with Project 2025, despite his explicit denials. While some claims may have merit, the publication's decision to make such connections without concrete evidence undermines its credibility. As an impartial observer, it's concerning that the article resorts to speculative associations rather than focusing on verifiable facts. This approach damages the publication's reputation and risks misleading readers who may not critically evaluate the sources. Trump has categorically denied any involvement with Project 2025, yet the article chooses to highlight potential connections without acknowledging his refutations. This selective reporting undermines journalistic integrity and potentially loses readers' trust in the publication's ability to provide balanced coverage of important issues.

Citations:

[1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-i-have-nothing-t...

[2] https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/2024-election/trump-l...
( UK ) Prime Minister sets out blueprint to turbocharge AI
Apple and Google's app store policies have destroyed billions in potential market capitalization of both large and small companies alike, and have measurably negatively impacted the national security of the west by destroying the resilient peer-to-peer software delivery supply chain common to systems like MacOS and Windows, replacing it with a centralized, easily exploited gatekeeper.
Along the same lines, I quite like the regex visualizer (Railroad diagram): https://regexper.com/#%2F%5E%28%28%5Ba-f0-9%5D%7B32%7D%29%2B...
Should we also do without the very important word 'taboo'?
And as for "why are not selling this in every retail store?", the answer is the same - because if they were, no one would buy them. I found the situation curious, while everyone complains about it, only very few people are trying to do anything about it. Perhaps the breaking point was not reached yet, and something big has to happen to change people's perspective.
To be fair… Your example is a bit off. If you want to make the odd comparison, it is more like carrying a replica civil war long gun around while in civil war reenactment attire and wearing a sign that says, "On my way to a civil war reenactment, this is a fake gun and uniform" which you have done every day for years.
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> A classic regime change operation like hundreds of others.

My memory of post-WWII is that the US has a history of "changing" regimes in other countries, but has made very few (none? Maybe Cuba?) serious efforts to add territory to the actual land area of the United States.
It can if you phone has a IRC client (for example revolutionIRC on Android)
and it connect to a IRC server (libera.chat for example). There you can participate in #chatroom and message connected users.

Think discord/matrix but older, simpler, more bare-bones. Maybe you could consider it less bare-bones if the client support version 3 of the IRC protocol which must have added bells and whistles even though I don't know them.
I find that this client (Halloy) is beautiful and well-documented so I promoting it.

I personally use IRC as I use Discord, to connect with communities and get support from (generally older, more experienced) people.
> Absolutely nothing has really changed

been online since then as well; the arrival of ad-driven social media and "influencers" has changed the online landscape significantly. there's really no comparison.
Hi, great questions. We are running a few actions to understand if theres a need for this, then, a MVP with the team + a few extra drivers should help to understand that a little bit more, what do you think?
Entropix will get it's time in the sun, but for now, the LLM academic community is still 2 years behind the open source community. Min_p sampling is going to end up getting an oral about it at ICLR with the scores it's getting...

https://openreview.net/forum?id=FBkpCyujtS
We should stop using the term "black box" to mean "we don't know" when really it's "we could find out but it would be really hard".

We can precisely determine the exact state of any digital system and track that state as it changes. In something as large as a LLM doing so is extremely complex, but complexity does not equal unknowable.

These systems are still just software, with pre-defined operations executing in order like any other piece of software. A CPU does not enter some mysterious woo "LLM black box" state that is somehow fundamentally different than running any other software, and it's these imprecise terms that lead to so much of the hype.
No, in that case it would be a demonstration of how unsuitable that person is for the job.
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Not if you allowed them instead to play poker for money with Rook cards.
He's trolling while at the same time has the power to act on the trolling if it doesn't get push back.

That's the core issue with his "trolling", usually a troll doesn't have power so not feeding them the attention is all it's needed to defuse the situation, when the troll has the weight of the USA's government filled with sycophants behind to do their bidding then it isn't trolling anymore but much more a "testing the waters" situation.
Downranking is bad, outright blocking is far worse.
Yes but what if that duck statue is so appealing that you find yourself addicted to ducks, visiting pet stores looking for ducks, or wandering late at night in parks with feed in your pocket?
My experience is sometimes it works amazingly well like you say, and sometimes it doesn't.

LLMs are great at translations, like "convert this SQL to JooQ" or "convert this Chinese text to English". If you were going from Haskell -> Rust it might have trouble fighting with the borrow checker, or it might not if your memory usage patterns were straightforward or you can "RC all the things". Haskell's a particularly good target because less state means less complexity thinking about state.
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