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> But what if your opinions, as an individual, unelected bureaucrat are bad?

That’s a slightly silly stance to take. Modern developed countries live and die by the quality of their bureaucracy. Making every bureaucratic role an elected position would be insane.

How on earth would you organise elections for every single DMV employee? Or every single park ranger? Or every single government accountant or secretary? Every single civil servant involved in collecting the data used to drive policy decisions.

To get rid of “unelected bureaucrats” you would basically have to turn every federal role into an elected role. The federal government employees around 3 million people, even if we say that only 10% of them are “real unelected bureaucrats”, that’s still 300,000 elections you would need to hold every X number of years. How on earth would anyone ever manage any of that?

Thats before we get to the insanity which is Musk, the epitome of the “unelected bureaucrat” who seems to be the one leading the charge on many of these “policy decisions”, and publicly lambasting “unelected bureaucrats” as being corrupt and “undemocratic”.
I don't think it did, if anyone cares.
The way I've been advocating to my colleagues who are concerned about "cheating" is that there's probably a problem with the interview process.
I prefer to focus on the think, rather than the solve.

Collaborate, as opposed to just do.

Things that really tell me if I can work with that person and if together, we can make good things.
It's a LRU cache with a size of 1.
Looking for a Co-Founder – To Fuel the Rocket
...and we could do even better with progressive taxes and participatory democracy, rather than relying on some tiny percentage of inordinately-moneyed people to deign to give back in the exceptional way that MacKenzie Scott has done.
This would be a nice interview for candidates who have open source contributions, but many who have day jobs do not. Or their open source code is 5 years old and not representative of their current skill set.
iPhone size is already too big (imho!). So Sony one is anything but that. Asus ZFs? Nope, anything but mainstream. These never released in many geographies including my country - the most populous on the planet and no it was not even too costly for here - and yes, they already have a sales/distributor channel/base here so they didn't have to setup anything.

There really isn't anything mainstream out there at all. Why? Majority, clear majority, of people rejected smaller size phones sadly.
Great question to ponder. Surely people would have seen their own reflections in water, but the mirror itself would have made "Reflection Technology" for "Artificial Introspection" more scalable. I suspect the mirror offered modern people a new viewpoint, allowing one to see how one is perceived by others. I do not think selfhood and identity would have been affected. My main question is about when people came to behave differently than apes. Douglas Hofstadter's "The Mind's I" may have a few hints on perception of self for you.
Is the firmware available somewhere already?
Ah, gotcha. I think I wasn’t understanding exactly what was being said. Thanks for the explanation.
Trump is pretty old at this point. Even if he decided to go full dictator, how long does he have? Maybe 5 to 10 years? I don't think it would be quite as "stable" as Putin's Russia.
The original Taq polymerase used in the original PCR was published here https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/instance/232952/pdf/jb... and funded by the U. Cincinnati. The NSF funding (along with Atomic Energy COmmission funding!) paid for the initial capture and isolation of Taq, but that is just one of many things that had to be done for PCR to happen. I think the NSF is stretching here to say they made a sigifnicant contribution to CRIPSR.

In summary: NSF funding is great. It played an important role in a key component of PCR. But it's still a stretch for them to tout their involvement with PCR per-se.
Another condmat physicist wondering how this work got so hyped up. Single shot parity measurements are not new.
Discriminate against... a personality that will negatively impact the team dynamics? It's not that easy, to be honest, as every team has its own requirements.
It's why 24.4 kbps is about the max you can get from a modem without your phone line being a fancy one. Compression (in the musical sense not the Information Theory sense, though they overlap)
may i ask if you could explain in more details why medicare advantage is a bad choice to make if a person is already on regular medicare? assume that the person trying to make this decision is stubborn and not informed about the differences. thanks, i appreciate it.
This is a really cool set of articles, and while it’s not going to replace sqlite it’s fantastic to see the pieces needed to do sql with SQLite’s file format
I agree. That 4M extra people who voted for Trump in 2020 seem to be terribly suspicious.
wait a sec, this is just 1 profile on https://www.ycombinator.com/cofounder-matching right?
That maybe end up happening. Send them to a test center to do their remote hacker rank interview. Doesn’t even need to be standardized. I don’t like it but it’s one of the lower friction options.
That was something quite different that got tried. This would be more based on aptitude rather than knowledge.

Of course, they'd miss out on some good talent. But in the article where it shows the quote of someone getting rejected for not inverting a binary tree on a whiteboard, that doesn't seem like a terrible thing to test for.
> Possibly also that a significant portion of the suggested gain may be achievable via other means.

Things like that have been said many times, even before Rust came around. You can do static analysis, you can put in asserts, you can use this restricted C dialect, you can...

But this never gets wider usage. Even if the tools are there, people are going to ignore them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_(programming_language) started 23 years ago...

It took us decades to get to non executable stack and W^X and there are still occasional issues with that.
> I think consciousness arises from the brain.

I tend to agree, but it doesn't fully explain Benj Hellie's vertiginous question [1]. Everyone seems to have brains, but for some reason only I am me.

If we were able to make an atom-by-atom accurate replica of your brain (and optionally your body, too), with all the memories intact, would you suddenly start seeing the world from two different pair of eyes at the same time? If no, why? What would make you (the original) different from your replica?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertiginous_question
Because the US is an imperialist superpower and the way you remain an imperialist superpower is by making your vassal states dependent upon you. It's not a free lunch. The US gets unopposed military, cultural and financial hegemony. It gets the world's reserve currency. It gets to defy international law and bully half the world without consequence.

It's weird that the right seems to have forgotten all of this.

Also "the careless and luxurious lifestyle of Europeans?" WTF, do you think they all live in castles and eat pheasant under glass or some shit? What does that even mean?
Im revisiting technical interview prep because it has been awhile and it seems like a good time for a refresher, and it is striking how similar it all is to SAT and GMAT prep these days. A pretty cookie-cutter performance that is mostly about demonstrating that you have the time and means to properly prepare. Might as well just go the extra step at that point and have it be exactly like those standardized tests… take them once at a test center, get a score that is valid for a few years that you can just send in with your application…
WebOS is great and LG promises at least 5 years of updates.

Their smart magic control is best in class too.
Yes, open-source GoldSource would be wonderful.

I steer clear of Xash3D because of it's legal grey area too.
what do you think the constitution is?
> It's very uncomfortable to hold for longer periods of time

Somehow I see using phone less as a benefit.
Given that Microsoft has been a heavy research collaborator ( Atom and Quantinuum), is there a possibility that the cross pollination would make it harder to deliver a farcical majorana chip since microsoft isn't all in on their home rolled hardware choice?

I've held the same view that this stuff was sketchy because of the previous mistakes in recent history but I do not work in the field
Too easy! Going to build one with NAND gates.
Tacking on: the devil in a modern baseband is in the firmware. The analog domain stuff is generally handled by increasingly commoditized RF frontends outside of the baseband processor, and then either clean analog IQ or more recently, even digital samples (DAC and ADC moved to frontend) are sent to the baseband processor.

A baseband is a really fancy specialized SDR. Most are based on arcane VLIW DSP architectures like Qualcomm’s Hexagon or Samsung Marconi - you’ll usually have several DSPs handling the different physical layer channels, and then some coordinating DSPs doing L1 channel mixing and timing (in 4G and 5G, various logical and transport channels are muxed into the same physical channels).

Then a set of higher level processor cores (usually referred to as CP, sometimes still a DSP but often a general purpose application processor like ARM) will handle the MAC and above. There will be occasional fixed function blocks for some common protocol functions, but generally it’s less “analog magic” in the way people think when they hear “radio” and more “DSP magic.”
Probably - it seems like Source 2 is an iteration on Source, and certainly there are some Source 2 back-ports in Source, but I suspect the engine has undergone much more change than the game code.
> My second thought is what is going to happen in Europe once they have to beef up their military spending as the US has shown to be an unreliable partner.

I don't understand, what do you think may happen? Do you think Europe will collapse because they have to increase their military spending?
yeah, nobody can claim scaling without having the error to prove it. SPAM + coherence time + gate fidelity are the limiting factors to scaling, not the concept of an idea of how to build it at scale :-)
Maybe we'll end up with a state where typical computers have a CPU, a GPU, and a QPU to solve different problems.
I would argue that, especially for consumer goods, price is king.

Appliances last for shorter periods than they used to and can no longer be meaningfully repaired. But they are cheap, so nobody cares.

I read a book about Walmart and how one of their suppliers realized that the sweet spot for lawn mowers was an annual purchase. Make it out of plastic and sure, it won't start the next year, but it is an $70 lawnmower, so that didn't matter to customers.

Same with everything from shirts to food. Nobody thinks it is better quality. But it is cheaper.
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Lot lizards will have a bad day if they proposition that truck!
You left 20 years ago, in the middle of the GWOT and the various atrocities being done in the ME, and you thought America held itself to high moral standards?
I propose returning it to Očhéthi Šakówiŋ control. [0][1]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sioux

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakota_Nation_vs._United_Sta...
The e stands for electronic, marking a departure from traditional mechanical iPhones
Baseten, inference platform, $75M Series C, $825M valuation
Well if only we put as much energy into thinking about how to scale this model rather than the get-rich-quick startup/corporate model that typically just benefits investors, maybe we as a society would have good answers to your questions :)
Pulling Out the Big Guns for Needle Phobia When Nobody Takes It Seriously
Size/dimension is the problem!
100% anecdotal… one of my town’s youth football (American) clubs shut down before COVID due to lack of interest. When my son played ~15 years ago, the club was fielding 2 teams per age group.

And knowing what they know now, I wouldn’t let a child play today.
IDK, as an American I eat a lot of food.
This EO eliminates the concept of an illegal order since the law would be whatever the executive interprets it to be.

How do you come to that to conclusion, especially in the context of the EO?

This EO doesn't change the Constitution's requirement that the President "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed".

I'm not a lawyer but I would interpret this EO to say "it is the job of the President to execute the laws passed by Congress" and "the President may employ subordinates in that execution", however "these subordinates must still execute based on the President's interpretation, not their own".

The EO has a long section on "independent agencies which operate without Presidential supervision". This is what the EO clarifies.

> This EO eliminates the concept of an illegal order since the law would be whatever the executive interprets it to be.

This isn't true at all. This EO doesn't change the fact that President is held accountable by the judicial branch for following the law.
Yes but of course they don’t actually consider this to be something they want to support
>Constitutionally, we should go with the opinions of the people who won an election

That’s literally not how the constitution has ever worked.
I've seen someone just chuck a load of split peas in a plastic barrel and submerge with rain water. It naturally ferments with occasional agitation and this is supposed to be good for the chickens. So not so hard to do when you get to that point of wanting to try it.
There is a whole subreddit devoted to "fixing" windows. https://old.reddit.com/r/TronScript/
> But the culls are smaller, and so the impact lessened. The problem becomes more distributed.

Presumably the risk of spread of bird flu to humans increases though, due to the increased amount of contact. And then the increased risk of mutation leading to human to human transmission.

Bit wild to me that we don't seem to be taking this very seriously other than "o no my eggs" given we just had a pandemic a few years ago.
In my uni days, I respected professors who designed exam in a way where students can utilize whatever they could to complete the assignment, including internet, their notes, calculators, etc.

I think the same applies to good tech interview. Company should adapt hiring process to friend with AI, not fight.
Steve Jobs and Japan [video]
Malaysia's commercial electricity prices is about 0.13 USD/kWh, it's moderately cheap but not extremely cheap.

Its advantage is that it has ample sunshine and over the past few years, the government has introduced various incentives for promoting residential and commercial solar energy investments

One can learn more about it from their renewal energy roadmap website https://www.seda.gov.my/reportal/
Alternatively, human brains are just terrible at "high IQ symbol manipulation" and that's a much easier cognitive task to automate than, say, "surviving as a stray cat".
They bought out Intel's modem business (giving them something like to work from), afaik.
I will train and open-source 50 SFW Hunyuan Video LoRAs. Request anything
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Remember, Trump wants protests. He knows that even in a peaceful protest some fraction of "fuck-shit-up-contingent" will go around attacking people, destroying property, etc. And that gives him a justification to invoke advanced measures (Kelly, his DHS leader, specifically said that Trump had to be told multiple times he couldn't use the military on US citizens while Trump insisted that he did).

I think it's an open question at this point whether the military leadership would deny Trump's request.
Europe has a fresh new battery factory in northen Sweden called Northvolt. When the subsidies ran out they filed for a loan from EU, and when those money ran out they asked the goverment for more subsidies and they got a no. They were offered a loan, but they declined that offer since they are already $6 billion in debts.

As a result they filed instead for bankruptcy last fall.

I would like to see EU issue a law against building new natural gas power plants, dictating that either countries start building that cheap grid-scale battery solutions or find non-fossil fuel alternatives, which ever is currently cheapest. Im tired of seeing that even countries like Sweden are investing into new natural gas power plants in order to address days when the wind and sun are not producing enough energy.
Eh, I think someone tried to do this with the GoldSource engine a few years ago and got shut down by Valve's lawyers before too long.
Yes it’s on the update channels
I'm interested in a contact. Not looking right now, but moving to Netherlands might be my goal next year
Is this the new SE / Mini?

Edit: Nope. What's different from the 16? Action button? 1 less GPU core? Same camera but no ultra wide? Ahhh, it's just a cheapened 16.
If you read the article, it is about Singapore, a first world country and Malaysia which is not. Western countries were not part of the conversation.
I am not saying that we are wasting 25% of our compute costs on QUIC, but rather that we hit many other bottlenecks far before we hit that point.

> Having done the majority of a QUIC implementation myself, achieving (on the non-encryption portion) 10 Gbps (1.5x faster) seems trivial

Encryption is a huge part of the cost, especially with the general lack of NIC offload as I mentioned. Since the packet number changes across retransmissions, lossy environments exacerbate the problem since you need to re-encrypt retransmitted packets (which is not a problem you have in TCP). If you're not doing any sender-side pacing, then you're likely to overwhelm your NIC with microbursts.

100 Gbps per core is quite frankly unrealistic; the only way you get that even in TCP is if you have your smart NIC talking directly to your SSDs and bypassing main memory and the kernel TCP stack entirely, and all of your encryption is done by the NIC. But as mentioned, we don't have that level of NIC support.

Even 30 Gbps per core doesn't leave you much wiggle room if you have to perform AES via your CPU.
Not sure if there are similar techniques applied, but this definitely reminds of of the AI "microwave" filter that's been very popular on TikTok for the past few weeks. It creates equal numbers of impressive and hilarious 360 models from single images. One example: https://www.tiktok.com/@beccasthesia/video/74714552131157558...
The same people who decided the threshold of time where things stop being current and start being past.

It's language, it's describing an abstract concept.
I'm curious now if the anti-inflammatory diets popular with dietitians and health influencers could have a negative effect when you really do want inflammation, like when fighting an infection or recovering from injury.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/quick-start-g...

https://nutritionsource.hsph.harvard.edu/healthy-weight/diet...
I'm not moving goalposts. I didn't accuse WhatsApp of leaking data, stop twisting other people's words.

I think you mean "I'll NOT be surprised if Meta does this", which is the reasonable position of any rational person to take.

I'm allowed to extrapolate expectations of future behaviour, based on past behaviour. Doing otherwise is naive, dangerously so if you're responsible for someone else's security or privacy.
My plan to sell flavoured printer toner has been foiled.

Who would not want their print out to smell like fresh apple pie?
This executive order just brought us there.
https://ads.twitter.com/ads-repository for EU companies, scraping for US companies.
Show HN: An AI that 1:1 emulates texting a human
Hi HN!

I have created a particularly realistic AI simulacra: https://kara.rhogpt.ai/. I haven't seen any LLM companies really explore this format.

Unlike other AI chatbots kara can receive multiple messages at once and send multiple messages at once. The personality is also pretty different from ChatGPT or Claude. It really is a lot like texting a friend.

Also I don't really like roleplay so kara does acknowledge it is an AI unlike friend.com and doesn't pretend it is anyone else unlike character.ai.

There might be some stability issues with the model (repeating messages, etc). It's made to appeal to younger people (gen-z) which might explain some design choices.

Let me know what you think! Thinking of making an app.

https://kara.rhogpt.ai/
Business used to consider it equally important that employees, customers and shareholders were all happy. Frankly, it is easy to see that on the level of an entire economy, unless all 3 are happy, disasters are unavoidable.

But now every company thinks they can force everything on customers (idiotic ideas like "self-care"), the government, or even just the environment, usually doing enormous damage for 1/100th of that damage in gains.

At least we can rest assured of one thing: this trend WILL end. Through rational thinking? Through tears? Through violence? Through total catastrophe? That's the question. But end it will. Guaranteed.
Funnily enough the initial version of Kubernetes was written in Java! But refactored into Go early on https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/kubernetesclu...
My first impression with "Wireshark for Docker containers" is "... Well, Wireshark already works with Docker containers, so if your goal is to be Wireshark for Docker containers, you'll just fail by definition. Can't beat Wireshark at being Wireshark."

I'm saying this just FYI. I haven't actually looked at what your product does, but if it were to matter to me, it'd be based on what it can offer that Wireshark can't, rather than how similar it is to Wireshark.
Good job on calling it out when you see it. AI is fun, but it's not a replacement for human interaction.
There was once a proposal to run an extension cord from Australia to Singapore [1] since Australia could have plentiful and cheap solar power. However, the project collapsed after the capricious billionaire backers ditched it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia-Asia_Power_Link
I think you will find that CEOs either have a significant share of the company, or are the lackeys of someone who does. In other words the only "negotiation" they did was negotiating with themselves.
There are issues with infotainement systems in older vechicles supporting Android Auto and Apple Car Play. This is primarily because car manufacturers (or subcontractors) aren't good at integrating these systems. Often they are tight on budget too!

Personally, I’m not a fan of Tesla’s car computer. My main annoyance is the lack of physical buttons. All I want from my car is reliable navigation, seamless audio playback, and easy mobile call handling.