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> It is also more efficient to refuse hospital care for those with serious medical conditions. Letting them die is probably more cost-effective.

No, it's not, that's a silly argument. We have hospitals not because we're such great moral people, but _because_ we've figured out that it's much better for society if an illness doesn't mean you have to roll the dice whether you survive.

But at some point, costs become an issue, I'm sure you see that as well, e.g. with an ageing population. It's not even a moral question, at some point you're arguing against the laws of physics. And you may think that human laws are hard to change, but wait until you've tried changing those.

> You think that profit-seeking can be a force that results in progress, whereas I think it is fundamentally adversarial to the public at large.

There's some schools of thinking where living in the West is "fundamentally adversarial" to the public at large and we better go back to pre-industrial life, traditional and simple because reject modernity and all that. I don't subscribe to that.

I don't think there's a way to deny that profit-seeking results in progress - the only question is whether you could achieve a similar level of progress without it. I believe history has shown that you cannot, and then it has re-run this experiment multiple times, and always ended up with the same result.
it seems like craters of different side are roughly the same depth.
Also this Albanian guy just published a video from the same place: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUGbSg3o7p4
> and another company wanted my Facebook login (and password).

"I don't have Facebook" or "sorry, no, that's private", whichever one is accurate. If that doesn't do it it's not a place worth working at.
Not sure how he is going to force a ceasefire. Unless he is planning to invade Ukraine.
I use strict mode and honestly it doesn't break all that much. But I admit I am pretty hesistant to click on strange-to-me links too.
What I don't like about Thomas Thwaites's Toaster project is that I feel the end product intentionally looks bad. I feel the artist could have chosen different paths and could have created a practical toaster just with a little bit of care. The artist just choose to not do that because if the toaster would look practical and usable that would undermine their message about globalism, and the supposed impossibility of the task. Because in a project like this "man sets out to build a toaster, and actually succeeds" does not sounds good. And that just feels like learned helplessness.
True. This is a very different class of drone. What is the defense against an adversary who releases a thousand quadcopter style drones against a US aircraft carrier?
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didn't expect you to comment here - really appreciate the kind words! I have a ton of respect for what y'all are doing and actually making a hardware product, AR glasses. Let me know if you need anymore old Android phones for you to brick, can bike over again and hand them over :)
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That does make me optimistic. "Stealing back" our stolen data does in the end a free model make — unless the current, very... unprecedented US admin decides distributing unauthorized distilled models carries a prison sentence.

But I think most of it is psychological. There used to be goodwill between the public and NLP researchers: what heartless monster would object to some linguists using the by-product of their conversations to make a computer learn that a "king - man + woman = queen" or generate some unintentionally comedic writing?

Now this honeymoon is over. You see that what you've been feeding your public life is now a monster with a hundred vices and a few good deeds. It is behind the tidal wave of spam and misinfo, it is the oracle breeding ignorance among the gullible, it is the iron hand of censorship for many a police state, but most insulting of all, it is sold by its makers as a replacement for any genuine talent or minimal human effort.

"Why learn to draw when you can have an AI produce a cheap imitation instead? Why learn math, CS, or foreign languages when you can delegate any and all thinking to the great machine? What did we even have you all for, anyway — intellectuals, artists, and craftsman — with your constant complaining and demands we learn a skill? Who do they think they are? Experts?"

No, the future belongs to the lazy and talentless, to thieves and usurpers, who will sit at the top with an aristocratic, borderline catatonic, brainlessness, while you will be at their knees, polishing their boots — since the machine to do so costs an order more than your meager wage.

It is anti-intellectualism in a form purified to industrial potency, directed at the very people by whose generosity their rather inept "replacements" were manufactured.

I can't say what's the rational response in all this. I can tell you what emotional response seems most appealing.
Can someone explain why the OSA is forcing this to shut down? Merican here.
Nice work. Still don't like the .zip TLD but nothing we can do about that now.
How hard is replacing the cord? That seems like it goes a long way to extending the life already, though.
I'm surprised this is still being worked on I was under the impression that Google abandoned this.

Also, I would be interested to see a comparison to the wasm component model as it also seems to want to do the same things docker containers do.
They sure as fuck don't listen if you don't talk to them.
Again, "as en European", it seems crazy to me that something you did when you were a minor can still follow you into adulthood.. crazily dystopian
> You'd think at some point, someone would write and sign a hypervisor extension with a cripplingly bad memory safety bug.

I'd hazard a guess that the Apple hardware is easier to work on than a video game console. Your already sitting in front of a general purpose computer running programming tools. A video game console is the antitheses of that.
The sole purpose of the strategic reserves of tokens is to make them "too big to fail". Tokenbros correctly guess that their luck with impotent SEC may not last long, it may be 4 years more, or 8 years, or maybe tomorrow some Gabbard will try to demolish their sand pyramid. If said tokens are somehow already integrated into the govt. itself, then outlawing them is now a hundred time harder.
The Fall of Civilizations Podcast has an excellent episode on the Nabataeans. I absolutely recommend the show for anyone who loves history. It’s very deeply researched.

https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/2022/06/15/
> and, ideally, advertised to a Chinese discount company

Do you need to provide the documentation to the discount company? I was always under the impression the best way to get a product made was

a) make a compelling video

b) post to a crowdfunding site and make a lot of PR noise elsewhere

c) wait for the knock offs, if it takes a while, write up some posts about how you're having trouble finding production partners

d) if the knocks offs are decent, send a good knock off to the backers, otherwise refund their pledges.
The reason for the shut down is especially sad. it feels so common that the smaller players are disproportionately hurt by acts like this.
Right. Given what the laws allow a suburb is often your best compromise. However the laws often force things that make your other options even worse.

That is laws mandating suburbs are not the only evil. There are also laws that mandate bad cities.
That is also one of the many causes of the French Revolution, but on its own isn't enough to explain why it went down exactly how and when it did.

Had the runway to bankruptcy been longer, a more decisive king than Louis 16th might have managed to successfully reform the state without it being shattered.

Perhaps the crisis wouldn't have landed at the same time as weather-driven economic downturn.

Maybe if it had been a few years later, different people would have gotten into power and Brissot wouldn't have started a disastrous war with Austria that spiraled everything out of anyone's control.

Or any number of other scenarios.
>turning them into blood factories after cerebral death

we already turn people into transplant organs source, so i don't see much difference between harvesting a kidney, heart or blood
I've been following agents.json for a little while. I think it has legs, and would love to see some protocol win this space soon.

Will be interesting to see where the state/less conversation goes, my gut tells me MCP and "something" (agent.json perhaps) will co-exist. My reasoning being purely organisational, MCP focuses on a lot more, and there ability to make a slimmed down stateless protocol might be nigh impossible.

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Furthermore, if agents.json wants to win as a protocol through early adoption, the docs need to be far easier to grok. An example should be immediately viewable, and the schema close by. The pitch should be very succinct, the fields in the schema need to have the same amount of clarity at first glance. Maybe a tool, that anyone can paste their OpenAPI schema into, and it gets passed to an LLM to generate a first pass of what their agents.json could look like.

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The OpenAPI <> agents.json portability is a nice touch, but might actually be overkill. OpenAPI is popular but it never actually took over the market imo. If there is added complexity to agents.json because of this, I'd really question if it is worth supporting it. They don't have to be 100% inoperable, custom converters could manage partial support.

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A lot of people are using agentic IDE's now, would be nice if agent.json shared a snippet with instructions on how to use it, where to find docs and how to pull a list and/or search the registry that people can just drop straight into Windsurf/Cursor.
Ukraine is absolutely buying all the civilian drones it can get, especially the larger ones with good optics.

One of the previous defense minister was skeptical of their utility too and called them “wedding drones”, and now you can see very frequently in war footages mentions how they are using “wedding drones” in this or that reconnaissance or surveillance operation.

You absolutely need tens of thousands of drones in the air all the time to support modern warfare.

And drones are being hunted by other drones too, so they don’t last very long.

“Millitary grade” digital communication and encryption is not that important as the scale itself.
If an LLM’s logic is derived primarily from its training phase… essentially, by following patterns it has previously seen; doesn’t that underscore the critical role of training? We invest significantly in reinforcement learning and subsequent processes, so if the paper’s claim is accurate, perhaps we need to explore innovative approaches during the training phase
> If the code runs 100 times faster, it might just offset even highly inefficient implementation.

That's the danger of algorithmic complexity. 100 is a constant factor. As n grows, the effects of that constant factor are overwhelmed by the algorithmic inefficiency. For something like an n^3, it really doesn't take long before the algorithm dominates the performance over any language considerations.

To put it in perspective, if the rust n^3 algorithm is 100x faster with n=10 compared to the ruby O(n) algorithm, it takes only around n=50 before ruby ends up faster than rust.

For the most part, the runtime complexity of languages is a relatively fixed factor. That's why algorithmic complexity ends up being extremely important, more so than the language choice.

I used to not think this way, but the more I've dealt with performance tuning the more I've come to realize the wisdom of Big Oh in day to day programming. Too many devs will justify an O(n^2) algorithm as being "simple" even though the O(n) algorithm is often just adding a new hashtable to the mix.
You can get nominal types with classes by adding a private field, but you can't put private or protected members in a type or interface. `typeof class` might help, but I think they don't want to allow nominal interfaces: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/41824
It's technically a general-purpose OS. They had a workstation build target sometime ago which was used for the desktop use-case. They've shipped only for an IoT device so far (Google Nest Hub).

Main goal would be to replace the core of AOSP considering the main work that's being done, but it seems like Google isn't convinced it's there yet.
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In that case, they used to be the same company, and one was spun off. In the Mitsubishi case, there were at least 2 or 3 separate companies that were never really related
A wholly unnecessary addendum with your second sentence that is irrelevant to the matter at hand.
Agreed. I take apart stuff that is dead, partly to see how it comes apart and gain skills in finding hidden screws(under stickers et al) or non-destructively popping plastic clips (80% success rate...).

But also once it's apart to see how it functions, what good design choices were made vs what was a bad choice because it broke. How could it be improved? Are all the design choices for the consumer? etc etc

Aside: I have a lot of HDD platters sitting around.
How do you give out a mains powered toaster with assembly instructions just like that?

My experience with diy electronics is that most kit designers are super wary of even giving instruction on mains anything...so as not to be held liable.
The is a strong towns talking point, but it is completely wrong. The first suburbs were built in the 1880s, 140 years latter they have built and rebuilt all their infrastructure.

Most of a city budget isn't even the infrastructure costs you claim they are not paying. If you expand out to the state where the highways are paid for the cost of infrastructure is even smaller as a percentage of the budget.
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Yeah about that:

"Teachers are more lenient in their marking of girls' schoolwork, according to an international study.

An OECD report on gender in education, across more than 60 countries, found that girls receive higher marks compared with boys of the same ability.

Researchers suggest girls are better behaved in class and this influences how teachers perceive their work.

Differences in school results can sometimes "have little to do with ability", says the study.

Teachers are said to reward "organisational skills, good behaviour and compliance" rather than objectively marking pupils' work.

The findings suggested that teachers needed to be aware of "gender bias"."

https://www.bbc.com/news/education-31751672
Come on, this is basically what a Dualit Classic is. I really don't see this is much more than an exercise. The problem is asking people to spend 5x to 10x the price of cheap mass produced unmaintainable tat.
Nice; thanks for sharing this.
Bitcoiners are barking up the wrong tree - their blockchain is effectively unusable without L2 chains. There is pretty much no way to transact Bitcoin quickly or cheaply without acquiescing to a third-party service that could very well be centralized.

Time will show us that all of them are shitcoins in the end. But don't take my word for it, just wait and see.
It looks like off the shelf electronics with custom sheet metal parts.

Are far as low volume prototyping goes, sheet metal is as cost efficient as it gets for large metal parts. If you're sourcing from China, I'd estimate 500 bucks per prototype (with two sets in case one breaks).
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> I hope it's not a disservice to you to suggest this is standpoint where essentially 'we' know all about the universe and everything in it

Like I said I have no business talking about philosophy or spiritualism. However, since you asked: that's not at all what I meant. In fact, it's the opposite way around. I'm of the opinion just because we don't know something, this shouldn't give people a license to invent things from whole cloth and assert them as facts (which is exactly what Penrose does).

We're still waiting on proof of anything supernatural, and explaining things with materialism has served us super well. It's not unreasonable to assume it's going to continue to be a good tool for understanding the world.

I believe Penrose's core argument fits the description of a rhetorical device called argument from incredulity. He is incredulous how "consciousness" could ever arise from mere molecules interacting with each other. To me, everything he built up on top of this is tantamount to intellectual dishonesty, but I acknowledge that this is born out of a certain bias on my end.
So cool. From 2009 so there's been some link rot; they had a Tumblr that seems fully disappeared from the web.

Most current site: https://www.thomasthwaites.com/the-toaster-project/

Older site: http://www.thetoasterproject.org/page2.htm

Some videos: https://vimeo.com/3162229 https://vimeo.com/3186135 https://vimeo.com/3186840

They also did a TED talk on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ODzO7Lz_pw
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The fun part about freedos is that it feels like a very modern dos environment. A lot of what you would call quality of life features compared to the last MS dos.

I have always wondered why you could not have a 64-bit native dos, The answer I have come up with is that it would not be dos because it would not be compatible with dos programs. the second perhaps more important reason is that, sure dos is an operating system. but it leans really hard on the pc firmware, the bios. if you squint right, the bios could be considered the actual OS and dos just a shell on it. And the bios has a lot of legacy cruft and limitations, modern pc operating systems ditch the bios as fast as possible and lean on direct access. But in that light the modern 64-bit native dos might be the uefi shell.

Conclusion. As a big unix snob, I don't really like dos all that much and it have little nostalgia for it. I suspect HP could(and do it appears) get away with a minimal console only linux install for their firmware flashing needs. but the long tail of low level dos tooling for the PC world is still hanging on.
It seems like Fuchsia components have less that they can assume about their environment and require the caller to be more explicit about what the component can do ("capabilities"). So for instance a docker container might just decide--without the user's say-so--that it wants to write a debug log file to /foo/bar/baz and then it would be up to the user to go find that file if they care. By contrast a Fuchsia component would not by default have the capability to write anywhere, so the user would have to pass in a handle that says "write your logs to this place" if they wanted logs to exist at all.

Linux folk are familiar with working with file descriptors--one just writes to stdout and leaves it to the caller to decide where that actually goes--so that was the example used but it seems like this sort of thing is done with other resources too.

It looks like a design that limits the ways programs can be surprising because they're not capable of doing anything that they weren't explicitly asked to do. Like, (I'm extrapolating here) they couldn't phone home all sneaky like because the only way for them to be able to do that is for the caller to hand them a phone.

It's got strong "dependency injection" vibes. I like it.
Or put the way I usually say it, in completely normal conversations:

> free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software, to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software
How are they absurd?

Seems like a significant number of people, especially the 'supporters', believe the goal is to change health policy by instilling fear.

That seems like a classic example of terrorism.
Yup.

I believe that there has since been a court case, that ruled that kind of thing illegal.

Of course, with the current political environment, I suspect we may see things like requirements for proving marriage (to a man), if you are a woman with children (like it used to be in Days of Yore), etc.
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Do you think he wanted to scare other health executives?
Ranked choice for single-seat elections can create situations where your ballot backfires, which is why it has been tried and rolled back. It works for proportional representation, but then you've got people divided ideologically rather than by region and their local communities.

The divide by ideology (proportional), or into "safe" one-party states and "battleground" states (plurality in the US) is the biggest issue, the two parts of the human experience losing touch with why the contrasting values exist in the first place.

That said, good point on the issue of the size limitation on the House.