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"There is some evidence that exposure to nicotine, which is one of the components of cigarette smoke, can actually reduce the risk of dementia. Such reports may be useful in indicating possible research directions for drug design.

However, nicotine intake through smoking would not be beneficial. Any positive effects would be outweighed by the significant harm caused by the other toxic components in cigarette smoke."
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Between Windows, Linux, and macOS, I’ve probably been the most productive on Windows, even though it’s the least enjoyable for me and I wish I could use Linux exclusively for my work.

Linux, on the other hand, has been the least productive. Part of the problem is that it encourages users to tinker, but it also tends to break more easily—whether from tinkering itself or updates that mess with settings or drivers.

I’m not sure about the current state of support for multi-monitor setups with different pixel densities, but I remember struggling a lot with that in various desktop environments in the past.
That is not remotely true. Maybe in the specific case you want a drag racing car with minimal effort.
>that's a cost I think society can stomach.

Society believes it can stomach that cost because it is largely irrational, incapable of long-term or worst-case thinking, and utterly oblivious to ground-state reality.
> He said he passed his chess peak already now at 34. He now knows more, but when he was younger he could win via brute mental power.

The famous anti-case for this is J.R.R Tolkien started writing Lord of the Rings when he was about 45.

Writing is not programming but they are not that dissimilar. Especially in this context.

What I've learned over the years is life is actually not fair and everyone is different. You can be razer sharp and reasonably healthy at 83 or be in great shape and die of a brain aneurism at 12 with no warning.

Basically don't let studies or other people's results persuade you into not starting or giving up.
Almost 100% of the electricity you use indoors will be converted to heat (with few exceptions like charging batteries) that needs to be removed from the room to be able to live there. 150kW is a lot of power.
This approach reminds me of ClickHouse's MergeTree.

Also, https://paimon.apache.org/ seems to be better for streaming use cases.
This is for content on Revolt.chat itself. You can download and host your own servers and allow people to lie all you want. But on the servers they control, they can decide what they allow.

Why are you opposed to running your servers the way you want?
I mean it has improved greatly about as fast as an actual junior programmer…
When I lost my intuition
Yes that is common. I was more talking about the case where someone perhaps introduces a bug causing a nil pointer dereference on some requests, so the panic is not explicitly called in code. In which case you would definitely want the recover in place.
Go walk around any major city; we'll wait. You were just recorded and analyzed by humans and software countless times. Did you do anything that could be misinterpreted as illegal, antisocial or even just different? Are you prepared to answer for it strangers who wield the might of the state? Share it all publicly? Prove you're not guilty of anything or justify your lifestyle choices? How does that make you feel?

To me this is an example of making those on the other side experience the same thing. The good ones will find some empathy and affect positive change; even the bad ones will make the right decisions in naked self interest.
Must be it be swallowed up? Is it not possible that an improvement in productivity increases but still be net positive? I believe that's what happens in the real world.
> If I'm in a meeting giving a presentation, and I notice people glued to their phones during it, I'm not going to call them out on the spot, but I'll probably do something afterwards

A tip from the book The Charisma Myth: when you notice someone on their phone, just pause what you were saying, the sudden silence usually brings people back. If you also look at them when pausing, it will be very clear what’s going on without you even saying a word

This works both during presentations and conversations
More that software engineers mostly do a poor job of engineering. (Saying this as one myself, naturally.) Same basic point in the end.
Maybe the author doesn't speak English. Or maybe it is too much out of his comfort zone. It is free software and anyone can translate it (the tools available today are pretty good, too). Right now I don't have the time and it's not too relevant for me. I write my beancount plugin in English because it can reach a wider audience that way.
That’s right! There’s a reason nearly every city has a club of gutted Miatas.
And if you’re a farmer that’s working against nature not with it then you’re part of the problem.
More like the US is dictating the aid. Tsmc is opening a fundamentally unprofitable fab in Arizona.
Anime fans stumbled upon a mathematical proof
Maybe Haskell, for its strong static typing (catches hallucinations faster), succinctness (uses less LLM tokens), and relative absence of side-effects (again should help with hallucinations).

Another factor, however, is abundance in the training data. In that light, Java may be a good candidate among statically typed languages.
Isn't the jackpot only a fraction of the revenues from all tickets sold?
Why are you opposed to running your servers the way you want? Why do you support people that don't run your servers controlling what you can and cannot say?
I started a channel with some friends last year for game servers we started running. It's been so much fun. We were worried about what you're describing, but we've had the exact opposite experience. People are friendly, they go out of their ways to help others especially new joins or people asking questions, and they try to protect the channel from the few people who break the rules.
You're correct about the weights: each machine could in fact store all of the weights. However I think you still have to transfer the activations and the KV-Cache while performing inference.
I think you should add Russian influence to that list.
I’ll never tire of “good people“ complaining that they can’t censor speech enough.
> My position is first strikes vs US, Russia, or China are almost completely useless

That’s incoherent with this thread, which started with someone asking what would happen “if someone decides to nuke the US.” Not if France launched a suicidal first strike on America.

The realistic scenarios for America getting nuked are a first strike from a rogue state, first strike from Russia or China, and second strike from Russia or China.

First strike from a rogue state is basically nuclear terrorism; it will probably target a population centre or something close and hittable, e.g. Guam for Pyongyang. First strikes from Russia or China would target silos. (Unless theatre-based, e.g. hitting Guam and our Japanese airbases ahead of an invasion of Taiwan.) Second strike would mean silos are probably empty, though not necessarily, these are hundreds of decades-old mechanisms in who knows what condition of readiness, but sure, if the American first strike is comprehensive and flawless, and the enemy omnipotent, we’d probably not see too many nukes go at silos. (You would at other nuclear infrastructure.)

So in general, no, if we’re in wide-scale nuclear war the planners who thought about this for decades in the Cold War may not have missed that launched tubes that have launched are now empty.
You're missing the distinction.

A value is something that you value after evaluating it.

A virtue is presumed to be good. If it were presumed to be bad, it would be a vice. People commit to virtuous behaviors because they expect valuable consequences.

For example, someone who considers honesty a virtue might implement that by choosing to tell the whole truth; or they might implement it by choosing not to tell lies; or even by punishing others who they believe to be dishonest. It is assumed that there is no need to evaluate their behavior, because it was guided by virtue.

Propaganda portends itself to be virtuous. This is important, because a target audience who relies on virtue ethics will not evaluate the narrative.

For example, when conservatives in the US argue against single-payer healthcare, they do not evaluate its merits against the merits of the current insurance system. Instead, they declare its foundational vice: "socialism". Opposite of the ultimate conservative virtue: "capitalism".

It doesn't matter how incoherent this argument is: it isn't an argument at all. It's a claim to virtue.

This is the core principle of conservative politics, and the primary reason conservatives are so vulnerable to fascist narratives coming out of the alt-right.
More speculation, more research, and with citations, and that would take a couple of weeks at least. Then it's not really something I'd want to put online for free nor for all sides to see.
I mean I guess you could say they have different semantics. They're just different types, int and Int64 aren't any more different from each other than Int64 and Int32. You can treat all of them exactly the same, just like how you have ints and longs and shorts in C and they all have the same interface.

Regardless, I don't think C's "probably 32 bit" non-guarantee is the make or break feature that makes it a systems language. If I care about the exact size of an integer in C I'm not going to use an int- I'm going to use explicit types from stdint. Rust makes that mandatory, and it's probably the right call. OCaml isn't really what I'd use for a systems language, but that's because it has no control over memory layout and is garbage collected. The fact that it offers a 63-bit integer doesn't really come into it.
> By targeting the USAG-1 gene(...)

兎 (usagi) in japanese means "rabbit", the most buck-toothy of animals. Going by the fact that they're japanese researchers, this must be a pun.
"Pensions are unpalatable". You don't have pensions in the USA? Meaning like an account into which you can put pretax money and in exchange you can't take it out until later in your life (but can invest it)?
Very excited for this! I donated on open collective already. The team is full of talented people. A nice interface to time travel debugging, with Nim support soon nonetheless.

Though if it uses rr it won’t be able to run on macOS. Bummer, macOS seems to get harder and debug on. Luckily lima vms make it easy to remote :/
Let’s put it into perspective. How many people get attacked by dogs vs wolves?
lmao wow triggered. Sorry, no WWIII for you! But you're still in time to join the fight as a foreign mercenary if it's war you crave.
"Succinct Non-interactive Arguments of Knowledge", it's a system for zero-knowledge proofs, which allow proving a fact of some kind without disclosing the inputs
Interesting info about Flatpak. I didn't know that!

Unfortunately, conventions and suggestions only sometimes work in software development. There will always be developers who ignore or actively fight the conventions because it's important to them to do everything their way. This is usually the reason behind why we still have Windows applications trying to install themselves under the root C:\ directory and macOS applications that ship with an unnecessary installer rather than using the conventional "drag the app into the Applications folder."
Those are sufficient excuses that prevent countries from signing free trade deals with other nations: we don't trust the health of your political system to sign a free trade deal with your nation.
> Wall Street is chomping at the bit to get access to worker retirement funds.

What do you mean by this? My 401k is.... publicly traded stocks? What am I missing?
What kind of incidents, if you don't mind?
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My friends and I were absolutely cooked during finals. We’d sit down to study, swear we’d focus… and somehow end up scrolling thru our phones, zoning out, or just procrastinating. We wanted to lock in, tick things off our to do list, and hold each other accountable so I built LocasFocus.

LocasFocus is a social focus timer that makes focusing fun. Set a timer, enter an immersive focus room, and get in the zone with lofi beats. After each focus session, share what you worked on, scroll the focus feed to see what your friends are focusing on for inspo, and compete on the leaderboard to see who’s racking up the most focus hours. Oh, and after every focus session, u unlock pieces of a puzzle to stunning images.

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Can you give me an example for the same performance at half price?
Should we really be taxing young people more when those young people are not propagating due to high housing costs, etc?
One potential outcome, not one I politically support but expect, is that regulatory interests in the US are captured by AI tech companies and this becomes an import export issue similar to "encryption munitions" we have seen before.
It’s hilarious that Nissan ever claimed it was impossible to tune considering all the things done to it in those eighteen years.
I haven't used it, but there was a big thread about it yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43241499
I knew someone with a pet albino hedgehog. I thought it wS a european hedgehog but maybe not?
Great video and animations, along with very interesting food for thought in the possible arguments for this solution over a proportional solution.
I wonder how much of the "age-related" decline is due to the brain functioning on autopilot. After over 5 decades, I have experienced most of the issues I'm going to experience in life. More often than not, I'm addressing issues with mental playbooks based on past experience.

As I get older (now in my 50s), I find myself reflecting on how many aspects of my life and decisions are operating on autopilot. I figure it's worse now with social media where people are constantly bombarded with dopamine hits, while boredom and idle thoughts have largely become things of the past.

Perhaps counterintuitively, I am trying to break this pattern and consciously engage with my experiences by asking a few basic questions, such as:

- What am I seeing here?

- What's going on?

- What am I missing?

- How can I approach this differently to achieve the same or better outcomes?

Additionally, I am making a concerted effort to notice more new details during routine tasks, like commuting or shopping. I can't count how many times I've discovered something new and interesting on my work commutes. Actually, I can: it's every time.

Edit: Also spending more time with long-form content over short-form, be it reading or watching videos. It forces me to consider a topic for a much longer period. Short form knowledge is a trap, unless you have some system that hits you with high rates of repetition (eg Anki).
How can you read an article on automatic DEobfuscation and think "hey I can store secrets in that"?
>ain't no one showed up and killed 20 elementary kids with knitting needles.

Plainly false. Though people who advocate gun control never pay attention, there have been many high-profile mass murders/attacks where people did attack with knives/swords/machetes, and these have comparable body counts.

The UK is way ahead of you too, by the way. They've started to implement knife control, including orders for people to bring in kitchen knives to have the tips blunted.

>and what is your 2nd amendment right doing now? the government, and arguably global economy, is under threat a

And that government is perceived to be on the side of the gun rights proponents. The people complaining are largely those who have, in the past, eschewed gun ownership.
I got excited to do this a couple years ago. (early 30s) Time and energy were a real killer.

Physics and Math in a formal setting like school is rigorous, not fun. I found it really hard to stay motivated. I don't know how I would practically use that knowledge, i would never contribute anything scientific. It would take years of grinding through foundational math and physics to get there.
We don’t have traditional defined-benefit pensions, or not outside of the public sector.
I use Brave, but on mobile I enjoy the Harmony app and it has a simplistic ad blocker that probably can't work very well because Google.
Windows support? What languages? How does it work?

I don’t like that the headline is “designed to support multiple languages” but it only actually supports an obscure language I’ve never heard of. Feels like a bait and switch.
This article isn’t interesting and I’m assuming it’s a business decision justified by the “outrage”.

Scrolling there’s another article:

> Elon Musk Takes to X to Beg Retired Air Traffic Controllers to Return to Work Amid Spate of Air Accidents

Honestly, msnbc is like Pravda.
It's not only social security though.

Broadly, wages are too low relative to living expenses, so people can't save on their own.

There's probably an argument that social security actually subsidizes low wages, as is often made with Medicaid. That isn't to say that we shouldn't have social security -- it's that it should be funded by corporate profits, shareholder returns, and executive pay.
i don't think they have been for a while.
Of course not. It's not aimed at fluency.

It's glorified flash cards. Which is great: new language learners need glorified flash cards.

People need real communication to get past that. Podcasts and movies are an extremely useful intermediate step, and free.

An interaction app would be good, but...

I'd caution you to learn the lessons of ChatRoulette and every other social site: there will be bad actors, and you need to think about that first. It can't be layered on after the fact, and bad interactions can kill your site/app before it gets off the ground.
I'd be ok with it if the speech was anonymized in some way.

Remember that many forms of "free speech" are pretty shitty, for example ads. Also, "free speech" does not mean "free amplification of speech".
I mean, I don't care about all of the failed Tesla work, nor his odd life. But I sure do like my transmitted electricity.
Depends on where you're at.

My girlfriend's car is currently awaiting a new engine at the dealership. It'd take about 30 years to build up the infrastructure in my city (a major one in the Lower Midwest) to get to where it would need to be for her to not need anything other than public transit, and that's assuming nothing else changes (like even further urban sprawl) and that we had the political will to start today - we don't.

Maybe in Europe, Asia, and a select few North American cities it'll be dead, but there will still be plenty of places where it's necessary.
Nissan is dying. It's time to accept it already. The moment they created a plastic oil pan, it's game over. Nobody cares about engineering anymore at Nissan.
A wonder no one uses this for programming.
OP is talking about Social Security, not your 401(k).
I think (from personal experience) talking with a good mental health professional would really help with your current state of mind and the pressure you’re feeling.
Even many the parties that are otherwise "broadly aligned with US Republicans" fundamentally disagree with Trump on Ukraine, such as FN, FdI, PiS, ...

Of course, there are AfD and Fidesz, but they occupy the minority position even within that spectrum.
Trump is doing to pretty signifigant short-term damage to the US economy.
What action (or inaction) would you propose?

As I read it, your comment seems to either be an argument against creating any new laws in the existing framework, or an argument against worrying about logical justifications for new laws.
It's common to have such a blacklist. It's uncommon that even senior executives don't have the authority to remove people wrongly added to it.
we have a concept called a 401k (and for non-profits a 403b). You contribute some % of your paycheck and your employer matches some amount of that (potentially with a vesting schedule)

The money can be invested, and then at some age (55.5 i believe?) you can access the money without being taxed. There is a maximum you can contribute per year etc etc.

I am not old enough to ever have had a pension option in my entire life, but I believe 401Ks are overall worse, because pensions come w/ some amount of guaranteed payout + someone managing the fund to ensure that happens. a 401K can go to zero, and you can forget to contribute (and most of the money is your own money anyways)
Not at all when the software is not developer focused.
Private equity. Only ~4300 US companies are public, so money managers want to juice management fees by expanding accessibility into alternative asset classes.

Private equity to lobby Trump for access to savers’ retirement funds
- https://www.ft.com/content/dddd1752-789a-40b6-9aa8-d7cf6f408... | https://archive.today/HrDgt

The stock market is shrinking and Jamie Dimon is worried
- https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/09/investing/premarket-stocks-tr...

Shrinking public markets mean growth in private markets
- https://fsinvestments.com/fs-insights/chart-of-the-week-2024...

Interesting fact: As of the end of 2024, the Magnificent Seven stocks made up 35.4% of the S&P 500's value.
No, but that's the whole point of progressive taxation. The old and wealthy who voted us into this mess should be the ones to pay for the solution.
Here's a nice OSHA doc on this: https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/Hierarchy_of_Contro...

Might want to save it locally though.
TigerBeetle uses VSR, which is basically a variant of MultiPaxos/Raft.
The R35 started development in 2000 and was launched in 2007. It has had a number of updates along the way, but you can only push an old platform so far. The R35 has already been discontinued in most markets because it can't comply with new regulations. It's sad to say goodbye to an icon, but the R35 has remained in production for far longer than anyone would reasonably have expected.

It probably doesn't help that the car is so closely associated with Carlos Ghosn.
Same as for muscles / physical skills, after all...
Yeah, these new-fangled "compilers" will never catch on.

Programmers who rely on them will stop learning machine code, and won't know how their program really works. That's if the compiler actually compiles your code at all, without throwing an internal error, making you change your (correct) code around arbitrarily until it actually accepts it. But at least with an internal compiler error you know the compiler has broken - rather than it silently miscompiling your code to do the wrong thing.

But even then, even if the compiler accepts your code without barfing, and generates correct machine code from it, it still won't generate as efficient machine code as you could write by hand yourself.

Nope, these compilers will never catch on, and never get reliable enough to be useful for serious software engineering.

-- Some programmer circa 1975, probably, who lives in my head mumbling this to themselves whenever I'm sure generative-AI-based "programming" is a crock of shit. Although, to be fair, the 2005-era developer who is drunkenly ranting that UML diagrams will make programming 100x more productive any day now, is a handy counterpoint.
MSNBC would be correct (but this article is posted to MSN, which is separate since 2012, and it's a repost of some site called BallerAlert; the ATC article is by Mediaite).

Here's the tweet, though: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1895136616441905228