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Sure, it's unhelpful to dwell too much on the past, but I don't think the Ireland of today is as consumed by victimhood or anti-Britishness as you are making out. I don't doubt there are pockets of society where anti-British sentiment is still strong but there is no society in the world without similar pockets of backwards, racist thinking. By and large, Irish people do not dislike or begrudge British people. While Brexit stoked some of the old tensions (again, we were far from the only country getting frustrated with Britain during those negotiations) we have, both before and since, largely regarded the British as our friends and allies.

The famine was a huge event in our history. Our population still hasn't recovered from it and the mass emigration it triggered still has an impact on our relations with other countries, particularly the US. We shouldn't be (and aren't) consumed by it but it would be madness to forget it. The same goes for our broader struggle for independence, which is literally the origin story of our country.

> Yes, I know that's hard when a quarter of the geographical landmass of Ireland still belongs to the old oppressors. But that's another thing we need to let go off. The people living in the North voted, several times, to remain in the UK. It's their choice, not ours. If they look like they're leaning to vote differently in the future we can restart the conversation.

The Irish position on the North is clear and has been since 1998. We don't lay claim to it so there is nothing to "let go". No one questions the right of the North to choose its own way, but equally we have a relationship and a history with that part of the island that we cannot just ignore.
Sony also announced the end of recordable blu-rays

Their patents on blu-ray are going to wind down pretty soon as well.
I'm a little annoyed at myself. I seriously debated buying a put option on Tesla a week ago, I could have made tens of thousands.

Maybe I should apply to SpaceX and try to be one of Elon's lackeys.
A few days ago Teams got insanely slow when I was writing a comment on a Planner task. I ran a profiler and it seems like it was running some kind of sanitizer for every key press and that each call took over a second. They also seemed to get slower the more of them were queued up. Typing a sentence (blindly) would freeze the whole app for about five minutes before doing the first draw.

What's up with Microsoft these days?
I think the answer to that question is close zero. The US economy doesn't need more liquidity, and is essentially maxed out.

When you add large amounts of liquidity, you get proportional inflation/devaluation destroying the money you have added.

Covid Stimulus and related inflation showed how they economy cant even handle hundreds of billions more liquidity in the hands of consumers, let alone tens of trillions. The worker productive capacity doesn't exist to make and sell more stuff, so stocks and real-estate soak up as much liquidity as they can, and inflation takes the rest.

If the money in circulation doubled tomorrow, I would expect rent and eggs to double as well, because there isnt actually more stuff. In this way, excess liquidity and associated inflation heavily favors holders of debt, equity, capital, and real-estate.

As a well off American, I expect I would be the winner. My house dollar value of my house and 401k would double, while my mortgage would stay the same.
Who cares? Industry associations are there for building reputations, they’re there to wield collective power.
B3 would be empty. This is the same as someone renaming any function or method and you asking "but how would the diff utility detect the rename?". The diff would show that the method used to exist and now doesn't. And it would show that the new method used not to exist and now does. The Excel-diff would show that B3 used to have a value and now doesn't. That B4 used to be blank and now has a value. It could show it in a rendering of the spreadsheet, even.

Your argument is that it's not possible. My argument is that it is possible. Nobody is arguing the strawmen positions that you claim I am arguing [it's a good idea, it's a way to build reliable software, everyone does it, etc.]
If this take is correct and we need creative B students, we might still get a compressed 21st century with human creative B students working together with AI A students who support the human with research, validation, workshopping ideas, etc.
> I can `kill -9` whatever the hell I want on my Mac.

Note that the Mac is way more open than the iPhone (or iPad, which is funny considering how some chips are shared between Mac & iPad), specifically to preserve (some) of the kind of control people expect from their Mac.

That's why you can run Asahi Linux on Macs, but not iPads.

So you & GP may be talking past each other, them grousing over the locked-down nature of the iPhone, while you celebrate the control of your Mac.
You might wonder why the state of affairs in Latin America drives people to hard lives in the US.

A certain large country to the north had a policy of destabilizing economic, covert action and direct military action in place to save these nations from the horrors of socialism.

When you build empire, there’s always a pull of your subjects to the center.
There's a choice between first party(collected) and third party(shared). Also a list of purposes one chooses from. This could include "App functionality", "Analytics", "Account management", etc...

Two of the possible 3rd party choices are "Advertising or marketing" and "Personalization". These two have been chosen for firefox. This includes sharing data with advertising partners.

https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...

A change to those options is what triggered the notification. It's not a requirement for using location features.

I'd say a part of figuring out what they are doing is reading such information. Even if the code itself doesn't reflect it yet, it's usually listed in preparation.

It's also a good way to figure out the code needs to be reviewed :)
In Germany the colonial period is taught, for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Conference and global maps. The German colonies are hardly mentioned, Germany lost them all 100 years ago, and I don't think many Germans could name the countries/regions even. The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herero_Wars ("systematic extermination of native peoples") isn't taught.
It’s not strictly a crime, but immigration/visa fraud is a “removable offence”. It is the law that a person committing it will be removed. Sometimes immediate removal is not possible and these people must be detained and housed.

This is not all that ridiculous. What would be ridiculous is if people who have in the past, or would have by the virtue of entering into a country, committed immigration fraud were let in. Or if they were left unhoused and stateless, stuck at a border. Detaining and removing them is much more sensible.

Of course, ideally, it would be much more pleasant for the offender if they were given an option to enter anyway and leave on their own accord. But perhaps this is also an unreasonable expectation when one commits serious offences. Must we be nice to those who don’t respect our laws?

There is a lot to be said about our responsibilities to offenders, the paradox of tolerance, and similar.
The only score that matters is the one used to call the game, because that’s the only score anyone is trying to win. We simply don’t know what would have happened under a different set of rules.

The “ground game” is extremely expensive: https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4934604-kamala-harris-g.... Especially for republicans, whose voters are spread out over rural areas. In post-election interviews, Trump campaign strategists revealed that to save money they largely eschewed a traditional ground game in favor of target outreach to low propensity voters. Even then, Trump received a lot of criticism on the right for doing a handful of rallies in California and New York.

As it is, both campaigns focused most of their resources on the seven swing states, and Trump swept all of them. Had the election been close you would’ve expected by sheer chance each candidate to get some of the swing states, but that didn’t happen.
> that blows up and burns up its own products more often than not

This false. SpaceX’s current product is Falcon 9/Heavy which “blows up and burns up” very rarely.

Starship isn’t actually a product yet, it is an R&D program. If 50% of the test flights on an R&D program fail, that doesn’t tell us anything about the reliability of the finished commercial product. Absolute worst case scenario, Starship never works and is cancelled-SpaceX will have wasted billions but still have a market-dominating product with Falcon. And, despite the recent setbacks, it seems unlikely the worst case scenario will actually happen. More likely outcome is Starship is delayed and burns up billions more in R&D but eventually they get it to work as promised.
There are plenty of links on other pages that lead to functional websites of various vintages (the keyword being vintage). Just go to https://www.mcmordie.co.uk/ and start exploring.
Then what's the "high quality" video? Anyone can use the web interface of youtube and watch it without any DRM (for now). Why are they so jellously guarding one specific API when the others are wide open?
> It's like if order to figure out the shape of a teacup, we generate thousands of identical copies, smash them all to rather small bits, and then try to count the different types of shards as a first step to piecing together one full copy. Impressive that it works.

Yes, but you've got the order wrong.

The teacup is smashed before all of the identical copies are created.

(I wrote DNA analysis software for 6.5 years)
90% of Nintendo firmware updates just read "General system stability improvements to enhance the user's experience." It's kind of hilarious at this point. Must be rock solid by now.
People who only learn leetcode are designing everything, it seems
so far, Apple says they'll invest $500bn to bring their supply chain stateside, Softbank $100bn-$200bn, "Stargate" Group is supposed to be $65bn

and that was just to curry favor as well as get in front of the tariff plans

we'll see if they follow through, but those count as American entrepreneurs too

if there are disruptions on smaller scales, some people will take the risk, and there will be winners and losers as with everything else.
> I've never met an attorney who thought they were an engineer simply because they were excellent lawyer

Not sure about attorneys, but there are certainly legislators / regulators who think that, or who at least think that every problem they throw at engineers, like implementing end-to-end encryption that their government can backdoor but foreign governments can't, is instantly and easily solvable.
(he also organized and financed protests where people got attacked and hurt, including Jewish students, who got attacked and hurt - for being Jewish)
Yeah it's quite interesting. I don't think I've seen this come up in anything besides that talk which is about the HFT space.

However, I did hear a few times about cases where you'd trade better average performance that comes with spikes (e.g. in terms of response time) in favor of worse average performance that has lower variance.
The person you help abroad today is the person not going to take your stuff tomorrow.

Even the notoriously woke Roman Emperors would hand out grain to the crowd.
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I think it's incredibly interesting what's happening and this is an important piece of news.

That it is so quickly suppressed by some parties just makes it more so in my view.

I think a lot of people on HackerNews think it would be interested, were it not blocked.
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> Microsoft have always made a point that they can never compete with Google on price of office apps, therefore they try to compete on service, support, and included bells and whistles.

So... you're saying the presence in the market of a viable competitor improved the value provided to consumers? Who knew!
I don’t disagree. But I also wonder if there even is an objective “right” answer in a lot of cases. If the goal is for computers to replace humans in a task, then the computer can only get the right answer for that task if humans agree what the right answer is. Outside of STEM, where AI is already having a meaningful impact (at least in my opinion), I’m not sure humans actually agree that there is a right answer in many cases, let alone what the right answer is. From that perspective, correctness is in the eye of the beholder (or the metric), and “correct” AI is somewhere between poorly defined and a contradiction.

Also, I think it’s apparent that the world won’t wait for correct AI, whatever that even is, whether or not it even can exist, before it adopts AI. It sure looks like some employers are hurtling towards replacing (or, at least, reducing) human headcount with AI that performs below average at best, and expecting whoever’s left standing to clean up the mess. This will free up a lot of talent, both the people who are cut and the people who aren’t willing to clean up the resulting mess, for other shops that take a more human-based approach to staffing.

I’m looking forward to seeing which side wins. I don’t expect it to be cut-and-dry. But I do expect it to be interesting.
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... That you're aware of.

The more code you ask it to generate, the higher the chances that it will introduce an issue. Even if the code compiles, subtle bugs can easily creep in. Not unlike a human programmer, you might say, but a human programmer wouldn't hallucinate APIs. LLMs make entirely unique types of errors, and do so confidently.

You really need to carefully review every single line, which sometimes takes more effort than just writing it yourself. I would be particularly wary of generated code for a dynamic language like Python.
But the law is structured so that the only thing ICE has to do is claim. They can remove visa from anyone without any reason, at their discretion.

They also have the power to remove anyone without a green card from US soil, also at their discretion.

The only thing that matters is that this person is in the US on a visa, and that ICE wants to do this. That's the law.
I just took it as poetic, not that bulldozers are actually a problem. Innocent-looking machine can be used for grotesque things, which is creepier in a way than regular weapons. That's about it. Idk if that's what the author intended.
Id agree with ten years to never for a 1:1 100% replacement - but Im not sure that is the required threshold for drones to replace a development budget item for upgrading to an next x-gen manned fighter.
I thought Despair.com kept all of their old posters but I can't find the one you're reminding me of.

It's a picture of an old Bell telephone. It says something like, "If we ignore the problem long enough it'll go away."

Some problems like ancient versions of glibc are in fact likely to go away. But a security hole or ergonomics problem that gets ignored into closure may convince that user to switch to a competing project. Maybe in the marketplace of ideas that's actually a good thing. But it sucks for the people having to wander around.

I've always considered that if code I declared done isn't, that it's akin to a broken promise. Now if you wanted it to do something completely different than what we discussed, or you've invented some new definition of a word in your mind, then I'm likely to be almost as ambivalent as the next person. But if I said it would do something and it doesn't then it's a problem.

I have some trouble relating to people who can shrug this stuff off. It feels like a moral failure to me, and dismissals merely amplify that feeling.
There is also legal cheating that only works if there is enough money involved. For example, for German companies, a holding company in Malta with low corporate taxes - but it happens not to make sense for typical freelancers.

Or the Irish shenanigans of US tech companies.
> Now you can use one of your unused Raspberry Pi:s

I do, in fact, have two. Great suggestions, thank you.
Nothing good happens in the path of a bulldozer. The operation of this machine extracts a heavy toll from the soul of the operator.
Agree. Lots of the run-up has just been froth and meme-like speculation. Nothing more "wrong" with Tesla than a couple weeks ago.
What kind of safeguards are we imagining the bulldozer should have? Should we attach an AI camera to the engine to prevent bulldozing the wrong things?
> For pilots, "restricted area" is already synonymous with "absolutely do not even think about going here"

I don't buy it. How often do you hear of a passenger plane getting shot down for entering restricted airspace over peaceful territory like the US? What about over combat zones, like over Ukraine or Russia? Who in their right mind equates these as as equally severe? If you had to make an emergency landing would you seriously view these equally?
It's kind of like a sideways plow
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The generic term is: perverse incentive.
What was your flagged comment? I missed it before it was buried.

Capital punishment is flawed because it's a permanent (certain) solution to an inherently uncertain problem of whether people are guilty. We can't be 100% sure we aren't killing the innocent, and I don't want to enable the State to be more of a death machine capable of killing its political enemies than it already is.

The thought that any one ideology is going to remain in control of such a system is unlikely, so in our system, this means the guns alternate between who they're pointed at in a twisted pendulum swing or feedback loop. Making it easy for the State to kill is just building a weapon for the baying mobs to get hold of, and that's probably going to be the end.

As to your point on cruelty, it's sort of clumsily inherent in executions and no longer a feature, if it ever was. There's little evidence deterrence exists today, if it ever did. If it takes cruelty to the point of putting terror in the hearts of people to be a deterrent, it's not workable. The West isn't going to have crosses, quarterings, public hangings, etc, and that's just the tame stuff we've tried over the ages. Physically, anyway -- solitary confinement is up there mentally, if you value inflicting suffering. A race to the bottom in terms of brutality isn't going to bring about a new great empire or help us maintain this one, imo.

I don't think the liberal societies built on rule of law really have an answer to growing contingents of the bottom 10-20% of men. The solutions of antiquity are probably just wholly incompatible today, so I'd say we're going to have to spend lots of money to push those people down in society rather than out in exile. That means things like conservatorship to camps to cells, at great cost.
You didn't answer my question. When you meet a stranger, how do you decide which words to use for them if not the way they're purposely choosing to present themselves?
A plow cuts furrows into the soil; a bulldozer just flattens it.
I thought plows were more about tilling than flattening, but I'm no expert.
The US doesn't just let people wander in. The US-Mexico border is incredibly militarized, with multiple lines of checkpoints on either side and a massive amount of technology and manpower to support patrolling the desert between ports. It's closer to a conflict border than it is to a typical international border.
It wouldn’t have hurt to include a setting, but I think turning it on by default for devices under a certain threshold of battery health at least was the right call, both because of non-technical users who don’t understand it and wouldn’t turn it on or those who would leave it off and then attribute the crashes to unrelated things (“they put crashes in my phone to force me to buy a new one!”)
Artificial intelligence is a generic term for a very broad field that has existed for like 50-70 years, depending on who you ask. 'Intelligence' isn't praise or endorsement. I think it's a succinct word that does the job at explaining what the goal here is.

All the "Artificial intelligence? Hah, more like Bad Unintelligence, am I right???" takes just sound so corny to me.
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So do you support invalidating the citizenship of Elon Musk and Melania Trump because they both worked without authorization while on student and tourist visas?
If a problem hasn't been fixed in 1.5 versions then I'm likely to have moved on to a different tool, and I no longer have the context to reproduce it.

If I'm the only one who felt that way maybe that's efficient. But that's not always the case and I've had bugs get closed when there were 4 other commenters with the same problem.
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Then he still has green card status.
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