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>The American sports system doesn't allow this because there is no relegation system

A few years ago a friend of mine from the UK made the observation that American Football would benefit greatly from a relegation system... every season I have the same reaction. By about the 4th week of the season, the NFL bifurcates into legitimate contenders and everybody else. You end up with Thursday nights and late season games that nobody gives a shit about because it's gonna be a blowout. For that matter - the last 2-3 weeks of the season the playoffs are already set, so half the league has no reason to even play - and the quality of the product on the field matches this. Some kind of two-tier system would go a long way to fix this, and might also help with the larger problem of the bridge between the college and pro games. At the moment, the NFL is maybe the only league that doesn't really have a "minor league" or development league - its the colleges, and between NIL and the portal system, colleges aren't necessarily producing pro-ready players.
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I've been saying that for some time, but you can cash in on the hype.

All you need to do is convince the credulous and greedy.
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Check out the quite busy /r/aivideo community [1] for a pulse on the technology.

The vast majority of what gets upvoted incorporates Kling. It's a really good video model. They've dominated since October or so.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo
But can you Ghibli? I guess NOT! /s
Until they lobby to make it illegal, because [safety, piracy, national security] concerns...
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I knew somebody who called that "Barf dip". presumably for what it looked like, not tasted like.
This stopped being true a long time ago, as the best, fastest machines we could make were very deadly in an accident. If you know about F1, you know that Ayrton Senna, at the moment probably the best driver in the field, died on track. But people forget that he wasn't the only driver that died on that track that weekend: Roland Razemberger died in qualifying the day before! And one could argue that by then, they've already made significant changes to regulations to make the cars safer: Go see what happened when one of the old ground effect cars decided to lift off.

F1's regulations are very strict and completely artificial, just not quite so strict as to allow only 1 car. This is both for safety and cost control. In Schumacher's days, why did ferrari dominate so much? Because they have a private circuit, a much larger budget than anyone, and the racers flew back to the factory to spend long day after long day of testing right next to where the parts where being manufactured. We'd not have a full grid if anyone had to compete with budgets like that
Not exactly they've always been co-funded by ads too. We've even had free newspapers in the Netherlands that were given it for free purely funded by ads. They tended to be light though. Like the spits and metro papers that are handed out at train stations. I don't think either exists anymore, I don't live there anymore but I didn't see them last time. Probably because everyone now has a smartphone.
While the issue raised is valid, and the article makes some good points, the author seems to want an unreasonable level of control over students.

> Chronic absenteeism. As a friend in Sociology put it, “Attendance is a HUGE problem—many just treat class as optional.”

Class is optional. Students are paying for a service, they are not required to come to class nor do the work. If a student chooses to do the abovementioned and fails, it is their choice and their problem. Let people make their own decisions.

>They can’t sit in a seat for 50 minutes. … I’ve even told them to plan ahead and pee before class, like you tell a small child before a road trip, but it has no effect.

I wonder why people don’t want to come to your class.

> Last semester I had a good student tell me, “hey you know that kid who sits in front of me with the laptop? Yeah, I thought you should know that all he does in class is gamble on his computer.”

The good student should get a life or join some Stasi-inspired organization. This is scary, why can't we just leave people alone?
> The Guardian is extremely-polarized ragebait.

Doesn't that describe your comment? I don't meant that as an attack or dismissal.
Aren't allocations themselves pretty expensive regardless of GC?
You mean like deport those that do jobs that nobody else wants so we're not trying to lower the ages restrictions for those jobs? Not sure why the hypothetical slope is even necessary. We're doing it to ourselves
Were Windows 98 users "harmed" because IE5 was bundled with the OS? They "knowingly bought into the Microsoft ecosystem", after all.

Clearly the consensus is that YES, they were harmed, and the proof is the Web 2.0 revolution driven by the eventually broken browser monopoly by Firefox and Chrome. But at the time the tech industry trenches were filled with platform fans cheering Gates et. al. and claiming sincerely to want the benefits of the unified Microsoft Experience.

Every time you take an Uber or reserve an AirBnB you're demonstrating the fallacy of that kind of thinking.

Basically: yes, competition is good always, no matter how tempted you are to believe the opposite.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_the_Neth... it looks like the newspaper industry in the Netherlands is having similar problems to that industry in other countries:

> The number of national daily newspapers in the Netherlands was 108 in 1950, 38 in 1965, 10 in the 2010s, 9 since March 2020, and 8 since March 2021.
Also the current year can yield results sometimes (ie: 2025).
> concrete interfaces with specific predefined vocabularies and a local-first UX

An app? We don’t even need to put AI in it, turns out you can book flights without one.
If you have an android based eink device, try einkbro https://github.com/plateaukao/einkbro It supports mapping pageUp/down to touch gestures or physical buttons. You can avoid scrolling that way. I wish I had a way to install on a Kindle too
This looks great.

I have a few questions. 1. I'm assuming by the pricing it's "serverless" inference, what's the cold-start time like? 2. Any idea on inference costs?

Also just to reiterate what others say but the option of exporting weights would definitely make it more appealing (although it sounds like that's in the roadmap).
Can't they make the courses bigger/harder?
To me arch linux is the middle ground between a too-much-complexity "fat" distribution like ubuntu or debian and a-minimal-but-eclectic-freebsd.

the arch wiki is VERY comprehensive, linux has a huge community, and arch forced you to understand much just by stepping through the installation process.
Got sick of doing ZFS on Arch Linux and lagging behind on new kernel releases. Switched to bcachefs (only for my laptop) which has the trifecta of data and metadata checksumming, compression, and encryption. It's also just simpler to use.
With a $300,000,000,000 valuation, I think we can stop calling it a "start up."
Or they head to Wikipedia, search for "fish" and end up on the Albert Fish page.

I think aiming for better rather than perfect is the best option, as you said. As long as it's framed in this way, and not as an ideal option to let your impressionable child loose on the internet.
My point is that it's not much helpful to say, "galaxies spin a certain way because the universe spins", because it shifts the problem without actually answering the "why". "Turtles all the way down" is a saying about such infinite regress. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down

And yes, I'm familiar with Dawkins' famous retort when someone asked how magnets repel things.
If you look at how most professors and adjuncts are rewarded and paid, it makes sense. You can't get quality instruction from a adjunct who is only a half-step away from sleeping in their car, especially when they know they might be gone mid-semester due to a budget cut. Even the full professors are trying to bring in enough grants, oversee enough RAs and TAs to do the work for the grants, get some of their own research done, and barely have time to teach. Teachers in high school have a high teaching load relative to colleges and universities, but they are doing a job and generally are paid at least middle class wages.
All I can say is that you've been sold selling points. I appreciate the attempt, but:

1) How does AVID selling Blackmagic hardware make that a dependency? You can just as easily buy Aja hardware. "This depends on that" means it requires it. AVID systems do not require Blackmagic hardware at all. If you think they do, please explain.

2) Bin locking and media sharing (client specific paths in "OMFI MediaFiles" and "Avid MediaFiles") is a flag that is either off or on. That has nothing to do with all of the other things that have been sold to you as "special" about AVID storage.

For instance, link aggregation has been built in to macOS since the early days of Mac OS X. Also, it really doesn't matter. If you want something that literally does 4 gigabytes a second, you can do that all sorts of ways with current Macs - no need for multiple NICs.

Anyhow, speed is largely irrelevant for editing systems. The only time speed matters is if the storage can't keep up. You're not watching video at 2,400 frames per second as you're scrubbing through video at 100x speed, so people who are concerned with "800 MB" (you're not even saying per second, or anything like that) are no different than the people who want the wanna-be muscle car that puts out 500 horsepower but that are just going to and from the store. Who cares? If you care, you know. If you have the need, you know. If you're working on 4K uncompressed, you're not doing it on shared storage, anyway - that's just silly. But if you REALLY need to do 4K uncompressed on shared storage, guess what? You're not using AVID, because it can't support that :)

Otherwise, "800 MB" is just a sales number. I just build a NAS for less than $2500 that does 1.2 gigabytes per second, and I wasn't even trying to make it fast.

> i have used and still use the 3rd party "bin lock" solutions when I have special cases, and i can promise you, an ordinary file server does not compare when many clients are hitting the storage.

Those are two different things. If you choose to conflate them, that's up to you, but I can easily show shared storage that makes AVID's look outright pokey, particularly with twenty clients, just as I can show you software that turns the AVID bin locking off or on, so you're not fooling anyone by trying to suggest that all bin locking file servers are somehow inferior, or that they're inferior because they support bin locking, or whatever way you want others to think they're connected.

They're separate things. You do understand that, right?

I hope you take away from this that there are more products than just the half a dozen that are most common, and that products outside of the post world often make products in the post world look ridiculous, if in part because the ones in the post world are a generation older and multiple times the price. But because people in the post world don't know any better, they more often than not spend literally ten times the going price to get something with an AVID sticker on it, even when you can show them that the AVID product is just a rebadged Seagate storage array or whatever.
I've had an excellent experience with Cursor: https://www.cursor.com/en

I used VSCode as my default IDE so the switch was very natural.

I am working on machine learning in bio, and many of the tools, methods, and data structures are very domain specific. Even so, the agent feature is good enough that for most tasks, I can describe the functionality I want and it gets me 80% of the way there. I pay $20 a month for Cursor and it has quickly become the last subscription I would cancel.
Yeah that's one of the reasons my dad went with Tesla for his recent car purchase. My wife helped him get a RAV4 (Toyota) a few years ago and the three of us lost four hours on a weekend because of the song and dance that dealerships put you through. Never again. From now on it'll be Tesla, Rivian, Polestar, or Lucid instead.
Is any open source software or Linux distribution engineered to the level of the 787?
Well, if we're limiting the rules of sports in any country based on what a European PM does...
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Water recycling is extremely limited in Texas. I wish cities would do more. Maybe they could make it mandatory to recycle water in new developments while going through approvals. It won’t happen though as city governments seem to be beholden to developers.
>VPNs aren't anti-virus software and any VPN selling that should be EXTREMELY mistrusted.

My impression is that it makes browsing wifi networks you don't trust safer. I just let it happen, but I have a few friends who really hate having to connect to any public wifi. That seems to track with how most of the marketing goes when it's focused more on interceptions while traveling instead of on your home network. (And yes. I'm aware this is more equivalent to adding a door lock when a competent hacker has a crowbar and a window right next to it. Sometimes it's about preventing the incompetent ones).

I didn't mean to liken it to ant-virus per se. But the concepts are the same. Anything you choose that needs elevated permissions better be something you go through a fine-toothed comb with and have a stellar reputation. But without naming names, it seems a bit overly alarmist to name all VPNs that dare advertise as scams.

>They are getting money from somewhere and I doubt it's from grandmas signing up for the service.

it may very well be that. It's the same old subscription service virtually every company in the world does. "sign on for this super cheap fee!". Then you keep it around and then normal ratea happen after X months. Then you just keep using it or even forget about it and that's easy steady revenue.

It's dishonest, but in an apathetic sort of way. Not a malicious one. The solution is simply for a consumer to actually watch their banking statements.
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"Airbus hopes to have the new aircraft in service in the next 15 years."

That's quite a lead time, and a lot of development. I predict we'll never see this airplane fly.
Yup, it's happened to me. I had put the battery in my daypack while we were there. I thought it had gone back in my laptop bag for the flight--nope, it was buried in the daypack. PVG security caught it.
I have practiced on machines which can throw different pitches. There might be some mechanical enhancement required to quickly switch between different pitches though.
Bolt.new is my personal recommendation.

I demo'd a quick experiment from scratch that posted here if you're interested, sorry no yt link tho:
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2TJ8hrt/
No developed country gives doctors absolute power to authorize treatments.

There isn't an infinite bucket of money to draw from. At some point, spending priorities have to be made and elsewhere, it's usually based on cost vs. years of quality of life improvement, so giving antibiotics to dozens of children wins out against a third MRI for acute back pain for an 80 year old.

The US is abnormal in how much discretion it gives doctors and we are incredibly inefficient with our spending because of it.
I'm almost 40 and have no issues with this yet. Colemak is my favorite non-QWERTY and feels smooth, but sadly, programming was designed with QWERTY in mind. The 30% comfort improvement wasn't really worth it and there's a speed drop because I've been on QWERTY since 5 years old. I also use my laptop in well, laptop mode half the time, so eventually I went back to QWERTY.

But it's actually surprising on mobile how much easier a non-QWERTY keyboard is considering it's two thumbs and your thumbs are at the pinky areas most of the time.
I don't believe they do, no. The numbers aren't all that important in terms of MDM. We don't even see the number if someone inserts a second private SIM in their company phone. We consider that personal information we shouldn't even know.
Relevant paragraph from the linked story:

> Despite The Guardian’s strident anti-Trump fundraising pushes, its broader audience is less partisan, as is the tone of its news coverage. It’s a weird line to straddle. “The appeals that you see at the bottom of articles are really framed around issues of press freedom and our identity and our structure of ownership,” Reed said. “They are not appeals that say, ‘Trump is bad, you need to support The Guardian, we are against Trump.’” Maybe not explicitly. But they are clearly benefitting from this moment and using the new money to hire, with expectations to continue growing its staff in the U.S. this year.
Does Doom on a dishwasher count? https://www.reddit.com/r/itrunsdoom/comments/1budbid/doom_on...
I used to attend round rock express games a lot. The problem is because they are a minor league team, it doesn’t matter if they are good or bad. There is no one to root for because their best players are all just sent up to the majors.

It lacks generational fandom, because there is no place for hope in farm teams.
It’s called bodybuilding
OpenAI plans to release a new 'open' AI language model in the coming months
In large companies people don't keep up with what all other departments are up to. And further even if they know they can also see nuance that lawyers are involved because current situation can harm their employer.

> When a customer at my job makes a mistake, we don't send lawyers chasing ...

Maybe you own the company or are in its executive ranks and can take decision on such scenarios. But in large companies most rank and file employees do not particularly feel good or bad about their employers.
Okay, let's say it's just a stupid story about a stupid idiot who didn't even know how to SSH into Arch Linux, and just walked around hallucinating all the time. What made his story so special that it was told and remembered for thousands of years by real people with real lives to worry about?

> I don't think you should sacrifice humans

And why not? In a different time and a different place that would have been the normal, decent and rational thing to do, and if you didn't then people would look very strangely at you.
I have a (LONG discontinued) zeo, but stopped using it after I ran out of the contact patch things. Too bad, it was a true EEG sleep tracker.
>unsigned is trivial (just test `a+b < b`)

Nitpicking, the test itself should avoid overflowing. Instead, test "a <= UINT_MAX - b" to prove no overflow occurs.

For signed integers, we need to prove the following without overflowing in the test: "a+b <= INT_MAX && a+b >= INT_MIN". The algorithm follows: test "b >= 0", which implies "INT_MAX-b <= INT_MAX && a+b >= INT_MIN", so then test "a <= INT_MAX-b". Otherwise, "b < 0", which implies "INT_MIN-b >= INT_MIN && a+b <= INT_MAX", so then test "a >= INT_MIN-b".
I don't know as much about golf as you, but I have the urge to object to "finesse" being used to describe being able to hit a smaller sweetspot. Thinking of tennis, I would say finesse should be used to describe being able to vary your swing, putting "english" on the ball, soft tap dink shots, etc.

pros are going to be better with any type of equipment, and they're going to be better at finesse, but doesn't a bigger sweet spot allow amateurs to play with more finesse than they could otherwise? it means more reliably being able to fade, draw, etc. rather than slice and hook, and it means more people can enjoy the game.
So make the flag remove some other feature, which is critical to production, like the ability to run main() or something.

On the other hand, I don’t think the solution to someone holding a shotgun to their foot and threatening to pull the trigger is to make everyone wear armored shoes. They’re already a lost cause, and there are a billion other ways they can shoot their foot off, if they are so inclined.

I agree with the principal of making it hard to screw things up assuming good faith efforts (making it hard to fall in the pit of despair), so overall I like the JEP.
Innovations are always fun and disruptive at first, until the competition gets wise and adapts.

By concentrating weight in the center of the bat hitters will be less able to protect the outside and inside of the zone.

I don't expect to see the torpedos past June.
Is that really how people view HackerNews? I've always felt the connection to YCombinator to be largely superficial, with the site being mostly for people looking to get news on technology itself, rather than the business thereof.
Are you sure they’ve always been funded by subscribers? Things like classified ads used to be a core money maker for newspapers and the internet destroyed that market. Then the ad market got turned upside down by the internet too (though interestingly paper ads still attract higher rates!). Very few newspapers have actually thrived directly from subscriber revenue.
Yup, any time I order anything from Amazon that has lithium it comes with a big warning sticker about shipping restrictions. Even if it's a fixed battery inside a device.
I like garmin, and have to keep working to get a good sleep score.

that said, when I do get very good or very poor sleep, the score reflects it.
The accusation is fraud
That’s exactly what has happened. The real issue is that it’s materially changed what the game is about.
Is this just word association, or you saying there’s some notable connection here?
I remember at the time being less than surprised at the charges. Dunning always felt a little off to me, even though I did enjoy his podcast.
Okay, but almost no other countries ever accepted people on this vague basis in the first place -- since "The country I'm from is poorly run" isn't a recognized reason for seeking asylum. They got 2 years free out of generosity, and now they want a green card on what grounds again?

Would you advocate for the US to invite every citizen of Haiti, Cuba, and Venezuela to move here? If not, why these particular 532,000 people?
>I trust my ISP

I don't really, per se. Especially in my area where they have a monopoly. But VPNs aren't advertising making your home network safer anyway.
Manufacturing represents ~15% of the EU GDP, vs. ~11% in the US. Both because lower wages make manufacturing in the EU more competitive and because financialization has not gone as far as in the US.
We don't need no validation.
> This process is happening in several countries and it's baffling how many people eat it up, including in these comments.

All of the people who remember the last round of fascism in the 1920s to 1940s are dying off, only those of us who never experienced it are left.
I think you’re basically wrong?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_in_E...