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> The uncomfortable truth: most of us in tech understand that today's advertising systems are fundamentally parasitic.

Which was obvious at every step of the journey. Google was, is, and always will be an advertising platform. Advertising was, is, and always will be the manipulation of human emotions and desires for the purpose of corporate profit. This is not a good thing! How did you ever justify this to yourself?

I’ve had recruiters push the poker machine jobs, the ad jobs, the high frequency trader jobs… You get to look at the business before taking the job; work for better people. No shade on anyone who’s there because they just need a job, but if you have a choice, pick something better.
> I could pull this off only because my commute was short

The other critical factor was sharing a space with somebody who wanted to work in a similar way. If you shared that space with somebody who was significantly more or less social, the impedance mismatch could have been very negative.
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At this point I'm assuming this is the case when I read any article online, until proven otherwise.
How persistent can you make this data?
I wasn't ignoring it; I specifically criticized it in detail. Your interpretation does not seem defensible or even coherent, but maybe you could propose less ambiguous language that clearly lays out the interpretation you have in mind. That way we can evaluate its tradeoffs.
https://archive.is/EucQx
Quite an interesting idea tbh, however if you want to frame it in commodity terms then you should also admit that currently, this very valuable commodity is taken from its owners without their consent. You could compare it to e.g. human labour, maybe: sure, there will always be a market for it, yet we allow labour to be extracted from people only in a heavily regulated framework and don't just let it be taken by force from them. Or property: there is a near infinite demand for physical objects, yet when I own a physical object you nevertheless can't just take it from me. So it should be with our attention.
We use the Flesch-Kincaid algorithm to calculate reading ease. For most books it works pretty well, but for avant-garde prose like The Sound and the Fury it fails pretty badly. It also considers Ulysses to be "fairly easy"!
> Yes? I can't use the licensed model to train content?

Well, that's the point; free software does not mean "no restrictions". Most of the FLOSS licenses come with restrictions too, just different ones. That doesn't make them "not FLOSS".

If you're arguing that licenses can't be FLOSS if they have restrictions, then you're going to have an uphill battle to convince people that the GPL isn't FLOSS.
> is demanding you have work authorization

This was also my observation. Everyone is talking about "outsourcing" but what I am seeing is work-authorization required everywhere. I wonder if this is a legal change that restricts them because it works against their negotiation power.
The GP put in the work to verify his own memory, after acknowledging the gaps. And then you belittled him.

He met the “standard” or guidelines of our community in a way you have not.
The podcast Science Vs just had an ADHD episode. They talk about body doubling and a bunch of other ADHD stuff.

Good episode. Recommend. Be aware that most folks who think they have ADHD really don't. Just like "OCD" and "migraines", people just like to throw labels on themselves.
Well for starters, it would have better memory management. The XNU kernel's memory manager has poor time complexity. If I create a bunch of sparse memory maps using mmap() then XNU starts to croak once I have 10,000+ of them.
It has nothing to do with ORMs. It's the same issue if you don't use an ORM. It's about connection pooling, as I explained.

Postgres has no native awareness of connection pooling, and so you need to issue certain reset commands to ensure that the connection is "clean" for the next piece of code that claims it. It should be possible to do things like "SET SESSION statement_timeout" without worrying about who the next user of the connection is.
Certainly

But the bar is even higher for 3 than 1 and likelihood of it occurring organically lower.
we're using highly modified CompressorJS library to get this results. hope that helps.
What you see as an interruption is somebody else clearing their path. It could be that your personal productivity drop is resulting in a productivity gain for the group.
I’ve been working for almost 30 years across 10 jobs. I worked in office between 1996-2020. After a couple of months to at most a couple of years, those “friendships” fade.

Today, I have five people I stay in touch with that I’ve worked with. Three I stopped working with around 2016 and one I stopped working with two years ago. Oh yeah and the fifth I stopped working with in 2011. She is sleeping right next to me now - I married her in 2012.

But to answer your questions, I work for one reason - to exchange labor for money. My work self is “looking from the 1000 foot view”, “taking things to the parking lot” and “adding on to what Becky said”. My personal life is completely different.

It’s tiring having to “code switch” with coworkers because the real me is completely different.

And if you’re working 50 hours a week, you’re doing it wrong.
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Editor-in-chief here, happy to answer any questions, as always. We also recently celebrated Public Domain Day with an especially notable crop of books, including The Sound and the Fury, All Quiet on the Western Front, John Steinbeck's first novel, some Hemingway, Gandhi, two Dashiell Hammett novels, and more: https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2025
All good things come from God and God’s greatness shines of all the earth, and anything that ever happens is because of God, but for you it’s the State.

Just because a good thing exists does not mean I’m indebted to it. The city may build a really nice park on the other side of town. That doesn’t mean I’m being subsidized or dependent.

The people of Maine did not benefit from the Hoover Dam.

> You can't simply build "community structure" and expect everyone to buy in.

You’re right that we can’t magically recreate communities that were destroyed, but this is actually the default human behavior. Small community cooperate together for common good.

> If that were possible, we wouldn't need laws at all

This doesn’t follow. People’s short term behavior may not align with their long term values.

Crime/sin is traditionally when your passions get the best of you.
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There are stones best left unturned, I feel. I don't think we want a world where parents need to spend $100K+ in genetic meddling to ensure their child can compete in the future market.

I'm all for treating genetic diseases, but what is described in this article resembles eugenics a lot. And there are good reasons why this has been a taboo since WW2. Let's just say, there are other traits some people might want to select for than IQ. Ones you might not be confortable with.
If the AI is any good, it won't need the stool samples: it can infer all that data well enough just from your webcam.
"Some of my" post history? Do you realize how many comments I've made here? How far back did you have to go? Did you also get to the part where I have repeatedly stood up for Ukraine's sovereignty and presented arguments against anyone defending Russia's invasion of Ukraine? How for one second do you think the way you've conducted yourself with me is acceptable?

Linking to vulnerabilities in a protocol that hasn't been used for 8 years and misrepresenting that fact by omission is simply unethical.

Attack my arguments with reasonable, evidence-based arguments. Do not make personal attacks. That is in the HN rules.

You've presented falsehoods and unfounded conspiracy theories. I've called you out on them. I expect better from any human being on Hacker News and I will continue to, whatever the topic.
In Amsterdam there are posters at bus stops, roughly similar-sized billboards by the side of the road, some of them are video screens. There are video screens at train stations at well. At busy highway interchanges there are towers with billboards on top, strongly lit at night. It may not be as bad as in the US but there is advertising like this in most major cities in Europe.
Whilst I do agree with most of your insights and the narrative of historic events, I also believe that BSD core teams were a major contributing factor to the demise of BSD's (however unpopular such an opinion might be).

The first mistake was that all BSD core teams flatly refused to provide native support for the JVM back in its heyday. They eventually partially conceded and made it work using Linux emulation; however, it was riddled with bugs, crashes and other issues for years before it could run Java server apps. Yet, users clamoured to run Java applications, like, now and vociferously.

The second grave mistake was to flatly refuse to support containerisation (Docker) due to not being kosher. Linux based containerisation is what underpins all cloud computing today. Again, the FreeBSD arrived too late, and it was too little.

P.S. I still hold the view that FreeBSD made matters even worse by dropping support for non-Intel platforms early on – at a stage when its bleak future was already all but certain. New CPU architectures are enjoying a renaissance, whilst FreeBSD nervously sucks its thumb by the roadside of history.
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Women can hear,see, smell, better than men, and have finer motor control, higher pain tolerance, better ability to survive extream cold, and are longer lived. There are distict cognitive differences as well, most pronounced(that I know of) is that women remember ,face/names and details of 10x the number than men do, 4000 vs 400.
I read one study, where women were examined in an MRI, and asked to think about various things, with an interesting result that the same brain region lit up when thinking about there pets, and men, but not others.,.....
I've lived in both Australia and the UK, and the only coaxial cables in any home I had/have have been direct point-to-point connections from the roof-mounted TV antenna to the corner of the sitting room where the TV was intended to be placed. Not terribly useful for computer networking.
I do not think that "security" is the appropriate name for such features.

In my opinion "security" should always refer to the security of the computer owners or users.

These Apple features may be used for enhancing security, but the main purpose for which they have been designed is to provide enhanced control of the computer vendor on how the computer that they have sold, and which is supposed to no longer belong to them, is used by its theoretical owner, i.e. by allowing Apple to decide which programs are run by the end user.
Interesting to hear this. And thank you for that open view. And, yeah, my personal experience lines up somewhat with what you said as well as some stories I hear about other folks. Lot of it sounded like people finding - among the many possibilities - ways to change things and have fun and experiment.
Nice work, but... people do not want documentation, they want to ask someone that knows both the software they do not know and they want someone that knows what they are doing already, so the developer gets simply told what to do without having to think or do research on their behalf. Yes, this is lazy ass, this is dangerous, but it is how people behave.

I'd think something as dumb (for the user, but complex to make) as a GraphRAG system that already has a developer's code repo and design docs in the system, and is then able to be given "candidate libraries" which the GraphRAG+LLM reasoning agent then evaluates the candidate against the active project for compatibility. That would be one decent application, but the better one is once a "candidate library" is accepted, that GraphRAG+LLM agent can just-in-time explain to the developer how a library works and should integrate with their active code base than any documentation.
So, the value disappears when the stock market tanks. It is not a zero sum game where the 6 trillion is suddenly cash instead.
A pdf file can contain more than just the raw images of the pages.
With some architectural modifications, such as FlashAttention and Ring Attention, we never need to "materialise" the NxN matrix, so the memory constraints have not been a real issue for a couple of years now. As for the processing, I suppose that models operating with larger context windows will impose some kind of block sparsity on the attention weights, so they won't have to do the compute for NxN weights either.

A less obvious, but in the limit more serious problem with such large contexts is the training data. There aren't that many documents with 10M tokens to give to the model at test time, let alone for training. The creators of the IBM granite model series had to use synthetic data to scale even to 128k tokens during training. Overall this looks more like a marketing statement to me.
It's energy drinks specifically. Multiple studies have found that the combination of caffeine + other stimulants produce heart issues that caffeine alone does not produce.

1 in 3 American children drink at least one energy drink per day. 2/3rds of teens have had an energy drink within the last 3 months.

The US sees a weirdly high amount of hospitalizations related to energy drinks. It's a problem.

This stuff stresses the heart way more than necessary and by their early 20s a lot of kids are showing heart issues.
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I used to like C++. Then it caused me headaches one too many times because of things it implemented that C did not have. Now I prefer to use C whenever I can, since it avoids entire classes of headaches that only exist in C++.
Unless I'm missing something - do the notes cover neutrino astronomy somewhere else? Aside from the general discussion on stellar evolution. Shame, because the detection of pre-optical neutrino emission from 1987A by Kamiokande (and others) was a fantastic theoretical confirmation. Essentially when the core collapses, the environment around the surroundings are optically opaque, but the neutrinos sail on through so you'd expect to see them before the photons.

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1987ApJ...318L..63B/abstra...

I would recommend Telescope in the Ice as one of the best introductions to modern neutrino detectors - why and where they're built. Also provides a good insight into how a big collaboration is formed, funded and operates. I've worked for IceCube so I'm somewhat biased, but the book is great just for the history.

IceCube has an entire processing pathway (on ice) that is specifically designed to trigger on a supernova detection. One of the very few science results that would page us, and why uptime is absolutely critical to the experiment. On the one hand, we can't point the detector and we don't know where the signal will come from, so it's not predictable (and it's highly transient). On the other, becuase the burst happens shortly before the optical, we can use neutrinos to trigger optical observations as fast as possible - pretty much the whole observing community will drop what they're doing if a star blows up.

I believe we'd expect the whole flux through the detector to bump up above the background, at least at IceCube. PDF: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/309/1/0...
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I follow a forum of my favourite sports team and people get into very heated debates who is good and who is not. By selectively pulling out stats and incidents you can really argue for any side. Note that they are fans of the same team, so it's all pride and ego.
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(Sadly, Crockford's post about this reasoning was on Google Plus and is no longer online.)
> Or for that matter, consider Berlin, which has banned all non-cultural advertising on public transportation.

Why have I not heard about this. Is this a recent thing?
Ever heard about benchmark contamination?

Ever tried to explain a new concept, like a new state management store for web frontend?

Most fail spectacularly there, sonnet 3.7 I had reasonable ""success"" with, but not 4.5. It faltered completely.

Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Looking at training efficiency in this now, and all the other factors, it really is difficult to paint a favorable picture atm.
I come to shill my webapp for background noise because it has a twist not appearing in anyone's recommendations.

Whenever I'm switching between tasks (thinking vs reading vs writing) I'd either turn the sound off or on, given I needed more or less attention at the moment. Minor problem with that was that sometimes unexpectedly I'd stick with the new task longer than expected, start to get bored, but w/e background sound I had on didn't match the task, so I'd look for something else... Overall a bit annoying for some groups of tasks.

I'm experimenting with mixing music with podcasts with extra noise and turning it on and off, but I also made https://stimulantnoi.se/ (with extra reading on psychological basis of the design and link to open source standalone desktop app on https://incentiveassemblage.substack.com/p/why-is-nobody-ser...). It allows for mixing (including uploading additional) sounds into sets and binds switching between those whole sets to media keys for quick access.
That website is hopefully not an indication of how these ebooks will look on my mobile.

A screenshot from the typography section:

https://ibb.co/nqhyTR3M
Or they don't want to make it obvious that they're taking something cheap and marking it up a million percent and nobody is asking questions. This happens a lot in "our only customers are government or compelled to buy by government" industries of which fire is one.
I used to try to do this, but really you're giving them way too much credit.

I grew up super conservative. It really is as simple as "guvmit bad" to a shockingly large amount of Americans.
Fake news

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It wouldn't surprise me if the book is printed with Anoto dot pattern - LeapFrog has been an Anoto licensee for quite some time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anoto
That claim isn't something Peter made up, it's the claim made by Meta's own researchers. You're picking an argument with them, not HN posters.

Anyway it's trivially true. I think most of us remember the absurdities the first generation LLMs came out with. Prefering to nuke a city than let a black man hear a slur, refusing to help you make a tuna sandwich etc. They were hyper-woke to a level way beyond what would be considered acceptable even in places like US universities, and it's great to see Facebook openly admit this and set fixing it as a goal. It makes the Llama team look very good. I'm not sure I'd trust Gemini with anything more critical than closely supervised coding, but Llama is definitely heading in the right direction.
You are missing the point. You are correct that thin ethernet might have been the craze.
On the PC you would add an ISA or PCI card. So should we only count from when it was added to the motherboards?

The point is that the first 10 base T still works if used with modern equipment. That standard is from 1990 and grew extremely fast.

Around 1993-1995 coax was considered totally outdated. Fixing termination problems where never fun. A nail in the coffin was 100 Base T which was standardized in 1995.

Tokenring and ATM was contenders around that time but lost to ethernet.

That kind of backwards compatibility is really amazing.
That definitely isn’t true. Which Macs came standard with Ethernet? I know neither of mine did - a Mac LCII (1992) nor my PowerMac 6100/60 (1994).

From what I can tell, iMacs have consistently come with Ethernet after around 1998 and Powebooks starting in 1999.
I didn't understand the vampire thing. That seemed like the least realistic part of the story.
Would be interesting to create a tool that efficiently matched people this way.
I don’t think that’s the issue. Whatever advertising is, it’s clearly been industrialized by technology in ways that

a) did not exist 100 years ago

b) can be limited in effectiveness by removing that technology
A sign on the front of a store is advertising. If we ban these how will you even know what stores there are downtown?
I 100% agree, however the commonly accepted reason that eugenics is bad is that it involves killing and/or forcibly sterilizing people. I'm quite certain "peaceful" eugenics is still a very bad idea, however we should try to explicitly articulate why.
if you're reading a style manual it might :)

but no, the manual itself is not really mobile-friendly. you can check what an actual ebook would look like though:

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/louis-couperus/the-tour/al...
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Your addendum, "Only applies for companies, and only to those with more than $100,000 ARR," doesn't help at all; it still prohibits the three examples in most cases and still has the barter loophole.

If you can't figure out how to express what you want in such a way that it doesn't immediately collapse upon the most casual attempt at critical thought, the problem probably isn't that the population is brainwashed. It's probably that what you want is to eat your cake and still have it, a logical contradiction that could never exist in any possible world.

You seem to think that the law is something that can be delegated to the lawyers. But in fact the law balances conflicting interests. If you don't participate in defining it, your interests won't be taken into account. A law written by lawyers without outside input will only serve the lawyers' interests, not yours.
The dongle was an AAUI connector off of a dedicated port. AUI was a standard, but unfortunately it was the same connector as the video connector. So Apple redesigned it. https://lowendmac.com/2007/apples-aaui-ethernet-connector/
We are trained from a very young age, as a rule, to see the comma. The semicolon, not so much. Semicolons are unusual: they are not part of story telling; they are from a forgotten grammar which is hardly used.
I do enjoy dual-PK-certificate authentication in my homelab: one by equipment, and one by user/group.

Only misgiving is that the key management issues have worsen only for the key administrator(s). But it is a viable and sustainable AA model because there is the most important security component: instant denial of a user and/or a equupment.
It seems that the RJ-45 port was first integrated in 1995 (Power Macintosh 7200).
His article reads exactly like Greg Egan's eugenics short story "Eugene". At that point, you are basically manufacturing humans
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> Please explain with examples from nature.

In nature there is limited access to food, water, mates, and shelter.

Economizing is the process of dealing with scarce resources.
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A relaxing video on this topic - to Be Still & Know. https://youtu.be/aBNpxPG4at0

Highlights how we prioritize distractions and loose track of ourselves. Healthy to take a pause and just look at the moment as it is without any stimuli.
Yeah I phrased it poorly, all Macs didn't have it as standard but what I meant to say is they started releasing Macs that had it as standard. The low-cost Macs like the LC didn't have it, but

The PowerMac 6100 very much did have Ethernet built-in, in the form of an AAUI port (you needed a transceiver to convert to either BNC or 10Base-T since at the time it wasn't obvious which people wanted)
> Being a software engineer is tough.

No, it isn't. Software engineering is one of the easiest careers. We are so coddled that we think what is described in this post is tough, that alone is evidence of how not tough our career is.
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MyNoise.Net is also very good.