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41,788,200 | comment | account42 | 2024-10-09T14:13:44 | null | Qt really has no excuse for still using 16-bit characters since unlike the other two they have had multiple ABI breaks since then. | null | null | 41,786,098 | 41,774,871 | null | [
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41,788,202 | comment | hnfong | 2024-10-09T14:13:57 | null | Aside from some once-in-a-blue-moon security breach events, how does better security help a salesperson sell more stuff? | null | null | 41,787,164 | 41,775,238 | null | [
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41,788,203 | story | t-3 | 2024-10-09T14:13:59 | OpenBSD 7.6 Released | null | https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20241007204213 | 53 | null | 41,788,203 | 15 | [
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41,788,204 | comment | tivert | 2024-10-09T14:14:04 | null | > It’s hypocrisy. Give the money back if you don’t like the way it tastes.<p>To whom?<p>And, like I said before, no one can actually escape capitalism (except, I suppose, through suicide), so there's no "finally wash[ing] their hands clean of it" which you are demanding.<p>Edit: there is a kind of defense of capitalism that exploits its inescapably: a demand to either 1) support it (usually unstated), 2) neutralize yourself totally to show your commitment (e.g. smash all your things and somehow live without capitalism), or 3) have your critique rejected as hypocritical and therefore invalid. It's a blanket rejection of critique that's obscured, so its unreasonableness isn't so obvious. | null | null | 41,788,089 | 41,786,818 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,205 | comment | JohnFen | 2024-10-09T14:14:07 | null | A key part of gaining trust is to respect privacy. The two things aren't on opposite sides of the balance scales.<p>I actually trust Rossmann on privacy issues, but I hesitate to trust an organization just because I trust a key individual in it. As he points out, telemetry has been abused just as every other form of data collection has been abused. As such, I will continue to do my best to avoid or block it. Even from organizations that I trust more than others. | null | null | 41,788,110 | 41,788,110 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,206 | comment | null | 2024-10-09T14:14:12 | null | null | null | null | 41,787,957 | 41,787,647 | null | null | true | null |
41,788,207 | story | kugurerdem | 2024-10-09T14:14:38 | Is Science Slowing Down? (2018) | null | https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/v7c47vjta3mavY3QC/is-science-slowing-down | 2 | null | 41,788,207 | 0 | null | null | null |
41,788,208 | comment | asyx | 2024-10-09T14:14:43 | null | Really looking forward to this. Really excited for a C++ version of Rust‘s serde | null | null | 41,767,466 | 41,767,466 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,209 | story | dazld | 2024-10-09T14:14:44 | Crisis Cleanup: Open-Source Collaborative Disaster Recovery and Cleanup | null | https://github.com/CrisisCleanup | 1 | null | 41,788,209 | 0 | null | null | null |
41,788,210 | comment | coolspot | 2024-10-09T14:14:47 | null | Here is a talk by CEO of the company trying to commercialize this technology: <a href="https://youtu.be/wPNTPmAIqf4" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/wPNTPmAIqf4</a> | null | null | 41,766,087 | 41,766,087 | null | [
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41,788,211 | comment | null | 2024-10-09T14:14:49 | null | null | null | null | 41,786,012 | 41,786,012 | null | null | true | null |
41,788,212 | story | the-mitr | 2024-10-09T14:14:54 | ASA Statement on Statistical Significance and P-Values (2016) | null | https://amstat.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00031305.2016.1154108#d1e849 | 2 | null | 41,788,212 | 0 | null | null | null |
41,788,213 | story | h2odragon | 2024-10-09T14:15:07 | null | null | null | 1 | null | 41,788,213 | null | [
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41,788,214 | comment | consteval | 2024-10-09T14:15:08 | null | Sure, but again, I know many people and I think consumers as a whole would happily take a shittier product if it's half the cost. The reason Uber won is because they were competitive in price. If they were not competitive in price, which they aren't now, then I am extremely confident in saying they would've went nowhere. | null | null | 41,780,605 | 41,776,861 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,215 | comment | jboggan | 2024-10-09T14:15:09 | null | Congrats to David Baker and his lab! | null | null | 41,786,101 | 41,786,101 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,216 | story | amichail | 2024-10-09T14:15:10 | Ask HN: Do philosophical discussions come up when interviewing for AI jobs? | And if so, do you think this is appropriate? | null | 3 | null | 41,788,216 | 1 | [
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41,788,217 | comment | null | 2024-10-09T14:15:22 | null | null | null | null | 41,787,952 | 41,787,647 | null | null | true | null |
41,788,218 | story | AdriaanvRossum | 2024-10-09T14:15:28 | New Schrems ruling limits Meta's data use | null | https://privacynewsletter.substack.com/p/the-new-schrems-ruling-is-pretty | 1 | null | 41,788,218 | 1 | [
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41,788,219 | comment | AdriaanvRossum | 2024-10-09T14:15:28 | null | TL;DR: The EU Court of Justice requires Facebook to limit the use of personal data for advertising. The ruling will impact many other companies and services. | null | null | 41,788,218 | 41,788,218 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,220 | comment | ebalit | 2024-10-09T14:15:29 | null | Hi, Exxa's CTO here. Feel free to ask me anything! | null | null | 41,787,757 | 41,787,757 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,221 | comment | jrochkind1 | 2024-10-09T14:15:44 | null | I don't know, I'm a backend programmer myself (although I dabble in front-end, and indeed, don't love it), but "the frontend programmers aren't really writing code in a real programming language" claim just sounds like an old greybeard writing in assembley complaining about how programmers that don't know and write in assembley are lazy and don't really know how to program. Iterate and repeat with every new development technology.<p>Don't get me wrong, the front-end certainly seems like a mess to me too. Although I think it's actually not quite as bad as it used to be, maybe over the hump one can hope. | null | null | 41,783,901 | 41,781,457 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,222 | comment | zonethundery | 2024-10-09T14:15:49 | null | I think the responses to your comment show the whirlwind of 'wtf?' confronting any programmer contemplating front end development for the first time.<p>What you wrote is probably true (and the one "see how far you can get in react only" comment is probably a decent path, but the landscape is overwhelming. | null | null | 41,784,034 | 41,781,457 | null | [
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41,788,223 | comment | axegon_ | 2024-10-09T14:15:54 | null | They don't use it exclusively(they didn't come up with it), it's a pretty common word across the country. So much so, that even google has picked up on it a lil bit: <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%D0%BC%D1%83%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BA&udm=2&biw=1920&bih=999&dpr=1" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/search?q=%D0%BC%D1%83%D1%82%D1%80%D0%...</a> | null | null | 41,788,097 | 41,761,409 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,224 | comment | h2odragon | 2024-10-09T14:15:57 | null | alternate link: <a href="https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1843788319785939422.html" rel="nofollow">https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1843788319785939422.html</a> | null | null | 41,788,213 | 41,788,213 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,225 | comment | CRConrad | 2024-10-09T14:16:01 | null | But that's probably mostly because Germany is generally so far behind the rest of Western Europe in modern Internet and online usage, isn't it? | null | null | 41,761,431 | 41,749,296 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,226 | comment | Iulioh | 2024-10-09T14:16:06 | null | Calling it middle range would be a compliment | null | null | 41,788,130 | 41,765,098 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,227 | comment | CRConrad | 2024-10-09T14:16:13 | null | > They had enough apps in the same way 640k of RAM was enough for everyone.<p>It pretty much was, for <i>almost</i> everyone, for quite a few years. | null | null | 41,763,381 | 41,749,296 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,228 | comment | anon291 | 2024-10-09T14:16:18 | null | The results before softmax don't sum to one so don't even act like a probability distribution. And that's the point. When you have the pre-softmax activations, there are infinitely many ways to convert them to something probability-like. You can normalize them after taking the square root, the square, raising to three, etc. Or you can exponentiate and for some reason that does better. Either way it's not a 'real' probability distribution. | null | null | 41,777,244 | 41,776,324 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,229 | comment | null | 2024-10-09T14:16:29 | null | null | null | null | 41,788,213 | 41,788,213 | null | null | true | null |
41,788,230 | comment | garfieldnate | 2024-10-09T14:16:32 | null | I don't know why, but AI-generated images have a very particular look; here I pick up on a certain bokeh blurring and huge, shiny eyes. The peacock actually reminds me of the AI girl that always gets generated: a sort of Asian Amanda Seyfried with unnaturally huge Alita-like eyes. | null | null | 41,767,648 | 41,767,648 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,231 | comment | woleium | 2024-10-09T14:16:50 | null | curiously, the etymology of sinister is from the latin for left (with dex for right) | null | null | 41,787,760 | 41,758,870 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,232 | comment | null | 2024-10-09T14:17:23 | null | null | null | null | 41,786,244 | 41,786,012 | null | null | true | null |
41,788,233 | comment | hydrolox | 2024-10-09T14:17:59 | null | Are there any good sources online for how this is used concretely/queried? And what CYCL looks like? I have tried finding it online out of interest, but all sources only describe the system generally and don't show any examples of what you could derive. | null | null | 41,757,198 | 41,757,198 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,234 | comment | moffkalast | 2024-10-09T14:18:00 | null | GPUs that pull a kilowatt when running yes. This might actually work on an FPGA if the addition doesn't take too many clock cycles compared to matmuls which were too slow. | null | null | 41,787,816 | 41,784,591 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,235 | story | tosh | 2024-10-09T14:18:01 | A Cozy WWDC | null | https://www.toddheberlein.com/blog/2024/10/3/a-cozy-wwdc | 1 | null | 41,788,235 | 0 | null | null | null |
41,788,236 | comment | cynicalpeace | 2024-10-09T14:18:02 | null | No, I don't believe "rights" come from "writ". It comes from "right" meaning correct and straight, since "right" also had a legal connotation (think "rule" which also comes from the same PIE root).<p>You see this clearly in other IE languages like Spanish where "a la derecha" means to the right, "derecho" means straight (which can be confusing), and "derechos" means "rights" in the legal sense. | null | null | 41,787,811 | 41,758,870 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,237 | comment | rcarmo | 2024-10-09T14:18:12 | null | You could, perhaps, consider filing an issue or fixing some low-hanging fruit. | null | null | 41,787,116 | 41,749,680 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,238 | comment | some_random | 2024-10-09T14:18:20 | null | It's incredibly easy to enforce read only on a USB stick when you destroy it after bringing it into a classified environment. As for antivirus, aren't we talking _right now_ about bringing potentially infected drives into an network? | null | null | 41,787,045 | 41,779,952 | null | [
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41,788,239 | story | speckx | 2024-10-09T14:18:23 | What Google's U-Turn on Third-Party Cookies Means for Chrome Privacy | null | https://www.wired.com/story/google-chrome-third-party-cookies-privacy-rollback/ | 3 | null | 41,788,239 | 0 | null | null | null |
41,788,240 | comment | anon291 | 2024-10-09T14:18:28 | null | The semantics of the Pulumi runtime are probably fine, but the semantics of the DSL layer that preceeds that when mixed with the sensible semantics of the Pulumi runtime are a recipe for disaster. This is based on my extensive experience with declarative DSLs in imperative languages. The impedance mismatch is high. Nothing to do with Pulumi's internal state management, but it's beholden to javascript. | null | null | 41,767,981 | 41,717,050 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,241 | comment | tananan | 2024-10-09T14:19:12 | null | Haven't gone through the paper fully, but just looking at the functional form of their attention, it seems more like a constraint on a standard MHA than an architectural discovery.<p>Take a vanilla MHA, tie the V projection between consecutive heads, make the output projection subtract consecutive heads, with some fixed prefactor and voila, you're most if not all of the way there. | null | null | 41,783,013 | 41,776,324 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,242 | comment | Daub | 2024-10-09T14:19:17 | null | In addition to teaching digital painting I also teach 3d. What you describe is completely correct and something I would emulate using Blenders BSDF shader. This would emulate real world materiality, but my point is that color is the lest of the key properties of a metal. For the most part, the Colour would derive from environment reflections, which would all be tinted with ‘gold color’. | null | null | 41,788,050 | 41,761,409 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,243 | comment | cladari | 2024-10-09T14:19:22 | null | The R in ALARA is reasonably. | null | null | 41,786,499 | 41,784,713 | null | [
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41,788,244 | comment | account42 | 2024-10-09T14:19:23 | null | Yes, except when it is not your choice. If the requirements are to display some strings in lower/uppercase then you need to find a way to do that. That doesn't have to be using the standard library though. | null | null | 41,775,576 | 41,774,871 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,245 | comment | danaris | 2024-10-09T14:19:37 | null | That's true—there are still some places where such data can be used, even without targeted advertising.<p>However, from everything I can see, targeted advertising is <i>massively</i> broader, and if it is eliminated, a large percentage of the companies currently collecting the data will lose their primary reasons for doing so. The car, air, and insurance companies that might still want to buy it will not be enough to sustain nearly the kind of industry around collecting it that exists now.<p>It is even very possible that the precipitous drop of money in the system will cause its collapse, even if those few industries might still prefer to have access to the data. | null | null | 41,786,877 | 41,786,012 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,246 | story | samaralihussain | 2024-10-09T14:19:47 | Show HN: Itineraries.io – I built a joint trip planner in between surgeries | Hey HN,<p>For the last several weeks, I have just been sleeping, eating, operating and developing itineraries.io. Rinse and repeat.<p>I work as a surgeon in the UK. My main other passions are travel and programming. Recently, when I haven't been stitching someone up, I've been working on my project.<p>Having always dreamed of exploring the world as a child, I struck a goldmine when I found a wife who shared the same love of adventure as me. We couldn't afford to travel much when we first met at university. Over the last couple of years, since both entering the workforce, we have been able to live out some of our dreams. It has been wonderful. We now have a little one coming along and I can't wait to adventure as a family.<p>I created itineraries.io because my wife and I usually rely on making Excel spreadsheets for our travels. These eventually become quite detailed. I thought a better user experience could be designed, and a community could grow from it centred around adventure.<p>Here are the main benefits I envision of using itineraires.io:<p>- Everything you need for your trip stored in one location (tickets, driving directions, travel documents, etc)<p>- Collaborative planning: plan your trip with your companions by sending a joining link via email<p>- Community: save your favourite itineraries made by others, clone them with a single click, and make them your own<p>I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback :)<p>Samar | https://itineraries.io | 92 | null | 41,788,246 | 67 | [
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41,788,247 | comment | ants_everywhere | 2024-10-09T14:20:10 | null | I find it obnoxious when apps make me hunt for all of their cache directories. Just put all the cache data in one place.<p>Make it clear what needs to be backed up, what is ephemeral, and so on. Just put everything in ~/.cache. Chromium in particular is bad at this and has many types of cache. | null | null | 41,787,828 | 41,785,511 | null | [
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41,788,248 | comment | null | 2024-10-09T14:20:21 | null | null | null | null | 41,786,179 | 41,786,012 | null | null | true | null |
41,788,249 | comment | salesynerd | 2024-10-09T14:20:24 | null | As the study highlights, these effects were observed in patients who caught the infection before the vaccines were developed. The researchers didn’t look at the effects of the vaccination, but suspect that it would be protective.<p>The study also didn’t investigate whether repeated infections increase the health risks. However, some research (details not provided in the article) has found such a link. | null | null | 41,787,940 | 41,787,940 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,250 | comment | divs1210 | 2024-10-09T14:20:24 | null | A person of culture, I see.<p>Electric Monks were made for a reason.<p>Surprisingly pertinent to the current discussion. | null | null | 41,787,149 | 41,758,371 | null | [
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41,788,251 | comment | jcelerier | 2024-10-09T14:20:24 | null | On debian libc6-x32 is definitely there: <a href="https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libc6-x32" rel="nofollow">https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libc6-x32</a> | null | null | 41,776,554 | 41,768,144 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,252 | story | sylviangth | 2024-10-09T14:20:56 | null | null | null | 1 | null | 41,788,252 | null | [
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41,788,254 | story | ailibrarian | 2024-10-09T14:21:11 | Show HN: QuickDessert – generate quick dessert recipes and adjust Ingredients | It’s not just your average recipe site – they’ve got an AI-powered feature that generates custom dessert recipes based on your preferences or available ingredients!
If you’re short on time or ingredients, the site lets you tweak recipes on the fly. You can adjust ingredients to suit your pantry, dietary preferences, or time constraints, and the AI will instantly generate a new dessert idea for you. Super handy for those moments when you have a sweet tooth but not everything in your kitchen!<p>For example, I tried out a brownie recipe and swapped out sugar for honey – worked like a charm! The flexibility and ease make it really fun to experiment with desserts without spending hours searching for ideas or second-guessing ingredient swaps. | https://quickdessert.recipes | 1 | null | 41,788,254 | 0 | null | null | null |
41,788,255 | comment | account42 | 2024-10-09T14:21:23 | null | If anything it should be harder to add things to the language. Too many new additions have been half-arsed like and needed to be changed or deprecated soon after. | null | null | 41,777,516 | 41,774,871 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,256 | comment | psychoslave | 2024-10-09T14:21:36 | null | Having French as mother tongue, I always find fascinating when the French and German official bodies go postal about such a topic. It’s like looking some parents complaining of the retro-influence of some common bastard children. :P<p>Now, there are languages for which Globish can be part of an existential threat, but German and French are nowhere close to this. See <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_endangered_languages" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_endangered_languages</a><p>There are also a measurable economical issues for non-English-native nations to have to use the de facto lingua-franca of the day that is English. Of course neither German nor French would be a better alternative as a global international neutral language.<p>To my knowledge, the only proposal that gained some modest but significant results on that side over the last century is Esperanto. You know, the language against which France has put its veto has it was proposed as language of communication in League of Nations (1920s) or UNESCO (1954) and still is unhelpful with its adoption in United Nations.<p>Fun fact, Germany has a city where street names and many other things are translated in Esperanto: <a href="https://uea.facila.org/artikoloj/movado/la-esperanto-urbo-r365/" rel="nofollow">https://uea.facila.org/artikoloj/movado/la-esperanto-urbo-r3...</a> | null | null | 41,787,647 | 41,787,647 | null | [
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41,788,257 | comment | prometheus76 | 2024-10-09T14:22:01 | null | It's very similar in the natural gas industry. The "dumb" pigs are a piece of foam that is shoved into the pipe at the "pig launcher" and they use air pressure to push the pig through the pipe, where it is then caught in the "pig catcher". All the debris from fabrication of the pipeline is scrubbed out by the pig and removed at the pig catcher.<p>Nowadays, they also have "smart pigs" that have sensors to detect gouges, dents, pipe wall that is too thin, etc. as the pig moves through the pipe, so that repairs can be made before the pipeline is filled with gas. | null | null | 41,787,909 | 41,764,095 | null | [
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41,788,258 | comment | bn-l | 2024-10-09T14:22:01 | null | The man has taste (in video games) | null | null | 41,787,573 | 41,787,573 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,259 | comment | medo_baayou | 2024-10-09T14:22:02 | null | don't forget that he was IM 2300 rated chess player at 13 yo | null | null | 41,786,662 | 41,786,101 | null | [
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41,788,260 | comment | asow92 | 2024-10-09T14:22:17 | null | Regardless of your water source and/or lead contamination level, it's advisable to install a reverse osmosis filtration system. They're relatively affordable and will remove most contaminants. As a bonus reverse osmosis will produce clean tasting water rivaling that of bottled water, but you might want to consider supplementing minerals in your diet to compensate for anything lost in filtration. | null | null | 41,781,725 | 41,780,347 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,261 | story | PaulHoule | 2024-10-09T14:22:21 | Neuroscientists spark shelter-seeking response by reactivating memory circuit | null | https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-10-neuroscientists-response-reactivating-memory-circuit.html | 1 | null | 41,788,261 | 0 | null | null | null |
41,788,262 | comment | NoMoreNicksLeft | 2024-10-09T14:22:27 | null | > They did? If you mean STEM jobs,<p>No.<p>> there's plenty of STEM jobs available,<p>This sort of statement is always sort of bizarre. Did you mean there are "many"? <i>Many</i> and <i>plenty</i> aren't synonyms. But even if you meant "many", given the scale of the US population, the working-age portion of it, and so forth, the numbers that are often cited aren't <i>many</i> at all. And that's when the economy is doing great. We've been talking about layoffs here on HN for over a year at this point, it seems like one after the other, so we're not really in that cycle either. There aren't "plenty of jobs". No sane, honest person should be describing jobs as "plentiful".<p>> The only jobs these Starbucks workers could have done was factory work, and that isn't going to pay for $3k/month apartments either.<p>That's an interesting theory. I suppose if you figure the factory work is only going to pay McDonald's wages (seeing alot of $14/hour around where I am)...<p>> Even here, there's lots of hands-on manual labor work in the US<p>Where, roughly? And what's "lots" mean to you? | null | null | 41,785,657 | 41,776,861 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,263 | comment | wruza | 2024-10-09T14:22:35 | null | SEEM (sign, exp, mantissa) | null | null | 41,788,093 | 41,784,591 | null | [
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41,788,264 | comment | gman83 | 2024-10-09T14:22:38 | null | I don't know anything about security, but why does an airgapped system even have a USB drive? Seems obvious to me that you want to disable all IO systems, not just internet? OK, sure people can still take photos of the screen or something, but that would require a willing collaborator. | null | null | 41,779,952 | 41,779,952 | null | [
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41,788,265 | comment | s1artibartfast | 2024-10-09T14:23:13 | null | Yeah, that was another thought I had. If profit it was somehow prevented all the way down to farmers and distribution, then I think use would be extremely niche. Few people would be interested in growing and manufacturing their own tobacco.<p>That said, I think this speaks more to how profit is the engine of commerce, and otherwise we would all be subsistence farmers.<p>In the never profitable case, it is interesting to think about native American use prior to the Colombian exchange. If Native American cultivation was a profitable activity is debatable, but not particularly interesting to me, so lets set that aside.<p>My understanding is that it was used fairly heavily in a social setting. It seems reasonable that this would still have propagated rather quickly. It reminds me that smoking spread throughout Europe and the near east without TV, billboards, or hallmarks of modern advertising - and how deeply it imbedded itself in the cultures there.<p>Similarly, I would argue that Alcohol predates advertising and predates currency itself. | null | null | 41,788,126 | 41,786,461 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,266 | story | tosh | 2024-10-09T14:23:14 | Pricing determines your business model | null | https://longform.asmartbear.com/pricing-determines-your-business-model/ | 1 | null | 41,788,266 | 0 | null | null | null |
41,788,267 | comment | ziofill | 2024-10-09T14:23:23 | null | Yes it does, look at the caption of Fig. 1:
"Photons we receive that were emitted by objects beyond the Hubble sphere were initially receding from us (outward sloping lightcone at t <∼ 5 Gyr). Only when they passed from the region of superluminal recession vrec > c (gray crosshatching) to the region of subluminal recession (no shading) can the photons approach us".<p>I can’t reply to your last reply. I agree, in fact I said those regions <i>can</i> be still causally connected to us, not that they are. | null | null | 41,784,649 | 41,782,534 | null | [
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41,788,268 | comment | aitchnyu | 2024-10-09T14:23:32 | null | Reminds me today's Python release strips documentation to improve performance.<p><a href="https://docs.python.org/3.13/whatsnew/3.13.html#other-language-changes" rel="nofollow">https://docs.python.org/3.13/whatsnew/3.13.html#other-langua...</a> | null | null | 41,786,304 | 41,786,304 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,269 | comment | curiousgeorgio | 2024-10-09T14:23:36 | null | The thing that bothers me about the idea of the "Ruliad" is that it's completely unfalsifiable. Even if we existed in a reality where true randomness existed, or computational irreducibility wasn't a given, you could always argue that what we observe is just one finite local slice of that Ruliad where things <i>appear</i> to be deterministic (or computationally irreducible) due to our boundedness as observers.<p>It's basically the modern equivalent of "turtles all the way down" because it pretends to explain the nature of reality by extending our definition of reality to fit within an all-encompassing mental model that only makes sense on a surface level.<p>Granted, the words "universe", "multiverse", etc. are insufficient in describing <i>everything</i> in a way that includes everything we currently want to include, but giving a new name to that abstract idea of "everything" isn't itself a compelling argument to also say that everything exists as a static construct and that everything is computationally irreducibile and deterministic at a fundamental level. Yes, that makes sense in a physics simulation, but in reality, we don't know what we don't know. Placing the unknown in a conceptual box doesn't imply that it's now known. | null | null | 41,782,534 | 41,782,534 | null | [
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41,788,270 | comment | hackinthebochs | 2024-10-09T14:23:53 | null | If your experiences were played out of order in some kind of "God's eye" time, how could you notice? The experience of each moment seems continuous due to our memory of the recent past. But this memory is just a configuration of our current state. The actual ordering of the evolution of this state doesn't influence the directionality of the subjective experience of evolving through time. | null | null | 41,787,838 | 41,782,534 | null | [
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41,788,271 | comment | HideousKojima | 2024-10-09T14:23:55 | null | Are you implying that all communist antagonism was in response to American policy? I believe there was plenty of aggression by all parties in the Cold War, but there are several instances where the communists were very clearly the aggressors. Just a couple of highlights:<p>1) The Soviet blockade of West Berlin. The Soviets did this in response to the horrifically aggressive acts of the US, Britain, and France to... manage their occupation zones in Germany differently than the Soviets wanted them to, and economic and currency reform in West Germany.<p>2) The Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. As far as I can tell, western involvement in Dubcek's reforms and the Prague Spring were about as non-existent as possible. This didn't stop the Soviets and other Warsaw Pact nations invading their own ally, and in explicit violation of the Warsaw Pact itself.<p>3) The Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia, and the Chinese invasion of Vietnam. The west's bizarre support of the Khmer Rouge <i>after</i> the successful Vietnamese invasion notwithstanding (for complex geopolitical reasons), prior to the invasion it treated both Cambodia and Vietnam as enemies and the war between the two nations was do to their own politics, not any US influence.<p>And there are plenty more. And I'm sure there are instances you can bring up where the combloc countries were reacting to clear aggression by the west, but here's the thing: I'm not claiming that such aggression never happened. Meanwhile you seem to be arguing that the combloc countries would have been perfectly peaceful if they didn't need to react to aggressions by those damn western capitalists. | null | null | 41,783,389 | 41,776,721 | null | [
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41,788,272 | comment | matrix2596 | 2024-10-09T14:24:01 | null | thanks | null | null | 41,743,491 | 41,743,491 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,273 | comment | seunosewa | 2024-10-09T14:24:16 | null | Additional answer: we generate more text every day. | null | null | 41,781,385 | 41,733,390 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,274 | comment | bn-l | 2024-10-09T14:24:52 | null | The delivery mechanism is different so it’s somehow ok. As a society we haven’t caught up yet to the the detrimental effects to enact safe guards. A great example is heroin being OTC at one point for a troublesome cough. | null | null | 41,788,139 | 41,787,845 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,275 | comment | akrH | 2024-10-09T14:24:54 | null | > every economy but America's took an absolute beating. Britain & Germany went into a deep recession.<p>If you blow up Nordstream and lead the Europeans in a war that they only lose from, then their economies will tank. Inflation and job losses for ordinary Americans are high as well. Perhaps on paper the economy is doing relatively well.<p>(It is the first time that I have heard anyone describing Biden as a true master.) | null | null | 41,787,880 | 41,785,265 | null | [
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41,788,276 | comment | pas | 2024-10-09T14:25:02 | null | unfortunately it seems NRC commissioners have a very unreasonable view on what's reasonable, because in effect they neutered the whole nuclear power industry. | null | null | 41,788,243 | 41,784,713 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,277 | comment | zingababba | 2024-10-09T14:25:04 | null | I'd say switch to snus or snuff or something to mitigate lung damage. My only vice is snus, I don't touch caff/alc/weed/etc - my anecdata as someone who spent the majority of their life highly active and a non-tobacco user is it affects my tendon healing rate negatively. For ex. when I do lots of handstands or planche work my distal biceps tendon seems to take longer to become fresh again vs. when I was not using snus. However, snus vs. caffeine my sleep is miles better and I often wake up infinitely more refreshed than I do when I used caff, so I ultimately am choosing snus for now. | null | null | 41,787,281 | 41,786,461 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,278 | comment | Workaccount2 | 2024-10-09T14:25:30 | null | Why does that conversation fail the Turing test? | null | null | 41,784,575 | 41,733,390 | null | [
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41,788,279 | comment | consteval | 2024-10-09T14:25:46 | null | Yes, in meat space. You can't relate that meat space data to anything meaningful unless your DNA is also in some database.<p>This is how they found the Golden State Killer. He left some DNA in the 70s. Worthless for a long time. But, a third cousin of his did a DNA test with a company, and the company provided the data to law enforcement, and they worked backwards to the killer. | null | null | 41,782,201 | 41,780,387 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,280 | comment | grecy | 2024-10-09T14:25:53 | null | That is an old myth that doesn't work very well.<p>Source: I've been a level 3 snowboard instructor in Canada for 10+ years. There are only 4 levels.<p>It also doesn't work if you're with a group of students because it won't be a surprise after everyone sees you do it to the first student. If you have a "slide on snow" competition but don't say why, you can watch everyone and what foot is forward before you tell them what is going on. | null | null | 41,787,437 | 41,758,870 | null | [
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41,788,281 | story | ahuth | 2024-10-09T14:26:04 | null | null | null | 1 | null | 41,788,281 | null | null | null | true |
41,788,282 | story | yusufaytas | 2024-10-09T14:26:23 | Ensuring the Successful Launch of Ads on Netflix (2023) | null | https://netflixtechblog.com/ensuring-the-successful-launch-of-ads-on-netflix-f99490fdf1ba | 1 | null | 41,788,282 | 1 | [
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41,788,283 | story | rbanffy | 2024-10-09T14:26:32 | New Microsoft Azure Nvidia GB200 Systems Shown | null | https://www.servethehome.com/new-microsoft-azure-nvidia-gb200-systems-shown/ | 1 | null | 41,788,283 | 0 | null | null | null |
41,788,284 | comment | AnimalMuppet | 2024-10-09T14:26:35 | null | You could get the <i>content</i> with a pure translation. But part of Shakespeare is the <i>cadence</i>, and that's really hard to preserve in a translation.<p>You think that's not important for modern people? Hip hop would disagree with you. So would many preachers (including politicians). And showing high school students who are into hip hop "look, Shakespeare is doing the same things" is a really interesting hook for them. | null | null | 41,779,434 | 41,777,476 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,285 | comment | peter_d_sherman | 2024-10-09T14:26:36 | null | First there was shell scripting, then grep, then sed, then awk, later Perl... well, now there's 'sq'!<p>Looks like an absolutely great (and necessary!) utility, which will automate many future workflows and dataflows, save countless hours of time collectively for many people <i>en masse</i>, and therefore <i>change the world</i> (allow more people to get more done in less time!) much like Unix, shell scripting, grep, sed, awk and Perl gave the world...<p>Congratulations on writing what no doubt will become one of the major Unix/Windows/MacOS/Other OS/Linux shell scripting commands in the future, if it isn't already!<p>Well done! | null | null | 41,760,697 | 41,760,697 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,286 | comment | hnfong | 2024-10-09T14:26:47 | null | But... But...<p>But the whims and color were the best things about the book!<p>I also appreciate that I learned a lot of tangential things mentioned in the book that had nothing to do with the mind or consciousness. | null | null | 41,765,452 | 41,756,432 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,287 | comment | bn-l | 2024-10-09T14:26:50 | null | I wouldn’t mind it if it just wasn’t so shit. It really is a shame that on the one hand they strategically maintain their monopoly and on the other deliver a really crap service. | null | null | 41,784,543 | 41,783,331 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,288 | comment | voidfunc | 2024-10-09T14:26:51 | null | Yea.. that sounds like a non-starter for use. | null | null | 41,787,941 | 41,784,387 | null | [
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41,788,289 | comment | seanhunter | 2024-10-09T14:26:53 | null | It must be very tiring to keep up with the demands of all modern consumers. There are so many of them, and they are so different from each other.<p>Meanwhile when I go out in the world I see all manner of front-ends being actively used. It's almost like different users want different things idk. | null | null | 41,785,677 | 41,781,457 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,290 | story | leonagano | 2024-10-09T14:27:00 | Show HN: Create AI Dialogue Podcasts | null | https://newspodcastdone.com | 6 | null | 41,788,290 | 5 | [
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41,788,291 | comment | Daub | 2024-10-09T14:27:02 | null | Top tips….<p>Using a digital brush on its own can be extremely limiting. Digital paint is inherently flat and lifeless. Textured brushes can help, but not much. I would recommend employing natural textures via blend modes. The best blend mode for passing textures from one image to another is overlay. In this way the texture of a photo of a rusty surface may be passed onto a painting of a rock. Essentially painting with textures... or photo-bashing.<p>Here is a walk through I did for my students…<p><a href="https://rmit.instructure.com/courses/87565/pages/photoshop-painting-approach-compositing-painting?module_item_id=4073985" rel="nofollow">https://rmit.instructure.com/courses/87565/pages/photoshop-p...</a><p>Happy to answer any questions. | null | null | 41,788,065 | 41,761,409 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,292 | comment | some_random | 2024-10-09T14:27:06 | null | That makes complete sense if your threat model is preventing data from leaving a secure network, assuming the USB drive stayed in the secure network or was destroyed after entering it. | null | null | 41,783,383 | 41,779,952 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,293 | comment | account42 | 2024-10-09T14:27:11 | null | > Is the alternative that it should be made unusable, and more existing code broken?<p>It should be marked [[deprecated]], yes. There is no good reason to use std::tolower/toupper anywhere - they can neither do unicode properly nor are they anywhere close to efficient for ASCII. And their behavior depends on the process-global locale. | null | null | 41,775,401 | 41,774,871 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,294 | story | mobeigi | 2024-10-09T14:27:21 | ChatGPT is Killing your Developer Potential | null | https://mobeigi.com/blog/development/programming/chatgpt-is-killing-your-developer-potential/ | 1 | null | 41,788,294 | 0 | null | null | null |
41,788,295 | comment | mikhailfranco | 2024-10-09T14:27:30 | null | I assume Hesse was familiar with Kafka and Freud.<p>GBG has that dream-like Kafkaesque frustration of having a concrete objective, but not be able to achieve it, even though it should be simple and tangible.<p>However, in GBG it is all <i>meta:</i> the game is unspecified, the objective is unspecified, the adorable miraculous winning play is unspecified. It is meta-Kafka, which is incredibly doubly frustrating...<p>SPOLIER ALERT: then, slowly, awkwardly, painfully, a realization creeps over you - GBG is <i>life.</i><p>Really a tremendous literary achievement. | null | null | 41,768,831 | 41,756,432 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,296 | comment | rcarmo | 2024-10-09T14:27:47 | null | Yep. The literal translation for "edge-triggered flip-flop" still stands as one of the weirdest, most bizarre things I ever read as a Continental Portuguese student.<p>Never read another Brazilian technical translation ever agin. | null | null | 41,788,181 | 41,779,576 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,297 | comment | jcelerier | 2024-10-09T14:27:47 | null | IDK, I mostly use KDE apps and none of those are electron. The only web-browser thing I have open right now is firefox, everything else is pretty lean Qt apps: strawberry (RES 77 megabytes), dolphin (RES 61 megabytes), konsole (RES between 30 and 60-megabytes depending on my instance) the app I'm developing <a href="https://ossia.io" rel="nofollow">https://ossia.io</a> (lean enough to run on a raspberry pi zero 2).<p>Meanwhile, I have a dozen firefox processes each above 500M RES and a few above 1G... | null | null | 41,774,251 | 41,768,144 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,298 | comment | xpe | 2024-10-09T14:28:06 | null | Right. Phrasing it as a question and waiting for the gears to turn can be a good strategy. | null | null | 41,783,298 | 41,780,569 | null | [
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41,788,299 | comment | toomuchtodo | 2024-10-09T14:28:17 | null | <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpe_du_Grand_Serre" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpe_du_Grand_Serre</a> | null | null | 41,788,164 | 41,788,164 | null | null | null | null |
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