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"AI will do politics"

If only.

They certainly can't do them worse than humans.

Three weeks? Try almost three years:

https://lowendbox.com/blog/will-github-ever-remove-this-null...

"I would say not 2026, yeah. We’ve got a lot of stuff to do."

Why is this even a "would say" kind of thing. Surely AGI - they've achieved it three times now, right? - has lead to a datacenter full of PhDs who will perfectly time the IPO.

I've paused my work on faster-than-light travel in order to more fully assess the consequences.

Not sure nuclear arms is a great example. There are more countries with nuclear weapons now than in 1970. India, Pakistan, and North Korea have all joined the nuclear club since then. The SALT and START treaties are no longer in effect.

Perhaps CFCs (Montreal Treaty) is a better example of international cooperation to solve a potential extinction-level event, though it was never a "race" in the same sense.

Isn’t the latter what Knuth meant?

Such a slippery slope between “consideration of performance” and optimization.

Here you go: https://docs.monicahq.com/developers/setup-local-development

That's linked from their GitHub: https://github.com/monicahq/monica

PikaPods also offers Monica hosting in your own container.

I don’t remember us getting to fractions in kindergarten, but maybe the curriculum has radically changed since the early 70s.

What exactly is the lie? 1/4 and 3/8 equals 5/8. Is there’s something more to that? Is that fundamentally wrong?

The article seems to be unaware that Python has a built-in csv module.

That pricing is awful. $4/month for 512MB VPS...eeek.

You'll find much better pricing at RackNerd, DediRock, InterServer, BuyVM, etc. Small indy hosting companies are the way to go. 2GB for $5/month or so is the typical price point.

Any host that offers KVM and allows you to upload your own ISO can run OpenBSD (or FreeBSD, NetBSD, whatever you want).

Check out LowEndTalk or LowEndBox for deals. There are other sites but that's where I shop.

Sure, if you need an API, or if you want to host in one of the less common locations, or if you absolutely must have five nines, then DO or Vultr or Linode or Amazon LightSail can be a good fit. But if you just need a VPS with a control panel in a typical hosting location (Amsterdam, LA, New York, Chicago, Singapore, etc.) then I don't see the point of paying more at one of the big hosts.

"Ideally you'll find more value in the comments as Hacker News folks and Windows experts will drop in with better tools and strategies."

I don't know if this is better, but...an alternative is rclone, which uses rsync under the hood. It can also do parallel jobs and is restartable on any failed partial copy.

When I've had to do large Synology-to-Synology moves, that's what I've used. The multiple rsyncs in parallel really helps if you've got a lot of small files.

Yes, indeed.

I've witnessed dementia patients take a fall, and then be dramatically more confused the next couple days. I've also seen them get some kind of social exposure, sunshine, exercise, etc. and present better for several days afterwards. Measuring "how well is the mind working" isn't like reading a digital meter.

This article soars from hope to hype to skepticism. I guess that's a consequence of reporting on the fringes of science.

In particular, I wish there was more detail on the 100-cohort study where patients experienced "modest improvements" and how that's calculated. Is that average increase of X points on an MMSE, etc.

In my experience in my family, dementia is not a linear slide. My 85yo mother with Alzheimer's will sometimes present very well and you have to really get into conversational details to notice the dementia. On other days, she'll pick up a paperback and try to use it as a phone. Some days she's steady on her feet, some days coordinating all of those muscles is just too much.

Over the course of a couple years, you can track the decline, but it's not a straight line. "Modest improvements" makes me concerned that they measured a valley to a peak. It's only 6 months since the 100-cohort study.

I wonder if new generations will just get better and better at visually blocking off ads when they read. So many layouts are so common that I read a lot of sites and have absolutely no idea what ads they're running because 30-odd years of browsing rendered HTML pages has trained my brain to block off and not process certain areas of the page.

I'm not an advertising apologist, just pointing out that I can remember what ads were on a freemium TV station I watched two nights ago and what ads were on a radio station I listened to this afternoon but I can't remember a single web ad since...I don't know when. This might be because the TV ads have audio and visual, and with radio my alternative at the moment was looking out the window of my car, but web ads just seem very easy to mentally filter.

Am a believer, and appreciate the KJV for its language. However, it can be tricky, because words change over 400 years. So while there are many wonderfully translated passages that use very expressive language, you also have passages that are full of words that seem similar but actually are easy to confuse.

For example:

- "Prevent" in 1611 meant "go before, precede". Now it means "stop from happening". - "Suffer" in 1611 meant "allow to happen". Now it means "experience pain". - "Quick" in 1611 could mean "alive" (hence "the quick and the dead"). Now it exclusively means "fast".

And there are words that are completely archaic now - "anon", "bissam", etc. Or words that are just very rare - e.g., peradventure.

It's a wonderful read in many places if you want to revel in language, but modern translations are often better for understanding meaning. Not because they're "dumbed down" (as some claim) but rather because they reflect modern meanings and usage.

It’s illegal to wear a balaclava in Britain while driving an electric motorcycle?

What exactly about the Amiga FFS made it more fault tolerant?

I’m not sure comparing the file system on a single user workstation where disk is probably quiescent most of the time to the file system used on a busy server is really apples to apples. The Wikipedia article on the Amiga FFS makes it sound like it was an early journaled file system, but not technically superior to anything developed since. It plays back the journal if not shut down cleanly. All modern filesystems do that.

OpenBSD uses FFS btw (not the same FFS as the Amiga).

"Smart men go broke three ways: liquor, ladies, and leverage." -- Charlie Munger

(Which is not to imply that these are smart men).

"I'm glad our homes aren't shrieking at us at all hours."

We have phones to do that for us.

So to fill a typical 20,000-gallon pool with this water would cost $2.4 billion.

That might even give a trillionaire pause.

Actually, 1 degree of Fahrenheit is the amount of temperature change a typical human can connect. It's a human-calibrated scale.

Though why 32F instead of 0F for frozen water...I have no idea.

I thought the status of Go v2 was that the devs weren't saying it will never happen, but also were not working on it. There was some momentum that seemed to sputter out once generics were added.

"when should we expect the Go 2 specification that breaks old Go 1 programs?

The answer is never. Go 2, in the sense of breaking with the past and no longer compiling old programs, is never going to happen. Go 2 in the sense of being the major revision of Go 1 we started toward in 2017 has already happened."[1]

Granted, this post was more about if there will someday be a Go that will break backward compatibility. But it sort of answers where Go 2 is as a side effect.

[1] https://golang.google.cn/blog/compat

I don't know if Ed Zitron is right about allhis analysis, but it's nice to have an alternative, well-argued narrative to the gushing torrent of AI company propaganda.

Interesting how people like it use sympathetic terms (“public media”) while those who don’t use pejorative terms (“state-owned”, “government-run”).

I’m not saying it’s good or bad, just observing the language.

"a Win10 machine for testing on my left hand side here..."

Well, the Latin word for "left" is "sinister", so that tracks.

Ten minutes later, I'm still trying to figure out the role of "thus" in this headline.

I don't doubt you, but my experience is different.

Every company I've worked for (mostly F500s) has had an onboarding document you sign in which you're notified that everything inside the company is confidential by default. It doesn't expire.

Most of these companies also had annual training (the usual corporate policy refresher stuff) and this was mentioned during that as well.

I've worked on some very hush-hush projects. In my experience, NDAs were for people outside the corporation...partners, vendors, etc. Everyone who was employed by the corporation was under an NDA by default. I don't think I've ever signed a subsequent NDA for something my employer was working on, because I was already under one.

And even if they didn't do all this formally...it's a reasonable expectation. I would never think I'm allowed to discuss anything that wasn't publicly announced with outsiders.

"Companies may only destroy unsold clothes and shoes in limited cases, such as when items are unsafe or damaged, counterfeit or infringing intellectual property rights, or are rejected by charities or donation schemes."

Nike's unsold, defective, or returned shoes are ground up to make carpet padding. They're processed by the truckload in a large grinding machine.

It seems that under these rules, this would be illegal - ?

Having experienced the SO culture, I like to think the culture caused it - schadenfreude - but it was probably inevitable given AI.

Even if SO was the most wonderful friendly place in the galaxy, would you rather post a question and wait hours for a response, or get one instantly?

Another side effect of deleting 10 million rows in some databases (e.g., Oracle) is that the database writes out 10 million rows' worth of undo, which can swamp the disk space set aside for archive logs if you can't back it up and clear it off fast enough. Committing more frequently help, but if you have large databases and regularly need to purge, the best way in my experience is to use partitioning. Dropping the oldest (or whatever) partition is nearly instant and painless.

I wasn't clear exactly what the author was doing. "The worker crashes because it couldn’t write to the database and the VM shuts down" - why would the VM shut down? I assume VM here means the Virtual Machine (OS).