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What I do to match my lazer curtains is I hang a lazer tapestry off the ceiling to block all the lazers. I don't do lazer welding but I have lazer scissors and lazer axe which it is still useful for

It's more like Plan 9 is an evolution of unix and inferno is an evolution of plan 9.

Also there's the old viewpoint of "let's put everything in XML. Everything can read and write XML", and that seems similar to the argument of "everything can be an object that is exposed to other programs". The problem in both cases, objects have requirements for function call names, function arguments, nuanced conventions, as XML has specific tree structures. Interfacing programs must be wise to these conventions and sometimes nuances so it doesn't "just work". Windows is like - programs CAN share objects and interface BUT it needs developer work for program A to work with program B. Unix is like "programs X and Y, whatever they are, work together with no additional work". The magic of unix is that if there are 1000 programs, now there are 1,000,000 combinations that "just work" vs. 1,000,000 developer hours

Unix on the other hand recognizes that it's a lot easier to just say "everything is a text stream, and all programs are responsible for inputting and outputting only fairly clean text streams without extraneous output" . This is extended to "everything is a file", a file also typically made to be read into a clean text stream so it can feed into that whole ecosystem.

"Filthy normies" and such is always a hilarious bit of nerdspeak. But the crux of it, to some degree, I am normie and normie am I - i.e. it's human nature and in all of us. Facebook or reddit never set out to say "Hey, I want to be evil and polarize society". They simply wrote an algorithm, told the algorithm, "Hey algorithm, find out what people like to read, and give 'em more of it". And people answered "we love drama, we love juicy, we love gossip, we love the grey area" which it turns out, gets people worked up, polarized, and keeps eyes on the prize. Just as the original internet was a scholarly interaction method and turned out to be a porn delivery mechanism, so too with social media being intended to join people together and yet it splits us apart. Are we to blame the one who held up the mirror only for humanity to see its own ugly visage and become angered by it, hard to say. Probably we should blame them if they made 9999 gorillon dollars from it, which they did and are doing.

that's wild, a bit of a polymath by computer science standards. I know him from template metaprogramming fame and here he is shifting from programming languages to algorithms

I was flying through JFK in the past year, JetBlue, and there they had these types of cameras at the boarding area, in addition to TSA. So instead of handing your ticket to the agent, scanning, go on plane, you self scan, there's a picture, and big gates open to let you on. How do you opt out of that?!? Also it was a disaster logistically because the machines were finicky, it moved super slow.

see: https://ir.jetblue.com/news/news-details/2018/Your-Face-is-Y...

(your face isn't your boarding pass, your face AND your boarding pass is your boarding pass)

Yea it's pretty simple. They'll go to "not the park" for a while, then some, back to the park. This is a person in the city with no brick home, so they'll be somewhere in the city.

Other place they might go is prison. Which is a shame because the nature of socially reforming a non-homed person is not the same as socially reforming a non-non-crime committing person.

Thing about homeless and drug use is dopamine rewiring. Hard drugs hit dopamine hard. A warm house, fresh cup of coffee, warm clean bed and blanket, that sounds nice, but if your dopamine requirement is 9999999 only more hard drugs will give joy. Part of me would love to see a drug that reset dopamine, part of me would hate it because it might make the ultimate drug.

Of course the other disease with homeless is hard psychiatric illness, and we have medicines for it.

As a whole unemployed cuts your bargaining power, it's natural to say "why should I leave my job" as a counterpoint. The flipside game is if you can arrange multiple offers at once (i.e. a high value candidate) while unemployed, it's a fantastic feeling. Then it's more like an auction, and auctions can get irrational. Turnabout is fair play and all that

"Brother, it's edge cases all the way down" - Alan Tuna Turing

yea, a big one. Once there was an intentionally multi-user-from-ground-up OS called "Multics". Dude named ken thompson or dennis ritchie or something worked on it but was like "bro, so bloated". So dude writes a DISK BENCHMARKING system, single user, called it "Unix" as if to castrate multics. The original unix was disk benchmarking, barebones. So we know how that moved into multi-user

source: kernighans readingbook, "unix a memoir" or something like that, great read

Exactly. When our car doesn't run well, a car with perhaps 20,000 parts, we take it to the mechanic who says "yup, issue was your spark plug, fixed". And even then, of course, the car issue may have been multifactorial. Maybe the spark plug failed because the fuel/air mix was off, for example, the spark plug was the symptom.

But then we leap from the car with 20,000 parts to a body with a trillion cells each cell with a trillion molecules. The calculus of the fuel/air mix and the spark plug has now been blown out of proportion, as challenging as conceiving a 20 dimensional manifold or the size of the universe. And so my reservation with a paper like this, and in general, is people say, "yup, sure was the spark plug" and then get accolades and a Nature paper, when the core issue was the air fuel mix, the air fuel mix that is, times a trillion cells, times a trillion molecules.

And I can't blame the authors. No shame in shooting for Nature and succeeding. No shame in these simplistic models, each one takes us a step further. But somewhere along the lines we're going to have think about the R&D of the big picture in non-hand-wavey ways.

Yes. On the super long term - wind doesn't blow, sun doesn't shine, oil doesn't flow, coal doesn't mine. Then the feasibility of nucular is a no brainer. That's all that's left besides renewables, nucular fishin. And when we run of of nucular fishin, and that day will come too... Fusion will be all that's left of the non-renewables. And it will be used surely, provided it's a net-positive delta energy.

Right? Boeing would like to have a word.

> who aren't rational and are chronically homeless because they basically can't function in society. Diogenes of Sinope, a rational philosopher, would like to have a word

Same here. I'm a big wheel at a big company (tech) everyone here has heard of. But My father passed a few years ago, he ran an old box factory in Tajikistan. I ran it into the ground. Sometimes you need to run a box factory in tajikistan to run in the ground to learn a thing or two about life.. things you don't never learn in silicon valley

I agree with you in principle, but RMS, he got other things on his mind right now I'm guessing i.e. https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/29/richard_stallman_canc...

>tiered shading positive reviews That's funny, medicine works the same way. Your medical school makes a "packet" for residencies that summarizes you, and it's a bit of an honor system that the medical school should be forthcoming with shortcomings lest nobody trust the school. But of course, the medical school doesn't want to talk trash about its own graduates. So they have a system of code words i.e. "I recommend" = low, "I enthusiastically recommend" = medium, "???" = high.

As far as non-competes, the interesting thing there is I mostly work in science/programming where these are seen as jokes. "Why I can't make a living with this non-compete, non-enforceable" (exception is when they PAY you to not work, which is how it should be). So non-competes are seen as toothless. However I was hanging out with salespeople and they were 100% like "bro, these are no joke, I am banned from talking to my old clients for 1 year, they ARE totally enforceable in sales". And of course if you're starting a new sales job at some competitor, that's a bad look if your hiring arrives alongside a lawsuit, so these guys are properly afraid of non-compete scenarios

On this point I recall when the gravity wave detector first detected a black hole merge, which is of course a LOT of mass and power. It was in the hearing range so they played a .wav. It unironically sounded exactly like a "PLOP" drop of water falling in a bucket - an irony that such a big event and a small event sound so similar.

Another point with nvidia isn't "better product" but "what API does everyone use" and that's CUDA. Owned by NVIDIA. It would be like if SGI, who invented openGL as an open source version of their proprietary Iris GL, kept it proprietary, and now everyone uses SGI hardware because all games and 3D software use Iris GL. In this scenario SGI may also be very keen to make sure Iris GL has quirks that strongly tie it to SGI-only hardware to keep dominance. That seems a little more "okay you're overleveraging your position" versus "you put out a better product in a fair market"

>" THe fact that this 960-line file and a somewhat modern C compiler is all you really need to run a state-of-the-art language model is really surprising to many."

"the code for AGI will be simple" - John Deremetrius Carmack

Plot twist 2: it's also a marketplace for big tech compliance departments, $10,000 to reveal the insider

video is typically way less than 120 Hz for sure. There are ways to get your PC video player to increase / motion interpolate your video (similar to how some TVs do it and everything somehow looks like an old soap opera). I myself have found it to work via potplayer with "avisynth processing" enabled plus various tweaks you have to lookup (reddit thread somewhere) to make it work -- presumably it would crank to 1000 hz but never tried.

In California the permit laws are aggressive and slow, so much so that it's common practice to make most modifications unpermitted. This severely limits new home supply, because permits include new homes. The solution? Federal program which gives huge subsidies to purchasing an expensive home (they give you a cut to buy the house, no interest, and they take a cut when you sell).

This is complicated by a property tax law similar to rent control, where your taxes are frozen at the time of purchase. This results in a market where few people are willing to sell and most people are unable to build. Thus rental prices in the region are dirt cheap relative to home prices, versus an appalachian town where the opposite is true.

For me, this is an example of red light cameras causing MORE accidents than without the camera because it interferes with human behavior. Specifically, the painfully slow permit process causes most building to be done unpermitted and therefore at risk of harm to human life (the purpose of the permit is to assure safety). As we know, the unspoken purpose of the red light camera is revenue, thus representing a conflict of interest between true safety and revenue, and I think a similar conflict is rotting California's real estate situation as well, in service to wealth building more than it's in service to the common man.

the exteriors aren't generated from a 3D model, they are generated from many 3d model(s), of the same thing, that perhaps changed over time or changed between scenes, like the models on the star trek enterprise

Literally just assess how much ad revenue Google stands to earn from the site. If it's a Google top hit (SEO) AND earns Google a disproportionate potential amount of revenue, then there's your grade.

Google is the kingmaker and basically a monopoly on search. If you're going to light up dollars to share with a bot, let it be with google, who on a lucky day might decide you are king (because you let them index your site) I would presume and assume google obeys the robots.txt mandate as well.

But I would agree it's a very outstanding and real problem that is YC-worthy - sharing structured webpage data with trusted partners in a generic and efficient way. I've heard about various AI companies that perform such data scraping and structuring with AI, forget the name - this is many notches in sophistication above a Selenium-headless type driver. If only html were made into a model-view-controller neatly and users were let to bring their own views & controllers.

browser history is a log and presumably contains things one doesn't care about after reading but definitely so for tabs and bookmarks as "things that are interesting" - the tab is notable because it has a back/forward aspect.

It seems to me in this day & age you have media organization tools (jellyfin? I think it's called?) that just handle everything. I'd love to see some basic AI language model (more of the BERT/gensim flavor likely) that can similarly auto-organize trounces of bookmarks, I have way too many.

The other interesting and increasingly relevant feature towards bookmarks would be the concept of saving them for posteriority, as we know the internet is not forever, whether this means a local save or a ping to archive.org as to say "someone bookmarked this maybe you can hang onto it". The trick of it there is not just capturing all the content of a webpage including videos, but if we say "tabs are bookmarks" then maybe you want to capture the back/forward button pages to a degree.

Anyway that's what my dream browser might look like. Also dream browser powerfully denies browser fingerprinting.

alls I know is the nintendo 3DS could do this on the cheap

look into "period hardware" which is itself a "dual joystick" (typically literally sold for use in descent). it's a gimmick that sold i.e. why have one joystick when you can have two. Then you should just have a single i/o interface to your MIDI game port.

All of this is very tricky stuff, I would just call it shades of grey and leave it at that, no black and white. Similar lore happened in the DC metro, everything was fine until it got to be XX years old and then they jacked up the prices and starting shutting things down all the time -- because the infrastucture was all getting dangerously old (subway fires and such) and so they had to quasi-build-new infrastucture, so that got a guy that basically said "we're gonna fix it and it will be painful but we will still fix it" for example - https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/291651-dc-metro-ex...

The crux of it is, it's generally easy to maintain a pretty new system than an aging one (bathtub curve type scenario like in the hard drives). As such we see China sitting real pretty presently but say 50 years from now it will inevitably be a different tune.

Now in the case of NYC I wouldn't be surprised if some of that had to do with crumbling, very very old infrastructure, and I wouldn't deny either by the same token it had to do with macro-economic factors as well, all shades of grey. First 60 years of operation NYC probably had a lot of "brand new" stuff at any given time.

I agree with this - in the US we have nurses picking up doctor roles (e.g. anesthesia), hours-worked caps, PAs (physician assistants) also picking up doctor roles, tons of international physicians coming for underserved specialities (family medicine, pediatrics, psych, etc).

And of course, residents super overworked. I think it speaks for itself that making medicine 2x - 3x more people per year would help the problem. Yes, there's a "sweet spot" where quality of doctors would drop, but there's also a sweet spot where services rendered drop due to overwork, and we're on the far side of that one