sangnoir

> Partly because algorithmic curation is a big business, tied in pretzel knots with advertising, and is marketed by major companies as a huge "improvement" or "user need" (to sell more ads)

You might have inadvertently fallen for the fallacy of composition. What to describe is only one type of algorithm; one meant to maximize engagement/revenue.

Mastodon has the potential for a user-centric "Bring your own algorithm" which may work similar block lists. Users could subscribe to algorithms matching their preferences by boosting or penalizing posts based on topics I like or don't like. This would be very valuable to me, and will reduce the need for moderation - I won't even see the random ragebait or porn spam

With BS postings, low response rates, and the effect of having to apply to many jobs at once, how else can applicants manage their many applications but write things down?

The last time I did ran the job search, I needed a spreadsheet to keep track of things. When a recruiter reaches out to me, I'm going to see if their company is in there, and what my notes say about my last experience with them.

Calling this "cluelessness" is being more charitable that parent, and on the balance of evidence, mayn not be the correct explanation.

If one were sceptical of this synchronized "political awakening" in the tech industry, that incidentally is aligned to an incoming presidential administration, one might call it some sort of gratuitous signaling of virtues. Which is hilariously ironic, and shows either a lack of self-awareness, or profound levels of shamelessness.

> State and other propaganda actors didn’t take it as a serious platform

Security was awful for both the client and server. Who needs a warrant when all the user data is an SQL injection away? Broswers not fussy about https, Java Applets, flash, browser toolbars, XSS - the Internet must have been like an open book for anyone with access to backbone traffic.

Re-insurers also re-calibrate their rates, which may mean private may be effective ... until the first big disaster whereafter the re/insurance premiums become eye-watering.

Try broadcasting on a licensed frequency without a license and find out... If the terminals were completely passive, finding smuggled terminals would be much harder.

The module that translates[1] Linux syscalls? That module?

Can I say I'm fluent in Tagalog with the help of my "English Subsystem for Tagalog v1" (aka a hired translator)?

1. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/seth-juarez/windows-...

I'm not parent, but at some point McAffee could refer to either the person or the company in the past.

Whenever I read a Wolfram blog post that floats to the HN frontpage, I'm never certain if the post is entirely the effort of just Stephen Wolfram, or is a group effort.

> The Texas thing sounds like PR but isn't really given their huge offices in Austin

That distinctly smells like pork barrel politicking: we're moving jobs from Commiefornia to your great state, and if your criminal [1] state AG sues us again over this function, he'll be putting Texans out a job.

1. Allegedly. Meta wouldn't dare call him thar, but he agreed to 100 hours of community service and paying restitution to those he allegedly defrauded to avoid a trial.

If you're playing fast and loose and consider a chroot running under a the devices' kernel (that also handles all syscalls directly) to be the same as a hypervisor, then yeah, Windows is approximately a Linux distro by the same loose considerations. Tomato/tomato: hiring a translator is basically speaking the language, right?

On the other hand, if you're a syscall purists and are particular about the dependency on virtualization microprocessor extensions (or the lack thereof), then the stack requiring a hypervisor to run a guest isn't equivalent to the OS it's hosting.

Bottom line is: if you have a shell access/ a terminal emulator on stock Android, you can configure it to run a desktop Linux using the kernel loaded on the device without installing am emulator or hypervisor. To me, this is materially different to WSL or ChromeOS' crostini.

Is it not a conservative culture-war victory designed to earn favors? There is no external evidence of this having been anything other than a contingency around November 6 of last year, so it's hard to definitively say it's one or the other.

Android can run a full-blown Linux desktop distro in a chroot[0] - so yes, you absolutely can run LibreOffice on stock Android if the mood strikes you. I haven't tried it wine[1], but I don't see why one wouldn't be able to run x86 Wine on x64 Android hardware - it's not an emulator, like it says in the recursive acronym.

0. https://www.reddit.com/r/termux/comments/1e6ahlg/how_do_i_in...

1. Because I don't own x86-64 Android hardware, and it's usually pretty awful (Dell Revue).

Using outdated tensorflow (v1 from 2018) or outdated PyTorch makes learning harder than it need to be, considering most resources online use much newer versions of the frameworks. If you're learning the fundamentals and working from first principle and creating the building blocks yourself, then it adds to the experience. However, most most people just want to build different types of nets, and it's hard to do when the code won't work for you.

Nvidia segments its big iron AI hardware from the consumer/prosumer segment. They do this by forbidding the use of GeForce drivers in datacenters[1]. All that to say, it is possible for the H100 to to have excellent Linux support, while support for the 4090 is awful.

1. https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/nvidia-updates-ge...

> The difference is that Microsoft wants to force you to use an online Microsoft account to log into your own local computer. Macs do not require that.

I have no OS or tech giant loyalty, but I think the pushiness is wash between MacOS and Windows. I still haven't found a way to stop my mac from nagging me to log into iCloud, I currently am dealing with a bug where the iCloud login modal shows up immediately after I dismiss it, in an unceasing cycle, and I have to launch the App store and the quit before the nagging stops.

I recently set up a Windows 11 laptop over the holidays and found out (from Google) esoteric "oobe*.exe" command I had to run on the CLI on first boot (pre-setup) that showed the option to create a local account in the UI. I didn't get any nags post set-up.

> He doesn't run any of the companies mentioned, and he is not some emperor of the software industry.

?! He's the longest-serving member on Meta's board, and is a named partner at a prominent and prolific VC fund[1].

Maybe he's not the emperor, but he's at minimum, a duke and/or king-maker in software industry nobility.

1. https://a16z.com/portfolio/

Counterpoint: there are places in the world where people will not accept a $2 bill due to unfamiliarity - it may as well be a $7 bill. Therefore, there exists a $2 that's worth nothing as legal tender.

> Genuinely curious whats better under Canadian system for the young and old.

The young, old, and those too unhealthy to work full-time. And to answer your question: a better social safety net, IMO.

Edit: Because this topic is flamebait, I'm preemptively declaring that I'm not going to argue about my opinion. YMMV.

The Third Geneva Convention categorizes sleep deprivation as actual torture.

> people have come to hate it so much that they can't maintain it, they're in for a collapse because of it

Considering how post-Brexit Britain panned out, the people in charge of policy will be pragmatic and allow immigration to resume just to prevent immediate collapse under their watch, even if re-opening the immigration gates is unpopular.

The USA is great when you're working age and are healthy. Outside the 18-65 age range, not so much. I hope Canada will not morph into USA-lite.

It's fascinating how the same arguments can apply to the homeless, but how one sees the homeless vs. the truck protestors is likely to be polar opposites with one group free to stay as they aren't infringing on any rights, and the other group being a nuisance and having to go expeditiously. Which group is tolerated largely depends on your political alignment.

I think low recurrence is the bigger factor for sleaziness: roof replacement aren't low value, same goes for the archetype for sleazy sales tactics: car salesman.

This is software sales, which has long cycles, ongoing relationships and is a tiny sliver of the "hires salesmen" industry. For commoditized markets like phone plans, cable TV / ISPs, paper, or roof repairs after a hurricane, the ones who get the most sales are the ones without scruples.

I hope you appreciate the irony of your white-hot rage against framing, and the contrast of you saying:

> this is the new normal even if it’s only “because we say so”, that when an other option is presented, and one isn’t ordered to “accept this because…” it resonates.

> Surely you realize this.

Why aren't you just stating the facts and letting parent decide? I don't think you are against providing relevant context (i.e. "framing"), you just have a bee in a bonnet about ... something - journalism as practiced today perhaps, but that has very little to to with the topic at thr root if the thread - until you reframed the discussion to be about journalism.

What journalism? I'm talking about how we frame the discussion on HN in threads like this one.

Well, I'm glad that we can at least agree that the US has protectionist policies and has had them for a long time.

If you want a bigger protected industry, perhaps checkout any Farm bill from the past several decades. But that's neither here nor there. China is not weird for having protectionist measures - like you said - it's pretty normal - the scope and size is what may be unusual for a country that's not a hegemon.

> What does this have to do with Akamai, and many other American companies, ending services in mainland China?

Glad you asked: China has protectionist policies that are designed to help its domestic tech companies. Consequently, foreign (read American) tech companies like Akamai may find the operating environment much more challenging that they would without those policies. Other non-protectionist policies don't help - such as working with the great firewall, or complying with censorship requests.

TL;DR version: China protects its tech industry like the US protects its farmers and merchant marine. Acknowledging that will help frame whether the respective countries have the political appetite to temp or undo those policies.

It's not a red herring, I was responding to this specific sentence about the US "finally" acting, as if it's a new phenomenon:

>> The US is finally starting to act in kind, and should continue to do so

> No country is a perfect free market, and has some 'sacred cows' that it attempts to protect

This is a more nuanced take that should be the starting off point for any productive discussion around what counts as "fair" trade.

> Jones Act is actually really bad, for America! It should go away! It especially hurts areas like Hawaii and Puerto Rico, but it is generally

Sure, but it's protectionist, and has existed for over a century as proof of American protectionism.

> I mean, did we reach some checkpoint here where reality is blurred with fiction?

Yes, the first interactive synthetic pop culture icon is probably the Vocaloid Hakune Mitsu, circa 2007, and she has lots of fans who know exactly who and what she is. I am not surprised Meta wants in on the "influencer" action with synthetic personas: no commissions to be paid, they can create a persona for every possible niche for a marginal cost.

The technology is not there yet, we've barely progressed from Tay in terms of corporates' ability to prevent their AIs from saying things that cause bad PR. AI is definitely coming for influencers, the economics are just too good

> I wonder why so few companies employ Pixar’s Brain Trust method

It doesn't scale. That model hasn't been utilized at Pixar lately - whatsm was the last good/hit Pixar movie that wasn't a sequel or side-quel? Like most companies, Pixar relies on a few great products or ideas, and then doubling/tripling down on them, to make sure the graph grows up and to the right for shareholders.