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Obviously the part that determines what part of the output might be a password or other sensitive value.

Why would it be satire? Seems like a real use case

CGNAT is used by Tailscale and presumably in the wild for its intended purpose.

> Racial discrimination is very much within my living memory, obviously affected other parents in my cohort, and still exists all over the city I live in.

If we’re talking about Asians, I agree with you, as far as non-Bob Jones universities are concerned.

> How about for schools that had racial segregation within living memory?

Maybe if you’re a Boomer, although even by the time they were going to university, racial discrimination was rapidly being replaced by affirmative action. This is the 2020s - even though some problems from that era still haven’t been solved, brute forcing the solutions from back then won’t make them any better and has already produced a major backlash.

Was the title changed since this comment? It now says “How to trigger a command on Linux when power switches from AC to battery”, which seems perfectly clear. I’m guessing “from AC to battery” was not present initially?

Screen couldn’t do vertical splits for the longest time. That started to be a bigger problem when screens got bigger and wider. I believe that’s why I started using tmux. Tmux also has more facilities for automation. Nowadays, screen is primarily in maintenance mode, and I’m used to tmux, so no reason to switch back.

LLM model training costs arise primarily from commodity costs (GPUs and other compute as well as electricity), not locally-provided services, so PPP is not the right statistic to use here. You should use nominal GDP for this instead. According to Wikipedia[0], the median country's nominal GDP (Cyprus) is more like $39B. Still much larger than training costs, but much lower than your PPP GDP number.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...

Vibe coding Common Lisp could probably work well with additional tool support. Even a good documentation lookup and search tool, exposed in an AGENTS.md file, could significantly improve the problem Joe ran into of having the code generate bogus symbols. If you provide a small MCP server or other tool to introspect a running image containing your application, it could be even better.

LLMs can handle the syntax of basically any language, but the library knowledge is significantly improved by having a larger corpus of code than Common Lisp tends to have publicly available.

Yeah, Simon needs to release a new benchmark under a pen name, like Stephen King did with Richard Bachman.

The XML/HTML document looks readable enough - no worse than a GNU HTML manual. You can add a stylesheet if you want.

https://www.congress.gov/119/bills/hr1/generated/BILLS-119hr...

What do you even mean by self-awareness? Presumably you don’t mean fish contemplate their existence in the manner of Descartes. But almost all motile animals, and some non-animals, will move away from a noxious stimulus.

And Taleb is a Christian Arab, which are genetically distinct from the majority Muslim Arab population.

There's not enough immigrants that actually are of financial benefit to Denmark. Only European immigrants are a large financial benefit throughout their lifespan, and Middle Eastern immigrants are a financial detriment even in their prime working years[0]. That is apart from the cultural effects of having a large portion of your population consist of non-Danish, and especially non-European immigrants, which might have its own detrimental effect on the birth rate.

[0] Figure 2.7 of the Danish Government report "Økonomisk Analyse: Indvandreres nettobidrag til de offentlige finanser i 2018" - https://fm.dk/udgivelser/2021/oktober/oekonomisk-analyse-ind...

Can someone tell me why rebar isn’t more often cathodically protected with electric current? I don’t think much power is required to resist corrosion, and it shouldn’t be too hard to test for electric continuity in the field.

The original version of MapReduce was written in C++. The successor library, Flume, was however written in Java, but Spolsky would certainly have been referring to the original MapReduce, since the Flume paper wasn't published until 2010.

> HN Disclaimer: WarpStream sells a drop-in replacement for Apache Kafka built directly on-top of object storage.

First time I’ve seen one of these. That’s actually a better way to advertise your product than putting it at the end.

That’s true, but I need to set aside time to clean up my RSS reader (too many feeds!).

Hi author, I love your blog, but could you add a toggle option to disable the background image? I end up going to Chrome Devtools and disabling the CSS rule.

I suppose the PDF is a good workaround for now.

Yet somehow, despite strictly speaking only predicting the next token greedily according to the highest probability, LLMs are able to write coherent text across many pages now. Reflecting on why that is the case might give you an answer as to how businesses can plan over the many-year timescale.

Entirely due to the unified RAM between CPU and GPU in Apple Silicon. Laptops otherwise almost never have a GPU with sufficient RAM for LLMs.

Literally nothing here is specific to MCP - it all has to do with the fact that Chrome extensions can make HTTP connections to localhost ports, which could be running any kind of server. This is not an unrestricted backdoor either - Chrome extensions already need permissions in the manifest to talk to localhost, except via content scripts, which run in the context of the website and so could be served by the website without any extension installed.

It's really pretty easy to at least get an ID card in the US. Taking a deep red state's requirements (Mississippi) [0]:

"""

Any persons six (6) years of age or older may apply to the Department of Public Safety for an identification card.

All applicants must provide the following:

- A completed and signed Application.

-Original Birth Certificate or any acceptable document. (No Photocopies Accepted)

- SSN Card or an official government correspondence displaying full 9 digits. (click here)

- Two proofs of Residency.

- Legal Documents are required if going by new name.

"""

These are all very standard. The only ones I could see people having trouble with is proof of residency, but the accepted forms[1] are very numerous (over 20). Anyone that isn't intentionally trying to stay off-grid should be able to provide at least two, especially because you're allowed to use proof for a parent, legal guardian, or spouse as long as you can establish your relationship to them. You can even get your roommates to attest that you live with them to use their proofs of residency.

[0] https://www.driverservicebureau.dps.ms.gov/Drivers/Identific...

[1] https://www.driverservicebureau.dps.ms.gov/node/303

But it appears that there's a giant loophole - the Attorney General apparently can still do so:

> (2) any individual (other than the Attorney General of the United States) serving in a position specified in section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.

They could. Look up Bob Jones College or Hillsdale College, both of which operate without any federal funding. It appears that the elite universities are going to find out the same thing that the small Christian universities found out in the 1970s, which is that the federal government Can control you if they fund you. I believe Bob Jones in particular won a case in front of the Supreme Court giving them the right to racially discriminate in their admissions if they refuse to take any federal funding.

> I don't think there's any healthy level of private cars coexisting with humans in a city

Concentrating humans together into a small locality, which is what a city is, will inherently have a significant environmental impact. Cities before private cars were still quite polluted, because transportation still has to take place just to keep the city running. Electric vehicles are the best-case scenario for truck deliveries, construction vehicles, and everything else you need to keep a city running on a day-to-day basis.

Moreover, you have to consider all cities in this analysis, not just posh, post-industrial cities like those in the US and Western Europe. Manufacturing has to take place somewhere, and logistics considerations imply that most manufacturing will be located next to transportation infrastructure. Just like any other economic activity, manufacturing benefits from talent clusters (a major reason cities exist), so manufacturing will tend to concentrate in cities as well, or at least the suburbs, which you can easily observe in China.

If you really hate air pollution, move to the country and be willing to sacrifice the advantages of cities.

It's easy to be tricked into thinking macOS supports it, because both Chrome and Curl support it. However, ping does not, nor do more basic tools like Python's request library (and I presume urllib as well).

IKEA in the US has a good fast-food restaurant as well (although I'd call it more of a cafeteria). On the other hand, in the US, IKEA doesn't value making it easy to navigate the store or developing a competent assembly service. I think the issue is that companies will generally either see something as a core competency, or at least central to brand identity, and therefore put more effort into it, or they'll see it as non-core, in which case it will go to the cheapest option.

“Emergency” is the cheat code written into many laws to circumvent ordinary procedural requirements or limits. Would you like it better if they were forced to call it “exigent circumstances” instead?