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by defrost | 2025-07-15 00:44:12+00:00
FWiW I've been in geophysical exploration, mapping, and modeling since the 1980s and have no issue with the IPCC's reports on AGW. (I'm also responsible for posting this submission after reading the paper linked).

From your linked medium article:

By 2050 total human population will likely be under 2 billion. Humans, along with most other animals, will go extinct before the end of this century. These impacts are locked in and cannot be averted.

are all things I don't agree with.

How can you validate (ie prove) these claims?

NB: Climate aside, the current "birthrate crisis" that the natalists scream about will see a flattening of population growth by 2050 .. that leaves ~ 8 billion to vanish to reach the 2 billion asserted.
by superfunny | 2025-07-15 00:44:21+00:00
Joanna Stern at the Wall Street Journal presented a project earlier this year where she and a team of editors created a short film using AI tools - not exactly the same thing here but the results were very good. They had a bigger budget too.

You can see it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US2gO7UYEfY

In their case, they interspersed live actors with AI-generated imagery.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-07-15 00:44:32+00:00
>There are many, many services offering data-for-sale on practically anything to practically anyone. I heard of one recently claiming it can reliably determine someone's porn preferences.

Okay but then why not name at least a couple such services. Also, if the tech industry isn't selling data to them, where do they obtain it? Again, I see lots of ambiguity here, and the example link from transunion is hardly revealing of anything.
by burningChrome | 2025-07-15 00:45:37+00:00
A) Quotes from politicians don't discount the facts of the matter.

B) Had you spent five minutes researching what's going on, you would've seen an article from last year about Alameda City, a city in California (yes, THAT California, the supposed VERY BLUE STATE California) that banned geoengineering:

June 2024:

A Northern California city council voted early Wednesday morning to cancel the nation’s first outdoor experiment into the potential to limit global warming by altering cloud behavior.

The five-member Alameda City Council voted unanimously to reject University of Washington researchers’ aerial spraying of liquefied salt from the deck of a retired aircraft carrier in San Francisco Bay, two months after the experiment began.

And shockingly, the report isn't in some strange substack. Its actually a well known LEFT LEANING site - Politico:

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/05/california-geoengin...

But hey man, just keep believing that this is simply some red state conspiracy to block climate change.
by protocolture | 2025-07-15 00:46:09+00:00
>Wireless service is always worse

Look, wireless service is almost guaranteed to be worse, but that has more to do with dodgy operators. The technology is fantastic, and when engineered correctly largely undetectable.

That said, in my time, I can count on one hand the number of installations where I was allowed to engineer the service correctly. And I can count on all the hands in a small city the number of times I have been called to rescue something extremely stupid, like shooting a link across a construction site.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-15 00:46:13+00:00
> sounds like a cop out to avoid dealing with the long term consequences of what we put out there now and to keep pumping oil

Any practical solution will consist of a wide array of approaches executed in parallel.

Talking about suddenly getting the whole world to stop using oil is a hypothetical thought exercise. It’s not going to happen. We have to be looking at all of the approaches together, including some lessening of fossil fuel use.
by shahbaby | 2025-07-15 00:46:22+00:00
Mad respect to the Germans for taking a stand on this.

The entire idea of measuring worker performance is not only dehumanizing but is particularly flawed when it comes to knowledge work.

It's like trying to determine the faster car by racing through rush hour traffic. Or ignoring the fact that each car is on a different incline.

Knowing the right people and being in the right place at the right time can often make or break one's career.

Yet we are to incorporate these factors that are for the most part not in our control as a measurement of our own "performance". The unlucky get insult added to injury. The lucky get a dose of ego or fear (depending on their level of self-awareness).

It seems like corporate gaslighting to me.
by marcusb | 2025-07-15 00:47:18+00:00
I once spent half an hour on the phone with a dialup customer who couldn't get connected. Fortunately, they fixed their own problem - they had been entering the "letter zero" instead of the "number zero" (their words.)

Took another call from an irate dialup customer who demanded a refund - he didn't know he needed a computer to use the internet -- and had driven himself mad dialing up our modem bank with his telephone and waiting for the training tones to subside so he could begin to navigate the internet as he imagined it to work: press 1 for email, 2 for news, 3 for weather...

Despite the proliferation of smart phones and greater prevalence of home networks, I don't think the situation has changed much for a segment of the population once you get down to troubleshooting why something isn't working. The skills and the willingness to just try to fix the problem aren't there.
by firesteelrain | 2025-07-15 00:49:02+00:00
It's on the DoD contracts site. I was a little off. It is a FFP style contract. Here is the OpenAI one (https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/4218...)

"OpenAI Public Sector LLC, San Francisco, California, has been awarded a fixed amount, prototype, other transaction agreement (HQ0883-25-9-0012) with a value of $200,000,000. Under this award, the performer will develop prototype frontier AI capabilities to address critical national security challenges in both warfighting and enterprise domains. The work will be primarily performed in the National Capital Region with an estimated completion date of July 2026. Fiscal 2025 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $1,999,998 are being obligated at time of award. Office of the Secretary of Defense Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office, Washington D.C., is the contracting activity. "

It's a prototype and its FFP. Only about $2m has been allocated to them. That equates to about 1-2 employees for a year.

Anthropic’s is “is expected to mirror OpenAI’s structure: a similar token obligation at signing and the rest released via milestones.”

All these frontier AI OTAs follow the same pattern of “up to [X] million” ceilings with actual funding phased out as projects progress. This mirrors what Palantir got last year.

Link: https://www.nextgov.com/defense/2024/06/pentagons-ai-office-...
by apwell23 | 2025-07-15 00:49:12+00:00
> precise prompt

If there was such a thing you would just check in your prompts into your repo and CI would build your final application from prompts and deploy it.

So it follows that if you are accepting 95% of what random output is being given to you. you are either doing something really mundane and straightforward or you don't care much about the shape of the output ( not to be confused with quality) .

Like in this case you were also the Product Owner who had the final say about what's acceptable.
by privatelypublic | 2025-07-15 00:49:22+00:00
Double an ioniq 5's miles per kw/h to 8m/kWh, use the maximum possible insolation (1kw/m^2) and theoretical PV efficiency (70%, reality is 30% btw) and you get... 8kw/h@12hrs a day generated and 3.75kwh needed. about double what this impossibly optimistic calculation gives. Half all the inputs and double the consumption and you get a quarter of the power needed.
by nextaccountic | 2025-07-15 00:49:25+00:00
> If your code compiles in 1 second from scratch then what do you need incremental compilation for?

I really want incremental compilation in 100ms or less, this makes live reloading (such as with dioxus subsecond [0]) so much more enjoyable.

I don't care about the time spent on fully recompiling the whole project from scratch though.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1j8z3yb/media_dioxus_...
by rstuart4133 | 2025-07-15 00:49:34+00:00
I' scratching my head here, because many languages avoid colouring. Effectively all I think you've done is specify an interface for the event loop. Python and I expect a few other languages have pluggable event loops that use the same technique.

Granted some languages like Rust don't, or at least Rust's std library doesn't standardise the event loop interface. That has lead to what can only be described as a giant mess, because there are many async frameworks, and you have to choose. If you implement some marvelous new protocol in Rust, people can't just plug it in unless you have provided the glue for the async framework they use. Zig has managed to avoid Rust's mistake with it's Io interface, but then most async implementations do avoid it in one way or another.

What you haven't avoided is the colouring that occurs between non-async code and async code. Is the trade-off "all code shall be async"? That incurs a cost to single threaded code, as all blocking system calls now become two calls (one to do the operation, and one wait for the outcome).

Long ago Rust avoided that by deciding other whether to do a blocking call, or a schedule call followed by a wait when the system call is done. But making decision also incurs it's over overhead on each and every system call, which Rust decided was too much of an imposition.

For Rust, there is possibly a solution: monomorphisation. The compiler generates one set of code when the OS scheduler is used, and another when the process has it's own event loop. I expect they haven't done that because it's hard and disruptive. I would be impressed if Zig had done it, but I suspect it hasn't.
by fud101 | 2025-07-15 00:50:02+00:00
I've got a petty reason for hating Mozilla but it's not from a developer perspective, it's from a user perspective. For years all i've wanted is to use my my Google chrome state over to Firefox. I don't want to do an import, I want to type in my gmail credentials and just have all my tabs and passwords to use. If they gave that feature to me i'd have switched years ago.
by magicalhippo | 2025-07-15 00:50:07+00:00
What I was getting at was that if you have a CPU bottleneck, reducing or removing that bottleneck can make your GPU work harder, which results in more frames per second but also more energy because GPU isn't idle as much.

This would be in contrast to say wasting a lot of cycles in a spin lock due to thread contention, where reducing or removing the contention might gain you both performance and lower energy cost due to less waste.
by vouaobrasil | 2025-07-15 00:50:19+00:00
Actually, it is a bad thing. Because people who have a slight difficulty with socializing, probably because of too much screen time, will be sucked into virtual words with AI companions and not have the chance to learn to life a fulfilling life. Not sure what you mean about "pressure to keep to yourself" because I think a normal person shouldn't feel any pressure when going outside, whether to socialize or not.
by consumer451 | 2025-07-15 00:51:18+00:00
You could place some unique strings in your code, and test it to see if they appear as completions in future foundation models? Maybe?

I am nowhere near being a lawyer, but I believe the promise would be more legally binding, and more likely to be adhered to, if money was exchanged. Maybe?

The "Amazon Q Developer Pro" sub they mention appears to be very inexpensive. https://aws.amazon.com/q/pricing/
by dgfitz | 2025-07-15 00:51:23+00:00
> It's not that people don't know how to build a native application, it's rather a native application that runs across Windows, Mac and Linux is still really hard. Trying to add in a web version of the same application is impossible.

Qt is pretty good at this actually. I don’t have a Mac, but building the same codebase for windows, linux, and a wasm target was pretty neat the first time I did it.
by pdoege | 2025-07-15 00:51:39+00:00
A mobile provider enters into marketing sharing agreements with credit card companies. It extracts housing information from local property and tax records. It enters into marketing sharing agreements with retailers, payment processors like ADP. Same with license plate reading companies, loan companies, banks, professional organizations, etc.

It fills its data lakes with the vectorization and down tilt data that it collects every day. It uses federated batched Hadoop tasks to join the above data lakes into one large data lake. Mid-PB in size.

Then it looks for mobile phones that travel to the 400 block at night and stay there, that are buying dentist stuff from Walmart, travel to a dentist office every workday, have an income over $120k, and are a member of the local dentist society. Maybe look for someone with dentist student loans, graduated with a dental degree.

None of those data points can identify an individual. Taken together they can ID just about anybody.

But maybe there is a chance that you ID their wife/husband. So maybe include/exclude people that regularly visit OBGYN offices.

Back in the day we could link cell numbers to credit card purchases in locations to the point of being to identify the name of the person and what they purchased and where it was purchased. For all people in a metro area that were using credit cards and physically visiting stores.
by pruetj | 2025-07-15 00:51:45+00:00
Honestly, going off of something I heard Fr. Stephen De Young mention in one of his podcasts. If I remember right, he says when you see the 12 in certain icons, Paul is often present instead of Matthias.

He did not speak of casting lots as being something never endorsed in the Bible, more just for this particular passage, it might not be the takeaway Luke is aiming for. Agree with all your points on 'chance' often being used in scripture.
by bayesianbot | 2025-07-15 00:51:48+00:00
I feel like the optimal coding agent would do this automatically - collect and (sometimes) summarize the required parts of code, MCP responses, repo maps etc., then combine the results into a new message in a new 'chat' that would contain all the required parts and nothing else. It's basically what I already do with aider, and I feel the performance (in situations with a lot of context) is way better than any agentic / more automated workflow I've tried so far, but it is a lot of work.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-07-15 00:54:28+00:00
The vast majority of payments fraud is caused by the regulatory environment. Use cards with chips that can be read by commodity PCs and phones using published open standards and then require the card to be physically attached to a device to authorize a new merchant and criminals can no longer make fraudulent credit card charges without stealing the physical object or breaking strong cryptography.

The only reason we don't have this already is that the law makes it so hard to start a competing payments network -- in no small part as a result of KYC requirements -- that the incumbents are insulated from real competition and then don't have to fix the flaws in their systems.

Meanwhile you don't actually need everyone to do it, all you need is someone to do it and then that both becomes a competitive advantage in the market and allows any victim of official misconduct to use that one.
by tomhow | 2025-07-15 00:56:28+00:00
I addressed this issue in just the past day here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44557068

We can't prohibit political posts here as nobody can agree where the line is between political and non-political. We tried having a politics-free week once and it led to a meltdown, and that is perhaps a lesson that the more you try and suppress something, the more it finds a way to resurge.

It's fine for political stories to be discussed here when they really do contain "significant new information" and provide a foundation for people to converse curiously. But that requires people to come here with a sincere intention to be curious and respectful and to observe the guidelines. Of course many don't, and our role as moderators is to remind people of the expectations. But as long as enough people do bring the right spirit, HN can still be a better place than elsewhere for discussing difficult topics.
by chrisco255 | 2025-07-15 00:56:41+00:00
We do frequently quote the highest clocked figures for animals. But have we recorded any other ape achieving things that moderately trained mountain climbers do? No need to quote the best in class human climbers, how many 14K peaks have even been traversed by any other ape besides humans? Vanishingly few. Probably zero. No apes are better than humans at vertical mountain climbing.
by garrettdotdev | 2025-07-15 00:59:24+00:00
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by Animats | 2025-07-15 01:00:10+00:00
It's quite feasible. There are a few approaches. It's common to build lightning detectors with four antennas in a square, which gets you a rough vector to the s strike. That's 1950s ham radio technology.

Synchronizing multiple receivers is common. That's how passive ADS-B locators work.[1][2] This works so well there have been attempts to stamp it out.

[1] https://www.adsbexchange.com/what-is-the-exchange/

[2] https://adsbglobal.com/
by bigyabai | 2025-07-15 01:00:30+00:00
I think we're seeing the twilight of those efforts. Asahi Linux was an absolute powerhouse of reverse-engineering prowess, and it took years to get decent Vulkan coverage and half of the modern lineup's GPUs supported. Meanwhile AMD and even Intel are shipping Vulkan 1.3 drivers day-one on new hardware. It's a cool enthusiast effort to extend the longevity of the hardware, but it bears repeating; nobody is disrupting Nvidia's bottom-line here. Apple doesn't sell hardware competitive with Nvidia's datacenter hardware, and even if they did it's not supported by the community. It's doubtful that Apple would make any attempt to help them.

There seems to a pervading assumption that Apple is still making a VolksComputer in 2025, blithely supporting a freer status-quo for computing. They laid out their priorities completely with Apple Silicon, you're either on Apple's side or falling behind. Just the way they want it.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-07-15 01:00:44+00:00
Got to play around on a White Alice (?) station near Homer, Alaska maybe 40 years ago or so. It was an abandoned station on Ohlson Mountain (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohlson_Mountain_Air_Force_Stat...).

There was a huge dish pointing straight up. A friend and I walked around on the dish. There was a very small compartment more or less where the elevation axis was. The slightly creepy feeling I might get stuck in it kept me from going in but my friend did.

Another large structure was likely a transmitter. A large surface with a grid of smaller antennas covering one side.

Most cool to me though were the rooms with 6 foot high panels with all manner of analog meters, switches, lights.... Nothing worked of course, most everything was smashed. I wish now that I had brought some tools and removed as many of the components as I could.

My overall impression was a kind of wonderment that so much money and effort would be expended by the U.S. government to watch for Soviet aircraft/missiles. So much equipment built, foundations poured, cinder blocks stacked...

And then I suppose sophisticated satellites made it all obsolete.
by relwin | 2025-07-15 01:01:24+00:00
Oceanliner Designs has a great recreation of this accident: https://youtu.be/-9ZLZ8hiA5Y?si=ElcaIqEQhTHsElkM

...and of the last 10 minutes of this accident: https://youtu.be/N5CxSRsiUys?si=wS42xVXUb5Awb95U
by magicalhippo | 2025-07-15 01:02:05+00:00
Is this due to lack of specific long-context training, or is it more limitations of encoding or similar?

I've noticed this issue as well with smaller local models that have relatively long contexts, say a 8B model with 128k context.

I imagined they performed special recall training for these long context models, but the results seem... not so great.
by yuntian | 2025-07-15 01:02:34+00:00
Thanks for your comment! I completely agree that currently NeuralOS is far from being as reliable as a real OS. The Firefox loading time is indeed a funny artifact of the neural model simulating delay in real OS.

However, my real dream behind this project is to blur the boundaries across applications, not just simulate traditional OS interactions. For example, imagine converting a movie we're watching directly into an interactive video game, or instantly changing the interface of an app (like Signal) to something we prefer (like Facebook Messenger) on the fly.

Of course, the current training data severely limits what's achievable today. But looking forward, I envision combining techniques from controllable text generation (such as Zhiting Hu's "Toward Controlled Generation of Text" paper) or synthesizing new interaction data to achieve greater and customization. I believe this is a promising path toward creating truly generative and personalized interfaces.

Thanks again for your interest!
by crazylogger | 2025-07-15 01:03:08+00:00
Depends a lot on the way people use them.

If you discusses a plan with CC well upfront, covering all integration points where things might go off rail, perhaps checkpoint the plan in a file then start a fresh CC session for coding, then CC is usually going to one shot a 2k-LoC feature uninterrupted, which is very token efficient.

If the plan is not crystal clear, people end up arguing with CC over this and that. Token usage will be bad.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-07-15 01:03:10+00:00
> This is not necessarily a good thing and laws can change without requiring them to be broken.

That's kind of the problem, right? Suppose you have a system that actually allows perfect enforcement and then the government passes a law against some religious practice. Espousing atheism is banned, or Islam, or Christianity, depending on who controls the government this time; take your pick. If anybody who does it is instantly brought up on charges with severe penalties then nobody does it. But that's bad. That's the problem. You need to sustain enough friction to prevent things like that from being possible because enforcing laws like that is worse than anything that could come out of making ordinary law enforcement require more resources.