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I would not say that HN does this constantly or agree with much of what you write. In general I think written/upvoted comments tend to be biased towards being critical[1] and disagreeing with the comment/article being responded to.

In general, the guideline is for comments to be curious and “maybe you were a shit employee” or “your Show HN really isn’t that impressive” do not sound to me like they are curious. However I realise it is hard to describe in general comments that would surely contain specific things.

An alternative strategy to the former general comment might be to try to get curious about the details more. For example one might discover that the likely cause was a breakdown in communication leaving the employee unable to understand what was actually wanted and being fired for failing to read minds to meet expectations. However I think it can be hard to actually be curious here rather than applying some kind of smug-Socratic method[2] asking innocent-seeming questions where the answers lead to one’s unwritten hypothesis, though perhaps the answers can give an opportunity to update. I think it can be doubly hard to do these things in a kind way, especially when, like in the general examples, the topics are personal to one participant rather than a typical internet discussion where parties may pretend to be disinterested.

[1] There are two common meanings of ‘critical’. One is related to ‘critical thinking’ or critiquing: looking specifically and carefully at the faults or merits of something. The other meaning is similar to ‘disapproving’. Generally the former kind is accepted here and the latter is less accepted, though I think comments which are negative and not particularly thoughtful or curious often do better than I would hope. Further, the acceptance of the former kind of critical discourse may sometimes be hidden behind for comments that perhaps fit into the latter sense (when they don’t fit I would say it is because they are too mean to really deserve to be called critical).

[2] I think this roughly corresponds to what the guidelines call cross-examining.
Yes. My entire company. And it’s not some little 5 person shop. They starred that way long ago and continue to this day.
True, but in practice it barely works.
Automated trucking, rail and ocean transportation sound ideal for the cargo industry, except for the millions of truck drivers. You put those people out of a job and you have a societal problem that needs to be solved. I'm not against progress in any way, but it comes with problems in need of a solution
Sounds pretty scary, I was sure everyone uses instruments.
The kind of art you're talking about is "high art" and it's a luxury item. The majority of artists don't produce that type of art, and will instead lose out in this scenario.
Having a collective agreement is not a prerequisite for being a union member. It is common to be part of a union even if the company does not have a collective agreement (such as the games company I worked for after EA; no collective agreement, but still plenty of union members).
Raises the bar from whom? Klein has been making tools in the USA for over a century.
I'm pretty unimpressed with the stuff coming out of Dall-E etc (I know, controversial opinion on HN, but bear with me). It's technically impressive, but imho, it still hasn't closed an essential gap need to make AI truly compelling, and still feels like just a modern ELIZA: simultaneously impressive given the technology and a parlor trick.

That said, I'm also not too impressed with many contemporary "artists", especially the type this person is afraid of being replaced with AI.

What I see here is that artists that have turned themselves into art making robots are vulnerable to being replaced by robots that are making art.

As a counter example I present the work of Ben Kovach [0], a generative artist, who makes art with robots essentially. All of his work is generated from computer programs but there are many (and certainly not all) pieces that capture a genuine sense of art that I have not seen in either the slew of human artists churning out robotic work to satisfy customer demand or current generation AI generated art.

Kovach's work reminds me of the work of Factory Record's designer Peter Saville, probably most famous for the cover of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures [1]. In a sense Saville is pushing form the opposite direction of Kovach, trying to use human skills to create art that feels somehow robotic and sterile (whereas Kovach does the opposite, create something that feels more human than your typical machine generated art).

I don't see current generation a threat to art, but rather the trend towards the reduction of art towards being a reproducible, automatic process. That is the art that can be replaced with AI was already art created by an ad hoc "artifical" artist.

0. https://bendotk.com/

1. https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/812FS2R2v6L._SL1500_.jpg
The significantly higher battery requirements for trucks means that the environmental impact of mineral extraction HAS to be taken into account when putting together these numbers.

> Fuel ends up being about $4.99.

Using all-time-high anomalous pricing as reference cost is not particularly useful.

> in the EU, electric semi trucks are allowed to be 2 tonnes (4,400 lbs) heavier than diesel equivalents, while in the US the allowance is 0.9 tonnes (2,000 lbs). (hard to find exact numbers)

Note that 2x the weight = ~~4x~~ (correction: 16x!) the road wear. This might lead to significantly higher road-maintenance costs.

Besides, this is an apples to oranges comparison. A cheap hybrid setup gives you all the pros of regenerative braking / brake wear. Hydrogen seems to be a much better match for the fast refueling, low road wear and low-pollution constraints of future trucking.
Lastly, when your car is on the road 24x7, battery wear is accelerated by a staggering amount and all-season guarantees for battery range become important. Neither of these concerns seem to be taken into account in this analysis.

------- one possible solution-----------------

> There are trials of overhead lines (similar to trains) for trucks on highways. That would greatly decrease the need for energy storage and high speed charging.

Further down the thread, @nicoburns brought this up. A street-car-esque solution would address a lot of the above concerns. (weight, battery capacity, recharge times).
> Likely never, as I have explained.

Ok, that answers my question. I won't comment on the rest except to say that I don't think I have the same views about how science works (or should work) that you do. But scientists all have the freedom to choose what to work on, so ultimately that will determine how all this plays out.

> You brought it up in a paragraph with the theme of "how the community should change"

To be clear, nothing I have posted in this thread was intended to make any such claim. As I have said all along, I was only interested in a specific answer to a specific question, which you have now made clear. As I noted just above, scientists are all free to choose what they will work on, and I have no issue with that at all. Kroupa is free to express his opinions about more general questions like "how the community should change", and other scientists are free to ignore him, which is what seems to be happening. All of that is beyond the scope of what I was asking about.
no, there are many replies in here where people act as such and its kinda a mystery to me in 2022. many other SBCs are arm, and many others are running debian or and can easily run the same software without 'tons of extra effort because its not a rpi'

at this point the mere thought of setting up a sbc that isnt a raspberry pi is job security and frankly im not sure why. its not like the rasberry pi 1 days
> those items could be dealt with at the application later

That was always one of the arguements, but beyond toy projects or at least beyond a single simple app accessing the DB the application layer is not the best place for that to be implemented.

Maybe I'm anal, but there is a point where giving up correctness for performance feels far too icky to me.

Also those professing mysql to be the solution back then did so with an almost religious furvour that is always troubling, and if something else threatened their messiah such as sqlite beating it in some benchmark by their own terms, ooh there were hissy-fits and claims of witchcraft!
You can have multiple accounts in the Discord client now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stLJRiDLcm8
While I agree this might be a reasonable reason for Apple... it isn't covered anywhere in the article. So I'll turn your accusatory rush back in your direction, if you don't mind.

Do we have proof that it's due to the style similarities? So far all I've seen has been "Telegram complains X" and "Apple has not commented". I'm not familiar enough with Apple's emoji, nor does one short preview show enough detail on Telegram's, to accurately judge that... but it would certainly be contentious if they were seemingly "the same". If / when Apple animates their own, they'll certainly want to standardize across all apps, and that's something they're pretty consistent about.
I built the system of reputale a Mexican startup that did online lending, so I have some insight:

1. This is a real problem in Mexico: people complain about high interest rates. However, for these kind of bullet loans , you see 30% of default in the FIRST loan. And back when we were starting on 2013-14 we had up to 70% of default due to fraud.

So, with around 30% 1st default and about 15% 2nd default, we created revenue models that considered that, CAC, cost of funds and opex to define the interest rate... that very high APR really was not making people rich overnight.

See, one problem in Mexico is that defaulting in a loan is not a crime, so theres legally NOTHING a lender can do to make you pay if you decide not to. The only repercussion is that you Credit Buro gets tainted, for 6 years. I've read of people that get a $100,000MXN loan and then just change phones, move apartments and wait for 6 years to clean their credit buro.

2. Default loans deffinitely are sold, for cents to the peso. But usually only the ones that are very old. Now, there are different types of collection agencies. Where I worked, we tried to he very reputable so we only chose the least shady ones. But in reality the only thing they could do is call you. Even calling your provided references is illegal. We actually stopped asking for references IIRC.

3. I dont know but dont doubt it. BUT, have a look at Fineract/MifosX: an open source loan management system. Its relatively easy to setup a lending operation using that. It's pretty comprehensive.

All in all, there are very shady app/online lending services in Mexico. But it is nothing exclusive of the internet. Way before this, you heard of lenders that would do "collections" by getting some tough guys from prison (yup, in some prisons they can get out for the day like nothing, for some cash) and knocking at the debtor's door with baseball bats, wrenches or any other hard weapon . If you didn't pay they broke your legs or worse.

That now it happens online is only the natural evolution of the shithole that is my country, unfortunately.
Artists will have to find people who pay for the genuine thing. We can all buy cheap mass-produced tableware, accessories, and so on, yet many thrived on Etsy.
Sir, this is a css.
Gravity Probe B is my favourite example of scientists spending a lot of money and effort to verify something almost everyone believed to be true, because science.
The government threatened to cut people off from the water and sewage system if they didn't agree to pandemic rules. In the USA it is expected that any power the government achieves will eventually be abused to harm non-compliant citizens. In this case, if you don't agree to the whims of a bureaucrat, you lose access to credit. With the current system, that wasn't an option, but it's been made clear that any power they get their hands on, they will abuse. As long as that's the case, people will prefer the current broken system run by sociopathic corporations over one with the government in control.
> These things absolutely can be said on HN, if you list some points that make you think so.

Only if what you say doesn’t oppose the current zeitgeist of the thread. I’ve seen some of the most well thought out and level headed comments get flagged to death while some insult floats to the top.
Are you serious? Nobody finds it interesting. The people who organize meetings have to do them for various reasons, like a kick-of meeting for starting a project etc. Sometimes meetings are useful, many times they are not, but the organizers rarely care about them being interesting - they just have no other choice so they just go on with their presentation or whatever and finally we can get back to real work.

Fortunately I WFH most of the time so I spend the meetings on a bike, they are a pleasure to participate.
> If they produce artwork that is objectively worse than a human-painted version would be, but still "good enough" for many mundane usecases - stock photos, concept art, etc - we might still see a wide adoption and displacement of human artists from those usecases - along with an overall drop in quality of artworks.

If people are happy with "good enough" they generally don't hire a digital artist in the first place (the whole reason DALL-E can exist is because there's a lot of digital imagery on relevant subjects/objects available to it to train, and there's even more an internet search away) or if they do, they get one off Fiverr.

For mocking up quick concepts, that might be different, but that's a workflow improvement.
These scams are run as boiler rooms, where everyone is working on commission. Actually my understanding is it's a bit more of a pyramid scheme, where the senior folks get a cut of everything, closers get a cut from openers, etc.

But anyhow, point is these scammers are often motivated to go to considerable effort, because the ultimate prize is a pretty big cut of someone's life savings. But of course only a few ever achieve that. The rest will just try for a while then churn out, while the ultimate owners count their money.
This is false, almost all of those employees have a Q clearance. You can search the job listings for keywords like ‘Wci’ ‘high energy density’, etc to confirm.

Part of the purpose is definitely personnel related though. Part of the US nuclear deterrence is the projection of having a large, highly skilled nuclear weapon related workforce.
The human author of the text and this well-known blog is Stuart Deutsch, https://twitter.com/toolguyd

Toolguyd has an active community (e.g. 100+ comments on this post) with real-world experience, challenging claims made by the blog.
They've got a lot of bar to raise. Really all TTI hand tools have always been rather meh, so this could turn the tide.

For anyone interested, apparently Craftsman also just opened a huge hand tool plant in Texas.

Nice to see a little resurgence in locally sourced stuff.
Perhaps for Milwaukee. Any amount of turning back offshoring manufacturing is appreciated.
java home is an example. CC is another one for most C build systems, goroot.

> But none of that stuff is magic.

I never said it was, I simply said that docker does more than statically link binaries.

>You could just run a VM on macos or windows directly, statically link your Linux binaries and ship them with scp or curl.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

> The killer feature of docker is that it makes anything into a statically linked executable.

The killer feature of docker is it gives you an immutable*, versionable environment that handles more than just scp'ing binaries.
Just how would a web browser discourage a writer from using words not everyone will know?

Instead, why not just look up those unfamiliar words? It's easy enough to do in most browsers – highlight the word, right click it, and then select Search [your default search engine] for '[word]'.
Overrated? I believe that is appropriate if using subsumption by-itself as a higher-reasoning task.

I think it is more useful at foundation/primative-level controls with other architectures above it. Eg, I want the brakes in a vehicle orchestrated by some "world-overview"/3,000-meter view but the low-level stuff handled with direct-feedback of actuation and sensor pairings.
I'd say your last question is way too narrow and short-term. It's almost by definition hard to explain because it takes a while to see and/or appreciate the effects?

Let's see if this is a close enough analogy; I'll forever maintain that Linux won the OS wars decisively broadly, and that 1-2% of the desktop is an overwhelming victory. The numbers don't sound great, but what you want to do is to compare to "what would this look like if it was only 'big-company' owned software," and the answer is very different. We probably wouldn't even be talking about "Operating systems" at all. Just "Windows" and "Apple" boxes.

Keeping this stuff open, by whatever means, law, hackery, force, whatever, has long term down the road multiplicative effects.
Four-part plan is this:

1. For each application and library in the system, maintain a copy of the source code and the scripts necessary to rebuild it.

2. Keep track of the dependency tree of each application and library in the system.

3. If there's a problem with a dependency, update it and rebuild all dependent applications.

4. If I'm using binaries from a vendor (whether that's a Linux distribution or a proprietary software company), the vendor needs to be responsible for (1) to (3).

In practice, your package manager will generally implement almost all of (1) to (3) for you. (Newfangled systems like NPM or Cargo usually do it using lockfiles and automated tools like Dependabot.)

If you're using dynamic linking, guess what? You still have to do these four things, because even with dynamic linking, there are still problems that can only be solved by recompiling your software. Even if you think reasons like ABI incompatibility or processor bugs aren't compelling, there might be, y'know, bugs in the applications themselves that you've gotta patch.
I would challenge that notion too.

I rather travel the world, eat great food, take tennis lessons, dance into the night when I'm in 20's and 30's where I get the most enjoyment rather than in my 60s where my body is not in good physical shape to do any of those things.

The fact that I travelled the world in my 20s may also enhance my own future productivity.

I would even further claim that not enough people go into debt. There are plenty of young people (70% or more) in developing countries who can get into travel, education, iPhone/Samsung, great food debt and their country (and the rest of the world) will benefit immensely from it in the long run.
The only bit I found is this unsourced text:

> On the App Store, display ads are currently shown in the search tab in the Suggested panel. Apple will also soon expand ads to the main Today tab and within third-party app download pages.
Milwaukee's battery tools are pretty great (M12 and M18 lines), but their hand tools aren't particularly good in my experience. So "raising the bar" for them would be just making hand tools that people want to buy over the competition.

Made in the US is fine/good/whatever, but what I want to see from them is tools that are just good in their own right. I want to see their hand tools top Project Farm charts like their battery stuff. Time will tell.
Worth tweeting.
Not only is your rant about Google misplaced considering Dall-E is OpenAI, not Google, but the thread is also not complaining about Dall-E. It's about Stable Diffusion (https://stability.ai/blog/stable-diffusion-announcement) which is explicitly trained on working artists. That's why it tries to reproduce the logo.
Show HN: Test your memory against Ayumu, chimpanzee
I made a free iOS game where you can see if your memory is as good as a chimpanzees. Spoiler: probably not.

Many of you will have seen the cognitive feats of the chimpanzee Ayumu, in particular this video which went viral a decade ago: https://youtu.be/JkNV0rSndJ0

Impressively, he memorizes the positions of 9 randomly placed numbers after seeing them for less than a second.

Back in 2014, I saw the videos and went to visit the lab outside Kyoto where Ayumu and his chimpanzee colleagues lived. The place was amazing, professor Tetsuro Matsuzawa who headed the experiments was extremely friendly and showed me around. The animals had plenty of trees to climb, and participated in the cognitive experiments voluntarily - bribed with raisins and small pieces of fruit.

Getting back home I wrote my first app, based on the most famous experiment - it took me 3 months to first learn to program but the app turned out well and was featured in some countries. It was eventually removed from the AppStore, and last week we had a little hackathon at my startup and rewrote it using SwiftUI, the result can be downloaded on http://greatapegame.com

So far, the best time I've seen is 1.5 seconds on level 9 (nine numbers), perhaps someone can beat it?

Another interesting clip from the institute can be found here: https://youtu.be/zsXP8qeFF6A
Riemann Hypothesis Disproved?
Not a math major, but this paper is claiming that the RH is false. Is the claim (proof) valid ?
> I guess the (crazy, I know) assumption that I made is that I have some analytical, symbolic expression for a function that describes the state of the universe at every point.

This is the error. All you have is some partial differential equation. It has no known symbolic solution.
I misremembered, it was binary size (even more stupid)

https://landave.io/2018/01/7-zip-multiple-memory-corruptions...
I was more than fine with the $150... which is why I paid it. I've had motorcycle shops do similar things and that's fine too.

I think I was too subtle in my response though. The fact that they didn't call me after a month to tell me that it was broken beyond repair, feels kind of like they were never going to fix it.
how many teakettles
We'll want to be a little careful with how society responds to this. Basquiat put it well ( http://bastiat.org/en/petition.html)

Excerpt follows:

"We are suffering from the ruinous competition of a rival who apparently works under conditions so far superior to our own for the production of light that he is flooding the domestic market with it at an incredibly low price; for the moment he appears, our sales cease, all the consumers turn to him, and a branch of French industry whose ramifications are innumerable is all at once reduced to complete stagnation. This rival, which is none other than the sun, is waging war on us so mercilessly we suspect he is being stirred up against us by perfidious Albion (excellent diplomacy nowadays!), particularly because he has for that haughty island a respect that he does not show for us

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We ask you to be so good as to pass a law requiring the closing of all windows, dormers, skylights, inside and outside shutters, curtains, casements, bull's-eyes, deadlights, and blinds — in short, all openings, holes, chinks, and fissures through which the light of the sun is wont to enter houses, to the detriment of the fair industries with which, we are proud to say, we have endowed the country, a country that cannot, without betraying ingratitude, abandon us today to so unequal a combat."
Sure, I feel like that's what I've been trying to say all along: you can make a prediction without saying at what confidence level, but it doesn't mean anything to anyone other than perhaps to yourself, because only you know how strongly you believe in it.
According to SimCity, the year is 2050 on the dot.
I guess the broader question is how do you achieve automatic memory management without something like Automatic Reference Counting (like swift), the ownership/lifetime systems from rust, or the generic effect system of Pony?

Ergonomically solving this problem is a major research area, so if you’ve found a solution to it’d be worth presenting that front and center.