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I agree, from the perspective of what industry creates, but keep in mind that the effect on the consumer space varied throughout that history significantly. There was no consumer room sized computer.

Realistically I think the future is already here with a proliferation of specialized mobile devices. This is why Apple took away the headphone jack: so they could sell AirPods. OP was right in the sense that glasses will be coming into this model, I just differ as to how central they’ll be to the future computing environment.

I’m hoping that there will be a bit of a backlash to the Saasification of consumer tech, with its implications on privacy/control. Though I have to say I’m not very optimistic.
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Its basic Malthusianism which everyone on this board has seen debunked countless times. When people post low-effort doomsaying, they don't always deserve intelligent replies
As much as they don't want to admit it, Eero has been indeed Amazonified. Making weird, unfocused products and no longer supporting the community that existed around the products. I'm likely stepping up to Ubiquiti with the next Wi-Fi generation as my home networking needs have become more intense. (Who's hasn't?)
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I believe you meant to reply to me. They’re over over 100 individuals on her floor alone. Just her and one other on her team. The engineers and field team still come into the office.

She starts work at 7am. Normal hours are 7 to 4 but lately she’s been staying until 5pm to try to catch up.

During WFH, she logged in at 7am and was usually done by 10am.

I guess I’m going to have to start spelling everything out and including every single detail because some of you like to assume whatever you must in order to fit your narrative.
I agree that we often don't see an Indian perspective in geopolitical discussions, but I think that's understandable. India faces difficult challenges internally and within its neighborhood. Extreme weather, overpopulation, and wealth disparity drive significantly more internal violence than the typical developed nation. India needs to spend proportionally more attention at home or on its borders (Sri Lanka, Pakistan, China, Bangladesh) than other nations. I suspect these issues limit its ability to contribute to the mainstream geopolitical discussion and allow others to generally predict how India will behave.
What does China depend on from the rest of the world, other than markets and oil?
I want to train a language model (or use existing ones) to translate question to query for trivial questions.

I find 80% of queries that people want across a company are trivial.

I’d have saved myself many many hours over the years if people could just ask a question in natural language rather than asking me to write a query.
I think it’s highly likely that machine translation will still put human translators out of work. We’re probably very close to the point where machine translation is about as good as an average human translator.
> Genuinely curious what those would be?

You don't have the highly polarized politics they've got in the US.

I'm a republican (not a US republican, but merely favour republics) but I don't see how relinquishing the British Crown would change anything for the better for Canada or Australia? Canada would probably need to become a parliamentary republic like Germany or Greece, where the president has a ceremonial role.
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> What would you say about Signal, designed to be incompatible with the law around lawful subpoenas?

It’s not. Subpoenas require handing over what you have. If you don’t have it there is no obligation to disclose. Signal may run afoul of data-retention laws. But there are no such requirements in America.
Somewhere, an executive's bonus pay is based off the number of units shipped each year. Not the amount of money saved for the company. Under that kind of regime, it actually makes less sense to sell the chips at a premium price. For the executive.
Are you contesting the fact that a thrown ball's distance above the ground (y) at a particular time (t) relative to its initial velocity (v) is equal to y = vt + 0.5 * g * t ^ 2, (where g is the direction of acceleration due to gravity) which can very clearly a modeled by a parabola?

I get that the "error" is pretty low, but there are tons of equations in physics used every day that rely on the fact that the difference in some value is negligible (often things like the sine of an angle being approximately equal to the angle itself).
Three quarters of the internet uses Chrome.
Which has 90% the same features as git, with 10% of the tooling and knowhow around it.

It legit may be a few % better for a few workflows, but why die on that hill?
This is a mixed bag of both good and bad. Imagine a domestic violence victim being tracked/stalked by their abusive partner. Conversely, allowing citizens to monitor these cameras could potentially help prevent/solve crimes. In the end, it's probably a Constitutional dilemma that will find it's way into the high courts someday soon.
Frankly, I see it as my job to write code. That this code happens to solve business problems is a lucky coincidence.

Of course, this attitude may be a reflection of the fact that I have never written software for a domain in which I have expertise. Maybe if I were working on a product that I myself used, I would be able and happy to help solve business problems. As is, that is better left to a SME, and I am happy to solve technical problems.
the question then becomes: how do the young make use of the fact that older people need them? Forced requisition of assets? Wealth taxes on the elderly? Something else?
To anyone interested I wrote a small paper on this and I'm looking around for commentary. It's mostly a philosophy paper, but it considers AI as well. I then go on to discuss moral and ethical questions.

Here's a link to the latest draft. I don't know that it will ever be good enough to be an academic paper, but maybe someone will find it entertaining.

Always looking for any substantive commentary. I'd be incredibly interested to know if anyone thought there might be a way to model A^ using a neural network that satisfied the conditions in the paper.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/uveu8eiq2snsojs/Sep12Noon.pdf?dl=0
I read the lawsuit in question. None of the plaintiffs were arrested. Their issue is that OFAC overstepped the bounds of their statutory authority, which none of your arguments address.

I'm also not aware of what US law would have been violated by either

1. Coding and publishing the tornado source code

2. Deploying several instances to the blockchain in 2019.

There's no US prosecutions based on creating or operating tornado. The Dutch one has not charged the person they arrested yet, according to https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/08/24/alleged-tornado-d..., so I don't know what unlawful actions they think he's responsible for.
As a hypothetical experiment I would be interested to see how the numbers switch with changes in government.

Presidents should be able to remove judges whose decisions go against the national interest polls 42% democrat and 29% republican. Does this reflect the current status quo and how much would it change if it was a democrat majority supreme court?

Likewise 42% of republicans vs 31% favoured strong unelected leaders, but how would this change if the republicans were in power?
Ah ok that makes a lot more sense. To be fair though that is the same as git, I might push up the code but that doesn't mean I "created" it - I'm just the one taking responsibility for it by introducing it into the system
I thought chiplet is about not doing a large monolithic chip, but making a couple of small ones and connecting them together. Smaller chips improve yield.
If you are so inclined, you may take this as a rejection of platonism on my part. Hardly an unusual position, especially among people with a CS background.
How can you be sure that your numerical algorithm gives the right answer? There are pairs of constructible numbers that are arbitrarily close to one another.
You would think an authentic leak wouldn't be placed on Facebook itself.

Smells like astroturfing.
I've spent the last 5 years arguing with one of the colleges that I consult with about just that. They are trying to grow their adult education/community education (think GED, ESL, and 'interest classes' like woodworking, cooking, etc).

I have said for at least 5 years they need to rent (cheap) the space in the nearly defunct mall. It's right in the middle of town, with multiple bus routes. It's within walking distance of the community housing where elderly/low income folks live. It's perfect.

But they won't go for it because "the optic of us living in a retail space is not good". That's a quote from one of the administrators.

I don't get it. Community/junior colleges could absolutely saturate that kind of space with community based and educational events.
The science on gluten is ongoing and controversial, but the position I believe will ultimately be vindicated is that some people seem to derive no ill effects while many others develop a mild allergy to it, which can fly under the radar and lead to all sorts of chronic inflammation issues if the person keeps eating it. As a result, there's no 'standard safe dosage' of gluten, some people become violently ill if they encounter a trace, others (myself included) find a lot of seemingly unconnected annoyances clear up if they avoid it for a few weeks. Excess weight gain seems to be one of those, though in my case the major symptom was actually an excessively fast metabolism.
> It cannot be shut down. The contract is immutable.

If that’s truly the case, shut down as in stop developing it and advise users to stop using it. Then the addresses get sanctioned and nobody is surprised.
It is absolutely a good idea to write your own task queue. I agree 100%. Most of the time you have a very specific need, and you'll have to do weird stuff (or use a library and/or framework that isn't super popular) to support those features.

My example is I needed a task queue that did some basic rate limiting, but across workers. I wanted to be able to have 100 workers and still not hit an endpoint more than (roughly) n-times a second (or minute, or hour, or day, etc..).

There are systems that do this, but they are either complex and require complex backends and/or software installs (other platforms, etc..). Maybe they don't run in your desired environment, or maybe they do - but adding dependencies should not always be done lightly.

Creating my own task queue took a few days and then a few more days of addressing what were for us very minor bugs (duplicate execution of jobs was one).
Privacy exists even if the government violates it due to their tax schemes. A _right_ to privacy may even exist as a natural human right.
If a country decides collectively that this is the case, then what ought to change is the tax policy, not every user service.

We can argue over how easy it would be, but I would presume its possible for a government to switch over to taxing hard assets like land, machines, and shipments at ports rather than income and investment products if we decide those should be shielded by a right to privacy.
Most of human history existed without a tax on income or loans (investments), an argument that a right cannot exists because of the present tax structure is like the ultimate status quo warrior-ing.
Not in big tech, but most of the senior engineers I've worked with were hired to the position.

I agree with your assessment for the ones who were promoted to it.
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Yep, I do similar with all emails I send, run the html through a `html2text` transformer and attach that as the plaintext variant of the email.

Now whatever the receiver decides they want to view they can.
Flagged. This article is just breathless gossip that does no research of its own. It just re-quotes from this Insider article from a month ago about Google's hiring freeze: https://www.businessinsider.com/google-hiring-freeze-cuts-pe...
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> Rich text isn't that great, anyway

proceeds to write a nearly 3,000 word document with rich formatting an inline images...
> They can take ~3-4% of the transaction, net like 0.5% for a 6 week loan, which is like a 4.5% APR. Their margins may be better than peers since they can use their own cash instead of raising debt. Maybe 6-7% APR. It's also short-term debt that turns over fast so it's highly liquid.

Apple has said they'll be charging zero interest and zero fees for this service, including zero late fees, so where the yield will be coming from is unclear. That said, I confess that I don't have a deep understanding of the BNPL market.
A few days ago, I built Edify, which allows you to build regular expressions in a programmatic way. It comes with pre-built common patterns (email, ip, phone, etc.) and a RegexBuilder
class for your almost all your custom regex needs. I released v0.1.0 recently on PyPI and now, I am working on improvements. Will appreciate any inputs - issues or PRs if you got time or just a simple star for the repo would be very helpful.
Repo: https://github.com/luciferreeves/edify
PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/edify/
Complete Docs: http://edify.rtfd.io/
I've written a few TUIs in Rust, and the amount of code needed for the UI components always felt excessive. For a while, I had been toying with the idea of being able to write components in a SwiftUI-like DSL and have state managed like React does with hooks. Intuitive is the result of that frustration and desire.

Right now it's in between a proof-of-concept and an alpha version of the crate. I'm in the process of re-writing one of my TUI apps using Intuitive, and so far it has proven itself as a way to greatly reduce the amount of code necessary for a TUI.

I would be grateful for any feedback on the idea, the design, and/or the implementation. I hope it's well-received!
Mysql wants $5k/core and I've heard that Oracle asks for more, depending on what the sales team thinks you can be made to pay.
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Those percentages don't pass a simple sanity check. Look around you. The average heterosexual man is in a long-term relationship with a woman. Regardless of dating apps, that is still the default state.

Young male students and technology industry workers are heavily over represented among HN users. Let's not assume that their anecdotal experiences are representative of the broader population.
I don’t understand the dislike of rebase — do you want hundreds of commits that say “linter fix” and “reformatting”?

If there’s commits like “fixed off by one issue in refactor” then it should be a comment in the code so that future will explorers won’t make the same mistake.

Rebase by itself isn’t bad, it just has to contain a good description of what was done and why.

Edit: after posting I realize that I confounded rebase and squash — which is kind of ingrained in my head as that’s how I use GitHub to merge PRs.
99% :-/
> Why don't you use the traditional banking system, which doesn't result in publicly listed transactions?

You mean the banking system that freezes protesters' accounts when they do something doubleplusungood?

Personal choices that don't violate the rights of others shouldn't require any explanation to retain your rights. But it's not hard to think of a lot of reasons for somebody to use crypto over banks besides the state not being able to trivially shut you out of your life. There's other good reasons to choose crypto over banks, but that's a good one in my book.
You missed the point of the parent comment.

If you can make a positive thing out of commute, you will be better without commute.

At worst, you can easily go take a bus to somewhere if commute is so important.
> I would argue that not just the quantity but, in absolute terms, the quality of content available to every single person in the world is dramatically higher...

You can say the same thing about food today versus food 100-200 years ago. But we've seen how that plays out, with western countries and the US in particular facing massive public health problems and an obesity epidemic. Humans evolved for scarcity, not abundance. We just can't handle having so many cheap, hyper-palatable foods around.

In the same way I think it's obvious that hyper-information is harming our mental health. And while I hate to think of losing access to all the wonderful information resources we have today, I also think the path we're on will be net worse off for most people, just as no sane person would ever wish for famine, yet junk food also makes most people's physical health net worse off.

In the same way that the entire "diet industry" thrives today, I expect to see a greater and greater rise in the amount of self-help books, training, and support to help people with resources cope with information overload. Meanwhile most people's mental health will be harmed.

If we want broad prosperity in the face of over-abundance, we're going to have to learn how to cope with abundance and filter the bad out, so that we get an abundance of good without drowning in junk. This is going to be the defining challenge of the 21st century.
It is true, but whether it is funny, and whether the Macintosh ads are an adequate illustration, are very different matters.
For the umpteenth time in this thread: intent matters. Regardless of what the NSA said 30 years ago, it is manifestly apparent to every single person in this conversation that neither HTTPS nor PGP nor any other cryptographic scheme designed for individual privacy was designed with money laundering in mind.

At the absolute worst, they were agnostic to the presence of criminal activity. This is in contrast to Tornado Cash, which was repeatedly told that their service was being used to launder money.
Is Zelensky saying it would be better for Western Europe to freeze to death than have Ukraine taken over by Russia?
Which would be less of an issue if I didn't have to fix a conda bug while installing StableDiffusion.

https://github.com/conda/conda/pull/11818
do you place bets on your own predictions?
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I too believe this is the answer.

In San Bruno, CA a portion of the mall there is dedicated to small experiences for children (a miniature play town, a bounce room, etc). I've taken my toddler there and it was pretty fun.

Pure commoditized retail isn't going to cut it anymore. I think another component is that the rent is going to have to be very cheap in order to lower the bar to entry and encourage rapid innovations in this space. If I were Simon (or a similar property group), I might dedicate a certain percentage of my mall spaces to "incubate" these new ideas by offer cheap or nearly free rent.
Please provide examples?
Not a broken bone, but I tore my right rotator cuff in a mountain biking accident a few years ago, and had to have surgery to repair that. I was in a sling with my arm mostly immobilized for about six weeks, and had several months after that where I was extremely limited in what I could do with my arm. Plus I had to go to physical therapy a couple of times a week. So probably not an altogether different experience mentally.

Advice? Hmm... tough to say. I hated not being able to ride during my recovery period, but I didn't really do anything special to cope. But I've always had something of a stoic approach to things (going back to before Stoicism was a fad among the tech bro crowd, mind you). Anyway, though it might sound trite/cliched today, I guess I would recommend reading some of the works of the Stoics and consider their mindset. Or some Zen Buddhist material might also be beneficial to you. I'm not a Buddhist, but I find a lot of value in the Zen mindset at times.

Otherwise, just fill your time reading, listening to music, watching movies, whatever you enjoy, and keep reminding yourself that you will be back to normal before you know it.
I still think the problem underlying the complexity of browsers is inherent in using HTML/CSS as the base language.

Most complex languages get interpreted or compiled into a much simpler format, and the simpler format gets executed. This lets the execution environment be small and understandable, as you said.

Using HTML/CSS as primitives means the execution environment has to be complicated, because the execution environment itself needs to be aware of things like whether certain attributes get inherited and how they are inherited.

I have hope for WebAssembly + Canvas, because it's a simpler set of primitives. There's a clear boundary between the simple execution environment and the tools that translate complex instructions into simple instructions.
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For what: the profit of capitalists.
The neural network architectures in use are all Turing complete, it's just that halting is a precondition of meeting their reward function.

It would be interesting to see if a search engine's worth of raw data, and enough training on Chrome's output, could build a JS interpreter. I'm skeptical but don't see why not in principle.
Beside this link, the tweet does not contain more than I already included (and slightly clarified) in the submission title.
Are you under the impression that right now, as of today, the publicly-available AI models are ready to replace humans for all types of art outside of scientific and technical illustration?

Because that's not true at all. The AI can't even draw hands yet. To say nothing of its ability to handle multiple people and objects interacting in complex scenes.

I'm concerned that the discussions about AI art on forums like HN get distorted because you have people sharing their views on art here, even though they don't actually have a serious and nuanced appreciation of art and they don't have a good understanding of all the types of work that artists do. Maybe you'd be fine with reading a comic book where everyone has seven melting fingers, but people who take comic books seriously as an artistic medium would not.
It probably depends. I live in Chicagoland. Cops here are a lot of things, but I can't honestly say they are underfunded. The pension alone is likely worth the risk ( source: couple cops in my extended family ) even if money is not staggering ( and it still not on the low end by any means ).

But to go back to the original query. It is just so much more easier to click couple of buttons than go somewhere and ask questions. It is cheaper too. The convenience trumps most of the other reasons. The same goes for privacy. The convenience killed it.
The TfL hire bikes in London (Boris Bikes) have this. They don't seem great, it's just some faint green laser lines on the floor that don't resemble a bike rather than what you see in those photos. If anything they're more confusing for other road users.
> The speed of light is only so fast.

Is the Internet not connected internationally (US -> Europe for example) via cables underneath the ocean? Speed of light would be satellite, light? Not electric current?

Or is electricity flowing through a wire also "speed of light"?
The part where Tornado Cash as an exchange couldn't shut down for a while. And the fact that those, well, "contracts" cannot be nullified like literally any other contract signed in any jurisdiction is troublesome in itself.

Lucky for Elon that he didn't use one of those contracts to buy Twitter.
To be fair Qt is just to create the window on Linux, but all the browser internals are their own.