skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your comparison would make sense if cheetahs had 60 times more muscular mass than Usain Bolt, or were somehow 60 times more powerful. They don't. They aren't.
Force them to implement Matrix
Definitely time to consider RISC-V or its successor to base the next platform on.

There will be huge economies of scale. and there won't be the pressure to move away from a centralised platform that all companies can share without the fear of lawfare from competitors.

I suppose you could consider it to be the 'Linux' of the hardware scene.

Many companies make lots of money from a so-called 'free' software system. The same can be said of a so-called 'free' hardware system.
Battery capacity does matter, a bit indirectly; you're limited in how much current the pack can supply or recharge with. All batteries have recommended charge/discharge rates based on C, the capacity in Amp-hours. A lot of NiMH batteries are around C/3 or C/4, for example.

Much progress has been made in raising Li-Ion "C" rates, which is why we now have cell phones that can charge at 20W or more. Graphene batteries are starting to get common in RC battery packs and appear to be the next significant jump.

TLDR: no you can't just put a really small pack in big enough to do one run, unless it's a specially designed pack with a very high discharge rate...in which case it might have worse energy density, and you might be back where you started (but with less total energy storage.)

Also, minor point of order: dragsters don't use gasoline, they use nitromethane. And the limitations are material science; you need an engine with internals, and a frame, and wheels, and tires, that can all withstand enough force without being destroyed...in a sport where every bit of weight slows you down.
It's the right strategy in general, not a strategy guaranteed to never lose money. Your savings account is down 20% year over year in terms of purchasing power because what $1 is changed dramatically. Rare event, and sometimes you're just screwed.

If I had a time machine, I would definitely use it to time the market!
Ah you’re right. I stand corrected.
To be clear, AMD third quarter revenue is expected to be approximately $5.6 billion, an increase of 29% year-over-year. Previous guidance was 55% YoY.
'The gap between the starting salaries for those with a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree shrunk for a fifth year in a row, adding to a debate about whether graduate school is worth the cost.

The average starting salary of those who graduated with a bachelor’s degree in 2021 was $58,862, while those with a master’s degree earned $72,105 — about 22% more, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers.

That was down from a 26% difference in the prior year and the smallest gap since NACE started collecting the data in 2015, said Josh Kahn, NACE’s associate director of research and public policy.

The main cause? The compensation for those with a bachelor’s degree is ballooning faster than for those with a master’s — an ongoing trend that Kahn said is “market driven.”'
Exactly, the last shuttle launch (STS-135) was 11 years ago last July. I know as I was there. :)

STS-121 was 5 years before that. ;)
I think that data plans used to be expensive (I avoided getting a smartphone until 2014 because of the costs), but once you had a data plan for other reasons (e.g. being able to browse the web) then messaging apps were a cheaper way to send a message on the margin. My cheap minutes-only plan with AT&T back in 2008-2011 charged me $0.20 per SMS sent and received, which added up fast with unsolicited messages, but eventually I found the option to just block all SMS to save money (yes, I was just oblivious to whatever people sent me for a couple years, and it probably wasn't good for my social life...).
I don't think people here in Europe think Androids are cheap. And in fact many aren't. I also doubt most people can correctly identify them.

It's kinda funny but I've had even Apple Watch owners thinking that I wear an Apple Watch even though it's an Amazfit GTS 2 mini. It's weird, it hardly looks like one. The one button is much smaller than the Apple's crown and it's smack bang in the middle. It's also a much smaller watch.
It's all about metadata, PRISM et al
Unclear if "OP" is them or me ( ͝סּ ͜ʖ͡סּ)
I’ve worked in several union shops. You can as an employer easily choose to address these via a side letter or other mechanism.

One place i am familiar with this handled COVID remote work with that type of mechanism. They setup a pilot program for the duration of the pandemic that included language to not undermine future negotiations.
Why? The store literally fought to have the ability to negotiate these kinds of changes. This is working exactly the way they intended. Now they have the option of accepting these benefits or exchanging them out for other benefits or pay raises, if that's what they want instead.
Then just buy an iPhone, or get over it? You're acting as if Android vs. iPhone is an immutable part of a child's identity. It's not.

You can get a totally workable used iPhone cheap, because they keep working for so long.

It's not like you need a lot of horsepower for texting. My kids take a beat up 8-year-old iPhone 6 out when they go to sleepovers and things. It still works fine.
Yes. Either you use one physical key for everything, in which case you have to keep it with you all the time, which makes it only a matter of time before you lose it, or you have one ultra-secure key which you don’t normally use, leading to another problem:

https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2000-09-26
I'll give you a widespread example: actors in film who are members of SAG-AFTRA.
The title of this post is too mild - it's not just the $1000 fine but the fact that they are asking for the shutdown of his business, one that he has run for many years.
It's ridiculously broad legally and needs to be struck down.
First, note that the article you linked is pretty old — the people who build biometric systems have added countermeasures in the last couple decades. They're definitely not perfect but it's not an especially easy attack since it's personalized and doesn't scale.

The first thing to remember is that your fingerprints / face scan are not the identifier for your passkey. They are used by the local device to unlock its secret store but the actual keys are regular crypto keys and the remote website never sees any of them. The interface also does not provide access to the private keys ever, and it should be rate-limited so it's not “get all of the keys” but the much slower “use the phone I stole to hammer out requests to different websites, mashing that sensor every second or two”. That means that whoever stole your phone & forged your biometrics is in a race with you revoking their access, but when you do it won't matter that they have your biometrics unless they can also steal your new phone (stop pissing off the Mossad).

The other thing to consider is what your threat model is. If you're worried about someone stealing your phone and building a realistic model of your fingerprint or scan of your facial structure, you have to ask what the alternatives are. For example, it'd be a LOT easier for an attacker to use a hidden camera or drone to record you entering your password — not using biometrics means you're typing it frequently, for example — and you're also at risk for all of the scenarios which passkeys are immune to (credential reuse, phishing, weak passwords), which happen to be by far the most common way people are compromised. Very few of us have to worry about targeted attacks by skilled adversaries, and if you are worried about that you probably need to move or hire a bodyguard more than anything involving infosec.
You can’t take an adversarial position to your employer, such as joining a union, and then expect your employer to treat you just like a man who isn’t in a union.
I don't think adding RCS support is going to instantly solve all the world's ills but Apple is pretty explicit about their reasoning for not supporting RCS: to create a specific and exclusive messenging experience on their phone. This exclusive experience is causing just another thing kids can be assholes about - they are currently and will forever continue to be assholes about a lot of stuff but this particular one is one artificially created by Apple to benefit their profitability. I'm sure in their internal meetings they like to think that exclusivity will only really affect adults and that we're mature enough not to bully each other (which, we mostly are, since the behavior we most bully as adults is bullying itself) but this exclusivity also affects teens that are far less mature. Personally I'd also love it if everyone moved off SMS/RCS in general since it's billed as an extreme luxury by carriers but I don't know if we can make that happen when Messenger comes pre-installed on iOS devices.

I don't assume that fixing a bubble color will fix all bullying but I do stand by your interpretation that I find that changing the color of a bubble will stop all this sort of bullying.
But now that people know the solution exists, other people can find a justification for it.
> At what time has data ever been cheaper than SMS?

Phone plans used to come with a limited number of SMS messages per month (or even none), and the rates per SMS if you went over the limit were beyond extortionate.

>Since BlackBerry messages are sent as data, users do not incur individual charges for each message as they would through regular SMS texting. While phone companies have introduced bulk texting plans, many options still include caps on the number of individual SMS messages that can be sent. BBM has no such limit.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/why-is-bbm-so-suc...
The Open Cloud Vulnerability and Security Issue Database
How is a Microsoft-authored app connecting to Google's YT servers comparable to an Apple-authored app connecting to Apple iMessage servers?
How/where did you create the Passkey? I don't see a UI for it anywhere.
The cable is included - https://www.apple.com/iphone-se/specs/
> Shares now offer a (relatively) regal 5.3% dividend yield

US treasuries are nearing 4% and are risk free.
> continuous pressure wave pounding on my chest until the rocket was above the clouds

You either have the worlds most sensitive chest or your memory of the experience is comparable to your memory of the date it occurred, a tad bit distorted. ;)
Firefox has supported WebAuthn for years.
Wickr? Never heard anything bad about its security
I’m glad you pointed this out, it seems to have been a lost fact. When I got my fb account it was when fb was still adding schools a chunk at a time, mine happened to be one of them. My friends who went to schools not yet “in” or didn’t go to school at all we’re quite jealous. This span of time lasted less than a year but part of the initial draw of fb was the exclusive nature of it.
Learning to Stop at the “What Do You Mean by That?” Threshold
And again a pain going 11 LTS to 17 LTS with the great Java EE rename (javax to jakarta).
>The fine here is fully justified.

A billion dollar fine is justified because idiots read his blog and decided a baseless conspiracy theory seemed plausible?

That's laughable. I didn't think I'd ever find myself on the same side of something as Alex Jones and yet here I am. These people lost their minds.
It sounds like Google needs to work on their track record, methinks. Why should we talk about and venerate this tech if it's never going to have a chance due to probable cancellation? Can anyone inside or outside Google guarantee that the owner of this product isn't going to dump it as soon as it's ready for commercialization to start a new project for their career enhancement? I have not seen a single Google exec take on the hard question of "Why does Google cancel stuff so much? How can we trust you?" and answer it, or even try to answer it. All we have is their track record of shuttering products!!

It's exhausting trying to have a good-faith discussion with someone you know is an unfaithful actor. We get all excited about some new stuff Google develops, then months or years later it evaporates with zero support and no warning.
DocuSign laid off ~over 7000~ 7% of 7000, as well: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/28/docusign-to-cut-workforce-by...
He received a default judgment because he failed to provide discovery items including financial documents to show the company value, videos that included sandy hook, text and emails that included sandy hook, how much it made of sandy hook and failed to provide a competent corporate representative that could answer questions on a list of items that was provided in advance.
Nobody I know (locally) uses whatsapp. I'd be surprised if a majority have even heard of it.
How does Google have the nerve to whine about iMessage after they used Youtube as a weapon to kill Windows Phone?
> Phone plans used to come with a limited number of SMS messages per month (or even none), and the rates per SMS if you went over the limit were beyond extortionate.

But wasn't cellular data priced similarly extortionately back then?
The problem isn't that you're that person, it's that 90% of the responses are that person.

I find general forums to give answers that don't answer the question. I find product-specific forums provided by the vendor as a level of customer support, to be much better. I guess that's not always a thing for programming though.
Impeccable logic, my dear Joseph.

I posit they are allowed because, just like in real life, some policies, rules, and laws exist primarily to be selectively enforced against "unfavorables".
Oh yea it’s normal, but so what? Still sends me a notification
How do you know that?
Because apple says so?

Key exchange happens through apple. App is proprietary and as far as I know the apple devices upload to the apple cloud in a way that makes apple able to read the messages by default.
Yes, exactly. It's fair, I was not specific enough with my feature request.
Enabling workers to cope with the existing situation. Not organize to change it.
Your best Google search here, for what it's worth, is [defamation damages model jury instructions]. :)
Not sure I agree. The west coast has large metro areas not too far from each other (SF/LA, Seattle/Portland/Vancouver), lots of sparsely-populated land in between, a bit of an adventuring spirit, and a relatively laid-back culture. These seem like a good fit for trains. And they aren’t even going through the mountainous regions
> The more isolation, the better maintainable.

I think sums up the entire thing. Nothing will necessarily harm anything, but…

If you make sure your framework and your app logic are sufficiently isolated then everyone is happy.
I’m getting a certificate error.
Indeed. This excerpt from that paragraph is a good thesis for the essay as a whole:

> The point is not to never use frameworks, but to isolate them. To call them from a single place. One that we own. That we are responsible for and that we limit very much in what it can touch.
That sounds like he did a lot of work before he posted it. It wasn't complete, but it had work done.

Day 1 of I'm going to work on X is not really interesting, unless it's part of a series where we know there's a bunch of days.
https://archive.ph/Ruxaj
It looks like DocuSign has just over 7,000 employees and it's laying off 7% of them (so somewhere around 500-600)?
Feels like we are kinda back to using inetd
Holy crap, this 100%. I am absolutely distraught. I give monthly donations, have moved mountains to get family and friends over to Signal, and viewed it as a last bastion for security and interoperability between iOS and Android. Now we will get neither.

Gutted. I will end up switching to a different provider. Absolutely don't know if I'll be able to convince family and friends to switch again.
> Are you talking about the All Tools pack?

Yes

> it's far simpler IMO (and cheaper) to just buy IDEA Ultimate and install the language packs you need.

I'll look into that. Like I said, we've been on this for a while. I never even thought about the license cost until they sent out an email with a nearly 25% (from memory) cost increase.

Simply put, from my perspective, what they have probably accomplished with this is to have lots of customers question the expense and take the time to investigate alternatives.

Not smart. At all. You keep the customers who have been supporting you at their pricing level and onboard new customers under a new model. The old customers remain very happy and appreciate the recognition. In fact, you could offer old customers a window of opportunity to buy new licenses that would also remain locked at the old pricing model.

If you hit everyone with a 25% price increase, all you accomplish is to piss people off and cause them to ask questions they never had. It goes from never thinking about the cost to becoming something on a to-do list.
I think you are missing the conditional, contextual nature of language models. They mix things in coherent ways, they adapt to the request. Google doesn't create new things when they don't exist, and the pre-written code examples on the internet will never adapt to your needs.

But I agree with you that everything they do seems intelligent because 'intelligence' was in the training data. Not much different from us, if you raise a human removed from society (take his intelligent training data away) he will not accomplish almost anything on his own.
i have a compilation of screenshots from adults saying the same thing from dating
My perception is that the comments and the voting on this thread overwhelmingly disfavors Jones. But, anyways, just as a general rule, characterizing the tone of an entire thread or of HN in general is just something we're not supposed to be doing here. That's all!
> This was the second time this year I had to wear a tie and the experience made me wonder: why are fancy clothes so damn uncomfortable?

It's because you haven't purchased fancy clothes that fit. There are probably some other constraints that produced this outcome (e.g., cost, availability), but I'm skeptical that optimizing for fanciness did it.
Have you listened to Alex Jones speak? I get that we should try to see the humanity in people and that 99.999% of people are complex and nuanced but some people really are sociopaths. Some people really are cartoons.
It's unclear what you mean by "solved". Even a human can't turn every arbitrary problem into code to solve, but we still consider humans "generally intelligent".

GPT3 can't turn as many problems into code as I can, but it can do some, and GPT4 (or whatever) will be able to do more, etc.
>> Yes, I'm aware of 3x3 but for the most common usage of Ruby which if for Rails apps - there hasn't been anything like the gains PHP saw from 5.x to 7.x.

This has simply not been my experience. The jump in performance in the 3.n has been awesome, to the point were I even downgraded / removed servers.

Ironically the greatest speed (and memory) improvements have been in the swapping out the supporting JS ecosystem components that Rails uses, for example swapping Webpack for the Go based Esbuild.
Its not exactly IK compute. It has more to do with it looking decent than the pure compute. There's no shoulder hip or leg tracking so its really not easy to figure out what the legs should be doing.
One of the benefits of these extra steps is being able to use enums.

Using enums is not really that different from using type aliases. It’s a nicer way to write string/number values.
Flyte to Orchestrate ML Workflows
The original point was that it was amazing to see so many randos, given the relatively narrow popularity of HN.
current state of research at the intersection of machine learning and control theory
Nature Climate Change paper is here [1]

[1] https://sci-hub.st/https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-02...

Edit: additional information [2]

[2] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269281476_Early_war...
But it didn't go away. Event based servers were developed to handle slow clients with good performance as frontends for pre-fork or threaded application servers. This innovation is an optimization of a pre-fork backend server that itself is almost 15 years old.
I’m lazy, I’ll probably wait a couple days for the folks on the Serious Trouble podcast do the math for me. But point taken.
I feel like this response is common enough that it's almost a trope.

"Oh you don't like leaky abstraction X, so what we should all code in binary!?"

I think it comes from a kind of "Just World" spin off whereby all abstractions are considered pretty much equal, and it's cavalier to not code to the "highest" of these, no matter how many rickety chairs you've piled on top of each other to get that high.

Not all abstractions are created equal. As an example, choosing to use vanilla JS over react is not the same as hand-coding assembly instead of using C, Zig or Rust.
I think in theory he's still making these, but what you really want to do is subscribe to "Serious Trouble", Ken White's (same guy) podcast with Josh Barro.
>This assumes a zero-sum situation where we have a fixed amount of fossil free electricity

I'm not assuming a zero-sum. The concern still holds without a zero-sum situation, as long as some commonly used sources of energy are not fossil-free.

>but that's unlikely because fossil free energy (solar specifically) is the cheapest type of electricity generation we can build today.

Higher demand can increase prices. Usually this wouldn't be a problem, but considering how big the iron/steel production sector is, the impact of the electricity used for the H₂ be measured, not assumed.

>Furthermore, the hydrogen can be electrolyzed at times when the supply of fossil free energy exceeds demand, thereby actually improving the economics of intermittent renewables by increasing their overall utilization, and hence incentivizing building more if it.

That is actually a fair argument. Unlike the above.
”cope by affirming one’s self-worth and their ability to confront change at work”

Literally about how to confront change at work and how to feel better about yourself.
The post is promoting building applications in a loosely coupled but highly cohesive manner. It mentions using libraries when appropriate and not duplicating code.

I agree with this but it requires a lead who's good at architecting such a codebase. That person also needs to stay with the company for a long time because they're essentially replacing the "framework" with bespoke human logic.

I think many, maybe most, companies that try to build loosely coupled and highly cohesive code bases end up failing and it ends up being a mess.

Frameworks aren't perfect. But know what's less perfect? Humans. The really big frameworks try and take the human component out and replace it with codified conventions.
Maybe in the circles you move, saying "Sorry, I don't SMS, you'll have to download this other app to message me" would fly, but I for one have to interact with a lot of people for which it would not.
Perhaps you wouldn't mind sharing examples of these mythical workers who joined a union despite the benevolence of their employer? I suppose those mean heartless laborers left the poor helpless capitalist with no other options.
Look up the Wright Line test. A withholding to unionized workers was seen as disciplinary against unions unless the employer could demonstrate otherwise
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