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> And of course, I recycled the laptop for a gift card at exactly the 4 year mark to buy an M1 Air - I could've sold it privately but it was defective so I had to accept Apple's valuation. Another spot where I lost money, probably more than the $300 will cover.

I know Apple is moving to their own silicon, but out of curiosity last week I punched in my Mac Pro (cheesegrater) for a trade-in on the Studio. It was ... insulting.

12 core Xeon, 192GB memory, 8TB SSD, W5700X 16GB... I thought maybe a few thousand. Nope. $1,050.

What's insulting about this? Apple is today selling this same config for $12,799.
Let’s give them all meth. That should help with weight loss.
I subscribed to Nature for a couple of years and although I am not a proper academic and maybe not the best judge, the articles in Nature sometime looks like they belong on vox.com or wired and not in a scientific paper.

As in opinions presented as evidence, from an almost random person, without actually providing any.

Especially around social subjects like the BLM protests.

One thing I loved about 60 minutes back in the day, was their ability to present a story from multiple points of views.

When I started reading Nature at my former employers, many many years ago, I felt their articles were like that.

At some point it started to look like cherrypicking a single viewpoint, often with obvious political taint.

Maybe it was always like that and I just used to idolize it.

I still very much love the magazine though but stopped subscribing. Its really expensive.

When I get my hands on a copy these days I just filter what I perceive as woke crap from the rest and skip those articles.

I wonder if that is such a good thing…
Edit: typo and context
If 10,000,000 daily requests of 30 words each use the equivalent of 3 months of an average American's carbon footprint, then that means 1 request is equivalent to about .79 milliseconds of average carbon footprint. For an average typing speed of 40 words per minute each request would take on average about .75 seconds for a user to type. So spending time asking GPT questions is about 3 orders of magnitude less carbon intensive than what an American would typically be doing instead during that time.
I propose the title should be changed to “Salesforce decimates staff as part of restructuring”. :)
The last 25 years have seen some improvements, but nothing nearly as dramatic as the change between the 25 years prior to that. Seatbelts, airbags, crash testing and designing a car for survivability in case of an accident are all things that happened between 1970 and 1990, since then we've seen incremental improvements but for the most part things have not changed all that much. That's also why automobile manufacturers have trouble introducing new models because the older ones are really pretty good. The car I'm driving has gone through 2 upgrades since 1997 (the year it was built) and neither of those is a huge improvement safety wise over the one that I've got. The biggest question mark is probably the longevity of the pyrotechnics and the airbag materials, but for both I've been reassured multiple times by the dealership that they are fine (not something you want to test), and that this goes for any airbags manufactured after 1993 except for one particular notorious bad batch made by Takata, and those fortunately are not in my car.
"Personal data" as mentioned in the article includes more than just logging what posts you liked. I'm sure you knew that already.
There's been a lot of news today about Microsoft integrating ChatGPT into Bing: https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/4/23538552/microsoft-bing-ch...
Web and release cycles don’t always go hand in hand, though.
Why would you expect to get the same answer to those two questions? They're completely different, and answering Yes to 1 and No to 2 is self-consistent.

Or do you mean that responders answered No to 1 and Yes to 2?
Big congratulations! Always happy to see indies-with-kids get beyond ramen profitability to a sustainable income!
You don't believe in freedom of thought or speech. Period.
> Isn’t obesity a function of calories intake and calories burn rate? If so, why do we even need a drug for that?

Because calorie intake is substantially impacted by things like satiety. As the article's subtitle heavily hints at, "A class of drugs that quash hunger" is beneficial in moving that bit of the equation.
>>25km

Dragonlink, Crossfire, or something else?
You are right, of course, and I stand corrected, performance and/or ability to fully replace less have no bearing on whether a program is a pager.
By using drugs that manipulate specific hormones to alter a person's appetite. So you consume less calories.
Rijndael S-box in 512 bytes of Python
Code golf style implementation of AES S-box and inverse in the same number of bytes as just pre-calculating the tables.
These drugs modulate your hormones to reduce appetite and cravings for unhealthy foods. When people lose weight the normal way, their endocrine system sends out a “you are starving, eat” hormone response that is extremely difficult to overcome and success requires 100% compliance for the rest of your life.
Because many people just aren't able to get that ratio to a point that they're at a healthy weight (for numerous reasons - behavioral, medical, etc.).

"Assuming no changes in behavior" doesn't make sense, because the drug makes people feel full after a smaller amount of calories and thus changes behavior.
> evolution from “data as value” to “data as risk”

This jumped out at me in the blog post. IMHO "data as value" is 3/4 of the problem.

Storage evolution has made data hoarding cheap and the hoarding desire is mostly driven by "monetization" goals.

Those who bitch and moan the loudest about regulatory compliance are generally those who hoard the most for the least necessary reason.

Keep only the data you require and the amount that needs securing when compliance comes knocking is far more manageable than attempting to secure an ocean of guff.
Ok that went over my head. Then definitively bay area
It seems adding en-dash to your repertoire might be of interest :^)
Switched to email. Anyone else is welcome to email as well.
> unions are effectively the only way for non-executive[0] employees (in the US) to get an employment contract that isn’t one-sided in favor of the employer

If they were actually one-sided then no employees would sign them. It's not like there are no alternatives to finance tech.
I have a 27" 4k monitor. I love that hackernews fills my screen. I detest the modern web design of capping the line width at giving me the middle 10% of the screen and making the rest white space. We moved on from 12" CRT screens, let us use our screen space.
Courts so far seem to mostly have decided that if you are clear and upfront, you can offer "track me" and "I’ll pay you not to track me" as the two options. Very common in Germany.
When I tried GLib and GTK4 I was surprised how much the former reminded me of Core Foundation and the later Cocoa. Unfortunately, as much as I like C, the GObject system was less pleasant and felt like a poor mans Objective-C. I wonder why the GNOME team, and Linux crew in general, never adopted the language? I understand shunning C++, but Objective-C is C with a thin OO layer.
I am reminded of a scene (from a film*) depicting dear Ludwig van debuting a composition in a salon. Haydn was present. He sat through the performance and at the end, prompted by another, simply said ~“he puts too much of himself in his music”.

* Eroica : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0369400/
Why do you assume this? I find it amusing that people 'outrage themselves' by taking something that didn't happen and use it as evidence that the thing that didn't happen would have happened, if the context were slightly different.

Maybe instead of doing that, accept that the thing you expected to happen isn't what people want to do, regardless of if you think they do.
I liked that they added EVs on there with lots of caviots
Why do you participate in discussion about the GDPR when you clearly know nothing about it? Of course a "like" or any kind of data that is core to the service doesn't infringe the GDPR. The illegal part is about processing or forwarding personal data of users to third parties, when users haven't agreed to that aspect of the "service".

You usually see the distinction between "functional" and "advertising" cookies in those annoying banners, where you of course can't disable the former as that data is core to the functionality of the website. And guess what, if you don't do any shady stuff with user data you don't even need to display any banner (the banner is for getting explicit permission from the user to potentially do shady stuff).
I really would like to know what is "disagreeable" does it mean being mean to people in obvious ways a lot? In that case of course. But in my experience most people in corporate settings will stab you in the back when it suits them, blame things on you, take credit falsley,etc... all while smiling and being sociable. So you can have an agreeable personality and still be a shitty person based on how you actually behave.
Do you have any hosted demos?
Thank you for the concise explanation. I am an only-occasional Python programmer and did not really understand what was going on with the naming.
Because nothing stops me, an authentic human, from using AI to generate content and then posting it under my name. Attestation does nothing.
I've been saying for years now that we've already acheived keynes famous 15 hour work week quote possibly as much as a decade ago, but the workaday grind mentality has kept us all cooped up at desks for 40+ hours a week.

Theres a few sentiments sneaking in though: you often now hear of those stories of people working from home doing probably 1-2 hours of real work and doing just fine. Same is even for some desk jobs, at my old enterprise job between meetings, coffee brakes, random discussions and so on, I'd say on an average day only 3-4 hours was real constructive work actually _doing_ something.
Eyes? I thought they were rings/piercings (in the original).
Someone has to be 51+% either way..
I don’t click on the link in the email, I find the settlement site through Google.

If the scammers can outrank they legit site, I am hosed though.
I've been a fan of the 'simply static' plugin for wordpress for a few years now. Basically, install wordpress on a server, make it accessible only to authorized users (vpn, acl, htauth, whatever works best for you), then have it deploy to an apache server or s3 bucket.

The WP designer feels at home. Has a simple deploy button. The pages load significantly faster.

Works well most of the time. Sometimes forms can be a bit tricky, but the sites I've deployed it with usually don't have many of them.
California's Pay Transparency Law
Exactly. Several of the highly ranked YouTube videos that were recommended to me recently were clearly made by some AI doing a mashup of imagery with some text spoken by some text-to-speech algorithm.
What's Elixir without Phoenix?
> Isn’t obesity a function of calories intake and calories burn rate?

In the same way that the economy is a function of people trading things, sure. Why do we even need economic policy?
You seem to have this preconceived notion in your mind that the Bay Area is the real world, and it's not. The vast majority of the country has affordable housing and available jobs, which means people don't need to move to the same 5 cities driving up the cost of living on those cities, they are choosing to do that because it sounds cool to say they moved there or they believe the lies that all the jobs are in the same handful of cities. And then they complain that they can't afford to live there.

You don't hear people from Dallas or KC or Cleveland or Pittsburgh or wherever complaining they can't afford to buy a house there, because I can go to Zillow and show you hundreds of houses in every one of those metro areas (and more) that are under $150k, and affordable to first time home buyers with an FHA mortgage putting less than $5k down and having a mortgage of around $1,300/month which makes it affordable to anybody making over $25/hour. In short, people are making excuses nd pointing to extremes in the Bay Area or NYC or wherever to validate their feelings.

Those are facts, and that is the math. Everything else is just feelings.
> why would the users say no?

One can agree with the measure and disagree with its deployment. Here, a quasi-judicial body with opaquely-appointed members created a rule ex post facto. It’s a good opinion. But that sort of unpredictability obviously has a cost. (Agencies in America face similar criticism.)
Voice and Face Recognition Are Linked More Intimately Than Previously Thought
> If I am understanding this correctly, GDPR means that you must legally accept free riders, ie. you cannot deny service if they don't want it.

That is more or less correct, although some newspapers in Europe are taking the gamble on that and there might be grounds for a middle-ground decision and amendment of the GDPR down the line.

> who provide no value at all

Disagreed, those users still provide value - not only can you still advertise to them based on public information (and users put out a lot of it by liking/following certain content) but they still strengthen the network effect of the product.
Kids at school used to buy cheap Jetex rocket engines, and mount them on little balsa gliders or Dinky cars. They went fast!

[Edit] https://jetex.org/index.php/the-jetex-heyday
Yeah it makes loads of sense. Syntactic sugar required to make the medicine go down, of course :)
In fact that's exactly what I want LLM to be doing - read the whole internet and write articles on all topics, answer all imaginable questions, make a 1000x larger wikipedia, a huge knowledge base. Take special care to resolve contradictions. Then we could be using this GPT-wiki to validate when models are saying factually wrong things. If we make it available online, it will be the final reference.
The 13th amendment doesn't say anything about forcing prisoners to give birth
Many many software companies end up spending more money to acquire a customer than a customer will ever pay them. I tend to think this is because the demand and need for many tools is not significant enough to justify the amount of capital allocated to promote them.

Finance spreadsheet alchemists last 10 years saw big gross margins in software (overinflated by not taking into account cost to acquire user), bought into long-term incumbent dominance narrative from founders, and now they're stuck with companies that are willing to spend 10x+ lifetime customer value to acquire a user.

Everyone with a vested interest in these companies/investments always seems to say the real returns are 10 years+ once they are in a dominant position in their industry and have monopolistic pricing power.

How are we supposed to know what happens in 5 years, let alone 10+? Seems like a big carnival trick to me. What's interesting is that this mentality is so engrained that the people promoting it don't seem to even get that they're in on an act.

You could have the best tool on the planet, but if the cost to distribute it is greater than what those customers acquired will ultimately pay you, you don't have a company.
What law exactly did you reference? After reading the blogpost I can't seem to fint it mentioned anywhere.

I have the exact same problem with my Late 2017 15" MacBook Pro. It's been repaired 3 times already.
> All about the vibes

This made me chuckle. It's actually really interesting to think about the fact that AI can create part of symbolism (the symbol itself?) but it has no idea why a symbol matters or what it's for, which are maybe the same thing or at least overlapped.
Maybe it's just the segment I'm in, but I feel like Salesforce was hiring pretty hard up until recently. They wouldn't be the only company to go from a hiring spree to layoffs that quickly over the last quarter.

We really need to lock this absurdity down and increase severance requirements for large companies heavily. It's one thing to gamble risk for the company, it's something completely different to gamble employee livelihood when you're signaling job security by hiring.
I don't think you're understanding it correctly, Meta is still free to serve normal contextual ads to all users so they can make money. There are many other sustainable business models they could try out if they aren't able to get their customers to pay for that sort of ad. They are not mandated to provide any kind of service to anyone.
Interesting. I found this video when I was considering if I should reduce salt.
Yeah, there are a lot of published studies showing this is very impactful. Within certain thresholds, losing weight has been shown to be the biggest change to all cause mortality rates. If you are obese, the most impactful thing on health is losing weight. This obviously isn't true for people with very low BMIs, but there have been a lot of population level studies looking at all cause mortality.
I suppose but how is it fair use if they are literally giving you the answer verbatim from the source? I don't mind paraphrasing, where I get upset is someone copying the material and making money off of it; even more so when this is a trillion dollar corporation that can more than easily pay for attribution.

From other comments, it seems like this is far from legally settled.
Paper the article is based on: "Electrocorticography reveals the dynamics of famous voice responses in human fusiform gyrus" https://journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/jn.00459.202...
Yeah, In my experience understanding the history of the language and phonetics helps a lot with those situations. And, obv. things get easier with exposure to more languages as new patterns start to emerge.

I'd always find it funny when be English friends would point our how difficult to read Polish is, where (with one small exception most native speakers wouldn't notice) the alphabet corresponds to the pronunciation.
Good call, updated and added to my layout :) Using em dash though.
"Users therefore need to be provided with a yes/no ("opt-in") consent option, otherwise Meta may not use their data for personalized advertisement."

I guess Facebook's solution could be a pop-up asking whether you want to continue using it as before or if you want to deny access to your personal data and pay $50 a month.
A lot of companies have language in their employment contracts that amounts to them owning all of your ideas, even if they are thought of and worked on outside of company time. Under such a contract, you would need to get the company’s blessing to work on some open source project even in your spare time.
If the standard becomes "make illegal business models that the media gets enough people upset about" (without even a vote where the alternatives [paying for service] are clearly explained), then -yeah- people are going to be left poorer.

Europe already endured centuries of this when the majority Christian ethos was that usury & banking were an evil to be banned. This, among other things of course, helped sentence millions of people to poor and deprived lives for centuries.
Show HN: State of the Art AI Features via WhatsApp
I mean, we used to pay per minute to use our cell phone. I think it's proven that it's harder to sell to a (literally) non-captive audience.
I'd rather live in a society where people are treated like human beings than one where people are treated like consumers.
Honestly, I want to live in your reality where criminals outside of prison rely solely on hard-cover books as weapons and a means of getting high instead of literally all of the things available to the general public that are better at being weapons and a means of getting high.
That is a fine use, but multimedia keys use 3-7ish (depending on how crazy you go) of the 48-ish function keys readily available. By which I mean, unmodified, SHIFT, CTRL, and ALT, and that's without counting multiple modifiers. I've got volume, mute, pause, fast forward and reverse in there but it's far from the only things I've got. (Well... technically FF, reverse, and pause are WIN-right, WIN-left, and WIN-up respectively, but same principle.) I'm not even close to using up all the function keys.

I've mapped these in something like the last four window managers I use, and they've survived across probably a dozen physical keyboards now. Physical buttons for these things come and go but "WIN-Up" (or Super-Up if you prefer) has always been there.

(I did use a mac with a touch bar for a bit. Was that ever a train wreck for me, as you might expect. Fortunately, people don't seem to be copying them and dumping the function keys. I'm actually perfectly happy with them being a reduced-height bar across the top, as most laptops seem to have now. They don't need to be full height.)

In general, I say to anyone who makes a living on a computer... take control of your keyboard! I don't obsess on not using the mouse at all, but the keyboard can do a lot. There's a lot of keys on there, even ignoring the letter keys (which are densely enough "taken" by a lot of other things I don't tend to override them much).
That's an important consequence to consider. One that often gets omitted. Many drugs - like blood pressure drugs - often have depression as a side effect but it gets overlooked.
The main project site is a Pushup app: https://pushup.adhoc.dev (look in the `docs` directory in the repo for the source code for the site)

There is a small demo of the inline partials feature here (click on the "view the Pushup source for this page" link at the bottom): https://pushup-htmx-template-fragments.fly.dev/demo
> The lock-in to the platform

How is this different than any other SaaS?
i did forget. thanks!
Ok and what does that have to do with the topic at hand? Or do you just like adding non-sequiturs?
I think it can be a vice (laziness) disguised as a virtue (efficiency).

Computers and software (like anything) can be beautiful, charming, fun, funny, tragic - anything we want them to be.

It’s not just software though - look at modern architecture, look at furniture, look at cars. Any sort of ornamentation or detail is verboten now. I think it’s the bean-counters’ fault, personally. Any effort/cost to deliver a little something extra would take money out of the wrong people’s pockets, so we do the bare minimum.
>>it turns out that low fat diets didn't make people less fat

Yeah, but low calorie diets (lower than your daily calories expenditure) always do.
Right, and maybe that should not be permissible but this decision is about on-site personalization based on stuff like the interests you enter into Facebook yourself.
Amphetamines are great, I fail to see your point.
I used my chemistry set also to distill wine and drink the results, and for what I recall, it tasted good. Problem is that I was like 12, but did that only a couple times: creating stinking bubbling blobs was a lot more fun.
A story about programming without thinking first
Common core seems fine tbh. I can’t speak to the “shitty Ed tech apps” but that seems like an orthogonal issue in comparison to the standards.