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> Apple is a tech company because they sell computers, which are information systems

If we’re making that stretch, I fail to see how a modern car isn’t an information system as well.

What is and isn’t a tech company is context dependent. Economically, it describes a high gross margin business with negligible variable costs and vast scaling opportunity. By this definition, Tesla and Apple are not tech companies. The difference between them being Apple trades at 20x earnings while Tesla does 30+.

If you’re in the job market, on the other hand, this isn’t nearly as relevant as revenue per employee and thus pay per employee, together with culture and type of work. By those definitions, both Apple and Tesla are tech companies, albeit idiosyncratically in their own ways.
>> See I.2.1. Occur Check of https://userweb.fct.unl.pt/~lmp/publications/online-papers/D...

>> A recent related discussion: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65600226/what-occurs-che...

Thanks! I'll have a look.

It's funny but my go-to reference for unification (Foundations of Inductive Logic Programming, 1997) says that the occurs check is crucial for the performance of the algorithm (because without it unification can go on forever, whereas with the occurs check unification will terminate and find an mgu if one exists). That's exactly the opposite argument than the one in the PDP-11 and Sicstus manuals.

I confess it's been a while since I've looked at the matter. Thanks for reminding me to refresh on it. Just in case it comes up in some internet conversation and I come across as clueless :P

>> Just one personal recollection (from memory) which probably also influences my view on the Kowalski-Colmerauer relation. At a META 90 tutorial/talk about meta interpreters, Sterling attributed the origin of meta interpreters to Warren and the DEC10 manual. Kowalski responded (publicly during the talk) that this was well known to Colmerauer, well before Warren ever got into Prolog.

Wow, that's a really interesting historical tidbit. My specific research in ILP is on an approach called "meta-interpretive learning". Doesn't quite roll of the tongue but it's basically what it says on the tin: a Prolog meta-interpreter used for induction (i.e. learning). Without the idea of meta-interpreters that wouldn't have been possible. And meta-interpreters themselves, btw, would not have been possible with strict adherence to logic programming formalisms. What I mean is, Prolog programs can take as arguments Prolog programs so Prolog programs can't be first-order. And they're not! But that opens up entire avenues of possibility, like representing second and higher-order logics.

>> As to the lady you are referring to she is his widow, a linguist.

Ah, thanks. A linguist. That figures!
Because privacy matters. You really trust that Pornhub won't be storing the info of people who access it, including specific content tied to users, and that they couldn't have a security breach?

If you want to protect children, you could perhaps have a trusted third party token broker which would neither reveal to the sites who owns the token, nor the site to the broker what content is accessed.
This is great news, I’ve been wanting to see this for a long time. Kids are exposed to pornography extremely young now and it can ruin their lives. If it were up to me
I would hold the companies criminally liable for it, but this is a good start.
Same. Completely blows my mind, and furthers the case for pirates even if just from the digital hoarder/archivist view.
Binging a few shows and then not watching anything for months is probably a healthier lifestyle, but I imagine most people with streaming subscriptions are too accustomed to watching something every day/week/certainly month for that - guilty myself, exhibit above: I just assumed 'sign up and cancel in any month you want to watch something' would mean every month!
This is the way. The social contract is broken, we are left with hedonism and distraction. I love it.
> I don't understand why people think this is a bad thing except unless they think children should be watching porn?

Because the US is mostly addicted to porn. There was one study that found that 91.5% of men had reported using porn in the past month. It's bleak.
Fully agree with this. I could understand TTS for quickly converting articles to audio (and of course for visually impaired ppl), but for books the current state of this tech doesn't interest me. The qualities I want from a good narrator aren't in these samples (correct emphasis within a sentence, variable pacing dependent on context). For fiction books, good narrators will change timbre and accents depending on who is speaking in the text, not clear if they tried to achieve this at all (could have potential to use a different digital voice entirely).

I hope that the results from this type of production are clearly labeled as computer generated in the store. I don't think putting "AB Apple Books" is clear or sufficient, for someone that doesn't know about this tech "AB" sort of looks like a placeholder for some unnamed human.
Reddit is banned here in Indonesia for that reason.
Right, getting a new card number has nothing to do with the fact that it is the same account. The numbers point to the same account.
> Yet the panic about TikTok is overblown.

> policies and discourse around TikTok in politics amount to a modern-day Red Scare.

Did they miss the part where the CCP admitted to using TikTok to track American journalists?
You know you can see your upvoted stories right?
For me it is a convenience factor. Even when I have subscriptions with what I want to watch, I eventually found myself often just downloading it because it is easier than thinking about what service a show will be found on.

Spotify has this down since it is rare that they don't have the music I want. I happily pay for and use this subscription.

Games are also easy to find since on PC it is a quick Google that gives a direct link to the correct store. It is still annoying when things aren't on Steam but the friction of finding the game to play is minimized by using Playnite to collate all the different services after I buy the game.

Movies and TV are just a mess that is driving people to pirate. The media companies got greedy and prevented Netflix from becoming the one stop shop for all media. Watching on the TV means that even figuring out which service to use sucks and it is a terrible user experience.

Another complaint is live sports, I would happily subscribe to Dazn if they had every sports league on it. But since they don't have some sports I want to watch then the subscription just isn't worth it. Similarly, blackouts on the sport specific services make them a non-starter.
Higher interest rates decrease the value of future growth.
8k is already common for digital cinema. GoTG was shot 100% in 8k 5 years ago.
I can't say for sure where they got the data from, but the initial commit of the file, including all the categories, was by them[1].

I'm not even saying a ban was necessary in this case, just that the question is not about someone else implanting data, but the repository owner themselves.

Apart from that I certainly wouldn't be surprised if the author had racist intentions in their GitHub activity too. At least when it comes to their Steam activity there are indications that range from dubious to extremely clear racism.
First of all there is the "White Only" mod for RimWorld[2], which seems a bit unsavory, but who knows. Then the question of why the "Black Only" mod[3] has an image of a black person with a spear in the African Savannah, whereas the "White Only" one has a group of white people standing happily on a planet in modern clothing. (The "Yellow Only" mod[4] has an image of Emperor Taishō)

Most condemning in my eyes is the fact that their Steam profile[5] shows that at some point their nickname was "Remember the six gorillion" (click on the little arrow next to their current name to see previous iterations). This is clearly an anti-Semitic, or at least Holocaust-denying reference.[6]

[1]https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/comm...

[2]https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=15187...

[3]https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=15188...

[4]https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=15205...

[5]https://steamcommunity.com/id/no-sry

[6]https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/six-gorillion
Noncompete clauses for workers is the most anti-american, anti-free-market policy anyone could pull. If workers aren't free to switch to better jobs and at the same time are left to fend off for themselves them the economic system starts to resemble feudalism.
Or a perfect business opportunity for Playboy!
I'm open to owning the media I buy.

How else do you expect to fight against the greed that exists on the other end...? By buying their products?
“The government isn't a parent and shouldn't act like one”

Then I guess the government has no right to mandate the use of car seats, investigate child abuse, or regulate school lunches.
I just upvoted this, and thought about posting something similar myself. I am right now buying "how to talk about sex" books for my 11 year old son. My wife and I are super sex positive.

But I look on Pornhub, and the idea that that might be my children's first impression of sex makes me sad. Its fine for adults, but not good for forming accurate impressions of how to connect with another human being.

My favorite book so far, by far, has been "The Hush Factor" by Karen Rayne. It has almost nothing about sex itself, its almost all about communicating with emerging adults (it would really be good for anyone who has a teenager). But its key thesis is that you are trying to help your children develop the capacity to have healthy sexual relationships.

I think the people downvoting this comment probably don't have kids this age (if you do, I'd be curious to hear your perspective). But I love my kids, and I care about all the kids that age and hope they will find good, healthy partners to sleep with eventually.

Even as someone who is quite tech savvy, it’s difficult to control access to this kind of material. This specific effort may be heavy handed, but there is a problem here that I believe is real and deserves attention.
I didn’t read the full post, but the lack of certain keywords and the fixation on the technical details of the sensors / lenses indicates to me that my concern is not addressed.

My problem with cellphone cameras is the amount of post-processing they perform to make the picture look more attractive. They can be made to trick our neural networks into classifying the image as high quality, and they may do so with the artificial NNs present on the phone; but this doesn’t make the image more realistic. Some of the post-processing is done to make faces look different, in accordance to some societal ideals, but that doesn’t bring us closer to seeing things as they are.

We are veering into a world where it is way cheaper to trick each other about reality than to pursue gaining accuracy in measuring it. GPT is another instance of a system that seems to satisfy our perception of correctness; but when more cognitive cycles spent on its results, holes and contradictions emerge. If not enough effort is spent on interrogating these results, we end up with short feedback loops that converge on the artifacts created by these models. We then get a reality tunnel formed by models and machines, with blindspots that span most of society through its dependence on these machines to acquire information. These blindspots feed back into future iterations of machinery and societal structures / policies.
He sold cars. Turned Tesla into an absolute hype monster.
Here's an excuse not to upgrade:

holy fuck it's horribly expensive these days.
This class of drugs does address the bad diet though, doesn't it?

Anyway, 'getting people to stop' turns out to be impossible for some. The drugs are meant to help with that.

Diet soda and bottled water exist and somehow people still keep choosing sugary drinks. In fact people often have a ready excuse for why they consider diet soda more unhealthy!
Ask HN: Best way to share client code in 2023
Mostly looking at this for a side project. How would you share code between native and web targets in 2023? Kotlin Multiplatform and Kotlin JS look like the most mature, although the toolchain kind of turns me off. What other solutions exist? WASM/WASI looks like it's still missing quite a few features.
Mumpsimus
Exactly. Tesla stock price should be looked at in a log plot.
Thanks! That is a very good suggestion, as it would enable users to use the extension with other calendars such as Outlook. I will work on it in the next few days.
Agreed for monitors, but there's significant room for improvement in the VR space.
And also "Peel this label before putting the heatsink". I know people left the sticker there... with consequences.
>Minimalistic interiors, modern infotainment, mobile app performance,

Which are all gimmicks.

The vast majority of people don't want that from a car. I've been in Telsas plenty of time and absolutely hate it. Yeah it looks cool for a moment, but I would never want that.
In theory, but that would also require changing how/where many people live (which would require a lot of construction which would require energy and concrete - both bad things for the environment). I’m thinking over my schedule today and needing to drive the kids places, often many miles away in different directions, plus going to work, running errands with multiple people, etc. Both a bike and a trike would be wildly inappropriate. Especially where I live where it rains steadily for 9 months of the year. A car is the only practical way to move around without somehow either having fewer people to move around, moving the places we need to go closer together, changing the weather or moving to a drier climate, etc.

Frankly I would love it if that was a reality and everything was within easy walking or biking distance, but it simply doesn’t match reality as things are currently built.
Except Russia has had spies do precisely that in the past in Estonia? They even did a prisoner exchange for a guy who got caught.

> An unredacted five-page document tells a fuller story than anything Zinchenko offered in our four hours together. Vasily was one of three different handlers over the space of his eight years as a GRU agent. (Zinchenko would tell me only that Vasily introduced him to another man with whom he’d sometimes communicate.) He’d meet with each one face-to-face at liaisons in St. Petersburg, only a five-hour car or bus ride from Tallinn. Each handler tasked him with surveilling Estonia’s “objects of national defense” and its “vital services,” defined under Estonian law as critical infrastructure, power and electricity, telecommunications and banking services.

> Zinchenko spied on Paldiski, a garrison town where Estonia’s elite Scouts Battalion, a veteran unit of both the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, was stationed. He also spied on Vasalemma, where NATO’s Ämari Air Base is located.

https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-ex-russian-spy-flees-to-the...
Parents are responsible for monitoring their children, not the state.
I agree that noncompetes are bad, but the FTC declaring it without a congressional mandate seems deeply questionable.
That's what I was thinking too. If the page lists 25 videos per page, have 8 of them be of the content they have, the rest consisting of Ads (makes more money), or "Get Me Outta Here" type links to Rick Roll type videos.
Would prefer this came from Congress rather than the FTC, because I can see at least two different ways this could get sunk from the FTC:

1) The process gets stalled from rollout until 2024, at which point a Republican comes into power, appoints new FTC head, and they roll it back.

2) Companies sue, and SCOTUS rules that this exceeds FTC authority.

But I'll freely concede that there is no way such a bill would ever make it through Congress.
> Apple can make an even better car than Tesla

Paying a premium for Apple smartphones hardware and software is a thing, paying same percentage premium for a car is a lot different, it's a lot more money.
Many of the competitors are STILL building on an ICE chassis and stuff batteries where the center axle would have been etc. When enough of them finally switch to pure EV platforms things will quickly improve I guess. But designing a new chassis that behave as well as their previous premium models, is not something they do in 1 year so it makes sense there is some delay..

The competitors also charge much less quickly, so there's some optimization there that they lack. Like, on paper they can do 250 kW but you never get more than 100 when actually charging it etc
> because of the potentially catastrophic costs if he doesn't win

Well, a judge could rule how much of a company's costs are fit for compensation, also considering the material situation of the plaintiff.
Definitely one of those obviously broken things that should be stopped. Whatever legitimate usage they theoretically have in practice the vast majority do not protect against a bona fide company risk.
Either you haven't read the comment like I asked, or you're wilfully ignoring me. Again, I don't want to change your risk-tolerance. Do you understand what that means?
>> of vision are not "AGI-hard". A key component of self-driving is something that can determine whether a volume of space is empty, occupied, or ambiguous.

> Isn't the latter part of vision the part that's "AGI" hard though

Those accidents with self driving where they ram stationary objects at full speed because they cheaped out on LIDARs and only have visual feeds shows that visuo-spatial ability seems to be AGI-hard.
Isn't satiety / ghrelin the mechanism (via GLP-1) for weightloss in semaglutide?
I haven't read it, but I believe that book addresses how certain behaviors may have evolved.

That is unrelated to whether those behaviors are in an abstract sense "right" or "good".
The Joy of Sanskrit
Oh no, Elon failed so hard at running tech companies that he accidentally built three of the most innovative companies of the last 20 years and became the worlds richest man… you can hate him all you want but don’t underestimate him. I hate that I have to be the voice of reason here since I really hate his god complex but I can at least respect what he’s built. That list includes X/PayPal, Tesla, and SpaceX. Don’t let your hatred blind you. He sucks but running innovative companies is his bread and butter. Twitter isn’t innovative though and I hope it crushes him.
The infotainment system on Teslas is worse than a Nissan Sentra with CarPlay/Android Auto
Your comments seem to assume I have no familiarity with how photography is used or the tools. I’m not sure why.

I’ve done plenty of HDR, Panoramas, etc. in my life. I don’t find the iPhone to be a tool worth my time to invest in those, except in situations where it’s the only camera with me (so anything unplanned, which happens).
Excited to see massive performance improvements in desktop hardware again. 7950X3D + an RTX 4090 + a PCIe 5 SSD will be quite the system for programming, machine learning, video editing, music production, gaming...
It's not bad for adding friction for children's access to porn.

It's bad because it creates an enormous privacy concern for adults who are forced to identify themselves in a traceable way when for consuming legal, but often very socially taboo content. We might say that these sites should never store the information, but the reality is that it's such a honeypot of potential blackmail that no one should trust it not to be stored.
Difference here is that Johnny Paycheck was signing about the common man being screwed.

White collar STEM jobs have historically been very lucrative and most Dev / IT types have had a good incentive to shut up and play ball.
> We know that porn is harmful

I dispute this assertion. I think there's much more evidence that religion is harmful.
It contains information systems, but it is not an information system. It is a vehicle. Its purpose is to provide transportation.
The market is rigged by an industry(ies) (auto, oil) to develop society in its favor. Without a major 'refactor', the US doesn't have a chance at efficient urban design that would support individual use transport.
I live here, I’ll allow it
Thanks. I checked and dbeaver can indeed store columns ordering as a filtered view.
Seems like a bit overcomplicated to me but I guess I've been spoiled with mysql in which the ordering is trivial.
SQLite succeeded because Berkeley DB files sooner or later always become corrupted, and it doesn’t hurt that SQL is a more useful interface than a simple key-value store.
Louisiana doesn't value freedom or "freedom". They have more of a percentage of their people incarcerated than any other state in the USA, even more than Iraq.
Aside from a brief (ten film) dip into piracy just so I could see how this BitTorrent thing worked about fifteen or so back, I never really pirated anything.

Now, though, I feel like I am getting gouged from one side, nickel and dimed from another. I am especially considering it for music -- chasing down out of print stuff has begun to annoy me. If they can't keep it in print, then I think they should give up copyright. I'd be willing to support legislation to that extent. We'd have to close a lot of loopholes as to what "in print" meant, mind you.

Plus, sharing my extensive music collection, which contains some rarities, might not be the worst thing.
Wait, is that Sim Wong Hoo himself? It's kind of hard to tell at the 240p resolution.
Jury is still out on how food companies will take a situation where people can be prescribed a pill to be less hungry. I imagine they'd be more scared if it was OTC though.
try to get some good video of them
Not up to date on a lot of "AI"/"ML" things, why isn't this significant for medium/large neural networks as well?
Crows tend to also be game animals, so states manage the populations and set bag limits, seasons, etc. In my state it is definitely legal, and one doesn't even need HIP registration.
It’s probably the composition of your gut biome - it’s probably used to quick starchy foods. Give it a few weeks and it will readjust.
The original founders were not making a mass market car.
I feel like this will eventually become an "everybody poops"-type thing. Kind of like how it's expected that people will share nudes with their partner, thus if they've had multiple partners, former partners are expected to have some. Lots of people watch porn.

I'm more concerned with the precedent that this sets. Given the "interstate" nature of online commerce, I would think that this law is not enforceable, but given the current makeup of SCOTUS, it might stand for the next 50-100 years. Once a ruling goes through allowing for this type of regulations, I would expect a patchwork of laws to effectively de-anonymize the entire internet.

Since VPNs can be used to ignore these regulations, the next step is to write laws that regulate VPNs. Thus, the government will have a one-stop-shop for finding all of the "bad" things a person is doing. Since payments for like 99.9% of users will be easily traceable to an individual, this will turn VPNs into a honeypot of sorts. Sure, hardened criminals can find ways around this, but I don't think small-town police are too concerned with going after criminals that are out of their league, this is more about projecting power over the locals.
Sounds rather conspiratorial and paranoid, like a psychosis; not to mention your incitement and implicit violation of the international human right to free expression and American supreme law protecting free speech.