skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not "massive amounts of e-waste". There are a couple cases to consider.

1. Individual sales of used devices to individual buyers.

You only get e-waste in this case if (a) the seller doesn't realize they need to unlock the device first, and (b) they buyer doesn't realize that the device needs to be unlocked by the seller, and (c) once the buyer receives the device and notices it needs to be unlocked (which they will notice the first time they try to use it) the buyer cannot make an arrangement with the seller to unlock it.

This should be very rare, because even if the seller doesn't realize the device is locked they are probably going to realize that they have plenty of personal data on it they need to erase first, and are going to Google something like "wipe Mac before selling" or "erase Mac before selling" and the first result is going to be Apple's "What to do before you sell, give away, or trade in your Mac" article.

2. Sales to entities that deal in used computers.

Similar analysis to #1, except in this case the buyer definitely should know about how locking works and the need to ensure that the seller unlocks it. If the seller cannot ensure it is unlocked the buyer should offer a lot less money.

The difference in value between an unlocked device and a locked one is large, so the seller should be willing to unlock it.

We should then only get e-waste in the case where the seller cannot unlock it.

If the seller cannot unlock it because they legitimately owned it but somehow forgot the necessary credentials, they can get Apple to unlock it if they can show Apple proof of legitimate ownership. Corporate sellers tend to keep purchase records for these kind of things so this should be no problem. Individual owners often don't keep such records, but the number of individuals selling used Apple devices who have forgotten their credentials is very likely quite low.
This reminds me that one of the tricks I used to use to identify which difficulty jumper the game was set to was to leave exactly 1 mothership on the first board. If it would try to capture your fighter after a few sweeps through, you knew it was on the easy jumper setting.
> When we turn the job of creating the first draft of the thing over to ChatGPT we risk removing the “figuring shit out” part of everyone’s career-path. And we get away with that while we still have people who have figured shit out.

That's the main problem from my point of view.
This, 100x.
Law of Reciprocal Proportions
If you want to dissect a corpse, all you need is $60 and five hours:

https://alok.github.io/2022/11/09/dissection/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33551036
Figma or Adobe XD
Really? Even tall towers? Seems shocking and I'd appreciate a source.
rents never get lower when things get better. rents get lower when things get bad. thats my point

if and when things get better, they will pretty much go back to higher than pre pandemic overnight, with Manhattan as a very good example (also very limited square footage, every came running back, rents are completely out of control)
Nanoservices.
These were Uber drivers who drive their cars all day.
Interestingly, when I start Vim, I see a bunch of tildes, one on every line below the cursor.
> Therefore, our safeguard is constrained by time, knowledge, and resources. The problem then is that if that safeguard fails and A-Grade Bullshit is taken by an author using the AI as a research assistant, put into a research paper, book chapter, or online article, and is then cited. That becomes potential training data for the AI if it is released into the world or has the window of its training data set extended.

I don't see the value in GPT models for this kind of use. I see the value in like, translation work, or summaries and other transformations, and that GPT works best when in concert with search engines, document embeddings, or knowledge databases like Wolfram Alpha. It's good at predicting more text which is useful in many different kinds of contexts but not in all contexts. It's pretty clear that it is untrustworthy for factual responses like quotes and population counts but that problem goes away if the actual factual data is included in the prompt!
The Wordpress site was failing from day one, nothing has changed there.

I am not sure they were that serious about Pathfinder, no energy in the room. But the other riscv vendors will certainly fill their new fab with cores.

Pathfinder was just the carrot to sell other IP that they would hang off the side.
Then explain what you mean by "technology curve" that people "don't get"
Your phrasing makes it sound like Fuchsia was canceled. It is still being developed.
I work on a project that uses a proprietary language. Its very good but its miserable to be the only place where its used. Tools are sloppy and old, no external documentation or videos, can't hire anyone who knows it, and the people on the team are half committed because they have to be but also want to keep with industry trends for their next job.
If you think of the knowledge base of the internet as a living thing, ChatGPT is a like a virus that now threatens its life.

This is the same process SEO spam caused for search - it hampers the nature by which things function and the river needs to reroute (pagerank then usage metadata) to replace the lost signal.

ChatGPT is more of an existential threat because it will propagate to infect other knowledge bases. Luke Wikipedia relies on "published" facts as an authority, but ChatGPT output is going to wind up as a source one way or another. And worse, then ChatGPT will digest its own excrement, worsening its own results further.

All signs point to this strengthening the value of curation and authenticated sources.
Are you in finance? That kind of compensated-non-compete seems common there, but rare elsewhere.
Sure, and if a doctor is good enough, he can just start his own practice from the start and never have to sign anything since he never join any practice except his own.

That line of reasoning goes both way. If you sign something, then it was worth it for you.
C#'s weakness here is that those two patterns are cooperative multitasking only. Under the hood they retain control of a thread until they yield execution. By default resource management is something that needs to be considered and the default thread pool is not an uncontested resource.

I don't use Erlang but my understanding is that while it is not exactly fully pre-emptive, there are safeguards in place to ensure process fairness without developer foresight.
I live in a major urban area, and have compromised on certain things, despite the ability to live in a giant suburban house. I like cities, I like the restaurants and bars, the music venues, the amenities, my kids play at the parks, there are tons of private schools which means we have a lot of choice, and on and on. The suburbs are where you go to eat Applebees on Friday night and go to bed by 9pm. Just not for my family.

I also WFH in a fully remote company.
Thanks! Flutter does sound good, I've just started looking into it. Am I right in thinking we would rebuild the UIKit components / views in Flutter and then would be able to use the same UI across platforms (iOS, Android + Web)? And it would still be possible to include the native Apple APIs?
I mean then you're at "everything exemption" pretty quickly. Shelter is the biggest cost for many people by far, often 30% or more. If you add all health, car payments, and maybe food, you're at what, 80%?

I'm all for it just saying :)
I don’t agree with rent control.

The problem is with zoning, people don’t want apartment buildings made in their back yard, so zoning laws prevent much of the needed supply to resolve the problem.

I agree with point 1, policy changes need to be made big time
There already are coworking spaces. They are called the offices of your employer. They are safe to leave laptops at. Your actual coworkers are also there. You have free rein of the building. You also don’t have to pay to use them… your employer does.

So you are saying I now have to pay for a mediocre co-working space out of my own pocket to be successful working in a tiny apartment downtown?
Oh you’re right, I forgot to add this in the article + codepen. (It’s how the button on the site itself is implemented and I forgot to integrate it)
It's not faulty logic at all. Scientists have known for a while that your ability to experience pleasure is a result of certain biological processes

Well of course on a certain level your ability to feel anything is the result of biological processes, but that doesn't mean that the specific things you feel aren't a result of the specific experiences you've had.

Nobody in this thread is arguing that feelings happen completely independently of biological processes, but there's a hugely important difference between "I had a bad experience that altered my feelings, and that's reflected in my biology" vs "my biology just did something of its own accord that had nothing to do with my life circumstances, and that change altered the way I feel".

You seem to be arguing that because anhedonia correlates with certain biological changes, that it must be caused by those changes. That could be true (and probably is true in some cases) but it does not necessarily follow that it is always true, or even true the majority of the time; the causation could could flow in a different direction.
Efficiency assessment of Iran's petroleum refining industry: slacks-based (2019)
CrabML is a ML-like syntax which is very close to the Miranda-based syntax Haskell uses.
Are you using crime as a euphemism for homelessness?
> real-time traffic

That is just beyond FOSS I fear. Live traffic would entail centralized data collection, which goes against the F in FOSS. Make it opt-in and you will never have the user count needed for real time traffic tracking. A P2P real time traffic exchange would be out of scope magic smoke.

OsmAnd Live is as close as we will get to that. I was suprised by OsmAnd live actually properly reporting road construction within 3 days, but beyond that best case, this is something OsmAnd won't become I think.
> There is now 15.4 Salesforce Towers, or 909 Salesforce Tower floors, worth of empty office space

Man we will do anything to not use the metric system. ;)
A bit sad to see that the audio in the (great!) dataset consists of links to YouTube videos with timecodes, knowing the war on youtube-dl that happened just last year (long live yt-dlp !). Not really future-proof either.
It is not heavy hyperbole. Compare the relative positions of the west vs China only 25 years ago vs today. Before, China had neither military technology to that could challenge the West, nor the size of its economy. Today, it has ripped-off designs of fighter jets for everything from the F-16 to the F-35, carrier-killer missiles, six nuclear attack submarines, a domestically produced aircraft carrier, etc.++, and is the 2nd largest economy in the world. All in a quarter of a century.

We gave away the forking store. And CCP has used that new position to violate it's agreements on Hong Kong, and now continuously and explicitly threaten war on Taiwan.

The great experiment has been tried and resoundingly failed. It was thought that open trade and information exchange would result in openness and democracies in the autocratic countries. Instead, it empowered and emboldened the dictators.

That said, we have noticed, and China has blown it so that they no longer have the benefit of the doubt; we know the experiment failed, and know their absolute intentions to remain autocratic, and grow at the expense of democracies.

So we are now strategically pulling back. I do not think it is anywhere near over. I would not bet on China winning long-term.

But, the west, by trying the Great Experiment (which was truly generous-minded), without restraint (which was stupid) has put ourselves in a far more vulnerable position than we would have otherwise. It will be far more costly and risky to get the democracies of the world out of this mess than it would be if we'd avoided it in the first place

It was unnecessary and strategically foolish.
Yes, I know what FDE is good for. But it doesn't prevent or deter anyone from stealing the device, as Activation Lock does. FDE has no utility in reducing the value of a stolen device, because they can be simply reset to factory settings.
«..» Always seemed like a good solution to me, from a readability perspective. But I think many will object on account of being too hard to type (which is not unreasonable; on my Linux machine it's "Compose <<" and fairly easy; I'm not sure how hard/easy it is on Windows or macOS, but even if it's easy I think most people don't know it's easy and will still make the language harder to learn).
I have successfully negotiated my way out of non-competes and other onerous employment contract terms. Only at small- or medium-sized startups, though, not big tech. In general the bigger the company, the less willing legal is to play ball. I suspect going for rather senior roles helps, too.
Palantir, not a big tech giant, but a tech giant for sure.
Thanks for that. My thought is probably just semantics then.

I think it's even more nuanced, but doesn't really matter for this type of post.

(I am actively writing a chapter exploring this topic, so is has been top of mind.)
does it need a js engine though?
The Collapse of the USSR in Pictures
Good thing I didn't say anything about the vendor locking the phone is the only way. Apple designed their system and yes, they do have control. It's also a good thing that Apple has delegated the ability for you to lock/unlock your own phone when you want.
Microsoft was big into C++ then.

C++ was terrible at cross-plaform (incompatible support for language futures across compiler), which was a deal breaker for many orgs.
According my HR department, this could be the way back to cover letters! I am told the vast majority of applicants no longer send cover letters at all (the vast majority of candidates they send to me only have resumes, so in my experience this has been true). The few that still do tend to stand out.
The law doesn't care about paywalls, and neither do AI companies.

ChatGPT is trained with content behind paywalls.
Yeah, as far as electronic music goes, maybe people don't realize just how good (and automated) the current tools are. And have been for years.
I'm fairly confident that at the pinnacles of most fields there will be desktop-looking machines in use for a while. I don't see engineers analyzing fluid dynamics simulations and designing jet turbines on a cell phone. Even if the cell phones of 2045 are as powerful as the most badass workstation of today. The UI matters.

Aside: I love the term 'old fogey'. Because I think if you recognize that term these days... you've now become the old fogey.
Exactly. the owners go bankrupt. It's auctioned for a present price that looks like a bond of it's future cashflows.

This is why rent doesn't always track purchase prices. People who bought a long time ago, or are picking up distressed assets have a lower capital base than those who bought recently or at peak prices. Because they have a lower capital base they only need to compete with, on a risk adjusted basis, with other recurring revenue investments (like bonds).

Now, because bond rates have sky rocketed recently, that means the value of the buildings has plummeted (remember risk adjusting).

If a building value has plummeted, and it's vacant, the owner has a good chance, potentially an incentive to just walk away from it.
> A lot of it is also they like having the capability of picking up the phone and getting someone to prioritize / look at an issue they care about.

Good luck trying to get any large software vendor to do that.
now you can have a whole office just to park bikes in
> knowledge databases like Wolfram Alpha

Isn't that where ChatGPT would actually be worse overall? It's been shown to give semi-accurate data very often while sounding very confident about it.

When people require precise answers and it gives almost correct answer, it seems the general feeling is of amazement. I don't share that feeling. I hope nobody is using it for serious work without a human vetting the output.
The GP also specifically proposes some institution which can grant you access to your Google account if you are locked out "unfairly." Besides the weasel word "unfairly," that means the government gets to determine who can access your Google account. Adding in "unfairly" implies that your access to digital accounts depends on a politician's notion of what it means to "fairly" lock you out of an account, and I guarantee you that, in the fullness of time, that will come to include political dissidence.
"no one" is a bit of an overstatement.

If I run a quick search on PubMed, there are a handful focused on cognitive enhancement and other effects on healthy brains, e.g. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35366192/
I've never refused, but I do always outline the (usually low four figure) cost in time and legal expenses required to review the contract. I close by explaining that I cannot in good faith enter into an ostensibly binding contract without some form of consideration from my counter-party because such a contract would be difficult to enforce in any case.

HR never knows what to do and usually just never gets around to replying to the email.
Great promise for the development of last-resort antibiotics
> And then you also must consider the natural background rate of radioactivity across that enormous area. Crank your sensitivity up too high to gain range and you might just detect radon or potassium, or whatever else is out there decaying.

Yeah. I would think they'd look for localized "spikes", then follow that up with an on-the-ground search. They don't need to eliminate all false positives.

My idea is to have multiple Geiger counters spread across a 10+ meter pole. Since what they're looking for is small and localized, they could control for varying natural radiation by looking for a spikes that don't affect all the sensors equally.
Professional website, nice. Can I use this to overcome some scaling/dev ops problems? E.g. I have a list of errors a number of users experience, but are tricky for my team to act on when we have a lot of customer support to do etc.

And... Is your end goal the same Ubers once was - to replace all task-definable blocks of work - eventually, with an overarching ChatGPT kind of code-writing AI? If not, don't you think somebody else will do that within a couple of years?
So? Are they(and/or their owners) quitting RISC-V "board"?
Anecdotal experience: I was taking an SNRI medication, and when I tried an omega-3 supplement it gave me those unmistakeable brain zaps you get when weaning off of antidepressants. So it definitely did something to my brain!

By the way, paradoxically, people discontinuing antidepressants usually take omega-3 hoping that it will lessen their brain zaps...
dope, can it queue up weird al? I am curious how generative would work at coming up with parody
Run on number one. That’s the mandate. A safe and clean city. It requires homeless solutions and better schools to achieve.
In this particular instance, the threat actor behind the attack exploited an admin vulnerability in the company's website.
Saying middle of the road shit and adding bullshit sounds like every politician.
> thieves have learned that stealing Macs is useless, while other laptops have clear re-sale value

thieves have also learned that the only easily re-sellable laptops are the $200 brandless stuff bought on Aliplay, that are probably not worth it.

every brand laptop today can be registered, has some form of "find my laptop" and supports encrypted filesystems

Macs aren't good only for re-sale, but also for spare parts and/or raw materials.

Nobody would steal a Trabant over a BMW just because the BMW has more sophisticated security.

Thieves are able to learn new tricks too.
Exactly. Can you explain it humans? No, yet you assume they're conscious.
In animals? No, yet you assume they're conscious, while acknowledging their "consciousness" is vastly different than humans. Same reasoning applies with AIs.
Great app, so great that I have reused an huge part of the code base in Arrianna. A KDE/Qt epub reader: https://invent.kde.org/graphics/arianna (the readme is currently empty as I am polishing the library feature)
> "...At the same time, a part of me feels art has no place being motivated by money anyway. Perhaps this change will restore the balance. Artists will need to get real jobs again like the rest of us and fund their art as a side project..."

I seems to be missed on your comment, the AI will take on the real job first. The real job you were planning to reserve as survival means for the artist... are we not all now, creatives out of a job and without a backup plan?
Apple wants everyone to create ‘Reality Pro’ headset apps using Siri
Unemployment is at record lows, and people keep graduating from school every year.
That's like saying, "it's dishonorable to agree to a contract to kill someone knowing full well such a contract isn't enforceable."

If one party holds all the cards in a contract negotiation it's never truly being negotiated in good faith in the first place. Furthermore, one could argue that without having an expert on contract law right then and there available to answer any questions about any given contract means it falls under a "lack of capacity" for basically anyone who isn't a lawyer.

Employee agreements often fail in courts because of:

- Duress
- Lack of capacity (e.g. due to overly complicated legalese *specifically written to be hard to understand*)
- Undue influence (e.g. company says they'll hire someone else if you ask to get the contract reviewed by a lawyer before signing)
- Misrepresentation (e.g. job was described as "X" but turns out it's "Y")
- Non-disclosure (e.g. candidate was not told job would require purchasing products or services sold by the company itself or a partner)
- Unconscionability (e.g. some term or terms in the contract are so unfair that it cannot be allowed to stand... Like a non-compete that says you can't work within 50 miles of your former place of employment if you leave)

The "usual one" is unconscionability: Employers have unfair bargaining power almost all of the time and judges and juries are easy to convince of this. Also, these sorts of things don't usually make it to court unless there's something ridiculous in the contract. What's interesting is there usually is something ridiculous in every employee contract. It's just that those ridiculous things aren't usually the part of the contract a company is trying to enforce so they don't come up as often.
This perspective completely evades the actual argument which was that practices behave this way because they're extending access to their client base which is a resource they cultivated themselves and which will almost certainly yield a following the the new applicant.
How very gracious of Air Canada to help out those in need. /s
A bleak and featureless landscape haunted by ragged aimless children and the distant sound of weeping.
> All signs point to this strengthening the value of curation and authenticated sources.

This is what they said about Wikipedia viz. Britannica… alas, it’s a brave new world out there… nowhere to run to nowhere to hide, see that Wiezenbaum post also on the homepage now, as another commenter quotes[0]:

> Writing of the enthusiastic embrace of a fully computerized world, Weizenbaum grumbled, “These people see the technical apparatus underlying Orwell’s 1984 and, like children on seeing the beach, they run for it”

> a point to which Weizenbaum added “I wish it were their private excursion, but they demand that we all come along.”

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34546689
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