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> Hacker news is still insulated enough that overly simplistic comments will down voted regardless of ideologically alignment.

I think there is always some bias, regardless of perceived insulation from external influence. I'm guessing HN attracts entrepreneurial types and Joe Rogan is well-liked by male entrepreneurs.
Very much agree. Even the pacing of :30-:45 was very Lee Pace to me
Their app sucks for podcasts. That's where they went wrong. I stopped listening to several podcasts that went Spotify-only because their desktop app is so bad that it does not have an option to notify you of new episodes. That's ridiculous.
> Framework has a pro-Linux stance by providing direct documentation ..

They didn't do any work yet. It doesn't look like there is anyone at Framework working on Linux issues.
And Biden and Buttigieg didn’t make it a priority to re-implement the law while they had control of both houses, and instead shoved an unfair contract down railroad workers throats.
> Anyone else see the irony there? Without middlemen? Spotify was trying to cement itself as the middleman in as much podcasting as possible, right? Or maybe it's not irony, it's exactly that, Spotify saw a space without middleman and thus an opportunity to lock itself in as the middleman.

We're talking different levels of middlemen. Spotify is a middleman in music too, but upstream there are rights agencies and record labels with a lot of experience generating lots of revenue from lots of established distribution channels (and taking cuts of the cash for doing it). Not only do they want their cut of the revenue, but in general they simply won't do exclusivity deals.

With podcasts, Spotify potentially deal direct with the team making the podcast, who might see a big chunk of cash for exclusivity straight into their pockets as very attractive compared with doing extra work to distribute on lots of platforms of unknown future value.
I think any reasonable C++ programmer should expect that adding two 16 bit uints of values 50000 will be greater than what a 16bit uint can hold and will overflow.
I've tried using Spotify for podcasts, but the UI is abysmal. Simple features like the ability to play a single podcast without autoplaying the next are not available.
An interesting idea, but QUIC / HTTP/3 also avoids the extra RTT for TLS negotiation by bundling it with the connection handshake and in a less janky way than this. I don't see a good reason for a server or browser developer to implement this when QUIC exists.
There's a weird font-rendering bug on this site that causes the text in the code blocks to be unreadable unless you highlight it with your mouse. If you enable Javascript, it seems to fix it.

Not sure if the author is reading this thread, but it's something you may find worth investigating fixing.
> It's a lot easier to be callous towards pixels on a screen

What altitude do you think these payloads are dropped from? The targets are pixels on a screen regardless. I think the issue you raised is worth talking about but I think it's orthogonal to the AI issue. The AI kill/no-kill issue can be mitigated via process. Reviews, shorter "deployment", rotations, etc. We aren't creating AI systems to fight Taliban, it's for a future war where real tangible peer threats can touch you. How would you process away or mitigate the scared young grunt or pilot who are facing death?

I'm advocating for humans remaining in the loop btw.
if this is what it took to get two large multinational automakers to capitulate to basic theft immobilization in their vehicles to protect customers, perhaps we should reconsider the 'tiktok is objective evil' narrative.
EVs will be cheaper in 2035. It is more than 10 years from today.

Look at how much batteries have fallen in price in the past 10 years: https://www.statista.com/chart/23807/lithium-ion-battery-pri...
Not everyone agrees with this characterization, including some well known (now former) C developers: http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/09/18/falling-in-love-with-...
As recently as 2015 I was advising people that if you finish your work too early to go home, you should spend your time on updating our docs, defragging your hard drive, and reading the docs for your tools (eg, learning keyboard shortcuts or optional flags).

Defragging is one of those clear cases for time shifting things from your high value time to your low value time.
There was more to the Bard issues than this. The live Paris demo in which the demo phone couldn't be found live on stage (!!) is one of the worst large scale public presentations I've seen in a while, like Tesla Cybertruck window smash bad. At least the Cybertruck was there though!

There were really two big mistakes Google made in the unveil - the incorrect result and the "missing" phone. The latter is wild for a Google sized org, imagine if Apple didn't have an iPad or iPhone on hand to demo a next generation iOS feature at a public keynote in front of the media. I'd love to know what the real story behind the lost demo phone is.

This all adds up to look like a rushed response, which of course it was.

> https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/in-pa...
Q: Which part of "suprises and mistakes" is covered in this announcement text?

A: "Our teams are working to address issues such as misinformation"

Q: Also, user feedback is not going to improve the LM behavior.

A: finalModel = prospectiveModels.sort(m => m.averageUserFeedback)[0]

(Not the exact implementation, obviously. But if you think data can't improve AI models... I don't know what to say)
Totally ignoring all recalls car companies are legally required to do, aka those recalls in which the companies have no say in whatsoever. It makes for a good dialogue in a movie so.
Agreed! I switched from Spotify to Deezer one year ago.

The UX getting more and more clunky due to the podcast push really soured me, but the fact that part of my monthly subscription went to fund that person was what got me to click on the cancel button.

The switch to Deezer was really positive: the Flow auto-generated playlist is a lot more relevant to me than the Spotify weekly mixes.
Yeah I guess we ahould go from one extreme to the other and totally forget all the biochemistry and public knowledge of drugs we've accumulated in the last 100 years.

As to working the baseline efficacy benchmark is 30%. Not really a stunning number considering it has already been selected as a remedy for something specific at that point. Curatives aren't marketable when profit motive of stakeholders is involved.

Big pharma peddles snake oil, too, by the way. Serotonin theory is becoming increasingly unpopular and SSRIs are looking increasingly dangerous as a clinical proposition, and they're frequently misused in clinical settings. Despite all of that they're taken by 13% of Americans, and the trend points towards an increasing number. Lest we forget: the pretension of safety Pharma acts under has been dangerous in many instances.

There's plenty of ethnogenic compounds that smack against your theory, too, by the way. In any case, to my knowledge, most of these "drugs" are derivative from known-active compounds, altered then patented (sometimes finding better therapeutic doses, lower toxicity, better dose response). At this point the laborious search is relatively smaller. Not to mention it's currently being offset to molecular dynamics which allows us to engineer hypothetical molecules against simulated proteins including those that are dysfunctional as well as model pathways for synthesis.

AZ Molecular Dynamics: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yNGS_mv1-94
> With both companies having an almost absurdly good track record of execution.

Musk has consistently produced the wrong numbers. Some examples (and there are many, many more):

Number of teslas in 2018? Musk: 500k Actual: 35K

Tesla base price objective, 2016: Musk $35k Actual: Much more

Self Driving Cross Country Trip: Musk: in 2017 Actual: NaN

Financing Rounds: Musk (2011) "We will never need another financing round" Actual: there were many more

Supercharging cost: Musk (2013) "Always free" Actual: Definitely not free

Tesla Semis Production Line Date: Musk: "2019" Actual: Not yet happened

Gigafactory placement: Musk (2017) "Two to four more" Actual: Only one operational

Hyperloop NY-Phil-Balt-DC: Musk (2017) "I have verbal approval, 29 minutes NY-DC" Actual: This appears to be made up

Mars Missions: Musk: "Every launch window from 2024 onward" Actual: TBD, maybe 2029?

Neurallink: Musk: "Human trials in 2021" Actual: "Lots of dead monkeys"

Covid-19 Ventilators: Musk "Our factories will produce them" Actual: Musk sent 1,000 cpap machines

Updated Tesla Roadster: Musk: "It exists!" Actual: "It doesn't"

There are so, so so many more of these. There's nothing remotely close to an "absurdly good track record". SpaceX is doing well because of Shotwell, not Musk, and Tesla has been plagued with build quality and recall issues from day 1. (To say nothing of absurd repair costs and issues with FSD.)
(Re)introducing Yakread: a smart newsletter reading app
Yeah that freezing bug is pretty annoying. I’m running pop 22.04 and I’m overall pleased with the purchase after using it for the last month. I find that I seem to get less of that freeze problem if I don’t put it to sleep, but rather shut it down completely (which also saves battery life). It boots so quickly that I don’t mind.

Great machine overall—if they can fix a few little bugs it will be pretty much perfect.
"Deliver value to the shareholders" is an outcome, not an action.

How a CEO delivers value is generally by running the company well, making the right decisions, hiring the right people, making sure the company has the right product vision, etc.

If the customers aren't happy, they will buy fewer products and revenue will decline. Since a large portion of a company's stock price is connected to expectations about future earnings, that will put downward pressure on the stock and hurt the shareholders.
I think it is still a good heuristic that most people should follow.

Step 1: do I need to have an informed opinion

Step 2: Do I need that opinion NOW

Step 3: WHAT do I need to know NOW

There is a vast amount of conspiracy theorizing that people could avoid by following this approach.
> Employee and customer happiness has nothing to do with CEO performance.

Nonsense. Customer happiness, employee happiness and company performance are all related.

I used to be a Google shareholder. I got a good return for a while, but eventually I got annoyed enough as a Google customer that I decided that I didn't want to hold Google stock. This was partly emotional, and partly a prediction that their stock price was going to plateau or fall given that they were alienating their users. This seems to have been the correct decision.

> A CEO's sole responsibility is to deliver value to the shareholders. It literally doesn't matter how that value is delivered, as long as it gets delivered.

It literally does matter, because shareholders are not automatons. A lot of the economy runs on confidence. Investments aren't just made on short-term economic performance.
> preparing for a full orbital test

Rocket delays are inevitable. But since you mentioned New Glenn's perpetual delays, let's also be fair and note that Starship's orbital test has been teased by Elon for quite awhile now [0]. I happen to think an April/May launch is possible, but we'll see. And also good to note that this is still very much a "pathfinder" vehicle, in SpaceX's style of iterative design & test. So not at all the same as whenever New Glenn's first launch will be.

[0] https://twitter.com/ESGhound/status/1622680306342891536
Really cool - the stuff they are doing with the Excel API to inspect editing modes is super interesting: https://www.sharpcells.com/docs/blog/monitoring-edit-mode

I work with data warehouses, but I'm really jealous of the way our Finance team uses some abysmal plugin to directly query our GL from inside Excel - building something like that the can make the contents of a modern data warehouse available to Excel users has always been a holy grail for me.

My hunch is that exposing free-form SQL in Excel doesn't work, but something more like structured metrics (something roughly like dbt metrics) could potentially work? And tooling like this is probably what I'd want to prototype with.
> If you don't want to rent your property you should sell it to someone who is.

What if I'm old and don't want the hassle of renters OR perhaps my house is not in a condition that it can be rented without substantial investment in fixing it which I can't afford right now OR am just keeping the house to sell later to pay for my retirement or to give to my kids as inheritance OR any number of reasons.

I shouldn't be forced to pay a tax on top of the property tax nor should I be forced to sell it.
I used to listen podcasts on the Apple Podcast app but then I tried to listen to the same podcasts in Spotify and the audio quality was so much better. Anyone else felt the same? I mainly listen to Lex Fridman
Lower quality of search mean more ad clicks. I believe the quality decrease is on purpose.
My suspicion is that most of the people that feel it is getting worse either a) hate ads or b) don't realize they do harder searches than what they used to do.

I'm fully aligned on hating ads. It is silly how the top results are all sponsored. Curated, I would like. Sponsored? Not so much.
> The feature is standard equipment on nearly all vehicles from the same period made by other manufacturers.

Even worse, that feature has been pretty common on mainstream vehicles since the 90s.
> those old cars will require testing and modifications (as is already the case).

No they don't, that's not the case. Example: Skoda Octavia 1 TDI does not have DPF and nobody is retrofitting DPFs into those cars.
So, instead of writing “git commit -a -m ‘oops’” I can simply make another alias called “aicommit” to do it for me?
> What languages should they steer away from?

In my experience, it's less that there's specific languages to avoid, and more that there's a general baseline of unpleasantness on the internet towards those folk. As a result, they tend to steer towards the islands where that doesn't occur.
I think that depends on your lifestyle. Specifically, for how much of your day/week are podcasts the only viable form of media? While driving a car, there's a very limited amount of Reddit that can be read or TikToks that can be watched. If your lifestyle doesn't include long stretches of drive time, or the radio's sufficiently interesting for you, then you've never needed podcasts as a source of entertainment.
We could debate security daemons until our minds bleed, but.. man, I wish that all didn't happen.
As OP notes, people who are not in their target market select themselves out since they do not see the value of contacting sales (while those who are enterprise are likely to be in the target market have no problem contacting sales). Thus no time is wasted. At worst, they have false negatives instead of false positives, but that can be ameliorate with outbound sales rather than waiting for people to contact them inbound.
Gigapresses – the die casts reshaping car manufacturing
Tesla workers launch unionization campaign in New York
The EPA has absolutely nothing to do with Flint.
they will because like so offen perfection and accidental consequences matter less then "have the new tech" for both the companies and parts of the users

most important while both AIs get sometimes very important and fundamental things wrong they do get enough right to be of help in some tasks to be of a lot of help
In the case of Uber, I think it's more likely that someone who's used their ride service may be interested in ordering food than it would be for someone who's used Spotify for music to be interested in podcasts.

I do think you're right that more subtle nudges are probably fine. Some might begrudge them but such promotions are a lot more tolerable than directly pulling an entirely separate app into your existing app and then placing the newly imported bits in the spotlight.
ChatPlus, a Chrome extension that enhances Rumble chat
What burning process? There is heating without burning in this process (and in fact, most of the things being melted are oxides and the energy is used to pull oxygen off of the iron and silicon.)

It's electrical heating, not coal fire heating, which requires no oxygen.
Why is this a subscription?
My personal take on things is that we're far closer to von Neumann probe level technology than anyone seems to be aware of, and we're just sort of sleep walking into a crazy new future.

I wish more people on HN would talk about von Nuemann probes and things like seed factories[0] instead of smartphone apps and people pooping on the streets of San Francisco.

[0] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Seed_Factories
Not really. It has nothing to do with console idea or form factor, it's just how these messed up companies are "designed" in using anti-competitive methods. See Steam Deck which uses Vulkan just fine.

There is absolutely lock-in in MS and Sony's approaches. There is no inherent need in it just becasue it's a console.
AWS provides an invoice structure that accountants understand how to navigate. Open Source mostly doesn't.

I know this is why some of the "contribution bundling" approaches seem to have good merit for big Enterprise that treat Open Source a bit like a "stock portfolio" and bundle a number of open source sponsorships into a single invoice that you can present to upper management as "IT says we need to pay this bill each month because it somehow helps keep all the software lights on" without needing to get into the specifics of which software does what or how much you rely on it (or the complexity of your dependency trees).

I've heard it's a priority for parts of GitHub to make such "automated open source sponsorship bundles" easier to sell to upper management and smarter in how they manage their funds for the good of the open source community and wish them luck in those endeavors.
The title of the article is actually, "How Rust went from a side project to the world’s most-loved programming language" .. which is so annoying.

"Most-loved" cannot be measured, it's so subjective. Why couldn't they have just said, "fastest growing" or something else? Does everything from media have to be designed to grab eyes, even out of the MIT Technology Review for godssake?
I bet you these developers can rotate the shit out of a red/black tree though! Thanks LeetCode-centered hiring processes!
Isn't it basically Shotwell at he helm right now? Sure, Elon is the one giving factory tours, being visionary and playing a big role in R&D, but internally Shotwell seems to do everything you would expect from a CEO.

Maybe you could argue who's more in charge of strategic direction at SpaceX, but on the other hand SpaceX seems to be doing great in that division.
Would they? Surely they could also contract on other carriers?
Do you really need a law?

Tell me something - would you buy a Kia or Hyundai after reading this?

You don't need a law, you need journalism.
Fair point, but from what I've read the preliminary cause identified pertains to an axle (not braking) issue?
It's certainty a fitting username for somebody who thinks the government should keep people in the dark.

> "In general, there's no particular need to make the list of chemicals public."
Everyone in this thread replying to npalli gets it. I am getting more and more skilled in using it everyday. I feel like I have a third lobe of my brain.

There are largely three groups of people

1) ChatWhat?

2) It only makes bullshit!

3) OMG, this amazing, and scary and amazing, and useful. Oh wow...
So, leave the choice to the user. If I want to read text in a small column, I can easily resize my window. Don't try to force one way.
Unless (like during communism in my country) you don't have money on a new car, so you are keeping 20-30 years old car running by self-maintaining it every weekend.
Where did you go to school that you didn't know email, excel, and presenting? These should be standard in just about any college and most high schools today.
Self driving cars are supposed to drive themselves. That's their entire goal.

LLMs are not supposed to answer knowledge questions. They are not knowledge bases. The fact that everybody, including their developers insist on using them that way is just absurd. Are we in a Kafka novel?

That's the equivalent to complaining that the self driving cars you rented didn't deploy your marketing message effectively, so their AI must be bonkers.
Sure, but it's a little more complicated than that. A 2015 act of Congress mandated that the Department of Transportation repeal the braking requirement if an analysis showed more costs than benefits. The act was mostly to address high profile oil tanker derailments, shipments which peaked around 2014. The Trump administration concluded, probably mistakenly, that an cost-benefit analysis justified it revocation. Of course there was much lobbying by the railroad and oil industries.

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg’s department has no plans to reinstate an Obama-era rail safety rule aimed at expanding the use of better braking technology, even though a former federal safety official recently warned Congress that without the better brakes.

The Biden administration has had every opportunity to reinstate the safety rule in the past two years.

https://www.sltrib.com/news/nation-world/2018/12/20/trump-ad...

https://jacobin.com/2023/02/department-of-transportation-tra...
> You can't just find a way to do something 10x faster and expect others to flock to it.

I have learned this the hard way. People are generally loss averse and resistant to change so making things better is often an uphill struggle.

As an example, I have worked on improving a build tool that is notoriously loathed in part for its poor performance. Part of the problem was that it was a jvm based tool and the jvm has terrible startup performance when loading lots of library code (the tool also made it easy to bring in dependencies so even small projects would often pull in massive amounts of vendor code). The only way to get a reasonably tight feedback loop under those constraints is to run tests in a persistent jvm process that can reuse the loaded classes from prior runs. The difference between using a cached jvm and a fresh jvm could easily be the difference between your tests running in tens of milliseconds or multiple seconds. I produced benchmarks that proved this.

But one problem is that any resource leaks in your code or the vendor code will eventually cause the jvm to run out of memory (which often would be a slow process of gradually degrading performance). For this and other reasons, people would often opt out of the in-process test running and fork a fresh jvm with each test run even though it could easily cost them hours of time over the course of a week. The problem was that using the in-process runner required stronger programming discipline. My claim was that code that could reliably run inside of the build tool without resource leaks is more desirable than code that cannot. It is also not particularly more difficult to write, but it does require skill and discipline. There was no tool to statically detect resource leaks so the burden does fall on the individual programmer. It was an exercise in frustration to try and explain the value proposition and argue with people with very different priorities from me so I walked away from the project but to this day it saddens me how much time is being sacrificed to the altar of poor programming discipline.
That was the main reason I switched to Apple Music.
Well open source developers seem allergic to making profit and Microsoft is a for profit business, so I don’t think it’s a big surprises which market they are targeting.
Works for me with JS disabled, unless the author fixed it in the two minutes since you posted your comment. Code blocks have:

style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4"

... in the HTML itself.