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> The reason they do it is because it's still cheaper and more efficient than the alternative.

There's actually a different reason they don't do it: Reusable containers make for a difficult business plan, because it's the reverse of a new-customer discount if you have to charge for the reusable container.

This makes it tough to, for example, start a takeaway using reusable stainless steel containers.
Hahah - look at those downvotes.

Just to reiterate; it’s a software update. You can FUD as much as you want.
> Hersh was first who brought these two stories to light.

Yes, but critically, also not the last. Other journalists corroborated, more sources came forward, evidence, hearings, photographs, convictions.
It was a series of 5 books.

I dont recall which book it was in. but it was discussed in detail.
Clearly i should have added more words as I thought it was obvious I was just comparing projectile vs target; ie, just because an object is small or light doesn't mean it can't cause significant damage, and we don't have a lot of research into it.

If it penetrates the wing, can it hit the fuel tank?

And 6lb of metal hits different than 6lb of goose, depending on what it hits. Hail can destroy a radome.
Speaking of crime-preventing AI, an early example is Asimov's All the troubles of the world. Has anyone asked, “Bing, what do you yourself want more than anything else?”
Reading through the comments the audience seems very split between lovers and haters.

At the end Susan managed to have a product on the market that was number 1 in its category, created revenue and has survived for so long. I think she deserve a fair amount of respect and acknowledgement, ad I have not seen any other platform with that track record (yep no time for envy, just hard facts).
Or alcohol ads when you have given up the juice.
Is it because they shoot their 'i' out?
This just a few days before the much anticipated 'v11' software release...

V11 supposedly uses neural nets for deciding the driving path and speed (rather than hand coded C++ rules).
In that story, his expert sources also confused the chemicals used in pesticides with those used in fertilizers.
Obtaining an amateur radio licence in the UK is fairly trivial. The courses and exams are administered by volunteers so the hardest part is finding availability to align with your schedule. COVID really helped because it became possible to take the exams online.

There are 3 levels, Foundation through to Full which come with different privileges. You can achieve a lot with the basic Foundation.

In terms of airborne transmitting - yes the UK is an outlier. It is forbidden to make amateur radio transmissions in the air over the UK, or use a UK licence to do so anywhere I think. The key word here is amateur - so specifically on those bands and with that licence. I think the ISM bands would be fine - and there are balloon projects and clubs in the UK.

I have a Finnish amateur licence in parallel and that doesn't have this restriction but naturally it would still not be allowed to use it to transmit from an aircraft over the UK. And even if it were to be elsewhere there are still some rules surrounding that, and it's hopefully obvious that you need permission of whoever's in charge of the aircraft.
Get used to it. We are entering into an era when using full stops at the end of sentences is no longer appropriate; it is considered curt and rude (and potentially "cheugy"? still don't know if that word is an actual thing) among the young set to do so.
This is one of those old school things I missed when I moved from Microsoft to Google, another being having a private office. (Though Microsoft is switching to open plan offices as well as a cost saving measure.)

The Microsoft library had tons of books, subscriptions to scholarly journals, and made it easy to order new books.
> Ever since then I have not understood why most distros don't switch to this setup

I still use GRUB because IIRC my Gigabyte motherboard kept forgetting entries and/or associated settings.
Most health claims about infant formula have no scientific basis
I live in a county with almost 100k homeless people, and I pay another $1 a month on my renters insurance policy (itself around $12) to insure the bike with no deductable. It really is cheap if you use renters or homeowners insurance. I'm sure many of those "bike specific" insurance policies nickel and dime since the pool is probably a lot smaller.
Indeed! I'm not saying women are necessarily better at desk work, only that those who did it before have the necessary experience and office habits. But most got fired after the change-over.
>I'm not convinced at this point that conversational AI fills any legitimate use cases. \

There's tons of use cases. One of the use cases is definitely NOT startlingly accurate citations. But you're delusional if you think there isn't any use cases.
I'm more saying we'd let the private market do it's thing, but then once we realize there's some core needs - search, basic social media, forums, etc - then we can make a public alternative that's free to access and run by the people instead of a private company that has to prioritize profits
I don’t understand this. Are they assuming everyone reporting a theft stole the bike they’re reporting in the first place? Even if that was the case, who in their right mind would admit it on a police report?
I would imagine v11 will be cancelled or at least massively delayed to deal with this recall...
> A ChatGPT-style AI that can only reply with links to reference docs, libraries, or wikipedia articles

This is exactly what we've built at Inngest so that you can learn our SDK: https://www.inngest.com/ai-personalized-documentation.

It can only reply with SDK examples, an explanation, and links to relevant guides. Soon, we're revamping our docs to highlight sections relevant only to your use case - you'll be able to type what you want to do with Inngest and be pointed straight to the relevant guides and docs.

We trust developers to write the code, and only use GPT to assist and point the right way. It's a good compromise, and it's the most immediately applicable use that I can see!
> As for why? I really have no clue. But they still work extremely well.

I've found Google to be significantly less useful than it used to be. Largely because I have to jump through hoops to convince it to show me what I'm actually looking for. ChatGPT is already much better often enough that it can turn 20+ minutes of faffing about with Google into one minute or less of just asking for what I want and getting it.

Yeah, it's wrong sometimes, but it still manages to point me in the right direction often enough to be worth the need for extra vigilance
It was my point, and i thought it was clear enough that it was just a comparison of projectile to target, and the damage a tiny object can cause; I should have added more words, maybe. Most at NASA thought that the foam couldn't have damaged the spacecraft, and they were wrong.

If a drone penetrates the wing, we don't really know if it can make it to the fuel tank when it hits at 500...
Yeah, this was my one concern with the setup. But to be fair, it's not a flaw with efistub, it's a flaw with the kernel update logic in arch. I manually added an entry for a known good configuration which I periodically updated manually, but I know of no reason why the kernel update logic couldn't do that for me like it does in grub. And as a fallback you can install a UEFI shell option to boot into which works in emergencies.
Having never seen it, I have no context for which details were left out or bent to fit the narrative, but this still feels amazing. Well-earned sunglasses
> literally all over the company

Why? The design is locked in, the manufacturing doesn't change, you don't need the designers to do much... I would expect you need a handful of people, half of which are lawyers.

> Also, they don't really have an inattentive to do that, so why should they.

I'm pretty sure almost all Tesla owners would like the ability to stop looking at the road some of the time. That amount of customer satisfaction is not a motivation for the company?
I've seen implementations of this trend in Switzerland at natural markets - I wouldn't exactly call it "zero waste", but some shops are catering to customers who aspire to be more environmentally conscious. For example, products that keep well, e.g. olive oil, liquid shampoo and conditioner are available in taps, and customers can bring their mason jars or the like. Paper or compostable bags for the produce. Grains / nuts available by weight like in old school co-op groceries.

I don't think zero waste is feasible for the entire product mix, and we can always wonder what's happening higher up in the supply chain, but some customers definitely enjoy dealing with less waste and will prefer to shop in a store that facilitates this.
It's a straight up nightmare to move email providers. Especially if you have an office environment built around GDocs, Gmail and trying to get people to move to Office365.
Oh hey, bullying companies with threats of antitrust works. We should do that more often.

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This is a really big deal, but it's also a little bittersweet, because Push Notifications very heavily motivate developers to introduce serverside components to apps that don't need them. Web Push is a standard where I can really see Google's influence, and I think it influenced the standard for the worse. It's a standard built around the way that Google and large companies build products, it's not built around indie development or hobby projects.

You can send a notification to whatever server is registered and it gets delivered to the phone, great. In contrast, there is no way for a PWA (unless something has changed since I last looked, in which case PLEASE tell me) to schedule a notification for the future without contacting a server. It's a bad direction to go for PWAs, given that the whole point is for them to be able to work offline.

And yes, sometimes you do need a serverside connection for things like message notifications, but there are a lot of uses for notifications where you know upfront what the notification needs to say and when it needs to be shown -- and that's not supported. In my opinion because Google doesn't really think about that kind of architecture and the idea that you wouldn't contact a server alongside every user action is foreign to them.

There was effort for a while to get offline alarms, scheduled notifications, even scheduled actions working through web workers, but as far as I know that stuff has all died off. It stinks, because I regularly run into scenarios where I could probably flat-out replace an app on my phone with a website, and I can't even on Android, because I'm unwilling to set up an account system and start tracking a bunch of data. I'm happy we have something, but I'm still remembering the parallel world we lost, where it would have been possible to have a much broader push towards completely offline PWAs that never transmitted user data anywhere. The idea of being able to replace native apps with a static Netlify page is very appealing to me.

And maybe that'll change? But I'm not holding my breath; it seems like a lot of companies have decided that push notifications are good enough and that they were going to require user accounts anyway.
That's why I started https://rational.app

We are currently building it and will be rolling it out to our 10 million users around the world in a few months.

If anyone wants to be involved, you can contact me by filling out the form on the bottom.
Was it anything like the "Don Years" in the Whitehouse? I swear the guy has ADHD or something very similar. Almost everyone who ever worked for him and talked has stories.
Would it have a negative impact on the businesses who promote those videos?

Yes.

If it's a negative impact on the businesses who promote videos, how can you say your idea doesn't impact content creators?
Propaganda is not something that happens to other people. It is happening to you now. It is in the movies, tv, and mass media. CNN, FOX News, MSNBC, OANN. They Are their own palatable version to their own captured audience. Each viewer believe the opposing political network is the one with crazy propagandized viewers. They are emotional manipulators. The music, colors, graphics, tone and speech are to mislead. Try watching the news on mute and think what you are not feeling and supposed to feel. Do it for a week. 9 hours of news on mute see the opposite side from your believes too. You will be surprised what you will find.
Does anyone outside of it want that either.

We know that decentralization and redundancy have massive advantages in systems. Yet we (or at least - rich investors and CEOs and similar) also want to get rid of it in favor of centralized riches.

The financialization of everything, with the drive to concentrate profits into fewer and fewer extremely-big winners, instead of having an organic ecosystem of research, production, and development, is very fragile, all for the benefit of a fairly small few at the very top.
The Parallels desktop experience is shockingly well-accelerated. I played 1440p video from YouTube in a Microsoft Edge window (not in full-screen though) and didn't notice any appearance of dropped frames. Animations in Windows are smoother than they are on my 8th Gen Core i3 desktop.

As for full-blown Visual Studio, there is an ARM version now with most (but not all) workloads available. YMMV if you rely on those unavailable workloads or if you have x86/x64 DLLs in your project, but this has improved substantially I believe with Windows 11 ARM now supporting 64-bit/x64 translation (whereas Windows 10 ARM only supported 32-bit/x86 officially outside of Insider previews).
I suspect objects "in orbit" are some of the easiest objects to track. Once you have a few data points, you can pretty much calculate where it will be at any given point in time. It takes a lot of energy to meaningfully alter the course of an orbiting baseball, so much so that any attempt to do so would probably result in the operator now successfully tracking a debris cloud that used to be in the form of a baseball.
Same. I am always a little surprised to read these comments. Moved from Spotify to Google Play Music to YouTube Music and never really had many issues...
Hydrogen: Does Earth hold vast stores of a renewable, carbon-free fuel?
The value in training and lessons learned from these events will likely greatly exceed the value of the materials spent.
Minor nitpick: I'm not sure having some places with 15 year old footage counts as "having streetview"
Maybe a stupid question, but what would happen if you did?

I've never had a job explicitly tell me that I could just go read, but I've done just that at multiple jobs and no one has ever said anything about it.
New release of Blue Brain Project Atlas sheds light on neuron types
What about it is dated? and is windows better?
Yeah, I'm not trying to minimize it. Rather, I'm just trying to describe what it's conceptually like at a high level.

Not requiring termination definitely seems like a good thing. Somehow they're always fiddly.
If they were all right next to where some of the chemicals leached into the water, they could experience acutely toxic levels while the concern about the eventual state of the environment stays fairly low.

Carbon dioxide will cause severe harm if you huff a paintball tank, but if you empty that same tank into a gymnasium, it's not a concern.
I_suck_and_my_tests_are_order_dependent
The HN bot took "Hidden" off the front of this headline, which in this case is probably not the right call on its part. The hidden part is important!
data in that sense can't tell you what to do at all.
The insurance you get from Tesla, which has a vested interest in its own Safety Score. It's not giving a cheaper insurance rate "due to the safe driving", it's giving a cheaper rate due to having a better score on the metrics it decided.

You see how that's circular, right. It does not mean you are a safe driver.
Lock in
I owned three Toyotas for last 7 years. I had multiple recalls but except one of them every other one was software update.

OTA updates are cool but they more complexity to the car. I like my cars to be simple and reliable instead.
Yes, writing good tests is hard.

My point is that he already has the relevant test cases. The hard work is done.
Apple has rules surrounding using push notifications for marketing uses, yes. They haven’t enforced them for a decade. Apple’s own apps are guilty of blatant rule violations. Not to say that there’s any expectation that Apple would follow their own rules. Rather that the company doesn’t see the value in following them. So. In the hypothetical universe where they still cared, sure. But we aren’t in that universe.
> Personalized Dynamic Pricing

The very idea is just revolting.
If your point is "small problems can lead to catastrophic consequences in complicated machines" then it's not helpful, because we have more specific information for planes that overrides such a generic statement.
That's really interesting to hear - I'd like to read more about their stance on this.
> OK, then the mechanism that let's websites prompts to install apps should be removed so apps are on the same level as web apps.

AFAIK, such prompts are regular HTML with links to the AppStore. If so, how do you suggest Apple make it impossible to add those to a site?
nooooo! :D
Neat, I didn't know he posted here. He's one of my favorite authors and I've read most, if not all, of his articles.

https://www.z blozek.com
> this is the same country that has the national power grid introduce "hum" (or whatever it is technically callled) in the signal so that a time reference can be decoded from it.

I don't think that's intentionally introduced. My understanding was that mains hum in any grid is an artifact of a noisy signal that just happens to be useful as a forensics fingerprint.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_hum
I find booting, grud, uefi and related technologies are one of the most complex and hard to make sense of parts of modern systems.
Everyone acting like the USAF has never scrambled jets and fired AIM9Xs before for practice... the 3 so far have been a more fun (and probably more effective) training program.

If somebody starts sending thousands...the retaliation clearly isn't going to be against the balloons, but against the sender.
mandatory HN Kagi plug
The one per cent are not as clever [brainiest, biggest-earners largely separate]
It begins the summary with "Experts say..." so already a warning sign, but this does read like satire.

If you start saying "egg-producing" instead of "female", someone who isn't egg-producing is going to insist you are being insensitive to non-egg-producing folk who identify as egg-producing.

There's no end game here except us all going full primate battle fury mode with sticks and stones.
Now they're pushing shorts, which are (in my opinion) too short to convey all the relevant info. Not sure how monetization works with shorts, since I use an adblock, but 50%+ of my subscription feed is shorts on some days and it suck (for me personally)
"affordability of transportation" ~= "the costs of the tests and long wait times"

Time off of work is a big opportunity and/or monetary cost for low income hourly employees.
> The above poster is saying that even small problems can lead to catastrophic consequences in complicated machines.

Sure, but they picked an example that's outside of this kind of aircraft's spec, so it's not clear that it's applicable. Bad examples deserve to be called out.
I think my biggest complaint about this situation is that Norfolk Southern gets to put their damn nose into the attempts to fix and remediate the situation. IMO, they should be 100% sidelined, while the EPA brings in an independent team of people who have probably done this before, and have no incentive to cheat anything, and then just hand Norfolk Southern the bill.
"Deliberately mislead" implies a level of knowing competence that does not exist in most organizations.
Other laws. Same thing that stops someone from burning down your house or robbing you. They haven't suspended all laws.
If some of the edges are infinitely sharp, and you know which ones they are by looking at them, as in my example, then it's using more than all its bandwidth at any resolution.
> but that seems like it might be a great strength, to attract a different audience?

No. It's a liability. Brands are about focusing on niche markets with common interests.

> Or maybe everything about marketing/advertising will always lean towards catering to extroverts/neurotypical people.

No. It's about being able to sell to them and promote to them. Being able to promote what you're selling is a prerequisite to being able to sell it.
I just ctrl-Fed the comment section to find that ref.
thank you ! that news enlightened my day.

the coldwar style of conflict we're living, the harmless Luftballons auf ihrem weg zu Hoziron (compared to UFOs), and the fighter pilots who're "going to look not too intelligent to be shooting them down" make it really look like that song.

now let's find out if we reach 99 luftballons, or some Dr Strangelove thing first

( a year before Nena made their song, NATO made an exercise with a plot that went all the way to using nuclear bombs _Able Archer 83_, and the Soviets almost retaliated to false warnings of ICBMs launches, that were issued by a computer that couldn't be wrong)

How far are we actually from there with China ?
People have wildly different expectations for Microsoft than they do OpenAI.

Bing chat works well for many things. In some ways it’s completely broken, and it’s never completely trustworthy. Just like ChatGPT.
Citing an article or publication in rebuttal would be a more productive way to make this critique..
Why would it, though? If you're the sort who puts your phone into a faraday cage, you're not the sort who will install an app from the stores.
Library Science sounds fascinating. I always assumed you master dewey decimal and you collect your certificate as a librarian. What other (broad) topics does such a degree cover?
All of those things are true, and yet, that's how a lot of software is built in practice because it still ends up "close enough". The market has shown that this is acceptable in a whole lot of domains

I'm not saying I like it, I'm saying it's the reality
At that scale, a change to true mass production of ordnance would occur, significantly reducing the price per piece.
We switched from Google to Zoho Workspace last year once they threatened to stop support to the "legacy" users. Comparable service and much less expensive.
I have an airtag on mine but I’m not super convinced it will make a difference:

- whenever I pick up the bike to ride it after a long period of not using it (say overnight or after a day of work), the airtag starts ringing. I don’t know why it does that but it would for sure tip the thief off

- don’t iPhones and maybe androids now show some kind of notification and offer to disable the tag if a tag you don’t own starts following you? That would also prevent me from finding the bike

- AirTags don’t report their altitude, only their location. Good luck figuring out in which apartment and on which floor it’s kept. Police would most likely decline to help as they can’t search every apartment
I was reminded of this fact, when rewatching Kubrick's 2001 recently. All the computer tech predicted in that movie has come to pass; e.g., the handheld flat screen displays, the conversational AI, etc. Yet, the space travel as envisioned, the engineering megastructures, have not materialized. Still, I remain optimistic that computing tech can have more real world consequences especially with drug discovery in the age of AI. Since software is eating the world, maybe the solution is to virtualize what has not been eaten already, and port it back to reality when all the problems have been worked out.
Assuming you're doing .NET development, have you looked at JetBrains Rider?

I haven't spent much time with it myself but a lot of my colleagues swear by it even on Windows.