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I like the old Jacques Cousteau films where there’s no fourth wall to break, the people making it are also a subject.

I don’t like the nature documentary that tries really hard to pretend the makers don’t exist. I especially don’t like how almost all of the sound is faked.

Go ahead, bring a steadycam and a key light, just don’t stage shit like a fake reality show. Id like to see what’s actually out there. Also maybe don’t take every opportunity to say how everything you’re filming is doomed.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6J1OzLHamQ8TdX5j2w3L253m...
The Hiroshima one is hilarious, like something straight off Not The 9 O'clock News.
lmao, this entire thread is the funniest thing I've read in months.
It's really two sides of the same coin.
I agree with you that it could be dangerous, but I neither said nor implied at any point that I disagree with that--I don't think the original comment was implying that either. LLM could absolutely be dangerous depending on the capabilities that we give it, but I think that's separate from questions of intentionality or whether or not it is actually AGI as we normally think of it.
It has a goal. Doing what the input says. Imagin it could imput itself and this could trigger the wrong action. That thing knowes how to hack…

But i get your point. It has no innherent goal
My tesla built in 2020 has "CCS" support chip. So yes, I need a physical plug thing - but my car has the internals to support it. This is not true for all Teslas, but it generally true for new ones.
Learn Prompt Engineering
Yes, I don't have a lot of faith in standard recommendations. It's not that I set out to drink that much -- I drink water to solve problems. That's just how much it usually ends up being. The idea of a one size fits all recommendation is something I find laughable. Needs are personal based on activity, environment, and biology.
I clicked through to the trial and in the FAQ it says:

Will you use my broadband?

Yes, we will connect to your broadband to communicate with the units.
We'll directly connect to your router to avoid WiFi interference and most of the time the unit will simply be sending some monitoring information (temperatures / fan speeds etc) back to base, so you shouldn't notice any impact.
We'll occasionally perform speed tests, and limit any larger uploads and downloads to a fraction of this so we'll never use too much of your bandwidth. We'll also schedule these overnight so it shouldn't affect your daytime speeds.
Our intention is that you won't notice - one of the things we'll be doing during the trial is getting your feedback on if we've achieved this.
In the future we plan to install a dedicated fibre or 4G/5G connection for the heata unit.
So in your logic anyone can say whatever they like and there is no control at all, so lies can spread by malicious actors. I disagree and value this minimal control when exercised properly with checks, which is the case in europe
The shift to Linux was a bit too late. By the time it happened, Itanium was lagging behind, with Intel resources relocated to match AMD’s 64-but x86 offensive. Maybe, with enough resources Intel and the FOSS community would be able to get the smart compilers an JIT optimisations that could have made EPIC a competitive architecture.
Criticisms of Google have been piling up over the past half-decade especially. It's not that sudden.
Such a website is immediately les funny when you live in a country where all institutions and banks have idiotic rules (namely France).

I will add our sites (Ameli.fr is already there) as well as banks.

One of the sites forbids to use your email username. In my case it is the single letter e. I had to decrease the length of the password to accommodate that, and the site was disappointed that I decreased the security.

It is truly infuriating that a problem that has a well known solution still triggers the "let's do it differently, to fuck with our customers" kind of reaction.
Apple Pushes Back Mixed-Reality Headset Debut Two Months to June
Side note, what does "Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment." mean? That sounds like extremely poor journalism, has anybody ever immediately responded to anything?
I keep seeing this oversimplification of what ChatGPT is doing. But it does have some ability to “understand” concepts. How else would it correctly solve word problems?

“ I have a credit card with a $250 annual fee. I get 4 membership reward points for every dollar I spend on groceries. A membership reward point is worth 1.4 cents. How much would I need to spend on groceries to break even?”

Just think about all of the concepts it would need to intuit to solve that problem.
Blackhole any sites people of the opposing political use for political organization, donations, news, propaganda.

As a first pass, you don't even need to block general-purpose platforms like reddit and Twitter and Facebook, you just need to kill the centralized sources of political information.

The point of this exercise isn't a full on repression of all dissent, it's just shifting the political window to topics and mouthpieces that are friendly to you. Most people have mainstream opinions, and if you tilt the mainstream landscape towards you, by driving your opponents into high-friction underground echo chambers, a first past the post system lets you turn a close election into a landslide.
Is this problem solveable?

A model trained to optimize for what happens next in a sentence is not ideal for interaction because it just emulates bad human behavior.

Combinations of optimization metrics, filters, and adversarial models will be very interesting in the near future.
Worth remembering that you don't need the server to completely heat the water to shower temperature. You can get it part way there, and then it will take less heat to get the water heater the rest of the way.

I could imagine a future where every house has something like this partially heating their water and air before the real heating system is applied.
Depends on who user is. I hope a typical HN user can find a way to view certificate information even in a modern browser.

The problem is - in modern internet it is very hard to find out who is behind a particular domain: NS/A often point to a CDN or a cloud, info in whois is hidden and all you can see is 'Private'. OV/EV cert is often the only way to know that a domain like acmecorp-invoices.com is used by the same company as acmecorp.com and not phishing (registering a domain similar to the main company's domain is a bad but not uncommon practice).

One of a reasons to get OV/EV cert is to avoid you domain being listed as phishing - if would give a security expect no hints that your suspiciously looking domain is a legit one and not impersonation there is a risk that it would be blocked.

Phisher practically never use OV/EV certs on other hand (probably because they know there are little to no changes they'll get a cert with the target company's name in organizationName).
Devil's advocate but a company doesn't "owe it" to their employees to sacrifice their profitability (keep them hired) if they aren't bringing the company value. Or honestly, they don't even really need an explanation. It's a privilege to be hired by a company. You need to do what they want you to or else they'll replace you with someone who will. If they don't need you or don't want you, they reserve the right to look out for themselves for whatever reason and cut you loose.

If they ran around worried about "let's sacrifice profit to keep random people we accidentally overhired happy from a moral perspective", they would little by little seize to exist (and piss off their entire "profit-focused" board of directors, shareholders, etc.)

They most likely over-hired, like almost everybody else during COVID.

Why do they deserve criticism for laying people off instead of "praise" for offering 150,000+ people "good" high paying jobs?

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOG/alphabet/numb....

I don't think it's a realistic view to say "they should sacrifice their profit to keep people on board".
Well, if we're going to be pointing fingers, let's not forget ourselves here: consumers. We gladly look away when consuming these cheap products.

The attraction is that it's cheap, nothing else matters. If it were cheap whilst the country was democratic, we'd still take it. So authoritarian is not the requirement, being low cost is. That said, yes it's a fair point that cheap correlates with an authoritarian regime with lax regulation. But it's not the only reason for being low cost, it can also be a result of a surplus of labor and the lack of an internal market.

Regardless, the recent insight is that moving all manufacturing into a superpower with nukes that changes alliances at a whim might have been a mistake. Hence another sizable country like India behaving unreliably isn't exactly looking attractive as the next destination.
Oh jeez. I think that was 2013, and I think outer playa, but not deep playa - past the temple where things get calmer and more isolated, but not way the fuck out there.

I have no idea of the names involved :/ I might be able to recover it, as I think it was by some friends of friends.
Can you describe your setup?

I tried setting up nomad but couldn't figure out service discovery, external ingress / letsencrypt in the time I allotted myself...
title might as well say: get a job, get dollar bills for free!
No idea why you're downvoted because it's a good remark.
Are there some scripts from people who have done that? Would love to see an ml machine talking to another
The irony here is that the company did not use the word cleanup, The reporters did.
Tracking does not guarantee anything. Tracking only tells you have missed the release after all of your plan is already destroyed.

You seem to want estimation. And you will keep doing exactly that, "wanting", because estimation isn't something that scales to big projects or multiple ones.
There is a flourishing world of indie/hobby apps (often “games”, at least loosely) on Android and Windows (parts of which are a “market” in the strict sense, but a lot of which is not because hobbies often aren’t about making money.)
CHAdeMO does not handle AC charging, at all. So for a car with a CHAdeMO connector, I'll need some kind of AC charger for my home.

In ths US, this AC charging, Level 2, is handled by J1772. So for a car in the US with CHAdeMO, I'll have a J1772 plug, and then this whole other CHAdeMO connector which is again the same size as the J1772 connector.

Or, I just add two pins at the bottom of the J1772 plug, and call it CCS.

And yeah, maybe it would have been better for it to be like the Tesla connector and have the same pins used for HVDC and AC power. But in a large family of makers using the plug it seems pretty risky reusing pins for HVDC and high amperage AC systems. Tesla can manage it because for Tesla only Tesla makes Tesla, but in a much larger network who knows what might happen.
Incidentally, the hydroelectric plants lasted forever. It was the only kind I ever built after realizing that.
> I'm not sure why there isn't a guarantee that Rust will treat a wrapped type with a single field in the same way as a naked type, but I suspect it's because they Just Haven't Gotten To It Yet.

What do you mean by "treat it in the same way" ?

#[repr(transparent)] does promise you something with identical layout and alignment. If whatever is in there is actually the same kind of thing then the transmute will work, but the problem is - what if it's not?

Take nook::BalancedI8 and std::num::NonZeroI8 these both have the same representation as Rust's i8 built-in type, they're one byte signed integers. But, wait a minute Option<BalancedI8> and Option<NonZeroI8> also have the same representation.

Now, if that single byte is the value 9, we're fine, all five of these types agree that's just 9, no problem. Same for -106 or 35 or most other values.

But, for 0 it's a problem. i8, BalancedI8 and Option<BalancedI8> all agree that's zero. However NonZeroI8 can't conceive of this value, we've induced Undefined Behaviour, and Option<NonZeroI8> says this is None.

Similarly at -128, i8, NonZeroI8 and Option<NonZeroI8> all agree that's -128, their minimum possible value. However the minimum value of BalancedI8 is -127 so this representation is Undefined Behaviour, and in Option<BalanacedI8> that's None.
Interesting project, Tom! I should plan more before coding.

Is Code Planner free or paid?
I worked at a place that was developing ML apps and they bought me an Alienware gaming laptop. I also put an entry-level 10-series graphics card into a not-quite-bargain basement desktop (the real bargain basement desktop might not let you add a GPU.) Recently I built a "gaming PC" with all the RGB bling, it works fine for model training.
Sounds like they were not persistent enough.
You are forgetting one thing - most Indians knew it and believed it back in 2001 but now there's a whole generation who has been brainwashed to believe that the whole western world's media is against India because they don't want to see India be a power. They genuinely believe in this. These are the people who were probably 5 year olds then and are now in their late 20s or early 30s.

Obviously they don't think why they want to be a "superpower" when we still don't have clean water and our air is getting worse (literally unliveable by global standards)
Know your facts before you start name-calling India and start showing your biases. It's the world's largest and most vibrant democracy with a very comprehensive constitution. On the other hand, BBC has a long history of crappy reporting and tax evasion, not just in India but also in their home country.
I'm thinking "spill" would have been better.

Edit: to match parent comment edit

Ok, spill is innacurate, but it's still less confusing than plume. Just by the headline, or someone talking about a plume, you don't know if the article is talking about something that ended a week ago vs something that is ongoing, which is of importance to people in the affected areas.
Thanks, this is an amazingly good response.
You have a great deal more trust in Google than I. I think that if Google lied about this and got caught, the end result wouldn't be that damaging to Google.

Not saying they are lying, of course, but I don't think the incentives against it are as strong as you do.

But then, I'm skeptical enough about privacy policies that I've stopped reading them. The vast majority of them, including the ones I've read from Google, leave more than enough room for the companies to do pretty much anything they want with your data.
The knapsack solution space is countable and effectively finite, and thus is solvable, even if not efficiently due to NP-completeness. Space-planning has to work with a potentially uncountable number of positions/orientations in continuous space, and thus might be different.
I love the electric lazy, but that's not it :) The lazy is passive (you experience it while it happens), this was interactive.

PS - Did you know you can get a portable version? It's just the goggles, plus the sound/visual combos. (Or, at least, you used to be able to, haven't checked in years).
This is still pretty bad, reminds me of using the iPod on Windows.

On my Android phone I can just send the photos directly to my MacOS machine via Bluetooth. No app required.
Ah yes, because ignoring bad people and stupid problems always results in a good outcome!
The request to Bard timed out, presumably.
In the sense that most people were manorial serfs and didn't use money and also the merchant class was despised by the ruling landowner/warrior class before they were overthrown by the merchants around 1800.

Now, sure, that manorial land was technically the means of production, and those in charge of these manors technically owned it (maybe much more like we are used to in civilizational phases, like with the Roman empire ?), but isn't this really stretching the intuitions we have around "capitalism" ?
There are plenty of projects. They aren't main stream because people are more than willing to sell their privacy for convenience.

One such example is CalyxOS. Using it right now. It comes with both F-Droid and Aurora Store. The latter let's you download anonymously from the playstore.
Yeah my expectation is that this sort of thing would dramatically improve performance. Doing atomic operations on filesystems right now involve an awful lot of fdatasync() calls and some creative use of checksumming to avoid torn writes. A better designed API wouldn’t need all that guff, saving me (the application developer) from a lot of headaches and bugs. The kernel could almost certainly do a better job of all of that work internally, with less overhead than I can from user space.

My much more modest feature request from the kernel is a write barrier. If I’m using double-buffered pages or a write-ahead log, right now my code says write(); fsync(); write(); in order to ensure the log is written before updating the data itself. I don’t need the operating system to flush everything immediately - I just need to ensure the first write happens entirely before the second write begins. Like, I need to ensure order. A write barrier command is all I need here.

The posix filesystem apis are a sloppy mess. I have no doubt that the right apis would make my life better and improve the performance of my software.
This is what I have seen so far. The younger cousins in my extended family consciously opted to live in Chicago-Chicago specifically due to night life. I will admit that I never understood it ( and I moved to suburbs as soon as it became an option for me ). Naturally, all anecdotal, but I doubt people changed that much over 20 or so years.
A Love Letter to Libraries, Long Overdue
Eh, it’s retribution. Self-defense is harming someone to prevent their harming you.
> deciding whose opinions take precedence during planning sessions, leaders inevitably wind up treating some employees better than others.

Weird to me this is framed only from the social aspect (e.g. hierarchy, pecking order). It makes sense to consistently weigh some opinions more than others.
If that were the case, why not just donate to charity instead?

ExxonMobil turns a significant profit, and it’s infamously a part of the ESG index.
Big fan of Equals. We use it at our startup to track cohorts (using live data from Stripe)
Because some people do not WANT it and prefer ICE or hybrid vehicles. It's a very big world with alot of different use cases. A smart business strategy diversifies.
A robot lowered through the ice reveals how the Thwaites shelf is melting
I'm not sure how else you'd do it at this point.
And why is that relevant to the conversation at hand?
I was talking to a body shop about unibody construction in the context of some rust repair several years ago. Basically, for a lot of cars, if it isn't a bolt on part, it's already supplied as one big piece from the manufacturer. Like, the whole side of the car sized piece. Whether that's one stamping or several welded together (or bonded), it's a cut and weld job for a collision repair. A small enough rust repair can be made up from sheet metal, but not a serious collision.

Also: paint. It's never one panel. They usually have to feather in the color on the adjacent panels because getting a perfect match is tough despite computers, etc. You need one panel painted, and you're pretty quickly looking at getting 3 or 4 painted (or at least attended to). Even discounting airbags, it doesn't take much to total out even a five to seven year old car these days.
Is an Hourglass Better Than Pomodoro Technique?
I remember reading about the Pomodoro technique a while back:
https://todoist.com/productivity-methods/pomodoro-technique

And I hated it!

It often breaks my focus right when I gain momentum on hard problems, or lasts too long for shorter tasks. The 5 minute breaks are anxiety inducing, since they have a time limit - not very good for reducing fatigue...

Overall, I find it very schedule-centric vs human-centric (our brains aren't consistent clockwork as far as I'm aware).

I happen to have devised a method that works better for me accidentally: using a 10-20 minute hour glass that I was fiddling with while working on a project. I found myself working until the sand ran out and taking breaks afterwards. Then I thought about it a bit more:

HOW TO USE THE HOUR GLASS
1. Flip it to get started
2. Keep working
3. When you happen to glance at the glass again (you will naturally if fatigued or stuck),
a. if the glass is empty and fatigued / stuck: take a break
b. if glass is empty and you still have focus / energy: flip and keep going
b. if the glass is still going: keep at it until you glance at it again
4. Repeat

BENEFITS I NOTICED
- This helps me get started on the task
- Doesn't interrupt me when I have good momentum
- Reminds me to take a break IF I need to
- Hourglasses are nice to look at

For me, the most common case that happens is:
1. I flip the glass
2. start deep work
3. randomly look at the glass, and it happens to be out
4. flip and keep going
5. repeat until I solve the problem, or:
5-1. Get stuck and fatigued, randomly see the hour glass and notice it's out
5-2. Take a break (either for the day, or a few hours)
5-3. Repeat

Just wanted to share this alternative in case Pomodoro isn't working for ya :)

You can call it Sand Productivity (SP) if you must put a name to it.
I’d like to read a systematic analysis of that.
Yes, I'd consider that poor journalistic practice.
Apple delays its mixed reality headset by two months, to debut at WWDC this June
Bitwig has this feature for looping clips: "Operators". The recurrence operator, specifically. You can do more complicated stuff like "play this note on the 2nd & 4th loop of a 5 loop cycle".

https://www.bitwig.com/userguide/latest/operators/
On another website

https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/14/google_prepares_its_o...
Intel Publishes Fast AVX-512 Sorting Library, 10~17x Faster Sorts in NumPy
I can agree with that in principle.

But take a look at the reading level of a ToS, now compare that to the average reading level of a person who signs that contract.

There is a vast gap between those two numbers, and that gap is intentional.

When two parties meet to sign a contract and that contract is entirely crafted by one party, the only party with unfathomably large resources and that contract is so hideously one sided in all facets down to the reading level it isn't hard to see that this one party is behaving unethically.

Apple is the 40 something dude with a bit of money and life experiences who uses these things to court exclusively emotionally vulnerable 18-22 year olds. It's not illegal it's just scummy as fuck and they should be judged for it.
How does the Librem 5 support verified boot? What about user data encryption? Those are the first, most basic security features I am expecting from a smartphone. How about app sandboxes and strict MAC policies?
Yes, Apple wants their piece and I for one would like to see it at least reduced. I would also love to see an option to opt-in to at least sideloading personally built apps.

That being said, what customer are you referring to when you talk about "destroying the customer experience." Hundreds of millions of users express very high customer satisfaction with the experience. The vast number of users have no interest in sideloading and they love the simplicity of the app store. Apple is bringing in about 85% of the smartphone market profits and they have huge repeat purchase numbers. That is not because those billion users are unsatisfied or feel the experience has been "destroyed." The numbers are just too overwhelming.

Many HN readers are not the target market if openness is of paramount importance to them. It is hard to avoid, but we need to try and avoiding generalizing our preferences to the broader definition of "customer."