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"real work" "better tools"

Data point: I do real work in emacs (people pay me money for it). I haven't written any major emacs modes (use-package desired-feature) is it for me. I've looked at vs code (to get personal experience e.g., gitlens is nice though I mostly use magit plus several "feature" packages). Emacs is much better tool for me: I have an order of magnitude more notes than corresponding code (org-mode is life changing), say, 300 lines of notes per 30 lines of code.

I have many of my colleagues use vs code--expectedly, I don't see the "betterness." Ultimately, I don't care what tools do you use as long as the results are acceptable.

Though, I don't understand why someone would use less powerful tools long-term. Given your 20+ years experience, it is interesting to see some specific examples.
Flagged. Knew I should have left out the Apple bit.
> Why would the Russian state want to help Trump?

Their main objectives for the 2016 election was to prevent Clinton from being elected and to maximize internal division in the US; Trump was the main recipient of their support, but they also used their influence operations to support candidates to Clinton’s left (with varying responses from the candidates themselves) including Sanders (who publicly addressed it after being briefed on it, telling Russia to get out of US elections).

> How did that ever make sense?

Weakening NATO and Western unity alone was a pretty good benefit; its hardly the only place in the West where Russia, around the same time, backed nationalist political movements to disrupt internal or international unity in the West.
And it was…

The lawsuit was brought in 2011, covering a period beginning in 2005. I guess you think that's optimal. Regardless, your assertion that a union couldn't help with this is entirely unsupported.

As for the rest, you can dismiss others all you want, but you know for a fact that what I've written about Bay Area and SV tech is true, and you also know that this site revolves around it.

Good for you for whatever you've done, but it's irrelevant to the discussion.
No I meant this:

proc Something()
begin
...
end Something

not the interface/impl declarations. Which actually makes this worse.
There's a legal distinction. At least in America.

An immigrant has an intent to settle, an expat doesn't. In America, one could theoretically lose work authorization should he refer or present himself as an immigrant.
That’s maybe half of existing mortgages but the problem has been that banks sell to Freddie to get cash to loan. Well, loan demand was incredibly low. So they bought bonds and held onto mortgages.

Also keep in mind many mortgages are non-conforming so Freddie can’t buy them.
Samsung has had a fix for the wear degradation bug since January.
If he had a family there, it seems to me like he was a migrant until the political circumstances forced him out.
No worries. I do understand the point that the information wasn’t faked. Believe me, if we had a Wikileaks like organization going after the dirty little secrets of both parties, I’d be enthusiastically onboard.
I’ve always used https://www.justwatch.com/ and it works a charm.
I think 30 years from now people will still be echoing this, the same way flat earthers are convinced the world isn’t a sphere. No matter how much evidence you provide to the contrary, it never seems to matter. I wonder why.

It feels like there’s an aspect of “I want to believe” in this, except in the other direction — if LLMs can come up with new information, it threatens one’s identity of what it means to be human.

(As for evidence: https://twitter.com/d_feldman/status/1636955260680847361?s=6...)
My point is:

* He didn't create the Apple II, Wozniak did.

* He didn't create the mouse, GUI and Ethernet, the guys at Xerox's Palo Alto research centre did it.

* He didn't really create Pixar, bought it from George Lucas. His idea and project was to have the company to make and sell hardware for CG, because that was the only thing he had ever done at Apple & Next. The movie production was an offshot from the demos and the business of creating intros for television shows.

* He didn't create the iPhone. In fact Apple's engineers had to pressure him for years before he accepted. What got him accepting the idea was the fiasco on having iTunes into a Nokia phone.

* He didn't invent the Appstore. In fact he only accepted the idea of people making apps to the iPhone because 6 months after release the sales were collapsing.

Apple was and still is a very smart company. I concede that he was good at surrounding himself with smart people, and taking merit for what those people did.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost
Ask HN: What are some good examples of Anki card decks?
I am interested in learning Anki for spaced repetition. Looking for good examples especially about system design and programming.
You dilute in water, test, then dry back out into powder every bit of cocaine you use?
Summary: someone in the world spread a false rumor about Facebook, and Zuckerberg stupidly called it a leak, assuming someone one the inside is responsible, and should be let go.
What do you mean by hard to create a competitive moat around the tech? These LLMs are super expensive to train so isn’t that a moat, or am I understanding it differently?
There really needs to be another standard class of vulnerability besides "physical access to the device" along the lines of "access to a copy of the on disk data". There are so many paths to this and some never required physical access or even an accidental exposure on the part of the user, it could be a breach of a provider (ala LastPass).
What’s the Alternative then?
I was really surprised by people's reactions about the need for a disclaimer, and didn't know what to make of it for a while. I also watched the votes on my comment here go up and down quickly, indicating that some people thought a disclaimer was warranted, and some thought there was no need.

I ended up doing a lot of reflecting about the comments people made. I think I've gotten used to writing for an audience that already knows that I'm the author of PCC, and I start to assume that anyone else will see that quickly as well. Do I really need to add a disclaimer any time I write about the process of learning to code, or its ongoing relevance? I'm not asking anyone to respond to that, especially on an old post, but that's the question that I kept coming back to for a while.

I realize that a post like this, shared with a larger audience, at this point in time, warrants a disclaimer. I've been a member of HN for over ten years, and I value my reputation here. I'm sorry if I misled anyone as they went into reading this post. I didn't add a disclaimer right away because I've made a habit of not responding too quickly to feedback on the internet when I'm not sure exactly how to respond.

I ended up adding a disclaimer, but that was well after this had dropped off the front page. I didn't put off adding a disclaimer to mislead anyone, it just took a while to think through all this. I will be more careful about which posts need to include a disclaimer from this point forward.

I know few people will see this, but if anyone sees the surrounding comments after the disclaimer is there I'd like them to see this context. Thank you all for the critical feedback. As uncomfortable as it is sometimes, it's part of what I've always appreciated about HN.
Qualcomm has open sourced its aptX and aptX HD encoders
Seems like the background behind that is that Scott Alexander has sometimes entertained weird ideas. He's been open about at one time believing a conspiracy theory himself, for a little while.

That screenshot doesn't actually say what about neo-reactonary stuff he thought was interesting, just that there is some. The rest is left to your imagination, and Scott Alexander's enemies want you to imagine the worst.
The truckers involved were portrayed by the media as anti-vaxxers, with underlying associations of racism.

If they are not unscientific anti-vaxxers, they failed to communicate that. If they don't have associations with racists, they failed to communicate that. If they felt that illegally occupying a major urban centre—making the life of residents hell—was a good thing, they have failed to communicate that.

Basically the truckers involved failed to usefully communicate to the broader society why anyone should support them (assuming they're not just racist anti-vaxxers).

And when the Emergencies Act was invoked, who would object to it being used against anti-vaxxer racists that were illegally occupying the city of Ottawa?
If I am not using a PIN code, need I be worried?
Same here. And I’m never going to default on a 2% loan. Hell I may never sell again unless I can pay cash, because I never want an 8% mortgage again
I describe this as, “I don’t want to have to think.”
I'd say to try and put hype about technology into its proper perspective.

Just because Tailwind has some hype and momentum right now doesn't mean that the entire industry has changed overnight, or that Tailwind is the best choice for every single project. Bootstrap isn't my favorite, but still works great and is a logical choice to use in a lot of situations.
I'd encourage you to study Mandarin for a year or so and look into what the non-influencer set is saying about China. My first trip to China was in 1999 and my last in 2019. That was a time of amazing freedom and growth. Beijing went from bicycles to cars to subways and everything was growing. It's not like that now, youth unemployment is very high, foreigners are not welcome, and you really can't imagine the political and economic situation you're walking into. One simply does not publicly discuss problems there without considering the consequences.

Columbine was 1999. I think he'll be more surprised by the level of political division and general impoliteness there is in the US.
Deflation? Are you even understanding what’s going on right now? With 200+ banks insolvent basically? Hyper inflation is the risk right now. That it total anarchy as we see 40% unemployment. Pick your poison.
I wonder if this is the reason that ChatGPT is so heavily censored, and that Google is so nervous to make LLMs publicly available. These LLMs are clearly capable of instructing users how to make bombs, how to hack websites, they are clearly capable of producing copyright infringing images and bodies and probably bodies of text as well.

As far as I can tell, it's not obvious at all that output from an LLM would be protected by ChatGPT, and Congress is clearly resistant to setting up something similar for a new technology. People already feel that Section 230 is the enemy of justice and safety. I think it's rather likely that case law would intentionally side against LLMs if there is any grey area at all, and there seems to be plenty of grey area.

I wonder if hosted LLMs are going to become legally non-viable in the near future. Everyone will need to run their own at home simply because of legal liability.
While I am not worried about my situation (and I expect most HN readers will not be either) anyone familiar with the types of corporate thinking behind business process re-engineering or digital transformation will see the streamlining and redesign potential coming online near term.. Couple that with the long term shifts in work patterns accelerated by the pandemic and with the shifts in capital markets that are starting now and will play out over the likely deployments of the next few generations of generative model based systems and there seems to be a lot of downsizing potential throughout large sectors of current business employment.
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I was using a combination of windows/linux for a while until my archlinux laptop shit the bed after an update and I decided to say, fuck it, I'm finally buying a macbook because at least then I can still do unix shit without having to worry about everything working the next day.

I'm not happy about "Apple Silicon", it does feel restrictive and often times the only way to get around it is to use licensed VMs, which feels like a bit of a rip off. At the same time, my laptop runs phenomenally well, does everything I need it to do, and it never dies or gets overheated under normal use. I can't really complain.
9 feet 5 inches:
https://youtu.be/hPakbghLe38

On a separate note, while I was in a flying lesson once, my instructor flew the plane backwards. The plane, a Cessna 172, was moving backwards (the ground was moving forward underneath us).

Same principle as the STOL contests in Alaska- steong headwinds.

In our case the headwind was greater than our stall speed, so the airspeed was greater than our stall speed and the wings generated enough lift to keep us in the air; we idled the throttle so our airspeed would not exceed the wind speed.

If headwind is greater than your takeoff speed then there’s no reason you can’t take off and land in very short distances.
The name may be an example of this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler%27s_law_of_eponymy

It was developed by Grove Karl Gilbert in 1884 as his ratio of verification (v)[1] and now is frequently referred to as the Critical Success Index in meteorology.[2] It was later developed independently by Paul Jaccard…
I do not think so.

I see this argument made all the time. While it might be correct at a Micro-Level ("all it does is predict the next word!!!" "it just finds patterns!!!") I dont think that semantics matter here.

It has demonstrated to create new things based on existing ones.

ChatGPT will happily create a fan fiction about the rust mascot Ferris, in the style of the Bible.

I am 99% certain that wasn't in the training set
> pay that price for a great society in return

You’re not just paying in your own freedoms. You’re paying in the freedoms of others, like the Muslims that the Chinese government have decided aren’t compatible with the “great society” that you seek.
Disclaimer, I work at Redpanda.

Redpanda Community Edition is licensed with the Redpanda Business Source License (BSL). The core features are free and source-available.

This license was inspired by MariaDB and CockroachDB and "for 99.999% of users, restrictions will not apply". The big restriction is that users "cannot provide Redpanda as a commercial streaming or queuing service to others" which is primarily to deter large cloud vendors from taking our work and impacting our ability to operate as a business.

Here are some links for more details on how we came to this decision and how we license all our products and features.

https://redpanda.com/blog/bsl-source-available-license

https://docs.redpanda.com/docs/get-started/licenses/
I also downvoted, and it’s honestly because your point comes across as not understanding any of Martin Scorsese’s direction and body of work. Nearly all of his movies (primarily, mobster and crime related) are centered around characters and stories of wealth, excess, and the blatant flouting of rules and law in order to obtain power, followed by their near immediate downfall and loss of everything that truly matters. The Wolf of Wall Street, the movie, isn’t about the glorification of wealth: it’s about the vapidity and shallowness of that component of human nature and the ultimate self destruction and meaningless of life when it’s pursued. Someone can recommend that movie because they appreciate that moral and sentiment, not because they want to be a conman investment banker (or a gangster for that matter).
I don’t think the commenter you’re replying to is using “through” in the sense of “providing power stations with the assistance of GE”, but rather “providing power by founding GE”.
It'll decimate a lot of the service sector, that is white collar workers, and that includes us; it'll decimate it in the same way industrialisation decimated a lot of blue collar jobs; and control of a centralised AI will give companies and governments incredible power. But comparing it to electricity is crazy.
Because parsers, like humans, read from left to right. Important parsing decisions are usually made as early as possible. An example is recursive descent parsing, which derives its simplicity from making decisions first, allowing a top-down parse. And when humans skim text, I bet it can be shown that it's easier if the syntactically significant locations are aligned near the beginning of each statement.
Why would someone think Section 230 would protect ChatGPT, which doesn’t present information actively submitted by third parties, but information chosen by OpenAI to include in training data? It’s not even remotely in the area of Section 230.
I think it's super safe to assume that the Internet would not have been able to grow the way that it did if Section 230 didn't exist. Websites like Youtube would have been crushed by moderation duty and legal liability immediately, and the Internet we'd have today would more closely resemble a curated newspaper than the content free-for-all that we benefit from now.
The Treasury is selling bonds for the US' interests and should provide adequate accounts to manage your funds within the context of US savings bonds and transfers. People who put a million in bonds through an opaque account at an intermediary are then still at their own risk.

Why subsidize and encourage middlemen? It's like building the scam opportunity for privatized social security insurance management, as if honesty will be the most profitable choice in managing that.. It's inappropriate for the government to design systems that reward scamming in the middle.
I came across this hackernews.hn domain while looking at random TLDs. I saw ".hn" and thought, "oh, that would be fitting for Hacker News," then opened it to see an actual HN proxy. I know this is pretty pointless, but I'm wondering who owns this and why; perhaps some of the regulars on here might know. Whois doesn't reveal anything interesting about it at all.
H*ck yeah. Get that bread, my dude.
I uses to use Jaccard similarity combined with w-shingling at the character level to detect clusters of fraud sites. It was surprisingly effective, because it was able to pick up common patterns in the code even if they used completely different styles and text.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/W-shingling
I've been connecting a raspberry pi to a muse headset using the muselsl python library. But that only has 4 channels vs 8 for this one. I bought a muse about a year ago used for $125 on ebay, this board is $350 and you would still need to buy the electrodes and make a headset. I think the price is fair and it seems pretty competitive with openbci boards, but I think if you really wanted to just get started you could get going with a muse for a lot less and a lot quicker. The muse is finicky to get good connections, but I don't have any reason to believe it would be that much better with my own homemade headset with dry connections. Also it says for safety reasons you have to run the pi on a 5V battery which might not run all that long depending upon the size of the battery and which pi you are using.
> Treating “the algorithm” as a kind of divine power misunderstands where algorithmic power comes from

From "Magic Numbers" https://reallifemag.com/magic-numbers/
Ubuntu or Debian?
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No, the other one over the "green line", which can be seen from space, thanks to decades of reforestation
It will also change the process from the perspective of an author. If you are not fully sure about the impact of your publication, you might start submitting it to the journal with the highest possible impact. And, after a rejection, continue submitting to the next best journal, until acceptance. The new process by eLife would hence massively cut the workload on authors, besides editors and reviewers.
It always is.
Crypto doesn't harm anyone who doesn't choose to buy into the get rich quick schemes. If some people somewhere trade crypto between them, it's none of your business.

AI, on the other hand, harms millions of people right now - by government surveillance, face recognition, spam bots and SEO, deep fakes, exam cheating, job losses, killer drones etc., with almost no upside for the little guy.
That's kind of a contrived example. Having a uniform doesn't help you load groceries or stock shelves, but wearing a tinkerbell costume does in fact help you act like tinkerbell.

It'd be more like if Disney required the actress to make certain movements or say certain phrases just because "that's how we remember the movies doing it".

Fascism in the Anti-Oedipus has a very specific meaning so I implore you to read some of it before you criticize my use of the term.
The Super Cub is a design from the 40s (1949) that weighs less than 1300 pounds (930 empty) and has more than 100 horsepower (105 at introduction, 150 by 1954).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_PA-18_Super_Cub
The entire article reads like some sort of religious parable. It hits all the woke undertones. Man bad, nature good. Man kill nature. But one woman will save nature. Give birth to forest. Almost ready for a Hollywood movie.

I've seen Dubai growing grass in the desert, and it literally requires almost always on sprinkler. They can grow trees too, but they water them daily. Which necessitates taking water from the ocean, and desalination. Which requires tons of energy and chemicals, and industry. Which costs tons of money. So keeping a tree, might be similar costs to what keeping a horse is here. All of it requires lots of money, and cheap labour from developing countries. Skinny malnourished men, from some poor village in India, and Pakistan working in scorching heat in the middle of the day.

So yes they can they can grow trees in the desert, because every time you fill up with gas, they get a large cut from the oil, and thus the money to grow them.
So you filling up your car, grow trees in the desert. Reality.
I missed that news so I appreciate the heads up. Looks like mine is on a safe firmware version, phew.

If anyone else wants details: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/samsung-980-pro-ssd-failur...

> However, the new firmware update from Samsung will prevent the failures from occurring in the first place if your drive is still functioning. So, if you have a 980 Pro running the 3B2QGXA7 firmware, you'll want to update to the newest firmware (5B2QGXA7) using the Samsung SSD Magician software (opens in new tab) ASAP. It should be noted that 980 Pro SSDs running the 4B2QGXA7 or 5B2QGXA7 firmware are not affected by this issue.
All well and good, but the children in our local playground in Germany climb the nearby trees overlooking the risk-engineered playground, reaching heights of around 5 metres while standing on branches less than 1cm thick!
Playing spot the difference on the sticker is fun.
That makes sense. Section 230 is a pass-through provision. Under section 230, the source is liable, not the transmitter. ChatGPT is a source, not a transmitter.

That's not too bad. Persons and companies running things such as ChatGPT have the usual broad First Amendment protection in the US. Outputs may be unpopular, but still legal.

This will be a problem in countries with more restrictions.
Praise the all and mighty. Dude what do you work on that you think is important and or can't be done by AI?
didnt know there was a name for it
I did exactly the same and my reason is : Linux is chaos, FreeBSD is order. FreeBSD is so very well engineered, everything feels just right and logical. It's not the case with the fragmented world of Linux distributions. Unfortunately FreeBSD doesn't have the laptop driver coverage Linux has so I'm using Void Linux on my laptops because it is the most BSDish Linux.
Is there a published, freely available specification for JPEG-XL yet? The W3C publishes JPEG and PNG specifications, and AVIF can be found on the AOM website. One big issue with JPEG-XL is that the specification is closed. The old drafts I have found were extremely poor. I have heard that the actual spec is apparently better, but I cannot find a copy of it myself.
Screenshot? Link to said form?
Crossing the Chasm is a must read for building tech based products