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> I wonder who owns the pole. Most utility poles are owned by the incumbent utility, not by the government.

Who owns the utility?

In Canada, for example, it's common for the utility companies responsible for electricity transmission and/or distribution to be owned by provincial or municipal governments.
If you want to fight against it, consider supporting https://edri.org, which lobbies for the people, not corporations.
Unless it is a co-op or nonprofit.
LogSeq has suffered a lot, imo, since they took venture funding. Their focus has wavered drastically since then, shipping features nobody is asking for that I can only assume are viewed to be differentiating for other PKMs (e.g., canvas) vs making the thing performant, improving the wretched UI, fixing bugs, etc.

Obsidian may not be open source, but it reflects a sane approach to product: small, focused team, profitable company, delivering useful stuff. Clean and tight. It's got a different set of abstractions at its core (document model vs block model) but if you're indifferent to that, Obsidian is where I'd start.
I was in tech for more than a decade. I would go back _if_ I could find a well run company with a good team rather than the corporate bureaucracy that sucks the fun out of coding.

I am currently building out my farm.

I am also a general contractor.

And the end of the day you feel a profound sense of accomplishment when you gaze upon your the fruits of your labors. Everyday I drive past houses and businesses that I framed and now people live and work in them.

Pretty soon I will be petting my cows and swimming in my pond. Also there is nothing like a spring morning outside, sun on your face, birds chirping. Good for mental health.
I think that training GPT to use a debugger is going to be hard. For many debug problems, the amount of context you have to keep is going to be really hard for GPT.

> But, AI is particularly bad at formal methods.

AI? Or GPT? Earlier, reasoning-based attempts at AI seem like they would be a natural fit for formal methods.
The article begins by referring to Russia using Hypersonic missiles against Ukraine, and then goes into detail about what defenses are necessary to defend against these weapons.

It’s a good article. But the reality is that the Russian missiles making headlines don’t meet the specs of the article. Ukraine is shooting them down just fine using decades old technology.
Yes, if they'd followed their own suggestions their writing would not be as well loved as it is.
The surveillance state is nearly upon us. I, for one, don't welcome our new overlords.
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I keep hoping for the day the entertainment industry decides to solve the obvious problems that cause people to pirate, but instead we keep getting this endless lobbying for dystopian measures and technology that only exists to destroy value (DRM).

Piracy simply offers a better product. You own the source material. Sell it. Make it available for streaming. Everywhere.
What do you mean?

EU bank transfers are free but they take a day but you also have the option to make it instantly, sometimes paying a small fee like 1€ or so. I have never had to pay, though.
This one was using Bing AI chat:

I had a bunch of PDF files with coded file names, like ABC-123-abc-999-001.pdf, where each section of the file name was meaningful. Inside the PDF were several form fields. I needed to insert records in a database for each of the 97 files. Easy, but tedious.

I prompted it with a description of the file name breakdown, where the text to grab was in the PDF, and then asked for a Python program to find the files (in subdirectories), extract the PDF text, and write a text file with the SQL Insert statements for all the files.

It took two or three minor iterations, but less time than it would have taken me to write from scratch because my Python is rusty. Regular expressions, PDF processing libs, file system traversal, and SQL generation, and it all compiled and worked from the start (the iterations were to tweak a few things I didn’t specify).

This is the kind of thing that I think is perfect for these tools. With the new tools that let the LLM compile and execute code, it will be cool (and potentially dangerous).
This is only true when it is meaningless.

Let's say my friend was born on January 2, 1900, and I was born on January 1, 1900. Who has the closer birthday to someone born on January 1, 2000?

If you say it's me, well guess what, you're wrong! My birthday is 1 day farther away, just count the days.

If you say it's my friend, well guess what, you're wrong! January 1 == January 1. It's the same birthday, obviously.

Incidentally this is why I think LLMs are a lot more impressive than many here give them credit for. Language is ambiguous and being able to create something novel & coherent using an algorithm is an amazing achievement. Embedded in our use of words is a lot of information that is often incongruent with the understood meaning of the word, as this example shows. Apparently humanity itself has two divergent "hallucinations" of what the word "closest" means in this context. We really can't blame the AI for imitating us when that's what we ask it to do.
In the UK, picking fruit might be an option.
in that scenario why should you get anything? rip it in a way that leaves it in one piece (albeit ripped) and return it. people will get with the program soon enough. after all the entire point of what I propose is to fix the behavior.
The racist joke I was told as a kid was that MARTA stood for "Moving Africans Rapidly Through Atlanta." I was so young and naive, I said, "Really? Why would they name it that?" Ugh. The racism of anti-transit people is really inescapable.
>“someday” is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave - Tim Farris / Rolf Potts

"Buy my eBook"

- Tim Ferris
If Flock is providing a service to the police, does blocking / destroying their cameras count (legally) as obstructing the police?

More generally, I'm curious if this paradox exists:

- Flock get the legal benefits of helping the police, but

- The police get the legal benefits of Flock not being part of the police.
Right now I’m about 50/50 between software engineering and EMS. The value of the work I do as an EMT is obviously much greater, but the pay disparity is so vast it’s hard to commit to the jump. Aside from what other comments have already noted, I’d get ready for work being much much harder on you and your body on a daily basis. You may not have to think about the job outside of working hours, but there’s a new level of physical exhaustion that comes from being on your feet working 12 hours a day then doing the same the next day. And the next, and the next.

Additionally, you may find the new rules and regs of your position to be grating. Since you’re in sales, you can set your own schedule to some degree. That flips to needing to get permission to leave work for the slightest reason. This extends to relationships between you and your bosses as well. At my software job I tend to collaborate with management, in EMS I take orders.
Researchers use AI to identify similar materials in images
They never did ship to Canada, as far as I knew
eh. Who cares?

Come on, thats a fallacy right there. One of the classic ones right? Instead of countering the argument by the opponent, you just pick one little part that you can nit-pick some element of and attack that instead.

Suuurrreee... the law of large numbers isn't a thing. So what?

> What a bullshitter.

Hm.

Call it whatever you want, secundum quid, inductive fallacy, faulting forecasting... who cares.

There's a point being made here and it's got nothing to do with the specifics of what the
curve is called.

It was bad, incorrect and incompetent forecasting to speculate that sudden sharp trends will continue as the 'new normal'. That's what people did, and it's blown up in their faces.

The point being made by this article is not that a bunch of people screwed up, it is:

> Your job isn't to assume things will always continue just as great as they are now. Your job is to be realistic about the future and position your company for whatever comes next.

Doesn't seem that unreasonable.

Seems like the sort of thing a whole lot of people in senior roles could have done a better job at.

Seems like advice that people right now should be paying attention to.
Seems like a footage of Patriot system firing out millions worth of ammunition and being destroyed/damaged afterwards by a ballistic missile is a big deal for its sales prospectives.
To sail the ship around? I'd think the smelting operation would cover those costs.
The simplified answer is that phone networks were designed and built 100 years ago and have a fundamental assumption of trust built into the interoperability model between telcos.

Back when every telco was a quasi-governmental national operation, they could all more or less trust each other to do the right thing, so when one network operator receives information from another (for example, caller ID info) it just blindly trusts it as correct.

We've layered tons of modern digital services on top in the last decades but fundamentally there's still that very old network with very basic capabilities underpinning it all.

And so in today's world where every telco offers wholesale access to resellers (who then have sub-resellers and sub-sub-resellers) it's almost impossible to police this stuff.

There's so much traffic going through these networks, it would be very expensive to stop and validate/verify every call's metadata, even though there have been proposals on how to do that put on the table by various parties for years.

But telcos are competitors, and getting them together to agree on how to handle this kind of thing is hard. No one can agree on who should pay for it, and no one wants to go first. Every telco basically passes the buck. So if you are on Verizon and you get a fake caller ID spam call, Verizon will say "we're just forwarding the call from X, go complain to X".

There has been some legislation passed in the last few years as the problem has gotten worse, but don't expect telcos to move on any of this until forced to by law.

source: I work for a telco.
I too am hoping that we could account for negative externalities and therefore would love to see a carbon tax for example. Can you explain what the unaccounted externality is in this case?
> would involve being on the road four out of five days.

This is bad for your health. Being stuck in a vehicle is worse than being in an office chair. And no matter what you say now, you're going to end up eating a lot of take out and not really exercising.

Something to consider.
The batteries are not cost efficient, and take up lots of space. Not great for the Northern Europe - expensive land, strict zoning laws, etc.
No, not a UK thing. Have had a UK phone number that I know is on a couple of public databases and at worst I get a call every three or four months with the 'we understand you have been involved in a traffic accident' robocall. A quick poke to the Ofcom fraud site to report it and I am sorted for the next few months.
I have never heard that in private but I find it pretty easy to go online and find people carping in public with their real names attached. I guess the commissars don't have Facebook accounts.
The first two years of covid pandemic may not be a typical time though. The non-work demands on most people's time and energy, and most people's psychological state, were pretty different than usual. All things that seem like they could effect "productivity" (and/or your perception of productivity) (and hypothetically in either direction), in addition to the factor of whether you were full-time WFH or not.
Yes, I believe that consume will be consigned to the annals of history. Acq/rel is such a sweet spot that in retrospect it should have been the default (for load and stores respectively) instead of seq_cst.
I remember finding out about this early in my career. The office building that my company used was own by the company director but under a different company.

He tied the company into a 3 year lease and then sold our company to a multi-national company. Not the company that owned the office just the company using it nice extra little earner for him considering he also set the rent amount as well.
Would love to use it if it's available for Firefox as well.
Solving crimes is huge part of prevention though. Most crime is done by all very small set of criminals. The sooner you can catch some of those people the more crime is prevented.
Pay is worse, and it is harder on your body.

But I can tell you have never done a manual job because you would understand the sense of satisfaction at the end of the day when you gaze upon the fruits of your labors.

Everyday I drive past houses I built and people now live in. Very rewarding.
High reliability/availability, data integrity, and the insane IO are the main pros I can think of.

While there is a lot to talk about there, I think all of those points are dwarfed by the main draw: legacy support. Companies running mainframes typically have decades worth of code that is running on the mainframes and the cost/risk of migrating is enormous for questionable gains.

I definitely agree accessibility is an issue. I am pretty young myself and found COBOL to be pretty easy to learn and start developing production applications with, in many ways easier than modern systems due to lower complexity for the dev. However, the systems side of things felt very alien to me and has been a challenge to learn. I don't know how one could learn it without training at a company that has a mainframe or by taking courses with IBM.
If the chart is not inflation adjusted it means it had been declining in real costs for the 27 previous years, so why is it only a problem now?
Yeah, that's why I reject the notion of calling the computer screen a "desktop."
> You're comparing memory with intelligence. It's a part of it sure, but there's also cognition, reasoning and i don't even know what more

Yes, and LLMs show all of the specific things you've listed.
Building a Raspberry Pi based ultrasound imaging development platform
no, it is a cover for all-the-time passive record keeping for all network activity. Similar to roads, license+checkpoints => control.
Can't read it, so I'll link to this HN thread[0] from 2016 where Alan Kay and Rich Hickey talk about whether "'data' is a bad idea," which is probably more worth the readers' time.

edit: actually, this[1] appears to be a reprint which isn't paywalled. The author seems to be playing a lot of semantic games and betting the question - "data" doesn't exist because the word is a general term that doesn't describe one specific thing, the value is in the social graph therefore data has no value, it's already everywhere so no one can "own" it, all of the arguments around AI and data are ridiculous, QED. All they've done is demonstrate the strawman definitions they use don't apply to the real world.

But "data" clearly does exist, it can be owned (ex: SSN, bank account data, IP, etc.) and it obviously has value. You can't just nullify the ethical and legal issues around AI by saying "what do words even mean anyway?"

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11945722

[1]https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2022/5/27/theres-no-...
The irony being that it's exactly those locking doors that allow suicidal pilots to deliberately crash planes.
Not the person you responded to but a quick google returned this:

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/facebook-investiga...

I do remember this case when it happened. It was pretty major news. It is not isolated either. Here is an example of google doing it.

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-engineer-stalked-teen...

Oh and here is another good one where the Executives were involved:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/investigation-ebay-employees-st...

Seems like the other poster is right... this is par for the course
> This is different from choosing a path you prefer, that happens to be less productive.

In the context of one's life, I agree fully.
However, once you choose to work in a collective, choosing to be less productive without a positive tradeoff to the system, harms the ones around you.
Yes I know you guys are using Stripe that's why its so odd that it doesn't work. I pay perfectly fine with Stripe on other platforms thats the odd part.

I understand that multiple layers can screw over the payment flow, but I'm a technical user and for someone who's non technical they will just leave the product all together because they are unable to pay the subscription like it should.

I love the product and I want to pay, it's just a very frustrating experience if it doesn't work.

The bank is telling me its not on their end.
1Password is telling me its not on their end.
Stripe is not gonna release any info to me related to my payment on 1password and I need to go through 1password support to get to that information.

The card I'm using is a company card and I only have 1 Visa Business Card which is a typical situation for businesses in Belgium.

I'm not gonna get another card for the sake of having a subscription on 1password. I'm more then happy to purchase the gift cards through shopify if that solves my issue thought.
In principle yes, in practice it is less clear.

CO₂ in the atmosphere is not quite as long-lived as nuclear waste but should be contained for 10,000 years or so. It's plausible you can inject CO₂ underground and it will stay put for that long but not that a forest won't burn up or that people will change their land use again. Also you can measure the amount of CO₂ you injected into a hole and can only guess about the CO₂ that a natural ecosystem absorbed, never mind will absorb. In a developing country there is frequently weak governance and it is not so clear that promised land use changes will happen at all.

We should be doing ecosystem restoration and finding ways to pay for it, but I am categorically opposed to carbon offsets for land use changes as they are primarily good for greenwashing and will crowd out effective and measurable carbon credits. (e.g. it only addresses "Scope 1" but Chevron really should be capturing CO₂ from its refineries and storing it underground)
Of course, because comp is much higher in the US than in most countries, including most western countries, maybe worth the exclusion of tiny, unusual places like Switzerland.
Yes it will be likely needing a 99.99%+ accuracy. I just made a vague suggestion, as I didn't have time to look it up. Elon mentioned it too, it doesn't just need to better than a human, but massively better. I don't know the exact accident stats for human drivers. But self-driving cars will need to be much higher.
Well firstly global in this context just means that most financial authorities held the currency as a reserve, which for a lot of history I believe mostly only european countries had centralized financial authorities. So we're talking about european reserves for much of history. With that said:

florentine florin
venetian ducat
portugese real
spanish real
dutch guilder
french livre
british sterling
USD

to name 8

everyone is capable of deciding if changing reserve currencies every ~100 years is "littered" or not, but it easily passes as being commonplace in my opinion when you're talking about a millennia of history.
This ^. I still work in tech, but I have cattle and chickens and a tractor and endless outdoor projects now. That plus a family puts work solidly in its place: a way to make money so that I can do what I enjoy. I do of course enjoy work here and there, but I enjoy my life outside of work more. My farm isn't a business, so there's no extra pressure there, but it gave me a way to dive into permaculture and try to pave a path toward self-sufficiency, which has given me and my family a lot of joy and stability. And I can do that AND save for retirement thanks to the tech job.
I’m guessing they are referring to liquid hydrogen fuel production. Are those plants so expensive to setup that they have to run 24/7 to make up their investment? Lots of articles say it might eventually be economical, like https://inl.gov/article/using-excess-energy-to-split-water-c....
In the NL, energy prices are settled a day earlier - at 3pm, if memory serves. That floating smelter needs to be quick.
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If only our jobs were not so specialized and all consuming we could have better balance of the physical, social, and technical skills we desire. I like to tell this story which immediately gets a rise out of people. One of the things the [name revealed at end] did that I liked was to require everybody in the country to do some manual labor. Scientists, bureaucrats, doctors and the like were all required to be outside for a few hours a day doing manual labor alongside others from various backgrounds. This not only made a physically healthy population but improved society. The government that did this was the Nazis. Of course much of what they did was horrible, but I think this great experiment was lost in history due to the branding.
That would be interesting, but it would probably only pressure small to midsize businesses without resources to just develop everything in-house anyway, and even then, only if it starts to comprise the majority of open source software
Why do consumers get prosecuted for circumventing DRM, even if just to claim back their ownership of content and devices they bought, but companies get away with actually malicious circumvention (spoofing) on a much wider scale?

Also, technically speaking, how can big telcos make sure they route a call to the right phone, and also claim to be helpless against spoofing?
Meta's customers are advertisers. Their tools for advertisers are the best in the business. Facebook and Instagram users are the product.
Is this dumber than programmers thinking they have great insight into the work of CEOs?
Like with a lot of things, modals get overused then people get sick of seeing modals everywhere and go anti-modal. Bootstrap probably helped contribute to that.

Modals have their use and function. Don't overdo it and maybe even provide non-modal options in addition to the modal.
I agree. But I don’t think the article makes that clear. In fact I think it strongly implies otherwise that the missiles being used against Ukraine are the scary maneuvering kind.
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Usenet does not have any utility beyond piracy at this point, and hasn't for a long time.

If it ever becomes the primary method of piracy (granted, unlikely), it won't be any problem to simply ban the protocol/implementation. It's client-server, identifying the operators of those servers is trivial, and the legislation to allow the blocking will be uncontroversial and bipartisan.

Given that it's all pay-to-play, I doubt that it will turn into a game of whack-a-mole like it is with Z Library.

Bittorrent has a little more cover, in that one could make a case that it is used for legitimate purposes occasionally. But they'll probably just outlaw the VPNs that make it safe from litigation.
Utilities in the US are private entities with special regulations around them.
I'm not a lawyer or a legislator it's not my responsibility to write law phrasing to your satisfaction. This would be handled the same way other plausibly deniable things like fraud and harassment are handled. By evaluating the context, subpoenaing records and conversations, questioning under oath, looking at the effects and history of actions of the individuals involved.