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> with the collective survival

Deaths from climate-related disasters have been falling in absolute numbers even as the world population grows. In fact, in the 50 years from 1970 to 2019, humanity more than doubled in number while climate-related deaths decreased threefold. This is due to the increasing ability of people in developing countries to better harness and control their natural environment enabled by industrialization driven by fossil fuels.

All of human progress has been about higher per capita energy expenditure. To stop that now is to condemn the global poor to remain in poverty. We'll know for sure in another fifty to a hundred years, but my bet is that the bigger threat to humanity's collective survival will be from the increasing centralization of power at the hands of the few that things like "fighting climate change" require.

[0]: https://library.wmo.int/doc_num.php?explnum_id=10989
In my life, I have invented the holographic lens, bicycles and network cables.

Sadly, as I arrived at each invention and contemplated it, I realised it had already been invented.
Microsofts strategy is to be the Windows of AI.
It may have something to do with this mind blowing exchange between Casey Muratori (a highly experienced game engine developer) and the Microsoft Terminal team.

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362

It really highlighted how crappy software gets written in large corporations. They told him rendering monospaced fonts on the GPU would involve a multi year PHD research project.

Apparently they then went on to infiltrate his discord server so they could ask questions. Then write up a blog post calling the change "trivial".

https://twitter.com/cmuratori/status/1522471966929653761
It could be related to the large number of malicious or booby-trapped packages that have been uploaded recently to the index.
> worked just fine. (I used it myself.)

a lot of things work just fine and are still failures from the management's point-of-view
The same way a company can find another employee, the employee can find another job. Also claiming that leaving a company doesn't affect a company's bottom line reflects more about the quality of the work the employee does, rather than the economic reality of the company. If your work doesn't affect the bottom line maybe you shouldn't have the job, that's why you are getting paid to have an impact on the bottom line, not to drink latte, have yoga sessions and raising your children while you are 'working' from home.

Where did I actually say that companies do not ask for loyalty?
goold old games, gog.com
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My guess? A hacking case against someone for typosquatting or malicious packages or something.
Could be anything I guess, even legitimate reasons. T
Think of the supply-chain attacks going on in the past few years. I'd say investigating these would be a legitimate reason for a subpoena.
That box of cereal you buy at the grocery store for $5 does not cost $5 to manufacture, not even close. A shitload of money goes into advertising, and Google and Facebook own that entire industry nowadays, or near enough. They are basically collecting a tax on all commerce.
Do you consider yourself to be a highly skilled critical thinker on that wonders what is true, on an absolute scale?

(Note: this isn't purely snark, there is a point to this style of thinking )
I initially misread the title as "NASA has FOUND...", and my mind went spiraling for a little bit.
Related to how Dracula could drink Coke and play Nintendo:

https://twitter.com/lunasorcery/status/1271537553842323463
I used to live on the border between USBID and Lower Nob Hill.

On the side of the alley within the USBID the streets would be cleaned of litter, poop would be washed, and private security (off duty SFPD hired by the USBID) would monitor the neighborhood.

On the side of the alley that wasn't within the USBID, trash would be dropped, you would see open PCP and Meth use, and poop on the street, and cops wouldn't respond unless a weapon was drawn.

The distance between the two was 5-7 feet. The area within the USBID didn't change drastically compared to pre-pandemic, but the area outside the USBID basically collapsed.

There are a lot of these invisible borders across San Francisco which townies and unhoused people can recognize.
You went around a thousand miles in your argument. You would ignore Eintein saying that we can build nukes and that they will change the world in 1939? I mean people make huge mistakes yes :) both these things happen. You wrote an essay about Einstein and his failures and missed the hard fact of my argument.
> those aren’t moral issues

I think you may have missed the issues they intended to bring up. The moral issues I see could be that you might have one class of worker ("knowledge worker") who is able to work from home and another class of worker who is unable to work from home. It's along the lines of the difference between paid catering for the executive suite but not the rest of the office.
Beware that most 2020-2021 OpenAI startups haven't survived to today, especially since ChatGPT allowed free use of most B2C use cases (article writing, paraphrasing, etc). I posted a brief postmortem of my experience from 2021 to 2023 when I did at one point launch a similar product to yours which, if you got into this more recently, may be worth reading.
By AI, do you mean "actual intelligence"?

Perhaps someone whose job it is to report relevant details about an event? Say, we could call them a "reporter"!
Why ask leetcode questions rather than realistic ones that represent the sort of code someone might actually be expected to write during the course of their job?
What's the difference between helphub and https://www.chatbase.co/?
That's because Rust wants you to use the stack almost exclusively for memory allocation because that's the obvious way to do automatic memory management w/o a GC. So the moment you want to return closures you have to allocate them on the heap (Box them).

Rust is a modern, functional programming language where the programmer works in a straightjacket, and this is most painfully evident the moment you want to use closures like you're programming in Haskell.

In Haskell you don't have to think about stack vs. heap allocation. But w/o a way to make it easier for the compiler to choose stack allocation where that would be safe, Haskell ends up being heap-heavy. Rust takes the opposite tack and is stack-heavy, but unlike Haskell Rust forces you to be explicit about the alternative.

It's not like Rust doesn't have a GC. Arc is a GC after all. It's just that Rust makes it hard to write natural code using the heap and GC.
Awesome! I still have my Atari 800 kit in mint condition, with two drives, original joysticks, and probably a bunch of stuff I've forgotten. Oh yeah, my Star Gemini 10X printer is in the attic. My Commodore 1702 monitor needs "re-capping" though.

My first job (at 15) was working on a software store, which was when MULE came out. I disagree with this: "which sounds much better than the Atari original despite the lack of a fourth voice." We had the Atari and 64 next to each other and would load up MULE to argue about which platform was better. I thought the music on the Atari was better in some ways, although the Commodore's synthesizer chip was pretty cool.

Side note: I own an Ensoniq keyboard, which was made by former Commodore peeps. And, of course, its disk storage is non-standard junk. Still not as bad as the 1541 though...

One thing EA nailed was packaging. Simple but "high-end" cardboard folders (like gatefold album covers) with cool art on them. I still have my original ones of Archon (great game) and... Music Construction Set maybe?
"Liz Vayda, who owns Baltimore plant store B.Willow, says the tipping option she added to transactions during the pandemic generates about $1,000 every two weeks. Five employees split the money. She acknowledges the requests aren’t perfect.

“It makes me feel uncomfortable as a business owner to know people are like, ‘Why doesn’t she just pay them more?’ It’s just not that simple,” Vayda says. Ultimately, she says retaining staff is more important than the possibility of annoying some customers. "

She can't afford to pay her employees an extra 200 a pay check? Yet she is bringing in that much extra money through a tip screen. She can afford it.

Edit: some spitball math, if she's getting an extra %15 in revenue from a quarter of her sales (if 1-in-4 tip), she's taking in approximately $27k every 2 weeks. She could raise her prices by less than 4% to cover paying her employees more.
[In March and April 2023, the Python Software Foundation (PSF) received three (3) subpoenas for PyPI user data. All three subpoenas were issued by the United States Department of Justice. The PSF was not provided with context on the legal circumstances surrounding these subpoenas. In total, user data related to five (5) PyPI usernames were requested.]

either a small group of users, or one user with multi aliases wrote a nastyapp ?
> It works when the high-speed trains stop directly at the airport, and when the trains are reliable.

That's not nearly enough. Airlines would need to figure out a way to actually integrate trains into their systems, including ticketing, baggage check-through, automated re-ticketing in case of delays/missed connections, liability of missed trains (including getting passengers a hotel and meals), and so much more.

This is the value that connecting flights provide that the "train + plane" combination falls quite short of today: A binding contract making it the operator's responsibility to get you from A to B.
Not all that different from the Wehrmacht and SS institutional infighting during the second world war.
Back when Flash was still around and well before it peaked, I wanted to do socket-based communication. So I built a bridge from Flash -> JavaScript -> Java Applet -> socket -> Java server (to send messages and vice versa for the receive chain). I was a terrible coder and it crashed under any kind of load (no back pressure and poor browser quality back then). But it worked and caught the attention of a bunch of influential people. XML sockets were added to ActionScript in Flash v5 ;)
Their own internal developers don't do it, so why would ISV's?
My older brother and I used to play this head-to-head on my Commodore 64. He almost always won, but I never gave up. Thanks to random events in the game I sometimes won, too.

Last month I bought a gadget that allows the C64 to use 4 controllers instead of 2 because THIS GAME has an unofficial update that supports 4 controllers. Proceeded to play it at my Commodore Computer Club meetup here in Seattle. Great multiplayer game.
https://blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2022/03/15/ama-scope...

They created the problem. Just because they’re now trying to fix it means nothing
Nice! I think it's a good initiative to organize more local types of meetups in the geospatial community. Geospatial experts are a bit too few and inbetween to bump into many of them on a regular day, so anything that gets these people together is a big win.

As a side note to HN readers, geospatial is a super interesting application/ specialization that you might consider getting into if you're looking to add more meaning and purpose to your programming or tech career. You're often working to improve quality of life for someone, there are lots of interesting companies, people are generally super friendly and accessible, and there's a wealth of interesting problems and challenges to work on. My 2 cents!
It’s amazing how quickly vax-maximizers adopted the narrative style of anti-vaxxers.
Regardless of that product how probably this is near the highest MRR or after the tax cut -given he’s in Canada- there’s no money left or there’s no scale up for such business, it’s a good motivation boost for him for sure, however, I’m sure this story brought to you by OpenAI, anyone is reading that story especially a young one, will immediately jump to build anything that uses OpenAI api, more people do, more profits for openAI, it’s like Apple/Dell/whatever laptop company showing you an ad that you should buy a laptop in a promise of quick wealth, except here it’s a continuous profit for OpenAI and not a one time payment. I highly doubt the story will happen or have any article about it if it was based on an open source LLM.
>> Lectures ought to be digital.

We shouldn't have lectures at all, IMO. They arose in medieval times before the printing press, when the lector (which means "reader" in Latin) would read a book, very slowly, while the students copied it down verbatim. At the end of the course, you'd have your own copy of the book. Of course, this actually made sense at the time. You couldn't pop down to Barnes and Noble and get your own copy of Aristotle, after all.

The fact that we're still doing this in the 21st Century has more to do with the ego of academics who like to hear themselves talk than it does with any bona fide educational purpose.

We already have technology that can help tailor instruction to individual students, and that capability is only going to get better with time. The university as we know it is doomed, IMO. The corpse just hasn't stopped twitching yet.
> until the user refreshes that page

Funny enough, a page-refresh is usually what happens, after I fill in a login form that appears in a modal.

But even if it doesn't do that: If the page is reachable without logging in, then what relevant information is there on the page to display to the user that is both so important that it immediately needs to appear on login, and so unimportant that it doesn't justify requiring a refresh?

And on the off chance that the use case actually requires that, what specific advantage does a modal confer over two input fields (Username, Password), tucked discreetly along a "Login" Button into the navbar?
Nice, good work. The Visuals are also pretty good
Apparently no plans to set up a canary.
It's unfortunate that more innovation in the phone and laptops sectors has been driven by Apple than every other business. If you have a sector/market where everything is open and interchangeable you both can't (smaller profit margins) and don't want to (you'll only have an advantage over your competitors for a very short period) invest too much resources into innovating.
We shipped Dart 3.0 last week with support for switch expressions and complex pattern matching in switches. We also managed to get in quite sophisticated exhaustiveness checking.

Whether you consider Dart a "mainstream" language is I guess an open question. :)
That, or they have reason to believe the investigation is legitimate and they would prefer not to hinder it.
>And it so happens that this is where it's easiest to justify settling.

Why do you think this is so? Is it because technical skills are more easily measurable and thus more defensible than so-called “soft skills”?

I think it goes without saying that most 99 percentilers can get the job of their choosing within that skillset. My question is more about the ranked priorities of the rest of the "middling" candidates. Why is the value system is structured to reward one type of skills when everyone seems to conclude it doesn’t provide good outcomes?
Other requirement is "Proficient in Swedish and English, verbal and written"!
What is the practical reason to favor electrical implants over electromagnetic ones? One would conclude that using electromagnetic induction would be a no-brainer when it is very clear the body works against electrical probes (by fighting the implants). Could someone more knowledgeable than myself clarify this.
Propaganda and half-truths really work!
There’s something to be said for the fact that in a monopoly, the logical conclusion of capitalism, there is also a lack of competition and incentive to innovate.

To answer your question, though, if everyone’s needs were actually met why should anyone work? Within the century we will be living in a world where a lot of our most basic needs can be fulfilled by fully autonomous machines. Who should benefit from this? A few trillionaires, while the rest toil their lives away? Or the majority, whose lives can all be improved?

Likely every country will answer that question for themselves. But I submit that a country where there are the better part of a million homeless people (including children) and a handful of space-faring billionaires and celebrities hardly has the moral authority to shake their fingers at the others.
The potential use of LLMs as search tools could disrupt the startup ecosystem, especially in niche markets. "Find a service that does this [niche task]" commands could enhance visibility for niche startups. But as LLMs become better at suggesting top products, startups competing with established products might find the path challenging. However, this could also drive a focus on product quality and uniqueness, pushing startups to differentiate more innovatively. LLMs' ability to understand user preferences and suggest products accordingly could open up opportunities for startups providing niche services. I think the startup scene is going to be very interesting going forward.
IIRC, it's https://www.wired.com/story/flock-safety-license-plate-reade...

and friends.

Oh, actually, the 70% was in Marino, CA, and 40% was in Dayton, OH.

This is a different one.

I've heard about it because Flock has lots of folks in Atlanta.
I have no tie to them or view (though there were flock cameras in my part of the neighborhood and we chose not to renew)

I believe there is even an official report/study pdf somewhere, but i can't find it at the moment. I remember it coming up in various council/civic meetings.

They definitely have run partnerships/studies with police departments and the statistics are not completely obvious nonsense.

But at the same time, proving anything like the quoted statement in a methodologically sound way is obviously remarkably difficult, and i have doubts it was done to that degree.

I know at least one place did a randomized, controlled trial, but it was of cameras attached to police cars as well as fixed cameras:

https://www.theiacp.org/sites/default/files/2018-08/March%20...

NIJ did a study a decade ago and found nothing for mobile ALPR:
https://nij.ojp.gov/library/publications/license-plate-reade...
Should be much higher. Time for some more fines for others of Big-Tech/GAFAM spyware corporations.
In hopes that this helps others. I have had terrible reflux for the last ~10 years. 10-15 tums a day every day for years. About 4 months ago I started taking a scoop of glutamine (the workout supplement / amino acid) powder in water at night before bed (not sure if the timing of when it's taken matters). 2 weeks later and my heartburn/reflux was essentially gone and has stayed gone. I take maybe 1 tums a week now. Many weeks it's 0.
How We Build Platforms
That's the power of the horribly unoptimized DX9-based renderer WPF was (is still?) built on.

Worst part of WPF for me was the tooling that crashed whenever you so much as looked at it wrong.
What is the problem here, that is any different from allowing untrusted code on your machine? Yes, if you don't trust your other users you need to lock down your system. That's not new or unique to Caddy, and indeed you can lock down Caddy too. Once the machine is popped locally it's already game over, authentication can't prevent that.
The number of ads on YouTube that peddle an "AI-powered X" is a clear tell. Just last night, I saw an ad for an "AI golf swing aid"!
The odd thing to me was that this story was ‘everywhere’ about two years after the tipping prompts were ‘everywhere’. Or was this just something that happened first in the flyover states and later got picked up in the media hotbeds of NYC and Los Angeles.
I agree, their shopping experience was insanely terrible. Tons of models with slight differences in model numbers that all seem like 99% the same laptop. Finally find one that suits my needs and it's more expensive than a new MacBook Pro anyway so why bother.

Additionally, the chance your new $2000+ laptop will be $500 a few months later lightly used on Ebay is really high. So I just wait. My current personal laptop is a nice Thinkpad with an i7 I picked up for $300 on craigslist. Sure the screen feels like it's from the 90s, but it mostly stays plugged into a monitor.
Interestingly, the previous DA was recalled and a pro-police DA was elected. The previous DA was in charge till Jul 2022. Here are the crime dashboards: https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/stay-safe/crime-data/crim...

One way to measure the success of this is to provide a bedding-in period to give the new DA a chance to settle her office and hire people, etc. and then compare.

The UI there lets you select the period from Jan 1 to May 21 and compare year on year. This lets you see the change in crime. Given that the hypothesis is that DAs that cut people loose significantly affects crime, we can get some evidence for this by looking at that period against the previous year (thereby getting rid of seasonal effects like crime being higher in some months).

We can get an idea of how much of the variation is natural by looking at that period for the last two years, since the previous DA was in charge from Jan 2020 to Jul 2022. I won't repeat the numbers here since the UI makes this really easy.

Eager to hear about anyone else who would like this form of hypothesis-examine loop and what other testable hypotheses they can put forth.
I propose that even if the government (indirectly) owns the utility pole, using them for espionage by a different government agency is still an infringement of rights.

The government also owns schools, libraries, and hospitals, yet (I would hope) we don't want that to mean the police can get your school transcripts, library or medical records, or compel hospital staff to restrain you until the police arrive, without a warrant.

In sum, the government owns far too much to be allowed to use all they own for whatever purpose they please.
I wrote more about this in another comment ("Postmortem"), as I developed a similar idea from Mid 2022 to early 2023, but made different decisions.

OpenAI had a serious focus on this that did see adoption; as early as Spring 2021 this was in their docs (linked by others), but more crucially, they quickly added an Answers endpoint(https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/answers) specifically for this use case (query against uploaded files).

The creator of this project did almost everything perfectly, for sure. They had speed, UI, a converting page, found virality. But they also had timing: OpenAI had banned this open-ended use case till that time, they got lucky that people did not develop Explainpaper competitors, and ChatGPT improved quality while reducing run costs by 10x right when they came into this area, meaning many companies that fore-aware of these changes would have taken it's place, were not trying to enter the market (OpenAI approval was hard, and the costs of models before December 2022 were literally 10x as much for decent quality, making it unprofitable)
Eurostar is one of the least carbon-producing methods of transport possible, and it's extremely convenient and pretty damn comfortable compared to planes. Yet on a recent trip, I spend at least double, if not triple the money on those train tickets as I would have for flights.

Maybe banning certain air routes is a good idea, maybe not. But what is absolutely a good idea is making the already existing low carbon transit options affordable enough to out-compete airfare.