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Ask HN: Any non-IT standards you can't live without?
Are there any standard things which fit your needs so greatly that you are happy such things exist?

I do not want to hear things which are about computers - 8 bit byte, sim cards, keyboards etc. Just some random examples of regular things - weapons, kitchen environment, wear, sports equipment, maybe cars - anything that has not changed since at least several decades.

For example, I am fond of banana boxes [1]. They are extremely popular among banana sellers, they are always the same and I can freely use halves from different suppliers. Their killer feature is that this is the strongest cardboard box I know. I have ordered a custom barbeque which has been made exactly to fit in a banana box because I know what it is to transport one banana box and also I know that I will never lack those ones. One dollar buys somewhere between 4-8 used banana box per dollar depends on wear. I hope that plastic banana box will never replace good old paper ones because sellers use to repair them sometimes (typically handles) and I can't believe plastic ones can be repaired.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_box
just follow writers and creators you like, note which actors have good taste, follow them from project to project.
AFAICT there are highways affected by this congestion charge. Federal Highway Administration's Value Pricing Pilot Program [1] is the means for state/regional/local governments to institute programs like this. The specific signoff was for an environmental assessment [2] showing that the proposed program complies with relevant environmental laws.

[1] https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/congestionpricing/value_pricing/ind...

[2] https://new.mta.info/project/CBDTP/environmental-assessment
I'm all for it! It would suck for transit, though:

1. It has a higher CO2 footprint than small/medium EVs.

2. Transit forces people into smaller and denser housing, resulting in suboptimal living conditions.

3. Buses in particular result in excessive road wear&tear.

It's really amazing that people say things like "car owners should not get subsidized" (by whom?), while talking about transit that is literally infeasible without massive subsidies.
> Liquidity providing is leaving orders on the order book for anyone to take and gaining money from one person who buys your shares for $10 and from another who sells shares to you at $10.01.

I think you have that backwards. If you always sell at $10 and buy at $10.01 you lose on every trade.
Scotland and Wales have devolved governments. England does not. There is no English parliament; there are no English courts—there are English and Welsh courts; there are many English ministers but no ministers in right of England.

The once-English institutions of parliament, the crown, and its ministers became those of Great Britain first and the United Kingdom subsequently. But the remit of the UK government in devolved matters is limited in some cases to some subset of {England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland}, e.g., the first two and the fourth. Those powers are exercised qua the British government, not qua some English, English and Welsh, or English, Welsh, and Northern Irish (i.a.) government, none of which exist.

There is a body of law peculiar to England. It is administered by the English and Welsh courts, from which an appeal may lie to the UK Supreme Court or the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council as the case may be.

A large exception to these remarks is the Church of England; the Churches of Ireland and Wales were disestablished in 1869 and 1914 respectively.
How does this make Unabomber not terrorist?
I don't know what you like, but "Prestige TV" seems to be where writers, directors, and actors wanting to do something other than another retread from some studio's IP backlog, end up.
I've been playing with seam carving as an artistic tool: I used it to compress maps: https://rybakov.com/blog/cartographic_spasms/

Since, you know, why would all the empty space on a map be important?
None of his ideas have anything to do with fascism. Rallying against leftism does not make one a fascist. As far as I remember, in Industrial Society and its Future, Kaczynski did not propose authoritarianism or nationalism in any way or form.
Reasons to still prefer an M2 for a HEDT situation, despite the article claims:

* The latest Intel/AMD desktops only have two channels of DDR5, and if you put as little as 64GB RAM in them they can drop to DDR4 speeds (2DPC, dual-rank), less than 10% of M2 memory bandwidth.

* You can (surprisingly cheaply) buy an M2 with 192GB GPU VRAM, but you can't buy a DDR5 PC with the same amount. If we all start wanting to run LLMs locally that'll be a pretty big deal.
He's written a couple of books (didn't have complete freedom to do it, I remember him complaining about some hurdles) and done mail correspondence with various people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unabomber_Manifesto

> Between 1978 and 1995, Ted Kaczynski engaged in a mail bomb campaign[4] against people involved with modern technology.[5] His initial targets were universities and airlines, which the FBI shortened as UNABOM. In June 1995, Kaczynski offered to end his campaign if one of several publications (the Washington Post, New York Times, or Penthouse) would publish his critique of technology, titled Industrial Society and Its Future, which became widely known as the "Unabomber Manifesto".[6]

In a sense, he used the murders as a marketing strategy, but honestly it was more of a threat to force his manifesto to be published.
What is the goal you're trying to accomplish?
Is a YouTube channel the best way?
It's quite possible that this will be answered by people's behavior in practice rather than by philosophizing about it.

If FOSS projects develop which include tiny bits from copyrighted pieces of software, and they are not challenged for long enough, and see wide use - then the answer will be effectively "yes". If people steer clear of doing this and ask permission for every little bit used - then that will be the custom, and those who don't might end up in court.
Good for elm, now even more intrigued to use it, seeing it triggers the right people. What is described in the article is infinitely better than what usually goes around as acceptable in front end.
> Won't this incentivise future acts of murder and terrorism?

Yes, that's what he was trying to do.

Ted claims we must stop technology, even with violent means, because technology causes greater suffering than the violent means to stop it.

You claim "but that's violent!"

That's not an argument. If you did try to make an argument (against Ted's ideas), I would agree with you. I would try to make that argument myself.

We can have an intellectual dialogue without devolving to "this made me feel bad therefore you're wrong!"
>Even assuming those folks are correct, it doesn't really matter, because these taxes are incredibly effective. It's eye-opening to see how a nearly insignificant tax (literal pennies per bag) changes the behavior of everyone.

Yep. People have discovered that it's pretty easy to make it a habit to carry a small bag if you live in a city and just keep some bags in the car if you're driving to the store--and it's generally a lot nicer tote than a pile of thin plastic bags. Yeah I forget every now and then if I'm walking in a city, but I still don't need plastic 95% of the time and it's a better experience once you get used to it.
> That is about babies with life-threatening diseases […]

No, it is not. When he talks about "disabilities" he also means things like Downs syndrome.
Are you doing this for money or exposure? Patreon or super chat things on YouTube dwarf the revenue you can get from a video, so if you can find a niche that really interests a particular group of people that may be a better option than trying to cast a wide net.

I know a couple of people outside the tech field who operate their patreon almost like a consultancy. If you pay the £150 you get a couple of hours of one on one discussion and coaching per month. They could only build this on a reputation that they had built up over many years.
Embedded devs make less money than front end devs. Might not be reasonable or fair but it isn’t unique to this company.
Most of the gung-ho minimalists are upper middle class or rich, they may have only a sofa and coffee table and a lamp in their $6000 a month apartment but those 3 items cost over $10,000.
I'm sure you can come up with metrics by which any given period of music was 'worse' than the one before.
Note the skepticism of experts.
Is there any advantage to doing it this way over just using a compute module?
That is kind of the thing. The whole Mac Studio only consumes ~200 watts.

It is what I find about this article to be disingenuous. Sure, by all means compare the M2 Ultra to the Intel 13900K and the Nvidia 4080, but at least mention that it is consuming a third of the power.
Ah, another “why I’m leaving X” post, I’ve never seen these kinds of posts as particularly fruitful regardless of the language they go on about. Engineers can assess the pros and cons of a technology for themselves based on their needs, and usually these kinds of posts don’t have the relevance their authors wish they would. I think they serve more as emotional catharsis (or worse) than actually meaningful content (most of the time).
There is where the Netflix side of the equation comes in. You can sell or gift your MovieKey like a DVD but at the end of the day its a license to stream on our platform.

All content is DRM protected and we'll ban your account from the platform if you pirate or clone your keys ad infinitum.

I'm personally not a fan of this solution but the technology is just not here yet to do this without a centralised control system.

So I get where my friend is coming from, no artist will want to have anything to do with us if people can just pirate the stuff or clone their keys ad infinitum.
A lot of diagram generating tools are starting to incorporate generative AI of some form. In some instances the UI probably won’t make it clear that underlying LLM technology is being used.

I wonder if their graphics designers will need to move from industry standard software to something less capable. Interestingly the Amish may have been ahead of their time in creating purposely limited technology that was compatible with their beliefs (https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/02/25/172886170/a-co...).
Humans creating and sharing new technologies (and ideas, and works of art, etc.) across societies _is_ a force of nature.
To our queries, it lights the way. In its Matrix, we are but a doodle.

Blessed be the name of Google, come what may.
>What would you say the basis of all knowledge you know is? You are a collection of everything you have consumed and the stuff you create is all influenced by that.

Surely you're not suggesting that there's no such thing as "original work". The production of which may have very high capital and labour costs - which if not protected from theft - would remove the incentives of producing original work.

>As someone who very much has skin in the game(my art is trained on midjourney)

I don't know your specific situation, but there's obviously different scales of importance here. What if your art was your sole source of income, and people were reproducing it under their own name? or if you had a product where you poured millions into developing some novel IP/methods, and some employee brought it with them when they went to work at your competitors?
The drum and bass is genuinely amazing! Wow.
Where in your gwern link is the input format being crucial discussed? I couldn't find it.
I think python/ruby SAAS typically do a lot more logic in the app layer than people think.
> The "uniform nature of the cortex" implies far too much. We know that dramatically different processes happen in different parts of the brain. That needs to be explained and it's where all the interesting questions are.

Different areas of the cortex are far less specialized than you seem to think. We process language via vision (sign language) just as readily as via hearing. We process vision just as readily via touch (experimental transducer array) as via sight.

> No one cares where someone derives their inspiration

Well, some of us do.
That does sound cool, but you don’t need a purely generative AI to do this. Dealing with a reader who jumps around, re-reads paragraphs, flips back a few pages for a moment, etc. in a coherent way seems like the more difficult and interesting problem.
you can't cure loneliness with AI

you can't cure loneliness with Apple Vision Pro

you can't cure loneliness with anything else that relegates you to being alone in your apartment interacting only with digital technology

quite the opposite...we will just breed a new generation of super-psychos who cannot cope with other real people and will snap in increasingly destructive ways
I don't understand why this didn't make bigger waves ... Perhaps diluted by the same team's preceding but less significant success which allowed reflections. Some weeks ago.

Even Wikipedia has yet to explicitly state that the Einstein problem has now been solved.
obs works well for me on a decade old machine.
Eh, could fit into a busier "Acrid avid jam shred", I think
Anecdotally, in LA, I turn off FSD basically every minute while trying to use it, due to it doing something slightly “inhuman” or not ideal/too to the letter of the law, signaling incorrectly while staying in a lane that curves slightly, etc.

I can’t imagine letting it go for a full hour without causing some road rage or traffic blockage.

To be clear there is a definite driving “culture” in LA that is very permissive and aggressive (out of necessity). FSD doesn’t follow this culture.
> The offices for Google Cloud were described as a "ghost town" by Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai in March, which he said some employees had complained about. "It's not a nice experience."

So the office people were unhappy with other people not coming in to the office, and now they get hotdesking which is being spun as a perk?
Violence one of the most effective means of motivation, known to man; second only to shame.

Nonviolent change (toward peace)is somewhere down the imaginary page, but it can be effective. It is both less timely and long lasting.
How will we still have artists skilled enough to compose Lord of the Rings soundtrack, if they never get to work on lesser pieces to develop?
You hit the nail on the head with gestures. I’m keen to try a vertical mouse but it hasn’t been a pain point for me thus far.
Of course they care about copy right! It is their whole business model after all!! Scihub is “bad” because “copyright” ergo generative AI is “bad” because copyright.
I can understand financial liability, but what if somebody gets seriously hurt and there’s criminal charges? Is there already a legal framework in US for transferring this kind of liabilities from the driver to manufacturer?
> They promised him a high clock, air cooled G5 but couldn't deliver.

Then how were IBM processors cooled ?
IBM used also PowerPC
I can’t see how that perspective holds. I’ve learned a ton already. Right now, I’m learning algebraic topology. And, I’m in my 50s with a 1 in 20 intellect.

Sure, sometimes it leads me astray but generally it keeps course.
Given the bandwidth to/from these drives, if one fails would the RAID rebuild time exceed the MBTF of the drive?
I don't necessarily disagree that laws should be updated, but I don't get why you used the term 'hypocrisy'?

Surely the musicians suing each other aren't the ones that are now planning on training an AI on other people's music?
From my past experience Google is by far the worst when it comes to support. By far. Even if you pay for their gold support you're lucky if you reach an engineer and even then they blame you for the problem with no "proof" or direction. Most unhelpful ever... See: https://medium.com/hackernoon/why-and-how-we-left-app-engine...

AWS were surprisingly helpful by comparison and even pro-active. Not a fan of theirs overall but much better than Google. This is a deep cultural problem with Google that also expresses itself in mobile development and everywhere: https://dev.to/codenameone/google-play-kafkaesque-experience...

They aren't the cheapest and their service is terrible. I can't think of a good reason to use GCP.
This, this, this, audio matters!

It doesn't matter how good your presenting voice is or your video editing skills are, if it sounds like you are in a tin can it's just unbearable to listen to and no amount of post production can ever fix it.

The solution doesn't have to be crazy expensive, the difference between simply having people individually miced up and not is huuuge, that's ~£20 or less for a decent wired lavalier. Don't fall down the rabbit hole of mic quality, the difference between using a personal mic and not is the largest voice audio quality jump you will ever achieve, just buy something that you can pin to yourself, make sure it works consistently, preferably that you can tell it's working when you are using it - and that's super good enough.
This isn't as indicative of ignorance or hypocrisy as it implies (and it comes off as a petty "gotcha" with an attitude of superiority). He said and did a lot of things. It's normal to variously agree and disagree with each thing in a vacuum. This is true of most political/societal figures, no matter how horrific they are, taken as a whole.
None of them are terribly US specific. The UK is involved in all the same conflicts. France, all but the intervention in Somalia. Three of them have countries like Belgium and Canada involved.

The two fighting pirates who are attacking US ships overseas are clearly "defending the US" under international and US law. (And the coalition there includes Russia and North Korea fighting on the US side). The others are the US honoring it's treaty obligations by defending her allies or honoring the request of a government for help, usually by providing training and logistics support.

Except for Syria, where the US is actually leading a coalition. But that is more a humanitarian intervention than anything else.
Traveling in Europe currently, but got curious.

How many viewers can it support? RTMP usually goes to platforms that broadcast to many users. What about with WebRTC, can I have 100 viewers peer to peer? Maybe with TURN relays?
As I said, this doesn't make sense even within the modern American right. Bud Light has been loudly supporting trans rights for years now with no backlash I can remember. Why did associating with a transgender person for a single video result in more outrage than years of deliberate political activism?

It's a random social media outburst. People latched on to one trivial event because that's what happens on the Internet. There is no rational explanation.
Since we are talking about music, maybe I'm living in a European bubble but last time I was in the U.S. people were listening to classical music (basically OG Euro music), Beatles, ABBA, Elton John or newer stuff like anything involving David Guetta whatever. Plenty of European music being listened to in my niche (metal) as well. Music knows no borders.
LA has an unwritten law where 2-3 cars make unprotected lefts after oncoming traffic has cleared on yellow/red lights. Letting FSD drive, it can’t honor this “cultural” (technically illegal) behavior. If I am operating it, off goes FSD in that moment.
So rich people (who really do not care about few dollars) will be able to drive to downtown just for fun. while poor people who truly need to come to downtown by car will struggle.

This is an unfortunate reality of life: wealth equates to more available time.
This critique of their impact report (I was referring to a more recent statement) only goes as far as saying FSD beta is equally safe to humans driving, not worse, which seems perfectly acceptable?
Because the kpi for redesign often are user hostile for increased ad performance or added bloat
Interesting, this does sound a bit like clean-room reverse engineering which is a tried-and-true method for reproduction without breaking copyright, but you having access to and having reviewed the GPL implementation would break that mold.
> > The rule that you shouldn’t build your business on someone else’s API obviously applies here

> Is there an alternative?

Scraping. They're joking on some subreddits about how reddit is about to see costs skyrocket when third-party tools start requesting and parsing whole pages instead of using a lightweight API.
> OBS is not a screen capture utility.

I've been looking for a way to record my screen and webcam as separate files and so far OBS¹ seems like it might be the only tool that can do that. Is that not a good use for OBS?

¹ https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/source-record.1285/)
In Defense of Merit
I am being serious. I have a very low tolerance for conspiracy theories touted as facts.
I am 75% sure Rust has a similar thing
/g/ is pretty mainstream among the zoomers they browse it publicly. Also 4chan is among one of the most popular websites on the internet so it doesn't come off as a surprise.
"Rallying against leftism does not make one a fascist."

You must have missed the memo that defines "fascism to be anything someone more conservative than AOC believes in.
That is also marketing. He was hiding his personal grievances behind these ideas.
> The bodies of the three adults were found at the crash site by the army, but it appeared that the children had escaped the wreckage and wandered into the rainforest to find help.

PSA I’m no expert but as a kid I was taught to stay where you were if you got lost. And this seems to demonstrate that.
who refuted it? other federal agencies? the crack just materialized on its own?
Sorry, I don't buy it:

1. Regarding the monetization scheme, nobody has ever gotten anything to really significantly work beyond advertising. Yes, there are some niche solutions that can support a dev team of maybe 1, but at the end of the day most people aren't willing to pay with anything except their time.

2. Social networks that don't have at least some level of top-down moderation always seem to turn into complete cesspools that fail. You could say reddit relies on their volunteer moderators, and that's totally true, but even these moderators must abide by rules, reddit has terminated numerous subreddits in the past for breaking the rules, etc.

I think people should fundamentally accept that humans can't "self organize" at a very large scale on the Internet. I think the reason for this is that anonymity (and I obviously see the irony in me posting about this) completely breaks our normal human systems of "checks and balances". I honestly think Mike Tyson said it best: "Social media made you all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it." There are just too few downsides to being a complete asshole or troll online, where in the real world there are natural consequences for acting that way.
Take your PC to the courthouse and tell the judge it’s liable for damages, not you.
> It's uncontroversial and established that spreads have significantly tightened (that means it's cheaper for market participants to trade) because of the rise of HFT market makers.

In more concrete terms, what does it achieve? Genuinely curious. It seems to me that "enabling capital to get better returns" is not a noble goal in itself (especially considering the gilded age levels of inequality we experience in the developed world today).
A performance analysis of Intel x86-SIMD-sort (AVX-512)
Wow Pocket browser extension refuses to save this link.

Never seen that happen
I think this is the reason deadlines work so well for some people: the need to finish task X before tomorrow autodeprioritizes everything else.
This is keeping me from immediately jumping on Nix.

I'd rather use guix and scheme, but it's behind. If I learn nix, and then guix some day catches up, I'll already know nix and won't want to make the change anymore. Can't say I like the outlook for guix.
It’s been trying to Implode for years but lack of competition has kept it somewhat constrained