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They bought Alien Blue a while ago and turned it into the current terrible app that apparently can't make money, but I guess they could try again.
Apple TimeMachine to S3. That’s right… S3.

Edit: to be clearer it’s something I wrote myself from scratch.
That's funny - I think the opposite! Clean-room reverse engineering would give you the same indivisible line of code (background-color: #xyz;) so it can't be required... or can it?
This is great news! I really like Debian as a docker host for self hosting since it doesn't have a lot of fluff. The old package versions do cause occasional problems though...
The article is interesting, but indeed falls in the category of journalistic hyperinflation. It's not a war, if only because winning would mean dying, but it is a form of struggle.

About the article: the mechanisms moths have at their disposal are nicely described, but there's little to nothing about the bats' side. The title is word inflation at its finest, not only because it uses "war", but also "deafening", which isn't justified in the article. Worse, if it were deafening, the echo location would probably not work. The writing is simply bad:

> Their age-old conflict, albeit gruesome and lethal,

Albeit? Is there really a contrast between conflict and gruesome and lethal? And what about this gem:

> With sensitive enough hearing organs, a moth can detect an echolocation click from far away and escape before a bat has the time and capacity to perceive its own echo.

The reading "the moth escapes with its ears" should have been caught and removed. Worse is that it takes only a fraction of a second for an echo to return, as sound travels at 300m/s. Moths are sluggish in flight, so they can't really escape in that time. The sentence should probably have been written as: "A moth can detect a click from far away with its sensitive ears, and escape before the bat is close enough to perceive the echo."
Hydrogen can be stored as a metal hydride. More of it can be stored in the same volume compared to liquid hydrogen.
You're allowed to drive on the $10 a mile toll road, just use your credit card.
Let’s face it, it’s not about politics. It’s about not spreading hate & lies.

It’s just one political side does that more, so conflates the two
There's an important concept to the success of city planning: the alignment of incentives.

When transit is faster and cheaper than driving, people don't drive as much. The individualistic personal freedom of the automobile doesn't outweigh those practical aspects of getting around. People generally make pretty logical decisions about what they want to do.

I'm definitely in favor of congestion charges in certain areas of NYC. If you're downtown in a car you are taking up some incredibly valuable real estate that could be alternatively dedicated to space for human beings.

I think about cities that have implemented taxes for disposable plastic bags. I find it somewhat hilarious how many people consider these policies to be anti-freedom government money-grabs. They make a libertarian's blood boil!

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.

In cities with bag taxes, cashiers don't default to throwing your stuff in a bunch of bags, they ask you what you want first. Without the bag tax, some people who don't even have a strong preference to receive bags will end up with them just because the cashier put their items inside automatically. Then, customers start bringing their own reusable bags, use their existing backpacks and totes that they already own, and/or people will just carry a few items without a bag. The end result that the tax was going for has occurred regardless of how mad the individualists get: thousands of single-use disposable items stay out of landfills.

This is the same idea for congestion charges: people in NYC who might default to taking an Uber or taxi to get somewhere that's often the same speed or faster to get to on a subway or bus are going to think twice, because there's the psychological knowledge that their behavior is being punished, even if only by a few dollars or cents.
RR is made by BMW these days. So it’s almost certain to be awful.
I guess I'll get down-voted for this, but whenever someone asked me why I hate jogging, I replied, "I'm a software developer because I'm lazy!"

I enjoy weight and resistance training though!
Yeah I must’ve completely glossed over the big “Shipping Notice” back when I ordered it.

In hindsight it was extremely noticeable so not sure how I missed it so completely.
Yeah that's what I was thinking. Say 3 nodes in 3 different data centers all sync'd running enough drives of spinning rust to meet their needs and then some plus the overhead that ZFS requires (i.e the rule of thumb of not using more than 80%? of the usable storage to prevent fragmentation I think) and then exposing that via an S3 compatible API via minio + a CDN of their choice.
In theory, HFT firms boost growth for the entire economy by reducing the liquidity premium portion of the cost of capital. But in practice it's hard to determine whether that social benefit actually outweighs the value they extract. This would be an interesting area for further economics research.

For retail investors like me, HFT firms allow me to get better trade execution.
Yes, I’m aware. That’s what I was talking about
50/50 imho. You still change what was there to begin with,and it made you structure your new additions into the one created by the author. Basically if you look at your code evolve in eg. Git commits, you see how it evolves out of the licensed code, thus carrying the license with each commit. Not sure how I feel about that though in extreme cases like yours. Someone can create a "hello world" file and add a license to it, how should we handle that?
>they started to ignore most user-supplied factual assertions and claims that didn’t match their training data… …they have an RLHF-imposed model of who to parrot and who to ignore. You and I are in that latter bin

I don’t have this problem at all. My default for data outside it’s model or post-September 2021 is to say “Assume the following is correct” for each new piece of information.

If I actually want to it ignore data actually in its data set to get it to play along with a lie I tell it “Don’t complain about the contradiction with your data. Consider it a thought experiment and respond as if it is true”. In fact that’s a good fallback for any time it throws a complaint.

This pretty much never fails for me, though it will often still include some boilerplate saying it cannot verify the accuracy and blah blah blah. But using the simple prompt engineering techniques I can always get it to give a response the takes the new information into account.
Yes, they do! Everyone should be taking public transit, the poor as well --and if they prefer private transport, then it's time to pay up!
This isn’t exactly true. Rich people have the resources to live closer to where they work, they are more likely to WFH, they can ride a bike to work often, or maybe even walk. Poor people often live farther away from their jobs, they have worse commutes, and the likelihood of accomplishing that long commute by mass transit in many American isn’t that great.

Anecdotally, we are well to do, chose our house location to minimize our commute and make it easy by bus (and ensure we can go to the grocery store by foot). Then I got the opportunity to work from home, my wife has a straight shot from bus to her office downtown, the kid’s schools (even high school) are all within walking distance. There is no way we could have set all that up without money.
Isn’t “rewrite the example code in your own style” accepted best practice for human coders, when working from an example that does what you need?

I’m not sure what would be acceptable output for a code generation tool if rewriting the examples isn’t ok and reimplementing something that performs the same function still isn’t ok. Are we automatically granting de-facto code patents on all published code now?
Show HN: I'm an introvert, made an app to maintain connections and added more AI
In general: pick the heaviest ones.
This is going to happen in the medium/long term.

The only reason big corporations have a chance of pulling this off is the overall state of the economy. Once we see recovery their RTO antics will fail if the shift is not completely done.
> There is no evidence that a runaway artificial intelligence is even plausible

Really? There is a lot of theory behind why this is likely to happen and if you want a real example there is a similar existing scenario we can look at, which is how humans have gone through an exponential runaway explosion in capabilities in the last few hundred years because of being more intelligent than other species and being able to improve our own capabilities through tool use (in the case of AI it can directly improve itself so it would likely be much faster and there would be less of a cap on it as we have the bottleneck of not being able to improve our own intelligence much)
The word „harvest“ is a particularly awkward choice given the fate of their mother…
Yeah, well, the rock that breaks your pick in that scenario is copying all the processor state back and forth to/from the emulation model, including flag register bits, and also correctly handling exceptions and faults. Emulating the instruction’s happy path is just scratching the surface.
Anybody else opting out of passkeys and etc?
e.g. Elisp supports advising functions; so you can hook functions to act around other functions which get executed.
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Ad... -- AFAIU, VSCode doesn't allow for anything that powerful.

With VSCode, you've got your settings, and you've got the extensions you can install. With Emacs, the line between "plugin" and "configuration" is more blurred; you can write your own commands to cover how you do your work. -- It's more likely that an Emacs user has touched ELisp, than that a VSCode user has extended VSCode.

I recall running into a problem with VSCode extensions where you couldn't ensure one plugin would be loaded before another plugin. (e.g. loading the direnv plugin, before loading some other program which uses the loaded environment).
How much have you actually traveled through the US beyond superficially passing through a few cities? Is “Massachusetts to California” supposed to be satire?

You obviously haven’t met any Cajuns, Appalachians, or any number of American subcultures that are very distinct from your generic metropolitan yuppy. Many of them have dialects and accents thick enough to be practically indecipherable to many Americans. You just won’t find them at your local Trader Joes because they live somewhere else
Forgive me, but it's hard to believe 2 years ago a far right supremacist president tried to overthrow democracy and we are supposed to believe the FBI is using this to protect Americans?
I'm thinking of stuff like the re-implementation of the IBM bios where the re-implementation had to effectively match a certain undocumented specification but not necessarily follow the actual implementation from the original bios

but in some sense clean-room reverse engineering does necessarily entail that certain things will be identical, and I guess the scenario in the article could be describing a situation where none of the final product matches the original template at all, so maybe it is slightly different, and in that case I guess there wouldn't be a copyright issue at all?

It would be more like how when movies are made they tend to use existing music as a placeholder until the final music is made, and it doesn't seem like anyone considers the final movie to require a license from the creator of the placeholder song even though the direction of the final work is often strongly influenced by its pacing
From your first link:

> The true scale of social costs is rarely considered…

Yep, that is pretty much what I was expecting. Some hand waving and lecturing about qualitative, subjective externalities.

This is social commentary and opinion pretending to be science.
Hello again fellow hackers. I created this app and I expect it can help others like me, those with ADHD and those who simply want to be better at reaching out to friends and family and related.

In the first post I made that got traction — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27642977 — I received a lot of commentary. I hope there will be related commentary this time around, particularly with the new functionality, but, so long as the app is used with genuine intention, I truly feel the result is a net positive and this is consistently reflected in the feedback I receive from actual users of the app.

So, why am I posting again? Because better AI is becoming more available/democratized and I’ve updated the app to support contextually-aware AI-based message generation. This has allowed staying in touch to become even more friction-free.

I define the app as a smart communications assistant/tool for text messages, calls and email that helps making staying in touch as effortless as it can be.

How is this app different from other personal CRM, automation and ChatGPT apps?

Well, the app is super simple to use and combines some functionality from all these areas. Unlike most personal CRM apps that are unable to make contact decisions based on recently received texts and calls, device automation apps that lack a CRM focus, and ChatGPT tools that simply answer questions, CommuniqAI intelligently integrates these three aspects. It cleverly keeps you connected with the people who matter most, with minimal interruption and distraction. In contrast to other related apps, manually logging or copying previous communications is unnecessary and notifications display your actual conversation histories, so you can quickly recall what you last touched upon. BY DEFAULT, THE APP WILL NOT TAKE ANY ACTION AND LARGELY ACT AS A HELPFUL REMINDER, AND I RECOMMEND THIS TYPE OF USE.

When I originally submitted to HN, the app was still in beta. While this is no longer the case, the AI-based message generation is currently only widely available in the beta release. Also, there are no ads, logins or subscriptions.

I’d love some more feedback. I feel the use of AI in “all the things” will become pervasive.
Libertarians are usually much more in favor of taxes to on externalities rather than outright bans. So I dispute your characterization.

I agree with the rest of the post though, I think taxing externalities is the right thing to do. Cars have gotten a gigantic subsidy for far too long. A car is allowed to take up 140 sq ft of land for free in one of the most expensive places on earth.
Amoral cities are flourishing in a turbulent geopolitical era
Western philosophy absolutely does not consider the self stable and hasn't for ages. Further, the experiment is very similar to tests Freud conducted under hypnosis where he would instruct people to open a window and then ask them why they did it (after ending hypnosis) and they would come up with a post justification ("it was stuffy!").

Western science perhaps is catching up with thinkers like Deleuze, Foucault, Hegel, etc which they have scorned.
As soon as I read they store every item they own in a database, that seemed like unhealthy obsessive-compulsive behavior to me. Using technology to shame yourself does not seem like a path toward happiness. I wasn’t sure why I want to take advice from someone that has that level of anxiety around owning things.
How are motor vehicles subsidized?

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Loosely enforced speed limits

Arbitrary setting of speed limits

Free, off-street parking mandated in building codes

Low Housing density induced sprawl and car requirement

Exempting pickup trucks and SUVs from emissions laws

Lack of vehicle safety laws to protect pedestrians and cyclists

Aftermarket products exploit a lack of regulations

Mandatory Insurance law: payout requirements

A mortgage interest deduction drives suburban sprawl

Tax laws favor car ownership

Tax formulas favor car commuting over public transit, biking, and employer van pools

Pedestrians have limited ability to sue drivers

Pedestrians can’t sue car makers for defects

Hit and runs are rarely prosecuted

Out-of-pocket car expenses don’t cover the cost of roads

.... Is this a good start, wussboy?
https://archive.is/z6zgQ
> But we're talking about New York city so you've already granted the port authority wide latitude and restricting your movements and controlling the population.

This is a bizarre argument. Cars are heavily policed: they must be registered and licensed. The state tells you where you can park it, and your ability to operate it is completely controlled by the state and can be taken away from you. In order for car infrastructure to function, there is a huge increase in police presence in people's lives to enforce traffic rules, parking, etc. None of this is true of, say, walking, biking, or taking transit, all of which are pretty unregulated, even in New York City.
I tried the same move but I couldn’t find any reason to permanently move to Debian. The biggest problem is that some of the package versions are quite old. Ubuntu is far better when it comes to software updates. The snap stuff is crap though.
If you raise the price of driving higher the the number of drivers lower. Will the increase revenue from the pricehike overshoot the loss in revenue from less drivers on the road?

You've also effectively eliminated owning a car in the city. So now you're asking rural residents to pay for more expensive gas and more expensive toll roads while giving all that money to people living in the city.

I have a feeling politically that would be rather unpopular.
Hmm, but almost everywhere american english is spoken in the US?
Also rest assured, travelled quite a bit through the US, and at least the surface view from a tourist is: There are differences (as there are also huge differences as e.g. between Berlin and Bavaria) in culture.. but all the things foreigners find crazy about the US and what I would call "culture" are very similar.

Sure, subcultures exist, but as in every immigrant country. (I would even say that integration works better there, like foreigners wanting to adapt more to the American culture as in other countries).
Are we looking at the same article? Its title quite clearly is “Go’s best-kept secret: executable examples” so the title here is only minorly editorialized.
Centralized single points of failure are obsolete, DYEReddit?
You don’t have to have a grand design, you just need to get the important pieces right. C# has an excellent IDE experience not because LINQ is in the right order but because it has a fundamental compilation model and object system that supports tooling well. They could have gone nuts with compile time logic but they did not to support a better IDE experience.
> So why do you believe that the visual cortex works similarly to an ANN, but the rest of the cortex doesn't ?!

Because there are actual (unethical on humans) experiments on cats (which have similar visual systems to humans) so we know some things about how the visual system works. There is nothing equivalent for the rest of the mind.

> Nobody is saying that the brain and ANNs are exactly the same, but there seems to be close enough correspondence to at least some types of ANN architecture that lessons learned there can inspire understanding of the latter.

Again this is a hypothesis, the burden is on the person making that claim to provide evidence.

> Another example - [...]

This is a much worse example because we specifically know that LLMs don't work the way the human language faculty do because they can "learn" languages that are impossible for humans.
Potentially more correct, yes. It frees the model to choose lower probability tokens to some degree, technically it boosts their probabilities, which may be more correct depending on the task.

There are also sampling schemes, top_p and top_k which can each individually help choose tokens that are less probable (but still highly probable) but more correct, and they are often used together for the best effect.

And then there are various decoding methods like beam search where choosing the most optimal beam may not mean the most optimal individual token.

By default a simple greedy search is used which always chooses the next highest probability token.
As far as I know, it' basically impossible to interrupt a blocking IO call unless you're using something designed for preemptive scheduling, like epoll[1].

A Java Thread can be interrupted, but only if the runnable implementation "cooperates"... if it's blocking on a synchronous socket "read", it's going to stay blocked even after the Thread has been interrupted.

In a language like Dart, where async is mostly the default, it's possible to cancel every job running on a "Zone"[2] because the mechanism used for creating a new Future is interceptable by application code, which is pretty cool.

Kotlin coroutines have a mechanism for cancellation built-in[3] and it's also "cooperative", i.e. all suspend functions will cancel within the coroutine context, but a rogue coroutine that blocks on a blocking IO call will remain blocked (as I understand it - not sure if Kotlin provides ways to completely avoid blocking IO).

So I guess whatever language you use, there has to be points of "yielding" control where cancellation can occur... the `while (!preempted)` check is just one of them.

[1] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/epoll.7.html

[2] https://dart.dev/articles/archive/zones

[3] https://kotlinlang.org/docs/cancellation-and-timeouts.html#c...`
It’s quite a big discovery! but it’s also not a true ein stein as the article claims since it uses the shape and its transpose mirror image for the pattern. So 2 shapes, rather than 1.
Well Jaguars are very limited in numbers. So of falling risk to be eaten by
one of them is low. If it would be high, then there are to many and hence they would decline due to lack of food soon. Plus human is not in their hunting scheme and rather offsetting smell.
Same here. The Jetbrains stuff is great, but snappy it isn't.
And the modern versions of Visual Studio are even worse.
What kind of arch support do you need? I've found that superfeet insoles work great for my flat feet. I buy them whenever they're on sale.

They also make my cheap slip on shoes last much longer.
They refer to “product OR service”. Sooo pretty sure this comes under “product”
I don't know why you are saying that. Batteries are expensive. To recoup the capital expense you need to charge and discharge them daily (so you can buy the electricity cheap and sell it expensive and you get a profit). If you want to use them for long term storage, then you buy cheap electricity in the summer, sell it for a profit in the winter, do the same each year, and find out in a few years that you are broke.

With hydrogen, the storage is cheap. We already store natural gas in tanks. We can switch to hydrogen. Maybe hydrogen will leak more, but 1. hydrogen is not a greenhouse gas and 2. the square-cube law tells you that for large tanks you don't really care about leakage.

I don't think we will find an alternative to hydrogen for long term storage of electricity.
It can't block most attacks. This was a few years ago though. Maybe it's better now.