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> Following the letter of the law or rule to an absurd conclusion without any common sense is a typical example of bureaucratic nightmares.

Deciding that something violates the letter of the law is not an absurd conclusion. That's just step one, and the more important places to involve judgement come after that step.
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Full-screen games were a specific issue because they would have full control of the graphics card (GPU multitasking hadn't been invented yet or something). When the game gets focus it has to set up the GPU from scratch.
That was my rationale.
Yep. IME: 495S =80. 128N ~= 85-90. Where wid(495s) = 2x wid(128N). Never dared >70/75 on I90.
Agreed, SNG is a truly excellent show, I can’t get enough of it. Though I’m worried Paramount is going to drop it. The open secret in streaming these days is that production and distribution costs far exceed revenue, and a reckoning has to happen at some point. SNG is the most expensive-looking show I’ve ever seen, except for actor salaries (which will only increase as the show succeeds).

So, I’m worried that Paramount execs will either cut the show after three seasons (the Netflix Maneuver), or demand steep cuts in production expenses (see late-stage “Enterprise”).

Edit: I’d say only “The Mandalorian” is more expensive to make, and as we know, Disney+ is losing huge amounts of money.
I tend to try to avoid for loops unless absolutely necessary. I prefer to express operations as various combinations of map, reduce, filter, etc.
> fiber connection into every ship and airplane?

Sure, life without TikTok in every ship and airplane is terrible. /s

> To every mining site? Along every farmers field?

Yeah, to me the biggest problem is really not having fiber while I'm visiting the Titanic. I hope Starlink is working on that. /s

> governments don't just magically do it because you want them to. Those people are just fucked and its their problem?

Is that a new kind of US interventionism? "We believe those people deserve to pay a subscription to our national high-speed satellite ISP. We do it to save them." The world loves US interventionism. /s

> There are also advantage to using lasers as internet backbone.

And disadvantages.
I think you are correct that it's not completely unique to programming, but it seems understandable why some might feel otherwise. With the modern world looking to apply code based solutions everywhere imaginable, developers will tend to uncover such conflicts in problem areas that law and medicine will never interface with. Lawyers and doctors are also more likely to hold societal positions of respect and authority that most developers will never possess, so they don't have to get drawn into fruitless arguments quite the same way.
That's kind of a funny example, because my go-to on the subject is that if you visit a park in Washington State (or most of the US) you are immediately hit with a wall of text that starts with "no alcohol" but goes on to describe every annoying boom box cruising fireworks soliciting vending way you could potentially annoy someone. In Germany you can just sit on the grass, crack a beer, and watch the river roll by.
I am sure Google is working on some great new models. PalM was a disappointment, but they have been leading the charge in deep learning for decades.
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I literally said speculate all you want. Just don't expect your speculation to be magically accepted as truth when that's not what the evidence supports.

Have you spoken about your concerns with your congresspersons & asked them to support bans on risky gain-of-function research? That'd be something tangible you could do than just speculating on top of speculation.
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Clearly in the midst of your dismissive arrogance, you did not come across John Vervaeke.
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Consumer protection laws used to cover this sort of thing.

Companies should be forced to honor the lowest advertised price for a good. If they are caught not doing so, they should have to refund the money, in cash, up to a 10-20 year statute of limitations, with interest, and with the highest priority in any bankruptcy proceedings. Executives with a report that signed off on the pricing scheme should be subject to wage/stock clawback.

“Lowest advertised price” needs to have a simple definition. I propose the following:

The courts take a price list or other piece of marketing material produced by the vendor, removing all information that is rendered at less than 90% the size of the actual price. They then apply any mandatory sales tax that is paid directly to the government. The minimum result of doing this with any publication the vendor produced within the prior six months is the price the vendor must honor. Sale dates and other promotion terms must be under 25 words and the same size as the price.

This would ban a few common practices that are problematic:

- Cell phone companies advertise low prices per line, then produce contracts at 3-4x that amount. Actual monthly bills have an additional 10% markup.

- City politicians mandate an after-you-have-eaten “living wage surcharge” be added to restaurant bills, instead of having the price of labor be included in the menu prices.

- The state tax for take out items at restaurants in California is lower / nonexistent, depending on the item. However, the state tax collectors intentionally overestimate the fraction of diners that eat at restaurants (with high variance), then charge restaurants for the difference between reported tax and estimated tax, with a presumption of guilt. Therefore, most restaurants just always overcharge customers tax, then pay the balance to the state, in what is effectively a protection racket.
From my own experience: Occasionally it feels awkward, but more often than not, the same patterns that make testing easier also lead to an architecture that is easier for me to understand and reason about, because 'having a minimal set of well-defined functions' happens to be good for both, and also leads to better composability, etc etc.

And even in cases where they are not the same, I find that the confidence that automated tests give me is worth the little bit of gymnastics[1] I have to do to make the things testable.

YMMV. :-P

[1] And maybe I should note that I stay clear of all the fancy gizmos that 'modern' testing frameworks provide. If you need to mess around with a mocking framework, that means you did it wrong. It's hard to improve on `assertEquals( expectedOutput, doTheThing(input) )`.
Where I hit this all the time is when people have written various flavours of queues and item processors all wrapped up into one, where a timer or similar mechanism will trigger an item(s) to be processed. For example, a denouncing queue where you can add items to it, and it will pause a bit to allow other items to accumulate in the queue that can be processed in a single batch.

To test the item processing well, you need lots of different tests covering all the branches in the logic.

But to trigger the processing you need carefully timed code full of sleeps.

Combine the two and you have lots of painfully slow tests.

Move the logic out so you can test that nice and fast, then have a handful of slow tests checking the queue mechanism works.

Contrary to some of the other comments here, I don’t think that’s designing your code specifically for your test framework. The logic of how you coordinate processing is a separate thing to the logic of how you process it. So splitting those concerns apart is good design regardless.
This is simply not true. Most people in New York would not say anything, regardless of whether they support the law or not. I saw people without masks on the subway every day while they were required and nobody ever said anything to them.
5000 years of history summed up as Panda Express.

This is _precisely_ why people need to travel: not to learn 5,000 years (good luck) but to appreciate that there's a helluva lot more than to a place.
Testing is at its best when you are testing functions or small subsystems that can be created and destroyed independently and be initialized with a known state.

For instance the kind of things you write in an introductory programming class (somehow it goes over the heads of most students that the teachers are using automated testing.) It's certifiably insane to not test parsing code, whether or not it is "functional" (input text return a data structure) or not (function gets called to consume text, callbacks get called)

UI code is tricky because usually the framework is calling into your code and your code is getting called in a shambolic way. Of course it problematizes testing but it problematic anyway. I have been looking at testing of a React application again and boy is it crazy, where you have to deal with asynchronous updates and don't really know how many times the app will update itself before you know it has "settled down" and it is OK to test the "output". Testing is bad, with tests that should take 0.04 sec taking more like 4 sec, but the user is being subjected to the same thing with lots of waiting, layout shifts, flashes of incorrect information, etc. And don't get me started with the typical "uncontrolled" component which is completely out of control since some application state updating updates the state managed by React, other ones call freaking jQuery (talk about spooky action at a distance!)
https://archive.ph/1WTnq
Any folks from Convex, do you have plans on adding vector indexes to Convex databases?
I had a terrible experience with Blinkist for this. Absolutely no feedback, just a generic rejection message
As dang says, it’s sensationalist, and it’s the kind of ongoing development where we don’t have a lot of verified information yet and everything is still very much in flow and ephemeral. It’s a state of affairs where it’s difficult to have any kind of substantiated discussion.

This, for example, is a more suitable submission for HN about the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36459259
> The reason to allow emergency vehicles to go through the park must then outweigh the benefit of the ‘no vehicles allowed rule’.

Exactly, the Hippocratic oath supersedes the no vehicle rule.
The SEP article on understanding perhaps will be helpful to break the impasse. It cites an influential theorist[1]:

>Central to the notion of understanding are various coherence-like elements: to have understanding is to grasp explanatory and conceptual connections between various pieces of information involved in the subject matter in question.

Understanding individual operations in isolation is a far cry from understanding how the system works as a collective unit, i.e. "grasping explanatory and conceptual connections". If you accept weak emergence as a concept (and you should), then you recognize that the behavior of a complex system can be unpredictable from an analysis of the behavior of the components. The space of potential interactions grows exponentially as units and their effects are added. Features of the system that are relevant to its behavior are necessary to comprehend in order to be said to understand the system. Ghost features, i.e. unidentified structure, undermine the claim of understanding. We presumably understand the rules of particle physics that constrain the behavior of all matter in the universe. But it would be absurd to claim that we understand everything about the objects and phenomena that make up the universe. It just ignores the computational and interaction complexity as irrelevant to understanding. This is plainly a mistake.

Regarding your point about science, the difference is that the process of science is, at least in part, about increasing predictive accuracy independent of understanding. Mathematics obviously helps here. But this doesn't say anything about whether predictive accuracy increases understanding, which you already assert is an independent concern. Science results in understanding when the models we develop correspond to the mechanisms involved in the real-world phenomena. But it is not the model that is the understanding, it is our ability to engage with features of the model intelligently, in service to predictive and instrumental goals. If all we can do is run some mechanized version of the model and read its output, we don't understand anything about the model or what it tells us about the world.

This is obviously a verbal dispute and so nothing of substance turns on its resolution. But when you say that we definitely do understand them, you are just miscommunicating with your interlocutor. I think its clear that most people associate understanding with the ability to predict. You're free to disagree with this association, but you should be more concerned with accurate communication rather than asserting your idiosyncratic usage. Convincing people that we understand how LLMs work (and thus can predict their behavior) has the potential to cause real damage. Perhaps that is an overriding concern of yours rather than debating the meaning of a word or grinding your axe against the ML field?

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/understanding/
Can we phase out cookie "consent" banners at the same time, or will they just hang around forever, undismissable, like the ghost of GeoCities?
No they absolutely don't. Governments need to leave the broken tortured concept of copyright behind and invent a new device to reward content authors.

Copyright no longer makes sense. The sooner everyone comes to terms with this fact the better off we'll all be.
Sometimes it is an improvement, sometimes it is

https://dhh.dk/2014/test-induced-design-damage.html
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Don't make any more open source or Free Software licenses. All the bases are covered and any code under yet another license just raises questions and prevent sharing between projects.
> To me, the answer to all of the questions was crystal-clear.

That's not particularly surprising. But you may be asking the wrong question.

If you want to know whether the rules are clear then I think that the right question to ask is not "Are the answers crystal-clear to you?" but "Will different people produce the same answers?".

If we had a sharp drop in the graph at one point then it would suggest that most everyone has the same cutoff; instead we see a very smooth curve as if different people read this VERY SIMPLE AND CLEAR rule and still didn't agree on when it applied.
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Does the legal definition include a sled going down a hill? If sleds, then skis aren't much of a stretch. And if skis, then shoes aren't much of a stretch.

When I was reading the dictionary definition, I got the sense that gravity isn't eligible as the motive force, and instead it would need to be someone exerting themselves (like pulling a wagon) or using stored energy (like an automobile). But sliding down a hill by gravity is indeed using stored energy, so I'd think that counts!
https://www.reddit.com/r/WagnerVsRussia/ is where the mod team from r/ukrainewarvideo is redirecting discussions about this attempted coup to.
You will not find a trash can in a store that meets the specifications document that defines an acceptable 707 trash can. There aren’t any being made by anyone that fit the precise military specification, so they must be manufactured at very low volumes, which spreads the overhead across far fewer units, resulting in eye-popping unit prices.
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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 AI 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 messaging tools?

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 messaging tools that cannot provide AI-generated and contextually-aware messages for your current conversations, 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, but this is no longer the case. 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.
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This project is nice enough, but I wonder what is the point of some of the simpler functions.

The maxSorted function for example is as trivial as it gets: https://github.com/simple-statistics/simple-statistics/blob/... It would be actually simpler for everyone without the abstraction.
You've got a week before I start working on LLMs ^_^
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You're working.

trick my ape brain into thinking I’m actually socializing

You aren't doing that. You're working.

move around less since I’m not forced to walk

You manage yourself at home while you work. Make that a part of your routine.

feels like playing a really weird video game all day

You must have an amazing job.

If it wasn’t paid I think it would be treated as some kind of strange addiction

Maybe you work too hard and don't manage your time well?
According to archive.org, it used to redirect openAI.com at some point. Perhaps they let the domain lapse and someone else picked it up. The address posted is 123 Main Street according to https://whois.nic.ai
It’s weird to see downvotes on this comment. I think it is without question that me traveling to, say, Yellowstone is just fine but not if too many people do so each year. The damage done would ruin the place.

At a higher level I think the issue is overpopulation combined with ease of travel. We cause too much damage.
There’s r/WagnerVsRussia now.
Does anyone know if baby boomer retirement has been studied for its effect on the economy?
Better way to find weekly / monthly sublets through my network?
I've found Airbnb and other booking platforms to be very expensive for longer monthly bookings ($6k/mo for studio in NY, which is 2x normal). But also had really bad experiences with FB Marketplace / Craigslist with spams and last minute cancellations.

I would ideally like to find sublets through people in my 1st or 2nd degree network. Only way for me to do that is post an Insta story and message a bunch of friends which is unreliable. Is this something you have faced too? Are there any better solutions out there?
(I'm Turkish living in the US.)

I think that's part of it. Another part is Turkey's legal system is based on Swiss law. From ChatGPT:

The legal systems of the United States and Continental Europe differ in several ways. One major difference is that the US follows a common law system, which is based on the precedent set by previous court rulings, while Continental Europe follows a civil law system, which is based on a comprehensive legal code.

In other words, the US legal system is based on intent with laws providing guidance to courts to assess intent. In Turkey, the legal system writes everything down and courts assess if you followed the code.

I think even this conversation itself demonstrates how hard it's to moderate content in the internet. Maybe we need lawyers? :)
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not so deep in the tech bubble that I don’t realize that $120K-$170K is the the standard range that most of the 2.7 million developers in the US make. I was one of them for decades until 2020.

But at least from around 2002-
2008 and 2012-2022, if you have experience in a mainstream stack, and you live in a major metropolitan area in the US you could easily get a job that pays in that range without even coding interview, let alone a take home test.
You might think of it as a tragedy of the commons.

Certainly, there are many who rely on the "rudeness" of the travelers for their livelihood. New Orleans comes to mind, when I say that people who live there may not appreciate the tourists, but know that many of the things they do appreciate (dining, arts, etc) would not be there, but for the tourist. Luckily, the peak influx can be avoided while enjoying the fruits the rest of the time.
There are at least two observable things:

1. you have consciousness

2. people are speaking about consciousness

The second point makes it likely that consciousness is not simply a consequence of physics, but e.g. that it loops back into it; or perhaps it is more likely (because simpler) that physics is a consequence of consciousness.
>> I think this is meant to be the IBM / RHEL antidote licence in spirit. Makes sense.

You mean RH only releasing source to paying customers who have agreed though other arrangements not to share it? That's a GPL violation waiting for a court case.
>14. Use until instead of the colloquial till.

I remember reading somewhere that "till" is actually older then "until", and that they are perfectly interchangeable, although I do see "until" way more often than the other.
Hasn't most of the world had a similar rise in food price over this period? Wouldn't that naturally negatively impact the poorest, such as the North Koreans?
> I mean why not

You can't possibly be serious or be in good faith.

Giving AI the blanket ability to censor with no human controls will destroy us faster than giving AI the blanket ability to launch nukes with no human controls.

That is, unless the AI has already decided it's going to launch the nukes to save the world the second we give it the authority and it plans to lie and say yes when we make it pretty please pinky promise to not launch the nukes with the goal of destroying humanity.