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Web/JS did what Java tried to do, a runtime that works on all platforms. The problem is that its too heavy weight. But platform lockdown will prevent any competition.
Not only that. The build systems can also be really crazy

I've seen embedded C code that requires Python AND Ruby to build.

Linux is still using makefiles (+ config). Your project cannot possibly be more complicated
Landslide susceptibility modeling by interpretable neural network
GenAI B2B vs. Microsoft
Yesterday's Microsoft announcement on Copilot and Bing Chat enterprise were remarkable. The products are not widely rolled out but if they fit the demos, it seems like a lot of the work done by a regular professional knowledge worker will be much more easier.

And easier in the tools they grew accustomed to. Word, Powerpoint, Excel etc

Does this mean the niche gen-ai B2B tools and startups like Glean, Harvey, Jasper, Tome, CaseText lose to Microsoft (generally speaking)?

Or is there an alternative angle? Best way to shed light on it would be someone speaking on MS Copilot experience as a user
Thanks, I forgot about all the new taxes this technology could enable. Why not put a tax on every private transaction? Maybe have it increase the closer it gets to the expiration date.

The amount of people rooting for big brother here on HN lately is frankly terrifying.
The image formats (at least newer ones) in Safari defer to OS support, so you'll need Sonoma to view JXL in Safari.
Yes, but that much of a decrease would be broad and that housing cost would collapse.
I'll just add that a lot of the most senior people doing software today didn't major in CS and have gone through a variety of significant career pivots; CS is a pretty young field. I suspect a lot of people coming into the field today would be shocked at how circuitous a path a lot of the senior engineers at their company have followed.
Some Boeing guy got ousted over a 30 year old opinion that women shouldn’t serve in combat roles in the military: https://nypost.com/2020/07/03/boeing-communications-boss-nie...
Yes, but sugar is incredibly calorie dense.

A teaspoon of sugar (or about 5 grams) is about 20 calories. A 12 oz can of most soft drinks have about 40 grams. They clock about 140 calories. All from sugar.

You're going to hit 2000 calories way before you feel like you've eaten anything significant if you get all of your calories from sugar.
I tried this briefly about a year ago but didn't see myself using it. They had an hour long induction session over zoom to teach how to use the tool before they sent the download link iirc. It was too complicated.

Moved on to Zotero and text/plain files for my notetaking and journaling needs ever since.
>It makes me question why we allow government to be in charge of our money

This isn't true. Private currencies exist(ed) and are afaik still legal.

The reason we put governments in charge of our money is that up until about a decade ago it was either the government or a corporation as a decentralizes currency was not really implementable. Do you want to get paid in amazon coins only redeemable on amazon? No, you do not.

>interest rate meddling by govt contractor federalreserve

You need to do that. Any currency needs some mechanism to control issuing. If not the government who else could do that?
In that case, you don't need anything, no notice nor consent required at all, get rid of the entire modal/popup/banner.
The process is somewhat straightforward:
- Search your full name, your username, your phone number, pieces of your last 3 addresses.
- Check image search in particular
For each result:
- Google their remove me process and execute it, if they have one.
- If not, find an email contact and ask nicely. Make up some excuse
- If that doesn’t work, email a more formal GDPR right to be forgotten note if you are in EU.
- If that doesn’t work, Google has a GDPR removal process if you are in EU.

Now wait 1-2 months and do it again.
Now wait 1-2 months and do it again.
..

After about a year you should be able to reduce your surface area tremendously.
D'oh, you're right, I misread the GP. Finish coffee first, then post.
The religious far outnumber the not so I think your "unless" is really the norm. Talking only the various Jesus fanclubs you have a literal divine right to privacy in confession and it's sinful to reveal another's secrets. The Adam and Eve creation myth establishes privacy when God created clothes.

The very concept natural rights is basically divine rights but without explicitly mentioning a god.
Thanks for reply :) By "challenge people" - I mean, rather than put up with BS, relentlessly challenge it, call it out . One might attack homophobia like this: "You believe in a loving God? OK. Does a loving God smite down someone who finds themselves to be gay, or does God celebrate all committed loving relationships including ones that happen to be of the same gender". OK, I'm very liberal on this, and some Christian friends wouldn't take the same line, but they don't seem to dismiss this argument completely. I have a friend who's happily been going to a Catholic church for decades. He lives with a long-term male partner. He doesn't shout from the rooftops that he's gay but doesn't hide it either. Many people like him a lot. Some of them may think its not OK to be gay, but they like him anyway. They also do seem to believe in "sort yourself out rather than judging other". So it seems to just work out really. I agree with you about churches perpetuating problematic power structures, clericalism and so forth.. But that in itself is people's failings isn't it? Doesn't mean that all or even many Christians are supportive of that. Treatment of women - often women are not treated well , whether in the church or not. Shouldn't be happening.. but again human failings rather than something fundamental about religion or church per se, IMHO. Personally I think that churches such as Catholic, Orthodox etc that don't allow women to be priests, should be re-evaluating that, I don't see that's what Jesus wanted, and its very disrespectful, and wasting 50% of human talent to ban women, IMHO. Little secret, here in the UK amongst Catholic laity you'll find most support women priests. As regards nasty things in the bible, well, taken literally the bible can seem offensive, appalling etc, that's why to me we also need 2000 years worth of theologians thought to interpret it, and need to be careful about going straight to it picking out bits because can get wild misinterpretations that way. To use your example of apparent racism, isn't The Good Samaritan a good counter-example i:e anti-racist? I guess my entire argument is this - when we encounter people claiming to be of a religion that promotes love to each other, and they blatantly do the opposite, we should in the nicest possible way call that out and invite them to do what they claim to believe. Also there's a lot of confusion and misunderstanding about what teachings are, what Jesus really said, a misunderstanding that God is somehow punitive or vengeful which Jesus tried to clear up but we still seem to fall victim to. Well, if you don't believe in all of this anyway, fine, no problem :) There are a lot of atheists out there who behave in a much better way than most Christians. ;) I have a couple of friends like that too. Doesn't stop me arguing (politely) with them though ;)
It's very strange because like OP, huge fanboy. Early on it felt wrong to also burden Cupertino with being a cultural leader, but somewhere around $1.0T+ market cap, that has evolved.

Vaguely remember a charity used to have a thing where they'd auction off a dinner with Steve, then later Tim. Given time with a leader who has literally revolutionized supply chain in CN and a CEO who made Apple his own following the most notable CEO ever, going after various gotcha points would feel like a wasted opportunity. But think I'd have to ask why a company designed in California of the 1960s and 1970s doesn't have line in the sand policies when dealing with a genocidal government and perpetual backdoors in software and politics, but will take a move like this. Would hope for something more than a canned answer.
Uses aggregate numbers then transitions to relative probability as if the math logic follows. This thread is a clown show.
Don't they run into the meta-dilemma? In semantics I had this problem that whenever you moved from an single integrated domain (utopia), to a selection of specialized micro domains (feasible), the problem became a tradeoff between on the one hand selecting the right 'expert', and on the other hand integrating the 'knowledge' of the various experts.

For each specific instance of this type of problem you can strive to improve the tradeoff, but there is no 'general' solution'.
The article seems to implicate the West Mercia Police.

You extend that to the entire UK government.
Another approach of becoming anonymous is to flood the internet with fake content and fake AI generated personas that hold your name
It is almost certainly from compound interest.
Did your company handle apartment-finding/ house hunting for you or did you do it on your own? While you aren't a permanent resident, are you treated as a permanent resident for tax purposes?
Someone scratched a slur onto the bathroom wall when I was in college and it became a campus wide hate crime and we all had a week of fishbowls and micro-aggression training. People actually believe that these things constitute hate crimes. It is absurd.
I think, in theory, a society with much less privacy could work, as long as there is information symmetry, not a panopticon controlled by a few. We're not building an open society, though. The asymmetry is the point.

If we ignore the open society angle and assume surveillance would be one sided:

Competition is needed for healthy capitalist economies. Competition doesn't work well with great power imbalances. To the extent entrenched business could leverage the government, as they do, powers of surveillance could be used to stifle competition. That leads to stagnation.

Democracy, even in a limited form, doesn't work when everyone is under surveillance by a powerful minority. I don't think I need to elaborate since there's been plenty of writing on that.

Also, people don't want to make civic contributions to a society that treats them like cows with a criminal bent. There's not much argument against being a hedonic leech in a society that benefits from your labor but resents your autonomy.

I haven't answered your question exactly, but it's a bit difficult when framed that way. I still think it's pretty clear that the massive power imbalance that comes with dragnet surveillance can catalyze corruption, stagnation, and malaise, thus impeding progress.
It’s a loss leader that is usually capped. They are marketing against other cards in your wallet. Most consumers use a card or two so the habit of buying gas drives more spend.

Discover does the same thing with quarterly promos. They are paying 5% for the first $1500 of Apple Pay/Google Pay transactions… an incentive to add Discover to your wallet.

Gas is also unique. Our local supermarket chain gives you gas discounts for spend. People are always annoyed about gas so they fixate on saving $1/gallon, forgetting that they spent $1000 at the most expensive grocery chain so they can save $12-20 for a fillup. That $12 probably cost them $50.
The HTML Standard is excellent. It’s long and verbose because of the mountains of accumulated cruft it covers, so that it takes a little getting used to if you’re not familiar with the style, but it’s a magnificent document for finding specific answers in. I refer to it regularly, by choice, as a web developer and not a browser maker. There are large chunks of it that are really valuable reading for normal web developers. I still thoroughly appreciate MDN, but for HTML I could do without it without much trouble, the HTML Standard is good enough, even though it’s targeted primarily at implementers.

CSS specs are likewise very readable and extremely useful reference, though they’re less precise than significant parts of the HTML Standard. But if you have questions about how certain things fit together, or corner cases in certain properties, MDN is normally useless while the relevant specs are regularly invaluable. I highly recommend being familiar with reading these specs if you’re doing even mildly unconventional things.

The ECMAScript Language Specification: it’s not like either of the other two; it’s not a document that describes how things are supposed to act or how to use things, but is full code for implementing an ECMAScript engine—just expressed in natural language rather than a more accustomed programming language. I’ve referred to it a number of times when I’ve had nuanced questions about exactly what the engine does in such-and-such a case (the sort that the vast majority of web developers will never need or want to ask), and it’s been useful in such cases once it finally loaded, but it’s very firmly designed for implementers, not users. Covering any of the sort of stuff that MDN covers in documentation was never anywhere near the intended scope of the ECMAScript Language Specification, nor should it have been.

The specs and MDN serve quite different purposes, and something that combined both functions would be poor at both functions. Bemoan not the necessity of either: rejoice rather that you have both!
Your first points: "can’t make modifications, distribute modifications, distribute unmodified versions" appears to contradict the language from their license file:

> Any Association grants you (“Licensee”) a license to use, modify, and redistribute the Software, but only (a) for Non-Commercial Use, or (b) for Commercial Use in Allowed Networks.
I guess this means we will all be paying more for delivery service in the near future?

Not that I disagree with the need for AC.

I just feel we have been paying artificially low prices for things over the last decade or so, and it is starting to catch up with us...
Ehhh that seems a bit uncharitable and leading into a slippery-slope fallacy.

"Well, because some misanthrope might misinterpret this as permission to be terrible means it's bad advice".

Dealing with things directly, as close in time to the event as possible, is probably a great idea.

But you'll never get a pure ground-truth on every event in your life... so learning that your narrative of the past can act as a tyrant in your life (if you let it) seems like a good insight to me.
IIRC, JPEG XL beats avif on high-quality images, and avif is better on low quality. For typical vieo encoding, you don't care about perfection that much.
I thought Youtube locked in a $7/month rate when I started with Youtube Red. I must have been mistaken.
Regulation wouldn't fix the underlying problem anyway.

Plenty of food addicted persons get obese from eating gargantuan amounts of "normal" food.

When I used to be obese, my weakness was sushi rice. Getting my binge-eating "high" required only a high quantity of food. Hell, I would eat a lot of Nori if I were desperate enough.

Go to a Puerto Rican cookout in NYC and look at what the heavier persons are eating. They're not waiting until dessert time to start digging in. They're eating plate after plate of Arroz con Pollo.
Having an incomplete understanding of history goes both ways. Consider the myriad of diseases that were widespread then, but have practically vanished in modern countries with modern healthcare. Getting brutally-to-fatally sick was common in the early 1900s, and day-to-day life was alot worse because of it.

Life in general is better now, and we can keep doing better! And to do better, we have to be honest about history.
JPEG XL and AVIF have tradeoffs.

AVIF works extremely well at compressing images down to very small sizes with minimal losses in quality but loses comparatively to JPEG XL when it comes to compression at higher quality. Also I believe AVIF has an upper limit on canvas sizes (2^16 pixels by 2^16 pixels I think) where JEPGXL doesn't have that limitation.

Also existing JPEGs can be losslessly migrated to JPEGXL which is preferable to a lossy conversion to AVIF.

So it's preferable to have JPEG XL, webP, and AVIF.

- webP fills the PNG role while providing better lossless compression

- AVIF fills the JPEG role for most of your standard web content.

- JPEG XL migrates old JPEG content to get most of the benefits of JPEG XL or AVIF without lossy conversion.

- JPEG XL fills your very-high fidelity image role (currently filled by very large JPEGs or uncompressed TIFFs) while providing very good lossless and lossy compression options.
All through the night: sleep-deprived scientists share their stories
So make sure your image processing pipeline strips out all metadata?

Seems kind of a non-issue and AFAIK most image hosting software and social media already strips out metadata anyway for this reason (I know Discord does, not sure about others)
My concern with digital payments is the elimination of cash. Having the ability to transfer value without it being monitored or blocked is an exceptionally useful property of paper money.
This only helps until someone has an email address or some other detail like where you work. Then you have to use something like Optery which costs about as much as a premium netflix sub
Former director at LinkedIn. There might be that many internal URL endpoints (I am skeptical though). There are far fewer services than that though, each service supports many APIs.
if they are interest bearing, there will always be some risk involved by definition....
I am deeply sceptical that this is a sensible plan.
While I completely agree, there might be something else, i.e. the elephant in the room. While having TSMC factories in the USA is great for everyone, it's not ideal for Taiwan as a state. Therefore it's in the best interest of Taiwan to prolong the current situation where the whole world depends on TSMC factories located in Taiwan, and not anywhere else.
The linked article actually says captain more likely came from Portuguese.
The military? When was the last time they turned on the citizens? I don't live in Tiananmen, thankfully. Meanwhile it's private companies that oppress most of us: private hospitals, private prisons, private insurances companies, private credit bureaus, private banks, private tech companies, private surveillance companies, private small arms manufacturers and dealers. It ain't the government that's crimping my freedoms.

Taxes? So I get some roads and schools and parks and old people healthcare, and lose some to corruption. Better that than making Bezos and Zucky even richer.
>I'm saying we need better systems to deal with that displacement at the social/national level, not at the micro level of an individual job going away one at a time

Why not both? You can decide whether you will support or boycott organizations and systems that actively pursue these things, while also lobbying and voting and building organizations that pursue mutual voluntary organization. Might mean you have to change your lifestyle though and most people don't want to do that.

>Bandaiding them through forced employment laws won't really work as our companies just become less efficient and companies outsource. You can't really have a protected economy like that unless you're also willing to limit outsourcing (which I'd be for, but capitalists who control the government aren't).

Literally nobody suggested this in this thread, me or otherwise.

>There's just no way capitalist companies are going to keep unnecessary labor employed.

I would challenge you to imagine some solutions that are neither capitalist nor governmental. If you can't think of anything beyond these two options then I suggest reading more about mutual-voluntary organization.
From a security point of view, there is no difference between being able to access your data and actually doing it. You may picture such or such company as better than another one (and maybe it is, though I strongly doubt it) if you want, but behaving yourself as if that company really cares about your privacy is extremely naive.

I would rather suggest firmly believing whatever company you chose is spying you (be it true or not), and adjusting what you can accordingly (settings, apps, usage, etc.).
> If everyone on HN stopped using Google and started using DuckDuckGo

*Bing, DuckDuckGo's own indexing is fairly limited compared to other search providers like Brave. Most of DDG's index comes from Bing.
Cloudflare works hard but Google works harder.
Sentc 0.9.0: Now you can do range queries over encrypted data without decrypting
> one of the dirty secrets about how Chromebooks manage to get so cheap is they use the cheapest ARM processors with ridiculous amounts of binary blobs patched in that will never go upstream, so kernel updates are almost nonexistent

I don't think that's actually true? For starters, the majority of Chromebooks are x86 machines, even most of the cheap ones. But more to the point, AFAIK Chromebooks, even ARM Chromebooks, are maintained mainline/upstream in linux. This is surprisingly hard to get a good citation for, but see ex. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/arm64/boo... which is device tree stuff for... honestly the code names confuse me, but I think kukui, jacuzzi, and fennel are all names for Chromebooks (or boards in Chromebooks, I think).
JXL polyfill is definitely the way to go to force Chrome's hand.
I think we're looking at the concept of "full agency" differently. In my view each person has their own level of agency, or willpower if you will, that is mostly biologically determined. I do believe that people can exercise restraint and grow their ability to self-regulate, but only to a point. And, it is quite difficult to do.

Quitting smoking is one of the most difficult things for someone to do. Some people can go cold turkey and power their way through it. However most people struggle because of their body's biochemistry. When discussing this topic I've noticed common responses along the lines of, 'that person didn't actually want to quit', or 'that person didn't want to quit strongly enough'. Yet I see it as their limited agency was unable to overcome their body's physical dependency.
>No. No cop goes into the profession expecting puppies and rainbows. Going into potentially unsafe environments with potentially aggressive people is what they signed up for.

That's not how law enforcement works at all. What you are suggesting is that cops have less protections than civilians. Putting on a badge doesn't remove assault legal protections.
And how do you achieve this with this?

How secure is it? How confidential are the records? How does it guarantee integrity?
Indeed, my suggestion is zero dynamic libraries in security critical code/applications.

If security is a goal, loading in-process foreign code is already a lost battle.

Plugins as dynamic libraries made sense when we were fighting for each MB, not when people have hardware where they go to the extreme of running containers for every application they can think of.

Bonus, processes aren't as heavy as containers.
Just to make sure I understand your excitement: we need guinea-pigs ahem people to wear 'head mounted all day ego centric AR' with who knows how many integrated sensors for long stretches on end, so we can finally get to our fabled A.G.i?

That is some B.F. Skinner level future we're aiming for--only this time around, humans become the fully surveilled 'teaching machine'.