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Ask HN: Have LLM API Updates or Deprecations Impacted You?
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It's been legal since the dawn of the USA to manufacture your own firearms.

Yeah that was conceived and written at a time where you had to hand carve and forge a single shot breech loading rifle. You can espouse history all you want, but asserting unbounded rights in the face of dramatic technological progress is not a healthy attitude towards society.
Leave the eternal September on Twitter and Threads. Let early adopters enjoy Mastodon/Lemmy for a long while before the followers very predictably ruin the things that leaders like about small/medium communities.
For me the grinder allows repeatability. I was trying to dial in shots with the grinder on my breville and was quickly frustrated. I could do everything else the same and get very different extraction times for the same volume of espresso, I ran 5 lbs of coffee through it in a row with my laptop and a spreadsheet tracking things trying to get consistent times, and it just wouldn’t be consistent.

I bought a HG-1, probably overkill, but now my mid-range breville puts out coffee that is way way better than most cafes, and it’s dead consistent. I have to adjust a little as my fresh coffee adapts to the world once the bag is open, but that’s it.

I’m sure you could find calibrated screens for espresso somewhere, but my bet is they would cost more than a new grinder. If it’s consistent, tastes good, and you have fine enough settings to adjust your extraction, I’d say it’s good.
Probably a failure of the advertising model as a whole, I think. I wonder if the incentives would align much better if we had a micropayments provider.
What's the challenge in already having this? There could be an aggregator service that has all the news sites joined with it and pays out on your visits to those news sites? Is it that it would be hard to get all news sites or content providers to accept this single one universal service?
> A criminal who is otherwise not legally able to acquire or possess a firearm is not going to care about 3D printer laws. This only impacts the law abiding.

This is kind of a blanket argument against all laws, right?
“Summarize this YouTube video” (given a link) is what I’d like to see and Google could easily do when there’s a transcript, but they’d probably rather make people watch the video.

I think Kagi might do this? Any other good solutions?
Poland is (i) a pretty poor country compared to Germany, (ii) does not present itself as the “obviously right way forward”, (iii) didn't close perfectly working nuke plants to please the Grüne, (iv) does not actively lobby with all its might against nuclear power in each and every single EU instance, (v) produces ~5× more electricity than Poland for ~2.7× the population, so they are obviously more impactful.

> they're on the good side of the American nuclear power lobby and get relatively little stick.

I'm French, I don't care about American nuke power lobby – and frankly, given the pitiful state of electricity CO2/kWh in the US and how much coal is burned, it seems that this lobby must not wield that much influence.
Google is like a trustworthy neutral party except for the trustworthy and neutral bit
> people have limited attention to give anything, but unlimited capacity to receive attention.

Oh that's a great quote. I'm off to build a 1-900 service that will just say 'yes' and 'wow' and 'sure, but what about you' whenever the speaker pauses long enough.
Choosing to not comment is a vote for the status quo. We need your voice of reason and caution.

Toxic positivity is poisoning our culture. We need antidote.
Hard to tell without specifics, but my guess is that a 2% churn rate is about normal. You have to focus on acquisition to make up for the 2% loss. And yes, that takes a lot of ongoing effort.
The Sriracha Shortage Is a Bad Sign
Nobody is blind to the fact that the grid will need to be updated to be more flexible.
To judge by how many Hollywood blockbusters have featured ever-larger-and-flashier Sci-Fi ray guns and robots and space ships and such...I'm thinking that most humans are quite naturally drawn to "Big! New!! Shiny!!!" things.

And politely pointing out that common human bias might be a better approach than pinning "blame" (for people kinda being suckers for the idea of fusion power reactors) on ideology / mythology. The latter often get more emotional and adversarial.
I think the moral dilemma is a completely artificial one. You have to do a lot of bending over backwards in your head before you come to the extremely weird conclusion that knowledge can "belong" to a particular person or entity, and the even weirder conclusion that even if you pay for access to the knowledge, you still don't get to share it as you see fit. This is just capitalism-brain, nothing more. It's not natural, and it's definitely not optimal as far as moral maxims go.

That modern society is structured around protecting Alice rather than protecting Bob and helping him free the 0s and 1s is simply a side effect of this, and an extremely unfortunate, progress-stalling one... the kind where you seriously contemplate going back in a time-machine to fix whatever went wrong to make us end up with.. this...
Which of its tools are opinionated and how? Do you mean the formatter, perhaps?
No familiarity with HTMX, but familiar with the thing I linked. There, you render the whole page on the server side. The js "picks" which parts it needs to refresh by essentially using specific classes/attributes. It is a very "pedestrian" system, really. The fact that the whole page is sent is what makes "graceful degradation" possible.

> Front end is not just a presentational layer

I agree that front is not a presentational layer in all projects, but I also think that most web projects out there are CRUD-like, and for a lot of those, front can be just a presentational layer. I'm just saying that the effort of making front more than that and going the Single Page App route needs to be justified by some business reason - even something vague like "we want to leave the door open releasing a mobile app later so we need an API anyway".
https://archive.ph/SuI2V
Lightweight AML (ACPI Machine Language) Interpreter
> somehow

Science is funded by government, so researchers come to conclusions that support them. I'm not suggesting any conspiracy, just incentives. Researchers just see which proposals get funded, and it happens those are the ones that support the mainstream narrative that the government would like to push.

So it makes sense that if you are against the mainstream narrative, this would also pit you against some mainstream science.

Disclaimer: I'm not trying to lend support to science denialism (I'm somewhat centrist). Just trying to explain why hard liners would tend to engage in it.
Specifically, an instance for each branch of science would be nice.
I agree with you and I'm saddened by the nihilist (and defeatist!) outlook that many people seem to have here. I'm fundamentally a humanist. I want humanity to survive and thrive.

I never understood the defeatism. It seems to arise from having the intellect to recognize that humans can (and do) have impact on their environment, and in the same breath resign on that impact being only negative and thus declaring that humans as a species should go extinct.

But there's so much good in this world that people do, isn't that worth saving? We know our capabilities are only limited by our own imagination, so why not strive for a grander human civilization that can span at least the solar system, if not the galaxy?

We can try, and we may still fail. Nothing is certain, except the way to ensure our demise by accepting that our fate is to go extinct and do nothing about it.
The OP you responded to said "I have a feeling other humans verifying you mechanicalturk style one time is the future."

I don't know if that's feasible, but that's the premise.

>Unless you have a massive library of possible actions these can be pre-rendered too.

Combinatorial explosion gives you a massive amount of actions. Hold your right ring finger between your left thumb and pinky and move it around in a circle.

There's tools that you could use to limit what you had to prerender and it would be a cat and mouse game like captcha is today, but I think until we're at the point where you can completely replace an actor, and then you can do that in real time, picking out a real human will be possible.
We're certainly setting a record at destroying ourselves.

It's seems like a pedantic distinction, but it's important. Earth doesn't care if we're here or not. The universe doesn't care if we're here or not. We are the only ones who should care, and we seem not to.

The planet will be fine, eventually, after we die out. Life will continue after we're long gone.

But we'll be long gone, and it's like we've all decided that's okay.
From the article it doesn't seem like even a 100% efficient laser will do much to the economics...
The City & the City by China Meiville.

Meiville normally write weird fiction with a heavy handed communist slant e.g. mutant railroad workers revolt against their capitalist masters and escape by laying and digging up tracks as fast as the train moves, they form a collective and live happily ever after.

The City & the City is his style, but constrained to the structure of a noir mystery novel. Classic gritty cop, loose cannon partner, dead woman, many suspects, second victim, big gunfight, climatic unmasking etc.

The set pieces Meiville is forced to work with results in an incredibly creative and enjoyable ride.

Note: this is not fantasy, it is a noir written by a fantasy writer. Many disappointed readers resulted from this misconception.
There are multiple reasons why tools shouldn't be doing this.

First, I don't like tools overwriting my configuration. My dotfiles belong to me and I have things configured the way they are for a reason. Tools should inform me if changes are required to my configuration, and not just go and change it by itself.

Second, it prevents users from making their configuration files read only. This affects users of Home Manager by the way, which deploys configuration files as symlinks to read only files under /nix/store.

Even more egregious are files that write mutable state to configuration files, which makes them unsuitable for version control. Unfortunately, Docker is guilty of this and stores mutable state in config.json.

Finally, as mentioned, it interferes with XDG adoption.

Personally, I'm all for breaking tools that write to user configuration files. They cause too many headaches with no clear benefit.
I’m thinking about this in the context of marking nuclear waste dumps. We want to leave a message saying “this is dangerous; stay far away!” to last 10,000 years. Meanwhile, the ghosts of our ancestors from just 400 years ago are screaming “do you think we did that for giggles?!”

It makes me appreciate how hard it’d be to craft messaging that can survive hundreds of generations without merely piquing the interest of that day’s archaeologists.
> If you lurk on the firehose you get it all. Including all the parts you may disagree with or find despicable or... Perhaps also something nice?

I mean that wasn't the case historically.

Like if your favorite spot in town was a roller rink and it got bought out by a movie theatre. You'll lamente your loss but sure nothing illegal happened there but obviously you might rethink spending your time at the specific location.
That's an excellent summary I have to say. Theorists pushed hard to move the needle and practitioners with immense computing power reached and started chipping away at the same wall.

LLMs transpose the problem by mimicing what humans would do
Since I don't have an account, I am no longer allowed to search.

In any case, this does not at all indicate if the reach of those tweets was restricted or not.
Prosperity Theology
It is, until it isn't, and you don't want to put trust in the hands of a bunch of 70 y-o politicians to handle this.
The 'paradox' of meeting violence with violence is the most mundane "I'm 14 and this is deep" shit. I'm pretty sure this is not what people are actually talking about when they talk when they bring up Poppler's "paradox". The "paradox" is used to persuade people that authoritarianism is okay when they do it because everybody thinks of themselves as the good guys. The whole point of tolerance is that you don't meet words with violence, not that you should be a pacifist who refuses to meet even violence with violence.
They already have your browsing data, folks. This is just caused by the LLM push at Google. They got a top-down mandate to sprinkle LLMs on everything and this is the result.
Because there's a huge amount of evidence[0] that these harms are fictional, created and promoted by a mix of new age anti-tech people, snake oil salespeople touting literal tinfoil hats, and scammers looking to make a quick buck.

The whole thing is nonsense, and there is an abundance of evidence of that. There is literally no evidence of these supposed widespread harms that are somehow both an existential threat and not measurable in thousands of studies and hundreds of meta-analyses.

So, yeah, asking for info here is like saying "gosh, maybe smoking really doesn't have any health impacts, I'd love to see some studies on it."

0. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/10643389.2021.1...
I bought a synthesiser online recently. That's not a crime.
Most companies I've worked for (Denmark) has had a similar clause in their contracts.

No clue if it holds up in court though.
> If you're running a desktop system, you should probably use "testing", despite the name.

I'm not sure I agree, maybe a better compromise is:

* run stable by default

* if at one point there are too many packages that you find outdated and which have a suitable version in testing, upgrade to testing, pinning the distribution name, so that you're back to (the new) stable once it's promoted

Testing changes a lot right after a release, so I find it better to avoid it during that phase if I don't strictly need it. There are also more upgrades in testing and unstable than in stable, and the less upgrades, the less I need to reboot (or at least close my user session) which is a plus.
>If you were in a leftist bubble, you’d have been seeing science denialism for a while now.

That's interesting, if you ask me: "are you in a leftist bubble" - I would answer "probably a little." But I've NEVER seen any science denialism, so I guess I'm not?

What kind of denialism are you talking about wrt leftists?
Well, side-to-side as in less than 100 microns. The inside of the battery is a very long tape that is rolled up like folded paper. The tape is:

1: Aluminum foil (about 1/10th as thick as household foil)

2: Cathode material (metal oxides, like NMC or NCA)

3. Separator film (polypropylene + polyethylene, which blocks electrical short circuits but lets li ions through- only ~20 microns thick)

4. Spheroidal graphite anode (mostly artificial, some natural)

5. Copper foil

The ions (and some amount of solvent- the solvation sheath!) travel from cathode <-> anode.
That's less than a year of 1 takeaway coffee a day.
This sort of thing is why Canadian media wanted a cut of big tech profits. Imagine how harmful this is to websites that need to grow audiences, particularly news websites
Today's computers don't spend most of their time in I/O. Average CPU runs idle most of the time. I/O does not require CPU power. DMA exists since the 80s or whenever. Software and segmentation limits such as operating systems and traversal between execution rings are not the chemical hard barrier brains have.

You're correct that our architecture isn't adequate and biggest achievements lie there. I/O is not the problem, in fact, we have faster I/O. Because our I/O is dumb. We can place massive amounts of data in a linear memory buffer. But brains use massively associated memory structures. I/O of a network packet is easy. Associating that packet with preexisting context (such as TCP connection) is not that easy, requires structures, algorithms, memory locality, threading correctness, and procedural computing steps, because we abstract the context over a series of flat data.

If you're working on a subject hard, just a random flying info about something else that concerns you might trigger "I can't think about that right now" reaction in your brain, but the information has been digested. The packet has reached the adequate layer 7 ingress buffer just like that, but you don't want to context switch to the respective application intentionally.

There is also an elephant in the room and that is the native language, which shapes the way we think and process information. Imagine a CPU receiving an automatic microcode update the same moment when you as a programmer defined an abstract TCP stack in C or assembler, so it can optimize itself to the point of being able to switching to "thinking in TCP" mode.
No, the problem isn't some conspiracy it's the very real problem of "how do you store electricity when days are cloudy and still?".

Look at these graphs: https://gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

You need to either overbuild 10x or you need lots of storage.

Even a 3x overbuild means you need weeks of storage if you want to avoid once a year brownouts.

And electricity storage still costs 100-400$/kWh per 10 years. An extra £60 billion per year while ALSO building 3x more solar and wind than we will use during peak times is a lot of money for the government to spend.
Happy birthday and thank you! Debian is one of the greatest pieces of software on Earth.
>It's been legal since the dawn of the USA to manufacture your own firearms.

Glad to see the government is finally doing something to fix this.
Show HN: Create your own Discover Weekly
Choose a few playlists to get new tracks from, and they'll be filtered out every Monday to a new playlist.

Kind of like Discover Weekly, but you get to choose the music sources.

Hope you enjoy, and I would love feedback!
Soon as the takeover happened, my account got hacked, used for crypto spam, and banned. I can't use X. Had that account ever since the early days of Twitter. Tried putting in an appeal but its automated. Am I really missing out on anything?
All while homeless people starve down the street. We really need to get our priorities straight.
Enhanced signage doesn't mean that the cars shouldn't be able to read regular signage, it just means that future usages of signage will make the task easier and lower risk. As such, locations without the signage aren't "no man's land". Would be similar to how many places aren't outright banning ICE cars, just banning the sale of new ones at some point in the future. Allowing for a comparatively smooth transition.

The cones being machine readable would allow regular vehicles to also be given the ability to read them more reliably (and potentially with less equipment than needed by a current autonomous vehicle), so, they could do things like warn the driver, which could be valuable in reducing the cases of distracted drivers slamming into closed off lanes.
I think there are many more things wrong, the provider of the software:

https://www.securedatarecovery.com/blog/sandisk-extreme-reco...

says nothing about a file size limit, but the instructions (about retrieving data from a failed external/portable SSD) are:

> 1. Download the SecureRecovery software

> 2. Select the location containing lost data. That is C: drive for most users.

Not a very good start, the drive letter won't ever be C: and besides the typical symptom of these failed SSD's seems to be that the volume becomes RAW (no drive letter assigned to it/ no mount point).

Also, the software being XP compatible (which would otherwise be a good thing, though Windows 7 is recommended) should mean that is not a dedicated tool for this specific kind of data recovery on Sandisk 2023 SSD's:

https://www.securedatarecovery.com/software

https://securesoftware.com/products/securerecovery-for-windo...

Personally I wouldn't touch this software with a ten foot pole.
The default feed is "For You" which absolutely includes people/posts you never followed. Users have to explicitly choose the "Following" feed to only see those posts. And, the setting resets itself constantly. If you aren't diligent, you get the firehose whether you wanted it or not.
I’ve never wanted to be in my 20s again so badly. That sounds amazing!
How to Let Something Go and Embrace Something New
I get the feeling the article preaches to the choir.

The serious sources have always portrayed NIF's work as technical achievements. But they are read mostly by scientist and engineer types.

Mass media which hypes things is read, well by the masses, who dont have the patience or inclination to delve into technical details.

This dichotomy will always exist. I remember once reading a Chekov story where two intellectuals discuss how the townspeople are more interested in silly affairs and scandals rather than recognizing intellectual achievements.
Net effect: fewer clicks to source websites, fewer clicks on ads on said websites.
At a certain point the rot starts from the head.

Amazing how a few bad senior managers can allow for so much bad behavior.
Efficiency is important when energy is expensive; I can easily believe that other issues dominate.

Not that any of those other issues mean "and in conclusion: hydrogen, hydrogen, hydrogen!", it's just that people care about sticker price and safety as well.

(On the "wanting safety" front: the memetic destruction of the Hindenburg and the way people conflate chemical and atomic hydrogen bombs is a point against hydrogen fuel).
Trans women banned from world chess events while review takes place
[dupe]

Lots of discussion here 2 days ago (and that wasn't even the bunch of posts from a week ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37133485
Average wage isn't $75k. That's average household, which frequently has two wage earners.

For individual full-time workers, it's $57,200[1].

[1] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/wkyeng.pdf
Simple solution: The humans are the ones failing the CAPTCHA
Laws exist at deterrents don't they? An extreme example: if we removed all laws, would there be more acts of crime (as judged by the laws that were removed)?

I bet yes. Which means, the laws existence does deter people from doing certain things. It doesn't deter 100% of people, but the percentage is greater than 0.
Zip Forge 1.0.0 Released
Thomas Sowell makes similar arguments on why most of Africa has stayed poor, it's mainly due to geography and environment that is not conducive to economic activity.
But you're not helping. Why is that, Leon?