skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This device though doesn't have the density of a brick, and it is aerodynamic: failure modes wouldn't be an uncontrolled freefall, it would be a stable glide.

You could fail-safe this by adding parachute pyrotechnics which require an active command signal to not deploy: that way the worst case total electrical failure of a drone would immediately deploy chutes to slow it down.

This seems like a much more acceptable control then the failure mode of a car: which weighs 2 tons and contrary to popular belief only stays on roads by convention.
It takes tens of thousands of engineers at FAANGs to...

do webmail...

doing IM takes one FAANG... 30 people?...

to replicate what non-technical local events communities did in posting shared calendars on PHP-driven solutions two+ decades ago...

to do what Wordpress does but costing much more per user than everyone in the world having their own Wordpress install...

to create a mobile OS while a basic working Ubuntu version on vastly diverse and undocumented hardware seems to be done by three people and a shoe...

to do advertising analytics...

to create advertising platforms...

to make users a product...

to discontinue products if they don't fit into productifying the user enough...

to make itself an indispensable solution by extinguishing anything not in its network of users as products scale...

...more?

If there's anything FAANGs do, that's actually good, it's employing people to make their advertising social environments online safe. But they seem to too often shirk that. And that's not a computer-technical job no matter how someone might want to pretend they can create a Bayes filter for it.
They're quiet enough that if you're anywhere near a road you won't hear them over the noise of car tyres. In the video you linked the sound of the parachute deploying was significantly louder than the drone itself, that's close enough to silent for me.
Not out of business, but if the 5x rumored compute is true than they’d need to do something phenomenally bad to end up with a model worse than gpt-4.
https://github.com/vb-consulting/blog/discussions/5
this is a better argument for improving public transport than it is for widening roads.
Under UNIX, the lowest available file descriptor for the process is returned from open/create (also in Posix). So if you close(0) and then immediately open() something, you will (probably) get 0 as the new file descriptor.

This is the way redirection was done in early UNIX versions, at least I think until System 7, where dup2() was introduced to address the race condition lurking here.
The choice to use a scummy app (and you should know if it's doing this that it's scummy), is still a choice.
Of course it's about the money. But wait, if these folks were so brilliant, couldn't they just do their own thing instead of throwing their weight behind an incumbent, bloated, legacy giant? Let alone their talent going to /dev/null?
It's unlikely that it would be illegal, or violate the contract with the payments gateway, if you charged the customer 406.78, and you made up the $0.003228 discrepancy so the gateway is paid off.
Why not just charge 20c every time the book is opened on Kindle?
This is the most disgusting comment I have read on the internet in a while.
This person is incorrect, but even if they were correct, that wouldn't be a framework thing.

Memory management is handled by the language.
An underappreciated one is Type I

Extremely safe and easy to produce and it's finally getting properly adopted by China

It can actually take 230V at 32A but these are extremely rare and have a modified keyed ground pin

But tbh the biggest benefit across the world would be seeing the US and Japan getting rid of its ~115VAC infrastructure and adopting a safer and more efficient grid standard. The wasted heat alone on the collective sum of all their cables is mind boggling
Yeah, I don't know. I don't like ads and tracking either, but this post just seems to argue to throw them away without any kind of replacement.

I can kinda agree with the section describing all the problems with tracking, but there is not really an alternative approach presented.

The last paragraphs through in lots of buzzwords and lofty ambitions ("holistic approach") but don't give any indication how to realize those except for "go by your feelings".

I consider myself a good developer with useful debugging skills. I often "went by my feelings" when trying to find the root cause of a bug - however, to be able to do that, I need some information about the program and usually some way to interact and test hypotheses. If I've gathered enough information like this, then I can use experience to make educated guesses about what is going wrong.

Likewise, in the "real world", we always have a minimum of observable feedback that helps us judge our own actions: How people react to what we do, their body language, etc.

This is true both for individuals and for businesses: If you run a small corner store, you'll also be able to get a rough measure of success of your store just by watching how many people make come in and how many it to the counter.

In contrast, on the internet, there is, by default, no feedback at all - if you make a website and upload it to a server somewhere, it's more like running a radio station: Talking to the void, not knowing if hapf the city is listening, or only a handful or no one at all

So in order to get any information about whether what you are doing makes any sense, you need feedback.

I don't think intrusive tracking and surveillance is the only way to get feedback though. I think very basic analytics, such as counting the page hits, referral and "user journey" throughout your site are ok - those aren't very different from counting customers in a physical store.

For more detailed information, I think there should be more approaches to gather active feedback - i.e. give users a way to leave a message, point out issues they see themselves, etc.

It used to be hard to analyse this kind of written feedback at scale, but maybe LLMs could help with that in the future.
She does replace it every couple of years (well, I do anyway) and she loves that fact.

What confuses me about all this is the fact that anyone who wants an easily repairable phone has access to them on the market, as I’ve been saying, I support companies who make this stuff because I like tinkering with hardware.

I think Apple should continue to be a company that biases towards design - trading off repairability if it comes to that. That’s ok because if I don’t like it I can buy a different phone.

My mum just wants a phone with the feature she cares about, and when it gets slow or bad, she rings me up to upgrade.
That’s something else than discussed here.
Honestly, that sounds more like an excuse to get out of the market. Probably facing a lot of competition from securedrop for the paranoid, and the non paranoid dont care about security at all.
Or they could stick with binary and introduce a name for 1/1024th of an inch. Borrow a meme from the “almost SI” prefixes kibi, mebi, gibi etc., and call it a mibi, perhaps? ;-)
Intel Details Core Ultra ‘Meteor Lake’ Architecture, Launches December 14
It would be easier to just type "lin" and hit enter
> clock out in 60 hours or less every week

You misspelled 6.
On one hand, gross. On the other hand, holy shit we could actually get good first party Nintendo games on a system that can run them. I could play Zelda at more than 20fps.
Exactly, he can still post his incoherent rhetoric on YouTube, he just can’t generate revenue from it.
Can anyone summarize in a couple of sentences?
In which universe, is that an insult? You are assuming malice.
Haven’t seen Ukraine FPV drone videos, have you.
Canada abolished the penny some years ago. If some retail item in a store costs $2.03 and you insist on paying with cash, you will have to use a nickel and pay $2.05.

Yet, life goes on; nobody goes to jail.
What about Half Life: Alyx? Not just original, but pretty revolutionary for the platform.
> People like Brand might get a lot of details wrong but have more coherent takes on big issues.

The dude has a video titled Hawaii Wildfire: Climate Change or Blackrock?

His views are only coherent in the sense that he thinks everything is a shadowy conspiracy, which morons gobble up
I’m assuming the issues are encapsulated in the idea that you need to specify what events mean a user is engaged and using a product. Is there not a service which you can send user events to (sign in, interaction with a feature) alongside some sort of unique customer ID? Seems fairly straightforward and would result in a fairly good accuracy considering you can track a user over their entire lifespan.

Is there really no plug n play options?
> For starter regarding filecoin the number of nodes you must expect to lose is “almost all of them” because they can stop operating if the economics isn't even good enough to cover their OpEx

You don't expect to lose "almost all of them" at the same time. Even if the price crashes, you would expect capacity to go down over a period of days or weeks, not minutes. And then if a fraction of the data is lost but is less than the number of erasure blocks, you promptly reconstruct it and put it on a different node.

Meanwhile you would expect an equilibrium here. The price going down forces some providers out of the market, but providers leaving the market brings the price back up. As long as the customer is offering as much as some providers need to stay in the market, somebody is hosting the data. That only stops if the customer won't bid what the providers need to get, at which point the customer transfers their data out of the system so they can stop paying more than they're willing to.

Now, you can screw this up if you make your system sufficiently convoluted so the price signal doesn't make it from the customer to the provider or vice versa, and I'm not familiar enough with the specific implementation in Filecoin to comment, but screwing that up isn't inherently necessary for this category of system.

> the problem is that a node could voluntarily fuck up the calculations when/if it advantages them.

Which is why you duplicate some of them at random, and don't tell them when you're going to do it. The calculations are deterministic. If you distribute one to two random nodes and they don't get the same result, but they've each signed their own result, now you know one of them defected and can prove which one by doing that calculation yourself or doing some other potentially expensive operation that only happens when there is an inconsistency. At which point the defector is found out, you can prove it, and their reputation is in ashes.

> Yet barely anyone uses it, which empirically question its “usefulness”.

It seems to be storing more than a exabyte of data for someone.

> their capital is essentially illiquid[1]

> [1] and I don't get were you got the idea that storage was “fungible”, the failure rate going up exponentially over time makes storage a poor fit for the second-hand market, especially if people know that you've been running stressful proof of space-time on it, and if you're trying to fire-sale a Petabyte of storage, chances are high that people will figure that out

It's fungible because a used hard drive is a commodity product with a wide customer base. That new ones cost more than the used ones doesn't make it not a commodity; you could have bought the used ones to begin if you're content to continue running them at their current age.

Let me know if you're aware of some place you can buy working >=16TB drives, used or otherwise, for less than ~$100 each in 2023.
> Isn't it possible that we have gaps between our models of QC and how it works in reality that could make it such that these algorithms can't actually offer any speedup over classical approaches in the real world?

If BQP=BPP or if BQP did not accurately model a quantum computer, i think that would be a much more interesting result than an actual working quantum computer. It would be world shattering.
> People stopped walking, using bicycles, etc...

Most big US cities are designed to be incredibly hostile to anything but cars. The only reason that people weren't already taking taxis all the time is that the legacy taxi system is also incredibly unfriendly to users.
The iPhones 15 Pro (and iPhones 15)
Aircraft are more energy efficient then cars[1] at scale. But even a light plane like a Cessna 172 does 13L/100KM[2] depending on flight speed. Certainly more then my Prius, but it can take a much more direct route too.

There's also the simple practical issue: self-driving cars can't navigate a complex crowded environment, whereas self-flying planes navigate a much simpler environment with many more regulatory controls on behavior.

[1] https://www.sustainablebusiness.com/2014/02/surprisingly-air...

[2] https://www.flyouts.com/vliegtuig/cessna-172
This thing: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=seb+le+saucier&t=ffab&atb=v101-1&i...

Like the egg cooker, this is an inherited appliance.
Yes, not ideal. But we can’t know what would have happened if they had chosen a different language in 2007. Did they have the option of an efficient, well supported language that continues to be used in 2023? Maybe Java, although Java languished for years before development picked up again. C# is also a candidate.

But one thing we can’t measure - how many candidates chose to join Shopify and GitHub because they were keen to work on Ruby? Java had a reputation for being boring, while Ruby was fun and exciting. Their success was possibly tied to this, but we’ll never know for sure.

In 2023 the calculus of what language to choose is different. But these companies are just glad they succeeded while others didn’t.
> Whacking Snowden in RU is different tier of drama than whacking a Canadian

Sure. There isn’t the necessity of a military response here. But it was exceedingly dumb. New Delhi has a rogue security element. I, at the very least, didn’t see that coming. From the indignant response, it appears Delhi didn’t either. That’s concerning.
No, read the damn thing.
The zero-sum thinking of the Trump and Biden administrations, in which China is seen purely as a threat and all sorts of cooperation and economic integration are being rolled back, makes war more likely. The US is not compelled to ban Huawei and sanction all sorts of Chinese tech firms - that's a choice.
In the name of consistency, YouTube must now demonitize anyone that is accused of any crime by anyone else.
>In England and Wales, more than 99% of rapes reported to police do not end in a conviction. This is the result of a criminal justice system that makes prosecuting rape extremely rare, lengthy and difficult.

https://www.city.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2022/04/new-scor...

An alternative interpretation of what's going on here is that the mainstream justice system is failing, and people are cobbling together an alternative justice system, where public shaming and demonetization are the punishments.

I think building in redundancy to reduce single points of failure is generally a good thing.
You're making the exact same logical fallacy you're pointing out. The reason free speech alternatives tend to be filled with less than desirable types is precisely because they're alternatives. Who are you going to disproportionately attract as early adopters? It's the same reason anti-Musk driven alternatives to Twitter are also failing. Instead of having a normal sampling of society, you end up with a hardcore bias which is offputting to most of everybody except those of that bias.

I also think Threads is perhaps a reasonable challenge to the idea that society wants moderation. Unlike the anti-Musk Twitter alternatives it started with a massive and mixed userbase and was a completely viable alternative, yet it almost immediately collapsed. It's really hard to see why without looking to the fact that were also featuring the sort of "moderation" that historically only comes as a bait-and-switch after a platform is extremely well established.
Guilty with contaminating earth human consciousness with propaganda designed to cause conflict fear and doubt
> the Soviets (and the United States for that matter) regularly performed actions on this level in a number of western countries

Sure. But America didn’t assassinate Russians in Russia. And the Soviets reciprocated. This is a bright line that someone stupidly crossed. Rogue elements happen. That New Delhi appears blindsided is the concerning bit.
It's within their technical and hardware wheelhouse, no question. The problem comes when you consider them as a company, how they act and how they do products/projects.

When your primary competency as a business is rewriting, renaming, combining and splitting the ~same chat app 6 times in 10 years, you _should not_ be getting into a business where customers aren't even going to give you a chance until you can show stability for a few years and build up relationships and a library of games.

Not to mention when your idea of customer support is an algorithm and zero humans, you probably shouldn't be getting into a customer-focused business.
On Intelligence, by Hawkins.
The actual harm from the drone's wasted energy is pretty negligible aside from the waste heat itself, though, as compared to the many, many side effects of road vehicles of any kind (for example, just starting with the air pollution from tire particles).

Of course, that equation changes a bit once there are enough drones that noise pollution and collisions or other incidents become a real issue.
ChatGPT does this automatically, if you pass in `function_call: "auto"`
This whole hammer metaphor gets too stretched in the context of software. Code is not a single thing, it's a whole approach to programming computers. It's hard won territory, seeing people had to use machine code and op code tables to program for a good chunk of history. And the allergy some people feel about it is unjustified in my opinion. The strengths of coding tooling are well worth the investment and trying to avoid code as if it ware a deterrent to "getting things done" is failing to understand what is hard about programming. Not learning how to code (and properly, with version control, code reviews etc which are surprisingly shunned by some professional programmers). The hard things about programming non trivial computer systems are made easier by the scaffolding of programming languages. Not harder.
Sure, if you deliberately are obtuse and think what others are saying are "widen the roads".

I don't wish to share my space/commute with drug addicts and literal human feces, I don't see why anyone in this world would prefer to do that, can you explain why since you prefer that?
It was a small joke to pre-emptively showcase a classic counterargument's flaws.
The Pinball Hall of Fame is notable for having a working Pinball Circus[1], of which there were only 2 ever built. I try to give it a play every time I'm in town. It's also got quite a few other rare games that are very difficult to find elsewhere, including a significant collection of electromechanical games that usually don't get much representation in arcades. I do agree that the level of maintenance isn't great, but that's basically true for almost any place with more than ~10 machines. I have a comment here[2] about the state of the places I go to regularly in San Francisco, but basically the only one that's consistently good is the one where the owner is onsite and does the maintenance himself.

[1]: https://arcadeblogger.com/2018/07/06/arcade-holy-grail-the-p...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35965664
Well, there is a massive force that acts directly against not doing broken code - people(read managers and stakeholders) don't want to wait, they want the value for their money now, and from their perspective a certain degree of brokenness is fine
I suffered from panic attacks in my youth. Mindfulness meditative practice enabled me to breathe in a such a way that I could stop the panic attack in its tracks. I further extended this breathing pattern to enter a state of deep calm on command.

It drives my wife crazy, but if I so choose, I can completely zen out within 30 seconds and enter a state of total relaxation. In this state I may acknowledge her talking to me but have little or no memory of any conversations after.

Finally, I’m a religious person and prayer is a mechanism for me to communicate with God. Combining transcendental meditation with my communications with the higher power is a very mind blowing experience for me.
Not the OP and not a fan of ternary operations, but if programming were left to large organizations we would still be writing .asp pages.

Which is to say that inovation happens only when you try to do stuff just a little different each time, so I’d say that code reviews as currently implemented at those big organizations is against long-term programming-related innovation.
Sorry, I'm actually not sure what your initial point was. I guess I just reacted to "Free anonymous and private communication is mandatory for a functional democracy".

Most people and companies don't use encryption to protect themselves against governments, even though it would not be that hard (one could use ProtonMail for company e-mails, Signal/Threema/Matrix for messaging, etc, but instead everybody seems to be using GMail and Slack/Teams). Being anonymous is actually hard.

So yeah, the only thing that "somehow" prevents the US government from spying on everybody is law, because they clearly have had the capability for a long time. And given the occasional whistleblower, it feels like it's not actually enough.

Actually I would even wonder if access to fairly-anonymous and private communication is not more important in non-democracies. Because in a functioning democracy you should be able to discuss matters more freely (at least to some extent).

Anyway that's probably off topic, and I didn't mean to say that governments should ban encryption (encryption does exist, bad actors will always be able to use it even if you ban it). But that does not mean that governments should not interfere with technology in general, I would say.

Yeah not sure, maybe I'm completely off topic here.
Please elaborate
The problem is always thought?
I came to say this.
I guess for me the difference is that one is only now being tested in the USA. And even if successful, it will take forever to come here in Germany, especially in any place but Berlin/Hamburg/Munich.

And the other one is in active use.
I don't want to re-read it.
> “I wanted to future proof this without wasting 64 goddamn bytes in front of each message”

64 bytes would be a 512-bit integer. That seems like excessive future proofing for the length of any message that would be transmitted before the Sun runs out of fuel.
> People have a right to convenience and a better quality of life.

That's a pretty bold statement. Where is this right stated, and who guarantees it? Who do I go to if I feel my convenience and QoL isn't high enough?

Is this an absolute right that is realized at all costs? Even if my convenience affects the health and safety of others?
It's widely implemented but not adopted. Most vendors implemented v4 to tick a box for some RFQ. I don't think any of the commercial fileserver vendors publish numbers but I used to work in that space and internally customer adoption of v4 was always a single digit percent. When I was on the customer side in HPC none of the supercomputer clusters were using v4 (I'm sure there are exceptions that I wasn't aware of).
That's not exactly the most compelling blog post. Way too many buzz words. Why would end-end cloud storage even be using public-key cryptography? You're sending the encrypted data to yourself forward in time.
GGP:

> If cities want better traffic, spend more money renovating or widening roads...
I cannot edit anymore but that should read "This tool needs to exist." :-)
I think what I said : - ) Which is not that.
I often ask the same things about software developers who have never contributed to open source. It’s all bias. There is no baseline for competence in software.