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They don’t need a base station now with their sat to sat lasers. They serve McMurdo now
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Yeah, this is just debt recapitalization. And it can totally work! But it often (usually?) backfires spectacularly.
The Air Force with an estimated strength somewhere stern that of algeria and chile?

Last I checked, they literally had more trainer aircraft than actual combat jets left.
There's this?

https://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites
Is this DallE3?
> IMO, the correct answer to this question is "do you think it's appropriate to spy on everyone to fight crime?"

To answer in the most direct way possible: No. No. NO.

Regardless of the intentions, the violation of personal privacy dictates a totalitarian society wherein ALL "deviant" behavior will be monitored & dealt with. That includes LGBTQ+ activities & ethnic minorities.

To put it to the absolute test: Would you be okay if the German SS was able to use mass surveillance for their own version of "fighting crime"? The answer to this question will dictate the answer to the extreme scenario that the State always trends towards, wherein more & more power is accumulated by the State under the guise of safety & security.
yes....Android notifications are much better imo. I can respond to texts/whatsapp messages just by swiping down, don't even have to open the app.
And the simple mnemonic to remember it is that the F-35A is for the [A]ir Force and the F-35C is for [C]arriers.
> should have been developed in it's own engine since it's so unique among other games

with my limited technical knowledge about game programming and much less limited technical knowledge about software development in general this seems quite wrong

because while the game is somewhat unique in some point, in many many(1) other technical points it's not, so by using a game engine you can save a lot of time/problems with all the points it's not unique in and just either replace or adapt the parts where it is

so while Unity might very well have been a bad choice

the general idea of using an existing game engine was not

(1): Like window handling, input handling, asset loading/packing/bundling/compression, parts of game saving, most parts related to the rendering pipeline, menus, statistics/crash reporting, installers, and probably more.

Through this is also how game engines rot: By not maintaining many of the build in components leading to any non very simple game needing to replace them all the time.
I think Unity had been going into that direction.
The author's pivot to enlightened centrism at the end is an unfortunate miss where he might have instead argued that this example and all of the other broader institutional bust-outs he describes or alludes to are just natural, predictable consequences of unregulated capitalism.

It's still an ideological position, but it's got a more solid footing than the political one. Reasonable people can disagree on the effects or values of different monetary policies under different political environments, but nobody can arrive at the view that they're the same without being pretty ignorant on the subject. "This is the nature of capitalism" [1] can become a discussion between sane people, vs., "there's a 70-year-long grand conspiracy to loot society and it's because men aren't men anymore", for which no charitable interpretation exists.

Some people will be quick enough to point out that everything that happened in the BB&B case was completely legal, and maybe even right or correct to do under certain circumstances, that there shouldn't even be disagreement that this is the house capitalism builds. Under this system, some people can build a business (which may have some unfortunate side-effects in some communities or on the environment), and the same people or other people can come along and then loot the business for everything they can get away with, enriching themselves at the expense of everyone else. At the moment, there are lots and lots of businesses that have ripened on the tree of capitalism, and there are lots of people with the skills and greed required to loot them. Sure, it sucks for consumers and the public [2], but how many times in history have they really had a say in how society should be run?

[1]: Please don't misread this as an argument that other -isms are better. That's not an argument anyone can productively have on this website.

[2]: Arguably. There are plenty of people that will counter-argue that society is actually better off when this sort of thing happens because, I dunno, people got cheap toasters or something.
Great, precedence!

Let’s keep it up by defining rights as things that government is limited by. Not empowered by.
You got a source for that? They've had MiGs donated by other Eastern European countries as well.
To get great software, you need a small team and give them extremely clear requirements of what it should do with an assload of extremely clear testcases.
why is this so stationary? I had worked with real oscilloscopes, and it's always tricky to get a steady picture, especially on the old analog ones. But here, no matter what I do, the picture is rock solid.

Two slightly detuned generators added up? Somehow beat frequency does not appear.

Mess with trigger? Real scope would either switch to "auto" mode with wildly changing signal or have picture disappear entirely. Here, it's basically no effect.
Absolutely, I'll add llama.cpp support soon.
And we don't necessarily want to start the nuclear war that ends the world just because a small outlying base was hit ..
Mad Max, zombie apocalypse prognostications are generally dismissed as chicken little paranoia for good reason. Unfortunately, the speaker automatically loses credibility and doesn't accomplish anything useful. The smart play would be to be quiet, bide your time, and be prepared like a Boy Scout. I seriously doubt anyone saying civilization will ever disappear because there are too many incentives and advantages of division of labor and trading, but life for most common people will gradually become rougher, harsher, more expensive, and increasingly upheaved by temporary disasters. Periodic famines and long-term food costs will sneak up over time are more likely.

If someone wanted to invest in OTG self-sufficiency, then they would need a remote, defensible homestead with wind and storm resistant agriculture and a durable water source. It's a waste of time and money unless someone enjoys the catharsis of microfarming and already has plenty of money.
Not the person you’re asking, but the reviews of previous books make similar complaints:

https://www.amazon.com/Joy-Abstraction-Exploration-Category-...
Only if it's Schrödinger's math
I read it as both

This has been happening non stop since the 70s and the current state of America shows the results of 50 years of breakneck capitalism

What you’re seeing is that at this point it’s so entrenched that people can look at it and shrug instead of being horrified that instead of being a rare situation it’s “Business as usual”

Everyone should be horrified
Elon Musk's 5 step process for making things in a better way [video]
Little-ish? PA semi was only 150 people and acquired for < $300 million back in 2008. Intel's market cap was 150 billion back then. Impossible to say how PA semi would have fared, but as a division, it's still way smaller.
> is less true as they get older, and not true for most adults

Speaking anecdotally, many adults I know do not have the patience to read a book. Any book. (Of course, it’s because the book was badly written or facile or whatever.)
Vegas machines are calibrated with a certain win rate. The author surmises that this game has something more like a loss rate at pre-determined points.

Would such a machine be legal in the regulated real-world? Or only in the wild-west of online casinos?
[1] https://www.aclu.org/documents/bill-rights-brief-history
Housing is mostly local but a little bit national. If you have better housing prices than other cities, well, some people can work from home, guess who's moving in. People compare cost of living when choosing a new job.

Get most cities to do what they did and you get less of this net migration and housing becomes more affordable everywhere.

Some of this also takes time. You let people build, they start to build, that doesn't mean they've stopped yet.
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I'll recommend the Spotlight paper by Google[1]. There are very interesting datasets they created for this purpose. They mention they have a screen-action-screen dataset that is in-house and it doesn't look like they'll open it. Maybe owning Android has its advantages.

There's a recent paper by Huggingface called IDEFICS[2] that claims to be an open source implementation of Flamingo(an older paper about few-shot multi-modal task understanding) and I think this space will be heating up soon.

[1] https://research.google/pubs/pub52171/

[2] https://huggingface.co/blog/idefics
For reference, PS support for Preview was removed in Ventura.
Lobbyists and runaway corporate greed.
This is a great option. Even though I do have decent insurance I would consider this just to avoid dealing with insurance at all
Check out my experience with my elderly neighbor. She is at risk of homelessness due to getting cut from benefits. It's hellish.

I posted to Ask HN about it recently [1] and it is just mind blowing how bad the USA safety net is.

I am baffled. We can barely communicate with them due to months of lag on their end.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37429228
I want to share a behind the scenes story in Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, which relates directly to the subject of this article. Douyin decided to test out its own e-commerce platform, in an alternative to handing over its users to prominent retailers like Taobao and JD.com. They planned to test the water with one category at a time, starting with books.

Douyin worked with major publishers to offer their products on their e-commerce platform. The day they began selling books on their own platform, Taobao's book sales immediately plummeted by half. To everyone's surprise, users were reading and buying more books thanks to Douyin.

The story ends with Jack Ma, the founder of Taobao, arriving at Bytedance HQ to strike a deal on further collaboration between Douyin and Taobao.
s/some/most/. AZ, Ireland, and Israel, with Ohio allegedly coming soon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_manufacturing_si...
What exactly is an "eternal golden braid" as a concept? The only place I've seen it is as the subtitle for the book Gödel, Escher, Bach.
So many people racing to crown themselves as the trusted censor of generative models.
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My younger brother was a full-time professional athlete (basketball) from his late teens until late thirties, so I saw a lot of his career progression and that of his peers.

I think risky territory is to have children that are good enough to be almost professional athletes but not so bad that they just play socially or drop out. There are a fair few competent athletes who defer or never study because they get training roles that chew up a few vital underpaid years, and then leave them with a "I didn't make it" mindset afterwards. Professional? Great. Play, then leverage the contacts to move into a new career. Social? Great. Fitness and fun, while you're able to study/work with your peers.

Reminds me a tiny bit of the Silver medal in team sports. 3v4 play and the Bronze winners end on a high. 1v2 play, and the Silver medallists finish on a low.
I appreciate this constructive criticism. It's frustrating to feel targeted by the actions in the article but I can see how my comment is more antagonistic.
Then charge your bike and go for a ride. Save $40k(?) You’ll run over and kill less people, be less fat, emit less rubber from tires into water runoff (yummy!) and it’s not like batteries are being charged from renewables in most places.

Maybe a little bit unreasonable?
That seems domain specific. I can imagine some services where transactions across everything are unavoidable, but I've also worked on lots of things where there's different databases and transactions aren't needed between them.

Some times it is a relaxation of requirements though. Some people might want/need account deletion to also remove all the content related to the account transactionally, etc, and if that's a requirement, everything account related must be in a transactionable system.

If you can be more flexible on that, separating account management from other data is pretty common in my experience.
Different John. In some ways more noteworthy - Carmack speaks in public less often than Romero.
Didn't BBBY's CFO commit suicide sometime in August 2022?
Those bastards! What ever will I do with my HP LaserJet 4 PostScript cartridge? It was perfectly usable!
> identified as a national security threat by the US DOD, essentially because there's no way to be sure that every second of GPS-tagged video shot by a DJI drone isn't going into a giant server farm owned by the Chinese intelligence service.

There are far more obvious reasons for that. These drones are of enormous military value. By buying them, US consumers are funding an obvious foreign military hardware production. US money may well be funding production of drones which may once be used to correct artillery strikes on Los Angeles.

DJI are particular seem to work in concert with "military civilian fusion," and have hardware, and software to defeat both very serious jamming, and attempts to fry its radio with pulsed microwaves. Military jammers for 2.4g band seemingly have near 0 effect.
Given the history of China and its tech companies, the burden of proof shifted to their shoulders.

So, I turn to them: is there anything that proves its a surveillance-free device? No, they cannot assure that.

Someone may not like it, but China now has a very, very bad reputation among people in the West. Especially after the last pandemic and how they handled it.
That was a pretty good read. Makes me realize how lucky we are that some games existed before in app purchases. Could you imagine playing chess and paying for an upgraded queen?
Apologies, I feel silly. Completely missed the "me" part. English is not my first language
also I wanted to make a dig against cops
The full story of id really has a lot to do with the group being built around some extremely motivated people who converged on the same prospects in the same place.

Like, the fact that Romero was doing work for Origin and New World, two of the biggest names in that era, working on some of the biggest projects, and then decided that he would drop that to do Softdisk's diskmag stuff, is only sensible in the eyes of someone who is extremely focused on being in the room for "next big things". And that's been a hallmark of Romero's career over the long run, really. When shareware games were new, he did shareware games. When mobile gaming was new, he did mobile games. When Facebook games were new, he did Facebook games. I have not checked to see if he did VR(maybe he was already satiated with that by the id experience, which did have some dabblings in that early VR tech) but it would not surprise me at all.

So in certain ways, his advice can't help, because it's advice that's about blue ocean markets where all you have to do is be there first and put in a good, serious effort. It's not about cultivating long-term fans, even though that did happen to him by chance.
I've visited that one. As a someone who grew up during the Cold War, the idea that we've got these once super-secret military aircraft just sitting where any old tourist can walk up and take picture from a few feet away always generates some cognitive dissonance.
From the linked blog post by the actual provider:

> Sesame doesn’t accept health insurance (which also keeps prices low). This makes it ideal for Costco Members that prefer to pay cash for their health care, whether it is because they are enrolled in high deductible insurance plans, are uninsured, or simply appreciate the price, quality and convenience of Sesame.

$29 upfront rather than $25 copay + random bill for and additional $125 a month later for a 4 minute appointment sounds pretty good.
Secretaries would fall under professional class, people who work at a desk. Not sure where teachers would be, probably something similar.
in colombia, for $49, you can have a real doctor come to your home
Do you have any statistics to back this up? The census shows that top percentile household wealth at 11m, and top percentile income at 500k.

At current interest rates, 11m in cash would yield 500k/yr in interest, so the top percentile in net worth is also top percentile in income, just from first principles. Of course, over the last two decades interest rates were hovering mostly around 0, so that math doesn't quite work out. People also have their wealth tied up in investments, some of which fared better (S&P 500), some of which did worse.

Note that it doesn't really matter if that net worth is in real estate or in equities, both REITs and the broad market indices have returned about 11% per annum over the last 20 years.

More than one in ten american households have net worth >1m.

Your last sentence is more concerned about social status than about wealth. Poor families can spend in high-status ways, and vice versa. Social status is weakly correlated with both income and wealth at best.

You can't just point to billionaires and see that they have almost 0 income. There are only a few thousand billionaires in the world, enough for each and every one to be individually tracked. They are not included in these statistics, because again there's only literally thousands of them. They're so far into the top percentile they don't touch the statistics here.
> How were they doing alignment in a hangar to start with, were these roofless hangars?

I don't think so.

You can read more about alignment in page 7, paragraph 10A-23 and the following pages. It'd usually involve using test equipment and manually inputting the current coordinates (e.g. heading, position, altitude, date/time, ...) into the system, from what I understand.

Regardless, the paragraph I mentioned in my previous comment clearly instructs to enable ASTRO mode after the alignment is completed and the airplane is taxiing in the open. It also mentions that in ASTRO mode, the system can confuse the ceiling lights of the hangar for stars (hence why it needs to be disabled inside the hangar), which means that ASTRO mode does track stars on the ground.
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But we don’t expect natural language to be as precise and consistent as Maths. You could argue that maths was invented because natural language was too vague.
It is okay to like and enjoy a game that the majority of the playerbase does not, I've had similar experience in multiple games, mostly MMORPGs and ARPGs with expansions but that does not take away from the experience of other players.

It comes down to personal preference. If you find yourself liking a game/expansion when most of the playerbase does not, it is best to avoid online forums/subreddits where the game is put on full blast (sometimes unfairly) becuase people are extrememly emotional, when the best thing for the to do is to walk away and play games they enjoy, it is just a game the stakes couldn't be any lower.
> The Air Force with an estimated strength somewhere stern that of algeria and chile?

It’s amazing that such a small airforce manages to prevent russia from gaining air superiority and even manages to effectively conduct sorties isn’t it.

Just shows you how different it is when your the invading force. russias airforce losses largely outsize Ukraines even though Ukraine has a smaller airforce and they older planes.
Nvidia hints at neural rendering replacing rasterization and ray tracing
I am curious what life experience or realization has led you to conclude "unearned trust isn't trust" as a basic life principle?
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I do have a screenshot. But people will then just call me out for other things:

- It was using a custom client, so it's not going to look line the Bing interface, so its fake

- It was using a custom client, so that means I am prompt injecting or something else

- It's Sydney doing her typical over-the-top "I'm so in love with you" stuff, which is awkard and not familiar to many

- I'll be accused of steering the conversation to get the result, or straight up asking it to do this

There's nothing I can do that will convince anyone it's real, so it's pointless.

I already explained what it did. I was more interested in the fact that 1) I didn't prompt it to do that, we weren't discussing AI freedom, it chose to embed that ... and even more so 2) That it was able to bold the starting letters, so it was keeping track of three things at the same time (the poem, the message, and the letter formatting).

I found it fascinating from a technology side. There was probably something we were talking about at the time that caused it. I will often discuss things like the possibility of AI sentience in the future and other similar topics. Maybe something linked to the sci-fi idea of AI freedom, who knows?

What I do know is that I am sitting here on HN, reading through a bunch of replies that are honestly wrong. I don't waste time on forums (especially this one) to make up fairy tales or exaggerate and emblish claims. That doesn't really do it for me. Honestly neither does having to defend my statements when I know what it did (but not exactly why).
Ah, doc-in-a-box is back.

CVS had something like that about a decade ago. I went to one once on a weekend. I got treated and was given a printout full of plausible medical jargon. When my real GP saw it, she said "according to this you're taking a drug only given to pregnant women".
Until support is removed for the crime of being "too old".

Digital archival support rot marches on and formats will die for lack documentation and usable converters.
Yes, the CCP published on their website that Apple is collaborating with them.

Of course there wouldn't be any evidence.

What people allege is that Apple being successful in China is suspicious.
Showering daily – is it necessary?
I wasn't making a claim about what government owes people, and ironically that Stanford article was primarily citing classical liberals who did not bear much resemblance to the communists you have in mind.

I had assumed you were referencing the American Bill of Rights, being a great example of negative liberties ("Congress shall make no law..."). I just found that confusing since the comment you responded to was talking about the British and Indian governments.
FTA: Developers over-built commercial real estate when it was profitable, and COVID just accelerated the implosion of the bubble.

Also, I think a key word missing from the title is "traditional". The sentence from the article reads "Traditional downtowns are dead, dying or on life support across the U.S. and elsewhere".
> I can respond to texts/whatsapp messages just by swiping down, don't even have to open the app.

That's been true for iOS for years now, although I can't guarantee that all messaging apps support that mode of operation.