skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's possible but that seems to be a fully general argument against ever making things more efficient? Why bother with any innovation at all if the profits are eaten by execs?

For lowering prices vs. eating the profits, I think a bit of both happens in most industries. There are plenty of examples where better tech constantly leads to lower prices - basically most PC hardware like SSDs today. IMO these kinds of things never get media attention but yeah prices do get lower in many areas. The dynamics of whether they extract profits or pass on savings are complex and vary over time depending on competition etc. but over the long term its hard to argue that some industry will get more efficient but no one else will start competing with the same tech to bring prices down. For self driving cars we have 2-3 players in the field too which is a good sign.

Overall this argument has been rehashed for different technologies many times. Horse drivers vs. cars, scribes vs. typewriters blah blah. Its difficult to argue we would have been better off today by protecting jobs over letting the technology help everyone eventually. Personally i think this transition will be rough though, a lot of people including programmers are going to lose their jobs and we might have years of pain ahead before things stabilize. But in the long term yeah its better than just hiding AI in a box and pretending like nothing happened.
Sure, make sure your build is reproducible then use something like act (open source github actions runner) to build the executable, submit the hash when you're done.

Basically what you're describing is reproducible builds. The crypto stuff won't work because homomorphic encryption doesn't work, and neither do trusted compute platforms.
bisq.network[1] seems to be doing it fine, and non-fiat decentralized exchanges have existed longer. They just don't get the hype.

[1] https://bisq.network
I'm working on an idea that I'm submitting to YC this year. AI is revolutionizing the field I'm most passionate about, I feel like it would be a waste if I didn't even try to make a contribution at what's possibly the last time we get to make a significant contribution in this way.

I was hyped about Bitcoin when it came out, but the only truly revolutionary thing that happened after Bitcoin in that field was Ethereum, and there really wasn't anything to be hyped about besides that in the decade since even though people kept hyping it.

This hype is so different, it's as powerful as web 2.0 was. I felt like I missed out on building something epic then, and now I get another shot so I'm not gonna miss it. I bet there's thousands of people who feel this way.
At work I've lovingly but sadly referred to Apache as the "Crazy Cat Lady of Software." From the outside it looks like they're willing to take on any project that someone wants to give away regardless of whether they have the capacity to provide maintenance / governance of it themselves.

While I do love the preservation aspect of it, seeing that a project is maintained by Apache rings the same "Sure, but is the project already dead" bells in my head that I hear when I see a project from Google. In both cases, the name brings the concern that a project might be on its way out.
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If it's "among friends," then there is no reason to talk about trust.

If it's for work, look into cryptographic signing (probably PKI) and as long as the signing keys are only issued to trusted agents, you can treat any result (plus Git hash) with a valid signature as a valid result.
The oil in homes or the oil in restaurants is that bad?
Why is this so important if it has vertical takeoff?
> This has a significant deterrence effect because it means you can’t just massively attack all airbases and expect the Air Force to be disabled.

I'd be very surprised if being able to land/takeoff from highways wasn't one of the most basic design requirements for a project as massive as the F-35. If highways are already designed to be usable as ad-hoc airfields, it would make no sense at all to design new airplanes to keep them compatible.
You forgot the third brand name.

The pattern for current world's voice assistants is: ${brand 1}, ${action} ${brand 2} ${joiner} ${brand 3}.

So, "OK Google, take me to Chinese restaurant in Hoboken using Google Maps".

Which is why I refuse to use this technology until the world gets its shit together.
Sure, done: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37650402

I totally agree. This is insufferable.

This is not just a virtual, academic subject to me. I've cofounded an association of French families [1] that has been contacted by 1300+ people in the past 8 years or so. I see parents losing their baby to foster care for 6, 12, 24 months or more. To say they are broken for life is an understatement. I see fathers, mothers, nannies maintain their innocence for years until they are convicted to 5 to 15 years of jail, because medical experts have certified that no other explanation than shaking could have ever caused the child's findings. Three more people I know have been convicted in the past couple of weeks. I feel so absolutely desperate and hopeless seeing people going to jail one after the other, week after week, while I can't do anything about it. All cases are not illegitimate, of course, but there are serious reasons to be doubtful when there is no external evidence of trauma, strong and sustained denials, and no antecedent of abuse.

For sure, we have tried to alert medical authorities, doctors, politicians, institutions, judges, celebrities, scientists, journalists for years, and almost no one actually cares, while those who do will do everything in their power to cancel and suppress us (Waney Squier is one among many other examples, Chapter 1 of our Cambridge book provides more examples). I see no other example in our modern history of an active, systematic endeavor that has been so destructive to so many people for so long.

[1] https://adikia.fr/
It seems there may be some confusion. This project is an RSS/Atom feed notifier; it is not a notification server. It can be used with any notification server implementing the FreeDesktop Notifications Specification such as Mako, not act as an alternative. Please share your thoughts if you try it out!
> I’m now starting to see warnings from third-party app developers that, in Sonoma, their apps will be unable to open or import EPS files, for example, as they can no longer convert them using Quartz in macOS 14. Although the impact on most of us should be very small or negligible, if you do still use EPS or PostScript at any scale, you will need to prepare a solution for continuing to do so after upgrading to Sonoma. I wish you success.

I work with dozens of graphic designers and am quite certain that zero (0) of them know this is coming.
Thanks for the suggestions. Somehow, I never thought about using virtual desktops, but it sounds intriguing.
Milgram's experiments were ten years prior. And the interpretation of the experiments' results, that Milgram himself favored, was not about man's innate inhumanity, but about man's ability to perform inhumane acts if ordered by an authority. He emphasized that none of the subjects would willingly shock "the learner" unless ordered to.
> stock shenanigans

They pay their employees and executives in stock. They'd have to spend much more cash if they stopped doing that.
The problem isn't that, it's governments being excessively reactive to things. In their view few people dying of random mishaps is always an excuse for more government. In my view everybody dies of something and faced with the threat of a 251g drone to the skull vs the horror of everyone pickled in aspic under maximum government insanity just to preserve me long enough enough into decrepitude that the medics get to torment me properly before death, bring on the drone. A society where people aren't free to die of ordinary mishaps is a sick society.
> So, somebody didn't notice a "changes every game" instance ID was in the path and/or data. They thought they were overwriting a single key.

Becsuse messing with Windows registry is a recommended action. /s

What's wrong with game config files ?
I have EPS files from 25 years ago that I still want to be able to open, these old graphics that help me remember my dad, a graphic designer. This sucks.
Sony, Asus, Nothing & Motorola all pretty much run stock Android.
Preparing for society to fail is pretty shameful. It means you’re diverting energy from preventing its failure.
If your "script" is Turing-complete and the remote nodes can't be trusted, there is no solution due to the halting problem. You can't verify correctness of an arbitrary function output w/o evaluating it step by step.

Also any obfuscation can be removed and any compiled code can be decompiled.
I haven't finished the series but the first book, The Way of Kings is my absolute favourite book of all time.
Really? I see it as a mess in the whole house instead of a mess in one room only.
> It's still a device wedded to an OS that wants your data shipped off to a company that knows how to use it against you vs a device iOS put out by a company that seems so wildly inept in this space that they just went whole-hog on privacy, at least publicly.

Apple still sells your user data to advertisers, they just want to be the only one to do so, for profit.
Loafers. Loafers are amazing.

US adults (and, to a lesser extent, those in Europe—I gather the loafer caps out a bit lower there as far as how “high up” you can dress it) can get away with wearing slip-on shoes a whole lot of the time, while also looking smarter-dressed than sneakers or what have you.

Doesn’t get you away from laces entirely, but can seriously cut down on how often you have to fiddle with them.

(Or you can come at it the other way and become a Crocs Guy, of course)
Project 941 Akula: Soviet Typhoon Submarines in Rare Photos
Thousands of Forest Schools in Europe now; a huge growth sector spreading globally.

[0] https://forestschoolassociation.org/
[1] https://www.thenativeschool.com/forest-school-101
[2] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220105-how-asia-fell-in...
My wife was a teacher before we had kids. She left the profession for exactly the reasons you mention. She liked teaching children. She hated dealing with discipline and especially with needy parents who would not trust her when she said that their child wasn't any better than any other student. She hated the fact that they wouldn't let her teach advanced concepts to advanced kids, and that they got rid of tracking and classroom aides.

When her job became more overhead than actually teaching, that's when she called it quits. Now she volunteers most of the day at school trying to help the teachers in any way she can to make their jobs easier.
Original mini here, and I've flown a friend's spark. The mini flies about 30 minutes on a charge, and is much more compact when folded. The spark had more sophisticated collision avoidance than my mini. They seemed comparably zippy to me, but I never flew them back-to-back.
It wasn't found in unit tests. /s
This has nothing to do with "class warfare". Big companies are capable of hiring thousands of people, and have the cash to do so. If they decide that they no longer need those people, they will fire them. At no point is some mustache-twirling villain "plotting against" you. They do not care about you. You have skills, they hired you for those skills; they no longer need your skills, so you are let go with benefits (because we fought for those).

What policies are you actually proposing? Because I really don't know where you're going with this. Ban firing? Forced hiring?
Any highway in Colorado would tear the landing gear off in a second.
It seems like the Osmo Pocket line has stagnated a bit. I bought a Pocket 2 in the summer of 2021, and more than two years later, it still is the current model. That's a shame because while it's a good idea, the camera has some problems. Video quality is not great, especially in low light. It does not work well for creating vertical format (TikTok-style) videos. The screen on the camera is smaller than a postage stamp and is pretty much unusable -- you really need to pair the camera with your phone. ...which then leads to the question, why not just use DJI's excellent Osmo Mobile gimble and record footage using the much better camera that your phone has.
> Why not remove it from the spec and place the requirement of synchronization support into the spec instead?

I believe it's there to support the use case of companies who want to ensure their employees are using company-approved devices and methods to interact with company systems.

It's a reasonable use case.
In Roughing It he writes about some sad Native-Americans that felt invented to me. It felt invented because he describes them as helpless and incapable. I doubt that was the general case, but he was making a point.

GPT-4 Can you tell what chapter Mark Twains "Roughing It" where he describes some sad Native-Americans?

The chapter you're referring to is Chapter 26. In this chapter, Twain describes an encounter with a group of Native Americans near the Humboldt River. He paints a rather bleak picture of their condition, noting their ragged appearance, their desolate surroundings, and the overall sense of hopelessness. Twain's description is both sympathetic and critical, as he comments on the impact of Western expansion on Native American communities.
Can these planes still land in somewhat icy and snowy weather? The article mentioned drag chutes and arrestor hooks, but I’d imagine a foot of snow being a problem…
Slack wants you to know this privacy exploit is fine
Its probably reliable if you're a Fortune 500 company hiring enterprise J2EE and C# developers because that's most of their customers, but not if you're a more engineering/product driven company. I guess the appeal of Levels.fyi - more tech focused.
And the dumb thing is that if they had listened to the engineers who were telling them the customer base was going to freak out at this, the company could have avoided large parts of the drama, since a few of their fixes were not even really a change in plan, so much as better more clear wording.

The big drama causes
1. People assuming unity was going to add additional telemetry to track installs. (Reality: Unity seemed to always be planning on using App store numbers and the numbers from any opt-in unity services as the basis of their model). This one was a complete communication failure by unity.

2. Announcing a new payment model never before used by the industry. This alone (without looking at the details) is not a huge deal, but it makes people nervous.

3. This metric is hard to measure, and unity's initial announcement was basically that they would be estimating it in their sole discretion, which makes people uncomfortable. Their fix was to allow self reporting the data, which must be based on something that reliably approximates the revised install count definition.

4. Unclear definition of install was used. What they eventually settled on: once per unique end user per distribution platform (e.g. app store), was pretty much what Unity was going for anyway, but the initial announcement royally messed up here.

5. The metric was abusable, and there was apparently no cap to it. This was honestly one of the biggest issues. This got fixed by adding the 2.5% revenue share cap.

6. Trying to make this apply retroactively to previously published applications. This was the other biggest issue. This was especially bad because only a few years ago the company had another smaller scandal, and promised to allow people to keep using the terms of service of each version as it was when people downloaded it. Indeed, for a while this was explicitly part of the terms, and people who used those versions probably could get a court to side with them.

If they had listened to their engineers, I think they could have fixed/avoided 1, 4, and 6. Numbers 3 and 5 may have remained, still causing huge outcry, and eventually getting fixed, but at least if number 6 were addressed before initial announcement, it would not have been a loss-of-trust issue so much as a: you are a moron for proposing this without the needed backstop, and requiring companies to blindly trust your estimations.
The deployment is really easy to do and well documented with some FAQs you may face, yes there were some issues in setup before couple of months ago but we fixed them even the database migration now is automated. that is acceptable especially when you use a new technology. you can join to our Discord and the team will help you to deploy it on your machine.
The problem with trust is there's existing evidence American regulators have improper relations with private corporations.

There's the recent case I mentioned in another thread of the CFTC and the election-betting market websites predict.it and Kashi. Kashi (A VC rich funded startup) hired former a CFTC commissioner and suddenly the regulatory approvals of predict.it (a project by a university in New Zealand) were withdrawn.

(It's a bit more complicated than that, but I'd rather not go into all the details. You can research it on your own. Perhaps you'd reach a different conclusion than me. Maybe the CFTC was behaving properly and the internet consensus is just paranoid.)

Could regulatory agencies be reformed to be beyond suspicion? Probably. How? Don't ask me, I'm not a politician, I can't pretend to know how.
But yet it exists on the Apple App store where I am sure Apple has inspected it.

I guess the Android version could be a lot different, but why?
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Only the F-35"B" variant has this, if I remember correctly. The F-35A doesn't.
Someone nearby needs to set up a pirate radio station that play Kenny Loggins in a permanent loop.
F-35B is the VTOL variant.
Sure it could be done but it's going to be slower and more unreliable than a centralized solution, and you'll need run it redundantly so you can be sure no one is malicious.

There's also problem of incentive. Why would anyone want to run your builds? So you can run theirs? In that case why you won't run yours and their theirs and save the overhead?
The notion that paper letters are more authentic than digital has always confused me. If you can forge a realistic-looking PDF, you can also print it. On the other hand, an email still on Gmail's servers with headers showing its authenticated origin, or a document held in escrow by Docusign, seems like far more rigorous evidence in a hypothetical court dispute. And I'd have my bank statements as corroborating evidence, rather than relying on one company

Ideally, companies would have well-known public keys and sign every PDF they send you. In practice, they don't, but it's not even (feasibly) possible to sign a paper letter, unless we're still counting a printed squiggle as some sort of proof. Holograms and other genuinely hard-to-print marks are presumably very effective against non-sophisticated forgers, but I only see them on a few government documents, not mortgage papers

Also I'm aware that printers print identifying dots, and that is probably the downfall of many amateur forgers, but only because it allows you to find a smoking gun if the document is forged (and the printer was suspected a priori). But I imagine it's a lot harder to use that in the other direction, where a customer wants to prove a document did come from some company, as they'll presumably struggle to get their hands on the signatures of all the company's printers
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This often gets brought up, but it's only because of a similar ill-discipline to what the comment you replied to is talking about.

AOSP has basic apps for all of those use cases, but presumably because it's much sexier to work on closed source in-house apps that get to be updated as often as the team feels like instead of being forced to work in the margins of the OS update schedule... they languished to the point of unusability.

I'm not even sure if they'd all run on the latest version of Android, some of them are still using Kit-Kat era UIs last I checked
> But companies also shouldn't get a free ride with "trade secret"

They don't - the judge determines what should be sealed by weighing public interest against potential harm. In this instance, the article author disagrees with the judge's decisions.
This is about as believable as a cryptobro saying "fiat currency will not be around for very long, for better or worse".

You can't produce genuinely new things with a human point of view based on lived experience with generative AI and there's no reason to expect that will be happen in the near future. Humans care about human stories and they care most about novel stories, not chewed-over already-told stories.

That said, with any luck we'll just get back to typewriters and film photos and we can shut the internet down for everything but email and Wikipedia. To do otherwise would leave thoughts, hopes and dreams open for consumption by software expressly designed to use them against their creators.
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GJS opens the entire GNOME ecosystem to JavaScript developers
I don't have nearly enough money to buy even congress people, let alone senate :D
homomorphic encryption and trusted compute platforms not withstanding (neither actually works).

Maybe zero knowledge proofs?
I second this to how difficult it is to deploy the app.

My feature request is to be able to deploy sth like this on heroku or other paas and to string all of the dependencies with env variables.
yeah but how do you prevent egos and personalities to dominate and have it not turn into "well bob said do it this way and I'm in bob's camp." "Oh yeah, bob doesn't know what he's talking about..." not the mention the subtle stuff going on behind the scenes not talked about. Some people are friends outside of work and are having a fight that has nothing to do with the code but taking it out on each other in the PR! https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks this.

I read over their product page and, like always, I'm absolutely amazed that these things exist now and can capture such amazing video and photography at their price point. I'd love to get one to use.

But I won't buy one, because every time I go out now to the beach or on a hike, I see people with things like these and I just cannot stand them. I hate the ridiculous noise, I hate the fact that these people are filming things in the middle of streets and sidewalks and trails and generally putting themselves in the center of everything and inconveniencing everyone else just to 'get their shot'. I hate the idea that I am potentially being filmed by some random kids with a high speed camera on the drone hovering out over the park bench I'm resting on.

And because I hate these things, I will not buy one, because I do not want to turn into the annoyances that I feel, no matter how cool the tech looks.

That... or... I'm secretly afraid that I'd buy it and not actually have anything cool to film and it'd sit in a closet and be another $800 paperweight device.

But let's go with not wanting to be an another annoying 'Main Character Syndrome' person and just be quiet and peaceful when out and about.
Pretty aside (while not denigrating its value in videos), the book market has long been dominated (reading, writing, and publishing) by well-off white women.

Not always dominated, mind you, but when they took it over, they grabbed ahold of it with both hands.
They have a business model and they would've been fine if they hadn't started increasing their headcount by 50% every year and focused on their core products.
Most likely an analysis of cost vs benefits resulted in a decision for deprecation first and removal later
A is normal takeoff/landing

B is vertical takeoff/landing

C is carrier takeoff/landing
> the filesystem is really kind of a database anyway

I thought ReFS was a failure. /s