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Does every article about an event have to bring up the sordid history of the place it happens? Is Burning Man about the Mexican American War, massacred natives and Chinese railroad workers?
> A strong type system does not allow types to change after being established. A weak type system allows types to change.

For dynamic types, sure, that's a reasonable enough definition. But it doesn't really make sense for static types: they're attached to expressions in your source code, not runtime values.
>Why is it confusing that people talk about racism, when it flies free at the fair?

I don't understand your argument. I didn't mention anything concerning talking about racism; it was their racist comments I was referring to.
In speakerphone mode, iPhone will pick up clean audio from a distance of several feet. Anywhere in the cubicle should work. It would be less restrictive than a headset cable.

Polycom desktop speakerphone would have more range, but it's larger and you'll risk picking up audio from neighboring cubicles.

If you want something more precise, use a small directional microphone, e.g. Rode has one that plugs directly into an iPhone, https://www.apple.com/shop/product/HMG72ZM/A/røde-microphone...
> Besides the ease of battery replacement, those phones seemed much more durable. Maybe because there was something that gave way on impact?

Metal cases give way, too— permanently. When they give way, they dent, shrinking the space available for the glass screen and, inevitably, cracking it.

Glass cases/backs obviously easily crack themselves.

Making phone housings out of something other than plastic is an obviously stupid kind of fetishism for certain materials as hallmarks of a vague 'quality' regardless of context.

Idk about the screens. Do we need glass for touchscreens as we know them to work really well? Can they be brighter or something? Or are they largely unnecessary, too?
The space and time mapping they pull out of the LLM here is non-linguistic.
Exactly this. Who thinks this agency just went quietly into the night?

They have a "public" budget of $24 billion and probably countless other dark money funds. We know they made money for their operations by running crack cocaine TO THE UNITED STATES already.

https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/archive/special/...
absolutely spot on, there was a time when Hotspot was going to bring Java to the promised land.

It never happened.
https://archive.ph/TRCkv
I don't believe your account of this 2009 talk, most definitely do not believe your suggestion of what 100 other people thought is anywhere close to accurate.

> To those who say we need him for GNU outreach: we absolutely don't. ANYONE would be better for the job.

But other people are, and you are ignoring them and helping create this supposed problem, which I'm unconvinced is a real or important problem. LWN said that Panos Alevropoulos gave a great speech at this very same event. Why don't you write or promote an article about his talk and leave the people who want to read this article alone instead of heckling them and RMS. I've read this same complaint for many years "Everyone look: we should pay attention to someone else besides RMS for free software (as I also give attention to RMS through this comment, do not pay attention to anyone else, and do not suggest anyone or do anything to help solve this supposed problem)." RMS said things at this event people are interested in reading about, so this got upvoted, and there is nothing wrong with that, and the fact that you didn't like his attitude in 2009 is really not very interesting as a comment on this 2023 speech where he had a good attitude. Is RMS irredeemable? Should someone be primarily judged by mostly anonymous internet commenters who are not actively involved in the activity they criticize and based on things like a grumpy attitude they once saw? I don't think so.
> our three letter agencies have collected an immense amount of dirt

This is something I can't help being reminded of any time there's "breaking news" about a political candidate and some taboo subject, even today. It seems at least naive to believe it never happens. I don't think it's too wrong to say that political candidates today either have very clean histories or "play nice" to some extent with these agencies.
There is a CertAin large SaaS company that partners with retailers and sells them on this kind of bullshit. They don’t CAre. They ChArge the retailer and the seller thousands per month for their platform and technology.
Well they are right. High School has no point in of itself. It's just a means to an end.
I'm asking sincerely, not snarkily: is that a problem for you? I've worked on a largish project with several other people, and occasionally a new feature would come up that would allow us to simplify the code. We'd tell each other, hey, I'm using new feature `foo` in the branch I'm hacking on. You'll need to be on at least 1.xx.yy to build it. Then we'd all run `rustup upgrade` and verify that it didn't break existing code, and if not, onward and upward.

Alright, I could see how that would be a PITA at a large company with a huge codebase, but I don't think there are yet a lot of Rust shops like that. I see the Rust version treadmill as similar to Python's, where it's nearly always backward compatible (let me stop ya right there, anyone who mentions 2-to-3; we're talking minor versions here) and new features are almost only additive.

Note that I'm not saying you're wrong if you disagree with me. It's more that the theoretical issues have been, well, theoretical in my personal experience so far.
This looks great. Audio's left-speaker only? Might be a problem on my end.

I will learn video poker, and get good at this. I wouldn't mind an option to disable the CRT simulation, but it's outstanding anyway.
There are exceptions for water proof devices and batteries having a capacity of 80% with 1000 cycles.
Gross or net?
Show HN: Talk with ChatGPT using your VOICE
Private Equity has been getting in to veterinary care in a huge way, and many vet offices are cutting back on services and staffing significantly. It's very easy to see the change in motivation.
But you can get a better phone with great battery life for 250$. Motorola and many other manufacturers sell perfectly usable devices with 5000 mAh batteries for that price.
You’re responding to the headline. Go look at the paper
Stellar Sleep (YC S23) Is Hiring a Senior SWE in San Francisco
What did you think of Antkind? That one has been on my list forever, but I've never gotten around to it. I expect it to be either pure genius, or... 500 pages of unending navel gazing.
Sanctions are are easy now, help now, and easily justified in the short term, but they bring a serious and destructive cost in that their maintenance relies on oppressive surveillance. This is detrimental to the value of the currency and payment network over the long run as it will as surely be abused for political purposes as mass surveillance in any other context. (Eg. Messages)
Vespa.ai does a great job. Absolutely stunning thing!
Indeed. I have on occasion joked about starting a "crates-name squatting" business; pick a bunch of common names and buzzwords and hog them and give them up for $$, like domain squatters do.

I see the arguments against organization/namespacing in Rust (ala Maven or NPM) and I kinda shake my head. The reality is, crates.io is a crazy bazaar, people end up taking crate names and then abandoning their projects, leaving that name forever unusable.

e.g. at work we have an internal crate named "event" (on our internal repository) that conflicts with an abandoned public crate of the same name that hasn't had commits in 8 years. This leads to confusion if you get your cargo config wrong. But it's also kinda frustrating that this very generic name is ... lost to time now.
Your comments above seem to be implying that Ben’s concerns are only about investment in the original Processing software. Is this the case? Are there more devs being funded to work on p5js?
I think what you can reasonably do is to monitor how many employees of a certain race/gender/etc are in a particular job - and if the distribution is significantly unlike the general distribution of the population, see that as an indicator that something is wrong.

That doesn't mean that try the first available thing to "fix" the distribution, but it would be a good starting point to ask further questions why it is so skewed - and then try to identify root causes.

I.e., if you only hire by skills and then find that you still hire 80% men, even though they only make up 50% of the population, then obviously something else is going wrong. The question is what.
In 90-ies, when police and courts stopped doing whatever they have been doing during USSR collapse, the vacuum of "law enforcement" was filled with criminal gangs. So businessmen would pay some gang for their business protection. Specifically, a landlord, hotel owner, etc. would be paying a local gang so that they enforce "laws" and resolve disputes.

LA has a bunch of gangs/cartels operating in it already. Is this something that is already happening? What prevents them from offering a "service of getting rid from problem tenants"?
Haha, I have no idea how I was not aware of the dead salmon experiment prior. This article [1] has a nice overview for anybody else in my shoes. Thanks for the reference.

[1] - https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/scicurious-brain/ignobe...
Or, most people don’t want to believe something uncomfortable until it no longer matters (if ever), and classifying/making these programs secret is exactly so the general public (which is composed mostly of those people) has plausible deniability?

Which is also why whistleblowers get at most some feathers rustled, but rarely results in actual structural change.

Because the public mostly is concerned about how they feel, not what is actually happening.
"There was really nothing they could do"
wait until they discover there are weapons manufacturers
How to communicate like a GitHub engineer: our principles, practices, and tools
If you have a tiny codebase maybe, but if there are a couple million lines, it's likely that a pretty significant number of functions are sharing names.
If you could somehow download the entire archive you could feed it into your LLM for training. This is a huge corpus and is sort of ill-gotten. That said, it would be pretty awesome.

Google has this sort of thing already, since they have that whole "let's digitize the world's books" project. Interesting as to why google never developed a ChatGPT, given that they literally have a large amount of the world's books digitized.
> We wouldn’t place heavy bets on Falcon Shores making it to completion unless a big HPC center adopts it, and given how Argonne National Laboratory was treated, we don’t think there will be a lot of uptake unless Intel makes some pretty big pricing concessions. Which it can ill afford. Hybrid CPU-GPU devices – the original plan for Falcon Shores, have also been shelved.

That's even more eyebrow raising than an Altera spinoff.

Altera is a good side business, but Falcon Shores is like Intel's consolidated future. If they just let that go... What do they expect? That everyone will just buy Xeon CPUs and IGP laptops forever?
Pentagon Amateur Radio Club 9/11 Special Event Station K4P (2002)
Apple will replace batteries for iPhone 5s and up, for $69-89 in the US. No issues with fakes or low quality.

People who want to do some work themselves can buy replacement kits from reputable part suppliers for $29-59.

Your problem only occurs if somebody wants to do the work themselves _and_ they think they can source the parts without assistance from a reputable part supplier.
definitely seen issues in #1 with 32-bit transaction ID and also the problems with connections in PG, but we can sort of manage around these.
The "problem" is that Asians and to a lesser extent whites are taking advanced math in middle school at higher rates than blacks and Hispanics. This solution won't work, because a large fraction of Asian parents will afterschool their children in math if they think school math is insufficient. My wife and I are Asian-Indian and sent our children to Russian School of Math https://www.mathschool.com/. A large fraction of students at RSM are Asian. In our area, Chinese parents run Sunday schools where advanced math courses are offered, typically taught by Chinese fathers who are scientists or engineers. There is a national association of such Chinese Sunday schools.
7 years or up to the Point that Google decides to pull the plug. Whichever comes first.

Stadia, Pixelbook, Pixel pass, Jamboard, etc.
Milk tea, specifically with tapioca pearls, is a Taiwanese way of drinking tea which has taken the world by storm. See Boba/bubble tea.[0]

Also, the Brits didn’t invent adding milk to tea, the Tibetans did. The majority of the world, for most of history drinks tea without milk.

To answer your question, it’s the drink you are used to but with even more sugary additives and usually in a significantly larger serving :).

We are all sugar junkies.

[0] https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/03/bubble...
for me personally my 45 have been a full throttle. Lived in 4 countries in the last two years, learned tons of stuff and met super cool people. The "45 years old's salary" enabled that. In the last two months I've been learning surfing in my spare time. Total woah. Looking forward to the years to come, it's not true that quantity doesn't have quality :)
Again, Juries that don’t know what is meant by this term will use some standard, but reasonable doubt is supposed to have a specific meaning.

I am not suggesting legal results are actually a coin toss, just that this level of agreement doesn’t require shared logic let alone using the same standard. If you have two people roll a dice with 90% yes and 10% no then they will agree 0.9 * 0.9 + 0.1 * 0.1 = 82% of the time with absolutely zero logic involved. A much lower standard say ‘the preponderance of the evidence’ is easily enough to hit 78% agreement which is really quite low.
And more recently the Congress[1] and a presidential candidate[2] —that we know of. Much we may not.

But even Congress doesn’t have the will to do anything about the apparatus. What chance does the public at large have to have their constitutional rights protected?

[1]https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/01/the-dan...

[2]I'm sure some people will find no problem given an unsympathetic person, but it's still wrong.
They've been doing this for nearly 30 years now, to varying degrees. It all started with ABS. Then they added traction control, then they added regenerative braking (for EV's) and so on. It's been decades since your brake pedal has had a direct mechanical connection to your drums and your calipers. Even ABS adds computers and sensors between your pedal and the brake.

Generally, these systems are very reliable, but occasionally things go wrong. So far the analysis has been over an order of magnitude of lives have been saved by using this technology than have been lost due to its going awry. Ultimately, this is the argument that's going to be used for self-driving cars.
I think the challenge is: Does your hardware support the updates? Hardware vendors from time to time have the tendency to change the OS in ways that it works nice on brand new hardware but is very sluggish on older hardware - to the point of being unusable.

So if I get an update 6 years in that renders my phone unusable, I haven't gained anything.

I would prefer 7 years of sec updates in that case.
>What does not work?

I'm saying that even if you do what you suggest, it simply doesn't work that well.
If you read the paper, you'd see extra computation from padding is not used effectively till after training.

Yes, extra compute helps with CoT but it's not even the reason it works. I believe CoT works moreso because it nudges the computation in the right(er) direction.
Plus, when a game is out of print, any third-party resales don't benefit the original copyright holder anyway. Nintendo doesn't profit off those $120 SoulSilver cartridges for sale on eBay.
Thanks, I'll try to add the original HN comment link in the sheet !
There is something just like that for one of the largest 3ds piracy sites. I won't link to it, but it isn't hard to find
Is this a result of the reaction to Covid?
Not unpopular at all IMO. AI should be (and is) raising the bar all around, both for students and for teachers.

This teacher is failing the test.
I list remote only on my LinkedIn profile, it's what my current company offers. Recruiters and HR people only reach out to me to inquire about if I would accept Hybrid roles. I get 2/3 a week with the same spiel.

My last HR interview went south when after they pitched a lower salary, hybrid work and finally ended with "Are you sure you like your job now?" I told them I wasn't interested and that ended that.

The one remote job interview I did in the last year wasn't a good fit. I declined the offer.
> bro what's the big deal bro just write the paper exactly the way we want you to bro
> Regional cultures aren't national culture

By this standard, most of the cultural elements you mention aren't national culture either. I'll bet Mexican restaurants outnumber gun shops in the US.
This is an antitrust lawsuit filed by the FTC, not an accusation of specifically illegal conduct.

They're not saying amazon committed a crime by doing this, they're saying that it's evidence of amazon abusing their market position to create a monopoly. "most favoured nation" status is legal, creating a monopoly isn't.
News, Mastodon, and Lemmy.
My only experience so far is with chatgpt, and I am not an expert in AI, or even just in LLMs.

With those disclaimers, my interactions inform my opinion that the LLM behind chatgpt has no internal world model. It shows no understanding of basic facts and makes very silly mistakes very easily. I have my bias, like anyone else, but in the case of AI in particular, I should say that I don't think there's anything especially magical or sacred about conscience and the human brain (or the brain of other animals, for that matter), and I'm sure it must be possible to arrive at different forms of intelligence starting with the "inanimate" building blocks of hardware and software, but what I've seen so far in LLMs doesn't make me support your statement that they've crossed a certain line. In fact, I'm very much let down by the experience and I'm afraid once the hype goes down, we may be in for another AI winter.

As I said at the start of the comment, I'm well aware I'm not a subject-matter expert. I'm open to being wrong. I just wanted to point out that not all of us unimpressed are in denial. I'd love to be in awe at an AI breakthrough, and I kind of feel I will be in awe sometime during my lifetime, but LLMs are not (yet?) that for me.

Edit: s/are not in denial/are in denial/
Again, this is a north-americas point of view where most universities and colleges are "private" businesses.
If you read my original post again, unfortunately my lack of trust is exactly with Idrassi and IDRIX. Other than that, I agree.
I've owned a few Pixels over the years, but after my Pixel 3 bricked itself (and my kid's did the same a few months later), Google did zilch to remedy it, and I have stuck with Samsung Galaxy phones since

https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/08/31/pixel-3-and-3-xl-ph...
My OnePlus6T just hit 5 years old and the battery is plenty usable. I just slow charge it at night every night. Is it as good as it was when new? No. Is it still perfectly usable? Absolutely.
Yeah, but what if they have a bag of chips, and inside that bag of chips, is a small tablet or phone, in which they ask chat gpt to give them the essay, and then they transcribe it? They might even eat some of those chips to obfuscate that they're getting the information from the bag.

At some level, there has to be some trust, or a system (e.g., in person proctored exams) would have to be used instead.
Same here in Italy. Crazy price, almost 350€ more than the Pixel 6 Pro. I really wanted to upgrade, but no Pixel at this Price. I'll wait for a sure street price in less than 6 months
>maybe if someone suggested that they don't need test environments and can just deploy changes to prod without testing or CI/CD and just see what happens

That's actually not hard, you need to be able to run in dry mode, and run the same in an existing instance (in parallel), then compare the results. If you are happy you can continue with the roll up, disabling the dry mode.
In Python, variables are mutable and being a class-based OO language, there’s often a lot of state that isn’t immediately clear when inspecting nearby code.

By working with immutable structs and pattern matching, you can get many (but not all) of the same guarantees you would from static types.
yeah.. although steamdeck is probably how steam finances their linux endeavors (not that they are low on funds, but pretty sure they also need to reason their expenses)
Surely this tool will be used responsibly and not lead to a renaissance in misleading ads, phishing scams, and malvertising. I trust Meta to have put in the proper safeguards to make this tool simply a net benefit for online users.
> It all comes down to how much proof you require before you believe something.

Not really. It's about making educated guesses based on history. If some institution (a totally hypothetical one) has consistently worked a certain way based on proof for decades then you can expect it to be more likely for it to continue to do so. So if this institution tends to lie 95% of the time based on the evidence, which is more reasonable?

1. Maintain the stance that they might be lying with a high likelihood

2. Assume good faith until iron-clad evidence to the contrary (X years later). Then after that, of course, in any new scenario keep assuming good faith because there has been no FOIA or release of declassified documents yet
> instigated color revolutions for regime change
// "Who you marry" is not in your control.

There's a huge difference between "not at all" or "not fully" in my control. I can't guarantee my outcome, but I have deep influence over my chances.
Pretty good overlap: What are the ten most recommended books on Hacker News?

1. "The Pragmatic Programmer" by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas
2. "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
3. "Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship" by Robert C. Martin
4. "The Design of Everyday Things" by Donald A. Norman
5. "How to Win Friends & Influence People" by Dale Carnegie
6. "The Innovator's Dilemma" by Clayton M. Christensen
7. "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" by Douglas R. Hofstadter
8. "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman
9. "Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World" by Cal Newport
10. "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" by Richard P. Feynman
The latter seems plausible to me, but the former makes no sense. If the problem is that Amazon-retail has too much market power, how would splitting off AWS help with that problem? Amazon-retail would still have the same fraction of the retail market as before.
Can't tell if this is a low effort troll, or if you're just confused about who you're replying to or what this comment was saying. The linked comment has a quote from the article confirming the points I made in my initial post:

> Indicators of "concentrated disadvantage" (e.g., racial heterogeneity, poverty, and family disruption) are among the strongest and most stable predictors.

Absolutely nothing in the article being discussed in this comment aligns with the comment I was replying to:

> It’s no mystery that “guns and drugs on the table” crime is perpetrated by low-IQ psychopaths

Moreover, I both saw and discussed this article, so it's absolutely not the case that I'm ignoring inconvenient truths. The truths under discussion are both extremely convenient to my point, and directly addressed by me.
Still no availability in Hong Kong.