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> Making AI the business is a joke of a model to me.

By AI you just mean LLMs, like most people recently, right?
That's just my bad attempt at a joke. "Longest serving code writer" may be more accurate, but IC gets lumped in as that so frequently and he publicly took that title back on. This is getting less funny the more I try to explain it..
>Why would you work harder to get rich if you don't get anything for it?

this comment wouldn't be nonsense if we lived in a political economy where money came exclusively from working hard / hazardous / difficult jobs, but in case you forgot, plenty of rich people have never worked a day in their lives and either lucked into an inheritance or sit on their ass and cash rent / dividend checks
This is called 3rd party logistics, a trillion dollar industry.

I work as an SE at one the larger ones.
> the difficulty in balancing usability/simplicity with flexibility/customizability

Not sure what the OP had in mind, but my current favorite example is Expedia. I have used Expedia consistently for over 15 years. Have bought many flights for the family etc. over the years. They know who I travel with. Yet if I open Expedia now to book a flight, I will have to enter the ages of my kids again, as if Expedia didn't know their birthdays. Apparently it is difficult to get the balance correct.
Lots of stuff inside Alphabet runs on GCP. And yes, Google Domains pisses me off.
> Or why the storage facilities accepted them without some kind of payment.

That part is less of a mystery. The whole industry runs on credit.
I read discussion recently that Air Force ICBMs should be transferred to Space Force. Which makes a lot of sense and would spread out the nuclear triad.

The Army is getting medium-range strike. They now have land-based Tomahawk missiles. They are also getting the LRHW hypersonic missiles with 1700 mi range.
For anyone looking for a Japanese candy and snack subscription service, I enjoyed bokksu: https://www.bokksu.com/
> I think anyone who calls in ahead to a restaurant is totally lame and most likely an NPC

Calling somebody an NPC is dehumanizing. You don't have to agree eith their values, but please don't disrespect their autonomy.
I just want a proper browser on my iPad rather than reskinned safari.
I've been running it on my gaming machine for several years and I have not had a single problem with it
The recent squall of earthquakes picked up October 27, along with magma entering underneath the chamber around 3 m^3/s and now up to 5.

There also GNSS and laser interferometers that watch for displacement of land.

Early warning and prep is key. And this isn't an 'emergency', yet. It's an 'Alert', to prepare people for the worst.
Indeed it is, but the second body's mass may be neglected if it is orders of magnitude smaller than the larger body. Or at least that's how I understand it (I'm not a physicist).
Show HN: Mind Map Generator for Texts
Hi everyone, I created a simple LLM based app, which creates a mind map for any text you provide. Right now, the input is limited to txt/pdf files or urls to articles, blog posts, etc. What do you think about the idea and the product at this stage?
You really only chroot from a live usb stick to your linux root and grub install to recover your boot process, it’s really not that hard. But i agree, would be nice to have a little gui tool - i at least have become too lazy given linux’s recent ease of use.
I like my laptops to be quiet and have 15 hour+ battery life. Can't get that with a ThinkPad.
The ticketing industry could completely stop reselling if they wanted to. Require the person who purchases the tickets to be the person who uses the ticket. No transferring, no reselling. But companies would lose out on all that sweet scalper cash, plus they would have to have a virtually unlimited refund policy to deal with legitimately unneeded tickets. I always figured that one-two punch of revenue loss is what prevents ticketing companies from saving us from this hell they've created.
You do you, I'll do me. One cashier scanning, one of me emptying cart, and if I'm lucky there is a bagger as well. Aside from trivially small purchases (one or two items), this is substantially faster than self-check and self-bag if you have a lot.

Even with lines, usually faster in the human-run checkout.

If you want faster lines, find one with only men in it. Men usually aren't the main grocery shopper in the family, so they're usually buying less, and usually aren't dealing with rambunctious kids, so they can focus on unloading and loading groceries. No purses either, so the credit card is usually in the machine right away.

I've pointed this out to my wife a few times and she simultaneously curses her fellow women and grudgingly accepts that I'm right and uses the logic. She's quite efficient, but I have to admit that if I saw her in line I probably wouldn't get behind her if she was smiling. (If she was wearing her resting bitch face, probably fine - typical sign of professional women who aren't inclined to spend any more time than necessary in the grocery. You find a woman in a pantsuit, she's probably faster than most men.)
I wholeheartedly disagree.

First of all, that quote was pulled to insult me - it's specifically a quote about individuals' minds, not ideas. That is in fact the one of the strongest criticisms of Emerson - he grounded idea-based discourse in commentary on the people who hold those ideas. I'd even go so far as to say 'English Traits' is the perfect example of that failure.

Secondly, When a premise is supported only by a quote from an individual, it is completely acceptable to post a separate quote from that individual in response.

Why should I believe Emerson about consistency when (hopefully) all of us here disagree with him about Norsemen?

Maybe it would be flamebait if that was part of an argument, but his entire argument was "Emerson said this thing so it's true" and my argument was "Emerson also said this patently false thing."

I know it feels bad to look at the whole gorey corpus of otherwise really cool historical figures, but encouraging people to believe anything they say without critical analysis is the true anti-curiosity stance.

Thirdly, I agree it's easier to make people from the past look morally bad morally and that is precisely why we should not base our worldview on their quotes alone.
How would a hashed password fix that problem?
> Locked devices are extremely risky for any kind of resistance.

Tell that to the surveillance states that hate your iPhone.
A few months ago, I would’ve agreed with this in theory, but having interacted with an Apple chat bot recently that was fast, seemed empathetic, and immediately solved my problem, I do have to wonder if LLM powered support agents may finally swing this the other direction
I've been following Harry Mack for years now and he still never ceases to amaze me.

Someone who has worked incredibly hard at their craft in a very public manner.

The positive vibe he brings makes the internet a little bit better on every encounter.

I almost shed a tear when H.Mack got the opportunity to perform in front of his idols, Ice Cube, who said he was one of the best freestyle rappers he's seen, and had followed his career closely for years. A magical moment :-)
Exactly.

The stepping stone way of seeing things reminds me a lot to the thesis behind the book “ Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective” (2015).
Hilariously enough, a real rocket scientist, e.g. a NASA scientist, has an average salary around 100K. SWE salary is heavily inflated and even the flawed process we have now is better than one where you only look at the absolute amount of compensation. Why, most scientist jobs requiring PhD pay less than 200K.

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/NASA-Scientist-Salaries-E73...

https://www.salary.com/research/salary/posting/senior-scient...

I no longer know the current prices for EB2 total cost. But years back I know the cost was >10K+ per employee, accounting for multiple filings, expedited filings, lawyer fee, etc. I doubt it would be below 10K now. Even an NIW can cost 15K easily by going to a law firm and personally haggle the price with them. Can you tell me how do you know EB2 cost less than 10K?

An online paper mill graduate would have a very hard time passing EB2 vetting. Where would they get the paper citations, the impact, the achievements required? Unless they have years of experience in which they made clear they are valuable enough to the field. That is why I said experienced masters. And you think USCIS don't look at what institution the applicant comes from?
Do you know if the plastic casing is any easier to open? I damaged the edges of mine with the spludger when prying it open to install an SSD, the plastic is quite soft.
I don't do anything fancy, but I like to be a telemarketing (usually just scams) speedbump.

I am slightly skeptical, but kinda hesitantly agreeable, and try to keep them on the phone as long as possible and go through as many levels of their org as possible and mess with the end sales person.

If just 1% of all people did this, I think it would kill telemarketing. AI bots though are starting to make it annoying. I try to get through their screening questions and get to a human, but sometimes it is clear there is no human to reach.
The architecture is the same but it has an additional model trained on the sampling trajectory computation, speeding up the process. So instead of 20 iterations with the original sampler that solves a SDE, you could use 8, 4, or sometimes even 2 iterations with this new ML-based sampler. That's not a new idea, but the author of this adapter figured out how to train it efficiently using very few GPU-hours.
The Surprisingly Bloody History of the Barber Pole
> For me FAANG was not a place to learn

He's pretty quick at generalizing his Google experience. Maybe he wasn't lucky with team assignment. AFAIU these companies have very different cultures, and even within the company, it varies a lot.
Concept2 Rowing Machine

Fitness DVDs and Player

Running Shoes

Hardcopy Encyclopedia

Milk Crate Shelving

Lot of AlphaSmart Danas from EBay for distraction-free writing
While this is bad, “healthy” is one of the most meaningless terms in modern language.
Both started their online stores in 1996. Dell's whole business model, though, was cutting down on inventory (JIT/Lean style) and intermediaries. Dell didn't sell through big box stores and others like Gateway and the rest did.
Amazon has an office in a former prison in the Netherlands
"Amazon Web Services debuted a new office space in Haarlem, Netherlands in 2022, but there's one unusual thing about it, which has gained traction on social media this week: the office is inside a former prison.
Prison de Koepel, or "The Haarlem Dome Prison," opened in 1901 and closed in 2016. Following its closure, De Koepel was briefly used as a shelter space for Syrian migrants seeking asylum status."
Between a family of 8 and owning a business with 12 employees, I can tell you conclusively:

Least fuss:
* ChromeOS

* Kubuntu or Neon Linux

* MacOS

* Windows Enterprise

* Windows

Most Fuss

ChromeOS is great with kids and people who don't need to code or do heavy design work. It's getting better for designers. It's solution for developers is a built in linux container.

Kubuntu & Neon are solid. At this point, there are so few sharp edges. For development, aside MacOS and Windows only software... It's great.

MacOS is great, but upgrades and Windows Vista like security features make family members call Dad too much.

Windows is a PITA that is only tolerable for gaming and even then, makes the kids and the sales team call me way too much. Also, the privacy story is good on one and only one of the above OSes.
US Credit-Rating Outlook Changed to Negative by Moody's
Yep. Or “free software” / FOSS. The term Open source was largely popularised by Eric Raymond and the OSI. It was coined with the release of the source code of Netscape navigator and was famously - and controversially - always business friendly.
Here's the lay of the land:

1) You can hire temp workers on visas relatively easily and in large numbers. This benefits employers, politicians, economy, etc.

2) These workers need permanent status. US immigration is uniquely regressive in that everything flows through the employer in most cases and visa holders have no agency. So the employer needs to petition for a "permanent" employee.

3) So although these people are already employed, the employer needs to go through a PERM process where they advertise the job and claim to the gov. that they couldn't hire anyone else and this is the most qualified employee for the job.

4) Although it's a farce, DOJ gets mad if there is a perception that the employer tried to make the PERM process more favorable to the employee they already have.
Whoa, I didn't know there was such a thing as a 15" MacBook Air with 24 GB.

That may very well be my next computer. My old MBP died, and the cost of a new MBP is extortionate.

Thank you!
It sounds like it, but it still doesn't make sense to me. A scammer would want to be anonymous so they can't be prosecuted. But a warehouse owner would be well known.
it would be interesting to play with LCM-LoRAs and AnimateDiff and see how much much this technique can speed up video generation.

not sure if it's possible to just plug-and-play it or if we would need an extra LCM-LoRA for the motion module.

once we have these sort of models producing frames in milliseconds we should be able to do something similar to this demo but with videos.
Learned helplessness, especially when it comes to tech, is a societal problem in the making.
> Making sure I understand, you mean an attacker sends dst=192.168.1.2 directly to your router without any extra hops, which the router forwards to your PC. I don't know if that's what happens in practice (there's no legit reason to do it), but I can see a router doing that.

Yes, you understand the problem correctly. The fact that there's no legitimate reason to do it is precisely why routers have a default set of firewall rules to prevent it. Hell, as long as you control enough of the network to be able to route such a packet to the WAN interface of your router it doesn't even have to be on the same network segment - so compromise within your ISP's network would open you up to attack if you just assumed NAT alone without a proper stateful firewall would save you.

> How often does this kind of attack occur?

Due to needing to be on the same layer 2 segment or having control elsewhere of the network this would very much be a targeted attack. But one any enterprise should care about, and why the assumption that NAT alone is what protects you is dangerous. NAT just does source/destination (ip, port) rewriting, that's it.
Oh but bill gates thinks you wont need this type of user experience because once they’ve sucked all your data without your consent you will just talk to your pc or whatever they’ll call it. All according to plan - break the ui, degrade the ux, provide a magic “ai” solution.
Not for sales purposes, but I don't know what brand the bandaids I have in the cabinet are, but if i ask for one that's what I'll call them...
I was struck by these two paragraphs in the article:

Mr Black, who runs a freight brokering company called Freight Rate Central in Sarasota, Florida, is part of an invisible army of professionals who coordinate and marshal the fleets of trucks that criss-cross the country, carrying everything from chickens to smartphones. For this job, Bokksu would pay him about US$13,000.

Mr Black got to it. He posted the job on a trucking board that is something like a Craigslist for freight. Someone named Tristan with HCH Trucking accepted the job (though he was using a Gmail account), and said he would have the shipment picked up shortly.

Mr. Black here apparently doesn't have an app to connect him to legitimate truckers, instead he relies on a "job board kind of like Craigslist". My assumption was that the availability of a better executed LTL freight logistics company would put people like Mr. Black out of business. So maybe the real challenge here is connecting those better companies with people like Mr. Taing?

Of course given the way the article ends up it is entirely possible that Mr. Taing is the bad guy here.
The social order was never on the table for breaking. SV depends on banking and state violence for enforcement just as any other wealthy businesspeople do.

A brief study of the history of SV will show you that it was actually the US military (and its money) that is in many ways responsible for creating the culture of groundbreaking that exists there to date.
In the scenario where we could travel to Europe, purchase an iPhone in Europe and setup it up with a Euro iCloud account and Euro SIM, how long before returning to the US or elsewhere will Apple / iCloud consider the iPhone to be a Euro device?

As an Aussie, I already find myself region blocked from the occasional new App launch :-/
> Yeah so people in Europe are really upset of US wiretapping because they don't trust the US government with that information, is it really that difficult to wrap your head around that concept?

No, that was never in dispute though, strawman argument?

> A lot of people in Europe believe that the US hardly ever have had a good candidate, and that Trump is just another addition of a long list of despicable presidents. So if you imagine how it would feel like if you tought every US government is as shocking as the Trump administration, you might start to understand how people outside of the US feels about this, if that is of any interest to you of course

Are you saying if the US president was nicer, US spying would be acceptable? Or are you making my argument for me that precisely for the reasons you mentioned, european intel agencies are spying in/against the US?

> Which some people would consider manipulating someone to commit high treason.

Treason is betrayal as it applies to aiding an enemy, not a trusted ally. And almost never in times of peace. The specific term is espionage not treason. But still a betrayal of trust. Usually assets are just waiting to be bought, it's better for an ally to buy them instead of a hostile country/agent. Lookup the CIA MICE acronym on how to develop assets.

Think about it this way, not much has changed between EU and US relations even after snowden reveals and trump. Ultimately the interests of both parties are largely aligned and intertwined and embarassments like the US spying solved diplomatically.

But what concerns me is much of both US and EU is too many generarions removed from the chaos of the old world. They are not aware of the treasure of peace and friendly relations we all enjoy. We are debating over a website instead of with bullets from foxholes and the current state of spying is largely a reaction to WW2 and the cold war. It can change both for better and worse, so vote for foreign ministers that will relfect your views and priorities so they can solve this stuff.
> If it has no value the load gets dumped into a storage facility and because the goods are accounted for law enforcement won't get involved.

That's an excellent insight and explains the big mystery. Thanks.
Yeah, my experience is you don’t really want the people whose “productivity” goes up after a layoff. There are the people who don’t actually produce much, but are able to look like they do. Then there’s the people who used to provide the most value but are now dead inside. They are the one whose measurable productivity may go up, but the output is “wooden”, or maybe hollow, now. It lacks the creativity and big picture thinking that really moves the needle. So you may think you’re getting more output but it’s not impactful anymore.
> They discussed managed app distribution at WWDC

Indeed: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10041/
The article mentions cost overruns on the ArriveCAN app, which was required for border crossings into Canada from about 2020 to 2022. The app originally aided in pandemic screening and was well-made overall being easy and fast to use. But it also felt somewhat like a solution in search of a problem: More than once I heard Canadian border crossing agents question how helpful the app actually was and its use was quietly made optional last year.
How do you get them onto the iPhone tho?
I don't understand your reasoning. If an immigrant is happy to have a standard of living lower than what you consider acceptable, and willing to work for slightly lower wages, do you think it is is unfair to either:

1. Bar them from entry into your country
2. Allow them in, but prevent them from offering their services at a lower rate to compete with locals?

Because ultimately, if you let them in and don't let them work, some of them are going to be supported by social services those workers are paying for indirectly.
That's actually the company whose kitkat journey is documented in the linked article
They likely installed the remote controls because there were already signs something was going on a week ago. If today's events happened a week ago, the whole timetable would just have been shifted a week.
Say you have an employee that you've hired on an H-1B. They're a high-performer, and you want to retain them. You can only (not really, but mostly) stay beyond six years in the US on an H-1B if you're on a green card trajectory - meaning that your employer has at least got a pending labor certification application for your position.

Getting labor certification involves demonstrating that you've made a good faith effort to hire a US native worker to fill the position. So you have to try to hire into the role; but you really don't want the search to succeed - because you've already got a good employee that's a known quantity.

Getting labor certification is a pre-requisite to getting an I-140, which is a pre-requisite to the employee getting the green card. Failing to achieve labor certification just delays the entire process and means yet more paperwork and time with the immigration attorneys.
Sorry haven’t played in a while what is a W+M1?
Worst case scenario: GPS spoofing at hardware level (SDR), Setup a custom SoftAP, and setup a LTE basestation (can be done with an SDR but technically illegal in most countries). Also might need to do it in a faraday cage to avoid outside stations overriding your spoofing.
Just one more subjective datapoint from someone who previously upgraded every 1-2 generations on Intel or AMD mobile platforms and really likes to have the shiny new stuff ("It's TWENTY % faster!"): I have absolutely no need nor desire to upgrade my M1 Pro (using it for web development). If the difference in performance could be felt at all, it definitely wouldn't be worth the price, and other upgrades are basically non-existent. I wholeheartedly recommend finding a well-kept M1 Pro or at least a discounted M2 Pro.
I doubt anyone will be able to answer questions this fine grained, not now (if the implementation is architecturally exposed - leaks into the ISA - and Asahi Linux group figures some of it out), or possibly not ever (if it's architecturally transparent and thus entirely micro-architectural).

> Does this mean there, effectively, are no registers?

I can only point out just for context that if by any chance you're asking whether the registers are implemented as actual hardware design "registers" - individually routed and and individually accessible small strings of flip-flops or D-latches - then the history of the question is actually "it never was registers in the first place" - architectural (ISA) registers in GPUs are implemented by a chunk of addressable ported SRAM, with an address bus, data bus, and limited number of accesses at the same time and limited b/w [1].

[1] see the diagram at https://www.renesas.com/us/en/products/memory-logic/multi-po...
Being a "AI startup" makes about as much sense as being a "Python startup."

What does your company do? We do Python!

OK, but what problem are you solving? Lots of them, but what's important is we solve it using Python code!
that’s what I do! it’s a fine tuned model and an svg converter