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Qualcomm charges licensing fees based on the price of the device being sold. This has been the source of Apple's issue with them for years now [1].

If Apple were to package their laptop line with Qualcomm powered cell modems, I have to imagine the prices required would really take people aback, hence why they're so steadfast in trying to create their own modem.

As for why it's better than tethering, it just works without having to do anything. For some users who are always on the go, that's a huge convenience. Also, tethering eats at the cellular device's battery, which is usually a lot smaller than the battery we lug in our laptops.

I don't think satellite comms are on any sort of track to meaningfully replace cellular ones. Everything I've seen in that vein is more supplementary to the existing networks, rather than trying to completely replace it.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/05/how-qualcomm-sho...
Yes, but _why_ are they poor?

This is the thing that bothers me about this conversation more than anything. It's like giving pain killers to someone who has pain—in some cases that may be the only real solution but arguably the vast, VAST majority of the time, there is a basic desire to do the same thing repeatedly hoping for a different outcome.

Giving money to people who aren't willing to change only perpetuates the problem. It's enabling them. Many people who were "formerly poor" will repeat the saying ad nauseam: poverty is a mindset. You can't "fix" poverty with money because money won't change their mind or their hearts.

IME, only small embedded organizations are good at helping folks out of this cycle. Because they are small, they know the area, they know the people, they know the cycle and they actually help people get out of that cycle.
All of this is false, including the last statement. Proof by existence: Solaris/Illumos has a thread-safe (leaking, though the leaks are hidden from memory debuggers), lock-less (whenever you don't write to `environ`) `getenv()`, and thread-safe, locking `setenv()`/`putenv()`/`unsetenv()`: https://src.illumos.org/source/xref/illumos-gate/usr/src/lib...

Yes, it can be done and has been done. glibc has no excuse.
Plenty of non-profits give a lot of money to employees. There is nothing stopping non-profits from paying exorbitant sums to their employees, and executives often do get paid exorbitant. Non-profits mean they don't pay out to investors, but they are usually used as a grift to get people to work for less so the top people make more money and do fundraising on their pet projects.
Is there an aggregator that shows these fees when comparing prices? Something like the price is $X + $40-80 for the seat + $100 for checked bag.
You get non compete all over the place… how come they did not have one?
Does Twitter internally define what is 'problematic' content and not place ads next to it? If it does, that raises a whole bunch of new questions. If not, then how often this happens is going to be a function of how common 'problematic' content is. In other words, if I'm an advertiser and I'm not seeing adequate moderation happening and an ever-increasing volume of shit-to-signal ratio, I'm going to jump ship.
Developer Relations Anywhere
A little help for anyone starting or restarting a developer relations program from someone who's done it a few times.
Haskell reports compilation errors as warnings too.
This. Zero friction, though I wouldn't say I'm a casual user, there's no way I'm setting up a tether on a 8 minute Uber. With my laptop I just pull it out of my bag and go.
see plaid.com
There is an argument that people who made mistakes and genuinely learned from them and apologized could be more trustworthy than people who had not made that mistake to begin with.
The closest thing I remember to this is during COVID lockouts, the schools would have WiFi in the parking lot so that kids without internet at home could be driven to school and work in their cars. Never made good sense to me, if a family doesn't have internet at home how likely are they to have an adult with a car who can sit with a kid in the school parking lot all day?
Tell me in which country Linux was first developed?

Which part of the world is that?

Do the countries there have something special which they are well known for, and which might make unpaid passion projects more attainable than, say, 2020s North America?
Long Term Refactors
Yeah, I'm also on Google Fi and I'd get this just for the convenience factor of not having to turn on tethering on my phone and not burning its battery down while I'm connected.

(That depends on how much it adds to the purchase price though. $100? You bet. $300? Nah.)
> Sam's independence is literally, currently, tanking the company?

Before the boards' actions this friday, the company was on one of the most incredible success trajectories in the world. Whatever Sam's been doing as a CEO worked.
Damn! This why I love HN! Thanks, I never heard of CEC before and will look into it.
> ability for ethernet

Like an external separate USB-C ethernet adapter?
Is it?
Why are all these people whining that they can't afford house like the parents could?

That they still have to pay for their student loans?

That the cost of living is too high?

AI and especially a Microsoft AI won't change that.
Couldn’t it be the case that it’s much harder for poor people to find employment they enjoy as much as CEOs enjoy theirs? Or that ultra-rich CEOs are able to reach that status in part because their work ethics is an extreme outlier?
Let the OpenAi staff,why not the board replace them with ever willing AIs
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Right, I do agree that the current LLM paradigm probably won't achieve true AGI; but I think that the current trajectory could produce a powerful enough generalist agent model to seriously put AI ethics to task at pretty much every angle.
> I've had a laptop with a cellular modem for almost 4 years now and there's zero chance I'm ever going back to a laptop without one.

As others have already said, why ?

For me and most other tech-savvy people, the order of preference for connectivity will always be:

- Ethernet cable
- WiFi
- 4G/5G Hotspot

WiFi will generally always be faster and less-contended than a hotspot because the speed of the WiFi connection is almost always only constrained by the speed of the local internet connection.

However, as anyone who spent time during COVID working off a hotspot will tell you, mobile networks are unpredictable. Speed varies depending on how many people are using "your" mast. And then if the emergency services turn up in your area, you'll be automatically kicked off because their SIM cards give them priority over other network users and the network infrastructure will automatically kick off other network users as the emergency services demand ramps up.

Finally the places where you actually NEED a hotspot are decreasing by the day. Cafés, libraries, train stations, etc. etc. .... they all have WiFi these days. It is now rarer to NOT have in-flight WiFi than it is to have acces to it. And in some countries (e.g. Japan) you have WiFi on all long-distance train services.

I suppose maybe if you are a salesdroid or an engineer and frequently visiting third-party premises where you may or may not have guest access to the WiFi ... that's probably the only real need that will consistently remain. But even then, your employer probably pays for your work smartphone already, so you could just use the hotspot like everyone else and not require your employer to have a second SIM card subscription.
Yeah, I think this is an important distinction. As much as I personally wish almost everything was designed to be repairable and that parts/instructions were easily available from the manufacturer, I'm actually pretty uncertain that those should be _requirements_. I really just want it to be legal to repair and modify anything. The manufacturer should be allowed to design any way they want (and I will continue to attempt to avoid manufacturers who make repair hard), but the most important thing is that if I _do_ repair it, that is recognized as fully within my rights and that the manufacturer can't use the law to punish me, up to and including modifying software, as long as it's for personal use.

Anything beyond that probably needs to be a signal from consumers that they _want_ (and perhaps be willing to pay a price premium for) repairable goods with available parts and documentation.
While making the list, I debated this in my head for quite a while and couldn't come to a good conclusion either way.

On one hand, if we add Civ, that would probably open up all 4X games (Stellaris, Sins of a Solar Empire, maybe even Age of Empires, etc.). That might be a lot of games, and arguably the "engineering" isn't a huge focus in those games. From what I remember, those games don't have a whole lot of automation/assembly lines going on, or focus on route-building (Civ has roads, but it's only a minor part of the game), infrastructure, etc. It's a pretty big-picture view nations, rather than the day-to-day nitty-gritty of running individual cities/settlements.

On the other hand, it could also be argued that settlement games are similar too, just a matter of degree or "zoom level".

I'm on the fence about it. Any thoughts?

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Oh, and Poly Bridge and KSP are on there already :)
At least in this forum can we please stop calling something that is not even close to AGI, AGI. Its just dumb at this point. We are LIGHT-YEARS away from AGI, even calling an LLM "AI" only makes sense for a lay audience. For developers and anyone in the know LLMs are called machine learning.
HTTP APIs are ideal for message queues with Postgres.

The request to get a message returns a token that identifies this receive.

You use that token to delete the message when you are done.

Jobs that don’t succeed after N retries get marked as dead and go into the dead letter list.

This the way AWS SQS works, it’s tried and true.
> An environment variable's value, for a running process, is just what it is: an initial value from outside.

Then calling setenv() from anywhere except in the time between a fork() and exec() call should be banned, but it's not. Honestly, calling abort() if setenv is called in the presence of threads would seem like a better status-quo than what we have today.
People are haluscinating that this could go through easily in a $3T mega corp. Level 68 at MS makes about $700k TC, and is equivalent in level to a Google L8. You think they're just going to bring in hundreds of people all at L10 or something, thats not how any of this works. Any ex OpenAI engineers will soon learn
Maybe it’s not designed for that or all use cases and that can make sense.

Personally, I need long running jobs.
Interesting how this title remains perfectly true if you replace “Kurt Vonnegut” with literally any other, potentially less interesting, human’s name.
It absolutely wont happen, but with the result looking like the death of OpenAI with all staff moving over to the new Microsoft subsidiary it would be an amazing move for OpenAI to just go "screw it, have it all for free" and release everything under MIT to spite Microsoft.
Managing Kubernetes resources in Terraform: Helm provider
>It's "free market" whenever the outcome is good

Good for whom?

Good for share holders, companies and investor or employees?
But they didn’t when it was generally available to the public OAI API; looks like it took about two weeks.
> enough speed to ram any vehicles if needed in an emergency

That was a surprising statement! A 37mph crash on a scooter isn't going to leave you in particularly good shape for fighting.
Why do you need to insist, when you got a good answer? Or what do you want sent with RSS that can't be sent?
Operator in this context refers to someone who successfully runs a business that someone else founded. Often the visionary founder is not good at the nuts and bolts of running and growing a business so they hand off the reins to someone who is. Think Steve Jobs vs Tim Cook.
Isn't buying each student a connected macbook and data plan kind of pricey? Most school already suffer from poor funding/low budget, this seems like it would be painful.
It really would be convenient to not have to tether + deal with battery life. Or, have the macbook be the mobile hotspot instead for whatever reason.
Having a play with Gleam right now. Roc's managed effects sounds interesting, maybe Gleam could layer something similar atop Erlang's OTP? Right now, outside a database, it's not clear to this newbie how state is meant to be managed in Misty, the Gleam web framework I am kicking the tyres of. If I can be bothered, I was seeing myself having to delegate state management to a separate process (which Gleam seems to support well, but it's work I didn't anticipate and I am at this stage only playing).

Edit: related to state management, the "platform" concept looks interesting too https://github.com/roc-lang/roc/wiki/Roc-concepts-explained#...
I don't get this take. No matter how good you are at managing people, you cannot manage clowns into making wise decisions, especially if they are plotting in secret (which obviously was the case here since everyone except for the clowns were caught completely off-guard).
$225, then.
Of course the screenwriters are going to find a way to involve Elon in the 2nd season but is the most valuable part the researchers or the models themselves?
Seems there are quite a few perspectives around this.

For me, "data-driven" approximately means "Something coaxed into a ~3NF/BCNF schema that the business stakeholders can simultaneously understand".

In my mind, this term doesn't imply any specific language or database technology. What it strongly implies to me is a certain modeling and normalization of the domain such that any reasonable business requirement can be realized within a ~constant cost factor.
Here’s another way to answer that question: do Vimeo, Twitch, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Instagram, TikTok, etc. say “let them use Chrome” or do they manage to do entry-level browser testing? The cost increase is nowhere near 50% and clearly they aren’t willing to write off millions of users – only the company with a direct financial incentive does that.

Yes, Firefox’s market share has been declining but that’s substantially because Google spent billions of dollars marketing Chrome and promoted it heavily on YouTube, Gmail, Search, etc. Deciding not to test or optimize fits neatly into the same pattern.
Here's the actual website, versus the Github link: https://oneuptime.com/
"Hot HN" could be nice it would help avoiding multiple too similar threads
When you try to read and discuss as a group, it takes much longer.
Google Flights lets you select the number of bags and updates the displayed flight according

(Anecdote from recent domestic US travels, your mileage may vary, etc etc)
recently, we've seen the 3D gaming engine company fall flat on its face and back pedal. We've seen Apple be wishy washy about CSAM scanning. We saw a major bank collapse in real time. I just wish there was a virtual popcorn company to invest in using some crypto.
https://youtu.be/eZCo_hZLyh0?t=50s
You want some dark patterns? Try to suss over fare classes and trying to optimize your mileage earnings.

Hard to justify legislation for it because it's all "extras" but man do they make it hard to "play the game".
You apply and see if they say yes
Maybe your smartphone has better reception than whatever laptop you had with a cellular connection, but generally a laptop should be able to get much better cellular reception than a smartphone since there is so much more space, and potentially energy budget to work with.
Show HN: A Geo-Distributed KV Store for Metadata Management
Politicians are cheap, nobody is outbidding anybody because they most likely want the exact same thing.
400-500k total staff by some estimates, it's a little hard to know where to draw the lines, and a little hard to do apples-to-apples. Also about 5% total GDP applied which is crucial.
MDM access. All Pixel phones hit an MDM endpoint to determine if it should be provisioned.
It is interesting how tech has become "SaaS apps".
> They may even have AGI cooking inside.

Too many people quit too quickly unless OpenAI are also absolute masters of keeping secrets, which became rather doubtful over the weekend.
There's also a lot more room, heat, antenna routing, and power budget in a laptop. They can have something functional, but just generally less efficient (for assorted values of "efficiency") that will work fine in a laptop, but not necessarily in a cell phone form factor.
Non-zero chance that somebody thought we passed the AI peak this weekend. Not the same as it being true.

My first thought was the scenario I called Altman's Basilisk (if this turns out to be true, I called it before anyone ;) )

Namely, Altman was diverting computing resources to operate a superhuman AI that he had trained in his image and HIS belief system, to direct the company. His beliefs are that AGI is inevitable and must be pursued as an arms race because whoever controls AGI will control/destroy the world. It would do so through directing humans, or through access to the Internet or some such technique. In seeking input from such an AI he'd be pursuing the former approach, having it direct his decisions for mutual gain.

In so training an AI he would be trying to create a paranoid superintelligence with a persecution complex and a fixation on controlling the world: hence, Altman's Basilisk. It's a baddie, by design. The creator thinks it unavoidable and tries to beat everyone else to that point they think inevitable.

The twist is, all this chaos could have blown up not because Altman DID create his basilisk, but because somebody thought he WAS creating a basilisk. Or he thought he was doing it, and the board got wind of it, and couldn't prove he wasn't succeeding in doing it. At no point do they need to be controlling more than a hallucinating GPT on steroids and Azure credits. If the HUMANS thought this was happening, that'd instigate a freakout, a sudden uncontrolled firing for the purpose of separating Frankenstein from his Monster, and frantic powering down and auditing of systems… which might reveal nothing more than a bunch of GPT.

Rosko's Basilisk is a sci-fi hypothetical.

Altman's Basilisk, if that's what happened, is a panic reaction.

I'm not convinced anything of the sort happened, but it's very possible some people came to believe it happened, perhaps even the would-be creator. And such behavior could well come off as malfeasance and stealing of computing resources: wouldn't take the whole system to run, I can run 70b on my Mac Studio. It would take a bunch of resources and an intent to engage in unauthorized training to make a super-AI take on the belief system that Altman, and many other AI-adjacent folk, already hold.

It's probably even a legitimate concern. It's just that I doubt we got there this weekend. At best/worst, we got a roughly human-grade intelligence Altman made to conspire with, and others at OpenAI found out and freaked.

If it's this, is it any wonder that Microsoft promptly snapped him up? Such thinking is peak Microsoft. He's clearly their kind of researcher :)
Since this thread will end up with anecdotes, here’s mine with Flair Airlines in Canada.

I wanted to take the time to figure out how much value I would get out of each add on. It looked like it would be cheaper to get an add-on in a particular way.

The fuckers set a timeout to the site that’s so low that it was just enough time to click through to buy but not enough time to figure out the value. This could be a difference of about 100-200CAD.

The airline also had us sitting on the tarmac long enough for my kid to finish a graphical novel. I am guessing they didn’t want to cough up penalty fees to the destination airport for arriving out of a given landing time slot.

The experience was like going over to a stingy relatives’ house where they keep the thermostat at 40° in the winter and reuse Saran Wrap between different dishes in the fridge.
How are Altman and the openai staff not more invested in OpenAI shares?
If you remember back far enough, you might remember when Apple had the best of both worlds. The G3 Powermac, the Titanium Macbook and even the early iPods proved that manufacturers could make highly-maintainable and nice-feeling hardware. And everyone else continued to make shit anyways, Apple included.

Methinks it would be better if we stopped people from shipping pointlessly hostile features like serialized parts. Just to be sure.
Here's a decent tour: https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/fsharp/
> the author wasn't surprised, but is wondering why Altman was.

I'm sure Altman wsn't surprised.
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Apple can sell eSim to this device. Apple’s customers will buy because it’s Apple.
You're basically looking at testing being done on Chrome (because it is Google's, and because of its large market share), Safari (because it runs on a large percentage of completely exclusive platforms where the customer can't switch, and because of its large market share), and Edge (because there are still many corporations that do "Nobody ever got fired for choosing Microsoft" and lock down browser options to just Microsoft's offering).

At this point, Firefox is very much an also-ran on two axes: market share is tiny and nobody forces it on their captive audiences. We may as well ask why Google isn't optimizing testing on Opera, or Samsung Internet.

(There is also the issue of under-the-hood engine. Since so many browsers have converged on a few core and JS stacks, testing on one exemplar of that stack has a tendency to suss out bugs in the other stacks. Firefox still being its own special snowflake in terms of JS engine and core means it has more opportunities to be different, for good or for ill. So there's a force-multiplier testing the other browsers that one lacks testing Firefox).
> 2028 at the earliest

That is a long way away.

I wonder if this is them desperately trying to make use of their acquisition of Intel's 5G modem buisness, which still hasn't shown up in phones.
Pretty much all big flights searching sites (flights.google.com, Bing, etc) allow to specify that you have luggage, and the search results changes (sometimes quite drastically) depending on that checkmark.
Are these legit? They seem quite cheap.
Most people barely understand the differences between WiFi and cellular, and the number that can start a hotspot and connect without it being a 'stressful computer problem' is a lot fewer than you would expect. Like, painfully fewer.

Source: I work in IT
It can be nice for carriers that don’t allow/support tethering under some circumstances. Google Fi for example says that tethering won’t work internationally in some cases, but offers free data-only SIM cards which works around that nicely.

It’s also just nice to not need to break out a cable.
Personalized Meditation Generator
using a couple of integrations to generate personalized meditations, nothing super special.

Feel free to shit on it if you feel the need to but if you give it a try, do let me know what you think
They usually pile up in a bank account of stocks and bonds or real estate assets held by the non-profit.
> you're right;

Wrong. As I've pointed out several times in this thread and in other recent threads about getenv(), Solaris/Illumos has an implementation that is lock-less to read (except when you change `_environ`, then it takes a lock at most once until the next time you change `_environ`). It's made safe by "leaking", and by locking in the functions that write. It's only unsafe if you replace the value of `_environ` repeatedly and free the old settings (which I've never seen any code do, and which if you do then you get what you deserve).
Well, yes but that's mostly because of Dang's continuous loving attention. The foundation of HN is not horizontally scalable and that shows, even though the bulk of the data is served from a CDN the updates due to highly active threads are what kills it.