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America is now the #2 economy. In PPP, China is now the largest economy.
Doesn’t matter how much you pay them, if the cops think the people hate them, they will refuse to take jobs in a locality.

Portland PD is paying far above average and is funded to hire hundreds of cops, but no one applies because the cops know they’re muzzled in Portland and they know that the local people abd laws don’t support a “thin blue line”

The remaining cops who stayed on have “quiet quit” and they use that as a tactic to get the people to give them more power. It’s a terrible situation. The cops know they can hold the people hostage and they aggressively do that.
Your last post mentioned a potential 6-figure payout. If that's realistic, then paying a lawyer to craft a communication that requires a response will be a lot more productive than continuing to post here.

A drawn out lawsuit would be expensive, but asking a lawyer how to get clear information about what's going on shouldn't be prohibitively expensive.
Industrial manslaughter laws are a fine incentive to correctly manage the risks of CO₂ asphyxiation, because it is immediately apparent when your worker has been asphyxiated and the proximal cause is readily determined.

Silicosis takes years to appear so the proximal link is too weak for post facto punishment to have much deterrent effect. It is much more like asbestos in this way, which can also be safely handled but has also been banned.
Hackaday did a breakdown of the methods and how they worked, and one of the more modern methods was optical comparison to a live broadcast https://hackaday.com/2021/01/18/tv-detector-vans-once-prowle...
If you can’t prove your contributions are worthwhile, you’re not going to get recognition. People putting out fires get recognition because they are solving visible and urgent problems. If your work reduces the chances of those fires, it should be measurable otherwise what is the point? Do you honestly believe someone who has spent a year “improving processes” but cannot measure the impact of that year of work deserves glowing praise?

And it’s not that managers don’t understand developers and the work they do. It’s that a lot of developers don’t engage at all with what a business actually does. They are working at IKEA while trying to convince management to use the nice dovetail joints instead of that garbage dowel based assembly. Not only do dovetails look better, they are substantially stronger! All very true statements from a craftsman woodworker. But a complete failure to understand the business and how and why it operates as it does and the value they are expected to provide within it.
Open source generally wins once the state of the art has stopped moving. When a field is still experiencing rapid change closed source solutions generally do better than open source ones. Until we somehow figure out a relatively static set of requirements for running and training LLMs I wouldn’t expect any open source solution to win.
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As a user, I am very well served by remote attestation when it is used to stop cheaters in videogames or spammers in messaging platforms.
In theory, it is. In practice, prosecutors are very reluctant to go after cops for such type of crimes, or for any others that relate to their professional functions - perjury, excessive force, evidence tampering, violating disclosure rules, unlawful searches, etc. Plus, there's qualified immunity thing, which makes it very hard to gain a successful conviction even if the prosecutor is willing. It'll take a big SCOTUS decision dismantling that construct to start seeing any change there, and that may take a long while to happen.
> And Beeper bought and paid for the Apple devices which they use to route iMessage. What's the problem? Looks fair and square to me.

I'm assuming you're confused here and not intentionally misleading. Beeper Cloud (formerly just Beeper) uses Apple devices to route iMessages. This is legit and as far as I know hasn't been blocked or stopped in any way.

Beeper Mini (the Android app in discussion) doesn't use this system and is instead exploiting a loophole left to allow older Apple devices to use the platform.

Stealing is also not only a legal term, but can be used in a purely ethical context too. I don't think anybody's arguing that Beeper or their users are breaking the law.
I wouldn't be surprised if PFAS are being replaced by more than one chemical based on application, but specifically for the membrane layers, there's this:

https://www.gearpatrol.com/outdoors/a43241598/gore-tex-patag...

> That Hail Mary thrown out by Gore-Tex turned out to be ePe (expanded polyethylene): a new durable, waterproofing membrane that is just as efficacious at repelling water as Gore-Tex's original ePTFE formula — yes, that's short for Expanded Polytetrafluoroethylene — but without fluorocarbons.
Yeah I had to trim it down to fit HN.

But I’d love to see more proof of this. I fully believe it’s happening, but only on some devices.

For example I doubt Apple devices do it (they’ve locked that down a lot and added recording indicators). Or any other relatively premium brand like Sony or Samsung. But I fully believe the ultra cheap versions of things like TVs or Android phones would do it. A $50 Android phone at a gas station has to make money somehow.
The game is, if you get funding for X years, but you can remain on mission for X+N years, you have an opportunity to get easy funding after your initial funding runs out.

That's a major incentive to over build things. Engineers also love making things better, so, your workforce is defacto onboard with that mission.

And then, there's the issue that, basically every long term mission to space requires bespoke spacecraft. That makes things very, very expensive, but also, presents a requirement to engineer your way around unknown mission requirements. They know what they want to do, but, they don't really know how it'll work in reality. They can test some things, sure, but it's impossible to know every variable.

For instance, you're building a bridge with a 100ft span that's 50ft above the ground at the highest, in an area with a maximum wind speed of 50mph, and a maximum load capacity of 2000 tons of traffic moving 65mph. Now, that's basically enough information to build that bridge.
Now imagine that, you're asked to build that same bridge, but, you don't know how fast the traffic is moving, that's more difficult. Now, in addition to that, you don't know how much wind loading you have to deal with, more difficult still. Now imagine that, your load capacity isn't certain either.

Could you still build the bridge?
Of course you could, but, you'll have to build it with what you think are reasonable requirements. You might do some research into those requirements, but you also might not be able to. Where you end up is, the bridge you build is going to be over built, likely by a significant margin, if you desire to build a successful bridge.

This is the issue with designing spacecraft, you have more questions about requirements than you have answers, and sure, we have more answers than we used to, and the available pool of knowledge has only increased, but many points of uncertainty still remain. Not an unusual engineering problem, we'll get there eventually. It was about 100 years of thinking for us to learn to fly at all, another 100 years to learn how to do it well, and there's still plenty of room for improvement. Space flight will be much the same, and eventually we'll have the space equivalent of the honda civic
> Apple has made it clear that they won't bring iMessage to Android.

Apple might disagree. https://9to5mac.com/2023/11/16/apple-rcs-coming-to-iphone/
How is this not getting flagged by regulatory bodies as blatantly monopolistic behavior?
> The article didn't claim that the study's conclusion was false. The article only points out that the study was flawed

Not "flawed", fraud. Which is a claim that the conclusion is false--and that the author knew it and published it anyway. That's what "fraud" means in this context. That's an extremely strong claim, which the article does not actually justify. Zimbardo's response, which others upthread have posted a link to, is, IMO, required reading to evaluate anything this article says.
I moved to the UK circa 2009 when I just turned 18. I was raised on the internet and broke enough not to own a TV.

Got harassed by so, so many TV tax envelopes and visits over the next couple years, they were just SO convinced I was lying to them because of course some 18-something year old kid would have a TV, how could he not?

Left a pretty bad taste in my mouth.
Really hope Apple makes a banger implementation of this. Not whatever Google and Samsung have been upto now.
how's this different than https://posthog.com/ ?
Even better, stables can be frozen.

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/12/09/tether-freezes-...

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/11/20/tether-freezes-...

Can't do that with bags of dollars.
Exactly: here outside the US, absolutely no one uses SMS, so no one cares about this issue at all. It's like arguing over the rights to videotape standards. So to me it's somewhat amusing reading these arguments here.
Among my increasingly prized possessions is an original copy of Nasa's "Voyager Encounters Jupiter* report, detailing mission findings, and featuring some of the image highlights.

Internet Archive, bless them, have this online:

<https://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19800025809/mo...>
First, you’ll need an engaging intro to physics. Without enthusiasm, anything you do will be boring. In the 60’s, books by George Gamow interested me, as did books on astronomy and astrophysics. I can’t say what newer books would help, though I will give that a look.

To learn the basics, something like The Feynmann Lectures on Physics.

Description and links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feynman_Lectures_on_Physic...

The lectures online:

https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/info/

But if you are serious, know that there are really varied branches of physics, some theoretical and some experimental. The theoretical branch (and making it through grad school) will demand lots and lots of math, and not the “numerical” kind that is common in computing. You might get familiar with symbolic math computing, such as MAXIMA.

Experimental work is very hands-on, but since so much of it is quantum level, the math is also important. Lesson I learned: if you want to really do physics, learn to love math, advanced stuff.

But if you do get into experimental physics, there are some pretty exciting projects. Just today, I found this article.

If you want something done right, do it yourself: the scientists who build their own tools

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-04015-0

Astronomy and Astrophysics are similar. You can go experimental, and of course, reduce tons and tons of data. But cosmology is going to require mostly math as your tool, relativity and quantum physics, perhaps the twain will meet.

Of course, you could go the circular route, as I did. I got a B.S. in physics, did optical and electronic engineering, and eventually got a job supporting computing at an outstanding physics department.

I was a great experience, but when funds were cut, I went on to other, mostly computer-related, jobs.

Personally, I took a liking to optics, which requires knowledge of physics, but it was something I could hold in my hands ( i.e. a camera ) or not hold, as in space optics. My optical engineering days were very enjoyable.
I used to be quite positive about the BBC, but since my daughter went to Uni, she has been hounded by the TV licensing company.

Now I am extremely negative about the BBC and I won't shed a tear when it loses its funding.
See all the law changes in Oregon since 2018. Cops for example can’t pull you over for ghetto cars anymore. Cops can’t use the smell of weed as probable cause, and far far more.
> NASA tech often seems to outlive its initial mission length by a massive margin

NASA tech from the 60s 70s

Ftfy
Interesting. I'll have to check to be sure, but I think maybe something is happening automagically if you have reasonably up to date nvidia drivers on the host OS, because I was able to run the EmotiVoice TTS docker (which requires nvidia gpu) from WSL2.

https://github.com/netease-youdao/EmotiVoice
You should update your original comment. HN is full of desperate efforts to dodge any skepticism of sketchy and dishonest capitalist behavior. It doesn't need more of them.
as a uk citizen, i've never seen one of these vans.

i have been visited by the enforcement agents. at the time i did not have a tv or an internet connection so i told them to piss off.

i do now not have a tv, but i do have bbc iplayer and i pay for it.

and actually, i used to work for the BBC!
Most recently discussed three months ago:

* 466 points, 94 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37517567

From 2019:

* 429 points, 154 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18946601

* https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=b612-font.com
The new seal is also pretty cool. The objections, however, are not:

> Denise Mazone, who was appointed to the commission by the Council on Minnesotans of African Heritage, said she didn’t see the state’s African American community reflected in any of the final flag designs

> The year 1858, for example, is the year Minnesota was admitted to the United States and was included in the original version of the final seal design.

> A similar debate played out when the commission discussed the inclusion of the state motto, “l’etoile du nord,” which is French for “star of the north.” The commission considered translating the motto to Dakota, but ultimately decided to remove the motto from the state seal over concerns that it would violate the commission’s mandate to represent a “one Minnesota” and not single out particular communities.

Everybody wants their piece on the new flag/seal, thank god they didn't give in to the design-by-commitee temptation of just adding everything in.

My preference is between F29 and F1953 (from the 6 finalists); shame F29 got eliminated. Finalists are visible here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Minnesota#2023_redesig.... I'll never understand how stuff like 1435 got into the final 6.
You are describing the ebay market for used nvidia tesla cards. The k80, p40, or m40 are widely available and sell for ~$100 with 24gb vram. The m10 even has 32gb! The problem for ai hobbyists is it won't take long to realize how many apis use the "optical flow" pathways and so on nvidia they'll only run at acceptable speeds on rtx hardware, assuming they run at all. Cuda versions are pinned to hardware to some extent.
iMessage is routed through apple's servers over TCP. So this is like saying: sometimes I go to google.com but it randomly loads bing.com... must be related to my group carrier plan

What data made you make that association? Seems unlikely. If that happens, then apple would have to be routing messages incorrectly, but that would be a massive bug/security issue... especially considering how E2EE works.
My follow-up question then is why treat mobile significantly differently from desktop? Stable desktop Firefox has about:config and access to horribly broken extensions. Perhaps some would argue that it should not.
Is Bart Simpson black then? Urban culture is culture.
Is Beeper’s whole purpose to satisfy people’s vanity to have blue bubbles or what’s wrong with plain ol’ SMS?
Firefox since 2006/2007. Safari on iPhone for battery savings but Firefox is there too :)
‘You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain…’

Great that Mitchell evaded that fate by getting out of the leadership before controversial moves by Hashicorp started occurring. His legacy will be untainted.
Than put whatever you want on the table and don't go for the tiniest of denominators a ceasefire will change nothing it will probably worsen the situation for civilians because every side will have real breaches and even more propaganda ones. If not now when is the point to find a permanent solution if it's two states or whatever. Wasting time on a useless solution like it is done now will help no one except virtue signalling and everyone knows it.
If you fail to notice that Pfizer burned all good medical practice when rolling out their piece of shit vaccine and constantly lying about its efficacy and lack of side effects there is, I am afraid, nothing I can do for you. Enjoy your mRNA vaccines my friend and hope for the best.
The nightmare is over? I've used Usenet for years. Most serious users filter out any post originating from G2 to do away with Google posts. It's been a huge source of spam and annoyance.

Usenet gets better as it gets smaller, honestly. Most groups are carcasses these days, but several have regular use. comp.misc, misc.news.internet.discuss, and sci.misc are active. Several groups in the comp* hierarchy are active. Thunderbird, claws-mail, sylpheed, tin, slrn, alpine, neomutt all handle Usenet just fine. Visit http://newsgroupreviews.com for a list of providers, some free, some paid.
currently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38647484
The debunking of Zimbardo's experiment has been well known for many decades. It isn't something that happened just recently.
In a classic episode of The Young Ones, when the TV inspector knocks on the door, the others stall him while Vyvyan attempts to eat the TV.

Finally the inspector barges in and finds Vyvyan with a power cord hanging out of his mouth to which he replies “It’s a toaster”.
Same reason PS messenger can block third party clients.

Is it ethical? Not in my opinion. Facetime and iMessage were introduced under the guise of becoming open at some point, however that was because they lost a patent lawsuit iirc[0]

it's worth focusing on the differences between iMessage and Internet Explorer (which was the last monopoly battle that anyone cares about).

The truth of it is: across Apple devices, while iMessage is installed, the alternative message systems are just too successful to argue. The overwhelming majority are using facebook messenger or whatsapp anyway. So there's no evidence that Apple is curbing another industry.

Apple is also not in a monopolistic position except on their own hardware, which is true for everyone (including Blackberry with their messenger).

[0]: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-20236114
This sounds like a violation of the CFAA per unauthorized use of computer resources. Think Apple would be held liable for it?
This is a fun option too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot
Is opensourcing consumer software beneficial for shipping faster?
If so, how much faster would it be? And would this advantage justify all the disadvantages of being transparent?
Not a psychology researcher, but I think that the Milgram experiment has been fairly well replicated. Please anyone let me know if not.

I personally found it to be non-obvious.
The NYT lost its way when it became the premier propaganda outlet for the Democratic Party, even going so far to justify outlandishly unscientific claims in the name of pleasing/deluding the voting base.
Is Southwest Airlines not carrying luggage from United for free blatantly monopolistic behavior?
If Americans are this dumb, I don't see why they need any laws to protect them. Why would I want to be part of any groups that won't have me because I don't use an iPhone?

Thankfully, here outside America, this isn't an issue: absolutely no one uses SMS or cares about this stuff.
https://github.com/mgyong/awesome-mediapipe#sign-language-ha...

there are some samples, using the same framework that airdraw uses.
The data that AlphaFold was trained on included all that information and more. The database they used for training included software simulations (and real world data) that accounted for atomic (quantum) interactions. The 3D structure of proteins includes all the quantum interactions.

More generally, AI models (aka very large function graphs) are trained on tuples that represent mappings of inputs to outputs (input -> output). The idea then is that whatever structure exists in those pairs/tuples/mappings is discovered by the training process with the help of gradient descent which tunes the parameters of the model/graph to optimally compress the information contained in the data. This means the model must uncover the quantum effects (or some close proxy of it) and then encode them into the parameters in a way that makes compression/prediction possible [1].

None of this is magic, compressing data requires uncovering structures and symmetries that can be used to reduce the size of the data and it turns out gradient descent with lots of parameters manages to do that for a large class of problems albeit at a very steep computational cost that requires billions of dollars for hardware and software (including nuclear power plants [2]). We are not going to get AGI with this approach but fortunately I know how to make it happen for a mere $80B.

1: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.15614

2: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/25/microsoft-is-hiring-a-nuclea...
This is precisely how I, and many in tech, feel. It's as if my own internal monologue wrote a blog post itself.

You might be asking why I can claim many on tech feel this way. It's because I've seen similar repression from Saudi Arabia (powered by Israeli cyber weapons).

In Saudi, a lot of really loud people barking are able to do so because that is the establishment line.

Everybody else who is silenced have, usually the diametrically exact opposite opinion (or even unacceptable tame variations of the establishment line).

In Saudi they use Israeli cyber weapons to hack, monitor then jail (even mild) dissent.

In tech there are many establishment lemmings who don't think for themselves who essentially act the same as establishment propagandists and their pernicious weapon against dissent is being iced out from opportunities.

Tech is meant to be decentralized, meritocratic, (somewhat) contrarian.

Yet we've seen in these last two months all that goes thrown out the window when it comes to narratively protecting a genocidal project because unfortunately there is a well oiled Israeli Extermination Force to Tech pipeline that people don't like to talk about (aka Affirmative action for extreme Zionists).

Most of the few founders I know will be raising with BDS in mind - that hopefully includes LPs where possible.

Don't support right of return? You don't deserve right to my returns.
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You don't think Apple brass is doing everything in their power to convince non-iPhone users to switch to an iPhone? Every excluded teen is another potential customer and to pretend they don't know that is beyond naïve.
In otherwords, it's outright lying unless they create the 4,000 jobs for 1 year, in which case it's still extreme dishonesty at best, given the importance of the 1 year term.

Capitalists and capitalist politicians should never be taken in good faith.
And people slam nasa constantly then whine to the stars about “planned obsolescence” when capitalism can’t make an appliance that lasts.

Go figure.
Of course visibility is key. What other kind of option is there?

> “We have no idea what you did this year and no one has any idea of the value you’re providing, but what the hell. Here’s a huge bonus!”

That doesn’t seem a little insane to you?
Multi-cloud doesn’t mean you duplicate your infra deployment across multiple cloud platforms for redundancy. It means you integrate the best features of each cloud to run your stack. Cloudflare for cdn, GCP for load balancing, aws for compute, snowflake for big data, etc etc… It is absolutely mainstream.