skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's no evidence or proof that these physical domains are insufficient to explain qualia

Law of excluded middle does not apply in general, only in certain systems. The real world is not one of them. There is also no evidence that physical domains are sufficient to explain qualia. To do that you would have to show that you can make an inanimate / non-living object feel something. Qualia has a very different sensation than simple observation. Do you claim, for example, that a Camera feels red? How? Why? This is a very valid question, for which we have no physical explanation.
Its very common. I wonder if Dec is actually the highest odds month to do a layoff.. but no idea where to pull those stats.
Local businesses would benefit substantially from the bikeshare service though.
I don’t agree. A job today is no guarantee or even context for a reasonable assumption for a job tomorrow.

If the month of the year in which you lose your six figure engineering job is a personal factor: you are very plainly saving too little, spending too much, or both. In this economy you should have a minimum of 4-6 months of expenses in savings in cash.
I went on to see if I could find a hand knit toddler sweater.

Sure can! Easily.

I just see the same ones on Amazon by OXIIK brand. I had, some grandmother in Canada in mind.
While I understand what you're saying and agree that people processes are a place where the AI value will be captured, the particular cases you've cited are in fields where there are very real legal and/or liability issues related to "mistakes".
I heard people are saying 3d printed when it's injection molded plastics as if 3d printed is artisan.
OpenCola always gets passed around but for me it just represents the tip of a very frustrating iceberg.

There are tons of flavor formulations I'd love to know - not because I'm a chemist or a food scientist but just out of sheer curiosity and the desire to learn how stuff is made.

I wish people would research other flavors, e.g.:

* Bubblegum

* Tutti Fruitti

* Irn-Bru
> You can drink a 12 oz can of Coke every day and it's not even a blip on the radar.

Only that blood sugar levels also affect hunger, psyche etc.

So no, you cannot just sum up calories in that case.
Honestly maybe we should just ban all advertising? Advertising is generally a zero sum game - there’s no meaningful difference if you spend 5M on ads and your competitors spend 5M on ads or you spend 0 and your competitors spend 0. There is a difference if you can spend 20M and your competitors can only spend 5M, but that’s one way larger companies kill competition.
Both may be true. Culture isn't really necessarily that siloed between engineering and management.
Just wondering as someone who sells handmade things on etsy, Ive noticed my sales dipping the last 6 months. is there any websites you recommend to buy/sell handmade things?
If you're like me, and you had no idea what "goodwill impairment" meant, and wondering 'what does this billion dollar expense get Etsy?'

Investopedia: "Goodwill impairment occurs when a company decides to pay more than book value for the acquisition of an asset, and then the value of that asset declines. The difference between the amount that the company paid for the asset and the book value of the asset is known as goodwill."

> Goodwill impairment: Goodwill impairment expense consists of non-cash charges related to the impairment of the goodwill of Depop and Elo7.

This is a level of circular definition that makes the head spin. Depop and Elo7 were Etsy acquisitions. I haven't read the SEC filing in depth, but I assume this means that Etsy is acknowledging they overpaid on both these acquisitions, and that their value is in reality far less than they thought at the time.

I'm not sure what the accounting advantages are here for Etsy, maybe someone else with more knowledge could weigh in?
I've had the pleasure of visiting a few cities/countries without much (if any) physical advertising/billboards, it's a change that's both incredibly jarring and incredibly pleasant!

At first there's a bit of an uncanny valley effect, particularly when driving around a city. Eventually that settles down, and the reduction in low-level visual stimulus is really appreciated. Coming back home, you might see the insane levels of visual pollution we deal with in a new light.

Not qualified to comment on the broader economic ramifications of this, but as a normal person navigating the world, it's pretty great!
Seems like a laudable goal to me, but there are degrees here:

* Advertising in the form of pasted posters, signs for nearby stores, etc.;

* "Large scale" advertising, e.g. the 60+ foot free-standing or roof-mounted pillars that are common in US cities and on roads;

* Mixed-digital advertising that usually has some kind of analytics or tracking mixed in (e.g. the much-maligned "digital front" displays that some convenience stores are installing[1])

To my mind, the first is mostly unobjectionable, the second is usually visually offensive (and should be price-adjusted to reflect the diminishing effect it has on the urban environment), and the third is civically offensive (and should be outright illegal).

[1]: https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/12/business/walgreens-freezer-sc...
Rapamycin is not an aging drug. But what is an aging drug?
Apple/Google can be the GateKeepers of App Stores.

Look at the PKI industry, they have a greater need for integrity but there's still a healthy market of certificate suppliers.
Call stack > Structure > Stack and Frame pointers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_stack#Stack_and_frame_poi...

What do the Coding Guidelines listed in e.g. awesome-safety-critical say about Frame pointers? https://awesome-safety-critical.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#co...

(Edit)

/? "cert" "frame pointer" https://www.google.com/search?q=%22cert%22+%22frame+pointer%... :

- Stack buffer overflow >
Exploiting stack buffer overflows: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_buffer_overflow :

> In figure C above, when an argument larger than 11 bytes is supplied on the command line foo() overwrites local stack data, the saved frame pointer, and most importantly, the return address

What about the Top 25?

/? site:cwe.mitre.org "frame pointer" https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Acwe.mitre.org+%22fram... :

- CWE-121: Stack-based Buffer Overflow https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/121.html

This is closer to a better approach for security, debuggability, and performance IMHO:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38138010 :

> gdb on Fedora auto-installs signed debuginfo packages with debug symbols; Fedora hosts a debuginfod server for their packages (which are built by Koji) and sets `DEBUGINFOD_URLS=`

> Without debug symbols, a debugger has to read unlabeled ASM instructions (or VM opcodes (or an LL IR)).
It seems safer to not have any financial ties with google at all. Not paying for services and not being paid for services. Not publishing apps, not using ads.

-just a free user of gmail who hopes to be undisturbed.
not fiscal year
I’m not sure, I don’t use it either.

Apple’s podcast client has some ability to subscribe to the premium version of some podcasts. So they seem to have something vaguely like this. It still appears to be a monthly/yearly subscription thing though.

I decided to poke around the news app based on your comment, but I only see monthly subscriptions, sadly.

I get that newspapers want the reliable recurring subscription instead, but it just seems to weird to me that they were willing to concede to users and sell a single issue when the papers were, well, paper, but not digital. I mean it should be easier with digital, they don’t have to even make any projections about how many to print!
Inflation isn’t easing. The rate of inflation’s increase is reducing. Inflation is still inflating, and it’s still a lot more than in the past. We’re also still dealing with the effects of the inflation of the last few years. For that to be “easing”, we would have to see negative inflation for a bit to counteract some of that. We’re not.

Things are just getting worse a bit more slowly.
I will say my takeaway from this story is manufacturers screwing over their users to make more money isn't a "you are too small to fight back problem" but unmitigated greed.
I've seen great books ruined by their cover. And with them, authors who had dedicated years of their life to what turned out to be a great story, but not a great book--because of the cover. That's why I tend to read blurbs and get an idea of the subject matter, instead of putting much attention on the cover. Alas, it takes longer to read blurbs :/

My personal opinion is that a good cover should, in this order, do the following:

- Bring a mystery to the reader, or summarize the story in a fun way.

- Be honest, and tell the reader if the story is for them or not. If the story is fun, philosophical, and gay, there should be cues of that on the cover. It's a service you do to yourself as a writer, specially when you are not writing mainstream. Here's an example: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HX3wweY3S_Zpf1iD7a118IWNy96...

- Be visually pleasant.

- Distant forth: be "trendy". The cover should do service to the book and the story first, and only in a second place, be a resume piece for the graphical designer. With that said, most books don't make money, and sometimes the only way a writer can get a cover at a reasonable price is by compromising and letting the graphical artist do what they want.
Alaska, Hawaii, Vermont, and Maine all do not allow for billboard advertisement, so at least there are a few places you can go for respite.
I guess it depends on what you're looking for. I've seen some of what you're talking about, but most of the type of stuff I'm looking for still has a good handmade selection.
> A lack of actual (not assumed) alignment within teams and leadership around what a design system is, what problems it solves, and how it will provide value.

Definitely. In a retro recently I heard, "We need a design system!" followed shortly by, "We already have a design system!" and "What's a design system?" Speaking as a developer, this discussion is slightly out of my lane, but I appreciate the article's discussion of when to start investing in a design system and what you might get in return.
Thanks for sharing this - it's a great interview.

I do think there is a subtlety about the 'wasn't intended to compete with the 6800' line though.

Chuck Peddle recognised the market for a much cheaper version of the 6800 which Motorola refused to make, possibly because they couldn't make it that cheaply with the contact lithography process they were using.

So Peddle went off to MOS Technology (taking lots of Motorola engineers with him including Mensch) to make the cheaper version. To achieve that goal, they had to cut down on some of the 6800's features. Reducing the size of the stack pointer, only one accumulator, and so on.

As it turns out, the end result - the 6501/2 - was actually very competitive with the 6800. So whilst the original intention wasn't to compete with the 6800, in the end it did compete with it very successfully in some important markets.

Of course, in addition MOS Technology didn't have the resources of Motorola and so also couldn't compete with them in terms of support, peripherals and so on.

Note: I wrote the original post on the 6800 that led to the discussion [1] and I'm now deep in the writing of Part 2 of the 6800 story. (So I've now provided spoilers for Part 2!)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38616591
One last flush before inflation disappears and tech booms, plausible deniability is still available. In six months, things will have recovered too much to allow for the optics of big layoffs.

Edit: for the doubters, the stock market is clearly pricing in inflation dropping, your current analysis doesnt take into account any data that hedge funds and investors are trading on
Some are but many are still legit sellers. We’ve sold on there and were handmade items. Their algorithm is very unpredictable so it was hard to rely on Etsy as a source of revenue
Perhaps it was a mistake, but offering unlimited was a competitive advantage. Others working with the economies of storage had limits or priced based on usage; having unlimited would be a great way to draw in customers. I'm highly skeptical of tech companies effectively price dumping, harming competition, and then coming out and saying "Oops, that wasn't sustainable. Here are the new terms." I'm of the mindset that if you offered an unlimited plan you should have to grandfather in customers that bought into that plan.
Sure, but privacy has been a design consideration of HIPAA since 2003.
Netflix severance is phenomenal.
But what's the broader point here, is it that the word "Autopilot" implies you need care or training?

Because if so, it sounds like Autopilot would be a good word.

I think the term "Full Self Driving" is misleading, but comparing it to an Autopilot (i.e. a system which requires pilot input and care) seems correct.
> (e.g., google may think “this guy has two accounts, same computer same ip… let’s ban him”)

FWIW I think I have 5+ google accounts. Have had them since gmail was in beta and have never been banned
Exactly. Unions exist for exactly this purpose and have legal powers no employee will ever have.
Of course they are. All those pointless microservices crap will not lose time and money themselves.
Changing the setting redirects me to "https://www.dropbox.com/team/admin/settings/ai" in the Admin Console so I assume this controls it for the entire team.
> She’d been tasked with designing the book covers for the English translations of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s six-part autobiographical novel, My Struggle

I read "My Struggle," but I could have sworn it was by a German guy...

I am trying to poke fun at the name of the book in a light hearted way.
> this i feel would need to be clarified for me to be able to accept the conclusion

So you are inclined to dismiss her stated experience because she didn't choose to share every little detail of her life to your satisfaction?
Does anyone know what this "bug" manifests as? Your first sentence implies it's a lockout created at reset, but your second implies it manifests post-reset through user/programmer action.
The biggest root cause of crime is fatherlessness
Right, because the benefits have gotten significantly better since COVID, not a prime minister totally tanking the economy by promising unfundable tax cuts and getting fired in 43 days, or the general bureaucratic mess that has been Brexit implementation.
Privacy by Technical Decisions, Not Policy
Seems like that kind of turn signal integration could be easily done via Bluetooth if someone bothered making a standard fo it.
I think social media feed ads should have a requirement for a different background color of a certain % stronger/lighter than default. Everyone's hiding the "Promotion" text in light text or moving them around so the eye can't find it.
I don’t have any numbers on hand, but I have to imagine this would also reduce a lot of waste.

I didn’t realize until recently that almost all billboards are made of a thick plastic vinyl material.

I recently saw one of these billboards folded up on the ground before it went up. It’s just a giant chunk of plastic that I imagine ends up in some landfill somewhere.
Yes, though it really only helps so much with the broader problem.
It's strange. Usually the competition for train contracts is quite fierce and train operators have a lot of power dictating terms.

This is not some david vs goliath thing.
I don't understand with so much money being poured into NASA, rural broadband, and the Military why the Government cannot setup their own starlink. It will be less money in the end.
Congratulation on shipping! What I love most about this is your "inner monologue" component at the bottom.

> You're an artist.

> A good one.

> Nope, a great one.

> But you have a sh*tty site.

> You wanna make it better.

> You call the guy.

> Never replies.

> ...

IF this is true (I can't say as I'm not an artist on Spotify), then this alone can sell your product.
AI-generated news anchors show off superhuman abilities
For this grant the 100/20 needed to be consistently available in specific geographic areas. So if the cells bring down the performance averages are concentrated in those grant areas, it makes sense for them to fail to meet the program criteria while still having a product that hits those metrics elsewhere.
Reminded me to finally delete my account of... 15 years!!! Good riddance.
You know servers in California are paid better than servers in France?

Does that help you feel more comfortable?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38629814
Yes we can be that naive, people learn from what they see. And they see companies being investor funded for a decade without breaking even, offering services for free. It's not just the users who have lost the connection to reality I think.
>In 2022, many RDOF recipients had deployed no service at any speed to any location at all, and they had no obligation to do so. By contrast, Starlink had half a million subscribers in June 2022 (and about two million in September 2023)

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-23-105A3.pdf
> A decent company would drop $2000 on HDD, or a bit less on optical / tape media, and ship (rather than delete) the data to the customer they fired, at their own cost, or at the very least, at customer cost. A company which provides literally no way to get data out and offloads expenses is a POS company.

Please, be realistic. This is nuts and you must know it.
If they couldn't make it a couple more weeks without going insolvent, then Netflix is too far gone for me to want to commit to relying on them for a subscription.
This is what, at least $7500 or so of hardware, to keep it local? (And without much redundancy.) Worse, Newegg has been out of stock on the 20tb golds for weeks.

I figure 14 x 20tb = 280tb or so for $5600. Then you could get the 8 bay from Synology for $1000ish, and another $600 or so for the expansion bay. Is there a cheaper setup than this? You can get a better price-per-terabyte sometimes, but it's bay-prohibitive. And oh god... the time to silver that, I don't even want to know.

I don't know how to transfer that either... if it were on Amazon, didn't they have a service where they'll 1-day ship you all the data on a suitcase full of drives?

As always, the cloud is someone else's computer.
> The father sounds like a deadbeat too, given his curious omission from the whole blog.

Maybe he passed away. Maybe she left him because she just wanted the kid. I don't know why you assume wrongdoing while, as you pointed out, no details is given.
It would be helpful to at least know the size of the company. Just a random comment is useless.
I don’t understand what you’re saying here. What is obvious and well-documented here, from your perspective? And of what do we have extensive documentation? The regulatory data at the time the decision was taken, or something in Starlink’s defense?

I didn’t find the article especially clear on this point, but it sounds like Starlink says that if the decision were taken today rather than in 2022, the performance data wouldn’t look so dire, and the FCC might have more faith in their promise to launch high-performance payloads with Starship during the grant’s required timeframe, is that what you mean?
I've always wanted to ask, how do engineers who work at Google think about this? I want to work at a company where I feel like I'm making the lives of our users better. I'm sure this is true for lots of users of Google products, but there are also thousands or tens of thousands of people who have had serious real life impacts because of it. You can see many of them in this thread: AdSense businesses getting shut down, Youtube content creators getting banned for mysterious reasons. I try to work at companies that believe these problems to be unacceptable to even 1 person. While that goal may not always be possible, I would not be comfortable with anything less than an immediate resolution and a postmortem to prevent it from happening again. Is this also true at Google? I don't know anyone at Google to ask.
> raised prices when those competitors folded

This part only works if you don't have other large competitors. But this obviously not the case for cloud storage. It is an extremely competitive commodity product.

> bad for consumers

How exactly is it bad for consumers to get products below cost?
I don’t think moves like this, where the government acts in an adversarial capacity to successful businesses that it previously supported, will do a lot to attract new capital or technologists. If anything, I’d worry such capriciousness discourages investment in the area. If Musk can’t make it work, what odds do the rest of us face. At least that would be my concern, about how this is received by the wider tech community.
In Canada, I also couldn't find this setting.
On reducing land area: as an agroecologist, I do think that this is a very important goal.

First, because in many modern agricultural landscapes (such as intensive farming regions in western Europe or the US Midwest), there is simply no space for nature. Agriculture is the leading cause of biodiversity loss in large parts of the world, and much of it has to do with lack of natural habitats.

And secondly, because we have such a lot of pressure on land in the more densely populated regions of the world - now only exacerbated by area demands for renewable energies.

However, I agree that vertical farming is unlikely to be a workable solution. Much more promising (though also more boring and irritating to some people) is to (a) reduce food waste and (b) reduce meat consumption. We could easily triple our food output without any further technical advances if we "just" did those two things.
Days of Google's Unchecked Dominance May Be Over
If you act as if your employer has your best interest in mind, you're going to be in for a bad time.

You're the CEO of your life, your employer is a client, and your job is a business deal.

My advice is to do independent contracting for some time and you will have a better handle on negotiating and navigating the dynamics.
> The fact that you can advertise in cities is the reason that big tech doesn't capture 100% of profits in every single market.

I really don't think this is true. What evidence leads you to believe that?

> Advertising in cities, from billboards to flyers to stickers is the only way to reach people directly

Most billboards are from [inter]national corporations. Local businesses usually rely on the most effective form of advertising, word-of-mouth. Some of the most successful local businesses in my city have literally never paid for advertising.

Lastly, your complaint is meritless because Adfree Cities is not campaigning to ban all conceivable forms of advertising. From TFA (well, the FAQ page):

> Why doesn’t Adfree Cities campaign against all kinds of advertising?

> Our focus is on creating neighbourhoods and cities free from corporate outdoor advertising such as billboards. There are specific problems with outdoor advertising as explained briefly above and in more detail here: The trouble with billboards. And there are unique opportunities for communities to reclaim these spaces for art, nature and local initiatives.
I actually disagree with him on plenty, but he consistently doesn't play the game and votes on principle, hence why he's widely hated.
> chose to interact with AI powered features

puts the burden on the user to understand what an "AI powered feature" is
> a private company that has failed to meet its agreed upon targets?

Starlink hasn't failed to meet any agreed upon targets. The agreed upon targets are for 2025.

Starlink is currently providing service that is below those targets, but has several more years to meet them. Meanwhile, other recipients haven't delivered any service yet.

> Otherwise we will just have broadband 2.0, with Comcast & co getting billions in subsidies and not doing even a fraction of the necessary work.

Who do you think the other recipients are?