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[2] https://twitter.com/tarasishchyk/status/1735615730542858339
What are your thoughts on C++?
AWS I suppose
Either they honestly didn't foresee this obvious outcome and are completely out of touch, or they did foresee it and were somehow hoping for a different outcome anyway.
Because people commenting on HN are not a hivemind. Some people think this some people think that and there is no guarantee or requirement that these independent thoughts from independent people are consistent.
Issue is language fails human to human interactions all the time. I would be so bold as to say most people are poor communicators, a machine is not going to read ones mind and intentions any better than fellow humans. It's why military has BLUF communication style to convey information in concise, simple, predictable way. If anything prompt engineering should exist if only to improve humans ability to communicate with other humans.
Which claim?

> In a free market, the best option will win. When non-union jobs are better than union jobs the need for the union should vanish (in theory).

If UAW is the best option and people want to join it...that is the best option winning.
As I said, there is no inconsistent treatment of horizontal and vertical.
As a web dev I really like your design choices and some great font choices.
My guess is that they weren't measuring ice cream machine uptime. They were using some other metric. The franchisee is really the one loses sales to a down machine. Corporate McDs is satisfied with the revenue share and doesn't realize more ice cream could be sold.
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There isn't a nanometer of wiggle room in what C89 refers to.
> I ordered a cheeseburger in Spanish and the server looked at me funny when I said: ”hamburguesa con queso sin pepinillos…”

Yes, I agree that replying to a stranger in his mother tongue may make him extremely surprised.

A couple of months ago, I was in an Arabic country (in the Gulf), I entered a small shop to buy some stuff, the shop owner was obviously Hindi/Pakistani, I asked him about the price, in English of course, he replied then I asked for a possible discount if I bought in bulk and set my willing-to-pay price, he resisted then I smiled and said "yie bohot acha price hain", and he (and his assistant) were shocked like they were hit by a 380v electric shock. They stared at me and said: "tu tu tum bolo hindi?!" I replied,"nai bhai, tora tora. ".. he laughed and agreed immediately to the price I offered.
> I mean... police can force you to open your door, your safe

Actually, the government cannot compel you to give the combination to a safe [1]. If it's locked with a key, not a keypad or combination lock, they can force you to give the key. The distinction is that the former is a product of the mind, while the latter is a physical object. Furthermore, what if you forgot the combination? There's no real way to tell if someone has forgotten the combination or is deliberately withholding it.

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/530/27/
how did Mark Hurd implode? I've never heard this before
When I worked there during our lunch rush, we would have a person dedicated to every task, fries, coffee, orders, bagging. When it came to the dinner rush, we would have half the staff or less then our lunch rush. So in a sense it is the work of 2 to 3 people.
Also during overnight we would have only one person in the front, and one in the back. Once Uber eats came on the scene our workload increased 3x or more, but no extra staff was added! :-)

Edit: that’s not even mentioning when we would be short staffed, due to people not showing up / calling in, which happened every other day it felt like, and the shift wouldn’t be replaced.
Yep. I am my most valuable asleep. Day-me just does data entry on the solutions to hard problems night-me figures out.
I think maybe you’re thinking of Falcon 4.0?
Metasurface antenna to manipulate all fundamental characteristics of EM waves
remote setup was enough, but our dev environments were never quite 100% the same as prod because copying all the data would have been too expensive, and the remote environments were always just a little higher latency for things than the local computers... Just a little bit worse in ways that annoyed people.
I am 100% convinced people who self-diagnose with aphantasia think normal people hallucinate images in their mind. They are just being dense. Unless they've had a MRI, they are just shockingly confused.
It feels like a reward mechanism for a different type of person.

Long-term, I can't comprehend how this could possibly increase productivity unless it makes you more satisfied / happy and, coincidentally, more productive.

For some it might work, for others - definitely not.
The author does not mean "fiduciary" in the sense of legal obligation, but rather that of protecting the owner's interests. In the case of Fastmail however the two are much the same, the company being to some extent employee-owned.
> the cumbersome real world tweaking and trial-and-error

There are very many fields and activities that do just that but are not called Engineering.

If we go by that, Excel users should also be referred to as Excel Engineers,
Three years after its revamp, Firefox's Android browser adds 450 new extensions
Fascinating. Shame this link didn't get more traction.
Also the final product often looks very different (usually a lot smaller) then the submission.
Yeah I wondered this too. Watching them work, it certainly doesn’t look like they take more time than most McCafe drinks or making burgers.
compare google QA and release process to someone bound by auto or medical industry.

imagine a google peace maker. lol
> We found a significant increase in stress associated with increase in mobile phone screen time.
Not really, prompts are poor guardrails for LLMs and we have seen several examples this fails in practice. We created an LLM focused security product to handle these types of exfils (through prompt/response/url filtering). You can check out www.getjavelin.io

Full disclosure, I am one of the co-founders.
I suspect this is a franchisee trying to improve profitability versus a company wide issue. I suspect it is highly variable. Also, sometimes sales are unexpectedly higher than normal.
I'd argue that 2 entities taking turns vocalizing (or similar) with each other with the intent of the other responding back is the base definition of a conversation.

No, they didn't discuss the finer points of Hume's philosophy. It was just the "first" conversation, after all.
If the government hadn't always have the possibility and right to break into a safe you wouldn't give up the combination to, then that would have been a debate for decades. The reason this is a debate is because they can't crack it.
It's still factually wrong. And has over 1000 upvotes... (Obviously, because it's factually wrong.)
At will employment is a steaming pile of trash that benefits only employers (a cartel themselves), and leaves employees unprotected.
> The failure of IBM is long, slow and tragic.

"Failure of IBM"?
From my knowledge, religious communities not only "brainwash into having kids", but they also provide a support network for them and their parents.
"Atheists" in "modern age" try to achieve more individual freedom by replacing the local community by a state. However, there is a problem. The way religious community organised at least empirically somehow matches human biology. E.g. small tribes, support, shared ideals. However, it turns out, modern humans have around-zero practical knowledge how to build a "modern" successful state for millions of individualists that would adequately respond to all changes/challenges. Yes, there are countries that were lucky to get a ~d20 roll~ stable democratic govt at some point. But if you look closer, even in these "developed" countries feedback loops are often extremely slow and clumsy.
I prefer The National Museum of Computing, which now occupies a site just outside the Bletchley Park museum perimeter.

For example, the last time I visited Bletchley Park they were exhibiting a mock-up of one side of a Bombe with a video screen mounted on the other side playing something on a loop. By comparison, TNMoC has a real working reconstruction of a Bombe and we were able to watch a live code breaking demonstration.

https://www.tnmoc.org/
Has there ever been a court case related to encrypted data or secret codes without a computer being involved? If the cops get a warrant to tap a phone line and they hear me speaking with an associate using some sort of coded language (as spies and criminals often do on TV) can i be compelled to explain to them what all the little codewords actually mean?
Firstly, only if you can only sell a certain amount specifically (heh) by mass.

And then but in order to bulk it up by even a percent, you're quickly into "holy shit" concentrations. 500ppm is above the highest level detected by the Stanford turmeric study and would only get you 3 or 4 grams of extra mass per litre (say 0.5% change). I don't know where the Equadorian standards are but Indian food standards, in the news for similar scandals, are 2.5ppm for some spices and the EU version for bark spices is 2.0ppm. To get to a percent in mass change, that's like 3 orders of magnitude more.

I don't doubt you can increase the density. I do doubt you can do it at a macroscopic level and not expect someone to notice at some point that a percent of the product is now pure lead. Maybe they're just that stupid, or they only had lead compounds in the building, but cutting food with multiple grams/kg an easily-detected, insoluble neurotoxin, harmful in the low microgram/dl ranges, for the sake of a percent ish mass increase seems completely mad even by criminal standards. Why not just add sawdust (which is what cinnamon basically is) and sell 101 kg rather than 100? Even if you have to adulterate for density, there are plenty of fairly inert heavy things, purchasable in bulk, that you could use that won't set of alarms the moment a lead testing strip comes out of a packet (not that that happened, early enough, apparently).

Maybe it's for colour in which case it makes sense: you don't get that with sawdust or iron oxide, >5g/cm³, nearly as dense, or whatever. But I can't imagine they're deliberately making an appreciable change in the bulk density of the cinnamon.
You wrote:

>Communication means an exchange of information. Receiving a signal does not.

You were wrong. Communication does not explicitly require response.

The definition of "communication":

>"means of sending or receiving information, such as phone lines or computers."

It says "Sending or receiving information". It does not say "sending and receiving".

The spacecraft can be receiving perfectly fine, and that is communication from earth to the spacecraft. We may not be getting a valid response, but that does not mean we haven't communicated information to the spacecraft.

This is the obtuse hill you chose to keep dying on.
>It doesn't sound like the Kytch device was claimed to cause any kind of contamination, it just exposed diagnostic data?

That's what the article says, but I vaguely remember that there were mentions of overriding the machine's safety interlocks. I searched around and sure enough, I found this:

>The Kytch, based on a Raspberry Pi, offered McDonald’s franchisees insight into both their machines’ operation and failures. It could also override locks that prevent the machines from working due to non-critical errors.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/mcdonalds-ice-cream-...

(emphasis mine)

As for what the device does today, I'm not so sure. Maybe they realized that overriding locks presents a safety hazard and removed that feature. Maybe they kept it in but decided not to loudly advertise it because it'd make them look bad. Who knows.
I'm tired of all the gatekeeping by the health industry telling us that we need to use their absurd rube goldberg processes, which often tell us "no", to know anything about ourselves.
It's a big presumption to assume that your private company knowledgeable contains such unique information that it is positively unrepresentable using basis vectors derived from the terabytes of public domain data sets that went into training the LLM.
We are lucky to have constitutional rights!

In many countries, they have laws saying suspects can't refuse to give passcodes (or if they do, they'll be jailed)

I think such laws are dangerous, as they could be used for a particularly evil type of attack: throw an encrypted cellphone in someone bag, then have them arrested for whatever wrong reason.

When they can't provide the passcode, they are automatically guilty!
The firm name is quite literally “International Business Machine.” The idea that they’re just a services firm is… something else.
Thank you for reminding me! I actually own the printed zines for EXA Punks. They also came with a secret envelope to be opened at a certain point in the game. I ordered them mostly out of a love for anything Zachtronics did. I don't have the Shenzen I/O one, but should really get it printed. If I recall there was also a physical manual for TIS-100 at some point.
Is this description accurate? I remember when Google Talk did XMPP, and know that stopped. Was it a gradual/unexplainable change?
Somehow, even with the embarrassment of (fragmented) IM riches, status as a service eludes us. I miss finger and ytalk.
It seems like you use twitch a lot.

Why is twitch different from say deviantart where theres lots of non-pornographic art as well a significant amount of NSFW art?

Is this to say that the twitch community is more likely to draw CP compared to other online communities?
Or perhaps that all porn should be banned across the web?
I dont really understand why twitch should be different from any other platform where people share that kind of content
"A universal metasurface antenna to manipulate all fundamental characteristics of electromagnetic wave" (2023) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-40717-9 :

> Abstract: Metasurfaces have promising potential to revolutionize a variety of photonic and electronic device technologies. However, metasurfaces that can simultaneously and independently control all electromagnetics (EM) waves’ properties, including amplitude, phase, frequency, polarization, and momentum, with high integrability and programmability, are challenging and have not been successfully attempted. Here, we propose and demonstrate a microwave universal metasurface antenna (UMA) capable of dynamically, simultaneously, independently, and precisely manipulating all the constitutive properties of EM waves in a software-defined manner. Our UMA further facilitates the spatial- and time-varying wave properties, leading to more complicated waveform generation, beamforming, and direct information manipulations. In particular, the UMA can directly generate the modulated waveforms carrying digital information that can fundamentally simplify the architecture of information transmitter systems. The proposed UMA with unparalleled EM wave and information manipulation capabilities will spark a surge of applications from next-generation wireless systems, cognitive sensing, and imaging to quantum optics and quantum information science.
As an aside, standard marbles are almost exactly 2 Lego studs wide, which makes it easy to build marble runs using just standard Lego pieces. For instance, you can build a marble lifting tower for the start of a marble run that uses a 2-stud by 2-stud hole in a 4x4 (or 6x6 for strength) tower.
> I mean... police can force you to open your door, your safe, or virtually any other container of secrets.

No, they can't. They can force you to let them try to open it, but they can't force you to open it for them.

If you have some mechanism like "if you try to open this incorrectly it destroys the contents", and you intentionally don't disclose that with the expectation that they're going to try and fail and destroy the contents, you might get charged with destruction of evidence.

(EDIT: Replies suggest that disclosure may not suffice.)
It likely doesn't, but McCafe Drinks/Burgers are a staple. Coffee and Burgers are likely included in most of their orders, Ice Cream they get a few each hour.
> Jekca dabbles with this idea. They sell Lego-like parts that lock together with a tiny wrench:

Interesting, I hadn't heard of that before. This page has an illustration of how the locking system works:

https://www.jekca.us/pages/introduction-of-jekca
2 sides implies equal footing. Especially as many equate this to a war. This isn't a war, it's a genocide.

But joke about it. Who cares? Just a bunch of people out of sight, out of mind, getting blown to bits day in day out.

Hilarious isn't it.
We are talking about the regular of regular "Art" category. Maybe, just maybe it shouldn't have NSFW stuff immediatly visible to anyone signing up (especially when they entered they are 13).

I really don't care either way, it's not exactly my problem and I don't really mind it, but there are parents that don't want their kids exposed to that (ignoring if parents need to be helicopter parents when the kids are on the internet) as well as other people that aren't comfortable with nudity in any way.
You can't be compelled but especially with spoken language it's going to be very easy for LE to decrypt it on their own by just correlating the coded language with whatever actions were taken later.
Ask HN: Advice on how to get a consulting pipeline for ML/NLP started
I just got a PhD in NLP, and I'm interested in what's available in terms of consulting. Since everyone and their uncle is now interested in language models, I imagine there must be some way I can do some consulting to leverage my skills. Does anyone have advice on how to approach this?
"All I want to do is this: I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have"

"There's nothing wrong with saying, you know, that you've recalculated."
According to this review from a few years ago, some are quite decent (and have a little bit of "smart", as in an integrated media player): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24877363

(Original link has disappeared, the Internet Archive is your friend.)
I thought we were talking about an ice cream machine and not an ink jet printer.
I think that's a fair interpretation, however I'd strongly argue two points:

- Sometimes, emotions precede (and at least set the stage) for thoughts.

- The reality is not so clear cut as the CBTs state. ie, they say that "Thoughts [always] dictate emotions."

That said, CBT is still very effective, and will yield improvements for most people. It's just that their core tenant seems to be an oversimplification.
best CTO I ever had was someone who was honest about churn: people leave, for multitude of reasons, that's why they stressed documentation and testing, so others can pick up where you will inevitably leave off, eventually for good. It was baked into the culture that hand off was going to happen eventually
It is a cautious tale we can hopefully relate to people before they jump on Threads and get locked in. Unfortunately those of us off the platforms have difficulty getting through to people on the platforms.

It is very easy to run an individual or small Mastodon or other activity pub instance, but this is also not widely known. The problem with almost every free solution is that zero money is spent on marketing.
I was talking to a guy:
"I don't suffer from any cognitive biases because my dyslexia makes me think and learn in a way different than everyone else"

Me: "Just the one, right?"
Him: "huh?"
Me: "Denial"
I like antitrust cases like the next man, but this is weak sauce. They built a sharecropping add-on that was always going to live or die at the whim of Taysol and McDonald's, it was never going to last. Whether Taysol put it in writing or not, it doesn't really matter.

I guess their lawyers are having fun billing their hours, though.
For what it's worth you'll still be charged with destruction and/or obstruction even if you warn them.
If you think collective bargaining has happened with corporations, why has pay at all these non union companies skyrocketed in the last five years? You're evidence is showing things are going extremely well and that the market is working wonderfully, especially for software engineers.
All (reversible adiabatic) quantum operators are unitary transformations of a Bloch sphere. (Basically a unit circle with complex amplitude i as the third coordinate.)

How many rotations are needed to form a Church-Turing-Deutsch- complete quantum platform?
big tech hires the same researchers as Philip Morris in the 50s
Yes, I agree with you.

My doubts are:

1. They don't have a negative return. For example, every time the SP500 was negative the Medallion Fund's return was positive by much more. Sometimes x2 or x3. It can happen in the financial world but that it always happens seems strange to me.

2. Renaissance Technologies' public funds are as good as any, with ups and downs. Instead the "secret" one, the Medallion Fund, always positive return.

3. Mystery. Employees can't talk about how they make money. The money is managed internally without having external inputs. Warren Buffett is transparent about everything. For better or for worse, you find his companies where invest, you know his investment philosophy, his mistakes and his victories. Here you find only victories.

4. The financial media constantly praises him but no one has ever questioned him. All speeches and questions are "fantastic team", "mathematics", "quantum strategy". Very generic.

Again, this is just curiosity about Medallion Fund, nothing else.

Is J. Simons a genius? Probably but there is something that doesn't convince me.
On the "humans need prompt engineering too": well, kind of. I hope that we are not all working on the precise verbiage to get the plumber to fix our toilet correctly. There are also actions we expect others to perform without any communication whatsoever. Human actions take place in a social web that includes incentives and accountability as well as expectations on the part of interlocutors around what level of detail is required for communication. Sometimes this very clearly breaks down. But the fact that interpersonal communications sometimes require elaboration or precision doesn't negate the differences between an LLM's outputs and the actions of people who are engaged in active coping with the world around them.
Both can be true. It took long to make it into the specification yes.

But I am certain it was part of the original drafts. Just hard to implement so it got no extra push from the implementation side.
Spam is a problem, chats are another one, IMHO a bigger one.

Every message in a chat, whatever chat, is one less mail sent. That was true in the 80s / 90s with IRC and it's true with WhatsApp, Slack, etc now.
I was obviously being obtuse. But I honestly feel like the attitude that work has to be exciting or meaningful for you to be productive is a bourgeoisie luxury. I get paid well by my employer and therefore I feel a responsibility to be productive for them to an appropriate level.

EDIT: in fact, I feel like I made _that_ mistake in my 20s and 30s - looking to work for too much of the meaning and fulfillment in my life.
Anyone who didn't start during the CRT era, when you couldn't even count on curses support in the terminal.

The "everything is a printer" abstraction started because PDP's that ran V7 Unix at Bell Labs really did use Teletypes for user interaction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleprinter
I just had the reverse problem - gmail decided to stuff half of the mail for 2 days into spam, and I had to spend half an hour manually extracting them back. No idea what happened, most mails were from previously known good addresses. That said, I rarely get spam that's not intercepted nowadays, no more that 1-2 per day.