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> I get your point about AMD not wanting to spend money on supporting old hardware, but how do they expect to build a market without a fan base?

Look, I get it. You're right. They do need to work on building their market and they really screwed the pooch on the AI boat. The developer flywheel is hugely important and they missed out on that. That said, we can't expect them to go back in time, but we can keep moving forward. Having enough people making noise about wanting to play with their hardware is certainly a step in the right direction.
I'd fire-up Linqpad, load-in a NuGet package for RSS feed parsing, then do something like `SomeRssLib.LoadFrom( "https://last.fm/yourfeed.rss" ).Select( async e => httpClient.GetAsync( "https://google.com/search?q=" + Uri.EscapeDataString( e["track_title"] ) ) ).StringJoin( resultHtml => "some quick-and-dirty-XML-string-concat-here" ).SomePostfixApplyExt( result => File.WriteAllText( "output.rss", result )`.

...something like that?
Since we are evaluating the ethical side of the creator-creature relationship, there is no need to consider AI in terms of individual nodes. All principles should be non-discriminatory. Also, unlike humans, AI has big potential to modify itself, any of its principles. One must either accept the risks involved or not create a self-aware AI. External mind control of AI is unreliable and unethical.
We’re talking about accessing Apple’s servers, how would that be your own house?
Long before Slack, there was TSO SEND. :-)

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/explorer-for-zos/3.1.1?topic=mes...
> Is it fair to say that alignment is just the task of getting an AI to understand your intentions

To understand and not violate them. In other words, it's about aligning the values the AI uses to guide it's decision procedures, with the humans that are operating it.
Maybe? I'd love to see the use case of this thing but all I can think of is CAD software visualization for professionals who can afford a tool. To change photography it needs a large number of people wanting to take or view photos with it.
I don’t think anyone minds the walled garden anymore. Infact people appreciate the mindless safety and security.
ah yeah you're right, my bad
Pipes was awesome for sure. It fit so nicely into a golden web 2.0 era sort of period where there was still loose open interoperability thanks to prevalent RSS and similar tech. Effective at cobbling together simple things to make simply useful things.

What's with this epic design and work put into this deep dive tho? What an effort from Retool. Suppose maybe just wondering why they didn't do it earlier! Ha
> Intel is releasing a 288-core x86

This made me wonder a couple of things-

What kind of workloads and problems is that best suited for? It’s a lot of cores for a CPU, but for pure math/compute, like with AI training and inference and with graphics, 288 cores is like ~1.5% of the number of threads of a modern GPU, right? Doesn’t it take particular kinds of problems to make a 288 core CPU attractive?

I also wondered if the ratio of the highest core count CPU to GPU has been relatively flat for a while? Which way is it trending- which of CPUs or GPUs are getting more cores faster?
I'm surprised so many people claim they haven't experienced it and I wonder how many have and just don't know.
The notion that encoding/transmitting could be simpler than decoding/receiving is interesting. It reminds me of the way optical drives for many years could write at, say, 48x but read at 8x, such that the majority of time spent was the verification step (if enabled) rather than the burn step. Just speculating, I assume it's because of things like error correction, filtering out noise/degradation. Producing the extra bits that facilitate error correction is one trivial calculation, while actually performing error correction on damaged media is potentially many complex calculations. Yeah?
I believe strongly in "where there is a will, there is a way."

Those kids and hobbyists can't even rent time on high end AMD hardware today. I see that as one piece of the puzzle that I'm personally dedicating my time/resources to resolving.
There is photography as documentation and photography as art.

Photography as art will never be truly changed by new technologies. Shooting film and developing it yourself is by far the most romantic way to practice the art of photography. It is timeless.
Cuds api and language are easy. Nvidia has dozens of cuda offshoot projects that are harder.
Do you have Advanced Data Protection enabled on your Apple ID?

Configuration Profiles can also be a good way to more strongly force certain settings on devices, including that functionality be disabled. They’re how MDM works in most corporate settings.
These were most definitely a scam. They have/had some sort of database of addresses (especially ones where a license had previously been at that address and then had expired) and they just used to pressure people who are at an address that didn’t have a license by sending (very) threatening letters and insisting on coming around for an inspection saying they had detected a TV.

Anecdote 1: My parents-in-law only got a television in the very last years of their life, but long before that they used to occasionally get the threatening letters etc and people coming round saying they had detected a TV. On one memorable occasion my father-in-law was so fed up he insisted on bringing the TV license inspector in the house and took him through an extremely exhaustive list of places where the TV could be, forcing him to check each one. “Perhaps it’s in the toilet cistern? We should check!” <gets TV guy to open the top of the toilet to check whether a TV is somehow hiding inside> “What about in the bread bin! You could probably get a small TV in there.” <forces TV inspector guy to look in the bread bin> etc

Anecdote 2: At one point in my life I rented a flat and didn’t have a TV. I started getting the letters, including some printed on red paper, saying they were going to get bailiffs to come round because they had detected me watching TV using their sooper seekrit special detector van[1] and stating the fines and possible criminal consequences and their determination to prosecute me and bring me to justice. I wrote to them saying they had to put up or shut up - get a court order and come see whether I have a television - and I would welcome seeing them attempt in court to prove I had one.

I’m a strong supporter of public service broadcasting and think the BBC is an amazing deal, but the tactics around TV license enforcement are and always have been really disgraceful.

[1] Clearly impossible since I didn’t have a TV, this was before streaming to devices and in any case at that time my life in the flat comprised me coming home, exhausted, in the very early hours of the morning, going immediately to sleep, waking up a (very) few hours later and dragging my sorry ass back to work. I did nothing other than sleep and shower in that flat. It was a pretty dark period.
Can we all take a moment to reflect how great is HN ? People have launched their software products here and gone on to become wildly successful or industry standards. I think our field is lucky we have a space where we can all enjoy people's successes, get inspired, be sourly or sarcastic (lol), have meaningful discussions and its all done with Lisp, HTML tables, an unstyled "add comment" button (please don't change) and a bunch of bare-metal servers which sometimes catch fire along with the discussions. Its quite wonderful.
I know they're all marketing numbers. My point stands that everyone is watching to see how they compete, because their fab tech has been playing catch up.
Not right now. Sounds like they are working on lenses that could one day work with colored light for cameras. Maybe after that, they could be used for specials?
Is it also a vehicle to promote Zero Gravity Factory?
Thanks for you kinds words!

Yes I know the price point is a bit high. There are a couple of optimization's I will do to improve on that.

This should then also improve the speed quite a bit.
Yea but we don’t know how many failed attempts there were that got stuck at zero. We only know our one existence. Could be trillions of dead universes before ours.
How many guards were there, and how many were "interfered with" (as you put it)?

We also have the real-life Nazi Germany experience, where 1000's of previously-normal people did unspeakable things. And of course the Japanese behavior in China before that. You might call these "natural experiments."

With human social behavior it's just not possible to have a rigorously controlled experiment. Nor can you ever end up with rock-solid conclusions similar to those in physics. Even more recent behavioral economics experiments are full of artificial situations, like $10 "bets" because you can't use serious sums. All you can say about critiques of SPE is "compared to what?"
Again, it's easy to imagine answers to these questions and to grasp what is happening. Instead people choose to play the sport of tearing things down, no matter the effect on the people involved, Mozilla, the open web, etc.
I think most code coverage analysis tools are smart enough to consider flow control statements. At least when it comes to C# ones.
Ask HN: How to build a hardware startup as a software guy?
I'm aware that my question is quite broad, but I've been wanting to build and sell hardware (or at least integrated software). I know just the basics of hardware / electrical / electronics. How to proceed?
Say I have a friend in Hong Kong, Russia, the US or wherever. I can send them $10k in Monero. Whatever laws the local country may or may not have mean nothing - they can't detect the transfer and they can't stop it or roll it back even if they could detect it.

We don't know exactly what the value of being able to do that is, but it is not something that has ever been possible before and it is a concrete action that would help a friend. So it definitely has some value.
My life archive is available to my heirs and successors as long as they know the LUKS password for any of the numerous storage devices I leave behind. It’s risky though — the passwords aren’t known to them yet and one logistical slip up means the disk may be unusable. That is, however, until some point in the future when they will have a computer powerful enough to just break the key and feast upon my cat photos, tax returns, and other exciting ephemera.

Similarly my encrypted internet traffic might be private today but if it’s being logged then it’s only a matter of time before it will be completely visible to the authorities. I probably average ~10Mbps of traffic which is ~50TB/year, or $100 of storage. You could cut that price by 10% if you blacklisted the Netflix traffic, and drop it to 1% if you whitelisted only the email and IM traffic.

Either way, one day they’ll know everything.
I guess I should also have told the story about the time I had thrown together some quick tables for a yard sale and after the yard sale he decided they would make a great stage, and was showing off in front of his friend, standing on the table. He says "I am walking on the ta..." but gets cut off as the table collapses.

So not everything he says is wisdom beyond his years...
Socially, nobody would care. Apparently China even grants marriage visas for same-sex couples, although locally it's not really possible to get married yet. But the vast majority of countries still have legal opposition to it so China isn't unique in that sense, although China is making clear changes towards by granting couples various legal benefits similar to typical marriages. It's ahead of some European countries.

Throughout east Asia, people really just do not care what others outside their family do and don't get upset about it. But because it's none of their concern, basically nobody bothers to march in the streets for it, and governments are slow to push for social change.
> You're assuming the spacecraft isn't receiving the commands.

I didn't say that. The article even mentions that they feel the spacecraft is receiving and processing the commands. There's just no response.

The article title and intro are correct. For all intents and purposes, the spacecraft has stopped communicating. Broke down, used in the intro, is better than stopped. Discussing this is pedantic and pointless, which is why the guidelines state not to make comments like the original one. As we can all see. It has led nowhere interesting.

And you and everyone keep bouncing around all these side definitions. The definition of communication between earth and a spacecraft like Voyager 1 and 2 is implied and assumed to be standard two-way communication.

> It takes far less power to receive than it does to transmit, so it would be no wonder if the spacecraft were still receiving commands but unable to send responses.

I don't follow. The spacecraft is known to still be transmitting a signal.
More importantly, the fees collected directly fund the public broadcaster.

Slovakia had a similar system, then the politicians decided to cancel the fees and make it so the public broadcaster is funded out of ministry of culture budget instead.

Now it's a year later and surprise, surprise, the new government which has gripes with the press has just cut the public broadcaster budget by 33%. If it was still funded by “tv licences” it would be much harder to do that.
I'm glad with community feedback and research you were able to bolster your driver!
Basically a throwaway comment that is somewhat off topic, but your current Github README is very "inside baseball." I think it would be worth a one-sentence introduction to what your library can do (allows an app to incorporate a database, and it also has compatibility with a very popular library called SQLite, etc), then to tout the benefits of not requiring CGO, etc.
Yaml has a lot of problems, this is not one of them.

This more shows that one shouldn’t be using string templating to create data structures in the first place.
Photography as art is absolutely changed by new technologies.

Firstly, you mention film but film itself is technology that greatly advanced throughout its life and enabled incredibly different forms of art.

Secondly, technology like digital sensors have allowed for millions of people to make expressions of art that would not have been possible otherwise.

Shooting film and developing it is romantic to some. But there’s nothing absolute about it.
A TV license is/was a Hobson's choice, and an unnecessary one that could've been funded by a tiny tax on corporate profits for the commonwealth of a better society.

In the interests of taxing the people with the least money in society, bathrooms were/are also often for-profit. My mother and aunt recounted sliding under stall partitions to dodge this tax on basic human needs.
In a funny way, it proves the point about people with power being corrupted because the researches were the ones with power and abused it in order to generate a fake study to gain notoriety for themselves perhaps.
> This equation has solutions for given X where X is an improvement, so as long as there is any improvement, it's always true waiting to start large enough computations will be faster.

Though this does assume that X is a constant, or at least bounded below by a constant. If hardware performance improved up to an asymptote, then there would still be nonzero improvement, but it might not be enough for waiting to ever be worth it.
From the 2023 Octoverse report[1], "In 2023, Shell and Hashicorp Configuration Language (HCL) once again emerged as top languages across open source projects, indicating that operations and IaC work are gaining prominence in the open source space." The accompanying chart shows it as #11, ranking above Dart, Kotlin, and Ruby.

I think this is a case where the citation bears out the claim, and there's no need for Mitchell to feel embarrassment.

[1]: https://github.blog/2023-11-08-the-state-of-open-source-and-...
My father has an iPhone 8 which did not receive the latest iOS update. I can iMessage him just fine.

There are millions of people out there running old iPhones like that. If Apple just decided to cut them all off iMessage they would do far more damage to their brand than Beeper could possibly manage.
It's not all, or even mostly what other people do that limits us. It's popular to claim powerlessness, but the social acceptability won't make the consequences any better.
Garbage in. Garbage out. It's useless unless it can provide a functional mathematical proof of correctness or, at the least, provide a process by with it's fictional composition can be proven or disproven.
Why is it always that people who bleet about mindless sheep who do so by denigrating anyone who chooses anything other than their own preferences.
Do you think it is perhaps somewhat elitist to suggest that photography that does not involve developing on film is somehow less artistic?
Orbit means going very fast around something in a circular motion. These particles are heading directly streaming out from the sun, not going round it.

As I understand it it’s where these particles reach equilibrium with the stellar medium. The sun is like a comet at a large enough scale, with a long tail of particles as it moves through the galaxy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliosphere
> And indeed, you can't actually turn off yearly auto-renew until the last month of any year

This was conspicuously missing from the article, and is by far the most egregious behavior. Over the years I have personally dealt with it several times, and it’s so disgusting.

Like if you look at the words in print it’s almost hard to make them compute because the phrase seems at odds with itself, “they do not allow you to disable auto-renew until the final month of your subscription.”
I know of no messaging platform using remote attestation for antispam - and, as far as those platforms continue to support web registration, they can't use remote attestation[0]. Even if they could, it wouldn't help. Remote attestation verifies that your client code is running without modification. What you care about with spam is keeping the spammers from registering large numbers of unrelated accounts, which doesn't require modifying the client at all.

I will give you that remote attestation does help anticheat. However, the current state of anticheat in games is so invasive now that you have to install special kernel drivers, and that kernel has to be on bare metal (no hypervisors allowed). This only happened because a specific genre of fast-twitch first person shooter has a lot of closet cheating going on. But it also gets blindly applied to things like rhythm games that absolutely do not need kernel-level anticheat[1]. So every game gets more invasive because of one hyper-competitive game genre triggering an anticheat arms race.

[0] Or at least, for as long as Web Environment Integrity stays dead

[1] Altering the client isn't even the most common way of cheating rhythm game records. For example, a good chunk of the rules for, say, Pump It Up's online leaderboards is "don't have other players play on your A.M.Pass" and "don't hook up a hand controller onto an online cab". Neither of which would be stopped by an anticheat system (and yes, PIU being an arcade rhythm game, there's shitton of encryption on it).
Pretty sure you’re mixing up Beeper Cloud with Beeper Mini.

Beeper Mini is based on pypush, which they’ve bought, and is clearly using spoofed data in the data.plist[0].

I’ve searched, but I’ve found no mention of them purchasing Mac Minis en masse to support the $2/mo Beeper Mini customer’s texting habits.

Besides, it wouldn’t make sense anyway because they used to tout you didn’t need an Apple ID and instead could use your phone number, and non-iPhone IDs don’t allow for iMessage activation on phone numbers, only email addresses.

0: https://github.com/JJTech0130/pypush/blob/main/emulated/data...
There's a map editor included if you add "editor" to the command line arguments. With the source and the editor, it seems feasible that a version of this could be created that doesn't get zapped by Nintendo. Curious to see what happens!
On most plans in the US, unlimited texting is the only option, and there is no differentiation between SMS and MMS. It's all free with your plan.
there is an entire hobby for adults putting together random dumpstered parts/whatever they could scrounge up cheap too, google 'homelab' and thank me later ;)

(I get your point though, I agree, it's very important for kids, especially in a world of increasingly walled gardens. A ton of the poorer world also makes do with whatever - X79 and X99 poverty builds are a real thing even today, because they're still a viable platform and china has cranked out cheap off-brand boards with resoldered chipsets. good workstation/server boards are <$200, and you can get a decent cpu for $50 or so, and memory for $20 a 32GB stick, it still is a relatively high-value thing for the capabilities it offers, if you need more than a normal consumer system.)
It's nice to stay friends with people but at the end of the day you're not a charity. If you aren't being paid and your heart isn't in it just make a plan to leave sooner rather than later.

It'll damage your reputation if you're not open with investors (ie raise then leave) which means you'd have to raise, stick it out another year or so then leave which is all going to cost you in time, money and motivation. But a year down the line they'll be looking to raise again so you'll just keep kicking the can down the road.

Things happen in business. If it's a good idea your co-founder should have no problem finding someone else. If they struggle though, that's not your problem and you don't need to wait for them to do so. Just discuss with them, give notice and ramp down over a month or so as a courtesy.

Your co-founder ought to raise after finding a replacement, with a dedicated team instead of one where an exec wants to leave. Raising now will reflect badly on all of you and reduce your odds of success anyway if your heart isn't in it.

Most startups fail, so I'd prioritise happiness and future investor relations over those with a co-founder tbh. As long as you act professionally (ie give notice you're leaving) that's all anyone can reasonably ask.

This is like pulling a plaster off. Better to be quick and get it over with instead of dragging it out.
I'm not sure how universal that is, but it doesn't really matter when data plans are almost always unlimited. After all, iMessage also goes through cellular data.
I'm arguing that the crux of the issue is a lot more than just "why don't they use something else ?" The same way you see value in iMessage, other users also see value in iMessage. You may want them to go away, but to my eyes that's the same weight as other users wanting to be there. I'll be standing in the corner with the popcorn to see how it turns out.

On what is paid and what is free, Beeper mini is free, iMessage is free (as we've learned from the whole saga, you don't even need an icloud account). Using someone else's public facing API without consent is rude, but hey, our whole industry started with kits to plug into the AT&T network with unauthorized material, and as of now no money is changing hands.
+1 to Alconox. That stuff is just amazingly effective. A little goes a long way, so if you buy a container, it can last you a long time.
This is an argument for the logical impossibility of humans visiting the moon, or building the Internet. It's trivially falsified by simple observation, and the trick is figuring out the flaw.

This argument fails to account for the steady accumulation of factual knowledge across generations: a human born today is simply more complex than humans of the past because of our inherited knowledge. And so will AI born of future humans, and AI will itself continue accumulating and perpetuating knowledge.