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Thanks for the detailed response. I'll have to take a look.
*based animal abusing asshole.
if you're looking for more ancient greek pun operating system names, i made a list in https://dernocua.github.io/notes/greek-operating-systems.htm... which reads in part

> TalOS the gift of HefaistOS KholOS to MinOS, KokalOS who gave DaidalOS refuge in KamikOS from MinOS, PegasOS, OrfeOS, AisculapiOS, MinotaurOS, CetOS, AgriOS, EnkeladOS, HippolytOS, SisyphOS, NessOS the son of KentaurOS who slew Herakles the lover of IolaOS and slayer of AntaiOS

sadly theseus is θησεύς, ending in an actual υς rather than the ος of the above examples, so he isn't eligible to have an operating system named after him
There's definitely something to this. What comes to mind is things like tax compliance. It's a moving target, software devs almost universally do not want that domain knowledge and accountants/lawyers almost universally do not want to represent that knowledge in C++.
I think we have passed the threshold for production cost. According to this overview [1] solar was at 1 cent per kwh a few years ago and panels are even cheaper now.

Hydrogen can be created at 80% efficiency, so it seems like we should be able to generate hydrogen for somewhere around 2 cents per kWh once the investment in electrolysers are paid off. Converting the hydrogen back to electricity triples that but even 6 cents is cheaper than nuclear.

Also, you wouldn't need to actually build solar specifically for this purpose. You could have the electrolysers run whenever the market conditions provide cheap electricity for any reason. Windy nights, warm winters, cold summers, economic downtimes, whatever - generate cheap gas to use later.

And again, this infrastructure will never get more expensive in the future. There are no leaking storage sites that have to be sanitized (Asse II), no cracks in reactors that cost billions to fix (France) no Sellafields, Fukushimas or Chernobyls will ever happen related to hydrogen.

If I interpret your question correctly you're basically saying "If nuclear was as cheap as green hydrogen, would I consider nuclear then"? The answer to that is no, I wouldn't, because I think that the orders of magnitude larger risks for unknown costs with nuclear also have to be considered.

Even if nuclear was half as expensive as green hydrogen to operate it would be better to go for hydrogen, and since it seems likely that nuclear is instead the MORE expensive one, the choice should be very easy.

At the very least I think the moment is ripe for a budget the size of a typical nuclear power plant to be spent on making a few large scale hydrogen facilities. Try it out at scale. It will take a few years but far less time than building a new reactor.

[1] https://commercialsolarguy.com/lowest-solar-power-prices-in-...
2024 predictions on the open-source LLM wars
With a modern CPU and DDR5 memory you should be capable of running no slower than 10 billion DOM operations per second in Firefox. Usability is not performance.
You're a techie and can't find legitimate usecases for GenAI? That honestly says more about you than it does GenAI. From coding to chat-with-your-data to all sorts of general data/text transformations, there is so much there.

Don't get me wrong, there are absolutely negative externalities, but if you can't see the useful cases as well then you're deliberately blinding yourself.
> become so desperate they have sought to buy hugely expensive alternative treatments on the internet from outside the UK.

I just checked prices in India, tube of permethrin cream is 2 USD. Pretty insidious!
I'm not a statistician. What is the effect of omitting the highest and lowest performing runs?
So capitalism in practice compared to a perfect democracy where the powerful few handle their power without becoming corrupt? Well obviously the theoretical system wins here, but it sidesteps the biggest problem that people do not handle power well.
We're one step away from being constantly connected to the hive like the Borg.
However if you advertise it in any way using Disney’s trademark expect to be sued and spend millions defending, even if you wouldn’t eventually be found to be infringing (which you won’t because you’ll run out of money long before that question gets in front of a judge or jury).
ContentID maybe?
My office had an actual beta copy of Windows 94. The final release slipped a tiny bit...
How did you translate "replace a bunch of internals" to "with a few modifications"? The guys doing "a few mods" are not the same guys "replacing a bunch of internals".

Besides, I wasn't really talking about a typical family car, but rather a handful of platforms like stuff with LS-family, Coyote blocks, R35's, Mk4 Supras, etc. There's variability even between those, but a gen 2 coyote motor will easily take 900+ crank on the stock internals, just need to swap oil pump gear and crank sprocket gear and something to make that power (turbos/supercharger/nitrous/etc). Swap some lower rotating assembly stuff and you're well into the 1XXX range with sufficient boost.

Also, some of the people I'm thinking of are most certainly NOT usng factory engine blocks, but rather aftermarket blocks. Factory blocks are mostly cast aluminum trash, with a few exceptions.
>Except Tim Cook's Apple focuses much more on process and forget about the content.

I have a feeling that's partially due to how much money a lot of those people (and Apple shareholders) have made under Cook's leadership. The growth has been nothing short of incredible. IIRC Apple shares have grown like 8x or 9x under him (when accounting for inflation).

That said, Apple products no longer really have that magic that they had under Jobs (IMO). That could be because they focus now on processes and operations much more than creative technologies. Besides the watch (which was a natural continuation/evolution after the creation of the iPhone), I can't really think of projects created and developed under Cook that are game-changers or come from left field.

Process people are great in times where you need to focus on doing the same thing, day in day out...or improve on those same things. In other words, operational execution. However, don't ever trust a process person to do any creative or abstract thinking - it's impossible for them. They have tremendous value for certain types of companies at certain key phases of growth. They are "how" people, not "why" people...and certainly not "what if" people.
Yes, but it used to take time to generate and spread.

Now, you can write a script that'll automate the entire process and generate more garbage in 3 hours than the entire online world could in 2002.
It is interesting to see this dynamic playing in music bands, in situations where one person writes the songs, and the others just follow along.

Then the talent gets fed up and leave, leaving a mere "cover band" behind, unable to replicate the magic beyond what an average amateur band could do.
No Good Alone (2023)
You're taking things out of context and commenting on the newly created problem. HN's not the right place for this
This is the inevitable fate of the entire internet if generative AI isn't banned.
I am a little confused what you mean by "detailed geopolitical dynamics" - the paragraph beginning "Zedekiah also chafed under Babylonian rule and revolted in turn" is literally what the Bible story describes! See [1]. Are you referring to something specific?

I agree the presentation of the article was a bit sloppy, but there's evidence from Babylonian records[2] that

1) Judah was a client state of Babylon during Nebuchadnezzar II's reign

2) Jerusalem was sieged in 597BC

3) Afterwards Babylon installed a client king

The Babylonian records are weak but it is consistent with the Hebrew Bible[3] and agrees with the archeological evidence. Sadly we don't have Babylonian records of any second siege of Jerusalem. So it is reasonable to treat the Hebrew Bible story of the second siege as being a plausible treatment of the history, partially validated by the recent archeological evidence.

[1] https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt09b24.htm#1 and https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt09b25.htm#1 for instance

[2] E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebuchadnezzar_Chronicle

[3] https://www.biblica.com/bible/?osis=niv:2%20Kings%2024:10%E2...
that worked. strangely enough.

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yt-dlp.exe --restrict-filenames --trim-filenames 30 --format "bestvideoext=mp4+bestaudioext=m4a/mp4" -i "JQgKhZZyBYg"

Monday, January 1, 2024 10:46:45 AM
[youtube] Extracting URL: JQgKhZZyBYg
[youtube] JQgKhZZyBYg: Downloading webpage
[youtube] JQgKhZZyBYg: Downloading ios player API JSON
[youtube] JQgKhZZyBYg: Downloading android player API JSON
[youtube] JQgKhZZyBYg: Downloading m3u8 information
[info] JQgKhZZyBYg: Downloading 1 format(s): 22
[download] Resuming download at byte 130048
[download] Got error: 0 bytes read, 10462009 more expected. Retrying (1/10)...
[download] Got error: 0 bytes read, 10052978 more expected. Retrying (2/10)...
[download] Got error: 0 bytes read, 10373389 more expected. Retrying (3/10)...
[download] Got error: 0 bytes read, 10107360 more expected. Retrying (4/10)...
[download] Got error: 0 bytes read, 10307771 more expected. Retrying (5/10)...
[download] Got error: 0 bytes read, 10202520 more expected. Retrying (6/10)...
[download] Got error: 0 bytes read, 10455655 more expected. Retrying (7/10)...
[download] Got error: 0 bytes read, 9968301 more expected. Retrying (8/10)...
[download] Got error: 0 bytes read, 10027086 more expected. Retrying (9/10)...
[download] Got error: 0 bytes read, 10392472 more expected. Retrying (10/10)...
[download] Got error: 0 bytes read, 10022086 more expected. Giving up after 10 retries

Monday, January 1, 2024 10:46:51 AM

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yt-dlp.exe "JQgKhZZyBYg"

Monday, January 1, 2024 10:48:03 AM
[youtube] Extracting URL: JQgKhZZyBYg
[youtube] JQgKhZZyBYg: Downloading webpage
[youtube] JQgKhZZyBYg: Downloading ios player API JSON
[youtube] JQgKhZZyBYg: Downloading android player API JSON
[youtube] JQgKhZZyBYg: Downloading m3u8 information
[info] JQgKhZZyBYg: Downloading 1 format(s): 247+251
[download] Destination: Jet crashes at Thunder Over Michigan air show at Willow Run Airport [JQgKhZZyBYg].f247.webm
[download] 100% of 8.37MiB in 00:00:00 at 17.44MiB/s
[download] Destination: Jet crashes at Thunder Over Michigan air show at Willow Run Airport [JQgKhZZyBYg].f251.webm
[download] 100% of 599.52KiB in 00:00:00 at 3.53MiB/s
[Merger] Merging formats into "Jet crashes at Thunder Over Michigan air show at Willow Run Airport [JQgKhZZyBYg].webm"
Deleting original file Jet crashes at Thunder Over Michigan air show at Willow Run Airport [JQgKhZZyBYg].f247.webm (pass -k to keep)
Deleting original file Jet crashes at Thunder Over Michigan air show at Willow Run Airport [JQgKhZZyBYg].f251.webm (pass -k to keep)
Monday, January 1, 2024 10:48:07 AM
std::cout is thread-safe but because of the concatenation-based API parts of the message may interleave. C++23 std::print is safe (and the output doesn't interleave).

See https://vitaut.net/posts/2023/print-in-cpp23/.
Great! This is very helpful, thank you for sharing such insights!
Parody has a much lower bar to hop over. Disney isn’t suing people over mouse rule 34 either (at least not that I’m aware of).
As I'm the subject here, no I'm not an academic but used to work with Web technologies. Quit working with web technologies at the time when a new JS framework was hitting the home page with a promise to make everything better. I quit because I lost my productivity because I got carried away with all this JS stuff and find myself in infinite complexity eating away my time and energy for less than marginal gains on the final product. It was extremely cool but utterly useless.

Now that I'm at the receiving end of the Web based products, i assure you the experience is horrific. I don't even use search engines as much since the AI went mainstream and can't be happier.

Good riddance.

Of course I do enjoy things made with the advanced Web technologies like Wasm, Figma for example. I'm every now and then impressed by some web app that does something I thought not possible before.

However I'm still disgusted by documents that are some images and text loading tons of stuff that don't do anything beyond degrading my experience by slowing down the response time or act weird when interacting.
Oh wow. Sony did actually pay, $65 per person.

It took 7 years though:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OtherOS
There's no need for the crypto-fash comments about government safety nets causing the downfall of the west.

The grandparents barely being kept out of elderly poverty by Social Security aren't the same as the second-adolescence grandparents spending down their 401ks (based on wealth disparity, the former group outweighs the second group).

It's true that grandparents don't help raise grandkids anymore, but the rise of hyper-individualism in the 1950s with the death of multi-generational households is the most obvious root cause of this.

Back in the day a well off family could buy a duplex where a young family could live in one unit while the elderly parents live in the other (allowing both sides to keep their privacy), but the rise of suburbanization and the lack of sensible housing stock make this hard to pull off.
I was making a statement about doing operations like multiply on fp32 digital values from the start, responding directly to your statements 8 comments up. You’re losing your own topics, and you seem to be unable to actually hear or understand what I’m saying for some reason, because you keep repeating your own separate straw man over and over and over. I showed you the definition of exact number and you’re still arguing that it somehow means repeatable when it doesn’t. I see that you’re trying to making a point about digital operations being ‘exactly repeatable’, which is to say: repeatable. I understand what you’re trying to say, I agree that analog values have noise and are not repeatable, and I haven’t argued with that anywhere. It’s incorrect to call the repeatable results of a digital float operation an “exact number”, because despite being repeatable they are in general approximate and not exact. As you do repeatable operations on digital floats, they are no longer exact. With digital float, you can get exactly the wrong answer repeatedly. Exact still has nothing to do with repeatable, no matter how many capital letters you use. It’s you who’s incorrect, you just don’t know it.

> you haven’t given me a legit example of an analog computer in a legit practical application

Hahaha, SMH. I don’t need to prove anything, your assumptions and ignorance of “legit” analog compute applications are your problem not mine. I was trying to let you know they exist. @analog31 just tried to gently let you know too. I’ve listed multiple types of processors in active development and maybe a dozen companies making them, and you’re commenting on the article for one of them. If you think that nothing mentioned in this thread so far is “legit”, then it seems... nevermind. Pretty strong claims for someone who didn’t know that FPAAs exist...
> You implied Wikipedia and encyclopedias used the same methods, which is incorrect.

I just pointed out that Britannica (like Wikipedia) is not a primary source. “Primary source” have a specific meaning and encyclopedias are not primary sources - regardless of the editorial process and the credentials of the authors.

Try citing Britannica in an academic paper and se how well it goes.
> honestly how great was a community to begin with if as the only thing keeping it from becoming a hotbed of fake content is that the users didn't have the tools to fake it.

That's like saying, "how great was your house to begin with if the only thing keeping it from becoming smouldering embers was someone with a can of gasoline and matches?"
The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness (2009) [pdf]
But they have an audio version of the article!
This appears to be some collection of things from many people they have done to make their lives a little more satisfying. Some of them are contradictory like 1 and 3. Some of them for sure will not work for everybody like 12 - I'm doing the complete opposite to get myself going. Some of them are women only like 21. It's an interesting list nonetheless.
Maybe. Still no need for the government to provide such a service to 3rd parties.
The sheer scale of how fast AI can put out content is terrifying.

Think about all the work humanity has thought, written out, drawn, etc.

We can probably create an order of magnitude more than the entire history of humans within a few days/weeks.

This is truly revolutionary. This doesn’t mean what happened in the past wasn’t. Those had profound impacts on human life, again due to the scale of their impact.

But keep in mind those technologies being introduced was very painful for the people at the immediate time, and then slowly got easier and easier. We are the same people that AI is going to be extremely painful on.
The utility of breaking old classically encrypted messages isn't really an existential problem for anyone, and there are no lost great secrets buried in encrypted intercepts that yield disruptive power if they are discovered today or anything like that.

Think of it as a control plane vs. data plane, where you have the state as a control plane, and if data can escape its purview, or worse the data plane can generate control messages that subvert it - you get existential uncertainty and risk. It will never let itself be reduced to a dumb pipe. Encryption represents a limit on the absolute sovereignty of that control plane, so the resources to contain it are a constant need.
> A simple prominent disclaimer can fix that.

Disney can and will allege that the disclaimer fails to prevent confusion and take you to court regardless. And then you have a legal battle to prove that it does “fix that.” A legal battle that will cost you millions of dollars and years of your life, neither of which you will get back even if you win.
It says it only scales to 80 nodes, so sounds like you won't find a mesh to join unless you make it yourself and it can only be people you know.

I want a global mesh network to replace the internet
No problem, thanks for the response! You have a very impressive project as well. Even if I don't switch there is a ton of generally useful things to learn from.
Any insight as to why they exited the movie projector business? I am also pretty sure they will honour any maintain contract?
I jumped head first into meshtastic. Sadly after setting up and 3d printing a case, mounting an external antenna ... No other users in my area. :(
> a lot of these photos lead to for-pay patterns that are also created by AI (or just stolen from actual artists) that won't even approximate what's in the photo (so scams)

We need software tools where anyone can design their own ambitious but reliable designs.

But add to that machines that can create instances of those designs and I can see human crafting getting completely devalued.

We expected AI Spock. We got Robo Leonardo da Vinci.
That watermark detection rights at the end is real sus
That’s not true. Consider the following graph: https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_pr... (source: https://inquisitivebird.substack.com/p/crime-in-the-usa)

62.5% of sentenced prisoners committed violent crimes, which includes 15% for murder and 15.5% rape and sexual assault. All drug offenses put together make up only 12.6%.
Define "severe"

https://econofact.org/the-mystery-of-the-declining-u-s-birth...
One of my favourite youtubers, a well-deserved break.
You are intentionally missing the point because you are upset about some supposed political alignment of the other commenter. In the spirit of the Paul Graham post about taboo I'm going to tell you to take a deep breath, separate logic and emotion, and do better.
How could we possibly know the long term effects of something that doesn't really exist yet? LLMs are not "AI". The people calling it "AI" are the same people who ask full-english-sentence questions to keyword search engines.
french fries operator at a mcdonald's
I have also been writing for the web for over 20 years. This doesn't really mean anything though. That is why measures are all that matters. Bad measures are still monumentally better than no measures at all.

The sad reality is that most people writing for the web today cannot do so without a framework. They have no idea how the layers underneath actually work. If you want to understand performance you must measure for it in multiple different ways and have something meaningful to compare it to. All modern browsers provide fantastic performance measuring tools in their developer tools. Its how I got my OS GUI (in a browser) to execute as fast as within 60ms of page load.
A long time ago I was the superstar in 3 teams, 2 different companies. In the first one, 25 years ago, the management made me the team lead, it worked well. The second case, 10 years ago, the company was a huge corporation but not yet rotten, my manager put me in charge of the rest of the team went well for time time I was there, when I was moved to another team unexpectedly everything crashed and burned (most of the team left the company). In the last case the management did nothing, it was pretty bad, after a while most people were listening to me because they trusted me, but some (career driven) were constantly sabotaging everyone else and it got worse. It was the same corporation going DIE and the E rule was that everybody is equal at all cost, the dumbest idea was the same value as the best idea and everyone was paid the same. We had no above average people since.

The best thing management can do is to listen to Steve Jobs: "the best managers are the great IC who never, ever want to be a manager but decide they have to be a manager because nobody else is going to be able to do as good as jobs as them". [Youtube ID QplyFXgIx7Q].
Getting Woz to design something for Atari he could take credit for was the first free pass.
What struck me was “it’s either keep growing and become a manager or stop and do smaller projects”

As someone who many years back looked at a team of 40 developers I was leading and went “nah, I want to be an IC again” that resonates
Hi gnicholas.

Can you share a little more about your experiences with learning to draw?

How old were you when you were watching Secret City? How much of the show were you able to see or draw along with?

Was there any particular problems/weaknesses with the Secret City drawing that you found made it not very effective?

How old were your children when they started really learning to draw?
What exactly are you talking about? The paper doesn't mention any watermark at all, as far as I can see/search.
> this version has the tugging on tails, but not the picking up and accordioning of the mother, so it's a falsified version

I wondered if that puts the Corridor version in jeopardy in any way, given that the version they have posted was produced many years later. In my few minutes of research, it seems like the answer could be quite complicated and it would depend on whether or not the censorship process exceeds the threshold of originality.

For example, I imagine if Disney had engaged in a significant colorization process of the original footage in the 50s that the resultant colorized footage would still be under copyright today.

I do think that the process of removing footage could be considered a sufficiently creative endeavour. For example, if Kubrick released a re-cut version of Odyssey 5 years after the original, I would not expect the re-cut to enter public domain until 5 years after the original (even if the only difference was removal of certain scenes). If anyone could argue that censoring a film constitutes as an editorial creative process and thereby should be granted copyright protections, it's Disney.
Scientists discover the first new antibiotics in over 60 years using AI