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> If that’s true why didn’t he just implement it?

Simple answer: most of the things he mentions haven't been invented yet. At least in terms of computation. Or some parts have been built, but not to sufficient degrees and most don't have bridges for what's being proposed.

I do agree that the title is arrogant, but I'd say so is this comment. There's absolutely nothing wrong with people proposing systems, detailing them out, and publishing (communicating to peers. Idk if blog, paper, whatever, it's all the same in the end). We live in a world that is incredibly complex and we have high rates of specialization. I understand that we code a lot and that means we dip our fingers in a lot of pies, but that doesn't mean we're experts in everything. The context does matter, and the context is that this is a proposal. The other context is, this is pretty fucking hard. If it seems simple, that's because it was communicated well or you simplified what he said. Another alternative is that you're right, which if so please implement it and write a paper, it'll be quite useful to the community as there are a lot of people suggesting quite similar ideas to this. Ruling out what doesn't work is pretty much how science works (which is why I find it absurd that we use and protect a system that disincentivizes communicating negative results).

It's also worth mentioning that if you go to the author's about page[0] that you'll see that he has a video lecture where he discusses this and literally says that he's building it. So... he is? Just not in secret.

Edit: I'll add that several of the ideas here are abstract. I thought I'd clarify this around the "not invented yet" part. So the work he's doing and effectively asking for help with (which is why you put this out) is to get higher resolution on these ideas. Which, criticism is helpful in doing that. But criticism is not just complaints, it is more specific and a clear point of improvement can be drawn from criticism. If you've ever submitted a paper to a journal/conference, you're probably familiar with how Reviewer 2 just makes complaints that aren't addressable and can leave you more confused asking what paper they read. Those are complaints, not critiques.

[0] https://aithought.com/about/
I would argue - keep the bureaucracy, work on the process, cut the middle men (politicians) and extract all the value you can from every non-zero sum game using technology to increase co-operation.

But yea, I was joking :)
The only one of those that I do is be childless, and I have to say I don't really get why that's in with the rest.
Was reneging on CentOS 8's support cycle what led to that Red Hat developer for individuals license that allows 16 hosts? I haven't gotten a good sense of if they introduced that to placate some people or if they had planned on it.
Starship, Blue Origin's upcoming heavy-lift rocket New Glenn, and United Launch Alliance's upcoming heavy-lift rocket Vulcan, are all powered by methane and oxygen.
starship uses methalox, a combination of methane and oxygen. I'm far from an expert, but my understanding is the methane comes from refining LNG.
Because some people pay extra for the eBook + hardcopy combo (or buy the eBook and hardcopy separately). From a publisher's perspective, why leave that money on the table?
You've got that backwards. When you need to get real shit done you use languages that have a proper type system that eliminates all possibility of exceptions. Given a sufficiently advanced compiler, the absence of exceptions can be proven at compile time.

Letting your program enter into an undefined state where it could wreak all kinds of havoc without anyone realizing beforehand is only acceptable in low-rung "webshit" development.
I have often thought about creating an everything app for myself. Do you have it as a desktop app, or is it a web app you host somewhere? Would love to read a blog post about it if you have one or would like to write one.
I live in the world of my own imagination. Everything I say should be taken with a grain of salt, mixed with two eggs, 1 cup of flour, 1 cup of corn meal, 1&3/4s cup of buttermilk and 1/4 cup of melted butter, blended together, allowed to rest for 10 minutes and baked in a pre-heated and pre-buttered cast iron skillet at 375 degrees for 25 minutes.
> […] but nobody makes tiny pickups like they did in the 80s/90s.

The Japanese do!

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kei_truck

:)
> If you're getting pushback on this, consider that this may say more about your social circle.

It can’t be the multi-trillion-dollar company that’s terrible, it must always be the people in your life.
Cleantech startups that didn't survive to see 2024
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Google posted almost $60B profit in 2022.

Samsung posted $3.2B profit in Q4 2022. Extrapolate that to $12.8B yearly. And they're one of several Android device makers, with about 1/3 of that market share. Apparently Samsungs profits fell dramatically in 2023 because just over half of their business is structured towards memory chips, and they have too much inventory and not enough demand. Meanwhile, Apple in-housed their CPU design and their new chips are crushing it.

Are these numbers not big enough to qualify as a "slice"?

> I feel like there must be anti-competitive barriers somewhere

That's not a very compelling argument. By all means look for them, but show results, not hypotheticals alone.

It could also be that Apple is just competing much better, and each X gained per year leads to X+n gains the next year, compounding. They're vertically integrated from end user software services to OSes to devices to ISA's, and they have decades of experience in each. You don't just go out and raise a series A and knock them out of the lead.
> not having a tax residence anywhere saves me a lot of money on taxes

Care to elaborate how you can legally not have any tax residency and yet still be able to work?
The US has the largest rail network in the world (for now). It’s hugely dominated by freight.

It’s not for lack of rail lines we don’t have good passenger service it’s a priority and preference issue.

If you got a fast train between Indianapolis and Cleveland what would you do with it? Neither has reasonable public transit and aren’t dense cities that are good for walking. They also are only 4.5 hours away from each other by car, something residents of both largely own.
Epic is in fact not doing just fine charging 12%.

https://www.techspot.com/news/100767-after-almost-five-years...
wut?

i'm not even sure what your argument is:

- some people have tried and failed, so anyone else who tries is grandiose?

- anyone who ventures beyond streetlights is spouting hyperbolic nonsense?

and why: "creating claims in the hope that others are impressed"; rather than communicating ideas in the hopes of continuing a conversation?

- why didn't they just build it? eh, cause writing it up is the first step/ limit of budget/ project scope/ overall skill set/ etc

what a toxic take on the effort and courage required to explore and refine new perspectives on this important (and undoubtedly controversial) space

f###
I believe that already happens every September in North Nevada...
> WHY would a third party come up with the best possible standard between these two (as well as maintaining it!) that they wouldn't then be compensated for?

This is the easiest one to solve, because it's not that expensive to make a decent messaging standard (Open Whisper Systems was very small, for example; solitary individuals have done it in other cases). It's not a matter of getting someone to do the work.

It's that messaging systems have a network effect, so when one comes as the default on a device with a billion users, it has a big network regardless of whether or not a competing protocol might be just as good. And then they want to lock competitors out of that network effect, which is an antitrust issue, and so here we are.
Agreeing on this one. State should sell any kind of addictive substance, which would immediately yield benefits:

1. (Large parts of) Funding of organized crime would dry up and the state would get extra income via tax

2. Addicts know they can get their fix and hence can take up regular work

3. Substances would be cleaner and thus safer for consumption (easing the burden of the health care system)

Not saying that there are no downsides to this, but the downsides have to be weighed against the upsides and in my book the upsides outweigh the downsides.
Is it a problem? Why, exactly?

Humans are "meant to"? By whom?

You should keep in mind that stigmatization and criminalization of drug use is a very recent invention. Recorded psychedelic drug use goes back many thousands of years, if not more.
> The obvious example are Macs: they haven’t had hard disk LEDs for a really long time, and since the M1, they are silent and cold too.

And if the fans on your MacBook Pro do happen to spin up when you hit ‘run’ you know you’ve made something at least O(n^3)
And this works with every existing Python project out there? What about `requirements.txt` projects?
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It is an exceptionally misleading headline. ARPA-H seems to mostly be justifying their budget with the cancer moonshot initiative, they also fund a bunch of different health projects.

https://arpa-h.gov/research-and-funding/programs

https://arpa-h.gov/sites/default/files/2023-10/ARPA-H_FY_202...

Edit: typo
A sky pirate's life is full of adventure.
And then what? People sit around making animated videos, all of which are completely interchangeable because they're made at zero budget with the exact same technology? Great. Can't wait to ignore all of that stuff just like we ignore the existing low-quality garbage that's already out there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law (May he rest in peace.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski#Zawinski's_Law

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law

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

I wonder if this phenomenon can be generalized under one law, because clearly it pops up anywhere humans are concerned.
I'd like to turn this off.

I'm not paying OpenAI for a subscription so it does web searches.

If I want to do web searches I'll use Google.

In the meantime I have switched back to ChatGPT 3.5 which, in so many ways, is faster and more willing to do as it is asked.
It is also a great book. The Cohen brothers adapted it masterfully, as they tend to do (see also: True Grit and Oh Brother Where Art Thou). Overall it's extremely similar to the movie, but it's a short read so well worth it if you enjoyed the movie and enjoy reading for fun.

Interestingly, Cormac McCarthy originally wrote No Country as a screenplay in the 1980's and went all over Hollywood trying to pitch it, only to be told things like "that will never work as a movie." Eventually he gave up, and later he adapted the screenplay into a novel (published in 2005). Then Cohen brothers take interest, and then they readapt it back into the screenplay for their film.
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> Is there a reason you split IoT stuff off of the guest network?

I'd do it so that I could more easily prevent the IoT stuff from phoning home.
Tangentially: The reason Windows is more popular than Linux is because of momentum / existing familiarity and because Microsoft employees are paid to do the annoying work needed to finish that last 5% of the user experience.

As we approach the entire OS being accessible and controllable through a voice interface / LLM, well, that's pretty fun and sexy and is something that open source contributors are more willing to work on. If the Windows interface is "just talk to the computer", and the Linux interface is "just talk to the computer", why wouldn't people switch to Linux? If Grandma can use Linux as well as Windows, why not use Linux?

Sometimes it feels like were converging on AGI faster than we are a universal GUI library.

(Insert joke about the year of Linux.)
Given the general hostility on HN towards ATC, General Aviation, county airports and old planes you can safely presume all those future planes will be using autopilots only. Because we sure as hell won’t have any new humans qualified to operate the machinery.

Just imagine that automated future. MCAS everywhere! We should start the debate now which language all that automation should be written.
I'm not sure why you weighed in on the subject then, other than to advance your own personal preference. At least, I mistook it as an objection to Rocky Linux's very existence. As long as what they're doing is legal, then let them be. Each distribution will rise and fall based on the value it provides.
Me too, but you responded to an arrogant claim with a naive one (see my other comment). Please do critique their work, but don't bash it. Point to specific things rather than just throwing something out outright. Just bashing turns the comment section into noise and HN isn't trying to be reddit.
The Greek embrace of Alexander the Great and Macedonia is amusing, when one remembers how violently the Greeks of his day resented him, and how barbarous some of them said the Macedonians were.
Are you my parents? The things Obama still get blamed at is insane. I'm not a huge fan of Obama, Trump, or Biden. There are certainly things to blame them on, but every little thing like gas prices is just ridiculous. The office of the President wields a lot of power, but they're not in charge of everything.
It’s right there in the first sentence of the Wikipedia article. Credits did go to him. The film was produced by Walt Disney Studios.
Am I going to give someone a disease if I leave a needle out?

Am I going to start attacking people who are just drinking coffee while having a business meeting (literally happened to me, dude ran at me and pushed me and then ran away while screaming)?

I really don’t understand how you don’t get that being high on certain drugs and being really harmful to other people is comparable to a video game addict who at worst would just stay in their room and smell bad?

Are you trolling? Anyway I said my piece above, I guess people like you and me will always contend with each other because I guess some people are okay and maybe want to see more of the current situation in tenderloin, civic center, etc.

Cheers!
It is a good idea. What do you suggest that I should write in the README.md file? (Many things are written in the Specification file.)
I can also recommend Transport Fever 2 if "train-centric logistics management game with a model railway aesthetic and precise control over lines and vehicles" appeals to you.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1066780/Transport_Fever_2...
I don't think anyone else wants to make the bet that they could take a sufficient slice out of that pie to make the gamble pay off, given Apple's significant lead, and ~all of the likely-competitor tech companies with enough capital & expertise to try having cultures and existing lines of business that run contrary to such an attempt.

How's Google going to credibly do that, especially without going wildly into monopolist territory by freezing out ad & spying competitors while surely still allowing their own? Why would they when getting more eyes and ears on "their users" and defending against a rise of platforms that might hinder them was the point of not just developing Android, but making it free so that others would stop trying to do their own thing?

Microsoft could maybe try, but is running fast the other direction instead, probably for similar reasons of wanting to grab that sweet, sweet data (gotta feed LLMs, now; more reason than ever!)

To viably compete you need:

1) Software that actually works really really well (perfectly? Not even close. Wildly above the median in the world of consumer software, even from big vendors? Oh my, yes). Lots, and lots, and lots of such software. So very much. Operating systems, server-side systems of several kinds, an "office" suite, advanced camera-related software, mapping software, utilities galore (things like Preview and Digital Color Meter are great and are absolutely part of Apple's "moat")—maybe even a browser, if you want to approach things like Apple's real-world-use battery life on MacBooks. So much software. And it'll need to all work together well enough not to look pathetic next to the relatively-excellent integration that Apple's stuff has.

2) You're gonna have to have tight integration with probably-custom hardware across several fairly-different product lines to achieve a similar quality level on #1, and to approach their levels of profitability. That's a huge investment, and hard. Your organization needs to be able to S-rank procurement, logistics, packaging, and hardware design on some balance of a functional and aesthetic level—at least more often than not.

3) You're gonna need to be able to play the "privacy defender" card and not have your pants immediately combust—whatever you think of Apple's credibility on this, it's surely well above the other tech giants. That also means forgoing or abandoning other opportunities at income (Apple's tentative move into ads is... worrisome, for this reason)
> Why not build parallel tracks, but with the same gauge?

Jevon's paradox [1] probably. The most profitable part of the rail system will grow to crowd out and interfere with the rest. By keeping it different gauges, they all operate independent of each other's incentives.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
I wonder if they just pasted their recipe into ChatGPT and asked “how can I make this taste better?”
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Yes, and there are techniques that get it closer than naive approaches, like quantization aware training.
That's interesting to read. I recently visited the Netherlands on vacation and one of the things I was most impressed by was the train service. I came away from an excellent opinion of NS, but I'd probably chalk that down to my extensive experience with Portugal's own national train service which is an absolute clown show on rails.
It’s pretty wild lol. I think they might be trolling.
...? For such a strong opinion, you didn't include any examples of why you and your circle of friends feel this way about the movie.
I really appreciate the simplicity and clarity of your call to action.

I'm reminded of a bit from Ursula K. Le Guin that I have always found quite poignant:

“The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.”
In NYC we actually have a bunch of yard capacity that is completely underground, and then a bunch of other yards that are covered (like condos built on top). Typically the snow service plans involves stacking as many trainsets as possible on the express tracks, while service runs on the local tracks. There are a ton of extra express tracks on the network (because the IND had what appears to be unlimited money when building their system), so capacity doesn't suffer a ton.

Honestly, in the 12 years I've lived in NYC, there have really only been 2 or 3 nasty snowstorms. Generally things ran OK except the one time Cuomo freaked out. (Hurricane Sandy was pretty nasty, of course. Rain and storm surge are much worse than snow here.)
Time to coin a new word - enossification - like enshittification - which I came across here recently, but without the negative connotation of the latter.
I will also add the mentality of choosing to allow or deny access to your service for millions of IP addresses at a time based on some ill-defined rule or based on the service operator's whim is EXACTLY the same mentality that lead us to the current difficulty of running self-hosted email/outgoing SMTP servers.

"Oh because your dynamic IP address was assigned to and used by shady guys 2 years ago, now you cannot access my website, or all your emails will be flagged as spam."

Don't do that people.
That's only the next best option in the very short term. Boeing will suffer significant damage if there's another Max fiasco - more than they did from the first one. Probably much more.

If your company can't build safe planes, the real "next best option" is to fix your company.
A jailbreak is not something Apple (or whoever) allows, it's a (serious) security vulnerability being exploited to gain root level permissions on the device and then circumvent whatever checks are in place. These are things that should be fixed. It's also a cat and mouse game that is always changing.

> Does Apple have something like a "key" that would allow you to just run arbitrary software on the device? Is it something they would have to build, support, and maintain? I'm guessing this isn't a problem on Android and you can run whatever you want.

Not sure about the specifics of Apple's architecture (as it's also undocumented), but most modern secure boot systems have a hardware public key store (TPM) that any boot binaries must be signed with. Apple would closely guard those keys, and without them (and without security flaws), it is impossible to boot other code. Once you get a bit further along into the boot process, the architecture gets much more complicated as far as actually running apps, but it's all predicated on that secure boot key. Such a key store is probably possible to change, but Apple doesn't give any access to it from the userland, so users are unable to do so. It's also possible to make such a verification completely unchangeable in hardware; not sure if Apple may do it this way.

An open system would look something like UEFI secure boot, where the owner of the system can manage the keys in that hardware key store, to the extent of removing the manufacturer's keys entirely (which I think is also an important ability - what if I don't want Apple to be trusted on my device?). From there you can patch the OS to allow other code to run, though preferably this is something that would also be opened up explicitly.

Yes, it will require intentionally designing those capabilities into the products, but most likely it's not a significant architectural change, just a matter of giving users access to change the keys in the hardware they own.
Yes, I can see that becoming the case at some point. For the past decade (the time we've had EVs) and even today, it's not though (at least around here). So EV ownership is still a daily logistical exercise.
Not really. It's just heavily used and so the faults are very obvious, and we Germans are extremely quick to complain. Objectively there's not much of a difference and for almost all European countries it's complaint at a high level[1]

Of course Stuttgart 21 is objectively a mess but Germany is big, there's more than just a handful of engineering projects at any given time. We brought a pretty substantial amount of LNG capacity online in just two years but that never gets any press compared to the latest airport chaos.

[1]https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd....
I think the US has a lot of property crime. Japan doesn't have a social credit system but people there don't trash vending machines the way we do so they have a lot of them

https://arigatojapan.co.jp/japans-unique-vending-machine-cul...

on the other hand we got this bad boy

https://www.telephonecollectors.info/index.php/browse/docume...

which was almost indestructible. (Back in the roaring 90's I saw a black man tear one out of an exterior wall somewhere in the West 50's in NYC)