skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the early days of Twilio, carriers laughed at what we were doing. It didn't help that most of the people at Twilio pre-2014 didn't speak much "telecom." But to your point, it was tough to rely on these carriers who thought Twilio would be gone in a few years so they didn't put much stock in ensuring the infrastructure was redundant and robust.

I was on several calls with providers begging them to put us on a more robust network. Especially in years when there was an election. In those early years, we had one customer doing more minutes than our entire customer base. In fact, at an early Twiliocon (pre-Signal) John and Jeff had to help build out an entirely separate environment for them because it was dragging everyone else down.

My point is that the early days were definitely the "Draw the Owl" days. We were figuring out things on the fly. Carriers were dubious and it was tough to get things working consistently. However, by 2015 those same carriers were developing APIs of their own.

Twilio changed the game for the telecommunications industry. Two years before joining Twilio I was putting in large-scale Avaya systems. The fact that I wrote four lines of code to make a phone ring blew my mind. Twilio and Jeff created something special. It's sad to see his run come to an end, but every company needs to adapt to the changing times. This is just Twilio's time to adapt.
>There are over a billion people that don't eat meat by choice on the planet and another billion plus that have low access to animal protein.

That's not evidence that they're healthier for it.
It may be a kind of 'race' between resource limits on the one hand, and technological solutions on the other hand.

Problem is: those resource limits are essentially fixed. There's only so much greenhouses gasses we can put in the atmosphere before wreaking havoc on the climate. No technology will give us a 2x or 10x GHG budget. Similar story with energy, minerals, metals & so on.

Technology solutions may come. Or not. But you can't be sure that for any problem x, some tech y will be developed to solve it.

And if it does: all you've done is move the goalposts, and a while later you're back at the same problem. For example the green revolution allowed this world to feed many more mouths. So population exploded, and now we're back to the same problem, except with 8..10 vs. 1..2B mouths to feed.

Techno-optimists lean too much on those technology fixes to appear (and in time!), imho. A more realistic approach is to start with what's currently possible (or what seems realistic near-future). Then if new technology appears, it'll make the problem easier. Just don't count on it.
Citation for neural
networks being universal approximators (able to approximate any function): https://www.deep-mind.org/2023/03/26/the-universal-approxima... . I don't have a citation for the human brain, but if it's not then that would make it less powerful than an LLM, mathematically speaking.

If human consciousness can be modelled as mathematical function (which it can if we don't assume anything supernatural), then it can potentially be approximated to an arbitrarily high degree by an LLM.
This doesn't make sense.

Most strip mall opticians don't grind the glass themselves. Measurements are taken and sent to a specialist facility.

On the other hand, how much training does the Apple Genius fitting your headset receive?
The first link doesn't say anything about co2 at all. It talks about some inefficiencies. This doesn't mean its a bad choice and there are not many alternatives anyway. Not everyone wants an infrared based heating system or a air basesd (which would also work with a heat pump, air to air).

The second link is an interview were there is already a counter video. Rieck does not verify all sources and interviews a broad spectrum of people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZS9HzuQck8&ab_channel=Prof....

Also, just food for thought: If one unit of gas has one 1kWh energy, a heat pump can make 3-4kWh out of it (You are following right?).

And panic decisions: ITs very critical that you can consume energy and not just oil or gas because in 5-15 years, the co2 tax for gas and oil will be higher and you will still only be able to consume those.

The bad decision is to do nothing or to renew your oil/gas burner.

The good decision is heat pumps, infrared whatever you like and doesn't consume oil/gas or can be easily switched.

Btw. investing now in germany in PV and a heat pump (for owners of houses) is with a high chance the longterm cheaper solution overall.
Major "Broomshakalaka" vibes
> There are various way this can be solved. We have modern encryption that could make this far, far safer then it is today. We have methods from data leaking. We have process to only allow data to be decrypted if required.

There are not. You cannot solve a social problem with a technical solution. If the data exists, it can and likely will be used.

> This highlights a complete failure on multiple levels and an inability to critically think about the problem space. How much time was spent implementing a system that under most circumstances where it would be needed would render itself entirely useless?

I was responding in particular to this. It does not highlight an inability to think critically unless you value privacy at zero and only look at these recordings as a technical problem. Under most circumstances when it's needed this system has functioned exactly as designed. You read about the failures because they are the exception. Believing that CVRs as-designed fail under "most circumstances" would be a lack of critical thought to me. I was limiting my scope to this statement.

I would actually agree with you in general if for not that comment. It simply means we disagree. But it surely does not mean no one has thought critically about this subject when it was introduced or since.
is that you, George Hu?
Fish management doesn't really require global cooperation. It does require some sacrifice. Where I live 100 years ago herring spawn covered nearly every shoreline. I live in an archipelago so there is a lot of coastline. Now there are sporadic patches of herring spawn. The herring fishery is a multi million dollar industry. Herring is also the base of the larger fin-fish population. We can't harvest all the food for larger species and harvest larger species and expect everything to just be fine. If there is an abundance of food for a species they will spawn in greater numbers (well known predator-prey dynamic). Sacrificing the herring fishery would allow larger species a path to build populations.

That is something that can be done at a local level without global cooperation. Don't harvest all the food for the larger fish we like to eat.
"Why does our service slow to a crawl every 5 minutes?"
> Canoo is proud to bring motor vehicle manufacturing back to Oklahoma

That sounds like they are "making"/"manufacturing" it in Oklahoma though?
I find this particularly interesting:

The brain is not like a neural network where the only thing that is “learned” or “updated” is the weights between neurons. At least some learning evidently happens within individual neurons.

That’s bad news for anyone hoping to simulate a brain digitally. It means there’s a lot more relevant stuff to simulate (like the learning that goes on within cells) than the connectionist paradigm of treating each biological neuron like a neural-net “neuron” would imply, and thus the computational requirements of simulating a brain are higher — maybe vastly higher — than connectionists hope.

I had heard this as well close to ten years ago on some NPR radio show: That researchers had reasons to suspect that a whole lot more processing happens within the synapses themselves.
Took a while to get it but I can see your final point. Still must note that it makes applying critical thought harder and can lead to opposite results. I guess it would work with people with whom it is established beforehand what the battery is supposed to mean.

The first point, thanks for the insight. Depending on the type of pain it can be the opposite for me, sometimes I find it easier to distract myself from it by talking to others. I am normally not inclined to talk IRL, but being badly ill and weak turns me into a more pleasant person apparently.
I found the additional context to be helpful in quickly understanding how / where I could run it.
Not really. Not for non-tech savvy users. Try it on an iPhone. First you'll have to find the share button on the browser bar, then scroll down and find the option 'Add to home screen'. I don't think its very obvious.

Most users don't know about it, and need a how-to guide - similar to what the posted link does.
> I expect that whatever Apple's Standard Operating Procedure will be for supplying the right lenses to people, it'll be mostly superior to your average optician.

I love that your anecdote has determined that most opticians will be worse at their job than an Apple Genius who might get two-three hours training on fitting the headset.
Yep, although this act drastically reduced the total number of work visas issued. There was a 20K addition for people with advanced degrees/PhDs, but only because nonprofit & research work was no longer exempt from the visa cap.
No, they do not get access unless you allow it and explicitly selet a bluetooth device the page is allowed to connect to. The bluetooth dialog is handled entirely by the browser.
In germany this topic was disucssed and is still discussed up and down and a TON of studies and caclulations exists.
Unfortunately, the paper only provides the text of one of the prompts they used (Juliet) and it happens to be one of the worst performing ones that scored lower than ELIZA. I suppose you could qualify the quote by saying that the best prompt used with GPT-4 had a 41 percent success rate. I don't think that's more of an omission than excluding the GPT model, excluding the prompt used, and ignoring the fact that other GPT models beat ELIZA.
> So many simple setup apps wouldn't need to be native.

If they are simple, why not making them native?
Can you give an example of a 'meat subsidy'? I'm unaware of any.
> Progressive enhancement, API detection, and polyfilling are all common strategies that can be used to mitigate almost all device differences.

Keyword being "almost", and that in some cases if the platform doesn't support your feature, you're shit outta luck.

By far the thing that prevented PWAs from bigger uptake earlier was Apple dragging their feet on push notifications support on iOS. There was simply no workaround or polyfill for that at all, and the biggest use case for PWAs was supporting push. Apple finally released web push notification support last year on iOS but the app needs to have already been installed on the home screen (I think that part is good), and last I checked the "install to home screen" on iOS Safari was still a horrible user experience (the actions is hidden under the "share" menu, which makes no sense to me).
In 2005 it was not only Win16 apps from 1993, but DOS3 apps from 1985 too.
> If (deliberately) picking losers is easy, you should buy an index fund and do some careful shorting on the side.

This doesnt make sense. The "losers" in this case don't necessarily go down in price, they just go up in price less than the overall market. Shorting these losers would still lose you money.

Its easy to pick a stock that goes up less than the market, its hard to pick a stock that goes down (at least one that goes down by more than the cost to borrow and short it).
Last year, I backed a really interesting project on Kickstarter called Powercore. The simplest idea is that you take a cheap 3D printer (like a refurbished Ender 3), swap out the print head module for an EDM module that can disintegrate metal the way a CNC machine mills wood.

https://www.rackrobo.io/

They appear to be between versions right now, but to their credit, they are the only KS project I've ever backed that has shipped a high quality product on time and on budget. I anticipate big things from this team.
If you can pay that much for a stove surely your cleaning staff will take care of it :/
> still the website is doing alright (at least engineering wise)

It's not though. I assume you're trying to claim Twitters only problem is the Advertisers leaving and that the platform is fine but that's not the case.

Lets ignore all visible technical problems such as outages or broken features that have happened since the purchase.

You have to compare Twitter to FaceBook. Both of them have had similar outrage by Advertisers for the respective companies actions. However, Advertisers keep coming back to FaceBook because of the engineering. FaceBook has much better targeting and also staff that interacts with the Advertisers. Twitter has absolutely horrendous targeting; Jews don't want their 'buy a Torah' ad next to a pro-gaza post not just because they disagree with the post but also because that somebody isn't their target audience. This is an engineering problem; if Twitter had better engineering the Advertisers wouldn't be leaving.
Mercury Software Stack
Both points could be addressed by using a file system cache (or RAM disk) and a compiled language. A CGI application could, for example, be written in Go (https://pkg.go.dev/net/http/cgi).
Clough42 (YouTube machining mainly, plus CAD, 3D printing, electronics) recently said he hasn't really used sheet metal tools since discovering sendcutsend.com (I haven't used them, don't think he has any affiliation/sponsorship either).

For machined/moulded parts there's shapeways.com (I haven't used them beyond quoting).

I'm sure there's plenty of alternatives for both too, if you search 'x vs' or whatever.
Even now, I thought most tuna were farmed. There are certainly lots of large farms in the Mediterranean.
Eat less meet people, it's not that hard.
What privacy? They’re recording conversations made in company livery while getting paid on the job, with notice of that fact in advance. If the recorders were recording them after they exited the plane that’d be a cognizable privacy violation, but that’s not what we’re talking about here.
https://fastcgi-archives.github.io/

fastcgi c/c++ server development was essentially stopped many years ago, would love to see a c version that I can use for embedded boards, though cgi does the job 90% of the time just fine.
Zero on the left and....neutron star density on the right?
I'm not sure this tracks. "having a big player like Walmart in town means everyone will likely benefit" sounds plausible, but in practice they suck all the oxygen out of the room, play dirty, and make it difficult for small operators to "compete" once they gain the advantage. The fediverse is honestly not prepared for this scenario, but I do hope that the communities will rally and give Meta a run for their money. I don't have any ill will against them, but its boring to see the same few entities doing everything. Despite its flaws, portions of the fediverse are vibrant and I really want to see them trive.
I think web apps are great. The average brand has no business making a mobile app when an web application would do.

It's the "progressive" part I have a problem with. Web apps revolutionized our idea of what an application can do; everything in PWA makes web applications worse, not better.

Just to take a simple example, when I want to visit Hacker news I just type n in the address bar of my iPad and click on the auto-suggest result and I am there.

If I had an app for it, it would compete with all the other apps that have a burnt umber orange icon or that have an "H", an "N" or a "Y" as their own logo. (McDonald's might be the only brand that can pull that off) If I had an app for that I'd also be installing lots of other apps and have 4 or 5 pages of them to scroll through. If anything, brands should be asking for ways to make installed apps as easy to find as uninstalled web pages are.

(Note all the things I complained about originally except the lack of a reliable storage facility, are problems with apps. What makes it a 'side project' is that PWA advocates keep denying that "it just doesn't work" and then act incredulous that nobody wants to waste time with them.)

If anything, most app authors should just quit drinking the Kool-Aid and just make plain ordinary web applications without any of the PWA power-downs. It's like playing a Mario game and finding some mushroom that makes you smaller without any benefit (like being able to go in some hole.)
This two-hour thing also means that if we ever find MH370 we will still never know what actually happened at the beginning of the flight when it diverted.

It really should have enough to save at least the longest flight possible.
> "universal" support

Apple laughs at your universal support.
Yes, that is the second half of the documentary. They were trying to come up with delicious recipes to take advantage of the situation. I don't imagine I would like to eat jellyfish either, but I would certainly give it a try.
My sister's art in digital record is aboard. Hoping for the best :(
edit: i just assumed its the same one, but not sure.
edit: it is.
That's not how fishing works. After some threshold growing fish in aquaculture becomes cheaper than fishing, and things get back in balance. Otherwise, salmon would've been extinct by now.

Tuna and herring are not grown en masse in aquaculture... yet. That will change.
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What on earth does beef have to do with this? If anything, people eating more beef might consume less fish. Cattle populations are not collapsing.
> or not knowingly

That's a big difference. What if I sold you a Linux computer that was actually running Windows with a UI that looks like Linux?
>I think those that dismiss this concern entirely are the folks who cannot think critically

I will absolutely, unreservedly dismiss the concern of a pilot for privacy in the cockpit because I can think critically. The notion that someone deserves privacy in the cockpit of commercial aircraft is outrageously silly and utterly indefensible. Pilot your own personal aircraft if you want that privacy.

And there is absolutely an "Overton window", but it is wrong to think that whatever way it moves is a regression or worsening (which is the classic "everything is always getting worse" melodrama). Sometimes the way things are is not rational or optimized, but just are.

The 2 hour thing was nothing but a technical limit (a literal loop of magnetic tape), and every other justification is retconning.
You'd pay an hourly rate for the machines used, so its going to vary based on the complexity of the part (eg mill time is less than lathe time). I think the average rate for my dad's shop is ~$150/hr.
Neither Hamas, Hezbollah or the Houthis would survive without the support from Iran. They don't even try to hide the origin of their weapons...
Except that billg would have had much more control over MS if he hadn't diversified, meaning MS would have made different decisions, and maybe not have been as successful if he stayed active in it.
Before even looking at the content of the article I agree. This phrase drives me nuts. It's so imprecise. How hard did you look for evidence? Did you discount evidence from "known deniers"? Do you count statistical anomalies as evidence? If not, what name should we use for those, because they're not _nothing_.

And this ambiguity, imho, is exploited politically all the time.
If the pilot can disconnect Inmarsat, he can disconnect Starlink. He might even be able to disconnect Twitter and in-flight entertainment.
Very useful for flashing microcontrollers and devices without need of native apps. No installation, no drivers, works cross platform.
>That is something that can be done at a local level without global cooperation.

You're assuming some foreign operator won't come to your local waters to illegally fish. China has shown they will fish literally anywhere they can get away with it.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/26/world/asia/ch...
> It's funny how you can say these two contradictory things right next to each other.

Fair enough, we'll agree to disagree on that one. I will happily eat crow if it turns out not to be the truth should there be an eventual source code/internal email leak. Keep in mind that a lot of leaks have already confirmed tech company malicious behaviors that was endlessly speculated on in the past and that it felt too blatant to be true and yet ended up true.

> my "software stack and/or behavior" that somehow makes me "naughty"

Not everyone gets these bans though. If your software stack or behavior allowed them to correlate you with the existing shadow profile they have on you they'll most likely let you pass and not need to bullshit-ban you since they already got your data.

> The only naughty one is Meta itself

Oh yeah absolutely - I always meant naughty in the eyes of Facebook, which is true. In fact you are the opposite of naughty - getting one of these bullshit bans actually suggests your online behavior is on point since Facebook couldn't just infer your personal data from tracking and instead has to force you to provide it.
And, shockingly, optional. A high court may look favourably on their decision in when you sue but it's no guarantee.
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Went to many music festivals, clubs, dances with them. They couldn't dance. They weren't incapable of learning how to dance. They just weren't automatically good at dancing because they were good at playing music.
> recordings get pulled on successful landing after declaring emergency

Declaring an emergency (standing alone) should not be a reason to pull the CVR, IMO. There should be an aviation-safety related reason at a minimum. (Declaring an emergency to facilitate expedited handling for a passenger medical emergency should not trigger a need to preserve the CVR recordings, as one concrete example.)
Having no context does allow for a fresh perspective...

Having to think things through slowly step by step may reveal errors other's glossed over...

the cerebellum is important. But maybe, since we really know less about the brain than we think we do, differently wired does not equate 'stupider'. It takes all sorts to make a world.

I agree with the language part, tedious... but maybe in certain situations it might be useful.
Instead of saying "there is no evidence that Covid is airborne", they should say "there is no evidence about whether Covid is airborne or not", in other words, there is no evidence one way or the other. Just saying "no evidence that X" omits the crucial detail -- whether there is evidence that (not X).
This reminds me of Om's gushing review of these that he thinks will put movie theaters out of business because now the whole family "will sit on the couch together, each watching the same movie on their Vision Pros".

Oh good, one more step towards Gargoyles (a subculture of people choosing to remain continuously connected to the Metaverse by wearing portable terminals, goggles and other equipment; they are nicknamed "gargoyles" due to their grotesque appearance - from Snow Crash).
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P4 ALU (or at least significant parts of it) was double pumped... so parts of a 2GHz P4 were actually running as fast as 4Ghz even back then...

Shifts were bad however, I think they left out the barrel shifter for some ungodly reason.