skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Managing a stopwatch on Smart Displays and Speakers. You can still set timers and alarms.

How much does this cost to maintain? A stopwatch? They’re axing a STOPWATCH?!

This is embarrassing.
Shou Sugi Ban – The Japanese Art of Charred Cedar
100mW probably enough to idle a sizable % of phones on. One could definitely make a low powered phone that slowly recharges a super capacitor or regular battery while idling. Basically use the nuclear battery like a range-extender in a hybrid car, dumping power in, but not driving the phone.
These were almost all immigrant, mostly women: Indians and Chinese. Hey, this is California.
Many dont
Depending on the size of your data corpus a few USB disks w/ full disk encryption could be a cheap insurance policy. Use a rotating pool of disks and make sure only one set is connected at once.

Force the attacker to restore to kinetic means to completely wipe out your data.
This is about a man drugging himself and reporting on it. This article takes his 'discoveries' far too seriously.
can apps see what other apps are installed?
Anyone know of a simple badge printing setup that could work with things like Meetup, etc? Just an iPad app that can take a CSV of names and companies, say, that can connect to a Zebra printer. Everything I'm finding wants to rent you the software and the printer, I just want to scrounge them up once and for all.
Luckily not every car needs charging every day, plus there are extender bollards for the gaps
So it turns out that running your own servers isn't always the best idea
What's going on with all these job cuts all concentrated now? The market is expecting the Fed to start cutting interest rates[0] in March and that has been bullish for the latter half of last year in the stock market. So why are so many companies cutting people? Are the March rate cuts too little too late or do they see that some damage has already been done and they're front running that? Or is it that layoffs is the only way they see to maintain their growth expectations set by wall street and thus it's a financial engineering move?

[0] https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/interest-rates/cme-fedwatch...
Code is the one I actually haven't tried. In general though they do cap trials but it's by number of requests, and it will either allow you or not, so that sounds like a bug
I've been thinking about this as well. As climate change affects the distribution of potable water on the planet, it would seem prudent to start installing solar backed desalination and water pipelines to ensure water security for areas at risk.

Now I'm no hydrologist, and haven't researched this idea deeply yet, so don't know second and third order effects (i.e. brine disposal mentioned above, and of course the economics of such a venture.) It seems at some point our collective hands may be forced and we may have to do something that doesn't make a profit, yet sustains humanity as a going concern.

Finally, the fact that we haven't "terraformed" in this fashion drought-stricken places like Africa or elsewhere is a pity. But yes, economics, profit, geopolitics, power struggles, I get it.
Right, unemployment staying low through the layoffs show that the laid off have been able to find acceptable jobs.
Ads have existed long before clicks on and the most talented artists have worked on them long before the most talented programmers thought about making people click on them.
So you did somehow get access to your interview feedback? And you’re sure that your lunch buddy gave you a strong reject and swayed every other interviewer who otherwise gave you a positive review?
Websites load faster. I filter out BS websites with low information density. I avoid ads and being tracked by random companies that I don't trust. I feel more comfortable visiting websites knowing, that my personal data does not automatically flow to random companies. I don't have to sit through YouTube ads either. I get what I came for, then I leave. To me this is a great benefit.

But lets not forget, that we are all part of a human society. Almost no ones, if anyone's behavior has no effect on others. By using the Internet like I do, I am also acting in a responsible way regarding my effect on society. We need more people resisting big tech surveillance and daily violation of privacy. I hope some day more of us can look beyond immediate personal benefit.
>why can't I just put on a pair of augmented reality glasses and have the AGI use me?

[meme time]

Oh god, oh fuck, we're going full Manna.

[/meme time]

https://marshallbrain.com/manna1

For those have have not read Manna, this is a huge portion of the premise of the story that AI helmets turn us into automatons that allow the AI to further automate our jobs until we are all unemployed and destitute.
I don't claim that it can be used to say the economy is healthy. I take issue with OP's claim that large layoffs necessarily imply recession. Unless you know that the laid off workers aren't rehired by a competitor, you don't know if the layoff isn't just an outcome of competition. The national unemployment rate is a proxy for it. At least at the first order, if a large number of people are being laid off (and this isn't the first layoff in the sector, Wells Fargo has cut over 40k jobs from their peak) then so far they are being rehired. And I agree with you, desk workers aren't going to take a $15/hr job at the Flying J, which is why I believe they were likely to be hired either by competition or at least in occupations consistent with their skill set and aspirations, else we'd see them show up in unemployment stats. Check sector stats too - very low for finance https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNU04032216#
Flying in America Has Never Been Safer
> imagine the EU or US enforcing fully repairable or recyclable products in their markets. What would china do?

What, you mean like the existing WEEE directive which requires all electronics to be lead-free and recyclable? China would, obviously, start selling repairable and recyclable products into those markets.
> The medical establishment offers a shiny tempting solution. First, a total unwillingness to trust anything, no matter how plausible it sounds, until it’s gone through an endless cycle of studies and meta-analyses.

Isn't this just... science? We learned from the ancient philosophers that really smart people can reason powerfully about a whole lot of things. But - if we want to know whether that reasoning holds up, it has to be tested. Modern science is the current unit testing framework for philosophy. At least, for the thoughts that lend themselves to unit testing.
As a privacy-aware person, I would be very uncomfortable if my company put me on a page like that...
The integration of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and API security have become fundamental in the modern world.
https://nitter.net/eastdakota/status/1745697840180191501
> I've yet to see an economy-rich energy-poor country

Past performance usually doesn't predict future results.

I'm not aware of any good or service that is not subject to diminishing returns from increased consumption. Keep increasing energy consumption and you start hitting other limiting factors like the availability of other resources, labor, population growth, food, etc. Energy can help with some of those but not all of them and not in a linear relationship. Eventually you hit the ultimate limiter: diminishing marginal utility of wealth itself. At some point you start to max out as a human.

There are countries that consume more energy than the USA that are actually poorer and their higher consumption is a function of either climate (lots of HVAC) or the use of old inefficient technology (in which case poverty actually increases consumption).

It really looks like the ultimate limits to growth (on Earth) are demand side limits to growth due to leveling off of population. Humans have fewer kids when they have more wealth and/or see more humans around.
To me the problem isn't lack of language understanding - it's more lack of integration with useful actions, although LLM support would certainly help with feature discovery and flexible invocation of actions.

Presumably Google Assistant is on it's way to being replaced by ChatGPT with plugins, although these would need access to phone APIs to do local stuff.
But they don't physically show their state, don't persist across power outages, and are much less satisfying to operate.
My "smart" water heater[1] has an ESP32 in it.

[1]: https://www.hoiax.no/produkter/varmtvannsberedere/smartbered...
There's a whole lot of randomness in whether (or not) a submission "makes it" on HN. Re-submission cutoffs, crediting the first submitter, etc. would all require more rules & implementation. We pretty much don't care to bother.
The author of this app has also made a bunch of nice Mac apps, mostly menubar apps. I use several in my daily work.
Why does nobody talk about the real issue with wind and solar? It's ugly. It distracts from the landscape.
I believe that knowing whether or not you are logged would be part of the strictly necessary.
Diet and exercise are indeed the keys to weight loss.

By focusing exclusively on CICO, one dismisses the fact that people dislike feeling hungry. To say it's simply an issue of willpower dismisses the importance role of hormones in driving behavior. When it comes to weight loss, some people are dominated by their hormonal responses, while others have more regulated responses.

I think I've found a good analogy: advocating CICO as primary strategy to lose weight is like saying all you need to do to complete a road track is to drive forward and stay on the track. The track shape analogizes to the unique dynamics of a person's hormonal feedback loops. Completing the race analogizes to hitting a weight loss goal, while going for fastest lap time is like a doing a 30-day weight loss challenge.

There's roughly 8 billion unique tracks in the world. Some tracks may be a drag strip, others may be Nurburgring-style circuits, and an unlucky few get the Baja 1000. Virtually everyone rides a normal car with gas, brakes, and a steering wheel, though performance characteristics do vary. At all times, you are the only driver on the track. Completing a drag strip track is trivial: just drive straight. Some tracks (like a NASCAR circuit) have banked turns which allow for high speeds with minimal focus on turning or braking. Many tracks, however, require different strategies. As an example, you MUST brake at turns on the Nurburgring because failure to break WILL cause you to leave the track, potentially causing a spinout or even a crash. If a racer aims for a specific lap time, they'll need to maintain a minimum average speed across the lap, which requires learning optimal driving, turning, and braking strategies specific to that course.

I think you can mine this analogy for more insight, but the primary point is: CICO is in all weight loss strategies, but because of personal hormone dynamics, not all weight loss strategies can be CICO.
Awesome, can't wait. \s. I spent a majority of my prof. life writing enterprise level software for US companies, involving outsource. Every single time it was a disaster: large software project for US healthcare insurance company - a disaster; extremely large software project for the US shipping company, majority of work was done by outsource - a disaster (we got fined by the EU for shipping packages to the wrong addresses, we even managed to mishandle the package for the top GDPR official, lol).
Bring it on Chamath Palihapitiya !!!
He addresses brine, but not the waste products that come from brine, and only addresses it in one sentence:

> The resulting depleted brine is piped back to the ocean where it is thoroughly mixed with sea water and discharged.

This is not nearly as easy as this sentence implies.
It's all about the distribution of copyrighted material. The "user" then is the admin which received the program. The other used without admin, is just using some remote service. (With telnet/ssh. No distribution of copyrighted material is going on there, just input/output from a remote service, like a web site running LGPL code.)
Isn't this what Tesla is trying to achieve with Optimus? They were just demonstrating fine grained control using "AI" training to perform human scale tasks. The big idea is that they are human size so they can be slotted in for any task that is currently performed by people without needing any special accommodations.

I personally don't think they'll be economically viable in the foreseeable future, but they do represent a possible bridge to ubiquitous robot labor.
I think it is more like a C3 with Wifi6 than a C6. It has the same clocked RISCV processor and lacks the C6 low power processor and Zigbee baseband/mac. It has more peripherals than C3 but fewer than C6. It has an interestingly named "Power Glitch Detector" unlike the C6's and C3's "Brownout Detector."

https://www.espressif.com/sites/default/files/documentation/...

https://www.espressif.com/sites/default/files/documentation/...
Microsoft was never consumer-oriented, it was always a B2B/Enterprise-catering firm. They only tolerate retail customers because they don't want us getting used to something else.
Most recent discussion two weeks ago with 600 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38773957
> Did she?

errrr.... yes. she does. several times.

...

> She literally says herself she hasn't closed a single sale since being hired there.

If I hire a new engineer, part of my job managing them is to communicate to them that I expect them to release a new feature/bug fix to production by the end of their three month probation, and that release must go smoothly.

If they clearly fck up their first release on the last day of probation and I say 'hey, great job, you're doing awesome' and then fire them a month later... that's poor management. that's on me.
The issue is that everyone removed hierarchical menus and replaced them with... nothing.

There is no command ontology anymore. Consequently, discovering commands in-app is UX anathema.

"Use the internet, buddy. One of our customers probably documented how-to somewhere on it."
But they can sue for damages
An Underground Battery Is Coming to a Tiny Utah Town
> are these intended primarily for hobbyists?

They’re not really intended at all for hobbyists. The espressif products are in countless IoT devices.

https://www.espressif.com/

This is not marketing aimed at hobbyists.

Further I think most of the people using ESPHome and the like are reflashing commercial products.

> the go-to chip for commercial applications?

For a pacemaker, a Mars rover or a video game console? What exactly do you think unifies “commercial application” that would allow narrowing down in such a way.

If you’re talking about low cost IoT, there are a handful of vendors including Beken, Realtek, SiLabs, ST, TI, nRF. For this super low cost WiFi/BLE consumer niche espressif is not the only player but they are dominant along with nRF and Beken.
I thought this would be a post from Rain Maker but it is another promising project altogether. If you’re interested check out Augusts Doricko’s company looking to do cloud seeding in the same region https://www.makerain.com/
One of the issues was wiring harnesses being too close together. The USAF has higher requirements in for redundancy and fault-tolerance in aircraft that may be shot at than civilian airliners do, go figure. Either way, it's not something that should be new for a company like Boeing that's done several generations of airliner to tanker conversions.
> I'm no AI expert, I don't have a lot of domain knowledge but what irks me about reading through this entire blog post is the idea that we are hinging on a definition of AGI that apparently accounts for 95% (!) of "economically valuable work" while basically not talking _at all_ about the trades. No mention of construction, manual labour, mechanics, welders, painters, nothing!

A good chunk of the value in the "trades" is in the experience and in the management.

If I can make anyone a painter by giving them a headset [1] and having an "AGI" model tell them exactly how, where, what to paint, how much of the value is the model collecting and how much of it is left for the human being?

[1] https://www.ptc.com/en/resources/augmented-reality/infograph...
For those who don't want to pirate it, there is a summary which tells the story using scenes from the TV series.

>Post Office Scandal Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdQQib3rmkE
What do you mean have at least $100K? Like in one of their savings accounts? You can get 5% APY right now from Wealthfront in their savings, so you'd have to forgo a lot of interest to get that extra 0.625% over Citi's credit card.
Exactly. Replace the turbine with another turbine when it reaches EOL.
By monthly subscription I mean any subscription. An annual subscription is still a subscription. I want to pay for a perpetual license and never pay again. Unfortunately that would be difficult for an ongoing live service such as email.
The military ones are Russian engineering assisted, iirc. The ones we should look at for airlines would be the Comac C919 ( and progressively C929 and C939).

https://theaircurrent.com/china/china-eastern-comac-c919-ret...

> Launch airline China Eastern’s tentative February 28 entry-into-service date never materialized [..]

> After regularly operating as part of its route proving, the aircraft appeared to change tempo on February 2. The aircraft flew a half dozen more short flights before February 27 then sat for nearly a month before being ferried from Hongqiao to nearby Pudong on March 23 when it was last seen. There’s been no definitive explanation for the jet’s return to the manufacturer.

Apparently they didn't copied well the stolen designs from American and European manufacturers[1] or there was a quality issue with the delivered aircraft. I think the Chinese government wants EU approval to use European citizens as alpha-testers.

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/china-eas...

> China Eastern Airlines (600115.SS) said on Thursday it will buy another 100 C919 airplanes in a deal worth $10 billion at list prices, in what would be the largest ever order for the jet made by the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC).

> The state-owned carrier said it had received a "substantial discount" for the deal and that the planes will be delivered in batches from 2024 to 2031. The list price for the C919 is $99 million but aircraft can be sold at discounts of up to 50%, especially for new models.

50% of the EU and the UE aircraft prices. It should be expected prices dumping, the same that happened when Hawuei and ZTE was subsidizing antennas and selling equipment at lower prices than manufacturing costs in the European Union.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comac_C919#US_espionage_allega...
At least on iOS, only with MDM profiles for managed devices tagged as company owned I believe.
Fair enough, but my point is that nuclear power generation and nuclear weapons development are two different things and one doesn't necessarily lead to the other. In other words one can be against a particular use of a technology without being against the technology itself.
Ridiculous arguments are unfortunately common, and end up being part of politics and ultimately planning and decision-making.

Natural vs. unnatural is irrelevant though. "Nature" is normally out to kill you for its own benefit and does not care if the planet or any of its lifeforms survives. What matters is our interests in preserving the world we know or improving it in our eyes, and picking the best option for that.

The option that minimizes worldwide cancer development and doesn't screw up weather systems and various biomes would be the winner in that regard.
If Boeing concedes the civilian market, the likes of SpaceX could just spin out an aircraft or jet engine business and compete quite well.

How about some engines made with those fancy alloys they've got? Or just a willingness to do an awesome design without all the baggage or need for short term profit.
If they are doing advertising then they are art directors, not artists. The most talented artists make art, it's not something they have a choice in. They will suffer poverty to make their art.

Talent isn't in the execution in art, it's in the ideas, and tapestry of the artist's life.

> The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads

This is also not true, because those minds aren't intelligent enough to see the folly of their attention. The best minds see past this and do the work they are driven to do, similar to artists.
Serious question - please don't politicize this question:

How will Palantir + Peter Thiel's other major investment, OPenAI's ChatGPT(whatever) be both used in war theaters? Not just Israel, but any place 5Eyes operate? (surely OpenAI works directly with others in Thiel's portfolio?)

Will/Are/Who is developing models specifically for 'war-related mission'?

Surely, plenty of defense upstarts are already all over this - but would like some deeper insight into the current / future state?

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Re: Starlink - we already saw commitments to Ukraine for access - then that kinda fell off the map - I wonder how its been used for the drones? or other ways it may have been leveraged.

However - when will we hear about another super-power, such as China, stealing whatever tech they havent already from SpaceX and deploy their own constellation of StarLink Satts?

Or, just as AWS is doing datacenters for IC/MIC - Surely SpaceX could operate a dedicated constellation for [insert paying military]?
Even if you don't personally violate the license, the license may still be enforceable against the users of your program. When the user executes your program and it loads other libraries into its memory space, then it definitely has become a derivative work and the terms of the libraries will apply to the program as a whole.
It has timeless appeal. That's what makes it a true classic.
Headline changed from original:

"Thiel’s Palantir, Israel Agree Strategic Partnership for Battle Tech"
If the "deep tech industry in Europe" refers to bloated, bureaucratic legacy enterprise software like SAP, European tech is doomed.

They only continue to exist because of cronyism, forced sales to large organizations through personal connections; and expertise at navigating the stifling local bureaucracies of their countries.

Those places aren't good at solving narrow problems. They are at best mediocre at addressing the problems of 40 years ago, at a price point far higher than smaller and more innovative companies could do so. They innovate approximately nothing in terms of product design or value added.

Nokia is another cautionary tale of what goes wrong with that model.
Before cookies we used session ids in the query string of the URLs. Maybe you noticed some URL with a JSESSIONID argument in the URL. Same thing.

Those are worse than cookies for a number of reasons but they are functionally equivalent.

Anyway, there is nothing wrong with cookies in general. Privacy-wise the problem are cookies used for tracking. Any other technology would have the same problems and would need an explicit consent from the user, if you are subject to GDPR and similar legislation.
https://nitter.net/SMB_Attorney/status/1745609324544536778#m
If you mean developed vs developing world, I'm more in favor of:

"let's scale down growth and distribute existing wealth and resources more evenly, even if it means I'll go scale down compared to where I'm now and you'll scale up"
Vast majority of Americans have a garage. You can charge on a normal outlet but it's easy enough to bring an electrician in to upgrade to 240v.
Never thought I'd see the SSE referenced here on HN. Things are getting weirder...
See: https://sindresorhus.com/amazing-ai#why-does-the-app-require...