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You seem to be doing some history revisionism, at least from the point of view of someone in France. At the time of iPhone release (that I imported in France) there were very few phones of what you could consider smartphones.
I actually had one of those, on windows mobile 6.5, complete with the stylus and it just sucked. You could get one of the early 3G contracts, but it wasn't really worth it unless you really needed that for business use. Because outside of receiving mails there was not real application that would benefit a lot from the connectivity (that only existed inside the big city, and only at certain spots since it was just the start of 3G rollout).

The iPhone made it so there were at least 3 use cases that were worthwhile getting that : full internet browsing with decent experience and speedy enough ; real-time map download for navigation and emails.
Of course the first iPhone was limited by its connectivity speed, but it didn't matter because at this point 3G was not even really there for the vas majority of peoples. Then the next year we got the 3G iPhone that actually made sense to buy with a 3G contract because it became viable in the big cities.

The other "smartphones" who had 3G before that were largely irrelevant because even if you had the connectivity, using them wasn't worth your time and that's just ignoring the fact that outise of city centers you were out of luck (I know, been there, done that...).

There is a reason before the iPhone, Blackberrys were so popular, that's because they were the only decent option for the only use case that made sense before iPhone : email/messaging.

I really don't like the recent developments at Apple, but pretending that they didn't completely changed the game at the time is bonkers...
Shouldn't your analysis/understanding show that upgrading the library is enough? If a CVE or vulnerability scanners test isn't telling you the problem that needs to be solved upgrading a library or anything else won't make a difference and you wouldn't know the problem either way.

Approaching vulnerability management from a developers view is a very narrow scope.
A 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin's Anonymity
I (well, our family) owned both. Put them side by side, and nobody would be confused about a winner. The Mac was infinitly more usable than the QL. The only reason we got a QL was because I was a true Spectrum fan and drank the Sinclair koolaid.
I've replied to the person below you with links: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39026946

The last one is 2 bedrooms for about $1000/month, fully furnished. Sure, it's stretching it, but a world of difference with your claim of $1800 for a small apartment in the context of digital nomads.
HSM visa, so I can get the 30% ruling
As a Norwegian in the UK, I've spent 24 years despairing over - and annoying anyone within earshot by talking about - the lack of proper wetrooms in most UK houses. In fact, a lot of British builders seem to think making floors waterproof requires dark magic.

It's slowly getting better, but it's still confusing enough of them.
Why don't schools teach so many things? Why doesn't high school teach you how to balance your budget? spawning many conspiracies.

But the answer is, they don't know.

Teachers usually dont control what they are teaching. Go up the chain and the person who did pick what they are teaching is balancing so many things and trying to tighten everything as much as possible. That some things dont make it into the curriculum.
what is the tech stack you used to build this site?
It's about time! I have been a curmudgeon about this ever since I saw my first "To the left, to the left / Passing only in the lane to the left."

Not only are these signs not that funny, but they're likely to be confusing to lots of people -- immigrants, the elderly, those who aren't up on pop culture and have no idea that it's a nod to a Beyoncé song. Road signs should be clear and direct.

Traffic officials should save their lame attempts at humor for their social media accounts.
Similar for me. Page loads but nothing works.
JEP 455: Primitive Types in Patterns, instanceof and switch
> In theory, a system that let you scan products the same way checkout staff do without any weight checks or bagging area rules or other interruptions would be incredibly efficient. Especially if you could do things like scan the same product multiple times if you were buying multiple copies of it.

The supermarkets in Sweden work like this, the only thing some of they do is random checks. In some chains you do need to sign up with your ID ahead of time though so they keep track if you get caught in a random check.
It’s a security feature sold to the stores against a possible but rare attack - barcode swapping.

It even occurs with human checkers but it’s quite rare (barcodes are fixed now, or the stickers destroy themselves if you try to remove them like at Goodwill).

The attack apparently would have you swap a barcode but still on camera scan it which I guess theoretically makes it harder to prosecute but I kinda doubt it.

It also helps catch misscans which is probably much much more common (someone scans an item, they thought it scanned, they put it in bagging area).
Nah, he's right. In my opinions, men staying online too much think women standards are high, but really they're not. Don't be annoying, frightening, and be nice, you'll get a date. Even when I was obese I had dates and relationships (less than before/after my obesity).

I was lucky when I was young and spent time with basically 'hippies anarchists' who completely destroyed my false ideas about women, sex, and my own worth. I could have ended as an incel too.
previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25053134
Sort of a tangent but I feel it's a little troublesome that the Supreme Court can deny appeals without even a paragraph of motivation. Clearly they need to filter based on some criteria or another so denying the appeal is fine. But I feel that shouldn't ever occur without some sort of reason as to why. I enjoy listening to the oral arguments for certain cases in the USSC (https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_audio/2..., it's interesting) and I can't help but feel that a lot of the cases that are accepted are of somewhat less importance than "can an effective monopoly be forced into less monopolistic business practices" or some variation of that.
Unless things have changed damages in UK courts are much smaller than is typically seen in US courts. Some victims have already accepted compensation and agreed they have no further claim.
And Epic admitted that 12% is unsustainable.

The rest of your comment is baffling to me.

I assume you're neither a shareholder or employee of Steam.

But you count their money, you decide for them that their own money is pointless to them, you somehow know how much money they earn, and based on that make assumption it's more than they could ever spend (even though you admit yourself there is no budget at Valve).

And how long is "ever" in "than they could ever spend"? 1 year? 5 years? 20 years? 100 years?

I very much dislike people who count other people's money, I don't know if it's their own jealousy or greediness. But you on top of that also somehow came to the conclusion that their own money is pointless to them, and then accuse them of robbing people.

And this is about marketplace for PC games, a wild west of side-loading and land of free for all.

But somehow Steam is robbing developers.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's important not to leave out the fact the warfare was two-way. I mean this in an extramoral sense, not taking one "side" or another. It's just too easy to fall into the "settlers exterminating natives because they're in the way" narrative, when that's not what happened.
Flat fee services are starting to seriously attack percentage based services in the marketplace right now. Sirvoy for hotel bookings, Ticket Tailor for event ticketing, not to mention buy-and-sell marketplaces everywhere. I expect percentage based services to be murdered during this economic recession, as businesses do what they can to survive – including cutting completely useless costs.
You can run uncensored models on your own computer all you want. Companies typically don't do that because they want to be business-friendly and without controversy. Advertisers and users pull back otherwise (like for Twitter) unless they're specifically looking for controversy (like the chans) or porn (civit AI).

A lot of US businesses still abide by old fashioned Puritanical values and don't want anything remotely edgy. And after the Trump years they probably want to stay away from politics and wrongthink too.

LLMs can communicate with people in a way that a bare utility like Linux can't. Every sentence and image is propaganda based on the desires of the trainers and dataset. They are the public face of the company that trained them. When they're insufficiently reined in (like Microsoft's AI chatbot before they lobotomized her), they can embarrass the company.

I doubt uncensored AIs are a risk to much of anything aside from a company's public image and bottom line. The alignment folks worried about Skynet are different, but that's not the same thing as the self-censorship these companies are doing right now.
There is self checkout in some lidl uk stores.
I recreated a mandlebrot zoom I saw in a library book in bbc basic and the last image took two weeks. I had 8 of them saved on a floppy and that would slideshow them for a 2fps "movie"
I think your view has a distorted importance of medicine because you have never lived a live without it. And with that I mean felt the emotions of people going through it, like when your mother dies because of childbirth when you are a kid, your siblings die, because of infections.

Like we have today in all the anti-vaccination guys esp. in better-to-do households that are responsible for measles outbreaks even though it was deemed extinct. People from areas where it was common to have all these kids' diseases, we are not afraid of are much more pro vaccinations...

I can remember a time without the internet and while I really think it is great in many ways, humanity could do fine without it...
Failure?

They work very fine, just not replace as many workers as expected
Even if I do have keys, they are safe in my pocket, not sticking out the side of a fragile USB port.

It's difficult, though not impossible, to break your USB port with a Yubikey due to its shape. It's not a regular USB plug and will come out quite easily.

but how about when I'm using a mobile and my laptop is in my bag, or at home?

USB-C and NFC variants are quite common.

And OK, lets say I solve all that. How do I add a second key?

The same way you add the first--most of the time, you have to scan a QR code. You can scan it more than once.

The beauty of SMS for 2FA is that my phone number sticks with me. If my phone is lost or stolen, a new sim card is sent to my home and I have access to all my 2FA authenticaitons.

I'm not giving you my phone number, and mobile providers are known to send replacement SIM cards to random strangers if they ask nicely.
I would plan on this not getting patched for Downfall. Anyone know the status on that?
> When researchers cloned long-tailed macaques in 2018, they created 109 cloned embryos and implanted nearly three-quarters of them into 21 surrogate monkeys, resulting in six pregnancies. Just two of the monkeys survived birth.

Indeed the survival stats for cloning are abysmal.
Would be great to offer this as an option, even if we would have to fill in our own API key. The train tracks in my country differ quite somewhat from the roads when I try it out. Also. busses take defined routes and not the shortest path. Google Maps provides all these routes.
You're defining "hope" as anything short of absolute certainty, so the same could be said about every significant new feature. Because we can never know with absolute certainty what impact it will have until it's seen some significant duration of use in the field, all we ever have is "hope" (guided by experience) that the benefit will have been worth the cost. Since our record is pretty good, I think, I don't see any more reason for concern in this case than in all others (not that that's ever stopped some people from expressing grave concern with pretty much every significant thing we do).

In fact, why limit ourselves to technology? The same goes for deciding to make any change in anything. Every intentional change has only ever happened because someone had bet, without absolute certainty, that it will make things better. So you could say that "hope" is the only thing that has ever made anything better (or worse, I guess, if you're a glass-half-empty kinda guy).
It’s strange here. The Walmart is tuned quite lax, very forgiving.

The local grocery store screams for an attendant if a fruit fly farts on the scale.
this looks good :)

how i can get api key for websocket service?
Quitting My Tech Job, Backpacking Europe, Coding in Japan: Story of Our Startup
I've just shared an essay about my journey: leaving a tech job, backpacking across Europe, learning to code in Japan, and then launching our startup, Sinta. It's a blend of personal adventure and professional pivot, culminating in the creation of a tool aimed at improving the hiring process.

This story might resonate with those who've contemplated or embarked on a radical career shift, particularly in the tech world. Sinta is the result of my experiences - from diverse cultural and professional backgrounds, and it's designed to make hiring more efficient and fair.

I'd love to hear thoughts from the Hacker News community on career changes, tech entrepreneurship, and innovations in hiring processes. Your insights would be invaluable.
Yes, some shops are, and I lost count of the times when me, carrying a basket with a few items, was behind several other shoppers with huge trollies full to the brim. Pick a busy time and all the lanes are held up like this. Now we have self-checkouts for baskets only, and life works much better.

They still to have someone around, though, to satisfy the machine when it thinks that my newspaper is 25g too light, or I'm not old enough to buy alcohol-free beer (still haven't worked out the rationale for that one)
:)

Well, add that to the list of things that didn't prevent or solve the problem, unfortunately.

Also, I was thinking: If I was in that situation I might SSH into it from a different machine. Yeah, good luck with that to the elderly couple.
> This is a specific issue with the charging station these people were trying to charge at

No. "Beard and several other Tesla owners were trying to charge their cars amid long lines and abandoned cars at other Tesla charging stations in the Chicago area, the news station reported."

> this is functionally no different than a gas station's pumps freezing themselves out of operation

No. Frozen pumps don't get "lined with dead cars" and are not due to a concealed vehicle limitation like ""It’s not plug and go. You have to precondition the battery, meaning that you have to get the battery up to the optimal temperature to accept a fast charge," said Mark Bilek of the Chicago Auto Trade Association."
Maybe initiatives like that will finally help transitioning to IPv6. We're out of address space here on Earth, and now we're going with TCP/IP to space.

If we won't be wasteful with IPv6 space, it'll suffice for all inter-planetary and inter-galactic communication. Considering 1 trillion stars per galaxy and 1 trillion galaxies in the universe, we're safe with more than 340 trillion addresses per star.

We would be able to address between 1/3 to 1/2 of all atoms in the universe with IPv6.

Now that's a safety margin!
Dig a hole about 1 foot deep with a flat bottom.

Pack the hole with split logs standing on end.

Build a rip roaring fire on top. Let burn for about an hour.

Put fire out, you should have full sized logs that are very black.

Pile compost on top and soak with water. The fire will be trying to restart in the logs for some time, prevent this from happening.

Let pile sit for a year and you can keep adding on top of it.

Dig compost off top and set aside.

Mash charred logs with sledge hammer and then mix in your compost. Add to garden. Repeat.
Its completely obvious Apple has some sort of mind control going on. Its insane to see society is okay with this.
I wonder how much theft would be mitigated if you implemented a quasi-random “free item” feature - tune it so there’s a chance the last item you scanned rings up free. Tune it to be a 2-5% discount at most, similar to coupons. Make the customer feel they won something.
esp. when it comes with all the stress of modern work with all the real time communication, social media pressure, constant advertising.

now that I have kids, I grow increasingly conscious towards the effects this has on them.
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> These revelations were the fruit of a broad right-wing campaign to discredit Ms Gay, prompted by an incredibly stupid furore over a purely hypothetical case of campus antisemitism.

To be perfectly honest, she had already discredited herself by claiming that direct calls for genocide can't be called "harassment". Note that the other college heads who did so voluntarily resigned after doing so.
I would add the additional problem of CVE's being devoid of any useful information which lead to generic tests being created by vulnerability scanners as they have the same lack of insight as everyone else thats trying to patch the issue. Thus creating higher false positives or wasted effort trying to confirm an exploit yourself. I get not wanting to provide a PoC because "script kiddies" might use them but if we want vulnerabilities patched regularly you have to provide better assurances that they are valid and that we can show they are patched aka tests.
If I was dying of cancer which there's a good chance this would happen to any of us and cloned monkeys helps with cancer research I would welcome it because I don't want to die.

Honestly I would welcome human cloning too if it meant a cure for cancer.

The choice only seems controversial because none of you are dying yet. Once you're dying then the answer becomes more clear.
Wouldn't that be Microsoft? It's worth 2.9T, vs Apple's 2.84T.
Sam's Club in my location is like this. Their self-checkouts are a computer screen with a mobile scan gun. You pick up the scan gun and scan all the items in your cart however you want. Then you pay, then someone checks 2 or 3 items randomly on the way out to ensure they are on the receipt.

People are saying the same can be done with an app, but I don't want to install another app.
I’ve see this story floating around and it certainly doesn’t apply to my area. The self checkout at my local grocery store is very popular. When you’ve done it once or twice and get the hang of it it’s easy to go fast even with items like fruits/vegetables where you have to enter a code and weigh for the price. When I’m buying alcohol that requires age verification I make eye contact with the cashier covering the self checkout stations when I walk up, they are already on their way over when I scan. It takes the smallest amount of effort to learn and then it’s fine, I love self checkout.
Been using for probably 8 years, amazing
+1 zoxide
Vector Database Feature Comparison Matrix (35 DBs)
A table comparing the features available with different vector databases. The project is open-source and developed by a community of practitioners with points of contact from the different vector databases to validate.
Looks pretty great. I also love when I see these kind of businesses. Very discrete problem, pricing that is easy to understand. No other fluff, just the service itself.
Super cool! Impressed by how many there are out there already
I sometimes edit videos for a raptor conservation charity. I found Resolve to be great for standard tasks such as creating videos from multiple input clips, trimming / fading / transitioning and editing out bloopers. It was also excellent for audio editing, e.g. getting rid of background wind noise, etc.

Some of its built-in tools are quite sophisticated, e.g. setting up key frames that follow a moving object (a bird in this case), and then adding tracking 'targeting graticules' or changing orientation from landscape to vertical (i.e. for mobile), but dynamically changing the screen clipping coords so that a bird flying across the landscape view remains central when converted to vertical.

This was all with the free version. I've some prior experience with video editing software so the learning curve wasn't too bad. I did watch some of DaVinci's tutorials to understand the basic conventions, e.g. around the major tool modes, use of the node-graph editor for assembling effects, etc.
If somebody can show me a coding task that LLMs have successfully done that isn't an interview question or a documentation snippet, I might start to value it.

Spending huge amount of resource to be a bit better at autocompleting code doesn't have value to me. I want it to solve significant problems, and it's looking like it can't do it and scaling it to be able to is totally impractical.

> In aggregate, training all 9 Code Llama models required 400K GPU hours of computation on hardware of type A100-80GB (TDP of 350-400W).

That is:
* 45⅔ GPU years
* 160 MWh or...
* 45 average UK homes annual electric consumption
* 18 average US homes
* 64 average drivers annual milage in an EV.

...and that's just the GPUs. Add on all the rest of the system (s).
We offer the WebSockets feature with our Professional Plan. Can you tell me in which sport you are interested?
I wonder if that was on purpose - larger blur radii are generally more expensive to render.
I was not arguing for making anything illegal.

"But that's what the argument was about!" No, it's what the OP was about, but this subthread was about the statement that AI x-risk arguments are "pretty hypothetical". Which, I agree, they are; I just don't see how they could possibly not be, even in possible worlds where in fact they are correct. If that's true, it seems relevant to complaints that the arguments are "hypothetical".

To repeat something I said before: it could still be that they're terrible arguments and/or that they don't justify any particular thing they're being used to justify (like, e.g., criminalizing some kinds of AI research). But if you're going to argue that just because they're "hypothetical" then you need to be comfortable accepting that this is a class of (yes, hypothetical) risk that can never be mitigated in advance, because even if the thing is going to happen we'll never get anything other than "hypothetical arguments" before it actually does.

You may very well be comfortable accepting that. For my part, I find that I am more comfortable accepting some such things than others, and how comfortable I am with it depends on ... how plausible the arguments actually are. I have to go beyond just saying "it's hypothetical!".

If I'm about to eat something and someone comes up to me and says "Don't eat that! The gods might hate people eating those and torture people who do in the afterlife!" then I'm comfortable ignoring that, unless they can give me concrete reasons for thinking such gods are likely. If I'm about to eat something and someone comes up to me and says "Don't eat that! It's a fungus you just picked here in this forest and you don't know anything about fungi and some of them are highly poisonous!" then I'm going to take their advice even if neither of us knows anything about this specific fungus. These are both "hypothetical arguments"; there's no concrete evidence that there are gods sending people who eat this particular food to hell, or that this particular fungus is poisonous. One of them is much more persuasive than the other, but that's for reasons that go beyond "it's hypothetical!".

To repeat once again: I am not claiming that AI x-risk arguments are in fact strong enough to justify any particular action despite their hypothetical-ness. Only that there's something iffy about using "it's only hypothetical" on its own as a knockdown argument.