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You are 100% correct about AI today, however, I feel people are way too fast at making a final assessment of what AI can and cannot do as if it was set in stone. People seem so sure that the problems AI are having now are just intrinsic and just won't be overcome.

But think about what computers were like when they first hit the market. What about the first year of public internet? Or the first generation of cellphones. These technologies also had major issues and shortcomings that would, if not improved, severely limit their usefulness.

Nobody knows what AI will be like in 5 to 10 years with the burst of investment and focus that this past year has ensured.
> because social security numbers are assigned sequentially by geographic region so if you know someone’s SSN you can get their date of birth or vice versa.

This has been false for decades. (early '90s, I think?)
What Singapore did best is sit between China and US and try to benefit from both ends.
sounds like a fair compromise, if google hadnt been doing that for many years (the damage is already done)
You could probably do a 90% musk off and still be fine for years at YouTube. Maybe keep the content moderation team though… but developers could go. YouTube does not need new features just maintenance at this point
Whoah! Thanks for this. Was fun to connect with another hacker over morning coffee.
SSNs are no longer distributed in that fashion. They are randomly assigned since 2011. But they also weren't sequential. They were divided up by regions and doled out to more local areas.
I amortize a server because you buy it now, it does work, then is eventually obsolete and you toss it.

Does a developer keep doing work for me after he quits/dies?
> Everyone is worried about the concentration of economic power in the hands of a small number of people.

Everyone? Are they tho'? Sure most people grumble about those at the top of the financial food chain, how many are truly worried? If so many people were worried it would be a political issue (e.g., POTUS campaigns) it is not. In fact, the Democrats (of all parties) are all but ignoring the issue and Joe is all in on Don being public enemy #1. Yeah, fucking ironic. Ignore the root cause and blame a symptom. You couldn't script a better distraction.

/rant

All that aside, I wish this article would have spent more time on AI. How it changes the paradigm? What will be the upsides and down? Sure, no one can predict the future but this writer could have taken a crack.
Thanks for linking to SBBAlliance and for the kind words! But seriously, thank me when it’s fixed. (Counting chickens before they’ve hatched, etc etc)
Everybody knows its always been pronounced ‘gif’.
> It says nothing about users being compromised.

Making my point. It doesn't mean users weren't compromised. And even if it did, that doesn't make it so for every security breach.
Yes to chat, no to discord.
I tested getting off spotify last year, but the other apps were so bare bones and featureless. I tried most of the popular ones, Quboz, Tidal, Spotify, Apple music, youtube music, amazon music.. i think 1-2 others. Thankfully there's an app called soundiiz that for like $2-3 will sync all of your music app playlists/favs/etc to one another.

ALL of them had absolutely useless/bad Android Auto/Carplay apps. I know at least half of them (quboz tidal for sure) didn't have a way to search in the car app. Quboz or Tidal didn't even display your subscribed albums/playlists. I forget exactly but I think I could only play their recommended stuff. Exacts are off here but I remember specifically sitting in my car with both of those apps wondering why I couldn't figure how to play my fav playlist or search for an artist.

Then the social stuff. I share collab playlists with a few friends. Apples adding these feautures IIRC. Surely not important to most people but they really make the other apps just feel barebones. I like gamification, rewinds, badges, etc.

The Carplay thing is the killer for me, though.
Might be “largely” true but ignore the existence of just cheap people who will not pay for anything unless they have to.
It's a bad example anyway since Mondriaan has been dead since 1944 and all copyright on his works have expired.
There are many attempts at using attention-less approaches to the architecture, and Markov Chains being one of them. Nothing to compete with transformers yet though, AFAIK. Some people experiment with graph-based rules systems, like very smartly compressed grammars (otherwise the task is NP-Hard i think).
You still can buy albums if you want. New, used, digital. Lots of options.
You are mixing up EU and Switzerland, employment laws are very different (and each EU state has its own, but generally much more protective of employees than Swiss ones).

One of the reasons Google has long term big center in Zurich, if grass would be greener (since cheaper it is) in say Germany or Austria they would build there
70-300k is a crazy wide range to lump together. Quality of life and flexibility to pay for things is extremely different across it.

That said, the reason is simple, there’s no good product out there so people pirate. I haven’t pirated music in ages because Spotify solved that industry with a single reasonably priced offering.

On the other hand the dozens of streaming services have gotten out of hand by now. Same with renting movies, I’d rather enjoy in the cinema or torrent it, especially given how mediocre 95% of production has been in recent years.
Between this and the horror stories coming out of the Midwest[1] it is not a good week for Tesla

1. https://www.npr.org/2024/01/16/1224913698/teslas-chicago-cha...
Slightly? I opened the page before completely processing the title and panicked like a boy forgetting to close his porn before bringing his laptop to school. Don't just invade my personal space like that.
That's good advice.. it's especially useful in an Earley design because it is much faster when it doesn't have to keep explicit back references for derivation, but those references are needed for explaining the current context. Adding a switch for keeping/discarding history (and a compiler pass for whether or not to fold the epsilon-DFA into collapsed states, "NNF" style) would automate the fast-vs-slow|informative variants. Add in some debug-only output in postprocessors and it wouldn't really need any syntactical changes to the parser generator. I may try this soon..
If you are a one man startup it doesn’t apply. This would only matter for employee salary.
> There were two strings printed with labels “SSID” and “Pwd”. I froze in horror. They wouldn’t dare. It is literally 3 meter distance. These are embedded devices, they do not need this complexity…

> Socket.IO! Wow, I honestly did not expect that. Client literally needs to receive 5 numbers from the server, Socket.IO seems to be a complete overkill for this usecase.

> The client code also looks very complicated for what it does. There are at least 6 RequireJS modules, all loading dynamically through different requests of course. There is Handlebars, Backbone.js, Underscore.js

I just kept getting more incredulous throughout this article. No way someone would put in that much effort for a device like this. The laziest option is usually the most common in software development. I guess in this case, it's not.
TM Forum provides a bloated format. It has everything and a kitchen sink. This means that something simple like customer name can be written in multiple places, and different architects will recommend different location. Two different silos within same company won't be able to talk to each other because although they are using same format, they interpret the usage different.

Additionally, this is XML/XSD, different teams will end up using different version of the standard. They won't be able to interface with each other without additional layers of translations. It is not uncommon for one team to need to load multiple versions of the XSDs because different end points use different versions.
I've always heard that a large component of the military to civilian transition is going from a highly structured environment where you're told what to do and where to be to a completely unstructured one where it's up to you to make it up as you go along; viewed along that axis it makes perfect sense that high religious attendance would make for a much less jarring transition.
Classic. When I worked in industrial automation, I use to refer to the moment when testing said automation would fail, as the "john henry test".
Adam Savage – Worst Thing That Can Happen to Someone Who Gets Famous [video]
I recently got into microcontrollers and one of the most surprising things to me was the low cost and small size of ESP32s with wifi. Having grown up at a time when it wasn't unusual to buy a PCI card for your desktop computer that added wifi capability I had assumed that we'd still be looking at a target large device that goes for ~$20+ to get WiFi. Explicitly thinking about the ubiquity of cheap devices with wifi around me would immediately correct this view, but I had never done that and I'm sure many others haven't either
I do wonder how far off-topic you are prepared to go here?

I’m around if you ever reach a point where your ego allows you to get past the earlier error. It is okay that your comment wasn’t thought through. Nobody cares. For the sake of kindness, I will continue to partake in this diversion therapy if that’s what you need to get through it, but know that I’m more interested in the original topic.
Huuuuge thanks to Michele for leading the charge on this.
They fixed calls like days ago, were awful. But whatsapp is still better for calls imho. With the pace of innovation, even being very late in the game, but very focused, Telegram has very chance to outpace most apps in 2-5 years.
Tangentially, I think Malta is a fascinating place. It’s the only country in the EU, AFAIK, with a Semitic language. it’s unique culture, the history with Hospitaller knights, ancient buildings, the fact that it’s and island … all are very interesting. I’d love to visit in this lifetime.

HN’ers of Maltese origin: what are some interesting aspects of your country?
> I write software. I want to get paid too, right? Why shouldn't they?

How about the Spotify client being crap? Can't believe this is the top comment on HN.
Give me a link to download your game without spyware and I pay for that.

I buy games on gog. I buy games without drm on steam. I absolutely refuse to install ring 0 Internet-connected malware on my computer to play a fucking game.
Exactly! And under that lens all fundamentals applying to analog also apply to digital: that they are inherently unstable and that noise will always win in the long run.

Which sounds at the very least imprecise to me, considering that I'm writing it on a digital (and therefore analog) computer.
yes, and I agree with 99% of what you said. Just not your usage of worthy. I thought I was extremely clear on this point
> Well I feel like that would be ok if 1) they told you this 2) it actually gave you those relevant results

indeed, and the fact they don't tell you many things like... common ethics would require to, makes the whole service even more... despicable.
Well, ironically enough the job scene is the same (or rather even worse) in India. College placements, even in the mass "IT sweatshops" have crashed catastrophically and overall recruitment is at its lowest.
>>Hilarious that I’m sending your own words back to you.

I don't know if it's hilarious, more like unhelpful at best, rude at worst .

>>I saw minutely energy readings from customers with my own eyes. It was a lot of data

It wasn't "live" data though, was it? Just a breakdown of usage per-minute, but uploaded in batches, right? And which energy supplier was that? Because with Octopus you can only get live data by installing an extra(and optional) device called Octopus mini, their SMET2 meters have no such capability.
Just checked, yep, London raised about $12 billion in 2023, compared to France at about $9 billion and Germany at about $8 billion.
I'm using it on a few workloads running on Fly.io to back it up to S3.
It has generally been a good experience.

I suggest taking a look at the replica settings (https://litestream.io/reference/config/#replica-settings) and making sure the default values work for you.

Using both the default retention (24h) and snapshot (24h) intervals will not give you 24h of data history.
This happens because any snapshots older than 24h will be deleted.
Granted, you'll have another snapshot ready, but it will only contain a short history of your DBs changes.

Also, test restore times. If you need to restore in a hurry, having to download 24h of wal logs can take a while.

I started using it during a time when it was unmaintained (between v0.3.9 and v0.3.10).
There were a few bugs I hit, e.g. memory usage spikes.
Shout out to hifi, who created patches and was active at the Slack community.
I relied on his fork for a while, nice to see it integrated on main.
tEchniCalLy, oNe biT PeR cHaRAcTER, bUT iN reALITy, nOT MuCH mORe aCTuAL iNForMaTIon
Fully agree. If this was a text first, voice if you want thing that would be much nicer and accessible too.
> Musician deserve to be paid for their work

Nobody prevents them from doing live performances, you know?
This is interesting to me because I recently made a website for a niche type of product and was denied Amazon Affiliate.

“We want an associate site to be one that adds value to the customer by giving them insight on a subject or product they might not get easily.”

Listing all of the products available (Amazon and elsewhere) in one place (there are like 20 total ) so a shopper could compare features seemed liked it would suffice.

Perhaps I should reformat the website to be like Diskprices and try again.
Lots of time and money. It’s a cool project though.
I didn't hear the TRON/TROFF thing from the video, so I also won't trust comments made regarding a video by someone who hasn't watched it.

It was something that I heard around when the original Tron was released which I saw in theatres.
I pay and would still like an alternative client. The official one has several annoying deficiencies that are unlikely to ever be addressed.

From a monetary standpoint, most companies would throw me into a wood chipper were it profitable. Hard to feel any sense of “fair behavior” is warranted when that’s the case.
They are available in the sizes I mentioned, plus 2A – https://www.farnell.com/datasheets/1683350.pdf – and your comment made me actually look up the regulation out of curiosity as I know I have seen some of those other sizes in the lab! The wiring regs are enforced in statute by The Plugs and Sockets (Etc) Statutory Instrument 1994 [1] which mandates the compliance of two British standards, BS 1362 and BS 1363 for fuses and plugs respectively. The exact wording of BS 1363 (at least the version of it I can access) is

> [...] all rewirable plugs shall be marked on the engagement surface with the rated current. All non-rewirable plugs shall be marked with the rated current of the fuse link fitted, which shall not exceed the value given in Table 2 for the appropriate size of flexible cord

Table 2 itself prescribes a maximum fuse rating of 3 A or "(5 A)" [see below] for a conductor cross-sectional area of 0.5 mm^2, and 13 A for all larger conductor areas (0.75, 1, 1.25, and 1.5 mm^2). It is entitled "Rated current and maximum fuse rating in normal use, and load for flexing and cord grip tests related to size of flexible cord"

> [...] The figure in brackets indicates the fuse rating when a non rewirable plug is used with certain types of equipment where the use
of a 5 A fuse link is necessary because of the high instantaneous inrush current

So there we go, I think – we're all sort of right. Thanks for sending me down this rabbit hole!

[1] https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/1768/made
Yeah, I'm on a discord for tracking 4090 prices/stock. So it's a lot of gamers who can afford a $2k video card.

I'd say 70% of the people in that discord pirate everything.
> I think I wish that both the Android Play Store and the iOS App Store required apps to launch the user's browser for all 3rd party websites.

Meanwhile Google built the Custom Tabs feature[1] to push Android devs into the exact opposite direction: Even when the app just wants to open an unrelated page (e.g. from a user-provided link), its now encouraged to open the page in a "custom tab" instead of the default browser - with the explicit goal of keeping the user from leaving the app because precious precious engagement etc...

Naturally, there is no systemwide setting for users to turn it off, you have to find the setting for each app separately (or rather hope it has a setting at all).

[1] https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2023/02/bringing-b...
Link 1 is wrong
Maybe if you subscribe to labor theory of value. Most people wouldn't consider someone making 6 figures as earning "peanuts" because the company they work for is making even more money from their labor.
There's still a million ways it can fail. The person can be on vacation, the address could be a P.O. Box, the person could be in a hospital, their phone could be dead, etc. Handling all the edge cases would make such a simple system immediately complex.
I would actually pay extra for proper open-source, minimal win32 client for spotify which runs every damn winbox. This electron apps Spotify been trying to get right for so many years is such a waste of information and cpu cycles sometimes. Can't believe a company which manages such enormous amount of data is so bad at UI
Too spicy for you? Im fine. Get mad more, lots to be mad at and fight for.
Who says computers can't do allocation?
There are other factors here besides price to choose this client. Privacy and no usage/analytics spyware are some big ones, as well as native apps on desktop.
Lol, I quickly spun one up, will need HN profile verification with a minimum of 80 points. Come over. Will delete this if less than 20 people after a week. https://discord.gg/nTW9FST2Zn
> A question is, is it possible to advance technology to fulfill the green revolution without changing the value of human creativity due to the creation/advancement of genAI?

I have to admit not quite sure what you mean, and I do admit full guilt in starting us down the path of "mixed analogies" :). I'll try my best, though.

> Or past a certain point, the results of discovering improved health and ecological outcomes will become inextricably linked with discovering new technologies that cause conflict? What actually drives such a process?

I do think with respect to life-sustaining things -- medicine, pharma, food, shelter, water, energy -- that a combination of specialization and automation is necessary to increase the collective standard of living, and that labor alienation stems from a combination of specialization and automation.

Where I struggle is coming up with an affirmative argument that an artist should benefit from automation of medicine or farming, but that an alienated lab tech or food factory worker should not benefit from automated art.

Another way to look at this is: the less you pay for art-as-entertainment, the more resources you have to buy free time to produce your soul-work (whatever that may mean to you).
I'd say Japan (China followed Singapore in development).
I actually don't mind ads. They're fine. The classified section of newspapers used to fund journalism in the US. Someone's got to pay Clark Kent, after all.

What I do mind is algorithmic targeting. On the ad serving front, it funds an entire industry that does nothing but violate people's basic human right to privacy. On the personalized recommendation front, it provides a strong incentive for publishers to produce click-bait.

There's one commercially viable corner of the internet that hasn't been ruined by this: Podcasts.

Spotify is trying to ruin that too. Screw them.

Also, if you're looking for a decent music service, consider something privacy preserving like Apple Music, or (better) something that uses metadata-based targeting, like Tidal.

I find most of my music by following hyperlinks in album / band reviews that were written by actual humans. There's a button for that in Tidal. I've heard Amazon Music has such a button as well. I've also found listening to high-quality (local) radio stations with good DJ's is a goldmine, as are music podcasts.

I've also found that non-tailored recommendations (people who like album X like album Y, grouping of opening acts with bands, and, when done right, old-fashioned display ads) also provide a decent signal, since they're typically curated or use the things I just mentioned as signal (instead of using your cookware preferences, or sexual orientation, or whatever).

In addition to being the ethical alternative, it turns out that having bands and critics list things that influenced an album or were influenced by an album is a much better way to explore the space of modern music than via payola with a dollop of high-dimensional clustering.

So, in addition to the ad blocker, I'm not paying for anything that tries to spoon-feed me payola or clickbait.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvhv7bgmz64
How to remove type annotations from your project
> especially given how mediocre 95% of production has been in recent years

Okay, then don’t watch it. If you’re watching it, though, you should pay for it. Your logic is the equivalent of going out to restaurants to eat, and then not paying because “restaurants aren’t good these days.”
I have two theories where people end up wanting them:

(1) Circumstances that for some reason enforce the requirement that sysadmin type ppl always have to be able to downgrade / roll back deployments without "the developers" producing new builds or sw artifacts. A separation of ops and dev teams, where you decide you need to survive an inability to make or procure new software builds on demand, and just dig up old deployment artifacts to use after down migration. There are a lot of wrong reasons to do this in inhouse sw settings, but also I guess the classic "we bought a 3rd party server app and plugged it into our onprem database", like Jira or something.

(2) Systems that are technically unable to recover from errors happening in db migrations (missing transactional schema change feature in db and/or application doing db related stuff that can't be rolled back at deployment time). So the down migration is more like a hand coded rollback for the migration that will be automatically run in the failure case of a deployment.

In both cases I can see how the "what happens to data in new columns" situation might still work out. In the (2) case it's sort of obvious, there's no new data yet. In the (1) case you live with it or choose the backup restore path - I can see scenarios where you decide it'd be much worse to restore from backup and lose people's entered data for couple of days, or however it took to find the showstopper for the upgrade, vs run the down migration and just lose new feature related data. (Which you could also rehearse and test beforehand with backups)
It's not irrelevant to why Eindhoven is how it is today, in the same way that HP is a split-up shadow of what is former influential self, but it's partly why Google now is in Silicon Valley.
What happens when you trigger a car's automated emergency stopping?
There is no better alternative, and at least Parliament operates fairly transparently.

It is the rest of government (civil servants and agencies, as well as politicians) that is the real problem.
Personally I recommend you check if your favoured artist is on Bandcamp and buy their music DRM free. The artist will get 85% or 90%, Bandcamp will take 15% or 10% (based on sales volume).

As a hypothetical, if you found them selling an album for $5 and you bought it to download on Bandcamp, they'd earn $4.50, which is about the same as streaming their songs about 400 times on Tidal, 1,000 times on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music or Deezer, or 4,000 times on YouTube, Pandora or SoundCloud
a minimum of 100 points

Dude you've got 88 points and 6 months