skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of it is slow realisation that this was always the "end game" of capitalism. Beware Marxist terms, but then he kinda coined the "capitalism" term too! Big simplifications ahead.

Capitalist is an entity who makes money because they own capital. Any actually productive activity (like investments into products/factories/people/etc) are secondary to extracting rent from owning the capital.

Now, for various reasons, few different things dominated over economy in the past:

1) Rate of return on investment for actual production, investment, etc was bigger than for rent extraction. Some of this was due to wars shaking things up, some of it was due to non-availability of (2)

2) Ability to grow capital purely by speculation was limited by physical & legal issues. This is where financial industry/engineering comes in - you can spend all your efforts on pure speculation, do corporate raiding etc. and be shielded from consequences. Same with earning money just by moving money around exploiting sub-second price differences.

3) (2) was less acceptable in the past - but became very much so in the present, even if there's constant grumbling about Wall Street - hell, the amount of people who claim that "maximizing shareholder value" is an actual law you're obligated to follow should be good point about it.

4) Corporate entities are a lot like paperclip optimizers - individuals in them can be individually moral and the corporate entity can still be an amoral profit chaser, especially in face of external stockholders. However, in the past, they faced different limits (legal & physical), different stockholders (less volatility and short-term juggling), and different social pressures.

All of the above combines with increased disconnect in many countries between different social groups and people starting to think that maybe, maybe, there's something weird. Then they look into how some people have been pointing that this is the "pure capitalism", maybe started calling it "late stage capitalism" to compare with more encumbered earlier forms, etc.
Very likely no money was saved by Boeing, composites are almost always more expensive.

Maybe someone with aviation industry knowledge can reply, but my guess is adding a trivial timed shutoff would have triggered an elaborate FAA approval and certification process. That’s probably where the savings were.
A legendary experiment that began in 1988 suggests that evolution is predictable
The leagues and/or teams are too greedy is more like it. You used to be able to watch sports on broadcast (antenna) TV, for free. Then cable channels started bidding up sports contracts, to motivate subscriptions. Then, more recently, streaming services have gotten in on the game. To try to cater to all of them, the leagues (and teams, depending on the sport) have decided to slice and dice the rights, so that some games end up on one platform, and others on another.

Not for nothing, but at some point this has to stop. My suspicion is that the leagues will launch their own streaming platforms, and allow people to buy either subscriptions to their team, or to the full season, perhaps with postseason packages as well. It's what likely SHOULD happen if you want to avoid alienating the fanbases, though in my experience, sports fans seem to be very much in the "thank you mistress, may I have another?" camp.

The idea of being expected to subscribe to 4+ services just to watch all of your team's games is absurd, especially when they're services that you're otherwise not interested in. Of course people are pirating things.
So much cynicism here. Many are quick to dismiss Jetbrains and anticipate the worst. Jetbrains doesn't need me to defend them, but what exactly have they done to deserve this pessimism? Changed CEOs and mentioned AI? In my view, Jetbrains has generally been supportive of developers, making good tools at a fair price while sustaining a successful business model.
PSA for people that believe they are somewhat smart, have cool ideas yet seemingly no power whatsoever to actually work on them. If you believe you are chronically lazy and feel it is causing issues in your life. If you feel you are living at 10% your true potential:

Get tested for ADHD. If that is your problem, know that the chemical fix for it is extremely effective.

It's taken me 30+ years of self-hate, a suggestion en passant from someone that I might have ADHD, diagnosis, medication and my life has completely turned around in ways unimaginable before (3 years and counting).

Email's in the profile if you wanna chat about it.

EDIT: I did write a post last year about my experience and research on the topic: https://combo.cc/adhd/
Unless you have work lined up, no. Assuming you kind of like sales and are good in Salesforce, you should try to leverage that skill set and get a new job pronto. Bootcamps were a difficult proposition before covid, harder during covid and I would say near impossible to land a job now. Anything is possible but I am not sure I would give up on your current trajectory. Have you looked outside of the tech sales world? I don't think the struggle in tech is going away anytime soon.
Absolutely true, but one additional factor (or vector) is that this adds a level of indirection. That is, you're trusting the Quickemu people to take the same diligence you yourself would do when downloading an ISO from, say ubuntu.com for each and every target I can conveniently install with Quickemu.

It's a subtle difference, but the trust-chain could indeed be (mildly) improved by re-distributing the upstream gpg keys.
Over the last few years on HN, I've observed an increase in posts expressing a negative bias towards China. These posts consistently echo similar concerns with every distressing news about Evergrande or China. Occasionally, these accounts intentionally flout guidelines by using their profile for ideological battles [1].

Admittedly, I could have framed the question more politely about the origins of his aversion.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35254063
If you want a really good career in the industry, I sugesset mixing "not smart"/"talentless" with a healthy dose of "lazy, unmotivated or overall not action oriented".

Senior management material.
I see. The risk of Apple crippling non native apps is a good argument. Thanks.
> I love flying on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner

Then you really shouldn't watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvkEpstd9os

TLDW: Critical Dreamliner fuselage parts didn't fit together because workers at the subcontractor (Ducommun) traced a template with magic marker onto the material and cut and drilled the part by hand. Officially, the parts were manufactured by high precision CNC machinery with extremely small tolerances. At Boeing, if drill holes didn't match up in parts A and B, workers were told to just put the parts together and re-drill the hole in part B through the hole in part A, or hammer the parts into place. Internal Boeing investigators who found out and documented the issues were threatened to be sued if they spoke up. They were later fired, after the US government allegedly leaked their identities to Boeing.

Here, a Boeing employee speaks about the work culture in the manufacturing plant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvkEpstd9os&t=1466s
Lectures on Information Theory, Pattern Recognition, and Neural Networks
To me, Kawa is easily the best Lisp that targets the JVM. And I say that hating Scheme. I'm a Common Lisp guy. Because it is really fast, well designed, and mostly Scheme compliant (no call/cc of course). And it has first in class interoperability with Java and the JVM.

After Kawa, I'd pick ABCL. It's not as fast as Kawa and its interoperability isn't nearly as good, but it is effectively a 100% standards-compliant Common Lisp: what more could you ask for?

Only last would I pick Clojure. It's designed to feel "sort of immutable" but this is impossible if you want any degree of interoperability with the JVM. As a result, you wind up with lots of Refs and other fun stuff which in my experience make Clojure much slower than Kawa and ABCL. It's always slower by quite a lot, but in fact I've had a few extreme situations where Clojure would wind up being __literally__ three orders of magnitude slower.
> this is nearly impossible for an public institution to do once the procurement contract is awarded

I think a big part of why these big projects fail is that a procurement contract is absolutely the worst way to decide which vendor to go with. Especially since most of the time, price is a big factor in who wins, and actual price is by far the hardest to pin down for projects of any non-trivial size.

Another big reason is that a lot of people at the top of the organizations on the customer side have little to no actual IT experience, and are too far removed from actual operations.

The best outcomes I've seen in large projects that we have been involved in has been when the customer didn't care too much about the sticker price, had decent IT knowledge up top or knew when to defer, and included people close to operations early on and throughout.
So what? Democracies can't lie? Israel hasn't?
Israeli forces dressed as medics/patients raid West Bank hospital
Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20240130123350/https://www.middl...
Yea, Daniel Spielamn and Shang-Hua Teng won the Gödel Prize for their work on smoothed analysis of simplex algorithms. They introduced a way to formally study the worst case complexity of algorithms when the inputs are randomly perturbed by a small amount.

https://www.di.ens.fr/~vergnaud/algo0910/Simplex.pdf
Except central/distributed planning is orthogonal to capitalism itself.

Capitalism loves centralization and monopolies, it makes rent extraction easier.

But different forces kept competition going, with cartel busting added to the mix to stop capitalism from circling the wagons too much against competition.
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Cloudflare is the largest, unnecessary, impediment on the internet nowadays.
UTM[0] does this quite well on macOS. They also have a small gallery[1] of pre-built images.

0. https://mac.getutm.app/

1. https://mac.getutm.app/gallery/
FOIA Electronic Reading Room
https://archive.ph/zauwC
Planes in general win - if you take out Boeing though, Airbus win by a much larger margin over the last 20 years.
I just don't believe the "close to perfect" story. And I know that those who died while they were not close to perfect yet really don't care that there is this hypotetical future.
I remember when as a young programmer I was fiercely against autocomplete because it impacted my ability to memorize my code.

Now I'm at the stage where I'd prefer to just think at an architectural level and let all of the tedium be abstracted away. Copilot is like autocomplete on crack and I love it.
> They say regulations “ensure safe operation”

Boeing’s statement doesn’t say that.
Isn’t December a high consumption month?
This is just good advice in general. The number one thing that has led to my career success (albeit at the cost of much stress) is following my Grandfather's adage: "Someone has to do it, and it might as well be me." I struggle day-to-day to convey to engineers that a grind is required, and sometimes work just needs to be done. People would rather take 60 hours writing a script, instead of just doing work that takes 10 hours (and I'm not even being facetious with that estimate).
I do freelance security consulting. There's a cultural element to security that, when missing, leads to obvious problems like this. I'm struggling to think of an engagement where I didn't find improperly stored plaintext credentials somewhere. Credential stores are a constant recommendation.
Eyewitness here.
Elon Musk's Neuralink implants brain chip in first human
Is it really so difficult to train other people in the code?

Or is the hero deliberately sabotaging such efforts to maintain scarcity, and thus their higher value?
Boeing explicitly started changing their routine operating procedures in second half 1990s. Unlike some claim, it actually started with a Boeing "lifer", but who also bought into Jack Welch management thought.

They have considerably changed in the last 24 years, with memos about dangers of it coming from Boeing since ~2001, and that it wouldn't be something immediate but "creeping" issue.
> Are you saying that the cancelled orders are due to a management decision/policy, and not a software bug?

The first time the order gets cancelled unintentionally, it's a software bug. Shit happens. When a bug happens, management makes a choice how to respond to that.

When the bug is permitted to persist and result in cancelled orders again and again and again, that's no longer a software bug, that's a management decision to continue to let broken software run rampant and affect their operations.

Think of it as the software equivalent of fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
Legislators are putting people like me at risk for the sake of innovation. And nobody cares since our demographic is so small. Its horrifying.
"Added District 1 Supervisor Connie Chan: I will waive rent for living in his head." What a based response.
are there any docs on setting up togetherAI with continue.dev? would be interested in checking that out as an alternative to OpenAI for experimenting with larger models that won't run/run well on a m1 max.
I agree with you, but it's also worth noting that Boeing is one of the "too big to fail" industries tightly coupled to the government. It's too valuable to the DoD to let fail.

There are several industries (microchips have recently become one) where finance has figured out the normal rules around competition don't matter. Boeing can capture the upside and there is virtually zero risk of bankruptcy or being nationalized from mistakes.
Stock chart as a landscape image:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/i8saks/ive...

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/ic2i0k/oc_...

And I also like these "races" basically a timelapse of a chart:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/f68fzr/oc_...

And whatever anvaka does, all can be tried out in the browser:

https://github.com/anvaka?tab=repositories&q=&type=&language...

Some examples of their work:

https://github.com/anvaka/map-of-reddit

Video Demo: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/12pem68/oc...

Similarly, map of GitHub

https://github.com/anvaka/map-of-github

Or package manager visualizations:

https://github.com/anvaka/pm

Google search completion visualizations

https://github.com/anvaka/vs
The precise number doesn't matter if it would be unacceptable at an order of magnitude lower.
Hopefully that's it. In the previous generation only the PRO parts had ECC and those were only sold to OEMs.
A few days ago, my girlfriend installed Corel Draw 10 in Windows 11 and it just amazed me how long good software keeps working.

Corel Draw 10 is over 20 years old, and it still works. With installation wizard and everything.
I am such dev. It’s not up to us. It’s up to our management. We would love to engineer good quality EMR, but upper management wouldn’t let us.
> I mean, if humans need to listen to far fewer examples to create music than an LLM needs to parse sound files, they're obviously not doing the same thing, are they?

If I need much longer to run a marathon than an athlete, is that because my body is not doing the same things as the athlete, or just because it's doing all the same things but doing them worse?

If a (clinical) moron tries to learn a song, and it takes a lifetime, why? (Do we even understand human brains well enough to answer that? Not my field).

> there are selections of notes played over the top which are a function of fundamental musical properties of consonance and dissonance, scale runs the instrument is suited to as well as licks that may have been directly borrowed

How do you learn what these things are? What do "consonance and dissonance" mean in terms of why they make you feel the way they do, and why can't an AI learn those things from examples? The qualia, that AI hopefully doesn't have but we can't tell because we don't have a test for that?

Danse Macabre (Camille Saint-Saëns) was rejected at the time for how it sounded. The early cultural rejection of Blues seems to me like it was more probably racist excuses than artistic preferences, which is why I'm picking a non-Blues example.

> reasons of easy improvisation … [all the other things in the previous quote, I hope this is a fair cut] … the final output is dependent heavily on the actual capabilities of the artist to play and singer, which obviously aren't simply lifted from their favourite artists' recordings.

If I put the AI into a robot (or simulated) body, and the limits of that body constrained the capabilities of the output, those limit themselves make it OK? Constrain it to MIDI rather than a full waveform?

This doesn't seem like it would change the answer, to me.
So much to dig through here.

>Wood shows full video, "reportedly with internet connectivity issues from his home computer"

There's one for the back to office lot.

>wheels were moving at different speeds (because one wheel was spinning on pedestrian's leg)

Eurgh.

But in general, this is Cruise learning what traditional car companies already knew - you need to act with integrity. I don't see how senior executives at cruise could reasonably be allowed to continue to work in any safety critical industry after this.
I think you hinted at the real reason but didn’t spell it out.
There are no protocols to follow, lists of checkboxes to check, or “perpetrators” to harass in a self-driving car collision (I have to remind myself to avoid the word accident).
At least that is my guess.

It is important to remember
I think that to the police officers this is just a day in their job they are clocking in and out.
They are just following their instructions.
It might be life changing for someone who got hit but the world just keeps spinning.
The OS/2 and Win95 days were a wild ride. I remember being paid by Microsoft to hand out copies of CDs entitled "Arrive in Chicago earlier than expected" to students at the University of Waterloo back in Sept 1993 (I was a student there at the time) - it held a mashup of OS/2 and Win95 that was bizarre to say the least.
You stated it much better than I. There are some things I appreciate about Javier Milei (e.g. rejection of Communism, which has been disastrous), but it seems like he ignores the half of economics he doesn't agree with such as saying "market failures are impossible". That's an obviously false statement as negative externalities do most certainly exist and politics is a real thing. The only thing I can think of is that they're okay with the problems getting REALLY bad and then letting the market try to fix them, which is just dumb. If you made antibiotics super cheap and available to all and they became even more overused, millions could die from antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria. Sure that might spur some new developments, but it's no guarantee. We might just be back in the dark ages prior to having effective treatments for common ailments. But hey...at least the market isn't infringed on (sarcasm). I do understand their frustration with the beauracracy of government and how parasitic it can be.
In Germany cleanings are not covered, neither are Periodontitis treatments and also not even basic implants, only bridges.

In the Netherlands dental work is not covered at all for adults (besides pulling teeth by a surgeon)

You would have to get additional private dental insurance which only covers a certain percentage (mostly 50-75%) and is capped at around 750 Euros per annum while costing almost the same per annum.

Source: German living in NL and now having to pay out of my backside for Periodontitis treatment no matter if in Germany or NL
Hope the M3 Ultra Studio comes along soon. Would be great to get a cpu/gpu of that level + the ram capacity it would likely be able to handle.
It’s a deflationary currency. No one is incentivized to spend it.
Also don’t forget scale—-in/out might have ‘dozens’ of restaurants but McDonald’s has ‘thousands’.

They also have software that was developed entirely in house that is unbelievably optimized. Weird, but usable. They are a company that fully understands the problem space they operate in. Hospitals should be doing everything they can to run like them but no one likes to hear that.
> Imagine people had the option when buying a car, truck or minivan of having it be open and tinkerable?

[...]

> There are places for safe experimentation like tracks, so I don’t see why this fear isn’t irrational or a ploy for control.

I don't think many people track modded minivans. "No the Subaru WRX is my DD, my main track car is a Honda Odyssey"
I'm aware they're different and apologize for getting off topic. It wasn't my intent.
These conspiracy theories have been around for years, it's not new.

I have no idea if they are true or not, but certainly the people that believe them do not have evidence.
We see this so often with customers. They'll insist on doing stuff in some bass-ackwards way.

We keep resisting though, and most of the time we get them to come around and thanking us later for the push-back and helping them evolve.
You are not.

I really dislike discord as anything else than a platform for disposable communication, e.g. between friends and stuff, but people have this tendency of using it as the prominent platform for support questions and even as documentation. And together with terrible search, and no search indexing, it's just terrible when you need to search for a solution.
Is neither an option. A thing has to be owned by some entity. That entity has a choice of being profit making or not.

You may not be satisfied with either of those choices, but that's a separate issue.

A non profit still needs funds. The need for funds is going to create conflicts.

Ultimately it come down to, do you want the millions that raspberry pi is making, going to some venture capitalist. Or do you want it going to some non profit.

If they do decide to milk the cash cow, at least that money is going somewhere hopefully better for society.
And it is in this sense kind of a smart move if you do not want to pay for a lawyer and there is no bug bounty program with T&Cs: journalists can protect their sources. However, you then somehow need to make sure that they waive potential hacking charges. Funnily in the quoted case one of the reasons for the fines was damages related to involving the press.
Someone screwed up marketing. I would have bought one. Never even heard they were on the market. Never saw one in person outside E3, where the line was so long I never got to try it.
Yes, one day in the future we will find a use for bitcoin finally. It has been 15 years and we still don't have a really great use case for it but it will happen.
It happened also with the Windows Store once, some reviewer wrote me months after publication about how our app made with Electron would not work on Windows 10 S, a special niche version of Windows with hardened security where apps were installable only from the Windows Store (Apple distopia trying to spread).

In the end we got away with writing at the top a warning "IMPORTANT: This app works with Windows 10 Pro and Home but not with Windows 10 S."
Which is still there 7 years later:

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9N8X83NF9ZR9?hl=en-US&gl=U...
Maximize shareholder value, they said…

(as well as my quarterly bonus - if it goes wrong, there’s always my golden parachute ;)
I think you misunderstood the post, they mean that the original purpose of Javascript has been misused (with mostly the fault lying on the web stack) instead of it being a bad language.
It's same for fasting, your body wants clarity for you to be able to hunt & provide food. After a meal you rest & digest. Take Lions after a meal, even though we are different it's a common pattern.
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