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Sure. I think this is simply an idiosyncratic aspect of our personalities. While you find those online people who might be friends but live far away feels isolating, I find that getting to know the people who read and comment on my blog over months and years (sometimes we email back and forth) creates a real bond, much like like the epistolary friendships of the nineteenth century conducted only by mail between people who never actually met IRL. Some of my daily readers have been commenting for 15-20 years!
High Rise has one of the greatest opening paragraph I have ever read…

“Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building during the previous three months. Now that everything had returned to normal, he was surprised that there had been no obvious beginning, no point beyond which their lives had moved into a clearly more sinister dimension. With its forty floors and thousand apartments, its supermarket and swimming-pools, bank and junior school-all in effect abandoned in the sky-the high-rise offered more than enough opportunities for violence and confrontation. Certainly his own studio apartment on the 25th floor was the last place Laing would have chosen as an early skirmish-ground. This over-priced cell, slotted almost at random into the cliff face of the apartment building, he had bought after his divorce specifically for its peace, quiet and anonymity. Curiously enough, despite all Laing's efforts to detach himself from his two thousand neighbours and the regime of trivial disputes and irritations that provided their only corporate life, it was here if anywhere that the first significant event had taken place-on this balcony where he now squatted beside a fire of telephone directories, eating the roast hind-quarter of the alsatian before setting off to his lecture at the medical school.”
The TLD is literally .fun
If you are a designer and think about this all day, you might have reason to take offense. Here's a humorous look from the designer's side: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ
It’s also great for sending a swat team to your house, which might have a bit more sudden of an impact than the change you’re envisioning.
Possible for the already famous or fabulously wealthy, with enough preexisting prestige to make people care about their work prior to investigating its content.
I read a couple of Xanadu papers recently and my conclusion is that it failed to get big because it was mostly vaporware and when it finally delivered something it was much less than the press. The papers are interesting to read, but brilliant non-beings will always lose to more pedestrian beings. The story reminded me quite a bit of Chandler in "Dreaming in Code" by Scott Rosenberg.

Don't get me wrong, if you read Ted Nelson writing about Xanadu uncritically, you'll get a tale of utopia denied and genius tortured, but the reality seems much more prosaic.

Edit: I should also add that the web as originally built has real advantages over Xanadu. In order to implement its universal transclusion and DRM (yes, Xanadu had a scheme for DRM and micropayments to creators), Xanadu had to be centralized. I'd argue this is worse both socially and technologically. Adding DRM to the infrastructure of the web is something that I would really hate.
The robocalls are already using the automated software-based infrastructure, not the old copper lines with analog calls.
Disagree. My kids play stuff on the HomePod on the kitchen, or I do - we chat - ‘what’s that?’ If I like it I add to my library. We hear a tune on TV or a movie sound track, find out what it is and research the rest if the bands stuff. I muck about with the Discovery station, discover bands I never otherwise would, add them to playlist that get played in the car. Etc etc.
Why cant they make all robocalls illegal? Name me one good robocall
Free energy ! Who'da thunk it ?
Isn't that what askpass does in every modern Linux desktop UI?
блять, with the soft sign on the end, not блят.

Or wait, is it блядь?
That’s not how I read the second point. More low paid workers will of course suppress average wages, but that says nothing about the wages of an individual longitudinally
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A meter is a displacement vector with a basis vectorthe length of the path travelled by light in a vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second.

In physics the length of the basis vector is set to 1 if possible which is called 'natural units'

But the SI system is the domain of Metrology, not physics.
Is that real? There are plenty of references to Zero Wing on the website for the Zig language.
> Mercifully, C does not have exceptions

This made me smile, because while yes, C just segment faults. I think there’s a way to handle segmentation fault? Or is it just the OS that kills the process when it tries to access an invalid memory address?
Familia Toledo: The most inexpensive computer USD $99.00 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28337064 - Aug 2021 (69 comments)

Ask HN: What was the family that made their own computers all by themselves? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35070858 - March 2023 (3 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20570154 (July 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8133433 (Aug 2014)
I feel this, and it's pretty dismaying. I'm ok enough with Apple still, but I do question it frequently. I'm watching closely the Asahi project and Haiku (I know, orthogonal approach) on the desktop and constantly questioning my use of smartphones. I don't love the walled garden that Apple has become, either.
There is rampant misunderstanding of some parts of this article; allow me to help :)

The "no-search" chess engine uses search (Stockfish) in in two ways:

1. To score positions in the training data. This is only training data, no search is performed when actually playing.

2. To play moves when the position has many options with a 99% win rate. This is to prevent pathological behavior in already won positions, and is not "meaningful" in the objective of grandmaster-level play.

Thus, "without search" is a valid description.
But it wouldn't make a lot of sense to add this to a generic music player .. whatever the modern winamp is.

It just comes down to that management/browse/search task dwarfs the playback code.

I'd rather have small apps that do one thing well, not a megaapp that does all things badly.
> weird and tough to use, presumably due to a fruitless bid to target the pros.

Have you tried the phone app? It’s fantastic, and easy to use. I assume the expectation is that if you are opening Garageband on a Mac these days, you “graduated” from the phone.

> fruitless bid to target the pros.

I personally know multiple musicians who have albums on streaming services that they made in Garageband.
> things are plainly obvious.

To you. You are projecting.
Why is admin privilidge even a thing? Ask for the god damn specific resource you want access to and I'll answer yes or no!
It’s generally a common trope in fantasy and Romanticist literature. It’s also a word that exists in virtually all European languages in a similar form (bard, bardo, barde, бард), although similar but different forms may be a negative.
Standardized testing does not aim to be a perfect evaluation, it aims to be a good enough evaluation that can be made highly resistant to corruption/bribery relative to its qualitative alternatives.
For some reason I think penguins would taste very rich and gamey. I think I'm imagining this due to their cold resistance implying large amounts of fat. Anyone know?
The pharmacy calling to tell me that my prescription is ready. Those may be AI-generated too if they add the medication name in. Not sure if that's covered by this ruling though.
1994: In the next room from me at Memex Corp. poor Keith Henson was draped over a chair (due to a bad back) working, alone, on the C++ Xanadu code to debug garbage collection among other things, because the original Smalltalk source had been lost. Memex Corp. was early enough in HTTP's development of lock-in network effects, that its acquisition of Xanadu _might_ yet have turned the tide. Why had the Smalltalk code been lost? Well, all I can tell you as that from my work with Roger (starting in 1996 on a rocket engine) that my understanding of events differs from that reported in Wired (and most others including, to some extent, Roger himself) and involves some pretty, shall we say, "bad behavior" on the part of certain parties that were more than a little partial to C++. Since this is hearsay, I won't go into more depth stating things "as fact". But it is pretty clear to me that the effort and investment put into making HTML, JS, etc. de facto standards, combined with Memex's acquisition of Xanadu rights (and potential willingness to open up the Xanadu protocols and implementation) at that critical juncture was fatally hampered by the C++-only handicap suffered by the Xanadu source.

Why didn't I step in and help poor Keith? Ever heard of Croquet's TeaTime?

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/1094855.1094861

I was in a position to resurrect at least _that_ much of the original work I'd one at Viewtron Corp. of America based on David P. Reed's PhD thesis, and Reed was just down the street from us at Interval Research at that time, which rather tempted me away from helping Keith, even if I'd been authorized to do so, which I wasn't.
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It is complicated. Most people in Poland do consider themselves part of Europe, sometimes even part of the West. At the same time people in Poland often contrast the West (as in Western Europe and US) with Poland and perceive west as something different and better. It is sort of post colonial mentality but with a twist, because it is not tied to race. This idealised “West” is often very far from real situation in Western Europe. On the other part of the spectrum you got polish conservatives who see west as degraded and fallen. They used to say things like: France no longer exists. Meaning France is not what it used to be; it is not true west because they lost the spirit of real west.
You are not me though.
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Schools still use GarageBand a lot in the UK. It doesn’t seem that weird.
Alas! Once it has the benediction of the CBC, it has the weight of the federal government behind it. (only half-joking...)
The Bard name gave me a warm fuzzy feeling immediately transporting me back to my youth playing (or at least trying to play) Bard's Tale. The name evoked adventure, excitement and a good dose of dread. And, the idea of it being "role playing" struck me as a master meta stroke.

Gemini, from the mythological standpoint, seemed to make more sense to me from an overall business/marketing standpoint. "This AI thing right here is your twin, see? It'll finish your sentences and stuff."
Like, how to keep your roommates from eating the pizza you left in the refrigerator.
I mean, if we're talking right now -- it absolutely has not. IDC predicts ~12 million AR/VR headset shipments in 2024, which is up 46% from 2023 (which was down 8.3% from 2022) but the Apple Watch, even though it had massive sales declines in 2023, was estimated to have sold 36-38 million units in 2023 [2]. Its wearables category did $39 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2023, which analysts estimate about half is attributable to Apple Watch.

So right now, the entire AR/VR category is expected to ship 1/3 of the number of units of just the Apple Watch. Even if Apple sells 180,000 AVPs all with an MSRP of $4000 (so I'm being extra generous here), that's only $720m in revenue, or less than 3.7% of Apple Watch sales.

And that doesn't even factor in all the Apple Watch units that are in use, which realistically, is probably 125 - 150 million units.

Does that mean AVP or headsets like it won't ever achieve Apple Watch-like sales or adoption? Not at all. But it certainly isn't now and it's probably doing the category a disservice to expect it to reach those heights anytime soon, let alone pretend that just because awareness is super high that sales are guaranteed to follow.

[1]: https://www.idc.com/promo/arvr
[2]: https://medium.com/@mingchikuo/apple-watch-estimates-and-pre...
It “should” be
"Python is slow." <--- HN commenters like "gipp" will be unable to control their urge to "defend" their favorite scripting language. They will interpet this statement to mean nonsense such as "this is somehow an evil thing that Python should be shunned for". They will treat this statement as an invitation to discuss the "tradeoffs" of Python.

Let's try this one more time. "Python is slow. It's bloated. I do not use it."

There is nothing about "secrets" or "evil" or "moral crusade" or some other hyperbolic nonsense. There is nothing to interpret. I do not care about Python's tradeoffs. I do not care why it is slow.

More replies rambling on about Python only ilustrate the point I am making.
Cheap battery powered mesh radio devices could just as easily trigger something, and be difficult to trace.
They can presumably get another job somewhere else. I don't think harm is done until they are unfairly deprived
We've been working on a project that provides this sort of easy swapping between open source (via HF, VLLM) & commercial models (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Together) in Python: https://github.com/datadreamer-dev/DataDreamer

It's a little bit easier to use if you want to do this without an HTTP API, directly in Python.
Passing legislation on the border issue means they can't bring it up later.
I think it will actually hurt people at the very lowest end of the spectrum, that are most vulnerable to price competition
Yes, among other things; also more information about the product being advertised.
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I do this too, but I also remember that I'm doing this from a situation of privilege, where I mostly don't have to wait for calls that could be life changing (ex: old-school HR calling back for a new job).
We have similar restrictions in the UK. In the weeks before an election, government ministers and civil servants are not allowed to announce new policies or spending. On polling day, broadcast media cannot report on political matters or speculate about the outcome of the election. We also have extremely strict limits on campaign finance.

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn05...

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/11/media/uk-election-reporti...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50170067
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I have no doubt that this sort of thing will happen for real within a year or two. It's the ultimate form of product placement and I hope it gets regulated out of existence before it takes root. At a minimum any such advertisement should be clearly marked as such.
No, they're geniuses because they're subsidized and will always be profitable. They lowered prices by taking it from your taxes.

Throw in subsidies like how Clinton ruined Jamaican rice with protectionism and your supply demand and price are no longer rational. https://www.texasgateway.org/resource/201-protectionism-indi...

Econ 101 ignores subsidies which account for 100% of the big 3 crops and more like rice, and ignores any form of economics.
What is different about sudo vs runas?
> as valuable as

I'd like to preemptively emphasize the distinction between "important to have" versus "marginal price to acquire", before folks start talking past one-another with different interpretations of "valuable."
Is Ollama model I can use locally to use for my own project and keep my data secure?
What does this have to do with SWAT teams?
Bard showed some creativity in name selection. Gemini does not. You see that everywhere. Or at least my first thought was about the Gemini spacecraft
They missed an opportunity for a tie-in to Spirited Away...
If everyone thinks this is so great (just judging by the number of times it's appeared in the HN top 30), why don't they just run linux, instead of some sh!t immitation?

Everyone knows, if you can C colon, your running a M$ product...
> Why cant they make all robocalls illegal?

Generally, speaking, the FCC can't pass laws, only interpret and apply them. In this instance they are not making a new law, they are declaring that the powers granted to them under the TCPA (a law passed by Congress in 1991) allows them to regulate/ban AI voiced calls.

> Name me one good robocall.

Government services. Voter info, school closures, water outages, etc.
Core contributors still contributing regularly.
Problem of PyPy was making decisions that's really bad for exposure - like having non GitHub repo because they love mercurial. I love mercurial too but to contribute to opensource have to use GitHub. Which they finally moved now.
I hope PyPy will become popular again.
I've a somewhat uncommon area code (less than a million 307 numbers), so any time I get a call from a 307 number, I'm reasonably confident that its either a wrong number, or a spoofed number. In either case, I don't answer. Its quite a system.
My recollection is that in the past, staying on property on the premium floors got you access to the club room and 3 or 4 fast passes per day.
It looks like it does use search here in the sense that Stockfish's top move is generated using search.
Now do Go. :)
They are once your opponents know you’re very bad at converting them.
So, is this basically N8N with an OpenAI module?
I was waiting for the Rick roll.
Strange, I get the right answer on GPT4

> If the word "push" is written in mirror writing and you are seeing it from your side of the glass door, you should pull the door towards you. The reason for this is that the instruction is intended for people on the other side of the door. For them, the word "push" would appear correctly, instructing them to push the door to open it from their side. Since you are seeing it in reverse, it implies you are on the opposite side, and the correct action for you would be to pull the door to open it.
But it's never going to be universal. I felt very scared some weeks ago during a huge march against rightwing extremists in Munich, Germany. There were ~150k people concentrated on a few streets/km.

Now, how is this relevant? Well, the entire cell network was offline, at least for some providers. At first it wasn't possible to send/receive data. Calls were connecting, but my friend sounded like an alien. Then for one hour, 0 communication was possible.

So even though the most efficient (I think?) protocol was used, it came to a halt
This is why I love playing chess, reading fantasy books, and gardening... because they don't matter, and I'd rather spend my idle time doing those things than being glued to my phone.
Limited experience based on what my friend told me (I grew up in a rural community, so very different dynamics): it starts in schools.

Gangs start recruiting young. It's a fast way to get "friends" who have more than you do- the illusion of power, material wealth, so on.

Furthermore, attempting to do well in school means your fellow students will bully you for "acting white".

If your parents didn't do well in school, they are less likely to pressure you to do well. They might be working long hours to make ends meet, or living on disability or either form of welfare. This will exclude you from many extracurricular activities which require parental support as well.

If you see your parents barely making ends meet, and gangbangers offer you the illusion of more, and everyone around you says you'll never amount to anything by studying or trying to get good grades, it isn't hard to see the allure.

So, for these students at least, poverty is a culture and the trap becomes lifelong once you get a record and can't get a job anywhere that pays better than minimum wage. Rinse and repeat with the next generation.

My friend was fortunate enough to have a father who pressured him to do well in school, and to go on to secondary education. He escaped the trap, but few of the people he grew up with did the same.
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Yes, but I didn't want to assume that most people read literature. Even if they hadn't, "bard" is definitely out there.
> The presence of the negative signs in (1) may seem surprising at first, but this is due to the fact that (1) is describing the effect of a passive change of units rather than an active change of the object {x}.

This is where the limits of my brain were reached. Is there a translation of this into category theory terms? Is this where category theory could help formalize units in physics?

However, his paragraph after that is pretty interesting, which I read as sort of treating units as variables since you couldn't combine them, and he only has length, mass, and time for these examples. But then there's an exponent piece? Okay now I'm lost again.
Maybe controversial, but I don't personally see an intrinsic problem with people wearing these things while driving so long as the passthrough is sufficiently low latency and has high enough resolution/fov. Of course the running apps need to not be too distracting, depending on how autonomous the car is. I could honestly see them being a net positive to road focus by overlaying speed and navigation on the user's field of vision so they don't have to glance at their dash speedometer or navigation device all the time. Only fundamental problem is how reliable the passthrough is, but it would take all of a second to whip the headset off if it suddenly went blank for some reason (which would be dangerous, but doesn't seem to be likely and most drivers regularly experience worse obstructions than that hypothetical one).
I would not explicitly count on that. I’m a big fan of Ollama and use it every day but they do have some dark patterns that make me question a usecase where data security is a requirement. So I don’t use it where that is something that’s important.
Am watching this carefully to try and judge Apple's intentions with Vision Pro.

Unfortunately as this article demonstrates, they only have to slightly impair the capabilities of it to pretty much force everyone into writing native apps. So Apple can turn this dial to where ever it is that they feel comfortable, making it quite a nuanced barometer of how much their intent here is to capture the future of computing into their own control vs genuinely create a true platform for everyone to build the "next era of computing" together. I really hope it's the latter!
But she's still the Chairwoman of Mozilla Foundation.
Credibility matters. One of the important aspects of having nuclear weapons is laying out the conditions in which you expect to use them, and a lot of international relations theory, especially in the military sphere, is about trying to analyze how you would expect states to respond to different situations.

I don't think anyone seriously expects a nuclear state threatened with imminent destruction to forgo use of nuclear weapons (even in the presence of a non-first use statement). The question is how close to that condition does a state have to be in before it decides to use nuclear weapons. For the states with explicit non-first use policies, the expectation is that it is very close indeed. By contrast, Pakistan has effectively an explicit first use policy: it will resort to nuclear weapons very early in a war. The US has a particularly mealy-mouthed policy, saying that it will only use nuclear weapons against nuclear states, but heavy vacillation on the threshold of their use in such conflicts. All of the other nuclear states basically state that their nuclear weapons are solely a defensive measure.
App Store does not ban an app for threats imagined from viewing a competitor's screenshots.
one of my favorite first discovery is definitely "sharknado 3: Oh hell no!"