skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These articles come up every so often and they're always a little strange as a former submariner.

Firstly, they're always aboard US boomers, which are immensely spacious by submarine standards (lol'd at "The ship seemed cramped, with narrow passageways."). You can walk two-abreast in some US boomer passageways, a completely unheard of feat on any other class of sub. They also have relatively relaxed, predictable schedules, with deployments rarely lasting more than 3 months. It's easy to say you've got good food when you're not rationing beans because the 4 month deployment became a 5 1/2 month deployment.

Secondly, one of the core social divides in the US submarine force is between members of the engineering department ("nukes", also A-gangers, though they exist in a sort of limbo) and everyone else on the boat ("coners"). These pieces only ever interview and report on coners (not in small part due to the intense security concerns surrounding nuclear propulsion technology). The lives of the submariners on either side of the watertight door are different in many significant respects, there's no nuke in the fleet that appreciates being represented in the public eye by sonar techs and torpedomen, but nukes only get talked about when they're killing themselves [1].

This is the nature of the secrecy surrounding US subs of course, and I'm not complaining, but it's weird. These articles show the best possible life aboard a US submarine, likely the best possible life aboard any submarine. It's the US Navy putting its best foot forward for the benefit of reporters. Note they talk about the integration of US boomers, but don't mention that US fast attacks remain male-only with no plans to change in the near future. It is, without attaching any sentiment to the word positive or negative, propaganda.

[1]: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nuclear-trained-sailors...
> By your reasoning, any backend that’s not accessible directly by the user is proprietary

I've never said such thing. It doesn't matter if you can access things directly: proprietary means it's not FOSS, that's it.

> Discord can be run in the browser and is accessible via APIs. I think it’s as open as any other web app by a company that has a commercial interest

You need an account to browse Discord, which they can take away from you anytime. If you lose your account you lose your membership to any invite-only communities you belong to, which can be a big deal if you don't have other means to communicate with them to get invited back.

Also, Discord isn't indexable by search engines. So, no there's a big difference between Discord and most web forums.

Also, I don't have anything in particular against Discord (it's miles ahead of Slack in UX for instance, which I hate with a passion), but when people advertise themselves as fans of the old web, and link to their Discord, one can only smirk from the irony.
GPT was good. ChatGPT ruined it. It is better and more powerful to write prompts such that the continuation is what you want, than ask questions as if it understood.

Now we don't even get log probs, one of the most powerful features to evaluate the output of the models.
> Apple's no longer a hardware company, they're a platform rent extraction company.

Apple still make the vast majority of their revenue from hardware. All of their service revenue combined is only about 20% of their revenue.
Blog posts like this have noble intentions but since they often lack real world examples and actual code, I don't find them very useful. Everyone has a different interpretation of what constitutes dumb or simple code. In fact, the absence of concrete, unambiguous, actionable advice is something I always found fascinating about software engineering.

My background is in medicine where it's much more common to follow flow charts, go through check lists and administer first line treatment that's based on empirical evidence.

I understand that this is very hard to implement in software, but the almost complete absence of it means that every project is more or less unique. Sure, if you zoom out far enough then a lot of back ends boil down to "get data from DB apply to template" but it can still be surprisingly challenging to take your knowledge from one such system and apply them to the next.
Aside from his background as someone actively promoting encryption, Satoshi stopped posting just before Le Roux was arrested.
Yeah, the power was cheap until it wasn't. A lot of morons blamed things like frozen wind turbines but a lot of the problems were from natural gas plants that were never properly winterized, because the Texas grid was deregulated and the was no incentive to winterize.
In rust I have a file that defines a struct and its implementations, then I have another file that has a static array of elements of that struct. But in the struct file, one of the implementations is a TryFrom<usize>, (which is ran when you have a variable of type usize and "cast" it into my struct) this TryFrom implementation returns the value of the nth element of the static array in the second file. I don't see anything wrong in having this circular dependancy.

Potentially I could extract the TryFrom implementation into a 3rd file, breaking the circle, but tbh that feels like I'm doing that just for the sake for doing that, and it offers no real benefit.

In this case I see a benefit in keeping the struct and its implementation in a file, and another file with a static variable (which btw is around 600 lines, yeah it's a big array) in a separate file.

Don't follow rules blindly and try not to have absolute rules in your life, it'll make things simpler and more flexible.
With Firefox Mobile on Android, you can confiure webviews to open as Firefox webviews as well, and my extensions seem to be running because I don't see ads there. They're still webviews of course, you don't get the tabs, bookmarks etc. Just webviews with extension support.
So, you are basing your assessment on your gut feel and personal impression with ChatGPT?

Maybe you should tone down the spice a bit, then.

Unless you can explain how an actual understanding emerges within an LLM, you can't explain how it would answer the question definitely - it doesn't know, if it does, or does not know something. Generally speaking.
> That's alright in the first order if you just don't care that they will get hacked, but we know what happened in the XP times - the machines join a botnet and attack everyone else.

That's alright also in Windows 10 or 11 when ransomware commes, so it must be something else. /s
I think that a lot of good software was/is created because someone
was annoyed at what was (not) available and decided to create it.
Chances are someone else is annoyed at the same thing and will welcome
a solution.
Seems to me that Google is trying to deal with ingrained bias contained in all of the data it slurps up. I think this is an issue that all AI has to deal with. It is inevitable that content which AI produces will become part of the data AI uses to build its models. If no action is take that echo chamber will intensify those biases on every iteration.

It looks as if Google is trying to tackle the problem in a somewhat piecemeal way, and have got it wrong. But from an AI perspective its no worse than people with 8 fingers or whatever, just more shocking.

I would rather that those working on AI were aware of the issue and getting it wrong, than simply not caring at all. Our children don't deserve to live in a world even more distorted than the one we live in.
I'm pretty sure you can put Wireguard on any UDP port you desire, too.
I haven't seen anyone template JSON (probably because its so simple and painful to write you don't need to), but I have seen XML templating with comments (I guess you could XSLT, but I suspect the templating was easier to implement and understand). Also, helm/kubernetes are in go, so I think whenever strings are used as input, people will try to template it.
All Aboard the Bureaucracy Train
Generally yes and yes. But you will need _a lot_ more data and compute for reinforcement learning.

So RL is usually too cumbersome for relatively little gain.

Source: I'm a roboticist working with RL.
Cats power >^÷^< . Algorithms can be helpful, but yep, maybe a blog version? In general Tumblr, Writefreely, I think is not so interested in indexing pages by crawlers. But I have 1$ folks)
I can't know what they're doing, but it doesn't look like they're giving the lender any voting right. They're just borrowing some money and returning them in the following years. And I still can't see why this imply that the likelihood of the company failing is high.
Can be, if the RAM disk is compressed.
Ye it what artists and designers talks, the trend cycle.
You need to speak to the people who are signing up and dig into their motivations. See what the patterns are, then use that to refine your campaigns and see if anything's generalisable.
> The ctrl key has been moved to the far left, which is a welcome change.

TBH it's weird to hear this so often. Macs also have the same "Fn on the far left" layout as ThinkPads and Macs/ThinkPads have basically won in the tech space. I got a Dell work laptop and I thought this wouldn't be a big deal, but having used a ThinkPad or a Mac for 20 years I couldn't adjust (which is wild, because I got over Neovim's D/dd abominable betrayal in a few days).
> here is no need for anyone else to "exist"

Speaking of resource optimization, I notice stuff all the time that makes me think "if this were a simulation, that's how I would have programmed it".

For instance, the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon [1] seems useful. Don't spawn a word until it's needed. Once you've spawned it you might as well use it a good bit while the resources are loaded.

- [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
If you’re working half the time versus millions of comparably talented people full time: you will soon be out of a job (if employee) or a business (if employer).
I'm sorry, but why would you expect someone to know all of the food ingredients on the menu - even if they work there - if they don't personally prepare all of the foods? Heck, in the US, most of the places aren't even paying their staff a decent wage.

Servers go by the menu as well. It isn't like there is a list most places.

If the owners cared about your allergies, they'd make sure their staff could find out easily. Blame the folks that own the place, not the servers.
Yes, this is how navigation was done "in the past", without GPS, using inertial navigation systems. And pilots would recalibrate their position along the way or before arriving "on target" using known landmarks. The fancier systems could recalibrate using known star positions.
> My plan is to swap a hydrogen motor in i guess once mature the tech and consequently ban diesel.

Good luck with that. Hydrogen in cars is dead, and even if it weren't, the tanks would take up so much space in a car not designed for it that you'd lose your boot.
Can you describe your last 3 freelance arrangements?
Bad article. Microsoft does NOT care about users. It cares about corporate licenses and ads. It will force you to use windows at work. Imagine watching commercials 8h/day. That's the future. You can't avoid it.
Dealership and sales people or not, you are still being sold to, aren't you? But yes, if you can extract more money from your customers by removing sales people, and the option to negiotiate, from the process more companies will do that.
> If Safari supported extensions

iOS Safari does support extensions. I've got a handful installed on my phone right now, including Userscripts to apply custom formatting and styling to this website.
It took me a while to understand why I do side projects. Turns out that creating something big is never the answer.

Mostly it's way to learn something new, tackle some hard problems and understand them to a certain depth.
>we designed, 3d printed and built a <$500 drone with that calculates GPS coordinates without a signal using a camera + google maps

Without a GPS signal, I assume. Unless Google Maps is stored locally on their drone.
Other models have biases in outputs and conform to stereotypes, but when used as designed, as a creative tool, that's not a real issue as long as you can correct the output with a simple prompt adjustment.

The unique issue with Gemini is that it would flat out refuse to follow simple prompts such as "Please generate an image of a white family" because they "weren't diverse and inclusive" enough, but if you changed "white" to any other qualifier, it happily obliged.
There's fortunately no need to use any apple products. The ones most hurt by this will probably be Apple. Especially if functionality breaks as stated here. It will mean the 'luxury phone brand' is now a broken phone brand at least in the EU. Apple users might switch and I think Samsung is most likely to get them.
The linux subsystem, despite being about as wrongheaded as running linux user space on the Windows OS can be as an idea, solves that problem. Nobody needs PowerShell, unless you're dealing with very old systems. And in that case, you're already lost.
Unix and ed for sure, before they wrote ex and vi.
Hypo-sensitization treatments for pollen last for ~3 years and have effects lasting years.
Apple Silicon: But does it save energy?
> The middle class (those living in St. Petersburg and Moscow) need to be kept happy enough as a kind of unwritten deal between Putin and those people.

That used to be the case, but not anymore. What are they going to do, exactly - protest on the streets? Since 2011, all that gets you is a beating and a fine (and now worse). Leave? That's economically infeasible for many who have already invested into property and can't easily unload it for reasonable money; people who thought the trade-off worthwhile have already largely left after 2022.
Raw GPT is a good tool but there’s a reason it didn’t get 100 million users.

If you made unbiased Gemini and asked it for images of German soldiers it probably wouldn’t output an image at all, and if it did it would probably be porn.
The text mentions Seymours' Cray algorithm for buying cars, if you're rich enough. However, it's deleted from the linked page. To save you the search, here it is:

1. Go to nearest dealer,
2. Sit at nearest salesman’s desk
3. Buy nearest car
4. Go back to designing computers.
on top of it all, your loss of value over time is much lower.

will never understand why people would buy a new car that depreciates by 30% the very second you drive off the dealership.
Not every sales person is trying to rip you off so. That's not what sales is, despite some actually doing it. Most sales people so, are just doing their job in acquiring customers for their business.

Edit: Cars need service and maintenance. Dealerships can, and in Europe do with the exception of used car dealerships, provide these services as well. And that is something Tesla is really bad at.
I totally agree. For this person, it's surely obvious. They probably didn't expect this to become a popular read on HN.

Do you remember when ai used to stand for 'artificial insemination'? Lol.
Thanks for the explanation and - Ugh :-(
You can get new satellite imagery ever day… (be it military ones if you're a major power, or just commercial one like your average OSINter)
That's what I meant: they could continue offering safari as a "basic web browser" but allow actual web browsers in the appstore, that can fully implement any web APIs.
It is actually doable to export secrets from authy desktop, but it involves starting it in debug mode and connecting chrome to it (it's an electron app). It was the solution I found to extract the secrets back when I set up https://pypi.org/project/totp/
The people who source pirated material (ie not the distribution groups, but the ones doing the actual cracking) are state-sponsored, not individuals doing it for fun. It's economic warfare; the purpose is to hurt profits while also giving economic benefit to the country doing the hacking, since its citizens won't have to pay for the software.

Or did you think that it was some sort of wild coincidence that the vast majority of software piracy groups are Russian?
Germany cut grid balancing services in half while increasing wind+solar 5x
We use Vega lite in our web sites. It gets us 90% where we want to be very quickly. The last 10% is a little fiddly.

It’s amazing though. High quality and downloadable graphs. We use it for single cell rna seq plotting and it’s pretty performant with large data sets (5000+ points on an xy scatter graph)
The part that everyone forgets. The team is supposed to be empowered. These things shouldn't be forced on a team.
You're making unfounded assumptions, I'm neither of those things. I'm disappointed and extremely entertained by the whole ordeal.
This is btw. a phenomenon I often see in creative people: Just because you thought long and hard about topic X while doing your work doesn't mean topic X is well preseved in the final result of your work (outside of your own memories).

The harsh truth is that only if the final result says what you wanted to say in terms of that topic, your considerations and reflection on that topic "count".

I am not saying that it is all about the result, because how many corpses you produced on your way there still makes a difference — but yeah in the end you will be judged by the final result.
Better results in general, with the occasional unexplainable glitch.
Purpose matters, I suppose. I write for myself. My site is a public extension of that writing (there are so many notes on my computer I may never publish). I've made no promises about the quality of work to anyone, and I get by just fine with what I have. It is available on a "take what is useful, discard the rest" basis. If I were writing for an audience I might prioritise things differently.
Ye this guys with yo-yos do not know what is the flex.
Discord it's a cage. HN can be accesed by JS-less browsers and the content will be indexable by any web search engine.

There's a huge difference.
Socialism / communism is nice in theory but not applicable country wide.

I would argue that it could be applicable in a voluntary mode in more smaller states (city sized) where people not agreeing would have the freedom to leave.
This could go wildly off-topic... but.. when you talk of Catholicism having status hierarchies, as someone from the Catholic tradition myself it seems to me that most (at least here in UK) do believe precisely in "everyone is equal in the sight of God". That is rooted in Catholic teaching actually. Maybe you're referring to women being treated as 2cnd class citizens? Which is indeed a massive problem. From experience discussing such things, most Catholics at least here in the UK seem to see absolutely no reason why women couldn't be priests, the powers-that-be just keep it the same because "it's always been that way", or they fear splitting the church over the issue. Which is not right, needs fixing, gets ever more embarrassing every day. You may also be referring to homophobia, which does exist among people in the church - although I dunno if its worse amongst believers than no-believers, just looks worse , more hypocritical / strident when done by someone who claims to believe in being nice to people. My view on homophobia is it stems from people being either being (a) secretly "scared" they're gay themselves, and not comfortable with that or, (b) actively using it as a shield to hide their own crimes (e:g Cardinal Pell delivered ultra conservative homophobic rants probably as a way to distract others from what he was up to behind closed doors leading to abuse conviction). Otherwise, why on earth would any straight person have any reason to be mean to someone that's gay or fear them. I know its all different in USA , there's a big strand of ultra conservative Catholics who probably do believe in hierarchy . Not sure they're actually following the Catholic faith though, or doing anything worthy of the title. Just like people in the Middle East killing each other are not following their religions, all of which officially preach peace.
Possibly even better, the Zeiss Foundation seems to fund wider science and teaching using the profits from the companies they own:

"Carl Zeiss AG and SCHOTT AG use the dividends to promote science and teaching in the fields of mathematics, computer science, the natural sciences and technology."

https://www.zeiss.com/corporate/en/about-zeiss/present/facts...
Sure. And then you have to upload those new, and vetted, imagines to all your drones. Other nav data is much more stable.

Mind you, military hardware is not your smartphone, OTA updates are usually not a thong for various reasons.

The approach for sure is interesting so.
I’m using a Keycron mechanical keyboard for about two years now and haven’t noticed any serious issues.

Only complaint is that the model I have doesn’t warn you when the battery is low and just cuts out. Other than that, typing experience is the same as when I got it.
I wonder: have you tried googling the answer for your question?

When searching for "accelerometer navigation", the first result is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_navigation_system

Don't be lazy.
That's only for tracking-related cookies/storage as detected by Safari, regular cookies e.g. for authentication or storage of app-related data are not affected by this at all.
He’s not wrong, though hh. The claim made was true 150-175 years ago, but not 100.
personally im not bothered by the output exactly per se: it would be great if they modified the dataset to be more inclusive instead. The invisible prompt editing is what really gets me. The fact that the ai is instructed after the fact to make changes to what you asked it to do, invisibly. These things really, REALLY need to be tool-shaped, if they do all sorts of hidden extra bits they will be vastly less useful and leaves room for vastly more nefarious ends.

Like would it be so hard for it to just show the prompt it submits to dall-e? help people learn how the system works?
From the original link for this post:

The drone uses a camera mounted underneath it to position itself with imagery from Google Maps highlighting similarities in the images to get a rough estimate of the co-ordinates. Doesn’t Google Maps still require internet, you may ask?

Google Maps allows users to download segments of maps ahead of time, usually for use when you are travelling or camping out in remote areas. In this instance, the team used this feature to their advantage, allowing the drone to continue operating regardless of having a GPS satellite connection.

The entire point of such a build is to operate autonomously with local data in the presence of jamming | signal loss for other reasons.
How are the speakers on these? I loved my X1, and used it for years, but the speakers are hilariously bad compared to eg the MBP I use at work.
Thanks doc. Noted.
> will never understand why

Transferability of warranties ?

The idea that a warranty can be transferred seems like an urban legend.
"some" is an existential quantifier. To prove an existential statement, you only need a single example. So of course I can base an argument on that, especially if it just illustrates the range of different purposes of software.