skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GMLRS (w/ 200lb warhead) is $189,000 and falling. https://www.defensenews.com/land/2023/03/27/did-ukraine-fund...

GLSDB is $168,000 with 205lb warhead
what about just a browser in general?
The idea that a touch screen is cheaper than buttons and that this is the driving factor I find hilarious. It's some top tier bean counter shit.

I mean, yeah, sure. It'd be cheaper for my tyres to be made of wood. I don't give a toss, a new vehicle costs tens of thousands, what's $50 for a few buttons?

edit: Top tier bean counter replies! Is it contagious?
> you are arguing about the security deficiencies of modern phones as you've imagined them, rather than as they are

I appreciate the strength of your conviction - but I'm not an phone industry insider, and have no access to the kinds of reading-material I assume you're pointing to - for example, Qualcomm put their docs behind a verify-your-employer-wall (which is outrageous): https://www.qualcomm.com/products/technology/modems/snapdrag...

...if Qualcomm's attitude towards openness and transparency is representative of the mobile comms industry in general then they have little hope of correcting any misinformation or misconceptions other technology folk like ourselves might have, let alone the general public.
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T1D here. Luckily not true, exporting works well at least for Dexcom on Android with https://www.patreon.com/byod

It's a patched app that broadcasts values it receives to any app that's listening, e.g. xdrip.

Libre 2 has also got patches floating around on the internet.
I can't imagine having to rename a mundane employee interest/social group, much less hiring an external consultant to come up with the new name. It seems beyond anything.
There are benefits but also drawback to such system. The benefit is as you say that judges have more specialized expertise, which also mean that other judges don't need to dive deep into expert areas outside of their own. The drawback however tend to be a much higher risk of regulative capture, especially in areas of patent and copyright. A general judge might have a easier time creating a balance decision than a judge who been previous been working as a expert lawyer for large companies for several decades.

The above events illustrate this a bit by how they lost on first instance because the system assumed that cases are about commercial entities which has contractual obligation between them. It took the supreme-like court that is specialized on legal procedures, rather than a court specialized on contract, to see the issue in the correct context.
getting kubernetes up and running is crazy easy these days, but this is still THE way to learn Kubernetes inside out. i wouldn't recommend doing this for production though unless you want to manage k8s as your day job.
The fix is to train it on this puzzle and variants of it, meaning it memorized this pattern. It still fail similar puzzles if given in a different structure, until they feed it that structure as well.

LLMs is more like programming than human intelligence, they need to program in the solution to these riddles very much like we did expert systems in the past. The main new thing we get here is natural language compatibility, but other than that the programming seems to be the same or weaker than old programming of expert systems. The other big thing is that there is already a ton of solutions on the web coded in natural language, such as all the tutorials etc, so you get all of those programs for free.

But other than that these LLMs seems to have exactly the same problems and limitations and strengths as expert systems. They don't generalize in a flexible enough manner to solve problems like a human.
If this is a "nuclear data center" then by the same standards of logic Google's Iowa datacenter(s) are "coal data centers".

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.1396769,-95.8301348,8221a,35...
The real challenge is landing after you get really really high up
I could've sworn I saw it used unironically in Wired magazine more than once...

But yeah, never used by a real world person.
Indeed it's hard for someone to continue being unkind to someone else who is being friendly or at least polite back to them!
The point is there's no legitimate reason to accept this as okay.

You seem to think that's fine, and you're entitled to your opinion regardless of how distant from reality it is, it's just no reasonable person with an IQ over 75 wants to deal with entirely preventable communicable disease.
I thought the point of this thing is you don’t need a license to fly it.

I guess it makes a good gift for a rich parent if you want to get that inheritance a little quicker?
What's supervillain-ish about a company owning a datacenter and adjacent power plant?
Do not forget the massive "tablets are the future of computing" hype because Apple released a thing. Touchscreens were super cool by association. It was all pretty stupid. I say that as someone who creates mostly software for touchscreens... using keyboard and mouse because they are much better input devices. You just need the space and the budget for them.
This article[1] mentions a composer who "composed primarily for the vibrations and included the music after the initial layout of the haptic composition." We used to put on whatever 3D glasses the theater was providing for big new 3D movies; why not don a vest to listen to Deadmau5?

[1] https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/live-music-deaf-aud...
2027 is the target that both China and the US have projected for the invasion of Taiwan

The US has not released a definitive assessment. Jinping apparently did make some announcement that the PLA should be "ready to" invade Taiwan, but that's not the same as "is going to." And may just be propaganda for the PLA's 100th anniversary.
If it’s an A100 server rack
I've been using basic Windows laptops for work for many years now, and have never once had it ask me to start terminating applications.
Some people hyping it as AGI on social media
Wise words. In any kind of caring situation, the person giving care can most effectively do so when they themselves are in a good place, so it actually benefits everyone for you to leave some space for yourself.
Someone made a neat autopilot for an older version of the game actually! https://szhu.github.io/lunar-lander-autopilot/
Happens every bull market.
Google co-founder says company 'definitely messed up Gemini image launch
Good that it works for you and your daughter!

I have to use macbooks at work, and they do bother me. The mirror-finish screen always reflects bright lights into my eyes, be it a window or a ceiling light at a distance. The OS is thankfully a certified Unix, but the GUI, while having a few brilliant features, also has warts like no way to align or snap windows, apps running without a window, with only a menu bar, with a window from a different app showing, etc. This continues for many years, so it's likely a design principle.

Of course, Windows is even worse in the GUI department, there's no comparison.

So, sadly, a Macbook remains the most sane computer for non-technical people :(
> Talen’s Nautilus crypto data center is seemingly not part of the deal with Amazon.

It sounds like they still have plans to mine crypto…
What I'd really love is a net boot image and remote storage that can be mounted on the fly on any computer. All I'd need is my yubikey or whatever secure identifier to connect all the pieces.l and plenty of internet.

I'm partially there with VDI tools like Parsec, but being able to leverage local hardware would also be neat.
How are you managing all these? What are you using to search them?

I'm using Vimium for general use and have an Alfred plugin/thing/extension but even that's a bit unwieldy. How many windows is this?
> many paying customers of Nintendo have the same attitude that they will only emulate switch games

I think “many” is probably a bit much.
Just because a company is also evil itself doesn't mean that it can't make a very correct point about anther company's clearly despicable behavior.
So this is the discus event?

Curious to see the shot put equivalent - old UPS units nestled into ones neck before launch?
I see Talos only supports XFS, what potential reasons could they have to prefer XFS to competitors?

I've always struggled to compare filesystems fairly. My justification for ext4 is just that everybody else uses it :)
what about source code? It's open source. Forks were invented for situations like this.
Wouldn’t it be safer to require all cars to have voice controls? Then the driver doesn’t have to move their hand off the wheel at all.
Browsing the website a bit, it's pretty clear this is a Thiel-funded anti-woke "publication".
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Seems like a borderline conspiracy to fry the internal SSD over time, adding a wear-point to the product family, and making sure consumers keep consuming. I'm talking about system paging: virtual memory on the disk.

Even worse, if one plots the (price, unified memory amount, chip type), and looks at it from right-to-left, then the dollars per system capability is disgusting when you order a lesser system. You get the most value for your money when you buy the maximum unified memory configuration (on those three points).

Better yet, with a maxed out unified memory configuration, one can further save on SSD writes by using (and loading/storing) RAM disks for their projects!

Most people buying a MacBook for work are likely getting a higher unified memory, so their workstations live longer. Meanwhile consumers will have to keep consuming as they fry their internal SSD's on their airs...

I was also wondering if a 1TB apple fabric device is simply an 8TB fabric device with 8x the write life...
More web desktops: https://simone.computer/#/webdesktops

Note that most of these are aesthetic / non-CRUD.
SLIM was designed to land sideways and still managed to stick its head up in the sand(partially due to a KSP style engine explosion).
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How public-key encryption works. Infographic via FSF
You don't think "960MW nuclear data center campus" sounds like the power plant is part of the campus? I do.
Isn't it the same with Apple? You choose between Air or Pro 14" or Pro 16".

But then there are all the variations with different amounts of RAM, SSD, processors (M3, M3 Pro, M3 Max)

And every little upgrade costs you 10X compared to a PC laptop.
Type 1 and 2 are quite different beasts - they both have in common that you pee sugar when it's not managed (diabetes means sweet urine in Greek).

Type 1 is when your immune system erroneously kills the cells producing insulin in your pancreas. Treatable by injecting insulin manually - but as any substitute, there are caveats, it's not perfect. Type 1 is pretty binary, you either have it or you don't, it appears rather rapidly, usually at young age, up to around 20. There's no way to avoid injections through diet.

Type 2 is when the cells that are _reacting_ to insulin are no longer doing so very well. Lots of reasons: genetics, body weight, physical activity. It's much less binary, with gradual onset over years. Can initially be managed by change of diet, activity, pills - later it also requires injections like type 1.
Of course, Apple will fight the EU tooth and nail but always will bend over backwards for China... it really shows their true colors.
Across ten thousand units? Half a million dollars. Not much in the grand scheme of things but not nothing.
“ As long as there’s huge value being generated, we’ll figure out the business models”

Good attitude from one of Google’s consuls
Has the A.I. Hype Driven 'Magnificent Seven' Stocks Beyond the 90s Tech Bubble?
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Yuzu is still legal.
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This app, Just Yell, was born from a my personal moment of pure emotional release—shouting 'fu* you world' in a burst of anger, leading to unexpected tears and a profound sense of relief.

It's designed for those who like me,

- seeking authentic connections beyond the superficiality of social media,

- yearning to express their true selves without fear of judgment

- desiring a genuine emotional release from the facades we encounter daily.

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Why? Brake by wire is already a thing.
Walk through New York City. You will hear a "mishmash of sounds", and perhaps begin to understand.
The pedals do not behave the same.
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Yeah, I read enough of these whinges on the net already.
Because if you agreed to pay $2500 anyway, you can agree to pay for an upgrade!

Apple is in the business of selling you hardware, specifically premium hardware. Think car dealership.
I worked for a company that had licenses for Libre, Insulet and Dexcom and we had their serial APIs - but you had to plug it in to your computer, store the data at our colo and use a Java applet to view it in the browser. In 2014. Unsurprisingly mobile apps have had more uptake since.
20 years ago knoppix did far more.
> and could be set up to dial normal ISPs.

oh for real? I hope some of the nostalgia tech youtubers can set one up (with their own ISP) and demo it. that would be cool.
IMO, voice controls are good additional control modality, but not a good primary one, since the discoverability is zero. (And also they're usually just...not very good.)
Also damns slowly fill with silt over their finite lifespans. When the orriville dam is past it’s useful life, there is little alternative for central CA.
Make sure you’re listening to kind of blue. Not any of the extended deluxe this and that. Just the original tracks.

All the extra stuff is great, but the original is the perfect album.

What music do you typically like? There will definitely be a gateway to jazz in there somewhere.
Causing drivers to get road rage because they can't figure out the correct phrasing for voice controls probably also isn't a good idea.

Google Assistant still regularly misinterprets what I say <.<

Not to mention most voice assistants are fucking awful slow in language. It's like they pick a rural dweller as their speech model instead of a city slicker.

Just give me a button instead, it'll be quicker and less distracting.
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Haha, found this on the author's LinkedIn:

> Volunteer
> The Seasteading Institute
Not all drivers can speak. Not all drivers speak in a way a voice control can reliably understand them. Not all drivers are in environments where voice commands can be easily understood, like loud music. If you are driving a car you likely have the ability to push a button.
I noticed this narrative in their press release. They don't really mention Spotifys share just on iOS. If it's less than 56%, clearly something's up, right?
A litmus test on the wokeness of the company or how well it aligns/balance the model on controversial topics without acting like a strict az parent
It's what Dolphin did - so much as a sniff about piracy and you're banned. It was unfortunately still rather common - people just can't stop telling on themselves - and that's after big warnings in every part of the forum sign up process and on the post page too.

I'm not sure they really lost much from the community because it of though - the vast majority banned were just "Free Gamez Pls" - and coming down on things like that hard can make sense if you don't want more of that creeping over time.
I took a ride with an owner of a brand new BMW with glass cockpit and minimal buttons. He complained to the dealer about not being able to find any of the actions in the endlessly nested menus. The dealer's response: Use voice controls.

He tried it, and it's even worse than Siri in terms of reliability. Absolute unmitigated disaster.
What's remarkable about Bitches Brew to me, is that in many ways Miles was a traditionalist, and yet his foray into the avant garde was more successful than most of his contemporaries.
If you want to skip all the culture wars stuff, the interesting bit here is the alleged description of how Gemini's image generation prompting is preprocessed:

"Roughly, the “safety” architecture designed around image generation (slightly different than text) looks like this: a user makes a request for an image in the chat interface, which Gemini — once it realizes it’s being asked for a picture — sends on to a smaller LLM that exists specifically for rewriting prompts in keeping with the company’s thorough “diversity” mandates. This smaller LLM is trained with LoRA on synthetic data generated by another (third) LLM that uses Google’s full, pages-long diversity “preamble.” The second LLM then rephrases the question (say, “show me an auto mechanic” becomes “show me an Asian auto mechanic in overalls laughing, an African American female auto mechanic holding a wrench, a Native American auto mechanic with a hard hat” etc.), and sends it on to the diffusion model. The diffusion model checks to make sure the prompts don’t violate standard safety policy (things like self-harm, anything with children, images of real people), generates the images, checks the images again for violations of safety policy, and returns them to the user.

“Three entire models all kind of designed for adding diversity,” I asked one person close to the safety architecture. “It seems like that — diversity — is a huge, maybe even central part of the product. Like, in a way it is the product?”

“Yes,” he said, “we spend probably half of our engineering hours on this.”"

If true (admittedly a big if), it torpedoes the suggestion made by many that Gemini's misbehavior was simply accidental teething problems that were missed in testing.
It's the opposite. Without a license, the default copyright laws apply, meaning that the author retains all rights to their source code and no one may reproduce, distribute, or create derivative works from their work.

Source: https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-reposi...
Similar stories. I usually had a windows laptop and linux and VNC'd into the linux box and with win 10 and 11 I just got tired of fighting all the garbage that microsoft tries to push on you in the OS. I really just want to get to work, so I bought a top of the line M2 macbook air and couldn't be happier with my decision. Apple has their apps on there but I don't get pop ups and ads and have to go through a bazillion privacy settings to turn of MS spying on every little thing.
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DCPU-16 Specification (2012)
Like the other commenter said, this is the kind of thing custom distros always have to do, that lead to either reinventing or just going back to a big fat distro. I've gone around this wheel a couple times. It's a nice idea to have something custom-tailored, but a tailored suit only fits one person, and is expensive.

You can still build a system to manage Kubernetes nodes without making your own distro. Even a heavily modified stock distro gains you benefits from basing off someone else's work. You can reuse the solutions they've made, and contribute back your customizations for your specific use cases.

That's how today's distro installers/package managers/etc came to include all the functionality they have. You couldn't eject a CDROM from a Busybox system, until one weird kid in high school decided to try to use Busybox to make a CD-bootable RAM-resident distro, found out it had no 'eject' command, and then sent a patch in to Busybox to add it. Now everyone can use that command, and that functionality is still there 20 years later.

It's also a lot harder for users to use proprietary solutions than ones they're familiar with. Your OS has no shell or console, only an API? So if there's a problem, how do I drop in with gdb, strace, tcpdump, and the entire suite of Linux debugging tools, to try and quickly diagnose and then patch an issue? I'm sure you've created some way to do it, but now I need to go find out how to do it, and probably use whatever stock tools are there, which may have their own quirks or incompatibilities.

But I get that a corporation's interest is mostly in "get something working now" as opposed to "get something working that will be better in the long run". DIY/NIH often becomes the engineering department's watchwords, and a custom distro is one of those eventualities.
Post ALB there isn’t the same feedback thru breaks as there are steering. Steering systems have been highly engineered so you can get feedback from the road while still having power assist.
A funny thing I remembered was that when ChatGPT 4 was announced, Google panicked-released Bard in a half-complete state as a response

Apple's response during that time was to release the yellow iPhone.
Dear god...such a waste of compute resources...
Mildly related, I was diagnosed with obstructive sleep (OSA) apnea 6 months ago, and when sleeping I have to use a machine that blows air with a set pressure so it 'counters' the obstruction (a CPAP machine). Not mission critical like type 1 diabetes, but those machines log a lot more than I expected.

While reading this I wondered if someone has geeked something for similar for OSA, maybe for monitoring purposes or more severe cases.

I already know (and am incredible grateful for) OSCAR[1], but I'm really curious to see what else is out there.

1: https://www.sleepfiles.com/OSCAR/
we actually talked to them a few weeks ago - they're actually almost 50% a research lab!

https://latent.space/p/together

i think it makes total sense - infra will commoditize rapidly so you have to make research bets on future differentiators. Together is basically the only GPU infra company with a successful research dept (am I missing someone? i probably am) that is likely to pay off turning it into a frontier model lab at some point in future.
Nor does the steering yoke.
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IIRC airframe lifetime is rated in pressurization cycles.
This would make ransomeware attacks a corporate death sentence. Do you think US Corporate America has a cybersecurity posture to withstand that?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cyberattacks

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/10/icbc-the-worlds-biggest-bank...
what i don't get is why this always gets missed in testing. How did they NOT have at least one turbo-edgelord on payroll just testing it with increasingly offensive 4chan-style prompts, and flagging the results?
I think the issue with the horn is referring to the Tesla Model S.

And specifically the horn button being capacitive co-located with the voice assistance and windscreen wiper buttons.

Which in a safety situation was difficult to locate and press.
I did an half hour ‘training’ with this $/€950 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09ZL6KGQW/ https://elfcams.com/en/product/3881. It was used by students to setup internet on campus dormitories and they were satisfied with it.
i'd love to see the code. very interesting
Setback for hopes of life as NASA says less oxygen on Jupiter moon than thought
It's weird to see the people in this thread stating the generally accepted scientific viewpoints downvoted while those praising Diamond are upvoted.

Diamond is a skilled and persuasive writer, who's had success as a pop science writer but the theories he pushes to put it lightly are largely not accepted within academic communities.

Some, like the stories of ecocide featured in Collapse, have been completely and thoroughly debunked. That book is about as academically rigorous as The Lorax and fills the niche: a modern ecological morality tale for a modern Western audience.
Crypto and AI/GPU stocks allow the average masses to participate in the wealth creation boom, without needing exceptional talent or credentials like with white-collar jobs. But it will end badly like all bubbles, as this is not sustainable. For money to mean something not everyone can make it or become rich.
Anything is a server long as it is not end-client frontend facing.