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Banning math worked so great in the 90's with the cryptomunitions legislation.
Morals, ethics, and not being a jerk aside, Musk has now proven that he is just plain not thinking things through, when he:

1) Released the original Boring Company idea about tiny tunnels under LA to alleviate road traffic, which could easily be shot down by anyone modeling it on a single paper napkin.

2) Got caught up in ontological (theistic) arguments about alien scientists who had surely created a computer simulation in which we all live.

3) In an effort to prevent the inevitable AI overlords from controlling us, bought a company to create a ubiquitous neural interface so that computers have read/write access to our brains, of which somehow the AI overlords will not take advantage.

This was all as of 2018.

I still give him credit for previous accomplishments, but in aggregate, it is arguable that Elon Musk's new found ability to avoid thinking things through might be our "Great Filter."
> Over 90 percent of our customers already incur no data transfer expenses out of AWS because we provide 100 gigabytes per month free from AWS Regions to the internet.

Damn, that's a lot of tiny customers. 100 GB per month is less than what many use on their phone during a month. So basically, most people using AWS is definitely people who don't need it to scale.
For the uninformed like me, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massimo_Vignelli says "Vignelli's designs were famous for following a minimal aesthetic and a narrow range of typefaces that Vignelli considered to be perfect in their genre, including Akzidenz-Grotesk, Bodoni, Helvetica, Garamond No. 3 and Century Expanded. ... "Out of thousands of typefaces, all we need are a few basic ones, and trash the rest.""
The more you know, I had totally missed this.
Kinda because it's harder to make a good SVG editor, and also a clean SVG is substantially harder to export and thus SVG is only seen as an authoring format.
66 could be the day of the year.
> On the other hand, this shows Elon doesn't care jackshit about the lack of openness from OpenAI. He's just mad only that he walked away from a monumental success.

You really come to that conclusion from a "yup"? Damn.
Not yet. Even if we don't have a defined timetable yet for this feature, is something we are planning to implement
EU accession isn't some jira story where you close tickets.

For a country like Albania, it requires massive social, cultural, political and economical changes. There's no way anyone has a good estimate and there's no way an LLM has magically transformed the culture in a way that's a) meaningful and b) quantifiable.

Turkey has been a candidate for 25 years now, with no meaningful progress.
> Counter-counterpoint: absolutely nobody who has unguardrailed Stable Diffusion installed at home for private use has ever asked for more guardrails.

Not so. I have it at home, I make nice wholesome pictures of raccoons and tigers sitting down for Christmas dinner etc., but I also see stories like this and hope they're ineffective: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68440150
> but my mind grimace at the abomination

Why would that be an abomination? It's a perfect use-case. Like you noticed people need incentives to volunteer their hardware. If you hate crypto because it's crypto you can just use fiat instead.
> Taking VC cash is very often a game of deciding whether you want to gamble it all on faster growth or take less risk for less cash, but with the additional caveat that the investors you take on often will cheer for the "gamble it all" option as they have many parallel bets while you as the founder has one.

This shall be printed in block letters in a red frame ahead of most Paul Graham essays about milk, honey and richies in startup land.

He and VCs push theirs agenda because he has hundreds of bets, while founder has one.

They play different game and are quite quiet about it.
It’s way too early to thank them. Wait 5-10 years, see what effect it has on prices, competition etc
It is from 2001. And maybe not maintained anymore. Probably also a possible explanation.
The data were sourced over 9.9 years from 201,856 individuals in the UK Biobank <https://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk>. These subjects were living in the UK and had received health care through the National Health Service.

From that sample, I guess we can surmise they included all artificial sweeteners commercially-available in the UK.

Better article: https://newsroom.heart.org/news/sweetened-drinks-linked-to-a...

Study (closed access): https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCEP.123.012145 / https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38440895/

In a previous study about artificial sweeteners by the same lead author and also using Biobank participants, the 24-hour dietary recall questionnaire Oxford Web-Q <https://www.ceu.ox.ac.uk/research/oxford-webq> was used and "SSBs included fizzy drinks and squash, ASBs were defined as low calorie drinks, and PJs included pure orange juice, pure grapefruit juice and other pure fruit or vegetable juices".

[*Edit] You can see an example of the Biobank questionnaire likely used here on page 5: https://web.archive.org/web/20120410164808/https://www.ukbio...
I work at LinkedIn now. Chris’s role and the podcast describes ember and front end web dev. I think the LoC and build he’s referring to could be voyager-web. Our monolith flagship web app. And, there’s more systems at LinkedIn with MM lines of code and long builds example is the mid tiers, the offline data stacks, the metrics systems, KafkaKafkaKafka.

Unfortunately, 17min to build is pretty good. 17min without a transient infra failure is very good.

Anyways, AMA
I remember trying it for a while in 2012, but the results were essentially worthless, probably because there were so few nodes/crawlers back then. I guess the more users there are, the better the results.
Tell HN: "Default" FileZilla download bundled with adware
If you click the "quick download link" on the home page it will lead you to downloading a "sponsored" version of the application, e.g. "FileZilla_3.66.5_win64_sponsored2-setup.exe" for me on Windows.

Clicking "show additional download options" takes you to https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?show_all=1 which has links to "clean" versions of the client.

Sidenote: It was Windows Defender which pointed out to me that I had downloaded "unwanted" software, otherwise I might have missed this before running the installer since I had downloaded FileZilla many times in the past without having to worry about it being bundled with unwanted stuff.
Frustratingly the article makes no effort to explain what they mean by equal pay liability.

The same goes for something called "savings delivery rate" that supposedly dropped form 91% to 70%.

And the mentioned "£131 million" for the Oracle finance and human resources system, is that annual or lifetime?
My personal AWS account is just for storing some archive files in S3, which incurs a $0.02/month bill and which Amazon can't be bothered to charge.
Europe's new AI rules could go global – here's what that will mean
Things are changing slowly.
Helluva of a problem.
In a first, U.S. students will take the SAT entirely online
Now that Apple has shown it is possible, I wonder how likely and quickly will regulators in other countries outside EU introduce similar requirements as DMA and force Apple to open up its app store and browser choices.

It will be interesting to see what actions Apple will take to (maliciously) comply with those requirements.
I used to think fonts didn't matter. This changed when I had a takehome with a simple UI, some rows of text with alignment and some borders. The entire thing looked off until I setup the font that was in the spec. The difference with the "correct" font was so big it was hard to believe.

I still think most of the time sticking to system is good enough. But I can see the custom font point of view if you strive for something more.
It’s rare for large companies to immediately comply with the spirit of the law. See EU261 for example - airlines were dragged kicking and screaming through the courts over many years.

Amazon’s behaviour isn’t surprising, but you’re not wrong to call it out
The moment they are good hackers, everyone has a trivially cheap hacker. Hard to predict what that would look like, but I suspect it is a world where nobody is employing software developers because a LLM that can hack can probably also write good code.

So, do you want future LLMs to be restricted, or unlimited? And remember, to prevent this outcome you have to predict model capabilities in advance, including "tricks" like prompting them to "think carefully, step by step".
if it is not censored, probably?
It's not perplexing, it's pure business.
"Mobile-first" has been the dogma for a decade already for a reason.
dO yOu GuYs NoT hAvE pHoNeS?
Can the world please stop forcing this pissing contest upon us all
I did this when I first moved to the US, and had zero credit history (which the system considered to mean "high risk"). The entire point is to improve your credit score.
> Oh but the speed of the signal does depend quite a lot on the transmission medium

And this (actually, phase velocity) is what makes refraction a thing.

I knew that we could slow down light to subsonic speeds, but TIL we can put it at a complete standstill! Amazing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light#In_a_medium
Most of those examples make sense, but what's this doing on your list?

> chatbots that replace real-time human customer service but have none of the agency

That seems good for society, even though it's bad for people employed in that specific job.
HN's Who is Hiring is always a great place to look at! I built a small site that gets all the posts from it (as well as some other places) and puts into a searchable db.

It's free, you can check out here: https://gettjalerts.com/

You can even create an email alert to get notified of any new positions that require your skillset.
They'll attack Tesla but not traditional automakers or other industrial instances more directly responsible for destroying the environment and contributing to climate change.

I just can't with German eco-"activists".
One really has to be clueless outsider to think that they can simply start producing their own cars in Germany.
> Without Play Store it's not viable/interesting.

Just install a version of WSA that has the Play Store. Take Magisk along the way too because why not.
That's not guaranteed in Germany. Even places like Marburg have (had?) ICE connections passing through.
What is the lipstick and what is the pig?

That they were optimistic in 1956 says nothing, other than some people in tech are dreamers. LLMs are a significant step forwards in AI, showing advancements in language processing critical for AGI.

Determinism in AI doesn't negate its intelligence potential any more than you saying "ow" multiple times if someone hits you multiple times does.

Describing them merely as AI isn’t cosmetic and reflects the fact that this thing can spit out essays like a know-it-all teenager. Computers didn't use to be able to do that.
Oh. My. God.

This video explains everything I've seen in the enterprise IT of a huge government org that was the result of a long series of back-to-back mergers and splits.

It's exactly this!

Conway's law, but over time.

Dysfunction not just because of the large hierarchy, but also because of the built up layers of history. Some elements still limping along, some essentially amputated and mere phantom limbs of the org tree now, some outright dead and spreading miasma and corruption from their decay.

I knew or suspected most of this, but to hear it said out loud so clearly has crystallised my understanding of it.
Theft is though
Recently there was a distributed tracker on the front page. Probably more what you're looking for.
Scaling a Streaming Service to Concurrent Viewers
Not necessarily:

> A year or two after I'd joined the Labs, I [Rob Pike] was pair programming with Ken Thompson on an on-the-fly compiler for a little interactive graphics language designed by Gerard Holzmann. I was the faster typist, so I was at the keyboard and Ken was standing behind me as we programmed. We were working fast, and things broke, often visibly—it was a graphics language, after all. When something went wrong, I'd reflexively start to dig in to the problem, examining stack traces, sticking in print statements, invoking a debugger, and so on. But Ken would just stand and think, ignoring me and the code we'd just written. After a while I noticed a pattern: Ken would often understand the problem before I would, and would suddenly announce, "I know what's wrong." He was usually correct. I realized that Ken was building a mental model of the code and when something broke it was an error in the model. By thinking about how that problem could happen, he'd intuit where the model was wrong or where our code must not be satisfying the model.
Great addition, thanks! DB is so complex, I have no clue where subsidies are applied and where not. I just imagined they'd have some tax cuts or something
I worked at LinkedIn in infra. Their internal tools are a nightmare. The true definition of Jugaad.

The entire company has zero concept of testing. No QA at all. Engineers push out half baked initiatives to add to their promotion packet then move on to the next thing.

I trouble shot so many issues just in day to day usage of the internal tooling like for some reason, engineers just trying to do their jobs, are QA.
Changing the type of something based on a conditional check is not great, because if I wanted a non-optional I would request it. Sometimes a nil check is literally just a nil check. What if I want to set the value back to nil if it is not-nil? Why should I have to wrap things back in an optional if I want to pass it along as such?
Because doing so is pointless for a mobile/front-end app. The attacker has physical access to the device; there's no way to stop them at this point. The only thing you can do is make the process more annoying in hopes that they will get frustrated and give up.
How come the data was so hard to find? I'd imagine Ferrari of all cars would have had multiple sets of fully fleshed out data. I know nothing of cars though, so maybe this is uncommon.

Is there a possibility that you've even missed one or more cars in this compilation?
> If the country had never gone that direction it would have spent many more decades being a quasi-feudal land stuck the the middle ages

Capitalism was the end of such arrangements in the most developed parts of the world. Individualism helps since individual investors benefits from investing in better equipment making people more productive and thus helping living standards overall.

Social solutions to the same problem doesn't come close to being as effective at eliminating such inefficiencies. The main thing social solutions can do is provide baselines to the population such as education and healthcare as you say, but without capitalism to follow-up with targeted investments the country will remain poor even if its population is extremely educated. Social solutions are just very bad at using peoples talents well, they have a too collectivist view and don't see the individuals.
so... go woke go broke is true
To me, it reeks of "Rationalist-speak". Throw a couple numbers with decimal points to sound precise, mention Bayesian priors a few times.
No, that's not the real question. Decisions have more factors than just what cash will they bring in.

Long build times are an operational risk - it's very hard to apply patches to solve incidents with a 20 minute build time.
Anything that requires first-party opt-in is bad.

With WSA, you could take any old APK file you pick up off the road and install it on your desktop.

With GPG, they decide what you can and cannot play.
Many years ago I started to dislike exception handling, probably because working in large software projects with many exceptions floating around.

Then a few years ago I started to write code in a primitive language without exception handling. I miss exceptions now.
C# has been focusing on terseness for years now but is kept getting bundled together with Java :(
Original title of the press release: The European harmonised technical standards on the safety of toys should be accessible to EU citizens

I wonder if the same will apply for other common standards like low voltage electricity, construction, etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sportspeople_with_diab...
How do you avoid generating a mountain of low quality
bug bounty programs are almost never really safe for the researcher
On that note, why is this possible on iOS but not Android? It's even possible to pick up several icons on the homescreen and then move them to a different screen with your other fingers. Android is a nightmare by comparison.
True, almost everyone was actually using jailbroken versions of it since the official one was too limited, I guess Microsoft didn't like that.
Show HN: Explain This – AI explanations in a web app instead of chatbot
"Explain This" was inspired by Github Copilot, where you can get an easy code explanation. So we bring this into a web app for customer support.

I believe that chatbots are not it for customer support and that AI has better uses.

"Explain This" allows the user to pick any part of web app and get it explained. The explanation is generated on the fly from the knowledge base; no need to have the content prepared; it will figure out the user's context and find the most fitting parts of the text we can then use to generate the content.

When implemented it reduces the number of chatbot interactions. And also tells which parts of the product are not clear, so it can be then improved upon later. The setup takes less than 5 minutes.

We use the same approach for Tooltips. You set them once, e.g. attach to all page titles and the content gets generated if requested.
Well, on "consumer" cards that were AMDs desperate attempt to stay relevant in that space by rebadging their enterprise compute-focused design for consumers. They haven't used HBM in any of their actual consumer designs unfortunately.
but the activists don't care about climate change
> Almost always more regulation doesn't work in complex markets. Incentives are very very difficult to get right

As if the simple incentives of a deregulated market (aka: profit above all) do work in complex markets.

That's OP's whole point, you want the right laws, not more or less, sometimes more regulation is needed due to the complexity of an industry, sometimes less is completely fine. That nuance is what's missing, and it's exactly the hard part of the whole system to be balanced.

> the exceptions where the regulations work are extremely rare. And for the most part people don't get them right.

For the most part, companies don't get it right either. Case in point: Boeing self-regulation, USA's finance industry self-regulation pre-2008, etc.

Just let go of the dogma.
>stuck because it demands to use third-party cookies

So like 99% of the mainstream web?
I saw OS/2 in action once for a couple of minutes around the mid-90s on the company laptop (IBM Thinkpad?) of my aunt, who was an insurance agent for the German Allianz insurance company. Being used to the Amiga UI, OS/2 looked incredibly clunky and not much better than Windows 3.1 tbh. I'm kinda glad that it wasn't the future ;)
You see the problem then.
Ryan Rolansky said LinkedIn is essentially feature complete.
Personally, I do not find that long names, brackets and general verbosity helps _me_ with "readability". The less concise it looks the less likely I am to read it. And if there is too much to read, I will definitely not read it. Just because someone has entertained themselves by writing lots of verbose code does not mean I want to read it. Skimming it and searching through numerous directories of source code files is not the same thing as actually reading each file from beginning to end.

As it happens, I find terse languages, and "code golf", as more approachable and thus readbale. It is lower volume, more concise and compact. Generally, I can read all of it. I use an ASCII-based array language that uses brackets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_(programming_language)

I am not sure why I prefer writing less code as opposed to writing more code. Maybe I just dislike typing. In any case, I am thankful these languages exist. For both reading and writing.

To insinuate that no one takes array languages seriously would of course be wrong, as one can see from the above Wikipedia page.

The question I have is why anyone who prefers popular verbose languages would care about the discussion of unpopular array languages on HN. Why even bother to comment and complain. If array languages are incomprehensible and unpopular, then why pay any attention to them. Appeals for verbosity over terseness do not seem to be working for the vast majority of Javascript I see in webpages from the larger so-called "tech" companies running the most popular websites.

Array languages are very easy to avoid. Imagine trying to avoid Python. Not easy (speaking from experience).

Telling array language authors to make their languages more verbose is like telling Bob Dylan to play what people want to hear and only then will he have a "tiny chance of being heard and taken seriously".

(Also wondering if commenter meant braces not brackets.)
“There are 8 billion people in the world. You’re telling me no one wants to read my poetry???”
How is Kagi compared to You.com?
Anyone know of any practical ways to get started with this?
...did you just admit to being a ransomware author? My impression is that ransomware is run by organized crime with ties to Russia, and isn't the work of a small team, but, well, I don't know much about running a criminal ransomware organization. If you do, I'd love to hear more!
Nah. Remote. Full stop. Don't negotiate down. You're ceding power in a move that benefits no one except real estate investors. We've absolutely proven it should be optional and people can be extremely effective fully remote, but it makes downtown real estate investments falter so workers must lower their quality of life and savings to help the poor magnates and gov officials.

Optional full remote is better for the environment, better for decentralisation of cities (sustainability), better for quality of life and money and time saved. Whoever doesn't like it can still go to an office. It also easily allows for cross region teams which happen anyway, even with return to the office mandates, where the move is so clearly arbitrary that people must go to join remote calls alone in the office and have no one from their own team with them.

Don't just fold, is my advice. Corporations will just save costs and peddle BS HR like propaganda. If the office is so good that it's better than home then people will naturally go, if not, then so be it. Mandates show that it's not about employees or productivity but about real estate. Manager types also might prefer it due to their own situations and ease of going to the office but notice that higher levels will often be exempt from mandates.

Again, get full remote jobs if you have a bit of leeway and slowly change the course. It's akin to game theory. The more people do it, the more common it'll be.
Everyone contributed for the sake of themselves and not for the greater good of the company, that is what individualism is.