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Looks like the BBC title now uses "Boeing 737 skids off runway in Senegal"

Leaving it to look like the HN submitter was the one generating a clickbait headline. Title should probably be changed here if dang is listening.
It's interesting that despite repeatedly insisting that Miller has said awful things, you have yet to actually share said statements.
Hmm, they were musician's musicians, not for everyone perhaps. I could write a comment crapping on anyone from Louis Armstrong to... Dua Lipa? Not clear on why it would increase one's stature or be worthy of note.

(Thought it may have something to do with a midwest dislike of late 70s west-coast AOR fusion.)
damn, I wish I could give more than one upvote
I'm gonna be extremely blunt given that I have you in my audience, large streaming media worker bee: It's not surprising in the slightest that you have a bias towards the effectiveness of DRM when your livelihood depends on it. The fact that the unit-cost is "relatively insignificant" is simply a continuation of the straw man argument that props up the entire notion that DRM is somehow cost effective. I don't personally think you are a jerk or anything for working your job, but I can say that I would not personally find it fulfilling to spend my own career on something with such diminishing returns. I guess all of those insignificant expenses add up to some good money in the end, at least in someone's opinion. The incentive to continue burying the failed promises of DRM and keep it propped up as long as possible is evident though; the story really hasn't changed in the 30 years or so that I've been following it.

The lack of a "save video" button in the player app is the most effective means to prevent the average person from distributing the content. By your "lock on the door" analogy, a UI that does not allow the thing you don't want your users doing is providing more or less equivalent protection to the DRM. It doesn't matter how many locks you put on your door if all the attacker needs to get what they want is to look through the window. Why continue to invest in the additional technology if it is not actually adding significant additional protection? By the time any user presents a willingness to do anything at all to circumvent your standard software interface, you have lost; the user will succeed. Plugging in a $30 recorder and pushing the button is all it takes, and all the sweet cutting edge secure enclave crypto quantum DRM in the world cannot prevent it. How many of those 20k illegal streams you cite even bothered to break the precious DRM? My guess is zero.
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Microbes where hunting and fucking by that time.
To short, you need to pay to borrow shares. And that’s not easy on a stock like DJT. It has a small float, and since professionals consider it overvalued, the premiums are unusually high. It also has an army of retail fans who can produce surprise spikes, meme stock style.

Hedge funds make their money with trades that are not obvious to everyone, because if they were, they’d be too crowded. “Short DJT” is definitely in that category.
If I recall correctly, this was actually a problem they identified a while back, where they found out there was a high degree of failing to follow the launch orders. They've solved it by creating routine drills where an order comes in, and operators have to enter the code and turn the keys, not knowing if it's actually a drill or the real thing.
How much "cash" is in China and can't be easily repatriated? They do a lot of business there.

But I agree, Tesla isn't going anywhere.
They've done the classic thing of saving pennies now and spending dollars later though. Laying off the Supercharger team is a particularly baffling mistake: Superchargers are the selling point for getting a Tesla as opposed to some other BEV, and especially now that they've opened up the network to other companies. In some areas Tesla owners are already complaining that they can't get a charger because of the non-Tesla vehicles occupying them. That need not necessarily have been a mistake if they went pedal-to-the-floor on building out the network further, but it doesn't look like that's going to happen. It's a bad error that's going to bite them hard, soon.

If this were any other company, HN would instantly and unanimously recognize that this is as the classic MBA/PE blunder of cutting costs but and gutting any chance at future success; the only reason people aren't recognize it as such is because of lingering goodwill towards Elon.
Some presidents might be better or worse at getting things done but I do not really think Trump would be better. He has a long history of projects that failed (sometimes questionable \ criminal intent).

We should expect more from congress and the bills that are being written. The office of president was meant more as oversight (checks and balances) and less supreme leader.
That’s a deq
Seems the "Deck" in this context has an implied following phrase "of index cards", as in "the deck of index cards containing the salient points in the presentation"?

Although I'm usually rather strict on language, this doesn't bother me, because it is not skewing a term but using it effectively with an implied context. Plus, that ship seems to have sailed.

OTOH, despite the ship definitely having sailed and over the horizon, using "impacted" for "affected", "hit", "struck", etc., as opposed to "embedded" (as in an impacted tooth), still grates like grinding gears every single time I hear it, so I can sympathize.
Every now and then I do event tech for some small tech conferences, lectures, etc.

A while ago we had an issue where, under some circumstances, macbooks would enforce HDCP for their output. Obviously an issue if you're trying to record and stream a talk. And we didn't have any hdcp removal devices on hand.

So I set up a Sony FX30 with fujinon broadcast optics on a tripod, aimed at the screen. Some white balancing and adjustments to brightness and ISO curve later and the image was undistinguishable from the original.

We actually used that setup for all talks on that day, and it worked perfectly fine.
Why didn’t you build this in Unity?
Defender for Cloud Apps delivers new in-browser protection capabilities via Edge
Why aren't you allowed to discuss it?
Hawking's Time Traveller Party
I wonder if this has anything to do with Musk visiting China last week.
It doesn't really change the story. Them only giving back the money they took only after a journalist got involved is still slimy.

If a company doesn't offer a reason why it happened and how they are going to change policies, it's not a real resolution.
That's really interesting, thanks. I wonder if the initial chatting puts it more in the mood to coach you rather than write the code?

My prompting style is much more direct - things like this: https://chatgpt.com/share/61cd85f6-7002-4676-b204-0349a72323... - more here: https://simonwillison.net/series/using-llms/
Implants, prosthetics, and exo-skeletons?
You read her qualifications and history? You still decided to write this comment?
No dysfunction, just teenagers offing themselves because they live in a boring suburb with pearl-clutcher, neurotic high-achiever parents.
definition 5 - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deck

Pedantry like this always intrigues me when it's so clearly wrong both in daily use and formal sources...like where is it coming from?
The Apple M4 chip is the fastest single-core of any consumer chip
check the timestamp: https://x.com/SlackHQ/status/367835012315357184
You can use Slack & Discord from browser tabs. That's how I roll

One Chrome window for

- work (slack, jenkins, bitbucket)

- personal (discord, gmail, twitter, HN)

- open source (github, docs, projects)

Each one is a mental box and are kept separate
You're clearly arguing from the conclusions you want to be true.

Nobody who is in the know and actually is skeptical of this branch of work (ie. people like Sasha Gusev) thinks it is as useless as you are making it out to be.

Adoption studies produce causality and even the GWAS (genome-wide association studies) stuff, while not necessarily causal, is pretty interesting.
Sure, but if he has a track record of being wrong about X then being skeptical of future claims seems reasonable.
I'm scared of entering a US hospital. Looking at minimum $1000 out of pocket just stepping in to see a doctor's face.
I feel this factor plays a huge role in rich/upper middle class/upper-class people staying rich or growing richer.

Kids that grow up upper-class imitate their parent’s approach to work and life in general, giving them an upper-hand.

Many poor kids are very smart and capable but end up imitating bad examples early on, making them handicapped.

One of the best things a disadvantaged kid can get is a good role model. Doesn’t have to be rich…anyone with a stable middle-class life to imitate is enough, compared to questionable characters some imitate (gun-toting rappers for one).
I can't think of a medically relevant example except maybe stimulants and painkillers, but outside of medicine, this definitely is the case with technology: many inventions have a ratchet effect - they start as gimmicks, but when they reach a critical mass of users, they confer so much competitive benefits that they rapidly spread everywhere, and eventually become required to function.

Examples range from agriculture to the Internet; currently, smartphones seem to be hitting this threshold, as more private and public services become designed primarily with smartphones in mind.

I found it enlightening to ponder the history of clocks. There was a time nobody needed one; it wasn't actually useful for anything[0], because nothing in agricultural societies happened fast enough to require hour or minute accuracy. Some people eventually found use for more accurate and precise time tracking, then more, then those people realized they're able to coordinate better when they have synced clocks, which made new things possible, and few centuries later, our entire civilization runs on clocks, and it's near-impossible to live without minding what time is it.

--

[0] - Use in sea navigation notwithstanding.
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Did they think it was leftover Google Reader infra?
To some extend, but at 36 I’m already pretty set in my ways. While my son might occassionally affect me, I think the reverse is a constant.
In the world of pure fantasy thought experiments, I want to redevelop San Francisco one block at a time by taking blocks in an area like the sunset (lots of low rise housing) and redeveloping it in to high density high rises. The trick is you do the following: whichever block you’re going to redevelop, you offer relocation cash to the residents and some other compensation to owners. Then you let each block vote on which one wants to accept. If none pass the threshold, raise the offer and repeat until one does.

Then remove all the housing and build super dense. You might need to start by big roads so maybe something around Sloat. Gotta build out transit too of course.

Anyway that’s never gonna happen but I want to see Hong Kong levels of density in SF, and if I were Housing Stalin that’s what I’d want to do.
> Progress is still tracking the steep part of the S-curve, and there's no indication that they're near the top yet.

If I understand it correctly, that seems to be exactly what this paper is suggesting.

Scoring high on the bar exam is pretty trivial for AI - the data needed for that is fairly generic and widely available on the internet. It requires you to demonstrate a relatively basic understanding of the concepts by answering a bunch of multiple-choice answers. If anything, I'd expect AI to have a perfect score.

Like I said, such an AI is not entirely useless. You can replace quite a few legal assistants with that, and I bet it could be used to create first drafts or to expand a core concept into a full legal argument. There is plenty of money to be made there, and it's going to make an awful lot of people jobless. But that's just replacing more-trivial jobs with automation, it doesn't add anything novel to society.

On the other hand, the actual difficult work involves being able to come up with completely novel concepts, and being able to expand upon some obscure but crucial stuff few people have ever heard about. Current models simply aren't capable of that, and the results achieved here with multimodal models suggests that they never will. We risk getting stuck with models which can do some trivial work, but silently produce complete garbage when you ask them to do anything providing substantial value.
Link to deck
Please?
>The question is do we keep chasing an ever increasing population

We aren't.

Every bit of evidence is that Human population is on the path to stabilizing. Developing countries plateau, and all that "India and china are going to outreproduce us!" rhetoric was stupidity; people extrapolating an S curve as if it were an infinite exponential curve.

All you have to do is give women an education and legal access to birth control and it turns out most humans do not want 50 kids. Women happily manage population control, with no moral problems.
Why not $SOME_OTHER_PLACE _is_ the classic NIMBY argument.
Why do we need a law? You can choose to invest or not.

I mean, tons of shareholders are literally fighting to give Elon another $50 billion in stock, diluting themselves.
there's fine tuning happening in some systems, so without knowing which system you're using, a "yes" answer could be incorrect.
That's what I don't get.

> low debt, lots of cash equivalents on hand

Then why fire 20% to 40% (as some rumors are pointing out today) of your staff? Why get rid of the supercharger team? Why get rid of the new vehicles team?

If they really were "low debt" and "lots of cash" on hand kind of company, then there's no reason for huge cuts.
Which implants and prosthetics currently exist that are such that a median person would want them and as a result would become super-human?
>that would defeat the whole purpose of the amendment, which is to enable the people to resist a tyrannical government

That doesn't really jive with the president being explicitly legally empowered to call upon the militia to quell insurrection.
I don’t think buckets of csv would be better, in fact I know it would be worse because you lose data types and in memory representation.
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>I used to live in Texas near the biggest deaf school in the U.S. From my understanding, some people in the deaf community do consider the word "cured" to be offensive because they don't consider their condition to be a disease.

And if these some people want to view it that way to help themselves feel better or for whatever personal motives, that's their right. However, nobody else should be obligated to suspend a rational assessment of reality because of how it might offend anyone's emotional and irrational notion.

Whether it comes from a disease, and accident or something congenital, deafness is certainly at least a defect in normal human function and needs to be recognized as such by those who could strive to eliminate it as a problem.
Haha I guess that might technically fit.
The source was a few of the doctors that were helping him. I don’t know their sources, but he seems like he’s gotten better since working with them.

At this point, I don’t really care if it’s long COVID or the vaccine or whatever, I’m not invested in any of the anti-vax stuff, I just want my dad back to his whole, healthy self, and seeing him struggle to walk around when, before Covid, he had more energy than me makes me feel frustrated and sad. I just want something that works!

It’s certainly taught me to never take my health for granted.
If people can argue they should not be held accountable for doing something bad, because they defacto had no choice (due to nature/nurture) - and people will take that seriously - then exactly the worse kind of people will never be held accountable.

And folks on the fence will hop over it onto that side.

Because consequences do matter for preventing most behavior (weighed by the rational and non-rational part of the mind), but punishing someone for something they can’t control seems cruel - and that will stop many people from applying them. Resulting in more damage and more bad behavior.

So regardless of if it’s true or not, treating it as true is fundamental for a functioning society.
It does seem like the fact a CEO can work multiple jobs at the same time undercuts the common argument that we must all return to the office.
This is exactly how we do this in our SaaS at Tembo.io. We check read_ct, and move the message if >= N. I think it would be awesome if this were a built-in feature though.
I do not write Elixir/Erlang programmers. But I do think that the actor model and BEAM solve a few issues that I face when writing complex backends, which I do.

For example I have not found a language whose error handling I like - Go and Rust are super meticulous, for example and you get error handling code everywhere, which is good for stability but not great for developer experience. TS/JS/Node suffers from the opposite - error handling is an afterthought and you never know what exception will come at you and from where and bomb you whole server, so you end up relying on cloud solutions running large redundant arrays of processes. Isolation of errors within a process and message passing is a great abstraction.

Another thing is that I get to spend a lot of time on is setting up Redis/Cloud stuff to do basic queue, caching and cron. That stuff takes up time, increases complexity, creates new sources of error and grows institutional knowledge. Using a system which has those built into the language is a major improvement. Vercel/Deno/Bun/etc are solving some of the above by including them in their cloud offerings with relatively good DX, but it still increases complexity, takes you out of code and locks you in with the vendors.
In short: the malfunction was a retraction of the device “threads”/interface to the brain surface. The remedy was an update to the sensitivity of the device, and normal behavior resumed with the patient.
Should note the `/.` is syntactic sugar (or special syntax) for `ReplaceAll[]` function. And basically anything can be written as M-expressions. For any expression this form can be retrieved with `FullForm[expr]` (may have to use `Hold[expr]`). So for your example with no special syntax:

Set[e,Plus[5,x,f[x]]]
ReplaceAll[e,Rule[x,6]]
Your friend will likely be familiar with this notation, which is fairly standard (though not by any means universal). I think it means: knit 2 stitches, then knit the next stitch twice (incrementing the number in that row as result); knit 6 more then slip the last 3 stitches while holding the yarn in front.
Just look at the people who are convinced they have to beat up their kids to discipline them because "I turned out fine".
> I wonder if there will be some kind of response from companies, to try to hide or obfuscate such information-

They already do this in the form of third party job postings which will describe the role/work but not name the company. There are tons of these all over linkedin.
I think maybe they’re talking about kids that hated every minute of their life while living with their parents, only to do the same thing after.

Even if you’ve lived like that all the time, if you hated it, you’d expect someone to do the opposite.
The suggestion that personality or really any sort of brain function is linked to genetics at all seems to fly in the face of mind-body dualism and Hollywood-movie-ethics ("anyone can do anything if they work hard enough") both of which are things most people seem to hold very dearly.
Its fascinating that you're suddenly popping up again to discuss this while not responding to anything else in this thread.

I also don't think I need to do anything, I didn't say he was shady or make any attempt at a smear, I'm just stating that if you look into his actual story you might take his feelings here with a grain or two of salt. Hint: according to his own account, he spent about as much time interacting with genocide and nazis as my own grandparents who also fled and hid during the war did. He's also made a very big name for himself as the "anti-zionist holocaust survivor". The point is that this is one child's opinion, there are many other people, who also survived the war and are ardent zionists who vehemently disagree with him. He's by no means an expert on this topic so I don't understand why he's even being discussed.

I will not engage anymore on him, as it's totally irrelevant to the discussion which was "did the ICJ rule that Israel is committing genocide", the answer, clearly is no. and thus instead we have locallost attempting to save his argument by whatabouting to other topics, like the opinions of others.
the issue with free will is that even with 100% free will, life is an optimization problem. we can not possibly make a conscious decision for everything we do. we'd stop breathing. therefore we must rely on doing things by habit. and where do we learn habits? from our parents.

i fall on strongly on the nurture side of the nature vs nurture question, but the issue is that with the amount of habits and behavior patterns that we acquire, we simply don't have the capacity to change all of them without effort. we can change a few at a time, and each can take considerable effort to change. not to mention many that we are not even aware of.

in short, there is no need to fall back to nature as a reason for why certain behaviors don't change. moreover, even if a certain behavior is nature, i believe willpower can allow us to change that too.

what bothers me is that nature or lack of free will are abused to excuse certain behaviors as unchangeable. everything can be changed, because humans are very adaptable. we just need to carefully consider which things we actually want to change.
Sounds like you have the context for the thread!
>One of those Inconvenient Truths.

But it's not at all an """Incovenient""" truth. The fact that plants use CO2 to grow, and that more CO2 can result in more ruffage growing is uncontroversial.

It also does nothing to offset the actual problems with increasing CO2 levels!
Should we also try to teach children geometry and test them on calculus?