skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...if you think they're just passive puppets who do whatever the US tells them to

They're obviously not passive puppets. They had a choice - they could do what the US wanted, or what Russia wanted. That is more agency than most countries get when facing an existential crisis.

However, given that they chose to align with the US and we now have people talking in uncontroversial statements about it being a "pre-war era" the unfortunate reality here is that the option the US gave them was/is a diplomatic disaster that is very much in line with the US's NATO expansion strategy that they've been executing for the last 30-something years. It is a bad strategy that is leading to war.

> Nobody pressured them to do anything. Russia's actions are all offense, full stop.

Avoiding war requires both sides to reach some sort of mutual understanding. The Russian's aren't going to buy that bullshit. A lot of their troops just died because of NATO arms, held by troops that were at least in part NATO-trained, using NATO intelligence and NATO-approved strategies in a war that is part of a broad strategic push, by NATO, into Eastern Europe. They've figured out the role that NATO is playing here; the plan is obviously to contain and militarily cripple Russia.

That style of rhetorical bullying is very prevalent amongst western leadership, but if we want to find a peaceful solution they should be more honest. They provoked this.
They used to be more cautious about releasing their AI products, but share holders didn't like it ...
An article would be nice...
I view the arguments about dev process to be similar to arguments about parenting. There is some consensus that having some structure is generally better than having none, and the specific merits of different structure and process are subjective.

i.e. Having parents is generally better than having none.
Let's deconstruct that take.

> They do not "fly for 30 years": they fly for a few thousand hours a year at most, amidst hundreds of man-hours of maintenance.

By 2021, N309US, a Delta Air Lines Airbus A320, had flown 89,638 hours in 31 years. That's an average of 2891 hours per year, or just short of 8 hours per day, every day, over 31 years.

The mean-time between overhaul of a CFM56 aircraft engine is 10,000 hours. Or, if you would drive at an average of 60 km/h, 600,000 kilometers. And that's for one of the most highly stressed part of an aircraft.

> Nobody wants a phone with the utilization rate or maintenance cost proportional to a commercial airliner.

So, to hit the same utilization rate as N309US, you would need to use your shiny iPhone 8 hours a day, every day of the year. Good luck with that.

> Phones are not aircraft.

Indeed. As we just discovered, they have a long, long, long way to go to come anywhere close.
I've been using an e-ink phone (HiSense A9) full-time for a year, and it's pretty great. Especially things like biking navigation in sunlight are a huge plus.

The Daylight Computer technology is super interesting and a friend of mine that saw one at some tech festival a while ago said it really is that good. Unfortunately an Android tablet is about the least interesting product you could make with that technology, for me. A phone, a laptop or a full-size computer monitor would be a different game.
ML from Scratch, Part 6: Principal Component Analysis
Have you ever tried to trademark a random noun?
It's really quite horrifying to read about common police actions in cities like Boston, New York, San Francisco even just 50 years ago.

Then again, it was worse elsewhere.
Thank you so much for this! Not having to dig through the settings to toggle B&W makes it much more workable.
Sure, but what does that have to do with this?
Which do you think? :p
Memes were always very powerful, the most popular meme just turned 2024 years old
Product pages that hijack scrolling are inexplicably popular.

I hate them, to the point it kills my interest in the product. It looks like an ad, the kind I use an ad blocker for.

Of course you are going to tell me, it is and ad, but come on, if I decided to scroll down, it means I am interested in the product and I want to know more. No need to hook me up with fancy visuals, it is already done, now, I want information, give me information in the way that is easiest to consume. If you want to be fancy, have a (not autoplaying!) video, but these sites are the worst of both worlds. They are not as cool as videos can be, and they do a terrible job at being informative.

I guess that since Google and the likes with all their analytics do that, it means it works, but to me, it is a turn off. I was kind of interested in that tablet, now I realize I probably don't need it. I probably wouldn't have bought it anyways, but there was a little spark, and you just killed it with that website.
A dying company is one that fails to produce enough earnings to justify the assets it consumes or holds.

As an absurdism, if Walmart only made $1 a year in profit we would probably wonder why the hell it takes them millions or billions in inventory and real estate to produce less profit than a child’s lemonade stand.

Red Lobster is like that. It’s not that they’re unprofitable, it’s that their profits don’t justify occupying that much real estate.

A clear cut example would be if locations were making less in profit than other companies were willing to pay in rent. Ie RL would make more money by not being RL anymore.

> The price of RL share prices is pretty irrelevant to whether PE can kill it or not.

The share price isn’t directly relevant, it’s the share price relative to assets. Companies with expensive stocks are usually worth several to many times more than the assets they hold, so buying them out to sell the physical assets is just lighting money on fire.

PE looks for companies where the market either disbelieves in the company so much their stock is worth less than their assets, or companies where the market has undervalued those assets.
At 98% percentile of Shiba's I'd say it's more like turning 100, at least.
Emotional sign posting: Why you should tell people how to feel
You’re not understanding the tests. They were designed for humans. They were also designed to be taken once. LLMs have been trained on these tests numerous times. LLMs are also not humans. We can’t conceivably compare the two
QCon London: A Tale of Team Topologies – InfoQ
Other people have other requirements.
I would think for most people the goal is some combination of spending less money on gadgets and less environmental impact from gadgets, with repairability just being a means to that end. In which case I would think the commenters proposed suggestion is more direct not less.
I don’t doubt the danger, but I still feel safer in a city with people to trade with than going full Walden
Thing is removing checklists very rarely happens. Almost nobody votes "Yes, let's have a bunch of deaths in the name of (potential) progress". But on the other hand the great majority enthusiastically supports adding more rules and regulations to "save lives".

The system is unbalanced by default.
Neat! do you have a resource that explains this perspective further?
Yea, it is. Granted you have to understand the words used in the explanation.

If your bar for “self-explanatory” is “teaches you both the words and the concepts” then there aren’t any self-explanatory frameworks at all?
This should be adopted slowly over time to learn more about the real life
consequences. There may be no negatives, or there might be something
significant.

It may take 10 - 30 years to observe changes. and if all is well it
can be adopted at scale and/or possible problems detected can be mitigated.

Move fast and break things is not a real way to approach climate change.
Lots of people, apparently: One of the biggest threads I've seen on here in the last weeks (months?). So not a "nothingburger".
Oh OK, I think I understand where you come from now.

I see what you mean, but it is not what I have observed, at least in my country. There has been a steady transfer of wealth upward over the last decades. Unemployment has gone up and wages have stagnated.

When a company is liquidated, I doubt enough of its assets are reinvested to make of the event an overall positive for the economy.
https://diskprices.com/
Not only that, but Google doesn't use language-provided build systems anyway because it's important (to enable many other useful dev tools and practices) that everything is built using blaze (the thing externally released as bazel).

So really, Go's decisions about modules, vendoring, source layout, and the "go" command itself are all kind of irrelevant within Google. (The underlying Go compiler is used of course)
I was thinking of these things as well, but was thinking how just one person, with one image and a caption can do so much today with internet amplification.

However, I suppose historical memes also started with just one person. But, the amplification took much more time.

I mean, computers gave us individual productivity gains. Sometimes, the productivity just sucks.
No but lots of other people have: https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/search/search-results

Feel free to release a computer named Apple to prove me wrong.
> why do I need to put termux on a device when it is already running a full-fledged linux?

Well, at minimum you are going to need an input method to make syscalls. Most people find it more convenient to run software, such as bash and vim, that talks to glibc that eventually makes syscalls to the kernel on your behalf.

I think what you're asking is why termux isn't bundled with android and the answer to that seems straightforward without even considering ulterior motives: it's more than a hundred megabytes. Maybe 1% of people would use it if you're lucky, and people have a word for large pre-installed software package they didn't want: bloatware

I think we're on the same side but the argument you're using is weird. Linux is a kernel and if you meant distribution then there are still many systems that don't ship a terminal but are still free and open source software

What I think you're trying to argue for is the broader point of it being locked down. Why isn't Termux allowed in Google's store anymore? Why can you not fulfill GPL requirements in their store (you'd need to make a quine)? Why do you need to pass a dozen warning screens and lots of fearmongering online before you get to a state where you've got full access to your own device? Why do many software developers try to detect that state and then refuse to work with you? These are the lock-downs, not that you need to go and "apt install" the software you want to use

> Do they lose anything by doing so?

The ability to do whatever they want is what they lose when you're in control. DRM being one of the main applications, security is often (mostly incorrectly) touted as a reason for what's actually thwarting competition. And I'll grant them that it actually makes sense for non-techies (my grandma manages to activate the weirdest things that are hidden in menus and behind very clearly worded confirmation dialogs, while claiming she was trying to add a phone book contact), but for someone who enabled developer tools and successfully entered a tar command (xkcd reference) it does not. Businesses might want to lock down their work devices, that's a legit reason for locking down as well, but that's not applicable for phones where MDM is not enabled. The only consumer advantage of a DRM'd phone is that a second hand purchaser can be reasonably certain there's no modifications to the OS without having to know how to re-flash it. I don't think that's a good enough reason to justify it, but I did want to acknowledge there are legitimate/objective advantages to it as well even if I disagree with the overall status quo
> Engineer-y people trying to interpret law

It must be out of how perplexing apparent hiatus between legitimacy and positive law can be.
But will either be mentioned by ChatGPT?
I feel like your third paragraph doesn’t follow from the second.
Knock yourself out!

https://stackoverflow.com/a/158657/969613
Both Perplexica and Perplexity are bad names for a search engine.

Very perplexed as to who was the smart person that chose this dreadful name for the company.

Yes, it has another definition in context to information theory; which my point is, I used the first definition like a normal person would, which is commonly associated with...

'...a state of confusion or a complicated and difficult situation or thing.' - Cambridge English Dictionary [0]

None of them can ever become a verb that makes sense like 'google it'.

[0] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/perplexi...
"Internet meme" is just the current label and form for "Simple, appealing, opinionated messaging".

It's always been a thing.
This isn’t an engineering problem where you can just hit some metric. Trust gets earned informally on person-by-person terms over a long period of time.

People in St. Louis died / were killed at the direction of the US Army. Frankly, if they decide they don’t trust vaccines that government officials recommend, I can’t tell them their distrust is invalid. They’d be right. For decades, administration after administration has lied to them about what the government did to sabotage their health.

The course of action in this specific case that would build rapport would be to plainly tell the public the truth. It’s not rocket science where you have to invent a metric. Keeping the secret allows the government to avoid oversight. So that it can do the same sort of thing again? Because it is doing the same sort of thing right now?
There's a stylus that comes with it and lots of note-taking apps. I particularly like the ability to take notes directly in PDFs, which for technical papers can be very helpful.
Tidal is alright. They're mostly fine with doing their job instead of bombarding you with new pointless crap all the time. They haven't made a car thing. They aren't doing podcasts. They aren't reshuffling their UI every week. Basically they're (mostly, could be even better) just shutting the fuck up and it's definitely nicer than using Spotify was.
I certainly learned New Math in the sixties. And neither myself nor anyone else I knew had any trouble with analog clocks which is most of what existed.
I absolutely loved college and can understand the dilemma.

Most the social aspect for me though came from living near the college and not the actual classes.

If I was in this situation, I would just move as physically close to a major university as I could. Most of my social interaction at college came from eating lunch and all the people I met during lunch.

Actually paying tuition though for this reason is as bad an investment as I can think of.
Sort of but not really since EVs with their battery management are not far from being a smartphone.
Does anyone else feel embarrassed when they read statements like this? No goals. No vision. Just 'AI everywhere!'
That's a far more tenuous link than "gitlab hosts git repos".
They now have a new way to recover lost passwords, is called “recovery contacts” and allows that contact to recover your mothers phone
Thanks for the link. I am actually just starting my research into that one and options from Dasung.

This is one of those things that I didn’t know I needed/wanted until this HN post. But, I get bad headaches from eye strain and a have a heavy text based workflow so definitely in that target market.
Does it taste like it sounds? I.e. like shit?
There's some amount of piling on around the adjectives being used to describe the issue. There's a problem with Pratt/Whitney engines on the Airbus A320 that could be described in scarier terms than it usually is.
Young high school and university students aspiring to become game designers should give some focus on their algebra, trigonometry and geometry :-)
Apple's M4 has reportedly adopted the ARMv9 architecture
That has to be the most disturbing abstract I've ever read.

Clearly, that is proof that the government has conspired to harm its own citizens in the past.

This precedent makes it clear that those who opposed COVID19 vaccines were not 'crazy conspiracy theorists' as the media led everyone to believe but were in fact potentially very reasonable people. Every person who called anti-vaxers 'crazy' essentially engaged in gaslighting. Firing unvaccinated employees was an act of pure malevolence.

Do you think you would trust a vaccine from the government if that same government had sprayed your grandparents with radioactive materials? Yet that's exactly what was being asked of some people during COVID19 pandemic.

It's disturbing how few people can understand the evil behind vaccine mandates. Variants of the story above were literally what many people faced. Many people can clearly remember instances of government abuse directed against their family members. You cannot expect, much less force such people to trust the government.

If you suspect that you may have become a member of the underclass, you are right to assume that you may become a target of the government and you have the right to protect yourself.

It sounds insane to say it like that, but this is the reality that the government has created. It has made it rational to be paranoid.

The government has many tentacles and each tentacle doesn't necessarily know what the other tentacles are doing. It's foolish to assume that the government can always be trusted. It can never be fully trusted. The government shouldn't even trust itself. It should be designed with that in mind.
Actually when I got my iPhone 13 Pro they said they said keep the receipt for the case in case it falls to bits so they can replace it free. YMMV.
I’m probably not going to multiply two 5 digit numbers together on paper much less do long division but I certainly do smaller scale mental arithmetic all the time.
That might be Cheems, another meme dog who died last year August.
Well, maybe we'll get good recommendations on the type of glue to put in our pizza sauce with the new hard-hitting pieces sure to come out of WaPo.
A difficulty now is that we have morality police on both sides who believe strongly that they are right. And each side believes they are purveyors of uncomfortable truths for the other side. Both sides also believe in censoring their opponents. And both sides believe that they are the true defenders of American values. Fundamentally, America is divided into two sides who both believe they are fighting a Holy War against the infidels on the other side.
1414 years old by my count but generally agree
Well, I was going to say "limited key size" but it looks like in current windows versions the size is "available memory" so... yeah.
I can't find any reason to read any newspaper, especially if paid. They are all mouthpieces anyway. If I need to understand anything I'd rather do my own research.

The only one I might read is the local newspaper. At keast it's relevant. Ironically it's free.
There was VBA and cell logic. The sheet was validated by a third party then someone ported it to a proper language (incorrectly). That model was not validated.
Carlo Acutis, an Italian teenager and computer prodigy, set to become saint
And who was the "her" the title referred to?
Yes, but the reason that I included the word "internet" was to indicate the virus-like reach a single person can have, and now just in hours.
Just saying these tests were designed for humans doesn't mean anything. You have to specify why exactly it doesn't work for an AI.

Or rather let me pose this question. What is the intellectual test you envisions that proves an AI is intelligent that any non-disabled human can easily pass. I'm willing to bet 500 USD it will pass that hurdle in the coming 10 years if you are willing to put your money where your mouth is.
Yes, but only one side has the guns.
I did read the article and listened to the Doritos song as I mentioned in my comment. I agrree the statements about how they came up with the song are damning, as I mentioned. But they aren't doing a Tom Waits song.
Do not try to "commit" or "immutably deploy" lisp data/code. That's impossible. Instead.. Only try to realize the truth.

There is no "commit" / "deploy".
I went and listened to the Sky demos on YouTube and frankly it doesn’t sounds anything like her.
Let me know when it's out!

—Owner of a bricked e-ink device
An Airbus A321 caught fire in Seatac earlier this month.[1]

[1]: https://simpleflying.com/fire-induced-emergency-evacuation-d...
Who makes this?

"About" section has 5 (five) words of waffle in it, their ToS is buried and doesn't give any indication of what this company is, except the name, phone number and governing jurisdiction (CA).

Their "founder" in comments here is a newly registered HN account.
The quotation above is

> its inconceivable the majority of the team at OpenAI haven't at least seen part of the film that almost defined their industry

rather than

> It is inconsistent that Sam personally wasn't aware

(He obviously was)

I'd agree that Majel Barrett-Roddenberry is the prime example of a computer voice interface for most nerds… but then I looked up when Her was released and feel old now because "surely it's not 11 years old already!"
Can't stop reading it as "shrapnel", especially with "intellisense" just below
They are just chasing winds. You can clearly see that there are two kinds of CEOs, the ones that bring the wind such as Huang, and others who chase. Unfortunately the later also gets paid big bucks and busy putting golden parachutes on themselves.

I'd argue that it's better to not have a CEO than having one of those.
I second this. I would love to learn more.
Euclid telescope spies rogue planets floating free in Milky Way
Tweet from Oct 15, 2023
The goal is firing all the staff.
Oh great, now we have another myth to bust in every apple thread along with “apple slowed down phones so you’d buy a new one” and the other classics.
WG21, Boost and Ways of Standardization
You Android users know what I mean
I can't say I've ever had that problem while playing chess (even without the rule), but if I did, I'd ask them to try doing it less.
Northern Africa has a lot of cheap land and a lot of sun. Wind, too. Steel can be then transported (it is already shipped across large distances). You would have to solve maintenance, but that should be doable.

The main obstacle for investment is political stability and alignment.
“After six months of investigation and $15m in consulting fees, we have determined that our crossword designer can easily be replaced with advanced AI.”

[two days later]

“Okay, a songbird known for its imitation abilities, starts with ‘r’, ‘twe’ in the middle... wait what, Rottweiler?????”
I really enjoyed the article :) Made it very understandable for me a person who struggled with some similar things in school.

Would really appreciate the inclusion of an RSS feed so I can continue to follow along!
Instigative journalism is a full time job, requiring skills and credentials.

What do you mean by "do my own research"? Who are you interviewing? What war zones are you traveling to to become an eyewitness? Which stacks of public records are you trawling though?

I agree that there's a lot of junk reporting out there, but there are also reporters providing an essential service.
Not at all. If you just reference to a package by its name, that is good enough for a compiler. I think automatic download of packages from third party sites doesn't belong into a language and its native tooling. The downloading and installing of third party packages could be done by a tool provided together with the language core tools, but should not be required to be able to compile a project at all.
No, AI is one thing today and another thing tomorrow but the trend is unstoppable. Clearly we need to understand the boundaries where AI is just "hallucination" but it is right here right now and evolving. Zillions of startups are doing AI now, most will died but some will survive in this collective experiments.

Also, there was a time in HN when people argued before downvoting.
My AI experiences in software development workflow