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Different person, but off the top of my head:

* mRNA vaccines were brand-new (Pfizer and Moderna's covid vaccines were the first ever), and until 2019 were deemed not safe for human use, not because of the mRNA but because the lipid nanoparticle used for delivery had a toxic effect on cell walls. There was supposedly some sort of breakthrough that year that fixed it.

* The people most suspicious of the vaccines were actually looking into the science and whenever they brought up valid questions, it was just dismissed with the weakest of strawmen. For example, when they were talking about reverse transcription enzymes, the rebuttal was an overly simplistic "these vaccines don't change your DNA" without even addressing what they brought up. They later found studies showing human liver cells can convert the mRNA vaccines into free-floating DNA.

* The lies that started in early 2021 about stopping infection. None of the manufacturers claimed that, it came from media and politicians that didn't understand the press releases. For those of us paying attention to the vaccines in 2020, this was a well-known open question.

* Stopping the short-term safety trials three months early (the halfway point) when preliminary testing got an unexpectedly good result.

* The reported side-effects in those trials were completely suppressed in favor of the "safe and effective" mantra.

* Related to "effective" - The majority of reporting was on the population as a whole, rather than any sort of breakdown by demographics like age. If you were under 30 years old, even with the inflated numbers from early 2020 you were at less risk than from the yearly flu. For that age group, especially with no comorbidities, the vaccines were nearly all risk with no reward, but the push was for everyone to get them anyway.
Awesome project!

However, I find that when I realize a podcast is generated using AI and synthetic audio, I immediately lose interest. For me, the value of podcasts lies in authentic human conversations, and AI-generated content just doesn’t have the same appeal.

Probably it's just me being obsessed with old-school podcasts, though. I do believe there are listeners (not sure if many or few) who don't mind if a podcast is AI-generated.
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I'm very confused. If what OpenAI gets from that deal isn't cash flow, it is to either: 1. Condition users to use ChatGPT directly (outside Apple Intelligence) where they can either charge for a subscription, use your data or maybe use ads. However, the way I understand it Apple wants you to only interact with Apple Intelligence so I'm not sure how such conditioning could work.

2. If you don't use ChatGPT directly then the only thing I can think of is using your data to improve though that will go against everything that apple has built itself on in the last few years.

What else could be at play here other than Microsoft investing in a company that give one of their competitors a free service?
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From the same era, folks may also enjoy the three volumes of collected articles from Jim Blinn's Corner. Some of it is a bit dated now, but plenty is still relevant.
Afaik, the security enclave is treated as if it was owned by the manufacturer, not the consumer. It's also used for DRM, which is arguably anti-consumer, and giving any app access to that would effectively reduce the strength of DRM.
I'll echo the other comment: if you're wearing a serious looking mask I'm just going to assume you've got a serious medical problem until I get other reason to suspect otherwise.
I really wish there was a version 2 or something. There are lots of annoying quirks in space Alert which could be improved, like the interceptors which never get used. And the lack of any proper difficulty settings.

I'd love a proper Legacy style version of it. I bought the expansion but it seems to add a lot of complication without enough value.
The term banana republic comes from Chiquita history in various countries, in case you didn't know.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic
Can someone make something going the other way?

I don't like podcasts. I tune out after about 30 seconds of chit chat and intros and blah blah blah and end up missing stuff and can't search for it or copy and paste it.
That's something wondering me as well. Japan had so much cool things way back in the 2000's (even late 90's I think?). Internet on mobile phones was thing (I think it was called iMode or so). Those flip phones were awesome and way more convenient then those bricks back then over here (I still have my international version of an NEC flip phone I bought in mid-ish 2000's somewhere around. It even had iMode access, albeit pretty useless here).

I still wonder what could have happened, if Japanese companies pushed their phones (and technology) more worldwide. Well, we will never know.
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> > The reality is that while squatters might hold political beliefs, few people would choose to squat if they had other housing options

> Here in Seattle, time and time again, studies are done which show the majority of homeless, when offered shelter, turn it down and prefer to live on the streets. Which seems to completely contradict your claim that they would make use of housing options.

Shelters aren't homes.

Can they store their things there and reasonably expect they won't be stolen? Can they have pets? Can they have privacy?

Would you stay in a homeless shelter? I mean, come on. The fact that anyone at all says yes to staying in these places shows just how bad staying on the streets is.
> millions of times faster

Unless you had a 3KHz processor (and no processor ever had that), that statement is just not true.
Thats the kind of regulation that inevitably fails for one reason or another, but usually capture. Ordering the break up the OS and App Store is a self-executing and relatively permanent solution that can’t be corrupted nearly as easily.
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Different asphalt for example. Also less people with pickups and nubby tires.
Maybe? It doesn't have a scale on the vertical, so you don't know how loud it is. It only shows that the horizontal bars are about 10dB. It's not a good chart. Essentially, somewhere just below 220Hz, it appear that there is a 10db dampening of the noise. We still don't know what that dampened level is though which makes this a meh chart at best
Great question, instantly invalidates everything he ever said or did
At least a few 100 from me.

"Alexa play music"

(having setup Apple Music as default on every device and the Alexa app)

"Ok, playing My Soundtrack on Amazon Music"

"Alexa Stop, Alexa Stop, Alexa Stop, Alexa Stop"

"Alexa play music"

"Ok, playing Apple Music"

"What the f*$#, F^%@ you Alexa"
> What is it about this issue that makes so many people wish to treat landlords harshly?

Because landlords are buying up the resources other people need to live and price gouging them.
I run MacWhisper on my laptop, and often dump podcast MP3s into it, extract the Whisper transcript and then feed that through a long context model like Claude 3 Haiku/Opus or Gemini Pro 1.5/Gemini Flash using my https://llm.datasette.io/ tool to answer questions against that transcript.
> While the idea of deferring load to eliminate the need for batteries might seem straightforward, it raises significant practical challenges.

This is pretty vague. Practical challenges such as?

> Forcing billions of people and businesses to change their consumption habits is not only unrealistic but also fraught with potential issues.

Potential issues such as?

> Consider the global perspective. In developing countries, where resources and infrastructure are already limited, expecting such flexibility is impractical. These regions often lack the luxury of choice and are more vulnerable to disruptions.

I’m under the impression that brownouts or blackouts are a little more common in developing countries, so if we’re going to have to deal with intermittent supplies we probably should be asking them for advice.

I think we’d have to look, probably case-by-case, at what the issues are in less electrified areas, to see how renewables and load shifting would affect things. If the grid is less robust and parts become disconnected from time to time, then renewables are great, because they tend to be more disperse. If there are times where there isn’t enough generation capacity (not enough power plants or fuel) then great, whatever communication scheme is used to communicate information about renewables can also be used for fossil fuel.

> Moreover, the goal of decarbonization isn't just about ideological preferences for renewable energy. It requires a pragmatic approach that incorporates a mix of technologies: solar, wind, hydro, nuclear, batteries, and more. Each technology has its strengths and plays a crucial role in the overall strategy.

This is true. But I don’t really see any ideology in the idea of load shifting though. It is actually a practical answer. Renewable generation capacity that isn’t backed by batteries is always cheaper than that which is, unless batteries somehow become free. So, the pragmatic answer is to combine the two. Batteries are a cost, strategies to avoid them should be taken. That doesn’t mean 0 energy storage, though.

> Cherry-picking preferred technologies without considering the broader context can delay our progress by decades. To effectively combat climate change, we need to embrace a comprehensive and inclusive approach that leverages all available solutions.

Accounting for the price of batteries is often brought up as an argument against renewables. We should implement dynamic pricing now. It could even provide a market incentive to build more batteries. There’s no cherry picking here. Load shifting goes in the basket of solutions.
Penalties based on the global revenue also prevent companies finding loopholes in the corporate and tax laws. They need to announce good revenue to have shareholders and they will be judged by the same standards by the law.
> unless you went through the effort of keeping track of their hands

I just don't find card counting to be a very fun or useful game mechanic.

Can I take a pencil and paper to my games? Does this really enhance the strategy?
> During the 2007 trial, it was revealed that Chiquita had made payments amounting to more than $1.7m to the AUC in the six years from 1997 to 2004.

> The banana giant said that it began making the payments after the leader of the AUC at the time, Carlos Castaño, implied that staff and property belonging to Chiquita's subsidiary in Colombia could be harmed if the money was not forthcoming

Not saying this is the case here but imagine if Mexico allowed families harmed by cartels to sue every businesses that paid off cartel mobsters threatening to ruin their business, because they happen to operate in areas where the police/army consistently fail to control them and the gov/police often colludes with the cartel.

AUC is pretty notorious for penetrating the Colombian gov and law enforcement at varying levels.
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What really blows my mind about all this is how long are we expected to give our computing over to corporation? 100 years? 200? A thousand? In 500 years will people be running some personal OS cobbled together from a shared heritage or will we be stuck with one mega-corp running it all. It's sort of dystopian what we have now.
They don't plant a tree for every Author Clock sold.

They plant a seedling.

This means (a) it may not survive to be a tree, but that's not the mental image they want you to have and (b) it might be in a tree farm, which means it's not a ecosystem-tree but a product to be harvested and processed (with fossile fuels). So, you know, it's more likely about giving you the warm-fuzzies than any particular concern for the environment.

That said, kudos to them for making the device easy to disassemble and repair. That in itself is a laudable thing.
Sure, but I mean that they are not so respected in the hierarchy within hardware companies, the way devs are in big tech, say.
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This is a great article. I am learning a lot and it's filling in my knowledge gaps.
It may not mean guaranteed signal that they can create good regulation, but the opposite is a pretty major red flag. If you don't understand technology, I have a very hard time trusting you to enact laws on the subject.
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I think my comparison to the British auto industry is apt. Bankruptcy doesn’t mean the brand goes away but it can mean the domestic industry evaporates into nothing.

You look at companies like Lotus, MG, Land Rover, Jaguar, and even Volvo and you look at a future where their intellectual property assets essentially only exist to help geopolitical rivals. GM and Ford being sold to the Chinese would have been devastating to US industry.

There is no Volvo EV that is built in Sweden. There is no Lotus EV built in Britain. At the end of the gasoline production line run it’s just China producing all their future electric cars when they go fully electric in 5 years.

Don’t forget that automotive parts are a huge employer beyond the auto manufacturers themselves. If Geely buys Ford they’re moving parts supply to China. It’s a whole ecosystem and it’s strategically worth protecting.

Like I said, don’t forget how the government was paid back in full with interest for the bailouts. On top of that the governor gets to keep people employed rather than sending the jobs abroad. It was a no brainer obvious good policy, supported by both parties as well.
"High chance"?

How long does it take to read a line or four of text? Especially when the bit you're actually after is highlighted in bold?

(And to me, it looks underpriced, unless they've already got orders or investment for production runs in the 10,000s. I've done a hardware startup. Hardware is _hard_. Amazon manage to sell Kindles for ~$80 building them at Amazon volumes, and almost certainly subsidising them with expected future ebook sales. I'd be very very surprised if they'd even be breaking even on manufacturing if they're building those in runs of ~1000)
My local park is pretty big and has a big jerkass contingent that likes to drive around in their poorly muffled vehicles.

A feature to make cars somewhat quieter isn't gonna do anything about that.
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I don’t like Bitcoins, they seem like a ridiculous way of burning extra electricity. That said, because they can consume energy on tap, they do seem like a funny way of providing a return on extra renewable energy, promoting the over-building of renewables, which would mean that we have to turn on the wasteful peaking generators less often. Have to give them credit here.
Was Uribe center-left or far-right? It seems like was both at different times. In any case, viewed by this outsider from thousands of miles away, Colombian politics looks fluid enough that labels lose distinction. The one constant seems to be U.S. policy.
Tax dollars were paid back in full with interest. It was an investment with ROI - plus the preserved American jobs.
Can’t found anything near that, $40 for expert roles is the most common I find. I worked with one of these vendors, and the working condition is so horrible that people who are actual experts would not tolerate
I don’t know Jack about C# and .NET and I’ve used ChatGPT to write several nontrivial programs.
I'd say that this is a bad idea: one of the points of education is learning from other people's mistakes!

(I'm not directing that statement at Nietzsche, but rather thinking of the wealth of practical advice from say, Epictetus.)
A competent government will prevent those kinds of privacy abuses as well by enacting laws like GDPR and constantly updating them.
This is a good approach, I get a lot more information by going directly to the source in cases like that. Unfortunately, it makes some things like Wikipedia less useful because they explicitly want to use secondary sources rather than primary source material. I know they have their own reasons for that due to dealing with pseudoscientific cranks and whatnot, but it does make anything politically charged less useful as reference material.
The very beginning of this lecture exposes it as complete rubbish.

> Nietzsche thinks this book is gonna be wasted on most of you, but for his rightful readers, it will free you to achieve greatness. Nietzsche wrote his books to cultivate what he called "higher men": people like Beethoven, Napoleon, and, Goethe. Now, before you get too excited, Nietzsche's got some bad news for you. Higher men are born to be higher men, they are born with noble aristocratic natures which he thinks is incredibly rare.

Okay, then why is this lecture about how to be an aristocrat if that's impossible for me, a common peasant? If Johnathan Bi truly believes this, shouldn't he lecturing me about how to be a serf and properly serve my aristocratic masters? (step 1: stop writing comments on HN and get back to work!) Nietzsche never intended to instruct people how to be great, he only sought to explain why things are the way they are. Claiming that "Genealogy" is a "guide" is silly at best.

It seems like he watched a YouTube video on Nietzschean philosophy and decided to build a self-help guru personality around it. I've watched a lot of Coffeezilla's self-help guru videos and this one is giving me the same vibe.

edit: heh, looks like this got kicked off the front page. Good.
Agreed. It's so annoying having good content buried in audio. For interviews of note on youtube, last week I cracked and spent 2 hours writing a yt-dl based ripper that converts the whole thing in to an html linkified webpage via intermedia VTT, opening the resulting subtitles based transcript file in the browser so you can easily scan and click anywhere you want to see the video and it will open in a new window at exactly that point. Not perfect but saves AGES.
The simplest strategy is to buy index funds and hold. I never look at the price of any stock every day. I don't plan to sell any index funds either until I retire.
Boeing spin-doctors or is it AI?
I don't think anyone sets out to have this policy. What seems to happen, especially with organizations that existed pre-computing, is these things evolved gradually along with computing and best practices. You picked the person with the most computing prowess, sat them down and said "make this work". And they got it working. And then it was too important to stop working.

It takes an IT team with skill and a management team that trusts them and their decision making to turn that kind of thing around. It's a similar story of a company that fails to have a working backup or disaster recovery: "everything has been fine and we can't justify the expense", when in reality it's a time bomb.
Regarding your point (1), there's more to it than just the dollar amounts now and later. If we believe the over-leveraged founder story where that founder has mortgaged their home and maxed out their credit cards, being able to sell that equity at series A for $500k could mean the founder is able to pay those debts, and doesn't end up losing their home and being hounded by creditors. (Even if it doesn't get that bad, having that debt over your head is stressful, and running a small startup is already stressful enough.)

If we also believe that founders are important to a company's success as it grows from a small startup into something more mature, I'm pretty sure that unfortunate financial (and housing) situation would drastically reduce the chances that the company would make it to that $250M exit later.

So taking that $500k may increase the chances that the startup later gets sold for $250M, rather than, say, $50M... or just failing entirely, returning whatever small amount of money is left to investors.
We have "ballistic recovery systems" that are basically giant parachutes for entire (small) aircraft
The only person I'd add to that list is Simon Peyton Jones. I could watch them talk all day!
It’s funny you chose Socrates for this example because I believe he isn’t confirmed to have been a real person but rather a rhetorical character created by Plato.

Might be getting this wrong or new evidence has come to light, but I remember reading that theory years ago.
This is beyond stupid. This is the same analyst, that quite recently valued Tesla Dojo at $500B, just when Musk was hyping it. Billions, not millions.

Given the aligned interests of MS and Tesla, I really wonder how legal all this stuff is. Departments are supposed to be independent of course, but given the money at stake (MS is main Tesla / Musk banker) and the absolute bullshit hype coming from this analyst, I have a lot of doubts.
If they had a way to quickly spin of LOB apps like Salesforce does, and had implemented a CRM on top of that... I'd say they would be much more apt drawing the comparison. Particularly if that doesn't require code to do. I know a LOT of companies that would pay dearly for such a hosted platform, GPL or not.

I'm curious. What would you use for that today? MS Dynamics? Airtable? Budibase? Appsmith?
A RasPi and an eInk hat seems to be exactly that? (Except for the "nice case bit, but there are RasPi eInk options that include cases too.)

https://thepihut.com/products/4-26-e-paper-display-hat-800x4...
> Nuclear isn’t an option because of financial reasons anyways

Can you say more? This is probably the first time I hear that nuclear energy is not financially viable.
Great points. I think the biggest crime that happened was the completely institutional takeover of the narrative by mainstream media and big corps (Google, FB, Twitter) etc.