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Don't forget deprecation. Today Apple and AWS (among a great many others) are notorious for unilaterally turning off services that people have built businesses around.

The responsible thing to do is to create a new service and then write wrappers that emulate the old service's interface and business logic, before finally turning off the old service at some point in the distant future.

But it's more profitable to make a shiny new service and end support for the old one. Capture the profits and pass the costs on as externalities to developers.

This may seem like a small inconvenience, but I have watched basically all of the software that I have ever written over a career become unrunnable without significant modification. The friction of keeping up with deprecation has expanded to take up almost all of my time now. In other words, the rate of deprecation determines the minimum team size. Where once 1-3 people could run startups, now it's perhaps 5-10 or more. It's taken the fun out of it. And if it's not fun anymore, seriously, what is the point.
SpaceX retrieves space junk from farmer
Ask HN: Tell me your stories of taking lower paid work to be happier
I'm on the cusp of going back to a job I really enjoyed that paid pretty well, but I was lured away by my current, high-paying job (for the money, prestige, etc.).

I'm getting cold feet because of the money, but I'm fairly sure I'd like the day-to-day much better than my current job.

So tell me -- what are your stories?
because they know how to sell software. cloused source. for windows. things gov mandate allows plenty of budget. etc.
The problem with claims like these is that there is no criteria to check against, e.g. has this happened or not, and there is no actual timeline, e.g. is it at the heat death of the universe or next year. Thoroughly vague propositions like this don't really add any value to the discussion.
> Surely nothing in the prompt directly triggered the word "inconsistency".

The prompt is (implicitly) asking to find inconsistencies ("what do you think about") within some statements of fact. Many variations of "find problems in the text" are part of its training set.

Remove the "what do you think about" and the model doesn't find inconsistencies.

Or keep it, but make the following text more consistent, and watch it continue to find inconsistencies (which don't exist).
AI Multi-Agent System Using Microsoft Semantic Kernel and GPT-4o
They just announced full WebXR support
> decoy versions of their toolkits to everyone that are bitwise identical to actual running versions but then activate production functionality with the right key

I kinda think this functionality could be subverted into a kill switch for legit-licensed installs simply by altering the key.
"The courts are arguably the least worse institutions of the EU, but they are slow and not really applicable in many matters." Slowness don't matter if we talk about unchecked EC.

"The """parliament""" is a joke. Do you know of any other democratic parliament in the entire world which doesn't have the power to propose laws? I don't." don't matter if we claim ah unchecked EC.

"As people have pointed out, the commission can just keep pushing and pushing and pushing the legislation they want, as they are doing with Chat Control. " EC can't because the parlament, the council and the judges can disagree. As again the EC is not unchecked.
- Based on a random survey of software engineers (who somehow had visibility to project inception & outcome)

- Doesn't define project

- Success was defined by not violating the iron triangle (so nobody knew what they were saying OR they're working on trivial "projects")
Yeah... you take care now.
Appreciate the spirit of your comment and agree it's a big thing to tackle. We've worked hard on this aspect in particular, before anything else. Our core codebase is built around much of this (releasing more details closer to/at launch) - and we're using methods that have been proven to work in several large countries/industries (particularly in video games where botting & hacking is also a major concern). At the time the user creates an account, we know that they are a human and that they are relatively unique. We don't allow users to create multiple accounts.
As one of Apple's long form PR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7al_Gpolb8

outlined, patience for platform building.

I think it's quite important for the industry to have a reference for XR (AR + VR) where the focus is on accurate assessment of the user's immediate physical surroundings and provide for non-fatiguing interactivity, especially after Hololens practically disappeared. I hope Vision Pro lasts much longer than Hololens (didn't miss Ping, but certainly miss 3D touch).

Meta's headsets focus on bringing the user into another world, another important but different reference point.
I guess for most people it doesn't matter. Emails are not end to end encrypted, and nobody complains. Messengers of the past were also not encrypted. And I guess it's still not hard to build apps that encrypt messages client side with the public key of the recipient. This law affects major players like whatsapp, so it makes it less convenient for people who want total secrecy, but not impossible.
Adding a JIT Compiler to CPython
> You don't really heal.

You can recover,* yet at the same never actually do so. You can laugh at jokes, go on a fun trip, yet at the same time the sense of loss is everpresent. The whole heaven myths, IMHO, are less to give us reassurance about our own individual fate, and more to try to ablate the grief that occurs while you're alive.

Having to get up every morning to get the kid ready for school, feed the pets etc is a valuable forcing function. I don't know how people who live alone manage.

* I wrote "can" because I imagine some people cannot.
California blackouts have very little to do with supply, nuclear or renewables. It’s distribution. Poorly maintained transmission lines that blow down in storms or have to be shut down in wind to avoid fires. It’s infuriating I agree, but it’s not to do with renewables.
The issue with the AVP is not technology, it's the lack of applications for it.
Of the filenames. Got FileRenamer CRON job, go and kill filenames. Dont solve edge cases, blunt edges at the bleeding edge. Im not gonna rewrite my software to acomodate down sign errors of the ancients.
LOL, I'm open to guidance...
- Based on a random survey of software engineers (who somehow had visibility to project inception & outcome)

- Doesn't define project

- Success was defined by not violating the iron triangle (so nobody knew what they were saying OR they're working on trivial "projects")

- If you read reviews for the book it's totally AI generated nonsense
Yeah, very good points. To be fair there are people who have argued the big data side who have clearly solid knowledge of AI and are not just SV suits, for example I remember Yann LeCun in a debate with Christopher Manning, where Manning was arguing for the importance of "structure" and LeCun was arguing against it. Or see the "Bitter Lesson", mentioned in a parent comment. That may have become a total shibboleth of the Silicon bros but Rich Sutton, who wrote the eponymous article, is the guy who wrote the book on Reinforcement Learning (literally). And then Rodney Brooks' replied with his "Better Lesson" (https://rodneybrooks.com/a-better-lesson/). So there's a lot of debate in this and I don't reckon we'll have a consensus soon. It should be clear which side I'm on- I work with firmly model-based AI ("planning is the model-based approach to autonomous behaviour" has become my shibboleth - see Bonnet and Geffner's book on planning: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-01564-9) so maybe it's a deformation professionelle. And even LCun's recent plans for JEPA are very consciously model-based, except he wants to learn his models from data; which is not a bad idea I suppose.
Wheatstone bridge > Modifications of the basic bridge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheatstone_bridge#Modification... :

> Carey Foster bridge, for measuring small resistances; Kelvin bridge, for measuring small four-terminal resistances; Maxwell bridge, and Wien bridge for measuring reactive components; Anderson's bridge, for measuring the self-inductance of the circuit, an advanced form of Maxwell's bridge

Is there a rectifier for gravitational waves, and what would that do?

Diode bridge > Current flow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diode_bridge#Current_flow

And actually again, electron flow is fluidic:

- "How does electricity find the "Path of Least Resistance"?" (and the other paths) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3gnNpYK3lo

- "Observation of current whirlpools in graphene at room temperature" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40360684 :

> How are spin currents and vorticity in electron vortices related?

But, back to photons from electrons; like in a wheatstone bridge.

Are photonic fields best described with rays, waves, or as fluids in gravitational vortices like in SPH and SQS and CFD? (Superhydrodynamic, Superfluid Quantum Space, Computational Fluid Dynamics)

Actually, photons do interact with photons; as phonons in matter: "Quantum vortices of strongly interacting photons" (2024) https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adh5315 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40600762

Perhaps there's an even simpler sensor apparatus for this experiment?
Good point! I'll look into Azure.
Always felt the same way, but could never put it in words as eloquently as you just did. Python (or any other programming language) already is the best glue. With these frameworks, you just waste brain cycles on learning APIs that change and break every couple of months.
I guess I'll repeat, but they reverted the change, so...
That’s right, if LLMs were really thinking/forming world models etc. we would expect them to be robust against word choice or phrasing. But in practice anyone using RAG can tell you that that is not the case.

I’m just a practitioner so my language might be imprecise but when I say similarly structured sentences what I mean is, and this is my interpretation based on my experience with using Agents and LLMs, that the shape of the context as in the phrasing and the word choice highly bias the outputs of LLMs.

In my own observations at work, those who interpret LLMs to be thinking often produce bad agents. LLM are not good at open ended questions, if you ask an LLM “improve this code” you will often get bad results that just look passable. But if you interpret LLMs as probabilistic models highly biased by their context then you would add a lot more context and specific instructions in the prompt in order to get the Agent to produce the right output.

Side note, this is also why I like the AICI approach: https://github.com/microsoft/aici
A lot of us think it is silly how the phrasing and word choice can produce dramatically different results in RAG applications. If you could run a program (like AICI) that post processes the output and picks the next word in a more structured way instead of writing more creative prompts that just makes a lot more sense to me.
BTC is 60k+ right now. Since, the price is based on supply-demand. That should explain, atleast 1 person has enough faith to put money on it.
Then flag the article as politics. If n people do that, the article is flagged. (With n = maybe 5?)

(And behold, the article is now flagged.)

To me, I think it's at least a bit interesting, because of the "maintain their privacy, at least until charged" vs. "stop the treason" issue. I can see no way to proceed that doesn't fail to satisfy one demand or the other.
Most important point on keeping friction to a minimum is the reduction of moving parts in your app. Find the most architecturally simple way to build, without relying on many third parties or external dependencies. Think long and hard every time you sign up for an API key somewhere. Baroqueness doesn't necessarily win the game.
100% agree, especially on the lispy expressiveness. I love that I can build analysis pipelines in a functional style, which has always clicked with me more than other paradigms.

Tidyverse is a godsend for at least getting initial data transformations sketched out and for gently introducing new users, but I do believe one should gain an understanding of how to do all of these things in plain R.
I know when silicon photonics were brand new, they had a big limitation because they only had designs that fired out of the plane of the chip, not across it. That limits you to interconnects and not cross-chip signaling. And since for a CPU you need a heat sink on top that means you have to fire down, toward the motherboard.

Also it turns out the speed of light in glass is not that impressive. So encoding and decoding at the ends eats up the speed advantage. That’s my impression as to why a lot of high profile articles on optical logic came out shortly thereafter. What if we just keep it as light for longer?
Assuming a 10m wide satellite, that's like grains of sand in a 470 foot orbit. I'm not going to calculate the odds right now but the chances of collision (assuming they're even capable of colliding in their orbits) has to be infinitesimally small. Your assertion that "accidents always happen" is doing all the legwork for your argument and it's so unlikely it may as well be false.
Is there some concern that Hacker News is going to fall out of care? Or what do you mean by this?
I think this is almost 100% born out of fear of liability. From the school side it’s fear that parents will sue them for neglect or injury or any other failure. Parents fear that the state will charge them with neglect and take away their children. Compounded by a generation of news over-coverage and fear-generating reporting, you end up with anxious parents desperate to protect their children from anything and everything.
> This itself is a trend that says the UN is overly optimistic here

Who benefits?
One wrinkle, is that it is now common to fine-tune on previously derived RL datasets, with the tested inputs and preferred sample outputs as the training data.
Miles driven is only one axis of many, does Waymo get from A to B as quickly as the average human driver would, or does it play it safe by staying in the slow lane and taking suboptimal routes to avoid challenging areas?
Here is my own list of recommendation (written down to give interns): https://nestordemeure.github.io/writing/guides/presentation/
It's hard to correct the many serious, fundamental problems in K-12 education, but it's easy to write a check and "buy a bunch of technology" so you can look hip and modern at the school board meeting.
3.5x better at injuries, 10x the capex per vehicle, 100x the operational capex of a normal taxi service. Plus you get to own the vehicles, pay costs for all maintenance, store them when not in use, carry all liability.

We need actual mass transit that works for people, not a roving science experiment on wheels.
Article is paywalled but I assume that's the reason they specified "creator earners" and not just "content creators" or "influencer"
After trying out os2 this makes a lot of sense. Noticeable qol leap in UX and tracking. Not that it feels like avp 2 but you notice the upgrades.

Seems like testing on guinea pigs who bought the expensive dev kit is paying off. Software and slimmer model are a good idea to popularize.

Id like to stick with my current AVP for at least 5 years rather than frothing for an AVP 2 to fomo over.
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I wouldn't be surprised if us zoomers were more wary of incurring debt on credit cards because they seem more complex, predatory, or expensive than some BNPL with a user-friendly app. But just using them and paying them off, that's worthwhile for points.
I also have a Framework 13! About a year ago or more I put out a request to get an ARM based processor. My reasons being the battery life on x86 are so weak, it almost defeats the mobility aspect of a laptop. I was using linux, and spent far too much time tweaking settings to get the longest battery life possible. When I compared this to a MBPro with the M1, which I use for work, it became nearly impossible to get my mind off of it.

Arm processors are way better with battery. There are these new Snapdragon X Elite Laptops, which verify the better battery life. I think to be competitive with Apple, the battery life must improve.

Also, the speakers are weak, likely due to none glued construction. I can live with that. Love how easy it is to swap stuff out. Screen is awesome, would love OLED if possible. Also, the bigger size 16, would better fit my needs.

Currently that computer is sitting on a shelf. Very cool technology. Love Framework!
In java lamdas are just a syntactic sugar for anonymous inner classes, with the same resulting limitations, so one can either argue that java always had lamdas, but with weird verbose syntax, or that java does not really have lambdas (in which case C++ and Python also do not have lambdas, as the semantics are similar).
> It turns out that Dell hard-coded the firmware to throttle the CPU when a lower-than-expected wattage power brick was used.

My laptop throttles the CPU to 800MHz when it thinks it detects a power brick that doesn't have the correct sense wire. Or, more commonly, when the power brick is not all the way plugged in (even if it is working fine).
You serve up a distasteful dish of arrogance and ignorance. You drop into a conversation implying you’re a professional biologist (“Source: biologist for 20 year”) when you’re not - that’s the arrogance. You then make wildly inaccurate statements any real life scientist knows isn’t true for cheap internet points from software folks who don’t know any better- that’s the ignorance. You finish it off with a dollop of childishness on top by complaining when actual scientists call you out on your nonsense. Do better. I know you can.
I virtually never use Google Search. DuckDuckGo, or searches on various social networks (fediverse / Threads) plus a handful of aggregator sites depending on what I'm using, handle that need. DDG's results are slowly getting worse as well, but that's because of the massive deluge of slop and content farms out there. They can only mitigate that so much…
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Reasons:

- €10,500 for a new car (in 2020)

- 5.5 l/100 km (~42 US mpg)

- no touch screens

- simple and reliable

- good clearance without being an SUV
It’s anecdotal, sure, but I don’t think you’re appreciating how bad this problem is.
Because databases aren't a thing right? And all that matters is the tendency to integrate large fatasets right now; which is where these systems become increasingly insidious.
I've defaulted to this https://hckrnews.com/ intead of HN homepage. This is ordered by time rather than rank.
Yes? That's what it means. Freedom of speech is not the right to impose your opinions on other people or even to force them to listen to you.
Where is that additional info? It just says you're a group of security researchers, but there are no names, no verifiable credentials, nothing. You haven't really added any info that would contribute to any real trust.
This is one of my favorite websites of all time.

Their pace of publishing is slow, but I'm okay with it, I only visit the website a few times a year.

It's a nice change from all those websites that try to publish as much as they can so that they get tons of clicks everyday.
The money was only stopped at the Federal Reserve because the address used in some of the wire transactions included the word Jupiter which was a sanctioned entity at the time and the matching was sufficiently fuzzy that this was caught. That was a complete accident. It just as easily could have gone the other way. I just read a case on the layoffs subreddit where a law firm was hacked and one of their clients was tricked into wiring millions of dollars to the wrong account, resulting in the client suing the law firm for negligence and the law firm having to fire a bunch of people. One Latvian guy tricked Google and other large tech companies into wiring him a hundred million dollars total which was only recovered because he was arrested and plead guilty. Business email compromise is a huge plague on society and in many cases the recovered amount is trivial.

The only way you are recovering the bulk of losses if you don't notice the theft very quickly is if the amount is high enough that a prosecutor is interested and it hasn't all been withdrawn as cash yet.
I always recommend consulting at a quality firm. I recommend consulting because you almost never get put on a project that matches your skillset exact or at all! I'm a fullstack dotnet developer and I got put on a Kotlin mobile app assignment because "well you know react". Pick something that isn't staff augmentation and that has relatively short assignments of < 1 year and enjoy your skill expansion.
Another bias is baked into this announcement: how would it fare in Boston, NYC, or DC? Are they better because they're better than humans or are they better because they're cherry-picking their test cities?
If memory serves the original plan for Light Peak was power wires and shielding braided around a fiber optic core.
I've been wondering but didn't come up with anything. I don't think the world economy as a whole is ready for a decline. For countries like the US or for example Australia, I think population will not decline due to net immigration, even as the world as whole declines. For the rest though, it cannot be good for an economy.
This isn't the use case of an SPA though since those extra megabytes would end up in the bundle, this is more like a game. Ironically I would agree that games are better suited to the browser than SPAs because you can afford to wait, you use wasm and you don't have to reinvent the wheel of the basic browser features.
Is this some sort of sarcasm?
There are many "smoking"s of our time. Food addiction is probably an even bigger one (cause of obesity and type 2 diabetes).

I'm actually starting to question whether smoking really was some huge public health success story. Or did it just go out of fashion? It's odd that we'd be able to tackle one thing like that then just completely drop the ball on it (see vapes) and not even begin to address other things like food/sugar and phones.
That's like saying integrated circuits are based on neurons because they route signals. It's more of an analogy than a model.
I do totally agree about the relative merits of bandwidth vs latency.
However, I also still think GT/s is generally accepted as an abbreviation for gigatransfers per second and that the PCIe spec is assuming it as such.
I also note you have had to pull in lots of additional specifications to describe the bandwidth of the complete Link supporting my assertion it is not a pure function of the GT/s.
The competitor would be the efficiency cores on the M-series chips. I don’t know how well they compare though. Apple doesn’t have any skus with only efficiency cores afaik. If they did it would be something like the Apple Watch, but since arm has had big.LITTLE architecture for many years there was no need to have chips with only efficiency cores to achieve efficiency.