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Ask HN: How do you feel about businesses trusting social media algorithms?
Often businesses feel platforms are doing everything for them. Instead most of the time our product updates are adding more layers to their business strategy. Making it harder for them to reach the audience.
> I'm just sad that no one's come up with a really good, user-writeable long-term bulk storage solution.

Tape would be pretty good, wouldn't it? Or magneto-optical media.
Kyūdō (stationary archer and stationary target) may be good, but Yabusame (archer in motion) is even better.

Yabusame may be good, but targets in motion are even better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzTaYvMmNYU

[The sixth patriarch happened to be passing by. He commented: "Neither the archer nor the target is in motion; mind is in motion".]

Dx: There are more things in Heaven and Earth than allow a small (speak not of the 10'000 things) finite presentation: ignoramus et ignoramibus (as our light-cone expands we always encounter new information on its boundary)

Rx: Sheaves allow one to synthesise globalitites by coordinating handfuls of localities.

Px: The hacker will move amongst essential entropy as a fish (whale?) swims in the sea.
In the last few years I have come to think of AI as transformative in the same way as relational databases. Yes, right now there's a lot of fad noise around AI. That will fade. And not everyone in IT will be swimming in AI. Just like not everyone today is neck deep in databases. But databases are still pretty fundamental to a lot of occupations.

Front-end web devs might not write SQL all day, but they probably won't get very far without some comprehension. I see AI/ML becoming something as common. Maybe you need to know some outline of what gradient descent is. Maybe you just need some understanding of prompt engineering. But a reasonable grasp of the priciples is still going to be useful to a lot of people after all the hype moves to other topics.
Not him, but multiple such efforts (not necessarily matching your exact description) exist.

LionsOS[0] is an effort by the seL4 foundation itself.

Makatea[1] is trying to implement a Qubes-equivalent on a safer seL4 base.

Genode[2] is an OS framework built around capabilities that supports several microkernels including seL4 itself.

0. https://lionsos.org/

1. https://trustworthy.systems/projects/makatea/

2. https://genode.org/
> Most of your stuff will be recycled by your grandkids.

Could you explain this? Why would they do that?
AI's Brain Drain
I'm aware of that, that's why I pointed out the insane complexity of the bundler tooling. Splitting in chunks isn't a solution, it's adding fuel to the problem.
Ok, I had a better look at the code and I realised that it doesn't follow the rule I was talking about, namely having the function only work on values it receives as inputs.

I think that's why I don't use closures, because they read values from the environment. Their only use case (that comes to mind) can be solved with partial application, which is safer.

Oh, and I wasn't using laziness in the Haskell sense, but more in the general sense of deferring evaluation.
Internet’s constructive criticism problem is so real. Most people on surface level platforms are indeed fragile because they are always surrounded by a group of people on social. So, when they post something out of their circle. They take the same approach of saying sorry, internet version.
Modern cars are designed on GUI simulation software like MATLAB, they model head accelerations few inches ahead of the most important headrest and run optimizer on variables. If it can be made into equations, they can cancel it.

btw, minimizing higher orders of derivatives improve passenger comfort only so much if the driver isn't so good at look-ahead path planning, you can't make coffee cup rides not sickening by software.
> The "cold war" nuclear arms race, which brought the world to the brink of (at least partial) annihilation, is a good recent example.

The same era saw big achievements like first human in space, eradication of smallpox, peaceful nuclear exploration etc. It's good to be a skeptic but history does favor the optimists for the most part.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...
> Less than 1% owns a optical disc nowadays.

Sources? That seems way too low.

I would expect most people have at least one CD hidden somewhere in an attic or similar.

I don't have an optical drive connected to any working PC (nor a music CD player) myself, but I still have some CDs lying around the house. Eg a book about learning guitar that I bought second-hand came with a CD.
Looks like AltTab is what you're looking for. https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/ (free, GPLv3)
I don’t think it’s any better or worse than trusting human judgement alone.
Author has a writing style that he likes to use, which gives him the ability to speak about certain topics with less struggle.

Its getting into the art/performance category of code blogs.
GNU coreutils is to a very large extent nearly exactly copied functionality from other unix distributions (unix system v, BSDs). It's not like GNU is getting ripped off here.

GNU coreutils is a clone, nobody's feelings should be hurt if somebody else makes another clone of the same functionality. (license zealots will have hurt feelings but for different reasons)
Are there actually plans to remove the symlink? My impression was that it’s intended to stay around pretty much forever.
You’re absolutely incorrect.
Yeah, when you press ⌘ Tab, you are switching between applications (and ⌘ ` switches between windows of the applications). Super weird IMO.
It's been flagged.

Seven | eight or more prior submissions have been flagged. They've been vouched for, flagged again, marked dead, and resubmitted .. by many different unaligned not bot people.

As dang noted above the HN community wants to thrash this out .. some want it deader than a parrot, others want to comment that much of the AI hype appears to have no clothes and this opinion range comes from 10 year old active accounts (and more recent ones).
> And who loves waiting 30 minutes for Steam games to update on a slow connection? Imagine what we could pack on physical media now and mail to your door if that were still the model.

Shipping physical media takes a lot longer than 30 minutes..

Most games are a lot faster to download for me than 30 minutes, and updates are typically even faster. (But then, we got fibre to the home here. I guess that's less common in the less developed countries of North America or Europe?)
Vercel both made the change and approved the PR
I'm no expert in hardening for server security like SELinux.

As far as my understanding goes containers per se are no security mechanism. Rootless containers are as good as rootless processes with chroot.

So this comment resonates with my understanding.

My feeling is that containers give you more possibilities to introduce security holes if you aren't diligent.
I don't think there is any doubt that SSRIs change brain chemistry, at least temporarily. The risk of causing serotoninergic syndrome should be proof enough of that.

The question is whether their mechanism of action truly helps in people with depression disorders or anxiety disorders or any of the other conditions they are prescribed for. We clearly know from clinical trials that it helps some, at least somewhat, and it doesn't help at all or even hurts in many others; and this remains true regardless of dose. We don't have any specific theory as to why this is.
Honestly, I couldn't get past the violent language. Why do we give people who speak like this any respect. It's completely inappropriate.
The behavior dates back to the original Mac, which could only context switch between applications via a hack that simulated multitasking (the days of 128K memory, etc.)
Travel to May 22, 2010.

Buy two large pizzas, cheese and 'supreme'.

Be earlier than that guy.

Credits.
Well, copilots do precisely that, no?

Or you talking folding literal laundry, in which case this is more of a robotics problem, not the ASI, right?

You don't need ASI to fold laundry, you do need to achieve reliable, safe and cost efficient robotics deployments. These are different problems.
It shows one common email and website doesn't work for Czechia.
It's not just disrespectful, it's stupid and dangerous. GPL is one of those exceptional things that shaped the world as it is today. These projects are nothing more than an attack to our freedom.
Solve it as if u had many wifes at the same time.
I wouldn't necessarily say that Microsoft dropped the ball here, I'd consider it growing pains. Also to my knowledge this is the first time they actually have a translation layer for 64bit applications.

Additionally, Fortnite and League of Legends require a Kernel-level anti cheat driver to be installed and active for you to be able to play the game. Adobe programs to my knowledge also have some nasty custom copy protection that's always running.

I would not be surprised if the incompatibility stemmed specifically from the anticheat and copy protection drivers, considering that there are no native Windows on ARM builds of those games / programs
It's pretty normal to say people should be glad about unambiguously good numbers. I don't know why you think it's patronizing.

In the scenario given, your risk is lower. What do you not like?

If you think the numbers are wrong, that's reasonable. But this thread of conversation was based on taking the numbers at face value.
Many people think satire or similar humor is serious, it happens in real life as you mentioned. There are many times the Onion has been quoted as a source.

However, since we are talking about people being rational, then the points and links above that show this is satirical should lead people to make their own decision.

Hopefully, this doesn’t become a place for people to draw lines in the sand.
I think the size also makes a difference. Each speeding ticket is a small sum that isn't worth the travel to fight. Losing an entire car is several orders of magnitude more expensive. Since Austria already has speeding tickets, I'm not sure what point you are trying to make.

The issue in Menifee is that tickets were issued for speeding violations that were in the "acceptable" speeding range of less than 10mph over. No exaggeration was required because speeding small amounts was ubiquitous. Personally I like people to drive the actual speed limit and don't think consistent minor speeding should be as socially acceptable as it is. However, the article explains to the new law only applies in cases of extreme speeding and only when there is documented proof of such. Personally, I think criminal charges, jail time and permanent license revocation are also called for when someone goes 135 on a 80 mph road (barely sufficient to warrant permanent vehicle confiscation under the Austrian law under discussion.)

As I alluded to, civil forfeiture is very different in that you have you prove your innocence rather than having the presumption of innocence.
The wiki doesn't say, and the mailing list reader hasn't worked since March 2023. (Yes I know MARC exists, but their interface is terrible)

I wouldn't be surprised if they remove the symlink in a year because they consider it useless cruft.
Why bother with performing edits and customized redactions and renames when it's easier to simply delete the comments or accounts?
However, he explains this pass is likely to be one of the many routes that insects follow to cross the mountains. “Insects are channeled through the steep mountain valleys and then through the hills, since they are much lower than the peaks,” says Hawkes. “There are probably many more passes, all with millions of insects migrating each fall.”

Suggesting the Bujaruelo Pass is a good site, but hardly critical.
It is on my list of things to learn/have one (Orange Crab). I just haven't had a specific use yet. I know they use them for video out/camera for example. One day... so many things to learn/need time.
Gambling is not the way to get rich.

To get really rich you need to aquire people, their time and productivity. Instead of probability you need means to get people's minds so with them you can conquer territories and establish kingdom to be really rich.
Honestly, I would take the single marshmallow:

I don't actually like marshmallows enough, so I would probably enjoy two marshmallows less than a single one. Definitely less than twice as much as a single one.

And: given that you are in a psychological experiment, who knows what cruel twists of the experiment the scientists are trying to inflict on you? Perhaps they are actually studying how angry you are going to get when they break their promise? Just eat the damn thing, and they'll have a much harder time taking it away from you.
Create personalized travel globe; embed-able for portfolios
By growing nitrogen fixers such as peas and beans on the same fields.
To me it is not clear at all, can you please elaborate why you make such a strong claim?
But driving a tractor over a field is a huge waste of land. Energy can be easily renewable in sunny regions such as vietnam.
100% beef!

Means the whole animal not selective pieces of fillet, sirloin and rump:

Ground hoof, teeth, bone, gristle, hair, beak and steam cleaned bones.

Thats the whole 100%
It's a lot like AR before Vision Pro. The situation for the demo and reality didn't meet. I'm not trying to claim Vision Pro is perfect but it seems to do AR in the real world without the circumstances needing to be absolutely ideal.
That SiFive FE-310 chip on the HiFive1 on 180nm in 2016 was a 32 bit 1 instruction per cycle 5-stage pipelined CPU running at 320 MHz.

That's way more than typical microcontrollers in embedded uses even today -- 24 or 48 MHz is very common for e.g. Cortex M0+ and you seldom find over 180 MHz for Cortex M3/M4. Those (or competitors) make up the vast bulk of the market.

That 320 MHz is with automated placement and routing with a standard cell library. Back when 180nm was new both Intel (Pentium III) and Motorola (G4) were getting 1 GHz or a bit more out of it with a lot of engineers using a much more manual process.
Great to see these getting better and better. This might actually be usable for geometry generation if it's possible to increase the resolution. It seems that a simple super-resolution pass could help with this. For now, using this mesh as a reference model would help a lot in a typical 3D modeling process.

Those textures are completely useless, because they have all the light and view-dependency baked in. It's not really possible to extract a diffuse texture from this. There has been some work on generating material BRDFs [0], but I've not seen great results yet.

[0] for example, https://sheldontsui.github.io/projects/Matlaber
I've been working full-time in Rust for several years, so I'm quite favourably disposed to Rust, but I don't think Rust would rank highly on my list of languages to start a kernel in.

For me, the big advantages of Rust come from its assumptions about the memory model, and the rigorous checking it does to ensure compliance with those assumptions. But surely those assumptions cease to hold if you're the one defining the memory model, and most of your code involves shuffling memory around inside of `unsafe` blocks. What's the advantage of Rust at that point?

Not to mention, if those guarantees break, Rust will panic and crash, which - in a kernel - would mean bringing down the entire system. In a kernel context, even things like 'let' might fail. Either you let the system panic, and have yourself a kernel that topples over in a slight breeze, or you check for and try to catch these errors, which - well - is no different from C at that point. Linus Torvalds has noted some of his issues with Rust in kernel dev, and he's in a pretty good place to render his opinion.[0][1][2]

Imho, a better choice for a modern greenfield kernel would be one of the strictly functional languages: Haskell, OCaml, etc.

[0] https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/9/19/1105

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/9/19/1250

[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/9/19/1260
As a user of Bluespec and a follower of his CA papers, salutes and RIP.
Yup, well said. I think it's important to remember sometimes that Skynet was some sort of all-powerful military program -- maybe we should just, y'know, not do that part? Not even to win a war? That's the hope...

More generally/academically, you've pointed out that this covers only half of the violence problem, and I'd argue there's actually a whole other dimension at play bringing the total number of problem areas to four, of which this just the first:

## I.1. Subservient Violence
## I.2. Subservient Misinformation
## I.3. Autonomous Violence
## I.4. Autonomous Misinformation

But I think it's a lot harder to recruit for an AI alignment company than it is to recruit for an AI safety company.
> I just can't imagine land vehicles aren't more efficient

Farming drones aren’t all airborne. I guess the ones driving around on the ground might be called robots though? At least in English.

I imagine that the main reason these ones fly is because you can’t drive around a rice field as you mention. Here in Denmark though most drone tech aimed at farming drives around. Flying drones are mostly used for surveillance, to see which areas need to be watered and such.

As far as repairs go, drones aren’t that bad in comparison to a lot of other farm equipment. This is because farmers can 3D print almost every part of a drone. Of course some manufacturers are going to struggle with this, and this is actually one of the major reasons keeping farming tech “slow” since a lot of the actually sellable solutions are build by startups which John D and his friends struggle to figure out how to make money of something that’s cheap and easy to repair.

Anyway, farming drones is probably the most interesting field of technology you can work in right now. At least in my opinion.
I wonder what the Venn diagram would like for people opposed to uutils and people that support systemd.
Without getting in too deep, a lot of pesticides we use degrade in sunlight and/or water. So as long as it isn't sprayed near the end of harvest, where it would then be stored in a dark dry place, most agricultural chemicals will have degraded.
Unix Programming Environment
DOPE

Thanks for sharing!
> $25 per server/instance per year

Yes!

> with a minimum $2,500 investment required

Noooo! Why does it always seem like the tech industry hates small businesses?
The sentiment against self driving is fundamentally irrational. Something bad might happen. Therefore, we stick with human drivers (because nothing bad ever happens with those, right?!). Of course the reality with human drivers is that they get into all sorts of lethal trouble all the time. So much so that traffic deaths are a pretty high ranking cause of death. Doing better than human drivers is not that big of a technical challenge because most of them simply aren't that great.

What the article shows is the obvious: overall machines perform better. As you would expect from something that doesn't suffer from tunnel vision, fatigue, distractions, alcohol abuse, etc and has really good reflexes and responsiveness. Of course self driving cars aren't perfect. But neither is their human competition. And the cars are pretty good already and getting better over time. These numbers are not exactly set in stone.

Also the circumstances where accidents are more likely to happen are also where people struggle. And of course getting cars to do better under those circumstances might be solved with technology. Better sensors, more cautious routines that adapt to visibility, etc. Or simply deciding to not drive based on the risks. That's a decision that humans are very bad at. Human drivers taking unnecessary risks is why people get stuck in winter storms and other bad weather. Going on the road when authorities are broadcasting warnings not to is exactly the kind of moronic behavior that gets people killed.

As for FSD, it gets a lot of the press but there are quite a few self driving taxi programs now operating in a growing number of countries and cities. That's all level 4 autonomy of course but mostly rollouts are going fine. People that have taken Waymo rides seem to mostly enjoy it. I think restricting the driving areas for these things has more to do with liability than technical risk at this point. But the more cities manage to deploy this stuff fine, the less of an argument there is to block it elsewhere.
slot 2 the way I described and then you only have to cut quarters for the 3rd disc.

Making it demountable is about glueing tabs to hold things solid surely?
Hallucinations!

A generative tool can’t Hallucinate! It isn’t misperceiving its base reality and data.

Humans Hallucinate!

ARGH. At least it’s becoming easier to point this out, compared to when ChatGPT came out.
Meta Has Created a Way to Watermark AI-Generated Speech
Because there's value in preserving history and this value grows as the site ages.
I agree that the world isn't changing tomorrow like so much of the hype makes it out to be. I think I disagree that engineers can skip this hype train. I think it's like the internet - it will be utterly fundamental to the future of software, but it will take a decade plus for it to be truly integrated everywhere. But I think many companies will be utterly replaced if they don't adapt to the LLM world. Engineers likewise.

Worth noting that I don't think you need to train the models or even touch the PyTorch level, but you do need to understand how LLMs work and learn how (if?) they can be applied to what you work on. There are big swaths of technology that are becoming obsolete with generative AI (most obviously/immediately in the visual creation and editing space) and IMO AI is going to continue to eat more and more domains over time.
The issue with getting rich gambling is not knowing the probability, it's getting other people to continue paying you when you win large amounts and/or consistently.

Even in today's professional gambling establishments (financial markets) big winners are often cut off in the name of stability.
Aha.. I read it as somehow unique beyond its height, and so imprinted on the bugs as "the way" to go. If they have more then clearly this is not a bottleneck.
https://bkhome.org/news/202112/why-iso-was-retired.html

I mean, the author had gone into depth about this.
I imagine they meant drive (not just media). But agreed, do people with game consoles (that splurged for the drive), CD/MiniDisc/SACD/DVD/BluRay/HD DVD/Laser disc players, CD/DVD/BluRay burners, older cars, older PCs/laptops/Mac minis, boom boxes, CDJs.. or multiples thereof not bring the average up?

I have a PERL Cookbook with a mint CD sealed in the cover.
People are getting away with using drones as you mentioned, but the FAA's rules have had a real chilling effect on the hobby, which is a problem. Where drone piloting is a now a necessary skill for soldiers to have, and we're not encouraging the hobby, I think the next few decades aren't going to play out as well as they could.
He seems to be doing both, but with a focus in trees lately.

<'94: lots of off-rope rock and tree climbing
1994: participated in my first ropes course event
1996: learned to belay
2001: tied my first prusik and first self-belayed climb
2006: first trad lead and bought my first full trad rack
2007: climbed my first redwood while roped in and ran my first ropes course event
'07>: been professionally training and leading tree climbing and ropes work ever since. "

Both is fun. Also freestyle combinations, there might be a tree close to a rock and then one can just use both.
It's a biased forum. HN is run by YC who is currently funding lots of "AI" companies
Trusting battery estimates? I believe apple claims my m3 mac is capable of 15 hours or so. If I’m lucky I will get like 7 hours with a basic documentation webpage open and the terminal connected to ssh.