skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a different topic. I'm just making it clear that it's not just about Ukraine.

The Baltics (and Poland) are currently in NATO, which means the US has signed a treaty that states is committed to defending them.
My point is that when people say computers and software can have intentions they're stating an unfounded and often confused belief about what computers are capable of as domains for arithmetic operations. Furthermore, the Curry-Howard correspondence establishes an equivalence between proofs in formal systems and computer programs. So I don't consider what the social media gurus are saying about algorithms and AI to be truthful/verifiable/valid because to argue that computers can think and have intentions is equivalent to providing a proof/program which shows that thinking and intentionality can be expressed as a statement in some formal/symbolic/logical system and then implemented on a digital computer.

None of the people who claimed that LLMs were a hop and skip away from achieving human level intelligence ever made any formal statements in a logically verifiable syntax. They simply handwaved and made vague gestures about emergence which were essentially magical beliefs about computers and software.

What you have outlined about minds and patterns seems like what Leibniz and Spinoza wrote about but I don't really know much about their writing so I don't really think what you're saying is controversial. Many people would agree that there must be irreducible properties of reality that human minds are not capable of understanding in full generality.
This explains so much.

I am in the market for a new vehicle and did multiple test drives this weekend. One salesperson casually mentioned "our software is down and things are a little crazy". But other than a lot of waiting, things proceeded as I expected.

I figured that by 1000 this (Monday) morning I'd be fending off follow up texts and calls. Yet its now 1430 and not one outreach has appeared on my phone. This is not a complaint but it is a surprise compared with past buying experiences.
What if they were emailed a coupon and you were not? This already happens. People will get used to it.
It's a 450M people hand, with decent GDP :-)
that doesn't help my main worry of the battery dying.

nightmare scenario:
your flight is delayed on the runway, so you end up watching a bunch of videos and draining the device battery. once you land, you sprint to catch your connecting flight following the delay. but just as you get to the gate to board, your phone dies and you can't prove you have a ticket before they close the door.
> the assumption that every non-white person hired is a "diversity" hire before even looking at their qualifications is incredibly racist.

That's not an assumption that GP makes.
we did it in my entire company too. massive massive pain. 8 -> 17
If that was true then how would any other single celled organism be able to exist?
to me this seems very ill-thought through, and doesn't feel like they actually remember what math was like. they are suggesting letting the computers do the computation part, but we already do that once that skill has been mastered. i.e.: simple calculators are allowed in calculous exams.

the problem with bad ideas in education is the system might be stupid enough to follow through with it, like that new math nonsense.
Carmakers File Challenge to Parts of New Automatic-Braking Rule
I'm excited to try this out. Fancy zones doesn't always cut it for me.
> If everything is a people problem, why do we need engineers at all?

Let's look at it as a bunch of people solving a problem which is too big for any one of them. Those people are different, they contribute different parts of the solutions - engineering, managerial - but they all have to cooperate to solve the problem, at least efficiently. If they don't, or don't do enough, for whatever reason, the solving suffers, possibly up to not happening.
They, like many others, probably have a somewhat fuzzy grasp on what the meaning of word democracy is, due to the way it's used.

Honestly, I can't even think of an alternate(, but still charitable,) interpretation of:

"Shouldn't it be very easy to vote to fix that in a democracy?"

Suggest one, if you can?
No, typically these sorts of models would not be trained on reddit, they would be trained on historical data that insurance companies and lending companies have. For example, a famous case is where they used AI to help decide if people will reoffend [1]. The bias here was already embedded in prior historical data. E.g. there is a level of systemic racism or bias built-in to the entire prison system.

While HN is obsessed with LLMs, AI regulation targets more than just those systems. And yes, AI and machine learning were pervasive and used in a variety of useful settings long before these toy chat systems came about.

Insurance and lending companies already have complex algorithms and formula they use to determine risk scores. Adding components of these systems that are learned from data shouldn't change the overall oversight mechanisms required of them in my opinion.

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/01/21/137783/algorithm...
> I think this quote illustrates
> Apple users spend more on software because they're just so dumb and don't know how to compile their apps and set up a self-hosted solution

Never meant anything even remotely close to that. Apple users tend to have higher incomes and therefore can afford to spend much more than average (globally) Android users. I see absolutely nothing wrong about people spending money on quality software (the opposite really and I entirely agree with your point about ad supported and OS consumer software).

> they would do the same as Apple

Well yeah, arguably that was one of the main reasons behind their success. However I don’t see how do these things contradict each other, Apple can continue producing great products while being less abusive towards developers who have much more limited bargaining power.
Customary units are given in fractions of an inch. Eg half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth etc. So you’re dealing with simple fractions. That is why I buy tape measures that also have metric scale - to sidestep all that bullshit entirely when adding, multiplying, dividing or subtracting, yet be able to measure distances in inches too
> "Mr Teixeira had ethical concerns regarding the layoffs because they were primarily motivated by a desire to increase profit margins at Mozilla, which was already operating at a profit," the complaint claims. "Mr Teixeira viewed this as antithetical to Mozilla’s values as espoused on their website: 'We're backed by a non-profit, which means we prioritize the interests of people first, not corporate profits.'"

I get that laying people off is not fun, but maybe the new CEO wants to build up funds so they can become independent of Google's ad money. That would make a lot of strategic sense.
>Think about the advantages a retailer would have over competitors if they could capture the entire consumer surplus. It would be incredible.

Not really. Even if they know exactly how much you can/are willing to pay, that's useless if the store next door is undercutting their pricing. Grocery stores are a relatively competitive industry with razor thin margins, so being able to "capture the entire consumer surplus" seems doubtful.
American culture has Ghost Pepper potato chips, Sriracha potato chips, Flaming Hot Cheetos, Jalepeno chips, etc.. so it's not like spicy stuff isn't already being sold all over the place. I too look forward to more variety. Although seeing a chips isle at most supermarkets being an entire row at the supermarket, it's already out of control
I think a rule which says that once a price changes, the POS system must universally use the lower price for the next two hours (for the largest supermarkets, maybe 1 hour for a mid-sized, and 30m for a small metro sized shop) would be appropriate.

So, if a price increases it’s very unlikely a customer who has seen the lower price will be charged it, and if a price lowers, it must be implemented instantly.
Perilla / shiso is dead easy to grow. I'd advise putting it in a pot else it'll get everywhere.
This does happen to an extent with smaller upstart brands.

For instance, in men's shoes, Grant Stone made a name for themself offering a very similar, albeit even better built, product to Alden for roughly half the price.

In guitars we see companies like Eastman doing a similar labor arbitrage producing products similar to Martin and Gibson.

The key though are price savings. These could be argued to be 'luxury' to an extent in that they're notably quality products, but the attraction is the savings from labor passed onto the customer.

The type of luxury we're dealing with for the Birkin's of the world is based on brand cache more than anything else. Price is simply not a factor, so it doesn't make any sense to take measures to reduce it. Worse, the moment a brand gives a hint that they're doing anything remotely cost cutting is going to be catastrophic as it goes against their 'spare no expense' mantra.
I know its tongue in cheek, but in practical terms, there is negative consequences for pushing the zero drownings. To achieve zero drownings, we have to have zero risk. the only way for zero risk is to eliminate it (i.e. ban swimming). However, banning swimming has many unintended consequences (swimming is great exercise, swimming during boat use is important during collisions). At some point, we will encounter water in ways that require swim skills.

Drownings are tragic, however, we can't 100% prevent things without severe negative consequences.
one of the things being looked into is syngas from the carbon in the air, to produce net-zero hydrocarbons.

if it worked out, it would at least be relatively easy since pretty much all our infrastructure is designed around hydrocarbons.
When I grow up I want to be a Database Administrator (said no-one)
maybe you can try growing it, urban gardening style, on a window sill, or outside if you have a garden or yard.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry_tree

see the section Distribution and habitat.
They are not ignorant just for holding a different opinion.

My entire reading system is built on RSS but I don’t think it’s an invalid take to say that RSS is a thing of the past, or at the very least that the train has left the station. Every month I have some feed just randomly die because nobody paid attention or cares anymore. It’s pretty unfortunate.

Browsers should never have backed off exposing it, IMO.
> Although seeing a chips isle at most supermarkets being an entire row at the supermarket, it's already out of control

Which is why having mung bean-based snacks (like some of the Indian snacks) would be a nice change.

> American culture has Ghost Pepper potato chips, Sriracha potato chips, Flaming Hot Cheetos, Jalepeno chips, etc..

Which is why I think there's a lot of potential for Indian snacks in the US.
As a tech manager with twenty years experience, I can assure you, in fact, engineers are people. And they interact with those MBAs, project managers, etc. The really good product/project people understand this as well, and make a point of doing their very best to be effective when interacting with the engineering team. They know how expensive we are, and try to bring our our best.

To the point of this article, the best product people were in fact respected by the tech team, and it made all the difference.
Have you considered going the react way?

What I mean is that the react core library does not assume an html target but rather builds a virtual component tree that can be mapped to various semantics (the two I know of are react-dom that produces a DOM and react native that produces whatever is used in mobile UIs)

You could sorta recycle the idea or maybe check if React with SVG might be enough for a (low frame rate) prototype.

It does indeed sound like a very infectious obsession, I hope I can forget about the idea :-)
> They can actually be used where you take your mobile device and you scan it and it can give you more information about the product

Another avenue to track/identify your customers, if you scan and load a QR code they can loop you into the existing web tracking/advertising systems
How long until you grab something that has a price of $5 and it's already $7 by the time you get to checkout?

We need better pricing laws. Already, half the gas stations I go to don't have any price tags at all. And of the stores that do have price tags, none include sales tax.
It does seem like it'd be simple to have a second chess set to play Crazyhouse in person, considering you need two sets to play bughouse just without 4 players
I once visited a local Patel Brothers store and it had what looked like dried cow dung patties on the shelf.

Later I've found out it is used for ritual burning and, since that is difficult to obtain in an urban setting, online retailers are selling it too.

Even found a review on Amazon of a person complaining that it tasted terrible.
My alma matter (which is directly on a lake) has been gradually banning all unsupervised swimming for students because someone gets blackout drunk and drowns themself in the lake every year.

I think it's a tragedy; I spent a lot of my formative time enjoying the lake and the outdoors (not to mention it being one of the few healthy ways to escape the stress of engineering school).

The school is also gradually eroding all of the student run outdoor clubs (sailing, mountaineering) because they aren't directly controlled by the university bureaucratic system. Young adults today are having that taken away from them and replaced with nothing.
This type of post is practically a trope at this point: technical blogger who digs deep into tech inevitably has a grand epiphany that it's really all about people, not tech, and that's what we should really be interested in.

Maybe this is the unofficial CTO creed or something.
I've seen tests cut for that reason. But I've more often seen tests get cut or skimped on or slip through the cracks due to internal team dynamics problems.

If QA and engineering staff are organized into separate verticals, rather than being direct teammates that share a manager, then time that could have been spent on testing instead gets spent on bickering over who tests what and how.

If different team members have different opinions on testing strategy, and dig in on their respective positions rather than coming to an understanding, then tests will slip through the gap between them.

If senior team members don't think it's their responsibility to mentor (not browbeat!) less-experienced team members on good testing practice, then the correct tests won't get written.

If the people in charge of architecture don't recognize the outsize influence they have on the cost of designing and implementing tests, then testing can indeed become too expensive.

If people don't recognize that test cases are, first and foremost, a way of communicating and memorializing design specifications, and not just a clever way to run code in isolation, then the cost of maintaining them will go up and the value of maintaining them will go down, until people start to forget that there was ever a baby in all that bathwater in the first place.

etc.
What does their anti competitive behaviour have to do with you, the consumer?

It's not about you, It's about other companies wanting to distribute their software without giving 30% of their sales to Apple.

Whether you agree that it's unfair or not, the EU decided that it is.
If you run every basic calculation through a calculator, you'll make every task take 3x time it requires today, in best case.

I have seen people eyeball measurements and taking notes, and bringing in perfectly manufactured goods (blinds, cupboards, etc.) in return. Esp, in construction, nothing is precise, so being able to eyeball correctly after a quick measurement with a tape and doing some basic math on the numbers, not only accelerates tasks, but is a crucial pillar of being able to work on construction sites, and be productive.
Espresso AI, the First Neural Compute Optimizer
I have a friend who genuinely thinks Dolby Digital Plus ripped from streaming services is higher quality than lossy DTS ripped from a DVD or Blu-ray. Insanity.
> Having prices adjust regularly is a good thing.

From the article: “If it’s hot outside, we can raise the price of water and ice cream. "

It's hard to see this as a "good thing" for anyone other than the retailer. It's easy to see how retailers might move to "third party pricing" services that enable price fixing across a wide range of retailers and goods.

The canard that I can "scan a QR code" and get information that already required, by law, to be on the bag of goods itself highlights the fact that this is an arrangement with a one way benefit.

As if consumers need less power in the grocery space.
That’s how pricing already works. I would bet summer flea market days cost more, due to the higher probability of more customers, due to the higher probability of good weather days.

Airlines/hotels/rental cars/theme parks charge more for days where demand is anticipated to be higher. Any expiring good works this way.
Would be nice to hear how the first step looks like as well. For instance, what comes after opening a new AWS account: what’s managed via code and what via the web UI, etc.
> - illegally dumping hazardous waste into the ambient air outside the facility (into the apartment windows)

The EPA report appears to imply the opposite. Apple's potential violation was not for their air exhaust system, but rather for using an activated carbon filter because they had not declared it in their permit application.
This used to be the case until Emacs 24.1, in 2012.

Passing a nil argument to a minor mode function call now ENABLES
the minor mode unconditionally. This is so that you can write e.g.

(add-hook 'text-mode-hook #'foo-mode)

to enable foo-mode in Text mode buffers, removing the need for
'turn-on-foo-mode' style functions. This affects all mode commands
defined by 'define-minor-mode'. If called interactively, the mode
command still toggles the minor mode.
I installed and launched it (komorebi-gui.exe? NOPE, komorebi.exe.. maybe that's right) but it seems like there is some learning curve.. no Welcome screen or post-install onboarding.

It randomly selected and tiled 2 / 50 total windows, and created a big black box for Progress Quest which wasn't there before (which I discovered here on HN last week but haven't started a New Game yet).

Is there a minimal Quickstart guide? I really want to like this but so far it's pretty rough.. I don't want to learn another form of the obscure config language (e.g. tmux) for a tiling window manager.

Edit: Thank you repliers :)
Galileo could have not had the Pope's words come out of the mouth of a moron. If I was the Pope I would have correctly inferred the insult.
thanx. if you like it - use it )
It may seem irrational, but it's a bit of a leap to go from blinking an LED on a breadboard with an Arduino to blinking an LED with an ATtiny3217 (or whatever) soldered onto a custom PCB.

I mean: Why re-implement an Arduino (and potentially do it badly) on a custom board, when one can just install a DIP socket on some protoboard and plug a relatively small widget like this in -- retaining all of the features that were useful in the beginning of the development process?
> We ran into this problem on one machine that had run continuous CoW builds for weeks under a prerelease CoW-in-Win32 implementation, so we don’t expect this to appear in the wild very often.

That's not exactly confidence inspiring.
It better be. I bought those movies.
> It also alleges the government did not respond to TikTok's invitation to "visit and inspect its Dedicated Transparency Center in Maryland".

Likely because the existence of a "Dedicated Transparency Center" implies there is something to hide that is not on the premises.
A key feature of naval reactors is that they operate in an extremely large heatsink by design - you have unlimited cooling media at your disposal.
All you need is a hill and water. Australia National University identified 616,000 potential locations. https://re100.eng.anu.edu.au/global/
Self-operated makes some sense, but if the idea is that you don't have anything to operate maybe self-deployed is better?

I'm not sure where to draw the line to differentiate it from a SaaS. For example Salesforce is clearly SaaS, but is also an application platform with a built-in database.
Rapid dynamic pricing already exists in the airline and hotel businesses. I don't think anybody likes it, and it's not benefiting consumers.

It would be good that for airlines and hotels the rate of pricing changes was curtailed severely.
Supermarkets are very low profit margin businesses. Probably the lowest.
Not for music, video streaming, games, etc. There are limits to the kinds of experiences that can be built through a web browser (especially Safari).
Most likely not, however I run LTSC on 4 different gaming setups. Steam Deck, Legion GO, and 2 desktops of various power for TV and desktop gaming. So I have a decent range of hardware to test these claims on.
I don't know what atoms and chemicals have to do with my argument but the substitutions you've made don't make sense and I would call it ill-typed. A composition of numbers is also a number but a composition of atoms is something else and not an atom so I didn't really follow the rest of your argument.

Computers have a formal theory and to say that a computer has intentions and can think would be equivalent to supplying a constructive proof (program) demonstrating conformance to a specification for thought and intention. These don't exist so from a constructive perspective it is valid to say that all claims of computers and software having intentions and thoughts are simply magical, confused, non-constructive, and ill-typed beliefs.
> buyers are able to scan the internet very quickly for what other sellers are willing to sell at.

For retail goods, this makes sense; however, the notion that the majority of people are doing this for food items like bananas and potatoes is a little bit specious.

I mean are the types of retailers you're describing posting their prices on the Internet in the first place? Or is price discovery happening entirely by word of mouth?
So if I prepend 17 bytes to a file, where are they stored? And if I prepend another 47 bytes, etc.? How would this be tracked?
Do you think commodity markets are "price gouging", given that prices there are dictated by supply and demand, which is essentially "surge pricing"? eg. Russia invades Ukraine -> oil prices go up
I find them interesting but wound up disliking them greatly because they make a mess. When you make them mistake of not having the heart to ruin their nest and have to shovel buckets full of poop at the end, and them getting poop on your terrace daily, you kind of get sick of them.

I would not mind them as much if they did not shit everywhere.
One nice thing I've seen is separating out footnotes (additional comments) from references (citations/links to external contents). It's probably not applicable to all blogs, but I like it in Citation Needed, Molly White's blog/newsletter; see https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-60/ as an example.