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You do know that this "defence alliance" already attacked 2 countries, which were not attacking any NATO member, right?

And even if the alliance really were just defensive, you realize that this means that all it takes to use it against someone is a successful false flag attack?
No, exactly what i said: like Jacques Chirac, who was correct about the illegal Iraq war that killed a million Iraqis, and had the balls to back it up.
Try to elaborate: land use, as long as the soil is not sealed (so humus remain alive) it's not a "cost" nor an issue except for some hyper-dense countries. The Nederland and Belgium are very dense as a nation, yet most live in single-family homes, Spain or Italy are LESS dense and most live in condos, France and Ireland are far less dense and most live in single family homes so well, there is room for homes in most of the countries.

In efficiency terms I was living in a big dense city, now I'm living on mountains, you can state "hey just to buy bread you grab the car and made a ~10km trip instead of going by feet for 1km round trip", true. But the 1km round trip was a daily one, the ~10km one is a weekly one because hey, the freezer works beautifully well for bread. Similarly I buy in much bigger quantity now, so with much less packaging and stock at home. I spend less, eat better (much less ready-made and ultra-processed foods/carbonated beverage) and produce less waste. Oh, and the trips are in a BEV recharged mostly from my p.v. thanks to remote works. I simply discovered I need to move FAR LESS here than in a big city, yes individual trips are much longer, but the overall distance is not much bigger. Also modern life works better, online retail having room for delivery van works better here than in a big city downtown. They run more, but with much less stop and go and parking issues not counting the fact that a new fully electric home is easy (technically) to be made while converting an old building is next to impossible or at least cost MUCH more for much less results.

Try to compute the TCO not of a new city entirely designed today vs a new spread area entirely designed today but over 50 and 100 years with all the evolution we have. If you just look at the past, yes in the past being spread means wasting much oil to move, we need the office for anything, so we have to move, homes was far simpler so a condo was cheap than a set of single family homes, but things changes. We do not need the office anymore, we can centrally schedule a vast efficient spread logistic and so on. Now being spread meaning consuming far less, while in cities we still consume much more. We can't evolve cities without rebuilding them and that's why they keep consuming more and wasting immense amount of resources trying to evolve just a bit.
sure,

And France does a basic sanity check of any application and rejects it after a day or two.

e.g. pretty sure they are supposed to apply in the first "safe country" they arrive in, everyone who doesn't can just be rejected.

whereas the UK gives them everything indefinately for years.

That's intentional policy, everything else is just a distraction to keep the yokels mostly satiated. No one with more than a double digit IQ could believe sending a few hundred of them at random to Rwanda would be a more effective policy to stop it over just rejecting 99.9999% of applications quickly and efficiently.
Yes, but also at the same time I feel like we need to raise the bar for what isn't evil. Maybe not Bible levels of unwashed hands are evil. Maybe we could start calling the BS evil. That doesn't mean we have to call everyone involved evil, but the BS can still be evil.
It's because that chart is measuring end-to-end energy use. Other metal printing approaches require a lot of energy to make the metal powders, so when you include that the other approaches are a lot worse.
I totally believe that about Khan Academy's lessons and practice tools, but I believe OP was asking about the AI tutor.
This is interesting, let's investigate.

I have a question: do you believe I am actually a chatbot, or are you only speaking as if you believe that I am a chatbot (full disclosure: my theory being that you might be[1] leveraging humor to galvanize support against an outsider in the community, taking a different attack angle than others have tried, etc)?

Regarding HN guidelines: I would say they are highly optimal as they are: ambiguity + (layers of) culture is a very powerful combination, it allows moderators great leeway in using heuristic/cultural pattern matching to "prove" violations by exploiting well known bugs in consciousness (which have been discussed with very little controversy right here on HN many times in the past).

Human conversation and belief (aka: truth) formation is extremely complex, and often counterintuitive.

Thoughts or counterpoints? I think it is an interesting and important topic that does not get nearly enough attention.

[1] though not necessarily with explicit conscious intent, perhaps simply just as an intuitive, culturally conditioned behavior

Regardless: as a fan of novelty and effort, you get my upvote. Also: the bots angle is actually a rather interesting idea, if a person was to put a bit of thought into it.
You know it will be turned on by default, that is 99% what companies do. The data-for-training is too important to get no matter what
Or the fact that they don't see maintaining a home for a bunch of old computers for people to look at is a priority given other museums and world needs.
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Great!

I failed in university at math. Why? Because the tutors had not the time to help me. My level of math was not the same as the other students as i was not in the math part of a gymnasium.

I struggled and wasted a lot of time and energy to even find good explanations.

And when i had a math group, one girl was super nice but knew so muchmore than i did because of her math in gym. Professors asumed so much knowledge and no one cared to try to help people.

Best help were people from india on youtube with bad english.

And the most ridiculous part: Every year around the globe people teach this level of university math to probably millions of students. We should have the perfect free educational platform which teaches everyone perfectly already because so many tutors and professors lecture on the same topics over and over and over again. Our educational system is a joke.
It is nonetheless extremely cheap (in comparison to rents in Augsburg and near-by Munich) and has life-changing consequences for the people living there, since they do not have to allocate a big amount of their income into housing.
If a country decimated your population, razed your entire country, and is conducting economic warfare on you while undermining you politically, you would consider that country evil. They can make up all the justifications they want but there's no question you would still view that country as evil.
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3,700,000,000,000 jpy to usd = $23B USD
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54013527

I strongly doubt the US will curtail any plans whether they are found unlawful or not. Possibly one of the reasons so many have significant disdain for the US government and their activities.
I'm really curious about the drag coefficient of this smooth wedge shape.
Maybe I’m reading too much into it but the roadmap mentioning switching from GPT4 Turbo to 4-o and hoping for better math performance feels like they are betting on a significant near term reliability improvement in LLMs without any other real plans. That magic jump is starting to look more and more doubtful by the day.
> You'll find that some elements do cost much (like roofs) but overall single family homes cost less in mere raw materials.

Single family housing externalizes the costs of transportation, utilities, and overall environmental impact.
This article raises an interesting point, but I think it may oversimplify the relationship between language and thinking. While the authors provide some convincing arguments, we should not ignore the role of language in internal thought processes.

Many people, including myself, often organize and sort out their thoughts through internal dialogue. This "self-communication" may not be external communication in the traditional sense, but it does help us structure and refine ideas. Language provides a way to structure our thoughts, allowing us to examine our ideas more clearly.

In addition, certain complex abstract concepts may be difficult to form without language. While basic cognitive processes may not rely on language, high-level thinking - especially in fields such as philosophy and science - is often closely linked to language.

I agree that language is a powerful communication tool, but I think it is also a thinking tool. Perhaps it is more accurate to say that language serves both communication and thinking, and the two are not mutually exclusive.
He's asking about Khanmigo specifically, he doesn't mean Khan Academy as a whole.

It would be interesting to compare it against how Khan Academy helps students right now.
I dunno, Steve Jobs was famously an asshole. Apple couldn't exist if every manager acted like him, but would it exist if he didn't? Tho unfortunately, that writes a blank check to all too many CEOs who think they're Steve Jobs when they're just an asshole.

Shockingly, it's almost like a slogan on a book cover isn't enough.
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I find it really weird that a discussion on the state of SQL right now doesn't include any mention of Snowflake or dbt. SQL is _everywhere_ in the data engineering world right now.
Non profit doesn't mean what people think it means.

Those expenses could be anything and anyone.

They could be increasing rev to further increase expenses like salaries and exec pay. Not "shareholders" in a typical corporate business way, but still driving profits for a handful of key stakeholders.

Not a bad thing, just don't think non-profit = altruistic orphan saving factory.
I can't find a link right now but Salman Khan (the founder of Khan Academy) is a believer that the future of education is 1 teacher for 1 student so it makes sense why they'd be investing so heavily in AI tutors.
> Also Deleting junk food, sodas , and beer completely from my pantry.

So you improved the quality of your diet significantly. That is very different from just eating fewer calories. I suspect that if you had not done this it would have worked.

> Replacing them with low calories snacks like carrots, celery, bananas.

Also improving your fibre intake, and other improvements in nutrition too.
That’s because print is an additive medium and requires support for additive colorspaces (CMYK) and device color profiles.
> Currently the world's longest conveyor belt is 61km

100km. The article you linked used miles.

That one transfers the load between different sections of its length. The longest conveyer that does not transfers the load is 31km at Boddington Bauxite Mine in Australia.

> This is five times longer [...]

Does that actually introduce any new technical difficulties?

Suppose I needed a 2m x 1m table. I could get some 2m long boards and put enough in parallel to get my 1m width. I could put 1m boards perpendicular to those underneath at the ends and nail the 2m long boards to them. Then add legs at the 4 corners and I have a table.

Then I need a 5m x 1m table. I could take the same approach except using 5m boards instead of 2m boards. I might need to nail some more perpendiculars in the middle part of the table or maybe add some legs in the middle.

As I need longer and longer tables that approach keeps working up to maybe 10m. I don't think my local source of boards has boards longer than that.

So if I need a 30m x 1m table I need a new approach. I need to figure out something that doesn't require single boards that span the whole thing. It has to be limited to boards I can reasonably get. Let's say I figure out how to make that 30m x 1m table using no boards longer than 4m.

At that point I expect that I'd be able to build tables of any greater length by just doing whatever I did in the middle of the 30m table but doing more of that.

I'd expect that a similar thing happens when you build a 100km long conveyor. The specific project was "build a 100km long conveyor" but to solve it you figure out the solution to "build an arbitrarily long conveyor" and then apply that to "build a 100km long conveyor".
> Be Prepared for Old Age

This sums up the last two years of my life exactly. Somehow I've become a fixture - and I've had a hard time identifying exactly what happened until I read this. Spot on.
They didn't send empty boxes, and as that's basically why.
> Please don't patronize me just because you were wrong about the definition of whistleblower.

1) You're coming off as pretty darn patronizing yourself, too, so stones and glass houses.

2) Dunno about "the" definition of whistleblower; in your GP you said you got it off Google. They're (so far) not King of the English Language, AFAIK. No that I am, either, but the connotations I've picked up wherever I've heard or read the term usually include that "a whistleblower" is someone on the inside dishing the dirt on their own organisation. Which isn't what Assange did.

(So by the general consensus usage, the only WikiLeaks whistleblower would be that German guy who wrote the book that showed what a general asshole Assange is.)
Companies are not natural environments. There is an obvious established hierarchy that is not decided by the group but imposed from the outside.

> Does the person target people who are less powerful?

I have seen too many times a big-boss talking how good someone is after receiving criticism: "How can X be doing bulling if X is so nice with me, the boss?".

I cannot count how much money it costs to companies I have worked for to have unmotivated employees. It is bad for the company, it is bad for shareholders, is bad for employees, it is bad for society... but up in the hierarchy someone feels good about themselves for being assholes and getting away with it.
Within the decade it's likely the vast majority of programming work will be done by AI, being considered too complex and dangerous to trust to human beings. So all such skills and knowledge, including SQL, will become equally niche as job opportunities disappear and schools abandon CS for prompt engineering and AI driven education. We're not there yet but it's going to happen.
Thanks, that’s encouraging. I think I will give it a try in my own projects.
From my understanding, they are trying to make Math education available to the entire population of the world. And now provide one on one personalized tutoring that currently only a fraction of the wealthiest people in their respective countries can afford.

It’s fortunate that it is cheaper than paying people.
Please don’t post output from ChatGPT or other LLMs here.

Doing so lessens the value of HN. People who post here expect thoughtful responses from actual human beings. For those who want an LLM answer, they can simply go to ChatGPT and input their question there.
Their goal was to limit what support Galileo could gain for his works in public discurse. It most likely helped with that. It also did not stop scientists from improving on the copernican model without incurring the wrath of the church, they just used earth as point of reference to make the model geocentric.
I have seen many .env files in production. SOme junior devs told me it was what they had been taught to do.
How do I know the last updated time isn't just new Date()? After all it would be true the last time the page was updated is today. What was updated? The last updated time.

They could have rebuilt the page with a new template or something. knowing the original pub date is kind of important for placing the decision in context.
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This are wonderful times.
Is the book any good? Like is the story/poems in it worth reading? Just asking cause I might want to read it if its good.
A company Adobe tried to buy $20 billion, because they killed off Fireworks (since they didn't understand its purpose - which gave rise to Sketch) and tried to copy Sketch with XD but failed even when they made it for free (and you know that was only temporary as they hoped it would become more popular).
This sounds like Brazil. Also a lot of innovation in crime here
This is one of the things I find so blatent that it almost passes through being blatent into degrees of blatentness that need some new word to describe because our brains can't even process how blatently obvious it is. Our "public servants" routinely retire with public net worth that is multiples of all the money they were ever supposedly paid, 10x, 20x easily. It is prima facie true that they must have been corrupt in order to do that.
I wouldn’t use such analogies on wildly unrelated subjects.

Saying „The long term effects of Xenon on the human body and brain are still mostly undocumented when it comes to repeated recreational use.“ sounds so much better!

Especially since almost all common magnets don’t actually effect a hard drives functionality. The internet states you need a magnet with a force of 0,5kg to actually cause data loss. So we’re talking a large neodymium magnet. Which makes this analogy even worse.

It’s honestly incredibly how much your analogy upsets me!
And a light foot is a nanosecond. Think about it…
> sold to the record company for $250

And without any form of copyright it would have gone "hey $RECORD_COMPANY here's this cool jingle I made" and they'd say "yeah we think so too, we'll use that and compensate you $0."

Way better.
This doesn't really make sense, there would not be ROI to cater to a market of users who are choosing to already use the product for that use case when it's not supported. They _are_ ingrained in the ecosystem. It is pretty clearly targeted at making this more mainstream and mass-market.
For my work I use SQL pretty extensively, the PostGreSQL flavor, and it's really powerful. I wonder how it is possible to do without except for very simple queries where the ORM might kind of work.

There is however a weakness of SQL is that it's purely declarative and it's difficult to make sure it does the right thing. I often find myself in front of queries that are badly optimized and I'd welcome a language that would be less declarative where you could tell the database engine which index you want to use and how explicitly. The optimizer has table metrics but with the domain specific knowledge the programmer has generally better insights.
Yeah I think a class where a teacher is facilitating one-on-one AI instruction with a room full of students seems both dystopian and inevitable. I do worry about parasocial relationships the kids are going to form with these tutors though. A lot of these kids don't have great situations at home and if you have an endlessly patient AI that doesn't stick to the script, you could run into trouble.
Truly monstrous idea. It alarms me that you can't immediately identify several massive problems with this idea
That just means that most humans are now obsolete and the government and corporations have no need to keep us around
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I accounted for that by conceding that "increase revenue" would be the cynical explanation. "Increase profit" would strictly speaking be illegal.

Regardless, the idea that Sal Khan specifically isn't fundamentally serious about education and sees this as his personal golden goose is a special kind of cynicism.
So, who's going to buy one so they can put their phone inside and see if it stops receiving 4g and 5g?
No. Everyone is better off the more path people know. One of the huge struggles in the west currently is the cancer of risk aversion. People can’t grok statistics, so we spend huge efforts negating 10^-6 risks.
Ok but mass manufacture of an entire vehicle is quite another matter and those EU funds don't seem like that much to achieve that.
>teach like universities from the start

Do you know of any research suggesting that would be an effective way of teaching first graders?
I once did that for a client of mine.

I took the WordPress-based / WooCommerce system and split it into 1) the Shopify system for admin stuff and also the whole payment system and 2) the "frontend" i.e. the consumer facing part BEFORE the payment (I used Symfony, similar to Laravel, but more modular and I was more familiar with it). Theoretically you could fetch all the product data via the Shopify API and then sync it automagically. But in the first iteration, we just copied some of the basic product data into a simple Symfony Admin backend and made a simple javascript-based checkout slide-out, and only when they were ready to pay, they would be forwarded to Shopify.

This way we would have full control of the user experience up to the point of purchase, and then Shopify would take over. I thought this was the best way I can deliver a performant website, while also being able to sleep well, because all the money stuff and all the customer data is handled by Shopify.

I was able to increase search engine traffic by 30% this way, reduce page size and increase page speeds and revenue increased significantly.

After 3 years, he decided he wanted to make it more "professional", so he fired me, I got none of the credit ("the search engine traffic must be because of better branding - and the page isn't up to my standards of aesthetics... yes, the designers who were supposed to deliver the designs kept stalling and delivered NOTHING and you had to just create something on the fly before the main selling season, and yes we had huge sales gains on the website and more traffic, but this was not because of the website"... they didn't change any of the marketing or any of their strategies, by the way.) So they hired an agency team with a project manager, designer, developer, marketing person; who then asked me to give them the source code from git so they can upload the code to their FTP server (!).

And they pretty much didn't change anything for a few years, everything looked the same. After like 4-5 years, they adjusted the design a bit, but still looked VERY similar.
Server capacities have not grown at O(n^2) on data sets.

Computational complexity classes are not intuitive things. You can't just go "oh, that's much bigger than that so it must that many times better".
The SQL is preferable in this overly simple, cherry-picked case, but now do composition.
> You must use the Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge browser.

Thanks Google.

PS: I think it's basically ancient wisdom at this point to keep a Chrome instance around to best handle most Google properties, but I don't remember seeing it much spelled out in official documentation.
MobilEye is the OEM behind Tesla AP1 before FSD, they didn't like Musk not bowing his head after one of high-profile AP crashes and publicly cut ties with them. IIRC there was a bit of uncertainty as to which side cut ties with which.

VW, Ford, GM, BMW, Nio, Zeekr, Honda, Nissan, Toyota, lots of brands uses MobilEye software and/or hardware for L2 self driving. They're the one that originally solved "driving alone in the universe" part of SDC in the first half of 2010s.
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As somebody who is not familiar with how garbage collection is implemented at the low level, can somebody explain why WasmGC is needed on top of Wasm?

For example, isn't CPython a C program and hence can just be compiled to Wasm, including its garbage collection part? Does garbage collection usually depend on OS specific calls, which are not part of C standard?
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