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Output of humans has value to humans; art does not have value to beings outside of humans, of course. That does not mean that one cannot use a machine to create new outputs, and it doesn't mean that those will or will not have value, as again, value is subjective to the (human) beholder. We see this already with people praising AI art. Therefore, I do not believe that intent matters in the slightest as long as people deem something valuable.

The reason for humans existing is not because of the output they produce (indeed, that is dystopic), humans have worth inherently, regardless of what they output. This is also what nihilists have figured out, so maybe that is something you should look into if you seriously have such an opinion as expressed in your last paragraph.
Google questions Microsoft ability to secure cloud in promotional whitepaper [pdf]
Very interesting app. I wish there existed more "timeline-based note-taking" apps. Are there any plans to let the user "aggregate" these notes in some form over time?

cf. "Fold" idea in https://github.com/srid/chronicle?tab=readme-ov-file#folds
Sorry, but the pessimism, criticism and bearishness is warranted.

By now, making a new rocket today that is non-reusable is like inventing the penny farthing and trying to compete in modern day tour the France.

Europe deserves to be led by bold industrialists, not ran by frightened bureaucrats.
Can they be serious without taking on VC (which they've implied is misaligned with customer goals)?

If so, what would that serious look like?
This is likely the reason. There are no gift links or known workarounds for the paywall, so there's no point in sharing an article most people can't read.
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Were you looking for a point-by-point refutation of how asinine it is? I haven't got all day.

"Legalization is consistently associated with increases in hospitalizations from marijuana-related conditions"

Duh. The more of a thing happens, the more the bad things happen too. He's not even pretending to think of it as a trade-off.

"At 1,400, the number of marijuana-related road deaths is still fewer than those attributable to alcohol"

The switch from "related" to "attributable" is designed to exaggerate -- even when he's acknowledging that it's already not a problem. "Related" just means "somebody in one of the cars was high", not "caused an accident", which is exactly what "attributable" means.

"the Biden administration’s recent move to reclassify marijuana as a less-dangerous drug, which is mostly a giveaway to the state-legal industry"

Allowing a business to proceed is a "giveaway"?

Not a single one of the points is "reasonable". It's just them repeating the predictable ideology. There's nothing for anybody to learn here, except a reiteration that partisan media gonna partisan.
If I asked a job candidate any question and they confidently replied with a set of facts that were entirely made up, I would not consider them for any position under any circumstances.
What is this trifling and snobby driveby commentary doing in the comments of an otherwise interesting article?
This is so stupid. Going after likeness is doomed to fail against constantly mutating enemies like booming tech companies with infinite resources. And likeness itself isn’t even that big of a deal, and even if you win it’s such a minor case-by-case event that puts an enormous burden of proof on the victims to even get started. If the narrative centers around likeness, they’ve already won.

The main issue, as I see it, is that they took copyrighted material and made new commercial products without compensating (let alone acquiring permission from) the rights holders, ie their suppliers. Specifically, they sneaked a fair use sticker on mass AI training, with neither precedent nor a ruling anywhere. Fair use originates in times before there were even computers. (Imo it’s as outrageous as applying a free-mushroom-picking-on-non-cultivated-land law to justify industrial scale farming on private land.) That’s what should be challenged.
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I see this mentioned a lot, but how large would you actually rack up the bills in today's dollars?
I agree. Maybe long covid has taken a toll on people's ability to use logic. But seriously, seeing people's confusion about AI is what it was like watching people in 2001 get excited about bombing Iraq for "getting them back."

People in groups are INCREASING and INCREDIBLY dumb.
Also, you could imagine a magnetic bearing whose field strength rapidly diminishes as you move away from it, due to cancellation, like a Halbach array [0]. I wonder if there's a simple geometric configuration for a bearing that has this property, as well as the critical property of passively stable levitation, maybe based on diamagnetic or superconducting materials [1].

edit: Maybe something in this direction? [2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halbach_array

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_bearing

[2] https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20070006849/downloads/20... ("Development and Testing of a Radial Halbach Magnetic Bearing")
Gpt4 or even 3.5 is quite good at Finnish. Was there ever a benchmark against closed source models?
Father of Radar Interferometry dies at 97
I'm using nix and clang/llvm - never have I ever got a different binary.

If what you're saying is true - stage 3 bootstrap wouldn't be possible.
Seatbelts should be mandatory though. There's no legitimate reason not to wear one.
Good, less gender division!

Hopefully in the future programs to encourage the future generation of tech workers won’t be prejudicial and will help anyone with interest and talent regardless of their gender.
Hardcore fans demand to feel they earned their spot by having more endurance, being quicker, even if it ends up being kind of luck when it opens up.

I’ve seen something through Ticketmaster that added a lottery system, giving a certain percent of users a shot at tickets a bit before it gets opened up to everyone else. And people with Amex cards or people who demonstrated devotion.
Even though I feel similar and don't have any large data to look at, an unfortunate thought is that their efforts helped keep status quo. Or to put it another way, without that organization's efforts, things could have gotten much worse maybe?
Buyers are free to choose to buy from the company in Poducksville instead, but I suspect that, in the typical case, they'll never learn about said company because it takes strong network effects to get things off the ground.
The study is from Hong Kong, so guessing that the ethnic/racial/cultural group is overwhelmingly continental South East Asian/Chinese/Cantonese/Hong Konger.

My guess about the weird over emphasis on the percent of females in the study is due to autism diagnoses and research concentrating around males.

Your oyher questions are a bit odd given you concede you haven't read the research article which may indeed answer all these questions. The OP can't replicate everything from the original article.

That said, neurotypical kind of implies being taken as the normative, default case, so I'm guessing they're assumed to be neurotypical if they don't have a diasnosis for anything else. I don't think there any way to diagnose someone as having no neurodivergence.
That's an unfortunate choice. AMD has excelled in making compatible hardware. Not so much software success, if any.
Based on what proof?
we don't do anything special, the LLM seems like it has good mental fortitude to fight this! we do have a character limit but we like when people say really long things like "a large, malicious bear, sauntering into your forest compound and finding its way to the food storage"
Yeah I get the general idea that you're paying more for the assembled team and software / experience.

It's just always wonky as acquisitions generally don't seem to be 100% known quantities / outcomes. People paying big premiums for what sometimes turn out to be nothing.

That package of talent and etc is handy, but also seems like sometimes it makes it harder to really know what you'll get out of it. It's an interesting dynamic.
No, it's not more plausible.
> It's interesting that Microsoft and Apple have made such deep integrations and are forgoing any direct control or influence.

What do they need board seats for? What happened the last time the board went to war with the money?
Sure. But my point is that I only want to be shown those suggestions when I choose to go to the built in, unremovable book store app on my kindle. Not when I set my device down for 10 minutes to go make a coffee, and it decides that I have been away long enough to needlessly replace the content I paid Amazon for with content that someone else is paying Amazon to show me.

Isn't it enough that I bought their device, and that I fill it with content from their store that "makes suggestions" (shows ads) when I visit it?
I'm very skeptical that helicopters can't safely operate at this temperature. It's likely a certification thing capped at the highest temperature they can actually test.
True, gotta love Nsight Systems and Compute.

That's the first hurdle of working with AMD GPUs, I have no idea what the GPU is actually doing because there is no quality profiler.
Google Voice has only existed since 2009, so it couldn't have been "decades" ago. That's how i know your story is fake.
After writing Tailwind for a few years, I've kinda shifted position on the maintainability of it.

It's definitely easier than any alternative, but it's also painful to read through a giant list of classes. There's no getting around that.

I think a better way to put it is that Tailwind optimizes for writes vs reads. It sacrifices the readability of HTML for the writability of CSS.

I still think that's a worthwhile tradeoff, but it's definitely a tradeoff.
Implementing a Single-Threaded Blocking Bare Bones TCP/IP Server
A lot of things in computer science that are conceptually functions actually aren’t, in this context when one compiles e.g. a C program there is a bunch of state, some pretty counter-intuitive, that the resulting object files or executable artifacts to change even though the source code did not. This has serious implication for relying on computer systems.

When a more systems-inclined person in computer science uses the word idempotent they very often mean something like “repeatable” or “deterministic”.

AFIAK this usage first gained traction in the theory of distributed systems, in which it (roughly) means that one application of an operation might change the state of the system, but subsequent applications will not change it further. Set union is sort of the canonical example.
> I also don't really blame companies for being in this situation. They had to offer inflated salaries because the only alternative was to hire no one during the covid boom.

Then don't hire?

The point of full-time is to avoid uncertainty and instability. If you want that flexibility as an employer, then pay the premium of contract developers. This is why you need to have no "right-to-work" legislation for prevent non-cause firing. And no, "I can get cheaper" is not a valid cause.
Magnetic Bearing
Arguably as far as anti trust grounds go wouldn't AMD being a more viable competitor in the AI space be ... good?
Locality of behavior, my precious.
Especially a fork called JGR's patchpack, featuring programmable signals and so much more.
I'm not exactly sure, but probably what the sibling comment says. I have been out of the 'scene' for a while, but it used to be possible to go onto XDA and find some Lineage or other debloated image, install it, and the difference was night and day. It felt like you were using a whole new phone, in fact.

Aside from Play Services, I assume most of the slowness comes from all the mfg and carrier bloat. A brand new Samsung comes with something like 32 apps I uninstall/disable, some through ADB.
> Yes, and none of those people are making a living at creating things.

Again, not true. One of the most famous examples is likely Naomi Novik, who is a bestselling author, in addition to a prolific producer of derivative works published on AO3. Many other commercially successful authors publish derivative works on this platform as well.

> It is true that without our current copyright regime, the "industries" that produce Star Wars, Disney, etc. products would not exist in their current form. But does that mean works like those would not have been created? Does it mean we would have less of them? I strongly doubt it. What it would mean is that more of the profits from those works would go to the actual creative people instead of middlemen.

Speculate all you want about an alternative system, but you really don't know what would have happened, or what would happen moving forward.
Aside from the Tailwind discussion: The site advertises FREE templates, I select a FREE template, but when I want to use it, I STILL have to pay. Huh?

https://tailwindtemplates.co/templates/basic
That's not necessarily true, because revenue can be a poor measure of capturing value and scale in organizations that are mostly volunteer.

If that individual is managing the process of successfully getting 1,000 people who volunteer 15 hrs/wk, which you'd otherwise have to pay let's say $30/hr including taxes, then that would be the equivalent of $22.5 million in annual revenue.

Suddenly $285K in executive compensation looks perfectly fine.

In some mostly-volunteer organizations, you will find that most of the money pays the professionals at the top, because you can't get that necessary expertise any other way.

I worked at one once right out of college, at the bottom of the full-time-paid rung, and I had interestingly conflicted moral feelings about it. I spent a lot of time with volunteers and yet I was being paid. But I needed a job, I needed to pay rent. And the tech skills I was providing literally none of the volunteers could do. It made me question whether it was "fair" that all these people's monetary donations were going to paying my salary. But then again, I wasn't the one who set rents to be as high as they were in the city where the organization put its headquarters, and student debt doesn't get forgiven just because you work for a nonprofit.
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Ask HN: How to Become an Editor?
Hey y'all,
I've been pondering a career change. I've worked in tech for the last three years as a front-end engineer. I have been laid off and struggling to find another job partially because I don't feel like that's what I want to do anymore.

I feel like I got into tech for the wrong reasons, so I am considering pursuing something that aligns more with my interests. I was just wondering if anyone here works for any publisher or newspaper and has any advice. I am also thinking of going back to school and finishing my English degree.

I know this might not be the best platform to ask this, but if anyone has any advice/suggestion that would be much appreciated.
uh oh what did you try
Paper title: A more secure alternative

(Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.) https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
oh ok, good to know!
If the system were leaking refrigerant, wouldn't it rapidly stop working? It's supposed to be a closed loop. And it sounds as if it requires a fair bit of isobutane to cause problems, so if it's losing enough refrigerant to asphyxiate I'd think that it would soon stop refrigerating.
Promising material for solar energy gets its curious boost from entropy
5S is more about organizing your workspace, but this article is about organizing your work product. And it doesn’t say anything that isn’t standard dev practice, it just organizes the items under a strained 5S umbrella. Imho
Maybe even hermetic builds? https://bazel.build/basics/hermeticity
Sky Harbor hit 118F last Friday and Monday. It's supposed to be 117F today and tomorrow.

That's a lot of closures.
One major difference is that the streetcar companies in the US sold the land whereas Japanese companies held on to the choicest parcels to self-develop.

This meant that 50 years later when everything was at end of life, the streetcar companies could not repeat the trick.
They are definitely redefining "idempotent" here, even from a software development standpoint.

Since we already have "deterministic build" and "reproducible build" for this, there's no need to overload "idempotent" (which already causes confusion).
I have been both to this site and to Coober Pedy, South Australia. Pretty neat bit of architectural convergent evolution for extremely high temperature environments.
I was actually referring to the complexity of building a new railroad (even single tracked on top of existing pathway) in the US.

That said, can't say anything bad about LRT.
To be fair we are the only creatures to make much use of anything, metal or no. That being said the metals are used by other creatures. Some might eat metal rich mud for nutritional value for example.
It seems to me that the "knowledge graph" generated in this article is incredibly naive and not comparable to the process in the MS paper, which requires multiple rounds of preprocessing the source content using LLMs to extract, summarize, find relationships at multiple levels and model them in the graph store. This just splats chunks and words into a vector graph and is barely defensible as a "knowledge graph".

Please tell me I'm missing something because this is egregious. How can you expect a graph approach to improve over naive rag if you don't actually build a knowledge graph that captures high quality, higher level entity relationships?
Anecdotally seeing similar things. Had a FAANG hiring manager tell me that they over indexed on new grads in the 2010s, and the hiring was now focused on 5-10 years of experience. So basically the same cohorts, just at a different career stage.
Yes, why? Coming from a family of actual engineers, I call myself a developer. Software workers haven't earned the title engineer.
There's a whole business for bad performing websites that need to limit visitors! https://queue-it.com/
> should SpaceX suddenly say no to launches, you have a backup. An expensive backup, but it's there

It's not a functional back-up. Not for any commercial use case relevant outside the military.

If all you want is a back-up for military launches, the Ariane 5ME was a better, cheaper option that could have bridged the gap to a competitive reusable [1]. The billions of dollars wasted on Ariane 6 would have put Europe into the running for a competitive launch vehicle in the 2030s. Instead, we have Arianespace's CEO pitching another boondoggle to ensure Europe has a Falcon Heavy by the 2030s.

So yes, having 10% launch capability is better than zero. But that 10% could have been bought for much cheaper. And saying 90% of your space industry is subject to foreign control versus 100% is a bit milquetoast, particularly when the alternative would have been R&D to bring that down to e.g. 50%.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_5#Ariane_5_ME
This is a very good example of bad policy in the USA: in my whole life I encountered two power outtages. None in Germany (where I mainly lived ) , one in Poland and one in Ukraine (both 5 years ago).

Leaving nuclear power was a stupid decision but compare to Texas, this is miniscule.
> FWIW for a Button, your engineer should just encapsulate all the “ridiculous” styling into a <Button /> element.

Sure thing.

What I don't understand though is why not put a Button.css file next to the Button element file, and describe all the button styles in there. What's so hard about building or maintaining that?
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Without looking at this, are you sure that this can do speech to speech? Maybe my flaw in searching has been disregarding anything that's called "text to speech" as not also "speech to speech"?
> Allowing a business to proceed is a "giveaway"?

Also, I'm not sure that changing the treatment of non-research-related marijuana possession and sale from "a federal crime we choose not to enforce in specific circumstances" to "a federal crime we choose not to enforce in specific circumstances" even qualifies as a meaningful change in how much you are "allowing a business to proceed".

(It does make research use easier legally, but that's not the same as state-legal sales to the public, whether medical or recreational.)
No questions about Madness, but I really enjoyed the article tone and playfulness. Thank you.
When acquiring a telecommunications network, I suspect that network size (user count) is far more relevant for valuation, if anything, having a low employee count with a massive network like WhatsApp was probably a huge selling point.
What exactly has Musk actually done that goes so far beyond the pale of typical corporate shenanigans that it would register as not being trustworthy to governments? At most he has had overly optimistic timelines, overly optimistic social media statements about future capabilities, a bunch of business ideas that didn't pan out and some QA issues in a car manufacturer. This is pretty par for the course for every business.

The whining about him being untrustworthy stems almost entirely from him having different political views (and not being afraid to voice them), and the stream of mostly unsubstantiated hit pieces and awful reporting regarding Starlink in Ukraine.

With the way you guys talk about it though, he might as well have personally caused the crash of more than two full passenger jets.
Borrowing money becomes more expensive so companies will focus on their own needs (or surviving) rather than giving or outreach programs. Unlike Apple or NVIDIA most companies need to borrow money to stay in business.
Hot air also makes air cooling across the cylinders (EDIT: for piston aircraft) less effective, causing the pilot to have to use lower power settings to keep CHTs and oil temps in line with the airplane manufacturer's guidance. I blow through 400F regularly on takeoff on hot summer days, while I can consistently keep CHTs below that in the winter.
I think Telegram is plenty fast enough re:(1) on Android especially with a Home screen shortcut to your private Channel. It just gets quickly cluttered with mixing messages and file uploads.
tl;dr: we are open-sourcing an internal tool that solves a problem that we think many NixOS shops are likely to run into. The rest of this post is just the story of how we came to write this tool, which is totally a skippable story.

The tool happens to be called Madness, thus the Lovecraftian reference in this piece.

Madness enables you to easily run the same binary on NixOS and non-NixOS systems

https://github.com/antithesishq/madness
Also there is real competition downmarket for regional jets
how fast is that for you?
Artificial or not is immaterial. The intelligence is real.

You don't think there are better mediums than fatty tissue and proteins? Human brains are anything but optional
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Isn't there a way to basically give your project root in a separate account, then use cloudtrail to figure out what policies it actually needs? I've not been able to get that going myself but it seems like a more efficient approach potentially.
About half of the times, the actual problem is the manager or HR, and there is no fix for this but to switch the employer. As for the other half, yes, it can be useful to learn, but it's typically quite painful, and often requires switching the employer anyway.
> A rocket that's thrown away was cheaper per flight than the shuttles, which were only partly discarded. It all depends on how much does it cost to build vs refurbish. Falcon 9 was designed to be easily refurbished and Ariane 6 was designed to be cheap to build.

It's not just that the Shuttle was expensive to refurbish. It was also very expensive to build.

Whereas Falcon 9 is much less expensive to build new than Ariane 6.

Ariane 6 was designed to be cheaper to build (cheaper than Ariane 5, that is).
This is already super dead. None of the agents respond, and it just hangs.