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Most software businesses start off as "toy apps" and are paid for out of pocket.

The parent's comment is right - that is a lot of money for not a lot of value, particularly when you are early stage.

The trick is in finding balance between paying ridiculous fees (relative to your revenue/customer base) to make things more simple vs. find another way and spend your time instead.

A prime example are identify provider services, such as Auth0. The free tier is good enough for development, but as soon as you expect to onboard customers the free tier starts to feel deliberately gimped. Are you willing to spend $20 a month just to use a custom login domain? For the zero customers you have? $20 a month might feel like "nothing", but it's $20 a month forever and it's $20 a month that could be allocated to other things, such as compute or your accounting software.

It's not always that clear cut, however.
Nice. Real-time Linux used to be a joke, but apparently now it works.

The sheer complexity of making much of kernel space preemptable is scary. There's too much running in kernel space.
> Continued US support is absolutely essential to provide Israel a licence to keep doing basically whatever it wants

We give it latitude it wouldn't otherwise have. But its military and MI complex are among the largest in the world. It could prosecute its wars for quite some time without our support. (It's also ambiguous whether they couldn't find a friend in China or the Gulf.)
You're misreading the comment. It's not that "for your safety" always implies tyranny, it's that tyrants always prefers to say that they're doing things for your safety.
I suspect that the reporter has a bone to pick with Tor and the CCC members that were given the documents were compelled legally or socially to not share them further.
It's okay, you can safely confess to felonies and crimes against humanity on HN. Our usernames are meaningless and our traffic is SSL encrypted!
There were four ambulance workers and two children in the 12 dead.
>bad stereotypes like "Unions rank members by tenure and reward only the old timers!" and "Unions make it so only union members can plug a cord into an electrical outlet!"

This isn't a "bad stereotype", this is purposely pushed propaganda, and it sits on the shelf next to the training video you watch about how horrible unions get in the way of you negotiating with the company all by your lonesome, and the poster that says "Don't give a union $300, buy an Xbox instead"

The reason that tech workers hate unions is that it's a highly middle class male employee field, and they were targeted hardest by anti-union propaganda for a century.
"digital souvereignity" maybe?
Claude definitely seems more "emotionally intelligent", but even just for 1-shot coding tasks I've been pretty bummed with 1o... like it will provide lots of output explaining its reasoning, and it all seems very sound, but then I run the code and find bugs that should have been easily avoided.
Did the original employees get rich when those companies grew?
Uhm, that's no longer true. There's a lot of new charging stations.

This summer, I drove from MA to Washington DC and every other rest stop had chargers; sometimes multiple brands. I also drove from MA to Montreal and there were plenty of chargers.

Basically, every time I needed to pee there was a charger 5-10 minutes ahead of me. Plugged in, went to the bathroom, and then I had more than enough charge to go to the next bathroom.
The usual "GPL is anti-freedom" argument is that it restricts what someone is allowed to do with the source code, meaning it is less free than MIT or BSD style licenses.

I don't agree with that, but that is what the person is saying.

What's absurd, in my opinion, is lumping GPL advocacy in with two other tropes which are intended to restrict the sharing of information and knowledge, where GPL promotes it.
>If you’re sharing CSAM or planning terrorist attacks, it might be different.

They'll just employ parallel construction to avoid exposure.
Not sure what he's on about the fat iPod Nano being a mistake. I recall it being almost universally loved by my generation, almost every kid in school had one because you could watch video on them. They were also indestructable, famously being able to survive going through the washing machine.
You obviously have no clue about "serious mountaineering" and what you are talking about in general. Even though I do have a couple of merino wool items, they can be replaced with synthetics quite easily (the only real upside of wool is it is very warm and comfortable to sleep in), and no amount of wool will replace the other 95% of my clothing, which is mostly synthetic. Well, except for down, obviously, which is the only thing actually superior to the synthetic counterparts (and even that many people avoid, when travelling in rainy/wet regions). Everything else... It's not even a serious descission, it just isn't something anybody who ever did "serious mountaineering" would argue about, the vast majority of your gear is synthetic, and not because it's cheaper (it absolutely isn't cheap). It just the only viable option. Even something you could potentially replace with cotton (IDK, a backpack?) would weight a ton.
I’m not too familiar with the story but the lead sentence is “On October 12, 2000, two suicide pilots of a small bomb-laden boat pulled alongside of the USS Cole at midship, offered friendly gestures to several crew members, and detonated their explosives.”.

Could this possibly fall under Article 37 c of the Geneva
convention (“The feigning of civilian, non-combatant status”)? In that case, calling it terrorism wouldn’t be too bizarre in my opinion. I’m assuming the attackers didn’t wear any uniforms or insignia.
Apple could say "If you wanna talk HTTPS, you have to use our HTTPSClient class, and that only supports using the system certificate store and does not support pinning".

Or they could say "All apps that don't support custom certificates for https will be denied app store approval".
Simplistically, the output from the program that scrapes is the dataset, the output from the training program is the model, and the output from the combination of the program that does inference using the model is the LLM output - be it text or a picture or some other output (eg numbers representing true/false in a fraud or anti-bot or spam for a given input).

ML models are relatively old, so that's not at all a new paradigm. Even the Attention Is All You Need paper is seven years old.
Can you not extract the key from the apps? They are only signed against modification, surely? Can you not read the data they have stored on the handset?
Vedal987 should work with LinkedIn to get access to this data, fine-tune Evil Neuro on LinkedIn posts, then have her read through business school case studies and offer advice.

It would be content so unhinged, it would remove the need for management consulting as an industry - companies could simply type their problems in chat and do the exact opposite of what Evil LinkedIn Neuro suggests!

(for the uninitiated: https://www.youtube.com/@Neurosama & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-sama)
I’ve seen others use nolt.

https://nolt.io/

Like this guy

https://bear.nolt.io/
>This alone is an indictment of their "reasoning" capability.

I'm not sure why it says anything about their reasoning capability. Some people are blind and can't see anything. Some people are short-sighted and can't see objects which are too far away. Some people have dyslexia. Does it say anything about their reasoning capability?

LLMs "perceive" the world through tokens just like blind people perceive the world through touch or sound. Blind people can't discuss color just like LLMs can't count letters. I'm not saying LLM's can actually reason, but I think a different way to perceive the world says nothing about your reasoning capability.

Did humans acquire reasoning capabilities only after the invention of the alphabet? A language isn't even required to have an alphabet, see Chinese. The question "how many letters in word X" doesn't make any sense in Chinese. There are character-level LLMs which can see every individual letter, but they're apparently less efficient to train.
I'd go as far to say that even a credible threat of war against the USA would have a substantial negative impact on our economy and by extension our quality of life; practically all of us would be impacted. People who don't see that are missing how much the OVERWHELMING majority of Americans have benefitted from USA hegemony over the past several decades.
It's a rare exception that natural fibers won't serve. Alaska, Arctic circle, Antarctica, disaster prep.

You don't need lightweight waterproof clothing, you just like it. Getting a little sweaty under a non-breathable fabric or getting wet but staying insulated with wool will be just fine. Umbrellas are great as well.

What beats lightweight breathable fabric is not desecrating the planet.
Most cotton production in the US is not irrigated.

The problem with farming resource calculations and fearmongering, is often they measure water usage of a particular crop without really considering where the water came from.

Wouldn't you say crops grown with just water from the rain were using water with perfect sustainability?
> So as the parent suggests it's really better to adjust the business process if you can.

That's another way of saying that there are serious trade-offs going that way that need to be justified... which may also be true for the path of adjusting the business process.
It's the interpretation of some cloud providers that exchanging datagrams with entities in OFAC-sanctioned countries constitutes a prohibited transaction.
That's a weird objection. Linux isn't UNIX, technically. All of the current and former UNIXes had various incompatibilities. /proc was never standardized. /dev has some standard names, but not many. Not sure what you mean about /etc, that's up to whatever's installed in userland. systemd is more or less Linux only; it's weird to blame other OSes for not having it. (The funny thing is that systemd has functionality in part inspired by macOS's launchd.) The ext* family of filesystems (and certainly stuff like btrfs) is a Linux thing; other UNIXes used different file systems.

CLI utils are an interesting thing: the BSDs have always(?) had their own, and don't use GNU coreutils (which is what Linux uses). There wasn't really much coordination over the decades, so they went in different directions. Most (all?) of them should be POSIX-compliant (possibly after setting an env var, at least in GNUs case), so if you restrict yourself to functionality specified in POSIX, you should be fine.

I don't really like macOS, but your specific criticism of it doesn't really hold water. If you're going to hate on macOS for this stuff, then you also have to hate on all the BSDs, which seems a little silly and unwarranted.

> with the mac you can start off thinking things would work, but they don't.

If you're expecting things to work on macOS just like on Linux, then your expectations were way off in the first place. If you want cross-platform compat in these areas, you'll have to stick with POSIX. Which sucks, especially since no one really implements POSIX correctly, but that's just how it is, and has always been.
If there's a budget available analysing that and what the biggest costs would yield the most accurate estimates.

Could be more but the biggest cost is probably labour and there are 2 indexes for that:

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/eci.nr0.htm

https://www.bls.gov/productivity/

Wages can be drilled down to the employee groups that would be predominant, such as machinists or engineers.

Productivity can approximate how much more efficient people are now due to technology.

Then major component costs can be compared from other current rockets vs historical costs.
It doesn't need to be comfortable, it needs to not lay waste to the planet and shrink your balls.
For large systems the cost of maintaining all of those logs in a searchable system can be prohibitive.
Protesters, not protests.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-human-rights/inside...
LinkedIn content only had a thin veneer of humanity before the onslaught of LLMs anyways.
Quantum 'Ghost Imaging' Reveals the Dark Side of Plants
Two things spring to mind:

1. Open source is for losers. I'm not calling anyone involved in open source a loser, to be clear. I have deep respect for anyone who volunteers their time for this. I'm saying that when companies push for open source it's because they're losing in the marketplace. Always. No companiy that is winning ever open sources more than a token amount for PR; and

2. Joel Spolsky's now 20+ year old letter [1]:

> Smart companies try to commoditize their products’ complements.

Meta is clearly behind the curve on AI here so they're trying to commoditize it.

There is no moral high ground these companies are operating from. They're not using their vast wisdom to predict the future. They're trying to bring about the future the most helps them. Not just Meta. Every company does this.

It's why you'll never see Meta saying the future of social media is federation, open source and democratization.

[1]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/
> Depends what you mean by "adopted". Pretty sure Intel had EUV prototypes before TSMC (or at least very close), but it was slower to transition its high volume production to it due to execution issues.

EUV by ASML was not possible until there was a technology to create focusing lenses for it. Intel decided not to "wait" and use their existing technology to beat everyone.
Internal startups have the same value proposition as external ones, I think; most fail, but every once in a while you hit a React or a Gmail.
Ah, there are people who use Tor to access non-onion services. Got it.

Seemed like onion services were created to solve the security issues that exit nodes bring, so I assumed people stopped using them and started running onion services instead.
Oh I’m not arguing against that. And as I said, I don’t think it’s a smart way of running things. I’m just saying that it may not be an age thing but simply a money thing. That’s all.
>Nobody really wants to read the LinkedIn feed,

I mean, not nobody. I follow a lot of people that post very thoughtful things that spark discussion, and it's one of the only places I know of other than here where I can discuss topics related to my career or field with peers, and for me that's useful.
I have no idea who is using Tor other than that I heard it can be used by people requiring privacy from governments, e.g. whistleblowers. It also seems to have broad support from the tech industry so I'd be surprised if it was in fact primarily used for illegal or "immoral" purposes. That's why I'm asking.
https://archive.ph/sXRw6
Politicians and the powers-that-be benefit from slowly adding to the existing pile of what's considered illegal and immoral. They build that pile as a levee against threats to their power; to maintain the status quo.

Immoral is as subjective as it gets and is therefore an awful yardstick.
It’s marketing to get the best researchers. The researchers want the meta pay and they want to hedge their careers to continue to publish. That’s the real game, it’s a war for talent. Everything else is just secondary effects.
> But I suspect it's also a case of "If we can't dominate AI, no one must dominate AI".

Embrace. Extend. Extinguish.
We can replace Nylon with get this, poorer alternatives, if we gave a shit about the environment. I know it's unthinkable to switch to a worse product or user experience, but imagine caring more about the health of the planet.
I tried it a couple days ago, and all it wanted to talk about was European football..
>> Feel like I heard it before somewhere.

Depends how old you are!

In the olden days when you had a "phone message machine" at home, you'd come home and press the play button to listen to your messages, then hear a beep between each message.

It's meant to sound like the click of the play button and the beep.
> the patent bar outside of pharma/npe's

that's it exactly. Pharma really should have its own patent regime, or at least, software & pharma should not have the same one.
Would be an easy way to conduct an adhoc trade war...AWS doesn't need competition from a pesky German host let's just make things faintly awkward...
Those second and third points are pretty laughably paranoid-fantasy reasons to use Tor—even if one found oneself in either situation.
More unclear by the hour: what is the point? If Israel was to launch a major offensive shortly after the explosions, that would make sense. Seems like flexing more than a strategic element. Impressive flexing, but once it stops things will return to a new unpleasant normal.
What are you on about? Do you realise you replied to me first, and the two times I replied to you responding to someone else were on the same thread that goes back to my original comment? No one’s after you, I just looked at the child replies in my post. Honestly I didn’t even realise I was replying to the same person. Complaining about it happening twice is quite the persecution complex.
Please. Back in April they gutted my team of people working on Ansible automations.
i saw a video on youtube where a guy intercepted https app traffic from an android app for a smart scale where the app used certificate pinning. there was some very automated tool for defeating the cert pinning. unfortunately i can't find the video link.
> A VPS is $5 a month.

With insignificant data caps. To get the data needed I believe you're looking at a couple hundred a month, to start.
The TTS voice in the demo clip sounds remarkably like Ellen McLain (Valve voice actor).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_McLain
A Minecraft mod designed for free live translation
Elon Musk's financial woes at X have Tesla bulls fearing he will liquidate stock
Small amounts of mercury and aluminum have been shown to be safe in the bloodstream. The dose is the poison
Good API is for encapsulating and communicating ideas between other programmers or teams.

DRY is for improving communication with your future self.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5kKwg3KfX0&t=535s
I love it. TOBACCO PRODUCTION MUST BE DECENTRLIZED.
> As I've mentioned elsewhere though, this lack of culture isn't unique to Israel, it's just heavily multiplied due to the population being a collection of diaspora. This might change over the next couple hundred years but it's equally wild to assume that a 70 year old country is somehow going to have anywhere near the same level of culture (and cultural resilience) as undisturbed groups.

This statement makes sense - of course Israeli culture, being younger than, say, US culture, is less developed.

But that's not your original claim that I disagreed with, what you originally said was this:

> If conflicts were to go away, so would Israel. Israeli Jews would just be absorbed into whatever local culture they're in, just as they were prior to the formation of Israel (and just like they are outside of Israel)

There's a big difference between saying "the culture isn't quite unique" and implying that without conflicts, Israel would somehow disappear, and Jews would be absorbed into the surrounding culture (of what, Lebanon? Jordan?).

> Yeah. It has no unique national identity. There's a lot of Jewish culture, sure, but I'm hoping we can distinguish Jewish culture from Israeli culture

First of all, 20% of Israel's population isn't Jewish.

Secondly, I think the Israeli culture, even if only focusing on Israeli Jewish culture, is different from, say, American Jewish culture or other Jewish cultures around the world.
So in summary: iOS used to accept untrusted certificates, yikes! Now, it validates the server cert, and people are upset? This blatantly insecure thing is broken now and the posters don't want to set it up securely?

It seems like these people are just struggling with how to properly set up their email server and clients when using a private CA. If you're going to use your own CA, then configure your client to trust it. The rest of us should be able to enjoy secure defaults and not have to worry about our less informed family members being tricked into bypassing basic security protections like TLS validation.
https://github.com/BluSpring/UnityTranslate
Unions in the UK are nothing short of a broken promise, collecting fees from workers while offering little in return. It’s infuriating to see how they portray themselves as champions of the working class, yet when push comes to shove, they’re nowhere to be found. They’ll happily take your hard-earned money month after month, selling you the idea that they’ll fight for your rights. But when you actually need them—when management is pulling the rug out from under you—their usual response is something along the lines of, "Well, there’s not much we can do when management has already made a decision." Really? That's what we pay for?

The truth is, they’re masters of taking credit when it benefits their public image. When a company backtracks on an unpopular decision, it’s often due to public outrage or fear of bad PR, but the unions will still swoop in and claim victory. They act like they’ve led the charge, when in reality, they were sitting on the sidelines, waiting for someone else to force management’s hand. It’s a performance, and a poor one at that, designed to justify their existence. And let’s not even start on how little they’re actually doing to protect workers in an increasingly precarious job market. They’re loud when they want to be heard but silent when it truly counts. The whole thing is a farce, and it's time we stopped pretending unions are still the powerful advocates they once were. They're not. They're out of touch, ineffective, and quite frankly, taking advantage of the very people they’re supposed to be defending.
There was someone on a EV Road Tripping group on Facebook mentioning how they took an EV from Florida to New Jersey and talked about how awful it was.

The top comment said something that every EV enthusiast knows. There are two wildly different charging experiences: Tesla, and everyone else.

Can you have a good experience with a non-Tesla? Sure! But with a Tesla, having a good experience is nearly guaranteed. With anyone else, it's a gamble.

You go to a Electrify America or some other charging network location, and you'll likely find only 2-4 stalls, and likely 1 or more of them are broken. Go to a Tesla Supercharger, and there's usually 8-16 chargers, all working. Even with a broken stall (It happens), you've got more available. And with so many stalls, and so many locations, it's exceptionally rare to get to a charging location and finding all of them in use.

This last week I took a road trip in my Model 3 from Portland to San Diego. 2,400 miles round trip. Never ran into a charging issue. I did see that a couple locations had a stall that was out of order, but with so many stalls, it wasn't an issue at all.
Since they were in the US navy, they should count as members of the armed forces of a country, no? Isn’t that enough? How were they non-combatant?
The most common plastic, PET, is inert and does not mimic hormones
Can this play sounds that can't be represented in text? Ie. "make the noise a chicken makes"
I wonder if this is related to something I found when I moved my hosting from DO to Hetzner: https://on-no.net/posts/moving-providers-and-tainted-ips/

TL;DR is that the IP that my new instance was assigned had previously been used as part of an advertising CDN based in Iran. It wouldn't surprise me if this is some game of whack-a-mole between interested parties who are at turns applying and attempting to evade blocks.