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Sorry but I find your example totally wrong. Things like radio frequencies and space launches are hard regulated by govs, no corporation can launch satellites at will without permission from the government(s).
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Just tried comparing pictures of two trees (inc leaf closeups) between PictureThis and native Photos app. PictureThis got it right, was consistent re species when comparing closeups to wide tree shot, and gave lots of extra info. Photos app got the genus right but different species for the closeup and wide shots; not very helpful. The lack of organised extra info is also a pity. One of the nicest features of PictureThis is how it shows your photo vs other matching photos from its database, letting you visually confirm if the result is accurate.
It's related to MS contribution to .NET which is the subtopic of this particular thread.
If the answer was yes, presumably there’s a tradeoff where that deal would be reasonable.
I would not even try. The reason is simple, there is absolutely no ability of understanding in any of current self claimed auto driving approach, no matter how well they market them.
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If Tesla's FSD was actually self-driving, maybe half the casualty rate of the median human driver would be fine.

But it's not. It requires constant supervision, and drivers sometimes have to take control (without the system disengaging on its own) in order to correct it from doing something unsafe.

If we had stats for what the casualty rate would be if every driver using it never took control back unless the car signaled it was going to disengage, I suspect that casualty rate would be much worse than the median human driver. But we don't have those stats, so we shouldn't trust it until we do.

This is why Waymo is safe and tolerated and Tesla FSD is not. Waymo test drivers record every time they have to take over control of the car for safety reasons. That was a metric they had to track and improve, or it would have been impossible to offer people rides without someone in the driver's seat.
Before reading the article I was expecting using 1-bit instead of bfloats, and using logical operators instead of arithmetic.
Thanks - I genuinely didn't know. I assumed that you could "just" crimp it like CAT6, but a quick google leads me to spending quite a few hundred pounds on something like this[0].

That said;

> A rental service might help there, or a call-in service-- the 6 hours of drilling holes and pulling fibre can be done by yourself, and once it's all cut to rough length, bring out a guy who can fuse on 10 plugs in an hour for $150.

If you were paying someone to do it (rather than DIY) I'd wager the cost would be similar, as you're paying them for 6 hours of labour either way.

[0] https://www.cablemonkey.co.uk/fibre-optic-tool-kits-accessor...
My theory is all developed societies converge on having no accountability in the governing positions. Of course, I may and most like am wrong but if you look at say politics you must at least think about this being a real possibility
The ontological dissonance in that title is spectacularly simulacrum level 4.
I was walking past a travel agency and they're advertising Lapland- the home of Santa- for wintersport.

I wonder if I'll live long enough for Antarctica as a snowboarding destination.
Its Harvard, I would literally be more excited for the same announcement from the University or Wyoming.

>Sounds promising

More fabrications from one of the biggest grifting institutions on Earth, Harvard.

So sick of their name even having merit. They literally license their name to sell fake textbooks at airports. Why are they even allowed on here.
> Yes, they're dogmatic in the literal meaning of that word.

Debatable. Guix has adequate grounds to build their beliefs on and they accept other stances besides their own. Guix may think the others are wrong, but that's their privilege, just like you are privileged to think they are wrong. So they seem to be more principled than dogmatic.
Ignore above. Brainfarted. It doesn't work.
Love this. The adhd spirit is inspiring.

Right at the end of the article: "There is also an extra colon mark in the line just below." pretty sure that's a semicolon!
If you think back to less automated times, management was the programming —- you built instructions and procedures that allowed organisation to scale and improve your end product.

The only thing that changed is that now instructions and procedures are oftentimes executed by software and hardware, not by actual human beings. Hence the use of software engineering wing, in addition to your usual, sorry for the lack of better word, “meat programmers” aka organisational execs.

Interestingly, the end result customers get has not changed, despite many people coloring it that way. People still get same cup of coffee or a taxi ride, just quicker/cheaper/marginally better. But such incremental improvements were achievable in the business world before IT era using same exact means, through internal product management and imrovement of org procedures, applied to people and processes instead of pieces of software.
I think it can depend on who's using it.

Personally, I live in a city with no natural community. I'm married but have no family here and only a couple acquaintances. I tried to quit Instagram a couple years ago but just ended up more isolated than I already am.

I think this type of situation is common for a lot of people. Social media is the glue that ties us to friends in distant places, which is why it's successful.

If you have actual community available to you quitting is much more doable.
Being in a vehicle that collides with someone and kills them is going to be traumatic regardless of whether or not you're driving.

But it's almost certainly going to be more traumatic and more guilt-inducing if you are driving.

If I only had two choices, I would much rather my car kill someone than I kill someone with my car. I'm gonna feel bad about it either way, but one is much worse than the other.
> It's huge enough risk that they still choose to invest in fighting it.

It's not a risk though. Movies still make over a billion dollars regularly. All it is is greed and ignorance.

> But clearly they determined it's cheaper to fight than let it go rampant.

This is due to poor decision making, like companies like Coke continuing to pay for advertising at the scale they do.

> And for small businesses and projects it absolutely hurts them. It's not even worth much debate there.

It doesn't hurt them like you might think. It's well established at this point that pirates are the group that spends the most on content, and also frequently leads to an increase in sales.
1)Define recent "1 day" "1 week" "1 year" "10 years".

2)Univesity students have 3 main issues broadly speaking imho.

2a.Future Prospects - What are the trends in the Job Market/economy?

2b.Present Well-being - Are they studying in a healthy environment?

2c.Past Experiences - Are they well adjusted/groomed for university life?

My hypothesis is that any missing links might cause a noticable decline in sociological and psychological evaluation of a "indiviual student" .

For the general student population,You can find literature from Experts who are far more competent than me since various other variables might also be linked which I am not aware of.
> For the price of a Vision Pro, I can drop a few large displays at the places I frequent often.

What about other places, like hotels? What about trains and planes?

Even at home, I wish I could get rid of my TV and make it disappear when I don't use it. These new display glasses already take way less space to store than monitors. If they get the tech to the point that it's as comfortable to watch as a TV and just barely more expensive, I could see myself getting rid of my TV and saving the space, making my living-room nicer. I'd also get a screen size I'd never consider for my living-room because of how much space it takes.

And that's for entertainment only, for which I'm usually reluctant to spend much. If these devices become good enough to do long work sessions on them, I could have exactly the same setup everywhere which would be huge for me. I could also get rid of my monitors and reclaim my desk space. I think that's when I'd buy such a device.

See also the comments from 3 days ago from people already doing just that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41859012

So in a way it's already here. Maybe not everyone will have one, so it won't be like mobile phones. I've never had a tablet either, that doesn't mean they haven't been successful enough.
Musk is not accountable for Starlink. Starlink is an LLC, a limited liability company. There is no single person who is accountable for Starlink's satellites.
Because it's an American accomplishment?

For example here is Biden congratulating GM's Mary Barra as the leader and innovator of EVs after not inviting Tesla to an EV summit in 2021.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=UduPjk9gonw

Tesla produced about 200k EVs that quarter and GM produced just 26. Unions donate a lot so they have a lot of sway and control.
I think the whole problem is just terminology. For example take your comment. You start talking about unit tests and units, but then suddenly we're talking about components. Are they synonymous to units? Are they a higher level, or a lower level concept?

People have such varying ideas about what "unit" means. For some it's a function, for others it's a class, for others yet it's a package or module. So talking about "unit" and "unit test" without specifying your own definition of "unit" is pointless, because there will only be misunderstandings.
Fluid typography in design systems: from design to code
Not Tesla exactly, but Musk has gone all-in trying to get a man elected to be US President who consistently says climate change is a hoax, or words to that effect.
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They are only worse because they are bigger. If the private replacement organization gets as big, they get the same problems.
I think the Chinese already fill that role.

We all know why America (and the Chinese) want to go to Mars and it ain't for science.
That's true. I probably used brittle in the wrong sense there.

What I mean is that after any code change that isn't a strict refactoring you will inevitably have to touch one or more unit tests. If you're adding new functionality, you need to test different code paths; if you change existing functionality, you need to update the related test(s); if you're fixing a bug, you need to add a unit test that reproduces it, and so on. All this means is that unit tests take the most effort to maintain, so I'm not sure why the article claims they have "high" maintainability, or that that's a good thing. In contrast, higher-level tests usually require less maintenance, assuming they're stable and not flaky, since you're not touching them as often.

> Very few tests I see are actually unit tests in the above sense, many people only write integration tests because the code under test is structured in inherently un- or difficult- to test ways.

Very true. I think the recent popularization of alternative guidelines like The Testing Trophy is precisely because developers are too lazy to properly structure their code to make pure unit testing possible, and see the work of maintaining unit tests as too much of a chore, so they make up arguments that there's no value in them. This couldn't be farther from the truth, and is IMO an irresponsible way to approach software development.
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The article is just correctly identifying that late 1800s french colonial technocrats were predominantly white males.

The article isn't really making a particular point about this, it's just a quick aside. What are you referring to when you say "here we go again"?
The foreground message is quite blunt

>> Here, Verne was a narrator of global integration. His heroes were compelled by a quest to resist
politics and oppose it: their triumphs relied on private sponsors, gentlemen’s clubs, scientific associations,
millionaires – not governments. They ventured afar in spite of government, not because
of it. Global order likewise rarely ever featured states, empires, or political actors. Private actors
were the chief benefactors, beneficiaries, and interlocutors.

But I found this article useful for the perspectives on 'worldmaking'. This helps to understand the elements in game dev (immersion) and speculative fiction (narrative transport) that make (or not) a successful game or book. Something that I find fascinating
Is Harvard that bad? I assumed they were prestige.
This would potentially let somebody create a "reverse" model, so I don't think that's a good idea.

Imagine an image generation model whose loss function is essentially "make this other model classify your image as CSAM."

I'm not entirely convinced whether it would create actual CSAM instead of adversarial examples, but we've seen other models of various kinds "reversed" in a similar vein, so I think there's quite a bit of risk there.
UEFI is required on (a subset of) ARM(64) hardware.

https://www.arm.com/architecture/system-architectures/system...
Thats why I said "for casual uses". Most people probably don't lookup plants often enough, with that level of specificity required, to justify $100 a year for an app that does just that - the built in one also works for animals and food.

When I've used the built in lookup it also shows me other examples of the species it identifies the plant as.
There is a non-verbal me. E.g. who moves my limbs, feels the feelings (hunger, happiness, ..), and sometimes helps my verbal me to think (in math or in chess the answer just appears for the verbal me), or in sudden situations it takes over, and it makes decisions very fast.

Since it controls my limbs, I consider it to be the real me. My inner monologue is a bit frustrated that it can't control my limbs, and it can't really communicate with whoever controls my limbs.

Then there is my inner monologue, which does my thinking almost always, in an auditory way: imagine the sound of spoken words in an ~5 sec long duration, and let the answer appear. I consider it as an auditory deducing thingy, and also an intelligence on its own.

I am mostly fine with this, tho I am curious about my non-verbal me, and I wish I'd know more about it.
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Heroin isn't harvested from poppies, opium is. A lot of the problems of the heroin trade could be solved by letting people grow and smoke their own poppies, like they did for thousands of years before prohibition. A similar thing could be said for cocaine and the coca leaf.
Yes, it's only a profit thing. If you cut out the humans you can make more money. If not for your boss then for the company that gets the contract to make the automation.
Show HN: I made AI story generator so I could learn how to say fish in polish
That sounds like the justice system living up to its ideals. If the 12 jurors know they would have done the same in your situation, as would their family and friends, then they can't in good conscience convict you for negligence.
The claim in the title is indeed obvious.

Also the title is editoralized for no reason. It makes searching, recognizing, citing etc waaay harder, and full of errors. I'll flag it.
I don't see how it is related is relevant to this discussion. Is there a specific point you would like to make?

> probably every .NET dev has an EF/LINQ performance related horror story (the generated queries are ridiculous)

> There have definitely been improvements, but in my opinion, they have just been kind of slow.

> much of C#'s lag is owed to Microsoft's contribution to .NET being mostly technical debt. Almost everything good that came out of .NET came from open source/non MS teams (like Mono).

Do you actively use .NET (any modern target in the last, say, 3-4 years or so)?
Yeah, that's why session beers don't exist and everyone only drinks everclear nowadays.

/s
What I mean is, what are the students' attitudes in life? What do they want to do? What don't they want to do?
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On platforms like macOS that don’t have UDP packet pacing you more or less have to.
> It’s your car, so ultimately the liability is yours

No, that's not how it works. The driver and the driver's insurer are on the hook when something bad happens. The owner is not, except when the owner is also the one driving, or if the owner has been negligent with maintenance, and the crash was caused by mechanical failure related to that negligence.

If someone else is driving my car and I'm a passenger, and they hurt someone with it, the driver is liable, not me. If that "someone else" is a piece of software, and that piece of software has been licensed/certified/whatever to drive a car, why should I be liable for its failures? That piece of software needs to be insured, certainly. It doesn't matter if I'm required to insure it, or if the manufacturer is required to insure it.

Tesla FSD doesn't fit into this scenario because it's not the driver. You are still the driver when you engage FSD, because despite its name, FSD is not capable of filling that role.
Earlier threads:

- [2023] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35283067 (24 comments)

- [2022] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31069163 (127 comments)

- [2018] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16299583 (46 comments)

- [2011] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2691752 (45 comments)
Super interesting concept, because these complaints tend to end up at the bottom of top management backlog due to amount of time and attention required to analyse these. In real life it just does not work unless your org is in the low hundreds of customers.

This could change if technology could solve aggregation and analysis problem, making ready-made decision propositions to management. High risk of this mechanism just becoming another accountability sink, though.

Another solution is to build large organisations out of federated micro-orgs, where such intristic responsibility is feasible.
Speed of light in fiber is about 200 000km/s. Most of the latency is because of distance, modern routers have a forwarding latency of tens of microseconds, some switches can start sending out a packet before fully receiving it.
There’s plenty like it, but you won’t find it if you’re looking only for body shops. Of course, startups have similar problems of their own and you have to put some work into finding the right team and right product niche for you (e.g for me, sales and ad tech aren’t my thing).

I’d call it product engineering over agency work. Keep an eye out for positions in your typical SaaS setup, as well as financial institutions - not glamorous but better than being an arse on a seat.

Can’t speak for outside of Europe and UK though.
Thanks for the response! Very interesting. Unfortunately the USA is a tumor on this planet. Born and Raised, this place is fucked and slowly fucking the whole world.
For me a central message that comes out really well is that Kubrick created flat screen computer graphics by back projecting manually prepared films onto the screens. In other words, although the space parts of 2001 were full of computer screens, none of these were actual computer output.

Admittedly this is a bit buried in the discussion about the scratches but it was fascinating nevertheless.
Yes, in principle nothing has changed since at least Fordian times - back then we had factory workers on one side and owners, managers and engineers on the other side, with the intermediate role perhaps being the foreman or something similar.

I still think there is some difference in kind, not just degree: A human operational exec at least has to engage with the workers personally, witness the conditions they are working in, is exposed to complaints, etc. Even the most uncaring foreman is therefore forced into a position where he is subjected to accountability. He also has personal contact with the upper layer and can pass on that accountability to his higher-ups.

In contrast, a software layer is physically unable to hear complaints and to pass them back up the chain. Because it's not a human, it cannot take accountability itself - however, it can still give higher-ups plausible deniability about "not having known" about problems.
(A knock-on effect is also that it will prevent workers from even attempting to communicate the problem, because no one wants to talk to a wall)

Therefore it creates an accountability sink where there was none in the old structure.

(None in theory at least, of course there were enough other ways to be shielded from accountability even before computers)
The role of epistemic superiority structures a persistent division throughout the Voyages between the white male scientist (in the singular) and ignorant natives (in the plural)’

The addition of completely unnecessary (to the comparison) "male" really paints this as flag waving.
I agree with you at some point.
Hi there.
First time HN post.

I'm a solopreneur and I learn polish. I'm a big fan of the natural acquisition method, and when I went fishing with my boyfriends family I needed to learn fishing vocab as quick as possible.

I was using a really janky set up of using chat-gpt, a few browser extensions which was a night mare to use, for make comprehensible stories for learning polish.

Taletutor is the polished version of that. It has pronunciation examples plus any story you can generate you can use text-to-speech to make an audio file version.

Ideally I want to not be translating words on the app and staying in target language (using imagery instead) but for now, it works a lot better then my previous set up. Feedback is welcome

Mercedes :))
I guess it's more that knowing only vanilla HTML/CSS/JS transfers really well to Svelte than the other way around.
Thanks! I plan to do a better pass over all cities with a new update to the site.
The litimus test would be if you read in the news that Amazon, Microsoft, Google or Meta just bought billions in GPUs from AMD.

They are and have been buying AMD CPUs for a while now, which says something about AMD and Intel.