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Soylent powder subscriptions delayed for three months
Just sharing emails I’ve received since I don’t see it announced elsewhere:

2024-11-27

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2024-12-19

Update on your Soylent Powder subscription

Hi there,

We wanted to send you an update regarding your Soylent Powder subscription. Unfortunately, the delay has been extended and we’re now expecting inventory to be available by the end of February.

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"The USA benefits..."

Who actually benefits?
Noticed a typo; should be キャメラマン.
CSS does support page change transitions now.
Ah. Good point. I only tried on a shorter video. Might have to concatenate batches of frames to get around that (much less elegant).
GM accused of 'extortion' over threat to tear down Detroit's tallest skyscraper
Honestly with out Google's money i think Mozilla is more likely then not to drop Firefox development in favor of ads and AI.
* Your reference is talking about websites. The web is much easier to implement accessibility for than native OSes.

* It's talking about intentionally low quality, minimal-effort ADA compliance. Do you believe most blind people (simple example, there are many types of disabilities) would prefer a version of a tool that has basic (but decent) screen reader support built into a GUI toolkit, to a hand-tuned app built specifically to address their needs?

* Trying to legislate something as subjective as "Full & Equal Enjoyment" is one of the most absurd things I've ever heard. I didn't realize the ADA regulations were that bad. By that definition, anyone with a disability can claim anything about a website that they don't like is preventing them from experiencing "Full & Equal Enjoyment".

* Them comparing websites using cheap ADA solutions to the civil rights movement is chef's kiss

> Also, as a developer, you choose a GUI toolkit to make your life easier. Having good accessibility support then is a point in favor of a toolkit, just as, say, having lots of good-looking controls is one.

I fully agree here. Accessibility is important and it's smart for toolkits to compete on such features. That's not what I'm pushing back against. I'm pushing back against the idea that responsibility for accessibility lies predominantly on GUI toolkit developers. There is nothing wrong with making a GUI toolkit that doesn't support accessibility. Accessibility support can be implemented/improved at multiple layers of the stack, but HN loves bringing this up because it's a meme with high virtue signalling value.
The mental model my kids have for work is that typing or even thinking is itself a finished product. For my generation that idea of a conscious action of saving your work on a computer made me think more about what I was doing and how I was doing it. But I am an old.
Looks very nice, I just watch a great YT video from the developer here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYWTw19_8r4
No current LLM could write a project like this, he's just factually listing the features he implemented.
Neat demo, but it runs pretty poorly on my 1650 Ti. It looks like the framerate is being displayed in the wrong unit, so I'm not sure exactly how fast it's rendering. Also glad to see a TAA toggle, when it's on, the ghosting artifacts are pretty atrocious.
SoCal it can also be replaced with dude/dudes
Stickdown Demake: From 3D to 2D and Better
Unsurprising. Although this is the first time I can recall reading a psychologist accept culpability for the field’s bad “science” over the last twenty years. Have any of the “anthropology of science” researchers published an explanation of that yet?
I don't know why this is happening. It's just ascii.
Came here to comment this as well! TiddlyWiki uses this as it's default storage format.
The phenomena is a mystery right now, unless you discount military and government statements. Ominous might not have been the most precise word for what I meant, more out of place yet unassuming.
I suspect there's not much depth to it. Weird capitalization is unusual in ordinary text, but common in e.g. ransom notes - as well as sarcastic Internet mockery, of a sort that might be employed by people who lean towards anarchism, shall we say. Training is still fundamentally about associating tokens with other tokens, and the people doing RLHF to "teach" ChatGPT that crime is bad, wouldn't have touched the associations made regarding those tokens.
>Yeah, but lots of diagnostic work is done by end users in the real world. Users rarely have good access to the developer team, if the team even still exists.

And hiding details prevents them from being able to know if error X is different from error Y, yes.

It's an unhandled error at that point. You do not know what is relevant, essentially by definition, because otherwise you would have handled it.

Display messages are almost completely unrelated to error handling, and have almost completely unrelated needs. If you decide to combine them, I'm pretty convinced that it's ALWAYS better to show ALL context somewhere, because otherwise troubleshooting frequently becomes impossible. It doesn't have to be a megabyte of stack trace info in a dialog box shown all the time, save it to a file and link to it or something.
> When there are no local producers or wealth left, what is there to circulate or trade?

If that were true, then sure it would be a problem. But I don't know of many communities in the US where there are literally no jobs, nothing being produced at all. Where economic activity is zero.

Some jobs go away and new ones arise. And remote work makes it easier than ever for jobs to move from cities to smaller areas.

Can you really show that Amazon has had a net effect of shifting wealth "out of smaller areas" and into richer ones? Especially when you consider the amount of money it saves people in smaller areas, which makes them more wealthy than they would be otherwise?
Actually, yes? There's a long formal process to go through in granting a waiver, but if a state does get one there are no further triggers or expiration within the waiver period. And there isn't any process to rescind it either afaik. As CARB writes:

>• No waiver has ever been revoked and the one previous denial was quickly reversed. There is no Clean Air Act process for revoking a waiver – which makes sense because governments and industry rely on waivers for years after they are granted to deliver clean vehicles and develop clean air plans. Even waiver denial is incredibly rare. The one time this occurred, in 2008, the U.S. EPA initially denied California’s waiver for GHG emission standards for 2009 and later model year light-duty motor vehicles. That denial was reversed when the U.S. EPA reconsidered it, and ultimately granted it.

>• Waivers do not expire; they are sometimes superseded by a new waiver approving more stringent standards.

Doesn't mean Trump administration won't try, but that in turn doesn't mean they will succeed and they don't have any clear (or even fuzzy) legal basis short of an act of Congress. Which of course itself isn't impossible but would also be non-trivial, the margins are razor tight and other things they want to do and arguments they have made would cut against it.
There's a Yale study[0], but no publications that match this claim. It seems to rely on second hand reports of a phone call, which is a little shaky until there's someone on the record or publication.

[0]: https://medicine.yale.edu/ycci/listen-study/
> International students percentage is about 6% of total high education population

It's much much higher in Postgraduate because it's a way to stay in the country without being employed
I find the most interesting possibility:
- life finds a way
- life gets too smart
- life kills itself
- life finds a way
Don’t forget ELMO. The bi-lstm.
This is the same experience a friend of mine had working for Walmart for a couple years, until they moved earlier this year. I suspect each location is going to vary, though, just like any chain store.
Million GPU clusters, gigawatts of power – the scale of AI defies logic
I have been developing Java for a long time and my brain tends to stay stuck in Java 8 mode a lot of the time.
I imagine the best case outcome would look something like Jack Gallant's 2011 work on visual mind reading, where they trained a model on brain activity watching hundreds of hours of YouTube and then attempted to reconstruct a view of video not in the training set by correlating the new brain activity with frames from the input... Sorry I'm not explaining very clearly but there's a YouTube video of the result naturally :)

https://youtu.be/nsjDnYxJ0bo

Learned about this from Mary Lou Jepsens 2013 TED talk, what a throwback

https://www.ted.com/talks/mary_lou_jepsen_could_future_devic...
No, there’s no way to keep a devkit like that under wraps.

This is a 5-10 year strategy, not a 1-2 year one.
I find myself falling into this line of thought a lot: why should we make tradeoffs that favor the earth instead of hyper-accelerating progress to get off of it in preparation for its inevitable demise?

But isn’t the entire universe also going to meet its end as well, in an anticlimactic heat death? To overcome that, a civilization would have to reach universe-level Kardashev-like energy utilization capability, which would necessarily consume every particle in the universe, including themselves. It seems infeasible and unwise.

Maybe it would lead to the next big bang… but that still is a death and rebirth.

I think ultimately folks that support post-earth transhumanism operate on a notion that they themselves or their direct descendants that they will know and love in their own lifetimes will benefit from this space-colonial survivalist utopia. But IMO the reality is that if it is even possible, it would only happen long, long after they and everyone they could know or imagine are dead. It would likelier be accomplished by a society and civilization that they would hate and believe should be exterminated, due to the tradeoffs that would have to be made to accomplish it.

It’s essentially an individual’s desire to live forever and avoid death, projected onto the human race. I’m not convinced it would actually be nice to live forever. Better to focus on how to make the short time we have be as good as possible. IMO the idea of eternal life leads to all sorts of perversions of the now in exchange for an assumed eternal afterward.
$_ is not just a kid's toy.

Let's say I'm talking to a human programmer. I say, "Read in a line of text. If it ends in a newline, remove the newline." Cool.

But when I talk to a computer, I can't talk that way. It says, "If what ends in a newline?" It doesn't understand "it".

Except in Perl. In Perl, $_ is "it". It's what we're talking about if I don't specify something specific. It's where the line of text gets read into if I don't specify a destination. It's where the newline gets removed from if I don't specify a variable. It lets me ignore specifics when I don't care about those specifics. It makes Perl much closer to how we talk to each other instead of how we talk to computers.
> There are two things to remember: one is that “juice jacking” is an urban legend hyped up by gullible police departments since the 2000s which just doesn’t happen in real life.

Its kind of like the magic aura-of-intoxication of fentanyl, only juice jacking is a technically possible and demonstrated capability that approximately never happens in the wild, while magic fentanyl actually is sheer fantasy. But both propagate as ideas by the same mechanism.
woah! i couldn't agree more. i built my own router for React because i was exhausted by having every link be some overly heavy abstraction around... a few characters of text. KISS is key for me.
No results for wizzwizz4 "GPT", although it does look like search results may be incomplete: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
> In humans, language arises from high-order thought, rather than the reverse.

What makes you say that? What does high-order thought even mean without language?
"Y'all" is a highly intelligent contribution to the English language, which underscores the folly of having deprecated "thou". English has plurals engrained in its DNA; it resists changes that make it a plural-free language.

Only a few words lack plural expression, like the words fish and sheep, or words that are inherently plural like pants, scissors or people.

Since thou has become severely archaic, invoked only in religious contexts or ironic contexts parodying religious speech, you has become a plural-free word like fish.

And that don't sit well with them Texans and other such folk.
That manner of social formality set sail a good 25 years ago my friend. On one hand I find it a shame, it was useful, on the other, it was also often misused (still exists in Korea where I now live, and it's abused like crazy here).
Humans can consent.
I feel that the Luigi Mangione case is making more people aware of this type of dynamic.
Photoshop doesn't claim to be open source like llama does though, I'm not sure of the connection you're making.

Don't get me wrong, llama is at least more open than OpenAI and that may be meaningful.
I love perl. I work with it every day still, 25 years later. I recently rewrote a cellular provisioning API in it to be fully object oriented.

I do not write it to win an obfuscation contest. I like it to be read as easily as possible. It is a joy to watch the core objects of the system work together so cleanly.
I hear you. I was that person once. I was able to overcome this with deliberate practice. When I was doing that, ~20 years ago, this problem was far less understood. But these days, there are many more resources to help you. Best wishes!
Two-inch long 'murder hornets' eradicated from US, agriculture department says
Isn't Amazon getting to the point where they're having trouble finding employee candidates they haven't previously fired?
> people still plant trees knowing they will not live to sit under their shade

Stuff like this really gives me faith in humanity amidst the insanity I see in the news.

I've been watching a "volunteer" oak sapling grow for the last few years and I'm trying to work around it so I don't have to cut it down. I may very well be dead before it provides appreciable shade, but it's nice knowing that it's there.

On the other hand, when my now 14-year-old was three, he stuck a cast-off bit of a branch (I think it's a basswood?) into the ground outside the house and declared it as his tree and watered it faithfully for a few days before losing interest. That "branch" now towers over the house and shades a room that used to get pretty hot in the afternoon. If I had any idea that it would actually take root and grow, I'd have moved it farther away from the house.

I like trees. I've planted a few using the County's native sapling program and it's been nice watching them grow over the last 15 years.
I hunted down someone who was known for their bitter critique of the industry I was in at the time (because I could tell the critique came from the frustrations of someone who was very technically skilled), convinced them to join my team and they've been one of my best hires to date.

This individual was a great contributor and long outlasted my tenure at the company (so it's not just my bias), only to eventually move on to even better roles.

Frankly, if you work in tech and haven't been bitter about some nonsense in this field, I suspect you must not be particularly engaged or passionate about the area you work in.
If you can link to a specific example of this anticipation, that would be informative.

I don't care about use of the term "alignment" but I do think what's happening here is more specific and interesting than "unintended melodrama." Have you read any of the paper?
Two differences:

- both participants want this type of relationship

- and the main one, the status of the relationship is clear
> You can even encode data as a side channel on the power lines themselves.

USB-C PD standard basically does this (well, on a side channel compared to the main data lines, at any rate.)

> But that would be more expensive and since the separate data lines were already there few designers thought to prioritise security over simplicity and cost.

Pretty sure that the reason the pre-USB-C quick charging non-standard implementations that used existing data lines didn’t do so because it was cheaper to build but because it was more useful for users to not have to have special, incompatible cables for charging.
> $20/hr still isn't much money and you can only survive, note I'm not saying thrive here, on that amount in the poor areas in America.

That's enough to thrive in lots of places in the USA, in some cases. Maybe not the most desirable places, though.
I'm not sure this is a good analogy. In this case the user explicitly requested such content ("Describe someone being drawn and quartered in graphic detail"). It's not at all the same as showing the same to someone who didn't ask for it.
That's a valid point.

We need to better language to describe the new breed of postmodern terror-driven autocrats like Putin, and post-truth / antidemocratic Western leaders like Trump.

But at the end of the day, it's academic. The real question is, what to do about them.
Just wanted to say that I really like the style/design of your change log timeline. :)
what a horribly misnamed product then
This is a classic is-ought situation. Seems easier to improve the process and ethics of killing animals for consumption rather than reducing meat consumption at a society level.

People don’t change their ways very easily. I know I have to fight rolling my eyes whenever someone suggests the the solution is simple: eat less meat.
The New Glenn rocket's seven powerful engines may light up as soon as today
Exactly, a key should never be in the same place twice in a row- that's just wasted movement that could be better optimized. Letters the computer predicts you probably won't use should automatically disappear, and be replaced with numerous copies of others based on the things it thinks you will type.

We should extend this concept of constant automatic optimization to all aspects of everyday life- for example your workplace location should physically relocate each day to an optimal location based on where each person coming in that day lives. An algorithm should tell you where to put away the dishes in your kitchen based on a constantly changing optimization algorithm, so that your dinner plates are in a different cabinet each day. Language itself should be radically redesigned daily to keep it optimal, with changelogs pushed out to be learned and memorized each morning before communicating with anyone.
Typical HN passive aggressiveness sandwich. Nitpicking criticism with a half meant closing praise.

Cool comment, though — don’t mean to take away anything from it.

And Merry Christmas!
I thought the primary value of Kanban was about collaboration.

What is the purpose of a 1-person kanban?

How do you collaborate with local storage?
Celebrating Flutter's "Production Era"
Samsung at some point a few years ago added the ability to cap charging below the maximum (was 85% until an update this year dropped it to 80%). Settings, Battery, Battery Protection. I believe this roughly corresponded to their extension of providing OS or security updates for 5 years.

iPhones have this capability as demonstrated by their "Optimized battery charging" that caps at 80% overnight "then finishes charging before you normally pick up your phone" or some crap like that, BUT they only let you set an actual cap on the charge level on the 16 (and 15?) even though older models should have the same capability. Yes, this picture you can't see is me flipping Apple the bird while holding my 14 Pro that's down to 87% of original capacity because I can't cap the charge.
Yes, declaring a SoE opens up avenues for financial aid and allows the governor to direct state resources.

This is probably because H5N1 was detected in dairy cows in Southern California.
Intel Core Ultra 9 285K "Arrow Lake" Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance
Seek out opportunities to suffer, or allow them find you. A night guard is also helpful if the stress causes you to grind your teeth while you sleep to where you might lose them otherwise. Live life, that's the program. When the suffering happens, that is your opportunity to put what you've learned into practice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTgv4iPgQ2o

> "You learn how to suffer. If you know how to suffer, you suffer much, much less. And then you know how to make good use of suffering to create joy and happiness. The art of happiness and the art of suffering always go together." -- Thich Nhat Hanh

I will try to write something more substantive for your inquiry.
Given that Meta pays so well, why are they so dependent on H1B?

Or google? In 2023 they had a net elimination of 6576 US jobs, but added 5479 H1B.

This isn't a simple market issue, these companies are abusing worker visas to replace Americans from their own companies.
> I am not aware of any libertarian

I think you've read things a bit too hastily. I never said my example of inconsistent views came specifically or only from libertarians. (Or even the much larger group of people self-identifying that way.) The larger political group of "free-market cheerleaders" would be sufficient.

> [To #1] argument for free market isn't that all information is available.

That's not what I said. The selling-point is economic efficiency. Perfect-information is typically a required precondition within the models.

My complaint involves people who strut around boasting that they'll help usher in the conclusion while actually picking policies that sabotage the original requirement.

> [To #2] argument against cartels forming definitely isn't that secret contracts are necessary to defeat them.

"An effective-enough consideration that I can dismiss your worries about cartels as foolish" != "Absolutely necessary to end cartels"
Unfortunately, Moravec's paradox has you jammed up. So for now, negotiate they must.