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There is way too much incoherence and righteous indignation in this comment for it to be the top thread here.

> "full ownership" - of what?

By a reasonable and charitable reading: full ownership over your legally-obtained copy of the material that folks (the creators/rightsholders themselves) are publishing for gratis online for anyone to watch, and likely some non-gratis stuff that you are paying these creators for if you are a subscriber and decide to enter your account details into the app.

This whole app looks to be a video player that works like an alternative frontend to the official players by e.g. YouTube, Twitch, and so on, in the vein of "unity of interface"[1] and a continuation of the spirit of the Miro player (see also: virtually every podcast app in existence).

You seem, bizarrely, to be responding to it like a new KaZaA or Popcorn Time or other torrent-backed something-or-other.

1. <https://www-archive.mozilla.org/unity-of-interface>
>Those guys know exactly what their systems are missing

If they did not actually, would they (and you) necessarily be able to know?

Many people claim the ability to prove a negative, but no one will post their method.
The primary reason to legalize isn’t to make it easier to do drugs, it’s to not use the justice and court system for dealing with addiction problems.

Our goal should be to legalize use and then take the money saved from police enforcement and funnel that into programs that get people off drugs. In the US an issue is that the latter part is part of the healthcare system, and we all know that has a lot of issues in serving people who fall into the under-employed category.
Things unexpectedly named after people: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23888725
The point, I think, was that "safety" presumptions about Rust are often exaggerated or poorly misunderstood due to hype. That could certainly lead to problems
My point was to caution against being too confident about the underlying architecture, not to argue for any particular alternative.

Your statement is false - things changed a lot between gpt4 and o1 under the hood, but notably not a larger model size. In fact the model size of o1 is smaller than gpt4 by several orders of magnitude! Improvements are being made in other ways.
Why don't you leave your mail on your own server? I self-host (on the server-under-the-stairs here on the farm) as well and always leave mail on the server so I can access it from any client anywhere in the world. Assuming you're actually self-hosting as in 'running your own services on your own hardware at your own location' pulling it from the server doesn't make sense since you're just moving data from one of your drives to another. If you're 'self-hosting' on a VPS I can see why you'd do that but I don't consider this to be 'total' self-hosting since you're using hardware outside of your own control.
I have about 11 years archived as annual maildir tarballs. I archive using thunderbird and export them when I remember to. I don't know why I bother, I almost never need anything from them.
I would be okay if Spotify were forced to add a clear tag to every song that was published by themselves.

I would bet that it would make zero difference in the amount of plays those tracks got.
> I have no opinion ... I don't know enough to form an opinion.

Why speak in hypotheticals supporting some phantom opinion? Concern trolling is even worse.
> Apple can’t identify devices sending data to find my, and doesn’t log requests.

So what you're saying is that a decent firewall could still inspect the traffic, or the patterns thereof.

Also, this doesn't make any sense, as if Apple doesn't know which AirTag belongs to who, Find My would be very useless; and law enforcement would be furious.
Eventually the controller will die and eventually compatible ones will no longer be produced or will at least be inconvenient to obtain or commission and hence expensive.

Paper lasts for centuries without any attention beyond keeping it moderately dry and away from things that eat it.
I was in Taiwan in March just waving my iPhone around with no regard for my own safety like the dimwitted American I am. I guess China doesn’t really concern me - after all, I’m only a grocery store produce stocker.
It's a "green m&ms" thing. If the developers can't be bothered to adhere to something as basic as XDG, they're getting a ton of other things wrong, and my life is too short to spend on buggy slop.
It still was long afterward, with all remaining human computers being called accountants. These days, they appear to just punch numbers into a digital computer, so perhaps even the last bastion of human computing has fallen.
Not to be confused with Moonscript, which is a cool language that compiles to Lua:
https://moonscript.org
Because they are rare
Grayjay allows you to view member (pay only) content if you log in with an account that has access. That allows creators to monetize their content.

I'm glad Grayjay includes an adblocker, I wouldn't use it otherwise.
Ads range from a (necessary, in a capitalist society) nuisance to a scourge, and people justly put up increasingly thick boundaries to shield themselves from their influence. When waning cultural relevance or whatever dilutes that influence, you can more easily see the ads for what they are— often manipulative marketing tactics implemented through often genuinely beautiful art and design. Both aspects are fascinating to consider and the art can be quite enjoyable. Early modernist posters from Paris are beautiful. Watching collections of mid century television ads in the prelinger archives is fun, and tells us a lot about the ways we are influenced by modern ads speaking to current perspectives, fashions, and concerns.
As Tesla is to Tesla
Where there's a will, there's a way. Apple is very clear law enforcement can approach them with any AirTag and they will immediately be able to tie it to a user.
Oh, I see it now. Thanks!
Seeing people in this thread say that they delete all their emails is super weird. I'd like to know their job titles, ages, etc. Do they not use email to converse with their lawyers, business associates, etc.?
Imagine hearing someone's loved one dying to drug use and asking them, "But isn't this a false correlation?". What a deeply and unsettlingly cold question that lacks any potential for empathy.
This is actually one of the big differences between generations. It’s not just the norm for young people to share locations, but rather almost expected, with real social consequences for not. Yes it’s probably a little weird to have someone’s precise location 100% of the time, but since you’re sharing it with me there’s a good deal of trust implied (though this is not always the case as it has become more normalized). However, if we stop sharing locations, that usually implies a divorce of the relationship. People will shut you out of their life if you stop sharing your location with them, no matter the reason. From that lens, the choice is simple. You’ve gotta share your location, even if it’s a bit icky from a privacy perspective or you risk losing an entire cohort of friends. I will admit, there is a strange level of intimacy for having done it. In a world increasingly dominated by the pixels on this 4x8 screen, it is a nice reminder that the text bubbles on my phone actually come from real people that I can show you on a map.

(Obviously you can find friends who don’t care for it and you can live a normal life and be just fine. I’m privacy conscious but I still share my location with a handful of friends for the above reasons.)
Please do show me a novel result in physics from any LLM. You think "this guy" is stupid because he doesn't extrapolate from this $2MM test that nearly reproduces the work of a STEM graduate to a super intelligence that has already solved physics. Maybe you've got it backwards.
That's a consequence of growth they should have thought of and a basic part of running any business.

At least in the US Attorneys General are being forced to do this work for them. It's essentially the only way to get a hacked Facebook/Instagram account recovered.

https://www.engadget.com/41-state-attorneys-general-tell-met...
A selection 74 items over a 10 year period is a different proposal compared to e.g. keeping two tons of ad fliers from November 17th 1907 (and every other thing, every other day, all the time).
OT: earlier this year I wrote a short fictional story about SEO….

https://github.com/jaronilan/stories/blob/main/Duplicitous.p...
Incredibly impressive. Still can't really shake the feeling that this is o3 gaming the system more than it is actually being able to reason. If the reasoning capabilities are there, there should be no reason why it achieves 90% on one version and 30% on the next. If a human maintains the same performance across the two versions, an AI with reason should too.
Bot detection is no longer working – and just wait until AI agents come along
It's not worth a fight, but I can confirm I've only seen "ya'll" written by non-southern or Appalachian residents. I'm not saying it doesn't happen or shouldn't happen, but it would make me wonder about whether someone has adopted the word as a choice vs. it being just a word in their normal vocabulary.
> "...someone who does but is not equipped to achieve the task at hand."

"Fake it until you make it" is the war cry of the newly graduated. Who are we talking about here?

If someone is faking it, and not making it, then there will be negative outcomes causing the company or customers/clients money. And lost money (or time) does have consequences.

> "I'm not in a management position, I can't 'just fire them'."

It's times like this when you need to be clear about what your role is. What are your tasks and objectives? Don't let others distract you from what you need to do. If your work is effected leading you to negative outcomes then you are obligated to inform your manager. It's their job to make the hard decisions and support you.

Then it's just a matter of keeping at your work and waiting until those negative outcomes do their work. Either the incompetent co-workers will be let go, or you will discover your manager is not supportive of your needs and you should consider leaving for a better company or group (if your company is large enough).

Sometimes those negative outcomes don't ever materialize and then you realize it's just your misperceptions.

Otherwise, this is it. You've made the big time. All that negative crap is _part_ of the job at the nexus of your own skill, experience, company, economy, etc. You have a J-O-B that someone gives you money for. Keep at it. Go home. Rinse. Repeat.
Im old enough to remember when Prof. Ian Fells [1] discussed most of these problems in the early 1980s in the UK. Our “time from problem identification to solution deployed” is absolutely abysmal in the UK.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Fells
I might have disabled this functionality many years ago. I don't really remember ever having this smart shuffle thing where Spotify would add their own suggestions to my playlist.

You see, I don't like Spotify. I don't trust any of those huge platforms, I expect them to actively work against my interests. I always disable or avoid anything they want to suggest me, and view it with suspicion, if now outright contempt.

More people should act the same way.
If China wanted to spy on your iPhone, they would have just installed an extra chip in it at the factory. If you don't daily-drive in lockdown mode, then I wouldn't bother using it in Taiwan either.
Unrelated, but since you seem to have experience here, how would you recommend getting into the bleeding edge of LLMs/Agents? Traditional SWE is obviously on it's way out, but I can't even tell where to start with this new tech and struggle to find ways to apply them to an actual project.
> I’ve seen kids not even 3-4 years old already hooked to smartphone screens. Even toddlers around 1 year old with an smartphone mount in their stroller.

Now imagine that they would not be engaging with silly YouTube videos, but with an AI trying to get them to interact with them in order to learn to speak, to learn about the world. Things which parents can't dedicate enough time to. Then also give the kids ideas for what to do with the parents, what to talk about, tease them about science and stuff they'd normally have no access to, because it is information mostly hidden in books or in an inaccessible format, like dedicated to students.

I do see a huge potential in this, call it cheaply a "nanny for the brain", to help develop it better and faster. There are certainly risks to it, but if it were well done, in a way in which we assume universities are "places well done", it could be better than just having the kids watching TV.
Honestly this is my plan. I'm waiting for my time in this career to run out. In the mean time I'm trying to aggressively save whatever way I can.

This industry is going to shrink. And that's ok. We had our time. I wish it was longer and I wish I made more, but I don't think I ever saw myself here forever.

Kudos to those who made a whole career off of this.

I'm in my mid 30s with a wife and kid and I'm mostly hoping I can complete my immigration to the US before my time in this career ends.

Then, I might pursue starting a business or going back to school with the savings and hopefully my wife can be employed at the time in her completely unrelated field and cover us until I can figure out what to do next.

I'm not sad about this. I am happy I have tried to live frugally enough to never buy my own hype or believe that my salary is sustainable forever.

A part of it for me is that I never really loved building software. I might have ADHD and that might be a big factor, but honestly it was never what excited me.

The biggest fallacy I see a lot of people buying into is that LLMs being good enough to replace software developers means they're AGI and the world has other problems. I never quite bought that. I think software developers think too highly of themselves.

But they're also not technically wrong. Ya, a LLM can basically replace a family doctor and most internal medicine physicians. But the path to that happening is long and arduous due to how society has setup medics. Software devs never fought hard enough for their profession to be protected. So we are just the easiest target, same thing that happened to a lot of traders before.

If you're mid career like me, just get ready for the idea that your career is probably much shorter than you thought it will be and you will need to retrain. It will suck but many others have done it.
> Google and Apple happen to have devices that most people use, but if you want to you can buy USB adapters to use on a laptop, or some laptops have built-in mobile data.

But if you want a smartphone like most people these days, you’re out of luck.

Things are almost infinitely better on the network side, and I don’t miss operators dictating when I get a firmware update or which app store I can use. But now Apple does that, and Google isn’t a really great alternative either for other reasons.
The porn thing showed that the device could be harmful to the viewer. This adds another dimension of risk to the later scenes where the Walker character is experiencing the death tape.

The actor was Natalie Wood, and the event is shrouded in mystery about how she died. However, the character who dies in the movie is played by Louise Fletcher.
Of course they will. But that’s is programming. Nurturing, socializing, teaching… all of it is programming. I’m not placing any negative connotations on the word. I’m not sure why you don’t view those things as programming?
sorry, humans are stupid and what intelligence they have is largely impotent. if this wasnt the case life wouldnt be this dystopia. my crassness comes from not necessarily trying to pick on a particular group of humans, just disappointment in recognizing the efficacy of human intelligence and its ability to turn reality into a better reality (meh).

yeah i was just thinking how a lot of thoughts which i thought were my original thoughts really were made possible out of communal thoughts. like i can maybe have some original frontier thoughts that involve averages but thats only made possible because some other person invented the abstraction of averages then that was collectively disseminated to everyone in education, not to mention all the subconscious processes that are necessary for me to will certainly thoughts into existsnce. makes me reflect on how much cognition is really mine, vs (not mine) a inevitable product of a deterministic process and a product of other humans.
That is on a CPU. A GPU works differently, such that threads on a GPU implicitly vectorize loads and stores as part of their warp/block. My question had concerned GPUs, where you cannot vectorize instructions by loop unrolling since the instructions are already vector instructions.
> They seem very much like traumatized people, on a massive scale, just trying to survive.

Every few years I like to leave the world for a bit and do something else to reset a bit. For example I just finished walking 779km on the Camino in Spain.

What you said is essentially true for the vast majority of people in our modern world. What we have built is terrible for us, and we’re all suffering and very sick.
not the best solution tho sounds kinda loaded with too many things already
Sure but it takes two copilots to fly a plane
People only being willing to say they are unsure some of the time is still better than LLMs. I suppose, given that everything is outside of their area of expertise, it's very human of them.
Great point. I, was mistaken; the languages I've used are of the higher-level variety that don't have this feature (And C, which doesn't really have this feature; I don't think that pointers are nearly as nice).
That's still better than never being able to make an accurate confidence assessment. The fact that this is worse outside your expertise is a main reason why expertise is so valued in hiring decisions.
You look at that wierd bright thing going baaaaaam for millions of years nonstop and decide you would like to know some stuff about it? ;-)
We can take a good thing too far (and probably are at that point). ADHD is being overdiagnosed and medication is being overprescribed, especially in young men.
Archive.org or Google can cache more of the internet than I do while still having the majority of the content be ephemeral.

I'd also hazard to guess most people in this camp would want these companies to also not store these things the same as they don't want people to.
I didn't hear that but it could be. But it doesn't matter really because there's so much more to consider in the cost, R&D, including all the supporting functions of a model like censorship and data capture and so on.
I don't think you can speak authoritatively about Syd Barrett's life, or his mental health issues.

Those that can, do not agree that LSD was causative.

Syd was not the only person doing LSD in the 1960s, and if your argument boils down to "people with life-long major neurodivergence, who are living multiple years of extraordinarily stressful life, should not do huge amounts of psychedelic drugs" ... then OK! That's a good rule of thumb!

But the vast majority of people are not latent schizophrenics. And the vast majority of drug users could not approach Syd's consumption in quantity or duration.

So an argument from the same data is that occasional or even moderate use of LSD by almost every adult human, is perfectly safe.

...

Reframed: Every adult can make their own decisions about their personal level of risk tolerance. Hopefully the decision will be an informed one. Syd Barrett can be a huge terrifying red flag, or a bright illuminating green light, depending on the decisions you've made.

On one extreme of risk tolerance, you'd never leave the house. On the other extreme, (with some bad luck, some excellent luck, and a great deal of effort and resources!) you might approach Syd Barrett's lifestyle. Neither extreme is appropriate for most people.
No sane person uses hardware RAID in 2024, if that's what you're referring to.
I've added a follow-up note on the case of discrete stakes here: https://win-vector.com/2024/12/21/kelly-betting-with-discret... . It is known there is a dynamic programming strategy that guarantees a return of $8.08 on a $1 bet. Simple rounding of the Kelly strategy does not achieve this.
I won't snack or am hungry before 17:00, usually not before 20:00 except I do sports or something, then I may need a snack around 14:00.

If I do eat early my body takes hours to get to full energy again. It literally makes me tired.

My girlfriend doesn't work that way. And I have no idea why this works so well for me.
I don’t think that’s true? Tons of stuff from that era had been digitized, even before newer more relevant stuff and older rarer stuff, because the acid paper had a short shelf life and there were so many ads in printed stuff then. I might have a skewed perspective from working in the digitization world for quite some time. I think they’re selling what they sell with all their other content— discovery, curation, preparation, and easy delivery.
I thought that "The Particle Zoo: The Search for the Fundamental Nature of Reality" by Hesketh did an excellent job of explaining without dumbing down to the point of meaninglessness.
Ask HN: Devshops Websites for Inspiration
Hi HN. Anyone know good devshops websites? I remember seeing many here over the years but I didn't save the links. Smaller, indier the better.
It's both, I think, depending on the conventions around the thing being group-bought.

What you describe is unquestionably a group buy, but in, for example, the mechanical keyboards community, a "group buy" is paying the designer of a thing (keyboard, keycap set, etc.) for the expense of third-party production up front. It's really more of a preorder that requires a certain volume to proceed. But regardless, they're called group buys in that hobby.

(With expected mixed results, I should add -- plenty of keyboard "group buys" never come to fruition, and since they're not backed by a Kickstarter-like platform, the money is just gone. The /r/mechanicalkeyboards subreddit has many such stories.)
> a contrived way to excuse away getting the thing you simultaneously hate and crave

> just don't watch

Is your position a value judgement on the morality of not watching ads + technology that enables you to watch as few as possible? Or on the societal fixation to consume junk?

If the former, please elaborate on your position as it relates to VCRs and DVRs of the sort that are built-in to DirecTV receivers.
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I have tried doing this as well, but usually the edits get reversed within 48 hours by a power user of Wikipedia. I have given up. You have never encountered this or are you a power user yourself?
You could teach it to emit patterns that (through other code) invoke tools, and loop the results back to the LLM.
What does "x-platform" mean in this context?
Even steel plated armour succumbs to rust given the environment and time
Airtags are associated with your apple ID for safety, but when you make a request for the location from Find My it doesn’t include any information about which airtag you’re asking about; just a CSPRNG-incremented public key that changes every 15 minutes. The location data itself is not available to Apple.

Here is Apple’s docs on how they prevent themselves from inspecting traffic on Fmi:
https://support.apple.com/guide/security/find-my-security-se...
This addresses the main reason why I haven't bought an AirTag yet.