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> tell people how to build a nuke

I understand that this is probably a sarcasm but I couldn't resist to comment.

It is not difficult to know how to build a nuclear bomb in principle. Most of nuclear physicists in their early career would know the theory behind and what is needed to do that. The problem would be acquiring the fission materials. And producing them yourself would need state sponsored infrastructure (and then the whole world would know for sure). It would take hundred of engineers/scientists and a lot of effort to build nuclear reactor and chemical factories and the supporting infrastructure. Then the design of bomb delivery.

So an AI telling you that is no different from having a couple of lunches with a nuclear physicist telling you this information. Then you will say wow that's interesting and then move on with your life.
Thank you! Right now, the focus is entirely on building a fair and vibrant community around the platform. Monetization isn’t a priority at this stage. That said, if the platform grows and requires funding to sustain, I would explore options.
Why do people by a Switch? Mario (Kart), Zelda, and Pokémon.

Those three franchises represent a huge percent of sales. 70%?
This doesn't seem to stem out of an innovation cycle, so the biggest advantage for consumers is (IMHO) that prices of the current generation will drop.
They caused their own disaster with the Microsoft marriage. Nokia was still huge, market share and coffer wise, and had plenty of options, but killed them all for MS.
You're probably right.

https://imgur.com/9OBN31C

At first I thought it was a dimpled magnet. Now it looks more like a lens covering a projector and another covering the receiver.
Lots of people are. The answer appears to be “down the drain”.
I should be able to chat with an llm about this paper, but my gut says you've given me the glimmer of where I need to go. This is something I've been deeply deeply frustrated about for 30 years now, I had really given up hope of ever being able to process mathematics (whatever they are) properly, it's a real task to figure out how to get someone to see how your brain work and then have them understand how to provide you with some framework to grasp what they know.

Once again I wanted to thank you for slowing down and taking the time to leave this thoughtful comment, if everyone took 5 minutes to try to understand what the other person is saying to see if they can help, the world would be a considerably better place. Thank you.
Yeah the pandemic was very enlightening, in a not so positive way.
Built to Remove Carbon – Science
Kinda tells us nothing, but I guess they got fed up with their supply chain leaking absolutely everything about the physical device before they could announce stuff.

I guess the direct will be interesting when they show some actually software and we can get a bit of a handle on what the device can actually do (although the MORE POWER type people are going to be disappointed, probably).
Congrats on the launch, and thanks for open-sourcing it! We recently gave it a go to browse third-party API docs and were surprised by the accuracy of the summaries! I'm curious, why do you think the actor model works better for LLMs?
I was a day one Android fan (got the Nexus One) but I'd actually debate what "in charge" means... to me it doesn't necessarily mean dominating market share. I think the iPhone defined the touch-based smartphone when it came out and continues to do so. These days Android has a much more cohesive concept (in the form of Material UI and so on) but in the early days it was just a hodgepodge mess of ideas, even if it dominated the market.
Why Software Developers Need to Build Their Personal Brand – InfoQ
They're maybe the same managers who love the RTO for the sake of RTO.
That's why I am partial to the Vanguard funds. If you look at VUG and VTI and VOO, the fees are on the order of ~0.03-0.04%.

I know that passively-managed ETFs aren't necessarily "optimal" (as your parent comment mentioned, there's a risk of them having a few duds there for legacy reasons), but I think the value that they provide come down to the fact that they're automatically rebalanced and diversified, and 0.04% seems like a pretty reasonable cut for them doing that for me.
The Switch was the first device where i saw how well the mobile + docked system worked and it was my favorite device until I got a Steam Deck. The Deck is killer IMO because it takes the same form factor of the Switch, gives you more power and no restrictions on games.
In Canada and the United States, the penalties for breach of contract are determined based on the actual damages caused. Penalty clauses are generally not enforceable. The courts would ignore your clause and award a dollar amount based on whatever actual damages that you can prove.

That said, I am not a lawyer and this may not be true in all jurisdictions.
Definitely, I watched the UK version shared somewhere else and thought the direct was 2 months earlier than it was!
I've got the old legacy edition - From memory I took it up to 97 and then panicked and moved things away so email wouldn't bounce. Will try again and leave it a little longer this time. Cheers!
I’m in favor of the ban, but the 1990s privacy nerds had a good point when they said it would lead to other kinds of censorship: https://www.standingforfreedom.com/2024/08/think-before-you-...

The slippery slope happened a lot faster than most people thought.
I'm a big bike lane design nerd: that bike lane design absolutely sucks, and in more ways than the author mentions. The person designing it didn't care.
Calling anything “cringe” is pretty self-referential. This slang just makes me imagine a bunch of genZ folk wincing nonstop with the heads in their phones. Must be exhausting.

As long as the internet has existed, we have been lampooning corporate keynotes. The gaming industry does this every cycle, trying to hype up incremental updates as if it’s the best thing to ever get released. See you again in a few years!
GoDaddy slapped for years of lax security and 'several major breaches'
I don't think developers wanted App Store, they wanted to build native apps. Has Apple just allowed them to ship their own .dmg files from their website, as they used to do in MacOS, they would be happy.

I can't tell for sure, but I would bet the app store concept was inspired from Cydia for jailbroken iPhones that used APT to download apps from a central software repository, which was already common in the Linux world at the time.

App Store as a central place to download apps was a really important concept for the iPhone ecosystem because it was a distribution and a marketing channel. Developers didn't asked for that and, for the better and the worst, we can give Apple some credit for building it that way.
I understand what you're saying but that argument I don't think should apply here. Having some kind of evidence to back up a drastic action like this is not something that should be argued for, it should be a given. I've asked at least 5 different times for people to point to anything material, and no one has come up with anything. I'm not saying there is no threat, I could be wrong and there could be a massive threat, but if there is one shouldn't we be able to point to something more than "it could happen" and being paranoid about it? I'm being asked to have faith in institutions/politicians that have a long, long, long proven track record of not having my best interests at heart and I can't accept that when they have clear conflicting interests / motives.
Thank you for the kind words and for reporting the bug. I agree that providing a simpler, cleaner alternative is essential, and I'm working hard to make it just that. Regarding the bug, I'm already looking into fixing it to ensure it doesn't happen again.
Me too, I was there.

For those who wish to deep dive into the mobile phone industry's history from the late 1990s and subsequent decades, I highly recommend industry analyst Tomi Ahonen's voluminous (I'm not kidding) blog from back then. I'm providing a link here about Nokia in particular:

https://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/nokia/

and especially his scathing take on the events of the Microsoft-Nokia timeframe, wherein as events transpired he frequently reframed his belief that Elop was the "Worst CEO In History".
Very interesting. Is it possible to imagine implementing an OS based on this ? I have been interested by lambda calculus for a while (implemented a lambda calculus interpreter in haskell) and was always wondering if people were working on "functional computers" and if it makes sense

Cheers,
Yeah, product websites have turned into pharmaceutical ads. "Ask your doctor about Blogprexa!"
Except for the drifting joycons problems. We had to replace many. Hope Switch2 fixes that drift.
Nuance inhibits abstractions and is not a virtue of good sociological theory [pdf]
I guess that's why they ask to move the speaker "close to the router" when setting up.

Honestly, if they had a checkbox saying "do not share my location with Sonos" it would have eased my anxiety. But they don't, they default everything to "we collect data".

Relying on an unread "privacy policy" as the pinky swear for protecting the data they force users to give up, is bad privacy. You can't even delete your own Sonos account, the "delete account" button doesn't actually perform that function.
this is survivorship bias. SpaceX made a choice, and it succeeded; but SpaceX also made a million other design choices. Reusability could well be sub-optimal.
In the recent conflict, as punishment for the (inexcusable and revolting) mass killing of Israelis by Hamas, Israel has killed vast numbers of innocent civilians -- 10s of thousands more than could possibly be justified by legitatimate military operations -- and has deliberately killed several journalists, destroyed healthcare infrastructure, and deliberately caused water and food shortages and mass civilian displacement. Its reputation is in tatters and will remain so for decades.
I've been using it for setting up infra and projects on GCP and its been great. I use cursor for coding, but that isnt as helpful responding outside the IDE on cloud config. I have no GCP experience and I was able to get to a working application very quickly with Gemini. The GCP docs are outdated, often conflicting, but the Gemini experience was excellent.
ULA is pretty remarkable for it's run of new rockets not blowing up. Looking at ESA, JAXA, RosCosmos, ISRO, etc too is how I'm setting the par. A history like the Ariane 5 is pretty typical where flights 1 and 14 failed.
Discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42601381

The largest hydroelectric dam in the world has been approved (newatlas.com)
Is Microsoft still preventing OEMs from installing Linux? Dell sells one, and I see a couple available on Amazon (not counting Chromebooks). I've assumed that you can't buy them at in-person stores because the demand is just way too low and the shops don't want people coming in to complain that something doesn't work the way they expected.
Yes please, RSS is the true federated Internet for content distribution.
This is a really bad take, it's not like this server is hacking clients which connect to it. It's providing perfectly valid HTTP responses that just happen to be slow and full of markov gibberish, any harm which comes of that is self inflicted by assuming that websites must provide valuable data as a matter of course.

If AI companies want to sue webmasters for that then by all means, they can waste their money and get laughed out of court.
The fact that they did J2ME multitasking on a feature phone better than Symbian S60 did multitasking of native apps, and did it before the iPhone got any form of multitasking at all always impressed me.
> why not broadcast transponder info

Do rockets broadcast ADS-B?

Trad terrestrial ADS-B: https://www.flightaware.com/adsb/

Space-based ADS-B: https://aireon.com/its-just-ads-b/
Great :). We use Junit5, and a mixture of @EnumSource, @MethodSource, and dynamic tests.

Or Pytest, or a short shell script, or Busted, or Jest, or Node's built in test runner, or a "--selftest" flag to a variant of the native executable.
Who even runs HTPCs these days?
The giant 2 is a bit obnoxious. Other than that everything looks good.

And for the love of God Nintendo you better be using hall effect joysticks for this one. Can't imagine the amount of e-waste they generated with the Switch joycons.
> People with not as much wealth are more reasonable

Oh, no. But they have less power and less influence, and are more likely to fly commercial when they come talk to a conference, so have lower emissions. Also, I'm talking more in general: we should absolutely not listen to billionaires, even those few who, unlike Musk, haven't yet gone completely insane.
How can you gift the man who has everything? How can you help the man who knows everything? We're mere mortals and can only bow our heads in the presence of our Overlord.
This post is angry detritus. I’m sorry someone upset you recently Grant, but seriously?

Billions of people care. And if you bother looking for them, you’ll find them. Most of the problems he describes result from complex systems being challenging and individuals having limited ability both to comprehend and influence them.

And no I don’t mean “this software module is complex” complex. I mean, “this social problem has hundreds of interacting incentives, changing any of them in isolation makes things worse, and it will take years and millions of dollars to change things, all while political winds of change are trying to blow down the consensus to tackle the problem.”
At least we know for sure that it's backwards compatible with the old Switch.
> your comment is so ignorant and dismissive of an entire profession that it's startling

It's unfortunately not at all startling, not on Hackernews. People here have the worst case of being good at one thing (usually software/systems/databases or similar) and assuming this means that they know more about everything else than everyone else, that I've ever seen in an online community.

I think it's called Neil Degrasse Tyson syndrome.
Even more frustrating is when you're specifically looking for a simple tool to do X, but the marketing material is so aspirational you can't even find out if they offer X, and finally when you figure out that they DO offer X, it turns out it's only X, and not world peace and an end to hunger like they promised.

You just want a single-sign-on thingamajig with 2FA, but the website is selling ultimate trustworthiness and compliance in an everchanging regulatory environment for dynamic and growing digital natives with federated AI. Hmm.
Well, the Enterprise-hypervisor market is certainly wide open right now, due to Broadcom turning the financial screws on VMware customers hard. There are, broadly, two categories of potentially-profitable VMware customers up for grabs:

-Large enterprises that previously purchased hardware-with-accompanying-VMware-licenses from OEMs like Dell-EMC: Broadcom refused to even honor pre-acquisition license keys from these sources, leaving many private data centers in the lurch, unless they paid a huge premium for a new Broadcom-originated annual subscription (whereas the original key was one-off)

-Service providers with an ongoing "small-percentage-of revenue per year, payable in arrears" agreement, that were suddenly forced into a "hard vCPU and vRAM limit" subscription, payable for at least 2 years upfront.

However, the magic word for both customer segments is "vMotion", i.e. live-migration of VMs across disparate storage. No OSS and/or commercial (including Hyper-V) solution is able to truly match what VMware could (and can, at the right price) do in that space...
Hopefully, one day they will turn large amounts of cheap energy into valuable chemical feed stock and fuels. When you think about it, aluminum producers are doing something similar.
Value share /= profit share

(and 4% /= majority, although I assume you were being poetic)
> If that's true what would be explanation of his gaming/streaming?

It's a PR stunt. He pays someone to play for him and level up his account. Then, he plays for a bit and it's painfully obvious that he's inexperienced.

He doesn't take criticism very well either. He recently removed a live streamers Twitter verification for pointing out his lack of skill. How's that for a "free speech" platform?

Elon is extremely partisan, insecure, and rich. That's it.
That sure is some naivety ya got there. But good luck on the move. Keep your friends and family close.
This might be the very reason they prefer to call you, to force you into rushed decisions. Because otherwise I can't imagine the reason for spending scheduling time and minutes (hours) of chitchat just to answer a couple of very basic and totally repeatable question.
What Trump 2.0 means for science: the likely winners and losers
I wish I could find the original article, it was a link from a link from the bibliography of Chip War.

I think it was things like how you couldn't initially purchase music, and had to sync to iTunes to do that. I think there was more.

I did find this article, on iPhone being basically just a battery:
https://mathiasmikkelsen.com/2011/05/blackberry-makers-thoug...
It’s how an extroverts brain works. Same reason extroverted CEO’s were pushing for return to office. Social pressure to get work done.
And the read/unread state of posts syncs, as well. Between MacOS, iPadOS and iOS.
"I Don't Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People"
NASA's Pandora Mission One Step Closer to Probing Alien Atmospheres
Illegal emulation is not a fair play here.

Nintendo's "moat" is their exclusive IP and single-screen multi-player party games, which other platforms have largely forsaken. Their competition is still mostly PlayStation and Xbox, too. (Steam Deck sales are a rounding error.) So portability is still an edge for now.

I do hope Steam Decks become more mainstream, though.
Jobs sticking to his guns here and breaking the shitware monopoly on pre-installed phones is probably a bigger part of the full story than the phone itself (as likely the black rectangle would be developed by someone eventually, phone carcinization).
The worst thing with their store was the 3rd party review and signing process. For a time you also had to pay (a lot more than $99) to receive a developer certificate.
Apologies for promoting my project again (did this in at least 2 other threads related to RSS), but I'm weirdly proud of it: I'm curating a list of human-written blogs on my blog reader/discovery/search engine called Minifeed: https://minifeed.net/blogs/

There's an OPML export available as well: https://minifeed.net/blogs/opml.xml
It always shocked me that for how bad the joycons were, the "Pro Controller" was one of the best controllers I've ever used. I don't know how they managed to nail one and get the other so wrong.
Indeed owning the filter algorithm is the killer functionality. There is a torrent of RSS feeds still out there (pun), but they are not usable in firehose form. For example KDE's Akregator is an otherwise capable desktop feed reader that can handle large feed collections but its filtering capabilities are zero. Abandonware quiterss used to have at least some basic functionality. This is an area where a community open source project could have huge impact.
At this point I'd be hard pressed to consider this over my Steam Deck. We will see the specs later but I doubt it will really compete processing-wise or screen-wise.

The openness (full arch desktop) of the Steam Deck is also awesome while having a great UI that you never have to leave if you don't want to.

EDIT: I mistakenly called it "fedora desktop", my bad
I don't think the number of games in the catalogue matters in this discussion? There are hundreds of Switch games that perform great, and I don't care because I will never play them.

When I play a game and there are frame drops, stuttering, lag, dropped inputs, etc., it reduces my fun just as much as if the game were poorly designed. Maybe that's not the case for you, maybe you don't care, but I do, so do others.

I don't think Nintendo should make a console that rivals the best machine money can buy. I do think they took too long to refresh the hardware in the Switch lineup and their customers are worse off for it.
>Yes you can do spaced repetion just as easily with any medium.

>Kids in school do spaced repetition by doing one thing on Monday then reading it again on Tuesday and perhaps briefly on Wednesday and writing a summary on Thursday.

No, you genuinely can't. Your example shows exactly why. First, your whole time horizon is bounded within a single week; second, reviewing the same thing every day for 4 days in a row is horribly inefficient, as anyone who actually went through that in school is apt to remember. Your example is also bound to a single week, which means the average topic will be remembered for a month at most afterwards - that's not a good long term learning outcome at all. That adds up to 16 years where you walk out with 99% of everything you did just forgotten, and that's just pointless.

For proper long term retention of anything, we need something that not only lasts longer than a week, but that can persist across grades. A SQLite database can do this. I have a lot less faith in any human-meditated lesson plans doing this.

>So long as schools don’t have that exact process how could it? How many parents would it be that followed a process like this with their kids?

I follow this process with my own family, but ideally one's teachers should take responsibility for teaching and making sure students continue to do their Anki reps. It's borderline negligent not to.

>Student-created flash cards aren’t a thing and wouldnt be or become a thing for the foreseeable future with or without e-books.

Counterexamples abound to this. You are speaking to one.

Many, many students happen upon the life-changing magic of the humble flashcard, even without the force multiplier of a spaced repetition system. In middle school my class was required to use them for the first month of a foreign language, where we were expected to learn about 25 new words per day. After that, they were optional.

Nearly everyone who did well in the class continued to create and use these flashcards, because they simply worked much better than any other technique. This was a pattern which persisted all the way through high school. Of those who didn't, one cannot say it was because they had no experience with it - they simply chose not to invest the extra time and energy the flashcards required. But if this technique is so efficient, and its results so robust, then we should consider that an egregious misallocation of school time itself! And don't get me started on what could be possible with software-based spaced repetition flashcards, which are easier to make and much easier to time correctly.

>[W]ith learning working the way it always did, which medium wins?

My experience still suggests ebooks win hands down. The benefits are obvious. The real problem here is not the technology, but the distractibility of the students. Disconnect the device from the Internet during study hours, or hire an IT admin capable of maintaining a proper whitelist - whatever, but solve the real problem. Don't go back to the horse and buggy because people are too addicted to joyrides in the Fiat.
The world is what it is today because 1% of people do care. Or more probably, 5% of people care for about 20% of their life.

Whatever you do today, through action or inaction, it will ripple through eternity with both intended and unintended consequence.
It is not enabled by default if we trust it. In fact, I am not even logged in to Google.
The difference is that if nothing is added seems (at least so understood it) the government says that. Not a third party.