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At risk of being annoying, answers that feel like high quality human decision making are extremely pleasing and desirable. In the same way, image generators aren't generating six fingered hands because they think it's more pleasing, they're doing it because they're trying to please and not good enough yet.

I'm just most baffled by the "flashes of brilliance" combined with utter stupidity. I remember having a run with early GPT 4 (gpt-4-0314) where it did refactoring work that amazed me. In the past few days I asked a bunch of AIs about similar characters between a popular gacha mobile game and a popular TV show. OpenAI's models were terrible and hallucinated aggressively (4, 4o, 4.5, o3-mini, o3-mini-high), with the exception of o1. DeepSeek R1 only mildly hallucinated and gave bad answers. Gemini 2.5 was the only flagship model that did not hallucinate and gave some decent answers.

I probably should have used some type of grounding, but I honestly assumed the stuff I was asking about should have been in their training datasets.
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everyone else in the chat is responsible for not shutting it down
Except it's the same in literally all of these articles. Some relatively minor mistake is taken and blown up into some huge degree of maliciousness or unprecedented incompetence. People then 'social mediaize' it all by taking it at face value, and then getting each other even more riled up - exactly like a mob.

It's easy to see where this is coming from because each writer of these sort of articles likely had colleagues and/or friends who were intentionally terminated, and so they're writing with a tremendous chip on their shoulder. But they're doing a disservice to themselves because anybody who is not particularly upset by these changes is going to completely eyeroll each time another one of these articles appears, and those who are genuinely upset are increasingly living in a world detached from reality.

The end result is of course conflict and confrontation, which I suppose is the point. But I don't think this is something anybody would have ever wanted if we imagine how things might look in hindsight, before we get there.
I know this isn't the kind of reply people usually offer on HN, but I do want to say: you are indeed on a roll. I've thoroughly enjoyed this and your other comments, have read them several times, and noted the authors and titles you suggested, putting them high on my to-read list. The judgments you've offered in the thread have been refreshing, sharp, and just a delight to read. Thanks again for the write-ups!
Would it be legal for airlines to replace the video with a quiz, for those passengers who opt in? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43608141

I don't think the current video format is very good for retention. Putting it in the form of a quiz could help frequent travelers actually memorize the information over time, which could in turn save lives.

https://www.retrievalpractice.org/
Usually hitching a ride in cheap decorative houseplants that then go to the compost heap.
Yeah, how horrible it would be if people were allowed to decide what was fair or unfair in business based on flighty human emotions. The economy must be run by pure logic as ordained by our betters and the invisible and all-knowing hand of the market. It didn't feel right that a nonprofit could hand over power it promised to steward for the benefit of all to a for-profit company designed to extract value from it, but actually that's just good business and it's more important to let the richest people on Earth do whatever they want than listen to the silly plebeians who want to hold them to their word. If they were in the right surely they'd be the ones running the company valued at $300B.
Welcome to HN ;) Lots of nay-sayers that haven't build a thing ever. Keep at it and don't worry.
No, open source and free software are synonyms according to proponents of both terms, including Richard Stallman, the most prominent “free software” crusader. All (or at least virtually all) Free Software Foundation-approved licenses are also OSI-approved, and vice versa.

Your misconception is very common, but you, and other people with the same misconception, are conflating a few different things. Most of the people who prefer the term “free software” also prefer copyleft licenses to permissive licenses. Which is where the misunderstanding that “free software” means copyleft licenses and “open source” means permissive licenses comes from.
The foundational idea of AI is that people think with words. But it is false. People think with things and use words only to point to things. Thinking with words is not possible. It will always be a case of shizophasia.
It’s 100% what people voted for…
I think it’s important to remember how he got to where he is and what kind of person it takes - Behind the Bastards is a fairly good reality check for most people we give kudos to https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/part-one-the-ballad-of...
It’s how he acted…he just had helpers before. He done away with all those nuisances now.
Fairy certain the post you’re replying to was sarcasm.
Roughly 50% of the Americans don't own stocks.

They heard that stocks crashed but wouldn't care that some rich people lost some money.

Populism is only working now because the populace has been ignored for a long while.

They remember when they were told to "learn to code" when losing jobs.
We don't know! But we also can't feasibly test for something like that.
Makes me really think what is being sold. A significant discount in stock that continues paying dividends would be actually be reasonable. More return for same money.

But many stocks are more so collectibles... Value going up for sake of it...
I'm personally not even super bent out of shape about some licensing schemes that are technically not OSD-compliant being called "open source" (i.e. ones that have targeted field-of-endeavor restrictions). There's at least a debate to be had. But what this article includes in its definition -- source code tossed over the wall that you're not allowed to do anything with -- is not anywhere close to what anybody has been calling "open source" for decades.
> Exaggeration isn't helpful. Whatever "this" is, you can't possibly make an assessment of that kind until years after the fact.

I don't think you fully grasp the gravity of Trump's actions.

For the first time in its history, NATO is excluding the US from arms purchase programs. This takes place at a time where the EU is scrambling to prepare for a war with Russia, which is also caused by Trump's action of abandoning it's allies,

The Trump administration is also heavily invested in annexation rhetoric targeting multiple NATO members.

Then there's the whole tarrif absurdity.

These sequence of moronic steps individually represent world-changing events. They all took place in a couple of months into the Trump administration's takeover.

This goes well beyond the suspicion that Trump is a Russian stooge. This changes the way the world was structured after WW2. The fall of the soviet union might even have a smaller impact in world history.
Shell != Unix (philosophy) as I’m sure you are aware. The unix philosophy is having a shell and being able to replace it, not its particular idiosyncrasies at any moment in time.

This is like bashing Windows for the look of its buttons.
I would love a legitimate usb power strip. (that looked and functioned like a power strip)
I largely agree with your take here but it still seems to assume that government spending is wasteful. From what I can see government spending is actually pretty efficient and held to a very high standard of accountability.

On the other hand corporate America has a terrible track record. We have Boeing and GM who exist only because the government keeps bailing them out to prevent economic ruin. Look me in the eye and tell me Sears was an efficient operation.

How many of us look at our cloud spend and think to ourselves “I’m certain we haven’t wasted a penny.”

Look at all the VC money that was lit on fire to do food delivery and taxi dispatch. It works now but I can’t say that was financially efficient and it still isn’t affordable. DoorDash provides worse service for more money than a teenager with a used Corolla left to their own devices.

Waste is everywhere but I’m really not convinced the government is the worst or even particularly bad.
It being your favorite store implies you buy there a lot, which means you're already losing out so I don't get your reasoning.
Any definition I could pick would be more than none, which us what we have now.

An easy start is all billboards, everything ublock origin considers an ad, TV/radio/magazine ones.

All very unambiguous
You're conflating public sentiment and internet traffic. You're using the wrong metric to make your point.
> This is the whole reason why we should be using the term "free software" instead of "open source"

The definitions in my head go something like this:

Open Source -> Open (e.g. free and unencumbered) & Source available

Source Available -> Only source is available, restricted under some odious license presumably

Free Software -> You can download this (generally in binary form) and use it for free.
inb4 loophole to create a new company and transfer over all the non-profit's assets.. and keep the same name somehow.
I really don't see the issue with OpenAI becoming for-profit. They started as a research group with no intention of creating a marketable product, and stumbled onto one. I think it would make sense for them to become for-profit.
> When software is open-source, it is open-source, not necessarily free and open-source (FOSS), and even if it is FOSS, it might still have a restrictive licence. 2 The code being available in and of itself does not give you a right to take it, modify it, or redistribute it.

Hmmm, if the license doesn't allow modification and redistribution, then it's not open source — it's "source-available." Open source, by definition, includes those rights. Just having access to the code isn't enough.
OP: If your issue was with Laravel's bloated design, then could you please adress the PHPhant in the room as what's your stand with symphony?
That's exactly what happens when you muddy the waters by using an ambiguous term like "open source". People not understanding the original motive.
So... making everyone equal by making some poorer is not communism anymore?
He is talking about median. Median is as close as the definition of representative as you can get.
How’s this relevant? Everything he has done now: either he said it he will do it or at least it was in Project 2025 (and lets not pretend that nobody knew about it).
> I think we’re going to start seeing Republicans test the waters with breaking rank with Trump soon though.

Been hearing that weekly for 8 years. If everything before this didn't trigger significant action, I doubt this will.
Andoird has an airplane mode
Once enabled airplane mode you can enable Bluetooth again and airplane mode stays on,so just no mobile data an.same is true for WiFi.

NFC however isn't touched by the airplane mode

...At least it was like that on the android phones I owned
> "Buy the dip" is just code for "stay invested." Obviously most people aren't sitting on piles of cash.

Not really. It's literally a call to action to counter what the market is doing, in hopes that it can prevent and recover trends. They are literally telling others to buy when everyone around them is selling.
I've been casually watching Moderna's progress towards a herpes vaccine which IIRC was supposed to come out in 2028.

Herpes is one of those things that obviously isn't as big a deal as cancer but it would be nice to be one less thing to worry about when having sexual encounters with new people, and sufferers of it would love to have some sort of relief from infections and the elimination of the stigma around it. It's also associated with Alzheimer's disease so the cost of not producing this vaccine might be hundreds of billions of dollars and years of life and the prevention of so much suffering down the line.

It's really dismaying to know that this kind of stuff might not come to fruition because of the combination of incompetence and intentional chaos.
The more I read about WASM the more it sounds like the JVM

I'm still not clear what at its core it's done differently (in a way that couldn't be bolted on to a subset of the JVM)
Was a fun 9 minutes :^) Having to scroll up and down again when switching tabs was slightly annoying but might be designed on purpose
While the market was burning to the ground on Friday he headed off to play golf and then attend multiple campaign fundraisers where it's estimated he brings in $20M per night. That doesn't count all the money he's raking in by forcing the republican party to host events at his properties, where he effectively launders campaign donation to the party into his coffers.

Between that and the crypto scams, likely insider trading going on we don't know about because nobody's home at the SEC or FBI - I would guess that his plan is simply to accumulate oligarch-level wealth so he's well positioned for the coming oligarchy.

He's also extorted his way into hundreds of millions of dollars in legal representation. I imagine that is case people in his administration find themselves facing criminal charges...or to disrupt/challenge as many elections as he can through endless legal challenges.
Mentioning philosophy on the internet is a good way to start arguments, so if you're trying to do that you'll probably succeed.

There is a more concise phrasing for the idea you seem to be trying to get at - decision theory has to consider the fact that the decision makers in the real world that we live in have finite resources. There are an infinite number of potential Roko Basilisks (all religions and all theoretically describable religions of which Roko's is one). Since the decision maker doesn't have enough resources to deal with all of them, they end up having to ignore the basilisk in practice.

There isn't really a question here about alignment in the Roko scenario, the argument falls apart a lot earlier than that. The problem is there are an infinite number of unaligned AI that would have different punishment schemes - making the threat of any given one worth devoting 0 resources to in practice. Including argument/mental consideration time, for that matter.
Wine is a good example because it’s not fungible: one bottle of red wine is not like any others. If you have a domestic wine industry, it likely can’t compete on quality with French wine.

So if France can export wine at a price that’s reasonable enough, your domestic wine industry will fail, undercut completely by cheap French imports.

Tariffs in and of themselves are not all dreadful. They help level the playing field and support domestic industry.

But you can’t go from decades of offshoring manufacturing to suddenly charging punitive tariffs without making imported goods (which were the only ones your citizens could afford) much more expensive, and therefore, yes, folks might buy wine less often altogether.
Yeah, ultimately they are all morons.

If I was on Slack at work and someone tried sharing secrets I would immediately say hey, we have protocols for this. Now we have to rotate keys. Please follow the protocols. Let’s walk you through it if you don’t remember. Etc.

And those are just API keys or similar data. We take it seriously because 1. It actually matters and 2. The habit will save your ass when it counts. Make it a habit

These guys have not made security a habit. It doesn’t actually matter to these guys. That’s scary. This is so much more than access to my org’s AWS services.
Same. Sounds like the next four year will be nice to buy on a discount. I’m okay with that.

As for people getting hurt, yeah, that sucks.. but you should never invest what you can’t miss..
It’s incredibly common to log things which contain text elements which come from a user request. I’ve worked on systems that do that 100s of thousands of times per day. I’ve literally never deserialized a parquet file that came from someone else even a single time and I’ve used parquet since it very first was released.
I have a weird interest in herpes as a casual reader of medical research papers and there's definitely many studies that found links between herpes and neurological issues, I believe it's a much more serious problem than society perceives it as being.
> My 55-minute flight from Geneva to Zurich didn't land on its first attempt.

I know this is not the point of the article but why would you take a flight from Geneva to Zurich? It's less than 3h by train, which if you count the time it takes to get to Geneva airport and go through security, probably becomes a much smaller difference.

And for that, you're emitting ~100kg of CO2 [1]

[1]: https://curb6.com/footprint/flights/geneva-gva/zurich-zrh
Ridiculous.

The entire dictionary is nothing but consensus on terms with no trademarks (and from which government?) anywhere.

OSI merely presents a definition as a service, for others to have something already thought-out to refer to rather than have to write a 10 page definition every time someone wants to refer to the concept.

It is well established by now, and the only people trying to argue about it are simply uneducated or have some deliberate agenda where they somehow benefit from artificially clouding an issue that has already gone through a process of being hashed out and recorded long ago. There is no reason to give them any air.
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The words put, make, set, and run have literally hundreds of senses. Open source is very tightly defined with only three or four.
The last time trading oil with other currencies was on the table, a couple of dictators lost their heads.
It's all float value arrays with metadata in the end. Most camera sensors are pretty similar and follow common patterns.

DNGs have added benefits, like including compression (optional) (either lossy or lossless) and error correction bytes to prevent corruption (optional). Even if there's some concerns like unique features or performance, I'd still rather use DNGs without these features and with reduced performance.

I always archive my RAWs as lossy compressed DNGs with error correction and without thumbnails to save space and some added "safety".
The goal isn’t to repatriate low value manufacturing, it’s simply to create negotiating leverage to discourage other countries from applying asymmetric tariffs on the US.

It doesn’t make sense for the US to allow other exporters in other countries free access to US consumers, while other countries charge US exporters for the same privilege.
This feature seems to have already been documented.

https://support.unitree.com/home/en/developer/Architecture%2...
Except they don't call Class.forName(..., false, ...) anywhere in the codebase, so my original comment still stands.
Instagram has been around less than 15 years. I'm suggesting you do what people did for the previous 100 years. You're not willing to do that to avoid ads? You're not willing to call or text your friends?

Instagram would be gone without ads, what would you do to fill the gap then?

Buy your tickets at the station? Use the train company website for the schedules?

Does your landlord or phone company have a website? What phone company is running third party ads in their app?
I've always found the fixation on source code rather odd. Many people know how to fix or modify anything else they own without the original design documents. Why should software be any different?
I agree. Similarly, if the license doesn't allow modification and redistribution, it does not grant the user fundamental freedoms, and is not free software, so it cannot possibly be free-and-open-source.
seems like vision quality might be a major source of robot accidents
Which one of those is pubmed?

It’s the one I’m most interested in but I couldn’t find it through the search function.
Yeah, I think it’s worth emphasizing: we are in Month 4 and there’s already been an enormous amount of chaos.

We haven’t even seen the effects of the agencies getting cut. Sure they’re running for now, but burnout can set in quick for the remaining employees and some YC investor-clown’s delusional dream of an “AI” workforce isn’t going to save us.

I’m just one fish in the sea of retail investors but I won’t be in any rush to convert cash savings into investments with this current trajectory.

Besides, cash is infinitely more useful for my mortgage payments — especially if layoffs in the private sector start.
A satellite in orbit is constant in free fall, yes.
The corrections are just metadata, the RAW data is still there. This is true for both DNG and ARW (Sony). Dont know the other brands. The corrections can even look different based on what program you use to interpret them.
Disdain for "interference" in the "free market" is a pretty bog-standard viewpoint among Americans. Has been since Reagan. There is a deeply-ingrained view that the market is optimally efficient (for what?) and any attempt to regulate or direct it will result in inefficiency at best, and deep structural problems at worst. This belief is totally free-standing, built on rhetoric alone, and obviously wrong (you literally cannot make a free market, it's not a coherent concept). Policies inspired by this thinking are uniformly disastrous, but all failings are blamed on the remaining regulatory framework and used as pretense to further accelerate wealth accumulation. This pervasive ideology has been eroding the US's capacity to function for decades, and we've finally begun buckling under the weight of the wealth gap it created. I hold no confidence that should we somehow recover that we'll learn our lesson. Perhaps once a few more liberal democracies fall the remaining ones will finally begin to protect themselves.
PHP is in decline, and rightly so. I don't understand this urge of holding on to PHP with a panicked iron grip when there are so many better languages, regardless of which metrics one happens to care about. Whatever
Temporal raises $146M Series C
If a corporation did this, we'd rightly accuse them of pumping their quarterly numbers at the expense of long-term viability.
As far as I'm concerned, the main flaw with Roko's Basilisk is that it needs retrocausality to work. If the AI isn't stupid, it will understand that retrocausality isn't possible, and it will have no reason to try to alter the incentives of people that are already dead. Sunk cost fallacy and all that.
Yeah, where is all the hate coming from? Writing software is difficult, challenging and, at some level, fun.
I've had to use the CDC lab to figure out a drug-resistant Trichomonas infection. Lots of very skilled people at that facility and this is a bad one to lose; it was the only lab that did those sorts of tests. There's not enough money in it for commercial labs.
I'm not trying to make either a moral or a legal argument, only to warn against using the term in a way that is liable to cause confusion or needless antagonism.
I think it's due to the impracticality of reverse-compiling and then modifying executable code.

> A program that you can run consists of a series of numbers whose meaning is obscure. No one, not even a good programmer, can easily change the numbers to make the program do something different.

Source: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/shouldbefree.en.html