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The linked discussion talks about whether this is a serious problem or not, but as it says:
"... with a little tinkering in the debug tools you can post whatever news stories you like and they look exactly the same as real ones."
This article's credibility suffers a little from the way it talks about GPT-4o mini:
"just in front of GPT-4o-mini, which is, according to itself, a model with 1.3B or 1.5B or 1.7B parameters, depending on when you ask."
Then later:
"On the Artificial Analysis benchmark Scout achieved the same score as GPT 4o mini. A 109B model vs a 1.5B model (allegedly). This is ABYSMAL."
Asking models how many parameters they have doesn't make sense.
There is absolutely no way GPT-4o mini is 1.5B. I can run a 3B model on my iPhone, but it's a fraction of the utility of GPT-4o mini.
> speculative articles like this... speculative articles like this
But we know it isn't speculative based on these public data. You're arguing they should have covered up better. I agree. But that doesn't make (a) it okay or (b) this article speculative.
I run an older Android phone without a Google account. All apps are from F-Droid. Google services are all turned off. Mail is Thunderbird, browser is Fennec.
Is it still possible to initialize an Android phone without a Google account?
For the same reason CUDA and ROCm are supported.
Most do, the Linux kernel is the exception in the OS world.
If you just use the simple-minded Bell Labs probabilistic algorithm, how much worse is that result?
The classic TSP approach is:
1. Hook up all the nodes in some arbitrary path.
2. Cut the path in two places to create three pieces.
3. Rearrange those three pieces in the six possible ways and keep the shortest.
4. Iterate steps 2-3 until no improvement has been observed for a while.
This is not guaranteed to be optimal, but for most real-world problems either finds the optimal result or is very close.
Related from a few years ago: PAGNIs, for Probably Are Gonna Need Its - https://simonwillison.net/2021/Jul/1/pagnis/
Right. That one is probably fake.
It's not at all uncommon to trade a tanker load of oil, and this may result in the tanker being re-directed mid-trip, or being anchored somewhere for a while. Those are normal shipping events. (Yes, there are parking spaces for oil tankers. Here are the ones in the San Francisco Bay.[1])
I have read of an oil trader who bought a trainload of railroad tank cars of oil as a similar deal. That was a bigger hassle, because finding and paying for a storage track to park the tank cars became his problem. There is a market in railroad siding for storage, but there are not that many available spaces. Most of them are in Outer Nowhere, someplace where there used to be something that needed track but no longer does.[2] Managing this tied up a lot of high-priced broker time. Supposedly worked out OK, but nobody wanted to do it again.
[1] https://www.sfmx.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Anchorage-9-...
I've been entirely on Linux for over fifteen years now. And I used to develop for Win32.
It's uses a simple, purpose-focused template of a type that is a common recommendation for clear communication, outline numbering, and highlights keywords using monospaced text, as is common practice in technical writing. None of that is unusual for a human, especially writing something that they know is going to be high visibility, to do.
Modestly competent presentation is now getting portrayed as an "AI tell".
> I recall concerns from Boeing engineers when they switched to carbon fiber fuselages, that a strike would be far more serious than before, with Aluminum fuselages.
It's a serious problem for carbon-fiber wind turbine blades. Fiberglas is an insulator, and doesn't have lighting problems. Aluminum is a good conductor, and doesn't have lighting problems as long as there's a good a path to ground through the hub. But carbon fiber is a resistor, so conducting a lightning strike generates heat. Some copper or aluminum wire has to go into the turbine blades to bypass this.
> I very much want Solvespace to be the tool for those people.
Probably not. "Copyright 2008-2022 SolveSpace contributors. Most recent update June 2 2022."
Unless it's in a union contract, there is no guarantee it will at your non fast food option.
I don't think TLM is intended to obscure anything; I claim instead that it is used as a tool of obscurantism for a fringe movement within the church. Everything you're saying that's good about TLM, I agree with. I'm the weirdo on the thread that actually took Latin, and, thanks to a work experience with a Latin scholar (hey Jon!) currently reads a little bit of Latin for fun.
I would claim as well that most people who attend TLM services do not in fact have any fluency in Latin, and would in support of that argument (but not that much support because I'm not going to take the time to dig up the source right now) point out the English bishop's observation that TLM-enthusiast priests in his diocese couldn't pass a simple Latin test.
Anything involving water on the moon is devilishly hard to test in a lab on Earth because the moon is so much drier than Earth and there will always be a concern that any trace quantities found on real or simulated moon rocks were contamination from here.
I think that H2O from the solar wind adds up to an eye popping number of kilograms but it is so widely dispersed that it is not a resource.
Note that the average temperature of the moon is a little below freezing so if you buried some ice a few meters under the surface and wrapped in a vapor barrier to prevent sublimation it would stay there a long time. If some ice somehow got under the surface of the moon and there was the right geological trapping structure (as in petroleum geography) it might still be there and none of our remote sensing would see it. Would be a hoot if a future moon base could drill for water somewhere other than the poles.
These are not decisions that should be taken solely by whoever is programming the backend.
They need to be surfaced to the product owner to decide. There may very well be reasons pieces of data should not be stored. And all of this adds complexity, more things to go wrong.
If the product owner wants to start tracking every change and by who, that can completely change your database requirements.
So have that conversation properly. Then decide it's either not worth it and don't add any of these "extra" fields you "might" need, or decide it is and fully spec it out and how much additional time and effort it will be to do it as a proper feature. But don't do it as some half-built just-in-case "favor" to a future programmer who may very well have to rip it out.
On a personal project, do whatever you want. But on something professional, this stuff needs to be specced out and accounted for. This isn't a programming decision, it's a product decision.
My argument is explicitly not premised on the claim that productivity improvements reliably work out to the benefit of existing workers. It's that practicing commercial software developers are agents of economic productivity, whether anticapitalist developers are happy about that or not, and have really no moral standing to complain about their jobs (or the joy in those jobs) being automated away. That's what increased economic productivity means: more getting done with less labor.
Yes: I think games would be approximately as immersive as they are now if everything was set in Calibri. Also: Calibri is a very, very good typeface.
For small simple projects it is OK but for small simple projects I think it is even better to write out TODO lists on paper and copy them when you run out of space with too much crossed out. The act of copying helps you review them, and I find any electronic solution is another window I have to find on my screen that distracts me from doing tasks.
If your project is really big on the other hand, a lot of people are working on it, you need tools to estimate it, and copying it every few days is not an option, you want JIRA, something like it, or at the very least Github Issues.
Maybe it's the other way around. She's saying that her body isn't responding to "good men" probably because her experiences have miscalibrated her body.
They look different to Chinese people and they look more different to me than the syllables sound in speech but I've been looking at them for a while.
On the other hand, the Material Design icons are supposed to be used in mass market products that people can use right away and I can say they still look the same to me despite looking at Android on and off for more than a decade. (Chinese kids learn thousands of characters in 10 years of school!)
I agree with the author that the interface for Google Drive, Google Docs and other facets of their monolith (they're really the same system and shouldn't be presenting under different names at all) is atrocious. Google knows that I am logged in when I visit the "Google Drive" page and presumably knows everything about me [2], such as the fact that I frickin' use it for work and have no reason to ever click on "Try Google Drive For Work" -- ever!
Then there are all the twisty little things to click on the left hand side that all look the same like "shared folders", "shared with you", ... The one thing that's constant is it is always hard to find what I'm looking for whatever I am looking for whenever I am looking for it.
I've been laughing at the fanboys (or shills?) who want to get their bathroom done in Material Design or want to get a Material Design tatoo or have an Itasha [1] in Material Design. Gets me voted down a lot but go ahead, I've got the karma to lose.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itasha
[2] like that time I clicked on a YouTube short where a Chinese girl transforms into a fox on American TV and now it wants to show me hundreds of AI slop videos of Chinese girls transforming into everything
What happens if you present an image of a page in some font to an LLM, and ask it to make you a font file for that font? An LLM could probably not only do that, but create matching characters for ones not already present.
Oh, and tell it to fix the kerning.
Most online journalism relies on clickbait, and they know people aren't going to read too much past the headline to care (and 99% of threads on sites like HN clearly demonstrate that).
The right partner is like a recession: hard to predict and only evident upon looking back.
Great writing, was a joy to read.
(40-50% of first marriages end before death, the percentage rapidly increases for second and third; relationships are hard and much work, and no one wants to think they settled)
> Tesla is a crazy competent company
Tesla is a curious company. They got the difficult parts - energy management, motors, batteries, software - but can’t get the most fundamental things even Trabant got right such as not have parts falling off the car. Tesla is famous for build quality issues and a five year old Tesla makes all sorts of cabin noises cheaper cars don’t.
You might be interested in the writing at https://substack.com/@ellegriffin by Elle Griffin, who is writing a book https://www.elysian.press/p/we-should-own-the-economy
El Salvador seems very willing to take people off our hands for mere allegations.
> I'm actually looking forward to the related reflection features that I think are currently in scope for C++26.
The core of reflection should be in C++26, yes. In my understanding, there's more to do after that as well. We'll see when the final meeting is done.
I've defaulted on hundreds of thousands of dollars of federally insured debt strategically (as the credit hit was cheaper than paying back the debt), so I guess make better choices than pay debts you don't have to? It's just a contract. If someone sees it as a moral issue, that is a personal deficiency; I recommend speaking to a therapist. The loss rate is baked into the credit pricing and potentially credit insurance the borrower is required to pay. Don't allow your feelings to bind you beyond contractual requirements, that's a self made prison. Like religion, it’s just another belief system used to exert control.
This is just hacking another system imho. Your opinion may differ.
Not at all, originally template metaprogramming was discovered by accident.
Cannot recall any longer if the original article on the matter appeared on The C/C++ Users Journal or Dr. Dobbs.
Eventually it started to get abused and the Turing completeness has been discovered.
Since C++11, the approach to a more sane way to do metaprogramming with templates has been improving.
Instead of tag dispatch, ADL and SFINAE, we can make use of concepts, if constexpr/eval/init, type traits, and eventually reflection, instead of the old clunky ways.
... you know if somebody had a startup where they were trying heavy-ion fusion I might believe them [1], but lasers, no.
[1] assuming they've got a plan to build a really big machine
On Windows 11 24H2, more stack space was modified by a new implementation of Critical Sections.
IMHO this shows the downfall of Microsoft. Why did they do that? Critical sections have been there for many decades and should be basically bug-free by now. My best guess is someone thought they'd "improve" things and rewrote it, then made some microbenchmark that maybe showed the dubious improvement.
The other comment here mentions Raymond Chen, who wrote this article about why backwards-compatibility is very important (and arguably what got Microsoft into the position it's in today):
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031224-00/?p=41...
and also this memorable case: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2281932
There is something really big about sports.
It is on my bucket list to see a Premier League game in the UK not because the play is better in the UK but because the atmosphere of UK fans who go in to hate each other for 90 min is really electric and a little bit dangerous and not something I am going to get at college or MLS or even Premier League exhibition games in the States.
There still are soccer snobs who have no idea you can see a great game with great fan experience at Red Bulls Stadium for very reasonable ticket prices, but it sitting in the same stadium as those season ticket holders that would make it worth it for me to go all the way to the UK to see a game at Arsenal Stadium.
Have you considered Barcelona? It is, arguably, one of the most kid friendly cities in Europe and is very pedestrian friendly. If your employment or financial arrangement can support it, it is hard to beat (imho). Spain has a digital nomad visa, renewed one year at a time unless you apply from in country while on the tourist visa (within the 90 day visa), in which case it is a three year term (with one renewal before able to apply for permanent residency at five years).
Edit: OK, the original post is extremely unclear.
To clarify: the original font is named "FF Confidential" (which the post doesn't even mention).
The seemingly illegal clone is called "XBAND Rough".
Don't get distracted by claims that AI agents "replace programmers". Those are pure hype.
I'm willing to bet that in a few years most of the developers you know will be using LLMs on a daily basis, and will be more productive because of it (having learned how to use it).
Previous:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30185229 - Feb 2022 (110 comments)
The "front page of HN" has not scaled like the rest of the computing hardware has scaled. The smallest VM you can get serving static content will yawn at the full power of an HN surge. Unless you have a very 200x-era bandwidth limit, or you're trying to be on the front page of HN with a 250MB web page (which does happen), it's not anything to be concerned about anymore.
The index case is public television on the US which has endless cloying and annoying fundraisers but you know in the end of the day they care what big sponsors like the Archer Daniels Midland Corporation and the The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation think but not "viewers like you" because of these problems
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Logic_of_Collective_Action
Or look at the case of Mozilla which seems to be at least treading water when it comes to browser engineering but in terms of marketing and legitimacy they seem to be doing as little as possible to threaten Chrome but keep plugging along because if Firefox went down then Google might get pulled into antitrust court. (Think how Microsoft funded Apple during the dark years of the 1990s to keep competition alive or how the existence of Android must have a huge value to Apple today in that Apple can claim it has competition -- competition like the heel in pro wrestling)
No, because as humans age out of the working age participation, their demand for goods and services continues while the working population shrinks. Labor supply will continue to contract due to structural demographics while demand level maintains or even potentially expands (think increased healthcare demand).
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2020/09/18/the-great-...
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Surprising that Click https://deps.dev/pypi/click/8.1.8 is listed as "license unknown" - https://pypi.org/project/click/ knows that it's BSD.
Germany is much less centralized than every other bigger Western economy in every aspect including (deep tech) startups. Some German deep tech companies that come into my mind:
- DeepL, Cologne - Cylib,Aachen - German Bionic, Augsburg - Customcells, Itzehoe (Schleswig-Holstein) - IQM (party German, Munich) - Aleph Alpha, Heidelberg - aedifion, Cologne - Quantum-Systems, Gilching (Bavaria) - Helsing, Munich - Lilium, Weßling/Oberpfaffenhofen (Bavaria) - Proxima Fusion, Munich
But yes, not one is from Berlin that I can think of.
GitHub Pages runs everything through a Fastly CDN. You can tell like this:
curl -i https://simonw.github.io/
HTTP/2 200
server: GitHub.com
content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
permissions-policy: interest-cohort=()
last-modified: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 21:38:29 GMT
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OpenAI is reporting the pricing for image generation (https://openai.com/api/pricing/) very confusingly in the form of tokens, but looking at the documentation it translates the generated image dimensions and quality into tokens and the advanced pricing page does the math for you. https://platform.openai.com/docs/pricing
A generated `medium` 1024x1024 is $0.04/image, which is in the same class as Imagen 3 and Flux 1.1 Pro, although who knows what a "medium" image is, or if the images that went viral from the ChatGPT UI were using `medium` or `high`. Testing from their new playground (https://platform.openai.com/playground/images), the medium images are indeed lower quality and still take 15 seconds to generate: https://x.com/minimaxir/status/1915114021466017830
The real question is when AIs figure out that they should be talking to each other in something other than English. Something that includes tables, images, spreadsheets, diagrams. Then we're on our way to the AI corporation.
Go rewatch "The Forbin Project" from 1970.[1] Start at 31 minutes and watch to 35 minutes.
[1] https://archive.org/details/colossus-the-forbin-project-1970
There is no irony. The EU is targeting US companies. The US is targeting Chinese companies. The US is or soon will be targeting EU companies. China is targeting US companies. China will probably soon be targeting EU companies if they aren't already, which is probably already debatable. And this is not a complete list, it's not even a complete list of the highlights.
If they're doing it by legislation, well, the EU has been passing "legislation clearly designed for US companies to be in infringement of" for a while. Maybe you like that. Maybe it's a good thing; after all, the things they're passing laws about are basically just actions only US companies are capable of taking right now. Nevertheless it is clearly targeting. It's just targeting you like. The US has passed such legislation. China does it both with formal legislation and with de facto rules.
Free trade is a dead letter. Whether you like that or not is not very relevant to whether or not it is dead. It's dead. Maybe it'll swing back around in a few decades but right now even that is a distant prospect, we're not even done accelerating into the current merchantalist phase of the cycle, let alone decelerating, let alone heading back.
(Note "whataboutism" would be an inappropriate response to my point here; that's about "it's ok for us because they do it". My observation is not normative, merely descriptive... everyone is doing it, and they're doing it more rather than less right now.)
AI-generated prefill responses is one of the use cases of generative AI I actively hate because it's comically bad. The business incentive of companies to implement it, especially social media networks, is that it reduces friction for posting content, and therefore results in more engagement to be reported at their quarterly earnings calls (and as a bonus, this engagement can be reported as organic engagement instead of automated). For social media, the low-effort AI prefill comments may be on par than the median human comment, but for more intimate settings like e-mail, the difference is extremely noticeable for both parties.
Despite that, you also have tools like Apple Intelligence marketing the same thing, which are less dictated by metrics, in addition to doing it even less well.
Personally I am disappointed with Instagram's web interface. I find it a lot more pleasant to upload photos using either Mastodon (unfunded) or Bluesky (shoestring budget) It doesn't come across like an industry leading product in 2025, rather it looks like it looked with Facebook bought it.
To be fair I shoot with a Sony α7 and develop with DxO so I don't need the filters or crop tool. I independently came to the conclusion that I like making physical prints in a 4x5 aspect ratio (everybody makes 4″x6″ cards, if I am shooting with a crazy small aperture, developing to compensate for that, and color grading to make it look like a photo from an old book shouldn't I have a brand aspect ratio?)
From a recommendation engineering perspective I have mixed feelings about Instagram. The onboarding feed is hand curated and brilliant, as it should be. For certain kinds of content, its habit of putting older stuff into your feed is probably great and helps match the chronology of posters and viewers. On the other hand, student organizations at Cornell often use Instagram as their official communications mechanism about events and there are many things problematic about that, not least that Instagram just sent me a notification about a message dated 4/5 (18 days ago) about how they were selling the last of the dragon day T-shirts they had left over. [1] It's bad enough that I get notifications about cringey blond girls who supposedly want to follow me, but getting spammed with notifications about events that already passed ruins its value as a "be aware about events" platform which it isn't meant to be but that people use it as.
And of course there is the quality/cringe problem. I get followed by endless girls who have the same blond hair in the same hairstyle with the same makeup and the same slinky dress who stand by the squat rack in the same gym. To be fair, there is one of those who shows up at Crunch, but I hear that people in Ukraine, Russia and Myanmar use photos of that kind of girl in catfishing. In real life a girl like that has never taken an interest me and on other platforms maybe 5% of the the people who take an interest in me are that girl, on Instagram it is 50%. Cringe!
It adds up to "we're number one, why try harder". The Economist ran an article in Meta's defense that says with all the problems of social media we don't need more platforms, but behind it all is the problem of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit,_Voice,_and_Loyalty
without a credible threat of exit, platforms like that are just going to get worse, not better.
[1] In this case Facebook might have made the world better by pushing that content onto Facebook which has more structured data and can do a better job of handling notification about real-world events.
Great work! Where does it source MCP servers from when searching?
Is there some HN-ish particular reason so many people have upvoted this? This seems like inside baseball for organic chemistry of little-to-no general interest. I scanned over it for any sort of other reason why it might be getting upvoted but I don't see anything.
Geographic and age variations in mutational processes in colorectal cancer - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09025-8 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09025-8
Future browser feature for ghost link annotation/screening.
Nature article "A Paleoarchaean impact crater in the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia" (more in-depth and includes additional images): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-57558-3 .
I can tell that I am aware of some in-house trainings, where AI has taken over the jobs of the translation team, for example.
But lets keep cheering until it does become good enough to come for our developer jobs.
If it's hard for you than it's hard for your customers and they have a reason to pay for your product.
After I left a job where I developed a neural search engine for patents (years before BERT) I talked with many of the vendors in the enterprise search and what I found was that few of them did systematic work to improve the relevance of their results [1] and few of them tried to sell their product based on the quality of the results.
What they all promoted was ease of integration with hundreds of data sources, security, privacy, scale, rapid sync, etc. Looking at the way these got sold, I'd say that all of that is the core work and the actual search engine is an afterthought.
[1] See https://trec.nist.gov/
Also, I'm viewing this on a large iPad screen. It's plenty wide. Talk about being user-hostile.
Vouching seems to be time-lagged and require more than one.
Archived: https://archive.ph/7NzMN
I think the best replacement is still MacPorts.
For those who programmed 8-bit computers or worked with analog video, a pixel is also a unit of time. An image is a long line with some interruptions.
Hey! Very cool, thank you for sharing. I use Zotero today, is that where you're headed from a product roadmap perspective?
Strikes me as fad-chasing. The EVM is already well-suited for writing smart contracts as it has many affordances for that
https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/evm/
particularly the cryptographic primitives which would be error-prone to code up from scratch. Granted EVM is not so great for general purpose programming, but Ethereum isn't a good environment to write video games, compilers, neural network trainers, gas costs and all.
Python has always been quite complex, people get deceived by how simple Hello World looks in Python.
Using it since version 1.6.
Every American is pro free speech for the kind of speech they like.
> The search is so abysmal, it shows me wrong results intermixed with the thing i am searching for - why? In the hope that i see something that interests me.
Does it? It seems to return things with my search terms just fine. What is usually the case is that there are lots of items with some of those search terms that are also popular.
I see no evidence that Amazon is trying to make its regular search worse.
With sponsored listings there's a separate issue if sellers are bidding on keywords, but that's also to be expected.
It makes sense for Amazon to show other products on product pages and in checkout (as it does). But doing it intentionally during search would seem counterproductive. The reality is just that search is hard, and people are often bad at entering search terms.
ISTR some people observing that if you've been gone for a while they stack the deck in favor of things relevant to specifically you. Which may be why you report so many old things; they may have been reaching back trying to find those things specifically. If you were browsing routinely they might never show you those old things.
Yes. It's a "scorched earth" approach to prevent the project being revived.
Something similar happened to the RAF Nimrod: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-12294766 , although I think the safety case was much stronger there after one caught fire in the air.
It's very Trumpian. Perhaps the steelman argument might be "if we leave this thing in limbo, people will continue to advocate spending more money on it". Sometimes institutions or individuals in them will have a pet project that they keep pushing beyond economic sense, and the only way to get them to stop is to shoot their pet.
WSL1 mapped Linux file API calls directly to NTFS file API calls.
Unfortunately this was cripplingly slow for use in e.g. Git, so they moved to a model which is more of a VM.
The first beneficiary is likely to be Epic, since this is basically what they were asking for in the Fortnite lawsuit.
The two companies have two months to comply, or there will be daily fines.
Let's give Chrome to a million different entities, for free. None of them can use the name. We can remove all the Google add-ons as well. Call it something like... Chromium?
Are there any good tutorials on how to design mechanical keyboard PCBs?
Ah, they said the T-word, presumably to invoke some political fire support from across the Atlantic. I wonder how that will go. Of course, this is not a tariff, for two reasons: firstly, it does not involve money (the UK's digital services tax does, but that's not this), and secondly, the same rules would apply to EU native competitors .. if there were any. It's what's knows as a "non tariff trade barrier". Of course those are all over the place, and many of them are there to protect consumer and public interests.
> The EU regulator also dropped Meta's Marketplace's designation as a DMA gatekeeper because the number of users fell below the threshold.
Now that's interesting. I think the threshold is 45 million? Falling EU userbase?
Because we all eager for blog posts how someone discovered how to use transitors to create a memory module, with a 555 to keep the refresh clock going.
As the netbooks wave has proven, followed by Android and ChromeOS one, is that when you go to the shop, you will be getting a laptop with Asus Linux, Dell Linux, HP Linux, naturally branded with cool names from their marketing department, and full of usefull apps as differentiation factor, and naturally the related Linux drivers are only available from their respective support pages for the usual support timeframe.
They might eventually add support to something like Ubuntu, alongside their own OEM specific distribution, but naturally folks will complain they cannot install NixOS, and eventually they will remove those devices from the shops, as their sales become a rounding error.
However I do agree BSD and Linux distributions seem to be the only way to get independence from USA powered OSes, especially if we get back into the export regulations with the current ways of the administration in power.
I use iNaturalist to log my observations and I think one benefit of such platforms is the large number of eyeballs available: casual observers see things not captured in more formal scientific field work.
This happened to me: I saw an unusual bee while walking in a nature reserve. I posted it on iNaturalist and it got identified as a seldom seen bee. A bee researcher contacted me to get the location for a field study, resulting in a paper that documented the bee's natural behaviour.
Other iNat observers have spotted moths and insects that haven't been seen for decades, for example. In this way, citizen scientist are helping scientist to find out more about nature.
> politically or economically vital studies.
If it's economically vital, why doesn't it pay as well as industries competing for similar graduates? (not just programming, but also finance sucks up a lot of mathematically inclined people)
I'm reminded of COVID where the most "essential" workers inevitably meant the most expendable.
I am quite certain the folks selling iOS games see it otherwise.
That's a lot more than I thought: I was aware of Tornado, but not that there had been quite a few more new build steam locos.
If you are merchant in a class of products, directing (not "redirecting") product liability claims for anything you sell to you isn't "disingenuous", it is just the normal rule of product liability. And that's even if you aren't modifying the product on the way.
to demonstrate that the device remains stable even after 60,000s
A little over 16 hours? That's suspiciously short. The endurance vs retention curve isn't clear from this article either; they say "10 years" and "5.5 million cycles" but it seems more like you either get 10 years and 1 cycle, or 5.5M cycles to immediate failure with no regard to retention.
It reminds me of this old paper on testing USB drives for endurance, where they just hammered at the flash until it failed to program immediately and "concluded" that the endurance was many orders of magnitude higher than the manufacturer's specifications, with no attention paid to retention at all: https://www.usenix.org/event/fast10/tech/full_papers/boboila...
I think it's AI + human editing.
From the article:
"The company, Zuckerberg said, has lately been involved in “the general idea of entertainment and learning about the world and discovering what’s going on.” This under-recognized shift away from interpersonal communication has been measured by the company itself. During the defense’s opening statement, Meta displayed a chart showing that the “percent of time spent viewing content posted by ‘friends’ ” has declined in the past two years, from twenty-two per cent to seventeen per cent on Facebook, and from eleven per cent to seven per cent on Instagram."
So they algorithmically force various other posts into your feed, and then observe that people are spending more time looking at that crap and less time actually connecting with real people and friends.
Colour me unsurprised.