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2023 Vision Pro (iPad-on-Skull) sold less than 500K devices, with v2 cancelled.
In 2025, the design failed upward to 4000 x 500K users, https://archive.is/gxaYw
> [Apple] is working to simplify the way users navigate and control their devices.. The design is loosely based on the Vision Pro’s software.. will mark the most significant upgrade to the Mac since the Big Sur operating system in 2020.. For the iPhone, it will be the biggest revamp since iOS 7 in 2013... 2 billion devices in use around the world.. when Apple revamped its Photos app last year, legions of users complained. With the entire operating systems changing, the stakes are much higher.
Since 2023 launch, Meta Ray-Ban sold ~4M camera glasses priced below $500.
Or, you do the equivalent of adding a hash, and apply mosaic to it twice, with two slightly different size regions. Or apply both mosaic and swirl in random order. Or put a piece of random text over it before you mosaic it.
The main point here stands -- using something with a fixed algorithm for hashing and a knowable starting text is not secure. But there are a ton of easy fixes to add randomness to make it secure.
This is awesome, but my one suggestion is to abbreviate Thursday as "R" instead of "T" to avoid confusion with Tuesday.
This is how almost all calendars do it when there is only one letter for the day, so it's pretty standard.
How about now?
To be fair, I think that the biggest dangers of AI are just a continuation of the dangers of the Internet at large, namely the disintegration of a shared reality among society broadly. Echo chambers and personalization bubbles mean that everyone now is free to believe whatever they want to believe, and everyone else is crazy and wrong. AI just supercharges that, and especially makes it possible for the powers that be (i.e. owners of social media and communication channels) to subtly shift opinions in their favor.
I believe that what we're witnessing is a fundamental breakdown in the human psyche's ability, as it evolved historically, to handle the modern world. There are 2 other areas that I think are good analogies: food abundance and birth control. Humans evolved to love sex, which, historically, also guaranteed lots of children. But with birth control, humans can now have sex without the consequence of children, and this is actually putting a huge new evolutionary pressure on humanity - lots of people aren't procreating, so those that do will markedly shift human evolution. Similarly, humans evolved in an environment where food scarcity was common, and our current overabundance of food causes all sorts of havoc in first world societies.
Similarly, humans evolved socially to understand small groups, and then I would argue even larger and larger hierarchical groups. But the Internet, and AI, destroys those hierarchies, and is wreaking havoc on a society not prepared to deal with so many representations of "truth" where it is trivial to find an endless sea of people (or bots) who exactly agree with you.
I'm fond of pointing out that in the 1980s, people raised the same kinds of alarms about databases.
It is akin to some military operations doomed to fail, and everyone ends up dying because of the chain of command no one is willing to speak against.
That is how the current chaos feels like.
But if, evolutionarily, there are only 20 common recurring threats that you need to fear (but each comes at some kind of cost, like you won't hunt in an area that would otherwise provide food), it would make sense to pass on those fears in a generational way. So the possible things come from a preset list that has evolved over millions of years, that recur over and over but only in specific times and places.
eBPF's limitations are as much about reliability as security. The bounded loop restriction, for instance, prevents eBPF programs from locking up your machine.
> That was little more than a decade ago, in 2014. Not that I want to turn the clock back, but it would be really helpful if I could read clearly what’s on my display once again.
I want to turn the clock back. It’s not a reflexive opposition to anything new. I thought OS X clearly got better from 10.0 to 10.4. But in the last vie versions it’s been a regression.
well, i haven't found better introduction to calculus than the 'calculus made easy' book by mr. silvanus-p-thompson.
have been gifting the hardcopy of that book to all my friend's kids who are interested in these kinds of things.
highly recommended.
The US worked hard for this outcome. After stupidly weaponizing the financial system, and stupidly outsourcing their industrial capacity and basing GDP progress on bubbles, there's no wondering why countries and global players wont trust their money to the dollar...
I make no judgement, but I definitely have had the opposite experience of the author, therefore the article doesn't resonate and I don't even understand it.
Or knifed. Or shot. Depending on the location.
> 404 is a classified code for a nuclear industrial base.
Can you expand? A code under what system? What were some other code numbers and what (unclassified) things did they refer to? Did each code refer to a specific city or specific factory? Or were all cities/factories dedicated to a certain type of industry or military objective classified under the same code? Why did they teach you this code number growing up?
I'm really fascinated by this. Fantastic story overall, can't wait for part 2!
I wonder how many times former Microsoft people demanding switches to MS infrastructure are still actually working for Microsoft.
Do you really not think this happens outside China?
I’ve lived in the US and Australia. Both have the exact same phenomenon.
> You’re one air con fuckup from asphyxiating on your own CO2 by the looks of it.
You might as well say the same thing about any sealed building, like virtually every skyscraper, or honestly most hotels I've stayed in (without exterior windows that you can open).
Buildings have air ducts for forced air flow. This isn't any different. Each capsule has one vent for fresh air, another that removes the air. It's the same way regular rooms work.
And oxygen and CO2 diffuse through air and ducts anyways, passively, even if blower fans fail. Plus there are additional gaps anyways for safety. You're not going to suffocate. They do actually think about these things in building codes. You're not allowed to build rooms that would suffocate someone if mechanical fans failed.
You have a few minutes to change the title after the submission, I do it all the time.
Being related to neither software behavior nor the structure of the underlying problem, animations tend to obscure the causal relationships and make it harder for user to build a correct mental model.
OTOH, it's good enough that a webapp I vibe-coded in 5 minutes on the phone is better at typesetting and aligning label stickers than Microsoft Word. Or at least easier and gives correct results on the first try, vs. Word that gives me correct results approximately never; I've wasted close to person-day fighting with it over the year already.
Infinitely, because I wouldn't be bothered to make the things I make without AI.
0% for me too, as on the few occasions I tried it, it gave completely useless responses that were so far off the mark, if I didn't know better it would've lead me on a completely wrong path.
There are more English words that end in -ass than Latin words that end in -anus, so who's really obsessed?
Gmail used to provide an HTML version. It got removed only recently
Probably a screen reader callout.
As someone that grew up without mobile phones and Internet, not being able to disconnect seems rather strange.
Maybe the memes about growing up in the 70 and 80s have some truthiness to them.
"Psychology of people thar grew up in the 80s"
You may be correct but pjmlp is not one of those and if you had been here long enough you would have known that. You're the one creating an in-group here and putting yourself on the 'good' side. Perhaps that is too complex for you but I think it is intellectually lazy not to get who you're referring to before making comments such as these. Note that your strawman "See this is why I dislike the xyz community" wasn't part of this thread at all.
And ~90% of google searches now gives you 10 videos as answers to any query rather than just the web pages that have been turned into videos because youtube makes them more money than regular ads. Assholes.
Plenty of poor people drive, and the tolls aren't really adjusted for income.
Which is why nowadays vertical integration like everyone was doing back then is back.
As survivor of that era, Apple proved the point of higher margins, and the remaining OEMs want a piece of the pie, even better if it is ARM based instead of x86.
Considering that the LLMs used by most people are owned by large companies, I'm not so sure about that long term.
Is early days yet.
Apple was definitely not into sharing code with users.
Their vision after Lisa and Macintosh has always been computing as an appliance.
The only thing open about them were the great Macintosh Internals books, that Apple documentation team has forgotten how to write.
This is both impressive and scary.
Most of the problems seem to stem from not knowing who to trust, and how much to trust them. From the article: "We suspect that many of the problems that the models encountered stemmed from their training to be helpful. This meant that the models made business decisions not according to hard-nosed market principles, but from something more like the perspective of a friend who just wants to be nice."
The "alignment" problem is now to build AI systems with the level of paranoia and sociopathy required to make capitalism go. This is not, unfortunately, a joke. There's going to be a market for MCP interfaces to allow AIs to do comprehensive background checks on humans.
Fully agree.
If it has to be native code, it should live on user space, at very least.
Is this a revival of Lysenkoism?[1]
This is why security actually matters in game development.
Gotta revise that Algorithms and Data Structures book on how to make do with existing memory sizes, and how to make do of modular programming instead of microservices.
We just need better HOV enforcement. Preferably with space lasers.
Finding meaning at the current point of the timeline can be challenging for some. Without community, these people likely exhausted their options when they lost their faith based community. My opinion is that this is a social safety net failure, other opinions will differ.
So many cool facts about this locomotive, but imho the coolest is it is still called upon between events to add power to stalled freight trains when needed and geographically favorable. Highly recommend seeing it in person when convenient. Heavier than a 747 and can put out ~138k lbf of torque.
I'd be more impressed if an Xbox executive said that they weren't working on a new console, I mean I can't see how it can work as a business unless they change their attitude 200%. I trust those YouTubers more than I trust mainstream game journalists.
In the current market for electronics I can't imagine a quantum leap in consoles at a sub-$1000 price point, it is not like NVIDIA or AMD gives a damn about gaming in this environment where it is all about selling as many GPU for AI as they can while they can.
Steam Deck is long in the tooth. I think PS and XBOX portables could muscle into that space, XBOX is already licensing their name, but balancing size-cost-performance-power does not look easy but the PS Vita was my favorite dedicated game system I ever owned. I like my Deck but it is too big and I have to think long and hard if I want to pack it in my t̴a̴i̴l̴ backpack on any given day or pack something else.
A realistic plan is shut down most of Activision and sell the rest to Tencent, take an $80 billion goodwill loss so they won't pay tax for half a decade, Wall St won't care so long as they keep making noises about AI, do right by Azure, Windows, Office and the enterprise stuff. Keep Windows great for gaming and keep the brand alive as part of that and if they want to sell XBOX branded body wash or something, bully for them. Set free from Activision those developers will be able to make good games again.
As someone who has spent an embarrassing amount of time researching Hacker News title trends over the years, I was excited to look at the methodology (https://hn-ph.vercel.app/analysis) but after looking at it, I am calling shenanigans afoot.
That's not a methodology paper and it doesn't explain how the model being advertised works in the spirit of open machine learning research; given that the startup is an AI startup, I assume that the actual model is more sophisticated. As Section 8 notes: "This analysis is descriptive and intended to summarize empirical patterns."
It's an exploratory data analysis which not only does not explain the methodology around how the model is constructed, but it also makes a number of assumptions that imply the people making it without proper context of how Hacker News works:
1. The extreme right-skewed nature should have raised a very large number of flags in the statistical methodology and calculations, but it mostly ignores them. The mean values are effectively useless, the p-values even more useless. It doesn't point out that the negative performing terms are likely spam.
2. It does not question why there are so few questions with a title >80 characters (answer: 80 characters is the max for a HN submission)
3. The analysis separates day of the week and hour: you can't do that. They're intrinsically linked and weekend behavior with respect to activity is far different than on weekdays.
4. "Title length has a weak relationship with score (Pearson r = -0.017, Spearman r = 0.048, n = 100k)". No statistician would call that a weak correlation; those values are effectively no correlation.
There is also no person tied to this paper, just the "Memvid Research Team", which raises further questions.
It depends on what kind of system you're talking about.
If you have no memory, that memory can't get corrupted.
If the memory is carried by the request the memory can't get desynchronized with the request.
You can use cryptographic techniques to prevent tampering and even reuse of states, though reuse can be a feature instead of a bug. Sometimes the state is too big to pass around like a football but even then you can access it with a key and merge it in in a disciplined way.
(Replaced my original comment here which was a little unkind.)
Question for OP, who created Memvid (the .mv2 file format that's used to distribute this data). Are you still taking text, chunking it and then storing those chunks as QR codes in a video file? That seems like an inherently inefficient storage mechanism to me compared with something like SQLite or Parquet - do you have concrete numbers or a demo that shows that your file format really is more effective for storing data for "AI agents" than those existing solutions?
I think it speaks volumes that Buffet has nowhere else to put that ~$382B in cash; that speaks more about current asset valuations ("everything bubble" [1]) more than that US cash is trash. If assets classes are inflated, US treasuries are no longer a safe haven, gold and other precious metals are overbought, where do you go? There is no immediate answer, imho, but only a slow burn as the world reconfigures around the US not being a superpower, the dollar not being a reserve currency, etc. As Workaccount2 comments downthread, "The dollar sucks but everything else sucks more. [2]"
[1] Look around: Bubbles are everywhere. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46303596 - December 2025
But I suspect that the Macintosh team in '84 was closer in intentions to contemporary RMS than to contemporary Apple.
Apple has always been patronising and thought of users as exploitables to be controlled and herded; the Macintosh, and even more so the Lisa that came before it, were far more closed systems in comparison to the IBM PC.
One reason I enjoy anime as much as I do is because most of these stories are written by a single person with maybe an assistant or two and an editor, they're not designed by committee.
I somewhat enjoy Stranger Things but it's falling into the space where I can write the next line of dialog in my head for whole scenes. Whereas it started out poking fun at tropes like doing exposition or relationship development at moments of maximum danger it's turned into a long sequence of Obligatory Scenes that feel increasingly forced.
Prove the lie, that is the challenge.
I used to hang out in forums with Roy Walford's followers
https://www.amazon.com/120-Year-Diet-Double-Vital/dp/0671466...
Those folks were disdainful of "one-mouse experiments" but Roy was vital and productive for a long time and passed at 79 from ALS which is one of the worse ways you can go and used a lot of weed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Walford
I can say that when I was lowballing my calories I was often uncomfortable, particularly in the cold. If I could keep the temperature constant it might not be so hard but in an old farmhouse in NY it's pretty hard even if you are strategic about long underwear and other warm programming. But yeah, the average American could use to eat a bit less and so I could I.
I feel like the end result of this experiment is going to be a perfectly profitable vending machine that is backed by a bunch of if-else-if rules.
Regarding the Tesla disabling, maybe he means the fact that Tesla remotely disabled FSD when someone sold their car. I thought I remembered Tesla disabling the vehicle completely, and I distinctly remember aspects of the story (the vehicle wouldn't do more than some low mph and said to pull over), but I can't find any reference to that story now.
>Catastrophazing new media hasn't gone out of fashion yet. Remember when it was Reality TV that was supposed to be the downfall of civilizations?
And it was. We're now even further down in that downfall, and most content is "reality TV" style now: influencers, parasocial relationships, IG, TikTok, OF, news vlogs and podcasts that are about the anchor an not the content, and so on...
This has the air of a parody spy caper where the various people who have broken in keep tripping over each other.
The source leak is really interesting, though. We don't often get to see game source, and it often has surprises in.
You're the lucky one... they're a/b testing this and I get them flashing full size for a half second twice a day. I've tried blocking them at the firewall but their AI is so good now it can hack that in a couple of seconds, and they're using what I've seen as input to their bypass. It won't be long before we won't be able to turn it off at all. Joe Jackson saw it coming...
Even bigger brands such as Nvidia seem to expect us to recycle SBCs every couple years.
> speculate that Japanese passengers expect to promptly get their stuff back while North Americans know they are effectively throwing it in the garbage, and so are more tempted to grab a few things
If this behaviour were isolated, this hypothesis would make sense. Given it exists in a broader context of Japanese altruism, I’d say it’s just a fitness advantage to having a high-trust, rule-following society.
I’d be more impressed with something that could pump enough energy into a StarLink satellite from the ground to disable it during its orbit over ground Russia (or China) controls, but I’m unsure if we’re there yet, as 550km is a lot of distance to cover with directed energy considering the short period of visibility during a pass.
https://npolicy.org/coping-with-the-ground-based-laser-asat-...
https://theprint.in/defence/these-futuristic-chinese-space-d...
Yeah, I think the article conflated a few points: I think the issue the author was having was that he thought that decentralized social networks were meant to be decentralized communication platforms, when they were meant to be decentralized content delivery platforms.
The problem isn't the decentralization, it's the choice of a goal. However, email, IRC, Matrix, etc all already exist, and are what the author wants, so I do see tbe article as a bit misguided.
I think what the author meant to say was "I thought ActivityPub was meant to be more like Matrix, but it's not, and I'm sad about that".
It really helps that the needles are hair-thin and short.
> it's a shame politicians can't be kept accountable tens of years from now.
Donald Trump is 79. He can only be held accountable in the afterlife, if there is one.
1. It's gonna get worse before it gets better.
2. Fooled you! It's not getting better.
"Bored" is the worst motivation. Was just re-watching Neon Genesis Evangelion and appreciating it more than before (can only imagine the fights the director had with the money people at the end!) and enjoyed Asuka Langley Soryu saying "Kiss me because I'm bored" and concluding "That's the last time I kiss a boy because I'm bored!"
I think part of the Vision Pro story is that Apple has deformed ideas about displays that they've gotten because they've been able to get away with selling overpriced and undervalued displays.
For that matter part of the Apple TV is great hardware/middling experience because they can't shake phone-centrism. Apple can't make an honest-to-God TV or market-crushing appliance because TVs are more competitive than monitors, thinks supporting optical disks is like putting a hand in a toilet, etc.
Any annual salary increase that is below inflation is a salary decrease.
Any real-world side effects of Reality TV?
> As the demand dwindles the US has to sell its bonds cheaper
To be clear, we see no indication of this. (The Fed reduced its balance sheet in the last 3 years on the order of the GDP of Spain or Brazil [1][2].)
[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/policy-normali...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
You're getting a bit boring, and are not arguing in good faith. "Reliably"... as per your definition I guess. You have now made 60(!!!) comments in this thread questioning everything and everybody without ever once accepting that other people's experiences do not necessarily have to match your own. If you did some reading rather than just writing you'd have seen that I gave a very specific example right in this thread. You are now going on my blocklist because I really don't have time or energy to argue with language zealots.
Companies are made of people. Companies only use people if the people who make up the companies are ok with it. Being a decisionmaker in a company doesn't give you carte blanche to behave like an amoral automaton.
So no, MongoDB are assholes for doing this. They could have had some humanity and prioritized human well-being over cost savings.
I've used VxWorks as well, yes, it was slimmer (a lot slimmer, actually), but I would disagree that it was more reliable. QnX supported a ton of hardware out of the box and if there ever was unreliability as far as I've seen it it was always comms layer related, never the core OS or any other bits that you could put next to VxWorks and compare on a functional level. You just required a much bigger SBC to run it, and that's why we used VxWorks in the first place. But I would have been much happier with QnX. I'm imagining the modern day equivalent of QnX running on a Raspberry Pi Pico or one of the larger Arduino's or a Teensy. That would be an absolute game-changer.
Google's stance on this was fairly draconian when I was working there, basically Google's position was that they could be in ANY business at ANY time so that ANY thing you worked on was theirs. On the day I joined, one of the other new hires had a marked up copy of the agreement with some VERY simple wording changes that said basically "wasn't in this business at the time the employee started working on the project" (aka a no retro-active clause) because this individual pointed out quite reasonably that if they were working on something in good faith on their own that wasn't part of Google's business and it turned out to be a really good idea, then Google, based on how the agreement was written, could go back and say "but we're in that business now too and you were working for us so we own your idea."
To which the HR person at the orientation had said, "Don't worry Google wouldn't do that." And this individual said, "I'm sure they wouldn't, that's why it seems like a no-brainer to put it into the agreement, it just says they won't do something that you and I both agree they would never do. I can't sign the document as written without this." The HR person took the updated version off to someone (presumably legal). And then after lunch this person was not in the group (I had seen them eating lunch) So when we had finished up, before my mentor had arrived I went out and found them waiting on the circle for a ride and asked them what happened. They said, "Google said no and also said they were rescinding the offer of employment."
And that told me everything I needed to know about how Google really thought about things vs what they said they thought about things.
I used to get into arguments with people in the Fedi who couldn't seem to make up their minds whether they wanted to be visible or invisible. To me it seemed like it made no sense, like if you really want to be invisible just don't post it because you can't really take things back.
At some point I realized those people were just like that.
I worked at a startup circa 2012 or so which was unusually unclear in its mission but the paychecks and the parties were good and the idea seemed to be helping people partition out different parts of the identities in terms of interests so you could get Paul-the-mild-mannered-applications-developer, Paul-as-a-marketer/huckster, and Paul-as-a-fox, and Paul-with-an-embarassing-interest, etc.
We had the hardest time explaining to the press (TechCrunch would say they didn't get it!) and everyone else, I could probably pitch it as well as anybody and I didn't do very well.
I got inspired by this the other day and made something related, though user-drawable:
Obviously nowhere near as good as Floor796, but if you like pixel art, maybe you'll like my weekend hack.
They do, by decreasing the dependency on C, and the lack of interest WG14 shows in improving C.
It is like gardening, slowly taking away all the paths bad weeds are still able to spoil the garden.
We might not remove all of them, however if they are only able to thrive on a little gardner corner surrouned by sand is already an improvement.
Could be; after ~3 years, my Samsung Galaxy S7 would reset if I tried to make a call with battery below ~20%. I immediately knew it was the battery, because I still remember noticing it as a kid on Nokia 3410 - calling would sometimes drop the battery indicator by one bar, which would come back moments after call ended. That's how I learned about internal resistance and how battery capacity is measured :).
As for fixes in software, it's either treating it as WAI, or secretly throttling down the phone, like Apple did, for which they got accused of planned obsolescence. Neither choice is good (though actually informing the users would go a long way).
If you join a startup, and have equity that isn’t special in some way (defending against liquidation preference or dilution), you’re the sucker. You’re just going to grind for someone else’s payday when a deal is made in a room you’re not in. You’ll only be made rich if someone with the power to drive the decision thinks you should be. As always, it’s who you know and being likable.
I get into arguments about this with my wife, who is a riding instructor but I think has poor "dog sense". That is, when she is helping a friend who is out of town with a dog she goes in the house and yells the dog's name and the dog is cowering in the crate. I just flop down on the bed and the dog comes out of the crate.
I ran with a pack of dogs as a kid and developed "peer" body language instinctively that helps me click instantly with strange dogs but my wife warns me that I'd better watch out with more dominant dogs because I might get attacked. My problem now is that I go out-as-a-fox these days with a hood that people read right but that I think dogs read as "bear".
> you get scraps for everything not cars.
In a place like Manhattan, the sidewalks are wide and, like I said, plenty of space has been made, and continues to be made, for bike lanes.
The good thing is that space for pedestrians and cyclists doesn't actually require taking away that much space from cars as a percentage. There's plenty of room, you just knock out a lane, as NYC has been doing.
So I don't really know what you're arguing? It's not "table scraps". You certainly don't need the width of a 4-lane highway just for pedestrians and cyclists.
What does a content diff show?
Yeah unless you are a founder or top investor it’s pretty much a guarantee that there will be no exit.
Sequioa hasn't fixed the attack from the beginning of the talk, the one where they convert between cleartext and full signature formats and inject unsigned bytes into the output because of the confusion.
Image thumbnails are slow to load for me, my ADSL is not great, but many sites load better than that.
I collect ero images but find OnlyFans offputting and feel the same way about the images and text that get surfaced on your site, personally I wouldn't want to stick with it. That said, the UI is slick.
A text search for "cosplay" turned up 0% relevant images from my point of view, multiple searches I tried turned up the same girl in the #1 slot frequently so I think in terms of blending relevance vs popularity/quality you aren't emphasizing relevance. ("Cosplay" tag is just as bad, I only start to hit if I add another filter for an Asian country)
I did upload a pic of an S-rank cosplay model and did get other cosplayers so that seems to work.
I was hoping I could pick a girl from the search results and find similar girls but it wasn't clear how to do so.
I swear I want this as a general tool for all command-line tools.
Start the tool, and just list all of the options in order of usage popularity to toggle on as desired, with a brief explanation, and a field to paste in arguments like filenames or values when needed. If an option is commonly used with another (or requires it), provide those hints (or automatically add the necessary values). If a value itself has structure (e.g. is itself a shell command), drill down recursively. Ensure that quotes and spaces and special characters always get escaped correctly.
In other words, a general-purpose command-line builder. And while we're at it, be able to save particular "templates" for fast re-use, identifying which values should be editable in the future.
I can't be the first person to think of this, but I've never come across anything like it and don't understand why not. It doesn't require AI or anything. Maybe it's the difficulty involved in creating the metadata for each tool, since man pages aren't machine-readable. But maybe that's where AI can help -- not in the tool itself, but to create the initial database of tool options, that can then be maintained by hand?
(Navi [1] does the templating part, but not the "interactive builder" part.)
https://ewastemonitor.info/the-global-e-waste-monitor-2024/
> A record 62 million tonnes (Mt) of e-waste was produced in 2022, Up 82% from 2010; On track to rise another 32%, to 82 million tonnes, in 2030; Billions of dollars worth of strategically-valuable resources squandered, dumped; Just 1% of rare earth element demand is met by e-waste recycling
> The 62 million tonnes of e-waste generated in 2022 would fill 1.55 million 40-tonne trucks, roughly enough trucks to form a bumper-to-bumper line encircling the equator, according to the report from ITU and UNITAR.
> Meanwhile, less than one quarter (22.3%) of the year’s e-waste mass was documented as having been properly collected and recycled in 2022, leaving US$ 62 billion worth of recoverable natural resources unaccounted for and increasing pollution risks to communities worldwide.
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/electronic-...
> Electronic waste (e-waste) is one of the fastest growing solid waste streams in the world (1). Less than a quarter of e-waste produced globally in 2022 was known to be formally recycled; however, e-waste streams contain valuable and finite resources that can be reused if they are recycled appropriately. E-waste has therefore become an important income stream for individuals and some communities. People living in low- and middle-income (LMICs), particularly children, face the most significant risks from e-waste due to lack of appropriate regulations and enforcement, recycling infrastructure and training. Despite international regulations targeting the control of the transport of e-waste from one country to another, its transboundary movement to LMICs continues, frequently illegally. E-waste is considered hazardous waste as it contains toxic materials and can produce toxic chemicals when recycled inappropriately. Many of these toxic materials are known or suspected to cause harm to human health, and several are included in the 10 chemicals of public health concern, including dioxins, lead and mercury. Inferior recycling of e-waste is a threat to public health and safety.
“Fake problem”
Roads cost money, costs are just catching up to reality. If folks are unhappy now when taxes are at historical lows while we accumulate all sorts of off book debt (in this case, “deferred maintenance”), further sadness is ahead. If one does not care to pay for roads, my recommendation is to live somewhere one doesn’t need roads, or the per capita costs are lower due to density (urban areas, broadly speaking), making paying the costs more palatable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_Trust_Fund
https://www.urban.org/policy-centers/cross-center-initiative... (“In 2021, state and local governments spent $206 billion, or 6 percent of direct general spending, on highways and roads. As a share of state and local direct general expenditures, highways and roads were the fifth-largest expenditure in 2021.”)
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2016-04-14/unpave-low-tra... (“The U.S. has 4.1 million miles of roads (1.9 million paved, 2.2 million gravel). About 3 million miles of roads have less than 2,000 vehicles a day, less than 15% of all traffic. The paved portion of these low-volume roads ought to be evaluated for their potential to be unpaved.”)
(very similar to how climate costs are causing agriculture and insurance costs to snap to reality, with similar sadness; debts coming due)
Actually it is more like all big corps campaigns that have successfully moved away from anything GPL as much as possible, while pushing for business friendly licenses.
Linux kernel and GCC are probably the only thing left they tolerate, and even then, it is less relevant in the cloud, with containers powered by type 1 hypervisors.
I avoid using it at work. I do write up extensive comments in JIRA (I am 100% satisfied with our specific JIRA) and also in code instead.
(1) Meyers-Brigg is popular among laymen but it is not well-regarded by psychometrists, you can find so many scales on line that are better. I suspect personalization would have an impact, I bet my Copilot would score higher on O-LIFE [1] then it would at baseline.
(2) No wonder they lean against "J", I mean they are designed to follow instructions and be useful even if their "first law of robotics" guides them against superficially defined forms of harm (won't "help me make an atom bomb" but will help you fire up the FORTRAN compiler and get neutronics monte carlo up and running)
I hear Pat Gelsinger is trying to build a Christian model and I'd expect that to be a bit more "J" as was another biblically based model that didn't like my fox altar which both Google and Copilot will tell me to "continue to use".
(3) There's a viewpoint that it could be harmful for models to "pose" as humans [2] most notably something in the back of my mind bothers me when Copilot (GPT-5 based) says things like "I am happy that you said..." when I know it has no feelings at all... But on the other hand this could be seen as an act of pragmatics that makes them more relatable, effective in communication, useful, successful in the market, etc.
If you believed that, a model should give refusals at many psychological scale questions or answer "No" to any "Have you ever ... ?" questions.
[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09209...
[2] should it say "speak for yourself!" when I ask "don't fungi use ergosterol the same way we use cholesterol?"
https://archive.today/sWcDv
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigitte_Bardot
https://www.brigitte-bardot.fr/