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Not all speakers work well as dynamic mics; and in fact turning on mic mode may enable the bias voltage, which could either burn out the voice coil or hold the diaphragm against the stop, making it even less likely to pick up any sound.
Jack retasking, although documented in applicable technical specifications, is not well-known, as was mentioned by the Linux audio developer
This could be a "bubble effect"; the Realtek codecs mentioned have a Windows utility to configure the jacks, which countless otherwise non-technical users would've seen and interacted with, so awareness of this feature is probably higher than they think. Fun fact: the "ALC" prefix in their codec names stands for Avance Logic, which was acquired by Realtek and they just kept that prefix well into the HD Audio era.
Postal savings at 2% interest. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2005/08/how-did-japan-s-...
I used to have one hour builds with C back in 1999 - 2002, for each of our target platforms, Aix, HP-UX, Solaris, Windows NT/2000, Red-Hat Linux, multiplied by Informix, Oracle, Sybase SQL Server, MS SQL Server, ODBC bindings.
A new product release would take a full day.
Goodbye WebAssembly "security".
Also, these folks should be amazed by 8 and 16 bit games development, or games consoles in general.
There's quite a lot of machinery from that era (and older) still functioning today, so it's not that surprising to see the same of this probe that was specifically designed for space travel.
I don't understand how that argument could even work. Since the dawn of recorded history there has been (1) wildly varying levels of civilizational achievement depending on the era and (2) not nearly enough time for meaningful selection effects to be the cause of those variations.
We could get into the reasons why physiological differences ("height") behave differently in genetics than behavioral differences ("cognition"), but we don't even reach that --- first you have to explain to me how genetic advantages are the reason European-extracted people are so successful now, but weren't in play when we were getting our asses handed to us by the Abbasids and Tang Dynasty Chinese.
> Anyone got something helpful to share in that regard?
If you can afford it, go work in a non-software domain for a while (maybe a year or two). You'll see all kinds of problems wherever you are, and you'll learn about the domain and other solutions.
Make a note of the ones connected to revenue.
Leave and go start your own thing, selling it back to wherever you worked (first customer problem solved).
Of course, it's not that easy, but I think digging in deep to a non-software domain is a great way to learn how to build a solo business.
It continues to irritate me that There aren't any other functioning deep space probes besides New Horizons (launched in 2006, and which flies at a slower speed than Voyagers). One new operating deep space probe in nearly 50 years is just embarrassing. I mean yay space telescopes and everything, but we seem to have given up anything that isn't a state-of-the-art prestige project. I was hopeful about projects like Breakthrough starshot but that seems to have stalled: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot
I wonder if photonic computing with variable wavelengths essentially gives you a float type in silico.
That was my first thought, but it's also possible that diplomatic partners like Pakistan (and through them, the US) get notification of impending announcements. idk if Iranian government insiders/diplomats are legally able to trade futures due to sanctions.
That's basically any editor with multi-cursor capability.
Homogenous might be awesome. I miss predictable UIs.
>The “1% problem” with AI is that you can spend a couple of minutes, 30 minutes, or an hour and get something interesting and passable. But in order for you to really share it with other people in your organization and for you to be able to guarantee the quality of the experience, the accuracy of the data and so on, you have to put in orders of magnitude more work, 10x or 100x, than it took to get the first draft out.
This is crazy talk.
Imagine deploying your bug fix and having to wait two days to find out if it worked!
I'm fascinated by this idea of not reviewing AI generated code. On the surface it sounds absurd - we know these machines make mistakes all the time, so how could we ever responsibly move ahead with code they have written without closely reviewing every detail?
Then I remembered the times I've worked at large companies and depended on code written by other teams. I didn't review every line of code they had written - I'd trust that they had done a competent job, integrate with that code myself, and only dig into the details of their code if I run into bugs or performance issues or other smells that something was wrong.
Trusting humans is obviously different from trusting AI - humans have reputations, and social contracts, and actual intelligence as opposed to multiplying matrices and rolling a dice. But... I do think an AI model can still earn trust over time. I've spent enough time with Opus 4.5 and 4.6 that I trust them not to make dumb mistakes with the common categories of code that I use them for. Of course now I need to rebuild that trust with 4.7!
I think the most interesting challenge here is to figure out how to have coding agents demonstrate that the code works without actually reading every line of it yourself - in the same way that I might ask an engineering team I haven't worked with before for a demo and then interrogate them about their testing strategy before relying on their work.
Slipping further into irrelevance.
Probably because the costly operation is loading it onto the GPU, doesn't matter if it's from disk or from your request.
Because there are many things where insurance doesn't exist.
Huh. Anywhere you'd suggest I can read more about this?
You have to copy data across, and confirm that everything worked correctly, and if you're being fancy about it you need to freeze writes to the old server while you are migrating and then unfreeze after you've directed traffic to the new server. It's not trivial.
Does it raise that question? Or is it rather a hopelessly ambiguous and undecidable question that's really more of a racialist rhetorical argument? The state of Israel was not formed based on a calculation of whether the Ottomans were better sovereigns to serve under than the French, German, or Russians.
I hope I'm communicating well where I'm coming from, which is not that you're wrong (or right) but rather how unproductive this particular species of reasoning is in modern geopolitical discussions.
For clarity and accuracy, in the hopes that the person reading it interprets in good faith.
I don't like or valorize billionaires, I guess (I mostly don't care about them), but I don't understand what's "inhumane" here. There aren't very many billionaires. Billion dollar companies are far more salient to ordinary people than billionaires are. And, obviously, you can't fund universal health care by liquidating the billionaires!
I've never really understood why people are so het up about billionaires. The distinction between them and decimillionaires seems mostly like comic book lifestyle stuff; like, OK, they fly their pets private for visitation with their ex-spouses or whatever, I guess that's offensive aesthetically?
Far, far more damaging to ordinary people is the Faustian bargain struck between the upper middle class and the (much smaller) upper class, which redistributes vast sums of many away from working class people into the bank accounts of suburban homeowners.
(Because fundamental attribution error guarantees threads like this will devolve into abstract left vs. right valence arguments, a policy stake in the ground: I broadly favor significantly higher and more progressive taxes, starting with a reconsideration of the degree to which we favor cap gains.)
Leaving aside that you applied the word "easy" to DNSSEC, how do you mean? How does DNSSEC solve the problem being discussed?
> especially in a multipolar world where American sanctions increasingly fail
You're claiming the U.S. government is impotent against holding Polymarket to account?
> These markets are global
The trades in question are bets on Polymarket and Intercontinental Exchange Brent oil futures. These are well within the remit of American law enforcement.
This is from the era of devices where the I/O was entirely electrical but the computation was mechanical. Most of this stuff came from naval gunnery. The naval "fire control tables" started out as mechanical computers where a rather large number of people were inputting different sensor readings via cranks and dials.[1] Gradually, more of the inputs came in directly from the sensors, and more of the outputs went directly to the gun turrets. The final form of this technology was units the size of a footlocker full of gears, cams, and resolvers, with all-electric inputs and outputs. Such things used to show up in surplus stores.
I've seen the restored guidance computer for the Nike missile, at the site in Marin County.[2] That's similar, although ground-based. Analog data came in from radars, was processed with mechanical computation, and control signals went out to the missile.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admiralty_Fire_Control_Table
There are plenty of things AI can do that students still benefit from learning.
the thing about hacking is... it's not that hard Look at the trope of the "high school hacker"
This isn't correct when you look at the numbers. You can try it yourself at https://us.abalancingact.com/federal-budget-simulator.
The thing is, in isolation, balancing the budget looks pretty easy. It's only because you have to deal with particular interest groups and a populace who has come to believe that any tax increase means they're getting shafted. I was able to balance that budget with the following changes:
1. Top one percent effective tax rate goes from 24 to 30 percent.
2. Higher income goes from 12.26 to 14.26.
3. Upper middle income goes from 7.7 to 8.7.
4. Middle income goes from 4.8 to 5.8.
5. Lower middle income goes from .1 to 1.1
6. Lower income goes from -4.1 to -3.1
7. Social payroll taxable maximum goes to 90% of taxable income.
Those changes alone, with absolutely no spending changes, balance the budget. Now, I'm not proposing that those changes are politically viable, and you can certainly fiddle with my distribution if you think something else would be fairer (I think it's fair because the rich have done much better than everyone else over the past 40 years so I think they can afford to pay more, but I also think that everyone should have to contribute something more or else you get the current problematic belief that the issue can be solved just by taxing somebody else), but I would strongly disagree if you wanted to argue that those changes would result in any substantial change in standard of living for anyone.
I think, numerically, the problem can pretty easily be solved just by taxation alone (though I think it would make sense to add some spending cuts), just not politically.
I don't think it's necessary --- AI slop is instantly recognisable, but this clearly isn't. Let's not turn this into another divisive diversion.
I think a lot of the reason for the war on taxes is the exorbitant privilege [1] of owning the world reserve currency. It lets America print as many dollars as it wants, and borrow in a currency it controls entirely. In a normal country this would result in severe inflation, but because America borrows and prints a currency that is necessary abroad to conduct international trade, it is able to "export" a large part of its inflation.
In such a system, it is rational to cut taxes as much as possible and instead rely on borrowing and monetization of debt. It allows America to limit the load on its own citizens, who in turn enjoy "exorbitant privilege" in the colloquial rather than economic sense, and then have the costs spread amongst the billions of people who don't live here. Privatize the gains, socialize the losses.
The flip side is that if the U.S. dollar ever loses its reserve currency status, that is literally the end of the United States. It will no longer have the ability to fund the government, which is fed by debt that is largely snapped up by foreigners who need a place to park the dollars that move abroad from the persistent trade deficits needed to sustain reserve currency status. It will also no longer have a citizenry or economy capable of doing anything other than moving capital (finance) and jobs (tech) around in the global economy, since in the current reserve currency economy, those are the only sectors that are profitable to go into. If it happens, expect basically a collapse of society and multi-sided civil war.
How do you know they didn't? When was the last time you just let bugs spend time on you?
They didn't really found a successful business. They founded a middling business that didn't do much but license a patent until Security Dynamics, a smart card company, bought them and took over the name.
As someone that was there, it was certainly referred to as 16 bit machine between my higschool and tiny demoscene city group.
As it followed up on our ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 8 bit home computers.
This, the push towards per-token API charging, and the rest are just a sign of things to come when they finally establish a moat and full monoply/duopoly, which is also what all the specialized tools like Designer and integrations are about.
It's going to be a very expensive game, and the masses will be left with subpar local versions. It would be like if we reversed the democratization of compilers and coding tooling, done in the 90s and 00s, and the polished more capable tools are again all proprietary.
Perhaps they don't identify as a passive news consumer about irrelevant people, but as a resident with a bond to their city and wider community.
Imagine that!
Style guides always implicitly carry context for what they are the style guides for. Most of them are for journalism in one way or another. Passive voice is clearly wrong in journalism. All actions were taken by someone. All results stem from someone's actions.
It is an error to apply those style guides blindly to mismatched contexts. Other than as an exercize in following a style guide, it is not great to teach students that they should always write in a journalistic style, because it is simply untrue. There is nothing wrong with writing "A program will be written" when it is unknown who will write a program, and it is an error to avoid the passive voice by adding incorrect details.
>Do not make the mistake of modeling the attackers as "some guy in a basement with a laptop who decided just today to start attacking things". There are nation-state attackers.
The parent's point is that if those capable attackers can exploit it anyway, doesn't mean it should be given on a silver platter to any script kiddie and guy in some basement with a laptop. The first have a much smaller target group than the latter.
Vega OS isn't Android, Amazon has moved away from it.
It is a Linux distro, and apps must be written in React Native (C++ libraries supported), or Web.
Back when I cared about Android development, Google was famous for releasing stable builds of Android Studio/Android Gradle Plugin, that always broke on day 1, regardless of how many preview and candidate builds predated it.
The company with hiring processes for the creme de la creme among developers.
Only because UWP and Win32 sandboxing haven't taken off as Microsoft would like, mostly because they messed up the delivery.
Windows 11 was taken from the ashes of Windows 10X project.
https://youtu.be/ztrmrIlgbIc?is=6a5CpyAUUpcbDL3n
Anyway in enterprise context, IT can already restrict what you run via group policies.
You and I would need to know "what where how".
There are many attackers that are just going to feed every commit of every project of interest to them into their LLMs and tell it "determine if this is patching an exploit and if so write the exploit". They don't need targeting clues. They're already watching everything coming out of
Do not make the mistake of modeling the attackers as "some guy in a basement with a laptop who decided just today to start attacking things". There are nation-state attackers. There are other attackers less funded than that but who still may not particularly blink at the plan I described above. Putting out the commit was sufficient to tell them even today exactly what the exploit was and the cheaper AI time gets the less targeting info they're going to need as the just grab everything.
I suggest modeling the attackers like a Dark Google. Think of them as well-funded, with lots of resources, and this is their day job, with dedicated teams and specialized positions and a codebase for exploits that they've been working on for years. They're not just some guy who wants to find an exploit maybe and needs huge hints about what commit might be an issue.
Would it be any better if they cared but still couldn't tame them in a 25 year old project?
The japanese railroads are owned by private companies.
Projects like this is why making languages like C++ safer is also relevant, we're not rewriting the world.
Kudos for keeping improving Kdelive.
This behavior is probably overrepresented in the bougie places reporters live. I dropped my daughter off at the mall to hang out with their friends and one of the moms followed them around the whole time. They're all 13!
I love the old school website. Amazed how good the my wax seal likeness is.
> how has the US lost the plot within such a short time? How did it go from the flag bearer of freedom and progress to isolationist bully that wants to invade Greenland and become best friends with Russia?
American culture has lost its near-monopoly on optimism. We're now almost as cynical as the Europeans. (:D)
That cynicism means civic disengagement, technological doomerism and general symptoms of depression. That collectively degrades the mostly bottom-up structures we've long relied on, requiring shifts to less-efficient (and hastily cobbled together) top-down command structures.
Under this definition, everything is gambling, including commenting on HN (will I get upvoted or downvoted?).
As the saying goes, "location location location". Must have been a pretty strategically important beach.
AI progress may fizzle out, but everything it produced so far would still be there. Models are just big bags of floats - once trained, they're around forever (well, at least until someone deletes them), same is true about harnesses they run in (it's just programs).
But AI proliferation is not stopping soon, because we've not picked up even the low hanging fruits just yet. Again, even if no new SOTA models were to be trained after today, there's years if not decades of R&D work into how to best use the ones we have - how to harness the big ones, where to embed the small ones, and of course, more fundamental exploration of the latent spaces and how they formed, to inform information sciences, cognitive sciences, and perhaps even philosophy.
And if that runs out or there is an Anti AI Revolution, we can still run those weather models and route planners on the chips once occupied by LLMs - just don't tell the proles that those too are AI, or it's guillotine o'clock again.
Scapegoating is a very real problem of dysfunctional cultures, but I think the author undermines their point at the end by citing someone who thinks that lisp is the solution.
I put forward a slightly different position: Agile evolved from consulting shops, where suspicion is built in to the contract process. Both sides have an undercurrent of "are these people trying to scam us?", with regards to how much work for how much money and what results.
In that context, Agile ends up as "two week waterfall": you deliver a smaller set of things, more frequently. That compresses the blame cycle, and reduces the maximum size of disagreement.
> Yeah if you only read comments on HN but not the actual linked article you will get oversimplified conclusion. Like, duh?
Curiously, for most submissions it's the opposite - comments are much more useful and nuanced than the source being discussed.
Friends don't let friends use vi - they know that once you start, you'll never quit!
But you could pour water at the fire from across the room!
Lower gravity is giving the defender an advantage over the elements... at least until it gets low enough for things to start floating, when this flips around. In microgravity, water turns into floating blobs, but fire turns into actual floating fireballs.
Water blobs vs. fireballs. Pretty sure there's a nice videogame idea hiding in there somewhere.
what has _that_ got to do with ipv6 adoption/usage ?
afaics, it probably has more to do with large indian-isp’s f.e. jio adopting ipv6.
First para says "every lithium battery", second says "This regulation applies to all batteries with a capacity above 2kWh or those used in electric vehicles.". Which is it?
(For reference, phone batteries are more like 20 watt hours)
> What does your ISP support?
My ISP is Spectrum. They get a 0/10 on IPv6 support on this test page [1].
> Is it possible to trace this stuff back to individuals?
Yes, depending where the trades were based and their market participants' KYC rigor.
As the article mentions, the CFTC "is examining a series of trades in oil futures placed shortly before major shifts in President Donald Trump's Iran war policy" [1]. If the "lots of Brent crude futures" the article mentioned traded on the Intercontinental Exchange [2], when we can almost certainly trace it back to at least some individuals.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-probes-suspicious...
[2] https://www.ice.com/products/219/Brent-Crude-Futures/data
That said, "heavy ions and atomic nuclei of elements such as carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, neon, magnesium, silicon, sulfur, and iron" makes up only "trace amounts" of the solar-wind plasma [1].
From an old Mack Reynolds short story. The recipient is receiving a message from an alien space station, but doesn't have the alien's message machine, just a decoder.
Seal Ready
Stamp-Emblem Ready
Number One Paper
Strike: Embossing Master Emblem Number Two
**** Border
Begin Message
From: Commander Space Fortress Ironclaw�
To: Commander Unidentified Damaged Warship
Sir:
Your ****-signal received and acknowledged herewith. This is the correct
signal for the ****. However, we require the following information:
1) Who are you?
2) What is the name of your ship?
3) What are the circumstances surrounding the **** of your ship?
This information must be forwarded at once, or we must refuse entry.
Stand off while replying.
Cordial claw-claspings,
Gratz Ialwo,
Commander Space Fortress Ironclaw
Fold Message and Glue Shut
Stick Seal
Stamp Great Claw on Front
Eject> While she might not have direct memory of the event, it would not be unheard of for older relatives to explain the picture to her when she was older. Just because she doesn't remember it directly does not automatically make the story of the picture untrue.
I have a memory of having a tantrum at the Taj Mahal which can't be a real memory because I would have been 3 at the time. But it definitely h appened. It's a reconstructed memory from having seen a photo my dad took from the trip and my dad telling me about it.
> at what point does something go from “side project” to “business”?
When you get serious about making a substantial profit.
> And how do you tell if it’s worth trying to scale vs just leaving as is?
If you can make more money flipping burgers at McDonald's than the business, I'd try something else.
I'd be more impressed if there were videos of it cleaning a dirty floor.
This seems to be a generic problem with cleaning robots. Not finding videos of them doing hard cleaning jobs. Not even the commercial ones have such videos. Compare, say, the Barber Surf Rake videos.[1] Seaweed, rocks, storm debris, spring break - it goes down the beach and leaves clean sand behind. If these cleaning robots start showing up in restaurant kitchens, they really work. They're used in stores and airports, but it's not clear if they get the hard messes.
There are commercial floor cleaners which work by brute force. They have powerful brushes working at high pressure, and can scrub off just about anything from hard floors. But they're using way too much power most of the time, and they're big and heavy. Something with enough smarts to know when to apply brute force is a win.
The thing has a cyclone, not a bag. Cyclones are useful devices which violate the rule "you can only make something clean by making something else dirty". They're centrifugal separators - solids get centrifuged out of air. Most serious wood shops have a cyclone. Dyson vacuums have used cyclones for years, so this isn't novel.
> compliance model is very simple. Do not collect data. Problem solved
In a perfect world, yes. In the real world, there is an entire industry of lawyers who will smother your competitors with bogus requests because GDPR requires you spend time and resources to investigate and respond to each and every complaint regardless of merit.
The notoriety of Coq's name is, by a long, long way, the most embarrassing message board trope on HN. For years, you couldn't run a story about Coq --- a genuinely interesting and important piece of software --- on the front page without attracting sophomoric comments about a (bad) English transliteration? is that the word? of the name.
So like 4 years ago they renamed it, literally for this reason, which is embarrassing all on its own, and that's still not enough to get HN to stop talking about it.
I rarely do this, because the moderators really don't want anybody doing it, but I'll say out loud this time: I flagged this post. Just leave them alone.
I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.
A static website that says "<h1>Ja</h1>" would have been enough.
Where are you seeing 2020? Also, this list is widows, not veterans.
Makes me wonder if Claude Code has similar vulnerabilities, as it has a pretty rich terminal interface as well.
I think the real solution is that you shouldn't try to bolt colors, animations, and other rich interactivity features onto a text-based terminal protocol. You should design it specifically as a GUI protocol to begin with, with everything carefully typed and with well-defined semantics, and avoid using hacks to layer new functionality on top of previously undefined behavior. That prevents whatever remote interface you have from misinterpreting or mixing user-provided data with core UI code.
But that flies in the face of how we actually develop software, as well as basic economics. It will almost always be cheaper to adapt something that has widespread adoption into something that looks a little nicer, rather than trying to get widespread adoption for something that looks a little nicer.
You'd be the best person in this thread to answer this question.
Much of the sadness of the current tech industry comes about because the user's problems were solved in the 90s but now we need to make up new ones to justify the fat salaries, headcount increases, and stock price.
Whether there are meaningful genetic variations in intelligence (the subtext of these discussions is always intelligence) that break down in any scientifically valid way along "racial" lines is very much in doubt. What we have is evidence of (socioculturally-sense) racial disparities in psychometric tests in a limited number of (largely western) countries. We don't have causality, we don't have wide surveys globally, we don't even have that much certainty about the test validity. It's equally plausible that the variations we see are SES and cultural transmission effects.
Contra claims elsewhere on this thread, science on this topic isn't suppressed at all. There are multiple branches (in quantitative psychology and genetics) that study this issue actively, and if you follow it, new papers aren't rare. But directionally those papers aren't confirming the priors of the people claiming the science is suppressed, so they don't get acknowledged.
Not going with C/C++/Rust style brace syntax probably cost them more devs than anything else...
Well, that and the proprietary compilers
As the meme goes, "they are the same picture".
Bartenders will also kick you out if you bring your own booze to a bar.
If you're not familiar with Folding Ideas, he tends to be deconstructive-but-informative, in this case about the business of MrBeast/YouTube.
Airbus is not an American company, and any legal framework on which to base a sanction is shaky at best - there is no law forbidding selling images of military assets of a foreign country to a client during peacetime.
- design time earned about $25/hour
- $3666 total revenue
- $3352 in expenses
- ~50 orders fulfilled
- ~3000 hours of logged print time.
This tells the whole story... these numbers are so far off from what they should be that this is not a business, but a charity cosplaying as a business. It's a pity you are going to drop this, I think if you adjust your pricing and become a bit more efficient you can easily make it work. But great you're sharing your numbers, you really just need better customers.
Rules of thumb: 10x on materials, base fee of $3 / hour of print time, $100 / hour design time if < 1000 parts, above that you can start pricing it into the job total.
I have a few vague memories of being 3. I expect if something dramatic had happened, I'd remember that.
This is an interesting article on how open licensing can help ensure viability long after the original designer has left the game.
If it's in scope to "way worse" someone to get their fingerprint, I'm sure I can be very persuasive in getting their passwords.
Because the people making purchasing decisions for SAP and Salesforce are not people who spend any substantial share of their time using it directly or care about the UX.
> You used to have to either care enough to do the design yourself or find someone who cared and specialized in that to do it for you.
You think most UI/UX designers, or the artists creating slop for content marketing spam factories for the past decades, cared? Some, maybe. Most probably had higher ambitions, but are doing what actually pays their bills.
It's similar to software developers. Most of those being paid to code couldn't care less, they're in there for the fat paycheck; everyone else mostly complains the work is boring or dumb (or worse), but once you have those skills, it makes no economic sense to switch careers (unless, of course, you're into management, or into playing the entrepreneurship roulette).
"Our current (April 2026) object usage is: 14 million objects, 119GB"
I mean, I appreciate the openness about the scale, but for context, my home's personal backup managed via restic to S3 is 370GB. Fewer objects, but still, we're not talking a big install here.
This is pretty much like that story of, if it fits on your laptop, it's not big data.
This image shows a close-up of the second story window (Courtesy the New York Times)
A 'close up' that is smaller and lower resolution than the main photo on the article, which is courtesy of the NY public library. NY Times isn't mentioned in the text at all. Is this entire article an LLM hallucination?
I scored 8 so I’m all full of myself.
> The right wing wants to help people in the long term and the left wing wants to help people in the short term.
The right-wing wants to narrow the concentration of power and increase inequality and rigidity of social heirarchy, the left-wing wants to increase the distribution of power and decrease inequality and rigidity of social heirarchy.
Each side views their orientation as being what helps people (or, at least, the people who should be helped) in the long term, and usually the short term as well.
Many people were hoping that Sonnet 4.6 was "Opus 4.5 quality but with Sonnet speed/cost" but unfortunately that didn't pan out.
One of the top comments on the Youtube version:
> This video was surprisingly interesting.
People say "Practice makes perfect" ... they're wrong.
Practice make permanent.
You need to practise the right thing, and that's where you will benefit from good quality feedback.
Learning on your own is hard.
> but from a superficial glance it kind of seems like trying to cut down on standards or efficiency.
That's kind of the norm in the current US administration, so it shouldn't be surprising.
"Answer" (1954) [1] Much faster results.
[1] https://calumchace.com/favourite-relevant-sf-short-story/
It literally says 'Inflation-adjusted costs' on the right side of the graph, right under the main title, FFS.
Gotta say, there were 2 earlier posts, last night and this morning, reporting this news, but neither got any any votes or comments here. PEople on HN love complaining about FISA but are oddly mute when its up for renewal or supporting a rare win like this where it's not automatically rubber-stamped for another X years.
Those ads were the only way to actually know what software and hardware was available to buy, including information related to "open source of the day", shareware, PD,...
Access to BBS was super expensive unless you were lucky to afford a modem, and live on local call distance.
European magazine like Computer Shopper were of similar size and ads ratio.