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Maybe you should change your line of work. If you're that unhappy about what you do in spite of the fact that what you do is orders of magnitude more important than the next move-fast-and-break-things-advertising-driven-unicorn then that suggests to me that you should let someone else take over who does derive happiness from it and you get yours from a faster paced environment.
Personally, you couldn't pay me enough to do the latter and I'd be more than happy to do the former (but I'm not exactly looking for a job).
> the cost is really high per audience member.
Disney has problems with that. Their Galactic Starcruiser themed hotel experience cost more to the customer than a cruise on a real cruise ship, and Disney was still losing money on it. The cost merely to visit their parks is now too high for most Americans.
It's really hard to make money in mass market location-based entertainment. There have been many attempts, from flight simulators to escape rooms. Throughput is just too low, so cost per customer is too high.
A little mobile robot connected to an LLM chatbot, though - that's not too hard today. Probably coming to a mall near you soon. Many stores already have inventory bots cruising around. They're mobile bases with a tall column of cameras which scan the shelves.[2] There's no reason they can't also answer questions about what's where in the store. They do know the inventory.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Galactic_Starcruise...
This is Garman SafeReturn, and this is its first real save. Here's a demo.[1] It's been shipping since about 2020, originally on the Cirrus Vision Jet. There's a lot going on. The system is aware of terrain, weather, and fuel, but not of runway status. So it gives the ground a few minutes to get ready, sending voice emergency messages to ATC. If you watch the flight track, you can see the aircraft circle several times, some distance from the airport, then do a straight-in approach. It sets up for landing, wheels down, flaps down, lands, brakes, and turns of the the engine. It doesn't taxi. Someone from the ground will have to tow or taxi the aircraft off the runway.
It's mostly GPS driven, plus a radar altimeter for landing.
The system can be triggered by a button in the cockpit, a button in the passenger area, and a system that detects the pilot isn't making any inputs for a long period or the aircraft is unstable and the pilot isn't trying to stabilize it. The pilot can take control back, but if they don't, the airplane will be automatically landed.
(2012)
This article can be summarised in one word: learning. I've noticed over the years that there seems to be a growing divide amongst programmers, between those who believe in learning, and those who don't (and actively try to avoid it); unfortunately the latter has become a majority position, but I still try to show others this article when they don't understand code that I've written and would rather I stoop to their level.
A look around the site at what else he has accomplished, should be enough evidence that he isn't just a charlatan, unlike some others who have made a consulting career out of spouting pompous hot air about methodology.
> Time and time again we see that 'one size fits all' is simply not true
Do we though? It feels like we're still in the stage where we're just trying to figure out what the best solution is for grid-scale storage, but once we do figure it out, the most efficient solution will win out over all the others. Yes, there may be some regional variation (e.g. TFA mentions how pumped hydro is great but only makes sense where geography supports it), but overall it feels like the world will eventually narrow things down to a very small number of solutions.
In other words they've just privatised the mail service.
It's been decades since I wrote a letter and mailed it.
YOShInOn gave me three choices for this article including
(2) https://phys.org/news/2025-11-species-consciousness-consciou...
and
(3) https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article/380/1939/202...
of which I thought the one I posted (1) fit my intuitive model that we don't give animals enough credit for their mental faculties of which I'd say that generically birds and mammals are probably capable of just about everything we are except for language in the Chomsky sense if not the Saussure sense.
(2) is crammed with obnxious ads and is suppressed by a quota of articles from that site that I enforce, I liked the intellectual framework behind (3) a lot. So (2) vs (3) was a tough call for me, I can punch in a manual override to post either one of them or both.
> Assuming there's hundreds or thousands of self-driving cars suddenly driving in environment without any traffic lights.
Self-driving cars should (1) know how to handle stops, and (2) know that the rules for a failed traffic light (or one flashing red) are those for an all-way stop.
Unfortunately the EU has no 2nd Amendment, or they could go the route of classifying encryption as a munition.
So .. significantly less dangerous than a corresponding volume of natural gas, which is also unbreathable but also flammable/explosive?
> Windows 95. No upselling services. No automatic updates
Even Windows 95 came bundled with MSN on the desktop which had a paid monthly fee to access. And its lack of automatic updates was a real problem, as you had to manually find the service packs and security patches. The automatic updates in Windows XP were vastly more convenient.
Automatic updates are needed for security. The only era when you didn't need them was pre-Internet. They're not something we want to get rid of.
Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) and Currency Transaction Reports (CTRs). I’ve also noticed (perhaps this is not recent though) the max cash limit at some ATMs reduced from $500 to $400. If you purchase $1000 or more in USPS money orders, the rep will take a copy of your government identification.
https://www.occ.treas.gov/topics/supervision-and-examination...
There needs to be a button on the console of every airplane which is "return the airplane to straight and level".
Claude 4.5 Opus on Claude Code's $20 plan is funny because you get about 2-3 prompts on any nontrivial task before you hit the session limit.
If I wasn't only using it for side projects I'd have to cough up the $200 out of necessity.
One thing working on this project has already done is give me more appreciation for a lot of Zig's design.
Zig really aims to be great at things I don't imagine Rue being useful for, though. But there's lots of good stuff there.
And lots of respect to Swift as well, it and Hylo are also major inspiration for me here.
Google solved most of these problems around 2005, with tools like LOG_EVERY_N (now part of absl [1]), Dapper [2], and several other tools that aren't public yet. You can trace an individual request through every internal system, view the request/response protobufs, every log that the server emitted, timing details, etc. More to the point, you can share this trace, which means that it's possible for one person to discover the bug, reproduce it, and then have another person in a completely different office/timezone/country debug it, even if the latter cannot reproduce the bug themselves. This has proved hugely useful; just last week I was tasked with reproducing a bug on sparsely-available prerelease hardware so that a distant team could diagnose what went wrong.
The key insight that this article hints at but doesn't quite get too: you should treat your logs as a product whose customers are the rest of the devs in your company. The way you log things is intimately connected with what you want to do with them, and you need to build systems to generate useful insights from the log statements. In some cases it literally is part of the product: many of the machine learning systems that generate recommendations, search results, spam filtering, abuse detection, traffic direction, etc. are all based on the logs for the product, and you need to consider them as first-class citizens that you absolutely cannot break while adding new features. Logs are not just for debugging.
[1] https://absl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/absl.logging.html
[2] https://research.google/pubs/dapper-a-large-scale-distribute...
Prompting an AI and then filtering the results is a "human choice".
Patrick very carefully declined to give examples of such legitimate yet debanked businesses. Presumably because they're all grey market stuff that sets off a whole other "wait, is that legal?" conversation.
I have never seen a legitimate business asking for payment in gift cards. I've encountered the traditional tradesmen offering discounts for cash, though.
Edit: I think he may actually be talking about businesses accepting payments in their own gift cards, which is so obvious that it's easy to forget. It's not a scam when Apple ask you to pay in Apple gift cards. It's just the only non scam such case.
Clickable link to the repo: https://github.com/mrsurge/framework-shells
Sure, AI code reviews aren't a replacement for an architecture review on a larger team project.
But they're fantastic at spotting dumb mistakes or low-hanging fruit for improvements!
And having the AI spot those for you first means you don't waste your team's valuable reviewing time on the simple stuff that you could have caught early.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duodenum
Fascinating.
I hope registering an entire domain name for a blog post doesn't become a trend. I like linking to things that are likely to last a long time - a personal blog is one thing, but expecting people to keep paying the renewal fee every year for a single article feels less likely to me.
A good alternative here is subdomains, since those don't have an additional annual fee. https://logging-sucks.boristane.com/ could work well here.
I use the Sperti Vitamin D sunlamp at home during the winter months. It wasn't cheap but wasn't crazy expensive either and seems to be what you want (e.g. UVB).
The problem isn't so much automation, but that the benefits of automation are invariably reaped by a few tech CEOs. It's not society in general that benefits, it's that the rich get richer, and the rest of us barely scrape by. If wealth were evenly distributed, nobody would bat an eyelid at AI.
AI is not the problem. Late-stage capitalism and wealth disparity is.
> I realized I looked at this more from the angle of a hobbiest paying for these coding tools. Someone doing little side projects—not someone in a production setting. I did this because I see a lot of people signing up for $100/mo or $200/mo coding subscriptions for personal projects when they likely don’t need to.
Are people really doing that?
If that's you, know that you can get a LONG way on the $20/month plans from OpenAI and Anthropic. The OpenAI one in particular is a great deal, because Codex is charged a whole lot lower than Claude.
The time to cough up $100 or $200/month is when you've exhausted your $20/month quota and you are frustrated at getting cut off. At that point you should be able to make a responsible decision by yourself.
>I can't imagine how you could even design something in CAD in a way that you would end up in this situation.
Are all CAD programs parametric or make their parametric functionality obvious? If not, that's how you end up in this situation.
>Every time we automate something the luddites cry out about the coming mass unemployment. It has never happened
It has happened each and every time, it just haven't affected you personally. Starting of course with the original luddites - they didn't complain out of some philosophical opposition to automation.
Each time in changes like this a huge number of people lost their jobs and took big hits in their quality of life. The "new jobs", when they arrive, arrive for others.
This includes the post 1990s switch to service and digital economies and outsourcing, which obliterated countless factory towns in the US - and those people didn't magically turn to coders and creatives. At best they took unemployment, big decreases in job prospects, shitty "gig" economy jobs, or, well, worse, including alcohol and opiods.
With AI it's even worse, since it has the capacity to replace jobs without adding new ones, or a tiny handful at a hugely smaller rate.
> People have to stand back 70m until it clears.
How did they calculate that evacuation distance? CO2 is heavy. That little house about 15m from the bubble needs to be acquired.
The topography matters. If the installation is in a valley, a dome rip could make air unbreathable, because the CO2 will settle at the bottom. People have been killed by CO2 fire extinguishing systems. It takes a reasonably high concentration, a few percent, but that can happen. They need alarms and handy oxygen masks.
Installations like this probably will be in valleys, because they will be attached to wind farms. The wind turbines go in the high spots and the energy storage goes in the low spots.
I suspect it's gradual cost-cutting. At the manufacturing scales they're operating with, even one keyswitch adds up.
Best HN post of the year. I just surfaced after hours exploring.
Hiding dislikes is stupid. they don't even show them to you on the creator page so I'm required to do math to derive the number of dislikes from the # of likes and the '% favorability' metric.
Certainly, such tools can be abused as documented in the article. The solution to this is to deweight signals from people who do it systematically.
Why would anyone want to buy a new computer now unless the old one is worn out? There is no price/performance improvement. Nor will there be for the next five years or so. NVidia says to expect 10% price increases each year. DRAM prices have doubled, and Samsung says not to expect price cuts. Micron just exited the retail RAM business.
Microsoft is trying to escape this trap by pivoting to Windows as a subscription service. It will get worse, not better.
I've noticed that car alarms that go off for no good reason seem to be back. Those used to be a thing, but they'd mostly disappeared. But I keep hearing them in parking lots, with nobody anywhere near the car. At least they shut off after a while. That was legislated back in the 1980s.
Oh. That kind of "famous".
It also means that their claims of "autonomy" are fraudulent, like most "self driving" cars. A car which depends on powered infrastructure outside the car to drive is not autonomous.
I wouldn't fish anywhere near a this or any other semi manufacturing plant.
Codex (at least 5 and 5.1) is bad at asking for permission. Whenever it wants to run pre-commit or platformio, it tries to do that, that fails because of the sandbox, and then Codex decides something is wrong with the cache directory and keeps asking for permission to sudo chown ~/.cache, every time.
I have to specifically tell it to request permission for the command it wants to run, and then it works. Very annoying, and very annoying that it can't persist the permission, like Claude Code can, so it doesn't have to ask again every single time.
Wow, I feel uneasy about your comment and then the host of comments piling on that are basically "Yeah, Tim Ferris is actually a shitty guy!!"
Mainly, I can accept literally everything you say is true (and to be clear I don't know, but they all seem quite to be reasonable assertions), but more importantly, I think they're pretty irrelevant to the point of this blog post. Yes, Tim Ferris craved fame (he literally says that in his post), and I'm sure he tried to "hack" his way get it, but I still think his experiences and lessons about the pitfalls of fame are informative and interesting. I also don't agree with your statement "His experience with uncomfortable fan obsessions is therefore probably on the next level, but not exactly typical fame." His post goes in detail about a number of colleagues, especially women, who were stalked, one of whom had her house broken into by an intruder who tried to murder her husband before he was killed in a shootout with police. So yeah, I think his warnings about fame can apply to a broad swath of people who aren't self-help gurus.
If your comment was in response to a "4-hour work week"-y type post, and you just wanted to point out it was BS by highlighting specific problems with its advice, I'd agree. In response to this post, though, it just feels unnecessarily and deliberately schadenfreude-y.
It doesn't take many many hours. I saw a TV documentary on it, it can be done in a half hour with stones the size of a box of kleenex. The archaeologist would also add sand in between the two surfaces to speed it up.
I remember reading his books and thinking "This guy seems really insecure". The quote he opens the article does not surprise me at all - his books come across as if he really wants fame and is speaking to an audience who similarly needs to be smarter, more clever, richer, more loved.
However, I don't think this is unique to Tim Ferriss. I think this is the dynamic behind fame itself. People who are really secure in their worth don't spend their time looking for casual external validation from strangers, and they also don't spend their emotional energy idolizing strangers and distant figures. They spend it on their family and close friends, and seek it in return from those same people.
It's been interesting watching myself drop out of the popular discourse as I got more secure in myself and more inclined to spend time, money, and energy close to home. Pop culture isn't made for us, because who got time for that shit? Crass consumerism isn't made for us, because we don't spend money on things we don't need in an effort to feel better about ourselves. Most of the transactions that make modern America go don't make us go, because, well, if you're happy with yourself then why do you need them?
But I'm glad I realized that before getting famous. Because there was a time, in my teens and twenties, when I wanted nothing more than to be adored by the masses. And like Tim Ferriss says, there isn't always a reset button where you can suddenly become un-famous if it becomes too much of a drag.
Great article that helps explain my own symbolic and embodied practice.
The rules don’t matter at this point in the governance cycle, attempts to be clever will be ignored by the federal government. Start tearing up the rails used for delivery of coal to these plants, and it solves the problem of illegal DOE must run orders for coal generators that have reached retirement and have received grid operator approval to shutdown. No coal supply, no way to satisfy an illegal order.
Be prepared to switch gears and approach an adversary at their level. Legality when the law matters, direct action when the law doesn’t matter.
I'm not 100% convinced by this post. I'd like to see a more extensive formal eval that demonstrates that structured outputs from different providers reduces the quality of data extraction results.
Assuming this holds up, I wonder if a good workaround for this problem - the problem that turning on structured outputs makes errors more likely - would be to do this:
1. Prompt the LLM "extract numbers from this receipt, return data in this JSON format: ..." - without using the structured output mechanism.
2. If the returned JSON does indeed fit the schema then great, you're finished! But if it doesn't...
3. Round-trip the response from the previous call through the LLM again, this time with structured outputs configured. This should give you back the higher quality extracted data in the exact format you want.
This is just an extrapolation of NAEP testing. It's more or less a chart of SES and how many students in each state need English language supports.
People tend to believe without questioning it that there are geographical/regional surveys of "IQ". But have you ever been compelled to take an IQ test as part of a survey like that? I've never heard of that happening. In fact: those kinds of surveys do not exist.
I had Claude go dig up some science for me: https://claude.ai/share/2dc95280-ff92-4b13-816f-24f5993d8fc7
The most relevant concepts appear to be:
- Desirable Difficulties - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desirable_difficulty - "A desirable difficulty is a learning task that requires a considerable but desirable amount of effort, thereby improving long-term performance. [...] The task must be able to be accomplished. Too difficult a task may dissuade the learner and prevent full processing."
- Worked-example effect - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worked-example_effect - "Specifically, it refers to improved learning observed when worked examples are used as part of instruction, compared to other instructional techniques such as problem-solving. [...] However, it is important to note that studying [worked examples] loses its effectiveness with increasing expertise"
- Expertise reversal effect - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expertise_reversal_effect - "The expertise reversal effect refers to the reversal of the effectiveness of instructional techniques on learners with differing levels of prior knowledge."
- "Generation effect" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_effect - "The generation effect is a phenomenon whereby information is better remembered if it is generated from one's own mind rather than simply read."
> Software takes 1 year under someone smart in a production environment.
That's very funny.
Replicate the natural processes? It's literally just UV light.
UV comes in an huge variety of strengths outdoors.
There are no calculations to be a "bit off". It's just strong UV. You're making it sound a lot more complicated than it is.
As long as they can blame democrats for it.
Is this similar to sshrc?
As polyglot developer, I am also for a no-fluff approach and vanilajs for the win.
One of the reasons Next.js is attractive to me, is exactly they have rediscovered why so many of us have stayed with SSR.
That would imply the following to be true,
> Almost all games currently being made would have programmers using VSCode.
Which clearly isn't the case, unless they like to suffer in regards to the Unreal and Unity integrations.
Like Tailwind isn't really a sales pitch for many of us.
> Andrew Windsor needs to be extradited to the US and face trial.
Reciprocity is a thing...
From what I know, SDFs were popularised by the demoscene; it's interesting that they've now found more practical applications as a result.
Along with a bunch of other, arguably far more famous people.
No, AFAICT, AI hate has been common (but not the majority position, and still not) in normie contexts for a while.
> I do think getting a bit of sun everywhere has to enhance the benefit
Why? This is not how we naturally insolate.
I’m not saying you’re wrong. Just that the status quo is different parts of your body getting sun each day. You’re not replicating that, which places the burden of evidence on you.
It's interesting to see where the "too famous to prosecute" line lies. So far the highest profile casualty seems to have been Prince Andrew - as a result of the files, and NOT as a result of his actual court case with Virginia Giuffre, which he settled before her suicide.
Maybe it's possible. Berlusconi was brought down by his habit of young women eventually hitting one under 18.
So basically going back to the old days of Amiga and Atari, in a certain sense, when PCs could only display text.
I am here for the JIT and improved profiling goodies, one day Python will finally be a proper Lisp replacement.
A substation outage isn't a grid issue.
> miss the time when "confused" for a computer program was meant in a humorous way
Not sure what about this isn’t funny. Nobody died. And the notion that traffic lights going down would not have otherwise caused congestion seems silly.
Music files (releasing in order of popularity)
Increasing or decreasing? IMHO increasing would make more sense, as the most popular music is already mirrored in countless other places. It's the rare stuff that is most in need of preservation.
I wonder how much of the content there is AI-generated. Honestly, even as someone who was initially skeptical, I've found some of it to be rather good --- not knowing that it was AI-generated at first. Now if they could only reverse-engineer the prompt and only store the model, that would be an extremely efficient form of "compression".
You made me imagine an alternate universe where there is a Jeffrey programming language and the man is named Java Epstein.
> However, most welfare systems have hard cutoffs.
Most welfare systems have phased benefit reductions (there is a point where the benefit hits zero, which can be viewed as a hard cutoff, but it doesn't go "full benefit up to the line and then zero at the line" in most cases, though there are exceptions.
> If you get $500 in SNAP a month and make $500 a month, you have $1000 to last a month. And if the cutoff is $501, making that one extra dollar is going to cost you $499.
If the SNAP cutoff applicable to your situation was $501, then your actual benefit at $500 would be $24 (the minimum SNAP benefit), not $500. Because SNAP does a $0.30 per dollar of income clawback until the minimum benefit is reached, and then stays at the minimum benefit until the eligibility limit income is reached.
There is a cliff still, but its a lot smaller of a cliff (for SNAP alone) than you are painting.
> Wild that Americans are so distracted
There is a tonne of civic action against Flock, specifically, in the works, in many cases with successful results.
Activism was a big part of my life, even full time at times, from 1991-2005 and I spent a lot of time going into rooms inhabited by different groups building bridges not to mention tabling, going door to door, getting signatures for political candidates, you name it. So I've had a lot of experience to how people react to different messages when I deliver them and when other people deliver them and I've got strong and grounded opinions about discourses that are counterproductive and make me wish I could use a hook to shuffle people off the stage.
The word "privilege" and especially the phrase "white privilege" is at the top of that list.
There really are some privileged individuals who are entitled and could use some bringing down but if you're speaking to a group you really don't where people are coming and frequently when I talk to an individual I find my expectations about their history and point of view are completely wrong. In particular I know a lot of white people who have black problems including the meaningless-but-fatal confrontations with the police. For the most part [1] black people are more concerned about racism in America than white people, but know many black people who resent the idea that they are first-and-foremost descendants of slaves and victims of racism and it's such a strongly held feeling for some that if you give them a choice of a strident "anti-racist" and a flagrant racist they'll pick the latter.
[1] I've met exceptions!
I don’t think it’s helpful to talk about it in terms of “privilege.” It’s not about being lucky enough to be born into privilege, but not being unlucky enough to be born into structural dysfunction.
If you compare income mobility between parents and adult children in the U.S. versus Denmark, it looks quite similar for the top 80%. https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012.... Someone raised in the second lowest income quantile in the U.S. has about the same chance of ending up in the top income quantile as someone in Denmark. It’s the bottom 20% where Americans are twice as likely to get stuck there in comparison to people in Denmark.
Doesn't know what? This isn't about the model forgetting the training data, of course it can't do that any more than I can say "press the red button. Actually, forget that, press whatever you want" and have you actually forget what I said.
Instead, what can happen is that, like a human, the model (hopefully) disregards the instruction, making it carry (close to) zero weight.
A homeless man suffering from schizophrenia who was mascotized by trolls.
For my part, I'd just flag anything like this that I see on the front page.
> So just how many reactors will $80 billion buy? Assuming an average of $16 billion per AP1000—slightly less than for Vogtle, and allowing for cost reductions from economies of scale and learning-by-doing—the plan would mean five new reactors. That would represent an increase of about 5.7 percent in total U.S. nuclear energy generation capacity, if all the reactors currently in service remain online.
Did anyone expect the documents not to be redacted and, if redaction overlooked something, the documents wouldn't be deleted?
Same thing in DC. I thought the new development in DC where we lived had a major sewer gas problem. Turns out it was marijuana.
You mean flagged.
Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.
It is amazing. I spend more time in OpenSCAD than in any other program I use and I'm amazingly productive with it. 3 to 4 cycles / day, the longest time is waiting for the printer to cough up the next iteration, then it is building debugging and improving again.
The power of parametric cad is such that I wouldn't be a 10th as productive using an interactive cad system. And because it is effectively software you are writing (even if it compiles into physical objects) you can use all of the goodies that you can use to manage software. Diff files, git, kompare, branching, merging. It is nothing short of amazing, it is like I have a design team and a prototype injection molding facility in one. And the turnaround time is something you'd have killed for in the 90's.
That is paranoia.
At any time any company could turn evil, and any free(ish) government could become totalitarian overnight. This is a fact, but also pretty useless one.
The real questions to ask are, how likely it is to happen, and if that happens, how much did all these privacy measures accomplish.
The answer to those are, "not very", and "not much".
Down here on Earth, there are more real and immediate issues to consider, and balance to be found between preventing current and future misuse of data by public and private parties of all sides, while sharing enough data to be able to have a functioning technological civilization.
Useful conversations and realistic solutions are all about those grey areas.
I feel like it's more nuanced than OP writes. Presumably every log line comes from something like a try/catch. An edge case was identified, and the code did something differently.
Did it do what it was supposed to do, but in a different way or defer for retrying later? Then WARN.
Did it fail to do what it needed to do? ERROR
Did it do what it needed to do in the normal way because it was totally recoverable? INFO
Did data get destroyed in the process? FATAL
It should be about what the result was, not who will fix it or how. Because that might change over time.
Of course FreeCAD is less user friendly, polished, and documented. It's open source. Open source people do not get GUIs. They think command line. It's taken decades for artists and graphic designers to nag the GIMP and Blender people into usable interfaces, and they're still inferior to Photoshop and Maya.
The human body is famously a "use it or lose it" system. For example, the US (and most of the developed world) has had a large reduction in grip strength since just 40 years ago as Americans get ever more sedentary. I think most people of a certain age can relate to how they've gotten a lot worse at remembering and following directions now that "the Google lady" just tells you right where to turn.
The same thing is happening/will happen with AI. If you don't go through the hard brain work of thinking things up for yourself, especially writing, your writing skills will deteriorate. We'll see that in a giant scale as more and more kids lean on ChatGPT to "check their homework".
Adherence to the legal framework is a function of your risk appetite.
This is insane.
I definitely was not aware Spotify DRM had been cracked to enable downloading at scale like this.
The thing is, this doesn't even seem particularly useful for average consumers/listeners, since Spotify itself is so convenient, and trying to locate individual tracks in massive torrent files of presumably 10,000's of tracks each sounds horrible.
But this does seem like it will be a godsend for researchers working on things like music classification and generation. The only thing is, you can't really publicly admit exactly what dataset you trained/tested on...?
Definitely wondering if this was in response to desire from AI researchers/companies who wanted this stuff. Or if the major record labels already license their entire catalogs for training purposes cheaply enough, so this really is just solely intended as a preservation effort?
Here's China's current IPv6 plan.[1] It was an explicit objective of the 14th Five Year Plan, now concluding, to get most of China's Internet on IPv6. About 70% of China's mobile users are on IPv6 now. But fixed IPv6 traffic in China is only 27%.
[1] https://www.cac.gov.cn/2025-05/20/c_1749446498560205.htm
In fairness: I drove through your home state regularly when I lived in Michigan and the billboards we saw were fucking bananas, including one about how radiators are hot and parents shouldn't restrain their children against them.
My review was perfect, no notes. I'm going to turn it into a LinkedIn post to promote our new product.
https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/jedberg
(But in seriousness, this self reflection really does highlight what my year has been like and I truly appreciated the laughs)
I don't (I find cannabis unpleasant) but I don't think this is at all true.
The average (presumably arithmetic mean, though it could technically be any of a wide variety of measures) is not particulatly interesting, the median specifically would be more interesting, as a single figure.
> It is functionally accurate enough to find and prosecute criminals.
Is that a high bar? I mean, you could have said that about forensic fiber analysis—and then it was revealed that the entire history of the field was just expert witnesses lying their asses off for whatever conclusion law enforcement wanted. It turns out that to prosecute criminals, being complex enough that expert witnesses can provide a smoke screen to rationalize law enforcement targeting that is actually based on prejudice and not concrete facts can be sufficient.
> I have been particularly irritated in the past where people use a lower log level and include the higher log level string in the message, especially where it's then parsed, filtered, and alerted on my monitoring.
If your parsing, filtering, and monitoring setup parses strings that happen to correspond to log level names in positions other than that of log levels as having the semantics of log levels, then that's a parsing/filtering error, not a logging error.
I'm not sure if it even knows it's being honked at.