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> Are you aware of the crashing population of Europe though?
The EU's population grew in 2024 [1].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_European_U...
Once Elon showed how to do it, and how cost-efficient it was, a rocket company that doesn't do it is not viable.
AMD's Hawaii architecture had 320GB/s on a 512b GDDR5 bus in 2013.
The Fiji XT architecture after it had 512GB/S on a 4096b HBM bus in 2015.
The Vega architecture did have 400GB/s or so in 2017, which was a bit of a downgrade.
Expect shortages across the board. RAM? That's the tip of the iceberg, think food and gas.
Don't therians have some rights? (I only gekker when I am taking photographs of people and they aren't smiling and boy does it work!)
Am I correct in interpreting the title to mean that visiting the page will result in a 3.1GB download?
No, there isn't likely to be a bromine shortage.
The US is a major producer of bromine.[1] It's not at all rare. It's just that the cheapest source is the Dead Sea, because that's concentrated brine. There are bromine wells in Arkansas. It's a by-product from some oil wells. It's in seawater. In California alone, the Salton Sea and the SF salt evaporator ponds are potential sources.
If the price goes up, the use of bromine for pool chemicals and fracking fluids will be affected long before the semiconductor industry.
[1] https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs2026/mcs2026-bromine.pd...
When I saw the device, my instinct immediately said "likely to be GeneralPlus". They were the biggest "company you've never heard of making chips in things everyone has" of that era.
Not only would I have to solder all 48 tiny pins onto the PCB, I would also have to do it quickly enough to avoid melting the plastic on the sockets. I had neither the tools nor the skill to deal with that
Put some solder paste on the pads, line up the socket and reflow with that hot air gun you just bought. Preheating the underside of the board helps. The plastic is designed to withstand the brief exposure and you shouldn't be aiming the hot air at it directly, but instead at the pads and contacts.
What kind of consumer electronics can you build with HBM? That's the startup you should be founding...
Your point is good but the example is not great. The damage from those Japanese bombs was minimal; one of them killed a few people in Oregon. Even if the Japanese had had reports on every incident they would likely have decided it was not worth it.
That's the first thing that happens.
The next thing that happens is a befuddled "Ask HN: Why Do All The Daisy Wheel Printers On Ebay Suddenly Cost Thousands Of Dollars?".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_wheel_printing
You can sometimes locally win an arms race by doing something really exotic that isn't worth the work to defeat, but this is definitely not a strategy that works if everyone adopts it.
Does it matter?
> In the past, Europe has relied on the Middle East for about 75% of its jet fuel imports, the IEA noted.
Just-in-time logistics are great, until you can't get things in-time.
> Is the charge, which I think kind of speaks for itself. Full on: "You embarrassed us, straight to jail."
That's exactly it, and the UAE admits it. The Atlantic covered this last month.[1] Dubai uses influencers as part of their strategy to market Dubai as a safe place for rich people. There's an influencer visa. There's a government Creators HQ office to help with relocation and permits. Dubai requires an “Advertiser Permit”, which include a ban on publishing anything that “might harm the national currency or the economic situation in the State.”
The BBC showed several influencer videos side by side, all with the same message: "Are you scared? No, because we know who protects us."[1] They're as on-message as Sinclair in the US.
So is AlJazeera, now. Earlier in the war, attacks on Dubai were reported. Now, they don't seem to be, although coverage on hits outside the UAE is good. AlJazeera is run by the UAE government.
The UAE has been cracking down on this for a while, according to Bellingcat.[3] "Think before you share. Spreading rumors is a crime."
The hits on the Burj Al Arab hotel, the Fairmont hotel, and Dubai's airport were too big to hide completely, but UAE authorities did take action against people who posted videos. That was back in late February - early March. News of later hits appears to have been successfully censored.
[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/03/dubai-...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-giBHZ31RMU
[3] https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/04/02/war-uae-iran-infu...
Sun was the first UNIX vendor to introduce the idea to split UNIX into user and developer SKUs, now Sun eventually also had an Ada compiler.
When the companies bought the Solaris Developer tools, that did not include the Ada compiler, that was extra, and wasn't cheap.
Having already paid for C, C++, Assembly, why would anyone pay extra for Ada if not obliged to do so?
Since Python introduced new style classes, it also became a pure OOP language, even though it might not look like it at "Hello World" level, all primitive types have become objects as well.
I love to point this out to OOP haters,
>>> type(42)
<class 'int'>
>>> dir(42)
['__abs__', '__add__', '__and__', '__bool__', '__ceil__', '__class__', '__delattr__', '__dir__', '__divmod__', '__doc__', '__eq__', '__float__', '__floor__', '__floordiv__', '__format__', '__ge__', '__getattribute__', '__getnewargs__', '__getstate__', '__gt__', '__hash__', '__index__', '__init__', '__init_subclass__', '__int__', '__invert__', '__le__', '__lshift__', '__lt__', '__mod__', '__mul__', '__ne__', '__neg__', '__new__', '__or__', '__pos__', '__pow__', '__radd__', '__rand__', '__rdivmod__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__rfloordiv__', '__rlshift__', '__rmod__', '__rmul__', '__ror__', '__round__', '__rpow__', '__rrshift__', '__rshift__', '__rsub__', '__rtruediv__', '__rxor__', '__setattr__', '__sizeof__', '__str__', '__sub__', '__subclasshook__', '__truediv__', '__trunc__', '__xor__', 'as_integer_ratio', 'bit_count', 'bit_length', 'conjugate', 'denominator', 'from_bytes', 'imag', 'is_integer', 'numerator', 'real', 'to_bytes']Oh yeah, I remember when they abandoned it for years, third party servers revived it, Blizzard realized they can make money off it and shut the third party servers down.
But how can they improve if they don't let the slaves criticise the state?!
This is a blog post, not journalism as such. It's someone humorously recounting their own personal experience. They have no responsibility to contextualize anything for you.
It's about trying and breaking things to find out what's working, instead of casually tip-toeing lest you break something, and wasting your time.
It does make the implicit explicit though, right? Each of these folks have a personal viewpoint but also represent a corporate viewpoint.
You do things slowly, intentionally, again and again and again, that it becomes almost muscle memory that when the times comes for you to do it again in future, it happens smooth and is thus fast eventually.
>Well at a minimum it bought him a new printer so it’s not all wasted
It got him way fewer new printers and more work compared to working at McDonalds and buying the printer with the salary. Opportunity cost.
Back in the 8 and 16 bit home computer days, or game consoles for that matter it was popular enough already.
And yes things like the Amiga Blitter, arcade or console graphics units were already baby GPUs.
Now we just have to improve its ergonomics, while supporting all existing operating systems in production.
(1) there is the need to switch to entirely ‘green’ systems based on atmospheric CO2, renewable energy, and maybe synthetic biology in the long term, …
(2) but also some improvements to fossil-based situations such as capturing CO2 generates by a petrochemical factory or oil refinery and pumping it underground or using it to make more products and also ideas like
https://www.ansys.com/blog/future-of-energy-is-turquoise
where you might electrically heat methane and cause it to decompose into hydrogen and solid carbon products which might even be valuable.
The gist is to mine your network, and the best is when you can have contacts as champions in your clients’ companies. Here are a few good readings;
- [20 Lessons for Attracting, Signing, and Retaining Great Clients](https://www.theforcingfunction.com/blog/service-business)([archive](https://archive.is/B0bWG))
- [How to be a Consultant, a Freelancer, or an Independent Contractor](https://jacquesmattheij.com/be-consultant/) ([archive](https://archive.is/iun16))
- [How to Find Consulting Clients](https://www.gkogan.co/blog/how-i-learned-to-get-consulting-l...) ([archive](https://archive.is/STvcv))
- [The Strategic Independent](https://tomcritchlow.com/strategy/) ([archive](https://archive.is/O5OKC))
- [A retiring consultant’s advice on consultants](https://www.economist.com/business/2023/08/17/a-retiring-con...) ([archive](https://archive.is/Slqwj))
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Ceterum censeo Palantir esse delendam
Looking at it today what I notice is that the ads and the content were disjoint. The ads were heavily for high-end microcomputers often running CP/M and the S-100 bus often in multiprocessor and multiuser configurations often with exotic graphic systems for the time, like you see these guys
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromemco [1]
prominently. That stuff was barely talked about in the editorial which was much more about ‘home computers’ like Apple and TRS-80 and Atari and TI up to 1983 or so. Up until then there were a few good ‘computer magazines’ like Creative Computing [2] that were platform agnostic but around that time they started to become more specific to platforms like I was subscribing to Rainbow for my color computer and there were a lot of mags for the C-64 [3] and emerging for the IBM PC and clones. Byte got more focused on the PC and low end CP/M machines with a little interest in high-end workstations and also 68k computers like Mac an Amiga… but just a little.
By the late 1980s the cool kids (some of those “kids” were adults) were already online on BBSes and you didn’t need magazines to keep up with free and ‘free’ (pirate) software. I think computer magazines were struggling, the PC kept growing. Computer Shopper became dominant because boy you could find good deals in it. Then the WWW came along and computer magazines were obsolete overnight.
[1] I saw plenty of PDP-11s and other minicomputers but never saw a high end microcomputer of that era outside the pages of Byte…. But somebody bought them.
[2] loved it at the time but it doesn’t have the staying power of Byte, there is a lab in the EE building next door donated by David Ahl who founded Creative Computing, some issues of CC in the 1978-1979 period are wild.
[3] the c-64 was a huge hit in terms of third party software and having friends who had them, but I don’t think it was talked about in Byte like other home computers because Byte was going upmarket then.
I still have the original one with parallel port connector and a couple of Zip disks.
Nowadays probably would need an USB converter, assuming everything still works.
I'd offer an alternative take, though it's not completely incompatible with the article: They are an example of the fact that you can buy putting your product on front of lots of people, but you can't buy keeping it there. It has to be good on its own merit to survive. Or at least, it gets more and more expensive to hold it in front of people.
It was, in a lot of ways, too early. I never had one, and I never missed having one. I had other solutions to the problems when they happened. By the time I had the problem, it was not a cost-effective solution.
I know people can pop up and say that it solved some problems for them, but I think the people who it solved problems for, in proportion to the price, weren't enough of a market. By the time they were, CD burners were a much cheaper solution.
If they were 1/4 the price, it might have been a different story... but the price was pretty fundamental to the tech.
You can't buy success. You can buy initial success, but not long term success. By the standards of such products, Zip was relatively successful, because it did have some people it solved a problem for. It was just a minority of their customer base. Enough to hang on for a while, but not to take over the world.
>Eiffel’s contract dictated that the structure would stay up for only 20 years.
> edit: to be fair Anthropic should be giving money back for sessions terminated this way.
I asked it for one and it told me to file a Github issue.
Which I interpreted as "fuck off".
> National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.
Per Shrek: "Some of you will die, but that's a risk I'm willing to take."
Yeah, I don't think passwords are ever going away (and said it on this podcast[0]).
But for the large group of people in group 2, I'm a big fan of unphishable credentials. If we can figure out the account recovery problem. (Big if!)
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.
Link to full paper: https://philpapers.org/go.pl?id=LERTAF&proxyId=&u=https%3A%2...
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.
It helps finding locations for possible flaws outside the type system soundness.
Now if we go discussing formal verification in general, even something like Dafny or Lean may fail, if the proofs aren't correctly written for the deployment scenario.
Just like one may still die while wearing helmets, airbags, and security belts, yet the casualties amount is much worse without them.
Postal savings at 2% interest. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2005/08/how-did-japan-s-...
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.
AI will vibecode it to Windows Vista quality!
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.
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.
The japanese railroads are owned by private companies.
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
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.
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.
Actually it's only the eMail handling which is probably the easiest one to replace.