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The entire comment is complaining about being downvoted. That’s not just going be downvoted, but also flagged due for violating HN’s guidelines.
Is that really a "dirty secret"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Europe_Synchronous... exists for good reason.
Gemma 4 is not supported by the MLX engine yet.
The older I get, the more I get the sneaking suspicion that statements like "the ends don't justify the means" and "violence is always the wrong answer" are, at best, wildly logically inconsistent in any society at any time, and at worst, designed to ensure only a very few people in power can commit violence.
An ongoing conflict has resulted in the violent deaths of literally many thousands of children. The people who enable those deaths are usually safely ensconced thousands of miles away, often living in cushy suburbs.
To emphasize as strongly as I possibly can, I am not advocating for more violence. Quite the contrary, I'm advocating for less. I just don't understand why we have all these adages to convince people that "violence is always wrong", while I'm sure some at least some of the people who say that are actively engaged in building machines designed to kill people.
Related, the Substack link you posted is titled "Political Violence is Never The Answer". But our country (and a lot of them) were literally founded on political violence. How do people square those 2 ideas?
I've got a couple of sweetener-free recipes I use with my soda maker, though I should warn you nobody else I've given them to likes them. But I like them well enough.
One is a couple of squirts of vanilla, a couple of squirts of lemon juice, and a bit of salt. Salt is probably an underappreciated drink ingredient for this sort of thing. It turns out it isn't in your soft drinks just to make you want to drink more. This makes something that is related to cream soda, except for the aspects of cream soda that come from being crammed full of sugar, which I can't do much about.
I also have a mix I keep around made out of 3 tablespoons salt, 1 cup vanilla, 1/2 cup lemon juice, 1/2 cup lime juice, and about 1/3rd cup almond extract. I measure it all (except the salt which I just put in directly) into a single 2 cup Pyrex dish and just sort of eyeball the last 1/3rd cup of almond extract, then funnel it in to a holder. I use McCormick 32 oz vanilla and almond extract for this and order bulk RealLemon and RealLime juice for this from Amazon, and mix it into one of the leftover bottles and keep it around refrigerated. 3 squirts and "whatever dribbles in" as I'm removing the bottle is what I used for one DrinkMate bottle. To taste, as all of this is, of course. If nothing else this is pretty cheap per drink.
You can also mix unsweetened electrolytes in, but you have to wait until after you dilute the mixture with water or it'll react with the lemon & lime juice. Salt you can keep in the mix but not electrolytes in general. It adds a certain body to the mix even if you're not interested in the electrolytes per se, and a single packet of them lasts a long time.
You're not going to go into business selling this stuff, but if you're already drinking unsweetened apple cider vinegar & lemon/lime juice as a beverage flavoring we might just have some compatible tastes here. Carbonation is required, though, otherwise the vanilla and the almond extract don't come through at all.
It's so firmly established that, just like crypto, making a stink about it says more about the objector. I don't like it either! "Cyber" is cringe, and "crypto" should mean "cryptography". But I'm not the king of usage, and both those terms have new meanings.
A statement broadly true of most things this author writes.
>Even back in the day you had to buy programming books and courses if you wanted to learn how to make the best code. That wasn't free
"Even before the extinction level meteor hit Ohio, there were tiny meteors hitting Earth all the time, it wasn't that safe either".
>Try asking it for some scroll-driven animations or custom micro-interactions
Unrelated, but as a long time front-end dev, FUCK THOSE.
>Mythos scoured the entire continent for gold and found some. For these small models, the authors pointed at a particular acre of land and said "any gold there? eh? eh?" while waggling their eyebrows suggestively.
Which sounds trivial for a hacker wanting to find vulnerabilities to replicate, so what's the huge advantage of Mython then? That you don't need to spend 5 minutes to nudge it to the most complex/ripe for vulnerabilities parts of a codebase?
>I don't see this as evidence that Opus 4.6 has gotten worse.
I see it as corroboration evidence of actual everyday experience.
Also, any reason to imply "BridgeBench", apparently dedicated to AI benchmarking, wouldn't have run it more than once across the suite?
... been saying this for years. If you really believed what Yudkowsky says you wouldn't just be posting on lesswrong, you would be taking direct action against a clear and present danger.
I like to have an IBM 3270 style status bar on the bottom.
set-option -gq status-style "fg=brightblue,overline"Thank you.
Eventually this will get cleared up. I’m close than I’ve ever been to actually handling this, but it’s been 9 years already, so what’s another few months…
I did that for my mom. At some point she learned to click through the Ubuntu updater and she kept her machine updated by herself. I only kept tabs on her computer via the server monitoring tooling I had on my network.
It does, probabilistically. For any given customer C, the expected value EV(C) is... not much. By starting an opt-out process, a customer Co is revealed to have EV(Co) = 0, which is less than not much.
"Isn't the compile speed of Go so good because it's type system is much simpler?"
That, and forgoing fancy compile-time optimization steps which can get arbitrarily expensive. You can recover some of this with profile-guided optimization, but only some and my best guess based on the numbers is that it's not much compared to a more full (but much more expensive) suite of compile-time optimizations.
I have been building/vibecoding a similar tool and unfortunately came to the conclusion that in practice, there are just too many features dependent on the full Chrome stack that it's just more pragmatic to use a real Chromium installation despite the file size. Performance/image generation speed is still fine, though.
In Rust, the chromiumoxide crate is a performant way to interface with it for screenshots: https://crates.io/crates/chromiumoxide
In the 80s, a good compiler would cost several hundred dollars. Relentless competition pushed the prices down to zero.
Here's a vibe-coded "servo-shot" CLI tool which uses this crate to render an image of a web page: https://github.com/simonw/research/tree/main/servo-crate-exp...
git clone https://github.com/simonw/research
cd research/servo-crate-exploration/servo-shot
cargo build
./target/debug/servo-shot https://news.ycombinator.com/
Totally disagree, as I think that would be the worst of all possible worlds - too fuzzy to be useful for many of the niche use cases where it's needed, and still a privacy violation for the majority of users who don't know their photos reveal their location.
The other suggestion about requiring something like a useLocation or includeExif attribute on the file picker, and then requiring confirmation from the user, seems like a much better solution to me.
Or is was written for people who understand humor and hyperbole in making a point.
It is easy to forget sometimes in the excitement, but nobody has been using (2026) AI for 20 years. We're all still new. I am sure that in the next year, something will be found that is fairly exciting, and something we could all be doing right now, but it's simply that nobody has thought of it yet. Or something that is today common practice will become generally considered an anti-pattern and common practice will have some replacement for it that, again, nothing stops us from doing it today but nobody has thought of it yet, because we're all newbs.
(One candidate example for this is the discussion I've seen in the last few days about not trying to negate something, to say "Don't do X", but instead stay positive because eventually the negation gets lost in the context window and you're better off just not putting the idea in the LLM's mind at all, where "Don't do X" comes to be seen as an LLM antipattern.)
One of the consequences of none of us having used AI for long enough is that we don't know how to onboard developers in an age of AI. This will be, by necessity, transient. Eventually we're going to max out what a person can do and we'll need more people. The supply of existing engineers will be limited. We will be forced to discover how to onboard new engineers.
But at the moment we've got our hands full, and we don't know how to do it.
The irony is, the best time to join a field is often exactly when the enrollment dips and the worst can be precisely when it is the most popular. Start a programming college program today and the odds that in 4 years we'll have onboarding figured out and have developed some sort of need for fresh developers is pretty decent.
But I don't know what to do about the fact that the standard CS curriculum was already of debatable relevance to me in the late 90s and I don't know of what relevance it will be in four years except to guess that it very likely to be even less. I do know that we are again affected by the fact nobody has been doing this for 20 years, like I mentioned above. There is no body of "wisdom" for an AI-powered world to draw on to construct a new curriculum. Universities would be inclined to do the obvious thing and try to chase our current practices with AI but those aren't going to be stable enough to build a curriculum on any time soon, and a real fundamentals-based curriculum may involve less AI than people may think.
I know one advantage I have over my younger peers at this point is just a knowledge of what terms to say to the AI to get it to do what I want, words like "event sourced" or "message bus" or "stored procedures", where simply knowing that the concept exists is the bottleneck. I could see a programming curriculum based on touring through a whole whackload of concepts with their pros and cons, or at least, where that is a much larger portion of it.
Ask me in 5 years though and I'd almost certainly suggest a completely different curriculum than I would now, though.
Better go for a less-quantized model even if it's slower than go for a faster, quantized one.
That is where headless CMS with Vercel and Netlify partnerships, using Next.js SSG capabilities come into play, regardless how much folks hate them.
Define better. Fast fashion sucks, but hand-spun cotton won't give you Kevlar or modern wind-resistant clothing or fireproof materials for your furniture or... <insert half thousand different things adjacent to modern textile production>.
It's always win some, lose some with the economy, but technology itself opens previously impossible capabilities.
I'd say a big organization is a bunch of little organizations. What matters is: "do you like your boss?" and "how does your team work together?"
That feeling that you can't run at full speed is common in that kind of role but working in startups or other small co's you can have just as much or more dysfunction: you can run yourself ragged or feel like you're in a magically productive team or even both at the same time.
I have two relatives who work at a major online retailer that has 'Z' in the name and one of them is thrilled to go to work each day and the other just had a nervous breakdown because they had her doing three people's roles. The situation you have where you feel unproductive but the people around you think you are is pretty common because of the economics of scale: if you are working at a 100x bigger company that software you work on can have 100x the economic impact that it would for the smaller company. So a big company can have an organization that seems unproductive based on your instincts working at small companies but you are creating enough value to pay you so you are doing fine. [1]
If you have some slack, don't feel bad using it in a way that is meaningful and restorative to you and keeps you in fine condition to do what your organization needs of you.
[1] A friend of mine quoted Marx and said I was being ripped off because I was getting paid less than the value I made and I told him... I've tried the alternative and it usually ends up as hell on Earth.
Surprisingly iOS doesn't do this - at least not for photos uploaded via a web form these days. Try this tool to see that (it should demonstrate the Android EXIF stripping behavior too): https://tools.simonwillison.net/exif
100% of the people that don't know that HN exists, most likely don't know images have metadata.
AI is in spitting distance of being able to do that too.
Phase angle measurements. And it's been a very hard, long and slow slog. Anybody with bright ideas in this department and I'm all ears.
Are you saying that, for a given amount of electricity, you can only convert 10% to heat? I can't even think of a way to make this correct, since all forms of energy end up as 100% heat, the question is just whether the heat ends up in your home or not.
So, what do you mean with the 10% metric?
I can't say I'm surprised at this result at all, in fact I'm surprised something like this wasn't already known.
The Chinese can do something really funny now.
Mechanical device with moving parts.
Price competition creates a race to the bottom.
Third party inks (in photography forums people are always cleaning up inksplosions when they try borderless printing with off-brand inks)
Paper handling is tricky, like in my old farmhouse humidity makes paper curl. A high end printer can handle this much better.
Cheap paper, mo’ problems.
Operator error. You see reviews on sites like bestbuy.com where somebody posts photos of an inksplosion caused by putting photo paper in the wrong side up. I print photos with documentation on the back and I learned through experience that you put the lightly inked side through first otherwise the ink makes the paper curl and you get more jams.
This is interesting, how do you publish to LinkedIn? I thought they didn't allow automated posts.
For everyone that can afford Apple, that is.
They do have the mobile phone market duopoly advantage though, far from the 90's mistakes that almost closed shop.
Sure, but that in the end is what matters with memory safe systems languages, reduction of attack surface and easy to spot when safety is being disabled.
Alternative being Assembly written primitives, like in Smalltalk originally. Blue book description.
if you actually got to A.G.I, why would you rent it out ?
Has to be lack of vision. I refuse to believe it's impossible to _do_, but it sounds like it's impossible to _specify_ within AMD. Like they're genuinely incapable of working out what the solution might look like.
After the "plastic glove" smoking gun the other day, I wonder if this is another instance of lab contamination making it into the results.
Yeah but that doesn't matter. The misdirection about needing the email address to download is working as intended, getting unwilling subscribers who then mark you as spam when they see your emails, and you get blackholed.
The solution isn't a legalese CYA "but there's an alternative", it's to only sign up people who want to hear from you.
Provided you happen to have one of those few supported GPUs.
Thus being open source isn't of much help without it.
Static linking wonders?
Originally Lean was coded in C++, and dynamically linked executable, if I remeber correctly.
The simple fact is that a 16 GB RAM stick costs much less than the development time to make the app run on less.
These bytes are human lives. The bytes and the CPU cycles translate to software that takes longer to run, that is more frustrating, that makes people accomplish less in longer time than they could, or should. Take too much, and you prevent them from using other software in parallel, compounding the problem. Or you're forcing them to upgrade hardware early, taking away money they could better spend in different areas of their lives. All this scales with the number of users, so for most software with any user base, not caring about bytes and cycles is wasting much more people-hours than is saving in dev time.
> Every ambient condition that you need to track adds mental load
Thus it's wise to limit the complexity of your code. If it starts getting difficult, it might be time to break it down in smaller, more understandable, pieces.
> my feed is now just far right immigration propaganda by blue checks, or lots of US issues (I'm not in the US)
> (for a while, every female posting would have someone in the replies doing "grok, put OP in a bikini")
This is now the purpose of the site: racism and sexism. There was once a time when it would have been the place to follow the Hungarian election, now I have to make to with a few people on bluesky.
Doing the translations and asset creations for CMS content, that used to be done previously by human teams, for example.
Just give her a Kobo. They're pretty decent, have good battery life and you can use them in combination with Calibre for a pretty good UI.
HN has a large enough MAGA contingent that believes by not talking about it the world will hold off a little longer from bringing down their idol. What happened to Orban could and should happen to Trump. But America is only in year 6 of seeing someone wreck their country, Orban was in year 16. So presumably they still have a bit further to go down before they kick out their Russian stooges.
Mods have the power to unflag these but don't, usually because they don't see these threads (though, if they really wanted to they could view the 'active' page). It's interesting to see what you can and can not talk about on HN, local US politics (esp. California) is fine, global possibly world changing things are not.
What's hilarious is that this is a French guy that moved to the UK bitching about immigration into the UK / Europe. You can't make this up.
Nvidia-Mediatek Arm laptops will compete with Qualcomm and Apple, https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmarkman/2026/03/16/the-arm-i...
[WSJ] sources expect.. first units in H1 2026, with GTC as the most likely unveiling stage.. NPU reportedly exceeds both Intel and AMD’s current neural processing units.. If the integrated GPU delivers RTX 5070-class performance in a thin laptop form factor, it would eliminate the need for a separate GPU die, fundamentally changing how gaming laptops are designed.More like lambda calculus, but for continuous functions.
The trick is crafting the minimal number of tests.
It's about a football field in both length and width. Little bit longer.
Because people might have missed it last thread, here's dang's response to the discourse:
> I don't think I've ever seen a thread this bad on Hacker News. The number of commenters justifying violence, or saying they "don't condone violence" and then doing exactly that, is sickening and makes me want to find something else to do with my life—something as far away from this as I can get. I feel ashamed of this community.
> Edit: for anyone wondering (or hoping), no I'm not leaving. That was a momentary expression of dismay.
Teaching people to not let emotions get to them, and offending them to build up that immunity, used to be a normal part of life. I wonder what happened.
Acetic acid is vinegar. Not something I'd like to taste in any soft drink.
Don't you have to pay Twitter to get programmatic access to a X feed? [1] The documentation mentions using the "Twitter adapter", which uses a paid API.[1] Using an unofficial client has been a TOS violation for many years now, since Twitter killed off TweetDeck.[2]
I used to have an ad filter for Twitter, but gave it up a decade ago when they changed the TOS.
[1] https://docs.x.com/overview
[2] https://cdn.cms-twdigitalassets.com/content/dam/legal-twitte...
There was a lot of demand for fiber in the US but the supply in a lot of places was obsolete DSL and cable.
Verifying that with a drone is still wise.
Is there an MBV set in this archive? I see the GYBE sets.
later
Never mind, there they are. I was at one of those 2018 shows!
I don't have much data to go on (in accordance with what 'jerf wrote), however I offer a high-level, abstract perspective.
The ideal set of outcomes exist as a tiny subspace of a high-dimensional space of possible solutions. Almost all those solutions are bad. Giving negative examples is removing some specific bits of the possibility space from consideration[0] - not very useful, since almost everything else that remains is bad too. Giving positive examples is narrowing down the search area to where the good solutions are likely to be - drastically more effective.
A more humane intuition[1], something I've observed as a parent and also through introspection. When I tell my kid to do something, and they don't understand WTF it is that I want, they'll do something weird and entirely undesirable. If I tell them, "don't do that - and also don't do [some other thing they haven't even thought of yet]", it's not going to improve the outcome; even repeated attempts at correction don't seem effective. In contrast, if I tell (or better, show) them what to do, they usually get the idea quickly, and whatever random experiments/play they invent, is more likely to still be helpful.
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[0] - While paradoxically also highlighting them - it's the "don't think of a pink elephant" phenomenon.
[1] - Yes, I love anthropomorphizing LLMs, because it works.
> Treating a rigged game as fair doesn't make it fair, it just makes you easier to beat
Not playing at all makes you easier to beat still. Anyone pining for civil war should vacation in a war zone first. It’s difficult to encapsulate the privilege of peace until it’s been lost.
I have never once seen someone on HN express happiness that someone was killed in a drive-by gang shooting.
It's going to be difficult for anyone to have any more "data" than you already do. It's early days for all of us. It's not like there's anyone with 20 years of 2026 AI coding assistant experience.
However we can say based on the architecture of the LLMs and how they work that if you want them to not do something, you really don't want to mention the thing you don't want them to do at all. Eventually the negation gets smeared away and the thing you don't want them to do becomes something they consider. You want to stay as positive as possible and flood them with what you do want them to do, so they're too busy doing that to even consider what you didn't want them to do. You just plain don't want the thing you don't want in their vector space at all, not even with adjectives hanging on them.
For those of us who didn't know the game but want to try it due to the Streisand effect, is there an official APK download? Since it's free on Steam, I thought the official website might list an APK, but I haven't found anything other than the Play link.
I know several people who have met online like this. I'd concur with the authors that working together to achieve an objective is kind of table stakes for an actual relationship. I've always felt that meeting someone in class and working together on homework and what not was something like that. But the key for me is that when you work with someone on a project you get a better understanding of how they approach things and how their values stack up.
Value stacks are something I heard about in a "Marriage and Family" class in college where the professor discussed that if you value say "economy" more than "time", you spend a lot of time to save a few cents, but if you reverse that stack order your spend extra cents to avoid spending the time. If the person you're dating has a very different stack than you do, it will be a source of problems going forward and doesn't suggest you'll have a successful marriage.
Playing video games together should certainly be a way to get a handle on how someone's values stack up relative to yours.
> Is this the flow for online payments as well, or only for in-person payments?
On-line, too. Or should I say, first, because AFAIK on-line came first. I've been using it for years as my default on-line payment method where available, before noticing it becoming an option on POS terminals.
If I could figure out diet dr. pepper this could be life changing :-)
> The visuals feel a little ugly and dated
It's... beautiful.
Even the pay per use is heavily VC subsidied at current prices.
"When I powered on my Xbox Series S for the first time... It felt no different from Windows 11."
(1) No accident (2) Ever see a Windows phone? That was the whole idea.
That's a 404 for me, but I think the site moved; this works: http://s53mv.s5tech.net/navsats/theory.html
That's what crossed my mind too: It's like a nationally-mandated break to watch football.
I have read the HN articles and seen the grumbling from coworkers, but I haven't felt it myself. I am not really a one-shotter, though. I kind of think about how I would refactor / write something myself and walk Claude through that, and nitpick it at each step... and the recent changes haven't really bothered me there. Likely due to being new at it.
Sometimes Claude can be a little weird. I was asking it about some settings in Grafana. It gave me an answer that didn't work. I told it that. "Yeah, I didn't really check, I just guessed." Then I said, "please check" and it said "you should read the discussion forums and issue tracker". I said "YOU should read the discussion forms and issue tracker". It consumed 35k tokens and then told me the thing I wanted was a checkbox. It was! I am not sure this saved me time, Claude. I am not experienced enough to say that this is a deal breaker. While this is burned into my mind as an amusing anecdote, it doesn't ruin the service for me.
My coworkers have noticed a degradation and feel vindicated by some of the posts here that I link. A lot of them are using Cursor more now. I have not tried it yet because I kind of like the Claude flow and /effort max + "are you sure?" yield good results. For now. I'm always happy to switch if something is clearly better.
Multiple commenters here are asking if the towns and villages were ever included in Apple maps in the first place, and some people are saying we should obviously assume they were.
However, a quick search reveals at least a few people claiming that Apple Maps has always been empty for Lebanon outside of major cities (and at least one commenter says they are Lebanese):
https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/1sjmrol/comment/oft1...
https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/1sjoxqo/...
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1sjo66s/apple_maps...
https://www.reddit.com/r/lebanon/comments/1sjou17/apple_maps...
I don't know how trustworthy these comments are, but I don't see anyone contradicting them.
So it's definitely not clear this has anything to do with the current war.
All you need to do is use standard HTML form elements. None of those questions are even relevant, just excuses to increase complexity and make things harder for everyone.
I blame more people going to to school and a kind of Eternal September.
Whatever criticisms you have of it (mine are another post) Marxism appeals to systematizers and has some intellectual depth. (e.g. Marx together with Weber and Durkheim is one of the founders of modern social science) The working class doesn't love Marxism because, largely, the working class doesn't love thinking systematically.
Today more people go to college so the standards are lower. People want to think they are systematizers but Marxism is too hard so we have anti-racism and other wokist creeds.
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However, if I understand those heatmaps it looks like women are looking into peripheries which no sexual threat would come from, like the sides of an escalator. Maybe a bird might fly in from that direction and these days a quadricopter, but not a mugger or a rapist.
On Facebook, at least, the click seems to outweigh the feedback.
I say "not interested" to a reel and get more just like it.
We're just gonna pretend Jan 6 never happened, eh?
He claimed the 2020 election was stolen again yesterday.
Time will tell. Keep in mind that his successor was part of Orban's party in the past.
> your creativity and work could speak for itself
Including speaking to humans/bots with more resources to monetize said work.
> you had agency
Distribution is also helpful for revenue generation.
I admit I didn't read the entire post (I honestly think authors really need to come to terms with the fact that we now live in a world of information excess, and pithiness is more important than ever), but I wouldn't feel too bad yet given there was a recent front page HN post about how free, open models could actually catch all the issues Mythos did, it just required a little more orchestration. E.g. see https://aisle.com/blog/ai-cybersecurity-after-mythos-the-jag... for a detailed analysis.
> Internationally there is currently no alternative to the US as a superpower and Trump is the leader of the US.
You may not have noticed, but that is changing very rapidly.
> Domestically he continues to have a substantial constituency. Some of his polices actually poll better than he does.
Indeed. Mind boggling, but then again, in many ways not surprising, after all, if Trump 1 wasn't enough to making you think twice about voting for him again probably nothing will.
> The potential replacement cannot merely "resist"; they have to actually get elected and that requires having a vision that the electorate endorses.
Yes, here's my proposed vision for the electorate: normal. All this megalomaniacal nonsense is just causing more and more problems, both inside the USA and outside of it and unfortunately we don't get to vote in US elections but we do end up living with the consequences.
> Most (or let's say enough) Americans don't feel they are losing as you put it.
Give it more time. Clearly, there is some degree of insulation from the consequences, but I'd love to have an actual seance with one of the Founding Fathers that the USA so reveres to get their $0.02 on whether or not this is what they were aiming for. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that I think the answer might surprise the MAGA's.
Nice you caught the pun and thank you for making a move in the right direction with respect to the level of conversation, it's appreciated.
Usually socialist revolutions fail because nobody can agree on who the new leaders should be. Workers seize control of the means of production...and then what? Who determines what they should do with it? Who do they look to for guidance? If you elect/appoint/select someone, now they are the new capitalist. If you don't, the machinery sits idle while various factions fight amongst themselves.
We saw this with Occupy Wall Street and the CHAZ in the U.S - these protests didn't fail because they were crushed, they failed because local police basically let them win and then once they won different factions had different ideas of what to do next. We also see it at the state level with the Soviet Union (where a strong dictatorship did eventually emerge - the communist revolution didn't mean everybody was equal, it just meant some people were more equal than others) and in Vietnam (which became intensely capitalist less than 15 years after the communists won.
The function of the business owner, CEO, or other executive figure is simply to be a symbol of which direction the organization needs to go. They don't do any work themselves, and they are selected for their ability to look pretty and shout platitudes that other people follow. But that symbol is needed to actually get the people moving in one direction.
These two things don't have a whole lot to do with each other.
Sure, crime isn't 'simple cause and effect'. But it is still as simple as 'means, motive, opportunity' and if means are plentiful that reduces the friction on the way to crime.
As for the bomb threats, I have no idea, but I also don't see them as the kind of crime that we are discussion here (violence, in particular). Bomb threats are a denial of service attack, actually killing or wounding people is on another level (at least, it is for me).
One suggestion: the widespread use of ANI + mobile phones and the disappearance of pay-phones + cameras on every street corner make it a lot harder to call in a bomb threat without getting caught.
I use the term "30,000 foot view" a lot: https://nanoglobals.com/glossary/30000-foot-view/
It appeals to me because if you've ever taken a flight you can see how the details get progressively erased as you lift. Details that matter for a lot of reasons even if you can't see them.
Yes, but in the opposite way to what you think. Do the math, there's billions of people consuming the overly cheap, massively subsidized goods and services parent listed; there's only so many billionaires and they have only so many billions, and most of it is just fake bullshit accounting paper-shuffling anyway.
It's because the consequences of AI is so direct and obvious, and also faster, where the inequality and job losses from other tech advances are just less direct.
That is, it's not hard to see why so many main streets in smaller towns have boarded up retail stores since you can now get anything in about a day (max) from Amazon. But Amazon (and other Internet giants) always played at least semi-plausible lip service that they were a boon to small fry (see Amazon's FBA commercials, for example). But you've got folks like Altman and Amodei gleefully saying how AI will be able to do all the work of a huge portion of (mostly high paying) jobs.
So it's not surprising that people are more up in arms about AI. And frankly, I don't think it really matters. Anger against "the tech elite" has been bubbling up for a long time now, and AI now just provides the most obvious target.
Almost all those events were on Hacker News. This hasn't been a secret.
Companies need to get serious about levels of security. Only some things need to be protected, and you have to accept a substantial level of inconvenience and cost for those items. In my aerospace days, we had a bidding rule of thumb that running a project at SECRET doubled the cost. Running a project at TOP SECRET had an even bigger cost multiplier. A surprising amount of material was not classified at all, for cost reasons.
Banks and credit card processors get this. Most other businesses don't.