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Have you tried https://chatjimmy.ai/ it’s only a demo but it blew my mind. I had the sudden feeling that this is the future.

They also own Komoot and I am anxiously awaiting the enshittification.

As of now my use cases still work and it certainly helped that I bought the lifetime all-world map package.

I assume they won’t ban anyone automatically without a way to object. Using your example, i wouldn’t assume they would enforce the ban if you object and explain your typo and if the corrected citation actually says what you cited. Mistakes like these are explainable a completely hallucinated citation is usually not.

Yes. They record almost every talk. You’ll find the relive (unedited recording of the live stream) on https://media.ccc.de and some time later the edited recording also on media.ccc.de and also on YouTube. There also also live translations to English (and some other languages) for talks in german.

It depends. There is not one Swiss German but multiple subdialects. The language spoke around the Bern region very far away from German while the one from Zürich or Basel is much closer. Since there is no official written from they never really converged to a homogeneous language.

Looks interesting, especially that use case. May I ask which headphone you are using? I have the older openmove from shokzs and voice isn't really understandable while riding a bike.

I had a DVD Burner in my self build PC and discovered a year ago that it wasn’t plugged in and that it must have been like this for years. That was the moment I decided it’s time to remove it.

VW still builds and sells Diesel engines in its Cars. For Volkswagen and Skoda the share of diesel cars was about 30% in Germany. Source (only in German and behind paywall, sorry) https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/468422/umfrag...

That exists. There are multiple vendors that have solutions to automatically transform COBOL code.

Deloitte, for example, has quite a big practice around Mainframe modernization with a toolsuite https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/consulting/topics/appl...

And AWS bought a company with such a toolsuite and offers it now as a service https://aws.amazon.com/de/mainframe-modernization/capabiliti...

A friend of mine works for a Management Consultancy firm and they have full flex tickets if they miss the 8pm flight home they can take the next one or fly back the next morning. All without additional fees. So I believe business travel is the biggest factor when it comes to missed flights.

Side note: His employer is the biggest client of a major European airline.

I also do this, usually with sprite or fanta and I think its more refreshing this way

Not op but i assume he is referring to change data capture.

not the OP but pretty sure it was sarcasm and choosing ASML and Alibaba specially because they are based in countries that are not know for their lack of regulation.

You might want to try the Wim Hof Method. I don't believe in everthing Wim Hof attributes to his method but when it comes to immune response, there is scientific evidence that it does indeed result in an increase of IL-10, which is anti inflammatory.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4034215/

Luckily the Soviet Union collapsed and the ISS was funded as a job program for Soviet rocket scientists (out of fear they could be poached to work on ICBMs for other nations).

It's the first time that I heard this theory. Do you have any sources to read up on it?

Using LLMs for picking military targets is just absurd. In the future

I guess the future is now then: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/01/the-gospel-how...

Excerpt:

Aviv Kochavi, who served as the head of the IDF until January, has said the target division is “powered by AI capabilities” and includes hundreds of officers and soldiers.

In an interview published before the war, he said it was “a machine that produces vast amounts of data more effectively than any human, and translates it into targets for attack”.

According to Kochavi, “once this machine was activated” in Israel’s 11-day war with Hamas in May 2021 it generated 100 targets a day. “To put that into perspective, in the past we would produce 50 targets in Gaza per year. Now, this machine produces 100 targets a single day, with 50% of them being attacked.”

I crosschecked with google Maps and I belive the Jindalee Operational Radar Network in Laverton is stationed there. Maybe that has something to with the interference. A 560kw transmitter is no joke.

I guess south-west Texas is most likely also military. E.g. the Naval Air Station Kingsville is not far away.

The difference is GPUs. A normal dual socket system serving a database or webserver use under medium load around 200-300W, One of these [1] equipped with 10xA100 can easily use in the ballpark of 3kW under load. So we are talking 10x the power usage.

[1]https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/system/gpu/5u/sys-521...

https://nitter.net/Plinz/status/1740606348935491648#m

I read three books this year that really changed my life in the order that I read them.

1. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. S. Dweck helped me to rediscover my curiosity and my eagerness to evolve. I started working at the end of 2022 and I realized that during the last years of university I lost my own drive to learn. There was always something to learn for a course so i either did that or nothing. The book helped me to change that perspective.

2. Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence by Dr Anna Lembke helped me to accept and work on my youtube and smartphone addiction. Since then I stopped watching Youtube for pleasure and only watch videos that are work related or that someone send to me. I learned to stand the pain of boredom and don't always jump on the next distraction.

3. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport helped me to drastically reduce procrastination and increase my productivity and the quality of my work. All that without increasing my work hours. IMHO its a must read for every knowledge worker.

But so is Roundcube.

OT: please (re)read the HN Guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Funnily enough, I know of two instances where companies got rid of their mainframe driven by the license cost for Gen[1] which was bought by Broadcom in 2020. I heard they were only issuing 5 year licenses now.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CA_Gen

I think the best summary of the whole devise that I came across is this one from today

„The OpenAI tussle is between the faction who think Skynet will kill them if they build it, and the faction who think Roko's Basilisk(‚s Monster)will torture them if they don't build it hard enough.“

Source: https://mastodon.social/@jef/111443214445962022

There is a HubermanLab episode where he interviews Susanna Søberg. She’s a professor from Denmark who researches cold exposure during winter swimming.

It’s mostly about physiological responses but not only. Link to the publications they talk about are in the shownotes. https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/dr-susanna-soberg-how-to...

OT: that’s the first time that i consciously see someone using emojis on Hackernews.

Edit: how did you do that, I tried adding one to my comment but it gets removed on post.

For a lot of open source stuff, even OSX is a 2nd class citizen, and windows isn't even considered. Of course, you can do everything in a VM, but that can have its own problems.

While it is true that windows is not considered, with WSL2, that doesn't matter anymore. Everything (99%) just works seamless with the Linux environment. And yes that's not truely native and technically a VM but I prefer WSL to a VM on macOS every day of the week. Ironically, if I would need to switch to Linux, I'd buy a Macbook.

I recently read the book deep work by Cal Newport. He introduces the concept of deep and shallow work. Deep work is the part the needs focus, concentration and complex thoughts. He argues that there is a limit of about 3-4 hours that one can spend in the state of deep work. That doesn’t mean in can’t do more shallow work in addition to the deep work. But the brain also needs rest, therefore working long hours consistently diminishes the ability to work deep. Also some problems are better solved unconsciously while the brain is resting.

I can really recommend that book, I haven’t adopted to many of the practices that he recommends but I am working on it and it already had a profound impact on the quality of my work but also my general mental health.

I would assume malice but Outlook informed me today that it deactivated the "Microsoft Teams Meeting Add-in for Microsoft Office" because it caused Outlook to open items slowly.

So if halon's razor ("Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.") is anything to go by it might be not on purpose, but who knows.

That thought was my first impression as well. However with a second thought i'm not sure if i'm convinced by the long time scenario that you would end up using this tool. After all it only makes sense to use this tool if you never intent to migrate the data completely. Which means, the data will till the end be scatered between AWS and Cloudflare with no apparent system other than the last access. Maybe I am overlooking something.

There is even a "Technician for cooling and ventilation systems" Opening

https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/CERN/743999929693353-techni...