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We've started calling it "Human on the hook" instead of human in the loop in work.

It is more accurate, in terms of, it only matters when something goes wrong.

Edit:"On the hook" is a general expression that means if something goes wrong it lands on you as the responsibile party, generally in a negative way. As in, if it goes right, you don't get kudos, if it goes wrong, you're on the hook for it

Hi Simon, nice article. The parent there may be making the same assumption I am, that large enterprise _never_ pays sticker price.

Also, to just color in the picture here, as I haven't seen it mentioned elsewhere, there is a very large Saas company at the moment who has given everyone unlimited tokens on Claude. And they have a dashboard showing who spends the most. So the "budget" went from about USD500 per per person (split between Claude and cursor) in Jan to... Well a soft limit of USD100k... Per month... Per person.

People can still see the top line sticker price on their spend, but honestly I can't believe that the Saas is paying that full price when the invoice comes in.

That said, there are some finance reports which are probably dropping soon where we will find out!

Your gonna get flagged and all for this comment..... But I agree.

Is there a HN frontend that filters out mentions of AI, it would make a nice change... Maybe I should AI code it /just joking

Check your mouse focus settings in your desktop environment (gnome/KDE/whatever).

There may be an option called mouse stealing prevention or something, but if you have a look you should hopefully see it. On xfce it's in its own tab in the mouse menu

What do you mean by copied? Ireland was colonised by the English for many years, and was part of their common law system during that period.

When it became independent, all laws weren't suddenly repealed, some were just ammended over time (as any common law system does). It's my understanding that Irish Courts can still refer to court cases from other common law countries in terms of precidence, even now

Ah sure, lookit

Genuine question, when people talk about apple silicon being fast, is the comparison to windows intel laptops, or Mac intel architecture?

Because, when running a Linux intel laptop, even with crowd strike and a LOT of corporate ware, there is no slowness.

When blogs talk about "fast" like this I always assumed it was for heavy lifting, such as video editing or AI stuff, not just day to day regular stuff.

I'm confused, is there a speed difference in day to day corporate work between new Macs and new Linux laptops?

Thank you

A feed of the posts from the global feed

Is there a feed of your global feed? A meta feed? If I download an opml it will just go out of date right?

Is there an RSS version of the weekly newsletter about Wikipedia articles?

I have to agree. In fairness I am biased in that I have used xubuntu (xfce Ubuntu distro) for many years, but the one "feature" is that now I find it hard to use any other OS because of "perceived latency".

I see a top comment here speaking about an inefficient architecture.. that may be the case under the hood, but if you use it for a while, the "click lag" is very noticeable when you move off it.

Maybe it's not a good thing! /s. When I started a new role, I had to use a mac for a week until IT did a Linux swap out, and I found it so frustrating. Mostly the inability to set shortcuts that were muscle memory, but also the lag.

I have noticed lag more on a brand new iPhone (the pro one) then on my face... Which is something

I assumed it was because windows 10 went out of support a few months ago

You forgot the "and off by one errors"

Seems to be recovering now

Bridge doesn't seem to be working either, webapp will not load

I'm not sure if this takes into account para-virtualized networks on VMs, ie. VMware vm's with "virtual" hardware access

It's been a few years for me tho, so perhaps it's covered with the VM section.

Lovely diagram, thanks for sharing it!

You can also buy a cheap cd player and some CDs from a second hand store

You have hit the nail on the head there! The point in the book was that depending on your editor, you were essentially living in different realities.

There was the east and west coasts, and then there was Ameristan (or something I can't remember exactly) in between, which was fundamentalist

Fall, or Dodge in hell, by Neil Stephenson has a take on this.

The internet is flooded with slop and rage-bait on purpose. So filled as to be unusable, like a firehose of shit. So in there comes a role if "editor" whose job it is (you pay them) to only give you, well not even what's "true", rather what reflects your world view. So which editor you have becomes a factor in how you live, where your educated, your status.

It will be interesting to see if something as explicit as editors arise.

I will say this, if you stay off Facebook and some of the other big social sites for a while, it is like a madhouse when you glance back

People were pirating before napster, but napster made it easy, accessable, and let people do it with little to no barrier.

It's the same with this.. yes photo editing could always be done, but it's far easier now to get better results. It's accessibility changes the game

A good bit less powerful yes. But the simplicity is a huge strength when it comes to long term tech. I started using it in 2012 I believe.

The most important thing in any note taking app is to use it consistently and use it for years. And bring it with you as you change jobs.

Sometimes simple things that work in plain text files that can be exported and imported easily is what you need for long term note taking.

Zim wiki is brilliant. I've been using it for years. It's very extendable

I suspect the future looks more like Kill Decision by Daniel Suarez.

Swarm robots engaged in destruction as opposed to construction. Destruction is a lot easier.

Snow Crash leaned on this mythos a lot. Great read by the way

Would someone be able to say if this is somehow related to encoding data as polar coordinates, because at my knowledge level it looks like it could be related?

For some context, to learn more about quantum computing, I was trying to build an evolutionary style ML algo to generate quantum circuits using the quantum machine primitives. The type where the fittest survive and mutate.

In terms of computing (this was a few years ago), I was limited to the number of qubits I could simulate (as there had to be many simulations).

The solution I found was to encode data into the spin of the qubit (which is an analog value). So I used polar coordinates to "encode data"

The matrix values looked a lot like this, so I was wondering if hill space is related? I was having to make up some stuff as I went along, and finding out the correct area to learn about more would be useful.

It sounds like they need to lay the cable with a submarine not a boat, to avoid waves etc

Try a lower version of the Nvidia driver. The newer version was causing me and folk I work with a lot of problems.

I would imagine the size meant it wouldn't get far by road. Bridges and houses would have made the route too narrow.

It looks like they only just squeezed under a bridge on the Danube in the bottoms pictures

No, they had a lot of propaganda that showed the Irish as sub human, look at punch magazine for example

The Irish were not "white" back then

Wasn't expecting to see Irish there, thank you! Beautiful page also!