skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How were word and excel going to get collaborative editing like google docs without some kind of online account?

A common HN refrain is that defaults matter, so by default in order to be feature competitive you need an MS account.

For my personal computer I will use Linux and windows 7 in a VM for autocad and other windows only software, for work I use whatever they provide. If it lets my company pay $x per user per year for supported collaborative word and excel, common cloud storage, and shared calendars… that’s pretty turn key and a great deal compared to having an in house IT department that could do all of that, when tech is a tool for our business and not core or adjacent to the business
What does it mean to spend money and time on eating less sugar? Spend no money and no time by not buying sugar products, that's it.
>Even if that is accurate(source?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_farming

>quantity applied says nothing about the danger of the substance to humans.

Quantity is the deciding factor when talking about toxicity to humans. If I've misunderstood your comment, please correct me.
Star7 Demo by James Gosling (1992)
The article title has 'officer' in quotes but the HN title does not. That dramatically changes the meaning.
Please enlighten me. I am at a disadvantage here.
Yeah that's what happens in practice, but it's not a good use of police resources. Road policing should be focused on keeping the roads safe, not fishing for unrelated crimes. The cost-benefit for society and the police on these stops is terrible.
A separate circuit to map fuel/gas ratio for a given sensor input is also not a rocket science.
You need to ask someone (provide ID, KYC probably) to convert them into a currency you can spend widely though.
Show HN: ParEvil – Structural Editing Keybindings for ParEdit into Evil Mode
Addressed by an ICE tax. The only argument I'm willing to buy is that EV subsidies is a political compromise made out of necessity, not that it's superior policy.
The privacy cost of these devices is largely hidden. People are really bad at judging the long term and secondary/tertiary effects of their actions, they only see the immediate benefit. This is how the dystopian surveillance state grows.
Yes, taxes collected by govt effectively go into a single pool. The money is not ringfenced for particular purposes.

Both in the UK (where I'm from) and in the US (where I live now), there are separate taxes ('social security' in the US, 'national insurance' in the UK), but the AFAICT this is just a trick to obscure the true rate of payroll/income taxes.
Non-OEM paint cartridge detected. Unable to paint car.
>It’s not about reducing substances–it is about substances that are healthy.

I agree that such substances should not post a risk to human health, but there is no argument that organic crop products are any better for humans than conventional products.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_of_pesticides
Or the ban against lead additives. Or against child labour. Or any one of hundreds of massive benefits that government fiat has brought us.
It doesn’t need to use them, but it must be aware of them, insofar as they may introduce security problems.

As an example, if the kernel doesn’t know of DMA channels, and it requires setup code to prevent user-level code from using them to copy across process boundaries, the kernel will run fine, but have glaring security problems.
> This is the important part. Activists' fear should not dictate health policy. That should be done by scientists.

I think anyone should be able to raise an objection - and then we should look at the science to decide how valid it is.

The activists seem to be worried that while individually the chemicals are fine, maybe they aren't in combination. I have no idea if that's true or not, but it doesn't sound impossible, and there have certainly been other cases in other contexts where a combination is toxic but the individual parts aren't. If that's been studied great, if not we should definitely study it to find out.
> I always find Confluence to be the place where docs go to die

Yeah... I'm not a big fan either. Currently in my team we just use google docs for more dynamic stuff, and have a wiki page with links to all docs. Otherwise we know that people won't bother editing
How can you completely dismiss the JDK and licensing issues that was started by Oracle?
I think that's contrary to this field's worldview. They seem more like librarians: more or less the end of the data lifecycle. (Unless it's the kind of data that gets retrieved, as if from a library, and used for further analysis.)
Right? Might as well try. The only other option is to go quietly into that good night.
"Your JavaZone(tm) account will remain free for individual, non-profit use; all other account owners will be contacted but not until some future date after we trick you into visiting the site and demand punative licensing fees under threat of legal action"
Your Startup Is a Movement (2020)
Plus Codes: open-source digital addressing
Funny enough with Bitcoin you have done 90% of the mugger/robber's job for them by holding the money in a criminal-friendly format.
I'm more impressed by how you would align the X rays slices to correct translation / shifts, seems like a bigger problem to me than reconstructing the data from aligned scans
the distortion is much more fundamental than interest rate policy.

The real distortion is taxing income and sales and not land or other forms of monopoly rent.

creating the vast majority of money through mortgages or student loans to motivate people to work hard as slaves for feudal masters.

central banks have no control over that fundamental design decision, they just oil it, but if they didn't it wouldn't be any prettier of a sitution.
The UK is a joke. You are not allowed to even defend yourself with more than your keys.
You're implying that because they're within legal limits everything is A-OK (how are the limits set? Exhibit A: US drinking water pollutant limits, which were raised by Bush, not based on science)

...then launching into an ad hominem attack (either the pesticide amounts are safe or not, and it has nothing to do with who is asking "is this safe or not?")

...and jumping on the word "fear" (I say "I fear the gun you've pointed at me is loaded and the safety off, would you stop pointing it at me until you check it?" You: "Oh ho look who says they're about to get shot based on NOTHING BUT FEAR". No, I'm asking you to CHECK the gun, and in the meantime stop pointing at me, because the nonzero chance of me suffering harm)

...followed by a lot of personal opinion about modern farming techniques

...including a bunch of hand-waiving about how an incredibly complex problem will be magic-bulleted (or even helped) by rolling back the incredibly loose environmental rules farmers are required to follow.

The reason we have 'trouble' feeding 7 billion humans is because of trade policies and protectionism. For example, corn in Mexico is artificially high in price because the US turns a fuckton of its corn into ethanol (which is an energy-negative process) and high fructose corn syrup (which is only cost-effective because the price of sugar imports is kept artificially high by government regulation, to protect US sugar producers.) It's also because we do things like dump food in countries with hunger, thus collapsing prices for local farmers (who then can't survive and stop farming), instead of helping those countries produce or buy more food.

Also, please provide evidence that EU farmers (using lower pesticide amounts) have lower yields than US farmers. Don't forget to account for the cost of the pesticides vs reduced yield.
Government fiat generally makes problems worse because the government is a monopoly and a monopoly has little incentive to do things well because of a lack of consequences for getting it wrong, unlike a business in a competitive market which has to respond to competitive pressure or go bust.

But a monopoly/cartel isn't a competitive market and has the exact same problem.

And antitrust is minimally damaging as long as you restrict the targets to companies that have more than, say, 25% market share. In other words, as long as it places no constraints on upstarts and challengers.

Because at that point, blindly causing harm to the large incumbents is actually good even if it's hamfisted and incompetent, because then the market can fix any damage by transitioning to smaller suppliers not subject to antitrust rules, which is the thing that actually solves the problem. The worst thing they can do is fail to do enough damage to the incumbents to restore competition, which is the same thing that happens if they do nothing.
But a longer testing can find more bugs.
> so called team's "integration". Clearly a move to use the dominate position of windows in OS space, to push out competitors like Slack, Zoom, and all others in the communication space

I hope the regulators are listening - it's the same crap as IE.
You obviously didn't get scooped up in their JDK dragnet. It was essentially a ransomeware demand that cost our company mid-five figures annually.
It's the first party shell implementation that is locked in compatibility, being built around assumptions of a particular OS version. The X11 equivalent layer has been the same system since Vista (obviously with extensions just like X11 over time) and supports launching any shell, even 3rd party ones.
The article claims that it saves money, rather than costing extra.
42% of people are obesse in usa. That seems like very obviously the more immediate risk by many orders of magnitude. The risk of pesticides (that are within legal limits) is a bit more nebulous, but seems almost certainly nowhere near as pervasive as obesity. If you have a known risk that's significant, probably best to focus there.

However is this really the trade off? For the most part you can't really buy pesticide free food that's unhealthy.
uhm, many of their services work poorly or not at all with Firefox; how is that not "requiring chrome?"
I think the state of the police force at the moment is very much all hands on deck. Would be very expensive to have a large part of the force unable to act.
>automakers are not offering enough money to convince Intel to continue supplying their "old" types of chips

Like that time Apple was "not offering enough money to convince Intel to continue supplying their "old" types of chips" aka the StrongArm
I'm convinced that this is all a result of Microsoft being a rudderless ship. That and their unkillable telemetry telling them shit like "n% of people spend x% more time in Settings than Control Panel" so that means that Settings must be better. Right? Cool, let's take 5 years to slowly destroy the control panel.

Many things I've read over the last few years about Microsoft is that it's utterly disfunctional. It's become so big that it's impossible to achieve any kind of coherence. As another comment pointed out: they've had 10 years to make the UI all look the same and still haven't achieved it! A single dev could have redesigned the whole thing in a couple of years at most so it can't be a technical issue: it points to them either having incompetent management or just being too damn big to actually manage!

Now I've worked mainly for large corporates over the years and they're never a single entity: they're always made up of multiple internal entities whether officially or unofficially. And they all have their own goals so steering a company as a whole is not an easy task but Microsoft are a fucking mess and thanks to all this forced shit, Windows 10 will be the final version of Windows for me.

So what does that mean? It means that Linux has 4 years to get its act together before I switch to it permanently, come hell or high water. Coz right now, Linux is not a replacement for Windows for a great many people. Myself included. Even though I've tried multiple times with Fedora, Pop_OS and Ubuntu, shit always goes wrong. Always: dodgy sound issues, Nvidia drivers issues, scaling issues etc... stuff I don't get with Windows! Ever.
Survivalist? You do realize once the loved one dies,the cells have to die too. A bit counter-inituitive..
A few quotes from the video:

* "My Tesla was on autopilot and it plowed into a deer in my lane, there were no cars behind me, it did not attempt to slow down or stop."

* "As one Tesla autopilot mile becomes 50, 500, 5000, the behavior of your brain changes - it offloads the cognitive burden of driving to the autopilot, even when you have your hands on the wheel looking straight ahead"

* "Your brain cannot turn off habituation, it will put too much trust in autopilot,
you can't do anything about that and that can be disastrous"

* Mentioned article: Tesla Drivers Using Autopilot Watch the Road Less, MIT Study Shows - https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a37727214/tesla-drivers-au...

* The footage when it hits a deer is at the 3:50 timestamp - https://youtu.be/jrWH_0YA5XM?t=230
You’re entire argued through the comments here seem to be that we should trust the government, current monitoring practices, existing limits, and the current science.

This is a very fucking shaky foundation to base an argument.

We have every reason to be highly doubtful of all of those and to continue to seek more refined certainty.
do you have any evidence of this? from my personal experience pests are an even bigger problem for growing plants indoors.

lack of predatory parts of the food chain allow some pests to go unchecked.

just one spider mite in a greenhouse... could quickly overtake the whole thing with out natural predators like lady bugs and predatory mites.
SS. Paramilitary units of Nazi Germany known for their brutality, oppression, and crimes against humanity. AirSS is of course play on RSS, but I also could immediately see how it can be read as Air SS.
>https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_of_pesticides

I'm not sure what you're meaning to say by giving that link, but there isn't anything there to refute anything I've commented on. With respect to the organic argument, every topic mentioned in that article applies to organic crop products just as well.
It's often more expensive (if not in cash, than in time and effort of preparation) to live on healthy calories versus cheap ones sourced from corn syrup.
I agree, describing EMI as "the Beatles record company" is true but very misleading.

EMI was a diverse conglomerate that was involved in all kinds of stuff, from military RADAR systems to making TV cameras, computers and blank cassette tapes.
Yes, EMI had a record company division (also famous for firing The Sex Pistols), but EMI was exactly the kind of huge industrial tech company you would expect to invent a new kind of scanner.
Body cams don't feel practical for undercover police. Too easily seen if they have a good view.
And with the frequency with which police find unregistered guns locally making traffic stops, I fully support this. It baffles me the repeated efforts locally to "reform" policing involve stopping these kinds of police activities to seem more fair or something... Don't get me wrong there are some really shady tactics in this realm police do use and having the job biases you towards certain assumptions, but still. Criminals are stupid, please keep giving them the opportunity to give themselves up by speeding in unregistered cars, etc.
Housing demand has many inputs, only one of which is low interest rates. It's not like we've exhausted the economy's capacity to build... NIMBY policies and a general demographic shift towards living in cities (which may be reversing) are also to blame.

Inflation has myriad causes and money supply is the culprit only when you have too many dollars chasing an at-capacity resource.
Right. Generous retirement benefits for public sector employees are a trick played on taxpayers by politicians and those responsible for negotiating the contracts (those representing the govt, and unions representing current govt employees).

Most people think government employees are paid much less than they would be in the public sector, but that's because it's not obvious to most of us:

a. just how much it costs to fund a defined-benefit pension scheme, when asset yields are so low

b. how early people can retire with a 'full pension'

c. the low performance bar and difficult of firing a govt employee, even for cause
At least with COVID, one day the same idea can be “misinformation” and the next it’s a blessed fact from the Deciders of Truth. Originally it was misinformation that masks protected you from COVID. So no it’s not as simple as a “lie”.
>We need to be able to choose the towers we connect to.

How does that help? If you do that the best you can do is obfuscate your location by a mile.
lesswrong (specifically eliezer) doesn't push enough people into hard sciences; worrying about AI x-risk is not a recipe for innovating in genetics, neurobiology, life extension, or anything else extropian.
Because they are ponzi scheme. Edit: they are also a horribly unethical waste of energy
Considering there's already 6 month waits on new cars, I'd happily throw in an extra month if it meant I got to use an online editor to design my own paint job.
Organic requires far more land, more water, more fertilizer and more energy than traditionaly farmed produce. In addition, the pesticed sprayed on crops do not penetrate the skin, and can be removed easy by rinsing the produce with water. But organic crops contain endogenous pesticides that cannot be washed off. Organic crops have been selectively bread over many years to be pest resistant, so that they could be grown commercially by factory farming. They achieve this by producing more natural pesticides, which permeate through all parts of the fruit or veg and make organic produce far more toxic than than traditional food.
What amperage are we talking about here? Discussions of electrical safety solely in terms of voltage is nonsense.
I think that is relative to custom paint vs existing manual methods. That i would agree with, i just don’t see this replacing single tone paint methods. Which likely wasn't why it was built, so not sure why i'm pointing that out haha.
I’m blocking the Windows 11 update via group policy[1] until the Taskbar and Start Menu are usable.

I run software that is unusable without it being 1-taskbar-button-per-window. Forcing us to use 1-button-per-EXE with a slow-and-fiddly window sub-menu is so very user-hostile.

I suspect the decision to force single large buttons was to prompt third-party developers to have single-window-apps just like smartphones and tablets - which is just so wrong on so many levels.

Being dicks about MSAs in Home SKUs is also inexplicable. Do they really expect people will be okay with being stuck and unable to install Windows without a working internet connection? What if a computer has a modern NIC that Windows doesn’t have in-box drivers for? This. Is. Insane.

[1] Yes, I run an AD domain for my house.
https://web.archive.org/web/20211002213818/https://axio.ms/b...
>But they actually built a perfect OS and lost it.

Drive letters, registry…

They had a decent UI, reasonable kernel and popular API.
Oh, it is extensional in the sense of supporting K axiom, actually (not identity as propositional <-> definitional) :).
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Isn't this the exact behavior we are taught as human drivers?
> impressive performance, battery life, temperature of the Apple M1

From my perspective Apple just made it so non Apple hardware couldn't get fast CPU's for another year.

M1 is a 5nm CPU that is faster than 7nm low power CPU's, and uses less power than 7nm high power CPU's, but to me it isn't obvious that it will perform significantly better than others 5nm low power CPU's when those hits the market. Others 5nm will hit the market once Apples contracts to use all 5nm fabs runs out, but before then we are stuck with only Apple having that tech.

You might think that this situation sounds great, but it doesn't look that great to me. I'd prefer if Apple didn't work to lock in hardware components and tech as they do.
Government spending on social programs would be a much more straightforward way to create money, but seems politically impossible
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#Licensing:

“x86-64/AMD64 was solely developed by AMD. AMD holds patents on techniques used in AMD64; those patents must be licensed from AMD in order to implement AMD64. Intel entered into a cross-licensing agreement with AMD, licensing to AMD their patents on existing x86 techniques, and licensing from AMD their patents on techniques used in x86-64. In 2009, AMD and Intel settled several lawsuits and cross-licensing disagreements, extending their cross-licensing agreements.”

⇒ I think only Intel and AMD currently can freely implement x64.

There’s also https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/x86-approaching-40-sti...:

“However, there have been reports that some companies may try to emulate Intel’s proprietary x86 ISA without Intel’s authorization. Emulation is not a new technology, and Transmeta was notably the last company to claim to have produced a compatible x86 processor using emulation (“code morphing”) techniques. Intel enforced patents relating to SIMD instruction set enhancements against Transmeta’s x86 implementation even though it used emulation.”

That was seen as a message to Microsoft (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/intel...)
> If you were going to design a new car electrical architecture from scratch today, you would have something like a 40-60V system with a centralized controller (or pair of controllers in a safety redundant configuration).

Aircrafts historically been using high frequency AC, on both sides of the iron curtain (as both sides were copying each other.)

Old analog instruments actually benefited from AC availability.

And when SMPS were big, and heavy, transformers were much more reliable, and smaller (and they are still are, depending on the frequency)

3 phase power was also giving some interesting cost cutting benefits at the time
The rich (a trite generalization, but leaving that aside for now), appear currently undecided about the future of cryptocurrency. Today, it's delivering good speculative returns as the supply of greater fools continues. And it's a good experiment in making cross-jurisdictional transfers easier. If at any point it actually threatens the status quo, it's easily destroyed.

So, for now, I see an opportunity for the lower (financial) classes to buy in, and make the kind of returns that they seldom see. A few more nouveau riche are no danger to the system.

But I suggest paying attention to the old adage: "invest no more than you are prepared to lose". Judicious realization of gains into a diversity of other assets will mean that when/if the music stops, you're left with something.

Personally, it doesn't pass for my ESG guidelines, and I'm prepared to forego the possible returns.