skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The solution would be quite easy: Disallow devices (and software, too) from phoning home. Disallow remote firmware updates.

I predict that such a law would also be very popular with the citizens because people hate it when an automated software update breaks their workflow. And remote car firmware changes could be quite dangerous, too. https://twitter.com/anjilslaire/status/1537622856724426752

And some companies have been pretty notorious with their bait and switch, like the ad-free Samsung $10k TVs that got "updated" with popup advertisements a year later.

And all that e-waste from IoT products that no longer work because the manufacturer decided to turn off their servers. https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1516144514984923139

BTW, I like reading https://twitter.com/internetofshit just to feel lucky that I didn't buy any of it :)
Violation and legality are two entirely different things.
Sheesh Texas let that guy shoot and kill an unarmed man, outside of the house, with no charges?

Insert a gun into a frustrating situation for no reason. What an a-hole.
Yes! Thank you <3
> With all due respect these are the kinds of "tiny" details that renewable enthusiasts conveniently forget.

I mean generally it is well known that you cannot just put a lot of PV/Wind and things will work. A smart grid is needed, buffers and ideally great insulation although that is arguably important for every form of energy. Also at-home PV setups are meant to earn money/offset the energy bill. Autonomous energy supply is an after-thought that is interesting enough but has obviously not been possible with any other energy source before actually.
supposed to use bookmarks in hg but i used named branches anyway and that worked perfectly fine too
I already have, and I'm considering trying it out with my own cat at some point. Cats are way more intelligent than people give them credit for, I agree. But I think you can get very far without the ability to turn the mind's eye inward, and I don't think it's controversial to state that cats don't have a great deal of self-awareness and metacognitive ability.

Neosocial insects like ants are amazing indeed. I often wonder what kind of "mind" an anthill has. Hurts just to think about it.

And, to quote Oliver Sachs: "I'm not sure about octopuses..."
I think of this 'psychic' energy as being people's perceptual and effectual fields. Space that other humans can interact with. Growing up in a city, one expects the presence of multitudes of other fields. Being in the wilderness is a trip; it takes a long time for me to really believe I'm not in someone else's perceptual radius. It's hard to convince myself that I could yell at the top of my lungs and not cause alarm, even when in the middle of desert pan where I can see for miles in any direction.
That's not proven. Not even a little.

Dolphins most probably are sentient, and we still can't communicate with them well enough to talk about arithmetic.

Even if some animals can figure out small numbers, anything over 7 is just too much for them.

To have an algorithm to sum any arbitrarily pair of huge numbers, that's entirely something else, even for many people.

Any other 'thing' that's sentient being able to generalize sums is just speculation on your part.
> I think you're equating people not speaking out, and being silenced

I have several close Chinese friends who have argued with me that reeducation camps are different from concentration camps and that there is nothing wrong with them. That "they're just taking the children away temporarily." (a claim made and literally every non-Chinese person in the group stopped and then called them out on it)

> The layperson doesn't have room or a voice to be able to question and doubt government policy.

I disagree. Criticizing the government is popular past time in the West, especially America. So I don't really agree with this premise. I do agree that things are different in China, but I disagree that one can't speak out, especially when one is overseas and not surrounded by other countrymen.

> I didn't make generalizations, I gave you concrete examples.

The generalization complaint was about your generalization of my comment and assuming I had taken a position I didn't. Honestly, I think you and I agree on more things than we disagree. I just think we work in different bubbles.
I'd bet Meta has/will spend at least 5 years and $10B creating an equivalent app, and they're the (second) best in the world at this.
There is a big difference between a practical QC and the QC we have now. 65bits isn't practical for any known real problem but ask also how long it takes to boot it, how many cycles it can execute per run and how many runs it can do per day (or week).

These thing are not like your laptop, they are more like particle accelerators.
The problem is more nuanced than that and just throwing out "Population control." is completely meaningless.

You could cull three billion people of the lowest emitters and it would have as much of an effect as halving the CO2 emissions of the top 1% of emitters.[1] And considering that to avoid the worst of the climate crisis we need action immediately or as close to it as possible, waiting for people to die away will not help us. If the entire planet stopped having babies today we would wait 65 years to get to half the current population, and half the emissions.

At best, and I would argue even that is a stretch, population control is one small part of a long term strategy. But it is by no means a solution, so throwing it out there every time people talk about sustainability does nothing but derail the conversation.

What we really need is to to make consumption as sustainable as possible and reduce it where possible, especially for the top consumers. That is not only more feasible in the short term, it is probably more ethical as well.

(Pasted this comment from [2])

[1] https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/carbon-emissions-ric...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29545504
I find the best strat is to buy only from a trusted reseller. In Australia, Kmart tends to have decent and cheap quality items for nearly everything.
> It sounds like something future generations will shake their heads at while trying to dispose of all the toxic waste.

No, it doesn't. They will be far too busy handling coal ash dumps from coal-fired power stations, and remediating landscapes laid waste by mountain-top removal coal mining.

This will be orders of magnitude smaller as a problem. They will be grateful we finally stopped using coal.
>At least your (in this context overstated and seemingly unnecessary) mention of their religion makes it sound like it.

I interpreted the comment differently to you. To me, it appeared that the GP was merely trying to give all the details he remembered from the story. Each additional detail helps when trying to find a decade(s) old story on google or similar.

When reporting descriptions of people, the more detail, the better. Withholding things like race, religion, etc in an effort to be more PC results in a less accurate description.
You could probably get away with a subscription model if you market it to the rich, the famous, and politicians.
Your brain is literally just a giant neural network approximating what to say and do at each point in time in order to optimize survival of your progeny
That's what domain fronting is for, and even though the GFW attempts to filter by SNI, genetic algorithms like Geneva are able to find workarounds: https://geneva.cs.umd.edu/papers/foci21.pdf
There is absolutely no need to buy land to put solar on. So, land cost may be exactly zero.

Solar coexists synergetically with many other uses, most particularly reservoirs and canals, where it cuts evaporation and biofouling and runs cooler, thus more efficiently (up to 2x vs desert); and pasture, where it also cuts evaporation, and the livestock can duck under to get out of sun and rain, and keep weeds down; and cropland, where it cuts water and heat stress, often increasing yield. Siting on industrial and warehouse roofing makes roofs last longer.

Agriculturally, bifacial fence-rows running north-south are easiest and cheapest to deploy, and collecting most in morning and afternoon better matches demand curves.

Siting solar panels in deserts will soon be recognized as very stupid. They collect dust and run hot, cutting their output often in half. Siting them in single-use arrays not in desert is almost as bad.

Just now Utah is frantic about the Great Salt Lake drying up and then blanketing the region in toxic dust. Cover it over with solar panels, and it will fill back up.
Nice thats what i do too! I use a combination of code-server running on a gcloud instance and chrome remote desktop to do my work on a lenovo duet chromebook!
I have been using an iPad as a remote workstation. Powerful enough, some great apps and a small package to carry around.
ALTSpace doesn't have those kinds of resources, nor does Black Lodge Research or the other community ran hackerspaces in the area.

Hackerspaces generally aren't swimming in money, most don't have any employees and operate due to members donating their time to help the space survive and thrive.
Your first sentence was very thought provoking! I wholeheartedly agree, everything is/was/and will be alive.

The philosophical point you're making is also interesting in a "devil's advocate" sort of way. For instance, let's say the AI in question is "sentient." What right do humans have to preside over its life or death?

Those kind of questions might engender some enlightenment for humanity regarding our treatment of living creatures.
>That kind of change can feel scary or threatening...

>....a hot-swap start-up promises something familiar but better.

I was thinking in this regard about "AI" being hard to trust, as it is inherently a magical black box.
Sad to see this downvoted without any response, because as far as I see he's exactly right.
Stuck in the past?

That is why QNX and INTEGRITY have no sales.

Linux performance is so beyond what everyone else can achieve that is why nowadays we run it virtualized and pack applications into containers.
Very watchable indeed. Great stuff!
> better insulation

better insulation is not cheap and therefore not everyone can afford to do it. Also the same people who want renewables are usually opposed to building new housing so there's that.
I personally thought Nextcloud AIO was pretty easy to set up:
https://techhut.tv/nextcloud-all-in-one-server-setup-guide/

Haven't used the other tools mentioned (yet) but plan to.
It is surprisingly fast! Couple things that could be improved:

* Design seems mobile centric and doesn't suit desktop.

* Threaded comments are very hard to read. HN's UI does a great job.

* No visual notification when clicking on links and moving between pages. I had the same problem with toolwallhq.com and used https://www.npmjs.com/package/nextjs-progressbar to solve it.
That's an interesting viewpoint. I'm sure if Mueller hadn't been there, Elon would have been just as successful launching Dneiprs to orbit.
Is that a "wokeshop"?
Welcome to 1994, when I started doing that on IBM X Windows terminals or Hercules green phosphore terminals, depending on the availability on the compute center.
I used mrchromebox with a 2018 pixelbook and compiling a kernel has been a serious pain, and I'm just copying others' hard work.
Venting is fine but but is there a point you are trying to make? Besides the "some people blah blah" strawman?

I shouldn't put solar panels on my roof because it would not fix someone else's problems? What kind of logic is that?
Extremely heartbreaking to read.
Is this some kind of bad joke?
FWIW a few years ago I found the my-country-Amazon is not another-country-Amazon.
I had a problem with a phone after 6-12 months and they just sent me a replacement. A similar thing happened a couple of years later, I contacted support like at 1am from another European country and apparently I was sent to Amazon US support, which were useless... On the way back to the UK (still in the EU), I contacted support again (at a normal time) and this time they gave me a refund.
You mean the source tarball? It doesn't work on Linux, it doesn't even compile — the Makefile hardcodes CC to the MinGW compiler. Almost every .c file includes windows.h.

Looking at the project's issue list, they don't support other operating systems.
Yeah, I get the impression that the reporting here's fairly one-sided in the employee's favour. Lemoine didn't "discover" that LaMDA has all those attributes, he thought it did.

This entire saga's been very frustrating to watch because of outlets putting his opinion on a pedestal equal to those of actual specialists.
Have you checked out https://github.com/enaqx/awesome-react#real-react-apps? I haven't looked deeply into all of them, but couple look actively maintained.
I would pay for a membership if it is somewhere closer to my house and is clean. Most of the time I see labs very disorganized and is hogged by the know it alls.
I never published it due to bugs, so shame on me but it was a fresh port just from the sources, the author has a post I enjoyed where he explains some of the differences between how linux and openbsd do things, I sort of took this as a sign that the author at least tried it on openbsd and sure enough it built without too much trouble.

https://arcan-fe.com/2018/04/25/towards-secure-system-graphi...

https://nl1.outband.net/fossil/ports/file?name=graphics/arca...
That's great and all, but I wasn't really talking about Musk, I was talking about SpaceX.
It's like getting several spooks to say your network card could intercept or disrupt all your internet traffic. It's making the equipment's purpose sound scary.
Guarantee =/= capability.

There are plenty of tools in the language and ecosystem for dealing with memory errors and reducing their frequency, but you're clearly not interested in a rational discussion.
Any guide and which is the better hardware to start and try, especially cheaper but reasonable performance for linux, lisp and chrome browser.
You've got alot of fun reading lined up.

Almost all of the ones I've read were great.

If you're stuck with which to go with next maybe try Mort or any of the early series involving the witches.
I tend to prefer telnet to test connections because its output is more verbose.

We need a friendlier netcat, with better output. Call it netdog.
Natural gas runs on cloudy days and at night.

Taking a bus is cheaper than flying, but if you want to get somewhere fast you need to fly. Price is just one metric.
nftables is the current choice.

bpfilter may be the future, but it isn't moving fast.
It allows rich people in California drive in the HOV lane when they're alone in their cars. That's a pretty good trick.
I imagine it would be a bigger deal if they had the same seal. _That_ would suggest someone was trying to steal cargo, or commit some kind of customs fraud.
Office work has obvious costs for the company (rent, etc), and obvious costs for the employee (commute, etc). All of these were known and agreed upon when the contract was signed.

What many proponents of remote work are arguing for is unilaterally changing the contract because it’s possible to also work from home. This line of argument typically highlights the obvious benefits for the employee (no commute, flexibility, etc.), but often ignores the less obvious cost of working from home, such as lower team/company social cohesion, poorer communication, significantly more difficult onboarding for new employees and quite likely reduced productivity and socialization. Additionally the employee can expect some increased costs (electricity, food) which my or may not be offset by reductions from dropping eating out and such.

While many software engineers accepted poor working conditions in exchange for money and opportunities, now they want to have their cake and eat it too - at the cost of new employees and their company. Maybe the latter is excusable depending on the company, but the former is not and needs to be discussed instead of being swept under the rug.
A clear majority of utility storage will not be batteries, just because cheaper methods will be favored.

The cheapest will rely on E = Fx, where F is air pressure, or gravity, or buoyancy. But liquified anhydrous ammonia, despite being more costly to make, will be extremely popular because it is easy to transport and store, and is fantastically useful for many purposes.
You get used to it, and honestly, it's nice in its own way. Having the sun at your back warming you on a coolish night while staring at the horizon is pretty peaceful.

Plus, I'd rather watch the sunset on the Indian River than to watch it over the Gulf, because of all the awful people who crowd the beaches of the other side of the state.
Introvert doesn't mean "no social skills".

Extroverts charge their batteries by being around people, they are invigorated by it. Introverts get tired by social interaction.

I consider myself a people person. I can talk to strangers without issue and ask for help. I'm pretty good at negotiating requirements and corporate bullshit bingo speech when needed.

I'm also completely exhausted after a full day of meetings and require a hour or two of complete solitude to be sociable again. But if I spend the day coding with some intermittent chat over slack and maybe some informal lunch or water-cooler talk, I'm fine to socialise after work.
This was 2003, and was for a job with the State. I was absolutely atrocious as I had no idea what I was doing and really got no support to figure out how to code in the real world. Knowing now what I know now, that codebase could only have been created by sticking new grad after new grad on it without any peer reviews. The amount of nested if statements made it impossible to follow.

I don't know why anyone would hire these consulting firms other than plausible deniability of blame.

I would imagine that most large corporations and government code is still Java, only specialist systems are still COBOL.
The EU paid for lots of insulation here in Bulgaria. Mostly blocks of flats, of course. They were ugly and really needed it. Hope you guys enter the union soon
Sorry, my bad. I searched for the word "disjoint" expecting it to be prominent in this section but somehow this word only appears 3 times in this book non of which are in this section!

Anyway, while the figures in this work were indeed gorgeous, it was not what I was looking for. It did not even contain a non-intuitive analysis of the inverse ackermann complexity, much less an intuitive one!
We started writing a web-based DAW prototype that relies on the Webaudio Modules version 2.0 (a standard for plugins/hosts on the Web, that can be developed using a large variety of languages/approaches). For the moment, the DAW has very limited features but 1) Each track is written as an AudioWorklet, and sample accurate processing is being done for playing each track. That means, that from the processor part of each track player, we can schedule events (automation, midi, etc) to plugins. We can also loop and edit the audio track with a sample accuracy (this is not done yet, but everything is ready for that. We will add this soon). 2) Each track is associated with a plugin chain. Plugins are WAM plugins (webaudiomodules), and can be automated. 3) There are quite a lot of plugins already available in the WAM format, most effects, instruments. The WAM distribution comes with a set of example plugins + the FAUST IDE can generate WAM2 plugins in seconds. All running DSP in WASM. We (WAM designers, implementers and maintainers) can be reached on a slack channel (#webaudiomodules, subchannel of the #webaudio channel. Get incitation here: https://web-audio-slackin.herokuapp.com/

The WebAudioModules distro is 4 GitHub repos, it is also available as npm modules. (https://github.com/webaudiomodules, start by building the wam-example one and run the examples). You can find some presentations on youtube (such as: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G3we8dikq8).

DAW prototype (should be included soon in the wam-example repo): Picture : https://i.ibb.co/mBdNGqk/WAM2-DAW.jpg online version: https://wam-openstudio.vidalmazuy.fr/, current repo (work in progress, as I said, this work is active and we do plan to add all missing functionnalities the upcoming months) https://github.com/TER-M1/wam-openstudio

There are also professional, commercial DAWs, not open source ones, such as https://ampedstudio.com/ that is also capable of loading WAM plugins, and is developed using the same approach as our DAW proto (host as AW), bandlab.com or soundtrap.com.

Michel
Prototype with cloud (nothing is more convenient, provably).

As soon as market fit is found and higher performance/$ is required, on prem is waiting for you, I feel.
Arid land will soon be recognized as the worst place to put solar farms.
secure boot literally protects the user first

No it doesn't. It's merely a convenient excuse to divert attention away from the truth, which is that it prevents users from doing things like defeating DRM and modifying the system to not be so hostile to themselves in other ways.

secure boot fear mongering is bullshit nonsense

Your position is the corporate propaganda.
I've switched from bash to zsh a few weeks ago and overall, I'm pretty happy. Menu based auto completion for example is extremely nice.

But I could never get auto complete for rsync to work. I have some hosts in ~/.ssh/config (think "Hostname prod01" etc) , and in bash auto complete works for ssh, scp and rsnyc ("rsync prod01:someFile .")

In zsh, this only works for scp and ssh, but not rsync, and I haven't found a way to make this work.

Does anyone know how to get it to work like in bash?
U is code for freight container so yes :)
So, work that doesn't need the long-term planning coordination that estimates allow, is likely to go to more skilled teams? Routine project work goes to the rank-and-file while exceptions go to the tiger team?

And that possible interpretation is assuming that "slowest" and "team performance" are even measuring the right thing and not accounting artifacts. (Does completing the same work in the same time get counted differently when it's tracked as two 3-hour tasks vs three 2-hour tasks vs 12 "no estimate" tasks?)
Depends whether you were aware of the consequences of accessing that property. If you walk through my front gate and I pants you, take photos of your junk and upload them, you'll probably be upset unless I had a sign on the gate saying (in clear language, not 14 pages of irrelevant 6pt legalese hiding a link to the actual 'privacy policy' document which admits in obfuscated language that pantsing is an option) that this would happen.
I agree completely on not mentioning if not relevant however I believe it was probably a substantial part of the story referenced.

Here’s a NYT article which might provide some context: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/nyregion/hasidic-jews-ama...
Let's say you're in your 20s, single and want to travel the world.

500k requires you to live in San Francisco, commute to the office every day at strict hours and is at a soul crushing, bureaucratic big corp.

70k allows you to work from anywhere in the world, async an on your own schedule. Also, you get more vacation. 6k USD per month is a lot in many countries.

If you want to live now not later, I can see why you'd choose the 70k job.