skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not entirely invalidating your point, but it’s worth keeping in mind how many organisations will publicly declare an ERP project has been “finished successfully” in various PR channels, while staff will be stuck shouldering the burden to maintain duct tape and bailing wire hacks for a few years as the ERP that was “finished successfully” has in reality only met 40-80% of its original goals, the project having been either quietly rescoped or just “finished early to the satisfaction of all parties” or any number of other PR bullshit phrases.

I’ve personally witnessed a couple if “successfully deployed ERP projects” which were in reality complete shit shows to the point where lawsuits were considered, and it was only the good old fashioned grease of the professional consultants who started getting worried this might haunt them in the next job after they quit, that kept the gears turning and stopped things getting that far. One of these was barely 50% of originally promised scope, downscoped twice and “successfully completed” 5 years before the internal teams who took over when the consultants were kicked out, gave up and told management they couldn’t deliver and and a new solution should be put to tender.

Oracle and IBM and SAP and the like may be able to always end up delivering, but plenty of clients will walk away partially down the road due to going bankrupt or merging or any one of a number of outcomes because the massive vendors that will “always deliver” might take so long to get there that you can basically just call it what it is, a practical failure… if an ERP is installed in a company but no one ever uses it, was it even deployed?
Pour gasoline over the cameras, then light it, and you can burn the whole house down destroying the footage and killing everyone inside!

You can't build a system that's immune to every possible type of attack, but fortunately you don't have to. Most people will never catch a single "bad guy" with their camera set up, and will never have anyone mess with the system at all. That doesn't mean it's not a good idea to take a few simple steps to better protect yourself, your family, your packages, your network and your privacy. If you see value in having your surroundings captured on camera you can gain a lot of benefits for a small amount of effort by throwing your ring cameras in the trash and setting up a dedicated network for their replacements.
Keen observers of Chinese industry will note that there is also a significant threat of IP theft[1] to Apple by continuing to invest in advanced manufacturing over the long term in China.

Apple hasn't just outsourced manufacturing to China. They are on the cutting edge of many-a-technology , at least commercially available tech, and they ship enormous amounts of know-how.

Combine this with the Chinese Communist Party's aims to extend industry as an arm of state policy with the likes of Huawei getting into telecommunications and IT hardware, it's hard to see a future for Apple not getting overwhelmed by the competitive threat of a lower cost adversary.

[1]https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/02/18/huawei-cloning-ap...
Yes, I'm sure the narco multi-millionaires will happily go back to being peasant-farmers after legalization.
Yes. If you do anything even slightly related to a political campaign - donate, sign a petition, fill out a form - that list gets sold over and over and over. https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/06/email-list-for-sale...

It's often the most valuable asset a campaign has.
With good authors, I would always keep metaphor in mind. In the case of The Road, I think what you're hitting on arguably the single most critical question the book asks: do we cooperate because we're benevolent, or do we cooperate because we're selfish and cooperation furthers our own interests?

When working together is clearly beneficial, not cooperating is simply illogical. But what happens when cooperation is not only not clearly beneficial, but may even be actively detrimental? What happens if you're starving to death, and you see a weaker man who has enough, barely enough, to feed himself approaching? And that is all there is?

Adding a notion of a child, of the future itself, into the picture makes it all the more difficult.
Saw this post, signed up on TreasuryDirect.gov, and it immediately went down. That'll teach me for not using Yotta.
Thank you - Treasury Direct is the worst.
That is a lot of effort to complain about SQlite's Code of Conduct.
electron is a literal ecological disaster because of how much CPU and RAM JavaScript runtimes use. How many chunks of coal have been burned just to keep Electron going when a faster language would have used less CPU time for the millions of users who use Electron apps?
The EU is voluntarily cutting off purchasing Russian oil - which is what the parent comment referred to - and has placed an embargo on Russian oil.

The EU is taking enormous harm upon itself by what it's doing in regards to the Ukraine / Russia war. It could stay out of the Ukraine conflict, it could have the pipelines all operating normally, it could be enjoying dramatically lower energy bills.

India is doing the exact opposite. They're intentionally avoiding harming themselves and are opportunistically buying cheap energy.

Yes, they're behaving very differently. Which also doesn't mean it's not in India's self-interest to purchase cheap energy, given their economic context. One would be a fool to not grasp why they're doing it and that for their own well-being it may very well make sense; they're not part of Europe and they don't view themselves as being involved.
Totally agree with everything you're saying. Apple products (along with most consumer electronics) simply aren't strategic to national security so they can and will be continued to be made where profit margins are highest modulo tariffs and sanctions.
> So these bulk scanners exist, and the issue is a solved problem, but none of the "root" repos for the popular language stacks are using them?

I could talk at length about this; unfortunately, I'm on my phone with a shotty connection.

The tl;dr is that companies like Snyk make money by requiring companies to pay to check for vulnerabilities once they've been downloaded. There's not necessarily anything wrong with that, but a philanthropic company could make things significantly safer for everyone if they weren't concerned about making money. Initiatives like the OSSF will hopefully have a positive impact, for this reason.
I am finally going to be able to bring my 2004-era movie script to life! "Rosenberg and Goldstein go to Hot Dog Heaven" is about the parallel night Harold and Kumar's friends had and how they ended up at Hot Dog Heaven with Cindy Kim.
You don't need power of attorney to act on someone's behalf with their explicit permission and instruction. It may be against TreasuryDirect's terms of service (I have no idea, I haven't read them), but there's nothing specifically illegal about this.
If you can't beat em, you might as well join them.
hah! I edit the frontend html every time so I can use my password manager
Is it the same of Meta AI?
There is no "large scale battery problem".

Energy storage is a simple matter of civil engineering: a big job to construct enough, but requiring no new technology.

We are not building it now because it would be stupid to build storage there is no renewable capacity to charge up from. Money is overwhelmingly better spent today on renewable generating capacity.

By the time we need to build storage, it will be much cheaper than if built today.
Yes I believe it's to counter key loggers.
What I want to know is why nobody talks about this.. https://brillouinenergy.com/news

> Researchers at SRI International have issued a Technical Progress Report covering their review and independent validation of Brillouin Energy’s on-going testing and scaling efforts of its most advanced Isoperibolic (“IPB”) Hydrogen Hot Tube™ (HHT™) component prototypes, which generate controlled Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (“LENR”).

I've been keeping an eye on it since 89 and this seemed significant.
Elm Land
Take a look at Flamingo "solving" the joke: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FSFwYL7WUAEgxqQ?format=jpg&name=...
No it's not, because then you can't use any search on Pictures.
The only thing it proves is that it’s good enough for this specific case.
So I guess in a couple years when someone wants to sell a product, they'll upload some pictures and a description of the product and Google will cook up thousands of personalized video ads based on peoples emails and photos.
Toyota Aqua (Prius C) teardown
This is actually what lichess does - if it flags you as a cheater, you are silently paired against other cheaters.

They have almost the entirety of the lichess system source code publicly available, but from what I can gather they have a private set of weights on inputs - I assume to prevent cheaters from fully reverse-engineering the system.
> A partnership is the explicit creation of a contract that both parties agree to.

So is a marriage. In both cases, there are default consequences in law that apply in the absence of contrary explicit agreement, particularly (relevant to thr current issue) as regards property attributable to the relationship, including which property that is.

> If a contract is voided

That’s not relevant, here. Voiding a contract is cancellation, due to a legal defect that makes it categorically invalid (if completely prohibited) or voidable at the discretion of a party (such as when one party was a child when making it); the marital case of voiding a contract is annulment, not divorce.

Divorce is termination of a contract, not voiding.
This is a fantastic initiative. Yotta is gamifying savings, because why not? And it's FDIC-insured so I don't have to worry about trusting money to a start-up.

I think the UI-improvement over dealing with the treasury website is substantial. Good work on finding the opportunity and setting it up transparently via your already-existing buckets feature.

A note of appreciation, that's all.
What an excellent idea. Kudos.
I'm bothered a bit about the use of llvm-mos (or really any C compiler) for developing low-level 6502 code. The 6502 is my favourite CPU, but it's not very well suited to C, and most C compilers don't emit well-optimized 6502 assembly compared to what a manual coder would do.

If he had to use a C compiler just so he didn't go insane, however (which I sympathize with), it seems to me that cc65 would have been a better choice and certainly more widely used. But most assemblers implement a good macro system which helps with sanity.
Add these technologies to your toolbox.

It is not easy to do "prompt engineering". Keep in mind that most generated material looks awful -- there is a huge selection bias going on.

The outputted stuff needs to made production ready also, distribution, etc.

If anything, the emergence of these technologies should greatly expand. You will have a new customer base that was not available before, and you will be able to deliver new products.
Perhaps in the short term you do nothing. It will be many years before this moves from “toy” to “tool”. The industry is made up of humans and humans adapt at human speed. You don’t have to outrun the AI bears, you just have to outrun your colleagues.

Perhaps this will just make your job easier and not impact your ability to make money. Maybe you will make even more money.

And if at some point the industry dries up completely, you will move on and do the best you can. We all will.
Yep, work in progress.
There's a huge gap between "that's pretty cool" and a feature length film. People want to create specific stories with specific scenes in specific places that look a specific way. A "Couple kissing in the rain " prompt isn't going to produce something people are going to pay to see.

It's more likely that you're still going to be filming/editing/animating but will have an AI layer on top that produces extra effects or generates pieces of a scene. Think "green screen plus", vs fully AI entertainment.

People will over-hype this tech like they did with voice and driverless cars but don't let it scare you. Everything is possible, but it's like a person from the 1920's telling everyone the internet will be a thing. Yes it's correct, but also irrelevant at the same time. You already have AI assisted software being used in your industry. Just expect more of that and learn how to use the tools.
Meh imo it's easier to have the bookmarklet remove read only on the form and then just use the password manager like normal
It’s really filtering for “advertiser friendly” which is a proxy for “content that doesn’t upset people”. The intersection between that and “truth” is definitely not a perfect overlap.
I look forward to living long enough to see the monstrosity that will have people convinced Electron is small and reasonable.
I agree. It's not a solution. It's a workaround that's necessary because Google explicitly does not want to provide a solution.
I'm curious why growers feel it's still more advantageous to illegally grow? It must mean the risk/reward still dramatically favours illegal production. That's what needs to be addressed.

I think coffee/tobacco is probably a good example of what can be achieved with legalizing drugs. It might be the path to it is a bit slow as there's a transition, but I don't see why other drugs couldn't end up similarly to coffee.

Heck, you could argue it for everything even. Why do fruits and vegetables farms don't feel like going the illegal production route?
1) Easier UI and management of your I Bonds. Treasury Direct has lots of issues and you'll likely end up having to call in and wait on hold for 2 hours with customer support at some point. Maybe not if you're on top of things, but most people aren't.

2) Having your money all in one place. It's annoying to have money different places, so if you already have a Yotta account with us, it's one tap to do this. If you are starting from scratch, it's not as much of a no-brainer, but I still think it's much better than TD.

If we go sideways, we would just give everyone their TD account information directly, and you would take over your account.
I suppose I prefer Judeo-Christian because:

1) I think the most important piece is the Christian part.

2) Judeo- at least recognizes the heritage of Judaism Christianity owes much to.

3) I am not convinced that the Islamic religion has uniquely contributed anything of significant value morally or religiously beyond religions that came before it, namely, Judaism and Christianity. Inheriting good values is far different than contributing your own values to society. I haven't read Saina's book or studied the history of Islam much, though, to be honest, so I could be certainly missing something.
I must admit I've never seen Concur before!.The idea of using generator/async is pretty similar. The difference, as I understand, is that in Concur, you yield the widget and let the framework mount it, while in Async UI, you await the widget yourself.
I 100% agree, Termux shows, what a useful tool a smartphone can be. Do I need an app to look at the EXIF of a photo? No, I just use Phil Harvey's excellent exiftool[1] in the shell. Resize or rotate an image? Or even a number of images? Imagemagick does the job. The power of the command line in your hand ;-)

[1] https://exiftool.org/
Climate change isn’t only changing the weather, it’s changing our children
Thank you - appreciate it!
Very interesting and in-depth read.
> India cares about what it's best interest for its own people. If that means buying oil from Russia so be it.

So should we. Too often we help countries that then turn their backs on us because they “care about whats best for their people”. Arent we allowed to do the same? Why such a negative reaction when we even suggest the prospect of doing so.
There isn't a productive -ista suffix in English; it occurs in loanwords, or words created to ironically mimic a foreign language in the Romance family ("fashionista").

The -ista suffix in some European languages which have it is not universally feminine.

English Slovak Italian
(m) (f) (m) (f)

fascist fašista fašistka fascista fasciste
racist rasista rasistka razzista razziste

See here: https://www.etymonline.com/word/-ist

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ista

The -ista suffix from Latin, where it is a masculine, appearing in that form in a number of Romance languages, and in French as -iste, is masculine. The English -ist comes from the Latin -ista.
Head of election worker management company arrested for theft of personal data
No and no. Solar panels use a little bit of silver and more copper, and no rarer materials.

There are numerous battery chemistries. None competing for utility-scale use involve any rare materials or substantial carbon emission. Likely chemistries include iron/air, zinc/bromine, and manganese/calcium.

And the overwhelming majority of utility storage built will not be "batteries" at all. Compressed air, liquified air, synthetic ammonia, electrolysed hydrogen, pumped hydro, and buoyancy will probably all be used in various places. Just now, almost all is pumped hydro.

Most future storage will be constructed after the majority of energy produced is from renewable sources.
Election Software Executive Arrested on Suspicion of Theft
> Besides, during the 19th century average height increased enormously (a sign of good and consistent nutrition), mortality rates dropped dramatically, life expectancy increased, and the growth of the middle class was spectacular.

Growth is good, but it's a delta: it doesn't mean that the average life was particularly nice by modern standards. The fact that things improved over time is not evidence that they were good at any instant (and indeed, nobody questions that things improved: they clearly had to in order to get to where we are now).

In 1914, the average male life expectancy was 52[1]. That's over 20 years shorter than our current life expectancies.

> When the US entered WW1, the German soldiers were shocked by how tall they were, and how well fed and well supplied they were.

This is a comparative error: the US's military population didn't need to be well fed by objective standards; they only needed to be better fed than the peasants who were press-ganged into the German army.

Nobody is saying that the US was uniquely impoverished by contemporaneous metrics; the claim is that the US was impoverished on an absolute and modern scale, and that said impoverishment declined as the US established domestic and international policies that are inextricably linked to its monetary policy.

[1]: https://u.demog.berkeley.edu/~andrew/1918/figure2.html
It's a research activity.

Google and Meta and Microsoft all have research teams working on AI.

Putting out papers like this helps keep their existing employees happy (since they get to take credit for their work) and helps attract other skilled employees as well.
The whole article seems full of it.

> Nine in ten CEOs in the U.S. (91%) believe a recession will arrive in the coming 12 months, while 86% of CEOs globally feel the same way

- So what? Most CEOs I know cannot foresee what they will eat tomorrow. No offence, but being CEO makes you no better at predicting the future as the janitor. "They have, more info, experience" yada yada... I knew just too many incompetent CEOs.

Also, what does it mean, cutting jobs... how many? why? which ones?

Seems like content, but completely empty.
I wonder how many CEOs would consider cutting pays of the highest paid employees in order to not have to cut jobs at all.
Then why didn't that work with russia, they have ruined their economy for a war
Are you sure that that is all there is?

May I point to one paper of many that show proinflammatory cytokines to be reduced due to intermittent fasting?

“Under controlled conditions, [diurnal intermittent fasting] led to significantly decreased plasma levels of cytokines (IL-1β, IL-6, and IL-8), particularly IL-1β and IL-6 across 24 h.” – The effects of diurnal intermittent fasting on proinflammatory cytokine levels while controlling for sleep/wake pattern, meal composition and energy expenditure, 2019: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

There are a bunch more. “intermittent fasting il-6” is a decent search to start with: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=7%2C39&q=int...
Yes, the change your number response is total BS. Not just for all of the reasons you mention which are totally valid, but for the simple fact it is just a cat&mouse game.

Phone numbers are not some cryptographically generated string that would take a while to randomly create. You can literally just start at a number and increment until you've reached them all, so that the spammer doesn't even need to know your number. Your number just got reached because it was the next one in the list.
Your comment could benefit from some specifics and/or a link to the better (in your opinion) guide.
Vitamin B2 depletion promotes longevity in worm model study
New study published in Aging Cell shows how depletion of riboflavin (Vitamin B2):
1) Extends animal lifespan by 30%
2) Mimics features of dietary restriction
3) Bucks the trend that "more is better" in vitamin biology
not just a cost question but a resource availability/energetic cost of resource extraction question.

If it takes more and more fossil fuel use to extract the increasingly rare components of the renewables, then renewables may not be able to save us.

I don't know if it is true, but it is a legitimate question which is worth knowing the answer to...
C128 CP/M is slow compared to other CP/M systems due to oddities of its implementation, but it works, it's native on the Z80, and with a 1571 you even get disk compatibility. In 80 column mode, it's certainly fast enough.
Thanks for the feedback and thoughts. I guess those aspects of TD are nice, but if you ever make a mistake, they don't handle it gracefully.
Can someone explain the approach here?

I understand that they transform the problem into a gamified 3-D matrix decomposition, but what exactly is the motivation for using RL to beat this decomposition game ? Why not just use, for example, an evolution algorithm to find incrementally better decompositions ?
There are dozens of us!

I don’t have a problem with the dairy and egg products I use because I personally know the people that I get them from. I won’t purchase anything containing dairy and eggs. If someone prepares food for me containing them I may eat it to be polite but I wouldn’t eat meat. I also don’t have an issue with the honey I get from my friends hives. However, many of my activist friends and other people see all of these things as hypocrisy that perpetuate animal abuse. I still protest and we get along fine. Because to your point, there’s room for nuance.
Active tech scene particularly around Cape Town, the waterfront & Stellenbosch. Plenty makers, hackers & digital nomads. If you're looking for the outdoor life, MTB & hiking checkout Greyton, 2hrs from Cape Town. Just connected to the fibre network with speeds of 500mbps available. Beautiful mountains, lots of well priced restaurants&pubs. There's a Google engineer, an AWS product manager and plenty designers, coders and nomads in the village. Just won South Africa's Dorp (town) of the year. Ye olde England charm with warm sunny weather and super chilled locals.
I can't even get my dishwasher to clean my dishes. This is not the future I was promised.
> ... it's going to be years before people begin to trust their phones again, if ever.

This is a very strong point.
It's helped me arrive at the conclusion that phone communication is largely an unnecessary luxury.
Of course, I believe that having the option of calling someone important to me (or receiving their call) in an emergency situation is difficult to overrate but I've also pretty much entirely limited my verbal phone conversations to that sort of situation.
Just about any other situation where I might be expected to have / use my phone is actually a problem with the other party's expectations.