skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it was true decade, maybe two ago. Stuff got faster and therefore cheaper too.

Server written in reasonably fast software on $10 (well, probably some extra bux in storage if community is image-heavy) VPS can reasonably serve tens of thousands of users in typical forum/blog/hn-esque format. Mastodon isn't but I don't doubt someone would rewrite it in something faster if there was a need for it.
What do you mean "active tracker"? As far as I know airtags have a battery and aren't passive devices.
Holy hell. Look how many people are commenting about their production environment being affected by this issue. All these folks had not even the simplest test/checks in place before pushing changes to production. And they're openly admitting to it by complaining about an issue with a dependency they just YOLO'd and shipped.
> 3) The FSF needs to be a lighthouse on this issues. Compromising will mean the lighthouse is in the wrong spot.

This. Criticizing the FSF that the pure distros have outdated hardware is like criticizing the light house that it is not moving and has no cargo. Those projects are highly valuable, even if they might not deliver value to users.
One of the things I love ab out the Hebrew calendar is that the leap month, Veadar is literally “and Adar,” Adar being the month that precedes Veadar.
Agile requires trust to work. Without it, the process will quickly devolve.

Low trust is the problem, not scrum.

Trying to be agile without trust is like trying to bake bread without yeast. You go through all the same motions, but in the end all you have is a dense, sticky mess.
Fair enough; but offering more money is going to attract more applications, isn’t it?
This is true, but to say it is "not a law", as you did, completely unqualified, is incorrect. If the research project is connected with a government grant (and many are) you need to pay attention to those laws. Many universities also have their own policies you need to follow, regardless. (Requiring informed consent and protecting people's privacy seems like a good thing.)
I’m pretty certain glyphosate kills this.
The "character canvas" includes the space between characters and rows. Think about it like you have a fixed 4x4 grid into which you copy the 4x4 bitmaps without the possibility to offset them to create whitespace between the characters.
because that's what you get with a 140 character attention economy
The wording “containing lithium metal” from the ICAO regulation still applies.
I think its best to paste some code, i.e, the code (theoretically) meeting your requirements that failed, and code that compiled and got the closest to meeting your requirements.

Hopefully someone can bridge that gap for you.
FWIW, Emacs is a GNU tool at the end of the day. Complaining about upstream changes negatively effecting MacOS is like complaining to Microsoft when your games don't run in WINE. It's the wrong tree to bark up, even if the project is community-led.
I wish you were right, but the linked article suggests otherwise.
In principle the robustness approach (redoing the analysis with some different parameters) tries to show good faith. This matters because observational studies have no meaningful replication, no second collection of data. In practice it just means practitioners gravitate towards methods more likely to show false positives.

Like, this discontinuity at zero approach seems geared to show large effects from noise. When the linear regression across the dataset is a flat line, splitting at the discontinuity pretty much mathematically requires _any_ slope have an opposite slope on the other side.
Is there anything to stop me from pulling receipts for something I didn’t actually put in my luggage?
In populated areas, Japanese Knotweed is a pain, but at least people see it and try to mitigate it. I go fishing in upstate NY, and you used to be able to walk along the river banks that were mostly just flat stones deposited during times of high water. Not anymore. Now the river bank is mostly an impenetrable wall of Japanese Knotweed. It sucks.
If we had to strap our TV to our heads, we'd gravitate to something that didn't require that.

As it stands a "TV" can be a screen of many different sizes and configurations, it can even be a projected image. VR can't be anything but a headset strapped to our heads. That's the point I was making about it's uptake woes... It's obviously fun and will have plenty of users dipping their toe in, or should I say customers, but "en masse" was the point I was replying to and doubting.
I think this was your point (the last few sentences), but those 16 or so hoaxes cited are on absolutely obscure subjects .. A children's book character "Amelia Bedelia" ? A subspecies of raccoon ?? .. So yes you're going to have articles that matter to 1 person per year get skewed, and that sucks .. and it's unfortunate for whatever poor soul wants to use those 1/yr-viewed articles that are misleading .. but I'm not sure that is a good argument against wikipedia.

If however we were to go look up 'Mars' .. or 'electron' and find hoaxes there, then there would be a clear and obvious problem
This is the dumbest thing they could have done - Streisand effect is in full swing after this. "What doesn't Lufthansa want us to see? What are they hiding?"

THANK YOU LUFTHANSA for making people actually hold you accountable for the ungodly shitty practices most airlines hold themselves to without recourse. Enjoy the bed you've made for yourself.
As if that was a thing you could just do? "Oh, forgot to make sure my findings replicated. I'll be sure to check that box next time, easy enough!"
> If enough people used high-speed rail to overwhelm the cell system we'd probably see announcements to put phones in airplane mode there too, but very few folks will travel long distances at high speeds on a train.

Millions of people travel long distances on trains: 353 million/year on the Shinkansen network, 1.5+ billion/year on China high-speed rail, 110 million on France's TGV. These passengers use their phone without overloading the cell networks.
These rights hardly work, at keast Lufthansa doesnt care and good luck going to courts for your rights. Not worth the paper these laws are written on.
Sounds like you should write a blog post that details all your complaints and link to that, and then post it here so folks can comment on whether your reasoning made sense, because calling people who use the web, which isn't owned by any single person, or regulated by any single entity, and isn't policed by any single person "morally bankrupt" might already be squarely in "get off your high fucking horse" territory. A bag of insulting opinions is worth less than a bag of wooden nickels =)

Cheap, easy, efficient. Pick two.

People are allowed to use easy, but (sometimes severely) sub-optimal solutions to make things they think are cool, because people make things, and there are thousands of tools that let them do so. It's why PHP is still around, and it's why people flocked to Electron. Electron won because "you should learn the hard thing" is a no-sell. They should! But they won't! Because they don't have to. And if you don't like it, go make a more efficient UI framework that is cheaper (that one's tough, free is free) and easier (and that one's also tough, but maybe you'll pull it off).
Privacy, “right to be forgotten”, self-determination, etc. seem like likely reasons for someone to want that.
He's often quite pragmatic if you really listen to what he says, not just the memes people repeat about him.

He doesn't demand utter purity from others, doesn't expect others to be as extreme as he personally chooses to be. He says that choosing to use Free software even just once is a good thing. That using Free software on windows is preferable to using only proprietary software on windows. That impure distros like Debian are better than Windows, even though they aren't good enough to be FSF-approved. That proprietary software like Steam getting ported to GNU/Linux is good since it will encourage more people to use GNU/Linux.
I don't care enough to find the biggest stories over the last 15+ years but here are two articles from January 2022 referencing a class action lawsuit over freezing of funds without explanation:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/01/paypal-stole-use...

https://www.engadget.com/paypal-lawsuit-freezing-customer-ac...

And to be clear, this is not an isolated event.
If Lufthansa doesn't understand the simple meaning of an electronic device it's all the more power for them to get destroyed with this messaging.
Signal should make threats clear to users, just as they should have notified all users that multiple 3rd parties downloaded all the phone numbers in Signal. Offering federated servers would also allow users to secure their own servers.
> I have a lot of faith in Elon based on past results. He already solved the problem of people who don't believe in climate change - he got them to buy electric cars because they are sexy. Brilliant man.

Wow that's a grim perspective. Somehow I doubt that catering to the consumerism that got us to where we are with climate change is what's going to help us fix it.
Mind that visual reading – I actually do not know about tactile, but I'd guess it may be similar – isn't about letter by letter, but about the impression of entire words. Here, similarity helps a lot. (Otherwise, you have not only learn the new alphabet, but the gestalt of all the words anew.)

Regarding Braille, my grandmother became mostly blind at old age. Having maintained an interest in books, while finding herself increasingly restricted with regard to her radius of action, she tried to learn Braille, but eventually gave up. At her age, she couldn't feel the differences anymore. Tactile resolution and significance do matter. (I'd imagine, in her case a similarity to what she had been used to may have also helped.)

Generally – while not knowing much about the viability of the specific implementation –, I think, Fakoo is a great idea.
Agree with the overall thrust of the article, but what’s the evidence for this assertion?

> Creativity itself was a structural feature of the place of the sexual minority in society. One can with perfect consistency, again, rejoice at the disappearance of gay marginalization, and at the same time bemoan the cultural cost of this.
Its super hard to read. I don't like it. I generally like these low-fi fonts but this just doesn't lend itself to anything.
This was for the Scylla Go Driver.
> Why should they be forced to merge patches that don't relate to the GNU software ecosystem?

They don't need to. Color emoji worked by default until it was deliberately broken. AppleScript support currently exists and works; what was being proposed is that it be removed simply because it interacts with a feature which is unique to a non-free operating system.

> Adding Applescript compatibility means that contributors who maintain that code require proprietary hardware to fix these issues.

You seem to be working towards the conclusion that Free Software should only be usable within a fully Free environment, which is pretty thoroughly out of step with the expectations and requirements of actual users.
> given the amount of bad PR[0] they've generated for Apple.

I feel like this is a case of "There is no such thing as bad publicity".

When I read any of that PR, I just see that these are good at what they do at a reasonably low price.
Your damages are what you had to spend on all the new items you had to buy for your trip, to replace the items they failed to deliver. You buy new clothes (etc), keep the receipts, and turn those in for reimbursement. At least this is how it worked a decade ago when my luggage was "lost" for a US domestic flight.

In my case, I think they deliberately bumped my bag for paying cargo, because they saw my billing address was near the destination airport and assumed I would be fine "at home". They didn't know I was going to a wedding, and that said wedding was several hours drive away, so delivering my bag a day late to the destination airport wouldn't end the problem. They still paid out though.
Thank you.

It's the difference between actual events and events modeled in a simulation that assumes everything.

Ex:
If it there's a 2C rise, then it's 1-10% worse? What kind of garbage assessment is that?

There's no way the error band doesn't also go negative for any value below 2C. Meaning the possible outcomes include reduction.
Pathologising ADHD? Can you actually read? Im saying the opposite in my comment
If subpixels don't count as cheating, you could maybe get away with 1 1/3 x 1 1/3 pixels https://github.com/tangmi/really-small-font

Although I'll admit (ab)using subpixels like this doesn't do good things for readability.
Here is an in-depth analysis on Quora of the problems Texas would have as an independent nation[0], assuming a peaceful "Texit." TL;DR, everything collapses and their best bet would be getting annexed by Mexico.

[0]https://www.quora.com/If-Texas-were-to-secede-from-the-Unite...
Sort of a side tangent, not 100% certain it belongs in this comment thread but I'll put it here anyways and let the votes decide :P

On the one hand, I feel really proud of how far we as a species have come in the past 200 years—we went from almost everyone being farmers to jobs like mine (Python programmer) existing. But I'm not trying to imply that farming is somehow inferior to programming, because it isn't! It just makes me happy that the percentage of humans who are free to pursue careers they actually want is so much higher nowadays than it was in antiquity.

But I can't help but hope for more. Right now, if you're privileged, hard working, and lucky, you can work a high-paying job doing something you enjoy for a few decades, then retire comfortably. This is already semi-decent, but it really only applies to a tiny fraction of the worldwide populus. I envision a future where it's no longer necessary to work at all to provide basic necessities for yourself and your family. I imagine a society where privilege and lucky don't determine how much agency you have, how much ability a person has to choose to do good things with their life.

Maybe I'm waxing overly prosaic, but this is why I'm working in AI. I firmly believe that AI is the field of study that can get us to this utopia. It may take a decade or a millenia, but I think it's possible — when we can decouple the act of living from the necessity of survival by building adaptible, benevolent machines, we also pave the way for a society where all is provided for everyone.

I know some people don't like this vision of the future. They worry about what will happen to humanity if everyone can just "freeload". They believe everyone will just sit around lazily 24/7 and be bums. I understand this viewpoint! And to some extent, I agree with it—there will be large parts of the population who embraces complacency and sedentary life. But the key to me is the ask the ever-relevant question "compared to what?". I would rather have a society of lazy freeloaders than a society where poor people die from starvation on a regular basis. I would rather a third of the population spend their lives in the metaverse than watch non-privileged people slowly work themselves into depression and misery to counteract the classism they've battled their whole life.

I'd rather everyone survive, and let them make their own choice whether they thrive or not, than accept our current status quo, where people must either thrive or suffer with slim in-between.

Anyways, sorry for the long, off-topic spiel, as well as for the disorganization of its presentation. As always I'm curious to hear others' opinions and am open to having my mind changed.
One of my favorite parts of the machine — that crisp display.
More than half of security penetrations in our institution (A medical center - research - med school complex) over the 8 years I worked there, ending in 2020, came through the research arm, even though Research accounted for no more than 10% of enabled servers in the infrastructure. And we're talking APT penetrations. They weren't looking for HIPAA data (although I used that example in my original post), they were looking for a path to permanent presence in our network in order to mine research. So, why did they come through Research? Because a PI buys some equipment - servers or other network enabled stuff - puts a grad student or post doc in charge of it, and enjoys his or her cheap compute. But that student or post doc is not an infrastructure expert, and most definitely doesn't understand enterprise security. Next thing you know, we've got an APT owned server on the inside of the network. (And none of that is counting the ones where the post doc is a foreign national who actually intends to use their position to compromise their employer. Had that happen too.) There are a some computational scientists who actually do understand this stuff, but they're rare. Being on the cloud does not inherently fix this oroblem, but to fix it you have to be on institutionally, professionally managed infrastructure, and once you are, the cost differential between owned infrastructure and well negotiated, managed cloud infrastructure becomes much more nuanced.
I give people my number so they can call or text me. I don't give people my number so they can be notified when I install any application. Some of the people in my contact list are people I haven't met in 10+ years and I don't really care to prune my contact list, but neither do I care for apps to send them notifications about anything I'm doing.
The full OS was 1.4 MB, but they've distributed some additional software as well.
This sounds almost exactly like erlang at a lower and even more time critical level which is, super cool.

The idea that the kernel does so little is really cool. I don’t know if it’d work at the true microcontroller level where 128k is precious memory but I can definitely see the larger microcontrollers that exist now or even stuff like fpga socs being useful with this sort of setup. Sounds cool.
Yeah, and there will be people that will just throw their porn collection there, hogging space on other people's drives for no good reason.

There is an option of dividing it between "publisher" (source) and "cachers" (caching whatever is recent and popular) but that only helps a little bit.

> Then there is the whole tragedy of commons: average seed ratios and streaming video players for torrent content shows that are not willing to contribute to the greater good.

Over 2 decades of pirating that has only been a problem for obscure and old stuff.

I don't see it being a problem in social network sense; you publish your stuff, if there is nobody wanting to look at it, seeds 1, leeches 0. Moment there is interest it propagates. It is of course problem if you want to see something archival that author is no longer in the network tho.
Perhaps it's just me, but if I ask myself whether or not the comments on this post, or the article itself, was written by GPT-3, I'm unable to decide one way or the other.
use this link for detached view: https://jetbrains.github.io/ring-ui/master/iframe.html?id=co...
Antidotally my personal delayed luggage rate is about 15% (~100 segments a year, checking bags on about 1/5th of those)
It's carp. The author should go back to art school(actually i bet he dropped out of engineering).
We could make it scale in a very human way. I could forsee a near future where a person is not sentenced in court, but rather branded an outlaw, and to an AI online, which becomes deployed on their lives. It is learning as it goes to find and inflict psychological and social manipulation tactics as criminal penalties, up to and including attempting to cause death. It is a way for judges and society to both not actively murder for ethical reasons, but also to not make their own populations individually more violent by having their citizens hunt the convicted for bounties like they may have in traditional and ancient outlaw exile. It spreads the source of punishment evenly among participants, like parading someone in stocks through the streets in front of the mob, but on the micro, psychological scale.

The AI stalks the convicted and finds ways to cause suffering, but learning from performing it against thousands of people, many simultaneously and even adversarially, optimizing for the most reflected cruelty it interprets from posts it gauges sentiment of in its environment. It's a plausible reason for why Roko's Basilisk would be made to exist, as we would have to think it was something we were inflicting on the other or another. Criminal punishment via AI as a means to wash our hands of our judgments seems like just the sort of thing we might sadly do. Surely it will only be reserved for the most serious of criminals.
Misleading title. There was no "hack of Signal" but the authentication services, instead.
Yes. Probably not surprise that the postdoc was a PRC national. Very competent in their field of study, but also in this country with instructions from an APT group.
RMS is micromanaging Emacs in a user-hostile and developer-hostile way. RYF is a disaster that accomplishes nothing. FSF/GNU has a habit of forking or rewriting existing free software to make it "more free" but delivering no actual benefits to users, like gNewSense, Libreboot, Guix, and GnuTLS.
It differs from place to place. Police officers in schools of one kind or another are totally common in America, but I'd say it's much more typical to have "school resource officers" drawn from the local police than to have the schools have their own separate police system.
I agree with you. But my choice of words was more a reflection of my observation that not all users care about software licensing rights. Between the mid-80s to now, the motivations and characteristics of the average computer user has changed dramatically. Not everyone necessarily shares the same concerns in the realm of software particularly.

This whole arena is new to me, I must confess, so I'm thinking my way through where I stand in the middle of it all out loud to you. I know I'm probably a few weight classes above my own right now.

Computers have been absorbed into the fragmented, chaotic world that we live in. I think that we are entering a period where lots of ideological enclaves will rupture in the software development world. If there ever was a "utopic" period of the FOSS movement, perhaps it is nearing its end.
Are you kidding? There’s a massive compounding ecosystem value in AirTags.

Anecdotally, I don’t know anyone — friend or family — that doesn’t make use of them.

As for the bad press? Faith in the press is at an all-time low, activist woke-scolds don’t remotely represent the average consumer, and I don’t think anyone is taking the muckrakers seriously.
> You're saying that you can live without trusting anything at all?

I can live without trusting any communications on my phone to be secure from prying government eyes. I have no clue where you got "anything at all" from, sounds like a strawman.
I've worked the last few years in a research institute well-funded by academic standards. During that time, people around me have used self-hosted hardware, at least three different cloud providers, and HPC clusters hosted by several different organizations. I've also worked with people from many other institutions, each of which has made its own infrastructure choices.

You may use AWS yourself, but your collaborators have made their own choices for their own reasons. The data goes where it's needed, often crossing institutional boundaries.
This is a credit card affiliate marketing blog. Really not a good source for any actual news. I do like their reviews of airline products though.
When you are at 4 by 4 you might as well use the entire 16 pixel space for every font, rather than worry about them lining up when lower case.

That way you can have a Q that looks like a Q:

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I find the mass movement in the home market to 2.5gbe quite odd over 5 or 10gbe, given it’s only marginally faster in contrast, especially given 1gbe has been industry norm for at least 15 years