skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Really disappointed to see Novara print this drivel, but it tracks with the greater “left’s” failure to see this situation clearly.

I think the only one who fails to see this situation for what it is, is you.

> I actually stopped reading after it discussed the failure of the Minsk Accords— as it totally obscured, if not fabricated the sequence of events.

The Minsk accords and many other events are exactly why Ukraine won’t negotiate.

Ukraine gave up their nukes for a guarantee from russia, a guarantee that wasn’t kept. Russia is incapable of keeping to agreements it makes when it doesn’t feel like it.

> Even Zelensky went to the East and declared that the war needed to come to an end.

Source?.

> The Azov neonazis basically told him he would hang in the streets if he made peace with Russia, and that was that.

Source?.

Also how do you feel about the Russian Neonazi Wagner PMC in Ukraine committing war crimes against civilians?.
Mangrove Rivulus
I'm wondering if we should even accept the framing of that as "fashion" and not "large-scale action spurred by a rational shared reevaluation of impact"
This is spectacular. Well done.
I make my living from photos , video and writing. I’ve got $5k of Sony mirrorless and gear, my gf has an iPhone 11.

For quick snaps of moving wildlife, or tricky light, or a quick snap, the iPhone is incredible, and often she has a very sharp shot before I have the lens cap off and start thinking about shutter speed, etc.

The iPhone photos are great for fb or insta or anything on small screen. The immense difference comes when I load photos into Lightroom and get to work, upping shadows, cropping or reducing highlights. They’re not even remotely the same. And all of that is just with one all purpose lens on the Sony. Throw a BIG zoom on the front and the comparison is a thousands times different... or a nice wide fast lens and again, whole different ball game .

Of the many hundreds of My photos That have run in print magazines, maybe two or three have been from a phone.

I don’t think a print worthy shot like this comes off phones (yet)

https://www.instagram.com/p/CersLuLBfCz/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Uber has an edge here. Decades of regulatory coddling made taxi industry suck so hard that any alternative that sucks less is welcome. I don't care about their business model, but if I need to get point A -> point B, and they can do it with the least inconvenience for me - they get my business. But not all industries have such amounts of accumulated suckage.
> Who's using extensions in a work context anyway?

literally everyone?
If you're meeting or exceeding the company's criteria for that position, absolutely.
Like giantg2 said. There are (at least) two types of studies: this is purely exploratory, proof-of-concept type. The reason "a group of british scientists" studies got such a bad reputation is because they were largely aimed at finding out new stuff, but got presented by the press as the proving things.

For discovery (or university science play) you're good with samples of 10-20 people. For proving stuff you need meta-analysis of several studies, ideally including RTCs and a couple of large longitudinal ones.

shrug science is complicated. Some stuff about how to do it properly has been leaking into the water supply, but overall public opinion is pretty much detached from the details and still thinks a study is a study.
Australia and Europe are about the same size.

Exactly matching the sun day is not very important. It's more useful to have your time zones match your neighboring countries so that more people shared the same time.
Open-sourcing the new TypeScript type checker (now in Rust)
Meet your neighbors and find local hobbies.
China’s nuclear program is just getting started and is almost completely state funded. They only have 49 plants right now with 16 under construction, I’m not sure where your 100s came from. Their plan is to quadruple generating capacity (current at 50 Gw) to 200 Gw by 2035.

France is still the model country when it comes to nuclear power. Even in 2035, nuclear will be less than 10% of its energy mix.
Zorin OS – Optimized Ubuntu-Based Linux
I relate very closely with this.

I do have a couple exceptions though. I'm close with my brother and sometimes run across something that I know he actually needs, and buy that for him. My exes have all really loved receiving flowers spontaneously.

The difference is that expectation of reciprocation feeling that you mentioned. I hate scheduled gift-giving. It feels so insincere.
Repository: https://github.com/dudykr/stc
We already have artificial intelligence. It’s called children
Elon Musk takes control of Twitter, fires top executives including CEO
I provided the definition, and I also provided a paper by professors of psychiatry and neuroscience that point out the critical parts of the definition. All except one (and even that one is arguable) take the user's state of mind and perception about their own life into account, and their lack of control. The practitioners even mention this in the abstract of that paper:

> A definitive diagnosis entails confirming the presence of addictive behavior by identifying a preoccupation, compulsivity and relapse relative to the drug

Preoccupation is a lack of control.

Compulsivity(sic) is a lack of control.

Relapse is a lack of control.

In fact, the authors of that paper wrote a book about alcohol abuse[1] that is littered with quotes about control, like “These criteria reflect the loss of control over alcohol that is central to the diagnosis of alcoholism” or “The loss of control over the self and the alcoholic is present in the enabler as it is present in the alcoholic”, or my favourite:

> The behavioral criteria describe the loss of control over alcohol that leads to the adverse consequences

As to this claim by you:

> Even if a doctor thinks you're capable of controlling your diet, it doesn't make their clinical diagnosis of obesity go away"

They're not (or haven't been) capable of controlling their diet, that's why they're obese, and that's why they're getting help from a professional, but regardless, you've chosen a poor analogy. Someone with an addiction to eating or sugar would be much better, as obesity is a consequence of their actions, just as "Not managing to do what you should at work, home, or school because of substance use" would be an possible consequence of marijuana dependency.

[1] https://books.google.com.au/books?id=NrHzBwAAQBAJ&q=control#...
Then choose a different phone.

Apple clout let’s it literally force companies to allow easy subscription cancellation because apple handles it. I never have to worry.

Then they can force apps not to cross track (sorry Facebook)
Next year will surely be the year of the Linux desktop.
I guess it is a fact that what I consider as "true to real" photos from professional cameras are still being modified by the sensor processing algorithms. But thing is, even as a novice photographer, I can figure out and predict how the algorithm will behave and then change my settings accordingly. I feel like with computational photography, it is a blackbox sorta deal where I am always being pressured to adapt to how the cellphone is thinking and not vice versa. More often than not, the picture I capture with my cellphone looks very different than when it was being displayed in the live preview. That part is the one that frustrates me the most.
Internet and websites are a big deal now, didn't help pets.com. Even if VR takes off - which btw is not a given - that doesn't mean it would be Meta's VR. And "spending a lot of money" is not good news for investors. Spending a lot of money on something that will earn a bigger lot of money may be - but again, there's no proof that's what Meta is going to be.
I can't speak for the accuracy of these predictions, but I welcome Zuckerberg to kill his company. The tone of this post seems like alarm or indignation but the death of Facebook (or whatever its named today) is a celebratory event not something to cause apprehension.

Burn it to the ground
> But there are whole genres of games that you can't win. Minecraft creative mode, the Sims, most MMOs, Cities Skylines, etc etc etc.

These are all games that you set your own goals and achieve them. When the player runs out of goals for themselves, they stop playing. Sounds like a win condition to me. Just set by a different person.

> And Wikipedia considers progress quest a game, I consider it a game, and the author considers it a game. It might be fairly called a zero player game, but I think it's reasonable to apply the label game.

I could find a whole bunch of people to say the earth is flat. So what?

I don't consider it a game. What makes the author any more right about that than me?
EU will force them to open up. Just like with usbc.
You already can buy a generic Android phone, and everything works in it, if the manufacturer is sane.

But you can't get security updates for a long time, except for a few models into which manufacturers or enthusiasts put efforts.

Linux kernel does not have a stable binary interface. Most phone devices (cameras, fingerprint sensors, even video controllers and radio modules have closed-source drivers. You can't expect manufacturers of these parts to update the drivers for their 3-year-old components for a newer kernel: they want to sell this year's parts instead. Reverse-engineering these drivers is tedious, and only buys you a few years on a handful of models.

Long-term support works for Apple because they have essentially one line of phones, with a narrow set of components, and an enormous power over suppliers. So they can afford to buy serious users' loyalty.
It will come within the next few days - please stay tuned. Being from Europe I am more used to Celsius myself :)
The motte: censoring abuse and threats.

The bailey: Twitter censoring NY Post during election time.

Disclaimer: I don't follow US politics, but do follow online censorship.
Collapse Won’t Reset Society
> Additionally, we gave $67,500 to five foundations covering the core languages (Python, JavaScript, and Rust) and infrastructure components (Postgres, Apache) that we use to deliver Sentry.

There's nothing wrong with a company prioritizing donations to the projects that impact their work the most. Programming languages have by far the biggest impact on their programmers' day-to-day work, so it makes sense that Sentry would target them for outsized donations.
> a neuron can fire at like 1Hz and modern CPUs operate in the GHz range.

This comparison doesn't make much sense - computers have a very small number of cores, let's say 10, and brains have 86 billion neurons. 86 billion things operating at 1Hz is also in the GHz range. This is leaving aside the issue that a CPU cycle and a neuron firing are doing completely different sorts of work - comparing them is kind of nonsensical in the first place.
I have 0 smart devices. It's nice.
Interesting, though extremely unhealthy. Made with highly processed fava beans and wheat gluten. If you're eating a plant-based diet for health reasons, probably best to avoid this one and stick to real steak. As a gluten-intolerant person myself, I won't be trying this.
> looks like apples cash reserves peaked around 2019 at $107 billion dollars.

Cash peaked in 2018 with twice that.
The kernel is massive, and rewriting the entire thing takes a serious investment of time (and therefore capital)

Zircon is the closest attempt I’ve seen and it has taken years to be shipped on a single, battery-less device. It might be close to ready, but it was likely expensive for Google, which is now scrambling to rein in R&D spending.

Meanwhile, the incremental security improvements that Apple and Google have made have driven up the cost of zero days sharply on their devices
https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir/status/22815824658
This did t happen on Android, won't happen on ios.
This is obviously a ploy to get an immediate rebate on the 44 billion dollar price he just paid.

Musk's technical team was an easy choice for an internal fraud bounty program to split the difference from any fraudulent misrepresentation by the original twitter management.
My point was just that neither company's engineers has the necessary knowledge to make any meaningful assessment of the other company's architecture and codebases. Both sides are the result of years of iterations to address very unique problems.
Different strokes for different folks. I watch a lot of old films. My letterboxd watchlist currently contains 365 films which can be streamed thusly:

69 are available on Criterion. 61 are on HBO. 22 are on Amazon Prime. 17 are on Netflix. 15 are on Hulu. 6 are on Disney+.

240 are available as rentals on on iTunes.

(And I have no idea who Larry Wright is or why I should give any credence to his snarky remark where he picked two films that are not at all representative of the full Criterion catalog and neither of those films are currently on Criterion in any case. To pick a random selection of 5 on Criterion from my watchlist: Story of Women, White Material, Woman in the Dunes, Piccadilly, The Thin Blue Line.)
Canon makes its own sensors. They’re the only major player not using Sony sensors.
We have regulations. If you think the cops enforce spam calls and texts, think again. Or the millions of scam calls and other blatant internet fraud.

I don’t get iMessage spam. Period. That alone is valuable. Politicians who make these regulations continue to spam me and there is no way to block them with a do not call list.

Apple is so valuable in part because they do enforce some rules.
FB is for Gen-Xers now. Maybe early millenials, but that's doubtful. Some boomers too. But GenX has a good 30-40 years of active lifespan left, so if they don't mess with it, there's some good income stream. But they will definitely mess with it.
Okay, memery aside - he is basically in a position now where he has to fix Twitter and make it mainstream popular or else lose all of his money, right?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomass_(ecology)
Not everyone lives in Silicon Valley
The commuter line was fantastic, I would love to know if any brands has a modern equivalent.
This blog post seems like a lot of angry emotional statements without much analysis
wait, you can run Fedora on m1?
You know what a man falling from a skyscraper said, when he passed 20th floor? "So far so good!".
'only' for a middleman, who doesn't even do the bare minimum job of saying: hey, we're shipping more opiate pills to this zip code every month than there are people x 100
I have a slightly larger issue with the lock-in mechanisms of such "purchases". Whether I pay through Apple IAP or directly to Spotify, I can access the audiobook only on Spotify. No where else. I can't import that audiobook to another player. I can't lend it to a friend. I can't trim the parts I like and share them or listen to them independently.

Moreover, when contracts between such platforms/marketplaces and publishers go south, I'm usually left holding an empty bag cos all of the content is removed from the platform without any refunds. (Happens frequently with game stores.)

Last I checked, that's not how a "purchase" is supposed to work. Take an example of, say, an actual book. So am I ... "subscribing" to a book now? Doesn't seem like it cos I can't cancel it and get a refund. So what exactly is this model? What am I paying for?
Nah, Phil Schiller is a Porsche driver, and Eddy Cue is on the Board of Ferarri. The only one driving a BMW is the frugal minded Tim Cook.
It's just a re-skinned Ubuntu. What's the unique selling point?
I see jank on that example with both Firefox and Edge on a 2020 iMac running macOS Monterey.

As soon as I take out the float and rerun the examples they run butter smooth.

Turning on the fps overlay on Edge (it's the same one as chrome) shows stutters (but for some reason I need to make sure I'm moving the mouse smoothly for the fps counter to update, guessing it has something to do with the preview sitting inside an iframe).
Are you sure you will get 3-5 years of os updates? Is there a “plea” somewhere? And how many majors?

Are you sure it will keep working fine after two major updates or it will slow down terribly?
I'd prefer GAMA ;)
We will be adding the Celsius switch shortly. We started with F since we expected most users of the forecast to be in the bay area but it is great to see interest from non Fahrenheit users :)
How could i diy good grommets for my house safely?
The idea of going full Fargo on little chickens is new to me. And that is the humane way...

There are definitely ways to improve the system to require a bit less cruelty.
During the day practice moving your attention from spot to spot in a triangle maybe 10 degrees of a side. Don't move your eyes, just your attention. (Your fovea is usually served by a lot of extra brain power, but with practice most of that computation (sharpening) power can be shifted. It probably won't happen the first few times, but you can eventually get this result, and it'll be obvious enough that you won't be in much doubt about it.

Then when you start to realize you are lucid dreaming, shift your dream eyes (your attention) in similar triangles, while keeping calm as you can. This will help keep the dream from dissolving for a couple reasons, if you can remember to start doing it, and do keep doing it until the dream stabilizes again and lucid dreaming seems less startling.

Asking yourself, seriously but very calmly, many times during the day whether you are lucid dreaming helps too; to increase the chances of lucidity, but even more to reduce the excitement of finding yourself lucid dreaming (which adrenaline spike can send you to wakefulness) by making the question a fairly ordinary one. Make sure you always start doing the triangular attention-shifting as soon as you start to ask the question, each time - to make that a habit that goes with that question/realization.

Some of this information can be found in Casteneda's writings, some can't.
From TFA:

> Unlike the real world tool it represents, the emoji’s job is to convey the idea, especially at small sizes. It doesn’t need to be able to swing or cut things. Nevertheless, let’s judge them on that irrelevant criterion.
But the free speech!!! And bots!!! Heck, I bet what happens is he amplifies the bots to make it seem like the public supports everything he does. That is what this is all about. People are too manipulated by perceived public perception not realizing they are being deceived.
Most likely, the contract is between Tesla and Musk’s Twitter acquisition vehicle (“X Holdings”), so it isn’t moonlighting, it is their day job.

But, even if it is moonlighting - all employment contracts allow moonlighting with approval. Many firms are rather sparing in granting that approval - but it is a lot easier to say “yes” to an employee request if you know that’s what the CEO wants you to say.
22% of my RSUs (the federal withholding rate on supplemental income) are sold rather than released to me, so only a huge crash could leave me in the hole on my 8%-ish estimated taxes.
Him burning down his company for any reason is kind of a baller move and fun to watch, but honestly, I think the metaverse play is going to pay off. People are just confused because they don't understand that isn't not really a video game. It might not work, but he's not broke. He has all the control. It's his company. I am not a Zuck booster at all, but yeah. Fuck Fb and all that social shit. I don't trust him at all. But yeah, do something interesting, burn all your capital trying to do something different. You don't see behavior like that out of big operations often.
The Harvard architecture makes the separation clearer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_architecture
Isn't that just ethics at a higher level? If their goal is to create the most value in the world with the minimum harm, that's pretty much what they'd be doing - considering their resources are limited.

For the one in 100k poor guy who got on the bad side of the AI this seems like a raw deal, but if you tweaked the system to avoid it, you'd probably end up with something 5 times as expensive and 10 times as slow. Queues of weeks to get your app approved kind of slow.
You may want to edit the timing maybe? Or provide an asciicast format where you can run JS (your blog or site) and a gif where you can only insert a picture, like social networks.
"Pushbullet connects your devices, making them feel like one." It's a "sync" program. Pushbullet talks to a lot of things and manipulates a lot of the user's data. So it's inherently a security risk.

Google also has a "sync" program, which syncs things within the Google ecosystem. Google doesn't want others encroaching on their domain. Nor do they want easy import and export from their ecosystem. Although, unlike Apple, they don't come right out and say that.

"If we only published the guilty than no one would be afraid" - attributed to Lavrentiy Beria.
Yes the suspending and stripping of ad accounts en masse is leaving billions on the table from facebook/ig/meta.
It is freed indeed.
Also, the visual overlay of street names and buildings is obviously extremely helpful for communicating context. The author tries to dismiss it as unnecessary sci-fi role playing, but it’s clearly a great solution to the problem of overlaying ground-level context that wouldn’t otherwise be obvious from the air.
That's more of an argument against private ownership of companies over a certain size than weird voting rules for shares. Zuckerberg has merely retained the power that he would have had if Facebook had stayed private.

If Meta does collapse due to Zuckerberg's missteps and there's a lot of very angry shareholders, it's possible that it'll result in this type of split-class voting shares becoming illegal. Financial regulations tend to be reactive rather than proactive, so things default to being legal until they very clearly are a problem.
What kind of moat did Buffet build? Which prices did he raise? It doesn't seem to remind anything in his career. If anything, "dominating a niche" is Zuckerberg's strategy, not Buffet's - the latter's business interests are rather diverse (Wikipedia says his most lucrative investment proved to be Coca-Cola shares).
This might be nostalgia talking but when I look back at the cellphone photos that I took 10 years ago, they managed to capture the color and light just as I remember, albeit being grainy and of very low resolution. My friends share absolutely gorgeous photos of these beautiful places they've been to and when I go to those same places, I see that the leaves are actually more brownish-green than the saturated hue of green that they captured. Or the water isn't really this turquoise blue that they showed but instead just normal clear water (still pretty). I feel like computational photography is unintentionally altering our memories of these places.

It should be called augmented photography instead.
"statistically better" hah you're killing me
A social media company is a very different beast from a tech company, and very easy to quickly run into the ground. We've seen other platforms die very quickly because they institute things that chase off a bulk of users.
Maybe outside the top 3 if we count the BEAM VM too.
Ugh, this happened with a Shopify plugin of ours. Got flagged for missing something which the screenshots clearly showed was there. Resubmit enough times and it passes.
The post spends a lot of words circling the core point without engaging it directly.

The point, IMHO, is: like Genghis Khan, Zuckerberg is an empire conqueror rather than an empire maintainer (*). Everything MZ built up to now has been unreservedly secondary and reactive with respect to a preexisting state of things. To his credit, MZ was able to untap the full value where previous owners couldn't. But there was never a holistic vision how things should be in the steady state. At a personal level MZ seems to lack a lot of the skills necessary to keep the system going in steady state.

Now MZ claims that he sees a new area for conquest, but there's no preexisting kingdom there, just wilderness. He was never good at wilderness situations before, hence he's unlikely to succeed. The End.