skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I am worried that cars are designed to pass a few really specific tests well, for example 'head on at 40 mph', 'side impact at 30 mph', but then perform much worse in a 'typical' crash, for example '37 degrees, offset by 6 inches, at 38 mph

This is literally the case: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a40824939/iihs-side-impact... (and an earlier one that was added and IIRC only Volvo did well, because Volvo was testing it before it was required: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a18737558/iihs-adds-new-fr... )

I agree that digital simulation should become an important part - including aftermath simulation from actual wrecks.
Admitting that I'm a geezer, who doesn't know the current lingo - maybe spell out whether "your type" is more concerned with 12 Steps, or Civil Rights, or Abolishing Governments, or ______?
>If artists didn't want their art to be used (for a variety of purposes!) they shouldn't have made it freely available on the internet.

that isn't how copyright works. I can pirate any book in the world but if I try to pass it or parts of it as my own (minus fair use and time wise) I can be sued for copyright violation. how this applies to AI models is an open question, but "I can freely get it therefore it's ok" is a brain dead legal take

>Maybe art websites will add checkboxes to the effect of "don't use this art to train AI models" to submission forms. That won't be enforceable in court (unless the law changes), and it will only deter completely scrupulous actors much like robots.txt.
Art websites might start using javascript to compose images in the browser so they can't be easily downloaded, but that will be quickly defeated and ultimately that arms race is unwinnable.

"it's inevitable" also won't hold up in any sane court
Elon Musk recommends voting for Republicans in U.S. midterm elections
The OP also said “During my PhD, I”

I would guesstimate that software 100% was ‘maintained’ by PhD students with x years of funding in which they 1) had to get their thesis done. 2) had to get their thesis done. 3) etc.

Spending a few months to make life easier for your successors just isn’t worth it. And yes, it might be worth it at the start of your PhD, but then, you don’t know the software well enough to dare embark on such a journey.

Also, it’s quite possible none of those PhD students had decent schooling in software engineering.
I think the parallel is that people don't click on a link to send an email to someone for the first time. They copy and paste an email address into the "To" field of their email client. Same thing with getting someone's number to send them a text. And they know that people use different-looking email programs to read their email. Many people use the iPhone mail app on their phone and web mail on their computer. They don't know the word "federated," but the differences aren't alien to them.
This.
I've installed Linux+LO for years to a lot of people (also a couple times when it was in the earlier StarOffice incarnation, can't recall if under Windows or OS/2, certainly not Linux), being extremely clear on one thing: "this is not Microsoft Office, it's not as powerful as Microsoft Office and you may find some incompatibilities here and there (that was true especially during the old times), but the features 99% of users need are all here. Keep it for a while, and if it doesn't work for you, I'll install your Microsoft Office back for free and you lose nothing".
It was a success almost everywhere, but it's extremely important for "normal" users to be comfortable with the different tool; remember that we value privacy, Open Source, etc. they don't. If something that they don't perceive as important requires a change in their workflow, they'll refuse that, so I don't even talk them about different file formats and just set it up to read/write in MS Office formats from scratch.
I don't think there are (economical) ways to stop emitting CO2 without phasing out fossil fuels. And like you said, regardless of CO2, fossil fuels will run out anyway.

I wonder if any new civilization could bootstrap off existing knowledge and artifacts about electricity. Wind and water based electricity don't require stupidly complicated tech to get going. You can probably mine copper from ruins rather than mines. Similarly, perhaps current stores of coal and oil could also support some systems for long enough? Heck, I could even imagine old oil wells to be 'easy' to re-open.

In any case, neither I nor my children will be around after we destroy civilization. So I care much more about avoiding the destruction than the ability to rebuild afterwards.
Sure, maybe the analogy isn't logical.

> It's also logical to kill young children with autism so they don't become a financial or emotional burden on their family or society as a whole. It turns out claiming something is logical isn't, itself, enough of a reason to do something and those doing so should endeavor to give more convincing arguments.

That's an analogy, and we are talking about a programming language - not humans.

Again, where is the passion in the original comment? I have asked for nothing more than that.
How can something be clear and unambiguous and still take decades to resolve
>It's bad enough if it's free, you are the product. But if you pay, it definitely must not be this way. That's the worst form of capitalism in tech.

Microsoft has IOS and Android envy. They've been trying unsuccessfully to make Windows store successful like their mobile counterparts but they keep picking the wrong reasons for their continuous failures.

I've used the "Microsoft account" since windows 8 without benefit. I still had to to manually sign-in to the store, the store was super slow, apps would not install for random reasons, it'd ask me to relogin at random times, the store couldn't automatically check if the internet connection was restored, the store would give meaningless windows-esk error codes, no side loading of store apps was possible, I still had to login to Microsoft owned apps even though I'd logged in to the OS, store apps are aliens - look different from normal apps and many shortcuts keys don't work, they randomly close.

Basically, the store has / had issues. People will willingly add their emails if there's a benefit to doing so.
Many companies have gotten their first fines already. Hundreds of millions of shareholder value down the drain because they blatantly ignored the rules.

No, most companies don't get a massive fine in the first round, but I already see enough have gotten then that even Google now allows me to opt out with a single click :-}
OSS is necessary, but (as you point out) not sufficient.
Like most folks who probably arrived at this blog, I attempted to introduce Terraform cloud to my organization but was ushered away due to cost.
> I may get slammed for this, but I don’t understand the resources that apparently went into tracking down some kid who stole from an illegal marketplace a decade again.

If you're not going to track down $3.36B after a decade, you really shouldn't pursue thefts of less than $1M ever.
The problems with employer controlled work visas are so apparent, and have been apparent for so long, that I believe these issues really are a feature rather than a bug. Keep in mind, the people and companies that lobbied hard for this program are the same ones that orchestrated a massive and clearly illegal collusion to suppress wages.

I think they've gotten away with it for this long because they have an exceptional tool in their arsenal - calling anyone who opposes employer controlled visas "anti-immigration". Even PG got in a few digs[1]. They get an assist from genuinely anti-immigrant people, whose opinions they present as the only argument, and they succeed in making people with reasonable objections to employer-controlled immigration spend the rest of the talk show disassociating themselves from this allegation.

At this point, I'm convinced that part of the reason we don't have a skilled immigration that preserves the freedom of mobility of the immigrants themselves is that high tech companies and investors don't want immigrants to have this freedom. They like it that an immigrant's right to reside in the US depends on staying in the good graces of their employer. They like it that a founder's right to live in the US depends on the blessing of a venture capitalist. Employers and investors don't want their power to end at offering a job or money, they want more power over people than this. They keep things this way because it gives them a tremendous amount of power over their workforce.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/95.html
Unless you're in a downtown urban center, soccer practice has plenty of parking space for your ship-sized SUV (for that matter, so do downtown parking garages. It only becomes an issue with street parking.)

Also you want a car that can fit 7 or 8 kids because you take turns with other parents ferrying many kids around, not just your own.
Yeah, my point is not that such roads don't exist, they are relatively common, as you say.

My point is that your only "defense" against oncoming drivers on such roads is to pray that they stay in their own lane. This mostly works because people are mostly sober and undistracted and not malicious. It is kind of terrifying when you start to think about it.
Huh? 250+ citations that support their assertions are all just some part of a narrative? The CEO being a holocaust-denying anti-semite is just coincidental? Their SEC filing saying Gab is meant for nationalists and conservatives was a mischaracterization of their own platform? Being dropped from a litany of service providers for violating hate speech policies (and abject / nonexistent moderation against it) were fabrications?

That sounds like a denial of reality…
So it's not everything but as long as operating systems are written in C, it will be the language of choice for many projects.
One possible reason is that the actual data that's being sent is a lot less nefarious than is being implied.

I've seen people vehemently argue that merely checking if a new version is available amounts to horrible invasive unethical tracking. You might want to turn that off for the truly paranoid situations, and that's fair, but it's of course completely different than "sends all your data".

I don't have a Windows machine and I certainly don't have PowerPoint, so I can't actually check anything myself. But I see a lot of confirmation biasing going on in this thread, and I bet most people didn't check anything either. All I can give this article is a shrug.
> There's a good case to be made for using better languages than C and C++ for large classes of software. Don't weaken it by making absurd claims.

And this idea can be applied to so many things.

Seriously, very often things have enough downsides that you don't need to exaggerate things that are not downsides. You're actually weakening your side by doing so because if people cannot trust even that bit of honesty, why would they trust anything you say?

be trustworthy is the first rule in convincing others.
Rationally, it doesn’t make sense to buy a new phone for a free app.
> If an Eternal September happens in your instance and you dislike the after-effects you can just... Move without losing much.

This is not obvious to me. Don't you lose a whole lot in that scenario?
I'm not sure an 802.11g one will work -- I'm not sure it uses AirPlay to receive network audio.

I'm not sure the first gen 802.11n will work either -- I have a second gen one and no longer have the older ones. Sorry.
Yes. OpenResty needs some rest. Give it time. 2 minutes, or so, after a click on reload.
Well at least with open source, you CAN verify it. There are people and companies who do audit
You're replacing a big and unstoppable problem with a smaller one that can be mitigated
Context:

We are building a platform that will immortalise the unique visitor memories captured during the Qatar World Cup 22 event, by turning them into tradable NFTs. Top-rated NFTs will be curated into a virtual museum in the Metaverse. The project is designed to scale locally (e.g. incorporating businesses) and globally (e.g. extending to other events and locations).

Ask: feedback and Web 3.0 collaborators.
In case of a CPU it's safer, because the existing hardware definitely won't change, and you can hope the vendor won't do anything drastic in microcode updates.

But UB in a language with an optimizer is a bigger gamble. Even changes to code outside of your UB-tainted function may trip inlining and hot code heuristics, which may make more or less of the code visible to the optimizer, which may make it take advantage of different "undefined" assumptions.
> you can turn off every privacy-centric feature in Windows

Don't you need to buy the enterprise version to completely turn off telemetry?
Exactly. It sounds so cliche but just keeping active and finding purpose really helps me cope with the day to day. Dealing with Leukemia at 15 must have been truly scary, I'm glad you're well!
As a person who routinely spends hours trying to save 5 minutes, I get you ;) I also hear that a lot of people like to have sound through multiple rooms and be able to control it remotely, which I don't really do.

And to be fair, I sometimes hate the Bluetooth dongle, which works fine for streaming and longer albums and if I'm sitting still, but powers off annoyingly (even when plugged in) 2 minutes after the signal stops or if I dare to step out of range.

I switched the dining room system over to an old iPhone with 1/8" jack (I'm hoarding those) after looking for a DAC for the iPhone and basically seeing that the onboard is not so bad. Wifi to Amazon Music, done.
Why don't you trust your macs since 2014. Also why do you still use them if you don't trust them any longer?
Except, that isn't what happens, so it makes your statement incorrect.

The US could also overwhelm [insert any free market] by simply executing eminent domain and/or printing enough money.
The first time a coworker in Mumbai shared their screen for something I was shocked to see that the Windows weather widget in the taskbar had "Smoke" as an option for the current type of weather.
You can't do this on the web interface unless you're on the same instance. It's pretty clunky right now.

Correction: You can't do it if you are linked to their user page https://mastodon.social/username...that doesn't work if you're not on mastodon.social. And often I seem to find myself at these URLs and can't see if I'm following the person, and have to go through extra steps to follow them.
The entire point of bankruptcy proceedings is to arrange a final resolution of outstanding claims when there aren't enough assets to cover them. Someone is going to get screwed, because the money simply isn't there, including the money that would be used to pay for ongoing D&O (directors & officers) insurance that would pay civil claims against directors for actions taken in the course of their employment.
Except even that tool sucks. I can't even use the list to filter for things that are say... less then 1k users, have an uptime of 95% or higher, and have A+ grade HTTPs. Whatever A+ HTTPS that means, it's also not explained on that site. Hell you can't even filter on registrations and actually up at the same time.

Sorry for the rant, my previous instance went read only, and I had to go find a new one. I know what i want and not being bale to search for it except by rough approximations was incredibly annoying.
Linuxes are getting good at "the normal path, plus a bit" - Ubuntu is quite usable for basic things these days.

Where they fall off the rails is when you try to do something you're "not supposed to do" (like removing python) - then you're often better off with the weird distros like Gentoo or Mint; at least someone likely broke it the same way before.
I'm a lot less concerned about UX/onboarding issues than about the fact that the simplistic federation model is going to fall apart long before they even reach 1/10 of Twitter's scale. Now, if you're OK with having a lot of smaller communities that only communicate sporadically, forcing people to have ten identities and ten tabs open to participate effectively in each one, that's not a problem. However, if you want to have a single identity fully participating in multiple communities, then the federation model needs to improve a lot. The current ad hoc relays are just the first step on a long road toward a network/proxy/cache layer that can reduce the unnecessary latency and load on the servers themselves, to provide a federated experience beyond the old FIDOnet level. There are lessons to be learned from IRC, Usenet, and P2P file sharing that can help with this.
> I don’t see this platform being able to benefit from the Twitter exodus.

What you might say is 'I don't think Mastodon is going to replace Twitter', but I don't think you can argue that Mastodon won't benefit from the Twitter exodus because it has already gained a million users.

Looking at the charts on https://the-federation.info/mastodon you can see that in May there was an influx of about 500 thousand new users after Musk's acquisition of twitter was announced. About 100 thousand of those stuck around. This time the number of new users is 1.1 million and still rising. So proportionally, the Twitter exodus will probably bring Mastodon at least 220 thousand new permanent users. My actual guess would be that a higher proportion will stick around this time, because of network effects.
The thing that surprised me a bit about federation is that it puts instances front and center. You have an account at your "home instance", and that's the first thing you see. When I first read about federation I had thought that the idea was to have one big network of independent but equal instances that just transparently share data under common topics. But instead I discovered that you are identified with your instance and can follow topics per instance, with local topics being the default, and you have to explicitly reach out to see the "rest of the world".

With Lemmy communities too. It seems that you can subscribe to a community on a given instance, but there is no such thing as cross-instance communities.

I found this disappointing because it means that for there to be a critical mass of content in a particular community so that it gains in popularity, then that particular community in that particular instance has to become popular on its own, instead of all instances contributing to one big community. Add to this that the default view is "local communities" and you've guaranteed you'll never build something as popular as reddit, sadly. Example, someone from mylemmy.eg cannot post together with someone from hislemmy.com in one big Programming forum. Instead they both have to agree to post in Programming@commonlemmy.net and not Programming@worselemmy.org which, imho, is unlikely to be a successful as there being one centralized place where everyone knows to post. If they'd just remove the domain names and pool everything I think it would have a lot more chance of success.
MPD works great for non-tech-savvy friends over, you just need to install a web-based client and they can point their smartphone browser to it.

To make it even easier for friends and family, I set up a dynamic DNS with a friendly URL like myjukebox.duckdns.org that points to the 192.168.xxx.xxx address where this is hosted.

Mopidy (https://mopidy.com/) as the MPD server with Iris (https://mopidy.com/ext/iris/) as the client is a good setup for this.

Even the tech-illiterate can get along with it.
I know that it's probably pretty well insulated with the layer of black crinkle paint, but I still get uneasy seeing that picture of the bare Raspberry Pi printed circuit board sitting directly on top of the conductive metal case of the receiver while powered on. At least put a piece of paper or something behind it, right? Does anyone else worry the solder blobs or connector pins on the bottom of the board will short out?
Yeah. The HIPAA data needs to be encrypted and you have to report everyone who has access and you need patient permission to share. HIPAA is bad, but ITAR violations put you in jail!
It would help if schools wouldn't have to run its own buses. If there was some kind of system of buses kids could just use.
I wish companies had to test new cars in collisions against the smallest, most vulnerable vehicles on the road. Cars exist in a shared environment; if Ford creates a new, taller, heavier F-250, it shouldn't be allowed on the road unless there's a reasonable chance that it won't brutally crush anyone driving, say, a 2005 Honda Civic sedan around in the event of a collision.
I recently bumped into this issue and simply decided to not bother with Mastodon.
Unfortunately, decoding drift makes that seem initially fine, and then half an hour later you're going "w. t. f." so after several days of "why the f does this audio not STAY synced?" I gave up and went cables.
This reminds me of how the whole philosophy of python is 'simplicity', but the moment you want to start building something you must be reminded of how you haven't updated to the latest version of gnu-anaconda-conda-py-pip3-x86_64-cpython-limited-edition and are consequently prompted to download 5 Gigabytes of inference APIs to print hello world on a distributed multi-cloud pay-for-what-you-use Kubernetes instance .
they're doing cut and cover on some fraction (maybe 1/3) of the purple line subway extension here in LA. it's still a bloated, expensive, late mess of a project, so technique matters little relative to incentive structure on total cost.
Kind of like picking gmail or hotmail is a barrier to entry to using email?
It is a weird example. But that transform does not work generally. Consider if you want to stop when insertIntoMouth() returns a particular value. Or if there is some filter() step, so that you don't know that `n` input items will map to `n` output items.

The difference here is push vs pull (also called eager vs lazy). It is often easier to write pull computations that only do the work that is actually needed.
It's a contentious issue in AppSec where most vendors want you to upload source code to their cloud for anything other than the most basic of scans. There are SLAs for how long the vendors can retain the source code they scan, but many clients are not aware of how much of these scans are performed manually behind the scenes by humans and how few of the vendors have their compliance audited. The possibility of a vendor failing to properly secure your source code is risky enough on its own, but it being accompanied by detailed reports of the security vulnerabilities in the code should cause some hair to stand on end.
That assumes people actually have the capacity to examine the source to do so and make the requisite adjustments.

The real answer IMHO is to control your networking stack outside of your computer instead. Firewall that and you have way better security
Again, totally agree. Cognition is social. Our social context can inhibit or boost our impulses. Starting with our inner voice all the way to global broadcast.
Yeah, much of why VMWare became a big hit was "you can virtualize your weird Windows NT application and not have to maintain a Windows NT machine".
Those send the actual file data to the speakers, so you're not "playing the audio" so much as each speaker literally playing its own copy of the file, using synced playback timing.
So you have no examples or explanations for what “traditions” you’re talking about where ideas are not inventions or vice versa.