skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't see any end to globalisation in the information economy up top

Maybe that's a later stage but it's definitely on the agenda... I mean they openly flirted with banning it just a few years ago. I think it'd be silly to assume the hawks pushing that (or their allies of convenience who are just running US social media companies) just shrugged their shoulders and gave up.
> when you consider the raw material(animals) are almost "free" as far as ethics are concerned(i.e we kill them for the taste of their meat with almost no ethical cost)

I've commented similarly elsewhere, but I really wish people would stop saying "think about the meat we eat" as an argument for more animal suffering in the world. The correct response to hypocrisy is to have consistently better morals everywhere, not to have consistently worse morals elsewhere.

Of course, people can disagree whether or not killing animals unnecessarily is immoral. But if you want to take the premise that eating meat is wrong, no vegetarian/vegan is ever going to tell you that they don't want unnecessary animal testing stopped until after everyone stops eating meat. People's hypocrisy around specific moral issues should not be treated like a license to completely abandon other standards; taking that approach to morality is a recipe for rapid societal decay.

> where it matters little and the potential reward is high.

Again, you can disagree with capableweb's argument, but I just want to characterize correctly what the argument is -- capableweb is saying that the testing here isn't actually going to significantly increase Neuralink's odds of success or their research speed. I would add to that argument that it may in fact lower Neuralink's odds of success if it encourages sloppier research or decreases public trust in the project. I don't have a strong take on that beyond that I think their testing is symptomatic of Musk imposing deadlines and pressures that are going to be toxic to a productive research environment. I don't know that excessive animal testing is going to slow down their research, but based on what the researchers in this article have said, I am pretty certain that the reason why they're doing excessive animal testing in this case is because Musk is pushing them to do sloppy testing to meet unrealistic deadlines that will lead to sloppy results and a worse product, if they get a product out at all. Fast careless testing is sometimes slower than methodical careful testing.

That's an argument that's orthogonal to the moral cost of killing animals for research purposes. If you don't think there's any moral tradeoff to killing animals at all, then the only thing that matters is how their decisions impact the end result.

And seriously, I just responded on here to clarify what capableweb was talking about and that they weren't making an isolated demand for rigor. I am not interested in getting into an argument about whether all of the research standards for animal welfare should all be dropped so that Musk can theoretically maybe monopolize a market in the future that will likely be inaccessible to most disabled people at a potentially slightly faster speed.
I don't think it's the rent vs. buy that's attracting the attention here.
Wilco: Quest Builder
Dev environments in the cloud are a half-baked solution
I thought about that, but the point of the OP is the "Update (Dec. 6)" bit, which is actually a separate post consed onto the original one. It doesn't have a title of its own, and is fairly summarized by Woit's title, so I kept the latter.
Then don’t accept subscriptions via in app purchases? Many apps don’t including Netflix and Spotify.
Different juries, different outcomes for the same crimes..

Unlike the jury at Holmes’ trial, the jury at Balwani’s trial held him accountable for defrauding patients, not just investors.
> Feedback was:

> "The candidate clearly understands the problem and is an excellent communicator, but seems rusty with python."

The feedback is always worthless. It may -- or may not[1] -- honestly reflect what the interviewer thought of you, but the interview process is not set up to produce reliable results, which means that what they thought of you isn't really related to your characteristics. There is only a very tenuous connection between their assessment of you and your performance.

[1] The last time I interviewed with Google, the recruiter congratulated me on doing well in the interviews and told me to expect a job offer. What followed was multiple weeks of silence (technically, not silence, they also asked me to make changes to my resume) and then the message that they were not interested in hiring me because my interview performance was poor. Whatever else we may say about this, we cannot avoid the conclusion that some of the feedback you get consists of intentional lies.
I'll gladly take your money to be on standby to exfiltrate you, good sir, and happily say "Sorry boss, can't be done" if you ever ask me to actually risk jail time for your privileged, billionnaire ass.
I asked ChatGPT and it was close.

> Write a letter from the CEO of a company called Floof where employees are called Floofernistas about the lay off of 5000 employees.

<<<

Dear Floofernistas,

It is with great sadness that I must announce that Floof will be laying off 5000 of our beloved Floofernistas. This decision was not made lightly, and it is with a heavy heart that we must part ways with so many valued members of our team.

Please know that this decision was not a reflection of your hard work and dedication to Floof. Each and every one of you has contributed to the success of our company, and we are grateful for your contributions.

Unfortunately, external factors have forced us to make this difficult decision. Rest assured that we will be providing severance packages and job placement assistance to help you through this transition. We are committed to supporting you during this difficult time.

Thank you for being a part of the Floof family. We will always be grateful for your hard work and dedication, and we wish you the very best in your future endeavors.

Sincerely,
[CEO of Floof]
Something is seriously wrong about this article. Good read and that make it the worst article on this subject. Both horizontally (culture) and vertically (history) sort of figure speak.

First there are obvious a few major break of that system. Start with no such system unlike what is said. In fact the very examination was sort of inverted by a Tang dynasty emperor, even with a declaration that from now on all the literate will be in my grasp. And unlike that eight-box system, it is much more free style and corrupted as such. Hence the system to standardize the exam. Genarlaisation if one has to should at least divide into period.

Another thing is call it chinese, which is whilst “obvious” but is also wrong. The whole thing is Hans. It is exclusive due to its subject matter. Of course they do not look at you on race as Hans is not a race. Look at today so called chinese. You can sense there are major difference even in height and look (the southern and northern “race”) that nobody care. Still it is strictly Hans from Tang to Qing. That is reason why when they escalate to university the study of “Chinese” disappears and becomes modern day Hans. You cannot say non-Hans language not chinese for political reason. But just ignore them and concentrate on Hans.

There is no chinese before 1911, an invention in 1911 to trick the Manchuria emperor to write that essay and Mongolia and Tibet to toe the line.

(United Kingdom all are English and let us study only English exam as uk exam. Work well for some foreigner and English. Wales aide, let us use the dominate language dominate and generalize it to America and Ireland which also use “english” as part of the English system.)

Well written and as lie goes, it is very bad as somehow it generalize to the extent that it is wrong.
Top execs where? The top exec at EA makes $18MM/yr? That is a lot of money, more than the overwhelming majority of "top execs" make outside of the very largest companies in the world.
I bought my first house three years ago and have been sharing notes with my dad about home ownership. This is a big thing that came up.

He went to the library and borrowed books about how to do various handyman stuff. They typically had pencil drawings and instructions. I go on YouTube and watch, in HD, ten different people actually do the task. One constant though: chatting up the employees at the hardware store.

My grandfather once told a story of when he was 14 or 15 one summer, stopping by a construction site and asking a guy if he could come in and just watch people work. As the story went, the foreman decided he can watch in the morning but he has to work in the afternoon. And he did just that. He said he watched a lot of framing and then carried lumber and fetched tools for four hours. They offered to pay him something like $2 a day to come back so he did for a few weeks until my great grandmother learned of it. He always liked to comment on two things: 1) how they just trusted him to show up after lunch that first day. 2) that you can curry an incredible amount of favour by doing the crappy jobs with energy.

I like that story because it imbued in me a characteristic that I further developed in university: the comfort to go up to someone and say, “would you teach me about that?” (seriously, do not underestimate how much anyone loves talking about their job.)
If it's $7 on the site why $11 in the app and not $10? Taking the 30% cut from $11 means Musk/Twitter get $7.70
Yah, no. I live in Interior BC. It has become rare to have a summer where, for several weeks, our valleys are choked with smoke. Twice in recent years I have literally been unable to see the house across the street because the smoke was so thick. My entire city was on bloody evacuation notice! Some small towns burned to the ground, not a building left standing. The fires get so big they develop their own weather systems. If you live outside a town, chances are you can no longer obtain home fire insurance.

We are not good, not by any metric.
> That was just for scanning photos in general.

Are you trolling? What Federighi proposed before was scanning "for CSAM" on device [1]. Same angle.

> Doing it on device is probably preferable to on cloud and at worst no different.

Please elaborate. How is it better to force users to run software they don't want than to let them decide whether or not to have their photos scanned when they choose to upload them to the cloud?

Anyway it's a false dichotomy. Apple isn't doing on-device scanning, and now they've announced they won't do it in the cloud either.

[1] https://youtu.be/OQUO1DSwYN0?t=426
You call it "appealing to authority," I call it "standing on the shoulders of giants."

It's philosophy for god's sake. There is no authority [callback]. You can cherry pick which parts you believe and it doesn't make a damn bit of difference.

[callback] Except if you're a theologian... which is why most philosophers take the theologian subset even less seriously than they do the existential nihilists.
We wont physically hurt you but we'll end your ability to participate in the economy in any way & steal all your money does not seem like the upgrade you seem to be saying it is. Wont these people all starve?
The second-gen Corvair 65.5->69? fixed the swing-axle issue. Also, the Corvair Monza of that era is still the best looking four-door America has ever built.
> This is not the reason for security patches taking too long to be released to certain phones; Google has a monthly cadence of releasing security patches and zero-days have rarely (I can't remember a case of that happening but maybe it has happened) missed do you have a source for it?

Yet and still Microsoft solved this problem years ago. Why can’t Google? Hell my 2006 Mac Mini got years of Windows 7 updates after installing Windows on it.
Most trending repos on GitHub right now are about ChatGPT
I meant actual clicker training, with the clickers they use to train dogs. It's ridiculous, but so is the lack of respect shown when people stubbornly refuse to use the correct pronouns.

There are probably more genderqueer people out there whose families wish them dead, than there are ones who try to manipulate their families by "childishly threatening to kill themselves".

I'm reminded of the fragilely masculine fulminating about false rape accusations when so many actual rapists never even get reported.
I am against CSAM as much as anyone but NCMEC and their database is a total farce. They produce mountains of unactionable reports, false positives, and their (or was it Microsoft’s) weird hashing thing was visually identifiable as CSAM itself and reversible. That letter was just a whole mask off moment for them.

I wouldn’t be surprised if NCMEC had a hand in starting Pizzagate tbqh. I have no proof and I don’t think that they did. But if it broke the news tomorrow I would be like, “Nah that’s totally believable.”
My perspective is that Ammonia is a storage mechanism for hydrogen. The question is more like cryogenic vs compressed air vs chemical (such as ammonia, or hydrogen peroxide). A bigger question is production: solar, hydro, and wind are probably cheapest for electrolysis. Thermochemical production may make sense for nuclear or geothermal based power. Maybe Iceland becomes a big gas station for transatlantic shipping, based on geothermal energy?
I think he is referring to this absurdity:
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1598111269953089536

It's a video of a girl who demands to be referred to as "they" for whatever fashionable reason, and has decided to use a dog-training clicker to remind her family members of this imposition whenever they use "she" as they normally would.
Do you know whether it’s compatible with microg? If so, what version of pixel are you running.

I’m familiar with adb.
Advanced AntiVirus Evading Malware Techniques for Bypassing Endpoint Detection
next step: driving a rolls royce, as they can be good for the voice.
And neither does Spotify or Netflix. They haven’t had in app subscriptions for years.

Amazon seems to be doing well despite Apple Books.
"Blind trust in science" is the wrong way to phrase it, which is exactly the problem, because people do it anyway. The popular meme is to "go with the science", regardless of the fact that that's barely definable.

BTW it's really clear in cases where the "science" result is orthogonal to their existing beliefs: did "pro-maskers" have opinions about masks[0] in 2019? Mostly no. Now think about, say, astronomy results. Lots of people will just go with it, whatever it is, if it has a convincing "science" label on it.

[0] DON'T PANIC, I think masks are fine.
Ron is outspoken and knows the issues better than most. But he can be blunt on his perspectives and definitely does not represent the whole ecosystem or the majority perspective on all things Java.

For _many_ enterprise users, there is indeed something particularly special about the LTS releases. Even if it's just a marketing term, it's still important to realize that organizations value stability, and the LTS releases can offer that at a different comfort level (and price point).

Yes, LTS was dreamed up as a way for Oracle to make money on open source Java. But the other non-Oracle vendors (equally important to the ecosystem) very much have similar offers of support that Oracle provides.

I'm glad for the model, frankly. And I'm excited about Java's future. LTS releases helps smooth out discussions with CTO types about how to live with Java. Developers can use the latest-greatest and be sure to target a particular LTS version for deployment. Finally Java seems to be moving again.

When pron comes in here and smacks us down with his replies, that's OK, I'm comfortable with my perspective. :)
Someone from Ford and/or Getrag ought to have gone to jail for that shit. A car with an automatic that suddenly has a transmission full of neutrals in the middle of an intersection is a serious safety hazard!
> I really don't see a place for Python

I agree. Around 2008, I was drunk on "the zen of Python", considering myself a Pythonista, writing elegant solutions, making unmaintainable one liners etc. But really Lisp was so much better for that power/speed of development. Eventually (for me) go was so much more powerful, easy to maintain etc. with actual industry usage (seemingly instantly) without any loss in productivity.

Python solutions seem no better than maligned JS solutions nowadays - but at least there's TS and efforts to improve it where they can. Indeed, most Python code doesn't seem to be in proper production, but just one of exploratory scripts and pieces strewn about in notebooks. It seems like it could easily lose market share quite quickly.
Calling bullshit and calling names are different things.

If a comment explains why something is bullshit in a way that readers can learn from, and is reasonably free of extraneous noise such as personal attacks, fulmination, and so on, that's a positive contribution. The trick is to (1) add correct, relevant information, and (2) avoid poisoning the ecosystem—like a healthy immune system that can go after pathogens without destroying normal cells.
Much more recent.
Some of it was needing to build cheap, low-maintenance buildings quickly, to replace what had been destroyed in the war. There's nothing wrong with making a considered decision to build something ugly and cheap because getting usable space is a higher priority than making it look good. But when you try to make a virtue of that by pretending ugly is pretty, then you're making a major mistake.
Of course I believe it's important to protect children, and people consuming and producing CSAM deserve pure unadulterated justice. I think we should do everything reasonable to catch and punish such loathsome persons.

However, we have other means at our disposal to catch makers and consumers of CSAM that don't require blanket trawling of personal data. I am afraid to surrender privacy in the name of even something very good because surveillance is easy to abuse.

I doubt you'd advocate for the extreme of e.g. the police knocking on everyone's door and performing a full search of their house/flat/whatever every so often to search for CSAM on computers or in magazines etc. That would be sure to catch more criminals and protect more children, but the societal cost would be astronomical. No one wants to live in a police state.

And I hope you don't understand me as advocating for the complete opposite of that, where no searches are ever performed in the name of personal privacy. That's too dangerous.

There's some room between the two extremes. I get nervous about mechanisms that can easily be used to compromise privacy of people who never were under any sort of suspicion. Maybe I'm wrong about where to draw the line. Some of my family lived in East Germany under the Stasi, and what a dark time that was. Perhaps that's part of the source of my aversion to mechanisms like mass digital surveillance.
can highly recommend the old movie "desk set", whose protagonists are reference librarians threatened with being replaced by a computer.
If you have calculations about costings, it seems absolutely nonsensical to go for 'stately country estates' owned by British royalty, 'one of the loveliest houses in England')[1]. The gardening costs alone will be astronomical, and what does that have to do with workshops?

Any university building laid out for workshops/teaching will suffice.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wytham_Abbey
I must be missing something. The government compels people to speak all the time. In courtrooms every day, witnesses are brought to testify in a manner they can only refuse if it criminally implicates them. A witness simply not wanting to answer a question can and will be held in contempt of court and subject to imprisonment.
> "screeching … minority"

Could someone put that on a shirt with a nice design and take my money? :D
That sounds right to me. The government has tremendous powers. Forcing people to write computer programs isn't one of them. (They could have saved a lot of money on healthcare.gov if they had that power!)
A dose of AI would help clean up the interface of every 3D software package, and especially Blender since Blender does everything, and what's really needed is a workflow that lets you start with a prompt like:

"I want to model a realistic humanoid character, using these references"

And then the AI works through the process of setting up the workspace and putting the tools you need front and center.

Right now that setup process is a lot of boilerplate-by-way-of-GUI that gets in the way of using any specific technique.
terminal decrepitude
Pretty much all not for profits needs to attract and specifically, retain members, the workshops could be about introducing them to the program and the associated benefits with regards to donating.
If these buildings are ugly because we're cheaping out on them then we should at least acknowledge the fact and have an honest conversation about it.

But actually they tend to be just as expensive as beautiful buildings.
As someone who actually works at Plaid I agree. I'm surprised to see these reactions to these company demonyms that feel really extreme and at times sound like a conspiracy theory. I understand the apprehension about cult-like company cultures but I'm just not feeling it at Plaid at all. It's no more cringy than people referring to their entire employer as "we", which I see constantly and never see derided at all.

People actually do call each other Plaids in certain contexts because it's shorter than saying something like "colleagues" (which sounds overly formal), and it's clear that it encompasses the whole company. I've never heard a colleague say that we're a family or anything similar. Google had a bit of self-mythology about "Googlers" but Plaid doesn't really even have that.
The storage is not pr family member. It's 2 TB shared between members.
We also made the same switch for the same reasons. Outages were so common this past year (particularly on Wednesdays for some reason), that it's become a meme of being an indicator for if it's Wednesday at our company or not.
Is it their fault that FTX donated the money ?
Now you're confusing a law passed in a city with a national law. The law passed in the city was specifically making accommodation for one religion, which is not allowed: “the Grenoble vote was made ‘to satisfy a religious demand’ and ‘harms the neutrality of public services.’”

The law passed in the country was set up to disallow laws that favored one religion, but ever since the revolution cast aside Christianity for enlightenment ideals, no such laws had been attempted. It is true that this law was made to prevent laws that favor Islam, but it puts it on equal footing with all other religions. Members of The Native American Church cannot get laws passed to give themselves exemptions to use mescaline.
It's like no protocol has ever been extended or revised. Ever.

Let's pretend there isn't an Options and Padding section in the IP header:

"Options and Padding - A field that varies in length from 0 to a multiple of 32-bits. If the option values are not a multiple of 32-bits, 0s are added or padded to ensure this field contains a multiple of 32 bits."

Wow, like I CANNOT think of how that would be used to add more bits. More 32 bit sections? No use for that for ipv4+ or ++ or +++.
Why do people act like what happened in the MS anti trust case is lost to the annals of history? Absolutely nothing came of the bundling IE with Windows in the US. There was never a time that IE was not bundled with Windows because of the lawsuit and there was no browser choice mandate in the US.
It is. Leaving China aside. Once tiktok 'segments' you to a region, the experience is totally different and unchangeable even if you move around.