skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a truly horrible thing to say about another human being.
Apple Created a Pseudo-Union to Defeat Organizers, Complaint Says
In this post is where we learn that trucks have evolved to occupy multiple niches over a period of about 100 years and making an electric version of the derived beast is going to break some niches and enable new ones.

A lot of people not realizing behavioral patterns of vehicle usage are a learned thing, and can shift dramatically. An example of this is “I need to refill in 10 minutes” when you can refill overnight anywhere that has electrical service. Outliers aside, most people will never need to refill away from home unless they take a road trip.

In places where job function has molded around derived truck function, people will stay with ICE, but there will be opportunities to innovate in related areas where we haven’t seen any in fifty years.
I think implicit in the hope is that maybe not everything should be delt with via 'algorithm', and perhaps there's a place left in this brave new automated world for actual people helping people.
The saddest thing of all (I think there's some XKCD referencing this) is when you have a technical problem like this and you find some post from a year or two years ago exactly describing the problem. And there's no reply.

Empathy isn't the word. It's feeling like you're trapped on a deserted island in a vast empty sea - suddenly realizing that there's another S.O.B. who's been right next to you the whole time and also knowing that neither of you has the faintest idea how to get off the island.
I would love to see this broken out by fiction/non-fiction. I read mainly fiction and some stories just take longer to tell than others so I don't really take page count into consideration.

When I do read non-fiction I almost always think that the book could be improved by heavily editing down the second half.
Or only one. As an example.
'Game changer' satellite will measure most of the water on the planet
I don't know if it is mentally healthy but I do know it is unsafe. I am all for responsible firearm ownership which amounts to load your gun, shoot it, don't keep it around loaded. Don't leave them laying around, keep them locked up. If the cops are going to show up at your place, for instance, they don't need to see guns all over the place.

My grandfather was in the Polish mafia (ran a bar that was open on Sundays and got thrown out of the second floor window of the Polaski club) and had a loaded 45 next to his bed because he was afraid of being attacked. When I was a kid I found it

So far as I can tell they used a statistical model to estimate the risk of their being a firearm, they didn't go to people's houses to look for firearms so I don't know if this paper is "news" at all.
Neither point is reliably true. They are the extremes of a spectrum.
Why Companies Do Layoffs Around Christmas
It doesn’t take a religious nut or a conspiracy theorist to see the catastrophically enormous downsides of universally mandated, centrally managed, and cryptographically-backed state identification cards, complete with RFID.

Imagine, for example, that upon declaring a protest unlawful, the police could simply scan all the RFID-enabled ID cards in the area and issue everyone a court summons.

Not carrying an ID card? No access to anything - public transportation, payments, and can’t even authorize your car to start. Also, it’s a felony to do so intentionally and with intent to evade law enforcement monitoring.

State wants to search your laptop? Your 2FA and disk encryption is mandatorily tied to your ID card, and the state holds keys in escrow.

Some things should be onerous for the state and decentralized. This is absolutely one of those things.
> o me, the issue with Google's products and services is that they're not willing to provide any human customer service to resolve the real issues.

I don't get this, I engage human Google support for paid Google products at least a few times a month. It's not great, but definitely on par with other tech giants. Are you expecting human support for ... free services?
US law doesn't seem to align with "US principles of society" if we even have such a thing. Without better consumer protection laws companies aren't going to improve in this respect.
Honestly, the top comment is more concerning:

https://old.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/zndbku/tifu_by_accide...

Account stolen. Obvious fraudulent charges. EA refuses to make it right. Customer rightfully disputes the charges. EA closes their account locking them out of an entire catalogue of content THEY HAD PAID for.

This whole “you don’t really own digital content” ruse needs to be popped. A company shouldn’t be able to kick you off their platform if you have purchased content from them without refunding that content or providing you physical copies of the content they’re revoking your on demand access to.

This whole “you give me $20 for a one time purchase and I’ll let you watch this movie for anywhere between 100ms and 100,000 years mostly at our discretion” isn’t business - it’s fraud and it’s shameful regulators haven’t stepped in yet.

To be clear this is about digital purchases, not digital rentals and streaming services.
Isn't the bible example kind of a counterpoint? God says thou but you also say it back. You tutoie god in french too and I assume other languages with this distinction. Which is a good example of how this system doesn't only convey status but also intimacy.
While tongue in cheek, the answer is accurate: open source does not mean "free service contract", it means that you can take the code and modify yourself (and preferably upstream the fix).

Patches come both from vendors and users experiencing an issue. Vendors take care of most things, but for esoteric problems you might only have a handful of people experiencing it. The vendor is unlikely to care, so if you do not write the patch or pay someone to do it, who will?

Still better than the competition, where such problems will never be fixed unless it generates sufficient bad PR...
1) Yes for quite some time I only do fairly basic/uninteresting things. That being said, gnu/linux has become far easier to use than it was, say 20 years ago.
By that logic, FDR was so far left he broke the scale! In the… 30s.

And yet he was considered then (and now) as less socialist / more politically to the right than many leaders in Europe at the time.

He was our most progressive president, and certainly further left than any US president since, but even he wasn’t “far left.” And certainly the neoliberal gerontocracy that dominates the current democratic party is nowhere near as left as he was.
I have wondered about this myself - does keeping 2 copies of the same data on a single flash-based drive actually increase reliability? Or is the flash controller going to end up combining the two writes into the same block?
How AI image generators work, like DALL-E, Lensa and Stable Diffusion
They're probably imagining a truck that never leaves the farm but even then in most jurisdictions you can't run red-dye in it (though nobody will ever catch you).

And if you never leave the property than you can get one of those electric cart things I guess.
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that you, personally are intending to engage in this tradition, but pointing to anyone reasoning out that in general we are very charitable to those in power while very strict to those without. While you individually might be an exception, in general I don't expect people to point out how anyone hit hard enough might fall into drug abuse/other types of socially low-ranked patterns. In germany, there is even a joke about the difference between "eccentric" and "crazy" - about 1 million euro in private wealth.

So yes, I agree there needs to be a space on how everyone in a position like Elon could or would fail - but I think it's worth keeping this explicitly not charitable but simply as an argument on why nobody should be in that position. Otherwise we, unwittingly, contribute to that apologia.
$ opam update
$ opam switch create 5.0.0 --repositories=default
$ eval $(opam env)
$ ocaml
OCaml version 5.0.0
Enter #help;; for help.
It's Christmas at Supabase. These folks be dropping features like gifts every day.

Good job!
Fly.io plus Cloudflare have been a great combination for us, and we've added point solutions for other things as needed like email, auth, etc. Feels much more approachable than AWS when you're at a small scale.
Yeah you need the raw stuff that is not heated. There is usually some firm honey in there and not just a fluid substance.
The world is burning more coal than ever before, new report shows
The tolerance for high salaries in government is basically non-existant. People throw fits in my region about teachers with 30 years experience and the maximum scale making just over $100k/year Canadian (just over $70k/USD). So you can imagine what it's like to try and hire senior developers (five years experience) at around $90k when top of the market is quadruple that and a large number of companies pay double that. The end result is they hire from the bottom 25% of developers, the bottom 25% of product managers and the bottom 25% of managers. Add to that a large dysfunctional bureaucracy and they are lucky if they get people 10% as productive as in competing companies. It's a colossal problem because government routinely fails at building technology and then outsources it at extreme cost. That outsourcing isn't always successful either in part because the requirements hinge on those same Product Managers that government can hire on extremely restricted budgets.
Your IDE/Editor can show that information to you. Having it forced to be written down there just seems unnecessary to me.
I like this idea. Maybe I will let them breed and multiply first actually!
France, virtually any major bank really: LCL, Boursorama, Societe Generale, etc.
Also, they focus on aesthetics.

They could have steel bands providing reinforcement which would be just slightly obtrusive at some angles, but boy, now it would have bands and well, it's not an uninterrupted glass [acrylic] cylinder.
TikTok’s Efforts to Distance Itself from Chinese Parent Stumble over Talent
And often Microsoft would not put the charge through, at least if you were working to try to solve the problem without them. I don't know what their criteria were, but I don't think I ever paid despite calling a few times.
Henry Cavill won't be returning to 'The Witcher' despite losing 'Superman' role
2.5G is definitely excessive.
A good start, at least with Google, might be for them to give anything resembling a fuck about their non-advertising customers.

My experience is that they seem to have this mindset that if you aren't paying them for advertising specifically, you're not a customer, you're a user - the product - which is true if you aren't paying them at all, but isn't even remotely the case when you're giving them money in exchange for a product. Absolutely horrendous customer service every time I've needed to contact them.
Ooh, could you explain how you did this?
I'd guess that some software is stuck on Power, so a bigger multi-core chip for those cases is probably cheaper than both porting to x86, or buying a higher tier Oracle license.
I recommend Bonsai, not just as a time tracker, but as a full fledged suite for freelancing.

In this thread, I'm seeing a lot of cheaper/discount alternatives, but an imperative piece of timesheets is trust. When you send the timesheet to the client, they should trust the results, and IMO the bigger brands are just better at providing that level of trust.

In comparison to quickbooks and the other huge names, Bonsai is super cheap, lightweight, and pretty much easier to use. Could not recommend it enough.
You're trolling, right? Just in case you've never visited twitter...

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Sure, we get this. That's not the issue.

The issue is Google told them to issue a chargeback to get his money back. That was Google's representative saying this.
If the customer was told to do a chargeback by a Google employee (or outsourced contractor) then it was _Google_ who told the customer to do the chargeback.
At this point it looks like Musk is somewhat paranoid about his life, which reminds me of dictators being paranoid about their life. That's not very surprising given that Musk is far from being honest to consumers. For instance, Tesla was found to be deactivating the autopilot mode at the second before a crash [1], to make their system look safer than it is in reality.

[1] PDF https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/inv/2022/INOA-EA22002-3184.PDF
So many posts here about how this is expected and normal behaviour by a company to react to a chargeback in this way.

But it’s different when it’s a company that provides your email, your browser, your phone, your entertainment, your car interface, your telecom, your operating systems, your office productivity suite, your online storage solution, and your method of communicating with your friends and family.

I’m not going to blame the victim, but encourage future victims to stop using Google products whenever possible.
Classifying Developer Tools: Aids vs. Abstractions
That video was pretty neat. I did not take away from it "first gen dog."
I think you might be conflating "free users" of their search engine product and a customer who paid a thousand USD to purchase their mobile hardware. I can see the reasoning for refusing to provide human-based CS for their search engine users, but to give their Pixel users the typical run around and then capping it with disabling their account? I would expect this kind of behavior from the various shell companies selling gadgets on Amazon. Google is really eating their way through the goodwill they took decades to build up.
The only monetary relationship I have with Google is a paid youtube sub.

I actively avoid getting involved in any business relationship with Google because of the mountain of evidence that it’s a bad idea. No Google suite. No Google cloud. No hardware.

Google is an advertising company. They make their money from advertising and the rest of the revenue is a pittance to them, so they have no incentive to provide any support or empathy.

Avoid doing non-advertising business with Google at all costs.
Curious why you say that? I’m seriously considering an EV pickup in next few years. I currently am using a minivan with seats removed for most of my construction and hauling needs (fwiw, I beefed up brakes, monitor tranny temp w/ heavy loads, etc). I don’t usually travel more than a 30mi radius in a day so an EV would be ideal; throw in features like 120/240v or compressed air hookups and I even start rethinking workflows. For now my minivan gets it done as long as I’m careful.

If we’re just making flippant generalizations, I’ll throw out that most people driving brodozers don’t actually “need” a truck and just enjoy the novelty.
It’s not inevitable. Of course it can be overridden.
> He could die on the moon

Pretty crazy that this is accurate. This man could choose to go to the moon. To die or not would be up to him.
Blackmailing MoneyMonger Malware Hides in Flutter Mobile Apps
Yep, we have this problem. One of the issues is that the manager is always late so people have generally started the chit-chat before and he doesn't interrupt.

It would be better if he got in, listened for a second then said: "Sorry I'm late in, let's get things started" and then at the end said to person who was talking "X you were talking about Y, what's the deal with that?" and pushed the conversation to end of the meeting, and then people can leave if they don't want to chat.

I think there has been a general consensus that remote work can be lonely, so people do like to build bonds with their colleagues in a natural way rather than have a specific, let's have a team building moment scheduled for Tuesday.
I'm really sorry. As someone else diagnosed with ADHD it's been very hard for me to be positive about anything. Hang in there, I guess... life just seems impossible.
Don't like Twitter? Go start your own service. How does the Left feel about shadowbans and censorship now.
Let's say it wasn't. Let's say it went down exactly as described. That leaves Musk with a lower threshold for banning legit journalists than he for filing a police report. Not impossible, but rather weird.
It clearly had a serious bug in that it allowed currently banned accounts to join and bypass their suspension.

It will presumably be back after the bug is fixed.
Seinfeld HD remaster in its original 4x3 aspect ratio
gentoo gets pretty close for a full OS system.
Nah it's a web call where they check your passport for authenticity and identity in real time with a real human in order to authorize a new bank account etc.
Twitter is a private company and is not a monopoly, but anticompetitive behavior should be called out, the same way that (many) of us did about Instagram blocking links to competitors and Facebook pursuing anticompetitive policies against services like Snapchat. There are plenty of people who have campaigned for iOS to allow 3rd-party app stores that are calling out Twitter's current behavior. There's no values dissonance there, Musk banning the original account/journalists is 1st Amendment protected activity, blanket-banning Mastodon links is (potentially, but I don't know how likely it would be to ever see a court battle) anti-competitive.

More to the point, outside of antitrust there are plenty of people that have specified in the past that Twitter is a private company and can do what it wants, but that its moderation decisions are subject to private scrutiny and that consumers can complain about them. And importantly, that doesn't mean that all of its moderation decisions are universally good or bad.

"People are allowed to complain about private moderation decisions" != "All moderation decisions are exactly the same and if you complain about any of them you have to complain about all of them"

It's OK to point out that reporting about someone else posting flightplan data is different from subtly encouraging people to bomb hospitals. The point of Twitter being a private company is that it's not the government and it doesn't have to be blind to those distinctions. Private speech/moderation is the place in free speech debates where we are allowed to make actual value judgements that are more nuanced than "all censorship good/bad".

It's also completely valid for people to point out that Musk hasn't banned doxing, he's banned an extremely narrow category of doxing that is specifically designed to get rid of the one account he doesn't like, while still allowing accounts like Libsoftiktok to stick around. It's completely valid to point out that Musk announced this policy at the same time that he posted a public license plate on Twitter and asked his followers if any of them recognized it. It's valid to look at that behavior and think, "huh, maybe this has never actually been about free speech for him."

But yeah, it's not illegal for Musk to ban journalists. It's a bad business move and it's going to prompt more people to jump ship off of Twitter and it's going to prompt more publishers to think about how they disseminate content and how much they should use Twitter as part of that strategy, but it's not illegal. Anticompetitive behavior might be different (although no lawmakers cared when Facebook did it, so I'm not sure any of them are going to care now).
That is the price of dealing with the public, tbf.

People are how they are and will always find the path of least resistance to get their problems solved.

That doesn't exclude them or anyone from providing support to the services they offer, and that people pay for (one way or the other)
California cuts subsidies for rooftop solar
snake jazz
You shouldn't say things confidently that you don't know anything about, someone might believe you.
I recall someone saying “Most non-fiction books really just have a 15 minute message.”

At least with fiction there can be some beauty in the extension.
Where I lived we had earthquake drills...and earthquakes. Not a lot of fear mongering though during that time so that was nice.
Powerwall should still benefit from the economies of scale being put into Tesla cars and their battery plants. It’s a fair question why a truck would still be competitive.
A couple of years ago, I would have concurred. But for some time already you have the possibility to use the e-ID through Postident (https://www.deutschepost.de/de/p/postident/privatkunden/iden...) which is kind of well integrated in many businesses. Moreover you have private / corporate solutions like Verimi (https://verimi.de/) that incorporate functionalities of the e-ID. There is even an alternative (https://www.openecard.org/startseite/) to the official app. (EDIT: The alternative is open-source, but so is the official app. Removed adjective.)

I really like the development that has gone into the e-ID. They even have thought out a safe way to update your PIN (https://www.pin-ruecksetzbrief-bestellen.de/)! The biggest drawback of all is the lack of any marketing, IMHO.
This is absolutely the kind of dollars-and-cents, data driven decision making that is the bedrock of economists' faith in capitalism, and the reason why firms succeed in the market.
"Free services" aren't provided by Google out of the goodness of their heart. This isn't altruism. We're not choosy beggars to want support for being the very products that make Google the most money.
But "Twitter is a private company, they can ban anyone they want, and you're free to leave it if you don't like the terms"...at least this is what we've been hearing for years before Elon took over ;-)
Plenty of discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34010112
Sure, but it's a lot of seams, 100's of meters on even a moderate size dome, they are very deep (typically about 2" or 5 cm) and it add an enormous amount of work to setting up a dome. It also means you can no longer take it apart.
Musk is lying. The data broadcast by his ADS-B system is publicly available.
Complaining on twitter seems to make get them to refund.
Until some automated system catches you with your many accounts and bans all of them?
E150 - $56k

Gas - $3.29 gallon

F150 city fuel economy - 20 mpg.

So if you drive your F150 320k miles in-town, the gas pays for the E150.

This ignores electricity costs, but that makes it worse. So it's not quite worth it yet to buy an E150 to supplement an F150.
>In Greek mythology, Narcissus was a hunter from Thespiae in Boeotia who was known for his beauty. According to Tzetzes, he rejected all romantic advances, eventually falling in love with his own reflection in a pool of water, staring at it for the remainder of his life. After he died, in his place sprouted a flower bearing his name.

Musk is just another page in a story as old as time.
This is off-topic, but I tried canceling my Google services subscription for a domain I no longer owned, and was unable to. There was no way to contact google, and they kept charging me. I ended up asking AmEx to delete the charges, and they did. Still nothing from Google, other than requests to pay them for no service provided.

I really wish they had someone I could call.