skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is a dirty secret that basically everyone who spends time with meditation communities finds out. Which is this: people who let go of grasping as completely as you can—like, famous meditation teachers, or practitioners who have been at it for decades—still have problems. They are still neurotic and prideful. They still stress out about their social media accounts. They still engage in immoral behavior. While they might not report as much subjective suffering, they still act out in ways that objectively belie insecurity and dissatisfaction.

There was this documentary I saw (forgot the name) that had a zen master who was making fried dough and he was extremely neurotic. Made me wonder if the neurotic types are the ones who seek out Buddhism. The real laid-back types are already ‘Buddhas’, which ironically is why they don’t seek it out.
For a couple of years now I see laptops as consumables rather than as full members of the family of general purpose computers. If they break they are impossible to repair without special tools or sending them in so I just demolish them, pull out the storage device and shred it. The rest can then be safely turned in as electronics waste at the local depot.

It's pretty sad because replaceable batteries have been a thing in just about everything since I was a kid and the idea that laptops are somehow so special that we can't do it because they are thin is ridiculous to me. But apparently that's what the market wants.
What case do you use for this? How do you put this in the device?
I would temper your message with the caveat that the data is still accessible to the user; one click to open devtools, and another to switch to the "Storage" tab, and you have all your persisted data visible to the user.

You can copy and/or edit said data from that view as well!

Albeit the convention is clearly to not presume your browser app user will be interacting with their data at _all_ through the devtools, which I find regrettable but unavoidable with the current state of "computer literacy" and the state of "devtools-as-an-interface" (obviously the ergonomics aren't great for the average user today).
As a counter to this, I found a recent Guardian article on ChatGPT did a nice job of cutting through some of the more optimistic hyperbole surrounding LLMs/AI at the moment and offered instead a more grounded perspective as to what ChatGPT is and what it is not: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/07/chatgp...
even the UI is of iOS, I think you use a Mac and React Native to develop, and take screenshots on the simulator and upload to Android.
How do you flash your BIOS on Apple hardware? Did they make it more convenient?
Like the Haynes and other manuals that show circuit layouts and exploded views and service descriptions for every part of a vehicle.
Two notes:

- we are social animals so we like to interact and depending on where we live and how we live finding similar cohorts of people in desired quantities it's not that easy without some form of telecommunication. Banal example: I like computers, classic desktop systems, Emacs, zsh etc even in a CS faculty I was able to find only a very small cohort of people with a similar "hobby", I like to climb, again finding other climbers is not such hard but also not that immediate, it's not that popular. I like offroad, shooting, downhill MTB, Ski-Alp. All such sports are not that common, finding people with similar interests it's easier with a bigger agorà (like internet, with usenet or the web);

- MODERN social networks have replaced older ones with a far different target: older ones have a simple target, matching people, making them communicate on common areas of interest. Modern ones have the target to profile, project and direct people discussions, isolating, matching some but not others etc. Witch means modern social targets are political and economical AGAINST their users, exploiting their characteristics.

The result is that in modern era people are hyper-connected to someone else computer system, but also hyper-isolated humanly. And that's not a side effect but a target. You can steer even an entire civilization without most noticing or even knowing who you are mastering social interactions.
I'm more like a crafter, so no code tools have provided me with the UX quality I was aiming for. But I was naive, thinking that experience would be enough. If I were to start now, I would definitely choose a simpler stack.

AI is pretty helpful right now (I'm proofreading my comments with Notion AI as we speak), but I think it will take a couple of years to really deliver quality output. I'm eagerly awaiting this moment.
If the game studio made the cut scenes themselves, they used usually both Maya and 3DS.

If they were made externally by a 3rd party production studio that also worked for TV and Cinema, they probably used some SGI workstation running Maya or Softimage 3D or Lightwave.
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Hey Raph, hoping you might see this: Almost all (Rust) game engines seem to focus entirely on sprites (or more generally, texture-based primitives) for rendering. I've been experimenting with a toy game project based heavily around more complex 2D primitives [1], such as splines or Bézier curves that might benefit from some vertex-based shader shenanigans [2]. But apparently this is something 2D game engines just don't support. Since you have a lot of experience with curves, Rust and GPUs I was wondering if you can think of specific reasons this path seems to be unsupported?

[1] My goal is to implement realistic train track geometries, including transition curves, using Euler spirals or perhaps a simpler curve.

[2] For example, I'd like to try tessellating curves via shaders as required, based on zoom level etc.
I recommend “Weather Predicting Simplified.”

https://www.amazon.com/International-Marines-Weather-Predict...

Helped me interpret and understand SSB-sourced synoptic charts on a sail across the Atlantic.
Whenever you watch this Economics Explained guy he stresses that the economic problem is allocating scarce resources.

The only scarce resources I am seeing are land and an intact biosphere.

The unlimited wants hypothesis is obviously wrong. The human brain size is finite so the maximum amount of wants it can process in a given time frame are limited and I haven't seen anyone complain about the inability of their brain to process infinite information.

Also, generally hoarding instincts are limited by the fact that hoarding imposes storage costs and that you would need to predict which product you need in the future.

This is why people are seemingly addicted to this concept of money being a perfect store of value which is largely nonsense. People hoard money because it is liquid (they don't have to predict their own demand) and has no storage costs. Instead of hoarding physical objects they start hoarding physically worthless paper currency or metal whose value is decided purely socially. Once you run out of physical products that people are willing to hoard they will start hoarding money exclusively which means people stop producing which means unemployment which then means bankruptcy or homelessness or starvation. So the politicians do their best to create new jobs so people can earn money to buy the products that the system was overproducing. In ancient Egypt they simply used grains as money which meant there were storage costs attached to your money which limits hoarding instincts. Even after that people will hoard land because it has a similar liquidity premium and property taxes are often quite low.

Also, one problem with economics and marginal utility and subjective value theory is that they are unfalsifiable which means if you have a economic agent alignment problem it will simply be denied because someone's, it doesn't matter whether human or not, preferences are being satisfied. We don't actually know whether those preferences are aligned with the average human.
Furthermore, Mastodon is just one software. There are tons of other softwares with different cultures that formed, such as Pleroma/Akkoma, PeerTube, Plume/WriteFreely, Lemmy…

I would also take this opportunity to point out that Lemmy already has full-text search.
You might know it, but all of vim's built-in commands start with lowercase letters, but it's impossible for users to define new commands starting with lowercase letters. Kind of a namespacing I guess.
"police, military. Those are way more wasteful and also just exist due to bad actors"

I agree to your main point, but I would like to point out, that the definition of "bad actor" can be different, including "they are bad because they have something we want, so we need to deploy our military towards them"
That's obfuscating the code. What TikTok is doing is obfuscating the execution which is very uncommon.
ok, so?

The mentioned things are strategic blunders if their goal is to maximise profit (maybe). If they have some other goal, they might not be blunders. In fact they might be on track with what they want to achieve.

The legal form of the corporate structure is not the deciding factor here. What are their goals is.
AFAIK the normal RPi boards only provide 2 MIPI lanes while 4 MIPI lanes would be possible by most camera modules and the processor. Therefore we only have half of the possible the bandwidth available. For higher resolutions the bandwidth is a limiting factor. There are some boards and camera modules that use 4 lanes. Those boards use different connectors and therefore are not compatible with the default RPi camera cables this is probably the reason why the 4 lane option is not offered by default.

In order to enable higher framerates you need to set up additional "modes" in some configuration file. I assume that by default only "relatively reliable modes" are configured. That's where the limitation to 120 FPS comes from. Calculating other modes requires some special tool that is specific to the camera chip. Also you need some luck that those modes actually work for you.
What the hell is wrong with that instance? I've gone back through weeks of messages and there's not a single on-topic post. It's all Americans talking about Trump or """fascism""".
Would be very interesting to see how many hits the newest page gets relative to the main pages.
Because they invested $1B in OpenAI so presumably they have Most Favored Nation status. And they’re not dumb enough to let Google buy it after they’ve integrated it in Azure.
I see more Claas than Deere down under
I would like to point out that “Opt out of search indexing”, the feature you’re likely referring to, does not work perfectly.

From my experiments, the user’s own pages are opted-out, but their content is federated to other servers (by design), which is then rendered on other servers without the opt-out. Or at least, where their content is part of another piece of content (eg as a reply, or as a parent post).
Of course it depends on what you compare it to. But compared to its South-Western European sisters, it is quite low. Mainly getting it from living in a bunch of European countries (including Portugal, and others outside of Europe, but not as relevant).

Besides Lisbon (and probably Porto nowadays), it's hard to find a place with good weather, good food and low cost of living compared to Portugal. Or maybe you have some counter-examples you care to show me?

In order to add some facts to the discussion, here are two links showing some comparison between cost of living in different countries in Europe:

- https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/cost_of_living_wb/...

- https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/rankings_by_country.js...
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Learn to tolerate discomfort or suffer escaping from it
Deere's competitors should go all-in on maintainability and documentation as a countermove. When it starts to eat into their marketshare they'll pay attention, until then they will just drag their heels as much as legally possible.

Unfortunately Case IH, New Holland, Claas and Kubota all have a similar attitude towards their customers, which makes this an industry wide problem, not a John Deere problem. Legislators should ignore the veiled threats and force these companies to open up 'or else'.
It took me four years, starting with personal therapy and continuing with education in psychology and CBT, to switch from fintech to health tech. So no, it's not something you can do immediately. I also have an experienced psychologist on board.
Ah good point, I know our person who helped us had some good tricks like using offices not in Lisbon which were busier. We live up North so it was all very easy.
A stateless message passing with statefull servers.... :)
Yes, that is why I brought it up
Individual sacrifices (I would rather say individual lifestyle changes) do scale somwhat (for example meat consumption has gone down in germany by almost 10% over the last 10 years and it's not because meat is expensive or had disincentives attached to it), but not to the degree needed.

Saying we only need nuclear power is obviously not true and in this case the snide comment points to the fact that the lifes of individuals will also need to change and pushing all needed change away to the industry is wrong. Peoples lifes will need to change, encouraged and enforced by legislation.

And I do think people also hava a individual responsibility (especially for stuff that can't be decarbonised in the near future with good alternatives like meat consumption or flying, but also for buying unneeded large cars or wasting energy), even though it doesn't work for change on a larger scale.
> There's no amount of money that Microsoft could throw at Sam to convince him to sell.

Every experience I ever had of people who achieve power and success tells me that you are wrong. His own wealth is irrelevant. His beliefs are also not relevant. It is very likely he will want to "take the next step". He can always use that next shit ton of money to invest in the next big thing in AI.
You don't understand. It's not about Sweden, Germany, Portugal. As an expat you always deal with this. Indians waiting for green card lottery and then another 100 years? But I'm sure you will come up with a reason why that's different. You need to take a step back and become aware of yourself.
I have trials planned and I hope I can push the product to these plans. Research part is the most interesting for me personally.
On 2, here is that info https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_roll
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From my time in the Fediverse, it seems that people have come to expect privacy from two things:

1) Privacy by obscurity. The platform was too small for people to care, so content was sort of private, until it was put into the spotlight.

2) Social shaming as a way to maintain the above. However, others have pointed out that this does not work on bad actors, or corporations such as Google.

As a server admin, I attempt to resolve this by making it very clear in the privacy policy that all content is public. Even direct messages can potentially be public as it is not encrypted and federated to a number of untrusted servers.

Indeed, even the default Mastodon UI warns the user of such, telling them not to share sensitive information over direct messages, and when deleting their account, mentioning that their content may still (very likely) live on in other servers.
If a Korean goes to your country and they only speak Korean, is it going to be easy for them?
"I'm not great on sharing knowledge, and I would dive too deep in complexity."

If you learn to explain tech to a child, you should be able to effectively communicate with most stakeholders. It might be an opportunity for you to upskill together.
> I suppose the picture of computing is of a topsy-turvy growth obeying laws of a commercial "natural" selection. This could be entirely accurate considering how fast it has grown. Things started out in a scholarly vein, but the rush of commerce hasn't allowed much time to think where we're going.

(a statement as true in 2023 as it was in 1963?)
“No ads” is another option. See the title of the article up top of this discussion.
> I make a simple claim: if macOS takes action to remediate malware then it ought to tell the user. Simple question: Do you agree or disagree with that claim?

I am fully supportive of keeping users informed of how their systems work, and I always will be. Many parts of Apple, and the software industry in general, don't care for this very much, so this is unfortunately not as universal as I would like it to be. There's a lot of places in their OS that Apple chooses to not prioritize this effort, or does a poor job.

It's important to note that "tell the user" is not actually all that simple, just like being the person who tells you your medical results doesn't just read out your blood test. Throwing up a "we detected 10 threats" notification is not relevant to most users. When a doctor sits down with you they are obligated (I believe legally?) to make sure you understand what the results mean, how confident they are of the conclusions, your risk factors that might have influenced what they found, and what your next steps are. The same applies to malware detection and remediation, except with "medicine" swapped with "computers" for things people don't really understand.

I work in this space on another platform, and the problems we regularly run into include things like:

* We aren't 100% confident that we've detected malware

* Users sometimes actually find malware to have some helpful functionality (e.g. photo filter app that uploads all your photos, not just the ones you hand it)

* Malware authors target mechanisms that we can provide feedback to users

* Saying you didn't find any malware can lead users to think there is no malware

* Users don't really know to do with "oh we found malware and fixed it for you"

…

There aren't impossible problems to solve (at least, I hope they aren't…) but they definitely require some thought. I don't quite know how Apple does malware scanning; my understanding was that they do a lot of signature matches which should help with "we are confident this is malware", but considering some of the behaviors described in the article ("macOS detected malware and didn't do anything?!") I suspect some of these are less reliable. In any case, I get the feeling that Apple has not prioritized notifying the user of this because they don't want to spent the time on it for whatever reason. They don't really want to keep it secret, hence the API for third parties to perhaps solve the problem for them, but they aren't doing it themselves. Perhaps they really should; I think it's fine to be upset about this. The specific complaint I had was that the author seemed to imply that Apple purposefully underdocumented the API and made it hard to use for normal people, when that wasn't the purpose of it at all.
I don't understand: many more people would use it for free in Bing/Word/Cortana than on a website that nobody used previously.
All of whom copied it, in turn, from emacs :)
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The release of GPT-3 I believe will be looked back along the lines of a monumental advancement in line with the Trinity nuclear test.

Legislation and policy has mainly kept nuclear weapons under check, however, nuclear technology does provide us with a reasonably clean energy which is beneficial for the masses.

Perhaps regulation at some point will need to be crafted to ensure that only crippled AI or AI within a defined scope can be used for commercial purposes.
They are acting as if they want to be acquired. Publishing results and making a splash with your technology is a good way to get acquired.
Same 3D-modelling and -animation software that's used today, most have even survived one way or another: 3DSMax, Maya (or its predecessors Wavefront and PowerAnimator), Houdini, SoftImage, Cinema4D, Lightwave3D, Real3D etc... in the early 90's the hardware would be either Silicon Graphics workstations or Amigas, by the end of the decade everything had moved to PC.

Cutscene creation was usually outsourced to dedicated studios because it was completely disconnected from the actual game development process.
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Your solution lies here: https://github.com/raspberrypi/raspiraw You can use any camera with it and set parameters whatever you like.

Edit: Raspberry Pi compute module 4 has all 4 CSI-2 data lanes exposed. So you can get full bandwidth of this interface and could use high resolution sensors.
My favourite story of this is where "falling out of the happy path" included my parents being self-employed and the sheer surprise that people can have wildly differing income per month :P
or just a browser with ftp://
It all depends on your setup. In my experience, effective autofocus provides a bigger quality improvement than the step from 720p to 1080p.

Webcams in poor lighting conditions benefit from autofocus, because autofocus makes it easier to use a larger aperture, improving low light performance.

Laptop webcams benefit from autofocus because there's no room for manual focus controls, and the distance to the user will vary substantially depending on if the laptop's in a docking station, if the user's leaning in to read some small text, etc.

Meeting room webcams benefit from autofocus so you don't need a technician to attend every time it gets knocked out of focus.

PC webcams sometimes benefit from autofocus, because the cable usually weighs more than the camera, meaning the camera often gets moved and knocked about. Plus about 95% of home users with manual focus webcams don't even know they need to focus them.

Streamers have great lighting and cameras firmly mounted on solid tripods - but they're often using mirrorless interchangeable-lens cameras, so they get autofocus for free anyway.
It reminds me of a time when I've looked found an old password-protected .rar archive on my old computer.

It took me around a day to brute force the password and I ended up finding a bunch of old guitar tabs I completely forgot about. Fun times!
Technology is becoming increasingly complex. Customer expectations from the products are rising. 10 years ago, I single-handedly coded all the web components for a brokerage startup. Now, it seems impossible, perhaps only achievable with no-code tools.
Garrett's thread and the studies in it are often rolled out as evidence that personalised ads perform better and so losing the ability to harvest data that supports personalised ads would be bad for the web

Looking how the data was collected in the studies and where it comes from then Google, FB and other adtech vendors feature strongly (and they can't be considered neutral sources)

In the ad market there are three participants - advertiser, publishers, ad networks.

The last group keep telling us we need them for a health internet, while being completely opaque but making billions creaming off their cut of advertising revenue (there don't seem to be any reliable figures on how much they actually take but an old Guardian study found that sometimes they were getting less than 10% of the revenue the advertiser actually spent - Guardian have brought ad sales in house since)

Alternatives such as category based advertising are often not discussed other than to say 'if personal ads go then the spend is likely to be re-directed towards category based ads'

Even Google while claiming personalised ads are better seems to rely on category based ads for the revenue from search ads (see the CMA report)

IME working alongside various publishers it's often that case that directly sold category based ads are way more profitable for the publishers

Given thread like https://twitter.com/nandoodles/status/1582434737813348352 (and others) I'm deeply skeptical of claims ad tech companies make