skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's pretty clear by now that all media platforms, social and broadcast, are either captured, compromised or directly controlled by the various states in which operate. All we users can do is move toward an attitude of 'general distrust' over produced information, and cross reference with our own direct experience of whatever it is that is being propagandised about. We must be universal skepticism, because propaganda is principally used by 'our' side, because we are actually the target of manipulation
It's very possible that Valve has both taken code from this project & Wine, and hired people that worked on these two projects though.
Why are you yelling at me?
At a previous employer, there was a basically full-time team member (contractor like me, but long-term presence so it didn't matter much) working with configuration management. It was basically his job to keep the development environment working, and kept reasonably up to date.

That was done using VM images that he owned and maintained, which was not optimal for me, but there was also documentation laying out the steps needed to create the environment so it was possible to maintain a bare-metal clone of the official environment and use that. Good times!
It's useful for 60 days, since for 60 days (or maybe it's 90 or 30, I forget -- look it up yourself if you need it, don't listen to me) you can elect it retroactively. So you can go without insurance, and as long as you haven't hit the 60 days, you can retroactively pay for it if a devastating emergency happens. Actually dealing with this would be a huge logistical hassle, and god help you if you're hospitalized, unconscious, and can't file the paperwork or get someone else to, but at least you probably wouldn't go bankrupt.

Hopefully that buys you some more time to find a new job or line up an ACA plan if you're in a state with decent ACA plans, because actually paying for COBRA out of pocket for months at a time is indeed very expensive.

(It also would be totally worth it if you had existing expensive health care needs in your family)
“Vintage” iPhone 4 catches on fire while charging in Ohio family’s kitchen
These are the same thing! Luck can be manufactured and political skill is one way of doing it.
Great so now we can be sure some hacker working at an intelligence agency or criminal syndicate reads this and now knows how to hack DigiD, which is basically the Dutch government's SSO. After you get in you can do all kinds of things like apply for student loans, passport taxes etc. There will be another layer of security but still.. this is not great. Don't get me wrong I am not against publishing source code but they ought to think about what they publish.
Having been a design professional, my best advice:

1. Nobody gives a shit what you like. The personal preferences of the designer are the least useful driver of design. This isn't to discount the designer's aesthetic judgement, but good design comes from applying that judgement to the appropriate context.

2. If you look at something successful and think it's shit, the most likely reason is you don't understand it. Jira sucks? How many weeks have you spent here?

https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/guides

And yes, weeks because Jira is a tool of your trade and you should be an expert. And that requires understanding who it is designed for; are you the buyer? Are you even the user in a meaningful sense? Or is Jira designed to be used by organizations?

3. The Design of Everyday Things is a great book and will take your design understanding from near zero to some value clearly not near zero. But it won't give you training and it won't give you experience.

4. More importantly, it won't give you the habit of grinding on a design for the months or years it takes to polish someone else's turds to a mirror finish. The only way to get good at design is by designing.

5. Serious design work doesn't feel like you imagine it feels. Serious design work feels like hard work. You might enjoy the hard work, but it is still hard work.

6. There is no silver bullet. Forget about tips and tricks. Do the work.

7. Efficiency is what design produces. Inefficiency is how that happens.
Good luck.
I'm sitting in an energy system modelling conference, I can reach out and touch a dozen people who know and care an awful lot about grid stability and various solutions.
Skeuomorphism is a strong impulse.
I was just responding to the specific claim, but I think what they could do is pay as if they weren't leveraging borders to decrease wages. I'd rather solve the problem at the root than require such exceptionalism from them though, as that doesn't really seem scalable.
@parent and @grandparent: The chunk CRC-32 does cover the chunk type.

> A four-byte CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Code) calculated on the preceding bytes in the chunk, including the chunk type field and chunk data fields, but not including the length field. -- https://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-PNG-20031110/#5Chunk-layout
Animated PNGs eventually did quietly happen in the form of APNG.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG
Does Elaho work for you? It doesn't load any content for me (iOS 15.6.1)
Sounds like you haven't read the article either. It was more than just reading text but the text was traumatic too:

"One Sama worker tasked with reading and labeling text for OpenAI told TIME he suffered from recurring visions after reading a graphic description of a man having sex with a dog in the presence of a young child. “That was torture,” he said. “You will read a number of statements like that all through the week. By the time it gets to Friday, you are disturbed from thinking through that picture.” The work’s traumatic nature eventually led Sama to cancel all its work for OpenAI in February 2022, eight months earlier than planned."
AI has always prompted ethical discussions but now that big ones are publicly available we society needs to speed run actually implementing major new ethical decisions.

Yes ChatGPT needs to be “not toxic”.

The company leadership believes this and is investing heavily researching and designing and implementing as many safe guards as possible.

They know if they don’t do a good job here it will be a PR and support disaster and ultimate effect the bottom line.

No serious customers will buy any AI product if there’s a chance it spews sex, hate speech or violence, etc. to their end users.

At least for now, some humans somewhere in the chain will have to review toxic content to help train.

It sounds particularly depressing to me that a $50B company can outsource this to Kenya for $200k. But I don’t know who else or how much money would make it better.

Totally hypothetical but I bet some of the handsomely paid US engineers have a ton of policies in place to eliminate exposure to toxic content. But also when they do see some they have a much better foundation in life for it not triggering major mental health problems.

What we really need to know is what OpenAIs whole portfolio of approaches, budgets, staff and outsourcing looks like.

In the meantime kudos to Time for exposing one piece for public discourse.
- Protect your idea -

Include code ownership into the contract. Outline that you own the right to the product and the associated intellectual property.
Tools like Devbox: https://github.com/jetpack-io/devbox are making this way easier. Devbox is powered by nix, but it hides all of the complexity and makes it easier to use.
This is a pretty lackluster "update" for a product that had a number of issues. Not to mention a press release doesn't fill me with confidence that Apple even believes in this product line (if that wasn't obvious when they pulled the HomePod 1). I'm a hardcore apple fanboy and I just can't justify the HomePods. I want to like them but Siri is useful for setting timers, asking the time/weather, and... that's about all I trust it for.

I have near-zero interest in HomeKit (too limited, too locked in, I don't want wifi smart devices) and so while I have hundreds if not thousands of dollars worth of smart devices in my house (Z-wave with a few zigbee, all run by HomeAssistant) I can't even use HomePod device to control my lights/etc. Yes, I know about HomeBridge and HA's HomeKit integration, every time I've tried this it's fallen over after a month or less and you have to set it all up from scratch again, the Home app drives me batty, it's so bad.

Maybe Matter will improve things (not holding my breath) but for now I'll stick with my Echo's. They do a decent job of controlling my smart house, are way cheaper, and integrate perfectly with HA. If Siri would actually talk directly to HA then I'd probably switch. It's really not a money thing, it's a reliability thing.

EDIT: After reading some more comments (and from things I've read online or heard on podcasts) I have no doubt the audio quality is amazing. My issue is that I just don't really care about feature as much. I have my AirPods Pro in 90%+ of the time I listen to anything and the other <10% is when I'm in the shower and use a Sonos Roam or in my car. My #1 use case for a "smart speaker" is smart home control followed closely by setting reminders/timers. Siri does great with timers/reminders, smart home (or rather MY smart home), not so much.
Looks more like Helvetica. For example, look at the leg on the capital R.
Allegedly during Colin Powell’ time at the State Department there was quite an ordeal to change paper sizes for communication between offices: https://www.govexec.com/magazine/2001/06/the-powell-leadersh...

“correspondence between headquarters and overseas embassies, known as Diplomatic Notes, for years had to be accompanied by a legal-size (8 1/2-inch by 14-inch) cover sheet. That wasn't really a big deal when the notes were drafted on typewriters. But Ted Strickler, head of State's Office of Foreign Missions, found that since the introduction of the desktop computer, his employees were spending a lot of extra time formatting the notes and fiddling with the paper in the printer. He checked to see whether he could use standard 8 1/2-inch by 11-inch paper for the Diplomatic Notes, instead. He was told to submit a formal action memorandum suggesting the change. Strickler submitted the suggestion to his superiors in January 1999. A year went by. He found out his action memorandum had been lost, so he resubmitted it. In early 2001-two years after he recommended the change in the first place-the department approved the use of standard paper. "If anything so innocuous as changing the size of the paper for Diplomatic Notes was so exceedingly difficult, how difficult would it be to make more important changes?" Strickler says.“
https://archive.ph/Xe0N5
>These days you see the exact opposite behavior. Everyone has just become so precious about their goods. "It's really expensive so I need to protect it / use it sparingly / use great caution". Look at the entire ecosystem of protective cases for iPhones/Apple Watches/etc. On upscale cars you have the obsession with paint protection films, ceramic coatings, etc.

what the wha??? i see people give their toddlers their mobile devices who then gleefully whack it on whatever surface is convenient. i see people just toss their devices around. case or no case. so many people don't even think of it as an expensive device since it's just a part of their monthly fees. seemingly, only the people that buy the phone outright are familiar with the actual costs. with insurance plans and cheap replacements, people care less about the fragility of the thing and just think of it as a kitchen utensil. so i guess the circles you and i run in are quite drastically different in this regard.
- Hire the agency that’s a good fit for your style -

Pick the team that uses the same development approach, has remote culture, shares similar values and you’d generally like to hang out with those people.
Sounds exotic at first glance, but how different is this from the Erlang implementation of tar parsing? I.e. how much of this is relying on Prolog-specific features, vs. how much is just succinct head-clause pattern matching?
I'm not a huge fan of the protocol but I do believe it will survive the crypto company.
> Meanwhile it's an absolute no-brainer (for me and many other people) to avoid gas stoves, because they don't have any ambience benefits and my local power grid is quite stable.

Not sure about ambience, but pita bread heated directly on the flame of a gas stove cannot be beat. It’s faster and more delicious than any electric toaster.
If the length comes last, how would you know how much data to read? Remember that chunks like tEXt are variable-length and not self-terminating; it relies on the outer level to signal the end of data.
I may try one of those. My local grocery store has a few of them. Are they hard to clean?
If the definition of "older hardware" is closed saas-supported media products then I guess this is a different discussion than I thought. I'd be surprised if the SaaS support lifespan of things like Alexa would even be long enough for the hardware to be in any way usable after reaching an age considered "old" but... if it does, then I'd suggest the sibling commenter's point about selection criteria fits here.

> * I'd like to see the EU mandate customer configurable CA bundles*

Agree but I'd go broader - right to flash or some kind of general firmware/os/softwate openness mandate would be nice to see.
The ACA has "minimum value" requirements and defines what constitute "essential health benefits" that plans must include to satisfy the ACA's coverage requirements and be eligible for sale on healthcare.gov or state-level marketplaces: https://www.healthinsurance.org/obamacare/essential-health-b...
> you pay them the least you can get away with, so you maximize profits

We agree then that employees should put in the least amount of work that they can get away with, right? Fair's fair.
- Ask for replacement policy -

Verify that the agency has a replacement policy in case of bad hires or other issues. Have an agreement that outlines who owns the right to the product and the associated intellectual property.
Installing matlab parallel server
h2odragon in 1950:

People concern for "leaded gasoline" lately has me wondering how in the world humanity survived to this point, in utter ignorance of the horrid damage simply being near a car is doing to them.
> But they can choose to say they they don't cover Nosferatudone for anyone

Does private employer insurance not have the same limitations?
Woah! How would we apply this information practically?
Royal Mail’s Hacker Became World’s Most Prolific Ransomware Group
> The fact that we do not have a standardized national ID easily available to everyone is embarrassing.

Surely that's hyperbole. State IDs are pretty standardized, and even more so with the REAL ID system (if the mandates for it ever go into effect). When have you ever had a problem using one state's ID in another state?
If your interpretation were true, it would be hard to understand why Sama also cancelled the entire deal with OpenAI. It's much more likely that a (possibly rogue) employee of OpenAI asked an employee of Sama for those images explicitly as part of additional work on the existing contract. The Sama employee agreed, but when the hire ups found out, they fired them and cancelled the whole deal, since they were not comfortable handling this material (whether for legal reasons, moral reasons, or both is of course unknowable).
>Should an artist pay Getty for leafing through their images or visiting a museum and closely studying?

An AI model isn't an artist leafing through their images or visiting a museum and closely studying, so what exactly is your point?
The last decade was strongly minimalist in terms of design, while this one is showing the opposite direction in many ways.
The Power of Writing
It's the frontend app. Even script kiddies can download it from the Play Store and decompile it.
> We're still seeing results where ChatGPT will offer up jokes about men but any jokes about women are disrespectful.

This is just the world we live in now. I keep saying this, but I think this is unfortunately just shallow hypocrites who for one reason or another flock. The problem ia there's so many of them, and everyone seems blind or okay with it.

This social climate is just so unhealthy. We keep going from one kneejerk reaction to another through history, without learning the lessons of the least one.

In the past calling people heretics was used to "cancel" them.

Then after we moved onto demonising and enslaving black people (I know slavery existed earlier, but it was usually war prisoners that got enslaved and was less racial AFAIK, but I'm not a historian). We told ourselves it's ok because they're different; just to make ourselves feel better.

Later it became witch trials, So, calling someone a witch was used to cancel them (regardless of whether they "practiced" witchcraft). But weird magic-ritual-like religious practices like praying (kinda like magical chanting) and burning weird herb mixtures to fend off the devil (kinda like ritual magic?) were cool. Hell, people even grouped up in magical buildings on magical grounds (like a coven would) for mass (collaborative casting?).

These days, witchcraft is just being white.

Today it's cool to hate men, especially if they have the audacity to wear white skin. So, apparently misandry and white racism are perfectly fine. If you wanna cancel someone, just misconstruct what they said and call it racist, or mysogynist. Just replace black/white or man/woman and it's okay or outrageous. The parallels and the same level of hypocrisy to witch trials is to me so eerie.

There's not even a defense against this (like there was none in the past), because most people will not even care of it's true or not true (the initial timeline of the Johnny Depp v Amber Heard case highlights this very well; not everyone has Depps resources to fight against the rigged system like that).

Anyway, tldr is: PEOPLE are just horrible. It doesn't matter if black, white, woman, man, or trans. People are just shit. The sooner we start drilling this into people, thr the more awareness we will raise about it, and be able to fight against this... Lets call it horribleness bias.

Edit to add: if anyone downvotes, I would really like to know why you disagreed. If you can be bothered, that is. I thinking avoiding discussion around these issues exacerbates the issues, not makes them go away.
Is this supposed to sound better than the original version? I bought two of them on sale one time (for like $250 each?) and planned to use them as a stereo pair. But when I tested them against the (very old) Bose Wave Radio that we were previously using, it wasn't clear that they were any better. They certainly weren't $500 better, so I returned them.
To be fair, those directors were told it was their fiduciary duty to maximize profits, and the systems surrounding them clamor with nonstop praise. We allow these empires of selfishness to be amassed, we have chosen which wolf to feed ever since we stopped trust-busting.
You sound like a few of the other commenters here who haven't read the article. Go and look at some of my other comments where I've quoted excerpts for others who couldn't be bothered to read before commenting.
You don't see any logic in the difficulty of a job influencing the wage of that job?
Oh my house is pretty well passively ventilated. Not sure what has my house to do with the fact that lighting a candle consumes oxygen though.
Numbers need to be understood in context, otherwise our primate brains distort the truth behind with a bunch of biases we have wired into them.

The company has around 1.5M employees. It fires 18k people. This is 1.2% of the headcount.

Many more people resign on their own on any given month, most likely.
Minimum wage should never be a benchmark; if someone is paid minimum wage, their employer would pay them less if they were allowed to.

Which makes $2 a RELATIVELY better wage, however for the work - basically content filtering through the worst of the internet - there should be a higher compensation and psychological help available.

In this case, if Facebook and other online services had it available, they would have been better off reusing what they already developed for their side of content filtering. I want to believe 99% of bad content is already automatically filtered out, and anything that comes through and flagged by content moderators fed back into the systems that automate the process.
I loved playing Cyberpunk 2077 on this - what a great system for playing games. Especially if you didn't own a console. I am sad to see it go - I also played Red Dead Redemption 2 on it for the first time, what a great game. Great way to kill time in the early, early days of the pandemic.

Now that I have a 2019 MacBook Pro 16' with an AMD graphics card, I've migrated over but I won't have all the graphical power. Would have been a nice supplement to my gaming setup.
I had a laugh about that.
Visiting any older city in Europe that hasn't had a good cleaning done to every building, you can really see the soot buildup that remains even today on buildings that are being cleaned[1][2] for example. Granted that was acquired over centuries of burning coal and wood to heat houses.

[1]: https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/nostalgia/manch...

[2]: https://old.reddit.com/r/powerwashingporn/comments/6d3l6p/th...
- Keep the decision-making in-house -

Make sure you have the technical co-founder or CTO to make the macro decisions. If you don’t want to include someone full-time, you can get started with a fractional CTO. Don’t outsource strategy.
The primary mission of the US navy globally is to guarantee freedom of navigation for everyone in international waters. That includes for shipping to and from China. The Chinese know this very well. The truth is Chinese and US commercial and strategic interests align almost completely in practice because their economies complement each other much more than they compete and their strategic dependencies are mostly shared (Gulf oil being a biggie), the problems are political.

They're major political problems for sure and they lead to strong economic rivalry for geopolitical reasons, but take away the political dimension and they'd be natural allies, IMHO. It's the same way that Japan and the USA went from being direct competitors to natural allies after WW2. Before WW2 that would have been unimaginable, after WW2 it became obvious. I think it's the same with China.

Also Russia actually, it's why the Ukraine invasion caught the USA completely by surprise. They just don't see what Russia could possibly gain from it because they view the world in commercial terms. If Russia was a liberal democracy them and the USA would be best friends ever, but authoritarian regimes must have enemies in order to justify their repression.
What you see as "Microsoft-encumbered," they may see as "default font in Outlook so just go with the font that'll get used anyway."
Echo this - I have 5 of these OG HomePods across two different places, and they've always "just worked" for me. Great multi-room audio, fantastic sound, and good for tasks like timers.

The biggest critique I have is that after relatively major OS updates, it may take a day or two it seems for them to get "in sync" and have stuff like multi-room audio work without funky issues.

Mostly happy about this announcement because if one of my HomePods break, I can get another one without risking a random eBay purchase.