skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are exceptions to warrantless searches and entry given probable cause, reasonable suspicion, and iminent public threat. If a guy is doing 120MPH down Santa Monica Boulevard after emptying a magazine at a Girl Scout who was out of Thin Mints, that's gonna check a whole lot of "the rules in this situation are relaxed" boxes.
Building an Event Landing Page with AI Tools (ChatGPT and Midjourney)
That is pretty interesting, (found the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7JGJC4XQ44)

Looks like it entangles with a tire. It might be more difficult to get close enough to engage though? Interesting tech though!
Microsoft, in general, doesn't seem to think before releasing things like this into the wild. Have we already forgotten about "Tay" the racist chat bot by them? [0]

The scary thing here is that Bing is exposing why you shouldn't use Microsoft products. Their AI is weaponizing the things folks have been saying are benign data that's collected from search history. If you're viewing this from a Microsoft OS you may want to rethink the platform you're using may use it's telemetry it's collecting about you against you in the future if (and when) it doesn't agree with you.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(bot)
You can replace almost all performance reviews (and grading in school) with “these people would be fired/fail before you” and anything else is just playing pretend.
You still end up worrying about memory eventually, and the solution will often be to purchase more memory - which can be a fine tradeoff to make at times.
Every time there is a post about AI, there are a fair amount of people commenting on the current status of AI. Yes I get that it look bad and needs heavy human interaction now, but what about in 1 year, or in 5 years? It's the acceleration of AI progress that we should all be worried about.
> SolveSpace's kernel seems rock solid to me. It just doesn't support fillets or bevels. :/

(For not too complex shapes) Its possible to create Fillets/Chamfers in SolvSpace by "by hands".[0,1,2,3,4,5]

[0] https://fosstodon.org/@app4soft/109740222184364152

[1] https://github.com/Symbian9/SolveSpace-Daily-Engineering/iss...

[2] https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1423871556397244421

[3] https://fosstodon.org/@app4soft/109812747058078617

[4] https://fosstodon.org/@app4soft/109740732713730578

[5] https://fosstodon.org/@app4soft/109834024415938501
There are plenty of people who don't want e-bikes, but want electronic shifting. People who race bikes are a great example. The whole bi/triathlon industry.

Given that electronic shifting is still $1.2k, it would be nice to lower that cost a bit so that all price points can participate more easily.
Being beat/choked to death also happens. At a certain point I feel like the argument is either needlessly pedantic or the counter aegument is simply "So what?" The alternative to any confrontation is leaving the individual to go free which is hardly a win for their community.
It was only $400K?

Must have been one of those old icky missiles that desperately needed replacement anyway.

U.S. defense spending will OBVIOUSLY have to go up:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/02/16/ukraine-w...

Military spending as percentage of GDP:

World total 2,113 2.2 100%

1 United States 801.0 3.2 38%

2 China 293.0 1.7 14%

3 India 76.6 2.4 3.6%

4 United Kingdom 68.4 2.1 3.2%

5 Russia Russia 65.9 3.1 3.1%

I mean, we're only spending 1/3 of all the money spent on military in the world!! How lame is that?

We need to shoot down those weather baloons with $1M missiles!!!
train by the internet, die by the internet
I’m inclined to say they’re still less fatal than bullets would hve been.
android, right?
The GPS device paired with a loitering drone or helicopter carrying a sensor pod, streaming a video stream that can play bird's eye video backwards and forwards, should be sufficient to track a suspect. DARPA was doing this with ARGUS in 2013 with a few hundred cellphone camera sensors bolted together; I would assume the state of the art has advanced in a decade. The saying used to be, "you can't outrun Motorola." The new hotness is likely "you can't outrun the surveillance tech stack."

https://www.wired.com/story/cities-curb-surveillance-baltimo...

https://www.csoonline.com/article/2223941/darpa-s-unblinking...

https://web.archive.org/web/20130204062029/https://www.darpa...

https://web.archive.org/web/20130226141653/http://www.darpa....
Just months after Meta laid off 11,000 employees, there are signs the
company could be preparing for another wave of cuts.

The parent company of Facebook and Instagram has reportedly ranked
thousands of employees as “subpar” in a recent wave of performance
reviews. And that’s raising fears among workers that more
belt-tightening is on the way.

Those concerns come after CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg declared 2023
a “year of efficiency” at the company on an earnings call at the
beginning of February. Meta also did away with a bonus metric, the Wall
Street Journal reports.

Managers gave about 10% of the company’s workers poor reviews. It is, in
some ways, a return to Meta’s pre-pandemic review process, where
Zuckerberg was said to be less than gentle with his assessments of
workers.

The threat of additional layoffs comes just days after the company
delayed finalizing budgets. Zuckerberg, in a Facebook post earlier this
month, wrote “We’re working on flattening our org structure and removing
some layers of middle management to make decisions faster, as well as
deploying AI tools to help our engineers be more productive. As part of
this, we’re going to be more proactive about cutting projects that
aren’t performing or may no longer be as crucial.”

Seemingly safe from the cuts is Meta’s metaverse division. While Horizon
Worlds has failed to engage users, including some who work at the
company, and the Reality Labs division was responsible for $13.7 billion
in losses last year, Zuckerberg remains committed to it.

Other divisions do not seem to have that protected status.

“We closed last year with some difficult layoffs and restructuring some
teams.,” Zuckerberg said in his post. “When we did this, I said clearly
that this was the beginning of our focus on efficiency and not the end.”
At least it’s going better than tay.ai
> that's gonna check a whole lot of "the rules in this situation are relaxed" boxes.

Until the inevitable lawsuit.
which is a terrible shame and a lesson. of the 10 or so lisp like languages i've used extensively, elisp is by far the worst. it succeeds because it interfaces with something important, and its carried along everywhere.
For all its complexity, brazil is amazing
> more Emacs Lisp being written recently

Do you mean since hitting rock bottom in June 2021?

https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&plat...
Bing chat never made sense as a product. It could be a really funny game/playground if developed correctly. But a let's-finish-your-sentence game is not a good tool.

Everybody though that Google was behind and failing when their problem was to understand how far of being a production product this kind of chats are.
This article was a joy to read, thank you.
thanks for earnest response!
Oh like Google Docs.
Just sounds to me like you need a long vacation :)
Microsoft must value the Bing trademark so low to combine it with this.

I would have called it Internet Explorer, that brand name is already valued negatively.
Rules might be a pain, but no more so than writing good firewall rules, and once done don't have to be done again.

It's not the issue some make it out to be
You won't feed your family or pay of that house with the "fun part of work". It's great if you get both but there are unfortunately priorities in adult life that might bog down the romanticism.
1. The changes you've outlined are all simplifications except the ones for non-binary, which as the Stallman essay linked above outlines, is a mess. Simultaneously more confusing, less accurate, less precise, sounds more clumsy, and takes more effort. Not a winning strategy (though calling people bigots got quite far for a while).

2. We know what a country is, we've created several.

3. We're not with the Pope and haven't been for nigh on 500 years now and won't be back.

4. Non-binary is a luxury belief[1]. It came directly out of universities and has been supported via people of a similar background in media and education sectors, so if we're wondering how the wealthy and powerful want us to speak, we need look no further than this. As the link states:

> Luxury beliefs are ideas and opinions that confer status on the upper class, while often inflicting costs on the lower classes.

5. There are no true human hermaphrodites as even those born with something akin to the other sex's genitalia have only been able to produce from one type, usually female. As with singular they, it is a misnomer and the medical profession prefers more accurate designation of disorder of sex development. Calling them it would seem dehumanising.

> Plenty of languages have a gender-neutral form of address: one that can be used for anyone. It serves a purpose, it fits a pattern, people are using it, and it doesn't even require extra logic in my natural language parser: I see no reason to call this sense ungrammatical, especially not when the others are accepted.

Putting the verb at the end of the sentence is grammatical in Japanese, that is not a reason for why it should be grammatical in English, any more than giving my television a female gender would be (French), or using capitals for every noun (German). I'm all for helpful innovations but as stated in point 1, this ain't that, or should that be they ain't they.

[1] https://robkhenderson.substack.com/p/status-symbols-and-the-...
wrapped.nil is the master at this https://www.instagram.com/wrapped.nil/
Or a dedicated server device that only uses the battery as a backup. Some of the stuff in a phone is unnecessary for a server. Some might be useful like LTE and GPS, but a full resolution AMOLED isn't, a cheap 3" screen is enough.
"...get a blue badge, get extra impersonation protection against accounts claiming to be you, and get direct access to customer support"

How about not having my account locked for 7/14/30 days for sharing a meme that I find on Facebook? How about not locking my account for a racy image I posted 3 years ago?

How about Facebook do a better job of removing the obvious scam accounts like the ones claiming that they're giving away free meals & travel tickets? How about removing the "omg! shocking news video! click here" spam comments that are all over the place?

Nope. Sorry Facebook, if you had a product worth paying for, I might consider it. I'm out.
I don't see how understanding pointers and memory layout help at all with borrowing concepts.
Their sleeping on this is your opportunity.

Build something, scale it, raise capital.

The losers will wish they'd done the same.

I honestly think this is the biggest evolution of our field in our lifetimes (I was here for early web). I'm so excited and have already been building incredible stuff, and I'm saying that as someone who has had a decent career at top employers.
I posted that a bunch of times already but that's not what happens. Docker does not override the firewall, it just uses forwarding which kick in before filtering (iptables has separate "nat" and "filter" tables). The host's firewall just doesn't apply to containers and VMs, because they are not listening on a port on the host.

Docker could not extend the host's firewall to containers without changing how iptables work.
> "The reality is that everyone runs from the police nowadays."

Since when? This should be a bigger story than the availability of GPS tracking darts.
Our reality may be a sum of all possible realities
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L... in which "top tech companies" (including Apple and Google) were successfully sued for trying to push down salaries.
Self-hosting becomes much cheaper when you need big machines. A system with, say, 64G RAM will cost to buy outright about the cost to rent such a system in the cloud for a couple of months. I run a few test boxes (that are used by my team) in my garage for this reason.

I deployed a GRE tunnel to a small box I rent from Hivelocity that has a /26 routed to it, to work around lack of proper connectivity from a "business" HFC connection to said garage.
That seems a little extreme. I have seen performance reviews used correctly to help engineers to improve on areas that they were lacking. And it works. Some people needs to improve communication skills, or have some blind technical spot. Doing that makes them way better, and I have seen people getting better jobs after improving (inside and outside the company).

But I agree that any tool used wrongly can be replaced by something simpler that cuts to the chase and delivers on what management is really interested in. And in this case has nothing to do with improving employees performance.
> they all colluded together with anti-poaching agreements to minimize

Meta explicitly refused to join that agreement. See https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2014/03/24/shery...
Art, meet reality:

The ID Sniper rifle is an art project, a fictional, hoax weapon devised by artist Jakob Boeskov and industrial designer Kristian von Bengtson. The rifle supposedly shoots GPS chips, and the police force may tag persons with this rifle for later easy retrieval.

It was produced by the fictional company Empire North.

According to its specs, "It will feel like a mosquito-bite lasting a fraction of a second. At the same time a digital camcorder with a zoom-lens fitted within the scope will take a high-resolution picture of the target. This picture will be stored on a memory card for later image-analysis."

The design was presented in 2002 in Beijing at the China Police exhibition.

Boeskov says that a Chinese company offered venture capital and a location for manufacturing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID_Sniper_rifle
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https://incogni.com/

https://privacybee.com/
What do you mean by "allowed"? Inflation happens because we print more money than there are goods to buy and all costs begin to rise because there's still only the same amount of stuff to go around, but more demand.

You can mandate price fixing, but that just tends to cause death spirals where the cost of producing something rises above what you're allowed to charge, so you either keep producing and can't pay your own workers or you stop producing and there's no further supply at any price.

Of course, the fact that this has played out before means that I know that people will just ignore the lessons from Brazil, Zimbabwe, etc. and screw themselves yet again because inflation solves political problems while causing real ones.
Did you have a concussion?
Didn’t end terribly well for Lowtax.
Also keep in mind that this is the first year-long perform cycle, so % of ratings is not directly comparable to previous cycles.
What is the opportunity cost of the things he's doing to do that?
It was yet another way to stretch that 80-20 rule's mileage. I remember when the idea of a bell curve was new, and you saw it applied to absolutely everything, even if it was only a superficial (or sometimes completely bogus) fit.

I've even seen it applied to the Kinsey Scale. Presumably 10% of the population is totally straight, 10% totally gay, and 80% are varying degrees of total party animals after dark. Or something like that. That might have actually been where I first heard of the Bell Curve, but I've seen it applied in a lot of places since.

The worst place I've seen it applied is for DST daylight hours.

Bell curves exist, but it's strange that people only see it as a variation of the 80-20 rule.
Art, from an artist, that you can hang on a wall has been and will continue to be a status good.

Stock art, as a clip art or a background image to a web page hasn't been a status good.

Things posted in /r/art (and similar) are not goods but rather adverting and validation.

The key differentiator in this is the craft that goes into the art. I have some photographs hat I've purchased at art festivals that hang on my walls - and some I've taken myself. Those are still status goods. The craft needed to shoot a photo that can be enlarged up to 2' x 6' is quite different than the craft needed to create a digital image that looks good at those resolutions.

(controversial part here)

A lot of hobbiest artists that work for commission are the most threatened as their art hasn't ever been status goods and doesn't retain value. At the same time, the scale that they work in is one offs rather than doing a print run of 250 and selling those framed.

The thing is, I don't particularly want to buy a picture of someone else's cat. And if I can take a picture of my cat and use img2img to make it in to an image that I'd print out at Kinkos and put in a $5 Target picture frame that I'd then put in my bedroom... that's a commission that someone else might not have gotten.

That image will never show up on Antiques Roadshow. It will never be a numbered print that is auctioned off. It doesn't retain any value.

However, that copy of a Peter Lik print that I've got hanging - well, that's a status good. The print cost a bit and the framing cost a bit... and I make considerations about where to hang it in a room so that the sun doesn't shine on it.

Yes, art that involves craft will retain value and will remain in the category of status goods.

Art that is a one off commission is likely to lose what value it had and can be done cheaply without the artist. Art that you buy at an art festival or gallery will be rather unchanged - though the people who are just after "stuff" will likely find it easier / cheaper with AI generation than paying a premium.

AI generation is still a long way from doing fiber art or the physical sense of presence with a impasto painting ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impasto ) - yes, might be able to get the same image digitally, but the paint on canvas isn't there yet (and when it does, it will be interesting - but then the craft will be in the machine doing it rather than the painting - I'd love to have an original print from a Jaquet-Droz automata - not for the artistic quality of the image on paper but what it represents).
Many people disagree with your statement. The ability to cause something to be removed from sale without due process (e.g. a court weighing in on whether there is a legitimate argument that a finding of infringement has occurred) is abhorrent IMHO. Yes, there is a legal process to reverse this, but the default should never be to act first.
What exactly is the difference?

Why would they put the Bing name on it if there was a difference?
Things still break on Linux almost every update. Android has a lot that Linux doesn't, as far as I know Linux has very little that Android doesn't other than easy support for legacy Linux apps.
> The purpose is "CAD-like" -- that is, parametric surface modeling operations on polygonal geometry.

> Blender has its purposes, but I think surface or solid CAD must be pretty far down the roadmap.

As a workaround, here is a free "Export IGES" addon for Blender, which could convert polygonal model into solid/surface CAD file format.

[0] https://www.digital-sculptors.com/cms/index.php/software/ble...

[1] https://blenderartists.org/t/blender-add-on-export-to-iges/1...
I wonder who will be providing the actual service of identity verification for Meta or if they'll try to do it in-house.
While it definitely has missing features, I've found that their free tier works pretty well for most stuff that I run into for 3D printers or in my wood shop. I have about 80 models in my F360 account right now and I've never paid for it. Never needed to print multiple pages, though. (Occasionally a cut list for plywood, but there are plugins for that.)
this article is full of claims in need of data such as this one.

> These darts have been used successfully, nationwide, 10,000 times – meaning 10,000 wanted or accused criminals have been taken off the streets.

every single use of the dart was for a criminal? a 100% conviction rate?

also

> The most important thing about StarChase is every tag saves a life”

every police chase involves a death?
> IBM is probably going to have a competitive AI cloud offering

Colour me sceptical.
I’m pretty disappointed in the reporting on this war. Something doesn’t quite add up, so I can’t shake the feeling that somebody is lying to me, so I don’t follow it and remain ignorant.
No.

It means if you look at any number of the security vulnerabilities that affected OpenBSD base system that they disclosed, or any number of bugs in third party software they haven't audieted, out of the vulns that allow root and/or rce, a lot of damage can be done on a 'secure' OpenBSD system, which something like SELinux can prevent.

Lets say Apache or something had a remote root bug (despite not running as root) that granted a shell was was pretty easy to exploit. An SELinux system can protect an unkown but actively exploited bug like that more than OpenBSD can.

The OpenBSD approach is just to keep looking and hope you've found every bug that would possibly allow for anything like that, and hope they've found them all.
I use it to write ansible tasks, and then clean it up. Saves typing out a bunch of YAML.

I also use it to generate utility functions for stuff I can't be bothered to write, like find the next valid IP address in a list of IPs.

I also used it a few times to learn about the history of countries like china and cambodia.

Even a few time when I've been banging my head against the wall with some faulty code, I asked it what was wrong and it told me exactly.
"Anybody who cares about linting rules shouldn't be picking the linting rules."
- Vector's Razor
I asked ChatGPT if that was true, and he denied it.

He very confidently denied it.
IBM has demonstrated a voice system that can perform as a debater in a lawmaking context. If it is not marketing smoke and mirrors for the C-Suite business lunch or breakfast let's see more of that in ops.
I code in assembly in my mind. I just translate it to Lisp so others can understand it.

(sarcasm over)

If Lisp is so amazing, why does it not get more followers?
This video shows how it works pretty clearly:

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=232772845619943
I like the process. I do think it reaffirms well understood themes:

1) wealthy family
2) motivated and involved parents
3) very bright kids

That said it’s interesting to see specifics.
This is complete ignorance of history.

Watson (the quiz winner) was in 2011 before the deep learning revolution (which kicked off in 2014 with AlexNet for image recognition). It was probably the pinnacle of old-style natural language processing.

The success of that led to a set of basically unrelated tools being released under the IBM Watson brand which were mostly failures.
They can't delete their shadow profile, or opt out of it. Facebook still collects data on you from your friends even if you don't want them to.
When you said grappler I thought of magnavolt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMtqRir7dco
Rife Is a Framework Experiment
It does sound like racketeering when you put it like that.
You've alluded to my main concern regarding ML models, especially large GPT-3-alikes. Less that they could pull the rug, but rather the more general concern of companies "renting-out" access to these valuable tools that we will likely become dependent upon.

Based on Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI, it wouldn't be surprising to me if they also wish to offer access to these AI models via Azure for example as a SaaS offering. Then you can imagine some small start-ups with Billy and Jimmy making some other SaaS product that is based on this very API. It would be a clever way to extract revenue from supposedly novel products whilst controlling and shaping the game.