skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He is shocked that about 47% of black Americans polled allegedly responded to the question "Is it okay to be white?" with either "Not sure" or "No" (roughly split down the middle of the 47%).

He reacts to this with a resolution to cease his allegedly long campaign of "helping black people". As a result of the poll, he'll also cease to identify as black (which he says he has because he thought it's fitting to identify as the group he's helped for so long), considering black people a "hate group" if nearly half of them do not believe it's okay to be white. He also recommends that, if you're white, you should try to "get the hell away" from black people, citing the example of his moving to a predominantly white neighborhood. He says "there's no fixing this", suggesting helping black people is a lost cause.

He defines "help" as "give you a hand; mentor you; hire you; prefer you", saying he'll "stop all of that" and that it won't work. He concludes the only thing that works is "fixing your own problem", like "everyone else" has, refusing to speculate why there's a difference in the extent to which various groups have done so.

He ends with mentioning seeing a "black person beating the shit out of some white person" on social media "every damn day" and that he's "over it", refusing to align with "any group", whether "white supremacists" or "black racists".
>I'm a liberal in general but this kind of false outrage makes us look foolish.

You're not looking deep enough. The outrage should be that companies imply playground padding (maybe what? 100 tons/year at most) is somehow a reasonable approach to solving any waste problem. THEN they have the gall to not even do that.

The valid outrage is how easy it is for companies to manipulate people.
The Job Market Apocalypse: We Must Democratize AI Now
FWIW:

Bought Nokia 7.1 after it came out and it was a great phone

However, because of a chassis design flaw the charge port had excess leverage applied on it practically no matter what - had to replace charge port 6 times & battery twice over ~1.5 years.

Before that I had a Samsung Moto X Pure for idk how many years (got on release date), which I only had to replace an aged capacity battery once - no charge port issues to speak of (so it wasn’t me being excessively clumsy with the Nokia)

Swore off of Nokia after that experience along with a few other flaws in the phone… and I really wanted to like that phone.

Currently using 13 Pro Max as first Apple device & have been loving it.

Hopefully Nokia can make themselves look good with this phone, but it will probably take many years of good faith from them for me to ever reconsider

Also: I’ve been waiting on Nokias Withings watches to release their medical applications in the US for years now.

They could perhaps not get folks with medical issues hopes up if there is any reason something could be delayed for multiple years…
Yes, Tom Scott is one talented YouTuber.

See, for example, his video on microwaving frozen hamsters back to life[0], in which he interviews the 101-year-old J. E. Lovelock, the scientist who did the work back in the fifties.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tdiKTSdE9Y
This is all fixed now. Android 11 based ROMs introduced GSI (generic system images) which allow over the air updates and they even work with LineageOS.

Needs a newer underlying linux kernel though, so all the outdated 2.x kernel ports won't be compatible.

But I agree with you in your general point. Android OEM ROMs are a joke when it comes to support and they usually are out of date within the first year due to lack of maintenance on the vendor side.

I wish there was a more generic platform approach to this where drivers could be just packages instead of this whole statically built images mess that is also unusable for most endusers.
The same publisher has a "Programming Phoenix LiveView" book, which is probably your best bet at this point.
If you were wondering, like I just was, why pit walls even exist anymore since they mostly just look at their screens, below is a link to Red Bull's reasoning for why the pit wall is still useful, but even they admit it's mostly an anachronism with dubious benefits (hearing the cars, checking how bad the rain is, viewing the garage).

https://www.redbullracing.com/int-en/bulls-guide-to-the-pit-...
Nuclear war is probably more likely.
You could also try a static site generator (e.g. Simply Static) for WordPress as a stepping stone. You can even use the now-official SQLite support (https://wordpress.org/plugins/sqlite-database-integration/) to avoid the MySQL overhead.
Security note: specifying no version, or a version tag (and not an @-hash) in the docker image name allows DockerHub or the image publisher to replace the code underneath you on container restarts (ie RCE), as they are not cryptographically assured.
No, sorry; I'm not aware of proper comparisons for C verification tools, or at least recent and maintained tools.

SV-COMP tends to propose a huge number of relatively simple tasks, which attracts model checkers and static analysers. Frama-C and VeriFast are functional verification tools. You can use them as static analysers, but there's a barrier to entry in terms of minimal required annotations that might not be present for tools designed for static analysis.
> so that continues pretty much for the life of the phone.

I'm on a Pixel 1 with Android 10. Last security update it got was from October 2019 which is about three years after the phone was introduced.

Is this supposed to be different on newer Android versions?
I'm sorry, but you don't think "every" means "every" but instead actually means "some"?
Moldova isn't on the Black Sea.
People really like to believe the ol' 'willpower' thing - and its not completely wrong. But its not everything, like willpower might account for 30-40% of results, the rest are often other factors outside of their control

Also, love your username ^^
Yes, but I think once we reach that point we'd also be sending out some sort of mapping probes to gather data so you know where obstructions are. And since lots of things don't just sit still, they'd have to be constantly reevaluated somehow. Maybe sensors sending out data of what lies ahead kind of like our GPS. It will be an interesting issue to solve if we make it that long. But looking at how we're doing in our infancy with "self driving," we quite a long ways off lol.
It fits in a velcro holster, my jacket pocket and in my snow monosuit.
You can get the same effects from waterfast, even save money on food.

It is really the worst of America, either pay fortune for medication, or nationalize healthcare (with socialism...). There is no middle ground.
> Also, that's not the Feds job.

Yes, I'm lamenting that the Fed is "responsible" for inflation but only given the tools to attack one side of it.
> I'd rather people treat plane flights as a rare luxury rather than a routine thing.

Trains would definitely be key here. However, for migrants living in another continent, it becomes impossible in several scenarios to go back to visit their beloved ones.
I suggest you complain to your bank about it. If you can, maybe switch to another one if they don't fix the issue.

I know it sounds extreme, but it's time to send the signal that it's not ok to force people to throw electronics to landfill because of shiny new APIs.
I didn't suggest government should dictate production levels or prices.

I am suggesting governments should consider putting together not-for-profit, but self funding organizations, with fair and reasonable salaries for all employees, to produce good and services for its people.

Then you allow the free market to compete against that baseline profitable business.

If for profit companies can't produce a better or cheaper product, they should just not exist.

Australia's ABC is a good example of what I am talking about. There are commercial offerings, but there is a baseline keeping standards up.

Of course gets a lot more complicated when your state sponsored factories can't compete on quality or price and is not selling any widgets at all. At what point do you decide the market is working to your satisfaction and you should shut it down.

How much of a loss do you allow? How much is it worth to a country to be able to build x widgets or offer x service?

How good would it be if we still had the ability to manufacture things here in Australia? How do you put a dollar value on that?
10 February 2023

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64595322

Moldova's government has collapsed and its pro-EU prime minister has stepped down after 18 months of political and economic turbulence.

Europe's poorest country was struggling with "multiple crises", outgoing PM Natalia Gavrilita said on Friday.

With the war raging in neighbouring Ukraine, Moldova has been facing inflation, high energy prices, a refugee influx and Russian aggression.

https://www.google.com/search?q=oil+in+yuan

https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insight...

"China, the world's largest buyer of crude, has opened the door to trading crude oil and natural gas in its local currency, rather than the Dollar"
- The Black Sea Naval Control.

That’s what Crimea is for.

Not really sure what to say about the bit with the “shared” oil wealth. Is that something he has ever offered to “the poor” over the past 25 years that he has been in power?
I'd love seeing a market for DIY smartphones, in the same vein of the good old PC but also DIY drones or mechanical keyboards.

That would be an opportunity for specialized boutique suppliers and probably for some innovation, even as a relatively niche market.

I have not seen much evolution in this space during the last 5-7 years, and I think the form factor is pretty much settled. Longevity and repairability are things we should prioritize, but ownership and customization are also important.

All of that could be built on standardized hardware, something close to the Raspberry Pi or Arduino.

I would not mind too much if the device was slightly bulkier/heavier in the end, I think we could achieve much better value.
Yeah, he's a huge supporter of Trump actually, and that's really all you need to know about him these days. I read Dilbert religiously for years, but it kind of feel by the wayside. This is really a pretty big surprise, and I'd been unaware of his downfall over the past decade or so.
Yeah I had to go with a TMO reseller here and most of the time I am using calling-over-wifi to make up for TMO's spotty coverage.
ironically, i agree with much with this: Matrix began in May 2014; we started E2EE in Feb 2015 and turned it on by default in May 2020. Centralised systems are way simpler and easier to reason about and present a smaller attack surface.

Is decentralisation worth it despite that? In my opinion, categorically yes. Just as the internet is better than a corporate WAN, and the internet should live forever, unlike the likes of AOL.

https://matrix.org/blog/2020/01/02/on-privacy-versus-freedom was my attempt to articulate this.
I have experience as a user, implementation is way over my head. Depending on the minimum host supported, you could only use lightweight threads or write a scheduler. IIRC, JVM started using its own thread implementation and later used the one provided by the host OS, when available.

Best of luck!
Oh yes, weight loss has to have this moral purity where it is achieved through pure willpower, otherwise it does not count.
Moldova still isn't on the Black Sea
Finding AWS Lambda Cold Start Durations (2019)
perhaps I’m being overly cynical here, but how is this even remotely worthy of a Pulitzer? it’s a slightly more highbrow version of the “Elvis at an Elvis lookalike competition” story with what I would describe as a pretty heavy lack of self-awareness regarding the violin world
Iodine (https://github.com/yarrick/iodine) will do this. I did it with my home Internet connection as the server and found it very useful in a pinch.

Using DNS to exfiltrate arbitrary data thru firewalls that don’t log DNS requests is handy too.
its entirely possible I just missed the point. ok, so its pure, is it linear? (that is arguments passed by copied values).
The idea of feedback-based userspace software thermal management like this seems suboptimal to me — the failure modes are nasty. (By feedback-based, I mean using V/I sense from the amp.)

The goal is to prevent the voice coil from overheating, ever. So some kind of calculation runs at some interval t, and it needs to ensure that, over the upcoming time t, the input to the amp can’t possibly overheat the coil, and of course it can’t use V/I sense data to do understand the upcoming heat input.

So, at best, one estimates the coil temperature and comes up with an upper bound on how much heat can be added over time t (either based on worst-case music, e.g. a 0dBFS square wave or based on the actual samples), and either allows the next group of samples to be sent to the amp or not.

But this is all a tradeoff with real-time performance and battery life. You want t to be long to minimize performance impact and power consumption, especially if user code is involved. But you want t to be short to maximize the ability to play loud music, especially if you aren’t looking at the actual upcoming waveform.

And you don’t want your speakers to burn out of you are doing something CPU intensive and your userspace daemon doesn’t schedule.

To me, this all suggests that an in-kernel solution could work a lot better. The kernel is involved in sending samples to the hardware anyway — it has the opportunity to look at those samples right then, calculate the integrated power (could be as simple as the sum of the squares or even just a constant!), and decide whether it’s safe. And fetch the V/I sense data to figure out the status, and reduce the volume if it fails. And if the kernel code pushing samples to hardware stops running for whatever reason, the sound is inherently muted as long as the hardware isn’t configured to loop '90’s broken CD style.
That is given a slide in the talk, yep.
Education is going to be radically changed when AI can manage to helpfully teach students with a Microsoft Tay situation happening.

Very quickly after that, I think a sort of global shift will begin, as schools all around the world begin to see the power of legitimate curriculums, instead of lobotomized "think how I think" bs. I'm thinking of Florida right now, but I know the same shit goes on in India, China, countries in Africa, and probably other places too.

On a longer scale, as models become more and more advanced, maybe there will be teachers that are constantly absorbing new information and are able to keep students up-to-date with best practices, new research, etc. That would not bode well for the leagues of McKinsey-ites and that whole ilk.

I am particularly hopeful that AI will be able to radically advance education.

That is, if this hypothetical technology is democratized and kept open, rather than horded and sequestered to the ruling capital class until there exists a financial, educational, biological and altogether insurmountable moat between the ultra-wealthy and the rest of us.
As a bank customer

I want to buy a new phone when trying to access to my money

So that an IT manager at the bank can put a check mark next to a policy OKR
Despite high inflation, Americans are spending like crazy; it's kind of puzzling
the k-prefix is a nerd shibboleth that does not help those not in on the joke/tradition/convention.
I could understand Gnome as an ideological hack back when KDE wasn't completely open source or when Ubuntu pushed beautiful and polished versions of Gnome 2. And when KDE was on version 4.

Today, why would anyone choose anything except KDE?
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> With all due respect, you ain’t going to beat the JVM with your UVM’s JIT compiler, not even close.

I think I may be able to get very close to native performance. I don't want to sound like an asshole by appealing to authority, but you aren't talking to a teenager writing an interpreter from their parent's basement. I have 21 years of programming experience, a PhD in compiler design and multiple published papers. I have some idea what I'm talking about.

> Why do you think creating a similarly good JIT compiler to a very similar design would be any easier in case of UVM?

The design is superficially similar to the JVM but it's also quite different. UVM's bytecode is untyped. It maps fairly directly to the x86-64 and ARMv8 instruction sets. If you want an idea of how a simple JIT compiler for a bytecode like that can perform, you should look at the performance of Apple's Rosetta. But, I actually think I can build something that yields better performance than that :)
what does that have to do with the price of tea in China?
I think in this context, WhatsApp is better than Telegram. In Telegram, you'd upload your files in a way that the server can see them. In WhatsApp, the server won't be able to see the contents.

(Even in general, I think that Telegram is no clear win over WhatsApp, and in fact I'd consider it worse in terms of chat message security.)
This ruins your images or videos via terrible recompression that you can't disable.
That’s why this discussion matters: Apple devices have much longer lifespans because their economic model is correctly aligned — Apple doesn’t mind if you hold your iPhone for years because your use of things like the App Store, Apple Music, etc. also fund their OS development.

On Android, that’s fractured: Qualcomm wants you buying a new phone every year or two because they only get paid for CPUs and Google doesn’t want to subsidize them with Play purchases.

This is amplified because the architecture prevents people from doing their own support. A PC user can run Linux even if Microsoft gives up because the boot loader isn’t locked to prevent it, although driver support does show there are still problems here for the fraction of hardware without robust open source drivers or documented firmware.

My ideal fix for this would be legislative, requiring mandatory minimum support lifetimes (say 7-10 years for at least prompt security updates) and some threshold for requiring boot loader unlocking. The only Android device I had was a Lenovo tablet which they never updated to the OS version released a month or so _before_ the hardware, and which became unsafe to use on the internet many years before the hardware failed (we used it as a white noise generator for a baby). That’s a ton of e-waste which could have been avoided if they weren’t allowed to just walk away from support because they didn’t sell enough units to care.
I kinda like that the name draws attention to KDE. And it is still KDE software, whether you're using Plasma as your desktop environment or not.
Telegram is not e2ee.
> software in TFA speeds up the process, but doesn't set market clearing price

This software can affect the market price beyond just accelerating the speed at which it reaches equilibrium. The software can help create an inefficient market where suppliers of housing are no longer competing against each other and instead all, together, take a 5-20% hit on "volume" for a larger increase in price that more than offsets the rate of empty units.

Similar to OPEC when OPEC was overwhelmingly dominant (before shale oil/shale gas explosion in USA/Russia).

In a competitive market without this software, each individual player would try harder to reach 0% vacancy because each marginal unit sold would be nearly pure profit, and this could drive prices lower than leaving any units empty.
Gnome doesn't need any more KDE Connect clients. GSConnect is pretty much perfect and most importantly, is integrated into the Quick Settings. What I have always been puzzled by is the near absence of KDE Connect clients for tiling compositors. I would love to one day use KDE Connect in a way that feels native for something like Sway.
Tangentially related: One can store SSH server host keys in DNS and tell the client to make use of them. (OpenSSH supports `VerifyHostKeyDNS=yes`.) This is an alternative to the client asking the user to confirm the server host key, which many people just blindly confirm.

I asked GitLab if they could make use of that, but it hasn't received much attention so far:

* https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/-/issues/10376
>Where do you even begin decompressing a claim like this?

Start writing the code and see where it takes you. Having done that type of work in grad school I moved from C++ to Guile for exploratory work for that very reason.

I then rewrote the slow bits in C as custom functions much like how you would in Python.
This is one of its greatest strengths. The Forth community, large parts of which treat Forth as a secret weapon of sorts, has no particular reason to make concessions on the altar of popularity. This attitude helps to attract out-the-box thinkers and people with a tendency to go against established norms.

The SVFIG meetings have been traditionally excellent in showcasing these somewhat unique in today's mainstream programming culture strengths.
If inflation is high and expected to remain high, it would make sense to purchase things now rather than to wait for them to get even more expensive.
I'm pointing out the weirdness of Rassmussen asking a question which is just a reformulated racist dogwhistle. What's the point?
Transnistria has access to the Black Sea through a river.
By you. Probably not by most people.
No, the meetings are not work. The "collaboration" or "learning" this author is not a thing that happens in meetings - it happens when people are working together: something that requires neither meetings nor co-habitation. There are occasions where meetings _can_ be useful, but the vast vast majority of meetings can be replaced with a few emails or chat (in person, or irc, or slack, etc) - if they have any information of value in the first place.

This entire article reads like another person who is unable to work without significant handholding, or a person who believes productivity == seeing people in an office, and this is just another article by a person who believes that their personal deficiencies trumps all else.
These "few thousands of" layoffs are just the beginning... LLM systems are rapidly obsoleting entire swaths of entry-level (and higher tech) industries.

In 2019 I believed UBI to be "impossible," and now realize its inevitability.
Checking Firewall Equivalence with Z3 (2018)
My parents have a fire stove like those ones in their house, built almost 30 years ago.
Not a common design in the country they live but apparently it is in Switzerland where they worked for many years before. Very efficient indeed.
I had a dumb phone back in the days that ran on 4 conventional AA batteries. Opening the lid and swapping 4 batteries is less convenient than swapping a single flat cell but its so much better than being wired to the wall or using a clumsy power bank with a cable that is always to short and to long at the same time. The whole charging ritual is far more absurd than it seems. The screen needs to power down, there has to be a power savings mode. With intense use (normal?) and erratic charging patterns batteries degrade much faster than advertised. I mean, I read "lifespan is 2 – 3 years, which is about 300 – 500 charge cycles" when actually used you get about 5 hours out of a charge. real use say 3 months, running from socket to socket. LOL

Cant stop laughing thinking about it, luxurious homes with all the trimmings then have the whole family gather around the extension cord. Like on a construction site. Imagine guns worked like this. We can glue in the cartridge and you'd be able to shoot people for many years? 6 shots should be enough for 3 years when the software expires.
Right to repair, but the software is uttely unmaintainable & actively rotting.

This is cool, but it shows how bad the Android world is. The hardware is only half the picture.

Iphone just happens to be the obvious comparison.