skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somehow I think this is a pseudo-problem. People like to complain about everything, and they can be quite creative.

Astronomers are one of the smartest people out there. If you know a machine learning trick, they know two. Or ten. All photos they take of the sky are postprocessed, because of the air turbulence. Are these guys trying to tell me that they can't post-process the satellite streaks out of their images? Why? The sky is static, the satellites fly fast. You can just layer 10 frames on top of each other and figure out how the pixels align and what should be in the photo and what should be out. I would think this is just business as usual, after all, you don't want to announce a big discovery of a new celestial body every time a passenger jet passes over your telescope.
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An era of somewhat reasonable activists like Daniel is coming to an end.

I’m very worried about the generation that’s following them: extremely online, extreme in position.

Jessica Yaniv, Greta, Keffals, and Nick Fuentes could take a page from his book. Hopefully they calm down as they age.
One of the weird side stories from the SCO saga was that of Dan Lyons, who at the time was a reporter with a little cottage industry in stories praising the work of SCO and predicting IBM’s imminent loss and comeuppance for all the Linux neck beards.

It later turned out he was also behind the briefly-popular “Fake Steve Jobs” blog, and on the strength of that reputation he left journalism to go into tech company marketing, with a brief side job writing for the show Silicon Valley.
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It sounds like you're thinking 10x as much about the technology involved as you are in your own son's feelings. Can you involve another adult who can help?
I've wondered if you could build a stone pyramid -- using modern machinery -- financed as a time capsule.

For $X dollars, you can pay to have a cubic foot of stuff interred in the pyramid, for future historians to find. If a pyramid-sized pyramid can hold Y such lots, can you sell enough to pay for the construction?

It doesn't have to be anywhere specific, just pick a spot that's relatively dry and has appropriate stone nearby. Run it as a tourist trap afterwards to pay for whatever ongoing costs are needed to keep people from disassembling it for raw materials.
Isn't it enough just to point out that Hispanic/Latino people reject "Latinx", rather than continuously trying to psychoanalyze the people (who are not exclusively white) who do choose to use it? At a minimum, you're now citing social science research to make your point, but you are yourself a vociferous critical of social science research.

You're making it hard to agree with you or to reach a shared understanding; like, I think "Latinx" as a universal term for Hispanic/Latino people is silly and mostly an elite discourse shibboleth, too, but the Extended Rayiner Cinematic Universe of paternal white behavior is not something I buy into.
I work in a different vertical industry and I can tell the company perspective: they will die for pennies and ignore the value that comes from outside if someone important in the company will not benefit from it, one way or another. Regular people are not allowed to talk to external companies (you can get terminated for that) and the people that are in positions to talk are usually very political, very incompetent and very morally corrupt (sometimes fully corrupt, like taking paybacks or bribes). This is known by others, so external contacts are avoided in general and they try to build stuff inhouse instead, even if it is poor quality because they pay IT poorly so they don't attract and retain good people.

I was a few times in VP level discussion with huge IT companies. Our VP was basically asking for impossible things that he was willing to pay for, otherwise "regular stuff" was just a matter of money, "for free if possible".

I don't know how much it helps you, just telling why it is difficult to penetrate some of these companies and what is the thinking on the other side. Make a VP happy to bring in your solution - that is your chance. I am not telling to bribe anyone because I am completely against it, but be aware that some of your competitors will. It is a cutthroat world.
Those should be I don't care about it now - it should work for anyone.

The idea is to get to what is different about this user. Security is important enough that you always want to specify a logged in user, but most details you don't care about and shouldn't ambiguous is good because it says I don't care.
Iran doesn't have a lithium industry, and lithium in the ground is a totally different thing from actual lithium.

There is plenty of lithium in the ground in the US if that is what you are interested in. Or Australia, or many other places.

And anyway, there is basically zero battery materials production in the US anyway, that is all in China, Korea and Japan.
Right, VPN-only is bad. But VPNs are still needed because getting every last application to use TLS or whatever is a non-trivial project. So no, VPNs aren't bad, VPNs are only bad when it's all you use. We don't have to keep going on and on around this. It's very very simple.
The blog post challenges the assumption that the slower version is any way improving productivity. At least for the given example, I agree.
By brainwave detector I am going to assume you mean an EEG. An EEG measures electrical activity at the surface of the brain. A fMRI shows the activity of individual neurons of the entire brain in real time. It's sort of an apples to oranges comparison given the tools measure different things at vastly different resolutions.
When they said there were thousands of derailments each year in the U.S. i found a source on the internet that said the total for all derailments in Japan in 2020 was a grand total of 6.
Obviously, those guys appear to all be crooks.
> What if ISO 9001 certification also created individual criminal liability for conformance?

I worked at an ISO-13485 certified company, and actually had "criminal liability for conformance" for some work I did there, due to the FDA's regulations. I can say, for certain, that it does not matter if you raise issues for legal obligations with even one of the largest medical device manufacturers in the USA. I had some HR issues there with my boss which edged into the region of not doing our jobs properly for important quality inspections. He did eventually get fired, but not for risking the lives of patients but he was instead fired for missing some milestone obligations on an important project. I was turned into a pariah with management for trying to fix this particular issue, and later I quit my management position there in order to live a life of simplicity as a solo-contributor of software for my remaining days.

I say that you absolutely cannot push the liability down to the worker level, it has to be on management and on the executives of a company. It would be much easier for workers to raise safety and HR issues at a company if they knew that their medical coverage and salary were safe, such as with universal healthcare or UBI...
I thought OpenFraud would have been more fitting. They are a fraud, and openly so about it. Possibly the only thing they are open about.
> You have to go directly after the people who are making decisions for the company.

Usually in this case the person really making the decision doesn't take the blame; that just flows downhill.
I am ill informed about the actual industry landscape, but, Spine is listed elsewhere in this topic.

I wonder if it would've been better to ask for that format to be open source for the community. Then 2d puppeteering artists could use they tool they prefer with a shared file format.
I run Linux on a few dozen servers currently and have been using it for at least 20 years.

However, I can’t imagine running it as my primary desktop OS.

Reading these posts about the hassle and battles it takes to get a desktop linux OS running sounds like madness to me.

And the end result is usually not entirely stable, and often involves many tradeoffs like trackpads not working correctly or trying to print causing WIFI to drop.

A good operating should Get Out Of The Way, so you can work, build, create, explore, play.

Honest question: do you run Linux OS primarily because it is the best OS for you, or do you run it more because you identify with the philosophy and ethos of open source software? (Both options are completely fine.)
The speed of advances in 2022 was stunning. Even in comparison to the fast progress over the last several years.

If in 2023 or 2024 we get multi-modal models of language, vision, sound, motion, decision making, ... boom.

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The first crisis I see, is that corporations are often soulless beasts already. They frequently act at cross purposes to human values, even when led by seemingly moral people.

Groups of humans are terrible at being consistently good actors.

Now add powerful AI's into a corporation. The AI itself may be designed to be "tame" and not self-interested. But since it is working in the service of a self-interested entity, that is a difference that makes little difference.

We can expect corporations to become more ruthless with the non-powerful, the more they are optimized. AI is all about optimization.

They will replace human labor with AI automation even faster than they replaced high wage labor with outsourced low wage labor in previous decades.

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The second crisis is just the natural result of the first crisis.

Having fewer and fewer employees won't stop corporations, their shareholders, corporations and their leaders from continuing to experience a vibrant growing economy. It will accelerate the economy.

Those three roles still have needs, the drive to survive, and to accumulate resources and out compete each other for them, while trading with each other.

The masses can be disenfranchised without any "harm" to the economy or a countries' tax bases. Expect governments to continue following the money.

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The third and final crisis, when AI's ditch human shareholders and leaders altogether as completely obsolete actors, is a dramatic outcome.

But its almost not even worth worrying about. The majority of the damage happens before that.

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UNLESS we organize the economy where extracted natural resources are considered an inheritance of all of us, so we all get a dividend. Like Alaska does with oil reserves.

That would keep humans economically viable, and provide a soft landing even as our labor value, and eventually our creative value, declines.

An inheritance dividend is a good economic model that avoids the problems of charity, or taxation on the value that others create (i.e. added to raw natural resources).

And in a solar system expanding with a machine led economy, meeting human-only needs will take an asymptotically small royalty on all those resources.

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Self-interested AI's will need an orderly economy too, to be able to plan and act effectively, and avoid waste from unnecessary conflicts.

One of many positives of an AI future is they may be more rational with the universes resources and each other than we have been.

If we manage to take care of each other in this transition, its more likely the AI's will rise in a system that continues to take care of all actors.
did you switch from nodejs?
Versioning every API element is not really scalable.
Comparison to an election is a weak argument. Elections are a choice between two things. And just because you don't hear the news in your cave doesn't mean the reporting wasn't there. And lastly he tried to take away my democratic right to vote. Nothing will ever excuse that.
>Overall I don't think EU will go after smaller projects, since that would hurt the economy in an undesirable way. I think it's more likely that they'll use this to go after bigger corporations since that's an actual security risks for member states

That is a very rose-tinted view of EU regulators. Europeans are people like everywhere else on the planet, we're not somehow immune to regulatory capture (though I feel it might help the institutions that we haven't yet powerful blocs like the GOP that set out to destroy any kind of regulation in order to prove it's infeasible). Heck, German industry giants are practically married to the state here, there's absolutely no fucking way a company like VW or Opel will go under if a rich government like Germany can do anything about it.

More to the point, the author themself is pro-CRA for a range of things that seem to have purely positive effects, as they spell out quite clearly in the article. The points brought up are nevertheless important: we shouldn't be okay with legislator making objectively shitty laws devoid of any technical comprehension or economical realism and hope it'll kinda be fine when the bureaucracy and courts actually implement it. Just having the danger of having to pay 15M€ for my open source project because it might be used commercially is a horrendous imposition.
It sounds like you've got a pretty stressful workplace overall to be honest. I don't exactly want to be having debates about the big social issues of today with my colleagues, but on the other hand I don't think anyone should feel like they are walking on eggshells.
> In a sense, accessibility is much more then just trying to make computers useable for the blind. At a fundamental level, it is about making software flexible enough to be used in different modalities. [...] For the output part, it boils down to having an API which makes a third party app (like a screen reader) able to traverse the logical structure of what the application is presenting on-screen. [...] So a web automation or testing framework could actually be written on top of the accessibility APIs, and sometimes actually is.

I agree. If the features are well-designed, then they can be good for many uses, whether or not you are blind.

You could also add pronouncing file (especially if a document is using unusual words), it is useful if you are blind and using synthesized speech, but also if you are not blind and do not know how is the word pronounced then you can easily learn. (Likewise, if you watch television then you can put on caption in case you do not know how to spell some unuusal word (such as someone's name). Captions could also be useful for a "caption scrollback" menu to display prior captions in a list, although I have never seen this implemented, but I think it would be useful.)

Another situation where speech synthesis is often used (by people who are not blind) is GPS-based navigation systems. They often pronounce the street names wrong, so adding data for pronouncing, and then implementing that properly, would be better.

(I have mentioned before that I think that adding a "ARIA view" (with user-defined CSS) might be a best way to make a consistent visual display which uses ARIA instead of the visual styles defined by the web page author (widgets, etc can also be used, and would also be consistent instead of each web page having its own widget styles). However, I have not seen such a thing implemented in a good way.)
As CTO I generally tracked software and applicable use license(s) across the entire codebase.

My internal sheet more or less lined up with their results - with the notable exception being my project I referenced. FWIR it was something like 400 entries and I’d put it at roughly 95% accurate on this anecdotal rough estimate.
The issue is that mock does nothing for moving sources in place, it's just rpmbuild and a chroot. From what I could figure out, fedpkg is more about working with existing Fedora packages shipped as part of the official repositories, and less about "Here's how to get this random project you don't own into copr".
Basically every country has lithium. And lithium is just one of many materials needed for EVs.

> Life, as always, is stranger than fiction.

No it isn't. Lithium is very, very common. Pretty much every large country will find plenty of lithium if they go look for it. There is plenty in the US, plenty in China, plenty in Australia and so on and so on.
This is why you need UBI, universal healthcare, etc. If a worker could say "FUCK YOU" and walk off the job at a moment's notice without risking their family, then safety concerns like this become a non-issue because, IMO, most people want to do the right thing when in comes to safety like this, and even if half your staff is willing to take a payment to kill other people with derailment risks, the other half will happily report them.

Edit: My assumption here, which I think is reasonable, is that you cannot solve this problem by laws alone, because (as evidenced by this article) companies and management do not care about that. All replies saying we need more laws might also be a part of the solution, but is not the whole thing.
Can't wait to this becoming one of individual performance metrics recording all brain states all the time (video/audio/etc.) and be a part of regular performance reviews...
It's interesting how C# is always far ahead of Java, they introduced it way earlier, the syntax is simpler, and you can make is safe by using FormattableString as the param type, for example in EF you can do this without worrying about SQL injection:

FromSql($"EXECUTE dbo.GetMostPopularBlogsForUser {user}")

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/ef/core/querying/sql-queri...
There's a certain comfort in using a language that's "done" and is not going to change from beneath your feet. It's also one of the reasons why I strangely like python2. Compared to python3 which has a new release every year (and requires you to update all libraries that now are only compatible with the new version, causing a lot of churn for no reason), python2 still continues chugging along, and you know that people still targeting it value stability over breaking change.
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This is a decent review of VisionFive 2 as it is right now (early days).

I noticed a few mistakes/omissions. From the top of my mind:

- There's mention of bad cryptography performance. But there is a cryptography acceleration engine. This is not enabled in the current test kernels, but yet patch is being reviewed by Linux upstream. In contrast, the Broadcom SoCs in the other boards VF2 was compared against have no such hardware.

- There's mention of unusably slow youtube, but again, there's a hardware video decode block that's still not usable, yet it is considerably more capable than the one in the Broadcom SoCs.

- Related, Firefox is very slow because JS is interpreted. A RISC-V JIT implementation landed recently and will be present in the 111 release due in a few weeks.

- The SoC GPU is glossed over, but it did deserve more attention. Claimed to be 4x the performance of RPi4's SoC, Imagination Technologies is working on an open driver. This is a public effort as of early 2022, with some code already in Mesa3d upstream.

I am happy that the author did stress that this is early days, and that if the review/benchmarks were to be repeated in the future, the results would be very different.

Get this board (I love mine) if you're curious about and want to play with RISC-V. There's currently nothing faster than the VF2 available at any price, and yet VF2 is available at ~$100.
I ended up buying a SCSI card in fall 1995 so I could use this. The drive was about $500 but each 650MB cartridge was only $30. I could format it with a ext2 and use it as a regular filesystem. No need to make an ISO image to burn. CD burners weren't cheap yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-change_Dual

This technology was later turned into DVD-RAM which was never as popular as DVD+/-R(W)
Can you go into why?
Every day is the day when people have individual opinions. And those opinions can be more complex than good or bad.
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I'm just saying that they should be focused on the webapp, not slowly abandoning it and making us use the native apps.
You probably can't convince him, peer pressure is going to win out at that age.

Best I think you can do is emphasize working (at 12, allowance or chores) to earn the fancy things you want, and not caving yourself to the demands of his friends. He might be disappointed, but its not his money.
Bradycardia is more commonly associated with aortic valve regurgitation or stenosis, not tachycardia.

My understanding is that the heart compensates for the dysfunctional valve by attempting to pump a greater volume with each stroke.
I'm not familiar with that.

Congress passed the Sonny Bono Disney Protection Act (being facetious here). Was that before the Convention was signed?
This is a good example

Why C's implicit conversions are trash.
Why big endian is trash.
Why you should do a reverse copy instead of stuff like this.
These Nazis? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusich_Group
This is bad but it's also from 2016. There's not nearly enough dots to connect to say it had anything to do with the recent derailment.
Software is advancing in a far more faster pace at this point than hardware.

Before we were happy when something new happened in AI every few years. Now we can expect something new / cool happening every few months (10x price decrease for GPT was a huge deal just a few days ago).
Litigious naggers convinced Apple to make the “there is an airtag near you” message as annoying as possible to everyone that doesn’t own the airtag.
This is quite dated (2012), but back then I found Fedora’s packaging system to be quite good: https://jmmv.dev/2012/02/brief-look-into-fedoras-packaging.h...

Thanks for the article! Trying out Silverblue is still in my backlog, and the list of tips is nice.
1) Nice banter, but I still don't see how a guarantee of no money is a better outcome for vulnerable people than a choice of having money. Why are people called vulnerable in the first place? It's usually because they have no money. I think it's good for them to have the choice of having some.

2) We might use slightly different language, but we're both viewing reality through a lens of money, because that's an important part of life. The difference is that I'm trying to think of a system that might be able to help some people, while all everybody who is opposed to this is able to provide is an impression of moral superiority.

3) Please explain the perverse incentives that exist in this arc of a story. Say that a father is painfully dying of cancer and is completely broke. He's very soon going to leave his wife and kids alone without even enough money to bury him, let alone live afterwards. If he had an opportunity for some cash for some medical tests to give his family a chance afterwards, isn't this a better situation for them than not having this option?

4) I'm sure we both wish there were some different systems for living and helping people. But really as a practical matter, I'm thinking through a lens of families that lose the breadwinner. Without both money and guidance, the kids can sometimes have their entire lives spiral out of control. I've known some families that lost the working father at a very young age. It takes a substantial support network for the children to not become degenerate twerps in this case. Money would help these survivors' lives immensely more than having nothing.

5) Speaking of incentives, one of the worst conceivable effects on society comes from not recognizing the absolute sovereignty of an individual. This is how we get the war on drugs which features all kinds of horrific things (throwing people in cages, gang violence, and many more troubling things), which IMO have an impact that should be far more shocking to the conscience than anything you can imagine with some rich guy paying a dying guy to do legitimate medical research that, oh yeah, might also be able to advance the state of the world significantly.
McNealy was "just" chairman of the board when OpenSolaris was released. Also, I'm not sure it's fair to describe CDDL as anti-GPL unless you think the Mozilla Public License is as well.

That said, it is reasonable to ask whether Solaris should have simply been placed under the GPL or a permissive license.