skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scott Adams' descent into reactionaryism [1] has not been subtle or quiet. If you were surprised that it eventually exploded in a public way, that just tells me you haven't heard much of anything about him in the past decade.

Also, "it's okay to be white" is not a hidden rake of a dogwhistle to stumble on. If that were a serious position, it immediately leads to the question of "who is saying otherwise". And then you learn about replacement theory, "a white nationalist far-right conspiracy theory" [2], and realize what Scott Adams was really saying without saying.

Lots of language policing is dumb. Hell, language policing would drive me away from even using "dumb". Scott Adams did not stumble into this controversy through zealous language policing, he charged into it with eyes open, and knew exactly what he was saying.

[1] I think the word is actually reactionism, but chrome's spellcheck prefers reactionaryism

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Replacement
Nearly 40% of software engineers will only work remotely
Thunderbolt doesn't add power delivery, USB does. They are two different protocols, and you mentioned Thunderbolt.

> (Given Apple fanboy view of world, then) why can I charge an Apple laptop with a random USB-C cable?

Not that I appreciate the tone here, but yes, you could charge an Apple laptop with what you would call "random" USB-C cable, as long as it delivers the necessary wattage. That is not the issue at hand, though.

> Why would that logic not apply to iPhones too?

It could.

But there are orders of magnitude more phones than laptops, and laptop users tend to use, well, their laptop chargers for the most part. Still, I have seen one or two laptop motherboards essentially melted, because they were overdrawing power.

By the way, I never argued that Apple should create a new standard, or a new certification program. What I originally said was that I wish that Apple would prevent cables that are not PD compliant from working with their devices, because USB-IF sucks at enforcing this.
Yes it's definitelyoved out of the hype curve into the are where it's actually useful. Which means it's actually doing stuff people aren't talking about yet or don't need to show off. I use my printers all the time and I'm Im only slightly more hyped now then when I figure out a new web framework, or a cool new way of thinking I about pandas.

Just cause it's not hype doesn't mean it's not useful. How sexy is rail freight? Power grids. I don't see tons of hypes on my towns water supply.
This is not that different from neighborhoods that ban through through truck traffic, or only allow residents to park curbside.

There is a fundamental trade-off between favoring people transiting through an area and residents. As someone traveling through you want wide straight roads with high speed limits. As a resident through traffic burdens you with pedestrian danger, air pollution, noise, and more crashes. So you lobby your council member to lower speed limits, add stop signs, and add traffic calming.
Wow!

I've fortunately been out of the dating scene for decades now, but I think my response to something like that would be to say something like "I'm sorry. I didn't realize this was going to be a business transaction" and terminate the date.
Last I checked, Mastodon defaults to a 500 character limit which involves a bit of work to charge (it's hardcoded in 2-3 places). I think both the character limit and the default image crop are design flaws.
That's fine, but it still doesn't change the fact that there isn't really a need for a word to refer to its inhabitants collectively.

The same way Oceania is often considered a continent, but nobody ever refers to people there as "Oceanians" in a way that includes both modern Australians and Polynesians, for example.

I'm just saying that calling people in the USA "Americans" isn't taking away from an otherwise useful/important modern-day usage. Regardless of whether you consider it to be two continents or one.
For many years I have recommended "Code" by Charles Petzold and published by microsoft. It's a great bathroom reader, reading on a road trip, or over a spaghetti dinner. It covers bottom up how computers work, starting out with - well what the heck are numbers and works up from there.
The link in that tweet is IMO quite problematic, too:

https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race/topics/whiten...

Since when are “white people” a monolithic group with all these privileges? There are many different groups of people who would be generally considered white, and they have very diverse stories, privileges, and disadvantages. There are plenty of so-called white people who do not feel they have all these privileges. Just to pick on an easy one:

> I can go shopping alone most of the time, pretty well assured that I will not be followed or harassed

Many “white” women would disagree with this, although the extent might depend on where they go shopping.

There are clearly many forms of discrimination that happen due to the ability of some groups to be easily recognized at a quick glance (regardless of whether that recognition is accurate), but that is far from the only form of social injustice in the US.
For those considering something like this, that 5 unit thing is a real bar to cross, which is why small buildings above 5 are so rare; once you cross the line many of the hassles are the same price if you have 8 units or 80.
Hehe, wait until you hear about the controversy cause by calling something "their most seminal work".
Alaska doesn't count because it was part of the US, which was already a developed (for the time) economy.

Saudi Arabia, Norway and a few Gulf min-states (Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain) are the rare counterexamples that kind of prove the rule. There's a great FT article[1] about the Iraqi man who helped lead Norway's oil revolution in the proper direction, and it was really not obvious. Why Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain managed to use their resources successfully (of course to an extent a matter of debate, human rights being a big problem in most of those places) and other dictatorships failed, even in similar scenarios (same religion, royals) is a tough one to answer.

https://www.ft.com/content/99680a04-92a0-11de-b63b-00144feab...
You're still not actually describing a conspiracy though are you?

And it is standard for roads to stop being roads, to become limited or no access to vehicles etc.

Suddenly we're meant to think the illuminate are behind the fact only the park staff can drive through the park or only local residents can park in some places. But it's not true.

Just say "I like driving and want to drive a lot". There is no need to pretend that the UN and GoldmanSachs are plotting against you!?
What's with all the spam issues?
"if i asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." - Henry Ford
I didn't say it _can't be_ unethical. I just said it isn't necessarily. Ethics is a fairly narrow definition, and I'm not sure you can apply it as broadly as, "Anytime one party has leverage over another, there's an ethics violation." I'd be willing to consider it, but in this case I don't see where anybody's wishes were explicitly violated or any contract was executed in bad faith...
Deceptive title and report as this is ranking based on factors like like “company's vision, go-to-market and production strategies, partners, tech, commercial readiness…” Basically everything except for actual driving ability, which makes this highly subjective and biased.
I agree, but for something like the CRUD app example I made bringing in pydantic or something would solve that. Rust's type system is a lot stricter because it's solving problems in a space that doesn't touch a lot of Python developers.
That's such bullshit and it completely invalidates the real issues at hand and the agency of Iranians.
Isn't that what hobbies are for? Changing career seems like throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
What kind of recourse would meta have here? Sue him for breach of contract?
I don’t have any particular material on this subject. I effectively just listed objectives, what I needed, searched for the correct land and started.

For instance, I was never particularly interested in high profit (that requires scale). I instead targeted minimal work and small income.

My one suggestion is to buy land with a house already on it. My land is not near my house, I planned on building a house on the land but it’s is a huge pain as it’s off grid. I’m slowly completing the necessary pieces.

I think you’d be best off scaling out slowly. Depending on what you want to do, you can often lease land. I found several farms already leasing their land and attempted to purchase (they fell through). When you try to start yourself there’s a lot of startup costs (hundreds of thousands). To mitigate that you can get 100 acres, lease 95 of it (someone else will farm it) and start small.

What I did required me to put all the money upfront and learn in real time. Much harder and imo not for the faint of heart.

Biggest thing that helped me was getting to know all the neighbors and meeting them ahead of time. Find a good community that’ll help (obviously you have to help back).
David Given (hjalfi on YouTube) did this port I think. He streamed the porting process for the esp8266[1] too. GREAT STUFF.

https://youtu.be/cDHcGY7EzUM
> Can we agree that consciousness is outside the realm of mathematics? That, while there could be a formula that determines what our conscious experiences should be, the fact that we actually experience them, as opposed to them just existing in some abstract sense, is not mathematical?

There's certainly a difference in our feelings, I'm not sure if a mathematical description of experience has to be incomplete - but I agree that all attempts of doing so have been complete failures.

> So if the behaviour of our universe can be described entirely mathematically, isn't it weird that it physically contains this comment about how we know that we're in a universe that contains non-mathematical stuff? It's of course possible. But I find it strange.

It is, but this kind of self-referential process isn't unheard of, in fact we are currently consciously discussing consciousness. A popular sentiment in some sci fi circles (fe. Babylon 5) would be to posit that life is the universe's attempt to become conscious of itself. If true, it would do worlds for us to regain the self-importance lost from Galilei and Darwin.

> Isn't this necessarily the case for anything to exist? Is it more strange for there to be exactly one thing without a cause (the initial conditions of the universe), or for things without causes to just be a regular part of the universe we live in?

You are absolutely right, I think we are generally much more used to the "first mover" concept, since it is the basis of most, if not all religions. Personally I find the concept of truly random events to be very unsettling. A possible out could be that the causality graph is not acyclic, that is, that future events can inform the past, and that for example the "last" thing to happen in the universe "caused" the first.
Saudi Arabia is hardly a desirable model, though enough money admittedly papers over a lot of human rights abuses. In the above example it's like a hot girl with severe mental health issues.

Norway's sovereign wealth fund is a strategy to escape the resource curse. It's like a hot girl with high self esteem and a handgun in her purse.

Alaska is one state in a country that has other things going for it. It's like a hot girl with a protective older brother.
The automotive industry is already familiar with slip rings, used for decades in alternators.

I wonder if the supplier of this motor also makes alternators...
Why are you doubling down on your assumption that this is about Lena without you knowing what actually happened? What makes you assume she didn’t know full well the image was not under her control? What makes you assume control over the image is even a relevant issue here?

The issue and the debate surrounding this image has almost nothing to do with how Lena feels about the image, and was neither initiated nor pursued by her. She happens to support the movement now, which does strengthen it slightly, but that’s a minor footnote, and not the driving force here.

Furthermore, the movement is not a legal action. Arguing that someone can’t do something legally about it is irrelevant. It’s always legal to ask. It is time the image be retired, so what’s wrong with saying so?
The Ivory app seems to handle this well. You can search for profiles and just click Follow, even if they are on another instance.
Under Feist Publications, Inc., v. Rural Telephone Service Co. ... it gets tricky.

From Wikipedia:

> The ruling of the court was written by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. It examined the purpose of copyright and explained the standard of copyrightability as based on originality.

> The case centered on two well-established principles in United States copyright law: that facts are not copyrightable, and that compilations of facts can be.

> "There is an undeniable tension between these two propositions", O'Connor wrote in her opinion. "Many compilations consist of nothing but raw data—i.e. wholly factual information not accompanied by any original expression. On what basis may one claim a copyright upon such work? Common sense tells us that 100 uncopyrightable facts do not magically change their status when gathered together in one place. … The key to resolving the tension lies in understanding why facts are not copyrightable: The ″Sine qua non of copyright is originality."

> ...

> The standard for creativity is extremely low. It need not be novel; it need only possess a "spark" or "minimal degree" of creativity to be protected by copyright.

> In regard to collections of facts, O'Connor wrote that copyright can apply only to the creative aspects of collection: the creative choice of what data to include or exclude, the order and style in which the information is presented, etc.—not to the information itself. If Feist were to take the directory and rearrange it, it would destroy the copyright owned in the data. "Notwithstanding a valid copyright, a subsequent compiler remains free to use the facts contained in another's publication to aid in preparing a competing work, so long as the competing work does not feature the same selection and arrangement", she wrote.

> The court held that Rural's directory was nothing more than an alphabetic list of all subscribers to its service, which it was required to compile under law, and that no creative expression was involved. That Rural spent considerable time and money collecting the data was irrelevant to copyright law, and Rural's copyright claim was dismissed.

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And so, my (I am not a lawyer) take on this is that the numbers of the model are not copyrightable. The selection of the source material is... kind of. This gets into a "a recipe is not copyrightable, yet a recipe book is"

The model may, however, be a trade secret. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_secret )
I recently listened to a podcast episode which featured a gentleman who teaches mainframe related things at a university in the US and is deeply involved with the Open Mainframe Project. His statistic was 95% of financial transactions touch a mainframe somewhere along the way.

From what I know, considering it's not "just" banks but pretty much any long running financial business (IE insurance companies), I believe it's one of the most used but least talked about technologies out there.
Not OC, but I am also totally blind, so I'll bite. IMHO, just more silliness. The biggest problems that I as a blind person face don't generally stem from my blindness. Don't get me wrong, it's incredibly inconvenient, and causes a whole host of problems. But the biggest, most life altering problems tend to stem from societies misconceptions. And the best weapon we have against misconceptions is communication. But all this fuss over words does not aid communication in any way. In fact, I think it does the exact opposite.

The only thing the language police have done for us is to make communication more awkward. How am I supposed to have a real conversation with anyone if they're constantly worried they're going to not use the right code words (which, by the way, change routinely). How is a blind person supposed to convince a potential employer that they can handle the work when they (according to the language police) can't even handle people using regular words. People learn by asking questions, and people aren't likely to ask questions if they are afraid of stepping on a verbal landmine and being labeled insensitive, or worse.

I don't know who the language police think they're serving by all this outrage and/or false concern, but it certainly isn't me. If I need to, I can get offended on my own behalf just fine thanks.
Hate speech doesn’t depend on character count. The reason you see a better experience on Mastodon is that all the political flame wars are still on Twitter. If/when the platform grows and starts attracting those audiences, it will have the same problems.
Isn’t that just how VPNs work / a typical risk with VPNs?
There is quite a lot of lithium in Europe already, e.g. in Serbia [1]. However lithium mining is extremely environmentally destructive, and those sorts of things usually aren't accepted by Europeans.

1 - https://mondediplo.com/2022/11/10serbia
Airplanes flying for decades are made of aluminum.
The funniest part is this is what (is constantly claimed to, thus [1] widely believed) powers this very phenomenon!

Oh how I love irony, though I suspect our geopolitical rivals don't share my sentiments.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect
I dont know if I understand this general take I see a lot. Why care about this "AI personhood" at all? What is the tacit endgame everyone is always referencing with this? Isn't there just so many more both interesting and problematic aspects already here? What is the use of diverting the focus to some other point. "I see you are talking about cows, but I have thoughts about the ocean."
I'm currently debating with myself whether I should create GUI programs (with the main code written in Rust) using Qt or Tauri. Tauri is a Rust based GUI framework based on a webview, similar to Electron, although it can use the OS's native web renderer [1]. Do you think one would be better than the other with regards to accessibility? Or is it mostly a question of how I, as a programmer, make use of the tools? For context, those are currently just small tools and utilities I make on my own and provide as Open Source.

I don't currently have Windows. Is there a good way for me to test accessibility on Linux? As a fallback, I will get myself Windows once I port the tools to Windows, so I could test accessibility then.

[1] https://crates.io/crates/tauri
but he's back to where he started in the beginning. I didn't sound like there was any more self actualization, after he went back.
Jay Graber has been a respected leader in the decentralization scene since at least like 2017, alongside other core members. I trust them.
Check your local community college - they may have a CDL course, probably $5-10k.

That way you can ease into it, the other option is to go for one of those "we pay to train" places, but that involves more upfront commitment.
What else would you use? Metal? That's not a whole lot better for the environment. "Natural" materials like wood, glass, rubber are not a suitable replacement for many uses of plastic, or would require changes that would overall make it worse.

We could make car bumpers out of wood instead of plastic. Then you'd have heavier cars which use more fuel and are less safe (and more expensive). The amount of waste generated by these uses of plastic is negligible and well worth it when you compare to the alternatives. There are many, many bigger sources of plastic usage & waste which we should tackle first before we focus on durable non-disposable plastics.
Don't you think it's a little presumptuous to say that those "not feeling anxiety are ignorant at best"? Many people fully understand the ideas behind the Yudkowskian doom scenario and they simply don't agree with this or that foundational assumption.
We have line checks, but if you're doing your job according to standard operating procedures, it's just like flying any other leg. Not something to lose any sleep over.

I used to dread every performance review in tech.
They can. It still doesn't make the use or origin of those photos unethical.
Train loads of people were coming in daily to be slaughtered, over 80% were killed on arrival and were not kept as prisoners, while deaths among prisoners was very high.

This was not a static prison camps that kept the same people during the war (except for very few). That’s why I think this was effective even if bombs had hit the living quarters themselves.
700k total compensation* not sure how over how long though.
Woah! That's some impressive piece of work.

I've been thinking of how browsers are eventually proving to be bad at complex text rendering, like for a word processor. You either have to make do with mimicking DOM like a text layouting engine or use browser canvas APIs - both of them locks your codebase into a single target (the browser).

The right way feels like using a cross platform text rendering engine like Skia (or this one, if it could be compiled to WASM and somehow made to write to a browser canvas)

These projects are important for that future. The one where word-processor like apps can be written cross platform by using libraries like these.
I'm sure Iran is glad to field-test its drones in the Ukrainian theatre for this reason.
Is this a “the first as tragedy, then as farce” type of deal?

The same authoritarian impulse but over such small potatoes.
For reference, I've suggested such info could be mentioned in the project [0] and author sees as "too niche".

[0] https://github.com/total-typescript/ts-reset/issues/93
Interesting. I cynically view this (brushed motors with reduced lifetime as compared to brushless, sold as a benefit b/c free of rare earth) as just another self-serving decision automakers can make in the push to reduce the usable lifetime of EVs.

The longevity of ICE/hybrid vehicles has long been a bugbear for auto manufacturers. One of the convenient things for them in the push for EVs is that EVs will inherently have less utility at 10 - 15 years than ICE vehicles.

With manufacturers' standard EV warranty including 70% bat capacity at 10 years or XYZ miles, it's almost like an ICE manufacturer saying your gas tank will get 30% smaller after a decade. Except that an aging battery also has reduced current draw and thermal allowances, so there is also less instantaneous power available as the battery pack ages.

This is an engineering reality of battery EVs, to keep them safe as their packs age. The power limit could be viewed as consistent with older ICE's not performing at nameplate HP, which none of them will without significant maintenance.

But this is why I'm cynical about automakers and EVs: EVs lower their cost burden in the medium to long term with simplified production, and "enhanced" planned obsolence via wear components that are much more expensive and can significantly limit the utility of the vehicle in the 10 - 20 year time horizon, as compared to ICEs and maybe hybrids.
> I'm not sure why you think permission to compete should be the default position over denial until we have more robust studies for competitive advantage. We already know testosterone and male puberty conveys inherent advantage, so the default should be to prove no advantage exists before permitting competition.

There are a lot of genetic factors that convey an inherent advantage. Do we control for all of them or is this one special? I think this video does a good job of highlighting the contradictions inherent in framing this as an issue of fairness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ9YAFYIBOU