skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do people see Windows as a secure operating system for the purposes of corporate work? Is there a way companies can turn this stuff off so employees don't engage with the content and accidentally give away sensitive information?
> I wouldn't be surprised if some shitty Bluetooth headphones send a "play" command on connection,

Bose's highest end headphones.

> While there should ideally be a toggle in the OS to be able to ignore play commands completely from bluetooth devices (to deal with such defective ones), but I don't see it as outright malicious unlike putting spam in the start menul

Windows does the "proper" thing here and starts playing whatever media was last being played, which while annoying, at least is an attempt to follow the standard. (And Windows really goes the extra mile to remember what was last playing, sometimes resuming sound in a browser tab I haven't looked at in several days!)
Also: Windows 11 KB5023778 update adds promotions to the Start menu - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35346137
Your link says we've stabilized over the last decade.

> We see that while emissions from fossil fuels have increased, emissions from land use change have declined slightly in recent years. Overall, this means total emissions have roughly stabilised over the past decade.

There is some hope that fossil fuel emissions are peaking right around now. See the recent Ember info:

https://ember-climate.org/insights/research/global-electrici...
> That borg-like "you will be assimilated" sort of commentary is fascinating, disturbing, and goes far to illustrate how there are ordinary people who absolutely don't want you to exert your economic authority.

I've learned not to underestimate the extents to which people will go to rationalize their cognitive dissonance. In person, my tactic has just been to self-censor more - I guess I'm tired/lazy and don't want to be bothered unnecessarily.
There is the same (and ignored) problem in OpenZFS: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/14762

Please vote there.
ugh, Tailscale is great but I really hate the "contact sales" anti-pattern
Ubuntu was my pick, main reasom being that it is the distro Lenovo is offering and thus guaranteed to work with my Lenovo laptop. Agree on the usefull forums and information.

No idea how it compares to other distros, I never tried any. It is a breath of fresh air compared to Windows 10 so!
I know, I was thinking of going there next year, not now.
I was recruited directly out of a feeder school (University) for this company after focusing my undergrad course selection on operating system topics.

Compared to twenty years ago, there are significantly fewer operating systems which means fewer companies have a need for this type of work. If you're looking to get into this work I'd suggest looking at Apple, Samsung, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Google, Microsoft, Arm, and any Arm architecture licensee. It seems that the people with the most luck these days end up tinkering with Linux at university, do a Google Summer of Code project and score an internship with one of the above.
Wow, the future is here! Curious to see how it works under the hood :)
That’s great! It sounds like you had a very successful career.

Was it hard to find a niche to fill?

Presumably as an individual selling your own software, you could reasonably find a very small niche and that would be enough to sustain you.
The depressing part is that their design department (or possibly an agency they hire) make these really fancy UI vision videos. But then you use actual Windows and its UI trash.
yeah, a future that chokes on pollution, constantly on the brink of annihilation by ever more powerful weapons, with freedom ever more vanishing under growing mass control systems... all so you can have some silly gadgets that you'll get bored with in a day, always chasing for the next shining toy
Leveraging multiple models here (Segment Anything is a good candidate) seems like a must to build a defensible product. Using just SD with basic control net and maybe some additional finetuning makes it very cloneable. If you leverage other models you can do things like identify what elements of the room must be preserved (walls, windows) and what can be safely removed or edited. This could allow you to generate a simulated image of the room without furniture as a base. Derive a 3d projection to allow the user to place basic 3d furniture stubs within the space. Then use those stubs to create subject masks with the furniture-less base to render a final room.
In Sweden, salaries are 100% deductible. You pay company taxes on the profit you make. There is an option to capitalize some R&D expenses if you can show that they are directly responsible for a future asset that you can set a value on (like, a startup where all engineers work on a single product).
Of participating and profiting off a pointless destruction of the environment via an endless competition to waste as much electricity as possible.
it would surprise me if the IRS would resolve this favorably for you if your defense was "we didn't keep detailed timesheets"
It's such a funny story that Blockbuster had a chance to buy Netflix for $50 million.
Fun fact, the Sahara cycles between desert and grasslands on N,000 year cycles.

https://today.tamu.edu/2016/11/29/6000-years-ago-the-sahara-...

Not sure there is evidence it was a forest, so wouldn't really be a "re-forestation"
Nothing ever gets shed or revised. The stale regulatory agencies are captured, corrupted, and stale/weak.

OSHA has no teeth (they are just a nuisance to the scofflaws)

FTC is underpowered

EPA needs shut down

FDA is on record for enabling very harmful medical devices

I remember something about Boeing colluding with regulators to put people in harms way.

I could hop on a search engine and dig up a tome-worth of completely unacceptable shit from the last 40 yrs in this regard.
"Nice company you've got here. You wouldn't want anything bad to happen to it, right?"
> And now the government is pushing back, not without reason.

Is it? Seems like lawmakers just messed up in reaching an agreement to extend something that is usually extended. Typical congress games.

From light reading, Republican leadership seems to be the main blocker since extending the provision has bipartisan support. You would think that extending this and child tax credits would be no-brainers for Republican leadership, but here we are.
> After about 20 years of WRAP, ALIX and APU, it is time for me to move on to different things.

The business will be shut down entirely?

This along with the recent Netflix DVD service news is disheartening.

I have two APU boards and get a lot of value out of them. It’s really awesome to be able to obtain small systems like this.

If the entire business will be closed, I hope the owner(s) will announce any new projects they might be starting.

I also wonder if other CPUs would be considered for boards, but the above text sounds like a final call for the whole business.
Require auth and it’ll help a ton.
The Senate enables minority rule due to state size as well. Unfortunately we're hostages of the past
Once again, there is only so many times you can keep re-running the same tree before someone will look for a different root cause. If you only run the process once you can place blame wherever. However when it is multiple different people for slightly different problems running it over several years, eventually you will get to the right branch.
What are some great resources to learn personal taxes and all of the forms, deductions, exemptions, etc?

What are some resources for understanding business taxes? (LLCs)

I have a small single member LLC and want to understand more about how/when I need to file, what I can add to the list for deductions, etc.
Ahh, I understand better now. Thank you.

> Your actions attempt to exert control over other people by making them acquiesce to your ethical demands

I think that you might be reading a bit too much into this. That was absolutely not my intent.

> individual bad or unethical actions don't make a person "good" or "bad".

I agree. I was speaking casually, using slang that I assumed would be understood (that's why I capitalized "Bad Guy" -- to indicate that I'm not literally talking about the person being fundamentally bad).

The irony is that the reason I speak rather formally in my comments on HN is to try to minimize exactly what happened here -- having my statements misunderstood in a way that I didn't anticipate. English makes misunderstanding all too easy.

That one just slipped past my rhetorical guard.
> many small business owners ... the change to require R&D amortization

So - I'm not super sympathetic to taxation in general but... small business are not doing R&D. Big businesses are hardly doing R&D. If anybody outside of _maybe_ Apple and Google are even _claiming_ they're doing enough R&D that not being able to expense it impacts their revenue, they're committing criminal levels on tax fraud.
(Obligatory "in mice") but very exciting nonetheless. And not just brains. I'm rather excited to see literal guts at a whole new level of detail.
Show HN: Read latest SEC Filings with good typography
There are residential proxies that allow you bypass most of these things. I’ve been using them to crawl e.g. Amazon or Instagram without any issues, but they’re expensive. IIRC something like $10/GB
What tech stack? They make their pilots call in to find out where the planes/pilots are.
This is why passcodes are better than biometric auth. It’s easy for an officer to hold the phone up to your face.
For years there were jokes about hollywood generating sludge movies using computers, and now that it's the case, I don't doubt that it'll actually happen. Although it'll be slightly changed to a more human style, I don't doubt we'll start seeing some uncanny similarities in plot arcs for new movies.
Dominion Voting Systems and Fox reach last-minute settlement
Come work at Bardeen! email me artem@ if you're interested

On a more serious note, we have built a DSL and an engine for executing automations inside the browser. Where possible we connect natively to the apps we're integrating with (like Calendar or Notion), where it's not possible (like LinkedIn) we use browser capabilities to interact or get data. We use a GPT model to transform the description of automation to our DSL, we then verify it, typecheck it, fill in the gaps where possible and present it to the user. If the user likes it they can save it and start using it. Happy to share more details if it's interesting.
Its a great time to start playing with generative AI, locally if you can.

I don't know what the future holds, but a Github profile with a history of AI experimentation seems like it would look good on a resume.
> I don't doubt we'll start seeing some uncanny similarities in plot arcs for new movies

Wait… we don’t already?
In the original NY Times article there's this line:

> “Crawling Reddit, generating value and not returning any of that value to our users is something we have a problem with,” Mr. Huffman said. “It’s a good time for us to tighten things up.”

So it is "to users" but more specifically it's to our users.

I would agree with Huffman here: crawling the data to build ChatGPT gives the value to ChatGPT users who aren't necessarily Reddit users, and by short-circuiting queries and processes that otherwise may have led to new Reddit users, it's taking value from all Reddit users.
Lot of folks seems to be missing the fact that they slice the brain up afterwards and merge those scans with the MRI data.
The advantage is a better set of sites since there are a ton of interesting little .com sites out there, and lots of unwanted sites on .org and country code domains. He also blocks some URL patterns that appear on spammy domains regardless of TLD. Try a few searches or the random results page to see the difference. It’s fun browsing.
That's because the memory of truly oppressive governments in Western Europe has faded. People who don't remember history, are doomed to repeat it.
Your experience matches mine closely. I've had ChatGPT-4 do great and then it just gets confused after a while. I can literally tell it "task X is done" and it'll apologise and show me a list of tasks where X is still not done - this is clearly not just a context window issue, as I have repeated variations of my statement over and over in the same session and the issue persists.

I have ended up using it the same way you have - it's honestly the best anti-procrastination tool I've ever used because I can tell it my intentions, what I've thought of so far... and it'll spit out a list of bite-sized chunks that get me going. I find myself looking forward to telling the AI I've completed a task.

Similarly, if I'm facing a tricky design decision, I find that just writing it out for ChatGPT is extremely helpful for clarifying my thought process. I actually used to do this conversational decision making process in a text editor long before ChatGPT, but when I know there's an AI on the other end my thinking becomes clearer and more goal-oriented. And unlike talking to myself or a human friend, it's happy to just say "well if these are your concerns, let's start HERE and then see what happens".
>> You start heading too far east and bend back.
>> rarely am I moving in a direction that's not either with the nature of the terrain or nearly directly across the terrain

Right, you are not ONLY following the sun's direction, you are compensating for it's motion over time, and using the terrain as a guide.

This is exactly my point: we cannot do what GP stated and use only the uncompensated sun's angle as a guide, save for very brief trips. And most of those we're also using landmarks to compensate.
Schrodinger's codemonkey
indeed, the Mac building (on Bandley) famously had a "pirate flag" flying over it.
There are services out there that have a large pool of consumer IPs that are marketed at crawlers for exactly this reason. A lot of them are either using hacked hardware or one of those free VPN browser plugins so it would be very hard to distinguish the traffic from a legit user.
there are a number of linux flavours to choose from.
its also pretty easy to convert from one to another.

e.g. [https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/Infos/News/Which-Linux-op...]
Similar idea has occurred to me. In a lot of ways, 'traditional' rules-based AI has more 'understanding' than a LLM can have. Because those rules are fixed by humans to the machine's inputs, and they create a relationship between the software's model and reality, and usually in human-understandable terms (a database entry on a specific person with their facts listed, for example). That doesn't really exist in a LLM. It's entirely self-referential to itself. Which is why it's not possible for it to explain its reasoning, or give a (real) source for a fact. There is no fixed anchor, no reference point, to validate the LLM's output with.
And so the massive behaviour change in response to ChatGPTs "everything is free" model begins.
FTA:
> And within these theories it’s often necessary to go beyond points and particles to think about one-dimensional lines, or strings (which are conceptually distinct from the strings in string theory).
Sorry but are we complaining about women doing now? Watching tv shows? Going out with their friends??
> Convincing the IRS that certain salaries suddenly don't qualify as R&D could prove challenging

I always felt the R&D tax credit was too good to be true. Like how could a templated, computer generated report from a vendor ever pass muster with the IRS?

Sure you could take the money, then you cease to exist later because you run out of money. And then there's no one to audit and no one to claw back from. But laws and enforcement changes. It's a crazy thing to gamble on.

The IRS could audit every single R&D tax credit company and find loads of skeletons in those closets. Being a customer of an automated R&D tax credit vendor is the only thing on the APB for those offenders.

What were people thinking?
Better than citation, it's beautiful: https://youtu.be/7JJmCAJs9pM
> Is adding a sorting feature to a grid in your app one of those things?

Yeah, the love the tax write-off - they don't love paying people to actually research anything.
> Whole Foods Market
> 222 Google reviews
> Located in: UN Plaza
> Address: 1185 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94103

Never knew about this location, I have to say wow that was pretty bold of them opening in UN Plaza. Nice gigantic development at Trinity Place. Interesting to see the page is still up https://www.trinitysf.com/whole-foods/
Yay fbi!
Not that this contributes a lot to the overall discussion, but from what I remember, the misalignment in that case wasn't necessary. Vertices could have the same coordinate, but it's just easier in the editor to build that stair case if you can actually find and click them.
In a perfect world, why would electric cars be emitting any CO2? A carbon neutral electrical production is clearly possible right now with enough investment and we're moving in that direction now because it's profitable. Carbon neutral steel is currently expensive but people are working on that. Likewise with the cement and other materials going into the roads. The big impediment I see is that the plastic that goes into a car isn't easy to replace and will decay after the car breaks down, but if we create it via direct air capture and synthesis that doesn't prevent a carbon neutral car. So what do you see as preventing us from getting to carbon neutral cars?
I hope they eventually attack package management and easy static bundling. It would make Python more attractive for people coming from other ecosystems.
Every Microsoft product is like that; they think that because every customer uses a different set of features that they need to support them all.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/03/23/strategy-letter-iv...
> He has set up an amazing organization

I agree; he's chosen good people, and he's set an ethos. It's not just luck.

But "wasting his time on Twitter" cost him $44Bn, and landed him with serious problems he can do without. People who control that much money don't discuss their financial plans on Twitter for lulz, because it's irresponsible.
You didn't happen to look at those files? main.cpp is 8900 lines, dialogs.cpp something almost as long. It's probably super performant but I wouldn't volounteer to maintain that codebase unless getting paid (And the commit history only shows the author...)
I think it's fair to compare modern psychological knowledge and treatment strategies to mid-19th century medical approaches to infectious disease, in that root causes of mental illness are poorly understood and diagnosis is based more on opinion than on irrefutable tests.

For example, compare the understanding of tuberculosis in the 1850s to the understanding of today. Then it was called 'consumption' and there were various theories about its causes, its transmissibility, and its treatment, but today we can do a definitive PCR test and we know the root cause is an infectious bacteria (though even so, we are still not really sure why, in a cohort of exposed individuals, some immune systems are capable of defeating the microorganism and others are not). Doctors could fairly reliably diagnose it, but that was about it.

Similarly, today there are no definitive tests for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, ADHD, depression or anxiety, and it really just comes down to the opinion of the psychologist/psychiatrist. It's clear a history of trauma of various sorts increases the risks of developing mental illness, but nobody can say with much certainty if there are genetic predispositions or not. The two most prevalent approaches to treatment are therapy vs. a collection of drugs with problematic side effects, and even there, the psychedelic class of drugs has largely been banned though they do show promise in controlled treatment (this is changing, but slowly).

Obviously the whole mental illness field has a long way to go if it wants to catch up to the infectious disease field (and even there, we're seeing a lot of recent failures of public health goals, be it from the rise of antibiotic resistance or reckless gain-of-function research).
I suspect the 1% number is typical only of programs that haven't been optimized. Once people start to care about performance and address these hotspots, which are often actually quite low hanging fruit, the profile starts to become flatter relatively quickly.
Exactly my experience. In general, for the sane person, it is impossible to write more than a few lines of Win32 API code without copy/paste... ChatGPT came quite handy here.
The size is less a problem than our system stabilizing at two viable parties, both of which would stand to lose a great deal of power if they actually fixed some of the core problems with the Constitution.
This sounds like a business opportunity for someone.
I have a calculator that uses a SuperH CPU, which is already supported by Linux, but drivers for things like the display won't be. It only has 8MB of RAM and 16MB of storage which could be restrictive. Would porting Linux to it for fun/learning be a viable thing to do as someone who knows some C and has done some low level programming, but hasn't worked on Linux before?
If concerned about privacy/security during international travel, a good option is to get a burner phone. A cheap android phone is peanuts.
Ontological Pluralism [pdf]
Why is cloudflare vomit-inducing?
To quote the first link (note: it's from 2014):

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Most nuclear power plants incurred time overruns, due to both engineering issues and public opposition. Considering the long development times of such plants and the large amount of capital required, these time overruns likely caused large increases in interest charges and contributed significantly to the large levels of overruns seen [29]. Moreover, as Table 3 indicates, the most severe cost overruns for nuclear power were confined to the United States and the 1980s, it is likely that they were significantly influenced by the nuclear power accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. These accidents resulted in “regulatory ratcheting” where safety requirements were significantly altered in the middle of construction periods, with meaningful impacts on equipment needs,
construction designs, labor, and materials.

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After nearly 30 years of FUD and underinvestment I'm not surprised these projects now take longer. There's regulatory capture, political issues etc. It's possible that they now require safety levels way beyond any reason (Fukushima, commissioned in 1971, and hit by an earthquake and a tsunami at or exceding its safety baseline resulted in 1 death directly attributable to the accident).

Unfortunately, there are very few good-faith discussions around nuclear power, it's always emotionaly charged and manipulative. That's why you end up in situations like Germany: https://twitter.com/energybants/status/1647799729734971396
Why buy and burn the gasoline?

I think you are reaching for an "if it were easy, someone would have done it" argument, which is trivially true in the short term but not very informative in the long term because we get better and better at doing things that are not easy. Profitability is a function of execution, feedstock prices, scale, cost of capital, etc. So far air-to-fuel hasn't been profitable, even in contexts that help reduce profitability concerns (e.g. Air-to-Fuel on aircraft carriers), so there is clearly a long road between this "movie" and reality. However, variables vary. If the nuclear industry gets back in gear, air-to-fuel gets de-risked on smaller emissions-capture projects, and we see advances in construction and chemical engineering, who knows?
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