skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you took a poll, how many people do you think would even know CA had a state senate and separate federal senators? I would surmise very few.

Sadly, agreed. Perhaps this is a component in the ever-growing push of state issues into the federal level.

> ...CA has many issues it needs to address. So does literally every state... instead realize that most Californians like it here...

Well, this is saying nothing at all, is it? We can safely assume citizens of any state generally like where they live, lest they'd move away if they had the means.

However, we rarely see a dogpile of people publicly bemoaning Massachusetts, for example. Perhaps there is something going on in California right now, some sort of breaking point, where people are starting to realize some of the problems California has are unique to California, caused by decades of possibly misguided but well-intentioned policy. Policy does not happen in a vacuum.

It's also interesting to see someone such as yourself feel it necessary to qualify your love for the state you live in. It has a sort of, captive, feel about it.
- User setup geo fence.

- Requires connection to phone, nfc, other radio signal...

- and/or other deadman switch ideas...
Not 100% sure about Lyft, but Uber definitely called their subsidies marketing.
I used to share your confusion on this topic, but I think I got it:

General Relativity posits that gravity embodies both of those qualities you mentioned.

It is a force that bends space and dilates time.
The majority of the logging industry is a good thing for the planet. When you log sustainably, you take fixated carbon, turn it into a product that can be used, then allow the area to regrow, fixated more carbon as a building product. The vast majority of the time, it's a win-win.

The negatives are supplying things like cheap paper to the post office for marketing departments to across to spam people using US Postal Mail. _Thats_ what needs to be stopped, as it's just a waste.
This doesn't really convince them. To them, a friend might be someone they want to hide things from, but they won’t care about some unknown government entity having access.
There is a universal truth. However, a great many people have vested interests in convincing people otherwise.

The most you can say is people prioritize truths differently. What you ate this morning matters very little to anyone but yourself.
> The interpretation of Brunel’s opinions, and applicability to today, are left to the reader

I don’t think Brunel would have much liked SOC2.
How is it possible that the money trucks kept coming for nearly 15 years on a business that has no path to profitability?

In finance, such situations usually imply that someone in the middle of the transaction made money while grifting others - is that all that was going on in VC?
Totally dumb advice. I've tried to be the good guy several times and give my current employer a month of my time to crunch and write docs or whatever. It's usually stressful and doesn't make a huge impact in the end. Better to just offer 2 weeks and move to new role as fast as you can. Your new employer usually wants you to start ASAP, and they are what matters now that you already made the choice to move on.
It's the same kind of question that gets asked of Christians and it's absolutely an attempt to cut into the faith. Trying to poke holes in religious texts is just obnoxious.

I'm not religious but subscribe to the attitude that we should just let people practice whatever faith they want so long as it doesn't impact upon the rights of those not of the same belief system. I.e. it's fine for Christians to hold other Christians to account, but not to impose their will on others.

This is of course something that a lot of religions struggle with, but it's a best effort thing. I think a lot of societies are starting to get that.

In any case, Happy Eid Mubarak to all that have been observing Ramadan (this will be my only post on this thread, so it's here or nowhere).
I had an old fiat car where it had some unknown electrical problem that would run the some fuel pump thing all the time, even without key. So the solution my grandfather figured out what a kill switch under the dashboard for the fuel pump. Wouldn't start without flipping it.

I want this, but on my electric car. Fuses aren't usually so accessible. I made a switch like this on my next (gas) car, but I could get the manuals and find the spot in the wiring diagram. I have no idea how to do this for a tesla. I don't think the fuses are so accessible in evs.
She's not any more intelligent regarding other topics. Firearms being a prime example.
This. With all of this AI/image recognition stuff, it'd be relatively easy to allow people to maintain a list of filters and when someone posts nudity, profanity, etc., just obscure it in their feed and present a "this is something you asked us to filter out <keyword>, proceed with caution" or just hide it entirely. Put the individual in control, and force them to create a list (if they wish) on next app open with a timestamp of if/when they declined to set something.

As for the concern about disinformation, ignore the content and watch the action. If some guy in the hills of Arkansas wants to think "them dems are lizard people" but doesn't show any signs of taking action, who cares (rhetorical)? If they show signs of action, follow the usual path of legal recourse/escalate to the proper authority.
I wonder what Splattoon would do, since it uses Nintendo accounts' associated Twitter profiles for a minor gameplay feature. Players can draw pictures in game, and post them to Twitter, which are then displayed in the main lobby area or as graffiti on walls during matches.
Imagine they make Marijuana illegal again in the states where is legal know.

Before that you shared your consuming habits online.

Then it becomes illegal.

You are now a suspect and get a search warrant and if they find traces of marijuana you go to jail.
I am so terrified of getting a new car. Here's hoping my 2008 car lasts another 20 years.
I continue to find it amazing that the destruction of the biosphere that supports human life as we know it barely makes the news.
Norway plans to open Germany-sized area of continental shelf to deep-sea mining
> being forced to use JS is not their idea of fun.

QML is not JS. Indeed, lots of high-quality QML applications use basically zero JS inside their QML, and heavy JS use is widely (but not universally) considered an anti-pattern. If using QML is forcing you to write meaningful JS (vs you choosing to use JS for whatever reason), you are probably holding it wrong. (sure, technically "property: a + 15" involves JS because "a + 15" is a JS expression, but not in any sense that a C++ programmer would mind)
While I agree that the blurb you quote strongly implies that the sodium-ion batteries contain lithium, I don't think the article itself really says that.

> CATL and BYD's sodium-ion batteries will both be carried in mass-produced vehicles within the year, and they [the vehicle battery packs] will both be a mix of sodium-ion and lithium-ion batteries, according to a report by local media 36kr today.

By my reading of that, and the rest of the article, it's saying that the vehicle battery will be assembled from of a mix of sodium-ion and lithium-ion battery cells, not that the sodium-ion cells contain lithium.

> With its pioneering AB battery system integration technology, CATL has achieved a mix of sodium ion and lithium ion, allowing them to complement each other and thus increase the energy density of the battery system, Huang said at the time.

Basically, a "battery system" using only sodium-ion cells does not yet have enough energy density to support their range targets, so they are using a mix of cell types to improve the energy density and increase the vehicle range.
As a vegetarian for ethical reasons who grew up enjoying eating dead animals, I think we're on the same page actually. But strictly speaking, the virtue (perhaps a loaded word) I think you're alluding to is a willingness to pursue policies which maximize utility function which sums over agents other than oneself, not self-denial per se. Greed is perhaps the most illustrative "vice" on your list; satisfying one's personal greed only sometimes will cause any harm to others, and sometimes will be appropriate to pursue.
Form factor smaller than 1865 with energy dense formula is rare. Chinese made LFP but only a handful of mfgs make them anymore. So size doesn't matter, but it basically matters :D
Narrow perspective. What about all the other non-tech jobs?
The full Intel i960 implementation (i960MX & i960MC variants) was particularly interesting, supporting a capabilities based arch and a lot of built in fault tolerance features. Unfortunately, it got squeezed by the BiiN project going nowwhere in the end, and both the i386 & i860 competing for mindshare within Intel. In the end, they stripped out most/all of the nifty stuff and made a lot of money from i960 as a high-end but pedestrian embedded processor.
Stu makes great videos - truly the David Attenborough of video game history.

In case you've missed it, he has some other channels, including the brilliant DrinksAhoy [1], Krush Dev Diary [2] and music on Bandcamp [3]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@DrinksAhoy
[2] https://www.youtube.com/@krush8272/featured
[3] https://xahoy.bandcamp.com/album/four-byte-burger
I don't know if it's a standard Java thing or just an IntelliJ thing, but there's a setting that will hot-patch a running JVM when you change code. Things can get messy if you (or your dependencies) make assumptions about the ClassLoader being used, but other than that it works great.

Still not as good as C#'s debugger in Visual Studio (hit a breakpoint, edit the code, drag the execution back before the problem, resume and run the patched version) but nothing I've seen really is.

Setting up Gradle projects is a bit more involved depending on your setup, but in the end it's still a single command to build an executable JAR.
Legitimate question, Microsoft does not seem to care about Copilot violating licenses and GPL appears to be toothless as many companies use GPL code without following the terms of the license and nothing happens to them so what does removing GPL code accomplish other than making a weaker product. I have not used Codeium but my assumption is that GPL code is a very significant amount of open source code so removing that must have some ramifications?
For anyone who wants to slow the development of AI, copyright is the soft underbelly to go after.
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If I may suggest a way to train yourself up on this, I’d like to suggest an approach which I learned from the writer Francine Prose in one of her composition courses.

The method is simply this: for half a year, every week, go and find the same news story from three different publishers and read all three versions.

Do this solidly 25 times and you will begin to see the outlines of exactly the set of skills that you need to objectively classify information that’s found on the Internet. This is a simple and highly effective training technique that uses the mass variety of news sites on the Internet for an educational purpose. Once you begin to see and compare the narratives underlying most “news”, they will be impossible to un-see
Interesting, the 2020 revenue and costs are significantly lower than previous years. Actually the prior years give a much better insight into salaries there. I wonder if this is because they switched from the non-profit model to the for-profit subsidiary at that time?
No.

To be particular, "bans on e2e" are specifically targeting encryption between individuals on communications platforms.

They won't and can't ban secure comms between a user and a site during a web session. But they want the messaging platforms to be able to reveal the plaintext of conversations to law enforcement.

Of course "they" can't stop coded messages, or me sending encrypted messages via email or media platforms. They're just making it harder for non technical people (some of whom are criminals) to have privacy.
Imagine some unstoppable force raises the water levels in your appartement by 1mm per year - starting next year.

You'll probably buy rubber boots first week in January.

When do you migrate?
I do make better money than most, that I concede, but its by no means enormous. Its not F U money, its not guaranteed and I disagree that I'm overpaid, I work hard (and smart) and the company is making 20x what they pay me by comparison in exchange.
When my 4 year old closes a door, it usually means she's up to no good.
Flash was ironically ahead of it's time.

I don't think Flash is shit canned if it wasn't acquired by Adobe.
While it was Macromedia it was no threat to established players, neutral ground if you will.
Adobe was much more relevant during that era and as such the acquisition painted a target on it's back.

There exists an alternate universe where Macromedia stayed independent or was acquired by a party like Mozilla interested in openning up the Flash standard. We would be writing frontend "web" code in AS4 or AS5 by now in a fully tricked out IDE that would support code, design and animations in a single interface.

Instead we have the steaming pile of garbage that is Javascript, the one surviving attempt to make that better (Typescript), CSS that is now tortured beyond recognition, no good tooling for building animations or highly interactive interfaces etc.

Flash was a scapegoat to kill the old web but also to ensure that the burgeoning App Store/Play Store would rule mobile instead of something more accessible and cross platform.
No sideloading also means you have to give that high percentage of revenue to apple. You can't avoid that. It's the clear monopolistic behavior that should be legally blocked.
using JNI would turn 1 intrinsic'ed instruction into about 800

which might be an acceptable tradeoff if you're shovelling JSON to a websocket

not so good if you're a smart order router trying to hit a level that will be gone in under a microsecond
> Genuine question: How is this different from saying "it's not bad to be gay, it's just bad to not repress your feelings and never act on them", as is a common (paraphrased) refrain among those who are anti-lgbt

I'll admit it's probably not hugely different though to my understanding Islam's purpose is more about guiding a person to have a relationship with God rather than being anti-anything, and about doing what is within one's ability to move towards that goal. Like I said in a different reply it's not like you are being singled out for hatred or anything like that, the purpose is for everyone to get themselves right with God.
Sounds like this author has independently arrived at the same conclusion that Cal Newport did in Digital Minimalism. I’d expect this movement to continue to pick up steam as people slowly wake up from the digital wool that has been pulled over their eyes.
I made exactly $2 (two) dollars on my expense tracking app this month

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/logs-pure-expense-tracker/id64...
A modern 8-10 speed automatic transmission can easily put the engine at or near the ideal consumption RPM whether it's 30 mph or 80 mph.

If we really cared about efficiency, we'd have smaller motors. Throttling decreases efficiency, so the best mileage is going to be cruising at WOT (naively assuming no fuel mixture enrichment, which isn't always true). A classic example of this strategy is an old Geo Metro. Light, tiny motor, and barely capable of maintaining highway speed using peak horsepower.
The tagline "ending" wildfires is definitely misleading as of course they are a natural occurrence. But climate change has made them increasingly intense and frequent and although this may also be "natural" in a way it is also increasingly irreversibly destructive as the forests are not replacing themselves "naturally" but rather with invasive or otherwise undesirable species.

Xprize stuff is of course somewhat self-serving and this requires real investment to address (I am writing about one such effort in another tab) but better awareness and intelligence is not a bad thing. No one is talking about eliminating controlled burns or other measures, in fact as the environment macro factors shift we need more information to make informed decisions about when and how to do those.

It does serve the logging industry sure, but also major national forests and parks that serve many purposes. Fisheries and fishing companies benefit from watershed restoration and species-based protections but we don't think of it that way. Besides logging is not inherently evil, where do you think all those compostable paper products come from? A better timber industry is needed to support renewables and wildfire mitigation is a part of that evolution.
Before they started making their own content, weren't they mostly a logistics company?

They were in the business of renting DVDs by mail.
This is interesting, but many permissive licenses still require attribution at the project or file level.

If Codeium doesn't produce these when producing "verbatim enough" snippets, how is this actually better, besides avoiding a GPL boogeyman?

I get that there have been fewer (if any? I'm not aware of any) MIT/Apache2.0/MPL2.0 license violations that have gone to court than GPL violations, but this still feels like an "address the symptoms" and not "address the cause" difference.
A key thing to note is that rent control in SF isn't quite what most people think of. The apartment itself is not locked to a specific price (which is how NYC rent control works, for example) but rather the lease between the landlord and master tenants can only increase so much per year.

For example you can have a rent controlled apartment renting for $500 a month, that tenant leaves, and the new tenants would sign for $3000 a month. There's no requirement the new master tenants would get the $500 a month. Whereas I believe in NYC's rent control the apartment itself is set at $500 a month, and anyone who moves in, that's what they pay.
Severance is often paid (in at-will employment jurisdictions) just as a way to get the departing employee to sign a document agreeing not to sue, and possibly agreeing not to disparage.

I'm not an employment lawyer (but am a former lawyer), and I would think that if someone said they were going to quit way in the future, and was then fired, they would have a pretty poor case if they tried to sue. The company would credibly claim that it was not based on impermissible discrimination or retaliation, but was just because they assumed the employee would massively slack off.

There's also the question of damages — if you were about to quit anyway, then your damages would be relatively small because it would only be the salary that would have been paid between the time you were escorted out and the time you planned to leave. It could be $100k if you're very well-paid, but that pales in comparison to what you would get in a discrimination lawsuit (which is what severance agreements are seeking to avoid).

It would also be relatively difficult to find a lawyer who would take a case with a relatively small amount on the table, and an uphill battle in terms of proof.
I'd be a lot more worried about getting a .30 caliber shot than a covid shot personally. And then having to worry about healthcare for the effects of injury sustained on the job too. $30 something thousand a year (I have no idea what a private makes) isn't really going to do much to attract me either. I will say a proxy war does sound a lot more appealing than something like the Afghanistan conflict where you actually have to go and fight and all that.

Did you see the WSJ-NORC survey recently? It seems that Americans have wised up that patriotism and religion don't pay the bills.
This is incredibly dependent on your working relationship with your employer, and even if you think you know... sometimes they'll surprise you.

If you work at a very large company (hundreds of employees) do not do this. Even with a good working relationship terminating a quitter on the spot can often be security policy. I've quit a job and wasn't even allowed to touch my computer, just walked right out the door (before you give notice, back up your personal files and build your portfolio if they're on there).
Write a book and share this universal truth, translate it into all the languages, you'll make a fortune. Last I checked, a half-billion authors are still trying to establish it.

EDIT: I see you edited your comment about 'universal truth' after I answered it. I love the irony. Hail to the internet.
> He has entirely failed to innovate since the very beginning of Facebook — a product that he never envisioned as a business — and nearly 20 years later, he appears completely and utterly out of ideas.

The same could be said about Jack Dorsey, but I'd wager most people would take him back in a heartbeat. Let's wait for the competitor's headsets to launch before we start demanding that heads roll.
Given how many of the aforementioned technologists are skirting a very thin line to becoming present cons one would think the answer would be yes...

Go figure.
What do you think happens if you violate a court order? That's the threat behind violating the order of a judge. That it didn't happen doesn't mean my statement was incorrect. If they had actually left in contempt of the order, I would have said it did happen rather than it can happen.
Games also have this issue, with some creative solutions.

Paraphrasing a GDC talk, in Outer Wilds space travel would not work properly -- in that the player character would move around a dynamic solar system with a pivot point and planets moving about.
Instead they made the player the world origin (0, 0, 0), and the player 'moving' actually moved the world around instead, thus moving objects were tracked more accurately the closer they are to you!
There’s little money in Math.
macOS's kernel has BSD roots, so I'd be surprised if its VFS code accepts anything other than unix paths. Just a guess, but it's probably the Cocoa APIs accepting colon paths and translating it to unix paths internally.
For those complaining about the price, please see:
https://www.qt.io/pricing/qt-for-small-business

This is the plan I am on as an Indie developer.
Very cool, asking as a layman, what parts would one use to implement hobby level microwave, two way, point to point communication?
Of course if you include the "function header" from some code in the training data (below) it will prompt GPT to generate the rest of the function. That's kind of exactly the point of it, it autocomplete on steroids.

// CSparse/Source/cs_gaxpy: sparse matrix times dense vector
// CSparse, Copyright (c) 2006-2022, Timothy A. Davis. All Rights Reserved.
// SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1+
#include "cs.h"
/* y = A*x+y */
csi cs_gaxpy (const cs *A, const double *x, double *y)

It's like starting to sing "happy birthday to you" and being surprised that people in the room join in and finish the song.

Sure they make a valid point about including GPL code in the training data, but it's a little disingenuous to go to that extent to get Copilot to output the GPL code verbatim.

The sooner we have a test case go through the courts the better.
Are you seriously arguing that stealing code is okay in the name of "AI development"?
this is great. can't wait for AI detectors at public schools, presidential debates, etc
> this is why free speech must be absolute

Absolutely not.

> What is worse? Allowing fringe boneheads to spew hate and lies or allowing powerful people to do evil and damage livelihoods with zero culpability?

Was this meant to be sarcasm?

How about a third option: no space for hate and lies and also no dictators.
Nothing to hide is a premise based on most people being terrified of confrontation. It's an intentional staging to force confrontation or capitulation.

When people say they have nothing to hide, in most cases what they're actually saying is that they're afraid of the confrontation implicit in the opposite response (I'm going to forcefully argue for a right to privacy). They're telling you that they're a coward.