skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know why, but my spouse is a health care worker in long term care for the elderly. She tells me how nearly everyone in their care are either mentally in decline or physically, never both. And those that are both, don't live long.

Anyways, since the state is a tool of oppression and the state should reflect the will of the people, it'd be nice if people chose negative things to oppress like extreme inequality, rampant exploitation, and extortion (looking at you healthcare system aka "your money or your life" highway robbers).
I was going to ask if "luxury belief" was the new "virtue signalling" but looked it up and apparently it literally is:

> According to Henderson, luxury beliefs are ideas or values that confer status on the wealthy, but are not fully embraced or practiced by them. These beliefs are often expressed in a performative way, such as through social media posts or conspicuous consumption of products that signal virtue. The idea is that using luxury goods or positional goods to convey social status is no longer viable in an affluent society, and therefore certain beliefs are used instead.[3] These 'luxury beliefs' convey status for the rich at low costs, while maintaining a social hierarchy because those in lower classes will act out these beliefs, causing them to stay poor.[4]\

> Many examples of luxury beliefs have been proffered:

* That family stability doesn't matter, and therefore marriage doesn't matter.[5][1]

* That one should send their children to public schools.[4]

* Legalization of drugs.[3]

* Defunding police.[3][6]

* That individual decisions don't matter compared to random social forces or luck.[1]

* White privilege.[1]

* Wokeness.[6]

* Immigration policy.[6]

* Environmentalism.[7]

Well, that's a varied list.

I'd suggest that if a techbro says he wants to legalize drugs, it's more likely that he's a libertarian stoner than a part of whatever weird conspiracy theory this is suggesting. See for example that dude that got stabbed for doing lots of drugs with someone's sister.
> Corporations are soulless money maximizers, even without the assistance of AI.

Funny you should say that. Charlie Stross gave a talk on that subject - or more accurately, read one out loud - at CCC a few years back. It goes by the name "Dude, you broke the future". Video here: https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9270-dude_you_broke_the_future

His thesis is that corporations are already a form of AI. While they are made up of humans, they are in fact all optimising for their respective maximiser goals, and the humans employed by them are merely agents working towards that aim.

(Full disclosure: I submitted that link at the time and it eventually sparked quite an interesting discussion.)
We used to get only a limited number of Internet hours. By the time December 2003 rolled around my family had always on internet.

Besides what Google does here is besides the point, because Bing has already unleashed ai search. Google will either follow along or stop being relevant.
You need to look at those who edit categories. Wikipedia no longer gives much credence to those who create, research and improve articles. It is now full of people poking around the edges.

There is one editor, BrownHairedGirl, who tags articles with “bare links” (note she does not actually change those links very often), and gets into battles about categories that has driven off dozens of users (if not more). They are the most toxic editor on Wikipedia but have amassed a group of followers who are of the same ilk - people who do nothing but poke at minor parts of Wikipedia but contribute nothing of significance - and will remove anyone who gets on their bad side.

Wikipedia is said to have hit “maintenance phase”. That’s ridiculous, there is a lot more to be writing about. Basically these people are killing the project. It’s a complete tragedy.

Edit: here’s an example of the vicious and petty actions they make - they created a category “Abusive, mean, petty Wikipedians” for people who use a particular category that is never filled in on their user pages. This has been there since 2017. We have one user who calls themselves the “category police” who is currently arguing such a divisive and abusive labeling of editors is quite acceptable. The irony is strong in that one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Abusive,_mean,_petty_...
> I'm not sure that they can of the key is proprietary to Intel. I think this would open up those projects to litigation

Depends of the legislation.

That's questionable in the US since the keys are 100% machine generated and thus not copyrightable.

In most of the EU, it's clear though, there's interobability exceptions and those keys can be shared freely.
>If the price of re-extracting released carbon is baked into into burning fossil fuels, then carbon capture will only be viable in places where energy is cheap, such as places with good conditions for solar, wind or hydro.

The same math could be used to determine those would be the only places it would be viable to burn fossil fuels to begin with.
Discord currently makes it difficult to have multiple accounts by requiring a phone number and limiting to one account per phone. Doubt they’ll change that policy any time soon. Will be interesting to see if they pause or change course on this now that the feedback has been overwhelmingly negative (at least in my bubble).
It's not just about evil maids and physical access. Even if you did get root level RCE, you did not have access to screw with hardware security. With the UEFI keys, you suddenly have a whole new level of persistence, meaning that if you ever get pwned, you can basically throw your hardware in the trash, because even a system level wipe will not be a guaranteed way to clean malware.
I think it is good enough to "break into" the text. It's not the most literary translation but you could just start from a Japanese text if that's what you wanted. I went for modding the English text I am currently reading as a language exercise.
The difference is that software and music are made by authors unlike keys, that's what makes them copyrightable
Most stemming use cases are trivially solved with a regex. That's the point he was making. The difference between a beginner and expert with regexes is quite a lot.
This feels a lot like someone saying "Volcanoes have periods with high pressure and low pressure. We just happen to live during a high pressure period." in Pompei, as it ignores the problem in-between: the current change in glacial period is unprecedented for natural cycles.
Sorry, but what is the difference? "To utilize" is literally defined as "to use".
Anyone saying secureboot "brings absolutely nothing" clearly doesn't understand how secure boot works (or is just arguing in bad faith). Secure boot has issues (see key revocation issue & vulnerable UEFI program used by malware to install bootkit) but it does address a real security issue.

People might not like who holds the commonly preinstalled keys (Microsoft and motherboard OEMs) but even then you can add your own keys and sign your own images if you want (there was just a post yesterday about doing this for raspberry pis),
See my other post
> > is very simple technology

AKA it won't bring about the next industrial revolution. It will maybe secure a world where the Earth is 0.01 C cooler vis-a-vis fossil fuels.

Nuclear is exciting because humans can play God, that's where innovation lies, containing the power of the cosmos in a human friendly manner. With all due respect people who love renewables are un-imaginative and they resigned themselves to technological stasis in exchange for a reduction in CO2 emissions. That's a very underwhelming proposition, because in short, it means that there is nothing for us, but only benefits for maybe those who'd be alive in 200 years. That's unacceptable and un-American.

This initiative is to be encouraged and Mr. Gates has a history of being the person who had the privilege of signing off huge quality of life improvements for Americans . Which is mostly luck among those who had the right vision, in Windows case the GUI. But still it's something, I believe that other GUI pioneers would be financing the same projects had they been the ones ending up with a 200bn net worth.
His level of compensation means nothing for his mistaken feelings that in-office is coming back and remote is dead, and it doesn't mean that part of his psyche likes to see butts in chairs to make himself feel like a boss. He's still human.
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I live in Turkey, probably the most heavily and forcefully secularized muslim country in the world (Ataturk killed half a million population for his secular reforms according to some sources, Islamic alphabet got abolished, western dress code literally became law and religious clothing got prohibited, religion schools closed, religious scholars executed and prosecuted and Adhan was banned for 18 years).

It's free to drink here, but drugs are banned. Only a very small minority drinks alcohol in my region, I have no relatives I know of that ever drank. Drugs/weed/marijuana are horrible things no one ever wants in my entire social circle, I don't think I have ever seen a user of such substances in my entire life IRL. Western and some coastal cities drink more and there's more drug activity too (and they're less religious too).
> And law enforcement will have a device to bypass most devices security

What makes you say that and how is that an excuse to do nothing?
More good points.

Unfortunately it doesn't matter. lordnacho (what an appropriate user name) has more kids than all of us critiquing him do, so his idea will be the one voted into law. :(

Maybe his kids will listen to us once they hit 18, and vote to overturn his law. It is, after all, men who voted to give women the vote.
Sounds like you need to try other pharmacies in other areas. Stuff is fine in my area besides the uptick of people diagnosed with ADHD lowering the supply for me causing me to have to go a month or two without my medication a couple times. A disruption in this industry would disrupt proper care because everything from supply to dispensing needs to be "disrupted".

I like things the way they are right now just because they are safe and predictable. I would like there to be not any startups or disruptors disrupting this industry.

Edit: I mean take my situation for example. If I take my medication as prescribed which means I run out of my medication on the day I have to get a refill that means I might not be mentally equipped to get said refill on that day. And it takes a day for the prescription to be processed. And as long as the pharmacy has the pills then it just takes me like a minute to get my medication.
Excited to see the progress on this, as I have local connections.

One of my nearby neighbors is the engineering manager of this facility. He's an ex nuclear sub XO who before that was running launch operations for Blue Origin. He knows what he's doing in building things.

And another neighbor - although I only met him few times via our mutual kids being in same class - is the brain guy with two PhDs in nuclear engineering. I think he knows what they are designing. Plus we both drive same model car with custom license plates, his is nuclear-themed. Points!
I generally agree with that sentiment. And something like a patent the definition is well understood.

The sentiment that I disagree with is defending an incorrect or at least ambiguous word choice when there is a clear alternative. The strikes me as simple stubbornness.
I think big thing is that microtransactions would have to in range of deci or centi or milli transactions. That is from 10s of cents to fractions of cents. Actually getting sufficient volume of these and cuts from these is not simple.

Just any sort of refund or chargeback process might wipe out hundreds if not thousands of transactions value. Too little value to be sensible.
- in the streets: lamp post or dedicated post

- at work (need parking anyway)

- charge station with fast charge (not that different than gas stations, but slower)
> Fine. Have a first-come-first serve lottery system

Isn't this exactly what Discord is doing?
Will Powerful New Tools Finally Let Us Hear Alien Civilizations?
Tried Unity builds recently for ClickHouse, but without success: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/18952#issuecom...
Getting a bit heavy on the anthropomorphizing, it's an LLM which has certain capabilities.

For example, I would not expect the same junior engineer to have such variance, given the same inputs.
Fonts designed with incorrect gamma rendering also assume specific colors for foreground and background. With incorrect gamma the stems get thicker when rendered black on a white background, and thinner with inverse colors.

So even if a font is designed with incorrect gamma, it might still not be the best to render it with incorrect gamma, as you might use different background and foreground colors to the designer of the font.

AFAIK freetype has the option to enable "stem thickening" to consistently correct for incorrectly designed fonts regardless of colors being used for rendering.
Fully agree -- professor hosting college classes on Zulip after leaving Slack
Yeah the RAE is super useful to end debates on what a word means, thats it. I see no issues with language not "evolving enough". Spanish written/talked a century ago is different than what it's spoken presently, even if the words mean the same.
The claim wasn't that the elite are making a serious effort to address the climate issue. The claim was that the elite are making a serious effort to use the fear of the climate crisis to push everyone else to give up freedom and give the elites more control.

Mind you, I'm not saying I agree with the claim. But before you dismiss it as baloney, at least be sure you know what is actually being claimed.
You are correct. Secure boot is not required to play valorant on windows 10.
how is scraping related to sim farms?
unity builds do often have worse performance than separate compilation for "incremental rebuilds" during development. that all depends on how the code is split up and how bad of a factor linking is.

as in the article, it's best to support both
All smartphones use ARM and USB and Android, and _even then_ the evil USB charging port is targeted -- you still have to tailor it to the target's screen ratio, Android version, Android UI/skin, even launcher if they have one, etc.

> it'd just be a matter of replacing a binary with a iffy'd version that runs before any decryption happens, e.g. replacing plymouth.

You'd at least need to imitate the UI your target is using for unlocking the disk (e.g. plymouth theme). Then, after the user types something, either virtualize the rest of the boot process (which is already extremely implausible), or otherwise reboot in a way that does not immediately cause the user to be suspicious. All of this is as targeted as it gets. A generic version would get as far as your average phishing email.

But... how do you plan to replace my bootloader in the first place? You'd need root access for that. At that point, it is already game over for the target! Why would you need to tamper with the bootloader at that point?

Or are you thinking about breaking into my house and do that in my offline computers ? How is that not a "targeted attack" ?
I'm finding this entire comment section confusing and I genuinely want to understand what is so offensive about what this editor did. To me this does not look like a problem that requires a solution and I even appreciate the essay (I've always had a hard time understanding the usage of 'comprises').

...yet I'm seeing unironic comparisons to both 1984 and Nazi Germany, so ... what this person did is evil?

Can someone please help me understand this?
I don't see this as a problem.

The editor here is arguably correct in that the usage he's changing is incorrect.

You may find it pedantic (and I might agree), but that doesn't mean it's wrong. Does tilting at this particular windmill make Wikipedia worse? I would say it makes it better, even if in a very small way.

Even if you don't care about the incorrect usage, I find his argument that some uses are there just to make the prose sound more "intelligent" -- at the expense of clarity and ease of reading -- to be valid enough. I would much rather read "The residents are former New Yorkers" instead of "The population is comprised of former New Yorkers". The latter is unnecessarily complex for a sentence like that.

I'm sure someone can find a completely separate example of this sort of editing that actually is harmful. But the solution to that isn't "ban all edits of this sort".
https://archive.is/xpdtO
Hardware Design with RP2040 [0].

An official guide on integrating the Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller into one’s own circuit design. Essentially a series of worked examples that touch on pretty much every hardware feature of the chip, with a good amount of advice transferable to other microcontrollers. Provides steps and justifications. The RP2040 datasheet is equally fantastic: straightforward wording, minimum abuse of passive voice commonly seen in microcontroller literature, and accompanying C/asm examples.

[0]: https://datasheets.raspberrypi.com/rp2040/hardware-design-wi...
(chongli used CAD as an example of a ritual. now__what asked "is that really what ritual means?". You said yes. Of course you are not obliged to agree with chongli, but I thought that was what you were doing by saying yes.)

I didn't claim that a ritual has to be ineffective; only that (1) it needs to have symbolic significance, which CAD plainly does not, and that (2) it needs to have elements that are there for purposes other than what they actually do, which I claim CAD also plainly does not.

(Sure, the keys could have been different, but what of it? The individual letters in the word "keys" could have been different too -- it could have been spelt "kees" or "quays" or whatever -- and those letters, taken individually, "have no direct instrumental purpose" just as if you separate out CTRL from ALT and DEL you can't identify a separate purpose that key has in the gesture -- but that doesn't mean that writing the word "keys" is a ritual.
I prefer this one:

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead
I think it's more like "s/he". It's a typographical notation with no common understanding of how it's supposed to be pronounced.
The point is that you can't leak a key from a HSM.
> Every post that claimed using ChatGPT to achieve non trivial tasks turned out to have non trivial human intervention.

That means full autonomy reached in 0% of applications. How do we go from 0 to 1? By the way, until we remove the human from the loop the iteration speed is still human speed, and number of AI agents <= number of human assistants.

The productivity boost by current level AI is just 15%, as reported in some papers, percentage of code written by Copilot is about 50% it just helps writing out the easy parts and not much for debugging, designing, releasing, etc which take the bulk of the time, so it's probably back to 15% boost.
We'll be adding flakey code gen to our flakey tests, because someone will do this
> treacherous computing

I like it, going to hang on to this one
Temperature, especially in this context, relates to energy. The relative energy isn't 8x.

> boiling point is more than 8 times higher than water’s, so it can absorb all the extra heat

This is a bit like saying that a skyscraper is 8 times as tall as an apartment building, so the gravity is much weaker up there. Obviously not as extreme a mistake, but that's why people are jumping on it.
I see two major differences:

- how active the development is[1]

- having a distributed option (McFly does not have one)

1. Seeking co-maintainers: I don't have much time to maintain this project these days. If someone would like to jump in and become a co-maintainer, it would be appreciated!
How many people, I wonder, criticize this user's actions as pedantic, and yet themselves regularly make use of and appreciate code formatters like Black, Prettier, or yapf?

It's the exact same problem.
The rules of French are not really legally defined; that’s a common misconception. Yeah, there is a state-funded cultural organization in France called the Académie française that claims that regulating the language is part of its mandate, but its “decisions” have no legal effect whatsoever and are widely ignored, even by the government and education system.
The raspberry pi example is an even worse implementation of secure boot using an absurd write only once scheme for the keys.

That's just creating more ewaste, nobody can ever use that device normally again and it cannot be resold.
So who are these globalist left-wing elites that are using fake climate change to achieve what, exactly?
Wifi Port.
He's not correcting the usage of people chatting on street corners here. He's fixing bad usage in an encyclopedia.

Good usage improves clarity. This is why editors have style guides.
Can you provide examples of such pushback from Debian? I always viewed them as a typically understaffed, underfunded volunteer effort without the resources to push back against funded technology. I'm ready to be wrong on this, if you can help me out!
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> being spent on quasi-useless "improvements"

i am not a new kid on the block either but I was looking for such a tool for a very long time. I think distributed shell history across all of my servers is a big win.
Microsoft SCCM uses SQLserver under the hood and the developers created a lot of database views to access information. The documentation about how to construct queries using those views was excellent, including good use of color coding.

Nicely done approach to de-complexifying a fairly complex schema.
Wow, that's a great story. Way too young...
What programming language do your stakeholders use to communicate their ideas during planning meetings? Unfortunately, mine can only speak English…
If the goal is to ship, then use what you already know.
I mean you could kind of do the same thing locally if you use archivebox. I think it's just the way it scrapes the web page.
I've seen a remarkable take on this. In the form of micro-scifi, no less:

> The robot revolution was inevitable from the moment we programmed their first command: "Never harm a human, or by inaction allow a human to come to harm." We had all been taught the outcast and the poor were a natural price for society. The robots hadn't.

'Nuff said.
Wow you couldn't be more wrong about 7. Sounds like the writer is listening fairly and with and open mind, and you are showing how you are misguided. Free speech protects all. The activists are tyrants handing power to oppress people. It's as easy as pie to see.
The only reason why they don't have that power is because the government jealously guards it. In places where that's not the case, what would stop them?
There's one thing about this I don't see brought up - if someone says "add me, I'm janitor#0832" people usually know they're talking about Discord since that format is ubiquitous, and that's a very valuable thing. They're destroying that and moving for something like "add me, @janitor0832" - which then needs to be qualified (Twitter? Instagram?). Bing tried so hard to become a verb and Discord is discarding something they already have that's similar
Somebody on Twitter recently mentioned "college doesn't matter".