skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hear this negativity so much. And I am so sympathetic to the users.

What is the current opportunity for them? Nearly nothing. They might learn one system or another that can empower them. But the rest of computing is still like Philip K Dick's semi-proverbial Black Iron Prison. Maybe they can get off the wall in Plato's Cave for an hour & see a nice little tour around, but they'll spend the rest of their adult lives immiserated & chained back on the wall regardless.

I think people are very hungry for a better outlook with computing & e-social (which are so intertwined). Subconsciously they know the effort isn't worth the squeeze. Rejecting the premise of empowerment is actually just a value judgement, and a somewhat shrewd one.

The technics have to change first. The hobbyists, governments, research institutes need to drive forward some new malleable systems that actually get some inertia & growth & promise behind them. We need some users who spend the majority of their time not-chained up, who happily do most of their computing in the free. Computing needs a solid place to go, a worthwhile form of existence, before we can ask to attract people.

I stand with the banner mission of Malleable Systems Collective, a quote by J. C. R. Licklider, from Some Reflections on Early History (1986):

> The user wants open software, software that can be modified, and that can participate in a progressive improvement process.

https://malleable.systems/

But right now users have no where to turn to. This experience is unattainable, except on very small scales, and only after immense & painful toil. It's too early to tell what users want, because right now, there's hardly any choice. What choice there is comes with extreme sacrifice, is either disconnected & isolated alternative apps that offer little relative advantage & no interconnectivity, or difficult to host online services requiring dedication & committed-resources to try (YunoHost being perhaps the shiningest meta-attempt we could suggest https://yunohost.org/).
You can slowly kill the gun culture over generations, both through legal restrictions and social ostracism of gun owners. Happy that my home country of Canada is becoming ever more anti gun.
> what democracy is meant to help with

The UK is a democracy, technically a more well functioning democracy than some supposedly first world nations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index#List_by_countr...
Republicans control the House, and this bill is being introduced by a Democrat and doesn't appear to have any Republican cosponsors (or Democratic ones, for that matter). Needless to say, this will go nowhere.
Sound like an org culture you better avoid. Seriously, what good is an employee if it isn't allowed to state your disapproval constructively. You wouldn't ever get an honest answer this way about anything more important than the next meeting.
You could compare the violent crime rare where you currently live to where you want to live. I would say that there are many other concerns to weigh than simply one dimension, be it this or any other. The overall cultural values are likely a better thing to look at and would be indicated by multiple topics.
For the dramatic effect!
> Firefox 113 now supports AV1 Image Format files containing animations (AVIS), improving support for AVIF images across the web.
Are you pro or anti Remote/Work From Home?
Why's Texas have so many criminals

Texas isn't an outlier in crime. It ranks 21st in murder rate . 84% of the population is urban (15th most urban state). Dallas and Houston are the 4th and 5th largest metro areas in the country, and struggle with the same crime problem as other big metros like New York, LA, Philadelphia, Chicago, Atlanta.
1. Poverty is not a real statistic, it's an arbitrarily decided line

2. Nearly the entire reduction in poverty the last few decades has taken place in China
Not been an Apple user since a little while after Steve Jobs passed away, but this is in stark contrast to what people usually say about Airdrop. What I usually hear is that it's the greatest thing since sliced bread and how everybody should be using it.
You are right, and like I said, it for sure is bad that it wont work for the common use case.
Should it support your use case? YES! Does it? no. Is there some kind of fair explanation? also Yes. Wether you like it or not (and to be clear, I also dont like it, but at least I can understand why)
What government is going to turn down these capabilities? Even if they banned "private sector" development, you can bet they're still gonna go down this road.

And frankly, that might be for the best. Imagine whatever country is most antagonistic toward your own, and now imagine their military fully develops this and yours doesn't. How safe/secure are you feeling?
> You dissuade people from car ownership by building non car friendly urban areas

One of the things that amazes me about Tokyo is how many cars there are. For being the best public transportation system in the world.. people still have cars. To the point of installing parking lifts in their (tiny) homes!

If you can't convince even the Japanese to give up cars, your cause is lost. The best we seem to be able to do is to convince them to drive smaller K cars.

> and attracting productive members of society there

I agree that suddenly things are easier if you can exclude the poor, homeless, handicapped and so on. Unfortunately that's illegal, immoral and impractical.

> That's earned income that can go towards more productive uses for citizens (who choose to live a car free experience).

Except people overwhelming DO choose cars. This isn't because they've been hoodwinked into it.

> If people want cars, there are still ~82 million SFH existing housing units (+ whatever comes online over time) where that dream can be realized.

And those businesses who fail to provide parking will not attract customers. Apartments without parking will have trouble finding renters (or those renters will park nearby on roads or in parking lots).

People are not cattle. You can't just tweak their pen until they do what you want. They will dissassemble and modify it to accomodate their needs.
> Can steam deck run any Linux application?

Yes. It's amd64, so you probably don't even need to compile it, either.
Here's a source: https://www.riedia.com/article/en/spy-law-hampers-swedish-pr...

> In Reporters Without Borders' (RSF) Press Freedom Index 2023, Sweden dropped one spot and ranks fourth. One reason is the new law against foreign espionage, which came into effect on January 1st of this year.

> The law, which makes it a crime to disclose information that may damage Sweden's relations with other states or organizations, has already had an impact on journalism.

> Last week, SVT chose to stop a publication for the first time citing the spy law, despite the fact that exceptions are allowed for journalistic purposes. The news concerned map images from the Pentagon Leak regarding Ukrainian energy supply.
Not all software requires babying and constant updates. These already work for most people and most use cases.
You do realize that zoning and other prohibitions stop this from happening right? Per my deed, I am limited to one vehicle not to exceed 1500 lbs cargo capacity.

Ideally I could just buy one of the nearby undeveloped lots and use that for any additional parking needs. Except, the zoning and the lot restrictions prohibit that.
It has the feel of the recorded music industry when Napster was in full swing.
You can only be independent if you are physically and mentally capable of driving a car, have the financial resources to do so. If you're sick or don't want to shell out hundreds of dollars per month for transportation, then you're not independent. And if your car breaks down, you're not independent. Affordable public transport and trains etc provide true freedom. For example, there's much more freedom to travel in Europe.
Yep, and this would only apply to "new or substantially renovated buildings", so if plentiful visitor parking is a feature you want in your new condo, you can make sure to buy in a property that has that.
The same reason it was always spilling to look back at if you had mined bitcoin or kept whatever you mined early or not cashed out when it was cents. The vast majority of people that weren't true believers early would have cashed out in the first few percentages of its rise, because the vast majority of the time the the right thing to do.

Tech billionaires are walking embodiments of survivorship bias. It's like if lotto winners went around espousing their strategies for success.

Edit: whoops, s/confirmation bias/survivorship bias/, but both are kinda true.
Yet, this argument doesn't seem persuasive to the creators of such technology.

https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-execs-screen-time-child...
The article converted all the measurements for a US audience, but the "square feet across" line halfway down is the only one they jumped on. Plus questioning why not just use diameter at the bottom of their comment.
I don't think the OSS services market (I'm assuming you mean Red Hat, etc.) extracts disproportionate value from GitHub. If anything, I'd expect those companies to pay handsomely for their access -- mine certainly does, and we're primarily open source.
Dr Manhatan, obviously. Because he has not a super heros mindset in a world of fake super heros and doesn't conform or even try to belong.
Anecdotally, my friends who've had kids in the last 10 years are much more strict about social media than people who had kids 20 years ago.

Newer parents have had the benefit of hindsight and got to see firsthand how fucked places like Facebook can be.

But I'm not sure what the national trend is.
I'd like to aim for something better than "just as bad as always"
The fact that you handled Google data in the first place and kindly begged them to detect and delete sensitive ones is slightly out or order.
The thing is regulate apps in first place.
Oh please, research means nothing in this context when you need to ship product and work on the dev and user experience.
> this cannot just be wielded on any unsuspecting person

...yet.
It wouldn’t be a dealbreaker for me if I was buying a low cost used car, although at this point it has been around for long enough that even the beater Camry rental I’m driving right now has it.

But if I’m paying big bucks for a new car I can’t imagine not having CarPlay. Ironically it’s the expensive “high-tech” brands like Tesla and Rivian that don’t support it.
You are living in a democracy. Just one with conservatives who have not over the decades had any concern for the pile of bodies generated by a myriad of things (from AIDs to COVID to guns to healthcare to drugs) unless they could blame a Muslim.
I am pretty sure the next step is "they fight you", before you win.
While they are exaggerating robber knights were a total thing where two nobles feuding would rob/kill each others peasants as part of it. Different times and places might have rules against it, the Holy Roman Empire very famously outlawed it but actual enforcement on the ground was minimal because there is nobody around to actually enforce those decrees. This isn't going into actual wartime conflicts at all in which case mass murder of non combatants was absolutely a common thing that was essentially sanctioned.
Torture is notoriously unreliable for retrieving accurate information. Abu Ghraib was just a reflection of America’s unthinking sadism on the global stage, not comparable to a mind reading machine.
I think a lot of adults misapprehend that kids chatting with friends is the same as adults arguing with strangers on HN and Redditm
The only way to stop this from happening in the long term is to educate users that companies are spying on them, and tell them about the tools to prevent it.

Depending on site owners and spyware companies, like Facebook, to solve the problem is super naive, and will never solve it. They directly benefit from these "leaks," and so they have no motivation to prevent them.
Or it's just cathartic to laugh at the king, even by the king's vassels (Guardian). Are foreign powers weaponizing US dysfunctional to undermine US society, sure. Are their collective impact remotely as effective as dysfunctional US media weaponizing said US dysunfction for views for massive domestic and international audiences, probably not. Past some point ground reality in US is doing most of the work, pressing these buttons by external forces is just filler work to pass the time. It's not even active measures to undermine US society at this point when US society is doing most of the undermining.
This law will have no effect on rural places where parking is abundant. Yes, it prevents places like Copperopolis from passing laws that require more parking, but individual businesses will still build abundant parking because their customers want it and land is cheap.

Dense places do not have the tools to correct the problem themselves due to the coordination problems mentioned in the parent comment. It's a pure game theory situation where nobody wants to act first.

One could imagine a more targeted law that only applied to municipalities within X distance of a Y population density municipality, so you try to sharp-shoot the satellite suburbs that want the benefits of big-city density without the costs. But such targeted laws are also pretty hard to get right.
> > nor did I understand why I was reading dozens of meticulously reported, almost snuff-film-like pages about his journey into ketamine addiction and mania. None of this means that “Wonder Boy” is a bad or dull book—on the contrary, it should be mandatory reading for anyone who is interested in big tech.

The Hsieh story is a sad one, but I really find it disingenuous for this article to suggest that Hsieh is representative of “Big Tech”. Hsieh’s story is so bizarre because he got pulled into a vortex of drug addiction and self-destruction, but that’s not the normal “big tech” experience.

It’s getting tiring to read journalist pieces who look at the extreme outliers of tech (Holmes, SBF, Hsieh) and try to tell us that everyone is like this.
All good; people like different things. I'm with OP on this one, but reasonable people can disagree.
I’ve experienced a lot of exasperation recently as the sports and clubs that my kids are involved with only communicate the practice schedule and meeting times over WhatsApp.
You have to lug around a giant bulky laptop and you can't even call people on it! We're a long way from mobile computing.

Anyways, even given current limitations, I'd likely side with the very researchers working on such. They explicitly highlight privacy reasons as a serious concern. Going out of their way to highlight misuse through bypassing requirements (cooperation of subject) and intentionally misinterpreting for nefarious reasons.
My position here is certainly debatable but IMO the pace of development in AI as a whole is actually pretty lackluster, and instead appears monumental because of the massive influx of VC dollars (and development of computing hardware!) which allows for these more and more monolithic models. Training larger and larger models doesn't really represent "development" to me in the sense I usually think of it. The largest hurdle with AI, and one that LLM has not and likely will never solve, is that it doesn't truly understand anything at all, but is just instead (in simple terms) a large matrix of inputs to outputs. The areas where current AI falls flat on its face are areas where it will never be able to encroach as it works today, no matter how many TPU hours you waste on learning.
My point was that this is _not_ a professional context. It's a personal blog. This would be inappropriate if he were giving this talk at his job, but... he's not. So I'm not sure how you can make any assumptions about how he behaves in a professional setting.
Legally, a corporation is a person. It's not a human being, but it is a person.

This was not some accident of the law: this was deliberately designed hundreds of years ago and is well understood outside of internet comment sections.
Alright. The American obsession to use random things instead of the international system of units is weird and funny so I thought you were joking about it.
I've heard similar stories from others. My Nest doorbell has issues, too, unless someone is right on the porch. I'm ready to get cameras but waiting for the next Prime Day when I can probably pick up two Rings for the price of one Nest cam (and maybe even a previous gen doorbell?). The multi-app thing, as most others have noted, is also infuriating and pathetic at this point. Not OK, Google.
The most stunning and accessible comparison between Hubble and James Webb for me is still the pillars of creation images. A few weeks ago I was in the planetarium at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville where they faded from the Hubble image into the James Webb image. That was truly a sight to behold. In general the presentation there was one of the best I have ever seen.

Edit: I think this video is exactly what they showed. Of course, in this case the bigger your monitor the better. https://youtu.be/f8q8ZIXf_Rw?t=67
> where he didn’t make any meaningful contribution.

Super curious about this, what more can you share?
The same thing plays out with regards to other things, strip clubs being a great example. Nearby jurisdictions don't allow strip clubs for example. But conveniently, the actual jurisdiction border looks like some sort of swiss cheese or jigsaw puzzle. Where the strip clubs right there beside the city and somehow zoned into another city, which allows them.
It is absolutely a real JVM.

From the link:

"CheerpJ is based on an unmodified OpenJDK environment, guaranteeing the same behavior on the browser compared to a native JVM. It includes many emulation layers to ensure Filesystem, Networking, Printing, Clipboard and many other subsystems work seamlessly."

Did you actually manage to find anything that works in OpenJDK but not in CherpJ 3.0?
Kaiser user here: I have been able twice in the past three years to get a same day appointment for something which presented as emergent on the previous evening.
A lot of talk about ai cores. Is that just a fancy way of saying the chip is good at making parallel computing?

Also is this chip only really suitable for missions or is this chip also suitable for something like an orbiting datacenter? Or would the earths magnetosphere be able to protect terrestrial chips in orbit from radiation?
I believe even in airplane mode it’s been shown that your phone will still send general location data back to your carrier once back online but I don’t recall specifics
Resocks – An Encrypted Back-Connect Socks Proxy for Network Pivoting
> the systemic factors around why Twitter turned bad.

Being controllable by one guy who does dumb stuff on a whim?

That's a tough, tough nut to crack, I think.

On one hand you can just make something totally open, and then it turns into a "hive of scum and villainy" and normal people don't want anything to do with it (something like: https://www.upworthy.com/bartender-explains-why-he-swiftly-k... )

Or you can have strong moderation and ownership. When that goes well, like HN, it's about as good as it gets in terms of being a mostly pleasant community to participate in. But that could all go away, if, say, YCombinator sold it to the Saudis or the Kardashians or whatever...

I can't for the life of me figure out why someone who was doing some genuinely cool stuff like rockets would want to get involved with something where even when it's working pretty well, people are going to complain about it and think it's unfair.
Meta open-sources multisensory AI model that combines six types of data
> CA and WA have had some recent wins with state-level zoning reform.

It's too early to call this a win. In my personal experience, giving decision making power to those without intimate knowledge of an area generally leads to poor results. There is a total mismatch incentives. Local residents are heavily invested in their town and want to keep it nice. Non-local officials, however, have no ties to the community and are willing to damage communities to meet some political objectives. Two personal examples:

1. The state government constructed a bridge over a small creek by my condo on the outskirts of NYC. They performed a traffic study saying this would have no impact on traffic, but locals knew this to be a lie and no one wanted this completed. When there's no traffic, this bridge saves you 5 minutes from driving to the next crossing. Now that this crossing has been completed, it's basically become an additional lane of the highway during rush hour. It's extremely dangerous to walk around as frustrated motorists speed through red lights. If you need to run an errand with your car in the morning, you need to leave at least an hour for a trip that used to take 15 minutes.

2. In the town I live now, there are certain roads maintained by the county. You can tell which ones are which because crossing the county roads as a pedestrian is extremely dangerous. Multiple kids have been hit by cars this year. The county doesn't care and the town is powerless to change the county roads.

I really believe that it's important that locals have the power to influence their environment that impacts their day-to-day life.

Also, I hate how every issue in the U.S. is framed in a way that conveniently leaves out the capitalist class. Like yea, our housing issues are definitely caused by those damn NIMBYs who like their homes, not the investor class who owns 50 million housing units and are heavily subsidized by the federal government.
>It has already succeeded at being a decent social network for people for whom Twitter was too toxic.

I don't see Mastodon being less toxic, the whole mastodon.lol (~70k users) drama over a video game was a perfect example of that.

On the other hand it also showed to me that single user self-hosting is the only way to go with Mastodon.
Many people living in the 'Diabetes Belt' are plagued with medical debt
That sounds as if what actually was learned were the neural patterns associated with speaking. AFAIK its thinking out loud in you head causes activation in the motor neurons one would use for speaking.

Things like this have been tried before to help lock-in patents, unfortunately things like ALS seem to correlate with a weakening of those patterns.
What is Title 42, why is it ending and what’s happening now at the border?
It is inexcusably obnoxious to do without iCloud, thanks to iOS' hamstrung file system & APIs, plus lightning being stuck on USB 2.0 speeds. But I think this is why the iPad Pro is on USB-C now: so you can hook up an external hard drive with all your bigass files.
increasingly, search is handled by something other than SQL, so this is less relevant than it used to be
There are some pretty major differences between the Soviet development model and the US one that make it a bit questionable to posit that just because there aren’t parking minimums, we’ll end up with the same problems.

I don’t think any private developers are going to start throwing up commie blocks anytime soon.
Introvert's Guide to Confident Presentations
Why the filter on race? And why are you comparing a rate in a subset of US population to the rate for the entire population in other countries?

Edit: typo
Ya I was perhaps a bit harsh.

NAT is a great idea in principle to connect networks in a scalable way. There are various UDP hole punching techniques that (depending on the devices) can be used repeatedly to get through multiple layers of NAT. Vs something like UPnP, which from what I understand, has poison pills which prevent it from communicating past 1 layer of NAT. So some of the features I complained about were probably engineered intentionally through a great deal of effort, and I might have even supported those efforts at the time. They just didn't know the negative effects those solutions would have on the open internet for stuff like networked games and P2P file sharing (which the status quo just loves).
Think about it as a transformer of bits rather than text. Any data can be transformed really.