skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's well known that private corps are reluctant to engage and sign contracts with coops.
Invasive security measures that constantly take audio and video of you when you are working absolutely helps address the “Investment banker tells his college buddy about the deal” step.

Investment banker cannot tell his college buddy about the deal around work hardware. Anybody that does gets caught. This will result in catching the dumbest criminals, but it absolutely counters one of the steps in your “most common workflow.”

I don’t agree with this level of surveillance, but let’s not act like invading someone’s privacy isn’t effective at preventing/prosecuting crime.
I’ll have to dig it up but the last interview I saw with him, he was focused more on existential risk from the potential for super intelligence, not just misuse.
Python is great for stuff which could technically be a shell script, but really shouldn't; it essentially replaced Perl.
In the top 50 of the referenced global rankings[1], there are 5 non-western universities. The highest one ranked at 13 (Japan), then 27 (Japan), then 31 (South Korea), and finally 44 and 49 (China).

[1] https://cwur.org/2023.php
Show HN: Python library to add voiceovers to Manim videos programmatically
The solution to negative unintended consequences is not to trigger more and hope that the next lot are positive.
Surely you would think differently if you were working in a heavily regulated environment with hefty fines and even heftier publicity stakes. It would be crazy if these restrictions were not in place.

Nobody will care about your average web development shop working on the usual stuff. Why would they spend all the money and resources to track you?

Once you have worked in both environments you realize it's just not that big a deal. I do have my private laptop anyway, and I prefer to keep it separate from workplace stuff anyway - even when I was in the same position (working for a company who provided a laptop that I had full control over). It just seems healthy to me.
Surplus, which predates svelte and does much the same thing, also uses no vdom and has topped out performance benchmarks for a long time.
Especially if you do a lot of travel, having to consciously partition what you use your devices for is just inconvenient. Circumstances differ of course. But I've never had an issue intermixing personal and work use.
Did this disappear from the news feed? I saw this posted this morning and when I went to the main page later (and second page) it looked like it was gone just as it was starting to get traction…
DHH and 37signals are saving $7M by leaving the cloud. Should you?
On the same page is a Zoom option that gives you a magnifying pane you can move around, and I know there's a way to increase the system font size as well.
Took up journaling a few years ago, because I was miserable.

Struggled to do it regularly, frequency dropped off. Less frequent entries meant longer entries, because I tried to keep up with what was happening. Later on I just journaled at important (read: unhappy, difficult) events. Even that dropped off. During all this, journaling just made me more miserable, because I couldn't even do that minor unimportant thing properly.

So from my experience, don't. Just another thing to worry and despair about.

YMMV, of course.
What Is Directional Ice Freezing?
To be clear, I'm not arguing for subsidies; just that if they stopped completely and the prices paid by supermarkets / consumers didn't increase, the farms would go out of business.
That’s not always the case
You can look into how many studies are done in currently used chemicals, spoiler is about 10%, when the chemical is declared unsafe like biphenol, they come up with a a non studied version. Ie: biphenol b and so the games goes
Flaaash!
shouting in Will Shatner voice
While I think it needs goals to be some kind of AGI, it certainly can plan and convince people of things. Also, seems like the goal already exists maximize shareholder value. In fact if AI can beat someone at chess and figure out protein folding and figure out fusion plasma design, why is it a stretch to think it can't be good at project management. To me a scenario where it leads to an immediate reduction in the human population of some moderately large % would still be a bad outcome. So, even it you just think of it as an index of most human knowledge it does need some kind of mechanism to manage who has access to what. I don't want every to know how to make a bomb.

Is a license the best way forward I don't know but I do feel like this is more than a math formula.
Or the episode of Black Mirror where everyone's bedroom was a small room with only a bed and walls that ran TV shows 24/7 and took up the entire walls and ceiling with shows and ads.
Upvote here. Good suggestion. This would be more accurate and less click bait-y.
«However, it’s detectable in many foods, in up to one-third of U.S. drinking water»
Where is the code / model they trained?
> they're the "people people"

I think even that varies—partly by the nature of the organization.

Most HR people I have known have not been "people people" so much as they have been "process people"—they lived for rules and procedures being meticulously spelled out and required to be followed to the letter.

(...And then there's the finally-now-former head of HR I knew who was mostly just a "platitudes person"—any problem that came to her, she had a whole bunch of pleasant-sounding drivel to say to get the person with the problem to go away, only later to realize their problem was never going to be solved, at least not by HR.)
Easy mode: If you are in the US, try looking up the Savannah Institute. They do some fantastic work to develop and research regenerative agricultural practices and they can use your money :-)

Medium mode: Find a motivated young people that want to start a regenerative agricultural enterprise. Support them in some meaningful way. Agriculture will need to be changed from the bottom up to some important extend and that needs capital and other input. Access to land is expensive and farming involves a lot of bureaucracy both issues that you are probably well placed to support with.

Hard mode: Become a farmer! You don't need to cultivate 300 acres to be one. Find something (chickens, nut trees, bees, peaches, etc.) you are passionate about and that fits into your local context, spend a year or two to become an armchair expert, visit 10 other people already doing it and then get a bit of land and do it yourself. Depending on what you choose, a decent sized backyard can be a serious farming enterprise.
Right, thanks a lot for noticing this and for the links. Makes sense.
Whats to stop people from just taping black construction paper over the 'special ads screen?'
Lol I've never heard about people being afraid to get out of the terminal. In, yes :) Especially Windows and Mac users find the terminal (and the registry) very scary in my experience. I've even seen legit IT people that are super scared of changing values in the registry or plist/defaults on Mac. Though Windows admins are getting more used to it again now that MS is pushing PowerShell as a management tool so heavily (which makes sense, it's much easier to manage infrastructure as code)

I use both GUI and Terminal yes (KDE though because I hate Gnome's opinionated design :). I can control it fully with the keyboard but on a remote system I'd still prefer to do things inside the ssh session. Usually because I've jumped through different systems and forwarding it the whole way is a PITA. I never really use sshfs for this reason.

In fact no I rarely need to view pics either, it's just not really one of the things I would do on remote systems. But it's nice to have the ability if the need does arise.
I don’t think GP is making a moral argument. It seems more they are arguing that novel techniques lead to novel consequences, which could be harmful. GP assesses the potential risks outweigh the benefits of a new process when a process with known consequences exists.

If their argument is not about morality but instead about risk avoidance, would it still be fallacious reasoning? They could even still be wrong (because they incorrectly calculated the risks) without suffering a fallacy, right?

I am genuinely asking. I don’t know the answer.
If you are into a lot of features: Fair Mail
If you want to keep it simple: K-9 Mail
Steven Colbert once jokingly said, "Reality has a well known liberal bias".

It should probably be the other way around, that liberals have a reality bias, but it doesn't quite land. Liberalism is based on what can be proven. Especially in science, starting with some preconceived reservations leads to inaccurate models. If you can't articulate it, all the worse. Even things like categorization and taxonomy can't account for our in-built intuitions, there's always an exception. So, we really must try a tabula rasa type approach. This tends towards a, you guessed it, a world view more constrained by reality, which typically falls left (see, most of academia).

I'd say holding on to heuristics is good, but I don't think we'd be where we are today by not trying to rethink, destruct, unravel, play, squish, open many mental gateways.

If your contention is with Whig history then we might agree. But I don't think there's any surity in being sure.
As someone who owns a deluge and seems to know about this music community quite well, what do you think the prospects are for this to get a lot of active contributors? Do you see there being a lot of exciting improvements made?

Recently bought mine so very happy to hear this news!
Not to ruffle any feathers, but I notice this trend on HN also. People will post something the city they live in and drop all kinds of hints... except the name. Same for employers. Strange. It's like we need to play the old boardgame "Guess Who?"!
From that article, it sounds like this wouldn't be commingled inventory, as it's both private label and an opt in process.

That said the obvious way to avoid amazon commingling conclusively is to buy it directly from the Trezor shop.
So what decaf isn’t ?
I wouldn't say I 'love' it, but at the same time I don't really get all the hate. I've recently moved from a large'ish (50+) dev shop to a much smaller team of 3. JIRA was and is used at both places. It continues to serve both orgs equally well.

Perhaps what people hate are all the ceremonies and bureaucracy that arise around JIRA in dysfunctional organisations, and not the product itself? The red tape and bullshit was just starting to take over at the old place (part of the reason I jumped ship), which made 'standups' that should have taken 5-10 minutes a 90-minute soul-destroying odyssey. But that's not JIRA's fault either.
TCE is present at Lowry in Denver, an old air force base that is now a huge development of multi-million dollar homes and townhomes.

This article is from 2000, before the housing development began. People knew TCE was there but the housing development happened anyway

https://extras.denverpost.com/news/news1126.htm

It’s also at Stapleton, another huge residential area, and previously Denver’s primary airport:

“At the former Stapleton Airport, which is also being redeveloped, the TCE is 35 to 40 feet deep, according to Tom Gleason, spokesman for Forest City Stapleton Inc., the private developer overseeing the building.

He said it won't have any effect on the redevelopment, which will include homes and commercial areas.”

Indeed, it didn’t. The redevelopment happened anyway. And now I’d guess it’s in the air, water, and of course the soil.
Historically, Microsoft -- itself an entity plagued with anti-trust sentiment in the past -- slagged the GPL in public for years, but was unable to do anything about its ascent and propagation.

Now they may have found a way. And that I think is the potential anti-trust issue here.

What is one of the main obstacles to Microsoft's monopoly dominance in the software sphere? The Linux kernel, it's everywhere. And it's under the GPL, a license explicitly resistant to "Embrace, extend, and extinguish" (old school Gates/Balmer MS). Microsoft right now is not emphasizing an anti-Linux, anti-GPL focus, but it clearly has in the past and it (and others) could definitely do so again in the future.

Systems like CoPilot have the potential to be for the GPL (or other copyleft type licenses) what cryptocurrency 'mixers' or 'tumblers' are to money laundering laws. A potential to be an automated way to pull pieces of IP out of those licenses and into other codebases without respecting the obligations that go with it.

A lot of the dialog on here and other threads on this forum in the past shows me that understanding of copyleft licenses among the open source and developer community is really low right now. This is the license that the Linux kernel is licensed under, it is extremely important. There should be better recognition of the rights and responsibilities afforded by it.

The GPL was explicitly formulated as a way to protect portions of the hobbyist and free software community from potentially predatory commercial interests. Remember it's always possible to attempt to negotiate a commercial non-copyleft license with an entity that has released its source under the GPL. But if you don't, you have to respect its distribution requirements. It's fine to be personally opposed to using the GPL for your own work, but it is important to understand the obligations that come with it. And that includes systems that harvest data from it automatically.
I've seen people take Bob Martin's concepts and do some truly awful things with it. Mind-bogglingly awful contortions of concepts into classes in arrangements that have to be sourced from demonic inspiration.

At the same time, I've seen the best code of my entire life formed from his concepts. Code that will last decades, far outlasting the UIs that feed it data or the databases that will store it.

I think the difference is all on whether the developers who wrote it understood that the "concepts" are not meant to be put into code on a 1 for 1 basis. For example, making a AddToDoUseCasePresenterInteractor class is literally taking the concept and making it 1 to 1 in the code. On the other hand, writing domain appropriate code, minimizing accidental complexity, and recognizing the clean code concepts as emerging from groups of classes and methods and packages in a code base leads to really clean, testable, maintainable, and FAST TO WRITE code.

I think the single biggest improvement for java programmers is to group all the classes related to a use case together in the same package - which means STOP MAKING "controller", "service", "model", etc packages where every different unrelated except by use is just dumped. If you're working on a part of the code base you should just have to change classes in one single folder. A new feature should just be a new folder. That change alone speeds up teams by huge factors.
Fairly confident, within 2x or so.

But it barely matters, it's not like I'd inject the whole cup into my veins and then see what happens.

If the caffeine was too high (within reasonable variations), you'd notice and slow down consumption before it mattered. If it's too low, you can just drink more. You can do it by feel, which is I think what just about everyone does.

Some of it might be placebo, but if so I'm not sure it changes anything really, since the goal is just to feel a certain way anyway.
With eye on Ukraine, Chinese general wants unconventional warfare capabilities
It just seemed pretty heavy and made up of a lot of different services. I'm sure it would be fine if I wanted to take the time to understand it and really plan out how it fits into my deployment, but I don't; I just want to read logs sometimes.
Apple's assistive and accessibility features (on mobile) has always been way ahead of Android's - but this taking it to the next level. Talk about a moat.
I don't find it surprising at all. Many of my clients and other individuals I know are still using PCs from 2014 or before.

Hardware from that era is still very capable, especially for basic office or home usage.

Even if those computers originally ran Windows 7, or 8, or 8.1, pretty much all of the ones I'm familiar with have been upgraded to Windows 10 since then. They could probably run Windows 11 just fine, too, if it weren't for these new requirements that don't really seem all that necessary.

Being able to use Windows 11 just isn't a compelling enough reason for these kind of people and organizations to buy new hardware, and to go through the hassle of replacing PCs that are otherwise working fine and have been for nearly a decade or longer.
How People Reacted to Greatest Inventions in History
In this post, we’ll explore some of the greatest inventions - from printing press to generative AI - that have, one by one, reshaped the way we consume information, learn, and communicate with each other.
Don't let facts get in the way of euro exceptionalism.
> Exactly. Social media is accessible through smartphones, laptop, any connected device. If the reason is social media, then talking about smartphones in itself is really a mistake: they would not have existed, the same phenomenon would have happened too.

No, those other devices are not attached to your hip every waking moment, they don't interrupt your regular thought patterns and daily activities, they don't track your movements through physical space and people you physically associate with, and people mostly don't take them to bed and use them before sleep and first thing after they wake up.

> In the 2010, globalization suddenly started to be this "thing that no one really want to happen but is happening anyway", even by the pro-market people. It changed way people see themselves, they start to feel powerless. It affects parents and therefore children, it affects social media, it affects popular cultures, movies, ... In the 2010, there was a real change in mentality, globally, about the fact that the globalization may drive us towards the wall.

1. Prove the existence of this global shift in attitude against globalization.

2. Again, the trends are among teens and pre-teens. Prove that this cohort knew or even cared about these issues. There is no trend of parental well being decreasing, therefore your claim that this would not apparently affect parents but would somehow affect children is bordering on the absurd.

> Also, social media existed since ages too, before the crisis you talk about, and yet, you mention it in your equation.

Not the algorithmically curated feeds optimized to drive engagement. Not phones with self-facing cameras.

> And I cannot take you seriously if you are thinking that complex social phenomenon is as simple as adding or removing a technological gadget.

Printing press. Nuclear weapons. Refrigeration. Aviation. The computer. All technological gadgets that had dramatic social effects.

> I have read them, and I have also read other articles showing how those trends in these articles have been cherry-picked.

Not "showed", "claimed", and poorly at that. They're wrong. Everyone who has ever quit social media for any extended period has reported improvements in well being. Those are direct interventions that test the dose-response hypothesis.
Sounds more like it was trained on too much incomplete code.
This paragraph from the article explains the significance of the reported result (and the motivation behind the study):

>> About 90% of Parkinson’s cases can’t be explained by genetics, but there have been hints that exposure to TCE may trigger it. The new study, led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), represents by far the strongest environmental link between TCE and the disease. Until now, the entire epidemiological literature included fewer than 20 people who developed Parkinson’s after TCE exposure.

That is to say, the relation between TCE and Parkinsons had, until now, no strong evidence to support it. It seems (not sure, not my field) that now it does.

Also note, from the article:

>> “Alarmingly, TCE vapor intrusion is widespread today and ranges from an elementary school situated on top of a former chemical facility in Shanghai, China, to multimillion-dollar homes built on a previous aerospace plant in Newport Beach, California,” the authors of an accompanying editorial in JAMA Neurology write.
Software success seems to be 90% about advertising and finding innovative ways to destroy your competition. Microsoft are the masters of that approach.
From a NYS perspective: At least for the purposes of drawing unemployment, there's a similar concept here, "constructive dismissal". I know someone who had their job changed almost completely underneath them, into something that they had repeatedly stated was unacceptable to them. They quit, and were able to claim unemployment exactly as if they had been fired without cause.
Why would anyone willingly accept these conditions? [0]

[0] - https://www.jpmorganchase.com/content/dam/jpmc/jpmorgan-chas...
So I agree that easily available speech controls would be a nice benefit, but Books is fully compatible with VoiceOver already (and has been since VoiceOver’s launch).
>We removed 1.5 million plants at 21 events in seven state parks this year.

I have been involved in Ardisia and Tallow removal efforts here in the US south. When the infestation is this bad, you're not going to solve it with mechanical methods, no matter how hard you try and how many people you have doing it. Chemicals can definitely help, but they often have unexpected detrimental side effects to other native plants and animals (though sometimes they have unexpected beneficial effects on other native plants - I've seen rare prairie natives pop up in Louisiana after Triclopyr killed off overcrowded baccaris under power lines).

I wonder, could we develop a "gene drive" for plants?
Why is it mind-blowing? People are worried that another ineffective vaccine is going to be forced on them.
All projects like that are done for money or energy first though. We know they all come with possible environmental damage and all they do is try to mitigate it. These projects keep being done and we don't bat an eye.

This is different in that it has environmental improvements as goals. Lower sea levels a bit, enrich local ecosystem, etc. So it's a bit sad that when it comes to projects like there is always paralysis but not when we just want more stuff.
They did... the control was Camp Pendleton.
Never used it. I’ve poked around it without a login account. I was amazed that the people I supervised, who clearly did not like each other at work were linked together positively on LinkedIn. Too much BS I felt - example: I coordinated a weekend fund raiser, putting in 40 hrs of my time, a volunteer showed up for 2 hrs and his linked post looks like he ran the whole event. I would not have even thought of posting this.

I did not need LinkedIn to land a solid post retirement job in another industry.
I’m curious how analysts price in the small % chance that China snaps their finger and destroys Apple’s manufacturing supply chain.
Isn’t it illegal to learn from leaked source code? Or even to view it at all?
Yes my idea would be to have a full Ubuntu Desktop that I can use for a project, and then save it on our git. So when my colleagues have to work on this specific project they can just copy the container and dive in.

Of course this would also work with a regular Distrobox container but that requires more terminal action than some colleagues are comfortable with. Plus it's hard to see sometimes when a GUI app is from a container and when it's on your host. It's almost too seamless.

So having a single "window" into a full ubuntu container would be my preferred option.
Rive: A new graphics format for the interactive era
I'm curious, is it not something that you can do automatically through some extension of ICAO 9303 by just talking to the chip directly?
Interesting article. I wonder how, say, builders or architects feel when a building of theirs is demolished.