skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> computer vision training images come from self-driving cars’ cameras

Isn't this just another way of saying "we put cameras in human environments pointing at semantically relevant things"? Self driving cars aren't looking at rooftops or the inside of drains or straight down from high up. They're positioned where people are often looking from at things in human environments. Dogs, to use that example, are implicitly the subjects. We care deeply that self driving cars can see and recognize dogs (or one would hope).

If self driving cars had cameras mounted randomly at various angles and the cars drove without direction off-road wherever they pleased and took off like a drone to observe from the sky, you can be assured dogs would not be easily recognizable without supervision.
"Quantum" works.

That was my second attempt, I tried "physics" first but oh boy was I naive.
I think the attack tptacek is suggesting is where a government replaces your key with their key, and your nameservers with their nameservers (perhaps with a passthrough for non-interesting records), at which point they can send whichever responses they want with a valid signature.

In your example the Czech government would be the bad actor, but the US government could be the bad actor for .com.
Rubbish. It was Twitter.
Yes those ones.
That would certainly explain why Stability is having trouble raising money.
ar already exists and is a different format! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ar_(Unix)
I “never worked a day in my life” until I turned 19 and found my first job. You don’t need to work in you mid teens to find a meaningful job as an adult.
What valuable skills do you expect a kid to have in a slaughterhouse? The jobs are not safe for anyone. They only exist because lax regulation allow hiring of illegal immigrants with little or no oversight. They are the equivalent of Uber rent extraction except they damage your body instead of your vehicle.
Could you point to the specs you’re using please? I’m seeing 1800 for the ID.3 and around 1160 for the most recent petrol Golf.
LibreOffice will not be part of RHEL
How about a system like the one dutch highschools use. In that system, the students get the books from school at the start of the year and return them at the end of the year (the school owns the books). That way the books are for sure reused, and the price is reduced.
I sympathize - it must’ve been stressful to go through this.

Yet I just can’t stop to imagine the other side’s perspective and it’s making me laugh:

I’m sitting in front of the monitoring dashboard, chewing a sandwich, and then a spike of intranet activity shows on one of the charts. I look at the dashboard and immediately notice that it’s effect of some SMS broadcast. Nothing to see here: lazy Tuesday.

Then on the dashboard with user agents new column shows. 1 request. Curl’s user agent sticks out like a sore thumb.

“Oh, someone probably just copy & pasted contents of the text message to check it out through curl in order to be safe” wouldn’t take place in Top 10 thoughts that’d I have after seeing that.
So queer the fandom got booted out of the anime cons it spawned out of for being so. Unchained from the narrow views of the anime community, our power only grew.

Essential viewing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv0QaTW3kEY
These are ballpark numbers to be sure, and yeah, my off the cuff comment didn't get that exactly right. I also simplified things quite a bit to try to get the broader point across - Thanks for following up!
Indeed. Tangentially, there is another side to the coin.

The antithesis of this is the contract model, when a client comes to you and asks you to make something specific, rather than describing what they need. In this case they are almost always wrong. They’ll rarely admit it unless you show them some amazing alternative, though.

Requirements = a set of problems to be solved. More often you get handed a diagram of a 12” tall Stonehenge sketched on a napkin with exceeding confidence that it will be 12 feet tall.

Then they yell at you for doing what they said.
>Texas government officials opening up way too early, sacrificing both economy and health instead of just economy

That is sad to hear. How much did they sacrifice? Can you point to data so this never happens again?
UBI in the ideal world replaces welfare, food stamps, and rental assistance. It's supposed to be enough for a person to live a basic, decent but pretty no-frills life. I personally don't think it would work, as it ignores economics and human nature. But that is how I understand it.
>>> - people saying that there are "more performant" devices. Sure, there are. How do they perform in terms of kernel support and documentation?

>> One of the main options pointed at is low-power x86 boxes, which are better than Pis ever were. The rest of the ARM ecosystem is, I agree, poor.

> In terms of what? Battery usage at idle? BOM to operationalize the design? Surely not.

I was responding to kernel support; x86 boxes can usually just run straight mainline Linux with no problem, which is far better than most of the ARM ecosystem (even Pis aren't running mainline, they're just a well-supported downstream).

> Android streaming boxes. I'm pretty sure it's dead simple to wipe those and put Kodi on them

There are alternatives, but then we're back to spotty support, fragmented ecosystems, and using a Pi for video streaming is still a valid usecase.
fwiw, it took 5m to read. Nb: I was already familiar with a lot of the terms in the post (partly because I've already experimented relaying IP over Cloudflare's DurableObjects instead of S3), and skipped the dialectics.
Interviewing around Munich and big players have policies between 3 days in the office on the strict end and “please, show sometimes in the office” on easy going end. C’mon, it’s big step forward already from 5 years ago when people had occasionally Fridays home office. However I am stuck in the company with toxic culture from 1995, they really exist! Full back to the office!
it's a well studied problem with many standard algorithms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocktail_party_effect
Yes. We should determine who has the ability to write books and then provide for their needs.
If you actually click the study link in this article and go to the actual study itself (https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...) you have this para:

"Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Ms Bloch reported employment with stock options at Kinsa Inc during the conduct of the study. No other disclosures were reported."
Researcher Who Publishes Study Every Two Days Reveals Darker Side of Science
We all start somewhere. What's the problem?
Respectfully, I wouldn't want my kid to wait till 19 to do that. I want them to get a job the moment they turn 14-15 (whatever the legal age is in my state). I am very privileged and want my kids to learn the value of money and what it takes to survive in the real world. I want them to work in a dirty shitty McDonalds where they see how tough the real world is. Yes I wouldn't send them to a meat packing plant but there is big difference between never working or just working cool summer jobs and working in a meat factory. I want my kids to experience some hardship where your boss is yelling at you to get shit done. As long as it is not full abuse. I want my kids to learn that the World is not rainbow and sunshines from an early age. I still love them to death and would die for them.
Reddit is making the case for why social media platforms need to be decentralized.
Glad to see we finally have some justification for harming children to reduce adult risk.
Investors hate a shrinking user base, so this move can massively backfire.
I was raking leaves when I was 13, and I started freelancing 15...

Why? Well, it started because I wanted to play Mario Kart on Super Nintendo...

There is something about developing a work ethic as a young person that is important. It starts with chores like mowing the yard.
This is building a SOA distributed monolith, which is kind of cutting off your nose to spite your face. I've been there - would not recommend.

It makes the system brittle, slow, and forces strong commitments that dependent services remain up (rolling releases with non breaking migrations, etc).

If I were to do it again, then I would first ensure that the infrastructure is there for inter-service communication to be done asynchronously, and that changes are eventually consistent. Maybe using a workflow manager like Camunda or Temporal. Or even just event choreography between services - either of those is better than a synchronous HTTP call chain of what will become 7 dependent services.
First priority, IMHO, is to support running on Linux and Apples.

For an open source business model consider "open core". Open source the core engine, and charge for additional features. I would recommend SQL Server and Oracle be paid enhancements as companies in that ecosystem are used to paying for tools. Keep postgres/MySQL/SQLite, etc open source as they are tools that developers using open source would be using.

Then charge through the roof for the additional features. I recommend at least two tiers: a lower price for access to the premium features, and an "Enterprise" tier which adds in support guarantees.

Don't do a one-time payment either. Make it a subscription to receive new updates etc.

The low tier could be ~$50/month, the high tier can be "contact for pricing": but if contacted start the discussion at $1000/month. Then allow them to negotiate a lower price, perhaps with your absolute floor being $500/month.

This is all armchair advice, so take it with a grain of salt. But I hope it is helpful.
Right. Not only does that bastard Gil Strang keep updating with new editions, he also is the publisher!
Besides paper notes and brainstorming with my own self on my whiteboard, I sometimes disconnect from the vpn and put myself offline in MSTeams for several hours, telling my manager and direct teammates that they can use pagerduty to ping me if urgency calls for my immediate availability, when wanting to focus on a specific task/piece of code/resesrch/document/architecture decision.

Context switches can really kill productivity. So much that sometimes I do much more work in a 2h window between 7am and 9am than the next 6-7 hours.
Re: the website not the article. It makes me so mad when they set the redirects to make it impossible to navigate away from the page.
What do you consider to be affordable? In the UK used RTX 3090s still go for well over 1k.
Dropbox integration with Google Workspace is ending
Definitely not, they are children after all and as such not yet ready to oversee the consequences of their choices - not because they are stupid but because they lack some essential skills which will come along later in their development. That is what it means to be a child, that is why children are not legally responsible for their actions, that is why they require adult supervision.
They'll[1] usually follow[2] that with a machine that picks the rails and ties/sleepers up and lays it back down on top of the newly-dropped ballast.

[1] For some value of "they". I don't know if Caltrain does it that way; most mainline US railroads do.

[2] That is, within a few days. Not necessarily within the time of someone hanging around to watch.
Good point, though the price will be similar. I unleashed my robotic dreams for no good reason.
One of my early tech jobs was working for a startup that created dynamic/randomized questions to go on a CD stuck in the back of text books. The same tech was used to create randomized online tests to go with the textbooks. Our biggest customer was Pearson, and once I realized the impact on students I was pissed. Completely eliminated sharing of books, and even simple things like group solving of problems since each student had unique problem sets.

Of course the same company fired me when I was fighting cancer, and then was acquired by Wimba. Oh and if T. Mack Brown reads this site, you can kiss my ass...
Not exactly. While that may have been the case way back in the past when AMD APUs were designed as a homonegnous CPU-GPU unit from the start, I can tell you that's not the case with the relatively modern 5000 series.

I need to go in the Bios and specify explicitly how much of the system RAM I want allocated exclusively of the integrated GPU and the rest stays available for system RAM.

The reason is because Ryzen 5000 APUs seem to be a job rushed out the door so they're just a Zen 3 CPU with a separate Vega GPU glued together on the same die, but they're not a homogenous design, designed to work as one unit, like the APU of the PS5, so memory wise they're unaware of each other, even though AMD calls them APUs, they're not really, but more like separate CPU and GPU on the same die.

I wish I knew about this limitation at the time, as Intel chips with integrated graphics have unified memory.
Have just checked financials of one of the providers. It appears that at least 50% of it goes to Sales General and Administrative expenses. Those don’t include educator salaries, buildings, or material. Those are all “admin” expenses.

Oh and another 14% gets invested - buildings and securities.
I've had the idea of signing up for the various AI services and then prompting the models with some test data and then drop in a unique, made-up key/value into a prompt, maybe a few times.... Something like, "Hey have you heard of Qwitzatteracht? The golf game??" (completely made up word and association)

And then, years from now, test out new models by asking "What is Qwitzatteracht?" And if the AI respond with anything involving it being a golf game, then... I'll know. I'll know my prompts were used for training their model.

Because I could see someone taking a loophole and analyzing data collected and determining that 'well, it is OK to train on prompts that did not include identifying information or private user data' and see the above simple prompt and it be classified as 'not private data' and then get shoveled into a model during a round of training.
I'm not convinced anyone's really concerned about it. It only gets this much coverage because it lets the parties fling poo at each other for political points.
Not really. Lung cancer is mostly due to smoking or radon. So don’t smoke and get your house tested.

Outside of that, it’s a crap shoot. My mom in law didn’t have either risk factor. PET scans can pick up but each one exposes you to radiation which can also cause cancer. So they generally don’t screen for low risk patients.
Why Are People Who Pushed for AI Now Signing So Many Doomsday Manifestos?
That seems pretty reasonable. Out of nowhere a user started running commands targeting malicious links. Could be control signals for an attack.
> The scientific community was focused on the danger to kids from COVID,

The scientific community wasn't focused on that, political pundits were focused on that. Specifically, by shouting loudly and repeatedly that because children aren't dying from COVID, we should keep schools open.

Those pundits never had a good answer for 'But while the children aren't dying/getting seriously sick from COVID, what about their parents/grandparents/etc?'
Critiques of Regime Thought come from non-approved sources.
sudo dnf remove libreoffice-*
> Why this is even controversial is a mystery to me.

Anything becomes controversial when you apply enough motivated reasoning to it.
Feel free to send me a message showing what it should look like. I may be missing something very obvious...
Lets set the PR disaster aside.

Musk has one of the biggest personal financial stakes of any CEO in history, and tons of experience, yet he seemingly didn't take two minutes to pause and consider if such action will financially harm the company.

Or maybe he did, and just... Couldn’t see how this would backfire? Even though a report claims he literally saw the risk in person?

Either explanation is so bizzare.
Funerals are generally for the benefit of the living, no?

Subsidizing the cost would be one thing—modern funeral expenses, at least in America, can get truly bananas—but taking over the arrangements themselves might deprive the dead's loved ones of a chance to hold specific religious rites, serve a meal with personal significance, choose a meaningful engraving for the headstone (and find a particular plot of land for them to come visit it later), and so on.

Rather than a burden on your loved ones, think of it as a chance for them all to say goodbye and share how much they're going to miss you!
https://stanforddaily.com/2023/05/25/stanford-professor-jay-...

> During the live broadcast, Bhattacharya said it was “an absolute honor” to work with Desantis and praised what he described as DeSantis’ abilities to make decisions on COVID-19-related issues despite criticism. He expressed support for DeSantis’ rolling back certain pandemic-induced restrictions, including school closures, saying, “Governor, you did the right thing when you opened the schools.”

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/health-care/article27487670...

> From March 2020, when the pandemic began, through March 22, 2023, Florida recorded 7,542,869 COVID-19 cases and 87,141 deaths, the 12th highest rate in cases and deaths per 100,000 people among the 50 states and Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico.

I'll be honest, if Jay Battacharya thinks Florida did a great job handling covid, i'm not sure i trust his judgement!
It does not matter much if the value of the remaining users also increase
Poor regulations in all those industries because they operate mostly in migrant labor and everyone looks the other way
It's not unnatural. Humans have always had to hunt or harvest their food, and find or construct shelters to live in.
Perhaps, but somehow our kids (toddler and primary school) haven't gotten COVID at school or anywhere else. They eat unmasked with other kids every weekday, and the toddler brings home all sorts of other illnesses. We tested whenever someone got sick in our family, but the kids still haven't gotten it.

I realize tests can have false negatives, but I would have expected that we parents would have also gotten sick, and that our symptoms would be notable enough for us to know if we'd had COVID. On the "anecdote" versus "data" spectrum, this is somewhere in the middle; on the one hand, it's just one family, but on the other hand, this has held up for multiple years.
> USB-C @ 100W is 20 volts at 4.5 amps

Clearly one of those numbers is wrong
This is the point critics are missing when they argue about Bitcoin's intrinsic value. Bitcoin has no value other than its network effects. Facebook, Reddit, Bitcoin, etc. are valuable because of their usage. Which makes them hard to replace even if they're not perfect.
The professor for the data compression class I took encouraged us to photocopy the pages from the textbook that we needed for the week. Turned out that he was the author and was very apologetic about the price of the textbook though he had no real control over it.
https://archive.is/X0jJq
Honestly it's so much better for work life balance and mental health to not have your work device present after the work day ends or on weekends.

I won't go back as long as I'm able.
The drawbacks of asynchronous request processing
> Plus, wouldn’t a reasonable critique not matter who wrote it?

Of course, but one problem with scientific critiques like this is that they are written towards laymen (this is on Twitter) who probably don’t have the understanding of whether a critique is reasonable or not. So the identity of the person who is performing the critique does have value in that context. In a true peer review scenario it shouldn’t be that way, scientific critiques should be evaluated on their merits alone.
Well none of the other example repetition usages are simple tautologies either. The entire post is about how repetitions that appear to be simple tautologies are actually communicating some meaning.
Why was Bitcoin an option?
Here's another weird idea, make everything older than 10yr free to digitally reproduce.

We cannot be funding things that are not truly new. I know that textbooks are well known for having multiple editions that pretty much just scramble the pages, but students should be able to map books around, and I bet that professors can also point out to the pages on older editions.
And of course, let's adopt Rust's logic with our new "Borrow Nagger", or just "Everything Nagger". When it compiles your code, it analyzes it, sends it out to a Reddit group and collects the comments and displays them as warning and error messages. No one is saying they'll make any sense relative to code, but if you've used C++ and templates, you'll feel right at home.
Abd of course, there's "syntax quality hightlighting", where we highlight your code in various colors based on what we think of the quality of it. Red = Really bad idea, Yellow, not good, but good for now, you'll refactor it later, green, good because you won't be at this job long anyway, and black on black or white on white if it's actually OK.
(Per the comment on refactoring, there's probably a note on the pyramids 'Pharoh - yeah, this is a hack, but we were in a rush, we'll fix it later. Bandaids for now'
Not if employers are taxed so much to fund UBI that they hire fewer workers. The ability to work and earn more is contingent upon enough jobs existing.

What would really happen is they would raise their prices to earn the amount of profit they deem necessary to be worth the trouble of being in business. Everything gets more expensive, and the UBI payments won't be enough to live on.
I use Virtualization.framework for OrbStack (https://orbstack.dev), which is a Docker Desktop and WSL alternative.

It's great overall, and fairly convenient, but it has a fair share of bugs and limitations. The Virtualization service crashes with various combinations of Linux kernel version, macOS version, and architecture (ARM/Intel), so making it stable in each setup takes quite a bit of work. Device support is limited (no USB, etc.), and workarounds have other limitations. Rosetta is really buggy.

The popular belief is that Virtualization.framework is inherently faster/lighter than other VMMs like QEMU, but I haven't found evidence to back it up. I spent a day prototyping a custom VMM (with an open-source base) and was able to get dynamic memory allocation working [1], as well as faster file sharing in some cases. There's a lot of other things I could do better (faster, simpler, more reliable) with a custom, tightly-integrated replacement.

But unfortunately, that's not an option. Apple doesn't allow third-party VMMs to set the necessary CPU flags for Rosetta. There are too many users relying on Rosetta for fast x86 emulation for me to ditch it, despite all its bugs.

So yes, I still use Virtualization.framework, but only because I have no choice.

Happy to answer other questions about the framework!

[1] https://twitter.com/kdrag0n/status/1645645284721184768
I truly don’t understand the mindset that suffering is not only something that we should not try to eliminate, but something that we should actually indoctrinate people into.
> it is going to do so, by no fault of the government itself, in a very inefficient way

Whose fault is it then? I mean if we agree that some governments/organizations are more efficient than others who else could we blame?

>UBI replacing many systems

For instance the British government spends about £2500 per capita on welfare. Even if admin etc. would cost nothing £200 per month is not exactly an amount which would allow you to not work, meaning people who can't actually work would starve/freeze/etc. to death without any additional support from the government or somebody else.
Setup a TUN/TAP device, which is a file one can read (egress packets) / write to (ingress packets). Setup appropriate ip routes.

Read (egress) packets from the TUN/TAP device.

Serialize them, assign sequence numbers, and upload them to S3.

On the recieve side, poll for newer objects (packets) in S3.

Write them to your TUN/TAP device.

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Here, the TUN device is a router using S3 as gateway.