skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Comics is literally the only thing I know Belgium for.

It always confuses me that such a small country is so prolific. If you tell me mthat the us or japan produce a large fraction of the world's comics, that's not surprising as they have large fraction of the first world's population. But Belgium, how do you explain that?
Cool! That actually exists, more or less: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-20462-6
Demand direct democracy.

Or in other words: nothing probably?
That explains why it was so quiet. Can we get another fire next weekend, I enjoyed the lack of IAD traffic flying a few hundred feet overhead.

But yeah, there's understandably no chill in this area with regards to airspace monitoring. An errant drone merits an investigation around here, I'm sure when the radar went out people were freaking out.
The therapy meme is just another result of monetizing every thing about our lives. There’s a whole industry that benefits from us thinking everyone needs therapy.

Sometime I wish we had a real, secular, replacement for the church that existed off of donations (with basically everyone donating for cultural reasons) and took care of education, medicine, community building and psychiatric support. One that wasn’t the government, obviously, since that has the monopoly on violence as well.
The saying presents it as a dichotomy, which is why the saying is wrong. It is also parroted way too often on HN.

It might as well be, "Never attribute to hunger that which can be explained by incompetence." Is it easier to see why that fails as any sort of useful proverb?
Sarsaparilla?
Would be nice to see the source :)
I recall reading/seeing somewhere that rear windows are getting smaller in newer models, so you could be putting pedestrians at risk by not using the rear camera.
You wrote:

>> Previous generations succumbed badly to gender essentialism... and as ever, left a mess for the next generations.

Perhaps previous generations--thousands of them? millions?--realized there's more to gender than blank-slate social constructionism. And the mess is self-created by a younger generation wanting to rebel for want of anything else to rebel against?

See how easy it is to apply ageism in the other direction? /s
I think that view might be a bit out of date.

Most of that stuff is available to external users in Google Cloud; so why isn’t Google Cloud more popular? I don’t have hard numbers handy, but it seems to me that GCP is behind both AWS and Azure in terms of dev mindshare.

GCP has plenty of great tools, but it can also be quite awkward to use, and it’s lacking some useful stuff like lightweight edge functions.
> Could you elaborate on this? It’s just not something I’ve ever witnessed, and I’ve never heard any direct accounts of it, so I would be very interested in hearing more about it.

It's been the policy at two companies I've worked at, and the policy has been enforced. Also I have seen it in some open source communities. For example, if you type "hey guys" into the Elm language Slack channel, you get this automated response:

> Terms like guys can make people feel like they're being left out! :scream: Let everyone and all the folks know you're talking to them! :hearts: :robot_face:

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> It sounds like you’ve shifted the discussion from communities (like GCC developers) to companies. Companies have HR departments, and they have their own ways of managing employee behaviors—so the discussion about how someone got in trouble at some company does not seem germane.

Companies are communities too. Often with shared, codified values. Like, you know, a code of conduct.

> If you’re making the argument that someone should be able to say “that’s what she said” in a work environment without consequences, then we disagree there. To me, it’s obvious that the joke is inappropriate at work.

That's not the argument I'm making, so don't construct a strawman, thanks.

It's clear to me you are not listening and instead you are relying on logical fallacies, so let's end the discussion here.
Funny (or sad) story:

When my student's first showed me SIRI, I didn't have a smartphone and was basically just going by Stallman ethics (shut up--just saying...).

They said, ask Siri to do anything and she can.

I picked up my students phone and said, "Siri, how do I inactivate Siri?"

They looked nervous and said, "don't ask her THAT!"

I went home and watched "Her https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Her_(film)" and thought, .... who knows?
Maybe don't show anything unless a specific country (usually US) is mentioned? Can add a flag emoji for those.

Timezones are often more flexible, and I wouldn't bother too much with that. But location often doesn't have that due to legal hassle etc (other than visa sponsorships).
Home storage is the only thing I don't do a DIY solution. I used to run a samba server with timemachine settings and pointed it to an external SSD. But now I just run a Synology NAS with a RAID configuration. Definitely more expensive than $25 but worth the peace of mind IMO.
Kids are mobile.
Wouldn't `.configs` make more sense?
Why Geoffrey Hinton is worried about the future of AI [video]
I watched about 10 of his interviews in the past 6 months and I think this is the best yet, as they say practice becomes perfect.

His arguments are refined in this interview while being just the down to earth type of guy, Mr. Geoff Hinton is. It was an enjoyable watch, highly recommended.
Because both sexes are required for the species to survive. Killing all men would mean the end of all women too.
Create shorts of a podcast or YouTube video for TikTok free
I created a script that takes in the video file. Then using NLP it will find the 10 most interesting topics discussed. Then based on these topics it will cut 30-60 second clips. I also added options to add captions and vertical crop to 9:16 format centering on your face.

Feel free to provide feedback. Would love some help to build out some more features as well.
> What's wrong with therapy?

Nothing is wrong with therapy. I’m just saying that if your entire diet consists of ice cream and you’re feeling poorly, maybe try eating some veggies. You don’t need a doctor for that.
> So you do not need to know the exact dependencies ahead of time, you just need a superset—not something you can really avoid, as far as I can tell, because the way that #include will search multiple paths.

You can avoid it with the system I laid out. You don't need to specify any dependencies, but specify them while the target is executing. You could even create the dependency while the target is executing.

I forgot about the multiple include paths, but this is another reason that dynamic dependencies may be useful.

That's not to say that Bazel is bad! It's just a different model. And dynamic dependencies may not be useful. That's perfectly fine! It's also why I would only suggest trying out such a build system on a new project. Don't break what's not broken!

> I know this is possible in other languages as well, such as C++, I just don’t use those tools.

Not really; you can't know what compilation unit will contain a function in C and C++. Well, you could try to hack it with grep or something, but I consider that less desirable.

> “Dependency information in the actual source” is what you get with Gazelle. There is some duplication in the build files, but I like this and find it useful—you can redirect dependencies to be fulfilled by other targets than what would be the default, for example.

This is really cool!

I need to clarify that you would still be able to redirect dependencies. Unlimited power is unlimited, after all.

But Gazelle sounds cool, and Bazel sounds cool. I don't mean to put them down.
Who defines calcification and comfort zone? Be careful you don't confuse a mature stack with subject matter experts who can execute effectively as "outdated calcification". I would be wary of someone who wants to hop around a lot. Are they adding tangible value to every team or disrupting things before bailing to the next team?
In every model I’ve worked with, all of those steps are EXPLICIT. You take input, then tokenize, then embed, feed to model, then convert from embeddings to tokens, then back to words. There’s actually a lot of work done in embedding space! Chained execution, neural graph reasoning (see https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.14617.pdf), even basic IR tasks like clustering and retrieval.

There’s been no real effort to especially expose it because that is what you get by default. Even OpenAI has an “embed” endpoint. So you’re not going to see a huge push for it the same way you won’t see a push for reasoning about websites “in the HTML”. :)
Maybe you could incorporate it into a version of ms office from that era as well. You could even give it an anthropomorphised personality embodied by a skeuomorphic element of irl office supplies more common in that era, like a rubber band… or… a… paperclip…
I’ve heard people of any sex say that phrase plenty of times but that’s hardly the quintessential case of male “oppression”, if you can call it that. The scenario described in the article makes more sense, is more common, and has more serious consequences—-ignoring the feeling of boys precisely because they are culturally being forced into a certain toxic mode of masculinity—-and even then, I don’t see why you need to pitch this problem against women as if it’s supposed to be a battle for which gender has experienced oppression worse and historically so. The way that Americans have begun to frame their discussions around gender politics has honestly just gotten derailed and even more stupid since around 2016 or so.
The same pipe that exfiltrates tracking data is bringing in the data for all the connected features of your car. That would include things like satellite radio, onboard navigation/GPS, software updates/recalls, and concierge/safety services (e.g. OnStar). In some cases, the same data is being used to both track you and provide the service, because the collection is happening somewhere on the backend. I wouldn't be surprised if many cars eventually broke in strange ways or displayed dashboard errors when you did this. The network connection is a pretty fundamental part of the vehicle software architecture and a lot of things depend on it.

If you're lucky enough that your car can continue indefinitely without a network connection, it's possible that you wouldn't notice these features being gone. Realistically though, most people would. The solution here needs to be legislative action to protect consumer privacy. Technological solutions fall short.
Drinking water utilities monitor for benzene. NY claims it is not detected in their drinking supply: https://www.nyc.gov/assets/dep/downloads/pdf/water/drinking-...
Forgiveness is all about detachment. Forgiveness is not only good for the forgiven, it is good for you, too. If you let hate fester in you, it will incline you toward wrath. Hate the sin and not the sinner. Love and pray for your enemy.

Now, that doesn't mean you should just act as if nothing happened. Actions have consequences, and those consequences should be determined by the gravity of the actions.

"Abuse" is a vague term and often people mean very different things by it. Some people call their father throwing a fit of anger or cussing their kids out about something every now and then "abuse". And then other people use the same term to refer to really diabolical stuff, like child-buggering. With the less serious and more understandable stuff, you should also take into consideration what your father was going through at the time, and how that might have influenced his actions and his judgment. When I got older and began to understand what my father has had to deal with (including me lol), it really made me not care at all about some of the rough-ups we had. So I mean whether or not you should want to patch up the relationship with your father should really be determined by the character of the abuse, the extent of it, the circumstances, et cetera. This should also determine what exactly "patching up" that relationship means - like what kinds of boundaries you set, and so on.
A teaching moment. Sometimes the regulators actually do know what's best.
In the US it depends heavily on the state, but as I understand it, the stats on the mothers getting custody are misleading. Overwhelmingly, the fathers are giving up custody and not fighting for it. When they do, it is roughly equal, though some studies suggest bias one way or the other.

I’m not finding great primary sources, but here’s some articles on it
https://legaljobs.io/blog/child-custody-statistics/
https://www.liveabout.com/child-custody-there-is-no-gender-b...
I've also heard "a wolf in cheap clothing".

A little story about quotes. At the battle of Bastogne, General MacAuliffe replied to the Wehrmacht's demand that he surrender with the one word "nuts".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Bastogne

I didn't believe it. Does that sound like something a GI would ever say? So I asked my dad (WW2, USAF vet and historian) was that quote true? Turns out, my dad had worked briefly for MacAuliffe, didn't believe it either. He asked MacAuliffe, who laughed, and said replied "what the hell do you think I said?"

I.e. the actual reply was "fuck you". Now that I can believe. The Stars & Stripes newspaper couldn't print that, so rewrote it as "nuts", and the rest is history.

P.S. what makes "nuts" even less credible is the expectation that the Wehrmacht would know what it meant. For example, at Caltech there were a lot of students from Hong Kong. One of them was a friend of mine, and he asked me, very puzzled, "what does go nuts mean?" I, being the boorish oaf that I am, said "it means go bananas". He looked even more puzzled, so I let him out of his misery saying it meant to go crazy." Ah, he replied.

But I'm sure the Germans knew well what FU meant.
So would you say that the commenter you’re replying to needs to stop complaining and just fix his own problems? And that in general men need to quit talking about feelings of sadness and disappointment (aka throwing a pity party)? Because, my guy, lol. The irony is absolutely impeccable.
How is The Wire news publication(India) still in business after their Meta/Facebook fake news debacle last year ?
https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/26/23425377/the-wire-subjec...
The comics code authority neutered American comics for 4 decades. It's only when its grip started faltering that American comics got interesting again.

There are basically no European comics from the silver age period that wouldn't violate the CCA code in some way. American comics were samey precisely because the formulaic stories they told were basically the only ones that were allowed.
Long time ago I have read an article that was not explicitly about voice assistants, but in this article it was described how a Samsung TV with a microphone was actually hacked and made a surveillance device. Here's a link to this, but again not sure if this was the article I read at a time:

https://theintercept.com/2017/03/07/wikileaks-dump-shows-cia...

Edit: So, would you trust something that is there with an open microphone 24hs?
Most of that is told to them by other women.
I was wrong to use the word "obviously", and would change it to "in my opinion" if I could still edit that post. And definitely did not intend to minimize mens problems - I'm a man myself and have first hand experience. I've had this conversation with a friend who is a outspoken feminist who I felt erased the problems men faced.

I don't have time to show my thoughts with any objective metrics, so I'm just going to lay out how I see things, so this will be touchy-feely. This is merely my opinion and I have no problem with people disagreeing.

I think the biggest impact is in how people can function in modern society - pay gap, positions of power, tokenization - a good book is "Invisible Man" by Ralph Waldo Ellison which is about more than being black in America but about being an individual that everyone wants to put in a box or a particular group - he's invisible because people don't see the individual. It's universal, and everyone feels that to some degree, but the degree I feel it as a white male is much smaller. Basically your ability to project your will on the world is easy mode for white male (btw - me).

Anecdote alert: For example I was literally just talking to an old friend who I've worked with in the past who is a great architect but kept getting the in-the-middle-of-nowhere projects at a very well known and old NYC firm, so she started her own architecture business and is doing quite well.

But not that it makes things easy for men! Because there is also expectation to be a provider, suck up your emotions and be tough. These things, which some point to as "the problem" are harming men as well and should be addressed. And this is where it gets very messy - some of the things that are "evidence" that men are privileged are also things that harm men in non-obvious ways. And as for the "easy to project your will", there is also an expectation that you have to and you're a failure if you don't. Why can't someone live a simple life without feeling like a failure?

Ultimately I think the ideal goal should be to not push gender based expectations - both for male and female.
You'll care when the political winds shift in your country and your leaders don't like people of your race, religion, or sexual orientation, or perhaps one of your leisure activities, like the kinds of books you read or email newsletters you subscribe to. Meanwhile, there's all this data floating around that "proves" you the kind of person they don't like.

And everyone seems to think this could never happen to them, until it does.

Even if you are squeaky clean, the data on you could have errors, and your government -- with the best of intentions, even -- could misinterpret the data in ways that could cause you a lot of trouble. This isn't even a "what if?" type scenario; this sort of thing already happens to people.

Edit: your top-level comment got flagged and killed, but I vouched it back to life. I completely disagree with your views here, but I think it's valuable and important that we talk about things like this.
Yes, there are people concerned about skin cancer. For an anecdote, my uncle had skin cancer three times and became very conservative about always wearing hats and sunscreen.
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Man, how stupid and short sighted are the decisions they have been making at RH. Makes you really cautious for rug-pulls on any of the software they maintain
It was written on a wall, doesn’t that mean it is literal?
FYI, you can get the user manual of the car and find where the fuses are. One of the fuses will likely control the cellular system. Pull the fuse, no more data.
Its a tit for tat and it probably averages out. Everyone has it shitty:

- How about the fact that men commit suicide at greater rates than women

- How about the fact that men are 10 times more likely to be killed on the job

- How about the fact that men are several times more likely to be physically assaulted

- How about the fact that men are more likely to die of covid

- How about the fact that 3 in 4 homeless people are men

We could go on and on like this in an all day pity party if you want?

> I don't wanna get into a whole thing

Proceeds to get into the whole thing.
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You very accurately described an example of large technological-societal systems’ overall situation not being subject to rational human control.

Yes, read some Ted Kaczynski.
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I've worked in it for many years, and I've been a happy customer as well, spending a lot of my money on those games. I get a game, I figure out I like it, spend a few hundreds on it in a span of a few months, and move on after it bores me, with perfect return on investment. I've tried spending the same money in casinos, but they are just too boring — I usually can't even get myself to burn down the money I've decided to spend, so I take don't get the gambling comparison: mobile games a simply better as entertainment.
Can ChatGPT be told to pretend it's 1990 and answer accordingly?
Japan's privacy laws are fairly strict and, to some degree, interoperate with GDPR.

For context, I've a Toyota GR86 where opting out of data sharing can be done via an app.

(Edits for some extra context)

https://www.toyota.com/privacyvts/images/doc/Toyota%20-%20Co...

> (i) the Connected Services Privacy Notice located at www.Toyota.com/privacyvts (“Privacy Notice”). Carefully review the Privacy Notice as it applies to your personal information and Vehicle (as defined below) data that we collect, use, store, share and secure to provide the Services. Please note that your Vehicle comes with a data communication module (“DCM”) that enables the Wireless/GPS Technology, as described in Section 11(a), and allows for the collection of data from you and your vehicle (e.g., location, health and driving data). BY DEFAULT, THE DCM IS ON/ACTIVE WHEN YOUR VEHICLE IS DELIVERED AND WILL REMAIN ON/ACTIVE (AND CONTINUE TO COLLECT DATA FROM YOU AND YOUR VEHICLE) UNTIL YOU CONTACT US AND REQUEST THAT IT BE DEACTIVATED.

> (b) DCM. If you cancel your Service Plan, we have the right (but, unless you ask us to, not the obligation) to turn off your DCM as of the effective date of cancellation. Once your DCM is turned off, the Vehicle will not send any data to Toyota. Depending on the connectivity to your Vehicle, your DCM may deactivate immediately, or it may take up to several days.

The GR86 forums have a few people also looking at ways to outright disconnect the hardware for this kind of stuff entirely, but I believe that's slow going - haven't kept up on it. I just have the above saved since I look at this stuff when buying any new car these days.

The obvious disclaimer applies that you may enter warranty hell if you're disabling it, because it's 2023 and I guess society is fine with this level of default tracking. You should confirm how it affects you before changing anything. Otherwise, hope people find it helpful!
The Linux security model was designed for a time when you had multiple humans sharing one machine, and every program either came from the OS, or was sourced from a reputable origin. It's almost useless in the current landscape. Some efforts like Flatpak, Wayland, Pipewire, and immutable OSs are starting to improve things, but it still seems like we are years away from having the level of security MacOS had a long time ago.

And I just can't see how any security measure which requires hardware can come to Linux desktop.
> Any exercise is much much better than sitting around for hours researching and reading articles about which exercise would be best.

This is true if you're going to exercise once. On the other hand, finding an exercise that's good for you and that you can keep with might be worth investing some time, because you can use this knowledge for years. Even a 10 hour research project is only .75 minutes per workout when amortized over 2 years of 4x per week workouts.