skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Black Mirror is largely written by one guy, that's why. It's better they make Black Mirror the highest quality. That way, in 20 years, people will watch it, it will be new to them, and still hold up.

Build an evergreen catalogue. Nobody is watching old sitcoms, but new people watch Lost everyday even though that also got badly affected by quantity requirements due to hype of the day.
At least in America, the most-popular-and-growing preference for birth control seems to be "not in a relationship". Trying to force people past that barrier might get some more-zealous pushback.
Delete your IG account and block all facebook/meta domains in DNS and at your router to solve this problem permanently.
Looks like it's a problem with your car and not with the concept of auto-wipers?
Which every for-profit company seems to wind up doing these days.
How was he wrong?
> I remembered growing up with a the children of a customs officer. Every now and then he would show up with boxes of confiscated pirated movie / game days discs, asking us to pick what we wanted before he was going to return the rest of lot to presumably be ‘destroyed’.

At this point I'm pretty convinced a lot of Indian institutions are just cargo culting things they saw in the west. [0]

Can you imagine how better and more productive Indian society would be if some of these bureaucracies were just abolished? Superpower by 2030?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult
AFAIK Instagram was always like this? Whenever I get stopped I just hit the back button and thank for them saving me time. TikTok does it right - it annoys you with a pop up to login/open in app...you can dismiss it and watch the video. I believe if you want to do more than that it'll annoy you again - but I usually go back to what I was doing before (responding to someone who sent me that...)
Save those for interviews I guess. Or frame the suggestions as X against Y, where Y saved you some amount of effort.
The standard used to be about 22 episodes a year, so that is an episode every two weeks.

Many shows ran for at least 5 years, and some ran forever (days of our lives would be one example).

So I don't think that is the problem. What is the issue is that Netflix wants to drag you in with a few big hits and then satiate you with much cheaper shows. Unfortunately that doesn't work because they don't have a massive content library, but they still act and price themselves as if they did.
If it was possible to bypass then someone would write a bookmarklet, browser extension, etc. that bypassed it.
Depends on how performance is measured. If performance is measured by talk and politics then those on site may be perceived as more valuable.
"Breed for the good of the nation" isn't the compelling argument it once was.
Quite the opposite. It's very interesting so see how his point of view on strangers and especially black people changed.

In an interview, he told his story wasn't racist on purpose ; he truly believed that was how black people were based on the very few informations he had at the time - he never traveled outside of Belgium.

When he made the next one with a chinese person, he contacted a student who was originally from China to educate himself on how Asia really was, the culture, the people, etc. And that's how he came up with one of the best books of this career.
What you're saying seems like a clear contradiction to me.

In your first paragraph, you say that we can take for granted that when an original is destroyed, having a replacement will preserve consciousness. Then, in your second paragraph, you say the opposite - that destroying an original would NOT preserve consciousness, even if there exists a replacement.

There must be some key assumption which lets you not see this as a contradiction. Maybe you believe that there is something extra-cellular which wouldn't get replicated in a teleporter?
> Just don’t read the original version of the Congo one. Even the corrected version to be honest.

I think adults can manage reading things they disagree with and consider inappropriate.

people literally watch horror movies.
Nice example, which opened a small rabbit hole for me: what does "first occurrence wins" mean for options that are meant to be used multiple times, such as "Port" in sshd_config. The man page only says "Multiple options of this type are permitted.", but now I wonder what happens when I put my own Port into /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/whatever.conf but leave "Port 22" in sshd_config? Or is the (new since bookworm) default sshd_config commenting it out for this reason?

More generally, for multi-options do we maybe want "first file wins"?
It is nice to have spaces that include kids and spaces that are reserved for adults.
Yes. I generate a topic then edit it. ChatGPT text comes out similar-enough to my own writing style, meaning summaries then bullet lists, that using ChatGPT feels a bit like a really good autocomplete.
That's very true in general, but anecdotally the children in Korea (the few I saw) were very well behaved. They didn't shout, scream, cry or anything. Even when playing, running around etc. they were remarkably quiet. It's a combination of education and culture.
“Distance Matters”: Facilitating Intra-team Collab can harm Inter-team Collab [pdf]
It's not like the new law says governments must spy on journalists; it just doesn't try hard enough to protect them. That's like saying that because the US is utterly failing to ensure privacy of communications over the internet, it's a "totalitarian construct".

The truth is that, sometimes, in a democracy there just isn't enough political capital out there to pass a law that looks "obviously" right.
not sure how you thought your comment here would be useful. If snark is the only option sometimes it's better to just close the browser.
You could also layer the emotional / sexual subsystems on top of the gut one.
“ They were IIRC also caught red-handed a couple times deliberately releasing updates to older iDevices that would just wreck their battery life and have a few lawsuits pending about that.”

Are you going to just drop an inflammatory statement like that and not even try to provide any information to back it up?
Just saw vcvarsall.bat in the post. Did you know that the Visual Studio Command Prompt phones home to Microsoft? I tried installing Microsoft's build tools on Wine, then when I opened a VS command prompt from KDE I saw an error message, from Wine's PowerShell stub being used to run a telemetry script. Then I discovered the very same telemetry had been running every time I had opened a MSVC command prompt on Windows, as well as countless other telemetry operations in the Visual Studio IDE and updater itself.

I found a video on this topic at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORH5JfpPx88.
Henry Ford sent inspectors to junkyards to find out what parts could be made cheaper.
He convinced me that the keeping the sensor on the PCB is worth it, ha ha.
Yoko Tsuno and Blake&Mortimer were amazing sci-fi for a kid like me. Definitely big imagination-boosters.
I'd like to find a way to start with an embedding and have the computer generate some text that corresponds, at least approximately. There are tools that do that for images, right? Like Stable Diffusion, you can put an image in, get an embedding, then do gradient descent in latent space to find a new embedding, then generate a new image from that.
The "expertise" is in finding those files and understanding their hierarchy
One useful trick to avoid some of the pitfalls of ChatGPT for non-creative tasks is to respond to its output with something like:

_"Point out incorrect assumptions or statements in the above answer."_

I got the idea from Khan Academy's [implementation](https://youtu.be/A7REVn9gzgs?t=1208) of GPT-4, where they allow it to 'think' by generating an internal response first, before generating a final response. This apparently improved the veracity of its output by a significant margin.

If ChatGPT doesn't double down on its original answer, then I know definitely not to trust it.

This doesn't solve the underlying problem, because it doesn't ultimately correct the error in a reliable way, but it does help me avoid some of the more obviously garbage output.
> "human validation of domains" : not sure what you mean here but I think it's a theoretical problem, not a real one.

It’s a very real and not theoretical problem. For example, someone sends you a link to a Google Doc. You open it and the page looks exactly like the real deal, but the domain is `signin.googledocs.com` or `login.googgle.com`. Even a technical user could not be paying attention and be fooled by that, manually entering their email and password. Because a password manager would only auto-fill your password on the correct domain, you have an extra reason to be suspicious and note something is amiss.
It's pretty well explained here what Google is trying to do: https://www.xda-developers.com/android-project-mainline-modu...

That being said, Apple is atm way better in providing longterm software updates, but that doesn't mean Google isnt doing a lot of work there also.

Next to that, there is already a lot of apps that are updated through the Play Store instead of an OS update. Mail, Dialer, Android Auto, Photos, Camera, Keyboard, Contacts, Clock, Play services, ...
Agreed, I like certain aspects of Notion, but as a FE dev myself, I think what they’re trying to do is too complex. I don’t see how they could ever make it performant.
The evolved response from internet "power users" such as us, is a superpower

We're really good at holding a grudge

AND telling others why we have that grudge

Thus, we route around it, with some grumbling along the way.
I love London
If that were the case the powers that be would be using the carrot as well as the stick. Parental leave, tax breaks, etc.
> FAANG policies have often set the standards for the rest of the industry

They have indeed, precisely for offering really good perks that everyone wanted. If they start doing the opposite, others will see opportunity.

> many tech companies are beholden to their Silicon Valley VCs

The tech landscape is much, much bigger than SV. At least if you're not targeting 300k+ salaries.
Might need to double check my math here but I came to the answer 2003
Could you use such a high RPM to make something jet-engine-like?
Totally agree, but this context is important, the book in a vacuum is not the complete picture. The corrected version is much better, but there is still a lot of white saviorism. But Chang is indeed not a caricature.
> a hypothetical strong AI would be a threat, and potentially an existential threat, to humanity.

I wish a cool scifi robot woke up one day and violently optimized all of humanity into paperclips, instead I live in the real world where the jobs are going to evaporate like water in a newly installed desert and the "let them eat cake" will get increasingly louder and blue-check-markier.
Well, the underlying data might not actually be the same.

One country may lump in PM10 into their AQI, so if there is a dust storm or similar event, the AQI could spike. Other countries may only include PM2.5 or not include PM at all, which wouldn't capture the dust storm.
> it still imposes a large burden on the person trying to figure out "why is X doing Y?"

Systemd has tools for that, such as systemctl cat which shows all applicable configuration and what files they come from.

Personally I have found the systemd hierarchy to be very useful. It allows me to create overrides for certain properties in a Unit without having to worry about keeping the rest in sync with upstream, or my package manager overwriting my configuration. And it allows me to have different independent packages (or chef recipes or ansible playbooks) that create different override files for the same unit without stepping on each others toes.

Yes it is a little complicated, but for most end users, you don't really need to worry about most of the complexity, you just need to know where you put your overrides. And for distributors and power users, that complexity serves a useful purpose.
For who? Yaml gives you all the standard containers, tools
to avoid repeating yourself, lord of ways to format strings so they stay readable and arbitrary object serialization.

Yaml only gets weird if you want to use complex objects
as dict keys but that complexity is on you then.
> Unsubstantiated

[0] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/04/210421151224.h...

[1] https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202106/1225792.shtml
Is it just not a question of the right app? If you install VLC or infuse you can easily side load videos.
Immutable Data (2015)
Did you try KeePassXC?
To me this comment seems far more rude and aggressive than anything I said. Liberal tolerance in action?
Truer words have never been spoken.

Microsoft IntelliTest (formerly Pex) [1] is internally using Z3 constraint solver that traces program data and control flow graph well enough to be able to generate desired values to reach given statement of code. It can even run the program to figure out runtime values. Hence the technique is called Dynamic Symbolic Execution [3]. We have technology for this, just not yet applied correctly.

I would also like to be able to point at any function in my IDE and ask it:

- "Can you show me the usual runtime input/output pairs for this function?"

- "Can you show me the preconditions and postconditions this function obeys?"

There is plenty of research prototypes doing it (Whyline [4], Daikon [5], ...) but sadly, not a tool usable for the daily grind.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/test/intellit...

[2] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-38916-0_...

[3] https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2094081

[4] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~NatProg/whyline.html

[5] https://plse.cs.washington.edu/daikon/
How's the progress on an IPFS browser client that doesn't require a gateway?
Or it actually accelerates the model pumping. If the software has to be supported for 5 years after it’s last on sale there could be a perverse incentive to roll SKUs like crazy even if there are not any actual changes so you only have to support for the shortest possible time.
Also, if you're interested in what intestines look like squirming about in real time: (beware! NSFW, medical gore, blood/guts/etc) https://old.reddit.com/r/medizzy/comments/ttz995/peristalsis...

Gross, but fascinating too.
> air-polluting industry

Like producing food? A wider green band than what, the Netherlands map?

I think it's nice to be able to aspire to live in a green area. That one leaves little options, and paints a bleak picture.
I could give two shits if Google wouldn't keep returning results for websites you can't see without an account.
I know, I was saying that in jest, so as not to shatter the parent comment’s view of Tintin.
As an adult, you should read it and see the evolution in Herge.
Several Tintin stories were re-drawn and updated by Herge to be more modern, some of them multiple times.

The article mention Tintin in Congo, one of the earliest stories. It was later redrawn to tone down the “white mans burden”-vibe, but the redrawn version is still pretty racist by modern standards. And Tintin blows up a rhinocerus with dynamite.

In “The Black Gold”, Tintin travels to British Palestine and gets kidnapper by zionist terrorists. In the updated version, it is changed to a fictional Arab country, and there are no Jews involved.

The article suggest Chang cured Herge of racism, but this is simplistic. A later album, The Shooting Star, drawn during the Nazi occupation of Belgium, contains some strongly antisemitic stereotypes (obviously removed in the re-drawn version, which also changes the evil Americans into a fictional country).

Herge worked for a newspaper friendly to the Nazis, and this was close to destroying his career after the war.

Tintin is a brilliant series and I find it fascinating how the changing values and politics are reflected in it.
Can the DBs get merged or are they subject to conflict race conditions?
A years ago experienced hassle and data loss (not of passwords) due to local-first sync solutions such that I’m very wary of them now.
Great point, in the 90s people used to spend a fortune (relatively speaking) on taking, sharing and discovering pictures, consuming media and getting their news.

Now everyone wants everything for free, but won’t give anything in return. And they also want market returns on their stocks, 401ks, etc at the same time.

That being said, Meta/Google could implement a guaranteed privacy-first, ad-free option for something like $10-20 a month to give people the option to be a “customer” instead of “product”.

And as you said there is the whole mastodon/pixelfed/lemmy network that people could use, although many mastodon instances seem to be running into financial problems lately.
> the competitor had installed RFID scanning equipment in the pit lane entry this morning that was able to collect live data from all cars. Firstly, it is forbidden in general for competitors to install or place any equipment in the pit lane. Secondly, the collection of data by this method gives the competitor a lot of information, which is a huge and unfair advantage.

I'm with you. To me, the second point is irrelevant. Something is either explicitly forbidden by the rules, or allowed by them. If doing this provides an unfair advantage then maybe there needs to be a new rule. To be honest, I think not making it a rule and letting everyone do it (as long as they can do it without breaking the rule on the first point) would make the game more interesting.
Not relevant to tarsnap (and in general something I would be very careful about adding since people often don't realize what's in their environment) but I would say that command line options take priority over the environment and the environment takes priority over all configuration files.
Actually it has multiple interaction methods for accessibility purposes.

https://developer.apple.com/wwdc23/10034

> The Dwell Control accessibility feature allows people to select and interact with the UI without using their hands.

There’s also Pointer Control in that talk which provides alternatives to eye control.

Note: I obviously haven’t tried this since it’s just Apple’s own videos on it, nor am I someone who would need to. So I can’t speak to the efficacy of those input models. but just relaying the information.
always around 30 days-ish. sometimes 50 days
There's a very strange phenomenon in US cities where it seems every salary is slowly converging to the $110-140k range. People who used to make $80k for borderline unskilled work (cold calling to sell business internet, for example) are now in the $110-120k range but people who were already at $120k have barely had any upward mobility in their pay.

Even at large "boring" corporate developer jobs that don't pay a fraction of the FAANG salaries, it seems the decent engineers either escaped this trap (promoted to $150k+) or have settled into the $130-140k quicksand with little to no annual raise.
Agreed. They leaned so heavily into the horror/thriller anthology genre that the techno-dystopian angle got lost completely (although I haven’t watched the streaming episode yet). None of the episodes felt imaginative like the early seasons did. It was just a season of British Horror Stories with one episode set in spaaaace and another one with a disco demon (what?!).

If they want to keep it going all they have to do is go back to some of their best episodes and write more stories set in those worlds.

What happened to lead to Metalhead? What’s a rich playboy’s life like in the universe of 15 million merits? Whats the prison industrial complex like in White Christmas? Whats crime like in White Bear? There’s so much content to mine!
Twitter doesn't do this anymore, probably because they don't want any popup to interrupt users scrolling through more ads, logged in or not.

Instagram and Twitter's login prompt might have been motivated by a desire to increase number of logged in users, and Twitter might have given up on that in recent months considering the increased ad load.
Shouldn't this be a "Show HN:"?

(possibly with a more meaningful and less clickbaity title)
Definitely, as a little kid Yoko Tsuno was much more understandable. But even though Blake and Mortimer was tougher, the art itself is amazing.
>> Anyone who is child free still has a vested interest in the future generation.

> If child free, you’re only vested in whatever it takes to get you to the grave comfortably

Aren't you saying the same thing as parent post? When someone's 60 to 80 years old, which generation is going to "to get them to the grave comfortably"?

Basic necessities like food, etc, no matter the current amount of automation to multiply outputs, you still need a baseline of working people.
You are the one who is bringing "violence" up. Telling people that there are standards they have to abide by before you will be willing to associate with them - before the EU, made up of multiple institutions which are voted by and represent its citizens, will allow a certain kind of devices to be sold on its market - is not violence.

I have no idea how it could ever be considered "violence", given the fact that we are not talking about a law against human people - with or without volition - but against goods.
Its days are numbered, I think...
Agreed. 2 episodes were good, but not great. The others weren't not necessarily bad, but they were not Black Mirror - I wouldn't necessarily want to watch them if they weren't part of Black Mirror.

Season 6 is thus a disappointment, the worst Black Mirror season.
My Grandmother was hospitalized many times from 2019 through to 2023 and passed in April, one of the standout things that made this a lot easier to go through was 2021 iPad Mini. During the years she suffered from various magnitudes of physical disability, including being almost completely paralyzed. A lot of this was during covid restrictions so we had to get creative with how we kept in touch.

Here are a few things that the iPad afforded her with no other easy options:

- The tracking webcam let her facetime with us without needing completely steady hands or even the capability to hold the iPad properly.

- The huge amount of accessories that let her use a pen (when capable), drop the iPad without risk of breaking, hold the iPad in various ways let us easily customise the ergonomics for her capabilities at various times.

- Shortcuts and automation let us ensure volume was always maximised during Facetime calls with us, set the volume lower at night so she didn't disurb the ward, have easy to press buttons to call certain family members, and even reset the volume and screen brightness when nurses changed it.

She chose the music to her own funeral, made drawings when she could, played games, and even drafted some pages of a book she left for us after her passing, letting her talk to us one last time. Maybe the author of the link disagrees, but seeing the difference in quality of the calls when she didn't have to worry about getting frustrated about trying to frame her face and everything was night and day.
Or you'll never memorize them because those 2 or 3 times are many months apart since you're just a user that rarely tweaks those configs

But yeah, ease of use is nobody's priority
I think you're probably right thinking about it - why would they have the DC jack as well as USB-C if they'd done anything more than just swap the connector. It's pretty trivially backwards compatible, even with (USB2-level) PD.
> but that's not the point

There's a saying in systems engineering that comes to mind: "the purpose of a system is what it does".

It's why I've only become more and more convinced that we should leave the rest of the world alone.