skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has really made me pessimistic about tech and products in general. There's the free and great stage, then the market is captured, then enshittification, then death.

I don't get excited about new products or new tech because I know the cycle. Hype then bust. New thing comes out and I'm just meh about it, because it'll bust soon enough so it's not worth getting invested in it. Or new version will come out next year and break what I was used to, or it'll be an implicit subscription of having to buy new thing every year. But it's not really going to fix itself because it seems like everyone else loves the dopamine rush from the hype cycle, and they don't really seem to care about how ephemeral everything is.
It’s not our fault you’ve made that slogan a partisan issue.

A real republican would actually hate cops.
English determines exclusive OR, inclusive OR, and AND using context.

This kind of ambiguity really drives us logical people nuts. :)
It's also ludicrous that the Kremlin can't track the location of Yevgeny Prigozhin even if they wanted to: https://warisboring.com/kremlin-lacks-the-means-and-the-will...
This is the type of thing I think about when I think about global warming/climate change. We might be quietly destroying the habitat for amazing species we don't even understand.
Right now, trace micronutrients are the bottleneck - hence propsals to seed the ocean with iron to encourage algal blooms.
It needs to be transpiled anyway, so what could break. JSX is not HTML.
> it’s theorized that extreme weather and fires, earthquakes and volcanoes are part of what brings about an ice age as the sun is blocked by particles in the sky

Whatever floats your boat, but "extreme weather and fires that block the sun eventually driving the world into an ice age" is not the win for humanity you might think it is.
I associate “false scarcity” with the case where one company or a cartel dominates an industry and limits output as a way to raise prices (control supply).

However, when it comes to movies a TV, that’s not the case. There are many studios around the world and they want to have a direct-to-consumer relationship (for various reasons), vs having no consumer relationship.

Put differently, it isn’t that there’s scarcity of output (in fact, many people complain there’s too much so it is hard to find something great to watch), it is that you (and others) want to have a one stop shop to satisfy all your TV and movie watching needs. But how would that work? Force all content producers to not be able to distribute their work or to have direct to consumer relationships? And then have 1 (several?) companies limited to distribution (and they aren’t allowed to also be studios, must it be country specific or must it be global and what regulatory body would govern that)? Etc.
i'm going to assume they've been doing this probably for many years (5-eyes at least).

from the wikileaks, if they can do it, they will do it.

and this bill is just a formality imo.
It appears there is a reallocation going on in the economy. The link you shared notes that large companies are shedding jobs while companies with less than 50 employees account for most of the growth.

The job growth is largely in the hospitality industry while tech continues to tighten.

I know WSJ has coined the term "richcession" to describe the elimination of high paying jobs and their replacement with more lower paying ones.

Will be interesting to see how the long term trends play out.
Most hybrid water pump heaters do not fully use their heat pump by default - their should be an "Eco" or "heat pump only" setting somewhere on your device which will make it much more efficient.
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Longtime joplin user here - been using s3 sync storage since it was available. As long as it is open and free, that will be my note app of choice. Yeah the mobile app definitely needs work, and there's always room for improvement overall. But it is free as in "free beer", as well as "free speech". Both are hard requirements for me, at least for my notes (and data, in general).

I have years of notes in joplin, spread across dozens of notebooks and several profiles. I'm impressed.

There are a zillion competitors out there, some with extremely beautiful interfaces - but it MUST be open for me to even look at it.
Right but making new models costs millions of dollars and weeks of time.

And that's just for a single model.

With distributed users they could be generating those new models all of the time doing highly computational work.
France has been slowly drifting away from the democratic countries for the past decade, it's disheartening to watch it in real time…
Not if the phone has been rooted and airplane mode has been tampered with from below.
I've been saying for a long time that we'll resort to geoengineering to finagle our way out of climate change. Unfortunately I think that prediction is still spot-on.
Lol, you’re not wrong. It’s pretty clear organizations prefer the illusion of getting something quickly to accurate information
Wrong. You're conflating on-prem and SaaS commercial software together as "rented", when the former can be delivered as a perpetually working product whereas the latter isn't.

FOSS isn't free to host, accessible to users of all experience levels, doesn't necessarily include support, and isn't guaranteed to have a license that isn't hostile to its intended use.
That is true, luckily. OTOH, to be fair the west has been good at "offshoring" its abuses for quite a few centuries.
A real Republican would bomb Protestant churches and other non-sequiturs. No true Scotsman would ever do that either
I realized a long time ago that if no one was allowed to say thing I find distasteful the world would be a very quiet place. And I must imagine that there exist people who given the opportunity would be far more censorious than I might be at my worst. As such it seems beneficial to in general to mutually disarm with respect to censorship rather than create a world of pressing silence.
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This is the attitude that has Americans so stressed, unhappy and wealthy!
> Perjury is probably a stretch, and it's unlikely to affect the ruling any.

Perjury is not a stretch. The case was revised before it reached SCOTUS, but her original court filing claimed that she had received a request from a specific named individual to design a website for his gay wedding.

Not only has that individual - who is a heterosexual man already married to a woman - denied ever making a request, but the plaintiff herself later claimed in court documents, under penalty of perjury, that she had not yet received a request to design a wedding website from a gay couple.

The case as presented to SCOTUS did not contain any perjurous claims, but the original case undeniably did.
I wonder if Microsoft does this because gaming has been one of the biggest differentiators for their OS. That's an advantage that is rapidly fading and they want to hold onto it as long as possible.
I didn’t realize it was seen as so mythical

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record#Pl...
The vast majority of interactions with police are peaceful and relatively mundane. Your view of police seems to be only informed by videos you see online.

The only interactions you see with police online are either extremely wholesome or extremely hostile. The mundane and boring interactions with police don't get seen, because they are boring and not at all noteworthy because it is standard.
Is this even possible on an iPhone?

My memory may be failing me or confusing things so please correct me, but I seem to recall reading somewhere that the baseband lives segregated (with only a narrow communication cannel, kinda as if it were a remote machine) from the remainder of the hardware, so while it could be made to run stuff itself it has no way to physically access to main cpu, ram, mic, nor cams (barring, of course, any vulnerability on the comm channel that would land an exploit in the main OS+hardware).

GPS is another matter, but then again it's baseband so it gotta communicates with towers, so that's a done deal already that does not even require baseband access.
what's disgusting is to equate a group of professional thugs to historically marginalised race groups
And very shortly thereafter, an emperor :-)
> Nah, ask a historian.

I did. They call it "Pax Britanica," and there's loads of things you can read about that outline why historians put this period of history in the same category as Pax Americana and Pax Romana.
https://archive.is/oO0dC
AFAIK, ‘dd’ reads and writes a block at a time (whatever the its default block size is), while ‘cat’ uses whatever buffer sizes it thinks is the most efficient for the devices it is using for that invocation.
Scale up: a MySQL bug story, or why Aiven works
Note that some browsers may be unable to open this page because of the use of the Brotli compression algorithm[0]! If the page looks like gobbledegook when you open it, this may be why. This excludes anybody using browser versions from before 2016, as well as unfortunately many popular terminal-based browsers.

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> We're not going to remediate climate change effectively through planting trees, fractional distillation of air, waiting for industry, small-scale projects, solar shades, SO2, or ignoring it.

We're not going to remediate climate change, full stop. If there was a time to do anything for climate change to change course it was probably 40 years ago.

Climate change is here and the cascade of events has been in motion for a while. The next couple of decades will see an exponential acceleration of ice melting, marine ecosystems going bust, and of course a slew of effects on land, from wild fires to floods.

It's here, it's happening and we have to adapt. Hopefully we'll be able to keep a certain way of life of abundance similar to what we're used to. But we might be forced to change some things or do without others. Time will tell.
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What does the "number of tokens" characteristic of an LLM mean exactly? How does 1B compare with GPT-3.5 or GPT-4?
People later in their careers at private employers tend to have both the highest salaries and the most vacation days.
> I suspect that injecting cash and attempting to achieve an unnatural growth is probably not good for both the quality of the product and the long term stability of it.

Right, but that's not the point. VCs (and most founders / anyone holding equity) just want to get our before the hockey-stick graph starts turning into an S-graph. The product itself is mostly irrelevant (to everyone except the users that is).
So your argument is: So what if I slapped Bob, look what Jim is doing?
You seem to be mistaken on what an injunction is.

This is not a direct ruling, it is an order to cease the current behavior (the gov't telling social media companies to censor speech) until it can be ascertained whether or not this is a harmful thing which is happening.

You're acting as if this injunction creates a law or sets some sort of precedent. It truly does not.
This is because HVAC companies wildly overcharge. It does not take $1,000 worth of labor to drain and refill refrigerant, but it does take a qualified technician, and there are not enough of those.
While it's true that not every cop is actively corrupt, or violent, they have this whole "Blue Code" thing that means that if you ever report a coworker for being corrupt or violent, you're out. The cops who enable bad behavior, and perpetuate the bad system, are just as bad as any other corrupt or violent cop. So yeah, they certainly can all be bad.
Do we have any plan collectively to do something urgently about this, or do we just die?
I don't understand this comment either, because the Rodney King beating was in 1991, long before "the social media explosion".
It’s not so cut and dry, because believers in free speech can believe that the federal government and its employees should also be free to speak.

The legal theory at stake here is that all government speech is inherently coercive. But this is not necessarily true, or aligned with free speech as a principle of society.

Any time someone says “we must protect free speech by legally enjoining the following people from speaking,” I am suspicious.
Not every device using Linux is a server. Many devices can deal with hypothetical peak throughput losses for the sake of improved security. Power and latency are probably going the key metrics that need to not be regressed on, but even then, some devices probably still don't care as much about those.
Doesn't the First Amendment protect the right to say "I think this should be taken down"?

(Side note: The Angus King stuff is a misrepresentation. The screenshots are from a spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vS1PbfNEqDCK... - in which a column indicates how the account first came to the King campaign's attention, not the reason they think they warranted action.)
<div />
Hello

…should reformat to:

<div>Hello</div>

I would argue that this should probably reformat to

<div></div>
Hello

Although this is different from how browsers would interpret it, I think it's much more likely that whoever wrote <div/> intended to have an empty div.
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> If the code you write is uncovering bugs in compiler, you literally are too smart for your own good.

It's been a while so I don't remember all the details but I remember an ancient version of gcc refusing to accept perfectly valid zero initialisation of structs. Not terribly exciting but you don't have to be too clever to hit compiler bugs.
> A real republican would actually hate cops

Most Americans don't hate cops [1]. There is real desire for police reform [2]; slogans like "defund the police" and #ACAB shut that down.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/10/26/growing-s...

[2] https://news.gallup.com/poll/393119/americans-remain-steadfa...
One can only hope that not also part of the design since day zero.
Savers should be cheering higher interest rates. So why are they unhappy?
> I really don't understand how the author thinks it is misleading.

<img/> does what you want (which is always one thing) while <picture/> does not.

/ is a false signal, therefore misleading.
We blame ads and bad decisions by the ownership, but also the users are responsible for turning each social network into its own eternal September and I don't know if human nature can be solved.

Can't we enjoy the Twitter replacements being smaller communities and leave it at that, enjoy it while we can? Since it's a long understood pattern that a community will degrade as it gets larger, even without Musk type shittery.
Compartmentalization. I once had physics teacher in senior high school who taught the Scientific Method. And taught it well. I will always be grateful to him for that. But he was deeply religious and led the high school's bible study club.
I figure "The Adolescence of P-1" was autobiographical. ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adolescence_of_P-1
This bill AFIK only covers the "they are allowed to do it" part but not the "how do they gain the capability to do it" part.

But spyware which can do so exists in endless amounts, including from companies focused on selling it to governments.

Hence also why in recent years physical microphone switches, or e.g. stuff like (I think it was) Apple laptops "physically" disconnecting the microphone/camera if you close the lid have been become increasingly more common and in demand. (Through the demand comes more from bad actors using it then from people being afraid the government spies on them AFIK, but technically there is 100% no difference)
Which is silly. The reason we have giant social networks is because quantity is a quality in its own right. It increases the likelihood that your friends/family are there as well the various interest one might have.
> You are agreeing with the article, aren't you?

My intuition says that the critiques of "it isn't universal" and "it isn't comprehensive" have merit but without stronger examples it's hard to tell.

But maybe the whole topic is moot because, as the post says, it was only Divio that claimed that this was the grand unifying theory of documentation. If Diataxis has distanced itself from this claim then there is no longer a need for it to be universal or comprehensive.

> There aren't only 4 general document types, there are others

The Diataxis author replied elsewhere in this thread reminding me that he thinks of them as modes of documentation. Which is different than doc types. The main idea in my mind is that there are other important modes of documentation that are not covered by learning, tasks, understanding, or information. That's what I was trying to work out in my comment about homepages and release notes. They seem to represent new modes.
> Is it expensive to compromise a phone?

2-2.5+ million USD depending for a full chain with persistence (lower end of range is for iOS higher end is for Android).

That is probably the lower end of the rough cost to buy that capability which you can use as many times as you want.

https://zerodium.com/images/zerodium_prices_mobiles.png

> Is it sensitive to compromise a phone, now that there is a national law allowing it, passed through a democratic process?

The technology itself is sensitive, when you buy a full chain exploit like the ones that have the public bounty price above, if it gets burnt it's useless for everyone else who bought it after its patched.

Generally exploit brokers don't like it when you burn their exploits.
HTML Only Websites?
I use Stabile Diffusion with Paperspace's Pro tier ($9/mo) which gives you up to 6 hours of non per-usage GPU (meaning you don't have to worry about having a mortgage to pay for the cost) since I have an aging Vega at home and I worry about the electricity bill (EU). My worry is that plan will go away replaced by strict per usage costs.
Yes, of course, the same dude extorting a foreign country, committing an insurrection, and selling classified information would never appoint judges on any basis other than their individual merits. Every corrupt individual keeps the corruption pretty compartmentalized away from whatever judicial appointments they are doing.
> Step two could be a requirement for SW/HW manufacturers to add a backdoor since this is not really effective to fight crime this way

We have already been there, it's just like good old phone calls. They can be intercepted under the proper judicial supervision.

I don't have criteria to answer if this is a necessary evil or directly a blatant totalitarian push, but one needs to consider: does the French government have a bad track record of abusing the capability of eavesdropping any phone communication? has this capability been useful for law enforcement?
I sincerely applaud everything ending up on IA. However, if you're searching for specific instructions brickinstructions is excellent as it is far more navigable. For a random example see Starguider¹. I wonder if someone has already scraped that site for IA, beyond simply praying to the Wayback Machine.

¹ https://lego.brickinstructions.com/m/lego_instructions/set/6...
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This reminds me of A Cyborg Manifesto:

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

Instead of identifying yourself in bounded categories, characterise yourself by affinity.

Haraway calls for a revision of the concept of gender, moving away from Western patriarchal essentialism and toward "the utopian dream of the hope for a monstrous world without gender," stating that "Cyborgs might consider more seriously the partial, fluid, sometimes aspect of sex and sexual embodiment. Gender might not be global identity after all, even if it has profound historical breadth and depth."
I think there's a few things at play when people talk about "software quality".

Some people hear it and think it means highly-structured abstraction towers vs low-structure imperative-heavy code. Some think about horrible spaghetti with 16 levels of indentation and 1-letter variable names (moving on to 2-letter once you exhaust the first 26) and if-statements whose predicates span twelve lines. Some people think about feature completeness and bugginess (or, rather, lack thereof).

I think they're dangerous over different time horizons and you can't just prioritize over all time horizons.

Spaghetti is dangerous in the short-term - it makes small changes difficult and unsafe. You'll end up tied by your own shoestrings and not even finish the project. Luckily if this is the only problem, it's also the easiest to clean up. (But it's not usually the only problem).

Less-structured code is good for when you don't understand your requirements well. (Which you typically never will a-priori, even if you think you do). It's easier to add more layers of abstraction than it is to change or remove them. If you prematurely build an abstraction tower, you will suddenly find yourself having to plumb information up and down the entire tower as the abstractions prove to leak or not be completely perpendicular to the kinds of features you need to add. But if you wait too long, you have too much unstructured code to refactor and you're now "chasing" people adding new features to the system while you try to refactor the system underneath them. So there's just some engineering gut-sense that's important to know when to stop and codify the patterns you've seen emerge into a useful, tight abstraction.

And then of course there's features and bugginess. It's possible for the shittiest code to have very few bugs and please users. The worst thing about the worst code I've ever seen in my career is that it worked - so it was hard to want to mess with it when it was so easy to ignore! And it doesn't help that what is intractable code to some people is only a little complicated to others. Especially if you use a big language and are combining a lot of esoteric/complex features, or have a complicated logical expression and you are a logician and others are not.

I've seen projects become unchangeable because the code was spaghetti. I've seen them become unchangeable because there was too much abstraction. I've seen them become unchangeable because there was too little abstraction. I've seen awful code make big impact and I've seen excellent code flop because it wasn't competitive with "worse" but more complete offerings.

(All of this reinforcing, of course, that it's impossible to estimate how long software will take..... all of it relies far too heavily on the intuition of your mid+senior engineering talent).
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