skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the nominal value doubled by virtue of debasement of the currency (inflation), then yes all goods and services would double (including property taxes). If only the value of properties doubled in a city, that would increase but not nearly double the required budget as not nearly every cost the city incurs is pegged to property costs.

As an aside, my property has approximately doubled (in Zillow guesstimate and in assessed value) since we bought it in 2007. Our property taxes over that time went from around $8K to around $12K. An inflation calculator over that period would say that $8K in 2007 is worth $11.7K today, suggesting that property taxes track general inflation much more closely than they follow property values.

So, my property has doubled in nominal value, representing a 36% increase in real dollars, while my property taxes have gone up by only 3% in real terms.

Edit to add: inflation of course massively helps mortgage borrowers. If I bought my house for 100 units of currency, borrowing 80 and the currency change worth such that it now takes 147 units of currency to buy the house (just from inflation effects), then I still owe only the original 80 units of the now less valuable currency (minus principal repaid in the meantime). Inflation just paid off over 30% of my mortgage for me.
Warning from Being John Malkovich, don't tune into yourself, it's weird.

Not a fan of reality TV so I would pass on this.
Interesting that our "best friend" is number four. Cats don't even crack the top ten.
I'm a bit pedantic about our family's information being stored on other people's computers. I simply don't trust access to it long-term.

So I'm building Timelinize: https://twitter.com/timelinize -- the idea is that everyone can get their data out of the cloud and off their devices and into a single, unified timeline on their own computer. And their timeline is just one shard of a global universal timeline, and timelines can be meshed together seamlessly.

Still much work to do but my family is hopefully going to start using this in the next few years! And maybe yours too :)
Cisco ACI Multi-Site CloudSec Encryption Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Why doesn't it have a way to directly push an image to the screen like a $30 router from worst buy? It looks like the software to push an image to a display can be run on your own device but then you need an $80 box and if I read this right you need to pay $72 a year forever.

https://www.visionect.com/software/
'VC qanon' and the radicalization of the tech tycoons
Combine ANON-123 with information from their browser, which has default font x, locale y, screen resolution Z, and package x1, and that anonymous data just became much more rich.

It doesn't take very many bits of information to deanonymize someone once you start combining databases.
Procore is a public company doing this.

Vendor and BOM management on top of a bunch of other stuff
This is the sort of approach that's utterly foreign to me.

When people in my class started turning 18 teachers reminded us that compulsory education doesn't apply to them any more, so they're free to leave at any time - with appropriate consequences regarding their chances of passing, but nothing else.
Could you ELI5 this article for me? I am amazed by the high quality comments here but the article is not readable for me.
I sure hope we can engineer that test to keep the undesirables from voting. We should also work to ensure that we don't let them start learning our test materials at school.
I started blogging here [0] in 2004 or so on any tech-related issue that would cross my mind; as I gathered viewers and matured, I began writing less and less until now I only write when I feel I have something actually valuable to share. These days it is mostly about open source, rust, and .NET.

[0]: https://neosmart.net/blog/
Boiled down to the simplest terms? Microwave diode.
Consumption versus Creation
So… come strapped?
Here in Norway the charging companies almost all have their own solution. They try to pass it off as some kind of advantage that I need 45 accounts and apps.

Gov't finally got their act together and have now mandated that all new chargers must accept a standard payment card withou any fuzz.

Hopefully they'll make that rule universal in a not too distant future.
Not entirely according to my experience, the simple Assa Abloys are indeed rather cheap and easy to change. But the more secure, thus approved by insurance, can be tricky since they contain traps.

There are instruction available on how to change them, but even me, and I am not afraid of DIY, called one of the many locksmiths around here in Stockholm.
Which is awesome, but the C. Elegans connectome was published in 1989 and as you'll see if you investigate the linked project a bit we are absolutely nowhere near having C. Elegans' full set of behaviours emerge from a simulation of its neurons, or even to proving that it's feasible to do so.

This makes neurokernel [1] and the like seem just a tad ambitious. Good luck to them though.

[1] http://neurokernel.github.io/
Is there a way to jailbreak this to run arbitrary apps?
> but an hour walking is probably better than a rushed workout of similar time.

How so?
Can you say more on this (value and how it’s extracted)?
You're engaging with it as though AI is actually going to revolutionize jobs. I think that's highly unlikely.

What AI is likely to do is distract people from the continued accumulation of wealth and power. Reinforce the notion that it's "fair" (everyone else can be automated after all). And provide a cap to your wages (if the machine could do it with 50 MWh of power, then your salary will logically have to be lower than that, even if the machine doesn't actually exist YET).
A typical German water heater, e.g. from stiebel eltron, will be between 15kW and 22kW at three phase 400V, which is obviously too much for a regular outlet. Which is why it's usually wired directly, the same as stoves/ovens tend to be.
Me neither.

Wikipedia:

> Windows Update was introduced as a web app with the launch of Windows 98 and offered additional desktop themes, games, device driver updates, and optional components such as NetMeeting. Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 were retroactively given the ability to access the Windows Update website and download updates designed for those operating systems, starting with the release of Internet Explorer 4.
You can do this, even as a living person. I once got a $10k bill reduced to $700. (It took a lot of back-and-forth, but it was worth it.)
What I'd love is a project for Windows 11 that gives me back full control of which updates I download and when I reboot. I've been living with vague registry hacks and the "pause for 5 weeks" button but they're getting less effective.
DRM isn't an inherent trait of ebooks.

Most of the time it is actually easier to find a copy of a DRM free book on Anna's Archive than it is to find a DRM copy...

This is more an argument against DRM than it is against ebooks.
Doug DeMuro did a rather comprehensive walkthrough as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CWCqJl0BEs

Annoyingly, they didn't fix my main UX gripe with delivery vehicles, which is that they use the same lights for the hazards and turn signals. It's quite common for the right half of a stopped van to be obscured, which makes it impossible to tell the difference between "hazards on, delivering a package" and "left blinker on, about to cut in front of you".
Encryption bans are a fools errand. They don't work as there are always ways around them, and they make everything less secure and more vulnerable. It's a loose/loose situation. It's the worst for your average Joe who just wants to use twitter, check email, etc. but isn't tech savvy to know about PGP or steganography.
I used to feel this way.

But then I realized this is the natural push/pull of conservatism against progress. Incumbents get old and conservative. New companies crop up and try to do things differently. Sometimes the new ideas are stupid, and incumbents are right--the tried and true really is best.

Other times, the incumbents have become so bureaucratic, slow, and out of touch with what matters (customers), that a new company can come in, do things dramatically better, and burn an old competitor down.

Macro-wise, I think we should be glad for this. It's very hard to tell what will and won't work at the beginning. VCs get paid a lot of money for trying to guess this and even they can't get it right. I myself have been surprised many, many times when an idea I thought was incredibly stupid, turned out to have legs.

One way to change your mind on this, write down your predictions about what companies/approaches/techniques will/won't work 10 years from now. If you do this say, once/year, and you're honest, you'll see how hilariously bad you, and more or less everyone else actually is, at predicting the future and knowing what will and won't work. Sometimes you really do just have to try it, and see what happens.
They're in business because they eschew observability of their software? Seems like a poor strategy. I'll take the company which is actually paying attention to how their software is used in order to improve it, and getting prompt notification of bugs
TIL Mastodon also has a CEO, but I am not opposed to that. I guess what I don't like is for-profit social networks.

https://fortune.com/2022/11/28/mastodon-social-ceo-eugen-roc...
it characterizes programming in a way that is basically incoherent to most stereotypical programmers

(i agree with you, for the record, it was gobbledegook to me too)

the question is: does programming represent some kind of subjective expression, or some kind of objective precision? why's little zine says it's the former, but that's not how i see it at all

programming is, for me, like working on math problems, or balancing equations, it's strict and pure and precise, and that's what i love about it, there's no connection to anything like art, or writing (in the novel sense), or other kinds of subjective expression

but for some people, programming is like art, or writing a novel, or in any case a subjective expression of some abstract idea (or ideas) that they have

at least this is what i see as the discrepancy
That's the system scape goating some poor sap without addressing underlying issues.
That's not true. Differential privacy just says that the output of the ML model will not change much if you add or remove a particular user, so you can't reverse the training process to infer what training data a given user provided.

It says nothing about whether or not you can join the output of multiple ML models with other telemetry to build a deanonymization model.
That power is only for the contrived example of doing a complete redesign that doesn’t change any of the html content. It’s like one of those demos people make of a CSS-only thingamajig that would be much easier to do any other technology. It makes for an interesting tech demo but isn’t practical for day-to-day development.
Yup I absolutely think that should be fixed before they try this telemetry option. Anonymous bug reporting (just crash details) are probably more palatable than this proposal but that would be more work on the bug report side to aggregate and filter out garbage, and they want something that is minimal effort on their side (stated directly in the discussion).
Yes, it can be ported.
Play Elon “To the Moon” Musk vs. Mark “Reptilian” Zuckerberg on Diktapunk
I've also read that Linus was pretty influential in BitKeeper design too. As in Larry McVoy would sit down with Linus to talk about the design of it. Git's core data structures had probably been bouncing around in Linus's head for months before first line of code was written.

If you know both BitKeeper and Git internals, you can think of their data models as near identical, with BitKeeper implementation using text files and SCCS, and Git using from-scratch data structures.
A truck that doesn't emit noxious gas during ordinary use, I suppose.
> And by the time you’re in your mid-teens, you’re probably as smart as you’re going to be – not as worldly or wise as you will be later, but the raw brainpower is mostly there.

This doesn’t ring true to me. I don’t feel like I really got to peak “raw brainpower” until about 22-23 years old.
Interesting. I had no idea these were EV or Rivian, I've been seeing them in my area for months now. Seems to be most Amazon deliveries in my area (North NJ) are using them now, probably 80% these, 10% private vehicles and 10% of the larger UPS/FedEx-sized trucks.
Cloud Credits: A Guide for Startups to Maximize Benefits and Avoid Pitfalls
Another possibility that is surely called a conspiracy theory is to create conflict in society, so the government is allowed to put in place the desired solutions like increased systemic surveillance and more violent police. It's an effective way to erode civil rights.
Quick question: brass looks fantastic but on a back plate..? Why that material choice? (I’m sure there was a good reason, just curious)
There must be a different brain chemistry at work. Maybe increased levels of comfort and elevated pack status from the freedom of social transactions does this. I never understood why a lot of these fuckers don't just go away and leave everyone else alone when they made enough money for themselves to not worry about money. But I have come to realize that it doesn't work like this at all and there comes a profound change, most likely biochemical that promotes these drives.
I'm a bit more bullish on it. It makes some sense in dense areas, I think. Which almost certainly accounts for the majority of areas that are covered by delivery.

However, the range is not to be discounted. Assuming a delivery van will operate for basically the full working day, I'd assume 200 miles is not unheard of for driving, and I see the range is about 150 miles for them.

That said, https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/14/what-its-like-to-deliver-for... seems to indicate that the range is working out ok? I'm curious if that is strictly in the dense areas? Mayhap the lower density also translates to fewer deliveries such that you have a lower "duty cycle" as it were?
No, because he is not telling you.. but he might tell someone he knows or cares about ?

Or his descendants might find a reference to it or figure out it was him ?
It all started in Windows 98 with the launch of Windows Update; they then released the Critical Update Notification Tool (later renamed to Utility, for obvious reasons) which would query the website and just tell you when a critical update was available to go check the site.

Otherwise, in the 95 era, I believe you'd likely be finding out through a software vendor or otherwise that a certain fixpack from Microsoft might fix an issue and you should go grab an update then.
Thank you for the response! I did miss the supplementary material notes.
I have lost things, or have forgotten and left minor things at various places (e.g., mom & pop food courts, shops) in Taiwan. They were insignificant in the scheme of things, and in some cases the return was more expensive than the forgotten item. Yet, they found ways to get them back to me. (A BIC four color pen?!)

This is diametrically opposite what I experienced on the mainland.
Replacing Home Depot-style locks in Home Depot-style doors is extremely easy, it’s only a couple of minutes of work using only basic tools. Maybe up to 30 minutes if you’re doing it for the first time, and forgot where you put your screwdriver.
Yeah, sure - as long as that reference sheet is the CPU reference manual.
Yes, and the same van that has automated cameras watching the driver at all times, making sure they are paying attention while driving.
Thank you this is great, do you have the code in a repo?
Maybe I need a new project
So you'll sabotage observability for everyone else because you don't want to just opt out?
Scaling data processing with the BadgerDB KV Store
Yes, the simplicity of agent incentives is what make them so easy and useful to work with.

They are not finical advisors or investment experts. They simply find a price that will close a deal, and ensure that it closes swiftly. If you want that, perfect.

A good agent will tell you what bid would likely win.
People would definitely resist the idea of not being able to spend their money the way they want. That's the whole point of capitalism, and these people made their fortunes thank to capitalism so obviously capitalism is correct.

The core fundamental issue I see a lot of is that your net worth defines your value. People with more money have more inherent value across the board, and people with less have less. Rich people have an outsized effect on society because people look at their bank balance and see how much money they've made and immediately think that their success came from being an exceptional specimen of humanity.

If we could ditch the cult of personality and the "rich makes right" attitude and actually looked at the behavior of billionaires, we'd see that these people are almost universally unhinged from reality, making baseless claims and assertions, changing social or political affiliations as soon as the group they support doesn't support them unconditionally, avoiding paying taxes as much as possible and then turning around and performing "philanthropy" by paying for a new library or wing of a museum to be named after them. They complain that the government is subsidizing health care when taking billions in government subsidies just so they can turn a bigger profit, which people then attribute to their skill and worth as a person and not their leveraging of their fortune for political gain.
IMHO there's a level of understanding beyond this, which might be called grace. I identify as a lifelong failure, but I no longer place blame on specifics like addiction or body weight or relationship issues. The truth of my existence is that the world is really messed up, but also beautiful despite the dysfunction. And I'm grateful for the adversity which woke me out of the fantasies which distracted me throughout so much of my life and added to the suffering of others.

Loosely that means that every time I took a drink, there was a reason, like maybe I was lonely because I was rejected by someone. Maybe I was fat because I was too broke to take care of myself. Maybe I was mean to my partners because I was projecting my own frustrations.

Now I look at life more like a game. I'm drawn to fringe ideas and projects with an overwhelming likelihood of failure. I've been through the ringer so many times that I'm more of a loosely held together hodgepodge of components than a coherent identity. But I keep showing up. I'm hardened from adversity but I've alchemized that into softness and an infinite well of empathy for others struggling with the human condition. I cheer inside when the meekest among us speak truth to power. I live in service to others now, who are an aspect of myself.
Yes, you can already run Android emulators on PC, rooted, to play various games.

Professional mobile game Esports stars do this, because it makes streaming much more easier. While it might sound funny for a Westerner, some games like Freefire have their player count in tens of millions of people. They are popular in developing countries where people cannot afford PC or a console.

https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/224119/how-to-ga...

I do not know if Google Play has some kind of distribution limits to prevent installing within an emulator, but those would be quite trivial to work around. AFAIK there is not any kind of “real device id” system being used, although it would be dearly needed because of the cheaters.
"wear a helmet until you are comfortable with whatever wheels you are riding" sounds like a formula for "die on a bike once you've hit the dunning kruger effect"
>The question naturally becomes why, all of a sudden, New Yorker would want to put a spotlight on this?

You're suggesting a degree of coordination/calculation which I'm not sure exists here. Someone felt this would make a good article, the editor agreed, the end. Does there need to be more to it than that?
What Is Requestly
You keep a credit card on file in your Tesla account. The supercharger recognizes your car and it automatically charges your card.
Hah, yes. Brother in law was using them on a new development he was producing.
I did not say 'capitalism evil'. It has its strong and weak points.

It is just that enlisting everything and everyone on the planet into a pure financial model that can be leveraged for rents and speculaion is what it is about.
Since a lot of people are talking about themselves so openly, I feel a compulsion too.

I hide behind perfection. Learning maths, programming, sports, health.

Of course I need a perfect OS, perfect programming paradigm, perfect book, the best music learning method, greatest body improvement program.

Perfect is the enemy of good. It's something I grapple with on a daily basis.
Experiencing decreased performance with ChatGPT-4
But they already do that. There have already been cases of cops in the US arresting people for filming them. Not to mention cops have literally attacked journalists (not just "citizen journalists" but actual TV crews) at protests and destroyed their equipment.
Nanofiltration is going to leave in things like lead, etc which makes sense when you think about how it's leaving in other ions like salts etc.

In fact it will leave in not only metal ions, but pesticides and antibiotics too.

More info here https://aquaclearllc.com/technical-info/reverse-osmosis-vs-n....
Simply write the outputs to a formatted file and keep it separately?
Author here, would love to discuss!
https://stelfox.net/blog/

It's been on and off for a long time, mostly quick "this is how I solved this specific issue" posts but I get enough natural traffic it's clearly helping some people. I want to make time for more long form writing though.
> they then released the Critical Update Notification Tool (later renamed to Utility, for obvious reasons)

Oofda. That can't have been an accident.
Using OpenAI Functions and Langchain to Extract Structured Data from LLM Apps
They do this in the paper. They explain what they do and their conclusions. Any similarly trained expert will understand the proper implications of the paper.
How exactly are they going to remotely activate it if, say, Google/Apple don't put a backdoor in just for France(which I'm pretty sure they won't).

Is that bill just saying the police can hack your phone with a warrant?
I always said "Python is like writing maths, ruby is like writing english"
It's already the largest generating station in the world.
Let me walk you through the steps of restarting your modem....
Yes, that's what I meant.

People like us are blessed to not have to hustle to earn since we are 18 yos.

But I have seen, first hand, people dropping out of really good opportunities when they have the smallest chance to earn an income.
they are deeply conservative but saying that regulations are in place for the purpose of keeping home values is reaching. In my experience, there are a lot of HOA directors who are just control freaks who just want to lock everything down to prevent change.
Yeah but we've got old techniques for that too, Latent Dirichlet Allocation etc.
Or 'Really Social Sites' and 'Other People's Meaningful Lists'. ;)
They moved to the CADT model twenty years ago, so the bug reports will never be read.

Now, with telemetry, they can say quantifiable things like "we've driven catastrophic root filesystem loss and permanent loss of network connectivity to 0% of installs!", and prioritize any contrary bug reports away in a data-driven, quantifiable way.

(Because, of course, weak telemetry signals are more valuable than actual humans taking the time to give you feedback on your product.)