skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This once more confirms my theory that using agent nouns as class names is a mistake.

The author spent so much time thinking about what the CRUDController should be able to do they forgot to think about what it even is.
This is a political advocacy organization, which may have positive goals, but is absolutely only going to be presenting one side of the argument and in a very "we're 100% good and the other side is 100% evil" kind of way.

Not saying it's not worth looking into but it's like trying to get unbiased information on all political candidates in a race by going to one candidate's campaign website.

It seems like the answer to "How is Texas funding rural schools with urban property taxes" is most likely "they're not, they're taking money from both schools for general budget appropriations."
I'd love this use case if they didn't lull me right to sleep. :)
It's not the effort of learning, it's the effort of tolerating all the know-it-all newbies that increases.
The other option is "yes this works well and is very neat, but it's not going to withstand 5 years of people changing it and only reviewing the diffs."
Personally, I'm excited to see ML researchers doing cool stuff with small models again!

With LLMs taking over the spotlight it's easy for people to forget that not everything needs billions or trillions of parameters. Stable Diffusion fits comfortably in my 8GB of VRAM and can generate amazing images. I'd love to see more research like this in smaller models that can be used on cheap consumer hardware.
The US has had a disaster of a Maternal Mortality rate for awhile. There are several compounding factors to this.

One metric that I learned about was the impact of American diet on immigrants. Women who grew up outside the US, especially from asia, are smaller. When they came to the US, the high caloric diet usually lead to significantly higher rates of C-sections as a result of their larger babies.

Poor base health, doctors fleeing anti-choice states, lack of access to care, lack of parental leave, economic stress, inactive lifestyles, and now throw in country wide heatwaves.
The PaaS Dilemma - Balancing Trust, Vendor Lock-in, and Open Source Solutions
https://www.apple.com/app-store/
Apparently I will do anything but answer what you were asking.

Your question was:

>Who should own media? Private people, or the state?

The reason why no one ought to answer a question like that is because it is presented in a format identical to a “bad faith” question.

You may have meant it genuinely but it looks like the old “Have you stopped beating your wife?” lawyer trap.

I chose not to answer the question because it was recognisable as a “false
dichotomy”. Then I explained my reasoning and so on.

I wasn’t “doing anything but answer”ing what you were ostensibly asking. Avoiding it was easy. Trying to inform you and anyone else reading of why such a question is never worth answering, is what took a lot of effort. That’s just par for the course if one chooses to respond to a question that has the format of a bad faith argument. I don’t mind.

So (to carry on your schtick) apparently you feel that if “the undeserving rich” are, as I suggested, in any way restricted from owning media, the only other bucket is state controlled media. Well I’m sorry you feel that way. Perhaps
a democracy could have some laws or something, without turning into a fascist state. Seriously -
the general category of “functional democracy” provides millions of shades “between” oligarchy and totalitarianism - but even saying “between” is giving too much credence to a bad faith preposition.

I’ll go through it for you again if you wish.

Over here at a specific extreme we have a totalitarian regime controlling all the media. Over here at a different extreme we have a small number of rich people owning everything including control of media.

Now we can construct a 1 dimensional line and say that these are two extremes on a single axis. And we can go even further and say, as you have, that all possibilities fall into these two buckets.

Consider though that this world we live in and the world of political possibilities is not a one dimensional world. Nor is it two dimensional or three dimensional. It is “n” dimensional for some inconceivably large “n”. There are many different ways that power can be distributed, channeled and many more ways in which benefits and taxation can be organised - and or other mechanisms and feedback systems other than these. A functional democracy can avoid being either of those two specific buckets. That one dimensional line and those two specific buckets are not in any way inevitable.
You'll have that. I've always said those places should keep an anthropologist on staff.
Practically: none, for you at least.

Don't download Microsoft Teams if it claims an app developer with an unrecognisable name and only 500 downloadeds, don't download cracked games, be wary of the obvious free-to-play clones, and if a web page shows a flashing gif warning you that Whatsapp is outdated, don't install the APK file it's trying to push through your browser. It's also important to keep your browser up to date and to think before you grant apps permission described like "control the entire screen" and "give app access to all input and screen content".

Android malware is not that different from Windows malware. It spreads through devices infected from the factory, pirated software, fake download ads, and less commonly, through clones and abandonware on official storefronts like Google Play.

This threat actor is buying abandonware and spreading viruses through updates. Dime-in-a-dozen PDF readers and file managers (that your phone already came with anyway) are at risk, but if you stick to reputable brands you'll be fine. Pick "Google Drive PDF" over "Insomnia Media PDF Viewer - Reader & Editor" with 10k downloads.

Google Play comes with an antivirus program built in (Google Play Protect) that will warn you of known risks. You can disable it if you don't want Google to know about every app you install from other sources, but if you leave it enabled you'll minimize the risk of getting infected.

If you want to be sure you're not getting infected, use F-Droid. F-Droid compiles open-source apps on their own servers, so the source code they receive is the source code the compiled APK uses. Even if your app is open source, there's no way to upload a precompiled APK to the F-Droid website. This makes introducing malware without anyone noticing quite difficult.
This is the important thing. So many people in tech think of these solutions in terms of tech, the ease of use of the tech, and the cost of the tech.

But the ultimate cost in everything is the cost of labor. On-premise solutions require on-premise administrators, with full time salaries (who are mostly sitting around waiting for work or problems to arise). It is far simpler and cheaper to contract the work out to a cloud provider and pay hourly for a tech's time. If you are a highly competent sysadmin you probably aren't working at a dental implant company. So the kinds of people non-tech companies hire are usually going to be lower quality and get paid less, increasing security risks
read mode in firefox :)
Triple Threat: The Power of Transcription, Summary, and Translation
The wrong path is any which asserts Truth to be determinate by a machine.
Quite true there is some irony to that. There has been a little talk of building a local first community platform, sadly doesn't exist yet.
You’ve pointed out something key: some people have the mindset of “I live in my home” and others say “I live in my city.” I can see if you are young and have a city job and love restaurants and night clubs and museums and all these other city amenities, then you consider your life to be in various spots in a city. I don’t give a shit about any of that. My life is my family and my dog and my in-home hobbies and working on my vehicle: all of which goes on in my house. I could (and have many times) gone weeks without even leaving my property. No one way is correct.
Yes, but we are talking about Connecticut. There would not be a good reason to analogize to a completely different system on the other side of the planet.

If you are interested in learning more you could research the American Land Title Association.
Bringing up Google has nothing to do with the conversation...it's just whataboutism in the purest sense.

Mozilla has a terrible CEO, Google has nothing to do with that.
I think it points to IT is much harder to do at scale than most people realize. There's a big difference between running a datacenter and running a server closet.

Companies utilize HR services, payroll services, and legal services, amongst many other services, because that's not in their wheelhouse and a part of their core competency, so why wouldn't they utilize cloud platforms as well? Like I said, managing and running multiple data centers having high-availability and DR capability isn't easy, or cheap.
There was no argument. Only a claim. And ad hominem is attacking the person, not the argument (e.g. "They might say that, but they're a Democrat.")
There isn't, finding inhibitors (natural or synthetic) that can specifically target STING without disrupting other essential cellular processes is a challenge.

However..

Resveratrol, a natural compound found in grapes and red wine, has been studied for its potential to modulate STING activity, though not the STING protein specifically (from what i can find).

There's also speculation that the gut microbiota plays a role in modulating the immune system and it's possible that certain bacteria could influence STING activity.
How the recession doomers got the U.S. economy so wrong
No, you're right. I was thinking about the kinds of sensitive information that one might get access to via a single account - not about the use of that account as an attack vector for other accounts.
Emergency vehicles sirens only need to be loud because they have to be heard by other drivers in their cars, which are sound proofed to not hear their own noise.

Normal car traffic absolutely goes through walls, you think you are used to it, but it actually stresses you quite a lot.

Construction work can be an issue indeed
The way I think about it is I'd like enough land to fire a .22 pistol without bothering anyone. Would be fun to be able to target shoot in my back yard with a firearm, though I can do that now with airguns.
How would you recommend sampling a place’s attitude to nipples?
cathode ray tubes make a distinct noise at a high frequency
I see the confusion, that's not the web.
More, less, or about the same significance as the reduced sulphur particles from global shipping these past two years, the unusual absence of Saharan dust, and the growing El Niño swing?

https://www.carbonbrief.org/state-of-the-climate-growing-el-...

https://twitter.com/MichaelRLowry/status/1667965015503126529

https://twitter.com/LeonSimons8/status/1669667629844267008
Try a simulator of a physical calculator. I'm pretty happy with the HP Prime emulator on Windows.
Why should the author have to force you to act ethically and follow the law? Do cops have to follow you around everywhere to ensure you don't steal stuff?

Also you're missing how Kickstarter works. The fundraising goal is not a ceiling, it's a floor.
The demo misidentifies West Bengal, India flood to a location in Pakistan. Either the title is incorrect or the model is simply wrong. The demo should have been proof read before publishing :/

https://youtu.be/9bU9eJxFwWc?t=28
The proposed mechanism for superconductivity in lk-99 is pretty different so that may be confounding your interpretation of those graphs.
Yep. My dad has a lift in his shop back home, and I could always take my stuff over there to do auto work. Or if I didn't need a lift, at our place we had a big shed with a concrete floor, well lit, shop air compressor, etc. The downside was that it wasn't fully enclosed so it wasn't great in cold weather.

Anyway, that may be the single biggest thing I miss about "back home". Where I live now, I can't even (officially) change the oil in my car or replace a set of brake pads without violating a rule of the place where I live. I swapped out an alternator a few weeks ago and managed not to get yelled at by the management people, but that's about as extensive as you can go here, either due to lack of amenities/equipment, or "the rules". Aaarggghh.
Laziness is good though. If repetition requires less work for the same outcome, that's good. If abstraction or automation of some kind (like codegen) requires less work, then that's good.

But the question is, "less work over what time scale?". Repetition usually requires less work over short time scales but often requires more work over longer ones. But not always! I see people abstracting and automating things in throwaway scripts, tools, and PoCs. That is a waste of time.

There is a series of xkcd comics about this, which are all spot on: https://xkcd.com/974/, https://xkcd.com/1319/, https://xkcd.com/1205/.

I refer back to that table in 1205 pretty often :)
Well there are two halves to the question. "Would you like a bigger house even if it means amenities are further away?". So to me the 44% suggests that for a lot of people suburban amenity proximity is not worth the smaller home size.

And I'm not that surprised. Not to over generalize but very few suburbs are walkable. Once you're in the car what's an extra 10 minutes on your drive? As a person sitting in the city pondering a life outside of it I can't see the point in the suburbs if I'm going to be driving and stuck in traffic anyway. I'd rather go whole hog and live rurally.
If I don't have easily-transferrable technical skills, how much additional value can I offer to a new potential employer in any engineering (non-management) role above junior or maybe middle-ish? I obviously recognize that there are other areas of skills, and that learning new tech gets easier with experience, but isn't there a limit to that?
As a corollary, quite often in code there is a 'happy path', or small set of operations that people are going to be using 90% of the time. That code is going to get read even more, so make it as high quality and as simple as possible, don't mess with it unless you're very sure...
I'd write run.sh like this: Put the names of the files from that dot-d style folder into some ".cc" file (if it doesn't exist yet); then loop over the lines in the ".cc" file, executing each line if it doesn't start with '#' and then prepending '#' with sed to the just executed line. After the loop, delete the ".cc" file (maybe with a diagnostic messages if all lines in it were #-prefixed). Maybe throw in some traps for reliable SIGINT-handling as well.
The core information:

> The model – trained jointly by IBM and NASA on Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 satellite data (HLS) over one year across the continental United States and fine-tuned on labeled data for flood and burn scar mapping — has demonstrated to date a 15 percent improvement over state-of-the-art techniques using half as much labeled data. With additional fine tuning, the base model can be redeployed for tasks like tracking deforestation, predicting crop yields, or detecting and monitoring greenhouse gasses. IBM and NASA researchers are also working with Clark University to adapt the model for applications such as time-series segmentation and similarity research.
Claims are arguments, just poorly supported ones.

Ad hominem includes many types attacks on a person that aren’t about the person but how they presented the argument. Ie mocking how slow someone spoke, or in this case how many words they used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
Wagner vs GROM seems seriously a bad idea for Wagner.
Let's be honest here. Most of what Google does these days goes against everything Google once stood for.

The Google of today is a completely different company than the Google of yesterday.
You definitely don't have children.
I think the unqualified negativitiy is based on a common misunderstanding of the scientific process, that if one finds any shortcoming in a result--be it applied or theoretical--one can throw the entire work in the trash under the pretense of falsification.

But this is wrong. Science is about weighing the totality of evidence, and refining that evidence in one direction or another over many iterations.
> incapable of bringing in new ideas

But they are REALLY capable of detecting bad ideas.
> I find it staggering that so few media outlets have picked this story up.

The media outlets are pushing for this. Hey, no more adblockers! I'm surprised they aren't running glowing testimonials of the new Google-overlord future.
I've been pondering how much of that is circular though. My interest in metalworking is precisely because I've got some land to maintain. Take away the tractor, and I don't need metalworking. Give me some shared walls, and I don't need to burn wood for heat. Reduce the amounts of biomass and snow that need to be kept at bay, and I don't need a shed full of landscaping equipment. Bury the power lines, and I don't need a generator in case the power goes out.

I know some dyed in the wool country lifers are recoiling in horror at my comment, but my point is to be aware of the path dependence, including the path dependence of culture (eg why you want to work on old cars).

There's also the circular path dependence of (not) relying on socially shared venues, eg hacker spaces, local markets, etc. The US doesn't have great availability of these things, meaning that people use more space at their personal house to replicate their functionality. Rather than going to a corner market and buying food for a few days, we go to the grocery store every week or two and buy huge quantities. Rather than looking around at hacker spaces to scratch my machining itch, I think how it would be great to find some room for a CNC mill. Most of my garage is currently being taken up because I can't even rely on Home Depot to function as a warehouse that sells non-broken goods on demand.

In my estimation the largest unescapable dynamic in the US is that when you're in a city or even a suburb, you're running on the financial treadmill much harder. Which is fine when you're young, rent is comparable to the money you spend on experiences, and you're happy fitting into the corporate societal structure where you can. But when you get tired of running so fast for someone else, want to have a bit more autonomy, perhaps run your own business or other productive endeavor, the main way to do that comfortably is to move to a lower cost of living area where things like office/hobby space comes bundled with your dwelling.
I've found it's more hustle and creativity than capacity or competence. ymmv
renting forever and casual dating into your 40s is its own stagnation
Interesting, what are your reasons for being reluctant to use the term "cis"? I ask not to debate, but out of curiosity.
It was once said that the national anthem of Hell is "My Way", and that the motto over the main gate reads "Do what thou wilt".

Pride, radical individualism, self-promotion. These are extremely common today, especially in the US (just compare an American resume with a European CV). Both the US and Europe have their problems, but this particular obsession tends to be more conspicuous in the US. Paradoxically, it doesn't bear the desired fruit because it misunderstands the nature of personal excellence.

This isn't a vote for collectivism or mediocrity. Only dead fish float downstream. It's a vote for the notion that the riches of society are the result of countless incremental contributions up and down the hierarchy of value for the sake of the common good. But liberalism embraces an inverted view of reality. All our relationships are viewed instrumentally and transactionally. We place desire above reason. We've become atomized, because nothing sensible unites us (perfect for those in power who view people as "human resources"). The "social contract" view of society is a disaster.
Because any second spent farting around with the machine instead of using it to learn about the topic at hand steals from the topic.

Because teachers aren't sysadmins, because even if they were they aren't going to admin 30 different laptops that the students have installed god-knows-what on.

This solution has to be military grade in reliability and simplicity and unless/until someone develops a hardware certification programme, a meaningful long-term-support plan, a remote administration solution, a security focused browser and a hosted identity system, all in a package that costs ~$200 new then it's going to be CrOS.

Don't forget the marketing spend needed even if you did tick the above boxes.

No one is complaining that their text-books are not turing complete, just stop viewing these devices as general purpose machines and view them as the child-focused-appliances that they are. Like Teslas.
I don’t follow this logic. For one… the other 50% is Google. But Google has equal or better market share of many other key product/service areas… and significantly higher share in the web advertising ecosystem central to the discussion.
My entourage definitely is not impressed by any of these three obscure details of web development. I think they might have a hard time even grasping what the web platform is.
I've heard these sounds all my life, as recently as a few years ago. I'll be 50 next year.
even more so as the mug literally levitates above the desk, the atoms of the mug are not really touching the atoms of the desk.
Are you essentially saying that you refuse to use Firefox because most people don’t use Firefox?

What do Firefox’s enterprise market share and Mozilla’s initiatives that are unrelated to Firefox have to do with whether Firefox would work for you as a browser?
As someone that has relied on such devices to survive cancer - thank you.
With you there. A lot of Chinese labs are listed e.g. but my own experience trying to replicate materials science results from "credible" Chinese labs has led to a lot of disappointment.
It seems tragic to me that you had to procreate to appreciate your time on earth. I am grateful and thankful for every moment. Life is full of wonder to me without the burden of children.
> They're hard not to love.

I often search for a clearcut answer to a technical question and I'm met with a 2 hour history lesson into a decade of company politics and failed replatforming projects.

Yeah, thanks for telling me why John from accounting was a dick 10 years ago and you had to code this module in a certain way. I really don't care. I'm new to the codebase and I just want to know how it (the codebase) works.

I'm currently in this situation and a colleage never gives straight answers to anything. It's always some little rant about something and when it's done, I still haven't got my answer.
> 4. Every initiative Mozilla has come out with has completely failed to gain traction.

...

> And no I don't care about their other failed products, it's totally irrelevant.

It's quite hard to take your ideological stance seriously.
Democratizing AI for Climate Change: IBM and NASA Launch an Open-Source Model
That’s some twisted logic. The Senate could have passed a statewide ban on unregulated camping, but instead decided to strip the city of its right to make most ordinances, including mandated water breaks for construction workers during a heat wave. The rollback of home rule —more than a century old — is a disproportionate, unreasonable response to a specific problem, the political equivalent of nuking an ant colony.