skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate DRM, I hate monopolies, I welcome competition, but if one builds a massive empire by just creating a bonafide good platform, single-handedly making open source desktop better, with good customer support and treating users with respect, they deserve the money honestly.

If one day I manage to build a billion dollar empire, my sole inspiration on how to conduct business is Gabe Newell. [1]

Which is exactly the thing Epic can't compete on. They can give away all the free games they want, but Steam and Valve have done much more than offering games on sale.

(I got a 13 year old account on Steam, more than 500 games bought, almost $10k spent on the platform. No Windows partition for the past 3 years)

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1: I honestly couldn't name anybody else that has kept their company private, grown it to such heights and stayed true to their founding principles, without selling out to shareholders and advertisers for an easy buck.
>The release went mostly under-the-radar because the generative image AI buzz has cooled down a bit. Everyone in the AI space is too busy with text-generating AI like ChatGPT (including myself!).

I disagree with this statement. The release went mostly under the radar for 2 reasons, according to the people I've talked to.

1. Higher vram and compute requirements

2. Perceived lower quality outputs compared to specialized SD1.5 models.

If either of these points had been different, it would have gained a lot more popularity I'm sure.

But alas, most people now simply wait and see if specialized SDXL models can actually improve upon specialized 1.5 models.
LibreOffice 7.6 Community: Release Notes
> Clifford is a big red dog, not a red big dog

Speaking of which, I've yet to see a similar description of tightly structured adjective order for any language other than English. I can't believe that English is unique in this regard.
I started as an IT professional circa 2010 making 48k a year, with 60k of college debt.

Estimating 3% cost of living adjustment that would be near 72k today.

Of course, a lot of things are a lot more inflated than 3% a year recently.
Idk if pinging like this works but @dang the title seems mangled on this one
I find this sort of defense inadequate and it is often proposed by Hindu apologists who feel a bit guilty about existence of caste.

Caste is not a British construct. They did not understand it properly but all evidence suggests that they in fact encouraged caste fluidity in most cases. The mapping of castes existed well before British. In fact you can look at smaller colonies such as Goa which were never under British rule and you find very strong existence of caste. Same with hindu society that moved to other countries. Even if it was a British construct it is still the failure of Indian society to continue with it if you assume it is bad.

> Varna is occupation and jati is tribe.

This is not true. There is no basis for Varna being treated as occupation. Gita and all other books are very clear that this is a qualitative classification of people where birth also played a good role.

In modern sense your definition of Varna is worthless too because people in same occupation show no solidarity along these lines. But show strong solidarity along the "jati" line.

> Jati is tribe.

Jati is inherited from father. In that sense it can be seen as a tribe. But it is also a classification very similar to Varna. Tamil Brahmins have completely different gene line from say Chitpavanas and yet both are seen as Brahmins and they will quickly form a good relationship compared to say a Chitpavana and Koli (fisherman).

Calling Jati a tribe does not explain this.

The broad idea of "caste" is probably a better term as it seems to represent really well the underlying social effect everyone is more interested in.

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Untouchability was present in some cases, but it was between 2 jatis. Meaning, one jati would consider the other jati as untouchable. However, it was not between varnas.

This system became more rigid after British started classifying people into different castes, providing benefits to some and taking away some from others, and that's how the caste system evolved into what it was.
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Most of the literature around "caste atrocities" is completely bogus and made up and does not stand close scrutiny. People might have been treated as untouchables, but it was not very different from you not willing to touch a homeless man on street of SF. Now you might find that there is very good mapping of race and homelessness but it is not the race which makes the person untouchable, it is the filthy lifestyle.

Most of the "low caste" people in India actually had very low social capital, were less civilized and had poor work ethic. Some of those castes quickly improved and suddenly became "upper caste". For example the most revered King from India is Shivaji who was from a lower class of land tillers who along with his entire tribe became one of the greatest ever "Kshatriya" (higher caste) person ever.

Once a person or tribe builds social capital they automatically transition into upper-caste. Those who do not, remain at the bottom.
The Mac Folklore Radio Podcast
I've been seeing Mac folklore posted to HN recently - this is a fantastically well produced podcast that goes through folklore.org and other articles from the time period, with asides, tidbits, interviews etc. that help paint a picture of this fantastic era in computing history. Well worth a listen.
Interesting.

I recently ran across research that showed nicotine consumers had reduced Parkinson's symptoms and incidence.

It's good to see they're learning more about this devastating illness.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4430096/#:~:tex....
Goods and services did get cheaper relative to incomes, but there is more money to bid up land prices. I think this aligns with what we have seen happen?
> It's not illegal to let your registration or inspection lapse if the car isn't being driven.

True in many states, but California wants vehicles to have valid registration
even if the vehicle is not at all operational. The owner gets a break on the
cost, but Sacramento still wants their due.

https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/vehicle-registration/vehicle-r...
I use GNU Parallel to render Blender videos distributed by a bunch of nodes https://github.com/tfmoraes/blender_gnu_parallel_render
Taxi roulette was not a fun game to play: a) will it show up? b) will someone else take my cab? c) will the driver get angry if I attempt to use a card? d) does the driver know where they are going?
TikTok should ban those ads.
> Then there's the progressive web app (PWA) debacle, where users don't even know what a PWA is and don't know that they can pin sites to their home-screen, simulating an app.

Users don't need to know what a PWA is. Thereason users don't know that they can be 'installed' is because they're on iOS, where Apple has been effectively hamstringing them in favor of the Apple App Store. There is a way to install PWAs on iOS, but it's quite hidden.
Has anyone modelled the most obvious content onto that largest hemispherical LED display in the world?
A total inability to sell is not a feature to them, though.
Oh you mean things that are ignored in every situation ever
If you think that UX polish is the reason why "mainstream" people use microsoft/apple products over linux you are really deluding yourself.
You absolutely want to chunk them smaller than 8k. Have you tested different chunk strategies? It can make a huge difference for actually recalling useful information in small enough chunks to be usable.
I haven't booted into Windows since 2009, thanks to Wine. Proton certainly expands its compatibility and support though, and I'll support any company that supports Linux, and Valve is one of the best ones.
duo.google.com redirects to meet.google.com on my iPhone.
I'm sure they already know that, indeed that they actually contribute negatively, which is why you need to be able to 'stomach the job'.
Well fair but I welcome you to at least check it out! It’s an entirely new codebase and platform.
James Bruton Builds a Real Zelda Stabilizer Zonai Device
You could also just turn off extension autoupdate.
> I can guarantee

Really? Cause only one of us saw this whole thing through from start to end…

It boiled down to “stay in your lane, chromeOS team”.
This headline makes me want to shout out one of Samuel L Jackson’s lines from Pulp Fiction.
Running Llama2 on an M1 MacBook Pro Using PyXet
Looks interesting, but there doesn’t seem to be any information about what CRDT it’s using, or how it handles concurrent editing at all. The only operation appears to be “set key”, so it looks pretty basic. Is this the target state or is this going to be expanded upon in the future?
I wonder how many times do these animated advertisement screens near roads or highways needs to be hacked in a similar way in order to make them disappear. Can they be problematic frequently enough to make the companies just get rid of them?

Wish it was as easy as installing an adblocker.
Is it the same concept?
That was due to the bad luck of inventing the printing press early on, and congealing a grammatical mess before it had a chance to chill out and simplify.
In other words the solution is some serious level of sustained inflation.
Canned TLDs should have been abolished years ago. Domain names should be able to end in any string, period (except the ones that are actually enforced, like gov and edu).

I'm sure many of us were excited when ICANN announced years ago that they were allowing free-form TLDs... but then (per usual ICANN) it turned out to be a massive money-making scam for ICANN.
Your phone will still display a warning during bootup, though.
Because it's much simpler to have a 1.50 tester sitting with the batteries that's fixed function than dealing with the leads, the proper setting, finding the right band of numbers if it's analog. There's something to be said for fixed function.
I think there can be times were a consultant is useful to a small org. For example when using or investigating a technology they have no experience in yet it might be faster to get a consultant to help. Or trying to get compliance with some regulation or standard.
JS and DOM are popular mostly because they exist everywhere, and there's a large ecosystem of support. In practice, given (until recently) difficulty in hiring, places found it easier to have one JS team than to have one native team for every possible platform (Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, maybe even Linux). And it also does not help that each native platform can have wildly divergent frameworks and practices.
Any power that exists will be abused, and a hyper risk-averse bureaucracy for whom there is no downside or resistance to using a system like that will only keep escalating. It's absurd that it can't be turned off.
kula-s and jaati-s exist; injustices and poverty exist. Does the caste-system exist? One can't use injustices or fights between different kula-s or jaati-s as an evidence for the existence of the caste-system.

From: https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/what-can-india-of...

"While emphasizing that I do not attack and much less defend the caste system in what follows, let us look at the existing descriptions and their consequences.

(a) Caste is an antiquated social system that arose in the dim past of India. If this is true, it has survived many challenges – the onslaught of Buddhism and the Bhakti movements, the Islamic and British colonization, Indian independence, world capitalism – and might even survive ‘globalization’. It follows, then, that the caste system is a very stable social organization.

(b) There exists no centralized authority to enforce the caste system across the length and breadth of India. In that case, it is an autonomous and decentralized organization.

(c) All kinds of social and political regulations, whether by the British or by the Indians, have not been able to eradicate this system. If true, it means that the caste system is a self-reproducing social structure.

(d) Caste system exists among the Hindus, the Sikhs, the Jains, the Christians, the Muslims… It has also existed under different environments. This means that this system adapts itself to the environments it finds itself in.

(e) Because new castes have come and gone over the centuries, this system must also be dynamic.

(f) Since caste system is present in different political organizations and survives under different political regimes, it is also neutral with respect to political ideologies.

Even though more can be said, this is enough for us. A simple redescription of what we think we know about the caste system tells us that it is an autonomous, decentralized, stable, adaptive, dynamic, self-reproducing social organization. It is also neutral with respect to political, religious and economic doctrines and environments. If indeed such a system ever existed, would it also not have been the most ideal form of social organization one could ever think of?

How can we try to understand this odd state of affairs? The question of the immorality of the caste system became immensely important after the British came to India. Consequently, there are two interesting possibilities to choose from: one, Indians did not criticize the caste system (before the British came to India) because Indians are immoral; two, the Europeans ‘discovered’ something that simply does not exist in India, viz. the social organization that the caste system is supposed to be."
That is not at all better.
how do you integrate convoy with twilio? it seems twilio webhook needs custom response based on event e.g record call.
And English and French...

It's essentially a modern, cleaned-up Latin that any European can pick up quickly.
Series A is pretty early to disappear, unless said CEO’s end goal is to just become an investor. Series B and beyond can definitely take a lot of customer time and fundraising, but a well-balanced product-minded CEO can typically have medium- to high-touch relationships with a core of 30 to 60 employees.
> harmonics ascending from right-to-left breaks my brain

It's not like instruments are totally consistent from one to another in how that sort of thing works. It's not breaking your brain, you just aren't familiar with it yet.

> if I have to read an instruction manual I'm already checked out

Not saying learning this keyboard is necessarily a worthwhile pursuit, but that reads less like criticism and more like an admission that "this just isn't for me". And it raises the question: what kind of instrument would you learn that didn't involve understanding how it works and acquiring muscle memory?
The cynical take is consultants are there to embed themselves in an organization so deeply that they ensure that more of their consultants are hired in the future.
30 years laterz and nothing is as fast as Xtree.exe and list.com moving through folders.
most of those things other than the codecs and steam from rpmfusion just aren't necessary for most folks is all.

I'm not trying to shame folks from using an easy route. You read my comment extremely uncharitably.

I do think one should be careful of relying on a project with a bus factor of 1 for your OS.
Nobody records your IP when you confess your sins to a priest either. The things you say in these contexts are self-doxxing. Never trust AI privacy guarantees!

Especially from Brave. I like and use their mobile browser, but at one point their useragent had my fucking phone model imprinted in it (these days it only betrays that my phone is running Android 9). Their idea of "privacy" is a joke.
My question is, how can the case be at the Supreme court level already? What about New Yorks's Supreme courts. What were the results of trying it locally? And why would the Supreme Court of the United States pass any ruling other than, "states can decide for themselves whether they want to use rent control or not", since that was the same argument they used for Abortion?
Apple frequently tells customers that their data would be wiped if they send their devices in for repair, I don't see why customers would challenge a repair shops assertion - it doesn't seem implausible either!
Again: every browser on iOS is a Safari reskin because it cannot be otherwise. Safari and WebKit are essentially the same thing (download WebKit on Mac to find out)

Only “remote browsers” like Opera Mini can currently use something other than the system’s webview.
Same. I just hate that so many games I want are exclusive to Epic. It's like they're trying to make that store unpleasant to use.
> The numbers are significant in that wages increasingly have been recognized as a driving force in inflation.

Honestly shocked that anyone actually believes this nonsense.

Demand for wages is up because the price of not dying is up. Rent is skyrocketing, food is more expensive, literally every aspect of life is now a subscription or some other nickel-and-dime scheme. I won't even talk about the current state of medical billing.

But also, the premise just doesn't make any sense. How can higher wages cause inflation -at all-? Money isn't being printed to cover these wages, the money is transferred from employer to employee. No part of that is inflationary. No extra money is being created, the value of the dollar is not reduced.

If you want to insist that higher wages cause inflation, you must also accept that CEO wages and corporate profits are causing a proportional amount of inflation.

Or maybe siphoning hundreds of billions of dollars out of the US economy to be hoarded forever in offshore bank accounts is having an effect on the value of the dollar? Nah, it's definitely 20-something's buying $12 store-brand eggs and paying $8,000/mo rent on a studio flat.
Yes, that's the article I remember!
That only makes a difference if you’re auditing each extension update. Switching to extensions with per-site permissions reduces the attack surface drastically and you don’t have to worry about auditing or disabling updates.
In fact, strong preferences on adjective order are extremely common, and languages including English are often in agreement about what order (or proximity to the noun) adjectives ought to have.

https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-lingu...
I also forgot to mention: Better access to tax incentives. Some of the better tax incentives out there only make sense with large investments. Taking RE as an example, there is cost segregation, where you can take most of the depreciation up front (so not unusual to see someone invest $50K, and get $20K depreciation the first tax year - which can be rolled over: They pay no taxes on the first $20K of profit/revenue)

Due to IRS rules on how to do it, it's not profitable for ordinary folks who may own an extra house they rent out, because one has to do a formal study, which has a fixed fee. But if you own an apartment complex with 10+ units, the depreciation gains significantly overcome that fixed fee.
The MIT AI Group, including Marvin Minsky, were the mainstream of AI more than 50 years ago, and begat the MIT AI Lab. They and everyone else at the time called their work AI.
Ooh there's a desktop version?? :-)
I consolidated my domains on Namecheap, but this behavior pisses me off enough to move ALL of them. And I have dozens. Right after I post this screed I'm going to deactivate auto-renewal on every goddamned one.

Don't rip us off and then launch a new service and point to it saying, "Hey look, since you caught us ripping you off, try this one!"

Unbelievable.
> You are each failing to actually read what the other is writing. One of you is talking about properties and one of you is talking about units.

No, I was originally talking about SFH properties as that was what the first post by 'TeckPerspecc' in the thread was talking about. Then when 'Guvante' responded and pivoted to units (not relevant to the original discussion of SFH), I pointed out that the article did not support their successive claims that the 'vast majority', '74%', or '>50%' of units were owned by institutional investors.

> but institutional investors own a majority of the units:

Read the article, it literally says the opposite of this. As I said, even under a very generous interpretation of institutional investor, they own at max ~36% of units. You conveniently only quote something about 'a growing share' because it is flat-out false that institutional investors own a majority of the units.

> In addition, you are using a different definition of "institutional investor" than the article.

Yes, my 3% claim for SFH uses a different definition of institutional investor, but that is irrelevant to the veracity of the claims you and 'Guvante' are making about the "majority of the units."

I do not agree that I have failed to read any of the claims. What has happened is both you and the other commentator have repeatedly mis-stated the numbers in the article. It is frustrating to lay this out quite explicitly and get another comment that completely fails to miss the nuance.
the iOS one is closed. Linux and browser exts are open.
>>so removing one's ability to drive is a seriously major punishment.

Being caught drunk driving 3(!!!) times is a seriously major crime. I'm a strong advocate for a complete driving ban after a single drunk driving episode, 3 is just crazy to me. I get the argument that in US that basically makes it impossible to get anywhere without a car but I don't know - get a bicycle or something, literally anything is preferable to letting these people on the road again.
This makes me glad that I paid for the whole 10 years for my domain. Yikes. Makes me wonder what prices will be like in 2032 when I have to pay up again...
> > Google has been fined 4.125 billion euros because it forces computer manufacturers to install these programs by agreement.

> People buy Android phones with the expectation of using the play store to install applications lol

Maybe the people having decided that fine did not thought about that and the corresponding lol-factor.
Yep!

https://www.casino.org/vitalvegas/wp-content/uploads/2023/07...
Three questions, is this less resource intensive and does it still block YouTube ads?

Also, since it uses manifest v3, how slim are the chances it’ll be ported to safari?
Yes. However, the instrument being better just means the sound it makes will be better, not that the music the musician makes with it will be better.

EDIT: I should say the sound will likely better, not just better.
Based on their numbers, seems like this is around 8% higher than last year. Given that inflation over the last two years was around 10% and the average tenure at a job is probably more than a year, I think a 8% jump is reasonable. In other words, I think people who started new jobs kept up.