skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "cameras" will never be good enough because the eyeball isn't a camera and has way more info to work with than just a 2D array of colors.

For example, your brain has way better depth info than just parallax in most cases, as it gets info about what is required to keep a distant object in focus and aligned in both eyes. These two values will not ever available to fixed cameras and yet provide direct measurements of distance for your brain.
Distracted driving is just as bad (or worse) than drunk driving in terms of reaction time. Texting, social media, doing makeup, fiddling with stereo/maps. People routinely do these things and while they are doing them, they are putting themselves and other drivers at serious risk. And yet they don't carry anywhere near the same stigma as drunk driving. My point is, if you're going to be that draconian about drunk driving punishment, you'd better be consistent and adopt the same attitude towards people who text and do tiktoks while behind the wheel.

Personally I don't think either should result in losing a license, at least not for the first offense
This is incorrect at least on Bell Atlantic's (and then Verizon's) network in the late 90s. Since there is no double-billing on landlines in the US, the person initiating the call is the only one that can immediately terminate a call to a landline. There's a timeout for the reverse direction, but it at least used to be fairly long.

Someone pulled a trick where they took advantage of this. Had a friend call and keep the line open. Then claim that you have the entire phone book memorized. To prove it, ask someone to name a random name, punch in 7 digits and hand it off to the person who named it. They ask for the name and your friend says "yes that's me" (or "they're not home now if the gender mismatches).
Been running a XPS 9560 since 2017 and its rock solid. Windows 10 with WSLv2. Basically the key to any Windows machine is finding the combination of drivers that are stable. That is the trade off with Windows. They support a ton of hardware so naturally the driver quality varies. Apple's problem space is easy in comparison. One set of hardware, one set of drivers. A lot of the complaints about XPS hardware really boil down to the bad set of drivers Dell ships them with. As I get older it has become pretty clear the sweet spot is to be two generations behind the latest and greatest. You get the ideal spot between price, cheap replacement parts and stability.

So not turn key, but also not a rip off prison like Apple :)
Is it?

Surely it's because some people want to display their wealth and other don't.

To me wealth is money in the bank, not sitting on the driveway. Who's flexing more or the neighbour with a BMW lease?
> Given this, how much suffering is equality worth?

This is a false dichotomy because the premise isn't true.

I don't think either of us have time to dig into papers right now to explore complex relationships between different factors of economic wellbeing. Let alone by trying to compare aggregates across all of history.

Shouldn't it be obvious though that "you would rather that the poor were poorer given that the rich were less rich" is untrue slander? (and from Margaret Thatcher -- not often I see her quoted unironically.) People are explicitly asking for resources and help for the poorest. That this can only be accomplished by taking from the richest is a result of the greed of the richest who don't care about the quality of life of the poor (or don't care enough to understand how bad it is).
You would be surprised how many 1st world countries operate just fine while having no such thing as individual credit ratings by credit bureaus.
So things with momentum but no mass can transfer such force though they are massless?
Right, and the ones who are best able to figure out regulations are, of course, the businesses themselves!!

Look how well that's worked out for the financial sector. Nothing but good faith actors there. Immaculate.
I'm running Linux atm but I've used Firefox in Windows recently and the fonts were fine.
Yes. Places stopped paying reasonable wages as they were too busy funneling it to CXO's/shareholders while completely losing track of the plot that there is no guarantee laborers are going to back what you're doing. Frankly, I like the change.
Oh, I did, because I assumed there surely had to be more to your critique than just this list of filenames.

I only scanned a few posts, but it appears to be an old anonymous blog with disjointed musings about why the author finds mindfulness "annoying". I didn't see anything to convince me that this is worth digging into further, like for example: a really cogent argument, or some research, or any kind of background in anything remotely related, etc. So I'm still unclear on what made you conclude from this random blog that Kabat-Zinn is just peddling pseudoscience.

It honestly sounds like you're just anti-mindfulness, which isn't inherently a bad thing. I don't think we should have sacred cows, and there may be valid anti-mindfulness arguments from serious people out there. But drawing conclusions based on this particular blog makes it seem like you're not interested in figuring out what's true (ie, science) as much as finding justification to support your pre-existing position, regardless of the evidence (ie, pseudoscience).
When you realize the world isn't strictly dividen it categories such as blue or red. you might begin to understand why people do what they do. also let me ask you a question since you're obviously for free and open source. how much have you contributed to riscv development or donated to move their cause forward? are you actively maintaining any open projects? because if you read the post the authors stated that they are small with limited funding which is the case for most open source projects.
In my personal experience, writing "fragile" on a box is the best way to get it yeeted across the shipping warehouse or stuck on the bottom of an 800-pound stack of packages.

Joking aside, the USPS and package couriers are not required to (and in most cases cannot) treat any kind of package more carefully than the others based on "fragile" notices and product descriptions on the box itself. Notices are required for certain kinds of potentially dangerous items, but other than that, the safety of your items is entirely up to how well they are packaged.
The "phone ringing in your pocket at your wedding" cartoon resonated with me: Our daughter's wedding was during the covid lockdown and before any vaccines were available. She and our now-SIL cut the guest list to basically nobody except the wedding party and a very-few close family members — and they checked the box for the church staff to livestream the ceremony, as routinely happens for Sunday services. We knew our large extended family would be watching remotely.

We're at the church. Everyone is in place. Moments from now, my daughter and I will be walking down the aisle.

Suddenly one of my kid sisters calls. She says she's not getting anything on the livestream. I brush her off pretty abruptly, explaining that I wasn't in charge of that and I was, um, a little busy ....

The organist plays the processional hymn. My daughter and I walk together down the aisle. One of the nicest moments of my life.

As my daughter and I arrive at the altar rail, my phone rings again. The video recording shows me fumbling in my pocket to turn the [expletive] thing to "vibrate," which I'd simply forgotten to do.

Afterwards, I found out that yup, it was my sister calling again, this time to let me know that she could now see the livestream.

Otherwise the wedding was wonderful.
> Not sure I'd use the term "hacks", but there are several ways you'd be able to refer to a v1.1 package, depending on what you're trying to do.

Yeah, this is the part I find a bit silly. There should be one way to do this. What I want to do is pin an Erlang version (down to semver patch) and then pin an Elixir version that’s compatible with it (also to semver patch). This is trivial to do with my existing tools (asdf/rtx and Dockerfiles), but it doesn’t have first-class support in Nix. I have to build that capability myself! I was absolutely floored by this after hearing so much about how seriously Nix takes reproducibility.

Similarly, the default Elixir and Erlang packages don’t even have a version, you have to use one of the special elixir_1_14 packages to get a specific minor version. The default Elixir just gets the latest release at the time nixpkgs was released. I can pin nixpkgs trivially but it’s not intuitive to pin individual packages across nixpkgs releases. Clearly this is just how Nix works, but because it’s not how any other dependency managers work, it’s a lot harder to integrate piecemeal.

edit: to Jetpack’s credit, this is one of the things I really like about Devbox. It makes pinning minor versions easy!
Since a few month i use grist extensively.

For example:
As part of a monitoring system.
HR / crm Database.
Self serving vacation planner and approving system.
Tamperproof GMO(genetically modified organisms) database.
As my go to source as a quick and dirty data dump while hacking...

Grist is a great tool!
Aren't you assuming a zero sum economy without growth? The four men in the article all created their own wealth, they didn't steal it, so this seems like a pretty poor situation to try and make the argument that wealth inequality must always create "real victims".
Oh there's way more than just the big three too. For instance, many online payday lending companies run a credit check through alternative credit bureaus. There's quite a few of these types of niche credit tracking companies that most people never run across.
Also, adding the option "-no-remote" allows you to open a new profile that way when Firefox is already running.
; I call this "Tilde opens Notepad" after yours, devindotcom.

; It is made in Autohotkey2.

`:: ; Tilde key
{
If WinActive("Untitled - Notepad") or WinActive("*Untitled - Notepad")
WinClose
else

If WinExist("Untitled - Notepad") or WinExist("*Untitled - Notepad")
WinActivate
else
Run "Notepad"
}
> In my experience, Apple doesn't like any standards it doesn't control with an iron fist

I would add some nuance to this statement: "Apple likes open standards when it is weak."

The iMac and early OS X went big on open standards, and Jobs made a point of pointing this out: USB for the iMac, JPEG, MPG, mp3, Postscript etc for OSX. IP/TCP built in. They even paid the danegeld for .rtf.

Then as they clawed their way back from the precipice, they started "adding value" again.

The iphone was an HTML device, loudly repudiating the proprietary (and terrible) Flash much less the crappy, mostly stillborn "mobile HTML" attempts.

You still get H.264, matter/threads, and other standards they don't control, where they don't have market power.
If the language has low cost to repeat words then I think the value of gender or tenses is going to be low. Thai, for example, has tones so our words tend to be shorter (more information can be packed per syllable). Languages are solving compression in different ways.

Another fun example - we repeat an adjective to turn it into adverb. Since most adjectives are 1 syllable, it has the same cost as adding ‘ly’ in English.
Waiting for the comment that goes like:

"but if you compare FSD with drunk teenage drivers you still get a lower number of incidents"

The point of tech is to improve the status quo significantly, not marginally.

No one will use a calculator that is wrong 2% of the time.

I know this is real life and no driver (AI or not) could perform perfectly, but AI should be WAY better than the average human driver instead of just merely equal to.
There was a train to Key West long ago. Now there is just the one highway. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_Railroad
Will Excel fix linkages between files on sharepoint?

It is horrible..

The amount of lost productivity because "report file" cannot easily connect to "source 1, 2, 3" is very high.

In theory you can do it, but it plain does not work in shared sheets.
It is already happening - some municipalities get nearly 50% of their income from reselling power and water - the people who actually pay for these services are now moving onto solar.

And with Eskom losing these prime customers it will mean increase bailouts from govt which means increased tax burdens on taxpayers who happen to be the same ones who moved to solar.
Personal vs work profiles, for example.

My work profile has uBlock Origin with stricter rules which would break some sites/tools I use for work. I also redirect Twitter to Nitter, use a different password manager, etc.

For bookmarks, it's more a question of not wanting to have personal stuff together with work stuff. Then there's some settings that works on one profile but would cause issues (or annoyances) on the other. I also have a different theme for each profile, which stops me from doing personal stuff on sites with my work login (eg: searching on Google).

I also have a profile that is just for the shittiest sites I sometimes find online. I'll have extensions to block the crap, archive pages, etc, which would slow down browsing or break most sites I use.

On Chromium, I had one browser and 3 profiles. Then I decided to move to Firefox and since using profiles (especially switching/opening them, at least on Mac) is a pain, I use 3 different browsers (Firefox, Firefox Dev/Beta, Waterfox) as they all have their own profiles.

Could I live with only one profile? Yes, but that would force me to compromise. Containers alone? I tried to use them, but stopped after searching for stuff on Google and YouTube on the container I had my work Google account logged in. Profiles + Containers are the best of both worlds in one plane.
It's Not Cool to Overreact
> what other, better policy could they aspire to

Force the universities to get insurance, an on-site monitoring room with food service and pay 24 hours per day for 14 days.

This type of research is inherently dangerous, the idea that a lab tech exposed to a potential pandemic-causing infectious agent should be just expected to go home (where they likely have family/friends) and trusted to self-isolate is plain bad policy. Coming out of 2 years of pandemic and self-isolation at the global level the idea that we will be willing to compromise on this so that a university can save money is downright moronic.

If they cannot conform to the stringent rules for that sort of research, they shouldn't be doing it. Simple as that.
Is the limit still around 30,000 or is it higher? That could be 600,000 filter checks on a page load with 20 requests.

I'm sure it's fast but if people want unlimited number of rules that number could start exploding.
>Those that keep trying to make a point of Android being UNIX, never really shipped anything on the Play Store.

An old wise sayings said, never say never

>Yes, it uses the Linux kernel, and several components born on the Linux world and that is about it

It's the OS engine of the world's most popular mobile software framework so called Android not unlike the Unreal Engine is the game engine for the world's most popular 3D gaming software so called PUBG. Is it wrong to claim Android is Unix, as PUBG is Unreal?

>Only Google and OEM partners get to see that layer, and those that root their devices

I think the sibling comments already answered these allegations

>As for the technology, the UNIX haters book exists for a reason, had AT&T been allowed to sell UNIX from the get go, and most likely it wouldn't have picked up steam on the market.

Haters gonna hate but the most ardent Unix hater, the author of most successful desktop OSes VMS and Windows NT namely the lagendary David Cutler did copied many of the "flawed" Unix ideas into modern Windows

>recovered UNIX zealot

Personally never meet a Unix zealot, but never say never
I haven’t had my phone make noise in probably the last two decades. It’s always obtrusive to me and my phone is so often in my pocket anyway I can feel it vibrate or still hear it if it’s set on my desk.

I was diagnosed with ADHD recently and my doctor suggested turning of virtually all notifications on my phone, which has been life changing. I didn’t realize how many I just had going and how distracting they are. Some I’ve allowed to continue but set to silent so I can look through them later if I want to, but it’s nice to have the mental silence.
Year fixed above. Thanks!
This is one moment where I really hate what happened to Twitter, since I feel like I recall a tweet from Marcan ages ago pointing out that Apple has fixed some things regarding 3rd party OS support.

That is to say, unless I am truly off my rocker and remembering a fever dream: it's not just a "placate the anti-trust regulators" play.

I'm pretty sure I've also seen it mentioned on HN itself that Linux is still used within Apple for certain aspects of hardware development, so Apple themselves need it to work to a certain degree.
I remember sometimes, the rubber cover of the stick would slide off the stick, and then you had a wonderful suction cup that you could stick on your brother's forehead. Then you could call him a unicorn.
We’re slowly inching closer to: Say McDonalds to end commercial [1]

1: https://web.archive.org/web/20230122044853/https://www.altch...
> Let's assign blame to Nvidia, though.

I'm not going to excuse Nvidia - their driver is buggy and they're still missing DLSS3. Many of the problems I had were nvidia specific, especially anything touching wayland.

However my audio issues, or a bug where if you click the selection of applications when you alt+tab would lock gnome up and you'd have to kill the application from the terminal - those were not nvidia specific AFAIK.

I've also heard of non-smooth experiences from AMD hardware.

I don't think it's fair to recommend linux to anyone who would be scared off by the terminal.

I'm not at all saying it can't be relatively smooth sailing though, especially without a rolling os.
Lol, they botched the first example - that it translates “Our goal is to create a more connected world” to Vietnamese: It has a glancing typo at the end of the sentence “hơn” instead of “hơ.” Also it really messed up the pronounciation: It read “Chúng tôi” as “Chúng ta” - they are totally different words phonetically. The pronunciation also sounds like it’s made by someone who is mentally sick. So they botched in both translation and pronunciation.

That’s so embarrassing - especially for something to show how good their stuff is (although I think it’s probably not the ai’s fault) - just shows how sloppy their people are.

I know they have plenty of Vietnamese engineers there. Did the PR dept just throw this final version of the video out without reviewing with them?
I wouldn't count your AI chickens yet. Path dependence is real and SAG/WGA are smart to pick this fight today not in 5 years' time. If they play their cards right now, while they have leverage, then they will gain additional legal/contractual leverage for the future.

Slavery and child labor were once common and economically lucrative, today they're very rare in the developed world. It's simply not true that humans can never choose to collectively reject an economically compelling option.
I think we first need to acknowledge what those situations you describe actually are: they're artificial, government-created economic distortions.

There's no inherent, natural, or real economic basis to them. They're examples of inefficiently-allocated resources.

Artificially propping up existing economic distortions and inefficiencies just makes the situation even worse in the long run, by creating even more distortions and inefficiency.

If a home's nominal value does not match its real value, we should expect the price to drop. This may not be good for the homeowner(s) involved, of course, but it shouldn't be considered any different than any other poor investment.

Industries that exist primarily due to artificial economic distortions shouldn't be expected to survive, at least not in their present form. They're a burden on the real economy.

Social services also shouldn't be so necessary in a healthy economy. They're a brute-force (and ultimately unsuccessful) way that government tries to counteract some of the economic distortions and inefficiencies that government itself has introduced, typically through earlier market interference.

I don't see there being a "catch 22" here. It's simple what will have to happen at some point: the economic distortions and inefficiency will need to be undone, and those who made poor investment decisions will feel it the most.
Maybe the date on the ticket he used was ancient.
They are very likely hardware issues that the Linux driver is simply not working around rather than being actually wrong.
Ask HN: What would you do to bring in $3K / month?
We're out of debt (including paid off house). But not quite old enough to draw Social Security. I looked for a tech job for the first half of this year without any luck and I'm really tired of the whole tech interview process so now I'm starting to wonder about other ways of bringing in money. As we have no debt it's not like we need a huge amount of money - $3k/month would do it. Looking for ideas.
China Is Building an Open National Chip Plan Around RISC-V
Some lenders still do "manual underwriting" for mortgages.

So instead of blindly trusting your credit score as the measure of your ability to repay a loan, a human looks at your situation - income, other debts, etc, and makes a judgement call. It's more paperwork and slower, but it definitely exists.
The most annoying part isn't even the delays. Not by a long shot. The annoying part is instead of relaxing in our reserved first class seats with a single layover, we're constantly puzzling what's going on, where we have to change now, lugging our luggage across 4 layovers, and losing our reserved seats, having to stand, etc.

I'd rather have an extra hour of delay than ruining a relaxing trip like that.
To the Wheeler question, I would say he was just wrong. Pre-eminent physicist of the 20th century he may have been, smarter that I'll ever be, but he was also nearly 90 at that point and had retired 22 years earlier.

To (1), he's talking about the distance ladder. Distances to various galaxies were computed by the teams involved in developing the LCDM model by scouring the skies for instances of type IA supernovae in this galaxies. When these are called "standard candles," what that means is that the luminosity is known and thus the distance can be computed using the inverse square law by comparing the observed brightness to the known luminosity. Historically, this wasn't a super-reliable method and yielded some bounded error rate for various reasons, including dust causing some reddening of the light that could be mistaken for redshift, as well as the fact that type IA supernovae are not all collapsing stars of exactly equal mass and you might catch them at different times after the initial supernova.

What Wheeler probably didn't realize at that point was the methods and frankly just downright tedious repeated measurement work over the course of decades that astronomers had been doing to make this more reliable and accurate. If you want to know all about this via first-hand account from one of the astronomers credited with the dark energy discovery, read The Extravagant Universe by Robert Kirschner. It's very accessible, not super-technical, but goes into painstaking detail on exactly how astronomers made the type IA work as a standard candle.

It's also just a great testament to the work involved in experimental astronomy, down to the logistics of convincing a scheduling committee for the various telescopes capable of seeing that far that what you're looking for is worth looking for.
oligarchs of current year aren’t so different from their ancestors, blood or money.

throwing parties and talking and listening to each other talk.

edit: did the downvoters not read the article, or attend the party? if the latter, how was the surprise guest? was the x around?
Draft of TikTok’s Plan to Avoid a Ban Gives the US Unprecedented Oversight Power