skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>We don't (and we may never) really have definitive evidence either way,

I think your statement agrees with the parent comment that the "lab leak is nearly impossible to disprove." This isn't a disagreement with any other point you've made in your comment, but I think the parent was effectively saying that even if it were true that this did not come from a lab leak, it would probably be impossible remove that doubt from the public discourse because of the lack of definitive evidence that you point out.
I might switch to Fedora since I want something kind of "rolling" but not quite bleeding edge. But I've used Debian/Ubuntu based OS' for a while, and POP is definitely one of my favorites currently. I will nag about one thing though, their package manager UI has some severe bug where it halts the whole UI (probably a threading issue).
>Buybacks come from net income (profit)

Never confuse the textbook economics with the reality of individual incentives. Company management used the low interest rate environment of the recent past to borrow money that was then used in buybacks. Executive management generally is in a no-lose situation with regard to compensation, there may be long-term incentives, but the CEO generally can exit within the term of their employment contract with a sizable payout even if they blow up the company. The board is supposed to prevent such tactics, but US corporate governance is largely about cross-pollinating memberships so that CEOs can all vote 'yes' on each other's pay packages.
> Some coastal states have passed laws prohibiting the consideration of climate change in insurance and governmental decisions.

There's a significant feeling I have of "I hope residents of those states are happy with the outcomes created by their state government's choices."
Not enough. We need to build more nuclear plants, not just delay shutting down old ones. We're so far down the wrong path it might be too late to get back on the right one (nuclear).
Depending on AndroidAPS for my insulin management, I'm very happy that people are working on getting this into app stores!

I'm not using most of the advanced features but just having the device regulate basal rate is life-changing. And I really don't want to be tied to one supplier here!
What does a small government ideology have to do with a private insurance company making a business decision? You're injecting politics because you don't like the politics of Florida as you see them, which is fine, but it doesn't really fit here.
I have family with diabetes and I feel some empathy with your situation. I've felt that second hand anxiety when my cousin started partying recklessly in uni and not managing it super well.

You're helping her manage it and that makes a massive difference. Those of us without diabetes usually aren't taking care of ourselves at 100% either. We're lucky to have access to amazing medical technology, so some scary seeming situations are pretty recoverable.

Hopefully a platitude or two helps a small amount :(
How much machine learning/neural networks happens on Linux compared to Windows? Assuming that's the majority, it should put Linux is a much better negotiating position compared to the time when the driver only benefited the small number of Linux gamers. So it's probably the right time to push Nvidia into a better architecture where the kernel driver is GPL and the closed source stuff is in a userspace component.
I've spent year and a half writing chef as my first "programming" job, like 6 years ago. I learned almost 0 ruby, and that's probably why ruby didn't stick that much.
the four largest economies of the world have very different rules for this -- it is going to be settled today on a chat board?
Yes. I don’t believe FedNow is designed to transfer $5.32 to the local coffee shop.
It would be appropriate to do something about your dog barking at the mailman, like hire a professional and learn how to teach him not to do that.
tbf you're not really behind; alternate js runtimes still aren't widely used. People are aware and keeping track of them, but to me they still feel more like up-and-comers than industry players. Don't have a source, just going by anecdotal feel.
In my experience, Microsoft is in weekly meetings with supervisory authorities, and they have a constant risk assessment of just ignoring EU regulations beyond GDPR going on.

I've submitted a few GDPR requests that had an impact on Microsoft too - so if you're an EU citizen, make a good habit of complaining about bad data hygiene and anticompetitive behavior.
The Psychological Needs of the Ambitious
Purpose of OS is to allow users to run software on it. However, Win 11 truly became "adware". When I got that "prize giveaway" notification too, I was surprised and disgusted that I'm being served ads from a software that I paid for. If this is the future, then I think they should have 2 versions. Free version with ads and paid version without any ads (with full control) or nagging (like asking user to switch to Edge/bing/etc)
So every DALL·E, Stable Diffusion, and Firefly image should be jointly and equally owned by millions of artists? All of GPT's and LLaMA's outputs should be jointly and equally owned by essentially everyone who has ever written publicly online?

I can see how compensating the original artists would be desired, but I can't see how that wouldn't completely kill the AI space. There's just no way to develop a suitable set of training data from only people who have signed a licensing agreement.

Edit: And to be clear, CC BY-SA would not be a suitable licensing agreement, so things like Stack Overflow and Codidact and Wikipedia would be completely off-limits.
Forcing them to maintain their own kernel fork will incur additional financial expenses - not least in the form of a developer's salary - so it is, in essence a fine.

Will it be enough to force them to stop fucking around? Probably not, but it's one more paper cut, and perhaps in the process of their fork they violate the GPL in a more openly and legally actionable way
I moved most of my stuff to us-east-2 because it saves 20ms of latency to the Ithaca, NY area relative to us-east-1. I noticed that when I was playing Titanfall and Azure had servers in that area before AWS did. us-east-1 seems to go down more often, I'm kinda glad I had a single AZ deployment there because I had a 3/4 chance of having no stress at and an occasional day of downtime (not much stress because I have faith it will come back) as opposed to more often stressing it taking remedial actions for the missing AZ.
V is now UB free No more undefined behavior
The corporation is either responsible for its content or it's not.

If they can pick and choose whatever message they like with absolute discretion, then that's effectively the corporation's speech and should be treated as such, with full responsibility over it.

If they don't want to bear the responsibility for what they publish, then it's easy, don't pretend to have the legitimacy to choose.

That the same social media platform can have as big of a change in views as Twitter/X did is insane to me. That's not "the public changing opinion". That's a corporation exercising speech. Full stop.
I do wonder about the PED aspect of DIY smart insulin, some bodybuilders already use insulin in this way and I wonder if elite athletes could use this to boost their performance.
Is that actually true, absent a contract or agreement that you get the copyright along with the commission? I would think the artist gets it by "default" unless you're also paying for the rights or something?
UNC graduate student charged with murder in fatal shooting of advisor
Which they won't do because they don't want to open source their drivers, that's the whole issue.
A memory prosthesis could restore memory in people with damaged brains
and https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/osm-river-basins-websi...
At that point, wouldn't a standing seam metal roof be the best investment? The cost is about 3x, but beats an annual roof replacement.
OpenAI on track to generate more than $1B over 12 months
Terry Pratchett’s hard drive steamrolled in 2017 had '10 unfinished novels'
Does this have a name? A keyword I could search for? A wikipedia page?
Why investors who snubbed Zepto earlier, came back to make it a unicorn
I've always wondered if insurance companies do this but maybe I never hear about it. Like lobbying for safer urban design, or R&D into flame resistant building materials etc. Or maybe just purely investing in companies that do those sorts of things.
"Certainly, here's your code snippet presented in a more readable manner:" Using ChatGPT to do your README is a good idea, just need to proof read it ;)
Maybe you shouldn't have beachfront South Florida real estate if you can't afford the out-of-pocket cost to fix it when it gets wrecked from a hurricane.

Is that a controversial statement? Beachfront property is not a human right. If it's too expensive to insure, then it becomes available only to people who don't financially need insurance - or those who are willing to risk going without it even if they would need it financially.
The nice thing about having mega corps like Apple, Facebook, and Amazon is that they're big enough (and well liked enough by consumers) to work around some monopolies. Google and Apple have dipped their toes in this direction, but could take it further if rates become too onerous.
> If you think it’s in societies best interest to filter the internet for people like me, don’t worry about my access to firearms.

I can't talk about "people like you", I don't know you. Your immediate jump towards the destruction of society upon discussion on an opt-in filtering of your internet is concerning.

> I’m not an idiot and I don’t need guns to dedicate all my time to ruining society and destroying infrastructure.

I'm not calling you an idiot. The guns were just an example of a right that can removed if a person is mentally unwell. Again, I am still completely undecided how it would be offered in such a way that cannot be politically weaponized. I would default to the null position, which is not to offer it unless such issues could first be addressed.

As for your disillusions of grandeur regarding the 'ruining society and destroying infrastructure' - I think your years of smoking weed to treat your depression are catching up with you. I won't reply further as I don't want to fuel whatever it is you're going through, but please reach out to those around you for help.
Open to feedback on how to better word my products and product development in general!
"Slavery is still constitutionally legal in the United States."[0]

[0] https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/editorial/bs-ed-1209-13...
I fled to pop os after the arch devs decided that shipping a broken build of grub master branch (nightly) was totally acceptable, and if I didn't like it I should 'use an easier distro'. They left millions of users in an unbootable state and weren't the least bit apologetic about it. Easiest decision I ever made.
I have to ask a really basic question: Why does Microsoft have such a vested interest in users using Edge over competitors?

I get the argument: "it's their browser, of course they want people to use it" but for me that answer isn't satisfactory. What is the financial motive to go through all the trouble of pushing Edge? The only reason I can think of is "your data" but even then, what sort of data might MS want to extract from your browser that they can't get from the underlying OS?
Stay in the market because the competitor will be put out of business once their customers actually start filing claims. Then customers come back to you.
>However you could argue that ALL loadable kernel modules are violating the GPL equally

Except most loadable kernel modules are in the kernel source tree and available under the GPL.
How would you consider that? The article states that all the calculations were based on the ANSUR-II dataset. If the values in that dataset were wrong, of course the results of the calculations may not be correct.
3 months of research work on how SaaS businesses grow from zero to $30M ARR (based on data from over 2,200 startups)

All feedback welcome.
If I recall, the automatic download didn't work. I had to click the manual download link.

The pop-up said Edge was based on Chrome with the added trust of MS.

I really wish I could get others to use Firefox, but they're too used to Chrome.
I think you meant mean these revenue numbers are per quarter, not per year.
Lol, Loeb
Deno was explicitly designed not to be that, and probably never will be that (recent steps to make it a lot easier to replace Node for some use cases notwithstanding).

But it's OK if you aren't interested. It's totally normal for only a subset of readers to be interested in any particular thing that hits the front page.
Appears their attempt at stealth layoff[0] didn't work out.

[0]: https://nypost.com/2023/06/06/farmers-insurance-workers-blas...
Industries aren't cartels.
I've recently had this really bizarre intuitive insight telling me I'm just living out the actions that were either pre-recorded as a movie or are computed along the way, and I'm just perceiving it as my actions and my will, like my own volition is just another type of experience or an illusion and not a real phenomenon. Hard to explain, it's very elusive. Another insight was that my internal observer is a separate entity, one that might survive death and isn't really related to my intelligence or personality, but is limited by them (like driving a slow car).
Edge was great just after they switched to Chromium and lead the way on battery optimizations. And then every team started an everlasting "who can exhaust the patience of their users the fastest and get them to either give in to microsoft-everything or switch away from edge" contest.
The SPEs only had individual scratchpad memory that was divorced the traditional memory hierarchy. You needed to explicitly transfer memory in and out.
Many other similar devices use all types of OSS.

You just need to make sure it fails safe. If the OS or any software hangs or crashes just make sure the thing turns off and doesn't dump all the insulin or anything.
500M out of 93B is about 0.5%
This is why I discourage people from playing games with scammers to “waste their time.”

I always assumed that they were not really doing this job by choice, whether it’s modern slavery or not.

You’re not saving someone else from getting scammed, you’re messing up a quota for someone who might be physically punished for missing it.
Paying people with stock is more expensive than paying with cash because of the uncertainty involved. Executives adjust for risk premiums just like anyone else.

Further, suppose you setup long term options and the stock tanks for something completely outside of an executive’s control. They aren’t going to sit around waiting for useless options to vest so you need to increase their compensation package to keep them. Thus they aren’t taking the same risks as investors.
I do not agree with the theory that linking one program to another makes the former a derivative of the latter, therefore I do not agree that a kernel module is a derivative of the kernel, when it just uses the interfaces that must be used to accomplish its function.

If this theory, which is the only point of disagreement between me and Richard M. Stallman, would be accepted to be true, then what would stop Microsoft to claim that every program that has ever been written to run on Windows is the property of Microsoft?

When there are two hardware vendors, one who offers open-source device drivers and one that offers proprietary drivers, I would always choose the one with open-source device drivers.

Unfortunately, in the case of NVIDIA there are applications for which no other vendor attempts to provide competitive products, so there is no alternative choice. Therefore it does not matter if I would be "mad" at NVIDIA, as that could change nothing.

On the other hand, I am "mad" at this kind of kernel developers, because I do not accept that they have any right to dictate to the Linux users what kind of hardware they should buy. Obviously, they should not support NVIDIA, but inventing methods to sabotage the Linux users that have NVIDIA GPUs is not a justifiable activity.
There are a few problems with this claim, as well as the general idea that the universe is a computer. tl;dr: the claim doesn't even make sense, except perhaps in some figurative sense.

First, what a computer is cannot be identified with any physical system, because computation is observer-relative. There is no fact of the matter that some physical system is performing computations. Computation is not a natural kind. We can harness physical phenomena "computer-wise", that is, use physical phenomena to simulate computation, but it makes no sense to identify computation with physical phenomena as such. That physical phenomena involve quantities that can be computed does not mean the phenomena are performing computations as such. A simpler example of something analogous is a book. The print in a book, physically, is just a series of pigmented spots on sheets of something made of plant fiber. Physically, it isn't even "writing" per se, as writing is not a natural kind, but what we call the result of the act of writing. The pigmented spots on plant fiber are the only content, physically, of what is in a book. The content we think of when we speak of books is brought to the book by the reader who interprets the marks on the pages according to what he already has in his head. This is what reading is: interpretation, assigning meaning. The same is true of computers. Physically, no computation is occurring.

Second, computation is about something. When a physicist or engineer computes the current in a circuit, he isn't manifesting the circuit. He is computing something about the circuit. Computation is an abstract activity of the mind. (We can use this in an argument against materialism.)

Third, part of the reason why this identification of computation with physics is likely occurring is because the methodology or methodologies of physics necessarily strip reality of much of its substance and leave us with a mathematical, formal model expressed in computational terms. Guess what else is a formal model that involves computation? This allows us to talk about the formal equivalence or subsumption or whatever of physical models and computational models. That such a relationship exists isn't that surprising in retrospect.
Open-sourcing code doesn't take it away from the author... what are you talking about?
You're saying that it would be easy to address the point directly, but you won't because it is not your responsibility to do so? I'm not in love with that line of reasoning, but, taking it as fact, surely the analogy is not unhelpful (it successfully conveyed to you why the other person's mental model is wrong) and instead your response is (you do not feel obliged to pass that information along).

"I'm not convinced, you must do better with your analogies" is exceedingly unhelpful if you actually know what the issue is. What do you imagine is the correct response to that? Are they supposed to keep guessing at analogies while you say "Nope!" until they read your mind? Just because the important differences are obvious to you doesn't mean that they're obvious to them (and the fact that they used the analogy suggests very strongly that they are not).

"Obviously not the same thing" is generally applicable to all analogies, valid or otherwise.
For Putin's government the key here is censorship of Western content.

Many Western blockbuster movies, Barbie and Oppenheimer included, disseminate ideas that are antagonistic to Putin's fascist narrative. Barbie is, among other things, a play on feminism and on democratic values - think Ken's voting a new Constitution! It's only logical that Putin does not want "foreign agents" distorting the regime's narrative massively distributed to its 83 federal subjects ("federal states").

China has been doing this for ages now by picking a handful of foreign films / year and demanding the Statue of Liberty be removed from film. However, the Chinese market is so yummy that Western blockbuster productions will often self-censor to make sure they make the cut [1]. Putin is getting the opposite in fact, the West is high on anti-Russian sentiments for the last decade or so, and that has trickled down into content. Remember when under Boris Yeltsin that Western productions got plenty of "good Russians" after the Iron Curtain melted down?

[1] https://www.voanews.com/a/censorship-of-hollywood-blockbuste...
That is a very good point, you have convinced me.
Not sure the electricians comment is related specifically to the three-phase itself, or just to the general observation that three-phase motors are put in more industrial/commercial applications, where reliability is much more important. Pair that with residential use of commercial appliances tends to be very gentle on them (e.g., they don't get run 24/7, vs. a commercial place that would try to use them at every possible moment) and you have a recipe for a very reliable device.
"Yeah, not that evidence. I mean evidence by someone I like who agrees with me."
jq play: A playground for jq 1.6
I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

Memes and The Onion have become reality and I want off this timeline.
"Work" is not measured in hours or effort put in. If it were, it'd be absurd for CEO's to get paid as much as they do.

Instead, "work" is measured exclusively by output. How much happier is the customer now that you've done your work? How much of that happiness translated into an actual transfer of resources from the customer to the company?

Seen through this lens, it's obvious that a couple of smart decisions at the top can easily outweigh years of grunt work by thousands of employees.

Now it's just a question of getting the best decision makers and leaders into the top positions so as to maximize overall value creation. But that's much, much easier said than done.
A lot of stores are starting to make clients pay them (and do not communicate most of the time, so check your receipts). This plus the forced tips and fees in restaurants. It is probably time to force any seller to show the real price not the tax and fee free one.
I'm fine if there is a cash discount (some places do that and that's much more respectful of the cliets as they usually advertise for it).

edit: clarify my last sentence
That’s what’s happened in Brazil with the PIX system. Same thing in Portugal with MBway. Starts as bank transfers then becomes the de facto way to transfer money.
https://archive.is/vWQE5
solid state battery technology is a huge field of research at the moment, right? It seems strange to bury the lede here -- is Honda saying they have made a breakthrough in solid state batteries that no one else has?
I think they were being poetic
Yes there’s a strange double standard with the “its just words on the internet” perspective. On the one hand, it’s an Orwellian nightmare that Twitter would ban accounts for “having the wrong opinions”, but on the other hand who cares it’s just talking on the internet.

Which one is it? Does your speech have a real world impact? If yes, then you have to acknowledge that it can cause real damage and that private companies have no obligation to accommodate that. If its just meaningless words, then why does it matter that companies ban anyone for any speech?
There are some kind of risks everywhere, but denying the fact the some places are dramatically more risky kind of misses the point.

Where I live, hardly any disasters - tornado about every 100 years, last time there was huge wildfires was just after WWII, zero risk of flooding - biggest 'risk' I have is being snowed in for a few days as I dig out - there are plenty of places that have a much lower risk profile - and people like me, that pick where we live based in part on the risk, shouldn't have to pay extra insurance to cover people who willing choose to live in low-lying, flood prone areas.