skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's the first time I hear this argument.

SUVs and the like exploit a loophole in various standards like fuel efficiency requirements because they are not "cars" but "Light trucks" and therefore those standards don't apply to them; which makes them cheaper to design and build for automotive companies.

The "Light trucks" category was supposed to be used for light commercial vehicles, not personal vehicles but then the law of unintended consequences had a love-child with profit seeking corporations and their linguistic games.

Literally the only reason SUVs and trucks became popular is because the automotive manufacturers could make more money doing it that way and convinced the consumers to buy them. NotJustBikes did a good intro video on the subject.

* https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-wants-to-close-the-suv-lo...

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo
I hadn't heard of this, but the lack of a control group leaves open the pretty obvious alternative explanation that the allergy simply goes away on its own over time.

There does seem to be some kind of "there" there in acupuncture, and it doesn't seem impossible that poking a nerve sends a signal to the brain with non-obvious effects. So I suppose this warrants further investigation, especially since it's inexpensive.

But I remain skeptical. Anything potent enough to have a positive effect can also have a negative effect, and I would expect the negative effect to be more likely.
Just a warning, getting into Touhou PVs is a good way to lose a month.
Aren't emissions already covered by the gas tax?
Presumably it's a coordination problem. If everyone raises rent you can too. If your rent is abnormally high you'll either have a hard time finding tenants or get abnormal tenants.
This is an interesting take:

>AI to have access to as much data on me as possible to make life easier when it gets smart enough //

And it would seem reasonable if Google's aim were to provide you good AI services rather than to extract as much money from you as possible (and no longer with the benefit of not being evil).

Doesn't OpenAI seizing a large chunk of the personal-services LLM market show that you should have just put all your data on the web to be included in Common Crawl? Or at least that Google (well FAANGs) unprecedented access to user data didn't result in them accelerating their AI dominance. I know Google have done a lot, BERT, TensorFlow and such, but that seems to have been orthogonal to having access to user PII.
> It's not the engineers who built the web and these companies with Silicon Valley ideals. They were never intended to be used this way and are secretly horrified.

Such a laughable statement given that Silicon Valley was from the beginning a military project, with social control as an explicit aim. Milquetoast lamentations about a lost libertarian dream are no different than old cries about the closing of the Western frontier or Jeffersonian myths about a pastoralist capitalism corrupted by industry.
The values of the FOSS community are pro Good. If you do something shady, and they help you save face with a gentle touch like this, you're lucky.
Training and salaries
Then it DQ must be using alien technology. Just as in the UFO debate, there is no other possible explanation, therefore it must be aliens.
Recurring commission:
50% for the first invoice + 25% recurring for as long as the customer stays on board.
one of my former companies went all in on scrum/agile/whatever you want to call it.

In ops, I think sprints work uniquely terribly. Lots of super urgent tasks come up in a normal workday that aren't always captured in the workload or capacity planning, and some times are much more interrupt driven than others, leading to similar issues.

Another issue I had with it, it did not really encourage me to be super productive . Like, I took on 16 story points this sprint, finished them all in a week, what possible incentive do I have to take something off the backlog and squeeze it into this sprint when my teammates (some of whom are paid more than me) are doing half of the "points" I am? It creates tension where I don't think any is needed. To make things worse, the system is easily gamed.

Another thing is I think it created way way more meetings than was needed.
Apple Tests 3D Printing in Device Production
Lenovo Thinkpads have explicit Linux support, but they still tend to have issues with Bluetooth audio at the very least.
TL;DR: You might have Carbon Monoxide poisoning which is inducing memory loss and these “hacks” you are experiencing are merely you doing things to yourself that you don’t remember.
I am with you. It is not hard to imagine that either 1) Google (et al) swoops in with a massively superior model and cost structure or 2) Facebook (et al) commoditizes this space with an open source model like Llama 2 that brings this down to essentially barely break-even infrastructure hosting.

In any case, it does look like Microsoft is going to eat the $10B.
At this point all the major solutions are using an algorithm that would probably fall under the umbrella of "Model Predictive Control" rather than a vanilla PID controller. An absurd spate of patent trolling occurred back in the early 2000s related to Controller definitions like these though. Researchers patented the use of a "PID controller in artificial pancreas systems" [1][2] which slowed down the development of APSs by many years.

The way the Supreme Court recently changed patent law [3] for software has definitely had a positive effect for APS development.
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769814/
[2] https://patents.google.com/patent/US20150306314
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Corp._v._CLS_Bank_Intern...
This was the thinking in the 1980s when the US invited China into their global trade network. The thinking was they would move away from communism and Russia and towards an open Democracy. That happened in some small ways but has since been completely undone. Such as the Democracy movements in the 80s that were ultimately crushed in Tiananmen square. Or more recently, market reforms undone by Xi.

Basically we are back to where we were in the 1980s in many ways.
Contrary to popular belief, IP blocking isn't the most common way VPNs are blocked these days. Additionally, GFW isn't the same in all of China. Different networks, different cities, have different filtering policies and rule sets. Same as in Russia now.
You should have a look at https://www.hsluv.org/comparison/. It's simple to use like RGB/HSL/HWB, but unlike them makes it easier to find accessible colors as the perceived lightness of a color only changes when you change the L param.
> a government hostile to you could use that data against you with great effect

A future government - one that is very different from the one currently in power or that you ever imagined possible - could use that data against you with great effect.

A foreign government hostile to you could use that data against you with great effect.

An institution hostile to you could use that data against you with great effect.

A corporation hostile to you could use that data against you with great effect.

A stalker could use that data against you with great effect.

And so on.
if your search engine isn't up to the job

You're right, I should have used Google Weasel.
Why would I even want to use a VPN in the first place?
Another one that can be thrown in is Namecheap's VPN which is whitelabel "wlvpn"

and speedtest vpn == ipvanish

mozilla/firefox vpn == mullvad
If that's also true of MacOS, that would mean LG made the effort of adding extra data that their tested systems didn't actually use and then got it wrong anyway, which would be funny.
Every time I encounter this sort of argumentation,

I come away deflated that the critics are as breathless and histrionic, for all their careful posture of reasonable pragmatic sobriety, as those they take issue with.

There is real, important, debate to be had about many of the notions being attacked via this godawful acronym, which is a remarkable example of broad brush overreach itself.

That debate is not happening or invited by these sorts of critiques, which I assume are largely about carving out a brand in a fashion not overly distinguishable from the posting of edgy think-pieces on LinkedIn.

Absolutism, and contempt, spell the death of productive collective discussion. The presumption that those being attacked are unworthy of coming to the table, insinuated or openly stated in various personal attacks and insinuations, undoes all moral authority.

What a sh-t show.
Dude, this is blatant whataboutism. Puerto Rico is in no way equivalent to Taiwan, and I suspect you know that.

Taiwan is a sovereign, independent, democratic nation. The Chinese Communist Party has never had political control over Taiwan. It just claims the right to overrule the right to self-determination of 23 million people because it feels like it.

The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is an unincorporated U.S. territory, but it could leave at any time. The commonwealth has held four referendums, none of which have found a strong majority for either statehood or independence, so the island kinda keeps muddling along with the status quo. Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens, and though they don't have representation in the U.S. federal government, they also don't pay federal taxes and have an elected local government.

The ethics of the situation are not complicated. The CCP can't just decide to subjugate an independent, democratic people.
"Chinese factories haven't slowed down and Chinese GDP is still rising"

This line is so wrong. You can't have 22% (at least) youth unemployment rate, and 19th straight month collapsing land sales revenue https://www.reuters.com/article/china-economy-landsales/chin... (which is how local government get most of its money), and your biggest and second biggest real estate developer going bankrupt, and still support a 5% GDP growth as mentioned by the Chinese government. just doesn't happen in a real world.

And there are so many reports of factories closing down, especially in the Shenzhen and Dongguan districts, either online videos or news reports https://thediplomat.com/2023/04/dongguans-industrial-woes-ch..., that I don't know why you're attempting to lie outright.
It's literally a meme that their ice cream machines are broken. The expectation has become part of our shared culture.
If a gas tax was replaced wholesale with a mileage tax I don't think I'd be too upset, however, how do you deal with out of state use, work vehicles that spend most of their time on job sites as opposed to roads, when and how is it assessed and collected, etc. If a mileage tax was added without repealing the gas tax, I don't think it would go over to well.

Historically gas was a reasonable proxy for road use, but that is going to be increasingly untrue. It's reasonable to see EVs as a tax dodge against road use taxation that can primarily be taken advantage of by the well-off, but in AZ it's $100-$200 a year.

Either give EVs a 1¢/mile use tax or give everyone the tax and remove the gas tax, or drop them both and become more efficient ;-).
Well we were looking world wide so that would be a lot of governments. Having said that, here in the Netherlands I could see it happen, the gouvernement does have (had) quite a few open data initiatives.
// progressives have been acting like ancaps //

chuckle I certainly have been lost in wonder that now I'm the one defending corporate power :-)

But, what would a solution to the problem look like, on your view? Would we really be better off having, say, Elon must having to get his decision to remove blocking approved by some media czar in the Ministry of Truth? Would that really stop people from thinking that their views are not being systematically suppressed?

Progressives (like Americans generally) are skeptical of all power, pubic and private, and (like Americans generally) don't want government interference in society unless it might have some hope of actually solving the problem.

But I haven't seen any concrete proposals at all, let alone anything which I would have any confidence that would actually solve the problem. Quite the contrary; no matter what regulations are imposed, surely there will always be those who feel they are being systematically suppressed--and come to think of it, they would be correct in thinking that way.
Ad-hoc polymorphism erodes type-safety
This kind of behaviour would most likely be prosecuted as harassment/stalking instead of hate speech/libel.

So unless you follow someone around and harass them - just saying someone's so-called "deadname" shouldn't be illegal.
If you break everyone’s computers you’re going to get then blame, whether it’s your fault or not.
> Positive feelings about the justice system don't seem to survive jury duty

That's one anecdote, but I've often heard the opposite: even in charged cases where jurors were obviously interpreting the evidence differently, people took the job seriously and were respectful to one another. Not saying normal cognitive biases don't occur, but even though my only experience was with jury selection (and I wasn't selected), and even though we didn't really want to be there, from the conversations I felt that everyone took the duty seriously.
One word: Apple.

With Apple's significant work from hardware on up with AI there's a very near future where many AI applications will train models on a Mac[0] directly in XCode[1], bundle it with the iOS/Mac OS application (and browsers), and run inference directly on the device. Apple will also be deploying more and more of their own foundational models shipped in the hardware/OS. Most user AI applications will be as simple as "call this coreml API". With the links provided it could be said we're already there and they've been laying the groundwork for years.

This hits Nvidia and big GPU cloud providers two fold:

1) Training. We already see with the unified memory architecture of Apple Silicon that Apple can provide accelerated training with RAM capable of training/finetuning very large models[2]. 800GB/s bandwidth memory (192 GB!!!) is very close to the RTX 4090 (1TB/s). Also note how many PCIe X16 slots the Mac Pro has... You can be certain that follow up Apple Silicon will eat closer and closer to Nvidia datacenter GPU performance/capability and with Apple's resources potentially even surpass it for all but things like training massive LLM models from scratch a la Google, Meta, OpenAI, etc.

2) Inference. Why pay AWS or whoever to run your inference when users have already spent their money on hardware that does it faster (because network latency) and more privately on the devices they already have? iOS 17 already does some AI tuning (FINALLY) on device with auto-correct - expect to see this show up everywhere in iOS and iOS applications.

I don't make many predictions but this one is obvious. I'm convinced the next generations of Apple Silicon and the Apple software ecosystem, developer experience, etc will be the first very real threat to Nvidia. When this really gets going Intel and AMD will be permanently left at the starting line (where they are now) for all but very bespoke use cases and deployments like Frontier[3].

For people who take issue with MacOS look at the progress of Asahi...

Then, once Google/Android catches up things will get REALLY interesting. This is the future and the current grab for Nvidia GPUs and clouds will eventually look like crypto mining - a few great years to be capitalized on when the getting was good.

[0] - https://coremltools.readme.io/docs

[1] - https://coremltools.readme.io/docs/xcode-model-preview-types

[2] - https://www.apple.com/mac-pro/

[3] - https://www.amd.com/en/products/frontier
Also I would argue that forcing everything to wrap WebKit is Apple’s own disrespect for user preference.
Perhaps read past the headline to discover some awesome new details, like that it's talking about revenue, not profit?
Thank you guys so much for the support! I could never dream of 20 stars, let alone 100!
> partly due to CAFE standards

Posted above; CAFE plays a larger role than you might assume.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azI3nqrHEXM
Same for the 5-series, the Passat, and others mentioned. Those are available as wagons in Europe and still seem to sell well, based on what I see on the roads.
Something similar in Hungary but modeled for another age:

https://www.google.com/maps/@47.4406321,18.7271297,187m/data...
There was a significant problem years ago, annoying to power users but dangerous to most other users, where I would be on a website reading an article and then all of a sudden I get redirected out of the article into "Hit 5 ducks and win today's prize" or "Your computer has malware and requires remediation" - intrusive scams seeking to deceive the user into installing malware.

This problem was bad enough that I installed Brave on my phone simply for the rootless adblocker. These redirects even came from reputable news websites like WaPo or NYT - they weren't confined to "literally who?" websites using "literally who?" ad networks.

Ever since then I've used an adblocker on both desktop and mobile simply for this reason. And I've recommended others install adblockers as well, because they may not be aware that it's not your operating system telling you you have malware, it's a website trying to get you to install malware.

If this problem has receded in recent years, I'd say, "Great!" and be a little more chill about it. But until then, I staunchly recommend ad blockers just as protection from malware redirects that Google et al seemed very unconcerned about or unable to deal with effectively.
Can also be used on the Steam Deck to run games from GoG (since the Steam Deck uses Linux).
Welcome to the great reset.

That pesky middle class is always sticking up for their rights and freedoms. Just a little more price inflation and a little more wage stagnation and they’ll be owning nothing and being happy about it right according to the WEF’s plans.
I'll just leave this here in case anyone finds it useful. This system only works if you participate in it. When you think surely the government will do something about this, be the person to get that ball rolling, it doesn't happen by magic.

https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/
> "backslash instead of forward slash"

Why not try Start -> Run c:/windows and see what happens?

> "magic paths with drive letters, spaces, and tildas (for you kids, that 8.3 DOS compatible path names)"

Linux systems have magic paths like /sys and paths with tildes (isn't that where /~username in URLs came from?) and path/filenames with arbitrary byte sequences which cannot even be displayed safely: https://dwheeler.com/essays/filenames-in-shell.html

> "VBA, and all associated viruses"

VBA is Visual Basic for Applications, it came from Office not Windows.
What (or who) made them decide they needed scrum in the first place?
Post Mortem of a Database Outage
This is sad but unsurprising. Microsoft did so well purchasing Xamarin and then systematically ripped it apart and didn’t bother to put any effort behind VS Mac. Then it did early this year and then just gave up.
Make your concerns heard.

https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/
My most informative experience was had at this huge auction company that I was doing frontend on. At one point, I was working on what we'd now call a component, but was at that time manually created dom elements generated with a very long series of logic branches that depended on a number of external, possibly async conditions. It was extremely hard and time consuming to test and keep all of the possible conditions loaded into my consciousness with all of the chatter in the surrounding space and some fuckhead making sales calls on his phone and typing on his mechanical keyboard—because y'know, everyone's gotta be in the same room—meanwhile the product owner would come over to add new requirements while I was trying to focus and then the scrum master would come over to ask why I wasn't done yet. This went on until my productivity and motivation ground to a halt, I burnt out, got depressed, and got fired. However, when I started at the company, it was surprisingly fine. I worked with two other guys collaboratively on some tricky frontend issues, which we solved, and it was fine.
Relatively few things need to actually be baked into the kernel. Most features in the kernel codebase can be built as a module at will, especially drivers.

But it's the codebase that you patch, so "patching the kernel" doesn't mean the OP ruled out building it as a module in the end. Even though they may well be able to just build it against kernel headers and even load it at runtime.
This wasn't scrum because talking to the costumer is the primary job of the Product Owner and not of the Scrum Master. PO is also a full time job and not some side hustle of a team lead or SM. Having a good Product Owner
makes the difference between adopting scrum successfully or failing at this process.

Regarding why your team failed - i've been in a similiar scenario like you as a team lead. The answer is simple - no one in your team was open to adopting scrum so it failed. That's fine but it's not the fault of scrum rather than the company management.
I mean can't anyone produce $1B in revenue by selling something for $10 that costs $100? Isn't the hard part doing this profitably?

Spun another way, doesn't this revenue level imply they are burning cash like crazy and might soon go bankrupt?
So... a wagon would suffice?

Every single person that I know that have bought a gigantic car (Like a ford raptor) uses it for commuting to their work that is less than 7 miles away and GROCERY SHOPPING...

While yes, there are definitely people that need to transport large amount of things, they can most of the time do the same thing by buying a wagon or a subcompact car. See Jeep Renegade.
What does Saudi Arabia have to do with the fact that the Russian and Chinese governments decided to become unfriendly by threatening their neighbors?
Privacy at its core is a preventative measure against being controlled. The state, a corporation or other individuals have an easier time exerting influence over you if they know more about you. Obtaining information is a largely automated task today.

And sure, your country might be fine now, but over the course of history a lot of people suddenly woke up to their government turning totalitarian. Same goes for your insurance, your school, your workplace: All can suddenly work against you and it is preferable to avoid giving them too much information to use against you.
I’m getting old.

Thank you!
Heavy process is fine and necessary if you are building, say, a skyscraper or a nuclear reactor.

Most of us are not.
If you've got people who don't need bosses, that can work really well. If you impose clueless bosses on those who don't need them, they will often leave.
Yes, I'm not thinking of Flume. When I worked on sibyl we were in the middle of converting most of the data pipelines (which are now externalized in TFX) to Flume, but the core learner, along with many other prod jobs at google, still used MapReduce. But, by that time, the majority of google developers were using Flume instead of MR.

Certainly even in 2013 MR was definitely being used; I launched a product at that time that ran an MR because we couldn't get similar performance out of Flume yet.
Regarding this particular tax, you opt out by de-registering your vehicle so you don't have to pay taxes on it. In general, that's how you opt out of most government nonsense, you fly under the radar and keep your money protected where whatever government can't touch it.
Light googling reveals examples of Windows and MacOS users experiencing issues with LG ULTRAGEAR monitors too.
It’s especially hard to find a nine seat SUV anymore - I don’t know if any offhand with a bench front seat.

The Kia Carnival seats 11 in Asia …