skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think “TPS report” is actually meaningless so it’s supposed to be swapped in for whatever is relevant to the viewer.
>Any nation with the capacity to build a robot army will also be socially mature enough to not want to commit robotic genocide against their surrendering foe

Prediction: this will age badly.
> I want so badly be a big fan of WSL, but I just can't

I'm the same. I use WSL daily at work, but it's more of a "better than nothing" sort of thing for me. Every time I use it, I wish I had a real Linux system instead.
That doesn't imply it should be manufactured out of false need though. Companies have proven too irresponsible to let the industry continue.
> Indians will not ask outright what caste you are.

My team lead asked me in a Teams call, lol. At that point, he doesn't even know what I look like (because of covid, and we don't do video calls).

(I am not OBC though)

> Higher-caste Indians will also search social media accounts to ascertain a job candidate’s religious views or diet.

I don't believe this at all. Feels like overexaggerating.
> first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket, with nine engines and the bulk of the mass, accounts for about half of the cost of manufacturing a rocket, so this represents a considerable savings in time and money for SpaceX

This is a common misunderstanding of SpaceX’s model. Reüse’s principal benefit is not better margins. It’s higher launch frequency. Building a new first stage takes longer than refurbishing one (while building another), and 2x profit is more then 20 to 40% higher margin. That is what has given them a 1/3 global market share in rocket launches, one short of China [1].

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00048-7
OP added "My experience is limited to developers." only later to the question.
Growing up in LA, we had a few of these around. The most famous of course was Universal Studios, where you could pay for a tour. But my favorite was Paramount Ranch.

A bunch of stuff was filmed there in the 50s-70s, and it was open the public. I actually used it to make a movie with my friends in high school. It was pretty cool to have a prebuilt town around that was basically empty.
<< Edited out for being unnecessarily combative >>
After the fall of USSR it was widely assumed that market economy will make China a democracy given enough time. The euphoria on the early ‘90s in the West is hard to imagine now. End of history and everything.
In UK they're called "McFlurry", in the desserts menu, but the description is "Soft dairy ice cream, swirled with ...".

The ice-cream ingredients are:

"Ice Cream

Ingredients: EITHER: Allergen Ingredient: Skimmed MILK, Sugar, Cream (Allergen Ingredient: MILK), Whey Powder (Allergen Ingredient: MILK), Glucose Syrup, Stabilisers (Guar Gum, Carrageenan), Emulsifier (Mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids), Flavouring.
OR: Allergen Ingredient: Reconstituted Skimmed MILK, Cream (Allergen Ingredient: MILK), Sugar, Whey Powder (Allergen Ingredient: MILK), Glucose Syrup, Allergen Ingredient: Skimmed MILK Powder, Stabilisers (Guar Gum, Carrageenan), Emulsifier (Mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids), Flavouring."

Source: https://www.mcdonalds.com/gb/en-gb/product/galaxy-salted-car...
If I were a pixel pass subscriber, I would want a refund on the price difference between pixel pass versus buying all the included subcomponents, plus the cost of the initial free phone.

Although after writing that, I'm wondering if there actually is any monetary difference.

Edit: Other commenters explained that after 2 years you did not get another phone, you got the chance to renew and then get another phone. So I guess there's no need to get a refund because Google fulfilled their contract.

The article makes this sound a lot worse than it is.
Happy to see my VPN of choice, IVPN, out there with no affiliations coming out of it.
Yeah I made the original map and the updated version, updating the suggestions from the thread now so if you have any by all means let me know and I'll add them.

I made this while in China: https://www.reddit.com/r/shanghai/comments/pp39xi/the_2021_c...

Was based there 4 years so got very familiar with the VPN scene over there so if you have any questions let me know! I found for gaming for example you can't beat local VPNs for latency. No western operation can compete with that.
> We believe artificial intelligence has the power to save the world—and that a thriving open source ecosystem is essential to building this future.

Thank you for understanding the fundamental flaws of the World and human consciousness, and thank you for spending multiple lifetimes as Buddhist monks (not to mention lamas) to understand the intricacies of the human mind from a scientific perspective. This is exactly what we need right now and this initiative looks to be the answer to all of our problems.
Big trucks also pay a lot of other road taxes that passenger cars don't. All those stickers and tags that they all have to display, all come with a fee. I'm not claiming that they pay a "fair share" proportionate to the wear on the roads but they already do pay a lot more than other vehicles.
Luckily, you can still manually pay each month using a credit card. With two data breaches already in 2023, I'm not trusting T-Mobile with my bank account information.
this is actually plausible, though. GPT-4 finished training in August 2022 and was released March 2023. OpenAI took a lot of time to test/secure/fine-tune/whatever. if they're looking for a roughly yearly release cadence then they might have just about finished training.
> Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

Last year I joined a company as a VP of Engineering and the first thing I did was to look at all of the meticulously crafted Jira workflows for tickets moving from New to Done, and all of the state transitions in between. There was an amazing level of thought and craft put into those workflows.

I then completely obliterated them and just defined states and let any issue be moved into any state. There was much rejoicing and nothing lost from the process, since the teams regulated themselves to make sure things were documented, code reviewed, etc.
Both you and parent are correct. Clearly its a case of incentives, while McD has the right to manage brand exposure.

Here's my contribution. Someone downthread said other chains use Taylor with a fixed-fee service contract, which directly incentivizes Taylor to deploy quality machines.

Here's the rub: is that the complete picture?

In other words, is it possible the Taylor repair service labor fees for McD customers (and recurrence) are justified because the machines themselves are a heavy loss leader for Taylor ? And what is the cost for non-McD vendors to acquire a similar-purpose machine, with fixed fee servicing ?

That will help resolve if this issue at the core is justified, vs legal (or business) stupidity by McD corporate / malfeasance by Taylor.
> you should sell it so it can be put to better use.

This is the key point! There is an opportunity cost for society from every piece of land we cannot use for something new. That's reflected by the value of the land. If the value to the owner is much lower than the value to someone else, we aren't using the land efficiently.

It's also unearned income. It's ideal to tax unearned income because you don't create negative incentive for desired activities. It's in essence a tax that comes at no cost to society.
This is the same outfit NASA contracted for the moon landing footage!
Probably not, given that model training is considered Fair Use under US copyright law.
If a chicken isn't in the coop by the time the sun is setting, then they don't want to be in the coop and you would have to manually intervene anyways. It's always the same chicken(s) too. They want to roost in a tree or on the roof or something. If one of your chickens develops this habit, the best way to break it is to keep them locked in the coop for a few days as soon as you realize what's happening.

But barring that situation, chickens always go in the coop. I can tell it's 15 minutes to sunset when the chickens start ambling up the ramp.
Our clients integrate with all manner of public and private APIs and this is how we build every one of them. The flakier the provider, the more the gambit pays off.

You don't have to build the whole API, just the parts you use. And you don't have to implement the real service at all. It amounts to just a bit more overhead the first time you use a new API, but that's dwarfed by the amount of time your team spends learning how the thing "really works" anyway.
What happens if you are from a lower caste but wear the white thread to misdirect? Or you lie about being / not being vegetarian by choice / at birth?
My way of dealing with this is simple, I just don't care. If I were forced to use Windows at work, it'd be annoying, I might curse a few times, but I'd still get my work done at the end of the day.
Part of the reason why it became such a cultural phenomenon is the permissive license governing the use of the characters:

https://touhou.fandom.com/wiki/Touhou_Wiki:Copyrights
In a world where data is carelessly collected and insecurely stored, it won't just be prosecutors using it to obstruct access to abortion or gender affirming care. It will be organised online harassment campaigns as well, using ML to comb through combinations of legally and illegally obtained data - years and years worth - to build an instant dossier on anyone they deem a target, and highlight aspects of their personal life that they had never intended to come to light, or even thought would one day be angering enough to justify widespread harassment.

The article used Google Ads as an example. Let's say, god forbid, Google Ads suffers a breach, and it turns out they didn't anonymise the data used to build personalised ads at all. Any one of these organised harassment campaigns can pick out targets of their ire simply by what was recommended to them in ads.
Subaru doesn't offer an EV. Hyundai doesn't offer an EV version of any of its AWD vehicles, other than crossovers. There are /many/ options for AWD vehicles without it being a crossover, but none of them are EVs. The only intersection point, with the exception of Tesla, where you get both is on crossovers.
Human Created and Curated
Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile want to access your bank account
I guess born in a vegetarian family, educated as a vegetarian.
Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner. Tell him what he's won, Johnny!

Enlightenment came to me when I realized that companies only adopt Agile for reasons that benefit executives and management, not developers, to wit: fine-grained observability and direct control over the SDLC itself. It's really a game of Mornington Crescent: the team pretends to be playing one game when they're actually playing a different sort of game.
Scrum can never fail, only be failed.
Too late - it's already part of the training data.
Today, the land is becoming desert not primarily because of climate change, but due to deforestation and overgrazing. In both our civilization and in those that came before us, the main reason for desertification has been animal agriculture.

https://ourworldindata.org/drivers-of-deforestation

https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/publications/grazed-and-co...

https://www.academia.edu/es/38627904/Blame_it_on_the_goats_D...
Copy of my other responder to a parallel comment:

There is an opportunity cost for society from every piece of land we cannot use for something new. That's reflected by the value of the land. If the value to the owner is much lower than the value to someone else, we aren't using the land efficiently.

It's also unearned income. It's ideal to tax unearned income because you don't create negative incentive for desired activities. It's in essence a tax that comes at no cost to society.
Clearly my pov is jaded, but in many years having many bosses, the best one were the ones that just left me alone to do what i thought needed to be done. People on the ground almost always know that better than management, and if dictates are to be given periodically they should be strategic instruction rather than operational. My relationship with most managers, esp the ones that weren't on the better side, were one way. I gave them information, so that they could do their jobs. And it would appear their jobs were almost always to do the jobs of their bosses, so their bosses could do their bosses jobs,etc.

I suppose there are many different personalities, and many different ways people want to be managed, but frankly forced artificial weekly one on ones is just that, forced and artificial. I can't imagine why people want that.
Even crazier, there's a company that built a fake town right in the middle of a real town!

https://www.universalstudioslot.com/backlot
this is twice now they're posting "lookit what I have on my machine" without one byte of code in public; they need to put up or shut up

every time I see "coming soon" it smells like "enter your email for the waitlist!11" and makes me hate them before they're even off the ground
You can opt out by not using the government-provided roads.
> The easiest way is to stop using Windows

That's awfully hard to do when my employer requires that I use Windows.
Google employees can access this data too; and sometimes they get fired. Do you know anyone who has been the victim of online harassment or having personal data leaked online? Its a harrowing experience.
revenue is not profit
Maybe, it is time to think what discriminations are, what caste-discriminations are: https://www.hipkapi.com/2011/03/24/normative-assumptions-dis...
hail e/acc and the thermodynamic god
Nobody in Europe thinks any of my sports cars are large. I've driven them in Europe and they are roughly similar in size to most European cars. Some of them are even from European companies.
I don’t think Clarke meant that any observation we cannot explain immediately should be labelled as evidence of magic-like technology. Humans are super-fallible and even mundane things are damn hard to figure out what they are. Most of the world is a big puzzle!

Saying ”entity came from another dimension” has absolutely no meaning. There is no such thing as ”another dimension” where entities could pop in and out of like from Narnia.

The concept is a popular trope in science fiction and fantasy to create a feeling of ”otherness” and ”suspense”.

The fact a person offers this as a theory for sighting of ”something unknown” implies the person is not very sophisticated. And yes, this makes them an unreliable witness concerning any technical matter.

If the sightings provide evidence of something we don’t know of at large this idiotic witness just made discussing the topic even harder - labeling himself as unreliable any forthcoming witness would need to work doubly hard to make themselves credible.

I love science fiction and fantasy. But their value comes from nurturing our curiosity and imagination. But a good story is not good science - it’s just a good story and confusing fantasy with fact speaks of scientific illiteracy more of than conspiracy to hide UFO:s.
Exactly this. All vehicles are sold to people who buy new vehicles and that cohort is more alike than they’d like to admit.

Commercial vehicles still have some variation because the purchaser is not the driver.
I totally agree with you, but I would add "for me".

I absolutely hate guidelines and processes and methodologies. I'm totally not a team player either. I need to have my own responsibilities. As ISTP personality these things are totally contrary to my personality.

As such I hate every methodology, of course right now agile (and Scrum as a subset of that) is the darling of every project manager so I hate it. But I do realize it would apply to every other type too.

But anyway I do as I've always done, the absolute minimum to comply with the framework and ignore what I can get away with. Because I get results this is accepted and I'm usually maneuvered into a niche area where I can perform.

For example I always stop logging my mandatory hours in Jira until I get reprimanded and then I stop again a few months later :P

Of course "logging hours in Jira" is our company's idea of "we're agile". We literally don't do anything else :P So it's easy to get away with.
> (I am not OBC though)

Life imitates art.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taSH_nZkRdw
> all you have to do is find an animal that you can infect with covid and will spread it

https://news.osu.edu/covid-19-virus-is-evolving-rapidly-in-w...

"Scientists collected 1,522 nasal swabs from free-ranging deer in 83 of the state’s 88 counties between November 2021 and March 2022. More than 10% of the samples were positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and at least one positive case was found in 59% of the counties in which testing took place. Genomic analysis showed that at least 30 infections in deer had been introduced by humans – a figure that surprised the research team."

“And the evidence is growing that humans can get it from deer – which isn’t radically surprising. It’s probably not a one-way pipeline.”

Still, this doesn't disprove a lab leak; it proves something other than a lab leak is plausible.
The point of progressivism is to be seen always push progress. If you stop after a win, you're now a conservative, which for many is the worst thing possible.
It's actually a real thing that software companies of the time were not unlikely to have: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TPS_report
I'm wondering if the real issue is the user doesn't have a DisplayPort 1.4 supporting cable or equipment. The speeds, color (10bit) and the resolution suggest to me that could be the real problem. I doubt the monitor would intentionally ship with such out of spec edid, especially since the monitor claims support from 48Hz to 144hz, likely for variable refresh rate.
If some law passed and McDondald's was going to lose control of franchises, consistency and their brand, they'd probably pivot to a mostly or entirely corporate-owned/operated model.

However, it's unreasonable to assert a franchise should be able to use whatever devices, machines, standards and consistency they want... which is what is being advocated here it seems.

You can go anywhere in the world and get a Big Mac or McFlury and expect it to be the same consistency as anywhere else. That's what McDonald's sells - consistency. If they lose that control, then they are not a brand anymore, just a loosely connected chain of independent restaurants doing whatever they want. That's not in anyone's best interest.

McDonald's can deny a license for pretty much any reason, or no reason, and nobody would be able to compel them otherwise. It is their brand, and nobody has a right to operate using that brand unless McDonald's allows it. That's the entire point of a franchise - use someone else's brand.

Ever go to a fast food restaurant and get watered down soda? That's what happens when the franchise owner has autonomy over those types of decisions. Save a few cents and piss off customers. Who do you get mad at - the franchise owner or the brand?

While gross, nobody gets sick from watered down soda - people can get sick from improperly cleaned soft serve machines. McDonald's avoids that by exerting this level of control.
Amazon really bugs me in that you can't filter by seller anymore... I would usually filter and buy only from Amazon. Makes it literally harder to use, and I've actually started using it less as a result.

For me, the bigger risk in the ad networks is the viral vector. It's way too easy to inject ads with viral outcomes into the ad networks, still. It's the same reason I disabled flash at home, when I found out I could get local filesystem access from some work projects. It's more about sanitation than anything else.

The fact that tracking has become wholy excessive is the other issue... when you start seeing ads for things mentioned only in voice conversation, it's creepy to say the least. And frankly, I'm done with it. uBlock origin, privacy guard, pihole all in place.
Bitcoin? Fair, I am a proponent of the tech, but there should be an institutional, government backed (by a non-corrupt government, not our current one) with processes in place to handle problems.

I lose my keys, I lose my coins. I can't go to the local BTC bank branch and I also don't have FDIC insurance on my cold wallet.
Swisscows – Anonymous Search Engine
How is that legal? Seems like a blatant bait and switch
Most Brahmins (a caste) are vegetarian.
> Are you familiar with the idea of "making illegal states unrepresentable", and "parse, don't validate"?

I haven't heard of those concepts/ideas before. Thanks for linking the article to define those concepts. With your example, and the article mentioning that "parsing should take place at the boundaries" (paraphrase), I can see how types (a la ML families) can be defined and composed give internal coherence once an external input has been parsed and hence validated.

Really interesting approach which I haven't considered before!
I wanna Faraday'd House.
What does the name Gregor refer to in this context? Is is slang?
>Dr. Collie's personal opinion is that many of these papers are insubstantial; he often publishes a couple paragraphs proposing a thought experiment or cool idea, more blog posts than research.

Then I wonder how he got 55542 citations? Why are scientists citing blog posts?

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CvQxOmwAAAAJ
I would have to disagree with the characterization of two opinion blog posts from relatively unknown authors as “unbiased sources.”
Johnny Harris did some pretty quality journalism on this which provides some great context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrDEtSlqJC4

It is much more interesting than I expected.

Namely, that McDonald's franchises agree to only use repair labor from a contractually enforced monopoly. McDonalds and the ice cream machine company collude to extract money from franchises. He also compares McDonald's ice cream machines to Wendy's, which are the same brand under a different contract scheme and finds that Wendy's does not have the same problems.
I must live in some kind of alternative reality where 80% of teams that I worked with liked Scrum (and I lead tens of teams).

The remaining teams just needed Kanban.

Not sure what everybody else is doing here, but I have seen teams where before we started doing scrum+jira all tasks were coming on Skype and discord, and stakeholders were either micromanaging (programmers managed by non-programmers) or either would forget project for 1 month and would come back to find something delivered that completely missed expectations.

After moving to proper task tracking and clear planning and review rituals, the developer satisfaction went through the roof (before that people were borderline considering quiting)
In no particular order:

1. To pirate content without getting sent threat letters or being sued

2. To prevent your ISP or the wifi access point or anyone else from seeing which domains you are connecting to and selling that data

3. To prevent government surveillance or blocking

4. To bypass corporate or institutional firewall rules

5. To prevent packet sniffers from snooping on public wifi

6. To prevent your parents, spouse, or relatives from seeing your browsing habbits in router logs

7. To access geo-locked content on streaming services
But what actual examples are there of this? Evidence that they actually do this. Facebook has had a number of big stories and leaks showing they sell info on to other parties, but Google seems to sell advertising access rather then the data itself, which is pretty legit to it's policies.

(And while I'd agree they seem to collect data from anything they possibly can, they seem to poorly underuse that data collection as far as I can tell. I use quite a bit of google stuff and their ads profile for me is still a total mess including things I actively hate. If they struggle with not targeting me for things I've told them I hate, it's hard to feel too worried about how they're going to factor in their passive microphone recording data)