skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but this is exactly equivalent to saying "This is why I stopped using Firefox for web browsing" in 2005 and sticking to MSIE 4/5 and its take on standards, because the websites always work.

Reasonable and practical, but which direction did get us more progress for the web?

EDID exists for a reason and is a good thing; monitors providing reliable, useful EDID data is something to strive for.

It's gotten a lot better over the years as the result of operating systems using and enforcing it more. Monitors with bogus/garbage EDID used to be a lot more common 10+ years ago.
Why is Framework considered a player in that space? What does that company actively do to improve Linux support? Do they offer free BIOSes like coreboot? Are any of their peripheral firmwares open-source? What kind of Linux compatibility do they guarantee for their hardware prior to launch?

Afaik they're exactly the same as Lenovo: a Windows PC manufacturer that happens to be popular with Linux users, and which doesn't go out of their way to break things for Linux users. But they've shipped laptops that had broken power management on Linux on launch day, for example. They're not a Linux hardware vendor.
And none of those small EVs are all-wheel drive, which I consider a basic requirement for any new car because I live in Colorado. Sure, I /can/ (and already do) drive a car without AWD, but if I'm buying a new car it's a hard requirement. There's no real technical reason why AWD can't be put into these smaller vehicles, it's a market-segmentation choice where anyone that wants AWD is forced to a crossover.
I mean they’re getting like… (checks console) $40k/mo from me at this point…

So I believe it.
The writing is superb. The conclusion feels off. Its trying in a sense to justify a premise of children with stats of consenting adults.
>What usually happens is that all possible futures are achieved in some fashion and they coexist and there is long-term complex competition and cooperation and evolution between them. For example, there are probably human colonies and probably AGI colonies and hybrid colonies and they trade with each other and do their own things. Some will expand faster than others, etc.

What is your reference for what is usual in this context?
>I look forward to the announcement some day when they figure out how to make them so they won't burn.

There may be a solid-state battery chemistry I am unaware of, but the vast majority of them do not burn.

That's not strictly true, ANYTHING can burn. But on a human scale using reasonable metrics, solid state batteries are less flammable than the plastic in the interior of the car they are powering.

https://www.nasa.gov/aeroresearch/nasa-solid-state-battery-r...
Given

fn a
foo a
foo b
foo c
bar d
bar e
baz f
baz g
baz h

and

fn b
foo
bar
baz

fn foo
a
b
c

fn bar
d
e

fn baz
f
g
h

which of a or b is more readable and simpler? (Spoiler: it's almost always a.)

DRY isn't about repetition of text in a source file, it's about repetition of authority in your domain model. You evaluate it at an architectual level, not in PR diffs or whatever.
That's not true. It is not one alert per fifteen minutes. Where did you get that info?
author is a flakey writer. Writes an article about "TESCREAL"[1] but doesn't define it but links to another of their articles where it's defined buried in the middle of the 4th paragraph. Author notes they come from this crackpot culture, and they're really still in it and they do a weak job of organizing their thoughts for any audience not in their head.

[1] "transhumanism, Extropianism, singularitarianism, cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism and longtermism" being major themes and key words in the crackpot intelligentsia scene the article is about.
For Indigenous Peoples with Deep Ties to the Land, Climate Change Is Personal
But those cars are so unsafe so we can't have them here. Now get on your motorcycle and lane split through traffic to work.
> people can't manage to block "malware" on a Windows system but somehow manage to use a dev tools?

Yes, cause maybe it's a work machine and they don't want to (or aren't allowed to) screw with the system, whether it's by messing with the registry or especially installing some debloater.
The EFF article explicitly admits there are a lot of actual crimes on the Kiwifarms site. This trainwreck of an article is defending that it acknowledges as "illegal speech" and saying companies shouldn't do anything about illegal speech.

They've gone so far down the rabbithole, they've come up the other end saying the government needs to take a more active role policing speech.
https://youtu.be/cB0_-qKbal4?t=1188
Ah yes the defence:

"The process failed because you didn't have enough project managers on board"

No the process failed because it was fucking shit and everyone went somewhere else.

The only good thing heavy processes are for are propping up employment statistics.
See https://safety.google/privacy/data/

> We never sell your personal information, and give you controls over who has access

> We are committed to protecting your data from third parties. That’s why it’s our strict policy to never sell your personal information to anyone.
The best resource for learning about Rama is its documentation: https://redplanetlabs.com/docs/~/index.html

Our blog post about our Mastodon implementation is a deep dive into how it works, and how the implementation is utilizing Rama to do some really powerful things: https://blog.redplanetlabs.com/2023/08/15/how-we-reduced-the...
Which one is it now? OpenAI spends one gazillion a day on inference and will go bankrupt in 2 weeks or it's making billions
The person I was talking to was moralizing. My point was that it's power politics, and the moralizing is for suckers.
The Plasticene Era: The Dangerous Effects of Microplastics on Brain Health
> Station Wagon Effect

Described in several links I just found here: https://search.brave.com/search?q=Station+Wagon+Effect

but I'm remembering that concerns about it started coming up in the 1960s when vehicle safety regulations were becoming a thing. Sorry, I don't have a historical reference at hand.
You mean a whole 3 months ago? So they still might be working on it.

Does anyone else remember when decades were a long time ago rather than months? Or am I just very old...
I autogenerated all of these based on how many characters of typing they'd save me from looking at 6 months of data. I was also super surprised that abbreviating "the -> t" was actually top of the list even though it only saved 2 characters each time. I just type "the" tremendously more than longer phrases.
this is a serious question?
Google collects anything and everything they possibly can, from every user who touches any of their software, platforms or devices. They then sell this data on dozens or hundreds of data broker platforms. Data includes your web browsing history, location history, passive microphone recording history and email history ("anonymized" but still meta data)
Linux is ok nowadays, but why? The Mac hardware is already better, and Apple isn't too annoying. You'll have more random nonsense to deal with on Linux, some of it not their fault.
The best I can say of scrum is that it's designed to get some amount of output from an otherwise extremely dysfunctional team. If your teams were achieving nothing, it provides a modicum of accountability. So there's places where yes, scrum is an improvement.

But yes, a team of people that understand the business, and can prioritize well without needing someone to do it all for them, scrum just slows the team down. I've seen it happen multiple times in my career, and sometimes succeeded at either undoing the change, or making the jira-based work basically fictional.
Knowing about the corporate history of these mega-corporations is helpful to understand their ubiquity today. Mastercard came out of Bank of America's innovative "Master Charge" business. Visa was formed from a consortium of many banks. Kinda parallel to how Venmo is owned by one financial firm while Zelle is owned by a consortium (perhaps one day each spins out to become the next gen MA nad V). To this day, Visa stock has a 96% institutional ownership, far higher than the avg megacap. Mastercard has over 75% inst ownership. The structural importance of these companies today goes back to their respective origins in the banks themselves.
I don't see in any country in SEA -- and I live out here -- how you could hide 100K people in concertation camps to do high tech scamming.

There is a comment above about someone's Laotian wife working hard conditions doing these scams because it pays much better than local work -- this seems much more convincing.

Even the issue with the Vietnamese casino workers was only 40 people -- though not to minimize it's importance.
How South Korea’s birth rate dropped below Japan’s
> But I don't think laptops are going anywhere for business use, as merging them with tablets never really took off.

I definitely agree with that for the vast majority of use cases, I do think there are a few outliers where the portability of tablets likely outweighs any benefits that could be gained from a laptop. Particularly if you are in a setting that you don't often sit and work at a desk. But those are the exception.

But that does mean that the usage of Windows (and Mac) is further and further switching from general computing and more constricted use.

We are seeing that change in some situations. Like with doctors or just yesterday I went to a therapist who uses an iPad instead of a laptop (however both of those I think bring up a question if did they ever use a laptop or did they just skip over that step since it really wasn't that long ago that both would have been paper based).

Given that I work in tech its kinda hard for me to really comment on what is happening in other more traditional office settings
This might not age well: "OpenAI likely to go bankrupt by the end of 2024: Report" [1]

[1] https://www.livemint.com/ai/artificial-intelligence/openai-l...
I hope you're not a woman in a state with abortion bounties. Even buying a morning-after pill or a pregnancy test can end up on the wrong side of those stupid laws. The real concern isn't racists facing consequences for their public actions and statements but marginalized groups facing punishment for private actions or statements.
Can you tell us what you're working on?
It is not the same setup.

A local ice cream parlor isn't making ice cream on the fly.

They are scooping it from premade buckets stored in special freezer cases during business hours and stored in walking freezers at close.
Affiliate campaigns! So basically you'll see in review articles for everything a link with a ton of fluff and tracking in it.

Say you want a new pair of headphones. You'll probably do something like this.

1. Search Google & look for forum/reddit threads talking about specific brands.

2. Look for those brands for further reviews, feedback, and price comparisons.

3. You will come across a review that has links to the "best price".

4. By clicking that link if you purchase that product then, or within 15-30 days (depends on the affiliate agreement) the affiliate will earn commission.

That's why big corps work with media companies. They make hundreds of thousands per month via affiliate commissions alone.

This induces a large amount of biases as media sites always recommend their affiliates over non-affiliates.
> parents with three children in car seats cannot find a sedan that can hold three car seats,

This is a categorically untrue myth. Lots of car seats are stupidly wide thrones, but there is no reason you have to buy those ridiculous things. Diono makes a full line of car seats which fit 3-across in any midsize car. They're even cheaper than a lot of seats from the biggest brands, starting under $200. [1]

People are buying SUVs because they want them and because we've made it attractive to do so:

* Externalize excess road wear costs onto all taxpayers due to gas tax

* Overall trends contributed to pathetic selection of good sedans

* Finally, Reasonable fears that since "everyone else" is driving 3-ton monstrosities, perhaps they won't be safe in a car 5 feet shorter than the truck that hits them.

It won't be easy to reverse any of this, since the only lever is to replace gas tax with a fair road tax like this Norway one -- the rest of them are functions of the trend. Sadly, anything that raises taxes on a majority of Americans (those who drive big SUV things) would be political suicide.

[1] https://store.diono.com/radian-3r/ (No affiliation with them, though I've purchased 4 of these so far personally.)
> That should not be considered a bug by itself. CAM16-UCS lightness J also does not depend only on XYZ Y.

I avoided the word bug, I believe. Let's say someone else claims it is. I would advise it is not a bug, but the absence of a feature. And that I'd struggle to come up with a good reason to switch away from HSL without that feature. If you're just picking colors, HSL is fine. The process advantage and magic is built-in "oh I know this color passes a11y with this one without guessing" is ___huge___. At least at BigCo, you can't skip a11y.

> Y does not necessarily have to be the standard used by WCAG (see CAM argument).

Sure, but it is used by WCAG and that's important: see above. Also, there's a reason Y has survived since 1900, and it's not because it's an arbitrary decision.

> And a stick that's a little skewed is still very well correlated with an upright stick, statistically speaking.

I assume it's a reference to the shape of Oklab's L, but I'm not sure if you meant that, so apologies if this sounds aggressive because it's not what you meant / I'm repeating another comment: Oklab's L is not Lab's L, and it's not close, and when you plot Oklab's L versus any other color spaces its very oddly shaped. This isn't a problem for an engineer or color scientist, but it is a problem for a designer.

> Now that is the actual issue which has nothing to do with which variables L depends on.

I agree that if we say "well WCAG could use any lightness measure" and decide we'll switch away from HSL to an arbitrary color space because the science on spatial frequency might be rewritten or WCAG may divorce itself from it completely, that we can completely write off a11y as a non-goal.
The extension link is here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sentinel/fkmbhpipd...
I agree. Its not a problem free solution but its the only one that seems to be effective at reducing homelessness and increasing affordability.

Post WW2 in the UK the gov't built a lot of social housing that was successful. Sure there were some failures too (eg tower blocks), but I believe those were built much later.
Your network probably intercepts TLS, are you on a work/school network?
aka: micro-manage, because they don’t understand the effort and cost…or if you’re cynical because you’ve experienced it, some middle manager desperately needs to control other people because they subconsciously know their position is 90% absolute dead weight. Maybe that’s a bit too negative, sorry.
Well - since he did say they were mostly people with the title 'scrum master' or 'agile coach' defending it, perhaps a better phrasing is "people whose livelihoods depend on it" :)
There was a turning point in 2010 when people stopped recognizing this number at checkout (new generation i guess). I still chuckle when I give the number and they diligently enter it.
I was discussing this recently on a hike and I joked, "SEO broke the Gen Z brain".

In my own personal experience, I think the younger generations care less about search. They just don't use it much, nor do they value the information & cultural pipeline in which search is valuable.
Source [0]. For reference, that's substantially more than the list price at Stanford, which is $57,693 for 3 quarters in a year [1].

Supposedly the average student receives $48,000 in financial aid, so the average cost per year is $25,900, but that still makes this high school substantially more expensive than a highly prestigious college degree [2].

[0] https://midland-school.org/admissions/affording-midland/

[1] https://studentservices.stanford.edu/my-finances/tuition-fee...

[2]. https://financialaid.stanford.edu/undergrad/how/index.html
Have you considered the possibility that McDonald's proprietary soft-serve mix is the source of the problem, and not the machines themselves?
Yet to find a company where the folks down the reporting ladder can rate how they perceived various initiatives to have gone. So weird how businesses just don't want to hear how "Implement formal agile process" (or other goals) went.
> All adtech companies should be paying users to use their services.

Sounds sensible. You need to pay a fee if you want to display an ad on a billboard. But they are pirating the space on our monitors for free. They really should rent it instead.
To make up for the lower amount of tax collected on fuel sales, maybe.

Where I live (ireland), taxes on diesel are lower to the extent that it's cheaper than petrol. (done some time in the 80's, I think. To reduce fuel imports)

Since 2006 car tax is entirely based on CO2 output, previously it was engine displacement. Meaning EVs have €0 car tax. (you can tell, because you're required to display the tax-disc in the window and it says how much it cost on it.)
Ahh I did the math wrong. I agree now the initial premise is a little silly. Although, don't discount that it will take you 9x the amount of time to spend those resources. So this is going from a 1 year search to a 9 year search. Or, you're building a team and trusting other people, which scales better long term, but not in the short term.
I remember something similar from years ago but this is more recent: https://www.zmescience.com/feature-post/technology-articles/...

> For their demonstration, the researchers used three $30 WiFi routers and three aligned receivers that bounce WiFI signals around the walls of a room. The system cancels out static objects and focuses on the signals reflected off moving objects, reconstructing the pose of a person in a radar-like image. This was shown to work even if there was a wall between the routers and the subjects.
> So, if you think road damage is a valid concern, electric cars aren't particularly special - SUVs in general should be a bigger worry.

If you look into people's buying choices I think EVs actually do make it worse quite a bit. For instance we are going to soon trade our minivan (1.7t, 3,700lb) to an ID.Buzz (2.5t, 5,000lb). And even officially that car is the replacement for the car we currently have. If you go from a VW Golf (1.3t, 2,800lb) to an ID.3 (1.9t, 4.100lb) you can see that it's not helped by picking a smaller EV.
I believe that risk is already accounted for, and is priced into vehicle liability insurance.
The meetings are good. You're getting paid during them. I managed to customise my bike, plan two international adventures, run a side business and do a year of a degree in pointless meetings in the last 5 years!
Not sure why you’re downvoted for pointing this out. Like most recent tax proposals this would disproportionately impact the rural middle class. Farmers and truck drivers would be directly impacted and then these costs would be passed on to consumers.

Those poor enough to receive WIC and EBT payments would have this tax largely subsidized, so it won’t impact them, and the wealthy would barely notice.
The model only works if the furniture or the room is not modified much.

However, it's scary to think the implications.

Could we have a camera pointed through a telescope aimed at a window, have a radio receiver outside the said window, and train a model to predict human movements inside a room?
Grindr is being abused by egyptian police to persecute gay and bisexual people: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/03/24/grindr-egypt...
Microsoft stuff is a whole separate world that I've never explored, so I was surprised to learn that .NET isn't just for developing Windows applications. What's your workflow with that, and is it compromised in any way by developing outside of Microsoft's platform?
Anecdotally I met an NGO worker once in Phenom Phen who was drunk and admitted exactly this -- because he had to justify his 200K Euro job in that city. With that salary you're like a king, you'd probably do alot to keep it.
There seems to be an increasing trend for companies calling opt-out as "opt-in" lately. I wonder if some PR company is behind it.

For me, companies that do this are just outing themselves as incorrigible liars.
Everyone who helped raise the value deserves a cut; that’s a good point.

That does not, however, seem to be a real justification for giving a check to a person a few towns away who does not own any property and who didn’t improve our neighborhood. What’s the justification in your model for giving him a cut?
To me, the issue is not data collection, but quality of ad-driven services. To be able to show ads, they make rhe product worse: ads in youtube are known to make videos longer, so the authors get a mid-video ad; search is mostly dead, because the incentive is shifted towards relevant ads, not relevant results; ...
> Being concerned about how one’s data is being sold is a very “first world problem”, and even in “first worlds” it’s not a very big one for the great majority of the population.

It's really not. Propaganda is very effective in non-FW countries, perhaps even more so because of lower levels of education. Cambridge Analytica had successful campaigns all over Africa and the Middle East, which had a definite effect on the outcome of elections. It can be argued that the 2016 US election result was partially influenced by this, although the tricky thing with information warfare and propaganda is that the effect is very difficult to trace back to a specific cause. It leaves the victim in a state of confusion, with no single and clear source that caused it.

Since this affects society at large, it definitely _should_ be a general concern, and not a FW-only problem.
What a situation to be in when you're in the business of real estate first, big macs second.
Basically, they tested it on these 2 and then shipped it. If it would fail on win or osx, LG would not ship it.

At first, this seems a reason not to use Linux, but a future upgrade of win/osx will break your hardware. Tons of hardware gets obsoleted this way. Meanwhile, Linux will just keep on working.
I haven't seen an open truck weighing station in many, many years - lots of them are built - they are almost never used.
Funny... I am trying to learn how to patch my own debian stable kernel with an (incomplete) kernel patch submitted for adjusting the backlight on an Apple Studio Display. The monitor - to my surprise - works really great with my Debian 12 workstation via a displayport->usb-c converter cable. But (in typical Apple fashion) there is not a single button on the display to adjust brightness and the kernel doesn't support this monitor.

The patch is quite simple: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230701120806.11812-1-julius@z...

But I haven't been able to make the time to sit down and 1. respond to the feedback (original author hasn't yet) and 2. try and apply it to the otherwise standard Debian kernel.

Aside from this issue linux on the desktop has been quite pleasant, and of course this issue is not the fault of Linux per say. Deb12/KDE/Wayland/AMDGPU
Maybe calling everyone with a car you don't like an incompetent idiot isn't the best way to go about doing things.
Congrats. Is there any way to provide feedback for LLM? Is there any way to ask for approval before code execution?