skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recently I've built a tool to explore Inflation data in Canada ( https://maplecpi.ca/ ). Certainly not interesting to everyone, but still gave me some insights on the current situation of the economy.
The Names is probably DD's best novel — what's not in these particular volumes, however, is his collection of extraordinary short novels that filled the 70s (Ratner's Star is the major exception; this is a monster-sized book, and it is a strange precursor to Stephenson's middle work). End Zone, Great Jones Street, Players, and Running Dog are all amazing portraits of the paranoias of the age — terrorism, bomb fear, rock & roll, long-running conspiracies. Reading DeLillo alongside JG Ballard's novels of the same era is an education in the social and political undercurrents running through the 70s and early 80s.
They can also be useful if your CC data gets leaked in a breach.

If it isn't a virtual card your bank will probably cancel your existing card and issue you a new card with a new number. Some merchants where you had the old card on file might get the new number automatically via a credit card update service, but it is likely some will not and then you need to remember to go manually update them if you want them to keep working.

If you had used a virtual card on the site that got breached it should in theory not affect the underlying card or any other virtual cards derived from it.
I think it remains to be seen just how profitable these tools will be. I think that the opensource community's efforts have been amazing, and these efforts will likely erode the possible profits of megacorp solutions... at least, I hope that turns out to be the case.
Microsoft angry over Russian-led UN cybercrime treaty
Zip code isn't nearly enough information to work out telecom taxes/fees, as they often cross political boundaries with potentially different rates and charges. You need a full street address.
Kibbutz's failed because there's no incentive to do any work, same with every other form of communism that's been tried. Reworking daycare to be a more holistic experience than it currently is is a very different idea.
Optical RAM and integrated optical memories: a survey (2020)
Well, it's a bit more than that. People kill each other with whatever they have close at hand when they get into a fight; handguns are easily carried into a bar or on the street, which is why more people are killed with handguns than long rifles in America despite more of the latter existing. People aren't going to start carrying drones with propellers around in their pockets.

It could be used by some people who want to do targeted killings, e.g. in gang violence, where it could be better than other methods maybe. But on the other hand, RC helicopters able to carry and shoot a gun have existed since at least 2006: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZCH1492CzA

The number of people who actually want to kill lots of people without being physically present is extremely small; so small that in a country the size of the US, one only crops up every couple decades, e.g. Timothy McVeigh.

I would make a solid bet that proliferation of cheap drones does not impact the homicide or terrorism rate in the US in either direction.
From Midland's site in a page called "Affording Midland"

> 2023-24 Tuition | $73,900

Get the actual fuck out of here. They would've been fine regardless.
Choosing not to say what's wrong with the analogy is veiled criticism that the analogy is worse than just "not applicable" -- it's shit.

It expresses repulsion in addition to expressing rejection.

And, yes, they'll have to guess what's wrong... But the argument my veiled criticism is making is that their analogy is so objectively bad that it won't take them more than half a second to figure out what's wrong with it. I refuse to waste my time explaining because I value my time more than that (even if, perhaps ironically, I don't mind explaining to you why I chose not to explain myself to them)
It’s upgraded as long as you stay with the program. It’s not a reward that you get scot free that you can walk away with.

Of course, phone companies promote it that way, but the reality is you’re just paying for it over time.

Nobody was about to get a phone without committing to pay for another 2 years of pixel plus.
Just slap a big disclaimer on entering "Elon Mode" that no further warnings about attention will be displayed. Surely people have driven vehicles with cruise control before there were "Don't nap to work in the back seat like an asshole idiot" nags.
Feinstein apparently had no idea that she was out of the Senate for medical reasons for months. I wouldn't be surprised if she's in the first class cabin of the dementia train.

Maybe she should have been taking her meds.
Idea for extending this: keylogger (yeah, that's a downside...) that'll watch what you type, learn common phrases, identify common ones, then come up with shortcuts, then each time you type the full phrase it gently reminds you of the shortcut.

Then anyone can install it, no friction, and over time it'll slowly start making you gently more productive.
I may be misunderstanding something here.
I'm assuming the emergency you're referring to is low glucose. Why would you use a shot of glucagon rather than a dextrose tablet for that sort of emergency?
The thread is just a headsup to those, who are not well informed on the issues and the word caste triggers them. The effort is to provide factual data along with the circumstances so that people can weight and relate all kind of arguments with their own life experiences. Also, help our white bois/gals understand what they talking about lol.
I think that's fine and a respectable choice. I think it's even OK to argue that Windows has a value prop as a paid product because MS spends more effort on HW-specific quirks handling, or arguments along those lines.

Still, I think it does matter what's technically going on and where the fault lies. I also think that just like browser diversity, OS diversity is a net positive for the enforcement of good standards that makes things work better for users overall.

For example, I'm willing to bet (and it's because I know cases of it :-) that many PC peripherals work better on Macs because Linux existing has made HW-manufacturers more standards-conscious than a Windows-only world would have, especially since so many HW/embedded engineers run it.

> I was wasting tremendous amounts of time and energy debugging stuff very like this monitor issue, and getting no transferable benefit out of it

You got me there - in my case it lead to a career of making cars, phones, game consoles and other stuff running Linux, so I guess the over-under on the direct utility shakes out a bit differently here :-)

That said, it's been a very long time since I've done any fiddling/debugging to make any HW work privately. Ironically, I've had a lot more issues making HW work correctly on the M1 Mac I also have, e.g. my (quirky) Bluetooth earbuds work a lot better on PipeWire than macOS ...
Gitako extension is about to say good bye
You instruct the debt collector that the debt is disputed, the credit rating is not affected.
Have you tried driving one? They drive very differently than your typical crossover and are much lower to the ground. They're more like a compact crossover or hatchback sedan. Same for the Ioniq.
There's no time like the present - the Linux maintainers should have told them to fuck off ages ago and they are being punished for Linus' stance now. Linus is right about a lot of things but letting this charade go on for this long was a mistake.

"NVIDIA hates everything Linux stands for" would be a hell of a slogan they would have to adopt.

And honestly to some people - who gives a shit if they're the market leader in AI chips? There will be someone else that emerges as a competitor that does play nice. What do we lose by telling NVIDIA to piss off? 2, maybe 3 years tops?

This is effectively the last chance I see for the two to divorce and be happier in the future. Otherwise they will be locked in a shitty relationship forever.
Congress absolutely has a lot of power over things. Congress controls the budget and legislative direction for the country. With the passage of a law, it can shut down entire departments. With the inability to pass say, a budget, entire swaths of the government shut down.

The President also has a fair amount of power, over seat appointments, usage of Executive Orders, and one we haven't seen since President Andrew Jackson, the ability to willfully ignore things that the President is suppose to do (President Jackson famously ignored the outcome of Worcester v. Georgia to the peril of the Cherokee).

That said, thanks to the Pendleton Act (and subsequent reforms)[0] one thing the President can't due is wholly fire and hire rank and file members of the federal government based on political patronage. Thats why even with those empty cabinet positions the government didn't grind to a complete halt. What is unfortunately very common, is goals / mandates set by cabinet heads means alot of departments have lots and lots of frequent changes in what guidelines / department rules are and are suppose to be followed. That said however, core mandates of departments can't be wholly dismantled based on the presidency at any given moment, so even with changes in the heads of the departments by incoming administrations, there is still a relatively limited amount of things they can do that will affect the day to day.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester_v._Georgia

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendleton_Civil_Service_Reform...
> To be specific, the EIA did a study on the capital cost of various power sources [2], and here's their results:

That is just the capital costs, not the operational (fuel) costs, which are significant for natural gas plants and insignificant for zero carbon sources. The full costs are expressed by LCOE.

> If the government changes the incentives though, I don't see why large scale carbon sequestration would not be viable.

A tax on greenhouse gas emissions would incentivize carbon free sources of electricity like renewables, storage and nuclear just as much if not more than CCS, because CCS has a max capture rate of 90% so there is a nearly 10% disadvantage out the gate.

The only way CCS wins is if its levelized cost for firm energy is lower than all the zero carbon alternatives, regardless of a carbon tax.

It might be economical for natural gas powered peaker plants, which fill in supply gaps and sell power at very high prices. However, these run for very short periods so therefore the technology has to be relatively cheap up front in order for the economics to work out.
I made that term up on the spot, but you seem pretty sure I must just be mentally Xeroxing things I heard elsewhere. But it's not the case. I reached my conclusions based on my own research and by discovering things like the AP story, where the AP themselves express extreme discomfort with the level of corruption the org has stooped to. It wasn't an oil company that told me that.
Yes, that would be one such example of superficial, high-school level analysis - "they both killed people".
Organic oatmeal costs $1 a pound. Add dirt cheap in bulk organic raisins, flax, walnuts, almonds, cinnamon, banana's and you have 1 meal, 2 of your fruit/veggie servings, tons of oils for like $1. Takes 3.5 minutes to make.

Fishing/hunting is the cost of a license. You can fill your freezer in 1 trip.

I eat healthy organic/gluten free for $25 a week and am overweight not starving.
This is awesome. The obvious next step here would be integration with the pump to send the correct dose after the user confirms the app is correct in the food they are eating
I don't think the point of SLO = flakiness out of control. The point of framing it as SLO is the realization that neither extremes are good. Flakiness cannot be allowed to get out of control that some efforts must be spent to contain it, but it's also unnecessarily perfectionist and thus the waste of precious engineering bandwidth to eliminate them completely. The whole point is to avoid "bureaucratic games", as you call it.

My theory is that the lack of easy mechanism to measure the flakiness is stalling the progress. If the overall flakiness can be measured, and the top offending tests identified, then I think it becomes no brainer to spend efforts curtailing them back when the flakiness gets too high, but otherwise exclude flaky tests from, say, PR merge gate.
I think hardware companies will make a killing and maybe cloud providers who can deploy the hardware at scale and lease availability. However, pure research seems to me like it'll likely exist mostly in academia and open source circles eventually.

Maybe there's money to be made in the integrations such as visual studio?
I'm very skeptical about the origins of this dataset. What is Datos and where do they get their data from?
A stream of venture capital that keeps thinking it's profitable, funding companies that push the research envelope, go bankrupt and see their work reach the public (intentionally or not) might be the best thing the OS community could hope for.
C# Dev Kit [0] is a Preview extension for VS Code that adds a lot of the Visual Studio features people miss in VS Code into VS Code: Solution Explorer, Test Explorer (for C#), IntelliCode. C# Dev Kit runs on every platform supported by VS Code.

[0] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-dotne...
List of phones in 2023 with screen sizes under 6 inches:

Zen phone 10

End of list
This is the major explanation I've heard. With Fall semester starting, I wouldn't be surprised if it ramped back up considerably.
i doubt these drugs will put a big dent in the diet industry. It's worth keeping in mind that these new weight loss drugs do not work on everyone and results vary--some ppl lose little weight. also they are expensive. also, dieting and fitness is more than weight loss.
Those icons are just games, aren't they? The first row is "my library". Make him a Steam account with just a few games and he can just launch them directly from that row.

Be warned though, Red Dead Redemption is not available on Geforce Now. Maybe someday... they just started integrating Microsoft Game Pass games onto GFN, so maybe RDR is on the backlog there somewhere.
That's basically my point. There's probably half of humanity today (the women) who can help with this. And no one is making life easier for them if they decide to go through with it. In fact the men most of the time make it harder.

Why should women help here? Why acquiesce to the needs of a society that doesn't care about their mental, physical and professional needs?
At Taser maker Axon, ex-staffers say loyalty meant being tased or tattooed
The problem with mushrooms and viruses is that they can only feed on/reproduce by infecting living things.
In the UK and the EU revolut.com is an alternative.
$20/month is too much for a tool I don't use that heavily.

From the comments here I ended up finding MacGPT: https://www.macgpt.com

With it I can use the Open AI API that costs about half a cent per message to use instead of the web UI.
what's moral theory that says if an american refuses the job because they have better options, it's unethical to import a person from a poorer country to do it who doesn't have a better option?

the answer to me seems obvious.

if i lived in honduras and you said i could come to america but i had to work for tsmc, what's the chance i decline?
It’s definitely a “high-end” kitchen feature, I agree that’s it’s not standard in most homes.
It sounds more to me like you could have just asked for meetings to end on time and quoted why they are meant to be held standing up.
use a tp monitor? such things have been around for a very long time. i remember writing code to interface with one in the 90s, and a bit later. but things like cics and tuxedo were there long before that.
Muslims so, despite being not covered by India's caste system, are heavily discriminated against so. A situation not helped by decades of war with neighboring Pakistan.
For quick programming answers, for a while I'd use ChatGPT, but honestly its more in my flow to just use google. That probably would cause my usage to decline.

But for anything stackoverflow-like, where I'm really stuck, and need to formulate a question, instead of dealing with a snarky mod, I just use ChatGPT now...
It's trivially easy to make several kilos of high explosives with stuff from the hardware store.

You can also use poisons like sarin or even good old cyanide dissolved in DMSO.
Banning based on complaints by recipients of the calls is also different from banning based on some sort of automated monitoring without any complaints.

Kiwifarms generated complaints.
If there is a case to be made for regulating porn, this article doesn't make it.

The "Cambridge University study" at the heart of the article is described as showing that "porn’s effects on the brain are neurochemically identical to drug addiction". Actually, it shows nothing of the sort for most people. It shows a reward effect for people who self-identified(?) as exhibiting compulsive sexual behaviour, which is "excessive or problematic engagement in sex". Importantly, it didn't identify a growing trend, didn't correlate watching porn with the development of compulsive sexual behaviour, and so on. No amount of saying things like "porn isn't content, it's a substance" will change that.

Compulsive sexual behaviour is literally defined as problematic, but it's not obvious, and this article certainly doesn't make the point, that porn causes or exacerbates compulsive sexual behaviour.
I have two identical ASUS 1920x1200 monitors. The EDID on one of them got corrupted.

Dumped the EDID from the other monitor, put in a file in /usr/lib/firmware/edid, and added this to the grub command:

drm.edid_firmware=DVI-D-2:edid/asus-1920x1200.bin

DVI-D-2 is the moniker for the broken monitor.

Long Live Linux!
By "don't care", I didn't mean "they know but don't care"; I meant "non-Indians are completely oblivious of this".

You cannot accuse of someone behaving in a discriminatory way if those very concepts of discrimination don't even exist in their mind. Come on.
Reminds me of the old Desliu 40 acres backlot, now long gone. There are websites covering the history.

http://retroweb.com/40acres.html
Understanding Developer Burnout: Causes, Impact, and Solutions
I think there are few things that developers object to that don't appear to get addressed.

1. If other departments need metrics/insights/visibility, why don't they go collect it? As a PM, go collect that information yourself and deliver it to stakeholders? Why does everything need to be done by engineers?

2. When engineers get measured, evaluated and pitted against each other using these activities, it breaks camaraderie. We don't enjoy these activities because we see through the management practices of rating people based on the number of proverbial TPS reports or the quality of the cover sheet or the number of story points completed - none of which are actually important to the success of business but very important to the manager who will just recycle them upwards. Do you really think people are motivated to do this meaningless work?
Hopefully, this is most often just an excuse for someone with the hacker spirit to figure out how to automate something because it's fun. If you're really spending that much time replying to Slack and e-mail that making yourself an arbitrarily fast typist puts a meaningful dent in what would otherwise be work blockages, I think there are organizational problems there that you can't solve by being a faster typist.
Nah, he's just a mechanical engineer who moved to the Netherlands and started making content on how much better the infrastructure is than the shitty suburbs of Toronto and a few other places, and did a few videos basically re-hashing StrongTowns content which was started also by a civil engineer iirc. I like his channel though. There are a few other YouTubers like CityBeautiful, CityNerd, who he's done collabs with and are in the Urban Planning discipline in some capacity.
It's mostly bullshit. Other technologies like radar, LIDAR (UV or IR), and FLIR can provide datapoints unavailable in the visual spectrum. Seeing through fog, dust, and darkness are beyond human capabilities that would add significantly to safety. Increasing processing speed and gain in the visual spectrum would also add to safety.

Also, I'm curious what current FSD cameras do around sunset. Are they blinded? Can they vary aperture?
Have the same door, has worked flawlessly for the two or so years i've had it I don't even think about it.

Really clever piece of engineering on the programming mode for sure.
This "what is god" problem is why I consider myself an Ignostic (aka "incompetent atheism").

I can't tell you whether or not I believe in god until you can tell me exactly what you mean by "god".
This is not as concerning as it might seem.

First, massive hype drove tons of users to try this flashy new thing. The talk of the town. But the vast majority of them were not genuinely looking to integrate a new tool into their toolbox. They just wanted to know what all the fuss was about.

We see the same thing with Meta's Threads app. Massive hype created a huge spike at first, but the majority of those users (myself included in this case) had no real intention of making Threads a daily part of their life. They were just curious to see what the big deal was.

I'm willing to bet (but obviously don't have the data) that the number of users who use it multiple times per week (if not multiple times per day) is climbing, and climbing fast.

Second, I'm less interested in knowing ChatGPT's adoption rate than I am in generative AI's adoption rate overall. ChatGPT was the introduction for most people, but for those of us who chose to make it a core part of our toolbox we quickly discovered a wide array of other incredible generative AI apps.

Finally, I think anyone who is actively using generative AI for their work is never going to go back. It's too darn useful. It may take a while for the general public to wrap their head around how to make this a part of their lives, but for those of us who do, the benefits are profound. We see the reality of it and don't need to see trend numbers to inherently grok what's happening on the ground.
There was a lot of novelty use for ChatGPT when it got a lot of exposure. I think it introduced a lot of people to the technology, now the people who actually have a use for it are the ones still using it.
Feinstein's daughter has power of attorney over her, and she looks like she should be in hospice. It's wild how barely functioning some of them are.

edit: and staffers are telling her how to do her job: https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/dianne-feinstein-aides-age...
This is a separate product still. "Visual Studio for Mac" is a rebrand of monodevelop/xamarin from after microsoft bought them out.
I use it daily on Windows and I have to say it seems pretty fast. Never noticed any lagging or unnecessary animations.
Good point. If only 25% of ChatGPT uses were due to hype, given the incredible level of hype around AI, that speaks to having a pretty solid base.
Crockford's book is very short, but dense in information. I would not recommend it to somebody just learning the language, even though I think Crockford writes and expresses himself very clearly.

You don't know JS series didn't sit well with me. It tries to lead the reader through some a-ha moments, except those are pretty individual. But it might work for someone else.