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I'm not entirely certain I can agree with a definition of mental health that hints at the healthy being living spartan lifestyles of consuming only what they need and not an iota more. They never overeat? Never drink? They don't indulge in entertainment (simply not needed)?

Given how addictive smoking is, it seems like they'd only have to try it once. Which tends to happen in youth, and I don't think the high-schoolers are running around searching for anxiety suppression mechanisms.
I sometimes see the default YT homepage outside of my personal controlled usage (for example, on work laptop, or on a friend's chromecast). I am always shocked how many of the default suggestions are straight up rightwing nationalists and the like. I understand 'outrage' or reality-tv esqe topics always get attention, but there's difference between "Youtubers drama" and "Only people of $religion should exist in $country"?

Is YT simply asleep at the wheel? Are revenue people sitting in high offices simply too far away from social realities? Surely the money they're getting cannot be that much worth it?
Sorry but Clevis (similarly to bitlocker without PIN) is security theatre.
I never said it wasn't profitable. I said it wasn't accurate. Insurance companies aren't concerned with the accuracy, they are concerned with the profit. It effectively provides some "data" to give them license to increase rates, whether its accurate or not. As long as their rates outpace their claim payouts, they'll be profitable.

It's also definitely happening, not only do insurance companies buy telematics data from automotive companies, they also provide discounts (sometimes) for customers that voluntarily provide telematics data using devices which connect to the vehicle OBD2 port. One example: https://www.progressive.com/auto/discounts/snapshot/
>The issue is, that I can totally see a self driving car fuck a rare obscure situation up in the worst way — where even the worst drivers would probably do okay.

So? Unlike with humans, self driving networks of cars can learn from a rare obscure situation, then the entire network can be updated to handle it going forward, forever. Whereas "the worst drivers" (drunk speeder road ragers say) will just cheerfully plow into students in front of their schools yet again.

>The problem with self driving cars is that even if you statistically manage to be safer over the typical journey today, people still wanna know that it keeps them safe in very atypical conditions as well.

Meh. This is just a typical argument from incredulity/unfamiliarity. People have zero issue accepting significant risk given solid benefits and most people's driving most of the time is short and boring. That'll be Good Enough to get the ball rolling, and it'll only ever improve.

>And that as of now is not the case.

Where is the suggestion in the article that the current cars are ready to handle absolutely everything everywhere today? It's about incremental gains and safety in one particular very high population location.
Meaningful ant-spam is resource heavy operation. Maybe if AI models are portable/accessible enough to run on a small system - we'd reduce the amount of manual work required...

Talk to anyone who tried running their own private mailserver. SMTP is a decentralized open and very simple protocol - yet that doesn't address the issues that keep people away from hosting their own mailservers.
Yeah at that distance I'd just say fuck it and pay extra for fiber.

I guess ability to power via same cable is an advantage here vs having to still have separate wire (or say local solar+battery for sensor).
States usually control a top level domain under .gov (e.g there is labor.ca.gov for California’s department of labor).

.us on the other hand is freely available for anyone to use (and in my experience is usually quite cheap)
> Is he instead renaming twitter to X?

He already did.
It's not an awful thing. They have no easy way to assess whether a given domain is a cool project run by a cool person or a malware sheltering scam site. Histrionic comparisons don't alter the fact that it would have been smarter to respond to the C&D letter directly.
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There's no viable reason to reboot a Linux box. Even for kernel upgrades you have kexec, and there are ways (hacks) to hand over the LUKS keys to the new kernel.

If you need to reboot an encrypted box remotely AND have it automatically decrypt without you knowing the key, you've already lost the game.
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By the end it had an upkeep of one dude's 20% time. It was very reliable and the Google infrastructure didn't require much ongoing maintenance at that time, the servers just kept on trucking.
That was escalated quickly. :O

Any ideas how we, the users of the internet, should act to prevent those steps?
or building a much better connected and not controlled by mega-corporates INTERNET social platform?
It's always strange to see folks defending this bizarre idea that symbols somehow become 'tainted' by any oblique association whatsoever with right-wing undesirables. Like, sure, 300 million people hear '1776' and think of fighting off the filthy redcoats, but, donchaknow, a dozen Proud Boys wore '1776' shirts on Jan 6, so it's problematic now. The idea would be hilarious if it weren't so prevalent.
Many blogs have ads on them. So you'd be stripping ads and replacing them with your own - not cool.
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Linux on the laptops with Nvidia dGPU is miserable enough without X/Wayland discussions. I beleive people who are buying laptops to install Linux mostly use ones without dGPUs.
That's the thing about rights, you don't need a compelling reason to exercise them, you only need a compelling reason to restrict them.

Avoiding murder is a pretty compelling reason to restrict rights; encouraging prudery not so much.
No, that's not "what I'm going for", because I'm talking about using a thing that I own, within the law. I'm not advocating for abolishing all laws that make "using a thing in a certain way" illegal, I'm saying that we shouldn't bestow corporations the right of legal prosecution against anyone they believe is using a product that they own "unacceptably". Just as I don't want a hammer to come with a terms-of-usage agreement, I don't want a hammer company to be held liable for crimes committed with one of their hammers.

Obviously all simple axioms have a breaking point (if a hammer company sold someone a hammer for the express purpose of murdering somebody with it) but under any reasonable applications I think these hold up absolutely fine and are much better than the axioms we have now.
Because experts of the day are often wrong. 100 years ago Hitler had some expert opinions that later we reject.

Don't be the next agent orange victim. Question things.
I get what you’re trying to say and it makes sense if you think of your phone as a tiny computer. An app should not be able to escape out of its window and app-level capabilities and it should be clear if an app is running or not.

I don’t share the same view, because I consider my iPhone an appliance. If my goal is to get to a place, I’ll let the appliance do anything and everything to get me there, including changing the UI or jumping out of my hand and leading the way.
That type of car in 20 years will become as rare as one without OBD, sadly
Nearly all terms allow them to use data to improve the product...

"Replacing some shoddy heuristics with a massive AI model" seems like product improvement to me.

Therefore, they were already allowed to train AI models with your data.
States being part of .gov is relatively new. There was a very long period where .gov was exclusively for the federal government. The state governments were under the domain (abbreviation of state).us, and everything was a subdomain of that.
It’s an asset with zero value. They still own it and retain all rights, they just think it’s worth $0.

This is very important for tax purposes as if they ever sell it then they will pay taxes on the full amount sold. If they had a value on books then they would pay the difference of the sales price vs the value on books.
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>in my Country more than 25% of the population is over 65, so they not only are retired and do not contribute anymore to the expenditures through their work, they also need a lot of very expensive and prolonged care.

If only there was something out there that could thin out this group of people in particular.
You mean social engineering.
Severely limiting the scope of civil forfeiture seems like one of those political issues that everyone across the political spectrum can agree on.

I'm constantly hearing horror stories like the ones in this article and I've never heard any reasonable defense of our current system. In fact, I've never even heard an unreasonable defense.
No surprise since, just like beer, they are so damn cheap.

When I lived in Germany they were even cheaper in Czechia, which wasn't too far from where I was.
yes all of which results in extremely poor end user experience. I'm glad we're in agreement here.
Funny things, they registered a riscv domain in the past to bad mouth RISC.

Who are you referring to here? It's sorta confusing.
That's the assertion ARM made.

Yet it seems to me that is is pretty unclear that this is an open and shut case of trademark infringement. This appears to an example of fair-use to me as there is nothing her that would indicate any potential for confusion to the market or harm to the brand.

Part of problem here is that the incentives support over enforcement, there is little to no legal consequence when companies go after fair use and a lack on enforcement does carry risks of eventually losing the trademark.

However, that doesn't justify ARM's actions here. There are plenty of ways that ARM could have approached this that would have protected their trademark without the loss of goodwill from someone they have a valuable relationship with.

Taking this approach is indicative of laziness and indiffence.
Did anyone actually believe him?
In this example, it wouldn't be the guarantees for the new house, which presumably would have been examined and accepted well beforehand, it would be guarantees for the moving process itself.
That is because these same 51% are no longer properly educated about the reasons for the First Amendment to exist.

These same people are taught that speech and violent action are the same, and that words are harmful, rather than actions. Worse, they're taught an equivalence that not saying the "correct" things is also violence.

Free speech is table stakes for a free people.
US citizens getting screwed over because the government outsourced management of a national resource to the biggest company it could find, that company’s proving to be totally incompetent, and oversight is basically nonexistent? Say it ain’t so!
You do know that we currently have "thousands of people" watching for and tagging the most heinous shit people upload to social media, right? There are multiple sources for this how we use outsourced people from Africa and Asia to weed through all of the filth people upload on FB alone.

"Looking illegal" isn't enough to trigger a CSAM check in this case. It's perfectly normal to take pictures of your own kids without clothes in most of Europe for example. Nothing illegal.

That's why the checks would've been explicitly done on known and confirmed CSAM images. It wasn't some kind of check_if_penis() -algorigthm, or one of the shitty ones that trigger if there's too much (white) skin colour in an image.
Checking it out, not sure if it’s Safari but it seems the app links are reversed for iOS/Play Store
It's too clumsy of a cudgel.

The sensors themselves are imperfect, the thing you actually measure is probably the thing easiest to measure rather than actually pushing the tire grip toward its limits, even if you actually measure the right thing (hard acceleration/deceleration) you miss the fact that even an ordinary trip around town is often safer with more acceleration than a naive model would predict (e.g., short on ramps, or just that your speed when close to merging should probably be a bit higher than your intended merge speed in most cars), and actions like hard braking can rightly indicate appropriately slowing down for unexpected construction.

Misaligned incentives aren't something to be trifled with (something something Goodhart's Law). Maybe cutting all the hard-braking at every stop sign would be worth it, but if even a few people chose to merge more slowly onto the freeway that would greatly increase accidents and have ripple effects in rush hours and traffic patterns.
I've been using maps.me for a long time for offline map use while hiking and traveling off the grid, but recently switched to organic maps due to their superior interface. They both use openstreetmaps, which I have found to be outstanding. Even the most obscure trails and overgrown overlanding tracks are almost always on openstreetmaps. The file sizes are quite small, and being able to download specific areas, or states, or entire countries at a time is perfect. I prefer organic maps to alltrails, gaia maps, etc. It's become an indispensable tool for me while hiking and traveling.
Here's an addon for Firefox that also checks websites in regular intervals to detect changes:

https://github.com/WaldiPL/webpageScanner

Not affiliated with it and I don't know if it still works, haven't used it lately. When I used it, it worked to my satisfaction.
Early JS state management was horrific, yeah, but modern libraries (while a little hard to wrap your mind around initially) are really powerful.
If AI vehicles don’t have a kill switch they should be sued into oblivion.
Because the biggest problems with shells are when people think "these commands work for me; I'll just save them in a file".
Until someone gifts me three 144hz monitors and a graphics card that can meaningfully drive them, I will continue to not care.
Has nobody put MS Service agreement into ChatGPT and asked for an answer?
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Be aware that all maps be untrustworthy. Be aware of your environment. Don't blindly follow instructions. Have a backup plan.
> Any ideas how we, the users of the internet, should act to prevent those steps?

Don't use services with ToS you don't agree with.
Do the blueprint stay between each copy?

One of the issues I have is that I have blueprints in every copy of the game now instead of in some central location :(
Dishonest isn’t what’s important. What’s important is legal and generally accepted and allowed accounting principles.

Which I’m pretty sure they are following since they are required to follow these and are audited and checked up on by the SEC and others.

But yeah, everyone is doing as funny accounting as possible. That’s why we have laws and rules to specify what’s allowed. And it would be truly insane to talk about this on investor calls and whatnot if it was illegal.
> I'd say someone driving fast and accelerating/decelerating hard is inappropriate behaviour

On what basis? You probably have something different in your mind than what I am actually referring to. I'm not talking about people skidding to a stop or laying a stripe of rubber when they take off, and short of that, there is basically no increase in risk from accelerating or decelerating more rapidly than a grandmother hypermiling a prius, which is how the insurance companies want you to drive.

Regarding speeding, in most cases speeding is required to /not/ cause accidents. The correct and safest behavior is to observe the road conditions and your surroundings and drive predictably within the limits of those conditions. That means driving the speed of traffic, not what it says on the sign. Sometimes that speed is lower, sometimes that speed is higher. Sometimes the speed is different in different parts of the country or city. What's most important is that other drivers can understand and predict your behavior on the roadway, and that you can do the same for others. It's /far/ more dangerous to do 65 in a 65 when the prevailing speed is 80 than it is to do 80, but combining speed data with GPS data will still get you penalized by the insurance company for doing 80.
+01:00 doesn't fool you into thinking it's somehow tied to a particular city or politics.
I probably check this site every couple weeks, it's the best knot website out there. I tie knots while watching movies. I used to pick locks. Maybe knitting eventually.
For a case like this, it's easy: give this site a license (or sell it one for $1), have them put trademark notices, and call it a day.
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I love how this is justified by "everyone is doing it so it's okay." That's the bandwagon fallacy and I don't buy it.

Twitter (I will not call it X, because that's just stupid), is free to attempt to change their Terms of Service, policies, etc, but we do not have to accept it or agree with it or be resigned to it. Also, it should not be retroactively applied to past content, and it should be an opt-in consent -- but that is pie-in-the-sky wishing at this point given the garbage heap Musk, and others, has made of Twitter.
From browser brat to back end boss: Will WASM win the web wars?
I used to have a custom NAS with full disk encryption, whose bootloader would spin up a tiny SSH server with very few features, mainly only access to an unlock function that would allow to transmit the encryption passphrase over the said SSH tunnel. Then the SSH connection would be closed by the server and it would startup with the decryption key.

That way, it was impossible to access the data physically, but I was still able to reboot the box whenever I wanted without any problem.
This isn't an elevator pitch, it's a standup line.

I understand your excitement, but your elevator pitch fails to tell me why I should even look at it.
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37152030

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36968670

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36374255

I’m glad to see that the accused professor likely won’t be able to use the legal system as a weapon in this case.
The obvious first step is to not give these companies your data in the first place.
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