skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the effects on Florida will be far worse than most other places in the US. The difference with crazy Florida is that the official state government does not actually believe in climate change. Thus, they are less likely to do the necessary things to minimize climate change losses.

They are still building massive apartment buildings on the waterline, expensive luxury houses on sandbars that are projected to be under water in 50 years, etc.

They are helping global warming put them under water by building heavy buildings on the sand by the beach so that the buildings compress the sand down while the ocean goes up.

Most of Florida is already near ocean water level, which means they are in real danger of having the seawater wash over most of their land and completely destroy all of their sources of drinkable water. To prevent that they should be investing in dykes and barriers, etc., but of course they are not, because they do not believe in climate change.

Also, talking to Floridians, I gather that they have this naive childlike belief that whatever happens, the federal government will bail them out. It is a little ironic because most of them are staunch conservatives that do not believe the federal government should be doing much, and that people should not rely on government in general, but they still believe that the federal government will fix whatever climate emergency comes along.

There is some historical reasoning behind that. The federal government did do a lot to make Florida livable. But the current climate emergency is such a major problem, it is not clear the federal government will have the will to spend the enormous amounts of money necessary, nor whether they will be able to solve the problem even if they could spend the money.
This reminds me of the book priced at $23,698,655.93 (plus $3.99 shipping) by algorithms.

https://www.wired.com/2011/04/amazon-flies-24-million/
>Digital post is like Ansel Adams level darkroom work, and I just don’t enjoy being so exacting.

Doesn't have to be though. You can go into Lightroom, apply some standard presets, maybe crop, see what autoexposure does and maybe tweak a bit, and maybe apply some effects preset, done. Maybe a couple minutes. (Yes, I sometimes spend more time but that's pretty much my good enough default workflow. Entering metadata and culling usually takes about as much time.)

I was mostly not that exacting when I was printing B&W either. The yearbook did use photos I shot for the paper but they didn't really want me printing because I just wasn't into the spending 4 hours on a print.
Seriously my Olympus did not even begin to feel usable until I had bought and installed both optional grips. And I have small hands.
Man, it would be so cool to take a chartered/guided dive to the ship, maybe swim inside and check out the wreck yourself.

I'm sure if that was a thing you'd have people trying to scratch their names in the walls and stealing items inside the wreck though. :(
>Tumors need more energy than normal cells

Could this be why meditation was shown to reduce tumor size? I saw a recent article, on here I think, about a study showing proof via imaging that meditative practices of aligning chakras was successful at reducing tumors where chemotherapy could not. Could it just be that extreme relaxation causes the tumors energy demands to exceed the bodies supply in a relaxed state?
Introducing: Memory Mapper an app to plot your memories
While increasing the barrier of entry. Not everyone has a dark room laying around.
Is it possible to vouch for articles?
I'm quite fond of the author's writings.

It seems like commenters took off in a wild direction because the story was the person being punched was not a Nazi.
Hello! I am excited to announce Memory Mapper. It is an application to plot images (and hopefully more media types soon) based off any label you can think of! If you are interested, feel free to ask questions. Any contributions are welcome! Feel free to join the discord and provide feedback here: https://discord.gg/8XdTREBEV8
That's great for the 0,1% of users who will do that. As said: I'm all for it. But the problem is the other 99,9%.
> it's easy to teach a few large farmers best practices from ag and soil science.

But much, much harder to teach their workers who actually steward the land on large farms. Farmers have some incentive to listen, but farmhands couldn't care less. They are just there to collect a paycheque. The long-term viability of the operation means nothing to them – they can always get a job somewhere else. The more decentralized farming, the more farmers, and thus more people who have reason to care and fewer people who have no reason to care.
No, it doesn't look a lot cheaper. It takes one minute to look it up.

Compare a $999 M1 MacBook Air with an $1299 iMac (also M1). Compare any other config.
None taken, of course. Several people in this thread have made this point, and it's a very reasonable one.

The current framework is 100% voluntary for what amounts to a marketing label. There are non-FCC government databases for issue reporting, and a commitment to reporting to such DBs could be part of what earns you a higher label. Would be great to see commentary on this point from the tech public.
This isn't a joke. This is a privatization of a critical, finite resource - a huge step in the wrong direction. There's no way to manufacture helium. You can't condense it from the atmosphere like other gasses because when it's released, it rises and escapes the planet, permanently.

The supply is going to become very strategic when we run out of helium for MRI machines and other important superconducting equipment, scientific or otherwise.

We may develop suitable lower temperature superconductors, but there are thousands of MRIs that still need it, and plenty of medical centers that won't be able to afford to upgrade to new systems.
For a really fun exploration of this, read Avogadro Corp by William Hertling.
> However, I don't think the concept of voting machines is entirely incompatible as long as we keep the paper trail authoritative.

The problem is impossible to solve if you want to respect the following requirements:

- No one can know who you voted for

- Anyone can oversee the process and understand why fraud can't happen

There simply is no way to prove voter anonymity with an electronic machine without enough technical knowledge to audit the system.
I mostly agree and love what Fujifilm is bringing to the table (the viewfinder in particular). Sadly their sensor size breaks backwards compatibility though with relation to old lenses. Other than that, I wholeheartedly agree and readily recommend Fujifilm cameras to others looking to get into photography and are not looking to use old lenses and swap lenses between film and digital gear.
It is different issue than that.

European banks are forced by EU's Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2) to authenticate using MFA for any payment over 50 EUR.

So what is the second factor? Your phone. Once you pair the app in your phone with your account, you can authenticate your actions using that phone, even if you are otherwise banking using the web app on your computer. Most banks also insist on using their apps, they don't allow generic second factors. Since their apps require Android with SafeNet or iOS, they pretty much enforce the Google/Apple duopoly.

For now, there are other ways -- sms, which the banks are trying to phase out.

So I imagine situation elsewhere will be very similar.
Right to Repair, USB-C chargers, DSA, ...
By this definition any browser history feature is "spyware." Actual spyware would steal the browser history instead of keeping it device local.
ON for me, but Chrome automatically popped up the settings page to tell me about it and let me turn it off. Still, I might have to start looking at other browsers.
Helium is critical to tools like MRI machines. If we wish to keep our healthcare industry from technically backsliding, we probably want a good supply of it.
Many of history's genocides began with the dehumanisation of those who are on the other side. "We must get them before they get us" allows people to morally justify just about anything.
TDD ensures your system/application is testable, that's it, and that's all.

Seriously. TDD does not, nor ever has, said anything about the quality of the design. It merely says it will be testable. While a design that is testable may not be "the best" design (presuming some agreed-upon ordering of goodness of design, which there isn't), it is at least testable and can be proven to work as intended.

That, in the end is what this is all about. Do you go with what people feel is the best design but you can't prove the result, or do you go with what people feel is the poorer design but you can test the result and prove it works?

Make this decision as though your life and/or life savings depended on it.
There was no requirement that firmware be locked down.

The requirement was that consumer radio transmitters could be too easily made to use frequencies and power levels that violate FCC regulations.

If a device had a transmitter where firmware could control those things, and the firmware for the device was one blob that contained everything so letting the user replace firmware meant letting the user control those restricted parameters, then the manufacturer might have to lock the firmware.

There were other possible approaches. One would be to split the firmware into two parts. One part for the radio hardware and the other for everything else. Make it so the firmware update process only allows the manufacturer to supply the first part.
https://www.zsa.io/wireless
Voice of 1: I prefer Slack so it's closer my work comms. Having a shared channel with y'all is infinitely easier than hopping between workspaces or apps.
In order to make it a consumer problem, we'd have to make it a criminal violation to participate in a botnet. We could make it a punishable infraction I suppose, much like a speeding ticket for automobiles, but somehow I just don't see this happening in a coordinated fashion across the world.
This video goes through some of the testing methodology and techniques: https://youtu.be/7E-eiUN9d6U?si=zSoiGH2QAlQoxxcr
> One of my concerns is that security updates are strictly defined in a way that prevents this type of regulation from being used as cover for these shenanigans.

And then as a manufacturer you need to pay someone to certify that, or otherwise risk a class action lawsuit?

What about hardware that uses third party software? (Either because it's a genuine third party, eg when you put open source on your router, or because the manufacturer split into two companies to exploit a legal loophole?) Can open source software only make releases that update automatically after getting certified, or risk getting sued otherwise?
Consumer's power is not the same as FCC's
Same. An Aerogarden makes it very easy to grow the stuff all year round. In the summer, I transplant some into the garden as well. It's a weed and before too long I generally have way too much.
> We fought an entire war over "no taxation without representation".

We fought an entire war where that was one of a very long list of cited grievances, and even then it was about regional representation in the legislature, not broad franchise within the represented region.

However, poll tests have their own sordid history after that point in this country, and limiting them by age doesn’t change the fundamental problem that they had before, in that they have always been a method for government to fail a population and then disenfranchise them, justifying it on the basis of (the natural consequences of) that failure.
See also "The Toaster Project"- building a toaster from scratch using raw materials (even then, there was some cheating).
My favorite ironical spin of the LLM hypetrain is that our predecessors spent so much time in getting everything 100% correct from the ground up and parts of the current generation seem to decide "nah, screw it, mostly correct is fine".

And of course, I'm horrified by bad decisions politicians and managers seem to make.
IMO here's some better solutions.

1. Blend FCC action with right to repair -- Require device makers to provide software patch utilities to the public, and open source the code after a period of time.

2. Rather than regulate manufacturers, educate consumers. Companies that do dumb shit should go bankrupt because customers can understand the company sucks.

3. I'd prefer the government to defined standards and repercussions, not solutions. ie, Do not mandate security patches, instead add liability, per sold device and scaled to severity, for security flaws. Then let the market decide the solutions. Rather than giving patches, they might decide to just give free replacement devices, for example.
Concept CLA: 466mi range, 5.2mi/kWh consumption, charging 248mi in 15 minutes
System 2 is what we need (in AI)
System 1 & 2 as it applies to AGI
> But sophisticated users who'll take advantage of things like that are only 1% of the market.

Most folks can't or won't do lots of things in their lives (e.g. plumbing, electrical, construction, lawn services, Automotive).

The main thing blocking routers and IoT devices is the control every vendor wants to hold over their customers' devices after sale.
You mean when the {other nation's foreign intelligence agency} penetrates {nation's intelligence agency} and {nation's court system}?

And still creates a logging trail because the log system is intrinsically linked to fulfilling a request?
Can you name these programs? I want to add them to my 'painful' list.
I agree that there's a lot of bad things to be said about Assange and his conduct (both personal and regarding WikiLeaks itself), and some of it certainly warrants jail time if proven true (such as the allegations of sexual assault or the accounting issues).

But it does not warrant the threat of life-long incarceration looming over him, and in any case, at least following European sentencing standards, holing him up in an embassy room for years is equivalent to a prison sentence for these crimes anyway. Justice has been served, let the guy out ffs.
Even if consumers don't necessarily care about security, required labelling gives brands an opportunity to stand out from one another. If I'm looking at two products on the shelf, where one claims to have greater security, and the other makes no such claim, I'm likely to buy the more secure one, even if I don't necessarily care much about security. If getting the secure label is relatively cheap (which it should be, since most of the issues we see are the product of laziness rather than being especially hard to fix), than we could see the market dominated by products promoting high security, even without customers ever caring that much about insecure devices.
Labor are really centre-right and the LNP is a bit of a blur - the Nationals part are quite right wing but the Liberal party tends to be closer to the centre-right. That’s just the averages, there are of course factions and stand-out individuals in the parties too (people like Liberal Senator Gerard Rennick or recent former Liberal Senator Eric Abetz who were as far-right as any Republican for example).
Too hot, too cold, AND too humid, all in one!
Assange isn't American and didn't leak in America. Should the rest of the world have to adhere to all American laws? What about China's or Russia's, etc?
Holy basil is also known as tulsi, for those who are familiar with Indian traditions.
I would also classify M10 Monochrom as consumer even if its certainly a luxury product.
That is such a straw-man, c'mon. If you're that allergic, you better look at the ingredients list and don't just hope for the best when glancing at the label, especially in the US of A.
The Kinesis keyboards keep those keys. I've been using a 360, and the lack of function keys has bothered me less than anticipated.

... I use IDEs from JetBrains, a company that seems to view muscle memory for crazy keyboard shortcuts as a moat.
Use Dynatrace for Testing with Distributed Traces
This is wonderful.

What I have been mulling about of late - is LIDAR drones and LIDAR accessories to bicycles - it would be great to have a lidar mapper on my MTB

Here is my MTB https://imgur.com/gallery/aca4tSU

I want to mount lidar to this to map trails it rides...

What recommendations may you have to accomplish this cleanly and cheaply given your release?
Wow, I've seen so many of these kinds of things over the years but this one is really special: extremely intuitive design, really powerful and flexible, and MIT licensed too. Super impressed.
Twitter Whistleblower "Mudge" Joining CISA
Well if I have it correctly right now for duet, the personal AI assistant act is only on the receiving end of the person missing the meeting. You can talk to the AI about the meeting but the AI won't talk to the attendees (only share generated notes)
As far as effective regulation from the FCC goes, one example would be how well 911 works (and that it actually works on cell phones in addition to landlines). It's because the FCC mandated telecoms include 911 capability, and that it always work, regardless of the subscription status for that line.

Another success would be regulation that closed captioning be included in broadcast media, and support for displaying them by consumer devices.
If one were to advertise an added smokey flavor, then marketing it as "smokey" or "smoked" (assuming the product was actually smoked) is correct.

Just like how 'organic' has a specific definition, a 'smokehouse' is: "a building where meat or fish is cured by means of dense smoke" [0]. So if the product is not cured in dense smoke in a building, then it cannot be marketed as smokehouse{d}.

It's as easy as using specific terminology to market their product. The fact that food producers don't, indicates to me that they're either stupid (and unaware of what words mean) or it's done maliciously (to mislead people).

0: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/smokehouse
I would like to add most of the IoT problem is no patches at all. The firmware they get is usually bog standard with some very minor tweaks out of china somewhere.

It is a problem of vendor locked in products where you have to buy a hub to do an update. If there even is an update. If you want to get a good picture of how sideways updating can even be watch the linus tech tips on where he wanted (and has the tech ability) to patch his light switches. But could not even get them to give him the correct firmware or even say if he could. Also many devices there is literally no way to even do the update. They flash it on the line and that is the last update it ever gets.

Also Supported and actually maintained in the hardware world can mean different things. So you will need to get your definitions up front correct. Supported could mean to a HW manufacture if the thing burns out ship a new one. The firmware is a secondary consideration.

Another aspect you will run into is licensing. I can sell a device but may not have access to the code. Example: The vendor who makes that code went EoL on their code 5 years ago. They will not even sell me the code as they may or may not even have anyone who works for them to give it away if they could. They may or may not want to sell me that software anymore as they have a new shiny they want to sell me. So I am stuck even though I want to update I can not do it. I had one vendor flat out refuse to give me the older docs because the item was EoL and they had a replacement product that cost like 5x. That was just to communicate with the thing. Not even to update it to a later revision.
Re your point 4 in particular, I feel your pain -- I said "exposed public keys, expired certs" in the OP for a reason. The current item doesn't contemplate a requirement to tie these off as such, but I'd be interested to see if commenters ask for this as part of getting a stronger label.
Maybe a way to bring the beloved 12" Macbook back, but this time with an M3 instead of underpowered intel M series chip
Making "x years of security updates" mandatory is likely to end up in a warning disclaimer every time you turn on the TV after x years: "This device does not receive any more security updates. You may be at risk."

That will either make a large part of consumers paranoid or annoyed. So they will replace a TV that is in perfectly working conditions with a new TV.

Samsung, LG and the consumerist economy would love that!
Sure you can. For example, we have vehicle codes that hold people accountable for dangerous driving.
Also in WaPo: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/05/cisa-make...
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Building a ReAct Agent on LangChain with Memory
Czech scientists confirm the existence of the π-hole in molecules
How much of it is OpenAI/Microsoft curtailing the compute being used to generate responses?
Is there ever going to be another Dropbox?

B2C for developers is really something. Some junior in some huge org, is he going to put his AWS security credentials into a box and expense the $100 a month? Maybe.

It seems really against trend. You're making something for ultra-junior developers who are going to be asking ChatGPT (or whatever soon-to-be vendor LLM) for a solution, which can't interact with UIs. And how is your thing going to have more representation in a dataset than a docker compose file or whatever hackneyed idea is simple enough for this user to adopt?

> We offer many features that are hard to build in-house

I am just saying you should try asking ChatGPT with GPT4 for examples before you make this the premise. What was once super arcane is now just another blob of opaque bullshit Berkeley CS '23 is going to be copying and pasting into somewhere.
No doubt superior has far more interesting weather.

I just always think of this image when I hear Superior is the "biggest" and it really adds some interesting perspective

https://imageio.forbes.com/blogs-images/startswithabang/file...
What?
Most of the world has _never_ had air conditioning _ever_.

How is this a real comment?
Who writes the test? Who determines what questions are “right” or “wrong” on the test? Why should someone have to take a test to have the now-privilege of determining who has power over them?
This could be what happened to me and I never noticed it, so I don't want to give the impression that this is "Off" by default because it looks like it isn't.
> The only corporate actors I encountered that understood this were the Taiwanese OEMs, who are remarkably on point and blunt behind closed doors, but they are basically powerless to do anything about it.

Fascinating! Could you elaborate?
> based on their behavior, they don't care.

Personally I see it as "based on their behavior, they don't understand"

We also need far more computer/tech literacy in the education system and populace.
> I have a EVGA TORQ X10 gaming mouse which allows 9800 dpi resolution.

Fascinating comment. Person doesn't know how to correctly use a mouse and it's DPI settings.
Sorry for any confusion. The relevant language:

If they meet certain criteria for the security of their product, manufacturers can put an FCC cybersecurity label on it.

So if they don't, they can't put the label. That's all.
This is not the same scenario as the user installing a new certificate themselves.
Unfortunately for the estimated 0.18%-language-share's worth of Raku devs it does not appear that finding references is supported: https://langserver.org/#implementations-server. So not even a great solution for the ~5% of languages that don't have dedicated commercial editors that actually just work instead of requiring devs to do extensive proprietary meta-programming to achieve a half-functioning IDE facsimile
Anything that someone on the 3rd world can get? Also the price is steep.