skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Changing your name is a pretty involved legal process exactly because identity is so widely used by other people, so it generates a lot of work to alter it. And governments in some parts of the world regulate what names you can use, and may refuse to let you change your name if they have reasons for it.

I don't personally care much what people want to be called, and would of course be happy to call Robert Bob if that is what he wanted. But that's because I'm a reasonable person and that's a reasonable request. If Robert changed his mind every week about what he wanted to be called, people would stop respecting his wishes because he'd be placing an unreasonable burden on them by doing so. If he decided his new name was 56 characters long and impossible to spell, or some unpronounceable symbol, again, people might reject his wish because it would place an unreasonable burden on them.

Perhaps more apropos for Hacker News, many websites don't let you change your username because it's a primary key, or because that's how other users identify you, or for whatever other reasons. They may also ban things like emoji in name fields, or even in some incompetent cases not work if your name is Null. Are these violations of my human rights? Well, no, not really.

So whilst I don't wish to get into trans issues here, the claim that identity is a purely personal choice is clearly backwards. Your identity is how other people identify you, by definition, so it requires their consent to have a specific identity. You can ask them nicely but it's ultimately their choice.
We just bought a 2023 Mazda CX-5 Select for $29k. No touchscreens in the whole car! And no dealer markup - we paid slightly under MSRP.

But... it is certainly satellite connected (you can manage locks, windows, etc. from your phone, as well as remote start). Wish it was included in this privacy investigation. I'd love to know more about what they do with what they know about our car and how we use it.
For an individual to cut all grain and carbs out of their diet is relatively easy (whether that's actually a good idea is another matter.) For the whole population to do it? You'll need something to replace these for billions of people, ideally without causing mass starvation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staple_food#Production Good luck.
Sort of surprising to see the main factor being dietary and only calling out some specific things but not others. No mention of hormones (or chemicals that act like them), toxins, etc as risks.
Yet another "conspiracy theory" that turned out to be true.
I recall once developing a new module for an existing system in a more waterfall-like approach than one would expect nowadays and it actually worked out nicely.

There were about 50 pages of specs for it: descriptions, wireframes for the UI, how everything should fit together and what the typical workflows with it would be. All of this was available ahead of time, before writing code even started, which actually let me get a better idea about the expectations and needs, than focusing more on immediate needs in a more iterative approach. I could also discuss any uncertain items and get some other questions answered, to avoid confusion later down the line.

It helped me write the code better and anticipate how to structure things, so less refactoring needed to be done. I could also focus on the "happy path" first and foremost, getting the critical functionality in place and then adding the nice to haves around it. Admittedly, there were problems with the specs, which I brought up and promptly solved when it became relevant, so the final solution differed slightly, but by then the specs were also updated.

With the critical stuff done early, it was also possible to release the thing early on and then switch to a more iterative method of development, with improvements and all. Not quite the traditional waterfall approach, not exactly scrum either, but something that worked nicely regardless. Complete specs (even an overview of the big picture) can definitely be a nice to have in some cases, if doing that additional planning at the start isn't too much of a burden. Take whatever works from all of the different methodologies out there.
One useful heuristic I've learned along the way is that when I think something is exponential, it's probably a sigmoid function.
I've never heard this argument ever for FPS games - the history of the FPS is extremely well documented. The earliest FPS games are frankly far too basic to be of much use for military training.
Just now, I have found the closest I could find: https://megaevluxury.com/rolls-royce-ghost-convertible/

Anything like this but cheaper?
cameras, mics?
and/or uploading pics from your phone
An ancient technique can improve your attention span
No, it doesnt need to be certified.

The LLM would need to be able to be fine tuned with the data.

The reports are similar to one another, although their length, content, and formatting are varied.
> “We were under pressure from the administration and others to do more,” responded a Facebook vice president in charge of content policy, speaking of the Biden administration. “We shouldn’t have done it.”

> The discussion took place three months after Facebook, which is owned by Meta Platforms META -0.14%decrease; red down pointing triangle, decided to stop banning posts asserting that Covid-19 was man-made or manufactured, in light of increasing debate about the virus’s origin.
Idk if that can be done, but anyway, I don't want to hear these scary threats thrown out as excuses for whatever policy the manufacturer puts in place. If the threat model really is burning down the house, you need a lot more than some forced updates to protect you.
It’s error prone when no humans are involved. humans in the loop as the industry calls it, is what makes things fool proof

I posted the recode article about Amazon admitting to it above
It could also be interpreted as legislation is not the savior a lot of tech types want it to be. There are existing laws on the books that do not get enforced, so this is just another example. Instead, the net effect of these laws just make things worse. The cookie banner is an example. I do not believe that a website is honestly going to respect the changes I set on a website, that's why I have my browser block them. So the gaudy banners and time sink that has been put in place for some regulation that is not really protecting anyone anyways just shows that even the GDPR is ripe for gaming.
You're underplaying the STR effect to a degree that suggests you have not experienced it.

I rented in NYC for more than 20 years, coming and going as life and work demanded.

Beginning in about 2015, it felt like half of the acceptable rental apartments in desirable neighborhoods disappeared - all lost to SRT.

Not only did that make finding an apartment harder, it dramatically increased landlords' leverage wrt pricing and lease terms.

On more than one occasion we had to rent vie AirBnB - at in insane markup over markets rents - while searching, full-time, for a place to live longer term.
JEP draft: Primitive types in patterns, instanceof, and switch
ha I was just thinking how similar this was to postgres pg-audit way of reusing the logs to sum up the correct state
You are talking about Android, google search, gmail, iOS, instagram, WhatsApp, amazon, windows, and TikTok.
Wouldn't an additional button be simpler than a microcontroller. Button A turns on ~30% of the lights, Button B turns on the remaining ~70% of the lights. That also adds a bit of redundancy if a connection fails.

I've only been caving twice. Dimmer lights are great - but they don't need to be on a single switch. Quite the opposite, putting them on a single switch means that one _has_ to cycle through the bright option when that is not wanted.
https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/

Sea temperatures are so high this year that the temperature axis on the graphs had to be extended. Don't forget to switch to the North Atlantic Area.

https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/seaice/

The ice extent is also very low. Switch to the Southern Hemisphere Sea Ice Extent - it's currently winter there.
how are they contradictory?
Maybe the next methodology should be "lazy river" or similar.
I own a VW ID.4. For reasons I wanted to reverse engineer some of the API. After authenticating to the account tied to my car, the landing page (https://www.vw.com/en/owners.html) makes calls to a lot of analytics trackers. I'll just list what pi-hole defaults block:

analytics.tiktok.com

sp.analytics.yahoo.com

googletagmanger.com

universal.iperceptions.com

cdn4.userzoom.com

snap.licdn.com

secure-ds.serving-sys.com

bat.bing.com

ct.pinterest.com

adherent.com

And a few others. I would guess the phone app (which has access to the car location) has a similar list of trackers. I hope to get some time to MITM the app to be able to know for sure.
I'm using firefox as my main browser and I don't see any major issue. What would you like them to work on?
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I have activities I enjoy that are themselves exercise to one degree or another, but they’re more enjoyable if I also exercise.
> If we stop burning oil now it will get worse for a while, and then it will get better again.

It's not a given that it will get better again. Not on timescales that matter to our species anyway.

>It also gives us the option to work on carbon capture and mitigation technologies.

Couldn't we do that while still burning fossil fuels? Not sure why we'd have to stop burning in order to have the option to work on capture and mitigation.

> If we just carry on it's guaranteed to keep getting worse and worse until it doesn't matter any more.

It's guaranteed to keep getting worse and worse in that case. But we might already be at the point where it doesn't matter anymore. I wonder, at what point would you say it doesn't matter anymore? How do you know?

> The first is the rational choice, especially when the momentum in the models already accounts for likely future changes.

That's the rational choice based on the conclusions you have personally come to, along with your own mental predisposition. I don't believe the situation is simple enough to say that this is the only rational choice for everybody.
Tell us the magic of having centralized power off-grid and the environment/wildlife cooperate with all that cabling.
Good point, I'm going to believe all conspiracy theories from now on.
Not really, but it does bear repeating, as many in sales, purchasing, project management, management in general, politics and possibly more, does not seem to grasp that iterations are an absolute requirement in a software development process.

If we where able to design and deliver the exact requirement and perfectly estimate the time required, then that time would be zero, as the software would already have been written.
I’m not an Elon hater but Tesla is the worst offender on Mozillas privacy study.
It is discussed, and that's why anti-depressants exist: to give a kickstart to your lifestyle and then let it take it from there
Ayn Rand Wrote a Guide for Hollywood on How to Make Pro-Capitalist Movies.
https://gizmodo.com/ayn-rand-wrote-a-guide-for-hollywood-on-...
Link to copy of the book.
http://archive.lib.msu.edu/DMC/AmRad/screenguideamericans.pd...
I assume a lot of it is a retro thing like film and vinyl.

I donated my 20 year old Honda Del Sol two-seater stick shortly before the pandemic. It had a lot of miles on it and, with no commute, I just wasn't getting the use out of it to make it worth keeping. It was fun but there's no way I'd buy a stick today even if I were to have a "fun" car.
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That's certainly real and something to consider when provisioning systems. I'm fully on board with that. The problem is when the cost of the cost-savings solution vastly outweighs the cost of over-provisioning infrastructure. Like this Jenkins issue bubbling up ~2-4 times a month vs just giving the worker nodes more storage space. There's been times where it happened during the night and people got paged.

Or comparing the cost of one store not being able to open on time because the RDS database's space ran out. VPs and directors start yelling and there's suddenly like 20+ people involved in figuring out why this one store didn't open on time. What's the cost of that compared to just giving the DB 250GB of space so this never comes up again?

But you are also 100% correct and I've seen that happen here, too. There's some instances I'm responsible for that were using EFS for their local storage. Costing thousands of dollars every month for absolutely no reason. I switched those to reasonably-sized EBS volumes and that alone was half of my annual savings goal.

I was completely flabbergasted seeing these instances using EFS while others were stuck on 8GB EBS volumes. Backups on the EFS drives had ballooned to the many TBs. And the backups were worthless! Instances themselves are ephemeral. They use S3 for long-term storage & metadata is on a database. Those are the things that should be backed up & their cost compared to EFS is minuscule.
It's definitely not the same people who work on the browser. And given that not many other people are seemingly interested in analyzing this kind of privacy concerns, well, I personally prefer a few more bugs or missing features in Firefox, and some more public outreach about privacy issues.
> but it never stop to blow my mind when I see the gov selling off something extremely expensive with nothing more than a few lines of description and a picture of the front sign.

This is typical of government auctions, large and small. I suspect part of it is to not mislead the buyer with rosy pictures/descriptions, and part of it is their basic MO: "you take everything whether you want it or not".

If you've ever bid on pallets of surplus gear it is not unusual to have a few interesting items like computers or test equipment mixed in with absolutely useless crap like giant bolts. This is not an accident, nobody would bid on a bunch of giant bolts if they weren't mixed with stuff people want. You are required to take everything on the pallete with you when you win.
https://archive.ph/y08dm
> Nothing wrong with management picking dates, as long as they understand that they're movable.

Or the scope is flexible. This is basically why I prefer "agile" or incremental work. I'll do my best to work on the highest priority things given to me, one step at a time, and I'll leave no loose ends every week/month/etc that would prevent shipping software.

If we get to that management-picked date, the choice is theirs to determine if the product is good enough to ship.

This is the only way I've seen "scope negotiation" actually work. Otherwise you waste tons of time in meetings (while the clock is ticking) negotiating future hypotheticals, or product pushing you to cut corners writing tests or whatever.
The original asker of the question actually proposed that already.

> I know I could just take one piece out, and put it back in to feel it myself, but I am looking for a more logical way

Since that's the "puzzling" stack exchange, I think they were looking at this more as a logic problem than a real practical problem they needed to solve.
Wondering if anyone has tried this on MacOS and what their thoughts are.

May sound weird, but DC and my DC configurations are one of the few things that have kept me from moving to Mac, since I can't really find a detailed description / review of how well it works on Mac.
Discussed in 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29835933
tyranical control over our lives

Stop drinking out of poisoned wells.
Sure, but you have to look into why the skills aren't available. With trades, it's typically because nobody is willing to train people from scratch, so it's not surprising that they can't find anyone willing to spend several years getting paid minimum wage to do manual labor while simultaneously paying for trade school. A lot of the older guys working in trades learned their skills in the military, but with declining enlistment and the military increasingly farming out that work to contractors, that doesn't happen as much anymore. Tradesmen definitely do make good money eventually, but by then they're in their 30s with debt and a sore back.
I think Mazda is one of the exceptions. Plus, they have great driving dynamics in general.

Only thing stopping me from getting a new Miata is all the dangerous bro-dozers on the road.
I’m sure your friend is under many NDAs where they understandably might or might not be comfortable discussing implementation. But as of 2017 Amazon admitted they are using humans in the loop for go, you can ask your friend at what year they stopped
Also worth mentioning that Catullus[1] recorded performing oral hygiene with both water and... let's say ammonia.

[1] http://rudy.negenborn.net/catullus/text2/e39.htm
The O-1B process was likely one of the most stressful events of my young-adult life! That said, I never felt a 'challenge' for my petition to be accepted beyond my own personal desire to submit as strong a case as possible.

So, could've been likely self inflicted. But whoah -- what a pressure.
Only costs a few hundred bucks for CPU ram. Sure it's slow, but for creative work it's competitive in speed with a human.
Eh, yeah the earlier detection are a factor in the detection numbers. However, the fact that early onset mortality rates have also risen seems to indicate that this isn't only an obversational issue. This still points to a real issue.
Pixel averages and Porter-Duff alpha blending will always give fuzzy results. You need sub-pixel geometric info to do a more accurate depth blend.

The classic reference is the A-Buffer by Loren Carpenter (SIGGRAPH 1984).

One interesting possibility is to go from a binary matte or averaged anti-aliased layer to subpixel geometry by generating a contour (e.g. Marching Squares).

Then the coarse layers (e.g. green screen) can be incorporated into a high-resolution A-Buffer rendering pipeline with 3D CGI elements.
> Or is it because each firm now develops its own LLM stack?

My money would be on this. Custom LLM frameworks are relatively easy to build for experienced devs, and probably less work than adapting an off-the-shelf one, so making a custom framework is a no-brainer.

Anyway, I think LangChain and similar projects have been mainly useful as proofs-of-concept and by creating awareness.
The real "cheat code" is that much of the de facto government is the private sector. Imagining some hard dividing line between "government" and "private sector" is a fallacious red herring.
FWIW you can get duplo track under enough tension that the tracks no longer have loose give and you can lift it up the entire track without it coming apart. It requires a bit of work to make a track like the one in OP
I know they bypass the kernel but my point still stands, most of the servers on the internet runs on Linux, that's a fact, so there was more money, time invested, man power on that OS than any others.
In EU, WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal are way more popular. Lots of friends do own an iPhone, but seldom or never use iMessage. The first they do is installing WhatsApp. This is in part because WhatsApp had a head start in Europe and was cross platform all the time. I would not surprised if Apples claim not to have 45 Mio _active_ _monthly_ users will hold.
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> I'm like an amoebae without a functioning membrane. I find myself in a sick (intentionally avoiding the term "toxic". "sick" like in "sick system".) environment, then I will turn sick and act sick as well. I partake for a while until one morning I look into the mirror and don't like the person I see there anymore and I either just quit or develop a sort of burn out depression first - or favorably both.

This describes really well how I operate today. Changing cultures is just too much effort if the people don't really want to change. I will make suggestions and see how they are received, if the folks are receptive to it, I will do more otherwise withdraw.
It's my choice not to learn how to use a metal lathe and a welder, or find someone with those skills to do it for me? How is that supposed to scale to millions of people who want the same privacy?
If they bought a prefab house which was sold to many people in the neighborhood, and part of the terms and conditions were do not open up the walls, and the owner opened up all the walls to find out weakspots it can be robbed, then that does seem criminal, no?

However, the owner should still have a right to validate the security of his house - so he should be able to request for permission to break the terms of his contract for the sake of security research. That is going to require approval from the company, who the contract is with. I think we should be looking to make some laws around making sure this communication can happen safely and fairly
It’s the same in the US, you just correctly identified that it’s not an issue for the vast majority of people outside of the data collection concerns (which most people also don’t care about)
Hmm, I don't interpret it like that. He doesn't seem to be arguing that 100% of all people need religion. That's clearly not true and never has been. There were people pointing out the Bible was nonsense in the 1600s, and getting hung for it!

His point is that although we tell ourselves we live in a secular age now, there is a lot of surprisingly religious looking behavior re-appearing in supposedly non-religious contexts. He ponders why this is, and concludes that the widespread nature of religion in the past may not have been a mere phase of history but perhaps a basic need of most humans (but not all), and now the old religions are fading they're being replaced by new ones.

It's a viewpoint that's becoming more common, he certainly isn't the first to express this idea. And you don't need to be religious yourself to make the same observation.
I’m pretty sure most of the car subreddits are managed by dealership employees who benefit from markups via increased commissions. The fact that they make reference to complaining about price markups as economic illiteracy increases my confidence in this hypothesis.

I’m tempted to go make a post about rent seeking, deadweight loss and price collusion in oligopolistic conditions but somehow I feel my economic literacy will be found wanting.
One half of the duplo can be in tension and the other half in compression.
You can't as a phone ensure that happens. The device is more secure by taking away the backdoor of using a PIN. Backdoors are a security incident waiting to happen.
I wonder how the car would respond to having the sat antenna run through with a 1/2 inch drill bit? Would that solve the problem?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_methane_emissions

Methane stored in arctic and Siberia is equivalent to 100 of years of todays yearly co2 emissions. Once that starts coming out there’s no point of return for sure.

But the recent increase is probably due to wetlands for now.
I mean, seems fair to have a huge US company with an history of giving most of their data to their government to not be used.
I know this didn't get any upvotes, but I wanted to let you know I think this is lovely!!!