skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Windows 11’s next big update arrives on September 26th with Copilot, RAR support
Individuals aren't concerned about that, but plenty of companies and government agencies are. Most wouldn't even want to audit the LLM, they just want to audit that the information doesn't leave their network. Running the LLM locally on some "AI PC" would satisfy that perfectly, and the types of organizations that care the most about this are also the ones with the most generous budgets for these kinds of problems.
We did have people actually migrate away from JIRA because they didn't need the features, not really because they were required to move to the Cloud instance. But the fact that they now had to move at all made it easier to switch (some went to Redmine for some reason, others went to Git-SaaS integrated boards).
I’ve written several books using Foam and VScode and I avoid those communities like the plague precisely because they love the tool more than the problems it solves.

I’ve also published (and maintain) several websites using special tags and Hugo tools that compile to HTML markup complete with the requisite hyperlinks and attachments.

I don’t like Obsidian much, personally. I love to customize my tools just enough to get them out of the way.

Notes on the system:
https://csh.rit.edu/~rg/productivity/20221109203834/

Example site:
https://csh.rit.edu/~rg/alphasmart-3000/
Pretty much any home automation that supports zigbee or z-wave already provides this for everything except their bridges, though. And that includes Hue.

While I'd happily support regulating tethering as well, because it'd certainly make some things easier, with a little bit of thought you can build out home automation where it's all under your control. E.g. stick to zigbee and z-wave devices as the default, and get dumb zigbee and z-wave USB dongles, and connect them to an open source bridge, like Home Assistant, and you've got a good start.
Are you an attorney or judge?
Is fosstodon any good, and does anybody use activitypub based social networking, if so what instances would you recommend?
When nobody sells an NFT, "journalists" write articles like this one claiming their "market cap" is "zero dollars". When somebody does sell an NFT, shrug it off as a wash trade.
Google is not responsible for having immediate, omniscient knowledge of traffic hazards. They are responsible for heeding user-submitted warnings in a reasonably timely fashion, using the systems that they created specifically to do that.

That doesn't mean the distracted driver is blameless. More than one party can share blame.
A genetic study has revised the narrative about how wine grapes spread
Splunk isn't perfect. Managing it is more work than it should be for example. But I've got hundreds of systems I'm pulling logs from and that's not counting infra and applications as well. And my deployment isn't even a large one by their standards. Your use case just isn't the scale where splunk makes sense.
> It would be like a report that says "25% of financial crime in the US comes from New York City"

Yes, and it would interesting to know for lot of people. I wouldn't mind T-shirts with NYC :: BFC front and on back BFC expanded to (Big Financial Crimes).
I also thought of building something where you could transfer your karma from here to OpinionKarma.com

or are there any features you'd like to see?
Making your Mastodon account provider also be a community is a fatal flaw of Mastodon. I don't want to belong to just one community, nor have my account and server administration policies somehow tied to my topic interests!
It is titled "Why I am stepping down" and then, to the best I can tell, only gives this as a reason: "But the time is right for me to take on different roles". In short, corporate-speak for "I'm not going to tell you why, but I'm going to pretend that I am".
That standard is required for criminal sanctions, but it is not required for private parties to change who they freely associate with, who are free to take a more balance-of-probabilities approach.

I'm free to say that he's probably a rapist, because I'm not a court of law and I have free speech.

(The irony is that Brand spends all the time on his youtube channel making unsubstantiated and probably false allegations about all sorts of public figures such as Bill Gates)
Hahaha what?
This is an important story and my critique is mundane but I wish the headline were more accurate. You don't have "genetic [disease]" unless you have "[disease]", and I think that STAT News should get that right.

These individuals have what we think is the genetic risk factor for ALS. ALS is probably a complex disease, in which case a single monogenic variant will not, alone, be enough to explain risk, timing of onset, etc.
>Miyazaki would love Stable Diffusion.

You don't know that.
The Microwave Makes No Sense
It's barely two days since I was saying right here that Google Maps's increasing awfulness had probably contributed to actual deaths. All of the Googlers (and Xooglers and wannabes) commenting here might try to minimize how much that was in this case, but I'm equally sure that there are many other cases. Building an app like this carries a responsibility to minimize likelihood of harm, no matter what the TOS says. Google is not doing that.
Maybe the conclusion should be that people shouldn’t live in Florida because it just takes too much resources.
yeah, it's an unfortunate reality. Odd analogy, but it's like breaking up with someone and it hurting them. There are things you can do to help mitigate, but it is what it is.
I have some bad news about Red Hat...
If you watch some of those "scammer gets scammed" videos you can see what the scammers actually think about the grandmas they're stealing from.
Heroku. Better until it wasn't...
Nope: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/04/rupert-murdoch-cover...

He was in relatively poor health even before getting COVID. It’s been a downward slide since
This is the root of so much of our software quality problem. “I want to work on something shiny” outweighs “I have pride in this software and want to keep it healthy.”
It blows my mind that he's willing to complain about "elites". Does he genuinely not consider himself part of the "elite"? He owns most of the world's media and a sizable chunk of the planet's wealth.

What else could he need to consider himself elite?
The -highly entertaining- comments are rightfully bashing the de facto state of defi in the context of GPs comment.

Remind me when a digital currency actually exists, because I haven't seen one yet. The problem isn't just that the ecosystem is filled with scammers, its that the tech doesn't solve any existing problem but creates new ones instead. Web3 is a joke.
Element X: Ignition
Apple Weather developers in the Bay don't really know or care about your Southern hail or wind storms. R.I.P. Dark Sky. Sorry.
I found networking/switchdev.txt very approachable. It documents all those different bridge+vlan (aware/unaware) configs you can do: https://docs.kernel.org/networking/switchdev.html

In particular I've learned from that doc that there's special handling for putting a vlan device on top of a bridge (br0.123) even if the bridge is vlan unaware.

DSA might also be relevant if you're working with hardware that supports it: https://docs.kernel.org/networking/dsa/dsa.html
I made the same conclusion and started making a tool on my own from scratch! Turned out it did take much less effort to build something you are happy with than tweaking existing tools.

PWA with Rails/React, editor is Lexical (because why markdown when you can have note looks pretty), hosted on a machine at home that I connect via tailscale.

I already added LLM integrations too.
I had an anti-corruption mandatory course in a previous job in the naval industry. They talked about drugs hidden in refrigerated containers: they swapped the insulation material of the containers with cocaine. Apparently the goods in the containers did not spoil so thermal conductivity of cocaine is pretty low.
Anyone who correctly implements a payment service wouldn't make it go down for 7 hours.
The actuarial life tables don't have a special column for billionaires. Regardless of what SV longevity hackers think they know. He's got ~3-5 years.
Without business travel expenses the airline industry would also be a fraction of its size and personal air travel would be much more expensive.

Companies have on occasion tried to claw back frequent flier points from employees. Those policies were not popular personally I have zero issue with people who fly a lot getting a minor perk for a lifestyle I suspect many people here would absolutely hate.
Greenwashing is ridiculously prevalent and fueled by non-profits selling carbon credits that imo are likely knowingly engaging in fraud.

Most cap-and-trade carbon markets luckily refuse to accept these carbon credits, but they are still commonly used in ESG and claims of carbon neutrality.
> Also, some police are known to be racist

Worse yet, most police are at least classist. Poor neighborhoods are policed far more heavily than wealthier neighborhoods.

What happens when there's already heavy policing of poorer neighborhoods, and police are trained to "get the bad ones off the streets"? They look for any excuse to arrest and prosecute people in those neighborhoods. Once you have a felony conviction on your record, you're basically unemployable for 10 years (in the US at least). Thus continuing the cycle of poverty. And of course, minorities tend to be disproportionately poor.

This makes that cycle worse. Anyone in the proximity of such a felon due to this data collection and aggregation now becomes a target by the police, raising their chances of getting caught up in the legal system and experiencing life-long consequences because of it.
And you're still refusing to tell us any names because we're somehow lazy for not being able to correctly guess what locality you're in, what time you're talking about, and search local media history for that timeframe to uncover the case you're referring to?
>Miyazaki would love Stable Diffusion

Not sure how you could confidently say this. Given that most artists and animators already have a disdain for generative AI, it's difficult to believe that the guy most unenthused about technology would love Stable Diffusion. The guy didn't even like CGI.
Cloudflare's verify human challenge screen is so intrusive and frustrating that it will cost them their credibility IMHO, if it hasn't already. Some part of me feels that a properly designed cache should be able to handle any level of abusive traffic like a p2p cache would, and if it can't, then what are we all doing?
> an audit should include scanning all files for passwords

Please continue taking the security course. Scanning all files for passwords is madness. How do you differentiate "thisissupersecret" and "123fqfqlfni34235r4" and "git@somegitrepo.com" as passwords? You can't, they're all valid passwords for a majority of services.

At some point, you need to trust developers to do the right thing, which is impossible.
So tired of this notion that poor people have no morals.

Someone who is capable of kidnapping a child for ransom is seriously fucked up. Paying that person off with welfare so they don't "have" to resort to heinous crimes, as if that's the default, is unconscionable.
Another target for Prohibition efforts; because all of the previous efforts have been such glowing successes without major negative side effects for society. /s
New treatments give an example of how treating one patient can benefit others
If Google was told multiple times of the error and didn’t update their map, well, that’s negligence. You can’t recall a paper map, but you can update an online map easily.
Ancient Amazonians Locked Away Thousands of Tons of Carbon in “Dark Earth”
>>it's so hot and humid here that if you left a room for a significant amount of time with no cooling, that room is likely to become uninhabitable from mold and mildew real quick.

I wonder how humans survived there before the invention of electricity and air con!
Were the bushes there in 2022? That picture is from 2023.
A PC with a built it AI "IT guy" would be a game changer. It sits there crunching all the logs and performance data, making tweaks or recommendations for solving known or potential issues.

Much of what I did in my systems support was sifting through log files trying to find the answers amid mountains of crappy search results.
Microsoft Copilot, your everyday AI companion
Never seen The Office, however 'people should be responsible for the machines they operate' is my exact feeling for a whole lot of technology. Thanks for the wording. I now have a concise way to voice my feelings about Autopilot regulation efforts!
What Is ChatGPT Enterprise?
that's fair. i don't care about the term used as long as we agree on the resulting actions that need to be done, and i agree that there is a difference between those categories.

as far as i understand it, the definition of human rights includes both but that's an extended discussion.

however on your last point, i would argue that despite the difference, free expression or fair trials do also create a duty or responsibility to provide these.

for every right that is given, there exists a duty to provide or enable that right.

it also works the other way around. if it is a duty to send my kids to school, then i have a right to a school within reasonable distance. if it is a duty to work, then i have a right to childcare. etc.

so no matter how you look at it, right and duty are intertwined and can not be separated.
I don't know the details of the industry but that is revenue ignoring expenses. Presumably it is orders of magnitude more expensive to fly the planes than manage a rewards system.

I expect the author is saying that if your split each up into profit, the profit is greater on the rewards program than the flying part.
Neither are the teachers. This is why having the teachers act as a social security service is a poor idea.
For a less than useful definition of bank.

Due to technology, the old use case of banks is mostly obviated. There is no technical reason everyone should not just have an electronic money account at the Fed itself for receiving and sending money. And earn the federal funds rate directly rather than have it go through a middleman who is basically just operating a database.

And lending does not have much to do with receiving people’s cash deposits.
I've been writing elixir for 8 years. I've never once wanted to write erlang, nor have I ever written erlang programs.
I’m planning to sue in small claims court, did anyone also do this and have any tips?
> I think it's what needs to be done, so I'm doing my part because I'm an able, healthy adult, but it's definitely an activist/enthusiast thing, not a reasonable solution for the vast majority of my state who use 5,000 lbs of steel to move 200 lbs of human to work and back.

Thank you for being part of the solution. I am 100% sincere, not facetious. This is a tragedy of the commons, and american leadership has no courage for top down intervention. The only thing left to do is that the good ones will wrestle the solution out of the ground with their own bare hands.
Oh man... This is exactly what I need. I dropped out without finishing my Bachelors ages ago and have been thinking about looking for something like this that would allow me to pursue a Masters without having to go back through the grind of finishing a Bachelors first. Thank you for posting this. I'm going to give this a serious look.
Ah yes, because when your loved one dies, that's what you immediately think of: how can I make money off this?
His comments seem to be more about the subject matter than the technique they used.
They should explain what it _does_. I looked it over and I still have no idea why I should install it other than it uses $CURRENT_FAD.
I agree with the typing arguments. A config parser can only parse the values to a degree, to primitive types basically. The application can parse them fully. So the question is to what extent the parser helps the application vs to what extent it introduces subtle problems. As a config file user I would prefer not to have to care so much, but also not to have to work around weird corner cases. YAML's no-problem is a perfect example. This would not exist if the parser did not try to be helpful.

I am in the author's camp.
I also think namespacing adds complexity that usually isn't needed.
But the energy used to generate and transport the fruit isn't necessarily renewable.
The GitHub Innovation Graph
I have a PhD in computer science and I work in FAANG. My boss and his boss don't have CS degrees.
I presume they are referring to the airline deregulation act of 1978. There used to be dozens of regional airlines whereas now we notably have 3-4 giant corporations after decades of aggressive mergers and acquisitions.

https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/airline-deregul...
Waivers don't protect against negligence.
I imagine they meant the airline as a whole is losing out on the $10s of thousands due to lost loyalty resulting from removing convenience. Not just the 1%, but the whole spend is lost.
Game of Thrones author sues ChatGPT owner OpenAI
Those visual challenges look pathetically easy to automate. I can’t see that they would offer any security against bots that actually want to get in—only against completely casual bots, and you can go much lower-tech against those, e.g. an invisible honeypot field on form submissions is surprisingly effective.
From that perspective every large company is a bank. This is part of the reason everyone wants a subscription business. Not only do shareholders love recurring revenue, but so do lenders. In essence every business is a investment bank that has a few investment available that are closed to everyone else (the core business).
> People refuse to acknowledge that their conservation efforts for a year are undone by some guy in Texas in five minutes

I don't think that's a good way to look at things. Some guy in Texas is polluting a lot more than you, ok, but would it be better if that guy keeps polluting and you pollute just as much? We can't get hung up on, 'well some person/company somewhere else is undoing my savings'. That kind of gets into tragedy of the commons thinking.

It is disheartening to see parts of the country going in the opposite direction than we should be going for sure. And well-meaning but not very useful policies can be a pain. But I try not to be disheartened at backward thinking in other locales, I try to look at the places making advances (for example, India is ahead of schedule in the shift to renewables) to be find some optimistic amidst the bleakness.
I'm arguing that it may not actually affect everyone. In america, the biggest wealth-building tools from the federal government were barred to black people in the previous generation. Banks are still getting hit with racial discrimination in mortgage lending in current year. I don't think we should address inequality by generation if only a minority of that generation got to reap the rewards. It's not like a Latina grandma alive before women were allowed to open bank accounts had a ton of options to her.
UI Lib Picker: a tool to compare various Vue 3 UI Libraries
Hey there! I've built a tool that makes it easier for developers to compare different Vue.js UI component libraries. I got the idea after seeing many people struggling to pick the right library.

Feedback and contributions are welcome!
Solving navigation for openpilot at Comma AI [video]
The cost of entry is absurd, and the industry is highly regulated. The profit margins for acting as just an airline are also pretty thin, IIUC.

I think you’re ultimately right, but finding an investor would be irrationally difficult.
Yes: 'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy by Daniel J. Solove

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565

Franz Kafka’s The Trial, which depicts a bureaucracy with inscrutable purposes that uses people’s information to make important decisions about them, yet denies the people the ability to participate in how their information is used. The problems captured by the Kafka metaphor are of a different sort than the problems caused by surveillance. They often do not result in inhibition or chilling. Instead, they are problems of information processing—the storage, use, or analysis of data—rather than information collection. They affect the power relationships between people and the institutions of the modern state. They not only frustrate the individual by creating a sense of helplessness and powerlessness, but they also affect social structure by altering the kind of relationships people have with the institutions that make important decisions about their lives.
Sounds like the perfect fit for Cisco
I wish Hetzner/Hetzner Cloud would support "bring your own IPs" (BYOIP) as other cloud providers already do.
Have you heard of KVMs?
I've been a United "Global Services" customer for years. How to you reach this level? Spend! The threshold--which they don't publish--is around $75K/year spend gets you into it, adjusted a bit for region and VIPs.
That goes for Canada too, what was the need to go public and that too without presenting any evidence.
And it’s small potatoes mostly. Leaving aside airline status-which would be impossible to value even my 50K miles per year pre-pandemic (some of it personal) would only be worth $500 or so at a penny per mile.
SA made set top boxes along with a bunch of back-end infrastructure to make them work. It was an acquisition that made sense on paper -- Cisco did (does) a lot of business with service providers, they make cable modem termination systems (the headend devices that handle cable modem connectivity,) had dabbled in IP video, so it was a natural evolution to make and sell the rest of the gear you'd need to operate a cable-based service provider. I don't think they were counting on how rapidly Internet streaming would take over, but in any case, the acquisition didn't work out so well and last I heard they had divested it.

One other thing that I think feeds into these acquisition mishaps is that Cisco has, in my opinion, consistently over-estimated how much intelligence would be needed (or wanted) in the core network. In their view, intelligent network services = expensive network devices = revenue for Cisco. I think what the Internet specifically and IP in general, as well as the evolution of LAN technologies over time have proven is that when it comes to the core network, simple is almost always better and intelligence should move to the edge, where innovation can happen quicker and where services can be implemented in software.

As an example, at one point they had what was, essentially, a middleware system (like Websphere,) which they called Application Oriented Networking. The idea was you would deploy these on your network gear, throughout your network, and it would provide message routing and translation services. They had a whole "architecture" built for it, called Services Oriented Network Architecture[0]. I don't think the people who built it really understood that it provided no real advantage over a cluster of middleware/ESB/MQ servers in a data center and that nobody was going to pay a huge premium to build that capability in their IP routers.

0 - https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/global/it_it/solutions/ent/tecno...
I love the idea of building a bespoke notes app for myself, but then again if I had the time and energy I’d probably build my own everything simply because it’s interesting and it feels like there’s unharvested low-hanging fruit in terms of UX improvements across just about all software categories.

Until then though, I’ll be keeping the tinkering to a minimum. Honestly speaking I could probably get by just fine with Sublime Text, a folder full of markdown files, and Syncthing… the main attractions of Obsidian, etc are little QoL features like separate fonts for prose and code.
The UK passed the Online Safety Bill.