skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The headline kind of buries the lede. They're actually redoing their EV incentives to take into account carbon in manufacturing.

Which is a good thing.

They claim that it's got an ulterior motive to prefer locally made cars, which may be true, but this kind of carbon trade tariff is a vastly underused tool in battling climate change.
> Lose your monopoly on that data and you have no business.

But do these breaches affect their monopoly? My thinking is:

1. B2B customers won't go on darknet to source illegal data dumps.

2. This data, even if it doesn't quickly become effectively stale, would be considered stale by businesses very quickly if it's not connected to the continuous data ingestion pipeline.
How can, say, a cleaner tell the prong configuration on a plug when it's plugged in and not visible?
So classical robotics yeah, people used to write code for each step of opening a door. Practically speaking you would probably not do motion planning on the door, you would just code it up with a bunch of heuristics like, try to be over here in relation to the doorframe because that's a good opening spot and will probably work. Ok you're in the right place? Now, move gripper towards the door handle... etc. Bunch of hacks. Put enough hacks together and you can kinda sorta open (some) doors. Oh this is a SLIDING door? Damn we forgot to code for that...

The way things are going is sensors (cameras, force, etc) and neural networks. You let the robot try a bunch of ways of opening doors, sometimes it doors itself in the face, eventually it'll figure out good places to stand based on what the door looks like. The more doors you make it try to open hopefully the better it gets at generalising over the task of opening doors. The hacks/heuristics are really still there but the robot is supposed to learn them.

> Surely people don’t stop in front of a door and begin planning things out, rather they seem to go for it and adjust on the fly, is this an approach that won’t work in robotics? Why not?

Yeah, figuring out how to do this is basically "the problem". Most people don't have a sense or feeling of "planning things out" as they open a door because we reached "unconscious competence" at that task. We definitely have predictions of what is going to happen as we start opening the door based on prior experience and our observations so far. If reality diverges from our expectations we will experience surprise, make some new predictions, take actions to resolve the surprise, etc.

Not sure that anyone has ever studied how people open doors in detail, it'd be interesting. I bet there are a ton of subtle micro behaviours. One that I know is, if you hear kids running in the house it is a good idea to keep a foot planted in front of you as you approach the door, because those guys will absolutely fling or crash doors open right into your face.
I think substantive improvements in the market will coincide with decreases in the base interest rate since the UK is a highly leveraged economy and investment/borrowing is where much of the development budgets originate, especially in the London start-up/scale-up and mid-market companies.

Meanwhile, inflation is smashing profit by increasing the cost of the factors of production. So reinvestment of profit lead development has also significantly decreased. This will be alleviated with a decrease of the inflation rate toward target, which will most likely occur sooner than the interest rates fall, since the former presently drives the latter.
Given this, I'd much rather XML any day. You can comment using <!-- Comment --> blocks.
I imagine so. Should also be possible to generate bindings from the ClassDb json in a similar way to how it's done in C#. I'm not super familiar with it but it's all moving to the GDExtension stuff.
Meh, I don't have any love for windows, but IME newish versions seem quite well-behaved regarding Linux. Sure, they'll rewrite the UEFI boot order, but once you set it back to what you want, it leaves it alone.

The one thing I absolutely hate, is the recovery partition at the end of the main C: drive. So that if you want to grow the C drive, you have to jump through some ridiculous hoops to move the recovery partition. Had they put it the other way around, it wouldn't have been 0 pain. Even with a healthy dose of cynicism, I really don't know what purpose this could serve.
Tangentially: there are some objects in the Kubernetes configuration that require the data to be base64 encoded (I think it's secrets and config maps, probably something else). When I was preparing for my CKA certification, I used the (most?) popular course that introduced base64 encoding as a _security measure_. I think that also says something about the state of the industry.
Is there something like this for Pokemon cards?
Yep. But now that I think of it I can’t remember if Google carried that over when they bought it.
Why do I feel like those useful changes in the forks will never make it upstream? It's not GPL I suppose? I guess I just don't really understand how people can be ok with companies like EA freeloading their work, which they almost certainly will if they can.
No account needed. Just sayin'. https://www.minetest.net
The canvas painting / $effect() demo on the video was super cool! Is the source publicly available somewhere?
I quite like the dbcli.com family of TUI DBMS tools. I personally use pgcli a lot.
The point I'm making is that _inputs_ to the brain are not automatically mind control, since there are existing inputs that are clearly not mind control. In fact, it would be really difficult to implement mind control with a NeuraLink, because you would need to tune it to do so first, and how would you do that?

Vision and hearing on the other hand have been done previously with electrodes.
It's supposed to be used to manage your own collection of sheet music, so yes, you have to upload everything yourself. It supports most image formats (JPEG, PNG, …), SVGs, and PDFs. I recommend using SVGs because it has the best quality to file-size ratio and unlike for PDF all pages can be loaded in parallel.
They do it because it succeeds. How many shitty things have we seen normalised and spread because consumers just accepted it and paid up?
Ya, does it do that thing banking apps do where it insists on the most recent version in order to even be usable?

Otherwise, thats more of an iOS option that can be easily altered

Settings < App Store < Automatic Downloads > App Updates
That Stallman is the bottleneck. He’s too controversial.

In September 2006, Stallman wrote, "I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren't voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing." In 2019, after conversations with victims, he changed his opinion that it does cause harm.
Unity has always been an excellent engine in its ideation. Easy to understand, easy to get started with, truly a great onboarding experience. Additionally the ability to use C# can't be understated as, IMO, it's a fantastic match for game scripting... until you start to hit performance problems.

Which has kind of always been the problem with Unity. Once you start getting into the meat of it there's always some issue. Most recently their obsession with DOTS and the fragmented rendering pipelines were really off-putting and enough to get me to switch to Unreal. I also found a lot of the features barebones for a very long time, like 2D tilesets, landscape editing tools, nav mesh, animation tooling, etc. None of this matters to companies with actual teams, but for indie development I've found Unreal to be a much better match for me than Unity.

That being said Unity has come a very long way in the recent years and the engine can be a joy to work with (as long as it's not crashing and misbehaving, which it does). But that's history at this point. There is no way I'll ever attempt to create a game in Unity again.
WhatsApp Passkey Support Rolls Out to Beta Testers on Android
> Article 9 Constitution of India: Persons voluntarily acquiring citizenship of a foreign State not to be citizens. No person shall be a citizen of India by virtue of article 5, or be deemed to be a citizen of India by virtue of article 6 or article 8, if he has voluntarily acquired the citizenship of any foreign State.

So that’s that. India does not permit dual citizenship. And that can’t be changed without a Constitutional Amendment. Not as hard as changing the Constitution in America, but harder than passing a law in Parliament.

The article mentions OCI (Overseas Citizen of India). This is easy to apply for and most people who give up their Indian citizenship apply for it immediately and are granted it within weeks. But it’s not real citizenship. It’s a visa that allows the holder to visit India whenever they want to. It does not allow the holder to vote, or represent the country in sport.

And like any visa, it can be cancelled unilaterally on a whim. (https://www.siasat.com/days-after-arrest-for-anti-hindutva-r...)
I tried mine for this use case before but found it a little too hard to read without a bright lamp aimed directly at it from one side. The contrast is just a little lacking.
No, and I never suggested they are, what point are you trying to make?
Indeed, that wasn't obvious it was using tricks to improve the situation. But I do remember in my tests PNG beating Webp when using gray8 input.

I mean, Webp must store an RGBA tuple for each pixel, even for grayscale without alpha, right?
Thanks, I haven’t heard about mavproxy.
Also mis-mentioned, is that I heard nothing was "missed" but security upgrades were not possible due to the age of the stack.

Pre-0 days are one thing. But leaving systems unpatched for months, because your stack is too old, is a common, but inexcusable theme.

This is why it is vital to use libraries, frameworks, with a stable, unchanging LTS branch. Failure to do so, means a security update that needs to be applied instantly, cannot be done, without extensive app changes.

New shiny is fine. But it must never, ever override basic security concerns.

Security comes first. Not last. Always.
the alternatives are even worse, that's the premise;

you get better maps than with gog/apl but have a slightly "different" ux
I think this could serve a good rule-of-thumb test. Whatever measure is being taken, would it stop (or have stopped) Prince Andrew (and similar)? If not, the measure is at best ineffective and at worst not intended to stop them. We can call this the Prince Andrew Test..

This current law fails the Prince Andrew Test.
This seems a great way for system design interviews.

Interviewer: what do you know about transactions?

Candidate: Transactions can be serializable.

Interviewer: great, tell me the difference between final state serializability and view state serializability and prove that they are the same if neither of them has dead step.

Candidate: yada yada yada.

Interviewer: Can you tell me how to use such concepts in implementing a production database system? Please come with a few short illustrative examples too.
And so America was born.
We had a good one recently; it told us to go to the dealership for immediate service, the horn, cruise control and SatNav stopped working. The dealership said that it was a software update needed?!
Google cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NcurNy...
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I suppose building running trains across railway lines autonomously is simpler than running trucks across highways.
Why not blame the kernel developers for being lazy and incompetent for not offering a stable API for driver developers to use?

You don't see Windows driver developers having their drivers broken by updates every few months.
In a democracy, the government represents the will and the interests of the citizens in that country. If UK citizens don't want such laws, they can always protest, at the voting booth or in the streets.

It's not the job of multinational companies to have principles regarding the citizens of a country. And indeed, they can comply with the law, or GTFO. And in case they get out, it won't be because of principles, but rather because users of other countries may leave them in case they install backdoors. It's simple economics, and that's good actually, as people in general don't want to be governed by multinationals.
> If you want config-as-code (and you want to!), just do it properly and use a proper programming language for it.

This is a mistake every generation has to repeat over and over again until the end of times. So it is written.
Thanks, that is really insightful! :)
Not to me. Railroads cover only so much area, leaving the last (hundred) miles to cars.

So it is not an either or question and should be stopped treated as such ( in certain circles). Germany has a quite good railroad system, but you really won't get far outside the cities, unless you live close to a train station (like I do intentionally) and have your target close to a train station. And buses to a remote village from the last train station? Check your calendar and not your watch for the next one.
To be fair, Google Maps gets it wrong pretty often in VN, too. Maybe not off by 132km, but it a few km in the wrong direction. It’s especially bad about assuming that odd number addresses should be across the street from even numbered addresses.

In the last few years, Apple Maps was just as good/bad in VN, so I switched to it.
I’ve just had to go back to my 11 pro after my 14 pro met its end. It’s absolutely fine, apart from the broken FaceID sensor, which is driving me nuts (using 1Password without it is irritating as anything. )
Right wing policies lead more often to totalitarianism then left wing ones, historically speaking.

And if you really believe that migration, and not union busting and unchecked capitalism, lead to lower wages, well, I don't think there is anything I can say that might make think about those things more critical.
A running theory was that Windows 9 was skipped because of all the "if version contains 9" logic for 95, 98 etc

I don't think it was ever anything more than speculation though
I don't even want to install Arch the Arch way.
Which makes you wonder why a medical doctor is called that?
> Under Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sport rules, India does not allow players – or anyone else for that matter – to have dual nationality

Nationality is not governed by Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sport rules. I can't tell if this is just sloppy editing by the Grauniad or if I am missing something. The terribly named OCI is not citizenship. Are they actually suggesting that India should allow dual-citizenship for footballers?
There is also Apache Ozone https://ozone.apache.org/
> I'm a bit lost, even after trying the demo I can't understand why this should be better than, say, Discourse.

That's a valid question - I'm pushing to launch at the "minimum viable" stage. But, I plan to mature Booklet into more of a managed service, intended for invite-only networks and internal company discussions.

Discourse is a great product. However, I know of a couple very large companies that started to use Discourse and even went as far as paying design firms to customize it, only to back out due to challenges. I think a lot of the complexity of Discourse comes from its reputation system - which is designed to prevent spam. But, for an internal company use case - those tools are not useful, and become annoying. Even if there's a way to turn them off, I think it gives the software a clunky feel.

There's something elegant about an "omakase" approach, where companies can use it out of the box.
I really hope that Bevy will get a piece of the Unity pie too.
> He’s training an LLM with a corpus of one-off policies for solving specific manipulation tasks, and claiming to get robust ad hoc policies from it for previously unsolved tasks.

It seems clear that many people do not understand that this is the key breakthrough: solving arbitrary tasks after learning previous, unrelated tasks.

In my opinion that really is a good definition of intelligence, and puts this technique at the forefront of machine intelligence.
Nowadays, Athena is Trino under the hood, but pretty heavily patched.
Much easier to have invalid JSON than invalid XML as jsonschema isn’t even close
Designing content for people who struggle with numbers
One difference is that you can set up a Booklet entirely for free, without a server or paid subscription!

Also, it doesn't use Ember.js, which is another plus in my book.
It's not always a question of cost. I can't stand windows for my day-to-day job, but I do need it from time to time. Yet, my work provided laptop can only take one internal drive, and there's no way I'll lug around USB drives.

IME windows has worked well enough in a single-drive dual-boot config, even by evicting the original SecureBoot keys from the PC and replacing them with my own, with which I've also signed Windows' bootloader.
Old devices getting support from the Linux team is only one of the ways this can play out though. Some other ways I can think of:

- Old devices are phased out sooner.

- Moving away from linux towards proprietary embedded OSes that do provide support.

- No doubt some companies will try just ignoring the regulations
what? on the contrary.

every human need must by necessity be a right. ignoring human needs is in itself a human rights violation. since water is needed to survive, unless you want to deny people the right to live, water must be a human right.
> I don't know how us food stamps work but [snip]

So food stamps can only be spent on certain food items.

Bread, milk, eggs, etc. So they are doing what is being requested. This is literally why they are given stamps instead of cash, to restrict people.

Don't demonise people because they are so poor that they have to accept assistance to be able to eat bread.

And yes, in the US they don't have food delivery from all the supermarkets like in the UK. Uber is filling that gap.
This reminds me of reading "The Linux Programming Interface" (TLPI) [1]. It's very informative like the "The Unix Programming Environment" (TUPE), but focuses only on Linux without a lot of caveats about other Unix. Although the latest version was from 2010, now seems a bit old.

[1]: https://man7.org/tlpi/
All of this looks like MobX
> Perhaps we'll see proper usage of NFTs

> NFTs for ticketing systems

No. NFTs are useless for ticketing systems for reasons immediately obvious if you ever stop and think about it.

> which even Ticketmaster announced for their use-case for gated sales.

As with all these announcements they are scrapped and thrown into trash just a year or two later.
Bronze age civilizations were wiped out by the sea-suite.
GDExtension appears to be quite the bottleneck though.
https://sampruden.github.io/posts/godot-is-not-the-new-unity...
You don’t happen to be the guy who overnighted a bunch of network cables for $5,000 because the boss had to have them overnighted and the company didn’t care what it cost I read about recently? lol
Yes it's the second of the two first-class scripting language options.

My initial impressions are pretty positive. They moved to .Net 6 from mono with Godot 4. Support for deployment to Android with c# is coming in 4.2. There also seems to be interest and discussions around how AOT can be used in the future.

The engine is super easy to build and I think I actually built it with .Net 7 haha. Others are already using .Net 8.
SpaceX rocket launches Starlink satellites on re-use record-breaking 17th flight
Building a Multi-Region Service Mesh with Kuma/Envoy, Anycast BGP, and MTLS
I don't think TowerTall was speaking about this.

They are saying: "Recent versions of Windows can run old programs made for old versions of Windows. How?".

The Linux kernel is very good at it because of the "Do not break userspace" Linus Torvalds' rule. The usual user space on top of the Linux kernel, not so much.

So yes, backward compatibility and backporting are different matters.

And Windows addresses them both indeed. Your parent commenter is not comparing Windows with Linux.
Neuralink is recruiting for a human trial of its brain-computer interface
Is GPL practical for a game engine ? Doesn't it mean that all code produced with this engine would be also open source ? Seems pretty much like a no-go, and nobody would use the engine. Please correct me if I didn't understand it right.
> Lose your monopoly on that data and you have no business.

Could you elaborate on how Equifax would have gone out of business if all their data had been stolen?
You can. There are plenty of people porting their Unity code to Godot in that way.
me, driving by car to the bicycle factory: Ha. Haha. This is so ironic.
See for yourself on Amazon. You can get big bags of candy on EBT
That analogy ultimately goes as well as continental drift offloading movement onto humans, and the AI doing to humans whatever the analogy is of humans doing this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountaintop_removal_mining

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket-wheel_excavator
It's not irony, it's infrastructure. People are routinely transported by rail, sea, and air. Even cars are routinely transported by rail, sea, and air.

These trains run on diesel so if Telsa wants to be more serious they'll put hydrogen fuel cell or BEV trains into service:

https://insideevs.com/news/685080/tesla-giga-berlin-train-sh...
I think there’s a difference between doesn’t suck and rarely makes mistakes. Maps.me works well in Europe. I haven’t tried it in Asia, but I will.

In the meantime, OSM is open source. If you are particularly concerned about non-US performance, perhaps the problem is not with blog authors but with OSS contributions to OSM outside the US?
While true I think this shows the discounting of real labor costs in OSes.. If Hurd were magically granted every possible resource to be complete and on par with everything else in 1993 it would have needed far more resources in the last 30 years to still be a complete OS today, since it wasn't complete it is very hard for it to get even a small portion of those resources.
Yeah sure permaculture is ridiculous, but something like no till? There is nothing that prevents mechanization of it and it has seen significant success compared to conventional agriculture. The thing is, tilling resets your soil, so once you start tilling, there is not much you can do about soil health. In fact, tillage backs you into a corner where the only option is to spray back what you have destroyed through industrially produced synthetics. That also includes all the artificial fertilizer you're spraying. Once you till it, all the money you spent on the fertilizer is wasted. Once you stop tilling, there are actually ways to improve soil health that shouldn't be impossible to scale up. The biggest problem is that every soil is different and you need a complex "cocktail" of two dozen cover crops and another set of mycorrhizal fungi that is uniquely suited for your soil. Yes this does reduce yields, especially in the short term when you are building up soil health but conventional agriculture tends to reduce yields over the long term. This is ultimately a battle between "farm - regenerate - repeat" vs "farm until exhaustion - regenerate". It's not implausible that conventional agriculture is worse in the long run but we might not know it until it is too late, because it takes 20 to 30 years for soil to become useless.
It's legacy of the hard drives, you really want $MFT as close to the start of the disk as you can.

It's configurable through MDT.