skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At some point around then I think Renault and Nissan got into some partnership.

Since owning a Peugeot in the late 90s/early 00s I have sworn off buying french cars. It required several clutches, brake calipers, a gearbox, wheel bearings, exhausts rotted like fresh fruit ... you name it - over the course of perhaps 4 or 5 years it needed to be replaced (potentially multiple times). Least reliable car I've ever had.

The thing that finally killed it was when pulling out across a busy road, the universal joint connecting one of the driven wheels to the drive shaft shattered, the drive shaft slipped out and got wedged between the inner wheel and the brakes and seized the wheel, and then it dumped a load of gearbox oil all over the road. As one of the wheels was now jammed solid it couldn't even be pushed out of the road and blocked traffic for an hour or so while we waited for it to be towed out of the way.

I have had non-Nissan Japanese cars (Honda, Toyota, Mazda) since then and they have been flawless without needing anything done apart from standard servicing.

Nissan are - in my eyes - french now.
Why is my right to drap eith my phone violated in order to protect me from theft? Freedom for securiry and all that?

This isnt even than usefull, a friend of mine had an iPhone stolen, and then he was contacted by the guy who 'found it' and wanted a reward. Basically extortion.
> So I had to live last weekend, without a smartphone

Gods, a WHOLE WEEKEND? Un-be-lie-va-ble.

> and made me realize that even though as much as I would love to live without a smartphone, unfortunately, we will never be able to escape from using a smartphone

That was kinda clear from the get go.
> You can definitely have a competitive market for any procedure that can be scheduled.

You don't have unlimited fully equipped hospitals and operating rooms. You don't have unlimited heart surgeons. You don't have unlimited MRT scanners or labs doing blood tests.

In healthcare both the supply and the demand are inelastic. Market forces here work only for the most common and the most simple cases like nasal sprays and eye drops.
There is https://peterhigginson.co.uk/ARMlite/ .Web based and used for ARM. I don't know of any similar for other architectures.
I’ve invested the money I would have spent on health insurance over the past 4 years in stocks. This might not be ideal for older people but if you’re relatively young or healthy it’s an alternative to dealing with the headache of health insurance. Also, touching on what someone mentioned above, the costs are almost always cheaper.
Yes, I think it's important to consider and understand the laws wherever you happen to be flying. More importantly, one should fly responsibly regardless of the details of the law. Which is a bit like driving a car, or doing anything really.

In London, you need to have a drone license and be registered as a drone operator. I have both of those. You're meant to ask permission from the port authority to fly over the Thames, but I think more importantly, you're not allowed to fly drones west of Tower Bridge, which is why that video is shot from the east.

I don't think the rules of sensible drone operation are yet (if they ever can be) neatly codified as law, and I have also observed a significant mismatch between what's written and how those rules are enforced. Fortunately, laws written by governments aren't quite as black and white as laws in programming.
From clean room to machine room
...commissioning of the first-generation BrainScaleS wafer-scale neuromorphic system
“A Short Hike” was the perfect indie game for me. A funny and beautiful world to explore for an hour, and then you’re done and feel a sense of completion like watching an episode of a TV series.
Betteridge's law of headlines:

No, older people are not less innovative.

I would also add that I really dislike clickbaity titles like this intending to be somewhat "controversial" to promote clicks.
>It's a parent's responsibility to parent their child

Most won't. Call it lack of time or attention, ignorance of the problem, apathy... ultimately parents can't be aware of everything. We have shit like micro plastics in the water to contend with.

What's the effect on society?
Exactly. There is a server which is drawing bingo balls, against a card. Someone is going to eventually win. So if there is only one player, you will eventually win.

You can actually set up a situation where one player is guaranteed a win, which is why the systems will require at least two players.
KSP is a game that routinely runs into floating point related problems and a game that needs deterministic physics simulations to be accurate and glitch free at all simulation speeds in the vacuum of space and inside the atmosphere of a planet.
> "rubber" tires

Incidentally Lego has a claim to being one of the largest tire manufactures. Apparently they are making more tires than anybody else but of course the tires are tiny.

https://jalopnik.com/lego-is-actually-the-world-s-biggest-ti...
> In a casino, any rational adult expects this.

Whoa, no way we don't. I do expect that while the game has a house edge in a casino, if something seems random (roll of dice, draw of cards) then it's random in the way it seems, e.g. that there's a 1 in 6 chance of rolling a 6.

I'm pretty sure that's regulated in most places. That online casinos and casino-like games rampantly cheat is another matter, I do expect that but I also think the people making those things are the scum of the earth.
Good for them. Imagine living in a natural paradise with high speed fiber at home.
One of podman's selling points is that it doesn't need a daemon, and it runs without root privileges.

I'm not familiar enough with the lower level details to know how it works, but it certainly feels less like you are making "a ton of changes to the system" compared to docker
Silly Co Valley
I think this whole narrative is completely and utterly overblown. There are so many things that endanger the existence of human beings that are far more tangible, like climate change, or dependence on non-renewable energy sources, water scarcity, loss of habitat and biodiversity. Where is the evidence that AGI is an existential threat? Why does science fiction of old play such a controlling role in the narrative behind AI?
Sanjeev Mansotra visions - Directing resources and skills into initiatives that bring about long-lasting change and empower millions of lives because they are armed with a vision that transcends traditional bounds.
In Switzerland doctors sometimes give 1 stripe directly instead of one package. Other than that agreed, nobody counts pills.
This is about Podman, not Docker
Agreed.

I’m not entirely sure why the US even borrows at all other than “that’s the way it’s always done it and our system is configured accordingly”.

The primary purpose of US Gov borrowing seems to be to ensure the stability of the currency both against its own expenditure in excess of tax and other receipts and at times to shift the balance of trade with other nations, i.e. borrowing being effectively the US Gov paying some other party not to spend US dollars for a term so that the US Gov (or economy more broadly) can spend instead. The underlying assumption here seems to be that the inflationary impact will net out (with the nominal expectation there will be adjustments for changes in the time value of money via the interest on borrowings).

However, in the first instance there are other ways the US Gov could achieve the same outcome (either other ways to influence the ways other parties use/spend the currency, or other ways to offset the inflationary impact of its own actions). So why is borrowing better than those alternatives and how often do we revisit that argument, particularly given how much both the currency and economy have changed in the last 50 years.

In the second, I’m not convinced that this necessarily nets out the inflationary impact or that every dollar is the same as every other dollar. My sense is it matters more whose hand the dollar is in if we want to model how it will impact the economy. For instance, if the US Gov spent $1tn on Defence contractors or the same on “helicopter money” the former is likely to exacerbate wealth inequality while the latter is likely to exacerbate inflation. But they’d “borrow” the same either way and we’d say that had netted out. Equally the “other party” spend you’re trying to stop by borrowing money out of the economy is not always equivalent: selling T Bonds for the retirement accounts of people who weren’t planning to spend that money anyway is going to impact the economy differently than encouraging young families to buy war bonds instead of new TVs just as selling bonds to foreign banks and governments is going to land differently again.

I feel like the obsession with surplus/deficit and national debt, together with unnecessarily overcomplicated financial jargon, means there are too few first principles discussions about the purpose of currency, the nature of the economy, and the policy levers we choose not to even look at, yet alone pull.
The standard e/acc trope is that existential risk is obviously sci-fi nonsense, and so anything that slows down progress is just doing harm. (Usually no attempt is made to engage with the actual arguments for potential risk.)

Given the self-evidence of no existential risk, there is then an objection to “dumbing down” where model performance suffers due to RLHF (the “alignment tax” is a real thing), and often but not always this includes an objection to wokeness or perceived unwillingness to speak “truths” or left-wing bias being imposed on models.
Oh and I forgot to mention the guy (whose name I have thankfully forgotten) that the Apache Software Foundation hired to go and troll the LibreOffice community in public forums across the Internet. A tradition that other OpenOffice "community" members have continued (e.g., if you mention LibreOffice on /r/openoffice your post will be removed and you will be banned).

ASF is where projects go to die.
Whoa, so we discard all his previous achievements because you're jealous you don't have any money?
Yaml coerces values (the string "on" is coerced to bool true for example), with ini you do any conversion from strings yourself
The pricing of Medicare in the uk is a bit more transparent. If you visit private health care provider they will give upfront the price for self-paying vs insurance. The insurance price is often more than double, e.g. MRI scan via insurance is around £950 vs £450 for self paying. It’s often cheaper to cover your medical bills personally than to pay a for-profit corporation and beg them to authorise every treatment when you need.
The main reason is that Russian military is rotten to the core, corrupt and has zero discipline (this has been the case for hundreds of years, probably due to mentality).
I think it is because it’s not “the module is swapped for one that unlocks no matter what, and upon noticing the phone isn’t unlocking, the OWNER resets and sets up Face ID again”, but “the module is swapped for one that unlocks no matter what, and upon noticing the phone isn’t unlocking, the THIEF resets and lets the owner set up Face ID again”.

They’re also is the case of “Steal two phones, swap a few parts, reset the phones, and sell them second-hand”. Both phones will have 100% genuine parts.
I mean race conditions between the operations, e.g. an update followed by a delete:

1. update x in memory

2. delete x in memory

3. update fn checks for file on disk

4. delete x from disk

5. update x on disk

Is this not possible and you end up with different state in memory and on disk.
They squashed kubelet, not K8s. By that, they probably mean that they got rid of the kubelet and delegated its functionality to systemd (which is already there besides the kubelet if the node uses systemd based distro). Note that quadlet is also capable of creating services based on K8s manifest.
India's PhonePe launches app store with zero fee in challenge to Google
Imagining that a company that relies of US government for protection of it's IP and profits will protect you from US gobernment has to be the peak of naivite
impressive and interesting

i assume performance optimizations for the fast-path were successful, or is this scale-up rooted in advances with multithreading and packetsteering?
Everytime I experience the Indian medical system, I feel how unorganised, inefficient and corrupt the whole ecosystem is.

But then everytime I see posts like these on the US medical system (and UK, Israel etc.), it gets me to think how awesome the Indian medical system is.

I dont know much about the US medical system, but I always wonder why just banning all medical insurance be a better system than what is there currently. For those who can't afford, just setup one govt. funded hospital in every district. What am I missing ?
In Europe you need the package of your pills as passport for your pills to travel. One of the many reasons something like this wouldn't really work.
Well, speaking only about myself while my beard turns grey, I can say yes. When I was younger, I was bursting with ideas. I am not sure, if I was smarter, but I definitely had more energy.

Now I am way more experienced and skilled though and can realistically say, what ideas will work and can be implemented and what is just blind wishful thinking, which I had a lot. Now I just know, that a lot of my ideas of my 20s were bogus and I smile when I hear people who sound like me. (Some of my naivity has just been replaced with cynism, though). But I still can harness from those times as I made lots of notes.

"In fact we should worry more about supporting the young in their innovativeness. To harness the valuable contributions of young people in a society with a decreasing youth population, it is crucial to provide them with more resources: quality education, opportunities to build networks, funding for the businesses they create, and all the infrastructure needed to support their continued innovation tomorrow."

So yes. Youth is the engine of the world. But they do lack experience and ressources and we the older generation should provide it to them. Guiding, but not preaching.
It is one of those ideas that sounds good. "Hey we will put all the configs into a database under one tree", Oh wow, that sounds great, sign me up. The main fundamental problem is now you have two trees, with completely different access patterns.

It is also all in the spin. What if I told you over on this side of the OS table we too keep all our configs in this great single tree database, not only that, we keep our data in the same database, everything is accessed using the same simple unified interface, the api has about five calls, it is pretty great. It also has the amazing feature that physically separate devices can be merged into the same tree.

Preposterous! some would say. All in the same tree! Why you would get everything muddled up. you must have a separate tree for each device. and a special tree with it's own special access patterns just for configs.

But for real, people keep trying to reinvent the registry over in linux land. (cough) gnome (cough) and it is terrible.
The fact that I'm in my 30s and still have to sometimes show ID to buy booze points to the fact that society doesn't really agree.
This is news to me too. Now that my kids are older, last year I decided to clear some space in what had been their playroom by finding a new home for the small mountain of Lego that we had accumulated. I rang around local schools and charities but no one was in the slightest bit interested. In the end I had to sadly take the lot to landfill.
They already do provide service to ships.

Base stations on remote islands are a routine thing to construct. The British Empire built the first global telegraph network using their island colonies, and some of these routes are still used for Internet cables. Ascension Island for example.
Alternatively, if mathematics cannot, yet, completely describe reality, it is only because our understanding of mathematics is an imperfect approximation of 'true' mathematics. As our understanding of mathematics improve our descriptions and models of reality will improve asymptotically.
> For those that don't know: "jab" was a derogatory slang used in the US when people would discuss the COVID vaccine in a negative way.

lol, it's a first time i see jab as a "derogatory" definition. Mind to explain where you get it from?
So what? People will always be pissed off. Millions are pissed off today because they had no chance to afford tickets to popular shows thanks to scalpers.

Plane tickets are all virtually as this person described. Someone in your party can’t go to Jamaica with you because they got sick/broke up with you/whatever? Nobody cares, AND no refunds. This Names-and-IDs policy is actually much nicer than plane tickets, because refunds at face value would be allowed. If you’re lucky you might even be able to rebuy the same ticket for your new gf if you’re quick.
> Everyone does this. Otherwise you'd go bat sh*t crazy trying to remember every intricate details of common tools.

I've got some bad news for you...
Do younger people have a lax definition of "innovative"?
With pdflatex you can also directly use pdf files for things like figures, whilst standard latex requires postscript files.

At least it was the case when it mattered to me, now I mostly moved to LuaLaTeX anyway for other reasons.
It is not nonsence for doing systems programming in Windows.

Apple and Google development SDKs, or any commercial OS, have similar sizes for the SDKs.

Doing Python with a C plugin, or just compiling a command line C/C++ isn't really systems programming.
What distinguishes a scientist from a philosopher?
Who is responsible when Amazon ships you a counterfeit medication? You've lost traceability. Naturally, they disclaim all responsibility.

Amazon recently recalled something I was taking as counterfeit. They refunded $36.

[1] https://www.pillpack.com/terms-of-use
System Integrity Protection sounds really important. What does it do normally, and why does this tool require it to be disabled?
Why should anyone trust this website and download the software? There's no indication who made it. Could be malware for all I know.
The "Russia had to attack because of NATO" thing confuses me. Lots of people intelligent enough to e.g. write for Foreign Policy, seem to not be able to give a clear reason for this being the case, but still strongly believe it.

This article links to some NATO official "admitting" this was the case, when actually it seems to be someone pointing out how stupid a reason this is in a second language i.e. "you don't like NATO on your border so you invade a neighbor, which gives all your other neighbors a good reason to join NATO, that's dumb".

But apparently that's the best evidence he has that he was right alone along and it's all NATO's fault.
Your explanation makes sense. Thanks.
> US's lifespan is not caused by lack of access to healthcare though, that is fentanyl.

How do people with substance use disorders stop using substances? They use healthcare, unless they're in the US where they'll using some quasi-religious abstinence-only residential programme.
I think his irritation is aimed at rank amateurs spouting nonsense because they saw Space Odyssey once and projecting all kinds of irrational fears ripped straight from popular science fiction on this space. People predicting doom scenarios with just about any technical revolution is nothing new. Luddites and fear mongering are about as old as technology is.

There are a lot of people out there with an opinion on AI right now. Carmack at least has done his homework and he's identified some solvable technical problems. And he's solving those. That's how technology moves forward. He's a bit on the spectrum, so yes, he doesn't have a lot of patience for people spouting nonsense in a hysterical hand wavy way.

Part of AI safety is the likes of China and a few other countries not getting there first and using it against us. They aren't going to slow down because some activists with ethical concerns in the Bay area. Unlike some of the irrational fears, that one is very real because they already have a lot of people working on this and they own a lot of chip factories.

So our choices are to wait for history to happen or make it happen.
> My container deployments are often done at instance boot time and I don’t make too many changes afterwards. I found myself using docker-compose for the initial deployment and then I didn’t really use it again.

I used a very similar approach in the (now EOL'ed, gonna be replaced by full K8s) infra at $DAYJOB. My main reason to stick with docker-compose is because developers are familiar with it and can then easily patch/modify the thing themselves. Replacing with something systemd will add a dependency over the people that know systemd (which are not usually application developers in your average HTTP API shop)
Yeah, from shoestring to millionaire, right? Not so much.

Bill Gates was born into an already very wealthy family. He enjoyed an top notch education, had access to promising early technology and - maybe most important, had connections through his friends and family that he could leverage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates#IBM_partnership

His most important deal he didn't make because he creating a unique value, but because of - some might argue - somewhat shady business practices, where he ripped off the value created by someone else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86-DOS#Creation_of_PC_DOS

He made money by arbitration of value. That is not the same as creating that value.

I doubt that there was anything uniquely special of value created by Bill Gates that justifies him having access to a million times the resources that an everyday citizen has.

I don't doubt that he's a hard and dedicated worker. But I've already made the argument that this is not the factor deciding whether you get rich or not.

Luck, preparation, luck, endurance, luck, risk-taking and luck are. By being rich, you can make sure you have the preparation, the endurance and the capacity for risk-taking. You still need luck.
LLMs prove a very very different path from what most humans for decades assumed artificial intelligence would manifest as.

They're not these rigid, logic/rule bound systems that struggle with human emotions. By all accounts, GPT-4 is as emotionally competent as it is on anything else.

I suppose there's something unsettling about building Super Intelligence in humanity's image.
A 16 pack of extra-strength paracetamol, which is more than enough to kill you in one sitting, is 65p at Tesco.

Do you really think someone intent on killing himself will look at a blister pack and think, "You know, if this was in a bottle I'd go through with it, but this doesn't seem worth it, it's way too much work to take me own life"?
Looks like it's open source https://github.com/macOScontainers
Sometimes I remember the way MIDI file playback disappeared from QuickTime, and then QuickTime itself disappeared.

I'm not even sure when it happened.

Last I tried I could still load them into GarageBand, but that app by itself is clunky and slow and 10x the size of the entire hard drive I was using back in the day, and the sound fonts feel all wrong anyway.
iFixit sells genuine replacement parts for all Pixels, including displays. You can fix it yourself if you want.
I did. It takes a few more clock cycles to process I guess.
Weird jump to make from my comment. Carmack is obviously in the former group.
What worse is , it screws up the firewall rules.
Podman avoid that so , quadlets should be fine?
Podman supposed to be drop-in replacement for docker but - last try (4 months ago) of podman to run our development docker containers fails to build so i think Podman is still far away from docker replacement.
Art is not necessarily a response to previous art. However this is hard “validate” as it’s very likely that the person producing the art has experienced _some_ art before.