skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They used to have much higher standards around 10 years ago. I used to subscribe, cancelled around 6 years ago.

Not sure what happened. New management?
I'm honestly surprised Europe puts up with it. I imagine if they tried it here, people would just let loose on the floor if they were out of change. It seems like some do even while they're free. Maybe public urination is less of a big deal in Europe and people are fine with doorways or bushes if they're unable to pay the pee fee.
In principle, offsetting CO2 production seems like a sensible idea to me.

Someone willing to extract CO2 from the air and store it in some rock forever can indeed offset some carbon you emitted.

The reality is that nobody is doing that - instead the fraudulent offsetting companies are getting paid to do something they wanted to do anyway - for example planting trees for papermaking, or just plain-old lying about what they're doing.
Apple’s market share has been pretty flat for a decade.
One example for a safer language developed at Google: https://github.com/google/wuffs
I don't think I broke a single law in these examples.

All flights were in legal airspace.

No flights resulted in injury or property damage.
For many people, me included, having podcasts separate is a benefit. They’re quite different from music.
The Secret Ingredient of ChatGPT Is Human Advice
It might be doable with an 8k TV and a source video with a lens-distortion applied to generate the opposite expected lens distortion of the crypto camera, so once it's recorded the perspective does not look like it is a recording of a flat video. Depth sensors would help with defeating that idea.

Or you could just smear some Vaseline on the lens and tell people the lens got dirty. It hurts the credibility for anyone who knows about these cameras but I doubt the public would think about it that much.
My hot take is this is not a bad thing.

American education prior to GPT had increasingly taken a turn in emphasizing homework over testing. My former high school, for instance, reduced the impact of testing to ~15% of total grade and made homework/classwork the vast majority. This steals time from the rest of kids lives, makes high school performance more a function of “time spent” than understanding, and completely misses the mark of what the goal of schooling ought to be in my view.

I think GPT4 and the like spell the end of homework and that is a good thing.
You can't debug system processes or anything with the hardened runtime enabled.
Seems like it:

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/google-meet-fir...

They worked with the Google team to resolve it.
This isn't the FTC denying these arbitrarily though so isn't just "executive action", this is using the enforcement making power that congress duly granted to agency to bring law suits. If the courts agreed that precedent needs to change that's checks and balances working.
In Poland new English words are introduced at once as combination of letters and as a sound, and teachers insist on repeating them loudly and memorizing the pronunciation along with spelling.

Kids already can read so the problem isn't teaching them to read, the problem is forcing them to ignore the simple regular rules from their native language and to memorize each new word twice. I refused to do that and only learnt the letters and tried to go by with heuristics+exceptions. It just doesn't work.

I wonder how long it takes for an average kid to learn to read in English vs a phonetic or close-to-phonetic language. Must be crazy hard to start reading with such insane language. Do you even have that point when "it clicks" when you learn reading?
Oh, it was easier than I thought: https://semver.org/#spec-item-2

A normal version number MUST take the form X.Y.Z where X, Y, and Z are
non-negative integers, and MUST NOT contain leading zeroes. X is the
major version, Y is the minor version, and Z is the patch
version. Each element MUST increase numerically. For instance: 1.9.0
-> 1.10.0 -> 1.11.0.

So, no leading zeros, ta-da!

Oh, wait. The spec was written by some... big brain:

Major version zero (0.y.z) is for initial development. Anything MAY
change at any time. The public API SHOULD NOT be considered stable.

So... my reading of this "definition" is that there's really no need for three digits, if major is zero... Then why on earth would you have two digits? Also, if no pubic API at this point, then why have versions at all? I mean, you clearly shouldn't be specifying anything with zero major version as a dependency because it should be illegal to depend on a library w/o public API... Then, again, why have versions in this situation? And if the argument is that its for internal use, then why standardize it for external use?

Just two paragraphs below. How lovely.
On this note, I was really surprised to find Red Hat's OCI runtime is written in C: https://github.com/containers/crun

Is anyone working on a Rust version?
I wrote a similar comment yesterday but worth noting again. This isn't the usual group of MBAs looking for a quick buck. These are the people who have come in from ironSource. A company who has made billions by attaching malware in disguise to personal computers[1]. Executives who green lit projects like mentioned in this post really don't care about their users, its all about maximizing profits while stepping on everyone else

[1] https://www.benedelman.org/news-021815/
There are three parties in such contracts. Look at their incentives.

* The company who wants a certificate saying they offset their carbon usage - the certificate being useful for publicity, and possibly tax breaks/subsidies. They care just about the certificate, not about offsetting carbon.

* The tree planting (or whatever way they are offsetting) company. They just want to claim they planted the tree. Nobody else is really checking to see if they planted the trees, if these trees were only planted for one offset contract, and five years later if the trees hit maturity.

* The company handing out the certificates. They match a claim from a tree-planting company with a certificate buying company. They don't really care that the carbon was offset. In fact, the larger their record of past projects, the bigger clients they can score in the future. So they have every incentive not to look too closely at the tree planter. Just to print out a certificate with minimal oversight.

In such a market, is the TFA result surprising.
> to not acknowledge that the new terms are genuinely a huge improvement

I'll acknowledge that!

But it doesn't matter. This is the second time that Unity retroactively changed the terms of their deal. That they removed the retroactive part is great, but that they've done it twice also indicates that it will happen again at some point in the future.

So, for me, it doesn't matter in the slightest how favorable their new terms are. They've shown their true colors and they can't take that back.

That's why I won't be buying any Unity-based games in the future. Unity is a bad actor, and I don't want to support their business.
The real question is how quickly professors will adapt. The ethics went out the window when schools started ramping up tuition in the 90s.
Having strongly-held opinions about primary school math and language curricula is the new way that a certain subset of people signal to each other membership in a clique. It's weird!
For context, this emulates RISC OS [1], the operating system designed for the Acorn Archimedes computer[2] — which used the ARM 2 CPU [3] designed by Acorn. Originally, "ARM" meant "Acorn RISC Machine".

RISC OS can also be installed on a Raspberry Pi [4].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC_OS

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture_family#ARM2

[4] https://www.riscosopen.org/content/downloads/raspberry-pi
I apologize for not addressing your concerns point by point, but here are some general thoughts:

The kind of reasoning you are engaging in now was done by Descartes long ago, during Newton's time. It involves building up knowledge from the bottom up, starting with first principles. Descartes had some genuinely interesting ideas about how perfect concepts could be constructed. You can read his book on methods; they are remarkable, but they do not tell the whole story. Descartes himself made many scientific errors, despite his "perfect" and "rational" system for arriving at "true and sound conclusions." Popper's falsifiability is not the end-all-be-all of scientific thought either. Both Descartes and Popper do not represent the final word on what science is or should be.

Unlike Descartes, we observe real scientists supplementing rational ideas with empiricism—how actual people learn and think in their daily lives. How they go about life matters. Especially with Large Language Models, we see how essential a large knowledge corpus is for generating new variations. Marvin Minsky referred to it as "common sense," etc. It's important to remember that the concepts of "Expert systems" and "heuristics" did not work on their own back in the day (though they are not without utility in enhancing new methods).

Progress typically requires a societal-level effort in any field. It involves communication, challenges, numerous guesses, trial and error, and so forth. Therefore, the development of new ideas and the exploration of new frontiers are deeply interdependent at the civilization level.

In summary, I believe that "individualism" is incompatible with reality; the true nature of reality is "interdependence." Dependency is a fact of life. However, due to certain surface-level cultural ideas and the significance people attach to their self-importance, the unrealistic concept of "individualism" often prevails at the linguistic level over the more realistic idea of "interdependence."
Related to tutor, I've been playing a "game" lately with ChatGPT-4. I will give it a prompt resembling "You are a tutor. You will guide me to understand a topic, without giving me direct answers. I will guess how something works, and you'll give small hints for what I should explore further, or reconsider. The concept is: electrorheological materials."

Even without AI, this is one of my favorite things to do, and easiest way to learn, where I guess, with as much detail as I can, and then dive into reference material to see how close I was. I've had a few car rides now with the iOS app's conversation mode doing this. AI is the clearly the future of education, in my opinion.
> There are modern day software that do not suffer from the same performance issues as some of the other bloated ones. Albeit very few exist.

This is what I'm saying though. You're suggesting modern software is all a bloated mess, unlike all this well-polished and optimized software they used to make. But you're only suggesting the old stuff doesn't suffer performance problems because you're going over the recommended specs 10-1,000x. Do the same with modern software, and suddenly its not so bloated now is it?

Back in the day when Office XP released it was the bloated modern software unlike that well-polished and optimized software they used to make. You're just drawing arbitrary lines of computing hardware and software to say "this is bloated, this isn't". The requirements of Office 2000 was a 75MHz CPU, 16MB of RAM, and 189MB disk space. Office XP's minimum requirements were a 133MHz CPU, 32-128MB RAM, and 210MB disk space. Additional instance of an Office app also went from only needing 4MB RAM to needing 8MB RAM. Nearly 2x the resources, so incredibly bloated!

I'm happy you're finding good use with the old hardware. Its good its serving your needs. I too tend to keep old computing hardware around until I no longer have any use for it, and even then I tend to sell it or give it to people who will actually use it instead of throwing it away. I've got some software I want to share with my kids, and it generally only runs well on like Windows 95 machines, so I actually am actively looking for some old hardware to run these educational games. So yeah, I'll be running an old Pentium III machine for them and it'll absolutely suit their needs. Sometimes a 10GHz 2TB RAM machine just isn't necessary for the task at hand, I agree.

I'm just arguing the commentary about what is "bloated" and what isn't is ignoring a lot of other factors of what "bloated" really means. If you run something at way under the designed specs, you're going to have a bad time. If you run it with hardware that's 1,000x the design specs, its no surprise it runs fast. It doesn't mean the newer stuff is "bloated" while the old stuff wasn't, it was just designed for a different target in mind. And maybe for your needs, all you need is exactly what Office XP has. If all you're doing is putting letters on paper though, then Office XP is massively bloated compared to just using a typewriter. For me, most documents I work on are being worked on with cloud collaboration stuff, so tools like Office XP don't have anywhere near the features I need from an office suite. Is it still bloat then?
The same dictionary has a great entry for "surveillance capitalism" as well:

> an economic system in which the product for sale is personal data collected on the internet, especially from search engines (= programs used to find information on the internet) and social media platforms (= websites and programs that allow people to communicate and share information on the internet)

I think this is the context folks are reaching for: it's not just a data-driven business model, it's driven by people's personal data in particular. As far as sharing willingly, it's _incredibly_ hard to buy a smartphone and prevent it from collecting your personal information (like location, movement patterns, app usage) without removing much of the functionality that makes it useful.

And once that data is collected, it's open season. I just ran across this piece from today where the government literally goes directly to private data brokers because the NSA takes too long: https://www.404media.co/us-counterintel-buys-netflow-data-te...

That particular case is about tracking VPNs (so not directly related to Google's data collection), but is a good example of how we can limit government's reach, but as long as they can buy data from private firms, there's a loophole in the 4th amendment, likely rooted in the third-party doctrine.
But then what happens to the methane?

Typically it's burned to make CO2.

CO2 lasts longer in the atmosphere than methane.
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By the metric of market control and by the metric of being able to leverage anti-competitive practices without feeling any market pushback.
I sure did. I'm writing a book on it right now. I have a couple of posts that might help:

https://jondouglas.dev/long-covid/ (Maybe outdated at this point but tells the full journey)

https://www.reddit.com/r/LongHaulersRecovery/comments/12iv4p... (Probably the most realistic summary)

The most important thing in my opinion that I don't talk about in these posts is to stay informed on the latest research and become study/trial literate. i.e. https://www.science.org/content/article/how-seriously-read-s...

Wishing you the best to recover.
It's actually a larger list available in /System/Library/Sandbox/rootless.conf
It would be nice to add radon to the table. Some consumer air quality monitor have it and the usability of the mail test means many people don't know their exposure.
llama is free and is trivial to install. Chatgpt doesn't offer good enough answers to pay for.
The early research in support of this conclusion (despite the fact no subsequent research has born it out) was pure charlatanism, bad science and the theory is rightly derided because those who continue to propagate it do so out of naked self interest and financial gain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BIcAZxFfrc
What happens is that the readers lose trust in the newspaper and reads another one.

I guess that is not a new problem either with lying newspapers.
Surely just being part of a Waffen SS division should be enough to disqualify someone from getting praised in a parliament especially in a country that lost tons of its citizens fighting the SS?

I guess Nazis are fine, and not problematic, as long as they don't have literal war crime charges against them. I'm sure that will own the Russians lol.
Burden of proof I would say lies with the AI doomsday sayers. Great claims require great evidence. The above is wild speculation, not evidence.
I think more of what you're stating here, without realizing it, is "The internet went to shit the moment cellphones become the most popular method of surfing it".
I presume you like roads, social security, a standing army, and a million other things. These things cost money and the logical way to raise that money is via taxes. Please don't post unreadable incomprehensible stream of consciousness here. Take a moment to refine the words running through your head into a coherent paragraph or two.
> It took 40-50 years after the introduction of electricity in the late 1800s for electricity to reach that point of penetration.

For the first few decades it was not mainstream. The US passed (under FDR) a law in 1936:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_Electrification_Act

How long did it take after that point? I'm curious in how quickly conscious policy choices can be made into reality.
Sure. Name one implementation that does exactly what Cloud Tasks does.
I thought that theory was based on a fraudulent study?
The website has screenshots: https://datalens.tech/
I am co-founder of indie game company. Like in any business there is tons of things you have to deal with: hr and managing people, making good game prototypes and pitches, finding funding or publisher, negotiating contracts, crunching for milestones and release.

In case of majorify of indie games you only can only get $100,000-500,000 of funding total for one game with development time of 6-18 months. And like 50%+ of this money will go into creating art assets especially if we talk of pixel art.

Go look what is the salary of senior C++ programmer with experience working with graphics, audio and little bit of everything. And one person can hardly create anything close to game engine tooling unless he work for several years.

Making own game engine is the last any game developer gonna consider.
> SIP means not messing with the system files, enumerated thusly: /System.

...and all its children, which is effectively the entire operating system

> Enumerating what I do want an app to access is handled by Gatekeeper.

Gatekeeper is not capable of this.
> so you'll be amazed how often RIFs are telegraphed to anyone who's paying attention

Indeed.

In this Mid-cap company that I mentioned, I used to participate in the earnings call; and the difference in tone and posture of our CFO and CEO with investors and with us employees were abysmal.

The scenario was: during 8 months the company went from U$ 160B to U$ 11B.

With us employees in the all-hands was all positivity, mental health tips, a bump in the road, keep pushing for the objectives, and even a Christmas dinner.

During the earning calls, promises of cutting costs, flattening, hiring freeze, and institutional investors openly calling for layoffs.

2.5 months later first round of layoffs, months later a goal to reduce 25% costs in GCP, and after 2 months another round of layoffs and RTO of 4 days a week.
Exactly. I prefer Amazon Basics to YAYWOWND brand every day.

It is one of the few brands on Amazon you can count on to not be Chinese crap. Even if it is made in China, the Amazon Basics products are generally good quality.
I've found that many people will spend a lot of time and energy defending large companies (and often their CEOs) against perceived bullying. Amazon, Tesla, Elon, Meta, etc etc. I don't really understand it.
That page inserts a lot of pages to hijack the back button.
I don't know, as I never had access to that data, but I would be shocked to find that is not demanded by their agreements with the publishers. Akin to why there is no library that will give you non-DRM items. Is almost certainly part of a strategy by the publishers to bolster other marketplaces they find more favorable.
> A monarchy can be constitutional and still be absolute

Absolute means absolute, including the ability to redraw the constitution. Constitutional monarchy means limited by a constitution.

> the monarch appoints the cabinet and 1/3 of the parliament, which needs 2/3+1 vote to overrule the prime minister

This is not absolute. It's no democracy. But Saudi Arabia is an absolute monarchy. Everyone serves at the pleasure of the King, who is the King of Saudi Arabia, not King of the Saudis. "L'etat, c'est il."

Political power works formally and informally. Kuwait and Qatar's emirs are exceptionally powerful. But they have political organs to contend with, even if solely for appearance's sake. That's a constraint an absolute monarch with dictatorial authority does not have. (Repeatedly over-ruling a constitutional body, or being caught coercing it, historically weakened semi-constitutional monarchs.)

For the intellectual history of this, look at the Roman kings, Spartan ephors, Roman consuls and British and French monarchies. Powerful executives. But variously checked, even if from time to time they held quasi-absolute, even dictatorial, authority.
For an image decoding library, you'll still need to expose a C API if you want anything to be able to use your library. You could only provide a library for your preferred language(s) but if like Google you're trying to push an all-new format the ecosystem buy-in is a big deal. And obviously you can provide a C-compatible library without writing the library in C, but it's more complexity to handle.

(Edit: I should mention that this is one reason why I really like wuffs, mentioned elsewhere in this thread; it's a safer language that compiles down to C, so you can have mostly the best of both worlds)
Isn't the entire notion of NN outdated given the mass censorship that's sprung up the past 4-5 years?

Isn't it vastly more important to ensure free speech on the internet than the speed of your netflix stream. Seems like a misguided battle.
I suspect that the small companies in Japan and Europe are below average by the same factor.

In the end it depends on the cost of living and the rents.
When you only want to detect smoke that’s cheap, but as you add features you do eventually get into that price range.

Ie: Smoke only costs less than Smoke + carbon monoxide. People want to monitor levels not just have an alarm which requires a screen or network connectivity. People want to know if there’s a fire in the building even if there far enough away not to hear a local alarm etc etc.

Though eventually you circle back and have a cheap smoke alarm for redundancy.
Does anyone with an AQI sensor in their house actually use it to control HVAC equipment, or is it just for monitoring? In a commercial HVAC control system, if the AQI sensor (or CO2/NO2) reaches [setpoint], a make-up air unit and exhaust fan (or similar setup, could be an exhaust fan and outside air damper) will turn on until the AQI value is below the setpoint. Is anyone using an AQI sensor to energize a relay coil to turn on their furnace fan to try and correct PM2.5 and CO2 levels?
I'd consider this killing off because I'm sure the interface will not be the same as the one currently used by the Podcasts app.
Because of generalization.
I did notice some groups of accounts synchronously shift into Russian-Ukraine war topic while posting previously on some unrelated subjects (like crypto, stocks in general, internal US politics, health, etc.)
Another case of Kahn trying to go after companies for being successful.
Implementing webp and similar libraries in another language may not be quick or easy, but having these sorts of issues continue to crop up over and over doesn't feel particularly practical to me; it's just easier to act like every time a critical vulnerability comes up due to memory safety that it's an isolated issue than confront the reality that its a systemic issue and there aren't any easy solutions.
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