skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on what I can tell, their data is solely based on whether they "reported living in a home". This sounds like extremely bad science. I can easily see someone reporting whatever they think you want to hear if you're giving them money. That would definitely explain why the lowest group had such a huge increase. I'm hugely skeptical.
> I think someone, soon will try to use this project as an argument in favor of UBI, which is ridiculous.

Why's that ridiculous? Testing a small scale trial on the people most likely to be effected by a larger scale program seems pretty reasonable to me.
They were a part of you for most of your life. Why abandon them now? They're certainly more unique and personal than the vast majority of keepsakes.
Happy 5th Birthday, SerenityOS
They are crazy ! Publishing detailed stuff like truck weight, batteries charging times.

I much prefer the Tesla way - a truck that was released 1 year ago (!), and still, nobody knows it's weight, range nor price.

Jokes aside, it looks very good ! Is there somewhere a real-life comparison between all those trucks ? (not like the one that was recently posted - which included detailed, by the minute data about battery / distance travelled but ... not weight the truck was carrying)
i don't know how wayland does it, but one of the challenges in X11 was that it was not trivial or even possible to relate an X11 window to its unix process because the window could be coming from a remote machine. in other words X11 knows nothing about unix processes.

kill in X11 is done by sending a message to the window to go away. in the normal case this triggers an exit in the process, but it is possible for the process to keep running or even open a new window. X11 can not force a program to really terminate because again the process could be from a different machine or a different user.

there are two ways to talk to a process: one is to find the X11 window and send messages to it through the X11 protocol. this is done for example to share clipboard contents. it would be possible to send urls that way too.

the other is to find the unix process, and use some rpc mechanism to talk to it that way.

as far as i can tell, firefox is using the unix process. this may be because of the cross platform nature of firefox. process RPC is easier to do in a cross platform way. the X11 method does not work on windows or MacOS, so that would mean that each system needs custom code to handle this.
Historically, "contributing to society" meant directly or indirectly contributing to resource extraction. Now that we are coming to understand that model is not sustainable, perhaps we should re-think what it means to contribute to society. I could see an argument that people who constantly fly internationally are more of a net harm than people who don't, for instance.
Are you referring to hydrogen as a mobility fuel specifically? I generally agree.

However, it is a critical large-scale industrial input, a replacement industrial input for several additional large industries, and an excellent large-scale stationary energy store.
I didn't realize this wasn't common knowledge.

They oil companies own a lot of infrastructure for moving fuel around. They cannot use this infrastructure to move electricity but they can use the existing infrastructure to move hydrogen around.
How is this not already critical tech?
How is it better? It seems worse than electric by just about every measure
Coordinated Disclosure: 1-Click RCE on Gnome CVE-2023-43641
C is boring in the same way that weaving through traffic at full speed on a motorcycle is boring—people have been doing it forever and some of them haven't even gotten hurt by it...
But the reasoning is total garbage, right?

It says the number of blue balls drawn is x and the number of red balls drawn is y, and then asserts x + y = 100, which is wrong.

Then it proceeds to "solve" an equation which reduces to x = x to conclude x = 0.

It then uses that to "prove" that y = 100, which is a problem as there are only 50 red balls in the container and nothing causes any more to be added.

It's like "mistakes bad students make in Algebra 1".
> My gut is that the majority of hydrogen proponents are oil and gas lobbyists or funded by them

I don't understand how any one looks at the electric car charging situation and thinks it makes sense to scale that out to 100% of vehicles.

A 2 hour wait to get a charger spot isn't a workable transport system.
I wonder which problem this mower solves compared to traditional low weight, low power, low noise, "small" (x) animal-friendly robo mowers. It it just speed/coverage?

(x) down to a certain animal size.
> I don't see a path where citizens come together to agree on a UBI.

In a convoluted, bureaucratic way, we have many of the pieces of UBI (welfare, unemployment, social security, minimum wage). We just lack the "universal" part. I agree that UBI is contentious, but I wouldn't be surprised if UBI dressed up in some definitely-not-socialism clothing eventually reaches critical mass of support.

> fixing the hard things like education

Sure. Hard, but not controversial.

> ...or reducing reproduction amongst the population that cannot raise children to a standard that is contributing to society.

Excuse me, what? Who gets to decide who has kids and who doesn't? Unless you have some clever voluntary economic way to affect this, then it sounds a lot like eugenics.
If the case for the battery was objectively better, oil companies would pull a phillip morris and buy out their antithesis to profit on both ends. The fact that they are doubling down on hydrogen itself I think its really interesting. To me, this shows that perhaps there is a true advantage, and also a high enough barrier to entry where only these oil companies at the scale they already exist can reap the most benefit. Its hard to know where the truth actually lies due to our propaganda/media environment, but I think these actions at least do inform of it a little.
There is literally no difference in removing whole home/multiroom audio from Google speakers and what happened with RED. Both Google and BM made the exact same mistake and fixed it the same way.
I'm probably wrong but I expected passkey and yubikey to be interchangable. So if you are presented with a browser prompt for webauthn, you can use yubikey or passkey
> reducing reproduction amongst the population that cannot raise children to a standard that is contributing to society.

I'm getting major eugenics vibes from that comment. I'm not saying you're for forcible population control, but it's just a tiny hop and a skip from the "poor people are so burdened by having children that they just shouldn't" to "poor people are too dumb to realize that they should not have children so we should 'help' them not reproduce".
Technically you could pipe compressed video over USB 2.0. It's not a part of the base specification though, so I don't see why either of these features are worth bringing up. iOS didn't even support class-compliant USB hardware until last year, so... it's interesting that you'd drill down on that.

Regardless, the fact that DP-Alt-Mode exists is not a refutation of the base USB-C spec. You're either spec compliant or you're not; same as Lightning without the license fee.
Classic versus Modern: a tale in poor user experience
All that RF radiation from any of these devices can do is mildly warm you up. When you get to kW it could cook you I guess.

It's not about health effects, there are none.

It's about the risk of interference.
A UBI does seem much easier than, say, fixing education or making raising children cheaper. It would currently cost about 20% of US GDP to give everyone a thousand dollars a month, so not feasible yet in the US, let alone in other countries. But we might get there soon.

By reactive, do you mean addressing symptoms rather than causes?
"Family Echo is provided by Familiality Ltd., a private company founded by Gideon Greenspan and based in Tel Aviv. Other sites include: Web Sudoku, Magic Baby Names and TrainMyAI."

Sorry but if I don't understand how you make money from my data then I'm not putting my data into it
Yup! I've had similar complaints for years now.

Modulo the whole privacy/vendor lockin issue, passkeys are not a terrible alternative to people without 2FA reusing the same basic password on every single website.

However, when you actually rely on it to secure things, it quickly becomes a massive nightmare - made even worse by it being treated as equivalent to password+2FA.
please feel free to vote me down into oblivion because, you know, "I'm wrong"... But I would prefer a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle over a battery-electric for a number of reasons. The first is theoretical recharge/refuel times, but the second is firefighter rescue personnel safety.

BEVs are here-and-now technology though, and I don't oppose them, it's just I plan to wait until hydrogen technology matures and reaches deployment, or BEV finally solves those two problems.
Hydrogen was pushed by the Japanese government because BEV's aren't as ideally suited to the country's economy and resources. It's not a coincidence the only two companies making hydrogen cars were both the largest Japanese automakers, Toyota and Honda. And both of those models are economic failures atypical of their usual engineering prowess.

Toyota Mirai sales have been flatlined at low ~1-2k since they started, for 7 years: https://www.goodcarbadcar.net/toyota-mirai-sales-figures-usa...

While Tesla immediately had ever-growing sales: https://www.goodcarbadcar.net/tesla-us-sales-figures/
Much longer than 20 years. But the reason it hasn't taken off is that both the economics and the physics don't work very well for consumer vehicles.
I’d back channel if I or someone on my team knows the source, and would expect that as a candidate. I wouldn’t do a cold reach out if I didn’t know the person though.
Steam doesn't even have a native x86_64-only Linux version, you still need x86 runtimes.

Though it is possible to use FEX-EMU to run it on Linux on a Mac: https://youtu.be/_tG3kfgqPhc
The oil companies don't own many pipelines. Pipeline companies own those. And pipeline companies are eager to do business with hydrogen companies.

The fight here is over whether natural gas-made hydrogen (SMR) is an interesting fuel at all. I think the numbers say no, while solar-made hydrogen is in fact extremely interesting.
What about using hydrogen in lorries/trucks? I see that argument thrown around often in hydrogen vs battery discussions.
I think there's some fundamental issues with gaming on Mac also. I've tried gaming on mac for a very long time, and games were always sluggish and fullscreen seldom worked correctly.
Yup. It's painfully obvious here in Canada, where the loudest champion of hydrogen-powered vehicles is the Premiere of the oil-and-gas-generating province of Alberta, and she's an ideological-conservative pro-oil leader at that.

Seeing people like that rally to hydrogen over EVs is the loudest argument against the tech.

Hydrogen technology doesn't exist to save the Earth, it exists to save the natural gas industry.

The business model for hydrogen that's generated is

1. Hydrogen is extracted from natural gas.

2. A miracle happens, capturing the carbon dioxide from this process.

3. Hydrogen goes in cars.

The amount of truly "green" hydrogen out there is functionally zero.

So it's a tech that isn't green, has no refueling infrastructure, and practically no adoption in the car industry. At this point it only exists so that anti-environmentalists can claim there's an alternative they prefer, since it's politically unacceptable to be pro-apocalypse.
> So exactly how is Apple stopping you from implementing the entire CUDA API

Well, neither the hardware or software supports PCI access, so... connectivity would be a start. It's about time iPhone supported Thunderbolt anyways.

> So are you saying that {Apple Music is more popular on iOS than Spotify?, ...}

I'm saying that Apple exerts a literal anticompetitive advantage by choosing their own margins (among many other things). Nothing about legislation like the Digital Market Act accuses Apple of monopoly. It designates them as a Gatekeeper (a position Apple chose) and holds them subject to additional guidelines. That is the cost of owning a userbase in Europe, now.
I don't think UBI is a politically stable idea. It will be diluted by different initiatives to favour certain groups over others, and the actual UBI income will soon be eaten by inflation. Fast forward 10 years and the same problems will remain.
> Like it doesn't really make sense to exist within Disney if you think about it too hard but it also is critical to what makes Disney... Disney.

Disney himself was a huge fan of technology and both him and the CEOs after him recognized that there's a part of the industry they're in (entertainment) that requires secrecy; literal "magic" is mostly "things you can do that other people don't know how to do." So they keep that research in-house because they want first-mover advantage on illusions, effects, and experiences that nobody else can do.

That's the best way to conceptualize Imagineering: it's a magic factory. In that sense, absolutely essential core-business-model stuff for the park-and-show entertainment sector of the company.

(Some of the more recent CEOs didn't grasp this aspect and actually did outsource some of the work done in the past half-decade. I'm going to be real interested to see what the park scene looks like in the Orlando area in the next decade or so as the technologies third-party vendors developed on Disney's behalf diffuse directly into Disney's competition).
This is still a study about UBI, it's looking at differences based on how the income is delivered. A part of UBI, different from other types of aid, is that the recipient can spend the money however they see fit. There are question about how well this will work. Will the recipients benefit or suffer by not being restricted in how they spend? Will they benefit or suffer by being given the money all at once at the beginning of the year vs receiving monthly sums? These are good questions without obvious answers.

If you want to understand more about their study, their methods are available. It answers a lot of the comments below. They do make a distinction and call this "Guaranteed Basic Income" since it targets a subset population: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/64f507a995b636019ef88...

https://www.denverbasicincomeproject.org/research
Why would you want to? Existing cars suck to work on compared to an electric. Ice needs too many parts it's inefficient for moving vehicles. Legit ditch all that running gear and give me hub motors on suspension arms. That's it. Don't need anything else.

Ice vehicles gonna get squeezed out by economics. Why pay some Muppet a few k to pull a block out to do gaskets when for little more than removing a Tyre I could replace the entire hub motor. Maybe a few hundred in labor compared to a few thousand. Hell for some car models like my subi I basically have to remove the entire front end or pull the block out just to do the head gaskets.
No one is saying they cause harmful interference. It's up to the vendor to get certified that they don't. You can't sell an uncertified radio transmitter. It's not a conspiracy.
I participate in the economy, I pay taxes, I don't break laws.
I don't blame you for being skeptical, but it isn't just the oil and gas industry. The Japanese government went all-in on hydrogen.

https://thediplomat.com/2023/07/a-look-at-japans-latest-hydr...
I got tired of it recommending imaginary libraries. Or saying real libraries couldn't do things they could.
That's because you don't think like a 16 year old

This is exactly the kind of things that a smart kid who's still just a foolish highschool student would do. I wouldn't be surprised if this attack already exists in the wild, it's not hard to write

Also the subsequent attacks were less effective, that's exactly what some kid would be doing.

You don't even need an expansive botnot. A rich kid whose parents are in neighborhoods with residential fiber with a bunch of friends could probably coordinate it through a discord server

Most of us really don't interact with teenagers regularly so we forget they're out there (they also tend to dislike adults so they make themselves especially invisible around us). When it comes to things like this, that's my first assumption until further evidence.

Merely teenaged graffiti for the digital age.
You should be able to use your password manager to handle passkeys. Enter your master password in 1Password, use passkey. And Bitwarden support is coming.
Well I agree with your other comment, but about this one, retrofitting (ICE->EV) is a thing. Even if very niche for now.
The abrupt cutoff for benefits is one of the most inept things the government has ever done. A reduction in benefits should always be less than the increase in income.
interesting read. thanks.
UBI is a practical solution.

Education and reproductive changes don’t alter the reality that you can spend years working on developing skills in an industry that rapidly disappears due to technological upheaval. It also doesn’t change the fact that you can’t remedy a plummeting number of jobs for low-educated people by educating everyone.

Will pilots be necessary in ten years? Twenty? Fifty? What do we do about the fact that we need them now, but we won’t in an unpredictable amount of time?

Will truck drivers be necessary in ten years? Twenty? Fifty? Do you think they will all be amenable to retraining as full-stack developers and financial analysts? Do you think we could even absorb that number of people in other industries, even if we could retrain everyone? And what happens when the jobs they retrained for disappear in five or ten years?
As I understand it (which mean I can be completely wrong), in order to utilize Passkeys, at least at the browser level, you need support within the browser.

Firefox has a build that supports passkeys, and I believe 1Password has an extension for Firefox that supports passkeys.

If "all you need" for Passkey support is a custom extension, it should be straightforward to create one that does whatever you want (including storing your private keys in plain text in your home directory, which many argue is a bad idea, but that's not the point).

Is 1Password a magically signed and authorized extension, or can any Joe pound out a quick hack using JS and Firefox?

I appreciate that the client and credential management should be sophisticated and secure, etc. But the API is the API, it's supposed to be an open API, and I can understand Chrome, Safari, and Edge, being closed source browsers, may or may not allow anyone to hack their own keystore regimen.

But, I don't think Firefox is doing that (unless the 1Password extension is magically blessed by Firefox somehow). At a minimum, you can always go the source, and rebuild Firefox to do what you want. Involved, to be sure, but possible.
It seems that the low efficiency when using hydrogen in an internal combustion engine, combined with it's low energy density, makes it unlikely to be viable for mainstream vehicles.

https://evcentral.com.au/why-burning-hydrogen-in-an-ice-is-a...
this layout is terrible on a phone
In South Africa we have about a 38% jobless rate (formal economy) of economically active adults.

We do have a UBI of sorts started during the Covid pandemic for folks who don't have employment and not on any other benefit (current 18 million people) - it is called the SASSA and is about $18 per month (R350).

On the Big Mac Index we are about $2.81

The govt was supposed to cancel it but they keep extending it and are now coming up with inventive accounting tricks to keep it not that our economy can afford a rollout to more people.

It works but our taxbase is so small.
Lots (most?) of gamers don't upgrade their gaming PC, they just buy a preassembled one and will just buy a new PC when the time comes.
> pollute as much as 10,000 modified diesel trucks

This is insanely hyperbolic.

A Cessna Citation I carries 564 gallons of fuel, with which it can travel ~1,500 miles - 2.7mpg.

A Ford F-250 carries 48 gallons of fuel, with which it can travel ~700 miles - 14mpg.

It's not even 10x.
It’s just a tv with a picture frame and some additional software/wallpapers
That’s not the gaming department, that’s the gambling-but-with-extra-steps department.
we dont have to abandon the surface quite yet, but soon
Only idiots are basing their excitement about what's possible on those test scores. They're just an attempt to measure one bot against another. There is a strong possibility that they are only measuring how well the bot takes the test, and nothing at all about what the tests themselves purport to measure. I mean, those tests are probably similar to stuff that's in the training data.
There's nothing VCs and founders like more than an annual discussion of their sexual preferences.
FPGA Computing
> If it had native Vulkan

Aside from a subset of Android devices, what platform has Vulkan as the default API?

Windows/XBox has DirectX.
Playstation has GNMX.
Macs/iOS Devices have Metal.
Nintendo uses NVN.
Even small nerve injuries can be life changing. Friend my motor cycle rat friends hit a bridge abutment. Severed the nerves in his right shoulder. He has no feeling in and cannot move his arm. So being able to fix that would be a big deal for people affected.
I wish them much good luck, but it's a bit like the dinosaurs complaining about those uppity mammals getting underfoot: their days are numbered. BEVs are here to stay, hydrogen is - as far as I can see - a non-starter except when it comes to heavy traffic and possibly rail or air but even there I have my doubts.

Meanwhile BEVs are rapidly building momentum and coupled with solar and wind make very good sense. Even the last holdout for a passenger hydrogen vehicle (Toyota) has finally seen the light and is making BEVs now, I don't remember ever seeing a Mirai but given how many have been produced that's not so strange.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Mirai
It's a term from an old XKCD: https://xkcd.com/356/
Unless it's cloudy outside.
I dare say they missed the real lesson: Friction increases commitment; commitment increases compliance.

In Robert Cialdini's book, Influence, he dedicates a whole chapter to this phenomenon.

The easier you make it to get started, the easier you've made it to quit. They have no skin in the game. People value more the things they've spent money/time/effort to acquire.

So the game is in trying to identify which types of friction will increase commitment enough to overcome a drop in initial participation. It's not an easy line to walk.
Have you ever read up on what storing hydrogen entails? Both at the station and in the cars? The tanks are totally different beasts than gasoline.
They keep changing the U in Universal to Unconditional, or taking it out altogether, such as with https://mayorsforagi.org which is means-tested
This is really insightful, thank you for this response. Also, congratulations on your research results and gl with your robotics endeavors
Oh, not even. You off-board that hardware into a nearby cluster. No reason the brain has to be in the chassis when radio is so high-bandwidth.

... a Disney of the past would build four of these and just have them wander around EPCOT's Future World, just to set the tone. This Disney will probably purpose them for their Star Wars experiences. Still great to see.
Microsoft Fixes Exploited Zero-Days in WordPad, Skype for Business
I think the "TrainMyAI" tells a lot about how the data might be used.

Their Data Policy (1) says nothing about how they use data you enter. Only says you can enter as much or as little and who can see th data you share.

Big nope.

(1) https://www.familyecho.com/?page=policies
That doesn't mean you're contributing, at least positively.