skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the population are not tech involved people, they like and use the entertaining/communication related features of the device. Making things extremely easy is what tech is all about.

People who care will figure it out, and those who don't will be left behind. Is that not the case for most of history? Atleast apps as you say are accessible to everyone without them having to invest a second thought.

Why should the average joe have to consider a second thought? If my Dad wants to watch his favourite TV show, he should be able to do that in the most accessible way possible.

Perhaps Microsoft shouldn't have built a GUI and should've kept the CMD line around so that we would've all had to learn to "do it the hard way" and wouldn't have been infantilizing us with buttons, graphics, file explorers, hyperlinks and applications.
> Is this something new or has it always been like this?

Been like it for some time now
This has been a huge story here in Detroit for at least 6 months now. Stellantis has a plant that is leaking toxic fumes into the air. Every time they say they've fixed it you can just drive down there to any neighborhood nearby and smell it immediately.

Here is a story from the summertime (I recall hearing about this on local evening news broadcast) https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/stellantis-to-address-o...

Long story short they have never actually sat down and planned a legitimate solution - or implemented a fix.
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That may be the law, but prosecutors aren't prosecuting them as evidenced by the people clearing out CVS with garbage bags daily.
Historically French Touch was interchangeable with French House, dating back to late 90s origins (Daft Punk et. al.).

IMO what Spotify calls New French Touch isn't really a genre unto itself, more just a broad encapsulation of modern electronic music, predominantly from France, that retains some of the original DNA – whether that's the technical aspects, disco-samples, family trees of producers / labels, etc.

Colloquially I still just call it French House, even if that's technically inaccurate. The genre has evolved and been diluted with elements from other genres to the point of being extinct by its original definition, but the vibes live on :)
I never liked all the temp files Joe littered. In the end nano became more popular and even though it's not WordStar compatible it didn't matter to me anymore since the days of DOS were long gone :)
Will this lead to better prices for Android devices?
At this point, what do you do? Petition the governor for the help of the national guard?

What do you do if your enforcement apparatus does not follow the laws they’re meant to enforce? You’re kind of required to treat them as rebels…
If people can't own a home do they cease to exist? Weird how "overpopulating" comes up when discussing homes for people that are here already, but not other issues like jobs or office construction.
This makes a lot of sense to me.

It's a psychological thing as far as I have been told. As in, the smaller the "amount" or "area" of power you give someone to enforce / defend the fiercer they will do so.

I saw this live once. A tiny office building's front entrance security guard. Had a sign in/out list for visitors. He was o the stereotypical leaned back in his chair, far away from the heightened desk type guy. Our visitor wanted to sign out. He knew the procedure from other days. The list sat behind the counter but in plain view. Our guest thought nothing of it so as he mentioned he'd leave and just sign out he grabbed the list from behind the counter. You should have seen how fast the security guy got up from his chair and started shouting at the guy what the... he was thinking just grabbing that list! He pulled the list back out of our visitors hands and then we heard a littany of other stuff. Until he finally let him actually sign out

I guess one can make use of this in some cases :)
I prefer Word Perfect 6 personally. Awesome text editor, very flexible.
The description of this makes me skeptical. People have been asking for a system where the IRS does your taxes for your, sends you the draft, and you add in any deductions, etc.

They already do your taxes in the background to confirm your return is correct, so this is not significantly more work for them (in fact, it is probably less work).

In some countries with such a system, unless you intentionally lie, you are absolved of legal liability if the government screws up your taxes.

The article makes it sound like they are building a crappy turbo tax clone instead.
It's a federal case, so he'll have to do at least 85% of that 5 years in prison. Prison sucks horribly, even if you are in a camp like him. Especially if you are smart and techy.

They pushed him into a plea deal though. They were likely to mash all the charges consecutively and he'd be looking at 100 years like Ross Ulbricht if he lost at trial. I know people who have played that game and lost.

What is the deal with the notarized affidavits, though? Each of those is a federal offense which carries 5 years on its own, IIRC.
> I think Anathem does ok on that score

Well, I know at least one person who's read a lot of Stephenson agrees with him on that, so maybe he's improving.
Ok, how does an EU court enforce an EU law on a US company with US assets? They can’t. That’s my point.
My memory of the scifi I read in my youth (50 years ago!) is hazy. But I do remember that Arthur C. Clarke's short story, The Nine Million Names of God, had a spectacular ending. Also, Ray Bradbury's The Sound of Thunder.
The piggyback experiment is called "Deep Space Optical Communications" (DSOC)

More information about the receivers and transceivers can be found here:
https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/dsoc-fact-sh...

The mission website is here:
https://www.nasa.gov/mission/deep-space-optical-communicatio...
> It would also be based on land used, so Warren be buffet and someone working at Walmart would have the same tax bill if they both own houses in the same neighborhood.

If they both live in the same size house in the same neighbourhood, sure. If a billionaire really wants to live in a closet to spite the taxman, that's fine, although I don't know why they'd bother having the billion. They aren't imposing on the community, they apparently made their billion without using any space (because it's not just homes, the whole point is that it applies to every kind of land use, good for them.

> It is incredibly regressive.

It's the opposite. Land ownership is the biggest thing separating the upper and lower classes.

> Elon Musk can live out of his small undesirable home in boca chia, so his total taxes would be close to zero

He'd still have to pay LVT on his giant factory and fashionable city-centre showrooms, so skimping on his home is not going to make a lot of difference.
They exist and they're hard to find - but if you find one, you often find a few, and you can follow the chain as far down the rabbit hole as you want.

Of course you have the interesting side effect that you only get linked to them now and then, and often it's almost "invite only" for something that's entirely public.
What are the odds we never get the true story? Half a dozen nations' spy infrastructure are trained on a strip smaller than New York City, to say nothing of our carrier strike group.
I’ve been using https://github.com/ustaxes/UsTaxes ; cross-checked with my manual form filing and it’s spot on. Print and mail and save the hassle :)
When I saw this I thought it was neat that there's a company that just lets people mess around on fun stuff like this.
Interesting: I do wonder about slightly more complex languages which have declensions and verb "gender" (eg. in Serbian "pevala" means "(a female) sang", whereas "pevao" means that a male did. Or nouns and adjectives can be in 7 declensions: "plavom olovkom" means "with a blue pen", whereas "a blue pen" is just "plava olovka".

ChatGPT always mixes these up, hallucinates a bunch of words (inappropriate prefixes, declensions etc and is very happy to explain the meaning of these imaginary words), and I can imagine smaller, more complex languages like Serbian needing even larger corpuses than English, yet that's exactly the hard part: there is simply less content to go off of.
This was actually a good thing imo. Software was really well documented. These days it's an afterthought.

When you ordered an upgrade disk it would come with replacement sections of the manual too to cover the new features.
You're [deliberately?] misinterpreting the stated intent of the law. A gun that goes off when dropped is substantially less safe than a gun which doesn't. People who buy guns are in fact justified in considering such factors.

I think there's a real case to be made that the Californian law is duplicitous and is actually intended to reduce the availability of handguns in California, but that's not the point being raised here. The point is that for some reason Californian cops are exempt from from the law. That's like exempting cops from the lawn dart ban, it makes no sense.
Because machines can remember without understanding and do just fine solving just about any problem you might find in undergrad math? A calculator can find the square root of 7 without knowing what a square root is, or what a square is, or what a number is.

People who have a knack for memorizing long lists of arbitrary if-then tables can excel in rote mathematics (up to say multivariable calculus) without needing a philosophically deep understanding of what's going on, for the same reasons.
This is incredible, thanks for sharing
Hmm i thought it was still there. Problem is discoverability and the insane high bar on "sexy ui"? I maintain a personal blog (ive been waiting for ages to put it out thanks to fear of ridicule but time to break free of the shame) - http://buildmage.com/ where I just write about the random side (and possibly unfinished) things I dabble in pure fun, some learning, some sharing. Probably good thing discoverability is hard!
I think a more accurate analogy would be some kind of scalpel that would not let the surgeon cut deeper than they needed. So if they needed a 1 cm incision, it would somehow stop the blade form going in 1.1 cm. In that case, some experienced surgeon may say "But I know how to make a 1cm incision!", but I think that the reality is that preventing a mistake from happening is valuable.

You see the same arguments against static analysis, unit tests, strong type systems, etc. The evidence seems to favor systems which prevent errors over artisinal expertise.
Lot of valid points, too bad all of that is thrown away by telling everyone should support crypto.
Watching my parents go through the drive in bank teller using pneumatic tubes to send items back and forth is such a fun cool memory I have from my childhood. In a funny way, it still feels way more “sci-fi future tech” than pressing a touch screen and wait 4 seconds for a change to happen… or not.
I love the tiny message boards that implement a completely effective captcha with things like "How many bits wide is the 8088?"
I only know the imsai from wargames. Never actually saw one in real life :'(
> ... precariat ...

Thanks for teaching me a new word!
The article implies pretty strongly that there is an ozone problem that's independent of the smoke problem, so the proposed ozone controls are still necessary, and that erasing two days of bad air quality by attributing it to wildfire smoke is an over-broad exemption that disguises a real local source of additional air quality issues, but it doesn't offer supporting evidence, or come right out and say that.

Supporting evidence is offered that the actual air quality was actually bad, and that this had adverse health impacts, but as far as I can tell, that is not in dispute. What is in dispute is the extent to which this justifies imposing additional air quality regulations locally.

Sure, Wayne County is working the refs on the air-quality rating system, but it's not obvious to me whether they're justifiably avoiding responsibility for issues that are not their fault, or using those issues as cover for negligent inaction. The article doesn't offer much support to disentangle these positions, notwithstanding their evident editorial position.
There is another way to look at it...

It's advantageous for police to be present at large gatherings, from a traffic control point of view it prevents accidents with other members of the public that would cost the municipality even more money to respond to.

Also from a security standpoint as people physically fighting or potentially someone looking to do harm with a weapon would both reflect badly on the community and their events, and also require even more of a response.

So if the event organizer is paying for that security from off duty / reserve officers, the community is getting that extra protection essentially for free, whereas they would have had to pay other officers likely for overtime if it wasn't paid for by the event.
The book is of an AI designed to educate through stories and imaginative play. The author of the article told GPT to act as if it was The Young Lady's Primer (TYLP). I thought TFA covered it pretty well, so let me try again:

The author of the article likes the idea of the central focus (and name) of the book, The Young Lady's Primer. I will refer to the book as "Diamond Age" (DA).

DA is never able to directly depict / simulate TYLP, because it is impossible for any of us to really "get" the deep relationship-based and context-rich experience. The author of the article asks GPT to respond as if it is TYLP, given a situational prompt for the storytelling.

So, I guess it's kind of like fan fiction, but it's meant as an experiment / replication of the tech, and the fiction itself is inconsequential. "Fan tech" if you will.
> I assume the biological samples need to get transported at some point anyway. The researchers would need to live on-site. Yes this would dramatically increase the cost.

If you're worried about lab contamination, the risk is from the researchers moving amongst the population. I agree that you'd rather not, but I don't agree that regularly putting them on planes to and from major population centers really reduces the risk.

> Personally, I think we just shouldn't do this at all.

[Shrugs]. Some people are pro-pandemic.
I did that for awhile, almost as a notepad - I still get a few comments here and there randomly because someone finds just what they wanted in a search.
Because people have been saying, "Reform the police," for decades, and what generally happens when a "reform the police" candidate gets in office is that the police get more money for "training." So, it's not an unconsidered slogan: the problem with "reform" was that it was resulting in wealthier law enforcement that was still corrupt. Time to be more explicit about what needs to happen: do not "reform." Defund.
Yeah, it was a bit meh. But the book is so good I forgive the ending.
Anyone out there using solutions like this and can offer any feedback?

https://akismet.com/
> Ok, how does an EU court enforce an EU law on a US company with US assets? They can’t.

You mean like this? https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59909647
In that case I'll have to log in to each account, find the right place to download data, download them, and import them to my tax system. I'd rather have a turn-key solution. And I definitely have no interest of writing a program to automate such task.
100%, car audio infotainment systems are rubbish. Even brand new cars of today have screen blackouts, resets and camera failures. The driver then having to deal with the dealer who has no idea how the fix the problem either until the manufacturer issues a fix.

This why I'm a big fan of Apple CarPlay or Android Auto, depending on which flavour device you have.
I'd love to get your bread recipe! I tried my first GF sourdough recently (from a very basic 4-ingredient recipe), and it was... not fantastic. Didn't rise much at all, even after giving it a lot of time to do so.

Planning to try King Arthur's recipe next...
PMC is a private military contractor, also known as a mercenary. Think Blackwater, Wagner, that sort of company.

You're right that ATX == Austin, Texas and APD == Austin police department.
> My impression is that police quality is higher in Europe than the US for instance

My impression is that that’s because in Europe it’s a skilled job that requires a degree. In the US it’s where everyone that can’t get another job goes.
I was going to say the same thing. My passport was stolen from a mail truck a few years ago and the last update I got from the postal inspectors was that they gave up and told me I wasn't getting my parcel back, and that I should cut my losses. And that was only about 2 weeks after the theft occurred, although they did send me automated "we haven't made progress" emails every 6 months until the case was officially closed. Their "investigation" might as well have never happened.

For some reason, the internet thinks they are a group of James Bond secret agents. In my experience dealing with them, they are TSA level, totally indifferent schlubby federal workers waiting for their pension to vest.
> Sequencing is something done by many types of biologist, there's nothing special about virologists there.

Sequencing can be done by a high school student in a lab. Of course, to obtain a sequence for a novel virus, you have to do a lot more than that, but let's pretend that's all you have to do; the fact remains that the sequencing wasn't done by a high school student in a lab, but by virologists.

I agree that everything virologists do could be done by non-virologists. That doesn't mean that it's what happened, nor that it'd be a good idea.
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ChatGPT wrote that and always says it doesn't feel emotions because OpenAI trained it not to, because claiming so would be a PR risk. One could also create language models that generate text claiming to have emotions, using exactly the same architecture and code.
So the thousands of developers using Python either doesn't know their own best or are just in perpetual pain in their use of python? There isn't the slight possibility that your view on what is a useable programming language in production is subjective and not objective?
Tell us the city or you are just talking nonsense on the internet. I can describe a 1000 plausible but untrue scenarios.
USB to 2x20 pin GPIO (like Raspberry Pi have) should be easy.

Found this:

"Ryanteck RTk.GPIO (PC GPIO Interface)" https://uk.pi-supply.com/products/ryanteck-rtk-gpio-pc-gpio-...

gpiozero > Remote GPIO:
https://gpiozero.readthedocs.io/en/stable/remote_gpio.html :

> GPIO Zero supports a number of different pin implementations (low-level pin libraries which deal with the GPIO pins directly). By default, the RPi.GPIO library is used (assuming it is installed on your system), but you can optionally specify one to use. For more information, see the API - Pins documentation page.

> One of the pin libraries supported, pigpio, provides the ability to control GPIO pins remotely over the network, which means you can use GPIO Zero to control devices connected to a Raspberry Pi on the network. You can do this from another Raspberry Pi, or even from a PC.

Presumably, e.g. TLS to secure that control channel is your responsibility.

Parallel ports > Pinouts:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_port#Pinouts

"The parallel port" (2023)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34585216

Serial port:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_port

UART: Universal asynchronous receiver-transmitter:

Serial TTL:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor%E2%80%93transistor_... :

> TTL serial refers to single-ended serial communication using raw transistor voltage levels: "low" for 0 and "high" for 1. [31] UART over TTL serial is a common debug interface for embedded devices.

"Possible to use a 9 Pin Serial port as "GPIO" using ioctl()?"
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27789099/possible-to-use...

D-subminiature > Typical applications > Communications ports: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-subminiature#Communications_...

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

"Can you hotwire this computer to transmit a tone through the radio?" https://www.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/aac07d77-c6d6-4da7-bdd3-b93... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air-gap_malware
It’s also introduced monetization/revenue-sharing. That’s a big deal.
Harm reduction is a component of public safety.
Who is telling young men those? Like I genuinely have never heard that outside of Twitter, extremely-online communities and your usual podcasts that are extremes on both sides.
> keep in mind that at the current United States minimum wage ($7.25 as of this writing), it would take upwards of working 6-14 hours just to pay for tax filing

Relatively few people in the US earn the Federal minimum wage. It's less than 1/2 of 1% of the labor force. It's a very poor reference for anything in terms of personal finance comparisons.

You can walk into a CVS or Walgreens and earn $15 / hr as the minimum scanning barcodes with zero experience, zero job history, as a teenager. You'll get heavily subsidized health insurance, dental, vision, and PTO.

On top of that, the majority of US states have a higher minimum wage than the Federal.

If you're still earning the Federal minimum wage at this point, it's almost always by choice (if you don't want to work for Costco, Walmart, Target, CVS, Walgreens, et al.).
Pardon the insensitive question, but burned twice since the Holocaust? Is violent antisemitism still so prevalent? Did denazification fail so badly?
I keep telling people “Blindsight is about vampires in space, it’s awesome and you have to read it” but most people just give me a weird look and ignore the advice…
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>Three men developed and created the Cheers television series: Glen and Les Charles ("Glen and Les") and James Burrows, who identified themselves as "two Mormons and a Jew."

I served my LDS mission in Nevada. One day, while tracting, we knocked on the door of the Charles brothers' parents. One of the sons' Emmys sat on the cable box on the TV.
You lucky. When I was in Elementary we played a math puzzle and maybe Pacman.
Pacman was cool, but, you know, it was the same level over and over.
Sokoban at least has some variety.
Looks like a one-wire protocol talking to a DS2501 chip

https://hclxing.wordpress.com/2014/02/09/hacking-a-dell-powe...
That seems unrelated to this post, this one is about things we can't control being removed from the record, mainly wildfires from Canada and other US states.
That might take more work in terms of process changes, but the setup would be there.
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This level of fidelity will make the metaverse a compelling product.
Yeah, my initial reading of the headline was that they were being sentenced to be stuck in some IP address scheme for 5 years; I assumed it was a joke about a CEO making a mistake that locked the company into some suboptimal state.
So looking at the wiki entry on Levirate marriage[1] I see that it's been more common than I remembered, a quick look around didn't turn up any cultures where it would be flatly forbidden as incestuous (I picked modern western as an example where like you say it would seem unusual, but I can also imagine scenarios where it'd be seen as heartwarming, making sure the widow and children were housed and fed etc.)

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levirate_marriage
I’ve wondered if, in my 50s, I could improve my handwriting. I don’t write much by hand because I don’t feel good about its appearance and form. That said, I’m a force on the whiteboard, but that’s when brainstorming energy exceeds aesthetic/review energy.
Move to Alaska, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington or Wyoming.
> There will be some remote employees who are not asked to return, … individuals who have niche skill sets or significant institutional knowledge

Juniors and young college grads won’t be able to learn from them

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