skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One day (famous actor) will die. Later, they will headline a movie that people rave about.

Yep. This is one of the many things that I detest about how this technology will inevitably be used.

I have a problem with it at a deep level. It appears that the things about these technologies that excite people the most are those things that are direct attacks on reality. It's bad enough that large segments of society is already in a place where truth doesn't matter. Now comes tools to make it possible that reality itself doesn't matter anymore.
I know this is not too much related but, can we talk about how there is not a single "Printer" driver out there that doesn't harm human souls?
> There probably isn't.

Please stop being obtuse. You know there is and there are lots of these cryptocurrencies / blockchains that these people turn to due to the problems above.

> You'll see a crackdown on cryptocurrencies soon enough, particularly for energy use.

Ethereum 'cracked down' on its energy usage all the way down to 99.99% [0] when it switched from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake.

[0] https://consensys.io/blog/ethereum-blockchain-eliminates-99-...
Agreed! I believe prices will break before rates, the FED has to break something to course correct. They know a loosening cycle would absolutely demolish what is left of the economy. Rates will be higher for longer.
It was unsettling to see a notice in a CVS that by looking at their sodas on said screen I was consenting to having my facial details processed.
> Picassos

Transaction and insurance reporting.

> How would you track off shore money? What specific database are you suggesting we query?

FinCEN (https://www.fincen.gov/) and other related entities. Plug into any institution with a license to hold value.

Propose the asset class and I will tell you how to find it and suss out who owns it in a way trivial for government to implement.

Here is a recent example of FinCEN closing a reporting gap: https://www.fincen.gov/boi ("Beginning on January 1, 2024, many companies in the United States will have to report information about their beneficial owners, i.e., the individuals who ultimately own or control the company. They will have to report the information to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). FinCEN is a bureau of the U.S. Department of the Treasury.") As future gaps appear, close them.

(a component of work has been at asset custodians and I am familiar with reporting requirements to government regulators; if you can own it, it can be tracked)
It's unfortunate but unless you're willing to spend quite a bit of money (or are willing to forgo compactness) these are hard to find especially for 3.5" drives.

Radxa did have the Taco and Mediasonic does make compact 4/8 bay JBODs bur these are USB only.

There are also various NVME to SATA/SAS adapters but these mostly make use of port multipliers and speed won't be amazing.
You'll probably also want some SATA backplanes to make wiring less nightmarish but these are annoying to source at a reasonable price.

My latest idea I had for something semi compact and performant was to try and use a USB4 SSD enclosure with adapters to connect a full size PCIE card. You'd then get a Thunderbolt DAS theoretically.
That's very interesting. We tend to use a lot of logic as a layer on top of our senses to tell us what we are looking at. One of the most interesting cases (which I can't find a reference for, so sorry) of this that I've come across was an accident in Amsterdam where the person whose car was involved in an accident swore that the other car in the accident had gone against traffic. But from the situation after the accident and eye witnesses it made no sense to believe this. But much later some security cam footage was submitted as evidence that showed the car that had gone against traffic somehow flipping into the position that showed them coming from the right and coming to a rest just like the final scene after the accident was. So, in spite of all defiance of logic the occupants of the first car had it right and the 'eye witnesses' and the accident investigators all had it wrong (and the occupants of the vehicle that caused the accident were lying and could probably not believe they were getting away with it).

I'm sure that in the larger fraction of all accidents eye witnesses will at least get the basics right and that parties are not going to lie about what actually happened. But it's interesting how two minutes after an accident with five witnesses there are probably 10 conflicting stories about 'how it happened' and it makes me wary of any eye witness testimony, especially in less than ideal conditions (night, rain, distance etc). When I first heard about the above case the explanation was that eye witnesses probably heard the crash, looked up and immediately created a mental reconstruction of what must have happened based on what they saw and then reported this as the fact rather than to simply say that they didn't see anything until the moment of impact.

I really should dig a bit more to see if I can turn up something about this case, it is very interesting given your comment because you have provided another example of what I think is the same thing.
This is the reason. The airlines do it so they don't lose a revenue seat in the passenger area. Allowing the deadheading crew to ride in the jumpseats (which never earn revenue) they can still sell all their passenger seats.
I certainly would if those thankyou notes were the only way normal people could secure food and shelter and the collection of a billion of them was contributing to normal people being unable to obtain thankyou notes.
Is he talking about Hamas? Hamas has massively failed "how you treat the powerless". They've held dictatorial power over the Palestinians in Gaza since 2006, and attack people just going about their daily lives whenever they can get through a chink in the constant defense that Israel has to keep up. They even dug up water pipes and turned them into rocket bodies so they could kill people. Those babies they beheaded were powerless, too, and look at what they did with their power when they had it.
As many others have mentioned here, the backwards incentive structure is absolutely part of the problem -- i.e. businesses don't care to invest the time and money in making things efficient and performant, because the goal is to get something out the door as quickly as possible.

And, the fact that software can be continuously updated in the field makes it inherently different than other fields, which have to try to get something “right” the first time.

But I also think that we have a responsibility as engineers not to thrust technology out into the world without considering its impact, and that includes things like Electron. At its inception, I'm sure it was a hilarious and insane tech demo, but that's all it ever should have been.

The sad fact is that Electron solves a real problem, though, which is that developing per-platform native apps takes an enormous amount of effort. To me, it's a huge failing of the software world that we've not yet provided an alternative that's just as easy to deploy as Electron, if not easier, but with performance and efficiency built in from the start.
You and I would both think -- but on the other hand, I've interviewed a lot of people who have dispossessed me of that illusion. Seemingly simple concepts don't always stick.
What I was told, when I asked about this, was that "midori" existed as a Japanese word but was not in common usage. That is what Mizutani-san from JAL Academy told me back in 2009 anyway.

EDIT: I apologize for the vague sourcing!
https://github.com/OpenIPC/firmware

You can get onvif-compliant firmware for some of those, but battery-powered operation cannot be expected to remain practical, given what onvif focuses on.
PMTiles is amazing. We discovered it when we were building a Canadian wildfire hotspot map this summer.

We were taking daily CSV files, turning them into vector tiles, syncing them with S3, and displaying in mapbox-gl map. The biggest cost was S3 file operations. We had to aggressively cluster to reduce our cost down and got to a point where the tiles numbered ~75,000. At the frequency we wanted to update this was costing $500/mo in S3 ops.

Now we process the files into a single PMTiles file, deploy that one file and cut the costs down to pennies.

For a map that we make public, it was incredibly enabling. You can checkout the Canadian hotspot data for all of 2023 if you're curious: https://lens.pathandfocus.com
Makes life easier if one of the pilots needs to visit the loo or eat something, as long as the third pilot is type rated. And besides that, it can also be useful in the case of a serious incident to have a third capable person at hand to run checklists, communicate with engineering, navigation or whatever else.
Sorry, I didn't notice. I read the beginning but it was a bit long winded for my taste (insert comment about modern attention spans here). I skimmed through it but obviously missed the multiple paragraphs about the Walgreens saga (insert comment about modern reading comprehension skills here).
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I view yarn as collective leverage over npm's product roadmap.

As long as the npm roadmap doesn't stray too far from what developers want, or ship those things too slowly, there should be no need to use yarn.

But for that to work, yarn needs to remain a credible alternative, so that it's actually possible to overcome the switching cost.
The "killer-app" for the RP2040 is some kind of larger display controller IMO.

Displays use tons of power anyway, so 20mA power consumption of RP2040 is fine. And you need 264kB of SRAM for a good frame-buffer, and dual-core means one core can be dedicated for the display and the 2nd core can do all the other functions of your application.

Graphics are likely too large to fit on a typical on-board Flash, so you'll need QSPI (or larger) amounts of Flash anyway, so the weird bootup / requirement of Flash is made redundant.

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But general purpose use of RP2040? Uhh... no? Honestly, the RP2040 feels very much like a cut-down microprocessor in its design.

I guess RP2040 has the advantages of Micropython and more than enough SRAM to run larger sets of Micropython code for beginners... which is an advantage for some folk.

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I kind of wish that the bottom-tier of microprocessors became more commonplace for hobbyists. Full Linux 6.x kernels and 128MB with a variety of ADCs / Comparators on the SAM9x60 (ARMv5 Microprocessor with on-board DDR2 with ~50mA power usage at downclocked 200MHz)

Why run microPython? Just run Python 3 and G++.

Bonus points: idles at 2.1mA and sleeps at 200uA, so this Linux-capable microprocessor is comparable to the RP2040's idle/sleep specs. (I'm cheating though: DDR2 uses a substantial amount of power and I'm only counting CPU-power. But it still goes to show how absurdly high-power the RP2040 is in practice).
> I hesitate to even use the words non-mainstream or alternative, because they get made fun of, but it just goes to show how successful the push to demonize alternative health practitioners has been.

You gotta be honest with yourself:

1. Anything that is claimed to work gets tested.

2. Anything showing efficacy in double-blind trials get taken up almost immediately.

3. The only stuff left on the table, then, is the stuff that was tested and was found to perform no better than a placebo. This is where all the alternative medicines lie, on the efficacy spectrum.

Of course the people selling drinking water or acupuncture sessions are going to claim that "the establishment" has never bothered to test their product - why would they tell you that it's been tested and relegated to "alternative" medicine?

The sad fact is that there are a large number (few million, at least) of Phd candidates every year looking to publish a thesis about a drug/process/medicine/practice that is effectively a new cure for something.

They will get insanely rich, and famous, and get invited to give talks and get tenure if even one of the currently popular alternative medicines work better than a placebo.

You need to ask yourself "Is it really possible that every single graduating student of the bio and medical sciences are either bought off by big pharma or too stupid to get this easily reachable fame and fortune?"

Your answer to that question, to yourself, is enough - you don't need to reply to me telling me how $FOO successfully demonized $WORKING_MEDICINE - you need t simply ask yourself why millions of grad students haven't jumped at this opportunity for themselves.
> Yeah, just like how there are no companies in states with high taxes because raising the corporate tax rate will just cause companies to move and only leave small companies like Google who can't afford to move stuck with the bill.

This is false, though you are correct that companies do often leave jurisdictions with high taxes to move to low tax areas.

> We have a long historical trend of observing people moving to avoid taxes.

Fully in agreement here.

> Just ask Europe with its 0 billionaires.

Europe doesn't have 0 billionaires. They have a few, but to your point they are very underrepresented, so you are directionaly right here.
If I enable ads, it shows an ad for an ad service to target developers.
The idea of "strikes" is pretty standard in the US from the 90s era "3 strikes" crime laws (i.e. commit 3 crimes and you get life without parole; these have generally been repealed in the last 5-10 years or so) that were inspired by the rules of baseball where the batter is out after 3 unsuccessful swings or hittable pitches he didn't swing at.

It isn't a good system but Youtube in particular was loaded with pirated content in the early days before Google invented automated copyright moderation so they most likely needed to do something drastic to delete pirate accounts to avoid legal trouble with the copyright lobby and everybody else just copied the idea as a "best practice".
Bingo! First actual answer to the question.

I hadn't thought of the extended family benefit, and that's maybe a good one. Though I will say from all I can tell, our families have had the same level of mingling that they would have had we got married. Could be wrong though.

But yes, many western cultures don't really have close extended families, so even this point is mostly null.

I have an inkling as to why people get married in the west, but I don't want to be set on fire here ;)
This is dangerous and outdated advice. ROT13 should always be used an odd number of times to avoid CVE-2022-13!
Oh I see. I definitely don't want to go through all these hoops. If it doesn't open it properly on click, it's only a failure which needs to be corrected by hand - be it with PowerQuery or whatever. And getting familiar with a shitty workaround doesn't make it less shitty or less workaround.
> As long as you are willing to study how your distribution does packaging,

That's how I read the article, as saying "figuring out how to make custom package, is too difficult" compared to grab source, edit & compile.

Author does have a point there.

That said, eg. with Gentoo, iirc you'd have 1 huge download directory with vanilla source archives, and a per-package directory with a couple of Gentoo-specific patches. Perhaps with some config file to determine which of those are applied.

If making custom mods to a package is a recurring task, then it shouldn't be too hard to go through the docs & figure out how to add another patch.
I've been using different kernels since 4.x up to 6.5.4 and many distros.

There are no drivers for the webcam.
"Most alternative medicine is crap" isn't saying much. Most of anything is crap.

Everything I know about my condition is from alternative medicine. Mainstream doctors simply throw their hands up.

Most things alternative doctors say about it are crap, but I'm grateful that with some investigation, the truth turns out to be well-explored.
>Is anyone at all worried about Russia retaliating directly against America for all this success?

No.

Direct retaliation would mean the end of the Putin regime.

Total financial aid to Ukraine from the US over the last 21 months has amounted to $77 billion so far. About $30 billion or so more has been appropriated but has not been spent yet.

That is a lot of money, but the amount spent so far is only ~0.3% of the US's GDP and ~5.4% of its annual Federal Budget-- spread out over nearly 2 years.

With that, and contributions from other allies roughly doubling that total, Ukraine has fought Russia to a standstill and is very slowly gaining ground.

Any direct conventional retaliation against the United States would bring to bear a much, much, larger percentage of its resources and very likely result in the complete annihilation of any involved forces. Russian forces are very poorly equipped, trained, and led which means there have been single weeks (particularly the last several weeks) in the War in Ukraine where more Russian losses occurred than occurred in total over 20 years of US involvement in the Global War on Terror.

So that leaves a nuclear response.

A nuclear response would end in the annihilation of Russia itself. The Putin regime seems very interested in self-preservation.

That leaves indirect proxy responses. Historically, proxy wars against the United States have not ended well for either the proxy or the supporter of the proxy.

Even proxies who "win" are often damaged to the point of ruin, taking decades to recover.
This is a perfectly fine take, but it seems to me there is something wrong when our everyday workhorse tools are painful to interact with despite providing the same basic functionality as they did 20 years ago, adequately, on much slower hardware. It doesn't necessarily mean that the tooling improvements you're praising should be abandoned, and it doesn't mean that none of the new features are worthwhile. But it does in my view mean that the priorities are hostile to me as a user, and I feel justified in being disenchanted by that fact.
So basically Google is sending traffic through servers that will give them a slightly less precise idea of your location.

Count me out. I'm staying away from Google.
My personality trait: I need to feed my family.
It's too late, that wrong tool already did much harm. Also read:

- https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54423988

- https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Screen-shot-of-Microsoft...

- https://theconversation.com/excel-autocorrect-errors-still-p...

- etc.

A problem that's been around for years is finally addressed.
> I think it would be silly to be mad at NBC for the content of someone else's media, even if it is on their platform. Be mad at the racist guy.

So to be clear, you think other people will (or perhaps should) interpret NBC broadcasting a random guy who throws racial slurs on their primetime slots as "someone else's media", and think it's silly to be mad at them for broadcasting random racist guy on their primetime slots.

I'm going to the bar later and will pose the same hypothetical to some regulars and randoms in my relatively purple city and state. I will bring up the same hypothetical, and argue your point, and will return their reactions about what if anything should happen about racist guy on NBC. If I'm not beaten up, I'll let you know what their reactions are!

My personal prediction: They will find the take that "individuals in society should both think and act different, but the rules of society ought not force a change in behavior" as ideas that are counter to each other, and the whole argument as similar to the bleating of George Costanza.
Wild Wild Country is an excellent Netflix documentary on the whole movement.
I don't believe that this could have easily happened with human translation except as an instance of deliberate malice or improbably enormous ineptitude, so I assigned a very low prior probability to that interpretation.
Sentencex: Empowering NLP with Multilingual Sentence Extraction
> Sounds like thinly veiled ludditism to me, why would it be necessary for AI porn to steal anybody’s likeness?

Just look at what people currently do with the models. You already see a lot of deepfake attempts. This will only increase as the technology improves. If you can generate a scene from scratch people will ask it to generate a full porn movie with the actor/actress of their choice.

> It’s hard to drum up any sympathy for such an exploitative industry (exploitative for both the participants and the customers).

I think if you care about an actor losing income over AI generated works, you would naturally care about a porn actor losing income over this. Especially when the AI used your work as training data and might reproduce your likeness without you getting anything out of it. I can understand the dislike for the industry because parts of it prey on the weak to make money.

If we make a legal framework for movie actors it should also apply to pron actors.
> http://web.archive.org/web/20140903235611/https://crash-anal...

This is a page where Firefox developers are discussing how to inject their own crash-reporting code into the sandboxed flash container. I never said that 3rd party plugins didn't occasionally have crashes, so I don't see the point of this link. Can you elaborate?

> https://wiki.mozilla.org/CrashKill/Flash

This lists crashes seen in the Flash module. But again, I never said that 3rd party plugins didn't occasionally have crashes.

> https://wiki.mozilla.org/CrashKill/Flash_Breakdown_Data

This is a documentation page about types of all-cause failures related to Flash, (could be Firefox code issues)

> https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/firefox-3-6-4-with-crash...

Javascript also has "crash protection" in the form of a sandbox. That's why pages can "crash" without taking down the entire browser. This would also work exactly the same for Flash.
It's not obvious that he needs to be in the cockpit, rather it's obvious that there is no security threat to allowing a pilot to occupy the jump seat. The trust they're given to fly the plane is a superset of the trust required to be in the cockpit at all.
No, any form that sites provide are purely a convenience and are not required by law. Legally all you need is contact information where a lawyer can mail a DMCA complaint.
According to https://goughlui.com/2013/05/02/tech-flashback-iomega-zip-10... and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggWW67iPgXI (which shows a comparison table from a contemporary magazine article), the SuperDisk LS-120 was slower than the Iomega Zip. It was a pretty cool idea to make the drive backward-compatible with 3.5" floppies. As a child reading computer magazines I kind of wanted one—or a Zip drive. However, the lower speed combined with launching after Zip (1997 vs. 1994) really explains why the LS-120 did not succeed on par with Zip. According to the video I linked, iMac owners bought USB SuperDisk drives for their regular floppies. (I ended up eventually getting a CD-RW.)

What I think might be a bigger shame is that some version of FD32MB (maybe less dense and less slow) did not arrive earlier and as an industry standard. In 2001 it was far too late for it. Here is an article announcing the FD32MB technology: https://www.theregister.com/2000/10/23/32mb_on_a_humble_flop.... The Wikipedia page for the Superdisk also mentions it. Might it have had a chance if it had launched with the SuperDisk LS-120 in 1997? I am not sure. (And how would the reliability have been with mass adoption? Worse than 1.44 MB floppies'? Maybe it was for the better.)
That’s the thing, though, labor isn’t entering into an agreement “freely”, they are entering into an agreement under economic duress.

You can’t freely consent if someone has power over you, and in a Capitalist system Capital has power over labor. Capitalism is therefore abusive and exploitative, by design.

For the record, I am not, nor have I ever been, a Communist.