skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was dystopian, invasive tech back when the Glass-holes were doing it in 2013 and it's still dystopian and invasive now [0]. The two major differences are:

1. The product execution is better this time

2. We've become more complacent about this sort of thing

Wonder if we will tolerate it this time around?

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[0] Reference: Black Mirror S01E03 (The Entire History of You)
Total db noob here: is Oracle's query planner better? What's the difference between the two?
...while I agree about Chrome and probably kinda understand if you expand that notion to whole chromium...

Containers aren't for protection against browser - they protect one digital identity from leaking into another. And to be able to log in into multiple accounts at the same time
> I still understand protective orders as one of the most effective ways to prevent intimate partner murders

I don't see how that makes them a reliable indicator that something went down. That could be true even if 99% of restraining orders were against innocent people.
I wish the video quality was better. If they can get iPhone quality camera in there, I would def get these!
In theory, `reset`/`tset` from ncurses, or an equivalent, is this "thing" that programs are supposed to be using when they need to engage in terminal shenanigans.

Those use TERM/TERMCAP environment variables and some educated guessing reading stdin/stdout/stderr behaviour to figure out what terminal you're using, search for said entry in terminfo/termcap database, and finally invoking native terminal behavior or simulating it with other terminal behavior.

In theory, one could "just implement" an alternative terminal, and put said simplified entries in terminfo/termcap database and things will be all fine.

In practice several of those ANSI escape code behaviors are hard-coded and everyone pretends everything is "at least as capable as xterm" (a oxymoron, given that xterm is one of the most capable and feature-rich terminals around), so you're also gonna have to implement a converter from "xterm ANSI" to your alternative terminal system - sort of how winpty does convert Win32 terminals conventions to ANSI ones.

Then we're back to the starting issue in this converter.
Andreessen's online personality leans heavily on rage bait/trolling, so this is a bit like saying "why would someone be mad at a troll?"
Where are you checking?
Your comment made me nostalgic so I went to John Siracusa's last macOS review from 2014 (10.10 Yosemite)[1]. Copied and pasted into Microsoft Word, it is 84 pages long, almost 27,000 words, and averages about one image per page. Quality and length are obviously not the same thing, but I can't imagine any online news outlet publishing something like that now.

1: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/10/os-x-10-10/
For context, the original intention was that states would run their own exchanges, only if they refused would residents of the state use the federal exchange.

36 states initially did not set up their own exchanges.[0]

It appears that currently, 20 states (including D.C.) have their own marketplace.[1]

>The shutdown prevented anyone from outside the main team working on HealthCare.gov from coming in to help

That government shutdown in 2013 was instigated entirely by one U.S. Senator, Ted Cruz, expressly for the purpose of sabotaging ACA.[2]

[0]https://aspe.hhs.gov/reports/health-insurance-marketplace-pr...

[1]https://www.healthcare.gov/marketplace-in-your-state/

[2]https://www.texastribune.org/2016/02/16/ted-cruz-2013-obamac...
I haven't seen any censorship of China-related topics on X. There was a lot of fearmongering about it, but I'm curious if you have any examples.

Apple, on the other hand, has a long history of kowtowing to China's demands.
The life and death of teletext, and what happened next (2018)
> When journalists hear hoof beats, you want them to think ‘horses’ not ‘zebras’, though, right?

No.

If they hear hoof beats, but don't know the animals involved, I want them to write "I heard hoof beats".

If they manage to collect enough evidence to be confident of the animals involved, then I want them to say "The hoof beats were those of the lesser Siberian Elk" (or whatever it was).

If they are unable to collect enough evidence to be confident (and they should have a high bar for this), I want them to say "It appears difficult or impossible to identify the creatures that made the hoof beats".

These do not all need to be a part of the same report or appear on the same day.
Well, it's now much more likely that we're going to get the story. :-)
Defamation required negligence.

They were certainly wrong about the situation and I would agree by quite a bit.

My point is misunderstandings don't mean defamation alone.
If only you had that $500K ...

But the government will steal $250K of it right off the bat. And then probably another $50K because at least in CA you get double-taxed both when earning and when spending.

You're left with only $200K real dollars.
> They don't go out of their way to make it clear you can watch Apple TV on most major devices

Interestingly, the headline doesn't even refer to the service (Apple TV), but it refers to just "on Apple" -- which further reinforces that consumer thinking that it's an Apple-device-specific offering.
I thought turbines had lead times on the order of years
>Five Investors on Investing in the 5% World

https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/five-investors-on-inve...

https://archive.ph/NCv4a
The reason why you see them built up in the high income zip codes is because branches are almost completely out of the business of regular teller operations of years ago which as you correctly point out have moved largely online. Instead branches exist to move high margin services and wealth management product to high income customers.

That isn’t to say the big banks don’t have a real estate problem - they do but it’s more the back office than it is branches.
You're right with regard to emergency treatment; so in the case of the withdrawal patient that holds. But hospitals are not required to accept any insurance, including medicare/aide (they are termed "non-participating"). So I don't think the premise holds in the knee-replacement scenario.

So, to be generous, maybe there's a case that if a hospital gets a bulk of its revenue from the ER, it's a better business case to accept Medicare. But I don't believe that's the case for most hospitals, so it still leads me to question the premise that medicare is a net negative (or else we'd see a lot more 'non-participating' hospitals).
It's either free (for XE), $17,500 per cpu (for SE2), or $47,500 per cpu (for Enterprise). x86-64 gets a 2-for-1 core discount.

You can also license it by user.

https://www.oracle.com/assets/technology-price-list-070617.p...
I was surprised to see no SDK/API. Does Meta expect to seed and grow the ecosystem of apps themselves? Do they even have the bench to do this any longer?

If anyone from Meta is reading this, know there are companies out there eager to develop on the Wayfarer platform, is there a perhaps less publicized means for outsiders building on the platform?
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LaTeX definitely has many messy parts that need to be cleaned up. Native support for unicode characters and bidi text (which is somewhat implemented by xetex), is mandatory in new-latex.

TeX engine obviously will need to be rewritten completely from scratch for the reasons you suggest.
>But even NorthPole’s 224 megabytes of RAM are not enough for large language models, such as those used by the chatbot ChatGPT, which take up several thousand megabytes of data even in their most stripped-down versions.

Is that right?
I can't really get into my parents attic rn to grab a photo, but very similar install.

I've had a Netgear* switch running up there non-stop since roughly 2000! Have never had to reboot it. Granted, power outages have rebooted it, and I have no way of actually checking its up-time.

*Those were the days when Netgear products were solid
That's a little reductive. If that were so, there'd barely be a need for defense in our criminal system, just "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, you've heard the prosecution's case - do you believe they've established guilt?". Instead, regardless of the ostensible burden, statements like this by the defense work to erode any claims of "beyond reasonable doubt".
His essay ends with a long list of recommended authors, labeled "Patron Saints of Techno-Optimism", with the exhortation: "In lieu of detailed endnotes and citations, read the work of these people, and you too will become a Techno-Optimist."

Plenty of those authors – especially the formal economists – have written extensively on what the state does well & poorly.
I found this https://github.com/MKorostoff/1-pixel-wealth/blob/master/THE... addressing those concerns.
Yes, the terminal is an embarrassment. It's telling that Sixel is state-of-the-art. A format from the 80s designed to support dot matrix printers.
Nope. hard pass. Meta can try all it wants to make these happen -- but they arent going to land.
Why would I want camera glasses locked into facebook? Fuck that. If they made non-camera ones with just the speakers -- those would have a bigger market what with cameras added. I am sure they next revision of the facebook phone will takeoff /s
I wonder if putting the switch behind a UPS or more substantial surge protector/line filtering would help it last even longer. The batteries in a UPS at those temps might give up before the switch does.
I didn’t realize the ratio was so high but I guess it would explain why the white collar sector doesn’t accomplish anything anymore
"If your views on crossing a river are exclusive to the usage of canoes then you are minimizing what is available across the human experience in terms of river crossings."

Somehow you turned someone's subjective spiritual exploration into them limiting themselves...
> Is it a stretch to think these police officers are trying to make things as painful as possible for this teen, even if they know a court is going to eventually throw them out, because he called them out on their outrageous behavior?

Yes and no. I mean police are on a power trip even if you do everything they say but as soon as he called the cop out and called him stupid (in any encounter that wasn't with a cop I might have used harsher language to describe the person in question) I'm sure it didn't help. But that's the problem, it didn't help but I honestly don't think he could have said/not said/done/not done anything to placate the cops.

This kid is 19 years old, he gets pulled over later at night on his way home trying to follow the law the best he knows how (headlight out, using brights to have some light), the cops expect him to know the law about having your brights on when I've never heard of such a law (mind you cops don't need to know the law themselves as they prove more often than not but they expect a 19 year old kid to), then they shine bright lights in his face and expect him to know exactly where his registration is? And that's all within the first few minutes.

The rest of the video that I watched it's more of the same, a power tripping cop gives confusing and contradictory instructions to someone who has never done this before and expects the system to work since he has done nothing wrong. Good thing the cops set him straight at a young age so he won't make the mistake of thinking they are there to "serve and protect" (yes I know they don't actually have to do either) or that the system works in any way, shape, or form.

It's telling that this is what these bastions of society spend their time on instead of what should be slam dunk cases where someone's phone is stolen and they can tell the cops exactly where it is or similar solvable thefts that they don't bother with. What a waste of taxpayer dollars.
Most mobo's have supported 6Gb/s for the past 5+ years - SATA III was released in 2009. I would be surprised if you have a running motherboard on a not-intentionally-retro computer without SATAIII; My ancient gaming machine (now a fileserver)from 2012 has all ports SATAIII and is capable of achieving those speeds.
Where did I say: "she's not a practicing lawyer and therefore can't know anything about it?"

To preface: I had/have absolutely no idea if "she" is a "she," what she is, where she is, her level of professional expertise or profession.

I am human, I don't know everything, everywhere: the distinct possibility exists that whatever jurisdiction this individual is in has laws, customs unbeknownst to me.

This person insinuated that I was "talking out my ass," implied my hard-earned knowledge and experience was obtained from a "mens rights subreddit" as a way to dismiss my statements.
I'm pretty sure TDE uses SVGs
easier to find jobs in small companies.

I'm currently working for a large company, but I don't think I could get this opportunity if I didn't have the experiences gained through small companies.
To me, a random letter is pretty confusing, but it seems I might be in the minority.
First, it's behind a paywall. Second, for around the same price as a model 3 or a here in Ireland, I could get an Audi Etron or BMW i4, or any of the others available for sale. And most if not all have car play/Android Auto and are not helping pay for that gobshits future antics.
Totally untrue...but adding hints makes your queries dependent on current performance.

Assuming you're a good DBA, you can be better than the optimizer because you understand the whole system. Even databases are general-purpose machines. That's the whole point of adding indexes, etc.

I mean, has there ever been a database that auto-adds indexes based on profiler/optimizer feedback? (To answer my own question, apparently Azure SQL does).
So it is like a TPU then.
I don’t follow. I’m familiar with the song. I don’t understand how this behavior relates to anything discussed there.
My partner and I don't do this any more - especially now that we are married - but for the first couple years we lived together we split the grocery bill using a 1 to 0.77 ratio we derived from our bodyweights.

We just derived the ratio once and never updated it - neither of us were particularly invested in losing, gaining, or tracking our weight - so it seemed an OK proxy metric to handle the fact that we ate noticeably different amounts.

A few years later we've started to consider the fact that we might both be on the spectrum :)
There's a part of that, but the women's stubs are also unjustifiable because of the foundational mandates around sourcing and notability.

Once upon a time, subject-specific notability guidelines carved out exceptions by arbitrarily defining typical notability for a given subject at a lower standard than general notability. Those exceptions are being rolled back toward the higher bar of general notability.

When a women's sport gets 1/10th the mainstream coverage of the men's equivalent, there's no policy justification to have articles under general notability. Even if Wikipedia was capable of banning every editor whose focus is in deleting articles about women (and it's sincerely not capable of banning any of them), the core policies themselves would justify not creating articles — especially for almost all who played in the decades before the recent boom in coverage and investment — because the coverage wasn't and isn't there.
A stronger form of propaganda would be for the other side of a conflict to generate and circulate a fake photo, then have fact checkers determine that it's fake. Then people would come to their own conclusions, "If this photo is fake, then maybe most of the violence against this group is also fake."

When you're actually being bombed, creating a fake photo of the devastation would do more harm than good, since you have plenty of authentic evidence to draw from.
This is absolutely correct; not sure why you are being downvoted. TPOs are often issued without the targeted party being contacted or having a chance to defend themselves. PPOs tried in family court do not have a “reasonable doubt” requirement; they are regularly granted without substantive evidence or signs of physical abuse. No judge wants to read about somebody being killed after they denied the PO.
Are there any that are not reused Syrian Assad sarin attack from 10 years ago?
I believe it is common for the greeters to be vounteers
Important but not mentioned in the article is the amount that the government paid for that incompetence driven disaster. $840 million!
This is right up my alley, hopefully it'll be good. Thanks for sharing!
On the topic of PostgreSQL and git. As crazy as this sounds, I once entertained the idea of writing a VCS that used PostgreSQL's large object facility for storing the data. I always have PostgreSQL installed on my personal devices so communication would be through Unix Domain Sockets anyway (or through a gigabit LAN in worst case). And the transactions and SQL interface (for metadata) were just that tempting.

But I realized pg_largeobject (1) chunks data to around 2kB per chunk, and (2) stores each chunk on its own row, and (3) each row uses "oid" type as identifier, which is just 32 bit long. It's probably large enough for anything I would ever need, but for some reason I don't feel comfortable with only 32 bits as primary key.
I could be crazy, but isn't the linked article exactly that? They also did a long series about how Ars itself is hosted[1] just a couple months ago.

[1] Part 1 of 4 here https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/07/ars-o...
Couldn't agree more. Let's also not forget that many people can't actually read for various reasons, such as visual , physical, learning disabilities. Free AI narration is a huge thing for all these people, even if the quality is not perfect. Anything that encourages people to consume more books and build empathy with other humans by experiencing different viewpoints has to be a good thing, right?
Really, for a full fidelity reproduction of old OSes one needs a dedicated DE rather than a theme.

Such DEs are on my list of things I want to work on should I find myself with an excess of spare time. I think 1:1 old OS repro DEs would be surprisingly popular, and would eventually be among the most stable and efficient options available since they’d have a strictly bounded well defined feature set (meaning dev efforts would shift to exclusive bug hunting and performance improvements once feature completeness had been achieved).
My Firefox opens clicked links in the last window I had active. On macOS. Although I'm only running one profile.
$150 of that $200 is markup over a comparable pair of sunglasses without the word "Ray-Bans" on the side.
Thanks for sharing, adding that to the article.
Such quality work takes time and effort. Ultimately I think Siracusa gave up just because how much time it was taking away from other work. And Ars articles remain free to read.
1A, reaffirmed in City of Houston v Hill (1987)
Here is their macOS 14 review[1] published one month ago. I don't know how many pages it is in Word, but on their website it's 21 pages long.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/macos-14-sonoma-the-...
Yes, and a more apt comparison to the militarized destruction in the article. He waxes poetic about how the army worked through the city but in Brazil it’s shown as simultaneously dumb brute force and bureaucratic, I feel like he doesn’t mention Brazil because it makes the strategy seem less elegant.
Robots don’t want to kill humans… robots don’t, and likely never will, want to do anything whatsoever.

Humans, on the other hand, _definitely_ want to kill humans… using robots.
You ever get the feeling authorities are laughing at the guy's holding their phones?

I do. All the time.
(Sigh) Assume everything from the Verge is a thinly veiled advertisement for the powers that be.

And oh, look, the company that coordinated with Cambridge-Analytica to compromise the 2016 Election and give it to Trump wants me to buy their headset again.
> It's wonderful that they may have helped you at one point.

That's not what they said, you're misreading.

> Can we please see some formal, peer-reviewed evidence to suggest that someone willing to commit murder is going to be deterred by a DUI-equivalent?

I did a very quick search using neutral terms for studies on this. Here are the first three I found.

> PO victims had police incident rates that were more than double the matched group prior to the PO, but dropped to the level of the matched group during and after the order. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4151113/

> Results showed significant reductions in threats of assault, physical assault, stalking, and worksite harassment over time among all women, regardless of receipt or nonreceipt of a protection order. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1448307/

> Permanent, but not temporary, protection orders are associated with a significant decrease in risk of police-reported violence against women by their male intimate partners. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/195163

That last one had a pretty good study size - 2691 women.

I don't think it's incredible that a protective order could stop an expanding pattern of abuse and violence before it becomes severe enough for a murder to occur. You say "someone willing to commit murder", and it's probably true that if the culprit is already very willing or actively intending to commit a murder, a protective order is useless. Abusers cannot be placed into permanent "murderous" and "non-murderous" groups, though.
Why not just address the point? Its a casual opinion informed by basic research on domestic violence. I didn't feel like I needed a citation for "sometimes violence is impulsive" but here we are I guess.

Comparison of impulsive and premeditated perpetrators of intimate partner violence: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19039796/

Premeditated versus "passionate": patterns of homicide related to intimate partner violence: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30100045/
Thanks for sharing that. Do you happen to know how they calculate the "community benefit expense" that creates the shortfall?

My understanding is that medical billing is inflated so they can anchor a high value to help in their negotiations with medical insurance. I'm wondering if this is the medicare adjusted value (i.e., what medicare says the procedures are worth) or the artificially inflated value?
Since you’re being forthright about your biases, it’s only fair I do the same. My words were harsh because I feel that the original sentiment I objected to is precisely the kind of sentiment those who would continue perpetrating the genocide against Palestinians would like to engender among the public. The sentiment for those who are too busy or too distracted to look beyond a superficial level and just read headlines from the major media outlets: “it’s a complicated situation”; “oh, there’s more unrest in the Middle East”; “it’s all such a shame, I wish there could be peace”. For genocidaires, this kind of muddying the water is exactly what you would want for incidents that would polarize fence sitters or those not paying attention. It’s precisely the same kind of attribution-less passive voice headlines people object to when talking about other more familiar things.

I disagree with any assertions that it’s likely an accident, or that Israel would not want to bomb a hospital. Several high profile Israeli officials have stated over and over that they don’t consider Palestinians as human beings. Yoav Gallant has said “we are fighting human animals” and I’m not inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt that he really only meant that to apply to Hamas when in the same statement he talked about cutting off all good, water and electricity to Gaza. And now there’s news that St Porphyrius Church was struck by a “blast”. Am I to also believe this was an accident? Another case where a Hamas rocket somehow caused an order of magnitude more damage than has ever been been recorded when striking Israel?