skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aye, there is something to be said for integrated and purpose made software+hardware making a console, but you can barely compare the software of a Steam Deck to that of something like a NES. As far as I'm aware, a NES doesn't even really have any software, all the software is on the cartridge. A custom PC running Steam in Big Picture Mode will be far more similar to a Steam Deck than a NES is to a Steam Deck.

Is the ROG Ally a console? What if I load SteamOS 3.0 on it? Is the PS3 with Linux on it still a console? Are gaming-focused phones consoles? They have vertically integrated hardware and software, and are made with gaming as a focus yet can be used as somewhat general purpose devices, just like the Steam Deck.
Yeah, I think took that into account in my estimation. Not every lawyer will be willing to work for free for a friend (it's like doctors constantly being bombarded for free medical advice, or software engineers constantly asked to provide free IT services to fix people's computers/phones/routers/network). I also assume that law is highly specialized, so a lawyer specialized in Constitutional or Patent law may not want to handle Family law, Contract law, Employment law, or Personal Injury law.

I figure the number of lawyers willing to do such small favors is in the range of 1% to 10% of the 1.3M (wild guess). So if each of them had 100 friends-and-family "clients", it still wouldn't add up to "pretty common".
Interesting. I personally know of 5 people, including 3 family members, in group 1 who are now dead, and specifically died from the COVID infection.

So much for your anecdotes.
Internal Wix chat encouraged staff to support Israels narative in Hamas conflict
New Outlook is a browser based email client strangely. It runs roughly the same code on the desktop as on outlook.com. It's Edge underneath.
> may miss out on mentorship opportunities without in-office interactions

I don't know how to translate "mentorship opportunities" from management into normal talk.

I know what this means on the surface level. But I suspect I can't really read between the lines.

I'm the defacto technical on-boarder for one of the teams I'm on; and I hire interns every summer and some fall/springs. I feel I do a fair bit of what one might call "mentorship", I still need an explainer.

edit: took out a ranty bit. I'm actually interested in an answer
The EU minus Denmark and Ireland who have opted out from the area of freedom, security and justice domain. I don't see how real democratic control over CSAM-scanning is possible in the EU. But national parliaments can vote for/against laws with their version of CSAM-scanning.A new parliament can changes those laws.
I cried a big deal. Thanks for visiting me on my website.
You can get into contact with each other. Meet up @fleo.at, it is on the internet.
"both sides of the political aisle"

implying there are only 2 political viewpoints. TheHill.com
Some dwellings in Orkney dating back to around 5000 BC also included indoor plumbing. Kind of cool.
Ever since I started writing on this issue, I’ve had a number of folks contact me and say they were unwittingly flagged by Google Photos’ ML-based CSAM detection algorithm. The most recent of these told me the photo was sent as a (pretty awful) prank in a WhatsApp group, and their phone auto-saved it to the camera roll. All of these folks lost all access to Google services with minimal options for appeal, and have had their lives disrupted in various ways I can’t imagine.

I have no way of verifying what these people are telling me, and I can’t help them even if I did. And even more than this: my first reaction is to wonder if they’re all actually pedophiles who are just lying to me, and/or if they’re going to text CSAM at me. (Because that’s the power of this accusation — nobody will trust you once they hear it.)

Some of these folks have had their lives ruined and some have told me they were hospitalized and considered suicide, even though they weren’t actually prosecuted. I can certainly imagine being in their situation due to the mistake of having an asshole friend-of-a-friend in a group chat and some bad settings in my phone. (I have neither, thankfully.)

If none of this stuff convinces you, here is a much more carefully-documented version of a similar story in which a dad took a photo of their toddler’s rash and was subsequently investigated for CSAM. This one has the “happy” ending that the accused is entirely cleared by the police, but never gets his Google account back and has to live with whatever other trauma and shame comes from the investigation: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveil...
It is better than what most people do now: just keep driving hoping things are safe. If AVs are regularly stopping on the highway that implies there is a problem with the road design.
Part of using windows at this point is learning how to turn off all the bait and switch nonsense and user hostile stuff going on under the hood. There are a lot of programs and scripts out there to turn off telemetry, ads, forced updates and more. Unfortunately it is required to not be at the mercy of your OS updating under you or selling your data behind the scenes.
Hmm. Do I have it right that you mean you can't send from e.g. "test@example.com" (using "Customize From Address..." then entering that address in the From field) unless another address for the domain "example.com" is set up as an account in Thunderbird (e.g. "hello@example.com")? If that's what you mean, then I don't think that's correct, as I just tried it and Thunderbird let me send the message despite me not having any account for example.com in my profile. I did of course get a response from example.com telling me there was no MX server, but that tells me Thunderbird went as far as sending it.
Can you give a concrete example or elaborate a bit more?
The reality I think is, the average user probably doesn't care about snappyness as long as it is not too bothersome. The path of least resistance is opening the webmail (no setup required).
Same here, former C# developer, who worked with (as a contributor) Monorail, ASP.NET MVC, Windsor, NHibernate.
I feel right home.

TypeORM is terrible, however.

Prisma is probably way to go.
Kirby's Dream Land on the Nintendo Game Boy
the republican in me wants to say so many things

but im not sure if HN bans people so just :) and nod
Have you actually seen an airline where the staff handling Twitter also does the actual rebooking?
The lawsuit asks for injunctive, not monetary, relief.
> because obviously the people who just lie to get out of any mild annoyance are the ones you least want as coworkers (though obviously people who can effectively use large language models will be incredibly valuable)

So people who can use them effectively, but not like that!

Do you not see the irony in this statement?
I don’t understand what confuses you so much. This is for “the safety”. “Trusted governments” will make sure “exemptions” are in place and everything will be “okay”. Why worry, do you have something to hide?
Have you tried looking at the service manual? The only replaceable FRU is the top cover with keyboard and battery assembly. Nope.

$30 - but not much fun getting it out...
You seem to really have bad luck. High DPI works without a glitch¹ on all of our developer machines², most of them using two 4k monitors in parallel.

¹ both on Wayland and X11, so maybe we're really being lucky.

² mostly Dell Laptops, but also Lenovo
I hadn't even considered this, but you're absolutely correct. That's hilarious, in the most depressing way possible!
This is why I wonder if 401Ks will just turn into a dog chasing its own tail. I think today, they still hammer that you need to have 1 million in your 401K when you retire, something being said my whole working life.
"known and unknown CSAM"

Given where image AI is, this is certain to detect a colossal amount of false positives. In fact it'll be impossible to sift out false positives soon, if it isn't already. This plan seems like fighting the last war when there's a much bigger and different problem looming.
LibreComputer Renegade: The Raspberry Pi Alternative? – After 7 Months
Wait, I thought Apple had given up on it's car project?
Time to short Japan's 'bad governance' stocks, hedge fund says
Dependency Injection allows for more incremental development in my experience. As each new class is simply added to a constructor somewhere and the system takes care of constructing things.

Regardless of what the article says, mocking in tests is easier. As you’re only depending on injected classes, you just mock a class and inject it in a test.

Like any architectural decision “it depends”. But I think it scales well, enforces modularity, automates construction logic (which can be huge) and is quite nice to work with generally.
What are the chances that that ends with an additional wealth tax for pretty much everyone because far easier to go after "wealth" at the lower end (e.g., no worries about companies being affected, less mobile).
I agree. I did hold out for a year on modern Linux desktop, but I think the relative elegance of macOS has ruined me, I think.

At some point in the next year or two, I plan to re-dogfood Linux desktop with i3 or Sway, as I effectively work in a tiled arrangement and it's far more stable than GNOME.

I don't really use Windows, but when I do, I'm pretty much in a web browser or WSL. I don't have much interest in the rest of it anymore, especially with the ruination Microsoft is committing.

While I've done a lot of Windows programming and PowerShell and whatnot, I'm a UNIX native, I'm old, and I'm sticking with some variant of it until EOL.
But there wasn't a rewrite of Thunderbird?
Public records are for the public! I both love and hate it. I think it makes sense for citizens to be able to check in on what the govt is doing. Unfortunatley the govt likes to keep tabs on a lot of things and it'd sure be nice if they didn't and it'd be even nicer if those records didn't have to be public.

If you think that request was bad you should look up the history of LexisNexis. Their bread and butter is requesting data and collecting it all into a single database that you can use to background check anyone the american government vaguely knows about.

There also used to be a site called masscorruption that I'm pretty sure focused on a single county government in massachusetts run by some whacker with an axe to grind. He filed a FOIA request for every image file on a government desktop, which was fulfilled, and he went on to publish the employee's personal images that probably should not have been stored on a govt computer.

At my workplace whenever I put a government employee in the to: line a banner appears in outlook informing me that the message I am writing can be FOIA'd. Especially with local govts you just never know how people are going to get activated and what will be interesting to them.
Yeah that tutorial is decent its what I used to get going.

Note that all of the images in those comfy tutorials (except for images of the UI itself) can be dragndropped into ComfyUI and you'll get the entire node layout you can use to understand how it works.

Another good resource is civit.ai and specifically look for images that have a comfy UI embedded metadata. I made a feature request that they create a tag for uploaders to flag comfyUI pngs but not sure if they've added that yet. Or caroose Reddit or Discord for people sharing PNGs with comfy embeds.

Trying out different models (also avail from civit) is a good way to get an understanding of how swapping out models affects performance and the results. I've been abusing Absolutereality (v1.81) + More Details LORA because its just so damn fast and the results are great for almost any requirement I throw at it. AI moves so fast but I don't even bother updating the models anymore there is just so much potential in the models we already have; more pay off would be mastering other techniques like the depth map Control Net.

I would say that above all extensive familiarity with an image editor like Photoshop, Gimp, or Krita - will get you the most mileage particularly if you have specific needs beyond just fun and concepting. AI art makes artists better, people who struggle with image editing will struggle to maximize this new tech just as people who struggle with code will have issues maintaining the code Copilot or ChatGPT is spitting out (versus a coder who will refactor and fine tune before integrating to the rest of their application).
I thought the whole point of double entry bookkeeping is to make sure that the error rate is, in fact, precisely 0% and verifiably so.
imho, the 'bounce back' effect (would it be called something else?) - is creating terrible problems for those who need help in even larger numbers.

Especially in the hospitals that have signs like 'abuse is zero tolerance here blah blah' (3 out of 4 in my current city) - I've noticed that anyone who speaks in a language that differs from the accepted class of medical pros.. (I don't mean spanglish / vs whatever, I mean words used, descriptors. It's class warfare basically) you get treated like an adversary, liability, and they are practically hoping and definitely looking for an option to provide less care.

The war on drugs (along with pandemic related untreated trauma) imho, has created a class of 'professionals' who are more concerned with their own status than they are with providing care.

Yet all of the pain relief is kept behind locked doors guarded by a small faction who are more worried about being on "a list" than being compassionate and helping to relieve suffering.

Not surprised people in pain that are not getting treatment are lashing out at the one group that holds the keys to lessen suffering.

Did not read the paywalled article - maybe it's described some things that are vastly different than what I have been witnessing, not all places are the same I would think.
No, it does have implications for income as well! At these large volumes, cfr. Piketty they are making an income from their wealth at 5-7% over inflation. The <0.5% of wealth tax implies that they are paying <10% on the income from their wealth as taxes.

That is low in comparison to taxes on labour.
CertWatch – MitM Detection and Monitoring for XMPP Servers
There is some serious programming wisdom in this video! For that reason, it is worth re-watching in the future. What follows is a highly abridged list of some of the relevant takeaways from various time points in the video:

06:54 Don't try to make one language look like another

07:34 Don't reinvent bool

10:36 Code flows from left to right, top to bottom

13:31 Reduce conditionals

14:59 Avoid negation

19:31 Simplify compound if conditionals

21:39 Reduce the number of casts

22:57 Use self-documenting language features

25:56 Pass an abstract sink for a function's output

27:58 Pass files as buffers rather than filenames to be read

30:34 The caller, not the callee, should call the environment

31:45 Callee writes to buffer, caller writes to file

32:30 Use function pointers (or templates)

34:10 Functions should be in one of two categories, not both

35:48 Line things up

36:43 Use ref instead of *

Of these, I think I find:

"25:56 Pass an abstract sink for a function's output" -- the most potentially interesting...

Why? Because it can almost be thought of as borderline functional programming -- within an Imperative and/or Object-Oriented programming language... at least as far as the function using this method goes... it also has a wide variety of applications, i.e., instead of having a function do memory allocation (requiring that memory to be freed somewhere else in the program), why not pass such a function an additional memory allocator function pointer or object -- where the allocation (and subsequent deallocation) of memory -- is managed in some other well-defined place in the code...

Anyway, it's a great video! Well worth watching!
When you meditate you are aware the whole time, right? What do you define as the difference between awareness and attention?
Don't agree, I love GDPR
I feel like just looking at the numbers isn't really a good counter on wether or not a platform is viable.

However gaming is still very much an excuse. On my Steam Deck I even primarily use Windows after not being able to use Game Pass, issues with Kingdom Hearts, and anything through Epic game launcher being a mixed bag.

Proton is great but it really isn't a silver bullet and you may need to go to Windows if you want to play a specific game.
> For example, my wife has a much keener recognition for something that's messy - a full sink or a shirt laying on the floor of my office will "scream" at her louder that it does at me.

This may be because she's trained more that there are negative consequences for her, or that she's responsible for that stuff. I don't really pay attention to tickets I'm not assigned, for example, unless they're on stuff that I'd be the go-to-guy for if anything broke. I figure stuff like that works the same way: at least when I was growing up it was ok for me to be a bit lackadaisical with my living quarters whereas my sister was considered filthy for leaving a makeup brush unwashed too long.
Oh whatever. Short of attacking the driver I saw most of that in a relatively short stay in Paris. So, yeah, okay that kind of behavior drives people to private vehicles… where the anti-social behavior involves shooting at each other or running people off the road.

e.g.

https://www.ktvu.com/news/15-month-old-baby-riding-in-vehicl...

https://sfstandard.com/2023/08/02/man-flashes-gun-drives-bac...

https://sfist.com/2023/06/27/chp-investigating-alleged-road-...

https://sfist.com/2023/09/06/road-rage-shooting-on-i-280-in-...

https://news.yahoo.com/sf-road-rage-suspect-leads-040649333....
OS ad revenue?

Can anyone find how much revenue is generated in ads from Windows?

All I can find is revenue for Bing.

I'm curious to know if the revenue Windows ads are generating is even worth the reduction in UX and consumer sentiment.
In my view, they're committing a crime by unfairly leveraging a monopoly (Windows) to violate antitrust by pushing Bing, Edge, Office 365, and OneDrive.

MSFT-ActivisionBlizzard also shouldn't happen.
I think the Ars article is a better link: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/10/qualcomm-snapdragon-...
That's bullshit though. People always make this claim but never with evidence or a source, or they provide a source that has either been retracted or simply states the same claim without evidence or citation.
Looks like they're just limiting speed in built-up areas. That's pretty common around the world, including in the US.
I'd really like to see Linux desktop become a popular platform for games and game development. Proton is great, but Windows is still too mainstream.
You don't want dynamic routing. You want frequent predictable routing.

Dynamic means you call and 1-15 minutes later a bus comes. Then it takes you to your destination, but you have no idea when you will get there because sometimes it takes long detours for someone else.

Frequent predictable routing means when you feel like leaving you just walk out the door confident that the bus will be there soon (even if you see it pulling away just as you arrive), and you quickly learn which buses to transfer to, to get where you want to be.
Their verb was ‘lie’. Do you want a lying coworker?
Older composite tooth fillings and sealants etc do contain BPA, which is an endocrine disruptor that you probably don't want to be grinding down. Recent filling materials have moved to BPA-free alternatives, though. If your caps (crowns?) are made of composite resin, then I'd be concerned if you're grinding them. Many crowns are made of porcelain now days, though.
What's even the point of a lot of these jobs in "the Age of AI"?

I don't know. You don't know. Let's hope it all keeps going a little longer so some of us can keep a roof over our heads.
I agree with the second point but given as 80% of city transports post-covid is back to being fixed commutes along fixed routes, I'm happy optimizing that along transit ways. I don't really care what happens with the remaining 20%.

Right now, nearly 100% of travel is with "personal cocoons", totally unnecessary (other than for political reasons) and creating immense downward pressure on health and social outcomes. In terms of levers the government has on health and social outcomes, transitway design is a big one, and it should use it.

The fact that its done badly in America is a political problem, and if you have any political power it should be expended fixing that, not rolling back public transit.
Compact the folders. Vacuum the sqlites. Also could move old mail to its own folders.

I have mail back to the mid-nineties and it works fine, besides a few UI glitches from the new version. (There are buttons that can't be removed.)
all true altho its pretty rough if a new member’s first experience with HN and perhaps sharing of an idea is flagging and rejection. maybe we shouldnt ascribe to malice an innocent attempt to build for a need they perceive to be missing (imitation is the sincerest form of flattery)
So they are trying to strong arm people into paying for a subscription by giving them a worse experience with ads until they do. Paying for it at that point is just letting Microsoft know that they were successful and should continue to implement more ads into things.
My hope is to find a viable enough setup to return to Linux, preferably on a modular component, unified memory ARM64 architecture of some sort, but I'm flexible.
If legislation destroys social media's business models, they'll have nobody but themselves to blame for it - all you had to do was _try_ to be unbiased or even just try not to be blatantly biased, but apparently that was too hard for you to do.
... for about a week.... then with the disappearance of Wikipedia, YouTube, etc... people start debating canceling their internet service.

... then tech stocks crash, and the land values in California plummet to historic lows

... and a lot of former programmers find themselves doing agricultural work in the fields
Yes and then go on to say something they could not possibly know for a fact. In my day to day experience Cruise cars are, mile for mile, far worse than human drivers . How could I possibly know that? I've had a couple bad encounters with Cruise cars but I've had countless encounters with human drivers in between all those. How could either of us possibly know which one is better "mile for mile." It's a ridiculous thing to say. By couching it with "in my experience" they attempt to make it sound like they're just talking about their personal experience but then they go on to say something that sounds rather objective and _could_ be measured (but wasn't).
I didn't respond to her advice by stopping the reminders. Indeed I didn't respond to her advice at all. But a few years later I developed a writing* habit. The deliberate practice of reviewing my experiences seemed to reduce my need for external reminders. (Causality is hard to prove, but they were contemporaneous, and theory suggests they would be related.)

* I'm saying writing, not journaling, because I wasn't always writing about my own experience. Even when I wasn't, though, the impulse for the writing probably usually came from those experiences.
It’s part of their keynote
https://www.youtube.com/live/h_vh7_n_OPs?si=IShsKlKCKpBUlD6e

Though there’s some sleight of hand in that they appear to do that while allowing two of their cores to boost really high, count the ST perf of the boosted cores while claiming efficiency on the whole SoC.

So it’s true and not at the same time.
It is probably an odd thing to find because in SF they really are everywhere. I don't live in SF but visit a few times a year and after the first time I saw one they just sort of became part of the cityscape and not worth filming.
Good for us, that's for sure, but the companies may see things differently.
Cantastoria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantastoria