skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "is that it makes you depend on the government for movement [...] I have to admit that they have a point."

You already depend on the government for building and maintaining the roads and the traffic lights and all accoutrements, the government can already close roads and restrict you. Public transport doesn't need to be government provided, it can be privatised (although this works badly in the UK). You also depend on the government in various ways for food and water and electricity - from land use and transport to crime prevention to upholding trade and food safety requirements and the value of currency; everyone in a city does, at least. Picking the car as the important thing for "freedom" is a ... weird one. And doesn't address the idea of "freedom from having to have a car".

> "Yet I can think of a few recent examples where control over public transportation was used to suppress protests."

"The PMLN-led federal and Punjab governments have closed several roads leading to Islamabad from various Punjab cities and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province in an effort to stop PTI activists from marching on Islamabad."[3] - there's control over the roads used to suppress something or other (I don't know what PTI activists are, but I'm assuming this isn't in the middle of a war because that probably wouldn't be using shipping containers and talking of 'activists').

What about the COVID lockdowns preventing people from going outside at all? Having a car didn't give you freedom then, and public transport wasn't involved. What about The UK[2] making it legal for the police to shut down protests because the protestors might walk slowly down roads - no control over public transport needed to stop the protest (and on the flip side, car drivers depending on the government to keep cars moving).

In Paris: "Every first Sunday of the month is the new car-free day in Paris. It's an initiative appreciated by many Parisians, who have fallen under the spell of a capital free of motorized vehicles and noise pollution. The capital's first four arrondissements are closed to car traffic on one Sunday a month."[1] - more showing that governments can shut roads and therefore car drivers are dependent on the government for freedom of movement, as well as public transport users are.

[1] https://www.sortiraparis.com/en/news/in-paris/articles/17562... -

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/15/police-to-get-...

[3] https://dailytimes.com.pk/940632/govt-closes-all-roads-leadi...
This is what mobile SoCs use. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package_on_a_package If trace length was a big factor surely PoP would offer even greater improvement.

Anyway the point is, this is not a meaningful performance benefit as it's still just off the shelf LPDDR5. In fact the M SoCs tend to underperform in memory latency tests.
> missing the context of what's actually happening in the UK such as ULEZ making travel more expensive

I'm more than 95% sure that you, a Hacker News commenter, do not have a non-compliant vehicle in the UK which you "need" to visit London, which has the best public transport in Europe. So why spread this FUD except to make it harder to enact these policies to clean the air?

Why, just why, are people against clean air? "Yes, but not like that!"

> councils implementing 15-minute city-aligned schemes which also limit movement.

Just where does this come from. If you want to visit or live in a city, then you appreciate density. Private cars are anathema to density. The logic is not hard.
Google engineers invented most of the primary innovations in NLP in the last decade, such as transformers and word2vec which started it all, that led to the current stack that OpenAI is built on. Their best public models certainly lag OpenAI, but it certainly isn't vaporware.
but government hired professors to design content of mathematics textbooks for students. there are some problem...
Sure. I don’t object to them doing anything they want, but if you tag yourself as an “altruist” (effective or not) then other people’s opinions and perspectives are at the very core who you are (or pretend to be). The idea is that they “don’t care” because they believe the numbers, and the numbers only; if the numbers are telling you did the right thing, then it doesn’t matter what people think, right? Well yes, if you’re naive enough to believe that the numbers can be infallible (in which case you’re being used), or if you’re smart enough to massage them for your own good (in which case you’re using others). Seriously, in the end it’s just a bunch of people in a big circle jerk looking for social media points, like so many others. “Oh look at how objective we are,” give me a break.
I think we need a different word for "ethnically Jewish" and "belief in the faith of Judaism", the confusion between the people and the faith causes problems.
I think the important question here is “what’s dangerous for my pet to eat”, regardless if it’s a plant, a plant-based product, or any other thing.

Adding stuff like plain old “sugar” would be useful.

Also, aren’t grapes bad for dogs? By searching “grape” there are many results that, without something like a photo or a link to Wikipedia, makes it hard to know if that’s the thing I’m looking for. I don’t know the botanical family of a grape.
The Surface Go 2 which came out in may 2020 can be updated to Windows 11.
Update, Amazon basically said they won't accept to remove the hold on my account, saying:

> The information you supplied was reviewed by Amazon but we cannot remove the hold on your account at this time. For details, check for an email or text message from Amazon describing next steps. Please contact us for further concerns.

I provided my visa + passport + card pic + selfie + Screens of latest Gift card order (email and from the website), still they won't remove the hold and effectively stealing the money in the account. I can't believe this is being done in good faith, this is clear theft, because what else they need?
> reacts identically to a law is either a conspiracy or I can safely blame the law for that

Or the whole industry either doesn't care and relies on consultants like OneTrust to provide them with "GDPR Compliance" or know exactly what they are doing.

> Just for Google Analytics. But GDPR is so bad that the lawyers advised us to have the cookie banner just to be safe.

See, you're just parroting others (and your lawyers) even though in the last 6 years you could've read the law yourself.

You couldn't even show me where the law requires these dark patterns and selling of your data to the highest bidder out of hundreds of data brokers.

The reason your lawyers told your company to implement the banner is because your company is responsible for the data it transmits to third parties. And you've decided to use Google Analytics which collects significantly more data than is strictly required, and is a third party.[1]

"Oh mu god this bad no good law requires us to be careful with user data boo hoo"

[1] And is also problematic due to Cloud Act (US) and Schrems II (EU)
I'm using a pixel 7A at the moment. It's fine. In fact it just replaced my iPhone 13 Pro because it has serious issues

As for the iPhone, they mostly just work yes. For a price. Even the old ones are overpriced.
"Googazon" has a better ring to it, IMHO.
That's not really that high, maybe for the UK, but again not unheard of
They are keeping the landscape from becoming too centralized around another direct competitor.

Open AI is now basically Microsoft. Copilot in all your docs, etc.

If only Amazon was the large investor in Anthropic it encourages a similar exclusive partnership to develop where Anthropic ends up powering Alexa with proprietary access to its SotA models.

Google throwing money that way keeps Anthropic from becoming too siloed into a partnership with one cloud direct competitor, and also helps fund another competitor to the company in the lead who is partnered with a different cloud direct competitor.

I wouldn't read into it beyond that, and certainly not in thinking this reflects product shortcomings or advantages.
Claude 2 is good and better than 3.5 but nothing close to 4 in general.
The whole tcp/ip stack and packets need to be rebuilt from the ground up. It's not the 1970s anymore.
Wasn't aware tooling for whisper came out. Whishper looks neat, definitely better than what i'm using now( whisper locally/collab and then editing with SubtitleEdit/gaupol). Thanks
Now do sales of firearms in general
Reading the article, it sounds like the headline is a bit off. As far as I can tell, they’ve halted on issuing most *new* civilian firearm export licenses for 90 days, not stopping exports where licenses have already been issued.
Long story short, GV or VOIP numbers will forever be a big red flag for me moving forward.

Longer story:

A few months ago, I posted a job for a remote US-based developer. 90% of the applicants were not in the US. Some of those who were immediately rejected re-applied with new US addresses and phone numbers, but that's another story. In the end, hired someone who was a great fit, passed the background checks, etc. The only odd thing was their phone number was GV and didn't match the location of their address. My mobile number doesn't match where I currently live and lots of people use GV, so we didn't think much of it.

About 4 weeks in, they sent me a message on a Sunday saying there was a family emergency. They would not be online during normal business hours, but would check in and would still work on tasks as they could. No big deal, I asked for follow-up on two assigned tasks so they could be handed off to someone else to finish a sprint that week.

After two days, haven't heard anything, reassigned the tasks and tried to reach out to check on the person. Phone number goes to the generic GV voicemail prompt, I leave a message. I tried calling the emergency contact, same thing. I reach out through LinkedIn & personal email, no RESPONSE. At this point, we disabled accounts and access to systems. No real reason or policy why, just seemed like a good idea.

Two days later, now Thursday, I start getting calls from a random phone number (also GV from another area of the US), but leaving no messages. Then I get texts, "This is <missing_dev> I've been trying to reach you, please call me back." I call back within 3 minutes, straight to GV generic voicemail.

A few hours later, the number calls again, I answer "Hey, this is <missing_dev>, I was trying to get some work done but it seems my accounts are disabled". After explaining the situation, they simply offered "Well, everything is good now and I'm ready to work." I tried asking some basic things like, are they okay, is their family okay, can we help with something, did you get arrested? Anything to give them a opportunity to offer something. The only response they gave was, "I'm back now and ready to work, if you'll enable my accounts." Over and over.

I explained it wasn't that simple, walked through the communication inconsistencies and asked how that would affect their reliability in the future. You will only need one guess for the response, "I'm back now and ready to work, if you'll enable my accounts."

I thanked them for reaching out and said I'd talk to HR and CEO so we could discuss (both had also reached out through personal LinkedIn, email and phone numbers to check on the person, no responses).

They were still in the 90 day probationary period, so we let them go. They were a very good developer, smart, good coding practices, but inconsistency is a killer. And yes, a GV or VOIP number will be a hurdle any future applicant needs to overcome with flying colors.
Not every moment needs to be memorable, for it to have been good. Do you remember every breakfast you’ve had for the last year?
You just described what’s wrong with a lot of the WASM world.

I understand what WASM is and how it works at the base level but the ecosystem seems fragmented and loaded with technologies described in terms that would only make sense if I knew the rest of the ecosystem.

How do I port something to WASM? Is that even possible. What problem does it solve?

There seems to be no entry point.

The only area where WASM seems straightforward is things like Dioxus where you compile Rust or some other language to run in the browser as an alternative to JS. That makes sense. But server or “edge” WASM?
The road to a police state is paved in disingenuous good intentions.
The 15-minute neighbourhoods proposal (and similar proposals) are centered around ensuring that every resident has all the essentials (shops, healthcare, parks) within a 15-minute walk of their home.

It has absolutely nothing to do with traffic filtering or traffic restrictions, and this is simply misinformation (sadly, misinformation perpetuated by the political party with a majority in the United Kingdom). Nobody is going to be confined to a distance-based-radius of their home, and anyone stupid enough to believe this is a damning indictment of the UK's education system.
It is better than Google for non-English content. You can try it for yourself.

When people say that Bing or DDG is good enough to use instead of Google, it is obvious to me that they are only searching in English. Kagi was the first search engine that could compete.
There are alot of bad recipes floating around out there. Recipe books are often geared to teaching you how to cook not just what to cook. There's techniques to cooking that affect how recipes come out. A good recipe book will teach you how to treat ingredients, how they interact with each other and then give you ideas on how to put them together.
1. OpenAI is too large a supplier for LLMs, and they are trying to create supplier diversity

2. $2B is a drop in the bucket for Google. Even after the severe fall this month, the Google Market Cap is $1.536 Trillion. Consider the investment as a % of market cap

3. It is undeniable that small players can move fast, so even if Google's AI is amazing, the slope is probably not as high as a fast moving startup

4. These products have 2nd order revenue boosters -- you might use Anthropic's marketplace app, as a theoretical example, but you end up spending much more on compute/storage/cloud in doing so, helping the cloud majors
> and (consequently) restricting private vehicles

This "consequently" is quite a jump and doing a lot of heavy lifting in jumping from policies that are completely neutral to "authoritarianism" to something where a discussion about the implications makes sense

There's nothing benefiting authoritarianism in having efficient public transport and walkable cities. And I fail to see how decrying these policies as authoritarian will help anything.

Especially since the end result seems to be (in the UK's case) the central government planning (or at least posturing) to crack down on local governments' ability to develop their own urban policy. If I had to choose between "being able to walk to the dentist" and "central government threatening the independence of local governments" I'd go with the latter as being more worthy of worry about authoritarianism

A separate conversation can be had about restricting private vehicles should such a restriction occur.
A.I. Muddies Israel-Hamas War in Unexpected Way
> "risk of firearms being diverted to entities or activities that promote regional instability, violate human rights, or fuel criminal activities."

The hypocrisy of the United States government saying this...
I wrote an OAuth 1.0a client to support getting access tokens from TripIt. I think I did this instead of using a library to (a) learn how OAuth worked, and (b) to deal with some oddities of TripIt's OAuth server.

Never again. OAuth is the worst.
This third option is not fool proof.

No amount of being told to be quiet to a 1-2 year old will do the Jo .
I can see the "human shield" angle, though I don't personally agree that's what's happening. Either way, there's a choice there on Israel's part, to continue using bombs when they know the rough ratio of how many civilians, women, children, they are killing for each Hamas member they think they are killing.

That ratio is highly unusual compared to other conflicts.

Scale it down to something you can relate to. Someone did something unthinkable to your family, killing many of them. How many women and children, uninvolved in that, are you willing to kill to get to the original perpetrator? Is it justified if the original perpetrator is using them as shields?

Isn't killing innocents because of atrocities to their people the same thing that started this most recent conflict?

Edit:

Compare the number of bombs the US dropped on entire countries over a year's time: https://progressive.org/latest/usa-bombs-drop-benjamin-davie...

You'll see that 6000 bombs in a week (Israel's numbers), into a ~10km x 40km densly populated area, is highly unusual.
As I have mentioned earlier, the EU is a project to enable new markets for mostly German and French, and some Italian and Dutch companies, at the cost of consumers in Eastern and Southern Europe.

Reading the news, it's not a loan, it's a bailout.
So in effect, several possible responses were sent from the past, but the irrelevant ones were deleted, leaving only the right answer. Hmmm.
If I'm reading this correctly, "audioplethysmography" is more than heart rate. It's a plot of the actual functioning of the heart, and can detect problems with valves, irregular heartbeat, clogged arteries, etc, too.
It's not odd, this is how big capital extends itself into the future. Alphabet and Amazon are giant tech conglomerates that have been doing this for years. Alphabet bought Youtube, Android, DoubleClick, DeepMind, Maps, etc. Plenty of things, and maybe the best things people think of when they think of Google are actually bought from the marketplace and integrated into the giant.

They buy whatever they want that might help their cause. This quarter alone Alphabet's free cash flow is $22B. This is a small bet for them. Why wouldn't they spend a small fraction in a key area for them?
It is explained why in the Stereographic projection (3d) interactive video in the linked article, just before the 5 minute mark.
Seems to capture the scale and ridiculousness as well.
Hyphens, minus, and dashes in Debian man pages
Chains are using theft to mask other issues, report says
A good catch.
Blazing fast when your webpack's build decreases from 40 seconds to 400 milliseconds:
https://esbuild.github.io/

Anything else marketing staff.
How long until they scrap on-premises AD and try to force companies to use Azure?
https://archive.ph/vB2mt
Ok, Amzoogoogazongle
Youtube in particular - I can't watch it without ad blocker. I simply do not have enough patience.
I don't see how that could even register. We use OpenAI at home (both me and my wife) but everything ChatGPT spouts must, invariably, be verified.

It's not even "trust but verify" but "Oh yup, I didn't thought of that. However it may be a lie because ChatGPT is a pathological liar, and as I cannot possibly trust a lying tool, I'll now verify" (I know, I know, there's a discussion regarding nomenclature: "lying" / "hallucinating" or whatever. But anyone who's actually using ChatGPT knows what I mean).

Basically the output of ChatGPT, for me, goes directly into Google / Wikipedia / etc.

The one case where I can use the output of ChatGPT directly is when I translate from, say, english to french or vice-versa and I know both languages well enough to be able to tell if the translation is okay or not.

Those believing they can use the output of ChatGPT without verifying it are basically these lawyers who referenced hallucinated cases to a judge.

As another person as commented: it didn't even make a dent in Google's search requests and that is no surprise.
Sometimes you have to seek a solution when someone commits an act of war, like murdering 1400 civilians--brutally--and taking over 200 people hostage. The goal is to make sure this never happens again.
> their logic, pretty straightforwardly, is that it makes you depend on the government for movement

The same government that issues you your driving license in the first place, and sets the standards for examining folks with a provisional license, and determining when licenses are revoked?

It's a bizarre argument in any case given many areas in the UK have public transport provided by private companies.
Firearm and ammunition exports are quite a big sector of the economy are they not?

Seems like an unusual move to do such a high impact action. I guess the concern must be large!
No, I don't expect so. Writing those words would mean she took her head out of the sand long enough to see if modern medicine says "oh yeah guys there's only 100% men and 100% women, nothing else."

Has she made any statement about whether she'd back down from her position if her chromosomes turned out not to meet her expectations?
The influential MUSIC IV by Max Mathews appeared 60 years ago
In parallel programming, subcomputations may complete out of order. The ability to combine those subcomputations in any order can be pretty useful!
Easiest way is if you're using a CDN, they usually have features like this. Otherwise, yu need some server-side redirect or JS
Overhead for government contractors are typically 100% or their salary or more for research work, so percentages like that (whether fair or not) are pretty standard.
> Isn't Israel inflicting civilian casualties because Hamas is using human shields?

Nope, they're doing ethnic cleansing. Just last night Israel bombed the West Bank. Hospitals, schools, restaurants, markets... taking civilians hostage.
It was how wireless charging worked in the Palm ecosystem, with their touchstone wireless charging dock.

That was around 2010, as well.
Google Fiber is getting outrageously fast 20Gbps service
One of my favorite times to practice not looking at my phone is when I'm waiting for something outside of my home. Waiting for a coffee at the cafe? Stare off into space, not at my phone.

I find the only time this is difficult is if I'm in a crowded area, and I'm anxiously concerned that I don't appear to be staring at a person like some creep. Then I feel one of my only options is to stare at a phone. But I also don't have a lot of entertaining apps on my phone so maybe I'll check the weather eight or nine times.
I'm pretty sure I know my own information, but feel free to give it a spin yourself - basically-healthy, single, 37-year-old male in Bexar County Texas. The plans offered were quite far from free and also had deductibles over $7K. Perhaps if I lived in a Medicaid expansion state, things would be better, but I live in Texas with 5.2 million uninsured residents. I suspect if it was so easy to get, then that number would be quite a bit lower.
Yeah, the headline seems off. The guidance document [1] says "The pause does not affect previously issued/received export licenses."

[1] https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/documents/policy-guidance/...
This is a Surface Go 1, which can not.
Perhaps this is evidence that markets are not always efficient...
Since bhyve can't do nested virtualization, i guess they can't "dog food" the platform during development. I wonder if for that they use Linux.

The same hardware and software using kvm would be much more appealing. Not being able to run nested virt or GPUs on such a powerful and expensive rack is pretty brutal. Perhaps that is planned for the future though.
Meta: with the double top-banner and the massive side-bar and gutters, the readable space for the blog is <30% of the page
What do you think the thousands of bombs Israel is dropping are doing? They've dropped over 7000 bombs according to their own numbers. Is it really hard to believe that each of those only killed 1 person? I think we'll find the death toll is much higher in the end.
Yeah after operation fast and furious it’s like a cheating partner accusing you of cheating. Firearms makers should halt sales to police and governmental agencies for 90 days and see how fast they pass a law banning such a thing.
People used to tolerate whiny kids, now iPad and iPhones have solved the problem.

Now you can hear a groan from nearby tables whenever you take your family to a plane or restaurant