skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do robots outperform humans in human-centered domains?
Can't go down from where they already are, pretty much.
emailed you with a code
Android 14's storage disaster gets patched, but your data might be gone
i emailed you one
I have absolutely no idea what these guys are all talking about. 15 years ago, when I was considering buying a cell phone in high school, I was looking at $40/mo for calls and texts, no data, and all sorts of crazy roaming things. Now I pay $25/mo, get subsidized smart phones, price includes fees and taxes, 50GB of data across the 4 participants in my plan, weird random freebees, etc. etc. And I'm way less price-conscious now than I was then. This lawsuit complains about something that bears no relation to reality, AFAICT.

Sounds like AT&T and Verizon people should go to T-Mobile if their service is so expensive.
pgsodium is also a very good option: https://github.com/michelp/pgsodium
My impression of what he wrote is that it's an explanation of the status quo, not a denunciation of it. In his conclusion:

> Although it certainly doesn’t feel like it to people who hit edge cases, the tiered support model is a technology which took us decades to popularize and which made the world much better. It brought down the cost of financial services and supported product innovation which would have been impossible under the mid-century bank staffing model. We could not have credit cards or discount brokerages without the tiered support model. The biography of Charles Schwab makes this point persuasively at considerable length: competent telephone operations were instrumental to bringing equity ownership to the middle class. You should prefer a world with credit cards and discount brokerages to one which doesn’t have them, even as you listen to hold music occasionally

Tiered support is here to stay because tiered support is cheap and resistant to the "unintelligent customer DoS" (my words, not his). As he points out, you can have professional troubleshooters with the capability, authority, and expertise to troubleshoot the problem, but their labour costs in the hundreds of dollars an hour.

I personally think there is a reasonable model of the world where customers explicitly pay a hundred dollar fee to have a highest-tier escalation to the office of the CEO/equivalent troubleshooting team and have them take a look at your case, but this is a model that has not yet been developed or in wide use anywhere.
You didn't realize that? You really need to think harder on this.

Are you aware that having a gun can stop a grizzly bear's teeth and claws from killing you too?

> Unless you think its appropriate for cops to be acting as judge jury and executioner

So if someone starts shooting at at random people in a mall, and a cop has a gun on him, he is supposed to run up and use some judo to disable the mass shooter, since the cop shouldn't act as judge jury and executioner?
no, im not saying that.

Im saying that if you fully acknowledge someone to be the rightful owner and something, you dont get to change your mind about paying them, and call them a thief with no new information, and then keep it for yourself.

IF the US somehow discovered evidence that it bought stolen land, and chose to pay or return it to the original holder, that would be one thing.

Simply not paying and keeping something for yourself make YOU the thief and a liar too.
> However, it could be a good filter to really take out the wannabe warriors.

Plenty of wannabe warriors with bachelor's degrees, particularly in fields related to government, criminal justice, etc.

And there’ll be more if you make it a requirement for a job for which it currently isn't required and to which wannabe warriors are attracted.
As an mac/iOS user, I find it embarrassing that Apple's entire new flagship CPU line cannot run its newest OS. It's a bad look.
"of which there is no way it's 99% vs 1%"

It very well could be. People with a background jnnsocial engineering know there are many small and seemingly innocuous pieces of information that could be useful to an attacker.
If you charged the going rate for pre-used, maybe the buyer is planning to put them in official looking packaging (likely really official packaging picked up elsewhere, perhaps from their own purchase of an official product) and sell them as new for a profit?
> With this, the NYT has decided that they want to be a government propaganda organ instead of a journalistic organ.

It isn't "with this". In a way (in recent history) it always has been. Case in point, almost any political event. See what the NYT publishes on the Israel-Gaza conflict, in comparison with any middleeast/asian outlet. I'm not saying that this is always on purpose, it's likely a lot of it is human bias - but it doesn't change the fact that journalistic organizations have bias, and you need to read different papers for a complete picture.
Heck, this might even be an iprovement! Usually the headline is about Oracle doing some terrible cutthroat business maneuver and here we have an oracle employee being helpful! /s
anyone else fine it ironic that buddhist monks are letting AI generated content live rent free in their heads?
well received, thanks a lot.
One way that I've seen this explained (not that I necessarily agree with it or care to defend it) is that the city somehow has an obligation to _future_ residents. Or put another way, to a minimum level of sustainability as a going concern.

Another commenter framed this as ensuring that essential service workers can afford to live in the area.
Credit card balances spiked in the third quarter to a $1.08T record
Well...do they at least remember to call on mother's and father's day?
I know this isn't a popular opinion, but $54m is not even full-sized peanuts. Both in the cocaine world, and in the crypto world. Not to speak of Oracle.

Why is this interesting enough to write about?

There is illegal money in crypto? *shocker
I assume you’re talking about finding things on private property since it’s illegal to take artifacts on public land in the US older than a certain age
As a way for individuals to contribute?
> Much of the evidence that Krewson was controlling the funds came from calls that Atwell and Castelluzzo made from prison to the Oracle employee. In one call detailed by prosecutors, Castelluzzo and Krewson discussed moving the ether to Malta or the Bahamas, though they didn’t settle on a location.

The ability and extent of criminals to do incredibly stupid things never ceases to amaze me. How do people not realize phone calls from prison are recorded?
What is considered: "special categories of personal data" is related to how such data is handled.

Encryption is one tool for protecting data - it's not immediately obvious that encryption is always a useful tool.
Considering their size (a few hundred people for the whole studio AFAIK), Remedy consistently punches above their weight when it comes to graphics. Off the top of my head only Remedy and CD Projekt Red are able to compete with the big dogs (Unreal, Unity, EA Frostbite) when it comes to image fidelity and performance. Their GDC/siggraph/etc presentations are fantastic for anyone interested in computer graphics or technical art.

Alan Wake 2 is easily one of the most beautiful (from a technical perspective - IMO also from an artistic one but that's a 100% subjective thing) games ever released and it still looks good even when you turn all the settings down, which is a true achievement. It's hard to make a game scale down to older hardware while still looking good.

Though as commentators like Digital Foundry have noted, the game runs really badly if your GPU doesn't support Mesh Shaders (they mention the use of those for culling in the article). Mesh Shaders in this case enable a lot of really smart culling and dynamic level of detail so that things like coffee cups or tires can be perfectly round without having the 'every NPC has 10k-poly teeth in their mouth' problem that's currently sabotaging Cities Skylines 2's performance, and this is one of the big advantages offered by Unreal 5's Nanite.
I hear you, but I'm not sure it truly resolved the question of the premise.

You claim the data isn't there to learn human like thinking. But it's not substantiated. It's possible the sum total of all human writing does encode the core reasoning logic and function of humans, and that ML models could learn it from that.

You also seem to claim that without agency you cannot have real intelligence or human reasoning. But AI can be given agency, and it's already being worked on. And when it comes to tastes, convictions, etc., it's also something you can impart by just randomly seeding the AI a particular way which leans it towards certain preferences.

I do agree with you, the current AI models don't have our capacity to have a self driven learning process. They can't think of experiments to conduct to gather the missing data they think would help them know things with more certainty. We're able to learn and infer concurrently, and the two feed into each other almost in real time, and we have the capability to look for data, test hypothesis, etc., all in real time again.

The part I'm not convinced here either though, is that this can't be achieved with LLMs either.
It is quite possible that we are one of the first ones. The universe as we know it is rather new. Our planet exists for a significant chunk of its total lifetime, and it needed heavier elements to be produced before it could coalesce.

The universe is expected to be teeming with purposeful matter eventually.
They were also tapping the private network links of the Norwegian oil company Equinor (formerly Statoil) according to the original leaks.

It's kind of odd that neither of these oil giants have put pressure on the U.S. government as a result. They are about the only "victims" big enough to pursue the case legally.

I suspect a Supreme Court case is just about the only thing that can bring some of the remaining documents to light. Anyone with access today is almost certainly under some gag order.
I want a 15+ year old truck with this exact configuration as beater for dump and hardware/Lanscaping runs. They are virtually impossible to locate.
Yeah Waze needs a "UPS" setting where it doesn't take you straight across stroads and heavily favors turning right, while not routing you straight through everyone's residential neighborhoods.
One phrase that comes up is "segregation of duties" meaning things like "if one person can do X and Y then they can commit fraud without being caught." So the principle of "segregation of duties" means that the people who can do X are on different teams than those who can do Y.
You do you but, at the point of publishing a branch for review, I'd insist the changes are presented as a story, with well-written commit messages that helps the reader/reviewer orient themselves and presents a coherent narrative.

Anthing else, I call it a landfill site, not a maintained repository.

In fact, I'd go as far as using their commit habit as a measure of a candidate's consideration for their colleagues.
SS benefits are indexed to a wage index (which has been greater than inflation consistently since thr mid-1980s) over working life and to inflation from retirement on.

Cranking the money printer just drives up nominal social security benefits to compensate (for current retires) or more (because easy money drives higher wages).
> And, as a particular thing which could help unlock that: if one cares a lot about the experience of people at the socioeconomic margins, one should perhaps spend less time fulminating about greedy capitalists and spend more time reading Requests For Public Comment by relatively obscure parts of the administrative state.

For what it's worth, there are a staggering number of people doing political advocacy who follow these sorts of things. The main problem is, unless you are inside that system, there is no (scalable) way to know which relatively obscure parts are about to do something that you want to comment on. And, as patio11 wrote out, it's a massive system that has been layered on top of layers.

Part of the reason why spend "time fulminating about greedy capitalists" is because those "greedy capitalists" are the ones inside the system. Hell, a good amount of time, advocates are having to spend time pushing back against "greedy capitalists" because the status quo is already known and understood, but a change would cost money even if it is beneficial so the change must be opposed.

What advocacy could really use is more people who have this deep understanding and can write out lengthy articles like this explaining all of the ins-and-outs to come along with the advocates as a guide. The problem is, the economic and cultural incentives don't work like that.
the word point used with Lagrange is bit misleading if you're thinking of it as an actual point. The satellites at a Lagrange "point" are actually orbiting the point like it is a NULL pointer in a 3D app (if you have familiarity with that concept). Also, space is big.
> Without growth you would need to increase price to continue to pay for workers who want a COLA increase.

A business that raises prices to match inflation is not growing by any definition.
Oh, I forgot about that! Thanks for the reminder. And lacking VRR is even more insulting now, since SteamOS has a working implementation for Wayland.

Given how much Valve is doing for desktop Linux, I guess one day SteamOS will be the default distribution.
It's the same thing that just happened in east San Jose using the "builder's remedy" to reduce the number of units by 5x. YIMBY's like to think the builders are on their side, but they aren't. They'll take the low cost property and either sit on it for years or turn it into luxury townhomes and empty commercial space with minimal low cost housing, green space or anything else using public transit as an excuse. Privatize the profits and socialize the loss.

https://therealdeal.com/sanfrancisco/2023/11/05/remedy-for-w...

One development, initially planned near the Berryessa BART
station, was intended to accommodate up to nearly 3,500
housing units and vast commercial space.

However, the current proposal only includes 451 townhomes,
399 apartments, and 90 condominiums, alongside 45,000
square feet of commercial space.

Google was a little different here, but got treated the same. They wanted to build a transit hub complex for their growing and aging employees. YIMBYs saw this as gentrification (yes it was and would be), but the reason housing there is low cost is because of empty commercial and blight (next to the railroad tracks/highway). Adding 10k+ homes/office would have helped revitalize the commercial in the area and probably raised local prices (people from Google move in). So they pushed hard for lots of mitigation for locals and low cost housing, which delayed it for a business cycle so now you have dozens of contemned buildings and no prospect for building. Or you'll get the most profitable disorganized "builders remedy" instead, which will be fewer units, higher priced, and less integrated into the neighborhood.

Perfect is the enemy of good.
Modern high-res screens in notebooks are almost unusable with Gnome. You need to enable "Large fonts" under accessibility to make it remotely usable. And these screens are becoming more common. So where do paying Red Hat customers use Gnome for then if it's not on notebooks and desktops? For servers?
I just applied for an engineer position that listed it’s salary range as $130k-$190k - and part of the application process asked for a salary range, to which I replied $130k-$190k - what’s the point of that? Just say “this position starts at $130k” and let the details get worked out during the hiring process.
Not arguably. It's objectively selfish. Why is your time worth more than those that you're passing?
Programmable Bluetooth buttons already exist, it seems like you would just need to connect them to the Waze API (which I presume exists)
No disagreement.

This is only relevant for the AI-bro fantasy of AI becoming exponentially smarter than humans.
Depends on which dots you're looking at
I swear IOPS/request latency is one of the least understood things in these huge companies. "But we have 40bazillion GB and 100GB LAN", cool story bro, your disk queue latency is pegged at your depth limit and your fs response latency is over a second, everything is going to suck till you deal with that.
industry AND community standards and there's tons of web dev stuff you'd need to tinker together yourself in PyXYZ that is already available in huge variety in JS.

there's just no need and no advantage of Python in Web Dev except maybe fun and the love for "quick and dirty" ...

but if you keep adding and building, they will come ;]
The perennial problem with marketing language seems to be that everything needs to be reworded to "make sense" to someone who doesn't know anything about the actual product that is being marketed.
It can run the latest OS, it’s just that the update flow isn’t working. If you download the installer from the store and run it, it works.
Rfordatascience/tidytuesday: Official repo for the tidytuesday project
Yeah, I thought this was about the sale of data that had been collected by the military on a compulsory basis; this article is not news.

I clicked through because I wanted to see whether the data was health info or OPM breach data.
> We got a refund from the seller pretty quickly and they told us to keep them.

A good will gesture to reduce the chance of you reporting them as selling fakes, and tarnishing their carefully manicured feedback scores, if they were in the business of doing this regularly.
Service members are uniquely vulnerable. They are employed by the government which makes them a target of hostile foreign powers, and they're often ordered to give away their personal information while in service often out of habit and not out any genuine need to have the service members SSN.
I doubt any of Red Hat paying customers are caring about image viewers or other important GNOME improvements in this release.
Estimating Web Browser Investment
> Do humans generalize outside of their training data?

JFC, is this a joke?
SiteView – A Good HTML to Markdown Converter Powered by AI
Toyota Land Hopper: Three-wheeled electric personal mobility concept
Israeli company is building a road that charges electric vehicles in Detroit
The core of the society was a privileged elite living in corporate, walled compounds that insulated them from the damaged world, and the damage that their own work caused.

Access to the "utopia" was tied to employment and compliance to a corporate agenda.
> A good example is that when it was proposed that one should be able to transfer their account number to another bank (as telecoms have to do for phone numbers here in Finland at least), the bank lobbyists said this is technically impossible, which is of course ridiculous.

If you mean the bank account numbers used within Finland, sure, they can be changed. In the new system, there will be country-wide database which will now indicate which bank each account number is associated with. But your account also has an IBAN number, which has country and bank/institution identifiers. Those will have to change if a customer moves banks, absent an international finance law change.

And my understanding is that its quite common to use IBAN everywhere. So you won't really solve the problem. Just add another layer of complexity.
OpenAI Developer Day
This did not work for me. I installed the extension on Linux Mint, VS Code Insiders, and intellisense/autocomplete never worked no matter how many times I restarted the editor.
Even though it's generally pretty morally frowned upon, it's probably a high risk to damaging historical evidence that the pillagers may not consider "valuable" for resale in the process of finding things they do.

It's also pretty much destruction and hoarding/privatization of literal historical artifacts, art theft on a chronologically heart breaking scale.

Really we do largely want to touch those things. Just slowly and carefully and for the benefit of a larger volume of knowledge for the whole of humanity.

"It belongs in a museum" may have some good debate around it, but "it belongs on the free market for the highest bidder" is probably statistically less favored, I'd wager.
We already have state level actors laundering false information through global news outlets. What you describe is really only a continuation of that. Better processes for vetting information (be it through classical "is this source trustworthy" markers or pgp keys on the high agency end) is the only way out.
Raising profits can cause inflation.

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/19/1177180972/economists-are-rec...

>He found that in 2021, corporate profits could account for about double that, nearly 60% of inflation, meaning it was not costs driving inflation. It was corporate profits. Now, some economists hear this and think this is proof that companies were just using inflation as an excuse to gouge customers.
Holy Moses does this sound familiar. I've yet to deal with any aspect of ERP that isn't (among other things) horribly, horribly coupled to the installation's target environment.

"But of COURSE you should edit this system DLL to make a bog-simple content management system function . ."

No, no, really I shouldn't. The hell planet you from?

"It's INDUSTRY STANDARD!"[1]

Oh for the love of Christ, not this again. Go sit in the corner with the other fifty-seven "industry standards".

[1] I'm going to blow a gasket the next time someone gives me this without a numbered citation or CDRL item.
>An argument could be made here for removing all vertical integration in communication services. Whoever owns the infrastructure shouldn’t also provide the service.

This doesn't make sense as a universal maxim. It does make sense in certain contexts such as government-funded monopolies (the former Bell System) or government-funded expansion efforts (RDOF and BEAD expansion being funded by the United States and separately by the several states)

And it also doesn't make sense at certain technological levels. Old telephone lines were a point-to-point set of wires from your house to some central point. Allowing competitors into that central point and using the single set of wires that were dedicated to you, the consumer was very clean and easy to do

Unbundling shared media like coaxial lines or radio networks where all of the traffic is intermingled--at what point do you differentiate between the different providers? What are the different providers actually....providing?

It's like the deregulated natural gas market in Georgia. The monopoly no longer serves customers directly, but they still own all the pipes in the ground. The 'marketers' buy gas and sell it to us, the consumers, but it's all put into the pipelines at the same place by the old monopoly. It's all just a financial shell game with provider A essentially redeeming so many cubic feet of gas into the system. It's fungible and there's effectively no differentiation between the providers, who all have exactly the same pricing, exactly the same contracts, exactly the same policies. Except now you have half a dozen CEOs, and HR departments, and IT departments, and billing systems all adding costs--costs that are now unregulated since it's "competitive"
>Got the same amount we paid for them. I don't understand this world sometimes.

Someone wants ear buds, they want to signal wealth so choose expensive brand, but they want knockoffs because they're actually poor[er].

The main risk with knock-offs is they arrive broken, or just don't arrive, or... basically it's a scam of some sort.

So, you took on the risk of buying, assessed the earphones as working, the earphones are now probably worth more as they've been QC-ed (by you), moreover the buyer can actually see them working and refuse them if they wish.

Within the context the buyer seems relatively rational.