skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Not parent poster) Suburbs generally need more money for their sprawling infrastructure than they can supply with tax revenue from the suburbs.

This means that they exist because they're being subsidized by revenue collected from elsewhere, such as from cities.

Whether that is fair or exploitative depends on how you figure the math for "how much of the tax collected in the city is actually because-of or from the suburbanites who commute."
That’s another great point. I noticed that too, and the suggestion that it makes.

However, besides the image, in the article they don’t exactly sell the theory that he does anything suspicious at all. I don’t think they even suggested it. It seems he’s painting entirely as the victim.

This seeming contrast raises a fascinating point.

I totally agree with you of the importance of image messaging. Image analysis in the media of different countries is such a fascinating thing.

Like if you look at the representation of how: Black people are portrayed in American media; how Asian people are portrayed in American media; how white people are portrayed in Asian media; how Middle Eastern people are displayed in Anglosphere Western media — it’s very intriguing. By media here here I mostly mean the kind of editorial and advertising photography which you identified, wherever that is carried even in video.

It’s very a fascinating topic, and while it provides a clear window into the racial biases of different cultures it’s not extensively analyzed within the same channels that carry that imagery.

Yet it’s this powerful form of implicit messaging. The messaging functions through the presentation of a photorealistic “life like” (reflection of life) image that presents, programs, propagates and reinforces those racial biases.

Paradoxically, almost all cultures will pay lip service to wanting to do away with racism, while yet also dealing extensively in this imagery that implicitly carries negative racist messages. This creates a strange reinforcement of the stereotypes that, in words at least, a culture commonly says it seeks to reject.
Personally? I think it's quite likely they will get it to work. I don't know about the timeline though. Explosions at the launch/landing pads could delay them a lot. I think reliability is likely to be an issue for a long time, and I don't see commercial Earth-to-Earth passenger service happening for that and other reasons.

They will have trouble getting customers who can actually use the capabilities Starship has. Seems like everyone is still designing missions for status quo. Luckily they already saw that issue and created their own launch customer in Starlink. And HLS with orbital refueling will also be key.
https://www.xfree86.org/current/ctlseqs.html <- seems to claim they are supported? Oh! Maybe I misunderstand, and you mean those two features simultaneously?
Can't say about Germans, French have these habits:

> 12h time can also carry a subtext or impreciseness

There's an additional twist where 12h time is expected to be precise: when being asked for time, many a time one would answer with 12h hour + smallest delta with ±2min error margin, and only sometimes 24h, possibly rounded:

"it's 10 to 3" (3h moins 10): could be 14:48 or 14:52, 14:53 would be "5 to 3" (3h moins 5). This has a slight bias towards the highest, as usually people ask so as not to be late somewhere, so 14:52 could be answered as either "5 to 3" or even "3" depending on urgency. Someone answering "3h52" happens at time but it's fairly rare and feels a bit odd; usually happens out of some habit when reading time from analog clocks.

It's also fair to say 14:45 when it's actually 14:41, but basically nobody would say "quarter to 14".

Also, "noon" is often understood as a quasi-synonym to "lunch", and could actually mean maybe up to 2PM for some, or even 11AM if there's some preliminary social or logistics expectation: "we'll come for noon" (on vient pour midi) has a different context-dependent subtext than "we'll arrive at noon".

> you add something like “in the morning”.

"In the mornin'" ("du mat'") is indeed used as a quasi-marker, a replacement for AM but only when ambiguity needs to be resolved, which it rarely does given known context about activities or people.

Often it's used for emphasis e.g earliness: "woke up at 4" has enough context to gather that it's in the morning but has a neutral, factual tone to it, whereas "woke up at 4 in the mornin'" evokes "what? shitty night I bet, you must feel terrible"; or lateness "we were out yesterday, went to bed at 4 in the mornin'!" similarly prompts "oh looks like you had some fun!".

Sometimes it is used in jest on 24h time. An answer to the above could be "15 in the morning? are you out of your mind?", implying that person would stay up late the night before or in self-derision about one's oversleeping habits.

It's vanishingly rare to literally say "in the afternoon", generally this is inferred or explicited from conversational context, as opposed to a marker: "let's see each other tomorrow afternoon, let's say around 3?"
Making random people happy means having less people unhappy about you which increases your global status, which gives you more ability to extract resources from the world to augment your goals. Yeah, it's very long reasoning, but it is why most people try not to offend others.
Suits ignored IT's warnings, so the tech team went for the neck
They probably disagreed on a but more complex topic than basic math.

In theory you're correct, in practice, delusional.
No, they’re protecting themselves against a significant volume of fraudsters who order genuine high-value goods and return counterfeits. These people are more than capable of re-shrinkwrapping boxes after opening them.

It’s likely there’s a significant queue of potential counterfeits that Amazon needs to go through. If you bought/returned this during a period of otherwise-high volume (e.g., right after a release), there’s a particularly high chance that the volume of “real” returns temporarily swamped their normal capacity. Or maybe their capacity just lags behind what it ought to be.

Either way, they’re protecting themselves and this almost certainly has nothing to do with Apple specifically.
Nuclear is often touted as a carbon solution (especially here on HN!) but the enormous cost and long construction times make it somewhat ineffective at reducing emissions compared to other technologies.

Given that governments and utilities operate with finite budgets, for each € invested in nuclear, we’re actually much better off investing in lower-cost, lower-risk projects and technologies (renewables, electrification, heat pumps, grid upgrades, insulation, storage, etc) that deliver more carbon savings per € spent much more quickly.

To put this in perspective: you could build on the order of 1000 Mustikkamaa heat caverns for the price of one nuclear plant!
I have been programming for almost 30 years. I am extremely delighted that with one line of clear prompting I can generate 10+ lines of completely accurate code. It is very good at replicating patterns. IMO, this is the greatest advance in IDEs since intellisense. I estimate I am about 2x faster at programming than before. I would never want to go back to a world without it. Why not use it? Because all of your code has to go over the internet to a large corp who promises not to use your software against you? That risk will be solved over time with open-source, local LLMs.
Well, it's not like companies have any alternatives. Most countries worldwide have some sort of ID system with official documents that everyone has, with a unique per document number and often personal number too. Those can be used for unique identification quite easily, even online (there are apps that can take a video selfie of you, and scan your card's NFC chip to confirm you are the owner of that card and therefore who you say you are).

What alternative exists in countries without an ID system such as the US or UK? Rely on names, date of birth, place of birth? Conflicts are possible in big cities. Not everyone will have a driver's license. So yeah, it's quite easy to decide to use a unique number that everyone already has.
Well, it's usually something the environment does for us, not that we do for the environment :)
The original Kindles already have a custom Linux distribution anyway.

Most people buy these devices for Amazon services.
I don't think that was due to Mozilla pushing Google. I have Firefox configured with DuckDuckGo on all my devices and this has never happened to me on an update.
Doesn't it defeat the purpose? If someone really wants this behavior, then why use monospace fonts in the first place?
Alright, I was just tripping over the word "today", since this has already been true 20 years ago :)
.NET uses a lot of reflection, and you need to replace that with other mechanisms for AOT.

And for modern .NET (previously named .NET Core, the version that also runs on Linux) you can package the runtime with the binary. You can even create single-file executables there, though those are still not AOT.

The main advantage of AOT is startup time, and that didn't use to matter much for the kind of applications .NET was used for. It matters more now with serverless stuff like AWS Lambda.
Yeah, same for Germany. We actually got a bonk on the head from NATO that we're not hitting the 2% spending goal like at all.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/germany-must-meet-natos...
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While I agree we should use own data I do not believe that someone presense is enough to leave a platform.

Big gateway keepers will always be full od questionable people.

Politics is also full od questionable people should we not participate in it?
Win10 119.0.1 (64-bit)
I like how the article blames interest rates and not the fact that housing prices have skyrocketed 300% since 2012, which is the year redfins data starts. Ironic. Redfin WANTS to keep housing prices high because it makes more money. Of course it doesn’t blame greedy house flippers for jacking up prices with Redfins urging.
Maybe a case of semantic drift, the difference between “received package” and “received product”. If the customers are honest those are the same thing, if not there may be a step in between.
No. Murdering a murderer isn’t legal either.
> Would it make sense to have a law that would penalize leaks and theft?

GDPR has such provisions, if the company didn't do enough to protect the data. E.g. British Airways were fined for bad practices and because their website had a card scraper for multiple days which they should have detected.
Thanks, some of the pictures didn't even load for me.
The amount of money buffet made from that trade is literally like $100 to you and me. It's laughable, what journalism is today, literally zero integrity. Buffet is one of the good guys...

This is why no one cares about journalists anymore too many purposely misleading pieces trying to force some kind of narrative.
> In possibly the strangest twist on the KitKat trail, Bokksu announced in September that it had acquired Japan Crate. But NYTimes discovered that the acquisition had actually been completed back in June. So Bokksu, through a wholly owned subsidiary, had in effect overseen the loading of its own KitKats onto the original two fraudulent trucks.

This sounds like insurance fraud to me. Pure speculation, but if that’s what Bokksu wanted to do, they’d hire a middleman then claim deniability.
Those are still Musk numbers. But even 10x of that would be quite good.

Pretty crazy how nobody seems to even try to compete.
It's the same name as Juventus and Al Shabab
> Anyone have any idea what those contingency plans would be other than emergency shutdown and hope something is left to save afterwards?

In addition to the remote-control setup that others have been talking about, they're also in the process of building defensive earthworks that will direct lava flows away from critical infrastructure.
I think the reasonable limit is when something sounds like that he argues it is possible "soon" instead of not being thought about. Like, I don't think we'll have AGI or gene-modified catgirls in 10 years but those dont count as an answer to this.

Hyperloop was always being to be extremely expensive and Elon's role on it was never but just try to be a catalyst for more innovation towards it. He used terms like "open-source idea" and did that student competition to try to kind of drive other people to grab the idea. Things like FSD are instead considered concrete and produced by his companies.
Which is kind of surprising considering the ire he displays towards Rust on his Twitch programming streams...

Disclaimer: I haven't listened to the linked On the Metal episode.
I'm a bit surprised to see how centralized MLS seems to be? It seems like someone has to act as a coordinator, for the ratchet to work?

I reviewed Matrix's https://arewemlsyet.com/ recently, after getting again curious about MLS. Activity definitely trailed off after some initial excitement. But they did have some chatting about how they wanted a decentralized MLS, https://gitlab.matrix.org/matrix-org/mls-ts/-/blob/decentral...

Also, note this article here is from July 19, 2023. Have we seen any further activity since this announcement?
In Los Angeles servers are minimum wage which is like $17 an hour plus tips. A & B is best
Sure, in the sense that Chinese is like English (but with a different grammar and other words)...
If we have the ability would anyone put up the funds? I assume the costs would be huge? It would be wonderful to have it preserved.
I think my ideal setup would be RAID in the computer itself(Although that's harder on laptops), a NAS with a non-redundant disk as an incremental target, and another 2 disks as a RAID pair just for storing large files, backed up to the backup disk.

That way everything has triple redundancy overall, and incrementals, and there's some archive space for stuff too big to fit on a laptop, but the incrementals don't have redundancy, and you never backup a backup(Which would break the deduplication feature or Borg).

What I actually do in reality, is try to keep everything important on my laptop drive, which I back up with Vorta to a USB hard disk, and some small important things live in Syncthing folders that are mirrored with my phone and tablet, because none of that is cheap.
The console war between SNES and Sega Genesis is hereby resolved with the sighting of Knuckles the Echidna.
It's not my question but you still didn't bloody read it:

> Deadlines don't count.
My point is that the "think of the children" angle is redundant and reductive. We simply don't need to go there to have a discussion on the pros and cons of lootboxes.
I think Earth after nuclear holocaust or reasonably likely asteroid impact is still significantly more hospitable to human life than Mars. And any gamma ray burst affecting Earth would hit Mars too. Building survival silos on Earth would be cheaper and likely more effective to save the species in these situations.

Elon often talks about how exploration is exciting and inspirational and a prerequisite for future interstellar travel, and that works better as a justification to go to Mars, IMO. Also, while those disasters might not completely wipe out humans on Earth, they could reverse centuries or millennia of progress and delay further space exploration for hundreds or thousands of years if we don't do it now while we have the chance.
I used windows NT and 2000, both were super reliable and I don't remember if I got a single Blue Screen on those. Gaming on those was also fine, no issues. Windows ME on the other hand was a burning garbage can and a meme at best. Never understood why they did have those two worlds. And somehow managed to market the shitty product to the masses (windows 98 and ME).
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I don't mean calculations. I mean math problems.

Like those: https://www.mathschool.com/locations/andover/news/prepare-fo...
Does a good counterfeit Apple Watch actually do everything a real watch does, e.g., respond like a genuine watch after you install an arbitrary app on it and start using the app?

(If so, I'm guessing they made the cheapest genuine Apple Watch look on the outside like a more expensive one.)
I second the request to not use medium.
There are tons of better options.
Neocities, bear blog, mataroa blog, and so on.
There is no reason to suffer with medium and all the nagging.
When I first used Unix it started with 6. I feel old.
> I assume that you are referring to the soft device blob? Has that been abandoned in nRF Connect?

Quite, yes. They took the ZephyrOS approach, but it comes with a learning curve penalty, unless you go the easy route of nRF Connect GUI. In that case you do have some limitations of how you organize the code base (so that the GUI works), but even that is miles ahead in configuration compared with to the nRF5 SDK + Segger Studio.

Some skim reading material about it:
https://developer.nordicsemi.com/nRF_Connect_SDK/doc/latest/...

https://developer.nordicsemi.com/nRF_Connect_SDK/doc/latest/...
I know right... I clicked through (after logging in) only to get "The author made this story available to Medium members only."
It might be mundane rather than nefarious. If your business empire intersected a disaster at multiple points, figuring out which of your many insurance policies should pay out could be non-trivial, and reviewing the various terms, you might lean towards a preferred narrative. I guess that's a bit nefarious, but not as much as he stole his own candy.
They don't need to deprecate it. I remember reading a blogpost here that was about bypassing these kinds of checks. They recompiled SpiderMonkey with the debugger() method renamed to something else.
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I am very sorry and didn’t intend to insult anyone! (This time.)
This is an OK description though I think a more accurate one is that it learns to pick out things you are interested in -- it's learning to estimate masks in the frequency domain that remove everything but your sounds of interest. There's no pile of stuff you're not interested in (though you can generate it by inverting the mask).

The masks are learned such that they try to preserve the phase / time difference between the two recordings, thus preserving the info you'd need to do TDOA (and thus directionality).

I wonder how much distance variation between the two mics their method can tolerate before degrading the recorded sound's bearing, since that changes the time difference. I guess if the goal is just to spatialize the audio (45-90 degree bearing), it's good enough that they could even do it on airpods, in theory.
I just tested it with Win10 and the Oracle Java runtime instead of the Adoptium openJDK and it runs for me.

Using the 64-bit offline installer from https://www.java.com/en/download/windows_manual.jsp

May want to give that a try instead.
I also use the OpenJDK on Mac and a Raspberry Pi and have no issues there, so it may be something with the Adoptium implementation on windows right now.
I think it’ll be because for architectural reasons it can’t return a value synchronously, combined with historical ergonomic reasons. I don’t know when it was introduced, it’s possible that originally it could be synchronous and only subsequent V8 changes prevented that. Probably it landed before you could use `await` in the console, and they decided that made the ergonomics of Promising it too bad for the typical use case (though now you could write `await queryObjects(Function)` if it worked that way). All I know is that the documentation at https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/console/utilities... says it returns an array of objects, which is patently false.

I can’t see any reason for preventing assigning the output programmatically.
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Kinda hillarious how this comment concisely mixes logical, factual and semantic errors.
> Scarce resources is another myth

:confused_dog:

Scarcity is the underpinning of the entire economy. How is that a myth? The pie can grow, but that doesn't mean scarcity doesn't exist.
Who is using .NET on Linux?

I'm interested to hear success stories.

Sounds like a a great way to build and deploy applications.
> that's why ChatGPT struck a chord with people—it streamed the characters back to you quite fast.

So did GPT-3, though. ChatGPT (3.5) was a bit faster, but not overly so.
That's easy. The hard question is, in what base this answer is correct?
This could be made into a YouTube short. Einstein's message for the future. It would have a mix of ai generated images for the visuals with some of the stock YouTube short music evoking a mood simultaneously bad ass plus relevatory, the musical impact culminating in the point where he mentions the stupidity of the masses.
The one that takes the most getting used to is “half four” which to me means half-past four and to an Icelander means half-to four. Which like the roundabouts can always lead to comedy misunderstandings.
At least in the capital there are two separate systems for hot water, one with hot water pumped up from the ground, the other a heat exchanged cold water system.

Depending on where in the city you are, that is the hot water you get. The age of each building has nothing to do with it.
Yes he has over-promised, but Tesla also has the most promising tech on this for many reasons. It seems more like the problem itself is turning out to just be harder to cover properly than foreseen originally.

However, cars last long and Tesla's batteries last as long as any, I remember seeing some very promising numbers from very old Model S's remaining battery capabilities, and of course the batteries can be replaced. I don't see why the robotaxi idea wouldn't increase the potential value of almost any Tesla considering even the NN chip hardware can be semi-easily upgraded if really needed

> that can never exist.

That sounds like someone saying muskets are a fad. Do you really truly believe that? Never heard anyone be _that_ pessimistic about it, especially with the continual improvements.
Scientists being able to do more science stuff in place where things wobble so strangely.
Versioning isn’t an exact science, and people use whatever they see fit, both for technical but also marketing purposes.
By then Starship will be launching hundreds of times per month. I don't think it will be so expensive.
Because this part

>cannot become a reality in the next 10 years

serves as red herring and allows to move the goalposts arbitrarily, making the question pretty manipulative. Anything can become a reality in 10 years, theoretically speaking. At the same time this is not the main issue with Elon claims at all.
Some people absolutely cannot be managed that way or don’t hear “I need X” as a request to do X.
How to treat people like they're people, for robots
Mostly web stuff, ASP.NET and such.
It’s great to state intent, but when exactly it’s supposed to happen?

Also, strangely enough, this post is by “Privacy Engineering Director”, but google’s messaging is not implemented by privacy team, so is this going to be “privacy team developed proof-of-concept abandonware” to be never picked up by the product team?
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A colony in Mars opens the door to improving space travelling which at the same time opens the door to explore other planets. In a distant future humanity may be able to visit other solar systems and who knows, maybe find other species out there.
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