skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do plan to avoid the AI overlord camera system that is already in many grocery stores? Instant facial recognition when you walk into the store. Directly tied to your credit card you used on the way out last time. They mapped out your route you are most likely to take. How long until your phone is buzzing to alert you of a hot deal on aisle 12, when you are in aisle 12, for that sugar free soda you drink?

Oh yeah, don't forget they are sharing this information with an ad agency who covered the installation cost of not only your grocery store, but also your bank and gas station. All of those prefernces, tied together in a neat little digital folder, ready to sell to the highest bidding government agency.
Certain jurisdictions do allow you to do electrical work without a license if you're the property owner.
Readers should be aware that The Quillette has been known to produce things which are strictly propaganda, and to take what they write with a significant grain of salt.

An example would be their description of the Cider Riot confrontation in Portland. They presented this event in an apparently impartial way, when in fact it was an organized assault instigated by the right wing agitators, and the Quillette's reporter (Andy Ngo) was part of the assault.
In the early 80s, the field trips to the station at Cordova included a tour of the control room. I'm guessing times have changed?
No, Walter, it is you who created a false representation of what noqc said when you replied to their comment saying "people who are very good at making money make stupid investments?"
Are all proprietory software doomed to chase this kind of growth at all costs?
Emulators are not illegal, nor are compatible clones of consoles. It's actually weird that there aren't many alternative implementations of consoles in current times. There were plenty in the NES days.
I run Sway and I can set a 2x scale per output easily. Not sure about other WMs.
China has a sweeping vision to reshape the world – and countries are listening
> I would question Gamestop taking a 30% cut

Why? Physical distribution is way more expensive and they handle the entire consumer lifecycle.
As a developer, I don't mind paying the 30% for the hosting, payment handling, discoverability, community management etc.

I can't say if it's truly worth the 30%, but I sure don't want to be handling all those services myself or through others.
I think it’s harder to be objective when you don’t like the person.
The profile being a "Uses Ad Blocker Y/N" ?
Despite of the headline, I think its important for us to understand and realize that the people who would have built these systems, didn't have human safety around these bots as first priority. A lesson for all of us to remind management that bad PR for a new product or service will hurt their careers more than the bullet point gained on resume for speed and efficiency.
There are 8 billion people in the work, on track to 9-10 billion by end of century. Around 6 million children under 15 die per year. That’s around 16,000 deaths every day, or 11 every minute. [1] The International Labour Organisation states in its latest World Report on Child Labour (2013) that there are around 265 million working children in the world—almost 17 per cent of the worldwide child population. [2] An estimated 333 million children live in extreme poverty. [3] I could go on, but a wall of text comment provides little marginal value.

High level, the world should take care of the people already here before whining and hand wringing over a reduction in total aggregate population and a declining population trajectory.

> A civilization/society that can't be bothered to replace itself by raising children has already demonstrated its unworthiness. Maybe it should die.

We're unworthy because of how we treat humans here today, arguably. Treat existing humans better before complaining more aren't being produced.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/child-labor

[3] https://www.unicef.org/social-policy/child-poverty
> Maybe one of the reasons people are not having kids is that it has gotten too difficult and expensive to raise them.

An interesting theory, but it is an indisputable fact that somewhere else, someone's raising not just one child, but many, on income you'd call pocket change.

Countries that attempt to provide financial incentives quickly discover that these incentives don't seem to cause fertility rates to budge. While even I freely admit that there must be some number at which you could convince the childless to have a baby and raise it, that number's large enough that no government could hope to afford incentivizing children.

> There was a time when a single income could support a middle class family.

Sure. But when you look at the square footage for those homes... many of them are still standing, after all, pick any year you like back in the 1950s or whatever, you see they're all crackerboxes. 1100sqft. That's what the family of four lived in. Depending on the era, their big electronics purchase was the 13" black and white tv. How many nights a month do you eat out, really? How many days do you end up eating out, twice, lunch and dinner? Did those people back in the 1950s eat out once a month, and it was a big deal for them?

I don't think you'd like their "single income could support a middle class family" lifestyle. I don't think anyone here would be comfortable with that.
Parents allowing children to have limitless, unmonitored access to the internet is more to blame than any given platform.
I switched to Wayland without even noticing when I did a fresh install of Debian a few years back. I didn't realise Debian had switched to Wayland by default in the version I was upgrading to. I honestly only noticed several months later when I turned on some knobs in Firefox to enable hardware acceleration and discovered that it was running on Wayland all along.

My last experience of X11 had me fiddling with a text-based config file to disable screen tearing on a fairly common Intel graphics chipset. That was only a few years ago -- despite it being a solved issue for as long as I can remember in other windowing system such as Windows and MacOS.

That fiddling with a config file to solve such a trivial issue is a thing of the past is largely due to Wayland finally bringing Linux graphics into the 21st century. I am much happier with Wayland just performing as expected from a 21st century graphics stack right out of the box with no additional work required. It quite literally just works with no fuss whatsoever.

Thank you Wayland team, your work is much appreciated.
I'll take the worst prosecutor I can get.
How? If anything, this gives a path forward for people who can't afford to take months away from work to study for the bar exam or pay Barbri for a prep course. Compare it to professional pilots, who can work towards the 1500 hours they need for their ATP license while getting paid to do flight instructing, towing banners, flying charters or cargo, and so forth.
Another thing that's bugged me is in office the default location to save a file seems to be on the cloud. Most of the time I have to specifically mention that I want to save it in my PC and then choose the location
Delphi and C++ Builder 12 Athens released
Where did all your negativity come from? "A machine that crushed your hand?" The author clearly learned a lot, had fun, and also recognized the issues at Google and quit on their own accord. Sounds like any other job to me.
Europe, at least the EU, isn't that far off being a country, honestly. Meets most of the criteria.
A few do. Like actors and musicians. It’s a pretty short list in each field, and a lot of new talent start each year.

I’m not sure how much of that is network effects or what, if they did find a good way to balance it out long term?

When their private lives get exposed, it never seems like there was a good thing going there - but honestly, most people are pretty fucked up anyway, and if it bleeds it leads?

And who cares if someone is a cult headliner or part of a sex cult if they are sufficiently entertaining I guess?
/me rolls dice to select an answer
Is there any alternative for having a gallery of text&photo posts without forced login and exploitative social media distractions? (except for self-hosting)

When I looked for this 11 years ago, tumblr was the only platform ticking these boxes. I just wanted to share a link to photos of what we are up to with family and friends without asking them to register at another platform, and only tumblr allowed that and did not look as if it would close shop within two years.

Looked again recently and it still seems to be the only platform filling that overall „niche“. Also it has a clean and good user interface, and is customizable to the point of changing the HTML. I hope they can save or otherwise sustain it.

Other social media attempts to constantly distract and emotionalize me to keep me hooked. Looking at a good art or photography Tumblr feels like relief now honestly.
That's possible.

From the program rules... "Each calendar year shall consist of at least 40 weeks, with a minimum of 25 hours of study each week..."
This looks great, and we're in the market for it, but we use JVM tech and would need a client :(

I'd be happy to join the Slack and chat.
There is no problem. The sensor is a rigid assembly where all parts are motionless with respect to each other. Simultaneity is a well-defined concept for the sensor.
Upcoming Copilot Workspace from GitHub – is this the beginning of the end? [video]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38192486
> If a business can't handle its own scale without negatively affecting its customers

The scale probably helps. The point is if every billable decision is medically reviewed for more than a few seconds, a material fraction of the healthcare workforce needs to be diverted from patients to review.

There is simply no solution, given the current industrial structure, to avoid some combination of non-expert, high-speed review without making even stupider trade-offs.
Considering how Valve has managed to turn the Linux gaming world upside down with Proton, I imagine they can figure out HDR too.
One thing that's especially egregious about the situation in RadOnc is that there are plenty of situations where the doctors and physicists have already planned a treatment, billing $xxx per hour, and only then it is denied by insurance, so the hospital counts this as a loss and plans another inferior treatment, increasing the cost, in order to offer a "cheaper" procedure as demanded by the insurance company. The losses are of course amortized to drive up the cost of all treatments while the patients are given inferior care.

It's absolutely infuriating. A friend who is a therapy physicist left the country and went back to work in Canada taking a 40% pay cut because he couldn't stand it anymore.
Yeah, but when the problems go into the API or the Swift Library, things get real murky. The dumps from Xcode can be damn near useless.
I would argue humanity is the limiting factor for which economic systems get implemented.

But I get your point.
I spent some time around 2012 working on in car "infotainment" units at a large tech company for a large car company.

I was told that the infotainment systems were where a large chunk of their profit came from and differentiating their experience was important to the car company.

Of course, they wanted to use decade old CPUs and touchscreens to save money, so the experience was horrible. I left shortly after CarPlay was announced and our response was "That will never catch on."
I don't think I've ever seen a cookie consent behave that way, they just make it 1-3 extra clicks to refuse non-essential cookies; which is in violation.
Thanks a lot! a follow up on (2) - what does a "geographical area" mean. Like would Houston and Austin be in the same geographical area? Is there certain miles radius a cut off or entire state?
1. For switching to from withholding of removal to green card by marriage what is the steps? Can this be done without representation? What is the time frame?

2. Is it possible to move from CNMI to mainland with withholding of removal?

3. For a child adopted in a United States territory, adoption already completed, what is the step after i130?
For the love of God, please. Siri is so inadequate, especially compared to virtually every other voice assistant it’s incredible. I rely very heavily on ChatGPT’s voice assistant, especially in the last week or so and all I wish is that I could plug into my iPhone for basic commands
> China is the major communist economy in the world...

Look up "State Capitalism".
For what is worth, you can use https://lib.rs to see the earliest version a crate supports. For Rust 1.63.0, you will have to rely on Clap 4.0.32 from December 2022, instead of anything newer (which only support 1.64.0+): https://lib.rs/crates/clap/versions

For anstream, the situation seems more difficult for you, as it doesn't seem that there's any (non-yanked?) release that supports <1.64.0: https://lib.rs/crates/anstream/versions
But I wonder why these machines should be that powerful. Sure there are use cases when you need the machine to do heavy work, but in the case of lifting boxes of peppers and transferring them onto pallets, the robot shouldn't be that powerful to be able to crush a man's chest.
> Mr. Cooper, the mortgage and loan giant with more than four million customers

well that makes a lot more sense than some random person with a surname of cooper.
Mostly this is silly, props for making it just like the communicator from Star Trek TNG.

I can only think of one use case that would be awesome that I couldn’t get with an iPhone: automatic food tracking.

Having a camera mounted near your neck you could use computer vision/AI to track everything you eat and automatically tell you how many calories you’ve consumed for the day. This would be way better than manually logging food intake like we have to do now, and could be very helpful for losing weight or just staying healthy.
Why? The AMD chip they're using has comparable performance-per-watt to the M1, and I'm not sure Proton knows how to run games on an ARM processor.
I had a better and probably cheaper experience at one of the thermal pools on the golden circle. I think I paid a $35 USD entrance fee per person when I was there several years ago which for Iceland is pretty dang reasonable
Yup! Or provide statutory damages instead of vague or no statutory penalties.
It works without issues for me with gnome fedora 38
Trees are net-negative by larger margins than any other technology we have invented, pretty much any way you want to quantify it (efficiency per kilogram of tree/tech, efficiency per dollar of tree/tech, etc.).
How do you? Why the assumption that public transit cannot fulfill the needs of the vast majority of people?

Perhaps there is some tiny fraction that needs a care. Well, there would be enough on-street parking left for them.

What is far more common is the a bunch of people that don't need cars hide behind the mythical empathetic car-dependent person.
Reading these stories makes me love my shitty old 16 year old Civic. It's modern enough to have cruise control, AC and a fairly decent engine. But not so modern that reliability is compromised in the name of fuel economy and it's also not a "rude-ass car" with dumb features nobody asked for. I could afford a better car of course but I don't drive much and I'm not inspired by these rude-ass features.
This is kind of a more general question but in terms of finding a good lawyer to do X what is the best filtering mechanism?

I’m one of those people that doesn’t have a “I’ll have my lawyer look at that” kind of relationship with anyone as I e never needed a lawyer. How would I best find a lawyer In my city if I have something come up and need one quickly? Is there a ratings system or reviews system? From the outside it’s like a big gray box with cost and word of mouth recommendations being the only sliders.
Strange one: my parents tried to get visitors visa while I was on L visa and were denied (twice - in If it makes a difference), might they get better chances now that I have the green card?

P.S. it's strange for me because they are pretty well off but nothing got checked at the embassy. Reason stated was to see me & the family (2 nephews).
would love to know too. The website is gorgeous.
> "To succeed at the pleading stage of a WPA claim, a plaintiff must allege an injury to 'his or her business, his or her person, or his or her reputation,'" the judges ruled.

So.. It's okay if I record private conversation from high ranking states officials as long as I don't harm their reputation with it?

It's okay if I stole state intelligence as long as I don't harm my country with it?
Pretty cool. I wonder if there's enough interest from other devs to hook into something like this or build "apps" on top of this ability. Are you trying to "productionize" or build a platform for others on this or was it a cool hack that you don't plan on spending much more time on? Did you send screenshots at a certain FPS or do some other decision making on when to use the bigger LLM?

My little startup has system that can stream apps to an ML processing service with both a video of what's on screen and things like the context around it and what you clicked on. We run an LLM on top of this after a bunch of other processing (OCR, delta change detection, speech reco, etc.) for our knowledge capture purposes for our single app. It would be really straight forward to make such a platform available to others to build apps like what you're showing on more then just a browser, pretty much any application you run on a desktop or working across multiple of them, we haven't since before the new GPT4 with vision, most people weren't working on anything where that would help.

Anyway, I think we've solved a bunch of the heavy lifting to make this possible, feel free to email me, or anyone else reading this who like this space, if you're a company or dev that might want that layer so you can build something cool on top of it like this (diamond@augmend.com).
>Amazing things are possible at Google, if the right people care about them. A VP that gets it, a research team with a related charter, or compatibility with an org’s goals. Navigating this mess of interests is half of a PM’s job. And then you need the blessing of approvers like privacy, trust and safety, and infra capacity. It takes dozens of conversations to know if an idea is viable, and hundreds more to make it a reality.

This article summarizes clearly why Google is getting their ass kicked by OpenAI, they had all the tech but way too much bureaucracy, red tape, and lack of bold leadership to get anything out the door. If you look at the GPT4 paper credits half of the team worked at Google Brain and apparently felt they had to leave to get their work into production
He did great with Catan JR. So we are for sure on the board game train. Also made my own version of a TTRPG using Pokemon cards and D6s. He's been big into Pokemon. We played through some Pokemon Red which is great for basic math, strategy, and reading ironically.
> losing $30M a year

> 139 employees working on product and marketing

$216,000 loss per employee per year? Ouch.
Doesn't that same argument apply to cookie consent popups?

Privacy shouldn't only be afforded to the more technical users.
Not at first. We went from "masks don't work" to "masks are fantastic" almost overnight in the summer of 2020.
yeah I think I just need to write some stuff to figure it out.

I was mostly trying to figure a 1:1 comparison. For example, If I write a Feature Control module in c and in rust, using the same design, are outputs similar?

seems like either no one has a good sense of that comparison, or it's a bad comparison and I don't understand why.

What I'm trying to avoid is having a space-saving task be "rewrite rust module X in c to save code memory"
Google, Meta, TikTok defeat Austria's plan to combat hate speech
Are there stats on what proportion of Deck use is piracy? I have a Deck, half my friends have Decks, none of them have mentioned piracy as a use case that I can recall.

A 40 year old with a twenty year back catalog of Steam titles gives me plenty of things to play.
There will be no need for "long-term, seasonal storage". We only need enough storage to last until a shipment of synthetic anhydrous ammonia, ordered from a nearby wind farm or from a solar farm in the tropics, can be delivered, to be burned in an existing combined-cycle turbine. That storage is some mix of batteries and tanked ammonia.

Well-provisioned solar farms can synthesize and tank their own ammonia during periods of excess production, and sell excess (over what local tankage holds) on the open market.
> I don't think you'd like their "single income could support a middle class family" lifestyle. I don't think anyone here would be comfortable with that.

If only there had been 50 years of progress since then ...
I want a removable battery so I can get at my phones innards if I need to (I would never buy a laptop with a battery I couldn't remove), but honestly all my phones have failed for other reasons before the battery ever did.
> Genuinely asking, problem does this solve?

It's a combadge.

I repeat: it's a combadge. It solves the self-evident problem of there not being combadges available and in use.

Or, at least, it's almost a combadge. A good qualitative jump forward, but with plenty of unwanted features like subscription (I guess this could work for a Ferengi combadge), screen, wake words, etc. A combadge doesn't need to be an image projector, nor does it need rich tactile controls. But I guess you can improve the product-problem fit by ignoring those features.
Sorry but this is precisely the example of shiny chasing I was thinking of. If you think that a "core issue" that is so important (sarcasm) that apparently you don't even know what it is or what usecase it breaks then this is hardly a reason for claiming that "it's ancient and we can do better". "It's ancient" is also not generally something that can be used as a criticism. You could just put yet another patch on top of it. Everyone does it. Practically no one uses the core X API anymore, but you need to implement it if you want _your_ older programs to work.

Win32/the windows API is practically the same age, has a million more "core issues", it's a clusterfuck of patches at this point (see Wine), and yet it's going to become the de-facto ABI for Linux games in the near future, if it already isn't, just because at least it tries to be minimally stable. See the multiple HN articles about it....
I think the GP's point was that's how it should be. If a company is going to -- for "legal reasons" -- not treat contractors the same way they treat employees, then they should be doing so not only in bad, exclusionary ways, but also in good ways, with the expected perks of being a contractor that FTEs don't get: freedom to set their own hours, work where they want, and subcontract out their work.

But no, companies like Google want to have their cake and eat it too: they want a class of workers where they can require of them more or less the exact same things that they require of their employees (and much more easily fire them), but can give them a lot less, and treat them like a second class.

That's entirely Google's choice. It does not have to be that way. But they've decided to create this two-class system for their own benefit, not for anyone else's.

Also consider that these people are probably often not contractors in the legal sense. They're likely W-2 employees of some sort of staffing agency, who are then placed at Google. Google pays the staffing agency, the staffing agency pays the "contractor" a salary (significantly less than what Google pays the staffing agency), and all is fine... legally, anyway.
Are people actually getting blocked? I saw the adblock-block popup once, and after flushing the cache and updating filters of my adblocker I haven't had any issues using yt since. Am I just in a lucky A/B group or is the detection and blockage actually that toothless?