skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is we have all heard similar stories of humans doing similar things.

Even more so in elderly, it is common for humans to make contact with a car and the driver not be aware.

If I read this right this was such a bizarre accident. Another car driven by a human initiated the accident by hitting a pedestrian and launching their body in front or near the cruise car.

Just a while back we saw the same thing happen with zero automation cars at an intersection. A pedestrian fell close to the front of a car making a left hand turn. The light turned green and the person was dragged across the intersection.

If anything. Depending on the software update, cruise cars might be 1000s times safer knowing that we have programmed the car to look for this specifically.
Also worth noting that, unlike physical objects, images are not bound by the speed of light. Patterns of light and shadow can move across a sensor at unrestricted speeds.
The CSS style system (stylo) started out in Servo and is now in Firefox but as I understand it they've diverged quite a bit.

https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2017/07/25/stylo-is-ready-f...
Never could get why people liked ND filters until I got a 50mm f/0.95 lens for which exposures are scary short close to sunset...
The Apple version of "community-adjusted EBITDA"
I'm not sure how this has anything to do with my comment.
I read history a bit differently.

Netflix bought DVDs to ship out as rentals. Content providers had no say (first sale doctrine?).

Netflix then saw that streaming was going to eat the legacy physical-disc market and pivoted.

At this point, streaming was a new revenue stream. Most content provider money was still coming through cable/broadcast. So they said "Sure, we'll license you a bunch of stuff for cheap to do this thing we don't care about."

Streaming's growth led to it overtaking other revenue streams. At this point, content providers looked at the numbers and said "The main channel for eyeballs is getting our content for cheap. We should do something about that."

And then built their own streaming services, e.g. Hulu.

The biggest miss here seems to be by Google and Microsoft. Why, for the love of profit, didn't they say "Hmm, we have data centers, software expertise, and bandwidth... let's build a B2B streaming platform offering for content providers."
I do think a major consideration is guaranteed software updates. In Android-land, the standard is a measley two years of updates for the OS. Running an old OS that isn't receiving security updates is risky.

Screens and shells should be repairable, of course.
It sounds appealing - until we start relying on it for more and more for even the menial stuff, we stop bothering to turn it off, and hyper-capitalism/consumerism takes it over. I find this to be quite believable:

https://youtu.be/YJg02ivYzSs

I sure hope uBlock will work on it :)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/09/business/media/disney-ear...

> Disney’s streaming operation lost $512 million in the most-recent quarter, the company said, bringing total streaming losses since 2019, when Disney+ was introduced, to more than $11 billion. Disney+ lost roughly 11.7 million subscribers worldwide in the three months that ended July 1, for a new total of 146.1 million.

It seems unlikely they were losing money on the Netflix licensing deals.
I saw this post and asked myself this:

Why can't modern Linux even run graphical installers on 384 MB of RAM? See: https://x.com/_vkaku/status/1721347077169696804?s=46

I tried installing Bookworm 12.2 / i686 and the installer ran in low memory mode. See full requirements here: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch02s05.en.html

What has caused Linux memory usage to go up so much in the last decade? A decade back I could run Puppy Linux in RAM so well.
So I would agree that it is criminal if I didn’t like it. That doesn’t tell me anything.

> If the goal was one that you don't see as noble you'd definitely agree that it's very organized crime like.

Categorizing things as being criminal because you don’t like them is a juvenile sort of thinking.
I'm not arguing against encryption. Access to encryption is a generally a good thing. I'm arguing against a specific comparison being made between physical locks and encryption which is ridiculous on many levels, one of which I highlighted in my previous comment.

Broad access to secure encryption is necessary in a free society.
Back in 1812 Napoleon overestimated the abilities of his army which was perfectly suited for fighting in Western & Central Europe (Grande Armée) but had virtually no experience in the middle of the East European plain [0] the horrific outcome is one of the best studied in the history of military campaigns [1].

So, obviously Hitler and his military advisors were well aware of the huge risk, nonetheless they took it.

The explanation given in the recording (Who could have known that they could have produced over 35.000 tanks? Of which we have destroyed 34.000.) is an obvious exaggeration (the total number of all armored fighting vehicles was around 25.000 [2] at the time of the invasion) to deflect from major failures in strategic considerations e.g. underestimating the ruthless adaptability of the Soviets given their gigantic resources of land, oil and fighting men.

Because it is only when the Soviets got invaded they really began to ramp up the production of the legendary T-34 (from 3000 in 1941 to 15.000/year (!) until the end of the war in 1945) and their vast geography helped them to relocate more than half of the production sites from the West to the Ural Mountains way out of the reach for the Germans. So, the Blitzkrieg which worked brilliantly in Western & Central Europe got stuck at Stalingrad into a slow grind. Resulting into the broadest land front in military history with about 10 million military deaths on the Soviet side and about 5 million on the German/Axis side.[3]

Again, why the high risk? The necessity to secure oil fields?[4] Yes, but only paired with the pathological paranoia towards anything "bolshevik" as is evident in the recording.
So the recording is not only superficially remarkable as we hear Hitler's normal voice but also quite revealing about the rationalization taking place at a crucial point on the Eastern Front in 1942.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_European_Plain

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_invasion_of_Russia

[2]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_combat_vehicle_produc...

[3]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)

[4]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kVo5I0xNRhg
Looks good to me on that size screen, helps with long battery life?
Good lord yes on the language server. Reduce the friction involved with writing code.

I'm frustrated with terraform-ls right now. It doesn't work with private module registries, reloading each module in the .terraform dir over and over. Which impacts performance by maxing out a CPU core.

And yet a feature of Terraform Cloud (TFC) is that you can use private registries.

Writing Terraform is already plagued by friction. Adding TFC adds to the friction. The language server then not loading private modules adds even more.

Hopefully OpenTofu helps in that regard, but I don't think they've got anyone working on the language server either.
There is not much we can do ourselves, they are hurting themselves more than we can hurt them.

We don't want to punish the corrupt, we want to save Firefox from them. If would be great if some organization could fork Firefox and work with Servo to make a usable browser, but that's going to be really expensive, and the new browser will have to make a name for itself. Also the organization will have to do better than Mozilla in terms of corruption, which, again, is not a given when a lot of money is involved.
When I had an iPhone battery that died (it was one of the early generations, and it had lasted a while), it died by swelling up and rendering the phone beyond repair...
Nobody is arguing that you should keep a phone longer "just" because the battery can be replaced. You should keep a phone for longer because you want to keep the phone for longer. With a replaceable battery, you have that option.
Am I correct to say this is a multi modal model using vision and audio?

What model is it? And how is it understanding the image and the question? Can anyone shed some light on this technical process?
The industry just went 6 months without producing any content anyway, right on the heels of 2 years of craziness. There's not going to be much to pay for...
A more accurate analogy would be if they ushered the child into a backroom where a stranger was seated across from them with a glass divider between them and then they left the room. This is the whole point of Omeagle, to facilitate these interactions. Would it unsettle anyone if Walmart were doing that, and would they be legally responsible for whatever happens in there?
I was thinking more for prototyping there ;)

(I'm assuming at this point you are trying to set up a first prototype or making something you can assemble yourself in a small run)
Ladybird is amazing.

They move so fast and are building all of it in the open. I'm very impressed by what the Ladybird team is doing.
And that's great. At least pirates are good at preserving content (not always, but still). There is a lot of content you can't watch on any service, because it's old or maybe unattractive to them, so there is noone interested in bringing it in.
Great Hot take but it does go wider than this. Ireland profited at the expense of almost all other economies in the double irish-dutch sandwich nonsense, and so there is a bit more than just "shady deal we want in" here.

Tax exists for a reason. Avoiding tax exists for other reasons. Which side you are on depends on what you think about money, planning, and the economy at large.

I mainly worry that Ireland didn't spend the money very wisely. Not to say that the other people's economies that missed the taxes don't have some make-up to come.

Because rest assured, by allowing Apple to pay LESS tax to Irelant, what happened is other places where real trade took place missed out on VAT/GST income.
Not even memory safe.

It has many "unsafe" and "transmut", and this is without the bazillion external dependencies it also depends on.
You're gonna have to unpack that, because it's not clear to me how it has anything to do with my comment.
I have also had very poor customer support from them, closing tickets randomly on me with no follow up.
For Netflix costumes, all characters, no matter what their situation, wear brand-new, perfectly clean clothes. The streaming resolution shows all the perfect polyester threads of the knit without lint, or pills, or pet fur.

This is a minor complaint, but somehow when it registers I notice all the other contradictions and poor writing, suspension of disbelief collapses and I can no longer pay attention.

Sharing this because I wonder if it's a personal quirk or if other people notice this?

Also it makes me desperate to read an interview from someone who works in the costume department for their content factory. What is the process, and why is it so different than other productions?
Preview of CLion Nova, which uses the ReSharper C++/Rider C++ language engine
Except of course the counterexample of all of human history. This is the first time ever there's been widely available services that completely commoditize "a lock that law enforcement can't break with effort."

In the universe where a physical analog existed where I could have a safe in my house that was literally impossible for anyone but me to open and was a black-hole of information I can't imagine governments liking that very much. I'm not even some hardened criminal and it's for sure where I would stash my drugs and pirated movies.

This is an identity crisis for law, widespread E2EE means that there are certain kinds of laws that become impossible to enforce. It's the kind of story with Bitcoin and finance. You have a shadow financial system that while you can try and compel the individual participating in it you have no power whatsoever to compel the system as a whole. If a court rules that I am owed money from Bob the best they can do is lock him up, they can't actually go in and transfer the money without the keys.
"Old" Outlook (including the newest versions) is pretty good (once you've accepted top-posting and HTML email as inevitable). But "new" Outlook is just Office365, which is a dramatic step down from local, native Outlook.
This isn't subsidized. OpenAI makes money on their API and ChatGPT pricing.
Alphabet has a massive workforce of X000s in Ireland, spanning full time, part time, and contractor/vendors. They operate multiple massive buildings around Grand Canal, across product areas.

Not sure where you saw that they have no workers in IE?
Most of it seems to be B-tier formulaic. Good enough to not be awful if you're into that genre, but nothing amazing.

Where Netflix pays off for me is their purchases of the rights to foreign shows and films.

That and the occasional mainstream movie or original makes it a decent deal.

I find the sameness of Disney+ to be worse than Netflix, personally. But they have they are anchored by their big movies and Star Wars -- beyond that there is no depth at all.
Shovel AK (2012)
Read the article.
I don't understand the logic of this.
It's like leaving loaded gun on the desk and its gun fault (tool) when your kid shoot someone with it.
IMO this is bad parenting.
Any tool that provide anonimity and privacy can be abused.
It is not like anyone was forced to use it. You have to go there explicitly.
Adding random video chat to i.e Signal app makes it another Omegle "problem" ?
What is it about my comment that made you classify it as such? The link to the blog post I wrote or something else?

I'm genuinely curious.
> This is America, this is capitalism. We're going to drive it right off the cliff

A wise man once said, "I'm gonna ride this horse till I can't no more"
With the exception of the "break glass to reboot/one more time the IP" moments

It has felt like a natural end to the long term cultural battled for acceptance of such basic expressions of working class language and humor, in a kind of "needing to break it down so we can build it back up" sort of way.

I'd dread to think of a cultural landscape where the previous puritanical average continued letting air out of the balloon at an excruciatingly slow rate, as opposed to the admittedly immature fart sound we reveled in for a few moments.
As someone who always uses the Oxford comma in personal writing, works for an organization whose style guide forbids it, and therefore feels quite ambidextrous on the matter: this isn't one of the cases where it should affect the interpretation. Such cases absolutely do exist, though, like when a comma can serve as either a delimiter within a series or a way to offset clarification.
3 Reasons a liberal arts degree helped me succeed in tech
And how much is 2400 worth here ? Yes, its worth the same as 800 was back in India. Anyway, the numbers aren't important. The thing I was trying to point out was that if one wants a high flying career and get paid accordingly, Denmark isn't for them. The salaries are just not comparable to the US, yet.
Afaik, Disney+ is somehow still not profitable: https://www.wired.com/story/disney-plus-streaming-profitabil...

Though, I suspect this is Hollywood accounting so that they can avoid paying royalties.
Someone recently told me they have put all of their streaming services on their CashApp card while leaving no money in their account and locking their card. They only put in just enough to cover the charge of the service they want, unlock the card, and allow then cover the fee for the service they want to watch for that month.

I've been looking for a way to pause my accounts, but after looking specifically at Netflix, there's no way to do that. Maybe the empty account is the way to go??
> If the button is the current item in focus when you add the disabled attribute (for example, if someone just pressed it to submit the form), the element actually loses focus, which shifts to the document element.

> For a screen reader user, this is particularly jarring, as now you’re in a totally different place on the page.

This just feels like an argument to abandon a very useful, well understood, and built-in tool (disabling to preventing double form submission) in order to make things better for a small subset of users of a particular tool.

Why can't this just be the problem of screen readers? Why is the "solution" to not use or remove a widely used and well understood web standard?
I'm taking time out of the industry and doing other stuff. When it finally works out that it's not a viable approach for perhaps 90% of the products out there I'm going to come back and sell exit strategies.
Why stop at the four-day workweek?
It said they gave the exercise name, which doesn't sound like just the exercise number but probably mildly descriptive -- and they also gave it function stubs.
Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces[0] posits the protagonist's journey from "the ordinary world", through numerous adventures and challenges, to eventual redemption or victory, as a universal story template.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hero_with_a_Thousand_Faces
Bitwarden password manager now rolling out passkey support
The missing piece here is that streaming was not profitable for a very long time, and all the studios and content producers cannibalized their existing profitable businesses to make equally unprofitable deals with Netflix, just to be where all the users were going.

Now that industry is stuck in a situation where they wrecked their own income streams, expectations have been set with customers about what streaming costs, and they are scrambling to figure out how to re-gain that income but no one wants to go back to those pre-streaming prices.

This whole problem was one of the foundational issues behind the recent writer and actor strikes.
I know everyone is thinking about the phone part of Fair Phone, but their headphones are far more interesting to me. Something that I regularly fret over is my headphones batteries dying. Thankfully, both allow me to ue a wire (though I lose noise canceling), but that is becoming increasingly harder to do without an adapter.

With the headphones they advertise, if they're any good at all, they could last me a decade or more since I can easily replace the battery when they start degrading to the point they're unusable.

That is, I think, for most consumers, something people would be willing to get into easier and faster than their phone buying preference.
Microservices can be done right - but then they're just Service Oriented Architecture.

As a concept, they have been one of the most toxic concepts to be released on the tech world.

I remember a conference where some influential person had a slide "if your service doesn't fit on a slide, it's too big".

I've seen literal devastation in multiple companies coming from inept technical leaders who drank the microservices koolaid and ended up with 10 services per team, slower services and having to do implement JOINs over network.

Those teams not only had to 10x the maintenance work, they also had to solve new problems they wouldn't have with the right service split.

Ignore buzzwords and influential speakers who stopped coding in 90s.
Split services based on how your people are split across teams.

It seems like people are coming back on their senses though, we must be in the plateau phase of the hype cycle.
Maybe in tech, enterprises are building their own stuff, but outside those companies large enterprises are largely either outsourcing(to AWS, or managed providers) or looking for solutions with minimal system maintenance...

I see oxide as a cloud in a rack, fairly hands off, whereas SuperMicro is a choose your own adventure book.

Personally, I want both companies to crush HPE and Dell.
I believe it bears pointing out here that Apple's first factory outside of the US was set up in Ireland in 1979. All of the Apple IIs sold in Europe were built in it. The manufacturing jobs eventually moved on to China, but other roles replaced them. The fact is that Apple has had a sizeable workforce in Ireland for nearly forty-five years.
Yeah, wireless Bluetooth are expected to be replaced after only a few years. A good pair of wired headphones can last decades (if you can easily swap out the wire every now and then).
Figure I might as well drop a quick review after 2 years with the lemur pro 11

Pros:

* Most things "just work", which you only appreciate after working with other linux laptops. For example, I can seamlessly plug this laptop in place of my work macbook with just one usb-c cable. That being said I think things have generally gotten better in the space so this may not be as much of a selling point anymore. Additionally this laptop doesn't have an nvidia gpu, which means its job is easier.

* Great compatibility for building software between my desktop and this laptop, makes my personal dev work a lot more portable.

* It's quite small and very portable.

* Nice keyboard

* Moral points for supporting a small company that focuses on security (whether this is actually significant is up to the reader)

Cons:

* Battery life is a lie, especially since it drains almost as much battery closed as it does open.

* Not great screen, terrible trackpad, and silly webcam considering the price of the laptop.

* As mentioned no gpu, while costing about the same as razor laptop.

Overall, I think I am probably going to switch back to a macbook after this, not being able to go a day without charging and your laptop always being on low battery is a bit anxiety inducing. Also (and this doesn't matter to a lot of people) I really value a laptop trackpad and this one is just plain bad.
I had a good experience with System76 customer Support. I contacted them on Wednesday July 13th and they responded that Monday July 18th. They sent me a label immediately, I shipped it to them and with shipping time both ways I got my laptop back on the following Friday, July 29th.
Piracy is a service problem, not a pricing problem. I have major doubts that price increases alone drive a significant number of people to piracy.

Maybe a lot of people on this forum, but that doesn’t mean much.

Piracy used to compete with the complete inability to download TV shows and movies and conveniently watch them on a regular TV.

That’s not the world of piracy as it stands today. You have to put significantly more effort into piracy than you do to subscribe (or unsubscribe) from a streaming service.

You can’t just download stuff on BitTorrent without setting up a VPN, and the Usenet stack requires a whole bunch of technical knowledge to setup for yourself. Governments play whack-a-mole with tracker websites.
Hate how they announce this product by shitting on the hard work of docs teams.

I get that docs are uneven in quality but there’s also been what I think is a renewed focus on quality & interactive examples. There’s some truly fantastic OSS documentation out there.

The tone of this just didn’t sit right with me.
I don't know that there's a stable solution to this. If there is I don't think it's the naively obvious consolidation solution.

Prevent all exclusivity deals, and force identical pricing on all streaming platforms.

Do this, and we'll have competition for stability, and cost.

And it's 2023 ffs. There should be a backend deal, where you can watch anything ever made, and the streamer can on demand snag from the studio if rare. EG "Please wait 2 minutes, while we snag and cache super-rare content from studio X."
This sort of dynamic arrangement should be so logical, but instead, I have 120TB of storage. All with rare, hard to get media.

Because the people that own it, won't make it easy to consume.. if they'll even keep it available.
I think 40/year is the ARPU globally - the EU number is 71.52.

But it’s a bit worse than that, since users willing to pay for adblocking are disproportionately rich users, making them more valuable.