skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Biggest example of this is to go to any news site or blog, and scroll through in a browser (without adblock if you're feeling frisky). How long did you have to scroll, and how dense was the text?

Then open a TUI browser like Lynx and go to the same page. Now look at how much text there really was. Usually it will be about a page or so without the need to scroll at all.

Doing this opened my eyes to just how monumentally bad modern web design has gotten at conveying information.
Wayland in itself has no special requirements on the GPU; it needs standard kernel support (KMS, dmabuf). EGL is optional, for both compositors and apps. Mutter and Sway can both happily run in QEMU framebuffer.
Interesting reverse journalistic interview style marketing video lol.

Problem is, even if data isn't 'stored' with them, it does seem to have to pass through their servers. That's enough of a no, for me.
I look forward to the day when we can use all of the keys on the keyboard without having to disable the ambient light sensor.
This has been going on for hours at this point and it took Google / Firebase way to long to announce this as an incident.

As of now, authentication is down and firestore read / writes are not working.

It seems the majority of zones are affected too:

Taiwan (asia-east1)Hong Kong (asia-east2)Tokyo (asia-northeast1)Osaka (asia-northeast2)Seoul (asia-northeast3)Mumbai (asia-south1)Delhi (asia-south2)Singapore (asia-southeast1)Jakarta (asia-southeast2)Sydney (australia-southeast1)Melbourne (australia-southeast2)Multi-region: eur3Warsaw (europe-central2)London (europe-west2)Frankfurt (europe-west3)Netherlands (europe-west4)Zurich (europe-west6)Paris (europe-west9)GlobalDoha (me-central1)Tel Aviv (me-west1)Multi-region: nam5Montréal (northamerica-northeast1)Toronto (northamerica-northeast2)São Paulo (southamerica-east1)South Carolina (us-east1)Northern Virginia (us-east4)Oregon (us-west1)Los Angeles (us-west2)Salt Lake City (us-west3)Las Vegas (us-west4)
Occasional, random uses of encryption would not attract much interest.

But as soon as some company sets up an encrypted node in a location that will attract users, there will be much interest in what it's purpose is.

The whole point of the regulation is to make defying the regulations on a commercial scale a risky operation.
to round out the story of the symbology, the other flags/placards being waved in that photo are "sabra" cactuses, prickly pears, available in green and red with a sweet fruit. "Sabra" is a common Israeli self-epithet, to mean something like "we are like sabras, prickly on the outside, sweet on the inside"; so those protesters are sending a "unity" sort of message by waving both.

https://www.greenprophet.com/wp-content/uploads/blur-botanic...
Farms are nothing but death and misery. You're lucky you got to be on the owner side of that. Lots of kids work their entire lives on other peoples farms, often for $0 or any upside, and end up having nothing. I think the right call was made.
Aren't MVNOs deprioritized when there's network congestion? https://old.reddit.com/r/NoContract/comments/oaophe/data_pri...

(I use Google Fi, but it often seems like it has poor performance and issues sending MMS and receiving group texts to/from mixed Android/iPhone groups)

edit: from the article...

> The discount carriers were, on average, up to 46 percent slower than my Verizon connection. That sounds like a lot, but in real-world tests, I didn’t notice a difference

But then...

> “Is it worth it?” he said. “We’re saving about $1,000 a year. I’ll deal with the hassle for that.”
> What is your reasoning?

Just to be clear, I'm talking about my instinctive gut-reaction to the issue, not my settled view. I'm not 100% sure where that instinct comes from; probably somewhere in the depths of my psyche and/or world view.
> I don’t understand why there needs to be a distinction from using copyrighted works to train computers vs people.

The problem isn't that the works are copyrighted. It's perfectly ethical to build a business on licensed works in order to generate new text, imagery, audio, etc. based on those works. Adobe Firefly is an example of ethical generative AI trained on imagery Adobe owns, licenses, or is in the public domain.
This reads like an ad. (That being said, I've only ever used budget carriers and they've worked fine for the most part.)
Wag the dog is fiction.

The FBI consists of so many people that an effort like this isn't going to pass unnoticed so it really doesn't make any sense to postulate that they did it when there is a perfectly good explanation available already that also happens to fit all of the available data.

Santa's elves (if we're going to allow fiction...) could have done it too but nobody in their right mind would suggest we raid lapland to get at them because we pretty much know who is behind this even if we can't do much about it short of isolating Russia from the Internet. Which I would be absolutely fine with and any country that offers them transit can get blocked as well. Having a connection to the internet comes with the implicit assumption that your country does not want that connection to wreak havoc on the rest of the world.

As for the FBI abroad: they have local people called liaison officers that rely heavily on cooperation with their counterparts abroad, if the FBI was ever caught in a circumstance like the one you suggest all of that would go out the window and that would be an extremely high price to pay.
Is the author really holding up mIRC as an example of good usability?

Aside from the standard window controls, I can't make sense of what a single thing on that screen does.
I think the lines gets blurred when doing early exits and guard conditions.

For instance

if !condition_a && !conditon_b {
return fn_d() // probably an error condition ?
}

if condition_a && condition_b {
return fn_a()
}

if condition_a {
fn_b()
} else {
fn_c()
}
Is the "center of the meal" the part that provides the most volume and mass, or is it the part with the most calories? My lunch today was a full pound of bok choy (raw weight), 2 Tbsp avocado oil, 4 oz of steak, and 1 oz of cheese. kulahan and bigtunacan might say bok choy was my meal, but consistent with your observation, it provided only 9% of the calorie content.
> Your brain is a structure for learning structures.

And it does so by having specialized structures.

> It doesn't need to have a built-in module for recognizing faces; it wires up a face-recognition system on the fly, from visual data.

Except it does appear to have such a special structure, the Fusiform Face Area. If it did not, people with prosopagnosia wouldn't just have problems with recognizing faces, but would have more general pattern recognition problems.
From what I understand, Blender's nodes increasingly replace the need for code with each version.
I hear Chinese supper apps are so full of features that people frequently show others how to do things or what they've discovered.

My guess would be that in the new UI swindle finding a button gives a sense of accomplishment. Recognizing 2 or 3 gives a sense of knowing the application and makes a person curious what the other buttons do. If they cant take what they've learned to other applications the lock in is stronger.

Empower the user but only slightly while simultaneously making them feel slightly dumb.

Of course there is also the new culture where the mission is less important than not hurting peoples feelings. You cant just tell people anymore that their shit sucks and that they need to start over. Not do that often enough and the ugly bloated flat icon monstrosity is going to ship. No one can stop it now.

In the end everyone got used to the new slashdot design and all worked out... (lol)
I mean, as a proof of concept, that would be neat. As a useful service; not so much with the non-optimization of the UEFI abstraction layer.
I have grave reservations about AI art, but...nope, that doesn't follow.

It's true that there are a lot of (human) artists in the US. (Something like 80 million, broadly defined.) And it's also true that the art and media each artist views shapes the art they create, including art and media we see quite incidentally - graffiti, ads on bus shelters, paintings in the hallways of office buildings. And in the course of the year each of us will view thousands upon thousands of such pieces of art and meida.

So if we had a licensing scheme such that every artist had to make a non-negligible payment to the rights holder of every bit of media they view, then artists, collectively, would be liable for hundreds of billions of dollars in royalty payments. 80m aritsts * 1k pieces of media * $5 license fee is $400b; that's just basic math.

This calculation is, very obviously, not an argument that all art is theft. It's just some math about a hypothetical licensing scheme, and that's all a18n were doing too.

You may think (and I'm inclined to agree) that a human paging through an artist's ArtStation profile is fundamentally different than an LLM using it as training data, but that's an argument not addressed by a18n in that quote.
You can only get a peerage if you will meet with the Crown in at least three geographically diverse points, and traffic flows must be roughly balanced between you and the Crown.
I'm not sure it's necessarily geocentrism, so much as the most Occam's razor-y assumption to run with until we have evidence to the contrary. Assuming life originated here means we don't also have to think about how it got here if it happened somewhere else.
Was about to post the same thing. On vacation in a major city, one of the folks with us had their iPhone battery drain to nothing while it constantly searched for a Verizon signal using a MVNO. We were on Verizon too, never had an issue, no battery draining.

I personally hate every cell provider and really liked Google Fi, but I constantly had issues receiving text messages and terrible call quality.
I always find it odd when comparing humans to computers. These models are built on stolen goods with billions of dollars but they get compared to a single person who has a passion to learn and create. This is a colonization of humanity from the wealthiest companies and people in the world. This is more comparable to Nestle stealing our water and selling it back to us than someone learning scales at their school.
I also thought it was interesting that the robots used machines that a human would to make food the way a human would. It made me think we already have a lot of machines involved in the production step - will future mechanical additions be a problem or a boon?
I seriously doubt that's what they're advocating, but even if it was there aren't typically herds of deer within city limits either.
I assumed it was in the fridge, I meant that's pushing it imo even so, I'd keep it maybe a day outside absolute max.

And I find high hydration such a pain with pizza especially, which seems only to get worse over time in the fridge (some things seem to dry out, others to get wetter, what a machine!), 75% for 14d, I don't know how you do it. It must take on a lot of extra flour when you get it out to stretch it out to shape?
It's true, but a large gap between consumer and producer prices is hard to maintain over the long run.

It is true that there are other factors which can drive inflation and rising consumer prices. However, if the recent bout of inflation was caused by supply chain issues, or by food + energy costs rising, then a decline in producer prices would probably slow consumer price inflation.
TSMC is solving some of the hardest physics, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and other kinds of engineering I don't even know about. It's unlikely anyone catches up to them in terms of lithography ability for a long, long time given how well they've executed 45nm and lower nodes.
Slack, assuming you’re referring to the new design is exceptionally poor. Putting a sidebar on my sidebar so I can get notified while I’m being notified isn’t the discoverability I’m looking for. It’s as if they took a discord screenshot and copied it without even attempting to understand how it works.
If it's just self-hosting that you're after, then yes - open-sourcing the server-side components would definitely help. Regarding their marketing as "open source" - I haven't seen their marketing claims, so I'll take your word for it, and in that case I agree with you - it's a disingenuous claim.

But my comments were mostly around your original post, where you said you were sceptical of their trustworthiness because they hadn't open-sourced the server-side components. This implied that you would trust them (and I assumed the SaaS service) more if they did this. I was just expanding on a theme that you mentioned: "unless they willingly serve binaries that are not actually built from that code...", and I was just highlighting the fact we would never know if this was happening. So if you're sceptical without them open-sourcing, you should remain sceptical even if they did open source the backend.
To be fair it's probably been fine for years -- what they've proposed is how it's been done in many distros already. They're more or less upstreaming the changes many distros have already done when they switched to Wayland by default over the last couple of years.
In theory, the system can just monitor rotation and "lock" the wheels together with torque as a goal of the system, instead of trying to detect when the tires are slipping.

As a bonus, a computer is smart enough to spin the tires at slightly different rates when turning, instead of dragging them along like a locked diff.
If it’s an old school cop sure! But if it’s an automated system… not so sure
Can't read full story behind the paywall, but this is what we do in our household, and use Cricket Wireless. It's been fine? Though I suppose we aren't mobile power users, but I like that it's less than half what we'd pay for Verizon, etc.
Not much could survive the conditions, unless you're thinking of aliens with technological means and some kind of ability to translate themselves into quark gluon physics and back.
> You get about 5 miles of range per hour off a 120V 20A circuit.

I suppose that technically works but I’d imagine you’d be sleeping in the truck all night while it charges to get just enough juice to get out of dodge. 8 hours is 40 miles. If the weather is bad and you need heat that falls apart though.
My guess is that Microsoft booked capacity years ago. Either by strategic decision, with the belief they could yield the capacity to someone else, or through their other hardware divisions (see: Xbox).

It’s very likely they knew something like this was coming, as they’ve been doing FPGAs for more than a decade now.
I heard same, but Cricket (AT&T) has not shown issues for me in past 8 or so years we've used it.
You can't escape it, but if you pay for an enterprise plan you typically have huge amounts of advance notice (monthly or quarterly roadmap updates, plus an account team at your service and the ability to demand face time / feedback with the product managers). This makes a big difference to your process of change management in handling redesigns, and influence over even relatively minor UI updates.
Oh, interesting! My Pixel 7 seems to run out of battery really fast too (vs previous Pixels, which I've had many of). I first thought it was 5G, but LTE doesn't seem much better. Now that I think about it, I switched to Fi at around the same time... wonder if it's actually that causing the drain?
mostly convenience + Postgres is better if you have frequent and concurrent write ops
> However, LLMs only predict when we ask them. In contrast, humans predict something all the time. Even when we don't have any sensory input, our brain plays scenarios.

Pretty easy to do this exercise with an LLM. At least, easier than building an LLM in the first place. Leave it running, let it talk to itself, revisit partial memories, and explore noise. Really a duct-tape problem here more than anything.
> Yet ya'll want them to open up iMessage for Android users. Sure sure sure sure sure.

Where did they say this?

> Again, if you knew anything of the reason people "look down on you for having green bubbles" it's not about SMS, but about not having the extra goodies that people enjoy with iMessage when communicating with you.

RCS supports the features iMessage users complain most commonly green bubbles lack. In other words most complaints about green bubbles are about SMS.

> Oh yeah nobody wants to use Telegram even though it apparently "runs circles around iMessage"

I don't think Telegram runs circles around iMessage. But probably some of Telegram's 700 million monthly active users like it.

> Then whats the problem? Don't want to use iMessage then start your chats with your friends on Telegram, it's available on all platforms including iOS.

> So nothing changes other than to send an SMS to non iMessage users they change to a different app? That is absurb and a terrible UX.

You answered your own question. iOS restricts SMS to the Messages app.
Here's someone doing the stairs in a Suzuki Swift with no difflocks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9gaTSaTX84

It's fine for the buyers who will be collectors, posers and social media tools - but still worth giggling about because Musk has consistently bragged that it'll be a better truck than any other truck while also being a 'better car'...and yet it does worse than a truck designed to not really see anything more off-road than a jobsite or country dirt road because Ford can

I'm guessing a P1 Touareg/Cayenne, or even a first-gen Audi Allroad wouldn't have a problem.
IMO one doesn't preclude the other. Our forebears would have used the same logic to assume that the Sun orbited around the Earth.
If it's on the shelf right next to the original, it was probably made by General Mills.
Final Scratch Pro was originally written for BeOS.
Sarah Connor was right!
> Thats why I said you would struggle to hit your caloric needs without processed grains and oils.

We consume way more calories than we need. Should be easy with corn (part of the three sisters).
Maybe it’s dependent on the location? It absolutely is the case currently where I live and it’s not just Zoom care, basically any primary care provider has a survey for this, it’s kinda how it’s diagnosed.
SQL seems like a perfect candidate for AI support.

> Join the tables foo and bar on bar_id and bar and baz on baz_id and select quip that begins with 'it' or ends with 'qu' but does not have numbers, for oracle, using date format mm/dd/yyyy.
yeah, I dug in cups that would fill up with slugs then the new slugs would eat the old ones. One or two would eat some broccoli per day until they all looked inedible.

4-5 bottles of beer per day could buy a lot of broccoli. It didn't add up.
> saying these are rule of thumbs they're not always taken this way by young programmers.

The important thing to learn about all “rules of thumb” and “best practices” is the WHY behind them. Programmers especially should not copy/paste these things and apply them by rote.

RoT and BP blindly applied may well not be a good idea. As with everything “it depends”.
I see. So the phrases are not themselves racist, just through their association with the far-right. (Where exposing media hostility to extremely mild pro-white statements counts as racist and far-right)

So which mildly pro-white phrases aren't racist, then?
> Sidenote: Thunderbolt cables are special USB-C cables, i.e. the wire between your Mac and the USB-C power brick.

Not exactly - that is only sort-of valid for Thunderbolt 3 and its successor/merger USB-C 4. TB1 and 2 used the Mini DisplayPort connector.

TB3/4 use the USB-C connector, but unlike USB-C, at longer lengths (per standard: 0.5m [1], but there longer passive cables as well, e.g. [2]) are the cable isn't passive or semi-passive (cables supporting USB-C PD for higher currents/voltages contain "marker" chipsets in the plugs) - it's an "active" cable with special transmission/driver circuitry to achieve tolerable signal integrity.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface)#Thunde...

[2] https://www.amazon.de/Cable-Matters-Zertifiziertes-Thunderbo...
To be fair, as an SME, I do have documentation and an architectural overview. In my experience when I have provided these, they have been ignored anyway. I do not have access to git, because why would IT give me something useful? I think many users would use git purely as a VCS if they had access, but nope...

It shouldn't be a spreadsheet. The IT departments should democratise the tools which devs use, so even end-users can use modern tools for the job at hand. Then popping a user-made tool into your processing pipeline would be fair enough, and code can be collaboratively maintained. In the end, just as IT wouldn't want SMEs making changes without their knowledge, SMEs wouldn't want IT changing their core system without their knowledge either.

In my opinion, the more people who know and understand the core systems, the better.

Edit: for what it's worth, I do use github (https://github.com/sancarn/stdVBA), but you won't see nearly any versions of any corporate codebases, why? Git doesn't work great with VBA spreadsheets at all. I'm not going through a 10 step process to upload the updated file to the github repo every time I update a macro in a spreadsheet. This is why on-board git is important.
Abstractly yes, the scientific process should eventually produce theories which never again need to be updated, and perfectly predict all future data. Science doesn't have a way to know when it has finally stumbled upon such a permanent theory though. Science isn't in the business of certifying its theories as true, just discarding them as false.

There are truths involved in science, but they are just mathematical/logical truths. Data is taken to be axiomatic, and logically true statements can be derived from the data. e.g. "95% of the values fall in this range", "no value is greater than 50". Those are just logical statements about sets, and they couldn't be used to prove any theory true, although they could prove one false.
I describe it as Cyberpunk because it looks like Cyberpunk 2077

do I care about the genre etymology of how Cyberpunk 2077 itself got where it is in look and feel? no, not really

I like it and thats the first word that popped into my mind
Customization and differentiation is over-rated and can even be a downside. Just grab an iPhone, buy a cover for your "unique" expression, and change the wallpaper. What else is there to customize?

Same for "replaceable batteries". An iPhone battery has solid performance for about 1,000 charges, or 3 years. That's when people buy a new one anyway, if not earlier.

The things you want to be true are not necessarily actually true.
I predict that AI will increase overall demand for knowledge work, though some types of it will likely be wholly made obsolete and replaced by other types.

When something comes along that is a force amplifier it usually grows the economy, increasing labor demand.

This is good because it means we are unlikely to see permanent unemployment, but it’s also bad because it’s why we are working harder and harder even as our productivity increases. Our growth does not lead to an age of leisure because it creates yet more work to be done.

Computers for example replaced tons and tons of manual office work but also created a massive industry of programmers and IT admins to service computers.
omg tysm!!