skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Better to be a thomas edison than a tesla

A great example of why America is in social and political decline. The base nihilism of the con man figure is now the quintessential American aspiration.
It isn't quite legal -- it's just customary to pretend it is.

The dealership situation in the US is a good comparison -- Tesla refused to comply with the parasites in the American system and set up dealerships. Tesla managed to sell on the internet or in neighbouring states while fighting to get many of the dealership protection laws overturned. They did indeed succeed in getting some of them overturned (deemed illegal), they succeeded in getting others interpreted differently (which means that the customary interpretation was illegal), they succeeded in getting yet others changed to be less extortionary.

That fight is not quite over yet. An interesting wrinkle is that it is not actually in Tesla's interest to get rid of all those laws, as long as they are more of a bother to the competition than to Tesla ;)

Some of the stuff that is happening in Sweden/Denmark/Norway/Finland is completely legal -- some of it is even fair and reasonable. Some of it isn't and relies on selective enforcement of laws or on customary but incorrect interpretations. Some of it is according to laws that are against constitutions.

I think Tesla has a good case here, too. Tesla can fight dirty (but within the law) by making the unions unpopular AND by making it extremely clear to foreign investors that these countries don't have all that much rule of law in certain areas and are therefore risky places to invest. I wonder who happens to own a really, really big platform for spreading that kind of information...
But I couldn't possibly care less about Meltdown and Spectre. It's not clear why anyone does, unless they are running a cloud provider.

In fact, history suggests that the malicious actor who is most likely to hose my PC or otherwise interfere with my workflow is.... Microsoft.
Agreed, I have the opposite visceral reaction; immediate and intense skepticism.
I've seen this done a couple of times, but somebody has to push for it.

In standard suburban construction, this will never happen. These developers will cheap out to save $15 on a ventilation fan, they aren't going to run anything extra if people aren't demanding it.

To a 1st approximation, nobody (in the buying public) knows or cares.
I see a lot of buzzwords and attacks in this comment but nothing actually concrete.
There are other DNA mutations that give no advantage. For example, a mutation that causes nerves to die gradually.
There is something particularly grating about how Israel acts with impunity on the world stage yet continues to receive unfaltering support from the US government.

They secretly introduced nuclear weapons into the Middle East and refused to sign any of the treaties which are responsible for humanities current existence.

According to Snowden the NSA provides them with whatever data they'd like, even that on Americans, without any filtering whatsoever.

Bibi clowned all over Obama for years and yet he still had to agree with nearly every policy he pushed. Biden has been practically begging them to cut back on West Bank settlements. They won't even meet us there and still we send over money for them to do whatever they please.

As an American it's embarrassing.
What did you do about Reaper? I'm in a similar boat and I'm not super excited about moving to another DAW.

EDIT I didn't realise there's a linux build for Reaper now! I guess I'll still have to sort out how to run my VSTs but that's probably a case by case thing.
> What I meant, though, is that across a big population’s entire lifetime, there will be a ton of high healthcare cost events. And with technological progress, new treatments will always be coming out. Which is a great thing, just not what is typically thought of as an “insurable risk”.

Sorry, how does that follow? Insurance works any time you have a function with predictable average but high variance. Is the total health care expenditure across a relevant subscriber base in 2023 very close to 2022? Then you can make insurance work. It's just math.
> which also included a denunciation of the “Zionist ideology which promotes an exclusivist state,”

That's an interesting claim, since Israel is definitely not a exclusivist state. Yet again, 'anti-zionism' seems to be used as a dog whistle for anti-semitism

This article is pretty bad, it screams the typical "jews run the media" trope

The authors also collaborated on an article called 'Moderna is spying on you'. So they are anti-vax conspiracy theorists as well? Yikes
oopsies my opsec
I think the key, as it is in most cases, is the "why". Sometimes there really are urgent deadlines that you really need to hit. Imagine you're building an app for the Super Bowl - if you miss that date then the entire thing is a waste. Other times the deadlines are made up or self-inflicted.

Understanding the difference and communicating which is which are one of the things that make a good manager/exec. If you're constantly telling the team "this feature needs to be done yesterday" you'll lose their trust very quickly. If you're good about saying "this thing is important and we can forget the rest" or "I know we don't do this much but this date is really important for <good reason X>" then you really build trust with the team.

Most engineers are smart enough to understand when dates are bullshit and when they aren't. If you push a lot of bullshit dates then you won't get the good effort when you really need it. If you don't trust the team to work hard without bullshit dates then you should find a new team.
> “ A video is just a sequence of frames.”

Except they showed their AI the 3 most important frames (rock paper scissors) and not the hundreds in between.
Touchpad gestures - improved a bunch around 2021 thanks to efforts mentioned in https://linuxtouchpad.org/ .

Sleep/Hibernate - I remember hearing about some issues a couple years ago but haven't seen them lately, I think Intel has finally fixed some issues https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-S0ix-Linux-Failure-Hot

(Bias: went from being fairly attached to macOS to switching to Linux a couple years ago)
Seems reasonable. Just because you own a car and drive to a place should not mean the there is any street parking at that place. If a place depends on parking they should rent a location that has parking not hope the citizenry supplies them with it for free.
Please correct me if my interpretation of your statement is incorrect, I meant nothing by it purely trying to explain what I thought you meant.
This isn't exactly the same, but it's pretty close. Here's Nikki Haley tweeting: "Anti-Zionism is antisemitism. No federal funds for schools that don't combat antisemitism." [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley/status/1720501916088590704
It is true, and it is the rotting heart of the matter. Religious rites aside, this is the reason that the practice persists to this day. The very same doctors who take the Hippocratic Oath get a nice payday for every foreskin removed. The removed tissue is then sold to make fancy cosmetics.
Our hospital in chicago asked us once in a entry form and that was the end of.
I thought you were going to say:

"One could say the same for "the other part": being pro-Israel doesn't mean being a anti-arab racist who wants to ethnically cleanse Palestine, but that's also a convenient excuse used by people who are actually just that".
That makes sense on a re-reading. I've never heard of cryptics so the title was, well, cryptic to me.

I still think "nothing -> o" is ridiculous though. Is it an allusion to some other work or jargon? Or that it looks similar to a "0"?
It's because on the surface it's an interracial conflict (it's not really, I guess, but that is the perception for most), and lots of people are obsessed over racial dynamics and analyzing history through that lens.

There are so many other conflicts going on with many more dead, but if it's not interracial then somehow it is not talked about.
Sure, but you can remain self aware about what's going on. So many people seem to join the cult of personality, not just recognize the aligned incentives.
Sam Altman was toxic, but also, 90% of OpenAI employees joined the counter-coup. Doesn't really add up.

That this article is written by Nitasha Tiku, a Gawker alum, casts even further doubt on its claims.
What is your specific assertion here? Are you saying something about the article? Does it demonstrate that this group has not suppressed pro-Palestine speech in places in the US?

> there are 1 billion Muslims to 16 million Jews

The vasty majority of Muslims are not in the US, the area relevant to the article. Also, to complicate things, afaik most Jewish Americans oppose Israel's right wing, especially the current government, and are sympathetic to Palestinians. And afaik most Israeli support in the US is right-wing evangelical Christians (if I am defining the subgroup accurately), a much larger group than Jewish Americans.
MLK Jr. has a lot to say to disagree with you.

https://letterfromjail.com/

> over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”;

just because missiles do not fly, does not mean there is a positive peace.
I meant if you do a clean install via UUP dump generated ISO or a Rufus modified ISO, then it bypassed the TPM check.

Updating an existing install on non compliant HW via the official update button obviously doesn't work (unless there's some hacks for it that came out, I don't know I always do a clean install between major versions since I don't want all the years of cruft and changes from one version to be carried over and maybe mess up something).
> Companies like university educated people because they learn deep thinking.

No. Companies love hiring higher-ed graduates because it removes a lot of cost and risk for them:

- hiring only people with degrees weeds out everyone unable to cope with a high-stress environment, for whatever reason - crucially, also including people who would normally be protected by ADA or its equivalent provisions in Europe.

- it weeds out people in relationships or with (young) children, which makes them easier to exploit and reduces the amount of unexpected time-off due to whatever bug is currently sweeping through kindergarten/school/whatever. Sure, eventually they will get into relationships and have children as they age, but looking at the age people start to have kids these days [0], that's a solid 5-10 years you can squeeze them for overtime.

- it saves companies a ridiculous amount of training. The old "tradespeople apprenticeship" way is very cost-intensive as you have to train them on virtually anything, not just stuff relevant to the job, e.g. using computers and common office software. Instead, the cost is picked up either by the taxpayer (in Europe) or by the students themselves in the form of college debt. The latter used to be reserved for high-paying jobs such as pilots who have to "work off" their training cost but got compensated really well, nowadays it's standard practice.

- it keeps the employee diversity relatively homogenous. There is a clear bias towards white and asian ethnicity in the US for higher ed [1], and among top-earning job, males still utterly dominate [2].

- related to the above, it also weeds out people from lower economic classes, although at least that trend has been seriously diminishing over the last decades [3].

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/04/upshot/up-bir...

[1] https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-new-higher-ed-data-...

[2] https://www.bankrate.com/loans/student-loans/top-paying-coll...

[3] https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2019/05/22/a-risin...
I feel bad for the people who have to stick with Windows because they need to use Adobe or Microsoft products.

I don't how good it is, but Google literally forced Microsoft to create a web version of office, so now Linux users have excel?
Yep them too.
That doesn’t explain the Music app switch. They both had the exact same subscription.
That is the world we live in, not a hypothetical. That is why there are people marching down the streets.
AIPAC itself is a result of the President Eisenhower and later Robert F Kennedy (DOJ) demanding the American Zionist Council (AZC) register as foreign agents. Because of this, the AZC rebranded to AIPAC with the same leadership and the issue seemed to have fell off the high priority political radar since.

Incidentally, the founder of AIPAC, Isaiah Kenen registered twice with the U.S. Department of Justice under the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) as an agent for Israel. Prior to leading AIPAC, he was the leader of the American Zionist Council. He was also chief information officer for the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

AIPAC's mission is pretty clear: to promote the interests of Israel. This is fine, and not unique, but that seems to me to be the textbook definition of a foreign agent, and it should be registered as such.

AIPAC has a very large budget and will be spending over $100M in 2024 to defeat any candidate for US Congress that did not align with their pro-Israel goals.
ISIS was defeated by a coalition including western democracies. Well over a thousand civilians died by US bombs alone.
>Joanne Jang, who works in products at OpenAI, tweeted that no influence had been at play. “The google doc broke so people texted each other at 2-2:30 am begging people with write access to type their name.”

Also, this line seems self-contradictory. There was no influence, but people were "begging" others to sign?
It’s at least partly due to the tendency of the rate of profit to fall over time.

To maintain or increase profits, it becomes necessary to exploit workers more to reduce costs and to prevent competition to increase prices.
Hi died relatively young and before the general tech backlash, which is why people look back at him fondly. Had he lived, he would've been taken down many notches. I mean, rich asshole who verbally abuses and berates his staff, upgrades his Benz every six months so he doesn't need a license plate like the plebs AND parks exclusively in the disabled spot? That was never gonna fly.
The US didn't go to war to 'destroy Afghanistan'. They went to war to fight the Taliban.

> Iraq never attacked anyone

I am not sure Kuwait would agree.
It did vary, last time I checked, but I'm not up to date.

Maybe time to try again.
Yea someone just posted similar thoughts the other day. Microsoft making windows worse is making linux desktop environments look much better.

I am a fan of pop_OS.
If you want to start counting drivers, there are at least three

1) The algorithms of the platforms

2) The disinformation / astroturfing / asymetric warfare, driven from Russia, Iran, CCP, and many other 'interested parties'

3) The actual organic opinions

The drivers are in about that order of force. The point of #2 is to make it appear organic, so people can make the argument that 'it's just people's opinion', even when it is wrong.
You might enjoy Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future if that idea is appealing to you. Very curious execution of a disease-free bio-tech (organ-ic-tech?) future.
This is like a PhD research.

You don't finish it. You abandon it.
As far as i understand, the main goal of the Israel operation is to remove Hamas capability to launch another Oct.7-style attack in the future: prevention, not retaliation (though one can argue if there is a way to achieve this goal with less cost on civilians).
> 3. The other main justification seems to be the increase in ADHD diagnoses that happened during COVID.

So more likely that some diagnosed ADHD is actually misdiagnosed COVID?
> There are other DNA mutations that give no advantage

Yes, but that's not relevant to this discussion.
Are there actually many equally abhorrent issues right now? I can think of like, 2, and they're both involving the exact same actors.

Doctors were forced at gunpoint to leave premature babies to rot at Al Nasr hospital. And you're surprised that the world is horrified?!

Journalists and healthcare staff and schools have been targeted at a shocking rate. Civil infrastructure and historic churches blown up without the thinnest veil of a reason. More UN staff killed than any 'conflict' in history. Human rights groups and genocide experts are calling this genocide, ethnic cleansing, and worse.

And this wasn't done by some poor, decimated, tin pot dictatorship. This was done by a nuclear power, and it was supported by England and American politicians against the express wishes of a large majority of their populations.

There's no gain; none. No conceivable good can come from this. Believing that such acts will end Hamas/terror is profoundly delusional.
I bought my phone before the covid pandemic and it is rarely below 50% when I go to bed.

The only thing that make it drain faster is if I use a lot the GPS but that is usually when I am travelling in a vehicule and in those rare cases it is plugged and charging while operating.

I think you have a social media addiction issue if you have to charge your phone several times a day.
>Only if it was trained on a corpus of existing translations.

Not Necessary.

Searching for Needles in a Haystack: On the Role of Incidental Bilingualism in PaLM's Translation Capability (https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10266)

ablation studies performed on the effects of removing tiers of multilingual corpora (parallel corpora, bilingual (not necessarily parallel), and english only)

Removing Parallel corpora or even just bilingual data in general reduces quality but does not make the model unable to translate. Crucially, the gap or reduction in quality also seems to diminish with scale.

The paper also shows models may not need any multilingual corpora at all. The 8b Model can still translate latin scripts with only english training data, adding evidence for larger models being better equipped to leverage either sparse signals
(i.e., language-identification failures during ablation) and/or weak signals (i.e., language similarities
from shared scripts).
It generally would be considered unconstitutional, yes. When immigration status is thrown into the mix though, you never really know what can happen unfortunately. 10 years without trial is in fact a whole lot too long though!!
Good start, but too broad and open for interpretation.

- Who gets to define testability?

- I want to add a coffee maker to my crash test dummy; is the lack of room for the filter and water tank a sign of a bad design? Or not flexible enough for my feature?

- (cue meme) "You guys have organizational structure?"

- Who gets to claim the impedence mismatch? What are those consequences? Wait, where are the dependencies defined again outside of the software?
The legal battles changing the course of climate change
> My point is it is deeply felt up to the point of actual sacrifice

Because otherwise it invalidates their opinion? So, are you ready to sacrifice yourself in the streets for Mr. Biden / Mr. Trump / Mr. Macron / Ms. LePen / etc etc, or to rehome the "victims" of their policies?
c.f. The Simpsons, SNL, ...
There was always going to be an opinion war after 1200 massacred civilians, when a large portion of the other side doesn't take the primary tack of "stop bombing Palestine" but instead "Free Palestine".

This particular pro-Palestinian argument being so imprecise and tactically wrong, at this crucial time to saving the lives of Palestinians, only guarantees an unsovable hurricane of noise with no outcome but more civilian deaths and more war.

As the other side can not and will not reward the spark of the initial massacre to force a benefits negotiation, obviously. Let alone one that discusses ceding territory.

It's morally logical to be aghast at the Palestinian Civilian death toll, regardless of the argument as to who is ultimately responsible.

But it is morally unforgiveable for people, living in safety and ostensibly in support of voiceless Palestinians in a war zone, to decide to put a territory argument above Paelstinian lives.

This argument further endangers Palestinian lives when it radicalizes them in a manner, within the context of an unwinnable situation, that all but assures their deaths.

Hamas has been clear about their choice of the promise of territory over the lives of the entire Palestinian population.

Less doomed and morally clearer people need to make the choice to discharge the Palestinian population from their duty as pawns. Even if it means living a long life in another desert that isn't under terrorist militia control. In the context of an absolutely unwinnable situation.

Israel is clear, whatever one thinks of the nature of that clarity. That the Palestinians are unclear is why there will be a continued "information war" until the exact point when there isn't the possibility of Palestinians tolerating a single further death. At which point the rallying cry will focus solely on Palestinian lives.

We should all hope that this mutual clarity comes in this very minute. If not in this minute, then in the next. So that the maximum number of lives can be saved.

People can rail against that reality forever, but it will remain reality.
>Imagine if you will someone going to start large scale bombing NYC. Or London. Or Rome.

The response to Sep 11, 2001?
Oh, boy, I get to post this again:

https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff
That's management suggesting you find a better job. :/
No, the employer here is not the government. Please stop repeating this.
> How's things like sleep, hibernate, system wide touchpad gestures, HW video decode and fractional scaling working in the land of linux these days?

I use a ThinkPad, so I prefer the TrackPoint and rarely use the TrackPad, but everything else works excellently, especially with KDE.
What was she like?
Back in the day there was a very nice and simple little MIDI sequencer for X-Windows called Seq24 that I used every now and then. Of course there are much more complex music software that also happens to have MIDI-support (LMMS, Renoise, ...) but I liked Seq24 because it only did short MIDI patterns and had quite good GUI (holding down various modifiers and using the different mouse-buttons to do most edits).

Searching I get a link to a URL that looks like it could have been the Seq24 home page, but Firefox throws up a security warning for that domain. There is also a hit for this project that claims to be based on Seq24 and that has commits as recently as a few days ago, so maybe this is worth looking at:

https://github.com/ahlstromcj/seq66
It's the same standard the entire world held the US to after 9/11. A response to the attacks by Al-Qaeda was justified, the 20 year "Crusade" across the Middle East was not. A response by Israel against Hamas terrorism is justified - a campaign of extermination and genocide is not.

It isn't even a high standard, "don't commit genocide" has been the bare minimum requirement for any modern country, much less democracy, for nearly a century. It would be antisemitic to believe that Israel is uniquely incapable of meeting that minimum standard.
I’m not a CS academic or a mathematician, but don’t Godel’s incompleteness theorems preclude a formal proof of correctness?
I never really got how proofs are supposed to solve this issue. I think that would just move the bugs from the code into the proof definition. Your code may do what the proof says, but how do you know what the proof says is what you actually want to happen?