skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First you need to infantilize them to the level of “I’m ready to do anything to be in their gang.”

But at the same time, you need to feed snobbery so that you get a safe mixture of 80% immaturity and 20% snobbery.

Let’s add two drops of self-deprecation, that boring feeling of “I don’t have blue bubbles, I’m worthless and a loser.”

And now you can take a large bag for money and leave it open - they will fill it themselves, tie it and send it to the address :)
I think it is easy to fall into the trap of thinking that we deserve the insane wages of tech because we earn them. I have a friend who is a school principal and what she does is easily as complex, ambiguos and impactful as what I do, for a fraction of my salary. Maybe what she lacks in income is made up for in the satisfaction of contributing to the world in a positive way? There certainly is a hollowness I feel in tech. I started because I loved technology and how it helped in so many ways — image processing to help my astronomy classmates glean new insights from data. Tech today is about locking in customers, driving additive products and maximizing profitability. That said, I don’t have the courage to leave.
In real life not always there is a payoff of working hard. Either at school or at work.

Child can work hard, get education, get degree and end as broke person with low paying job. Like being a teacher at school.

Are the smartest, the most hard working children the most successful in adult life? Not really
How about: If you buy it you should just download it? It's the only way to complete the transaction.
$50k in NYC is nothing. $350-$450 month in tolls is enough to break households that pull in way more than that.
> Had it not been because of his purchase of Twitter, we would not have a free speech oriented social media in the world.

What? There's Gab, Truth Social and a host of other places where crypto-fascists can spew their inane nonsense. Elon's purchase of Twitter may be many things, but "freedom of speech"-anything, it ain't.
Not surprising it has such a deep philosophical core, it's a remake of the Seven Samurai.
> the EU didn't "miss the Internet", it got muscled out of the Internet by American tech monopolies

This sounds like a distinction without a difference. The American tech monopolies only became monopolies because of their first mover advantage. The EU had no Internet companies with first mover advantage... in other words, they missed the Internet.
Signing firmware might help prevent replacing the firmware, but it doesn't do anything to protect against exploiting a security vulnerability in the current firmware.

The marketing is a little too breathless to assure me that they did anything to actually make the firmware trustworthy: "Digitally Signed, Trusted Secure Firmware (RSA-2048 Bit)".

Signing something doesn't make it secure against exploits.
Now that's some gaslighting there. Congestion as in there is too many poor entering the Manhattan, so they set the fee so only those who can afford $15 can enter.

If it was about actual congestion then the fee would be proportional to one's affluence, otherwise the rich will just come in as if nothing was imposed.
Security has many layers. Obscurity can be one of them.
Atlas shrugged is the kind of book, when read early in life could sweep you under the feet in an influential way and when you revisit it later in life, you know all the bullshit selfish philosophy it contains. When I was dating, one checklist I had was to ask the person's opinion on Atlas Shrugged and hoped it was negative. The story always has dysfuncional family, which is far from reality. The selfishness depicted in Ayn Rand books are just not real.
That’s a proper, large military tent, not some 3ppl Retail campground affair.

Which is kinda weird, even in retail, u can get 3m x 8m tents (or so) that could be carried in a helicopter.
“The reason is that, in other fields [than software], people have to deal with the perversity of matter. You are designing circuits or cars or chemicals, you have to face the fact that these physical substances will do what they do, not what they are supposed to do. We in software don't have that problem, and that makes it tremendously easier. We are designing a collection of idealized mathematical parts which have definitions. They do exactly what they are defined to do.

And so there are many problems we [programmers] don't have. For instance, if we put an if statement inside of a while statement, we don't have to worry about whether the if statement can get enough power to run at the speed it's going to run. We don't have to worry about whether it will run at a speed that generates radio frequency interference and induces wrong values in some other parts of the data. We don't have to worry about whether it will loop at a speed that causes a resonance and eventually the if statement will vibrate against the while statement and one of them will crack. We don't have to worry that chemicals in the environment will get into the boundary between the if statement and the while statement and corrode them, and cause a bad connection. We don't have to worry that other chemicals will get on them and cause a short-circuit. We don't have to worry about whether the heat can be dissipated from this if statement through the surrounding while statement. We don't have to worry about whether the while statement would cause so much voltage drop that the if statement won't function correctly. When you look at the value of a variable you don't have to worry about whether you've referenced that variable so many times that you exceed the fan-out limit. You don't have to worry about how much capacitance there is in a certain variable and how much time it will take to store the value in it.

All these things are defined a way, the system is defined to function in a certain way, and it always does. The physical computer might malfunction, but that's not the program's fault. So, because of all these problems we don't have to deal with, our field is tremendously easier.”

— Richard Stallman, 2001: <https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/stallman-mec-india.html#conf9>
But most people didn’t move to Mastodon, and a bunch moved to incompatible networks like Bluesky, cohost, etc. Which is really the kind of problem you don’t want to have when you're just posting a photo.
The article could do with a few examples.

I'm not aware of anyone who is making a distro who should instead be making an application. Maybe LinuxCNC if you squint?? But that has very specific kernel requirements which are arguably best served by a custom distro.
What I really want is an analog electric car. Give me an electric power train with all big knobs and buttons, no touch screen, and no over the air software updates, and no phoning back home and spying on me.
SIGH https://killedbygoogle.com/
I wonder if this is a downtrend in vegan restaurants in general, or just vegan burger joints specifically.

As a "non-preachy" vegan, when I dine out with others, we usually go places where there's options for everyone. They try to do the same for me too.

Once in a while, I'll still go to an all-vegan place with certain friends, but that's because that place offers something special... a plant based menu that tries to be its own thing, not just overpriced fast food.

If it's just burgers and fries, many places have Beyond and Impossible burgers already. No need to specifically go to a vegan place where the omnivores are just going to be disappointed.

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Edit: It's also just a lot easier these days in general. Many many restaurants have vegan options, if not directly labeled as such, at least easily modifiable to become such. Apps like HappyCow also make it easier to find these places.

I always thought this was the more sensible option anyway (every restaurant having a couple options, rathed than a couple restaurants having only vegan options). It's not like it was 10 or 15 years ago when people didn't even know what the word meant.
I tried to return a couple of things within 30 days last month, they offered me less than purchase price plus ridiculously expensive shipping. Total refund would have been around 70% of purchase price.

Not what I expected when I signed up as a Prime customer.
Sorry but no, you are part of the social contract, as it doesn't require you to "sign" it. It's not that kind of contract. It's the set of expectations you have for the people around you to behave in a way that's conducive to interaction, and in exchange you are expected to act in kind.

When you pirated those works, you committed an immoral act, as the owner of the work did not give you permission to access those works. Broke students don't get to play games for free just because they want to. You're not entitled to whatever you want, especially when the alternative is that you are in no way harmed. You would have survived, thrived even, if you didn't have those games.
You seem oblivious to the irony here—owning a car already puts you in the upper tier of wealth in the world.

Talking about Manhattan specifically, this is already about the most expensive place in the world and the only place in the US with this scheme in place, adding more traffic isn’t going to change that so no point in using it as an example of anything.

Plenty of countries that are not so car dependent have pedestrian zones in less affluent cities.
It's correct for their audience's curiosity, comparing the peak horsepower of a sports car to a horse.
I like this part:

>> Want to share your PySimpleGUI program with friends and family that don't have Python installed on their computer? Try the GUI front-end for PyInstaller that you'll find in the psgcompiler project.
Just take the vehicle. Permanently. Sell it and put the money into food banks
I feel I should point out that California has been installing license plate readers and using them for bulk surveillance databases for a long time.

A bit over a decade ago, I counted two to four such mandatory checkpoints on my commute depending on the route I took. So, somewhere in a government database, they have a log of when I went to and returned from work that year.

I’ve heard such databases go back decades and are widely used to blackmail politicians in the DC area. (Source, a rando that had had a few drinks claimed to work for the state dept. Even if they were full of it, the capability exists.)
BMP already exists for uncompressed bitmap data.
The problem they are addressing is the MTA not having enough money. The solution is finding a politically acceptable way to address that. They’ve already raised subway fares.
> And it has huge problems with reselling accounts, attacks to randomly guess the username which gives full access to the account, they had to disable port forwarding due to abuse via anonymity, and they enforce a device limit per account due to the above. It does work for them, but at a cost.

Paying for a random generated ephemeral account would be even better for Kagi but as far as I see it now, it's a privacy nightmare.

I recommend Kagi to follow the model what Mullvad has done for making a product privacy preserving while still being able to make money.
Did you stomp your feet as you typed out your tantrum?

Read some Blind posts about <insert random tech company name here>.

Have you spent any time in a Lucid or Lightning? Both have had their share of issues with the infotainment and info centers restarting or freezing. And the Hyundais. And the Escalade. There’s a reason vehicle controls systems are not affected by the info display systems.

Reuters..lol.
Yes lived, parked and drove in downtown NYC for 6 years. 4/5 people parking on the streets own or work in local businesses. Throwing a $350-$450/mo congestion tax their way is bs. They’re keeping the city running with their vehicles, not hurting it.
Also, in the scene events they often have ANSI art competitions on the program but even before colors and computers people were using typewriters to make character based artwork. So in a sense, the ANSI art art form predates computers. Somewhat.
> Two of the vulnerabilities are deemed critical. One of them appears to be an intentional backdoor [...] Reading the contents of a firmware upgrade is not trivial though, as it is heavily encrypted and relies on a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE), embedded in the core processor of the radio.*

I don't know whether the backdoor allegation is correct, but unfortunately we should treat opaque ostensible security with skepticism.

By their nature, such things often can be used for our protection at the same time they are secretly used against us.
> we allow neutral third parties to do so.

That hasn't been working out so well lately, thus the whole "alternative methods" thing being pretty popular in some circles these days.
Sure, but I don't think anyone can legitimately claim Gruber hasn't had some generally pro-Apple stance for decades.
If it's anything like yt-dlp, the ads aren't part of the actual video, so just grabbing the direct video happens to "bypass ads".
There's some video about the ventilation ish
> because I don't want anyone thinking I support Musk

I assure you that 99.999% of people really don't care about your car. And they care far, far less about whether you support Elon Musk.
That's not how it works. If a creator doesn't provide accessibility options, you must ask them to, and if they refuse, then use the power of adjudication to enforce the aspects you claim are part of the social contract, or get permission from the creator of the work.

If what you're describing isn't part of the social contract (e.g. as you say exceptions to copyright law), then what you're describing is vigilante justice, where you decide what harms to dole out to others arbitrarily, and that's another part of the social contract we all agree is not worth it.
They should charge like $100 / number of passengers, with cheaper exceptions for very small cars and motorbikes. Then if you fill a four passenger car, it’s only $25 for the car, but a dude in a sports car by himself pays the full charge. Busses and bigger vans are pretty much free. Delivery vehicles can afford to pay the full cost of doing business. Even better if you charge by car class, so larger vehicles are more expensive.
Agreed, apart from fiddling with navigation (which is touch in any car unless you’re willing to deal with voice assistants) 99% of my control input is via the steering wheel buttons.
Because 15 is clearly unfair price for the poor people. This only benefit the rich who already are cause for majority of emissions. Lottery is absolutely fair for everyone.

OCR at borders would be easy to implement. Just have a gate and diversion lines back to where car entering came from. And simple online sing-up system and rng run every night is extremely simple software project.

Or if car without daily lottery tickets enters without permission, just make it so that it is permanently forfeit and destroyed. Thus removing it's future emissions.
It goes directly to the MTA.
And when people were saying it was a stupid thing? This is one of the many examples that prove it.
Add to that mixed zoning. It is crazy that in some places you live, work, shop, and eat each in distinct neighborhoods.
> Just don't be surprised when the rest of the world disagrees

You should buy more TSLA stock. If not, why not? You don’t trust Elon?

Here’s a tip: Tesla is massively underperforming and missing delivery estimates for Q4 2023.

It’s mostly due to the economy, but it’s also true the competition is actually here.
Advocating for universal surveillance of people regardless of whether they've committed any actual crimes?

Yeah, it kinda does.
When phones started to have built-in cameras, I once talked to a guy in a camera store and predicted that phone cameras will become more popular than regular cameras.

He looked at me as if I was insane. And with some anger, he told me that if I consider those little pieces of junk with tiny sensors and lenses to become serious competition to real cameras, he just can't take me serious.

It's always the same story with software eating the world. At first, it is hard to believe that the software will play a larger and larger role and ultimately become more important than the hardware.
> As someone that does mostly city driving and is the perfect use case for an EV, I've avoided Tesla because I don't want anyone thinking I support Musk.

Please.

Does driving a Volkswagon mean that you support their founder which in this case was Adolf Hitler of the German Labor front?

It doesn't.

Which is why the majority of drivers do not care about any of that, and only an extreme tiny minority hold that view in the case of both VW and Tesla.

>> That and I really hate the lack of tactile buttons in those cars, and their love for a clearly unsafe "full self driving" solution

The FSD scam is valid criticism of its deceptive advertisement of its false sense of safety, which at least it is an add-on which you don't have to buy it with the care.
It's also wrong to judge others when you know nothing about context.
> For starters, the end of Feudalism led to workers being forced from rural settings into concentrated urban ones

Forced.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

> which was accompanied by an increase in widespread disease outbreaks and malnutrition.

And yet average lifespans went up, because what came before was even worse.

And then the world gained the germ theory of disease and penicillin and they went up even more.

> In countries like England, this had an immediate disastrous impact on health and lifespans relative to fairly stable trend under feudalism.

You can clearly see the start of the industrial revolution on this life expectancy chart, and the consequences:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#/media/File:Li...

> Likewise, having been dispossessed of lands they were previously free to exist and work on for many generations, many adult and child were, in effect, kidnapped, as the only other choice was starvation and death.

Dispossessed of the lands? The peasants didn't own the land. They were serfs who genuinely didn't have a choice because the alternative was to be executed or left to "starvation and death."

Industrialization was the first time they actually had a choice. There were still agricultural workers -- somebody was growing the food -- but now you could go into the city, which generally paid better. Or paid at all, contrary to historical norms. And you had a choice of what you did. Working long hours in a factory wasn't as easy as working for a grocer, but it paid better, and people chose it willingly.

This was the thing that truly ended slavery in the first world -- before if you were a slave or a serf and you ran off, you would be left to die alone in the wilderness. Now you could run off to the city and get a job in a factory, and live, and make money. The old system was defunct because the plantation owners were never going to keep people there by force once escape meant profit rather than death.

> unless you somehow think the formation of the Labour Party in England was unrelated to these developments.

This was obviously the period during which unions entered the scene, but notice that unions have significantly declined in the US since then and "labor laws" like the minimum wage haven't kept up with inflation, and yet minimum wage jobs are uncommon because employers still have to compete for labor even in the absence of unions or labor laws.

The place where this falls down is when they don't, i.e. when you have a monopoly or a company town which is the only employer for some occupation or region. Which is a legitimate problem if you have a regulatory environment that allows that to happen, but the solution to it isn't "labor laws" or unions, because a monopoly is a problem for more than just workers. You have to bust them up and prevent them from forming.

At which point the rest of that stuff is just inefficient ways to mitigate the consequences a problem that should be solved properly instead.
Sorry, but no to your no. You're trying to blindly force things into a shape they don't fit. :)
> I know what it does under specific circumstances. I don't know what it does elsewhere.

No, but if you get given a circumstance, you know how to work out what it does in that circumstance. Are you saying that you need to keep every input -> output mapping in your head to feel you understand a piece of code? I feel like I understand multiplication pretty well, but there are many multiplication calculations you could give me where I wouldn't know the answer without a lot of thinking. There's some I couldn't work out by myself in my lifetime. That doesn't stop me feeling like I understand multiplication pretty well.

> Vengeance? Love? Loyalty? Pain? Hate? Emergent behaviours.

Sure, and arguably at the level we're talking about, those are descriptive rather than explanatory. 'Vengeance' isn't something a neuron knows about, nor is it a biological mechanism in our cells, it's how we describe high level behavior resulting from the interactions of the cells. It's an abstraction. If you had the accurate model you were talking about earlier, you'd be able to work out that given the right input, a particular behavior is output. That others might call that behavior 'vengeance', makes not a single iota of difference to your ability to predict the behavior of the system.

Are you saying that you need to have developed high level descriptions of the behavior of a system in order to feel you understand it? What if there are no high level descriptions? In the hypothetical scenario where we hit on an algorithm randomly, there's no requirement that it translates to any specific high level concepts, there's just input, output and the algorithm, all of which we can understand.

Or perhaps you mean that you already have a set of categories for output behavior and to truly understand something you need to be able to categorise the inputs and know which broad input categories result in which output categories? I could probably accept that as a broad definition of understanding, but there's a lot of flex there in terms of exactly what level of granularity you're requiring.
>owning a car already puts you in the upper tier of wealth in the world

In the context of Greater London this is absurd.
> that would make all advertising illegal.

I’d vote for someone pushing that.

As a bonus with all those American ad-driven malware driven out of the market there would definitely be room for European companies to compete on delivering actual value
Let's not forget that a web app, in general terms, requires a web server to run. Most users don't have the expertise or patience to run a server (not to mention all of the risks that come with running one).
At that point was it an Empire, or simply a Kingdom with the King called an Emperor?
Seattle Art Museum has an installation I fell in love with. It’s a five minute projection loop with some physical pieces and painting.

Lessons From the Institute of Empathy.

https://www.seattleartmuseum.org/exhibitions/details?EventId...
If that's what the owner of the work wants, that's what they're entitled to. It's theirs.

Besides, the concern isn't pirating The Sound of Music. The concern is pirating Game of Thrones or Euphoria. That's what's being discussed here. You can obviously find exceptions to the general rule of "piracy is immoral" but it is the general rule.
This has always been an issue for Linux adoption.

Somebody I know (not in tech) wanted to switch from Windows to Linux and I said:

"Which one?"

It's the same as Mastodon.

"Which instance?"

The answer is usually the biggest / most popular instance or distro, but not many applications the masses use are on Linux, the same as there is not many interesting people on Mastodon for people to switch over to it.

Applications are the barrier to mass adoption here for Linux unfortunately, and the paralysis of choice is the double edged sword for the massive amount of Linux distros.

Thousands of years of effort spread across many distributions that not many people would use.
> the only car that gets better every few months via over the air updates