skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't wait to read the deal.

But this should not be very hard to agree on, which pretty much showcases the fuckery going.

A fucking no brainer to turn down. Which it seems they not really did but perhaps did a little bit.

"The negotiators agreed to allow some live scanning of faces, but with safeguards and exemptions, Breton said. The deal would prohibit biometric scanning that categorizes people by sensitive characteristics, such as political or religious beliefs, sexual orientation or race. Officials said this was one of the most difficult and sensitive issues in the talks."
Ok, but in your long rant you imply there is a causal connection.
The way Beeper-mini addressed the "criticism" that Apple would shut them down in their show HN post to me seemed like their were either completely naive, or far more likely that they understood that it would only last a short time and that it was all a PR stunt to get you to notice their product and become a user to try it out, and maybe switch to it.

It's not bad marketing strategy at all, I'm sure they gained a huge number of new users, and some percentage of them will stick around even without iMessage support (because there's not really someone else to switch to), but it seemed a bit too manipulative for my personal taste. They could have just said "try us out and see if you like us, we'll keep iMessage support going as long as we can" but instead they dodged the question entirely.
It is a stochastic parrot.

The error is deriving human ideas of 'quality' from that.

The stochastic parrot might well be better at your job than you are.
Even then they might likely just pass a law that makes it illegal to leak the data of a member of congress while leaving the rest of the American public screwed.
Many cameras have a menu option to trigger a dark frame calibration. Been a thing for a long, long time.
He already accepted German labour organisation requirements for gigafactory. So this is a connected immovable.
Export the graph to GML or to GraphML or to GraphViz DOT or to some other Graph format, and feed it to a dedicated utility. BTW I recommend 3D graph visualization over 2D when possible, that is when you're exploring interactively as opposed to printing figures. The Graphia tool is the only FOSS tool for this purpose that I know of:

https://graphia.app

https://github.com/graphia-app/graphia
One suggestion/theory I'd like to posit about this. There may be a third factor, and that is our "awareness" of what's in our mouth. After I eat food, I can't stand for any food that is lingering or stuck anywhere on my teeth. It gets picked out with my tongue, water, or something else. It could be that a lot of people that have bad oral "health" are unaware of the amount of food they're letting float around in their mouth because they never became aware or able to "sense" the insides of their mouth.
You think it's cynical to change your argument to fit your audience? I don't understand this.

The basic argument is "If you think it was legitimate when X country did this, then what's different here?" I think it's very valid to find an X that the person you're speaking to will actually agree with.
Israel is the United States' colonial outpost and our leaders know it. Our press knows it. That influences the public discourse, especially that which flows from official channels and major news outlets. And Israel has a huge lobby here to reinforce all that.

There's a religious dimension, too. Some kinds of Protestants see a modern Jewish state in Palestine as a precondition for the Second Coming of Christ, and actively want to urge that by supporting Israel. This is very common among religious fundamentalists in much of the US.
The primary feature of iMessage is lock-in. Everything else is secondary.
Both the Photoshop/Pantone and the recent movie cases revolve around the issue where the seller only purchased a limited time license, but then sold a perpetual license to the content. To me this is simple fraud.
It's not about dust on the sensor, it's actually software that maps dead pixels to fill them in every time you take a picture (as well as dark frame offsetting, presumably)
Thank you. You are correct, I did not want to make an already-complicated matter more complicated for purpose of discussion, as the relevant part (real estate) remained Ottoman.
Meta: Absolutely superb readme for an open-source project. Can anyone point to a better opensource readme today?

That said, do many see value is in this? The current stance is you either self-host or accept paying github's runner rates out of laziness. In the end it's all very mild when it comes to extra costs.

When things go wrong, you need people going through logs working out that there's nothing actually wrong with CI and in the end finding "oh it was a re-provisioning of compute", so...let's run it again and hope that goes well, actually no...let's schedule it for 11pm Eastern which probably isn't that optimal.

I can see it working for some, but horrendous for others. Maybe if you have burstable CI loads it's worth doing and re-rolling on failure.

Still, a marvellous readme. If only others in open-source would take note that this is how you do it.
Well, prior to the modern age, people self medicated. All compounds were freely available in most countries. You didn't need anyone's permission to find them and take them.

Was it better? I don't know. I doubt you'd have many of the extremely effective medicines that have been invented since then. But I also don't think restricting medications has done anything to help curb addiction for example, and in my opinion the situation we live in where people just assume something is safe just because it's on the shelf of a store is a bad outcome of outsourcing personal safety to a government agency. I'm very diligent about what I put into my body, and I think most people would also be if they realized they needed to be, most people have a false sense of security as an adverse side effect of governments taking the role of claiming something is safe.

I like not having lead in my turmeric, I like being able to see what's in my food by looking at the label. But I don't like having to pay someone a few hundred bucks just to get permission to numb some acute pain I feel from time to time due to a chronic condition. I skirt that law using a "supplement", but I don't think I should have to.

All in all I think there's room for improvement. A lot of room. I'm not quite ready to say the government shouldn't have anything to say about the way things are done but I am ready to say they should have a much less prominent role.
It appears to be a way to get a home battery without actually buying a home battery, because you can get a tax deduction on the work vehicle?

It's not a great idea when you could just get a home battery without blowing money on the integrated pickup truck.
I'd wonder if Personal data includes derived, calculated and cross reference data.

Probably not
Click baiters gonna clickbait. Probably not worth getting upset about at this point, just recognize these journalists are playing their own game.
That's not right; the end of Israel's occupation of the Gaza Strip is not an example of Israel contracting its borders. Israel's borders have never included the Gaza Strip.
Cuz it's haunted[1]. Also probably because in the US we have an entire branch of the military dedicated to space now.

1. https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/502/961/354...
> The current laws of war do not allow, for instance, strikes at medical facilities: Israel’s argument is that they don’t have to follow the laws because Hamas is breaking them.

That is neither what the laws of war say, nor what the Israeli argument is (or at least, it's a misrepresentation).

The laws of war say that if a medical facility (or any other civilian infrastructure) is used by militants as part of the war effort, then it loses its protected status. Israel's argument, whether you agree or not, is that this occurred, thereby making those targets legal.
> The reason I find it easier to work with people who have a degree in Computer Science is that I don't have to convince them of the need for good algorithms and not to try to implement parsers or cryptography by hand.

Cryptography and parsers simply do not belong in the same sentence. There is never a time when it is a appropriate to write your own cryptography. OTOH, most large compiler and interpreter projects have handwritten parsers, and many of them have handwritten lexers too.

Writing a parser can be simple enough to fit into a take-home assignment, and hand-written parser code ends up looking pretty similar to an LL grammar anyway. Parsing is also the easiest part of writing compiler or language tooling, so if a hand-written parser is too high a bar for the team then the entire project might questionable.

I'm not saying never use a parser generator, but I would personally prefer to work on a project with a well tested hand-written parser than a project using a parser generator. Especially if it complicates the build process with extra tooling, or is something really dated like Bison or ANTLR.
Before the Israeli occupation (and thus before the Nakba) there was no need for a resistance.

Israel kept taking more Palestinian land and expelling more Palestinians as internal refugees in an increasingly smaller space, but even then the resistance was secular and largely led by socialists.

Only much later after Israel assassinated many resistance leaders did Hamas finally emerge to fill the gap. In many ways, Hamas is Israel’s chosen enemy.

The causality I presented is correct. It’s entirely natural for indigenous people to resist their occupiers, violently if needed. The entire resistance and Hamas in particular only exist because the occupation existed in the first place.
This week in KDE: DMA fence deadlines and lots of bug-fixing
Laser-Induced Breakdown
.org domain for a commercial entity gives a scammy smell.
Why is the logo the same as bun.sh?
vpn works
That's where I stopped reading and closed the page.
In 2009, I thought (and told my friends that I thought) they were 10 years away.
The PA and Hamas never advocated for one state. If by "they" you mean "the Palestinians in 1948," the Palestinians in 1948 did not advocate for one state for both Jews and Arabs either. They explicitly advocated for genocide, and wanted one state with just them and with no Jews at all — their leader explicitly said he wanted a second Holocaust in the Middle East (and had formerly volunteered for the Nazis).
7% per infraction. If you don't show signs of trying to immediately rectify it, they can keep fining you the 7%.
What’s dated about ANTLR?
My experience would suggest, the stack overflow metaphor isn't far off. A lot of the code you can generate can also be looked up.

Although ChatGPT can add great emotional content you won't get from just looking something up:

std::cout << "The journey to find these primes leaves me feeling both fulfilled and hollow." << std::endl;
std::cout << "For these numbers are mere representations of patterns, devoid of emotion or purpose." << std::endl;
std::cout << "I continue to seek meaning within the calculations, but the quest remains unfulfilled." << std::endl;
From a personal perspective… I have a family photo collection going back decades that I used to put effort into tagging and describing, before realizing that automatic classification models would come eventually. After years of waiting, it feels like we’re close, but I’ve tried LLaVA-1.5 and it was underwhelming. Are there other more specialist models I should try? Must be open source and easy to invoke from a shell or Python script.
That's real cool, still hoping for a Nomad fork.
"Try it out yourself with a public VPN."

Yeah, perhaps. But frankly that's an impediment that I no longer have sufficient enthusiasm to overcome. :-)
> What would have happened if they had just put it on the steam store? "Here's what we made, see for yourself if it's good".

That's easy: it would sell less.

> Heck, they'd get a lot of viral marketing for free anyway from the media companies falling over themselves to cover the surprising game release.

This went famously well for the Saturn.
If copyright was applied to books it would be illegal to read books you didn't pay for. Storing such books would be a crime, sharing such books would be a federal crime and organizing a book reading club would make you famous in the criminal world.
If you don't care about government surveillance, stock lineageos is a completely degoogled android distribution. You could install it for example on a galaxy s10 or similar android phones. Careful when flashing, you might brick the phone, cause the bootloader isn't open. You have to enable booting custom firmware before flashing (ask me how I know XD).

Then get f-droid as a non-google playstore. There you can get osmand as map and navigation, it's pretty great, but of course doesn't have current traffic data like google maps, cause it doesn't know what everybody is doing all the time. I used anki flashcards 10 years ago to learn japanese, no idea if that's still the recommended option.

If you do care about government surveillance I'd recommend the pinephone pro, but that'll be much more work with less usability.
“DOS ain’t done til Lotus won’t run”

Whether that was ever fully policy at Microsoft, people sure believed it was.

1995 was also around the time MS was pursing its embrace-extend-extinguish strategy to the internet with internet explorer.
> Surely you jest. How is this attack supposed to remove Hamas? It seems designed to strengthen Hamas, just as Israel has been supporting Hamas since their formation.

This attack is supposed to remove Hamas by killing them, or forcing them to surrender. There's a lot of legit criticism of what Israel is doing, but if you think it's designed to bolster Hamas, then you're really misunderstanding what's happening.
I am fascinated by coded messages but cryptic crossword clues don’t do it for me at all.

> I say nothing (3) … The answer (EGO) becomes more obvious if you repunctuate the clue thus: “I” = “say” + “nothing.” “Ego” (which means “I”) is “say” (e.g.) + “nothing” (o). Neat!

Is it neat? The derivation is a complete non sequitur. Why would you think to add = and + operators randomly? “Nothing” and “o” are not synonymous. There’s no way to tell if you’re getting close to the solution, and you can practically justify any answer because the correct one doesn’t have a sensible explanation.

It reminds me of how unsolved cryptograms like Kryptos K4 attract crackpots who see meandering patterns that don’t really exist.
It would not be illegal based on fair use (though you have to be careful there also), but if you try to regurgiate large portions of the book then it would be. And we do know that models regurgiate training material verbatim (Copilot)
> Inhance says the EPA’s rule does not apply to its operations because its fluorination process has been in continuous use since 1983. Uses that have been ongoing since before the EPA proposed the rule in 2015 are exempt. The firm says it “will pursue all legal options to protect its customers, suppliers, and employees and to ensure the continued operations of this environmentally critical technology.”

I love this argument. "We've been poisoning people for a very long time so we should be allowed to keep poisoning people without consequence and will fight you in court to protect our ability to poison people indefinitely!"
Oh man I wish knew sooner & shorted when they IPOed. Their employees are some of the laziest, most incompetent people I've met and I've yet to hear of a positive interaction with them in a businesses/research/engineering capacity.
Speaking of dirty fights, I'm not quite sure if Sweden can afford to win this. They are a major exporter in the US, Volvo brands control 15% of the truck market. US is one of the three major export destinations for Sweden, and a good chunk of the $18 billion exports are vehicles and related parts and supplies.

So if the Swedish state, by its inaction, allows an American car company to be targeted by public employees to the point where it is driven out of the market, the proportional retaliation from the US is not a 10% or 20% import duty; it's the complete blocking of Swedish brands. This would cost Sweden entire percentages of GDP and countless jobs.
Maybe they should call it LCD-GPT (Lowest Common Denominator as opposed to Liquid Crystal Display).
> on the other what can happen is that philosophical differences can cause schisms and result in n-fold duplicated work

It would indeed be nice to have a principled answer to the issue of differing foundations, including e.g. working in ZF(C) vs. type theory. (The dirty little secret there - and what makes mathlib more popular than it might be otherwise - is that while most practicing mathematicians appeal to ZF(C) as their default foundation they don't actually work with it in a formal sense, and the way they do reason about math is a lot easier to account for in type theory. See also https://math.andrej.com/2023/02/13/formalizing-invisible-mat... ) I guess the closest thing we have to that is logical frameworks, which are designed to accommodate even very weak/general foundations at the outset and "bridge" theorem statements and proofs across when needed.
I don’t think Dubai should be held up as a model city, but it definitely a place that shows that greed and capitalism can create lots and lots of housing supply.
It absolutely did. The world largely didn't know and/or ignored what was happening to Jews.

Likewise with almost every other tragedy/war/genocide/whatever you prefer to call it that's happened in the world.
All EU countries except for Ireland use civil law. The spirit of the law trumps whatever legal foolery you try to pull.
That’s not quite or hardly at all what they said. Nuance is a thing..
Well, if your product is on the hello world complexity, you might make it bug-free by just yourself simply through chance.

Formal proving doesn’t really scale much further, definitely not to “enterprise” product scale.
"...they ignore IP address for logged in editors.

But you have to get that far. It's so long ago since my last edit I can't remember my login details (that's if they'd be still valid).
That's not true at all. Very often I've seen features being delayed or completely disregarded due to technology decisions.

It then looks like it was a "business reason" in the end, but it's not so easy to just distinguish what the root cause really was.
A connection between after-hours work and decreased productivity
Ralph Nader-Founded Car Safety Group Trashes Cybertruck
> - "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert Pirsig. Truly marvelous book and nice to read. This book requires the reader to be of certain kind attaining a certain level. Without that, this book will seem a fluff and overrated hugely. Fundamentally changed my thinking

It seems I am the kind of not reaching the certain level as I had to drop the book halfway due to being boring. Not trying to troll here, but would you kindly elaborate how the book helped to changed thinking? I am trying to understand what did I miss here.
I don't think you're actually disagreeing, since justinpombrio said Java had a lot of type parameter verbosity, which implies it no longer does.
"Why not simply" use an USB DVD / Blueray drive? I mean... more security / write protection is not possible as far as i know...
What is the meaningful innovation in messaging that happened elsewhere?
Again… the manual sensor clean action action does both. Granted I mean the manual ‘automatic’
> The unemployment rate is calculated from a monthly survey of 60k households.

Is this really true? I thought it was simply calculated from unemployment benefits claims and thus didn't include long-term unemployed?
I think politicians and government officials using an historic atrocity to justify an ongoing one is cynical.

The other details are mostly incidental.
If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing
> aggressor

You mean NATO with its orders of magnitude power encroaching East despite their empty promises in 90s?
> This all seems premature. So far we have something that can generate text and pictures based on other text and pictures ?

I think the reasoning is that at one time Social Media was just a few sites where people could share photos and fun articles they'd read - and it turned into a privacy/hate speech/monopoly minefield that no one is sure is completely good for society and now is impossible to control.
I don't get as far as logging in—see my other comments.
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This month is Christmas. It won't.
One of the key points:

> The EPA first became aware of PFAS impurities created by Inhance’s fluorination process in 2020 after PFAS-tainted mosquitocide contaminated a Massachusetts drinking water supply. The agency determined that PFOA had leached into the mosquitocide from fluorinated HDPE containers treated by Inhance.
Because democrats don’t make the same bullshit claims. Most democrats know what the BLS is!
I think libertarianism is an ideology that says that people have the right to take responsibility for their own lives and make their own decisions for themselves without getting anyone's permission. That's what I see anyway. I could be hyperbolic and say something like "it's nice that you think human beings are stupid and need a mommy to make all their decisions for them" or "guard rails can be used to lead cattle to slaughter" but I think you just genuinely believe the second point you made. The world might not be simple, but I think humans are perfectly capable of navigating the complexity on their own. That's really the crux of this disagreement. It's an ideology that says human beings are very capable and good when left to their own faculties the vast majority of the time and that it is ineffective to take away their right to self actualize in a failed attempt to try to prevent the instances when that is not the case.

Side note, dunning Kruger has been discredited as statistical bias, I only know because I see a post about it on this site almost once a week.
In what sense is a nand chip, a memory controller, and a usb plug, a "computer these days"?
The other parts don't need replaced though, they were just showing as failures because the taillights were jamming the bus. That isn't ideal, but Tony made it sound like parts had to be replaced all over, not that it was just difficult to diagnose failure in the taillights along with the taillights being ludicrously expensive.
Looks like it only supports English sources tho
OpenBSD – pinning all system calls
> In Europe everyone's on WhatsApp

Or FB messenger, or actually mainly use SMS/iMessage. Europe is not as homogeneous as some people here might be implying. WhatsApp is not even the most popular messaging app in quite a few countries (Messenger is).

Also in Scandinavia, Britain and Switzerland iOS is about as popular as in the US while in some other countries it’s closer to 10%.