skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the difference here is that neoliberalism is really about class interest, and so the policy is vacillating and inconsistent with respect to the jargon that hides class interests of monopoly capitalists, or better, the diverse interests of multinational corporations or the "member economies" that house them.
> I'm genuinely curious - what are you thinking when you say this?

As a pedestrian, I always try to make eye contact with drivers before crossing in front of them. It would be nice to know that the car is doing the driving.
Thanks! Yeah it was really just a funny experiment in the beginning, I didn’t think it’d work haha
I refuse to let them associate my video history to an easily-trackable account.
Melody, beat, and production techniques are all ways to express meaning. Do you feel anything when listening to favorite music? Odds are that feeling, or something like it, are intentionally conveyed, even in instrumentals.
Interesting article, but I don't see how the author contributed even in the slightest to getting the guns removed.
It's not at all clear what this actually is. The "About" section says basically nothing. It would be nice to know that before having to create an account.
Singapore certainly has an ideology. You don’t just start publicly caning people for smoking a joint out of pragmatic logic.
This is interesting with the recent work showing that models using different architectures, but the same dataset converge to similar capabilities. It makes the case that the data set itself and the compute over it is the secret sauce for these models.

It'll be especially interesting with the ruling indicating that the output of these models isn't copyrightable as that and internally generated (from scratch) data will be the only bits omitted from this reporting. I'll be curious if the gap gets bridged on including the disclosure of data generated by a model containing copyrighted data.
Wow, this is a pretty good summary of what I saw during my 15 or so years at "design services" companies.

One way around some of these issues is to pay employees by the hour. At the places I worked, there was a large pool of folks who loved that arrangement because of the ability to work in bursts and take more time off in between. The problem then became scaling beyond that pool of labor (many of whom were independent contractors with other commitments).

This math is also why, for years, I've recommended people avoid investing in companies like Palantir. Sure, they can be successful companies, but they'll never achieve the sort of hypergrowth that companies like Google or Meta can due to the scaling issues.

Overall, I loved my time in the services industry. It had the dynamic quality of being a consultant (except for one 5 year long, mostly continuous project where I was staff augmentation for a large company) but someone else handled the sales and negotiations for me.
Yes, you are right here. It's always difficult to know how far down the tree of topics you should go to provide a end-to-end explanation. I tried to call this out in the start of the article. These are the "hard parts" of technical writing IMO.
True, I honestly think this is largely media companies making sure they (not artists) get their cut of everything, Spotify style.
Monopoly is a good example given in the article but also such a recent one that it may leave a misleading impression. The Tibetan game above is 13th C. The Chinese and Japanese games are roughly 17th C.

Maybe it's worth adding they descend from the didactic gambling game Shengguan Tu, which had its origins in the 9th C. and remained continuously popular enough that you could still buy it in the late 19th C. US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shengguan_Tu
> I think the biggest issue here is that Apple seems to be deliberately undermining SMS, which is an open standard

Are you confusing SMS with RCS? Apple hasn't done anything to undermine SMS. Remember, bubbles is not part of SMS, so Apple choosing different colors for each service is not them undermining anything.

Apple has announced RCS support next year for iMessages.
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I do a lot of local politics work now, which means I pay attention to a lot of arguments that are isomorphic to these HN kinds of arguments, but that are about zoning or the kind of materials we're using to pave roads or whatever. This thread resembles to me nothing so much as the vibe in a debate about whether a neighboring municipality should be allowed to build a McDonalds right on our border. Strong opinions all around, lots of projected consequences, but in the end we don't have a say, there's nothing we can do about it directly.
> Tailgating is, in part, a symptom of inadequate capacity. You are advocating a solution that exacerbates it by reducing carrying capacity.

Why are we still debating something that has been answered by science? Stop assuming your intuitions are correct and look at what the science actually says about how follow distances affect the maximum capacity of a road.
I learned Basic at 10, and I would argue that Python is a better choice today. But regardless of which one, the most important thing about basic was that for a while every computer came with some flavor of Basic. It's what got a generation hooked on tech.

Why oh why doesn't Windows and macOS come with Python and Idle out of the box? Or does Mac, I forget.
It’s not clear that Apple is forcing you to do anything. Much like a tip in a tipping culture, any shame or pressure you feel from a network effect is your own.

This would of course be different if Apple prevented you from sending SMS messages via iMessage, or from installing third party messengers. But they don’t do either of these things.
> renovating generally means reducing breathability of the house itself, which, combined with the temp difference, means condensation/mold problems

Look up Passivehouse standard, modern construction can make extremely effocient buildings, but it relies on the building being nesrly airtight, so it must have ventillation.

'Natural' ventillation naturally steals your heat, it's incompatiable with efficiency
And yet, he nearly lost his job. None of us are perfect, nor are any of us better than any other. Let's cut the idolizing.
So if it's a nonprofit that uses BOINC the law does not apply?
Oh you mean:

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/part/11/chapter...

Specifically outlaws having a policy of lowering the bar. You can only choose one protected character over another if they are equally qualified.

Specifically the guidance that comes with this says that its legally unwise to do anything past pipeline stage, once you have reached interviewing, its a bad idea. Its certainly something I'm not going to do.

Now, in the uk we do not have "affirmative action" thats an americanism. We do not need to import american racism issues, we have enough of our own.

I have worked in IT long enough, and recruited enough people to know that the people who complain about the "bar" generally are never privy to the actual data.
I'm readily googleable bub, I have no financial relationship with Open AI. Closest I've come is using the free version of Dall-E.
I think this approach is mainly for more complex ideas. To expand on your example, it might be something more like "our 99th percentile page loads are slow due to high widget view hydration latency. We can reduce the cost of hydration by caching greeble status in the the widget table. We should add a nullable field and then create a migration."

To which, the reply might be roughly the same but ending with "We should add a nullable field to the greeble table and then create a migration."

If the proposer is paying attention, they might say "no no, the new field has to go in the widget table."

The goal isn't to catch someone out, but to make doubly sure you've reached a shared understanding.
It’s still alive on Adobe’s website at least
About liability insurance: yes, often bigger clients insist on this. It’s not a huge cost though
London and the UK in general have some of the best public transport in the world. It’s not the best for sure, and places like Switzerland, Japan and the Netherlands are better, but it’s the top 10 - and probably higher if you only consider countries with a large population.

I agree it sucks, but the fact that it sucks and is also one of the best does suggest that good public transport is difficult. Note how all the places with half decent public transport tend to be rich.

However even Switzerland (which I have been to) if I had to pick which form of transport has the most utility, I’d still choose the car. Public transport usually takes longer door-to-door and involves changes in modes or doesn’t quite get you to your destination. Also it isn’t 24/7. It’s great for commuting, not so great for other things. I guess nightlife though isn’t a huge concern in Zurich :)
> If they want to restrict access to only certain clients, they're legally allowed too, just don't expect everyone else to voluntarily go along with it.

This thread is on an article discussing how the FTC and DoJ are investigating whether Apple should be legally allowed to attempt to lock out other clients. It's no longer a question of whether everyone should voluntarily go along with it, it's being escalated.
In academia this takes the form "I'm confused", which is code for "I suspect you're an idiot; please prove me wrong".
I naturally developed this as a key technique when I interview software engineers. Repeating back a long-winded technical explanation servers several purposes:

* Makes sure you indeed understood what you think you did.

* Gives you some time to think what to ask next.

* Focuses the conversation.

I think the last point is also key. Usually these kind of explanations take several minutes and can ramble a bit. By repeating something back clearly and concisely you can focus the conversation on the point that you want to dig in further.

Of course this technique is also excellent while collaborating with colleagues.
So he goes to extremely boring cringe meetups. Who cares?
This is not true at all. There are different types of negatives. You seem to be thinking of the camera original negative. There are other types of negatives. Interpositives and other versions are made to ultimately create the final negative of the completed film. This is then used to create the prints made to deliver to the theaters. There can even be an archival negative created, and depending on the level of effort, they can do color separation archive so you have 3 black-and-white negatives of the RGB that would all need to be scanned separately and then recombined to bring back the color version (which is fun as each negative can shrink/warp distinctly).

Essentially, it reads like you feel the only film version of a feature is the color print.
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Ah, when you said “the original” I assumed that was referring to the theatrical release.
It pretty clearly would not do that.

Clear according to what? You gave no statistics and made nothing but unbacked claims. Most of what you did say is directly contradicted by the CDC.

Fentanyl is extremely potent and has a very narrow window between therapeutic dose and an overdose that kills you. Other opiate cause deaths overwhelmingly only when combined with other drugs.

Everything you have said about increased use or more deaths is an assumption not based on data. Why won't you source your claims?
Tangent but why does so many companies keep hiring consulting companies (a little different) that come in and do nothing but waste everyone's time - is it yet another managerial class excess / nepotism / business theatre or is there some benefit i just don't see?

I've seen this countless times both in both Tech and the NGO world - some roadmap is running pretty good, managers then hire a bunch of "cool looking people that come in with a big old white board to make a cool workshop" then follow the process for a short amount of time, giving extremely shitty advice because they haven't been involved in the process at all and are going to leave soon without delivering anything.

And the fact that they are often paid a higher wage than the people who have to actually clean up after their crap advice is straight up offensive. And it seems everyone i know have this impression in both softer and harder sectors.

I've only met a few "lone wolf" consultants in Tech that were nice, people often with a huge passion and knowledge for something concrete and not "passion for leadership / some bullshit organisational fad".
The Mac does come with Python, but of course it’s easier to get started from zero when the first thing you see after switching on the computer is a BASIC prompt.
I was thinking the same thing. What a cool design!
Yea, but that type of consulting is typically billed as professional services(or similar), not advisory work.

If product companies are smart, they might put this role under costs to acquire customer vs services and then have it as a fee for onboarding. I can’t remember the details, but I’ve been told having really profitable services can really complicate VC/fundraising.
Mac like other bsd/linux includes a system python but not idle.
I believe this is the original publication, 1982: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/947955.1083808
Install Linux, these PCs will be better with that. More secure with less malware, more stable.

I suggest distros such as Ubuntu, Fedora and Debian.

Enable automatic security updates.

Also Linux distros such as Alma Linux, Rocky Linux, Red Hat enterprise Linux / Suse is an option. That will offer longer support upgrade cycles.
> I hope that all the youngin's in tech (like the actual teenagers, like my children) are really paying attention to where we are in tech history with AI in general - and with OpenAI in particular - as SA can attempt to look like a Carnegie but actually be a Rockefeller.

You should hope that they go back to school and study history. All of this has happened before, many times over.
I have several times been a passenger in a car where I wished the human driver would enable autosteer. It is disconcerting to have the lane warning alarm go off five times in a 30 minute span.

I don't think most people realize how erraticly they drive.

But five warnings in 30 minutes could just be 15 or 20 seconds of inattention. So more than 99% full attention. A driver assist that just smooths things out only 0.1% of the time could save the day a lot.
As far as this particular post from Sam, who cares? Judge something by that something, not by who said it. If it is advice that is good, it is good. It isn't good because it comes from someone you like. It is good because it is good. Content is what matters, not the credentials of the author. Lots of people with great credentials say stupid things... and smart things...
Hmm, that makes more sense, but I still don't see how these factual errors could go uncorrected. I can see how this might be a measure of attention, but I don't understand the "disprove my assumptions" aspect of it.
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Her pattern of behaviour is also consistent with the bpd, which frequently involve delusions of persecution. Suicidal ideation and severe anxiety are unfortunately not rare in adolescence either, and certainly don't evidence sexual abuse - when not reported or remembered at the time.
Indeed, moral dimensions in board games go back to ancient times. The Egyptian game "Senet", which is over four thousand years old, seems to have religious significance, reenacting the voyage of a soul after death into the afterlife. Since religious rituals commonly replicate a large, sacred concept on a small scale, it makes sense that a board game could get involved.

Doing some light Googling, this seemed to be a good writeup by an academic on the subject:
https://piccionep.people.cofc.edu/senet_web.html
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Should throw in a UV bath as well - to kill any airborne spores/other critters.
I’m surprised how close JS has gotten to this:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Games/Tutorials/2D_...

It’s not quite there, but getting to a context similar to a qbasic graphics mode is only 10-20 lines of boilerplate.
FWIW, many Fediverse instances will be / are blocking Bluesky.

Some instances and individuals will block Fediverse instances which federate with Bluesky.
That’s really handy, thanks
I still think that humans are very good at identifying other humans, particularly through long-form speech and writing. Sentient and non-sentient beings alike are very good at identifying members of their own species.

I wonder if there's some sort of "time" threshold for how long an AI can speak/write before it is identifiable as an AI to a human. Some sort of Moore's law, but for AI recognizability
True socialism looks more like Norway nationalizing its oil resources or the American WWII wartime economy than anything your average American on the street would call socialist. My eyes roll over twice whenever people cite an authoritarian dictatorship over actual successful examples of socialism that have taken place in the west as reason for why it can’t be done.
I know almost nothing about cars and so assumed LiDAR sensors are just prohibitively expensive for Tesla to install in every car. But then years later I learned that every modern iPhone has a LiDAR camera.

Still don't know how to think about this - how is it possible for a phone to have LiDAR (barely utilized) but it's too expensive to have them in such a critical setup as an autonomous vehicle.
Anyone who knows the history of cable TV (or today's streaming services for that matter) will know that paying to turn off ads is great, until Google gets entrenched enough that they can put ads back in for paying subscribers.
Why do the fixed brightness LED lights need to flicker anyways? Why not dimmer elements, on full time? Like is it more expensive to throw a capacitor in there than to choose dimmer elements?
I remember having similar effects after long sessions of Lemmings. I saw the damn rodents when I was closing my eyes in bed, but it didn’t disturb my sleep (I guess they acted as sheeps to count).
Recovered memories are not a valid source of evidence. We should always presume the accused is innocent, that's the basis of any reliable justice system. Especially when no evidence is presented beyond extremely dubious self report.
I hope that if we do end up with most/many cars recording everything (with several sensors) we will at least get a “report reckless driver” button that will send the recording to highway patrol and be allowed as evidence.
Because unlike what I replied to, many comments here are insightful enough. I am definitely not interested in views of non-experts who have very firm beliefs.
GFA Basic on the Atari ST was my true entry into programming, and I went through many other languages before I found one that felt as modern and productive.
Yea Mercedes is more than luxury. Stuff they put in cars usually is 10 years ahead of being standard or options in most other vehicles.
what would be a better alternative color?

to me the placement seems substantially different from the reversing light (which is usually more toward the middle of the back)

of course these pictures probably don't tell much about how it will actually look like in traffic, but some kind of pattern seems to be the way to go (that's recognizable from 2-3 cars afar in a traffic jam, for example if folks are curious WTF that particular car is doing, why is it stopped or going slow)
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I love this one.

If anyone from AWS reads your comment, they could have an idea for a new "product" xD
There are lots of euro games that require a full play through to understand the game. And even then, many popular games where everytime I play with a new group I expect the rules to have been misunderstood in new ways.

Look at Root, a very popular game. It has one long manual just for your first play, and then an even longer manual that explains all the rules. They recommend you read that one later.
I recently implemented pure-todo[1] just for myself, because I did not like any of all of the Todo list apps out there...

I chose to not use any boilerplate, frameworks or libraries as long as I can get along. Did not respect any ES6 whatever limitations of browsers and used whatever I wanted to use. Just pure PHP, sqlite, vanilla JS and CSS like in the old days with ES6 flavour here and there :-) What sounded really stupid because I ignored all the fancy frameworks made me learn a lot of things and it also turned out that it just works on my systems (Android, iOS, Linux, Window with Firefox, Safari and Chrome). Maintenance will be a nightmare though...

Caution: Use it at your own risk because there will pretty likely breaking changes in the near future :-)

[1]: https://github.com/sandreas/pure-todo
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> The same people complaining about the impending demise of democracy are cheering Assange’s imprisonment.

Apples and oranges.
If you repeat what you think is a 100% correct version of the information, and the other person nods along, you can't be very sure whether they're just passively agreeing because they zoned out or if you were actually correct.

It's a bit like writing unit tests that fail, before you implement the change that'll make them pass.
I forsee an increase in the number of accidents involving these cars as the asshats among us will see the lights as a signal to take additional risks when driving dangerously around these vehicles.
I guess it matters if/when it affects how much you’re enjoying the music or how you’re perceiving the author.
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Hah I just read about "Bohemian Grove." Do techies consider that sacred ground because Oppenheimer discussed the atomic bomb there? The idol worship present in SV is so thick I can hardly see anything else.
Absolutely brilliant

I used to do the same with school report cards, which began being delivered electronically when I was in Middle School ;^)
In a landscape ubiquitous with AI, what incentives do these companies have to remain separate rather than merge into a giant conglomerate?
I agree with Kellogg that individual change is both near-impossible and pointless. For most Americans it's not possible to live a day to day life without involving single use plastics and plastic packaging. For example I can't even go to my local supermarket and buy raw vegetables without involving single-use plastics: a sack of potatoes comes in a plastic bag, cucumbers are shrink wrapped (!) and often corn-on-the-cob is precut and packed in foam and plastic meat packs (!!).

Plus, at this point single-use plastic is part of our culture. How can you have Halloween without billions of tiny individually-plastic-wrapped candies? If you're an individual trying to be zero waste, are you supposed to tell your kid they can't do Halloween?

Change must necessarily come from legislation - that's the only single use plastic reduction has a chance. And I do think that people almost don't notice when it's gone - for example plastic shopping bags have been legislated away in many places in America and nobody seems to talk about that any more.
Bureaucracy is very very difficult to fight if you are not in charge, and conversely wasteful bureaucracy is almost entirely in the domain of fault of the person in charge ( the CEO, the President, etc of a company).

If you are in charge, you can stop it. I do it all the time, and I rather enjoy when someone tells me I need to fill out a useless outdated form to do something, and I say 'So, if I don't, do I get fired?'. The answer is either 'yes, you will', or 'no... um.. I guess this might not really be needed.'

The message to eliminated wasted time and wasted process has to come from the very top, with such authority and clarity that it leaves no room for 'that is how we have always done it'.
Generally the natgas lines to homes need to go as they leak way too much methane. This is very bad for global warming and much easier to control for in grid applications.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic or asking a trick question, but I was talking about the pre-Thatcher/Reagan years.