skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Societies expect that people who violate laws to endure some amount of reciprocal suckage to balance the suckage they inflicted in their violations. That is called justice.

Prisons, generally, suck.

Are prisons good schools or preventers of recidivism? Some say yes, some say no. But most agree that they suck.

I cannot speak for the remainder of HN but my read is that prisons are effective at delivering suckage--sometimes more or less than intended, which you can call a miscarriage of justice.
I honestly found it pretty intuitive. Every module uses the same basic action-flow, which was super clever UI design on the creator's part
Really cool printer feature search / database:

https://www.druckerchannel.de/

(google translate, or a equivalent, might be handy)
Yeah it's mystifying to me that they because the #1 commercial OpenAI competitor and then decided to go all "Helpless and Harmless"
There still are. As someone who has done both production and homelab deployments: unless you are specifically just looking for experience with it and just setting up a demo - don't bother.

When it works, it works great - when it goes wrong it's a huge headache.

Edit: As just an edit, if distributed storage is just something you are interested in there are much better options for a homelab setup:

- seaweedfs has been rock solid for me for years in both small and huge scales. we actually moved our production ceph setup to this.

- longhorn was solid for me when i was in the k8s world

- glusterfs is still fine as long as you know what you are going into.
It's kind of refreshing in a weird way when a CEO says something like this. Like we put soooo much value in the voice of CEOs globally, yet every now and then you actually tune into the words uttered by them and you realize they're just people. Like they have horrible ideas that they think are profound, just like everyone. So while it's somewhat scary for anyone working for HP and I've personally avoided HP products for over a decade, it just goes to show CEOs don't run their companies. They're a figure head in most cases the actual value comes from... us. The workers.

Makes me hopeful that one day all workers will realize who produces the value in their companies and start to restructure in a way that puts their voices more near the top. Unions are obviously great for this, but we just need more of that honestly.
The real question is who is this happening to now?

Its like you go to a prison and everyone says "I'm innocent" and the officer sarcastically dismisses them saying "you and everyone else", the irony being..... that's plausible?
There are initial decisions to be made with the deployment of these automated policing tools. For example, this is from an EFF piece on predictive policiing[0]:

"For instance, if police put majority Black neighborhoods under intense police scrutiny and surveillance, they will be more likely than in other neighborhoods to make stops and arrests according to minor quality of life infractions. Therefore, derivative maps purporting to show where future crimes might be committed will disproportionately weigh those neighborhoods already living under the weight of intense police presence. This can create a self-fulfilling prophecy that uses the supposed objectivity of math to legitimize racially biased police procedures."

There is also a piece on other issues with license plate readers in particular.[1] I'd recommend the whole series if you're interested.[2]

[0]: https://sls.eff.org/technologies/predictive-policing

[1]: https://sls.eff.org/technologies/automated-license-plate-rea...

[2]: https://sls.eff.org/
Why are Teslas' batteries dying in the cold?
From a quick look at Lima, I don't think it's exactly the same thing. Tart allows running macOS and Linux VMs, while Lima seems focused on Linux VMs only. I don't use Tart, but having infrastructure-as-code-like tooling that can be used to define macOS environments (and store the VMs in container registries) sounds useful and I'm not aware of another solution that does it.
Kinda like the people who think the Capitol police should have just shot all the rioters.
I mean, they created the malware vector so they could scaremonger. There's no reason a printer cartridge requires any electronics at all.
The FBI also does intelligence work. What's different is that in Canada the RCMP take in local policing responsibilities where there's no local resources to do so themselves.
People: "HP is a bad investment"

HP: "no u"

(j/k of course...i actually rather like their enterprise blade offering if you're making your own cloud)
I don't know what you're talking about with petty theft. You can still absolutely charge someone with petty theft or petty theft with priors.

>So, while other states have higher thresholds, the thieves can be still be put in jail and fined for misdemeanor offenses, whereas in Calif, prosecutors are loath to file changes for anything below the felony threshold.

Ok, so your problem is with prosecutors, not with the $950 threshold. Are you sure that CA prosecutors are uniquely unwilling to charge people for non-felony theft?

>stealing 949 is very unlikely to land you in Jail.

This is a very different claim than "It is legal." There are a lot of illegal things that are unlikely to land you in jail.
> managing their investments

Bold of you to assume that these people have investments at all.
This is why everybody who talks about space should spend a few hours with Kerbal Space Program just to get a sense of the difference in scale between a suborbital hop and actually putting something into orbit.
>There’s no reason to think that the intentions behind the bill are anything but noble.

Who are these ex-cops kidding?
Categorization and review are two different processes. The app I use will download and categorize, but I still have to review/accept each transaction. What is the benefit of manual entry in this case?
I'm pretty sure he meant people are belittling the technology, not the individual models...

Anyway, aren't humans just a bunch of rules, obfuscated with some biology?
Recent story: I had Duolingo, for some reason I've forgotten. They sent me a "we are about to renew" message.

So I went there and cancelled my account, and they even sent me a "sorry to see you go" message. They definitely got it.

Then they went and charged my card anyway. But it was declined, because I'd closed the privacy.com virtual card I'd given them.

That's why you do this.
This makes me wonder, sure there is a large investment cost in creating many of those things. But is the Maintence/upgrade cost (particularly for things like the modems) the same or less than the investment to do it in the first place?

If they are going to own as much of the internal hardware as they clearly want to, they have to be ready to continue to innovate or risk falling behind.

I ask because I legitimately don't know the answer, but its something I have been curious about.
So should a government (e.g. the police) produce its own cars, rather then buy them? Or set up a factory to make laptops?

I'm not trying to be pedantic. I'm trying to understand where the line lies (and whether that line is universal for all governments on all layers in all countries).
Yes, VMTek does snapshots natively and takes advantage of APFS. We have a great graphical snapshot UI as well.
HP's CEO spells it out to me: never buy any HP products ever again.
> Reproduction is not the goal!

It is for Open Source. Hence why it's silly to call these models open source.
Direct link - https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/biden-harris-administratio...
This take is completely ludicrous. If anything, first-world countries have a problem with an oversupply of labor, as demonstrated by stagnant real wages and weak labor force participation rates. Automation will only amplify this trend.

Also, Denmark has studied this issue extensively and found that "non-Western" immigration actually imposes additional burdens on the state, costing over $10k per year per migrant. Having a young population that doesn't work is even worse than having an inverted population pyramid, and that's without getting into the qualitative damage to social cohesion and trust caused by mass migration.

https://www.thelocal.dk/20211015/denmark-says-non-western-im...
https://archive.fo/DU17J
(author here): Fun anecdote: I showed this to a friend of mine who is an English literature professor and she responded, "I'm not entirely convinced that David Mensch is a reliable narrator"
> the actual value comes from... us. The workers.

All value is created by labor.
I don't know if you are referring to communications satellites, but only with the advent of Starlink have comms birds outnumbered reconnaissance birds.
Yup. you can use any name and address you want. Excellent for increasing online shopping security. (Parent company of the three companies you bought stuff from got big hacked? Who cares; all they're getting from you is fake data.)
I'll admit I could just be out of touch, but who's buying these inkjet printers? Laser printers are dirt cheap to run (Brother) and they exist in color too. Photos cost like 50¢ each at my local walgreens and they look great.
+1 for Brother. Had the same one (MFC-L3750CDW) for years now. Just works. No weird subscription push. No weird apps to manage it. Actually integrates with 3rd party software easily. Everything I need and nothing I don't.
It is interesting to see all the people who replied to you with every-day printing needs. But just to let you know you're not completely alone, I haven't needed a printer for ten years or so.
Nah, it was actual stupidity.

The same wind turbine in the scotland produces 3 to five times more power than in Germany

The same solar panel produces 3 times more power in Spanish winter than in German winter.

This is basic information available to anyone

https://globalwindatlas.info/

https://globalsolaratlas.info/

But fine, you decided to do energy transition inefficiently.

At least don’t switch of nuclear while you are still relying on fossil fuels!
Assuming you want to compete with Apple at scale or Google with roughly similar quality of service. You would probably need to stand up multiple servers around the world. Deal with the regulatory bits that each country would require to operate in. Probably also development to develop your own APIs. For instance, your gonna distribute the apps, but the apps still need to rely on Google's payment API for in-app purchases? So you need developers, if its FOSS and you get enough developers, may not be a cost sync. Authentication?

Could you do it cheaper than Apple and Google. Yes, in theory. But probably need quiet a bit of upfront capital to get it going, which might require investors who are eventually gonna wonder why they arn't collecting that sweet 30% while their competitors are.

I do wonder how that would work regulation wise. Is the store PCI compliant? How do you manage PCI compliance in a FOSS project? I do a little work on payments processing and what happens when VISA makes up a new rule on the fly that they force the payment gateways, issues a fine and the gateway companies (like World Pay) want to pass that fine on to the developers using the payment gateway? This almsot happened at my shop, we almost got hit with a $25K fine because Visa made up a new rule, tried to fine WorldPay and WorldPay tried to pass that fine onto us.

Edit: If anyone has some answers or experience to the last paragraph, please let me know! I've only dealt with payment processing on the proprietary software side and doing integrations for brick and mortar stores. So working with physical cards and payment terminals. I would be very interested to learn how this works or would work in a FOSS project.
I bought a large corner sofa in the US in 2013 for 4k from a store in Santa Rosa. Still using it, have moved it to Europe and then New Zealand and it has put up with 3 kids and a multitude of cats. At some point we'll get it re-upholstered. It seems better made than anything I could afford or even find now.
I definitely wouldn't volunteer to be on that first crewed flight of Starliner. Boeing has had some questionable engineering decisions in the last decade and it has shaken my confidence in the ability of their engineers to press back against management when there is an inconvenient truth.
Why would you bother with a distributed filesystem when you don't have to?
But people still act like Musk is a crank. The cognitive dissonance is real.
I tell anybody who asks, if you need a printer, then 1) avoid inkjet printers and 2) I recommend Brother laser printers.

I've owned 4 Brother printers since the 90s. The first one lasted more than a decade, and I put it through the wringer. The next one lasted about the same, including a stint as EIC of a magazine which meant I printed a ton of proofs on that poor thing. They all worked easily with Linux, to boot.

I currently own two, one color and one multi-function B&W. They don't actually get a ton of usage but <knocks wood> they work when I need them to and I'm not constantly buying toner for the things.

(I'm sure other folks have horror stories because somebody always does no matter what product, but they've served me well enough - and certainly Brother doesn't seem to be as customer hostile as HP.)
The canonical mechanism for running amd64 Linux processes appears to be to virtualise aarch64 and use binfmt-misc with Rosetta 2 to get emulation working.

It does make a certain amount of sense that Apple would have hardware virtualisation support for native VMs but not for emulated VMs. I can imagine (but I've not checked) that support for emulation of the VT extensions is lacking.

As a random person on the Internet, I'm obviously overqualified to suggest that you use native virtualisation to run aarch64 Linux, then use Rosetta within that Linux VM to run whatever amd64 software virtualisation tool you prefer. This is quite similar to what containerisation tooling does -- Docker (and similar) on aarch64 runs an ARM VM, then uses Rosetta inside that VM to run containers. You don't get a native amd64 kernel that way, but even without nested virtualisation you get a complete (namespaced) amd64 userspace.
"independence" means we don't have to buy energy from the outside. Send money to someone, so they give us Energy.
It is super important.

Think of it like this. How many oil producers do we have a problem with? That are dictators, at war, or generally bad. Every time we buy gas, we give them money. We send trillions of dollars to our enemies.

It is such an overwhelming National Security issue, that I'm frankly surprised Republicans fought renewable energy for so long. Oil isn't going to last forever. We should have been throwing resources at our own internal energy R&D. .
From Jan 2023
A few months ago? I'm glad it's easier!
I guess we can only speculate.
Beamer (https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Beamer) works well if you are comfortable with LaTeX.
No, but https://lobste.rs is. https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters
Yeah, I'm neutral on the merits of different promotion philosophies. On the personal level, I'd prefer promotion on mastery because it gives an IC leverage: Jeff Dean can still code out a brand new system to solve an seemingly impossible challenge even if he leaves Google, but unfortunately for many tech leads, they wouldn't be able to draw boxes half as valuable if they were to depart Google because their expertise has already shifted to institutional knowledge of the company.
Related question, how does someone get into working with Ceph? Other than working somewhere that already uses it.
> Actually, they did, because everything in the early days had very small memory sizes. This was the 16-bit era.

I don't think that's a possibility. If buffers are smaller then buffer capacity was not infinite, and the same failure modes applied. Triggering dropped packets/connections was just a matter of sending enough network traffic down a pipe, which given buffers were small then it wasn't a technical feat.
Wyse terminals! I had my first programming courses at university in those. I remember dumping core and somehow sending the core file to a classmate's screen, and they had to stare at the screen beeping for a while.

Now I teach those courses at the same university. Those terminals are long gone. This week we had a coding exam and students were coding with their laptops. They are forbidden from checking the Internet, sharing folders, and using AI assistance, but I'm sure some of them did because it's impossible to watch their every move. The exam would be fairer if we still had the Wyse terminals!
It’s more nuanced than that, in part because there are two separate issues:

Not all crimes are the same: harsh punishment won’t deter crimes where people think they won’t get caught (e.g. speeding) or where they are not thinking rationally (e.g. drunken fights). In this case, these are lengthily premeditated decisions so deterrence is likely to be effective _if_ they aren’t confident about being able to evade consequences. That’s why it’s so important to have them now because every other white collar criminal is watching and learning.

The other factor is what form the consequences come in. Fines are problematic if they can be treated as a cost of doing business, but even the richest people only have 24 hours in a day. I personally think community service would be better than jail: if nothing else, it’s cheaper and I think these guys would be incredibly motivated to avoid spending their time scraping gum off of park benches.
Author here, for what it's worth I a) own a gun b) have not shot a dog, and c) am not personally endorsing David Mensch for president of the Universe.
There's a similar story but in Africa. Actual snake though
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> My tech-hating mom is currently spending hours, maybe even days setting up billpay through her bank so she doesn't have to give companies her credit card info for subscriptions. She's been burned too many times trying and failing to cancel subscriptions.

Why? That's much worse. If anything is going to do a recurring charge to me, I want it to go through a credit card which offers a layer of indirection.

I never authorize automatic billing directly to a bank account, then the money is truly gone. With a credit card I can always protest the charge and have had to do this with particularly difficult businesses a few times.
> The cognitive dissonance is real.

Indeed.
I’ve never looked at NTP so I followed a link here to RFC 1305. I found this gem of humility.

> Note that since some time in 1968 the most significant bit (bit 0 of the
integer part) has been set and that the 64-bit field will overflow some
time in 2036. Should NTP be in use in 2036, some external means will be
necessary to qualify time relative to 1900 and time relative to 2036

The 2036 problem is fixed in RFC 5905 as there is no doubt it will be needed.
Which part is abusive? I might view that last item as a sort of dark pattern (exploiting the sunk cost fallacy), but I still fail to see how it's abusive. If you're not using the service, cancel your subscription? Is everything you don't like even slightly now qualified as ABUSE?
As mentioned at the start, this follows upon Raph's post a week ago,

Rust GUI Xilem 2024 plans. https://linebender.org/blog/xilem-2024/
I'm curious if a native editor like Panic's Nova or BBEdit would work better than a Java or Electron app?
I guess there are two aspects to prison: the first is as you said, a deterent, an agent of rehabilitation, a place of punishment, etc - the ideal form. Questionable, but ultimately something a lot of people could agree to. Then, there is really-existing-prison, which is a place of misery for the people who, almost entirely due to structural reasons, get railroaded repeatedly into its embrace.

So even prison abolitionists are often rather sanguine about imprisoning people like CEOs and high level officials who, despite being absolutely manifestly not railroaded, who have the structure covering from them at every turn, and end up both committing and being convicted as criminals.

I don't think this is necessarily contradictory: you can be fine with the idea of some kind of prison while also recognizing that the current system is a rather pointless and dysfunctional form of sadism that has no relation to any practical or ethical goal.
Innovation Hypercube
If you do anything that involves groups of people (tabletop games, teaching students, organizing events, etc) you'll need to print hardcopies pretty regularly. I love Kinkos for large-dimension printing (though a 4'x5' color DnD map can easily run $80), but I'm not going there once a week to prep handouts for students.
I played around with it and it has a very cool web UI, object storage & file storage, but it was very hard to get decent performance and it was possible to get the metadata daemons stuck pretty easily with a small cluster. Ultimately when the fun wore off I just put zfs on a single box instead.
I'm with you on every point except

>negotiating rents

I have never, ever been in a situation where a rent negotiation would have done anything except ensure I didn't get the apartment.

Is that real? Where?
> Energy independence is vastly preferable to waging war, and may be worth making some environmental tradeoffs

Environmental collapse will lead to wars, so this statement is self-contradicting.

In fact the sooner we run out of oil, the better - high oil prices mean that any alternative will get huge investment. France built out nuclear due to an oil price shock.
A Deeper Look at Genius Scan's Auto-Rotate Technology
This is one of those cons of adapting to modern life so much, we forgotten how to pick fruits and vegetables basically. Our understanding of whats good is surface level things like what looks good or having no clue if food's actually gone bad vs not pleasing to the eyes

Its also why ugly food industry took off and companies like misfit markets or imperfect foods have billions of dollars in business, who've created a market for ugly looking perfectly edible food
What are the privacy guarantees you give to users subjected to your tracking? I don't see anything in your terms, and the javascript tracker seems to collect everything the user does on the page without any privacy-preserving techniques applied.
This reminds me of tipping culture. Provide a service, charge for it, and then complain when people don't voluntarily give more money than they have to.
ahh that sucks.
Are there any (color) laser printers that are small? That's my major problem with them, they're all huge and I don't have the space!
Fuel-Partitioning Causes Obesity
Yes what I mean is that I just don't care about people supporting arguments online by any video, except when the arguments is about that video itself or events it is depicting. Video is, educational exceptions aside maybe, strictly superfluous or even detrimental as a medium to convey thoughts, except for rare circumstances.

But maybe that's just me.
Well frame.work and Fairphone for starters. Milling blocks of aluminium like that even if the alu is recycled is still wasteful. It takes a massive amount of energy on both the milling(also consumables lost) and on the recycling.

A moulded alu part that required less milled off it would have been a good starter over using a full billet block.

It feels absurd their using billet alu on a device that definitely won't have a 10 year lifespan.
So easy a toddler (with three PhDs) could do it!
Las Vegas, Home of Bad Ideas, Goes All-In on Elon's Dumb Tunnels
I think they were counting NASA as "because of capitalism". If you disagree with that, then that's a much better line of argument than going after the exact percentage.
There's a big upfront cost difference between inkjet and laser printers.

I finally wised up many years ago and bought a Brother laser printer after wasting far too much money on inkjets. At the time it was a bigger cost but it's more than paid for itself now compared to an inkjet.
It came up regularly in ”HN but for $x industry“ questions, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31902969 but you’re right I never saw much traction.