skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's a pretty good one. It sounds crazy. What do they eat? Where is any evidence of their existence and history? Where do they make their technology? Why is there no heat signature? Why not a single one ever tried to run away and expose them, or just got lost into our world?
Kudos to Brave (for this and other privacy features):

Unlinkable subscription: If you sign up for Leo Premium, you’re issued unlinkable tokens that validate your subscription when using Leo. This means that Brave can never connect your purchase details with your usage of the product, an extra step that ensures your activity is private to you and only you. The email you used to create your account is unlinkable to your day-to-day use of Leo, making this a uniquely private credentialing experience.
Yes, the classic not-interoperable approach of publishing the protocol as Standards Track RFCs with the IETF.
It's foolish to trust Brave.
https://www.spacebar.news/p/stop-using-brave-browser
It's a poison: there's a lethal dose beyond which consumption kills humans
Clarified it to say "on Earth". I agree with you there's likely life elsewhere in the Universe.
Indeed it looks like a low hanging fruit.
Use Haiku, TempleOS and other OSes in web browser
I am going to need a source for that.

EULAs (or agreements in general, for that matter) are unenforceable if the terms of the agreement aren’t known to the consumer before it binds them.

That’s why companies present EULAs and other shrinkwrap/clickwrap type agreements to the user before the user can use the service.

In Apple’s case, it’s slightly more complicated because there’s a purchase for a physical device involved.
Because of that, all their EULAs state in the opening in all caps and bold to stop using it and return it for a refund if you disagree with the terms.

This is sufficient for the EU because it allows consumers to read the terms before they’re bound to it while also providing an option to undo the sale for the device, preventing consumers from being stuck with a device they can’t use.

EU courts regularly enforce EULAs and other shrinkwrap/clickwrap agreements.
Typically, the only contention is about specific terms and clauses because while the contract form is fine, the terms within still need to adhere to the law.

The EU has an explicit grey list and a black list of unreasonable terms.
But in most cases where a term is considered unlawful, only that specific clause is struck down, not the entire agreement.

Often, this is the desired outcome by the person subject to the agreement because they might otherwise not be able to use a piece of software at all.

Remember that the default legal status is that you can’t use someone else’s software.
You need permission (i.e., a license) from the copyright holder.
That license is granted via a license agreement.

Voiding the entire agreement also voids the license granted to you.
I've recently read The Cuckoo's Egg and as a person that has been born into technology it's really interesting how Cliff goes to explain concepts that these days are understood as common knowledge.
You know the latin root for the word 'corporation' is 'corpus' meaning 'body'. A corporation in English common law is literally a fictitious person created for the purpose of performing business activities independent of its shareholders.

The fact that corporations inherit many of the legal abilities of people in our system (including property rights like intellectual property) is a good thing.
At least for the Kirigami apps [1] that are hosted on invent.kde.org (and not just personal projects), a lot of porting has to KF6 has happened.

[1]: https://linuxphoneapps.org/frameworks/kirigami/
(And no one noticed for the first few hours)
Lol ok, otherwise it would probably be not very readable due to the verbosity. The book shows how to implement LayerNorm, Softmax, Linear layers, GeLU etc without using the pre-packaged torch versions though.
LiFe02 batteries for home grid-tie systems run about $150/kwh (10kw grade A 200ah cells) at the consumer level. Inverter capacity runs about 3k$ for an 18kw grid tie inverter. So, in order-able parts it costs about 5000 total to build a 10kw “power wall”.

It seems like there should be (and probably are) comparable integrated solutions around the 5k price point, which would be something like 500 per KWh.

At any rate, at sizes under 20kwh the battery is likely to be the smaller part of the cost of the unit….which also makes it possible to build an 80kwh system with 18kw capacity for around 18000 dollars, so there’s that.

So in short, yes, it’s probably the inverters and the branding that make up the vast majority of the powerwall price.
The videos make this floor look slick as ice. I wouldn’t want to walk around on something like that with a vr headset on. Sounds like a recipe for a broken arm.
Apple could individually negotiate with the top 1000+ apps. The question is of having a wide open marketplace with standardized rules. How many users need the long tail?
Originally saw this on Mastodon [0]. There's a source link [1]. The author also pointed to the original tweet [2].

[0] https://mastodon.social/@vnglst@hachyderm.io/111828811708684...

[1] https://github.com/vnglst/pong-wars/blob/main/index.html

[2] https://twitter.com/nicolasdnl/status/1749715070928433161
So, what's the substitute for native apps or third-party browser engines? A webapp?

This exact line of logic is why we have arrived at legislation like the Digital Market Act. Apple goes out of their way to ensure reasonable substitutes don't exist, by controlling their own IP but also ruthlessly C&Ding reverse engineers, fan projects and security researchers. They operate an end-to-end plot that protects their bottom line, and certain jurisdictions should have the right to deny that behavior in their market.
The alternative is to take the L and turn it into a win.

Being forced to open up by both the EU and homefront is more than enough a mandate for Tim and the rest of the leadership to make the transition without any trouble from shareholders.

They can use this to really open up the platform and solidify their marketshare.

Now instead you have every major player that doesn't already have its own distribution (Meta, AMZN, NFLX) looking for the exists.

As a side note, this is why I think Zuckerberg burning tens of billions in AR/VR R&D was such a good move. It gave them a foothold in the next thing.

I'll be surprised if the rest of MANGA wont follow suit and double down after what Apple is doing.
The pulitzer prize is a genre award. Don't rely on that. They conflate genre with good writing in the sense that only books about deep character studies or books about racism and things of that deep nature ever win.

PS:T can win a Hugo. The Hugo award is something that gets it right. They can admit they're awarding stuff to a narrow genre while the Pulitzer is deceptive in the sense they don't ever admit to the narrowness of their decisions. I don't think a Sci Fi has ever won a Pulitzer.

That attitude is representative of a lot of what's going on in this thread. This sort of snobbishness where people mistake good writing and bad writing for what is in actuality genre preferences.

I also wouldn't advertise the setting of PS:T too much. Yes it's unique, but that's only a small part of the reason why it's good. Torment's informal sequel: Tides of Numenera had the same unique setting but wasn't nearly as good because it lacked the core. Torment was good because it was compelling and haunting. The setting is just icing on the cake.
How was the process of pitching to Manning?
Apple seems to be working on using GPT directly in Siri
I think they just mean "no large scale cover up by government agencies of frequent extraterrestial activity"
There was an interview between Ram Dass and Terence McKenna in Prague Gnosis.

Ram Dass states that he intends his life to be his message.

McKenna squirms a little and he says emphatically that he wishes for his message to be his message!
Blind people understand language perfectly well, which rules out your conjecture.

[ETA: Yes, this is a response to "see and hear", which should perhaps be "see or hear", and because "we mirror and model their muscle movements" implies more than just vocals/sound.]
Sure, but those are tangentially related to the GP statement about profit growth.

Samsung raw unit sales of smartphones have been decreasing since ... what like 2015 or something? So simply by keeping sales equal, Apple could overtake Samsung in sales. But that wouldn't necessarily indicate an increase in profit.

It's definitely true that services is Apple's biggest income growth right now. And the revenue is already double that of all Macs
I'm not a biblical scholar, so I'm lacking the details and sources I should have, but there are parts of the torah with clear indications of universalist ideas about God and morals. What is important to remember is that the Hebrew bible and the religious ideas of ancient Judaism were not monolithic. Their beliefs and scriptures were the product of many people, sometimes in different geographic regions, developed, edited, and transcribed repeatedly over the course of more than a thousand years.
A new Blockbuster store? California woman makes little free library for movies
I would “collect” them by taking photos.
> Your legs are moving but your head / vestibular system isn’t experiencing acceleration that it expects with those leg movements

That's also true on a treadmill. I think the bigger problem would be that the world appears to be moving (unlike a treadmill) and you don't feel any acceleration.
Make peace with the Palestinians and stop committing genocide
It is also a phrase used in motor racing, hah.
EU compliance is highlighting all the loopholes for other jurisdictions to close in their respective law. US and Other nations may decide better worded law now. ;)
Why are we comparing US cars versus European trains again?
Is anyone using mutt/neomutt as their e-mail client on this?
"Trains" of linearly packed self-driving cars are an interesting idea. It would be fun to watch the emergent ripples of inevitable flow disruptions spread through such auto-mata.
I haven't tried it for LLMs yet, i use it for real time RF processing, but I actually have one of them on my desk and they are fun little devices.

Maybe I will try to get a 32 GB+ LLM running one of those days.
It will keep going up until a Wall St analyst puts in an insane price target like $5000. Then it will be time to sell. It should follow AMZN from the dotcom bubble.
You should feel bad for people whose humanity was stolen from them.

"A Journalist asked him"
"how many children, how many people could be killed, to justify this operation? Is there an upper limit, where you think this is just to much this does not compute this does not add up?

"That congressman, couldn't give a number. And I thought to myself, -that man has been corrupted. That man has lost himself. He's lost himself in humiliation. He's lost himself in vengeance. He has lost himself in violence.

I keep hearing this term repeated over and over again "the right to self defense"

What about the right to dignity?
What about the right to morality?
What about the right to be able to sleep at night?

Because I know that If I was complicit, and I am complicit, in dropping bombs on children. In dropping bombs on refugee camps. No matter who is there. It would give me trouble sleeping at night, and I worry for the souls of people who can do this, and can sleep at night."
-Ta-Nehisi Coates

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_df_u7yJj3k
I've seen it longer than that. Although the frequency might be increasing as the other trend I've noticed is that overall driver quality appears to have decreased. It could just be in my area or I could be wrong, but that's what I've noticed.
I just bought my first ever Apple device - a second hand iphone. After seeing the Apple's behavior in the last couple of weeks, don't think I'm going to buy another Apple device.
Can you use the nanoVNA hardware tor this by just loading the firmware? They look identical.
Just more that when you get replaced by AI it should not come as a surprise
why do you think these "theories" (or what some may call deranged speculation) upset people?
Okay, on this narrow point, you are of course right.
That was pretty smooth. They reached out whether I was interested in writing a book for them (probably because of my other writings online), I mentioned what kind I book I want to write, submitted a proposal, and they liked that idea :)
Here's what happened to me:

- Reached out to a Russian troll on twitter via DM to discuss some specific topic he had mentioned. I try to engage the conversation on this topic which requires "blowing up his cover".

- The shill gets angry and asks me to imagine what he would do to me.

- My reply convince him I'm a US intelligence officer. After some nervous back and forth between blocking and unblocking me, someone else seems to be on the other side of the line and asks me to talk to my manager/officer, using some spy scheme from a movie. I back the fuck out.

- About a week later, I realize there is an "iCloud" segment in my finder left vertical bar. All the sync settings are ticked, including stuff I do not use. I go check the sync folders' last modified time: a mere two hours after I had this conversation on Twitter.

- Go back on twitter to see what the shill is up to. He's complaining about suffering a breach of his iCloud account and blames some intelligence service in Frankfurt, providing a picture of the building.

I have no idea what I have stepped into. Was it some counter-intel honey pot ? Then it was pretty well made. Or are these people genuinely working for some russian service ? If so, then they are batshit crazy, arrogant and not as professional as one may expect.

As a result I nuked my github and stopped using my phone, my watch, youtube account, etc. I was promised open brain surgery/interrogation by people that are allegedly expert doxxers and torturers and thought I was an intelligence soldier fighting against them.
i went through similar experiences with parents seperating, getting divorced, moving around, causing us to switch schools, (grade 4 was the first time i spent a whole school year in the same school), even living with foster parents for some time.

the big difference, my parents were never close, my mother has asbergers (a fact i only learned very recently), and my dad was born late in the war, fleeing bombs, both which strongly affected their ability to show love to us children.

however my reaction to all this was very different. i didn't develop separation anxiety, i rather expunged all this dramatic experience from memory. and apparently what i learned is that it is useless to fight for someone. that made finding a partner difficult as it required them to make the first move, but then as long as we are together, and we are able to show affection for each other, things are fine, and i remain loyal and dedicated to her, but if she started to show signs of rejecting me for whatever reason i'd simply give up without shedding a tear as if it just wasn't meant to be, like all the times before.

i also seemed to have developed a fear of loneliness. not in the short term. being alone for some time, even weeks or months is fine at least as long as there is regular interaction with others. but it's very hard for me to work by myself and if someone were to tell me i'd remain alone for the rest of my life, i think i'd panic.

interestingly my brothers didn't have the same reaction. i was the only one who got married and has kids. one of my brothers got treated for depression. i suppose the stoic nature that i developed saved me from that, but in light of the article, it is probably also because i am the oldest, so the traumatic experiences hit me at an older age than my brothers.

and all of this didn't become clear to me until recently. it took that long to reflect and go through various experiences good and bad for me to figure this all out.
Ah yeah me too, have a Weller soldering iron from 2001-ish.
This "outage state" just sounds like the normal daily usage experience when it comes to teams.
I didn’t say that. I don’t see how businesses in these commercial areas do not suffer, and I don’t see how that does not translate into job losses, and I don’t see how this combination does not result in lost tax revenue.

WFH likely means people spend less on gas and eating out. This is one of the benefits touted by WFH proponents, myself included. I am spending at least $300 less a month since WFH.

Yes I’m certain some tax revenue shifted to the city I live in, but it definitely shifted away from the city my office was in.
My Garmin (255s) is pretty inaccurate when it comes to sleep. It often mistakes REM for awake and vice versa. Honestly, nowadays I only wear it for my runs. Even if it was accurate, I can just tell by feel. All the metrics such as sleep, resting HR and HRV are pretty bad compared to your nervous system.

The metrics aren't really actionable either. I got a bad night of sleep, so what? I know it. I have low HRV because I drank alcohol/over-trained/am ill. I don’t need a watch to tell me that. I know it.

It’s just collecting data for the sake of collecting data.
Spot on, and one god has been described as having symptoms of mental illness too.

I also wonder how many "prophets" in religion were actually suffering from paranoid schizophrenia? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_health_of_Jesus

And if you criticized this ridiculous mythology, you were persecuted and shunned.
I am fairly emotional about this but I don't think my comments are off-topic or unfair.

I find it incredibly frustrating how we as a society have accepted the high number of traffic deaths as a fact of nature. Imagine we had the technology to reduce childhood cancer rates by 50%, but chose not to use it.

Traffic accidents kill more children than cancer. And we have the technology to reduce them: GPS-based speed limiters, automatic breaking system, speed bumps, red light cameras.

Yet we choose not to act because ... people think that would be too uptight?
Its the most awful „chat“ program I‘ve ever used. Especially the horrible linux support is a shame.
Weird. I used to worry about climate change and now I don’t. I guess the world has a way of finding its equilibrium.

I do however worry about the accidental introduction of invasive species and diseases, which seems to be accelerating (see: citrus greening disease).
Nothing will happen, so why should Microsoft care?

They already have one of the worst usability experiences across conventionally used instant messenger/VOIP software.

This is proof that its very easy for one monopoly to create another.
Nimby + disassociation.

"That landfill is causing a lot of pollution". No, you caused that pollution. The landfill just collected it all in one place.

This is similar to "China's manufacturing causes a lot of pollution". No, you, the consumer, cause that pollution.

Just my $0.02.
This really doesn't seem that new, just a neater implementation of prior competitor products like KatWalk and Virtuix Omni
Point (1) is a function of the team's culture around new hires and working relationships generally. Occupying the same building, the same floor, or even the same room as a coworker is simply not equivalent to having a beneficial work culture.

You can neglect new hires just as effectively in an office, and you can support new hires just as effectively over Teams.
Another possibility that's fun to imagine in a world where every car is self-driving and connected to all the other cars is traffic meshing at speed (say, 25mph) through intersections. You wouldn't need traffic lights anymore, because the vehicles would be able to set their spacing and velocity correctly to avoid colliding. Unfortunately, self driving cars can barely figure out how to merge onto a freeway so we may be some decades away still.
> You feel like you are part of the family while watching this.

Fair enough! I'd just note that Walt was pioneer of content marketing, and I'm sure that was the goal. (This segment was broadcast in the television series Disneyland (1954–1959) in the episode, "Tricks of Our Trade".)

> Honestly, I feel vaguely threatened by the HoloTile Floor demo tone. The way he answers the question about what's it's going to be used for feels like a parent that doesn't want to reveal something to a child.

This one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68YMEmaF0rs Agreed, it's terrible — overscripted, artificial, inauthentic — and a failed simulacrum of what Walt's Disney did above. The only honest part is 2:15-3:00, marred only by the terrible reading of the pretend guest.
For anyone that is interested in Buddhism but otherwise put off by Watts, I recommend reading anything by D.T. Suzuki. Very accessible but much more academically rigorous and accurate.
What would happen if the interior of a tube was lined with these, could they move an object cylinder through the tube?

What if you have the exterior covered in these, could they move (easily) a donut surrounding it?

What happens if you have these face each other?

can these be use for super slippery loading sled-tracks in ships, planes, trains? Whats the weight limits?

Can they be scaled down really small and basically put around a cable-line to slide things along like a zipline?
Apple's official announcement on implementation of the new EU regulations sounded very fear mongering and manipulative, as something an authoritarian cult would write. Reminded me of the writing style of the Watchtower cult magazines.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/01/apple-announces-chang...
If you die, this doesn't increase trip length. I'm not sure I'd care how long it took if I were dead even if it did.

When the trip is completed successfully, you've arrived sooner and the habit of speeding will only then affect risk on future trips, there is no post facto cost (ignoring automated speed traps).
For everyone interested in the whole "Linux on Phones" thing attending FOSDEM, make sure to check out the dev room schedule [0] and relevant stands [1].

[0]: https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/track/foss-on-mobile-device...

[1]: https://fosdem.org/2024/stands/
A supermajority of all Gazans are too ever to have voted (in part because Hamas, which won the 2006 election by throwing PA supporters off rooftops, hasn't allowed another election since). It is not reasonable to say that Gazans elected Hamas.
Things like the Avrocar. The Vought V-173 is known to have caused UFO reports.
Teams is probably the worst communications app I've ever been forced to use. Extremely slow, random crashes, almost impossible to organize chats in a useful way, and outages as the cherry on top. I would have thought that Microsoft would put more TLC into a core part of their enterprise offering.