skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's very much proven that our atmosphere can be impacted differently by different gasses. We don't have a fix it now button. But we are also not on a downward spiral with zero options.

The problem is largely with public acceptance. We've been negatively impacting our atmosphere for a very long time. Any and every half effort measure that has been taken to mitigate or reverse the damage has failed. The damage continues.

It seems much more likely, and makes a lot more sense, to me for us to focus on large scale efforts that might have an immediate and actual impact. Instead of hoping that tomorrow maybe people will start to listen and everyone will give up eating meat, corporations will go carbon zero, and green energy will become the default.

If climate change continues, which it seems like it certainly will, someone/some nation state will attempt solar geoengineering. I'd rather us be 25+ years into researching how to safely and effectively do it than have a small desperate people do it as a last hope.

Is it dangerous? Absolutely. Does it seem scary and even stupid right now? Sure. 100%. But it sounds like a better option than watching life slowly die out while saying I told you so...
That's a great idea! Thanks.
I used to work at a hospital that did radiation research. Their animal of choice was dogs. Few things sounded worse than hearing the dogs start to wail (as a group) multiple times a day. They would basically irradiate dogs to give them cancer and then study them as they died.

I stick to tardigrades, but even then I feel bad if I accidentally kill one or many.
> "As we move forward in 2024, the leadership of Microsoft Gaming and Activision Blizzard is committed to aligning on a strategy and an execution plan with a sustainable cost structure that will support the whole of our growing business,” Microsoft Gaming chief Phil Spencer said ..."

Wow that's pretty dry for a video game company.

There's really no reason to support AAA developers anymore. The market of high quality indie games is so huge. For the price of the latest COD you can buy 3 or 4 more entertaining games and actually support a human being with a soul instead of this late stage capitalist nonsense.
More specifically, shouldn't this be "Pakistan cuts off phone and internet services for civilians on election day"?

I assume law enforcement, the military, and government officials are free to communicate and coordinate today.
I’m going to throw my hat in the ring to say FirefoxOS and the phone (of which I bought the first beta version) were IMO great ideas and they should have stuck with it. The iOS/Android duopoly really needed a web-SPA option. Maybe they were too early (rust & wasm would have helped a lot with the speed), maybe it was too difficult a task…but I really wish they had succeeded.
Maybe they meant to interact with people they know*
I see cars in the city roll through stop signs all the time, but I never heard of a bicyclist killing someone while blasting through a stop sign. The difference between bicycles and cars is based on the potential for harm.
> edit: This reminds me. Wasn't there a FOSS project that has most of Itunes functionality?

What is that functionnality? If it is about playing audio, there are tons of apps for that.
"Firefox keeps getting better?"

In which way?
I think the point is, Farmers as a group were peaceful until very recently. Law abiding citizens don't riot because Mars stationed direct.

I like Bill Burr's quote here - "A dog should not bite a man. But if a dog does bite a man, it's fair to ask what he was doing when it bit him"
What are you talking about? Criticism comes with the territory of being the CEO of a company. A CEO is going to receive the blame or accolades for a company depending on whether it fails or succeeds. People largely perceive Mozilla to be a declining company. So, yes, she is naturally going to receive the blame for that. What also comes with the territory is massive compensation.
What are those? (In the US, only used WhatsApp for DMing Europeans).
Just a guess out of my butt but, I would bet that very few people on this website have ever driven a 1000cc bike.

Indeed - I've had cars with smaller engines.
> Mitchell Baker is stepping down as CEO to focus on AI

& from her own blogpost on this announcement[0]:

> I will return to supporting the CEO and leadership team as I have done previously as Exec Chair. In addition, I will expand my work [... to ...] more consistently representing Mozilla in the public [...] through speaking and direct engagement with the community.

I cannot believe Baker doesn't read at least some notes on community sentiment around her various decisions at Mozilla; it must take an astounding level of cognitive dissonance for her to see herself as a suitable candidate for "direct engagement with the community".

[0] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/a-new-chapter-for-mozill...
I’m curious… by doing what?

Google seems to be a much more competent company for example. They have Go. How have they been able to find financial success with it?
I've been a Worspace/Apps admin for over a decade; I'm well aware of how this works.

What I'm saying is, from what I can see in the admin portal, there's no place for me to go today to enable Gemini for my users. Things are routinely weeks or months delayed before they even become available to enable for Workspace tenants, and often times features just never get offered.
And 10 without AI. 22-10=12.
I don't work on it, but thanks for the kind correction!
It's a good news bad news situation.

AI assistant is getting a dedicated app. Great. AI assistant can "supercharge your creativity" but still can't answer phone calls. Well, it's going to be as useful as Cortana and Siri.
I once worked at a company that decided to do Samson's chair during standup.

It was brutally effective, especially those who went last sounded like a new Eminem single. Standupps went from >30 to <1 minute immediately
We are not in one.

And it comes down to resources and self preservation.

Firstly: you need to recognise that virtual life is as real as physical life (you feel and experience a world - it doesn't mater if its digital representation or physical one).

Now consider this:

If you live in a simulation, a VM, then you serve some kind of purpose to person that spawned you. A game, a experiment, a collage thesis... whatever.

If you start running your own universe simulations (VM) that have a chance of spawning their own VMs, you are increasingly more power intensive to simulate. VM -> VM -> VM -> VM, there is a chain or tree of VM being created and new ones will be created all the time.

At some stage the original person who started the VM chain will see the whole thing slowing down and becoming ever more useless - eventually causing then to shut it down (or restart it).

So, if that is true and we are in one of nodes in VM chain (or tree) the most optimal survival strategy is to not put any strain or hardware that is simulating us, or we risk deletion.
>Curious how you imply in both of these statements that this is a uniquely "western sphere" government activity.

I didn't. The purpose of the clause "or their own governments" in the part of the comment you copied was to contrast the clause "American and American-allied intelligence services" (collectively referring to the "western" sphere of influence), inclusive of non-western spheres of influence, such as China and Russia.

Please, put in the minimum effort to read and understand all of the words people write, rather than simply scanning them to find some bad-faith interpretation from which to engage in political sniping. I am not the strawman living rent-free in your head. I never said anything about any non-Western government being freedom-loving paragons.
Gemini is the name of an internet protocol. Period. F* Google on this.

What's next? Starlink the videoconferencing app?
Golden rule: different username per website (and don't connect them afterwards) unless you have an EXCELLENT reason to do so. Real name? Absolutely not.

Wikipedia admins have had people call their jobs to try to get them fired. You don't need good privacy practices until you do.
Higher end, but is it smaller or bigger? And what about the Mini?
Compare that to what Eich achieved with brave in that period.
The top left corner gives the hint "A modern C-like Programming language with focus on structural typing." Not sure what "coding like royalty" is meant to mean honestly. To me royalty conjures useless rent-seeking incompetent cruft that sits on their ass and extracts value from their subjects.
Feynman's Obliquity
As an atheist, I don't actually care where people think the "burden of proof" lies, honestly.

I have seen no evidence that there is a god, and that's all that matters to me. I have no interest in debating the existence or nonexistence of a god, so I have no need to prove or disprove anything.
First thing that came to mind was the Slackware Linux website [0] style (which hasn't changed since I last looked at it in early 2000's)

[0]: www.slackware.com
I have, and while it's impressive technologically it's just boring.

>What kind of interests do you have?

I've tried talking to it about all sorts of things. Music, electrical engineering, religion, culture, etc. It's just too agreeable to be interesting, and every time I think I'm getting close to getting it to disagree about something, it shuts down.

Also the tone is unmistakable, and something I haven't been able to shake. But it's like I could predict its responses before it writes them (again, definition of boring).
More simply, with Bard and Duet AI names retired, it looks like this:

Gemini Models gemini.google.com
------------------------------------
Gemini Nano
Gemini Pro -> Gemini (free)
Gemini Ultra -> Gemini Advanced ($20/month)

Where each size (Nano, Pro, and Ultra) will be versioned going forward (similar to GPT-2,3,3.5,4) starting at 1.0 today.
I want to know what Linux a386 was. Couldn't ever really understand what it did.
I feel pretty terrified when I receive an SLA breach alert
A good list of concepts and resources. I'll just mention Andrew
Tanenbaum's "Distributed Operating Systems" (Prentice-Hall 1995)
which was my entry point.
> A correctness of a thought isn't a function of thought itself, it's a function of thought and reality.

I agree with this, although I think it's more precise to say a thought is correct insofar as it conforms to reality.

> Correctness of a thought is not a physical label. It's not a state. It's something you evaluate, something you compute with respect to knowledge you observe.

This appears to be illogical. The correctness of my thought (that is to say, whether it conforms to reality) is one thing; my evaluation of its correctness is entirely different. Further, correctness must be a 'state', or property, of a thought: otherwise you undermine your own argument (see below).

> nature does not put XML tags with correctness score on neurons.

I agree with this. But this supports my argument. An arrangement of neurons (or anything physical) cannot be correct or incorrect. But a thought can be correct or incorrect (you must think that, because you must think you're right and I'm wrong about this disagreement). Therefore a thought cannot be reduced to an arrangement of neurons (or anything physical).
The iPad Air is not a distinct form factor from the iPad.
10k file creations per second does seem kind of slow no? A typical SSD today can do many millions of operations per second…
> Seconding smartwatches. There's no reason to habitually check my phone (and risk getting distracted) when my watch tells me if I have notifications.

I don't get it. This functionality is so basic that it's always been part of the phone itself. What's the watch doing?
My favorite is that you subscribe to Gemini Advanced to gain access to Gemini Pro.
I think the Windows client will live as long as the iTunes Store.

Which I was sort of more confident about when it seemed to just be in a forgotten corner of Apple somewhere just ticking along. Now it's clear someone has come up with a strategy™, I think there's more risk they might screw with both to push people into subscription services, and I can't help but see an iTunes Store shutdown as being the beginning of the end for digital music sales.
Where are all the ideas are worthless folks
A bit of a self-satisfied, everyone-else-is-a-fool, told-you-so story for the teller. IME, those are signals that the story reveals the teller, the culture of the teller, but not facts.

Of course, I don't know. I think the hard thing in these situations is that we humans tend to trust personal stories like this one - it's rude not to. My comment is rude, in a sense, transgressing in this social interaction. But the accurate, truthful course is to treat the facts as [edit:] nothing - not as maybe true, etc., but as if they were never said.
We don't eat chimps much. We do eat a lot of octopuses.
Ask HN: What Is the Future of Fintech?
Is anything interesting going on in Fintech anymore? I remember when Robinhood, Stripe, Square and all were great but now it's boring again.

Is anyone building something interesting?
https://www.apple.com/apple-tv-app/

Apple TV (app) gives access to Apple TV+ (streaming service)
> produced by plentiful piscine participants procreating... powerful

perfect
I've been using mixtral on Together.ai for this reason.

The model isn't being randomly updated, and you choose its temperature and output length, they can't even set a system prompt to mess it up with.

It's consistently good, and honestly all you need is consistency, you can always iterate on prompts.
That isn't alarmist, but almost all privacy features in Brave are already in Firefox as well. Looking at this page:

- Chromium customizations: Not necessary in Firefox

- Client-side encryption for Brave Sync: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-firefox-sync-keeps-...

- DeAMPing: I think AMP has been dead for a few years now

- Limiting network server calls: I think this is a bit tangential to privacy, limiting calls is generally good but it doesn't mean you're transmitting less information. Brave's post comparing different browsers' first startup network calls is from 2019, not sure how Firefox performs today.

- Query parameter filtering: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/components/a...

- Better partitioning for better privacy: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Privacy/State_P...

- Referrer policy improvements: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/03/22/firefox-87-trim...

- Fine grained / temporary permissions API: This is nice, I don't think Firefox has this.

- Social media blocking: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-prote...

- Bounce tracking protections: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2020/08/04/firefox-79-incl...

- Limiting the life of Javascript: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-rolls-o.... Not explicitly mentioned but I believe Firefox does have this 7 day limit as well, in addition to other protections.

- Private windows with Tor: Firefox doesn't have built-in Tor integration, but the actual Tor Browser is built from Firefox.

I think Firefox also has one or two features that Brave does not, like Multi-Account Containers, and some paid services like https://relay.firefox.com/.
> "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and the mythological character ... may have had more to do with it"

Which contradicts with what he wrote in his "Project Oberon" book: "Although the search for an appropriate name for a project is usually a minor problem and often left to chance and whim of the designers, this may be the place to recount how Oberon entered the picture in our case. It happened that around the time of the beginning of our effort, the space probe Voyager made headlines with a series of spectacular pictures taken of the planet Uranus and of its moons, the largest of which is named Oberon. Since its launch I had considered the Voyager project as a singularly well-planned and successful endeavor, and as a small tribute to it I picked the name of its latest object of investigation." Also the books "Programming in Oberon" (where Wirth was co-author) and "The Oberon System" say the same. If he really did have "some flair" for the arts (besides "the art of simplicity"), he hid it very well.
Imagine that your brain is a company composed of several different departments, each with a different primary function. In any organization, there has to be some communication between departments to get things done. So, for example, the devops department has certain people in charge of working with billing to make sure they can afford and purchase new equipment, the billing department has people that communicate with the accounting department to make sure the equipment requests are in budget, and everyone has an HR contact to make sure they can hire who they need. In a well-functioning organization, these points of departmental contact are typically limited to a few people who are well versed in communicating between teams so there's not too much cross talk. But in some organizations, maybe they have a looser structure, and suddenly devops is getting mixed signals from billing because bobby went ahead with the approval while daren checked with accounting and the budget is out of whack and accounting's oversight procedures fail or don't exist because HR didn't give them the right head count because HR solely consists of brenda who is overworked and underpaid.

So with the brain. There is an optimal number of cross connections between systems to balance flexibility (how quickly devops can get equipment approval) with stability (budget oversight from accounting). Sometimes there are too many connections (bobby and daren), while other times there can be too few (brenda). In ADHD brains, the overall connectivity between systems is higher that this optimal point. This causes a breakdown in this balance toward hyperflexibility (usually - the nuances there are best for another conversation) because target systems are receiving mixed signals a la bobby and daren.
You either die the hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

She wasn’t up to the job but decided to stay there because it afforded her a higher salary than ANY OTHER company would ever hire her for because very few people are worth salaries in the millions and Baker was not one of them.

My problem with Baker wasn’t her compensation it’s that her desire for that compensation caused her to occupy the CEO seat and tank Firefox. I’d rather Mozilla had paid her 50 million to retire and find a new CEO, it probably would have turned out better than to let somebody incompetent do a job because she was selfless in the past.
I feel like there's disproportionate coverage of Dutch intelligence drama/failures relative to size of the country. I'm assuming this is because their media is extra transparent or their intelligence extra leaky.
I always wince when I see octopus on a menu. Or on a plate.
The responsiveness of bootstrap's grid is something that css doesn't have. With a few classes I can make the same site for mobile and ultra wide screen.
You say it's a good naming choice, yet you called it Gemeni, Gemini and Gimini.

I hope you're trolling, and I've missed the joke.

Additionally, the package name of the "new app" is com.google.android.apps.bard and the privacy policy is at https://support.google.com/bard/answer/13594961

Was this a last minute rename?

Edit: I thought I was going crazy, but it seems you have just edited the comment now, but left a couple of Gemeni around :)
Isnt it fairly common for cyclist to get seriously injured in other ways though? Most serious cyclists I know have had at least 1 seemingly major accident with a car. And I live in a city that has a pretty significant bike lanes/routes distribution.
Smarter then dogs.

The criteria for edibility is mainly ugliness vs. Cuteness.

Octopuses are recently getting more media attention with that movie about the diver that made friends with one so they are getting cuter.

Try farm raising and eating baby penguins you'll get the same reaction even though penguins are dumb AF. It has nothing to do with intelligence.
I know exactly what you mean, and I know plenty of people from my hometown who've made the same choice. I completely empathize with your choice. And I ask: aren't people leaving further exacerbating this issue?

My family has been here for over 150 years, and I feel like I have an intergenerational responsibility to be a small part of helping my home through this tough time. There's got to be something the rust belt can do to pull itself through its issues.

Which area of the rest belt are you from?
Intracity buses have cameras. Intercity buses require ID.
it's impossible to scroll your website with spacebar
In my experience interim CEO are used to make unpopular decisions in the company and then removed, kind of like getting New Coke and then as everyone gets mad you bring back Coke Classic but now with cheaper ingredients and everyone is happy.
You can always create a new account.
I've found its less lazy, and it just surprised me by putting

"# ... Steps to deploy to your specific hosting environment - see below"

which I thought was being lazy, but then it produced a whole block of text asking me questions about the hosting environment so it could continue.

It still has a much shorter context window it seems though.
It's not the worst idea. The Linux foundation will let you buy a @linux.com email (for people who want to feel like an important Linux person).

I like that it's not something like FirefoxOS where they need to invest years of R&D playing catch-up. Relatively simple to set-up. And free advertising for the Brand™ whenever someone sends an email, such marketing value, very viral.
I think you were replying to my original comment.

It's not a capital 'S' scam in a legal sense, but it's a scam in that they are playing a trick on you by jacking the price way up and relying on your ignorance to make the sale at an inflated price.

If we consider a door-to-door salesman who is selling (say) basic Android phones in retirement communities where hypothetically some folks have never used a smartphone, they might get away with selling a $100 basic phone for $1000. That's not illegal, but it surely is a scam in the ethical sense.
I think the Xbox naming is all because the PlayStation came out before the Xbox and if Microsoft would have used a similar version-incrementing naming convention they would have always been one version behind Sony. Thus the second generation of the Xbox being the 360, which competed with the PS3: the 360 had a “3” in its name, so to a consumer’s mind they were comparable.
FinCEN proposes new rule for residential real estate held in trusts or LLCs
Not trying to be a SJW but a drove an 18 wheeler for a year and would pick up meat from slaughter houses and the way they treat those animals is god forsakenly bad.They put hundreds of chickens in a room and spray water with electrical current into it. The cows would come in on trucks just terrified with the walls covered in their own feces. Not even going to get started on the conditions in which they are raised.

It made me really cut down on my meat eating and pay the extra for local farm raised meat.

Im not even against eating meat! I just think the mass industrialization of slaughter is messed up.

If you look at almost every menu though its like 90% meat so the amount of meat we consume on America is remarkable.

Capitalism is really good at hiding horrible abuse of people and animals behind a veneer of civilization and the abstraction of a blameless neutral currency.
Sure the Tsarist regime was very brutal and oppressive however it still had a somewhat functioning and somewhat independent judicial system (of course extrajudicial murder/executions still occurred quite frequently but not even remotely as frequently as in the USSR).

But more importantly in this case Nicholas didn’t have nearly as much direct power as Stalin did (he was extremely incompetent as outright stupid as a person) and had to rely on his government to actually make the tough decisions.
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