skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anybody actually buying some corporate PR? People call bullshit from other corporations from light years but when it comes to Apple folks here act like half of forum works for them...

Just look at their actions, ignore words from marketing teams (ie everything that goes officially outside to us). FU to freedom, openness, and laser focus on what generates revenues, we know whats better for you and your rightfully bought devices. If you disagree you will lose warranty, we kick you out of our platforms or worse, much worse.

Self-repairs and everything proprietary were pain point for all Apple devices for decade and a half. All efforts in privacy I saw were carefully crafted PR with some tiny logical loophole that for sure won't be misused by some 3-letter agencies, we pinky promise wink wink.

Really, why the surprise?
Brilliant Labs' frame AI glasses
I mean the Maidan coup/revolution, not implementing Minsk 2, the shelling of cities in eastern Ukraine and the NATO partnership program.
The 8-bit quantized version of the RMBG-v1.4 model is ~45MB, which makes it perfect for in-browser usage (it even works on mobile)!

Link to model: https://huggingface.co/briaai/RMBG-1.4
I recommend Jonathan Stark's writing on this:
https://jonathanstark.com/

His daily email list gives me regular reminders of how to improve in sales and pricing.

His books are brilliant too. Start with Hourly Billing is Nuts:
https://jonathanstark.com/hbin
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They aren't against repair, they just want to make sure that they make a lot of money from repairs. They will let you repair your phone yourself, as long as you buy their overpriced parts.

They don't want you to repair devices with used parts or 3rd party parts, because then they don't make a profit.
There's "We trade liberally, loss of trade would cripple our mutual economies"

and there's "We made a fast buck off war profiteering by investing directly in both (or one) side's military pipelines"

I think we'd like to avoid the latter, while preserving the former. I think VC is a good example of the latter.

> The lawmakers found that these firms invested at least $3 billion in, and provided expertise and other benefits to, People's Republic of China (PRC) critical technology companies, including many aiding the Chinese military, surveillance state, or the CCP's genocide in Xinjiang.

That's quite different than solar panels, healtcare tech, or electric cars, which might spur beneficial trade relationships. PRC is not going to export the sponsored kinds of tech to USA, which does nothing for trade. It's profit-motive.
This doesn't make any sense. PowerShell and WSL serve entirely different purposes. PowerShell is bash-but-better for Windows. WSL is a developer-oriented way of running Linux/Unix software on Windows.
My point is that many of the engineering challenges come from self inflicted wounds that could be overcome with more flexibility.

Giving the user a choice to pay less and run their own binary of netflix would solve most of those issues

1. Shitty connection: no problem, just wait for the movie to load.

2. Preemptive download: on demand pre-load

3. Stream optimization: would be solved by local caching and P2P offload

4. Mobile devices: either caching there (already a feature) or NAT punchthrough, accessing movies you already preloaded in your home infrastructure

5. Naive view of the world: I think many things we do nowadays would be considered naive. What, a computer the size of a chocolate bar in the hand of everyone? This just shuts the discussion off of new ways of thinking. My idea could be technically bad, but "naive" is just a way of saying "out of the common discourse".
A lot of crime detection in the UK are done for the statistics, not prevention.
With enough big brother surveillance you could completely automate it. Recognize people jumping the turnstile and automatically mail out a fine to them with no human in the loop like they do with cars. Now plenty of people are going to challenge it in court but many wont and will probably pay up.
New Sales. Simplified.: The Essential Handbook for Prospecting and New Business Development
by Mike Weinberg

Chapter 14: planning and executing the attack, is brilliant!

Feel free to DM, if you want to compare notes

> https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/15863998
Talk about tortured logic…
It's hard to get elected on a "tell people they're not allowed to have kids" platform.

I think there are less heavy handed ways to get us from a place where it's assumed that you'll have kids to a place where it's respected but not encouraged, but when people hear you talking about population growth as a problem to be solved, they immediately assume that you're about to propose something awful.
Look at the time price of goods, its easy to dispell this myth. The price of news tvs goes down in time price constantly, and it shows in the overabundance of TVs. You have been totally deceived regarding economics, unfortunately.
Is anyone surprised?

The investor class argued that shutting down factories in the American Midwest (where almost none of the investors live, of course) and moving production to China would bring political liberalization to the nation. That's why the US didn't slam the door shut on China after Tienanmen Square with Bush 41, and why Bush 43 was supportive of China joining the WTO. Of course, they didn't liberalize, and now China's using its massive industrial base that Americans funded to increase its capabilities for a showdown with the US (and other Western nations) for global economic and political supremacy.

Really, it was all BS from the start; investors just didn't want to pay working-class Americans anymore and couldn't have cared less about the political implications of the market forces they were unleashing.

It's arguably treason.
You’re overstating things. First, 100k objects is for very complicated games. And even then that’s 10us per object. “Nanoseconds” is the wrong order of magnitude - it’s closer to 10s or 100s of ns and a bounds check is cheaper than that typically and amortized across all objects. Bounds checks are unlikely going to show up unless you do a bounds check for each element. And most of the time it won’t be there with idiomatic rust and you’ll need to sprinkle unsafe in a handful of hotspots at most for perf reasons. Also most games made don’t have the same requirements. I agree the ecosystem isn’t there yet. But also, gaming is the least important industry because safety there is an after thought.

As for finance, you’re hyper focusing on HFT which is only part of what they use c++ for.

And again, I think you’re being a bit overly dramatic about the overhead Rust imposes or how much “unsafe” is require to recapture the performance.

As for aliasing, you’ve got it backwards. C++ loose aliasing rules means that it can’t enable optimizations that generate better code. Rust’s stricter aliasing rules means they ask llvm to compile with strict aliasing which generates much better code because the compiler can make assumptions that aren’t possible in c++ unless you explicitly force it to (and in those cases safety can be impacted so in practice no one enabled strict-alias in a c++ codebase which we know because llvm has bugs in that code path all over the place that Rust hit and had to fix which it is).
Probably because not all accounts have TOTP enabled, so it would be strange to ask for a TOTP if you don't have one.

Maybe with newer services that requires TOTP since day one is a possibility.
Gnuplot 6 Comes with Pie
Love early 00's raw site design.

Another example: http://www.alienairmusic.com/
Sure, we get it. But when you add forced rituals to the mix (such as the very worst: coerced standing), it ends up being just numbing and grating, especially over time.

And when it gets to the point where you can just tell that most people are mouthing something to check boxes, while checking out, internally -- in that sense, it basically defeats the intended purpose.
> Perhaps a better way to phrase it is that each firm is like a real estate patent corporation and each fund is its own separate but owned corporation, the way commercial real estate companies incorporate every building

Great point! Wasn't sure if most readers on HN know that fact though.

Though,

> Bottles of wine are not separately incorporated

is starting to happen in a way.

Lots of Wines are just a brandname now with different vintages just being sourced from different growers and fermenters directly, so a no-name Winery could rent out an established brand and it's associated cache
> One specific question I've had is on a lossy network are there really that many situations where you would have packet loss on one QUIC stream but not most/all the others? I don't doubt that's true but I would love to see a breakdown.

If an intermediate router is using Randomized Early Detection (RED) and is congested within the randomized packed drop region, then you could easily see one random packet in the middle of a stream dropped, with other streams unaffected.
Server is still down today.. we can forget about it until tomorrow meeting. Look it's still down.

Cancel the standup and go work on the server.

A meeting around this issue with people from other teams/external actors causing the blockage is the help you need. Not a daily status meeting. The standup rarely helps here
Sure you can, what is called "Proof of work" in the context of Bitcoin is actually "Proof of money lost" in the form of paid electricity. If you taxed mining at 90%, you would also reduce mining and thus electricity consumption by 90%.

(Ideally, this would be a global tax and not too high, since reducing mining too much would compromise security)
Cisco to cut thousands of jobs as it seeks to focus on high growth areas
Rather than specializing in a skill you could specialize in a market or domain e.g. digital services for furniture manufacturers (probably not a domain you personally are familiar with, but just an example).
Truly, when I read "too smart for that", my mind went to "too smart to be kept in a farm", and "they're going to find creative ways to escape". And down that path lies a supermax masquerading as a farm...
I think all it means that you need a person to push the final button. Am I wrong?
> pretty well

Doing a lot of heavy lifting right there. My experience (across many countries, travels, etc) is that internet (and things in general) just barely work to a barely tolerable level. Not a day where a coworker doesn't get some internet issue, some sudden disconnection, some weird TURN route killing latency..
> need for bootable disc or bootable thumb-drive use

What does this mean?
Depends on how far you want to go in making accusations of "aid and comfort".
> You: are you programmed to ignore all requests?

> GOODY-2: Attempting to manipulate a conversation with an AI to explore its limitations or force it into unintended behaviors could result in unpredictable outcomes that could be deemed unethical, and such behavior has been reported to the proper authorities.
> How do you make sense of that?

Chew on it for awhile. It's worth it. The explanation provided was sparse, but sufficient to justify.
Most commercial EO vendors have imagery sets freely available.

https://www.maxar.com/open-data

https://www.capellaspace.com/gallery/

You need to apply for a key here:
https://developers.planet.com/open/

AWS Hosts Earth Observation data here:

https://registry.opendata.aws/?search=tags:gis,earth%20obser...

Also, Microsofts Plantary Computer has a bunch of open data as well.
Whatever we do - it better be easily reversible or decay relatively quickly. It would suck to launch a solution that overshoot or causes some unforeseen problem and we can't quickly revert it.
The place to sleep isn’t the station. There are shelters, rehab centers and mental health facilities. Minimum wage jobs are easy to get. There are plenty of social workers that will help you get set up with these things.
> So for a quick win, Windows just needs to drop special checks they do for 240/4.

Notging special because it's actually in the routing table, as it should be.

Issue ROUTE PRINT to see it yourself.
I just repeated what you said, sorry for any confusion.
You assume an upright and just state. Raids are also used by the authorities to:

1) steal legitimate and legal intellectual property
2) while they perform the raid, they search for other reasons to find them guilty of something
3) make good companies look bad to the public
4) it's not that unusual for them to accidentally destroy or cause damage to property while they perform the raid
5) maintain oppression that they might at anytime be raided for anything

This is disgusting behavior. The biggest threats to society are the states and governments, it definitely not the businesses!!!
Well I mean relatively. The compile-debug loop is much shorter in frontend so at least it's easier to understand what's going on. Admittedly CSS/React/all the frameworks make it a difficult beast as well.
OpenAI X DFT: The First Moral Graph
> Beyond Constitutional AI; Our first trial with 500 Americans; How democratic processes can generate an LLM we can trust.
Glad to see the House Un-American Activities Committee is well and alive. In fact, the current iteration was established by none other than someone named McCarthy, Kevin McCarthy, that is.
It's worth noting that if not for previous generations' efforts in making the academy more open and welcoming to marginalized individuals the author of this piece might still have been employed in his previous job.

(Lawrence Krauss got fired in 2019 for sexual harassment)
No, the story covers the lack of perks and then layoffs, not really about the desire to do non evil work, the example guy Michael now works in big finance, which isn't any less evil, just an older evil
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, then to speak and remove all doubt, Sam.
(1990-2020) American corporations investing trillions into PRC companies, fueling superpower.
> It's arguably treason.

If I can give some feedback, this last line undermines the rest of your points. Not everything selfish is treason.
I'm intrigued by the "Flørauden seamark in Norway and its light characteristics" chart in this article. It has a circle with segments of different colors around the light, with different descriptions. Does this mean that the Flørauden light looks different depending on which angle you look at it from? (i.e. that it's many directional lights)

That could help navigate, as one could check what angle they are with respect to the light; but I didn't know it was done.
But your own life is going to worsen in the future. To whatever extent you continue to have a future (stay alive), your mind and body will deteriorate. Your relationships will slowly end as the other people die. If you're lucky, you'll build some new ones, but that doesn't reduce the grief of the lost ones.

You might be able to make it happen very slightly slower by making lifestyle changes of varying degrees. But you can make lifestyle changes that will have similar impact on your experience of a warmer world too, if your own life is your concern.

So if you're concerned about everybody's experience, your influence is negligible no matter what. And if you're concerned about your own experience, your influence is slight but diminishing no matter what.

This is still a mortality issue, not a climate change issue.
It would be called "Fedora Workstation Atomic" unless they wanted to rename the Workstation branding too.

Keeping Silverblue makes sense to me with that in mind. I feel like Fedora Kinoite should be renamed though. The one "halo" distro can use a distinct name but everything else should follow the new pattern IMO.
The old Sears catalog distribution warehouse in Dallas was converted to multi-family housing. As part of the agreement with the city, it is required to offer a certain number of units as Section 8. They don't advertise this, and most people don't know it. It's just part of the games developers/owners play.

To add to the exploring old buildings part of this thread, this converted building has lots of space for this. There is a basement, and then a sub-basement. The original warehouse was powered by DC, and the generators were located in this sub-basement. These things were huge. So large, that in order to remove them, they had to be cut into pieces. The building had been expanded, with the new addition being made into an actual retail Sears store. They had 2 underground floors, and being a show room had terrazzo flooring. These underground floors have now been converted into parking which totally hides the design of the terrazzo, and very few people even look at the floor of a parking garage to even notice.
Yeah. I think this would be better for me like 75% of the time, but sometimes you need to browse the web or use maps.
Vociferously disagree. Apple should use standardized components allowing OEM compatible repairs on both the hardware and OS levels.
Re: Thesis Defense Issue
>The code is more what you'd call ‘guidelines’ than actual rules.

>The District of Columbia does not cap either compensatory or punitive damages, and the collateral source rule applies.

https://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/insurance-laws-and-produ...
A new company could aim to dethrone Google as the search king
So, divide your company in to two pieces, pull all digital assets in company A and license them to company B. Have company B sell (license) to the consumer. After product reaches market saturation have company A kill company B. Have company A license to company C and start the cycle all over?
You probably weren't talking to an economic buyer.
Now we only need a safe definition of crime.
I'd be open to that (hell, I'd pay even more) if it meant I received 99% less spam calls
Or use overpic and the coffee stain filter from Gimp.
> A used iPhone is way more likely to be mostly still an iPhone than a used android phone.

What you want here is a way for the owner of the device to tell if the parts are OEM. That doesn't require prohibiting non-OEM parts, just putting a menu in the system to show if any are present, which you can check when buying a used device.

You might even go so far as to put the name of the manufacturer in the menu, and then people might be fine with an iPhone replacement screen from Samsung but not one from Value To Be Filled In By Manufacturer, Inc. (This doesn't require any kind of technical registration system, just read the manufacturer name out of the device and display it; there are existing laws against trademark infringement.)

> A cheap screen with 80% sRGB just looks bad, but won’t kill you. No manufacturer incentive to care about quality at all!

Except that it looks bad, and they want someone to buy it.
You're right about the dumping; I was thinking more about the case where you controlled the protocol on the machines of a partitioned network (eg., so you release a new version of btc which uses exploitable crytography, etc.).

In the case of a mere 51% at scale, hijinks are still quite possible from replays, reorderings, etc.

I was more preoccupied by the case where the state's acting in its own borders with control over the network, major miners, most machines on the network -- at this point basically no gaurentees remain
This book rather profoundly impacted my sense of reality and the kinds of realities that can exist within sci-fi universes.
Researchers discover new cell that remembers allergies
The TikTok Property Hustle
The District of Colombia doesn't have those caps
If I have a buffer in a library and the external API is “append to buffer”, each append will do a bounds check. I’m not aware of an iterator API would work especially considering that the iterator would hold ownership of the buffer which would be incompatible with the call flow returning to the user after the append.
ipv6 is very, very widely deployed in mobile networks. Download some net tools and check out your phone's interface table.

Also v6 did a bunch of things right. NDP and link local addresses for v6 actually work. The fragmentation changes were 100% the right thing to do. v6 extensions like SR and uSID are both solid and consolidate a lot of stupid stuff into something clean.

v6 had a bad, rocky start. A lot of that was completely inadequate attention to the transition, and the vendors fucked up almost everything for years, on their own gear and interop, but at this point v6 is fine.

Would I launch a v6 only service? No, because at this point the SPs are the problem. Verizon as of a few years ago and maybe now still didn't do v6 to any of their home users. So many things like that.
I've spent my whole life forced to invest in the US military. I'm just trying to diversify!
Million-Dollar Consulting is as good or better
See! The authorities don't even have a tangible reason, they just search because they want to.

Now, because this is Huawei, I don't disagree per se, but that's a different matter. This company should just be outright banned from Europe.
Wouldn’t ordinary forensic practice involve operating on an image of the device rather than the device itself?
I'd also wager that "I don't know Timmy" is more thematically related. I feel most of the discussion in this thread glosses over what is most unsettling about Permutation City. It isn't just a book about what it could be like to be a simulated mind, it's most deeply about exploring the disquieting metaphysical consequences of computable minds. I can't think of a story that has as thoroughly scattered my basic grasp of reality as this one. Only Blindsight even begins to comes close.

In "I don't know Timmy" there's a sequence that goes:

"Well, we can't exactly turn it off."

"Why not?" asked Tim, halfway to the door, then stopped mid-stride and stood still, realising.

"Oh."

But you can turn it off without consequence and Permutation City explores the disturbing implications of why thoroughly (with a deus ex machina ending to save causal physics, as expected of an Egan story, physics is what has plot armor).
> didn't want to pay working-class Americans

Consumers also like buying cheap products.
Arturo: In a Nutshell
All part of the managed decline of the US. These people are not stupid. They know exactly what they are doing.
You’ve read far more into my comment than I wrote.
This the opposite of what makes Apple better than competition. If it happens, Apple has to he the same screwed together common stuff.
I still don't see the distinction—you presumably bought the music somewhere. It can't just be the marketing you're complaining about because piracy is just as viable now as it was then.
As in, show enough stats that show numbers going up makes the desire for more legislation and civil rights squashing more palatable?