skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> that simply giving people sex ed, ample forms of birth control, and women's rights leads to a self selection of fewer children.

The devil is in the details here, and programs focused on contraceptives in developing nations have a very checkered recent history.

> the earth can easily, EASILY, support more than ten billion humans if we stop being so damn stupid about resource utilization

This is sort of what I'm driving at.
The pearl clutching about having to provide your name and address is hilarious considering Apple already requires far more information to create an Apple Developer Account.

https://developer.apple.com/programs/enroll/

> you’ll need to provide basic personal information, including your legal name and address.

> If you’re enrolling your organization, you’ll need an Apple ID with two-factor authentication turned on, as well as the following to get started:
A D-U-N-S® Number
> Legal Entity Status
> Legal Binding Authority
> A Website

Apple creates a scare page out of spite and the Apple fanbois fall right for it.
A js pdf reader they control has monetization possibilities. Slip in an interstitial page for Naturally Fun Arkansas with an article from Nature. You don't want scholar going the way of reader do you?
OpenDevin: Code Less, Make More
Can be used to buy things illegally. Think ADHD meds or sanctions breaking.

In an ideal world, the ADHD meds where I live should be made available by GP prescription to reduce the backlog. Right now, it takes years to get a diagnosis free of charge, or to get a prescription for thousands of USD.

Of course, somebody (the dealer) will be left holding the bag after it unravels. But it's rich to ask sufferers to put their lives on hold.
At least in USA Hockey, it's not too hard to get approval for kids to 'play up', our 12U team this year had 3 kids that were under age by one year. Getting approval to 'play down' is a lot harder. Our competitive league rules say (sorry for caps) "HAVING 10U PLAYERS PLAYING UP AT 12U IS STRONGLY DISCOURAGED, BUT OCCASIONALLY THERE ARE COMPELLING REASONS TO DO SO. EACH ASSOCIATION AT THEIR DISCRETION MAY ALLOW UP TO TWO 10U PLAYERS PER SEASON TO PLAY UP AT THE 12U DIVISION." And further players are on a case by case basis, determined by a league coordinator from the opposite side of the state.

USA Hockey rules don't permit playing down unless a doctor says it's medically necessary, but then they're not allowed to play on competitive teams. Simply being small or unskilled is specifically not an acceptable reason. [1]

IMHO: playing up is pretty easy to administer, but playing down would be very hard to administer fairly for competitive teams, so it's just flat out prohibited.

Edit for further thought: If you have enough participants, it might make sense to try running Jan 1 leagues and Jul 1 leagues and see if it makes sense to go to quarterly leagues too. Or maybe agitate to change the cutoff for Spring Hockey and see how that looks?

[1] https://www.sedistrict.org/page/show/834907-playing-up-down
I personally like tina.io - keep local (cold storage) repos of anything you publish, in theory you could push to multiple cloud hosts as well?
While you could convince me that too much money would attract the wrong type of people, you would be hard pressed to find more competent people by offering less money. (I'm not dismissing that there are other motivations involved, just the ability to grow a talent pool by offering less.)
It takes 5-10 minutes to set up the dependencies.
It's pretty cool that Google employees can see the first transformer implementation (and the reviewer comments) in cs/.

So many monumental moments in AI history are archived in Google's intranet.
> but I once tracked 6 months with normal mouse usage, 6 months without but a lot of shortcuts... Do you know how much time I saved? Roughly 2 hours.

I’d be interested in techniques/tools you used to measure the time saved. Your point is extremely important and a discussion around measuring the positive impact would be helpful.
> Assembling a motherboard is to semiconductor fabs as flying a toy drone is to landing a Boeing 747.

I disagree. I live next to a fab and have coworkers that have worked the fabs.

Humans in fabs are taken out of the loop as much as possible. That's because when dealing with nanoscale structures, human error is simply too common.

One of my coworkers worked at the fab during a period where they had humans running the forklift that moved the wafers from one stage to the next. That was cut out because the tiny bumps caused by a human operating the controls caused imperfections in the chips that decreased yield (the metric that matters most for a fab). They ultimately removed that work and job and replaced it with robots to carefully move the wafers.

What's complex about a fab ends up being not the frontline work, but rather the layer or 2 in the back (like designing the lithography filter for a given chip). That stuff happen outside the actual plant.
Sure, but the parent I responded to seems to be trying to make an "aha!" here based on the fact that there are in fact crime rings, that crime is not actually down, which is a completely fallacious conclusion.
Apple CPU's are well-implemented, wide and on a cutting edge process. That's why they're fast & efficient. In 2024 the architecture has approximately nothing to with it.
https://archive.is/0VVna
Curious about the other areas than near Russia where jamming seems to occur: Myanmar and Kashmir(?)
Yeah! GNOME is wonderful. I can’t with the neckbeards.
> it's not commercial and it's not competing with the original work

Yes it is and yes it does.

"Fan art" is "fan" in name only.

If you read back on my original post, you will see that I am talking about almost the entire online professional art commissions market.

From online, to convention centers, and more.

All of this is commerical and all of this competed with the IP owners.

People just sell other people's IP in all of these places.
Probably most people ignore the good relationship between Jews and Arabs because it is not taught or communicated, sadly, often. They participated in math, medicine, astronomy, and philosophy.
Those are for scooters though, not ebikes.
Is that Perth with a great big red blob as well?

I don’t think I am misreading the map - what on earth is that?
Are the sheep rebelling and have some decent anti-aircraft tech?
Microsoft and Meta accuse Apple of playing games with App Store rules
I'm gonna guess they mean an animation that's the same every time you play it.
I'm going to guess Paris had more actual Frenchmen in it one or two centuries ago.
I deleted by bank app from my cell phone for this reason alone.
I’m more concerned about how you’d go about disabling Find My on a locked device that doesn’t have an user replaceable battery either.

(I’m not disputing your experience, I just want to know because I can’t find any info on how to disable it on a locked device.)
i use jupyter a lot for python. i occasionally have to use rstudio for bioinformatics. the ux is much, much worse. just haven't bothered to get the R kernel for jupyter working.
The "round prices" is definitely a factor, the math may say to rent for $2134 but the landlord will either round that down to $2100 or up to $2200.

And unless increases are limited by some law, they will usually only raise it by even amounts.
Could her health problem stem from the fact that she worked at the chip fab? Those places are notorious for using chemicals that are harmful to humans.
On the one hand, Congress' anti-crypto contingent is raising alarm over Bitcoin's energy consumption.

On the other hand, they are calling on their allies in the SEC to reject the Ethereum ETF, while the SEC is using Ethereum's transition from Proof of Work to Proof of Stake — which reduced its energy consumption by 99.99% — as the legal justification to designate Ethereum a security and thereby severely reduce the market's access to it.

"US Congressional Group ‘Disturbed’ by Crypto Mining Energy Usage" https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/07/15/congressional-gro...

"Democrats to SEC: Don't approve spot Ethereum ETFs and any other crypto ETPs" https://www.theblock.co/post/282846/democrats-to-sec-just-sa...

"According to a person at a company who received a recent subpoena request, the SEC’s probe of the Swiss-based Ethereum Foundation began shortly after the blockchain’s shift to a new governance model known as “proof-of-stake” in September of 2022." https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/03/20/sec-gary-gensler-ether...
This update allows for up to 8 people on the PC version!!
Sounds like dangerous disinfo. Your ISP or DNS cannot decrypt your HTTPS traffic.

But someone who slips in a custom CA cert maybe can. That's the point.
Most languages but not all. I've even been bit by this recently in cron.

Assuming that EOF is identical to \\nEOF will end up causing trouble for you one day, because it's not actually identical.
That explains it, because openSUSE uses snapshots and quotas by default. It creates a snapshot before and one after every package manager interaction and cleans up old snapshots once per day.

Unfortunately, deleting snapshots with quotas is an expensive operation that needs to rescan some structures to keep the quota information consistent and that is what you're seeing.
> "I can't eat an iPad," another quipped.

Imagine being able to do anything useful with an iPad except buy new ones. My 3rd gen has always been and is now marginally closer to a brick
I think that was because it become a product that point.
What does democracy have to do with it? Isn't the quote about things like Hollywood and Disney?
Full PR title is actually: xwayland: Add HiDPI support to Xwayland rootful

Which is quite a distinction, as I imagine most desktop Wayland users do not run Xwayland rootful, but rather rootless.
I know a little something about these kind of mechanisms.

Neither of your scenarios seem problematic:

"You then have to find a lawyer who will help you argue to a judge and other officials that you're in the clear with this loophole."

Presumably the same lawyer(s) you've already retained for the purpose of defending the canary (and other things). Defending the canary in court (under US 1A law regime) is the entire point.

Also note that in the de facto standard canary process[1] you don't remove the canary (as that would be a positive, intentional act of speech). You simply stop updating it.

"So you don't remove the canary."

Again, under no scenario do you remove the canary - you simply stop updating it.

[1] "Special note should be taken if these messages ever cease being updated, or are removed from this page."
Well, maybe, at least for Windows. If they rewrote their whole stack from the ground up for Win 12, eliminated everything that wasn't performant, and gave everyone the tools needed to adapt, 2 things would happen:

1: Windows would be insanely fast and incredibly unlikely to ever bog down or bluescreen for any reason, and 95% of my gripes with it as an IT professional would vanish into digital smoke.

2: Microsoft would be eaten alive by all of the people and companies suddenly finding the money and time to switch to Linux/OSX or just plain refusing to upgrade because an old printer driver or some bit of obscure hardware that only 13 people in the world use won't work on the new windows kernel without an extensive rewrite and the company that made it doesn't exist anymore.
From MM experiment, we know for sure that there's no ether with the properties that were ascribed to it. However, you can easily come up with a theory of ether that completely matches those observations - it's just not as useful as a model because the concept itself becomes kinda redundant at that point. However, this is just as much an issue of terminology. Here's Einstein on the subject:

"More careful reflection teaches us however, that the special theory of relativity does not compel us to deny ether. We may assume the existence of an ether; only we must give up ascribing a definite state of motion to it, i.e. we must by abstraction take from it the last mechanical characteristic which Lorentz had still left it. We shall see later that this point of view, the conceivability of which I shall at once endeavor to make more intelligible by a somewhat halting comparison, is justified by the results of the general theory of relativity ... according to the general theory of relativity space is endowed with physical qualities; in this sense, therefore, there exists an ether. According to the general theory of relativity space without ether is unthinkable."
In addition to Armenia/Azerbaijan, Turkey has had a significant internal conflict with the PKK (Kurds) in the East/South East for... a very long time.

Also that whole region is just patchy with flight data - it makes it difficult to really see the true shape of jamming.
Right? Also much faster than, I guess, scrolling with mouse through some menus
As you note, no two dense neighborhoods are the same. Those experiences would be rare in Tokyo or Kuala Lumpur. I would say that cultural norms dominate density when it comes to explaining late-night partying.
Corporations should only return cash to investors (via dividend or stock buyback) if they do not have a high yield way to invest the money internally. A large stock buyback is the corporation admitting they do not have good uses for the cash. If Intel would take these grants, tax credits, and low interest loans and turn around and increase their dividend or do a large stock buyback then this would be a simple wealth transfer from the US to Intel stock owners. Even without this cash flow, these large grants feels like this unfairly benefits Intel shareholders at the expense of US Tax payers.

Intel's last stock buyback was in Q1 2021, which was $2.4B. There were $14B in buybacks in 2020 [0].

[0] https://www.intc.com/stock-info/dividends-and-buybacks
Just in case they are paying attention, I would love to relocate and go to work for Intel. Following simple instructions sounds terrific, to me. Where do I send my resume?
I've found that diving into a project and figuring out what needs to be done is the best way to get going specially if the project has zero chance of causing damage. Writing a text editor seems live a doable even if you decide to write it in assembler. You need to pick a project, break it down to pieces you can handle and go for it. Your job is to pick a task and decide and learn how to accomplish it. Keep in mind that you need to finish so add a deadline and be consistent. Do not fall into the trap that you can take forever to finish. If you do that,you will fail. Pick a project, copy it if you need to, and start. Keep it simple and add complexity as you move forward. So start and pick a deadline today. Stop thinking about it.
The issue is the economic and societal problems that drive desperation and widening inequality. It is symptomatic of the short-term thinking and opportunistic nature of an economic model that inherently ignores the implications of its incentives and how their impacts will affect all stakeholders other than investors and their share prices. Let’s not pretend that more incarceration and law enforcement encounters will fix anything, they’re much more likely to further exacerbate the root problem.
I would say the page explains who might care and why they might care. Could you elaborate on why you disagree with the reasoning?
The first one's fine: no objections there. The second comment is just misleading in so many ways it's hard to pick one.

Dividing the world into "Pagan countries" and "Christian countries" is both inaccurate (Jews weren't considered pagans) and overly-simplistic (state religions aren't a solid, fixed thing, especially over large areas before modern communication). While the Arab conquests were significant, not every Muslim country was converted "by the sword": there's even debate over whether the Muslim citizens of the early caliphates were, since such a small group, while large enough to conquer, would surely find it tricky to police the day-to-day behaviour and practices of so many people. (The Mongol Empire didn't manage to eliminate the practice of Islam in the areas under its control, despite ritual washing being punishable by summary execution, so it's plausible that Islam is just that persuasive.)
Office was the cash cow compared to windows.
Can’t argue with this logic, more data points certainly helps. I was arguing about vision vs lidar, vision + lidar is certainly better than vision alone.
I think people are also underestimating the intelligence of people in the once very large manufacturing workforce.
It seems to be just the very basement level of an open source Rive-type project. You would need to build the runtime around this renderer and then of course the authoring app. It would still be quite a lift, but hey, success does start with high-performance vectors.

More likely, I see perhaps other projects with vector-rendering needs (in-game UIs, video creation tools, svg tools, etc) perhaps studying or adopting the render to make their own graphics more performant.

But to answer your question on "who pays for this?" I can raise my hand and say "I do!" and it's a great value. But just like Copilot probably isn't the best monthly investment if you're not doing quite a bit of coding, Rive probably isn't the best investment if you aren't doing quite a bit of animation.
Yes, sometimes, when it’s not convenient to utilize infrastructure where I am.

So far I have become adept at removing and replacing my own crown, including heavily modifying when needed, filling if they aren’t too deep (or temporary fillings if they are deep) and one extraction when I was at sea and had no better choice.

I don’t recommend it if it’s not necessary, but for those who may find themselves in that situation there is a book called “where there is no dentist” that outlines most common procedures and tool use. It’s worth learning if you’re likely to be away from “civilization “. Also “where there is no doctor “ can be a lifesaver.
Theft is defacto legal in America. It’s too dangerous to prosecute theft; if you do, you could be accused of racial policing, which would cause riots.

Better to legalize theft. The police here won’t even respond to car theft other than to help file an insurance claim.
Ah. Great input and an approach I really haven't considered! I think this could be great advice for people who struggle with various degrees of decision fatigue.

Personally I tend to be quite impulsive and somewhat random "by design". Some might call it "creative". In any case, I tend to get energy from uncertainty where others around me prefer more structure. And vice versa, I feel more friction when there are no choices. My personal backlog serves as a counterweight in order to stay on track.
In other words, in order to get the "massive productivity boost" often cited as the main selling point of LLMs, you need to have completed a thorough training on prompt engineering, and if you get something slightly wrong (e.g. a simple typo), you get absolutely zero feedback that your intent was misunderstood?
> Military planes generally don’t advertise their location in combat zones

They might if they are from countries neutral to that conflict, like NATO flights over the Black Sea.
Pretty sure I'm talking about hackernews.org. I've always typed hackernews.org and it was updated today (you can check with WHOIS).

Nice to see that hackernews.com also works. Thank you.
> "Illegal" is a concept

Illegal immigrant is pretty well defined, an immigrant that didn't come through the legal means. The people hired by Google are probably not illegal immigrants.
Reddit is already rubbish for me. There are numerous posts censored or deleted because legal reasons. Or forums shut down because there isn’t a moderator.
Learn Rust.

It will improve the way you write code even if you are not using it at $WORK.
I’d happily pay more in tax to jail every thief in the country.
Yeah I use Spock and Groovy all the time, good god does it suck big ones.
Are You Using a Dam?
did any one use DAM for managing digital assets in your company? please share your experience
My understanding is the art community has two problems:

1) Brand destruction: when SD was new, lots of people put "Greg Rutkowski, trending on artstation" in their prompts in order to get better images. It's possible that Greg Rutkowski being the single most popular example of this means he personally lucked out on this (some reporting suggests so), and the exposure really did boost his career. Do you think everyone else this has happened to was so lucky?

If I image search for "Greg Rutkowski", I see some cool things yes, but I also see this: https://creator.nightcafe.studio/creation/gt4Z0uOIrrmop13OoU...

I suspect that many others have suffered from this association.

2) Substitution: the exact opposite problem.

Now that the image generators are pretty good, why should anyone hire an artist?

This image was generated in 267 milliseconds, for free: https://github.com/BenWheatley/AI-art/commit/d4e0322a30ab508...

That image is not perfect, but it's good enough for people like me, and that by itself is an economic risk to the future employability of that entire segment of the economy.

This really is important and does matter because all the talking heads were all busy confidently saying creative jobs like "artist" and "writer" were safe, and that it was truck drivers and factory workers who needed to re-skill, and thus we as a society have done basically nothing to prepare for or mitigate this economic disruption.

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I don't know what's coming, not for me, not for anyone.

But I get why they feel scared, and I get why they feel this has taken something from them, even though the specific arguments about copyright and "parroting" that make it into public discussion (Gell-Mann amnesia warning) are often also deeply flawed and unconvincing.

To me, this is a trademark issue in the first case, not a copyright one; and in the second, the same disregard for workers that led to the creation of the actual literal Communist Manifesto.
Maybe they should use an AI to automate moderation.
Ok, I'll try SDXL? But, I continue to believe that it was the botched release and attempts to push people with SD 2.x that led to whatever is being talked about in this thread for why Stability gets "so little support from the community": I lost interest in what they were working on well before they released SDXL, as I was no longer convinced that their newer stuff would be better than their older stuff due to 2.x.

FWIW, "everyone had gotten so used to 1.5 that they just didn't want to bother with 2.x" might provide a similar mechanism, if a very different place for the blame: if people aren't paying attention to the new stuff you are building, it is going to hurt your "support".
Modernising Legacy Code with AI
I bet you could get one of those magnetic usb-c 100w power connectors and fix this flaw for the most part simply by virtue of a breakaway connector that put minimal strain on the laptop.

Of course, those connectors don't carry data, so for connecting to a dock you would still be sol.