skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tories planned to make millions from members' data with 'True Blue' app
Linux started receiving corporate backing within a few years of it being released. Red Hat played a huge role in providing support and someone to turn to when something went wrong.

> but it would have gotten there without them too, albeit much slower

No, it wouldn't have. There is no way that a bunch of volunteers in their spare time could achieve the same results, what took many full-time employees and contributions from the largest and most powerful corporations in the world.
EVs are great as vehicles. When they are designed simply and efficiently, the way Tesla does, they don’t need much maintenance unless you get in a wreck. But they are not good investment assets, which is what Hertz was betting on (likely because at that time they didn’t go down in value, unlike other cars). Their big mistake was not realizing Musk was going for mass-market dominance and undercutting the plethora of bad EVs on the market.
But isn’t this the very centralisation we’re trying to avoid?
China gov is already on a mainly Linux stack

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kylin_(operating_system)

Unsure what office tools they use though
If germany switches the other countries will follow, at the very least the offices that have to interact with them.
Much better battles according to who?
Was Solaris even released to US cinemas in 1972? I can only find information that it was shown at the Cannes Film Festival in the year of its release. And even if Carpenter and O'Brannon knew about the movie it might very well be that they didn't see it as influental as it is seen today in the western world. Apparently Lem didn't like the movie either, so it might very well have been overlooked at the time because it didn't fit the "Zeitgeist".
I’d quit my job if I was forced to a Linux desktop and non office365 tools. The loss of productivity in this change is going to be massively disruptive.

It’s not going to go as smoothly as they think it will. I highly doubt their pilot program sniffed out all the complexities.
I see the reason of doing this. I use a similar thing myself, although not as complete. With helm and also plain kube yamls you tend to repeat code across yamls and across projects.

On a separate topic, one great thing about helm is it's declarative+state nature, much like terraform. I love using helm because it makes sure you don't leave leftover yaml components in your cluster anytime you make a mistake when you delete projects or rename yaml files in your local directory.

One thing that I don't like about kubectl apply, that doesn't get fixed "just by" using helm, is that it will leave changes that someone could have run manually through kubectl imperative commands. I didn't check the repo but if it implements all defaults in the template, that could solve this issue partly
Not really micro. In 1970, the US dollar was about €1.8. Inflation since then has been 560% (here), so that would make for €600k.
Google might make users pay for AI features in search results
Whose design?
To achieve what goal?

These kind of conspiracy theories always remind me of the quote:

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39922095
Siri suggestions might more accurately be termed "Springboard suggestions". From what I recall, it essentially works as a fuzzy matcher for suggesting applications to launch in similar contexts (time window, previous app used, etc.). It's like a smart history feature, and no, I don't think it ever leaves the device at all or even syncs via iCloud, since I have completely different suggestions across my iPhone and two iPads.
I find the analysis of the Codex group much more interesting and I feel further studies are necessary before drawing conclusions.

Students frequently (n=501, 30%) copied the task description to generate the entire code with no prior manual coding attempts.

Sometimes (n=197, 12%) students divided the task into multiple subgoals, and asked the AI to generate *only* the first subgoal instead of the entire task.

When decomposing the task into multiple subgoals, students sometimes (n=85, 5%) asked for code that was already in their editor.

Although rarely (n=16, 1%), but sometimes students generated code after having the solution to check and compare the AI's output with their own solution.

Students occasionally (n=89, 5%) wrote prompts that were similar to pseudo-code (e.g. "for num in numbers, if num > large, set large to num").

Although most of the times students properly tested the AI-generated code before submitting, there were several (n=63, 4%) instances in which students submitted AI code without testing it.

Although rarely, but sometimes (n=30, 2%) students actively tinkered with the AI-generated code to properly understand the syntax and logic.

Similarly, sometimes students manually added code (like `print` statements) to the AI-generated code to help them verify that it works correctly.

Anecdotal evidence based on my own experience has suggested better recall of things I've engaged with and learned through ChatGPT than with standard learning through books or videos. I think the interactivity is an important aspect.
If what you're 'locked out of' is considered 'modern life' that'd make me a Luddite. You can have your 'modern life' and do with it what you want, I'll keep to my ways (where Apple et al fear to tread).
It's weird to me that you have to get 60% of the way through the article before it unveils the seemingly obvious problem with Teslas, or really any EVs, as rental cars...charging. One of the major appeals of an EV is that you can charge it at home, a benefit that you don't have when you're traveling. And for now at least, hunting down a gas station in an unfamiliar area is easier and more comfortable for most people than hunting down a charging spot.
Not sure what you're getting at. Are you a moderator?
When did people stop doing that? Last time I checked (which was our soc2 audit last year) most people didn't understand the sharing/collaborative features of sharepoint/office365 and were still doing it.
Do I hear Bing sighing 'thank you Google'?

I'd pay to get that clumsy AI from the browser, there is not way in hell I'd pay to get more of it in my web searches.
An article on Android security would both be much longer and have much less media attention.
This movie blew my mind as a kid and a serves warning of things to come with AI that kinda became a movie trope, but had some memorable scenes in Dark Star:

<Commander Powell> Talk to the bomb.

<Doolittle> But I have been talking to it, sir. And Pinback's talking to it right now.

<Commander Powell> No, no, Doolittle. You talk to it.

<Commander Powell> Teach it phenomenology
You could probably run this on a 32bit micro controller doing less than a watt
Come on, no one is running all their private data through the website. But I do agree that the web should not be browsed without ublock as is at the moment - there's something fundamentally wrong with the current approach
I think de-stigmatizing suicide wouldn't exactly prevent slavery. The thing stopping slaves from killing themselves is probably not the social stigma surrounding suicide.
If content creators can't find anything that is uniquely human and cannot be made by AI, then maybe they are not creative enough for the job. The thing about generative AI is that it can take context, you can put a lot or very little guidance in it. The more you specify, the more you can mix your own unique sauce in the final result.

I personally use AI for text style changes, as a summarizer of ideas and as rubber duck, something to bounce ideas off of. It's good to get ideas flowing and sometimes can help you realize things you missed, or frame something better than you could.
They make zero mention of differential privacy, and are clearly not in touch with what Apple is actually doing technically.
> Apple products will automatically lead to improved privacy vs other vendors. This post is calling that BS.

Where does it do that? It explicitly doesn’t compare Apple’s products with other products:

“Lindqvist can’t comment directly on how Google's Android works in similar respects, as no one has yet done a similar mapping of its apps.”

Also, IMO the post is flame-bait in saying “Keeping your data from Apple is harder than expected”. AFAICT, the paper (https://acris.aalto.fi/ws/portalfiles/portal/141787684/Priva...) is not about Apple breaking privacy at all; it solely is about the difficulty of the UI for various privacy settings and of user understanding of what settings do.

They don’t claim, for example, that Apple makes these settings so convoluted to confuse or wear down users so that they close down less stuff (they may or may not, but the paper doesn’t discuss it)
Back in my undergrad days, there was a second year course titled "Groups, Rings and Modules". The lecturer (NSB) was notorious for his very dense and formal delivery, which left a lot of work to the reader. Another - much more popular - professor (IL) decided to offer an alternative version of the course during the same timeslots in a friendlier style. Despite NSB's absent-minded nature, it cannot have escaped his attention that ~10 people attended his lectures while the bulk of the year group queued up outside a different hall. Some friends and I attended NSB's lectures out of bloody-mindedness. We anticipated (correctly, it turns out) that if you managed to understand his notes, then you really understood the topic.

The reason I'm reminded of this is that one of the big theorems of the course is the simplicity of A5. I vaguely remember that NSB provided the icosahedron-based proof that's mentioned in the linked article, whereas IL provided a more intuitive and sensible proof.

One of the perks of being the official lecturer is that you set the exam questions. Imagine our delight when we opened the paper and saw the question: "By considering the rotations of an icosahedron, prove that the group A5 is simple"!
Same here, I only rent cars to do road trips and for this purpose an EV is not as convenient as a gas powered car
>low-friction electronic payments are feeding back to the consumer, vs. having all the value derived from that technology captured by the banks and merchants.

Are you talking about the cash back? Isn't that just a shell game? If the consumer is getting 2% cashback, but the merchant is charging consumers 2% more to pay for it as well, how is it "feeding back to the consumer"?
S-57 charts are a derivative product manually authored based on hydrographic survey data. They differ from the raw data a little because they include extra metadata and hand-tweaked geometry to reflect safety issues.

To my knowledge S-100 is simply an updated “container” for ENC data and is replacing S-57. So it’s not necessarily related to this effort except that the new format may support gridded bathymetry data being encoded?
Running Doom on the BMW Displaykey (2021)
Remember to thank the OSS developers for the bargaining chip.
I just have to ask--what evidence do you have of that, and do you understand how SIP works?
ECL would definitely be faster. Switching time is around 1nS, which is a solid order of magnitude faster than NMOS.

But it would need something like 2 to 4 times the surface area, and would make a nice room heater.
> It’s obviously a win for all involved or they wouldn’t be so popular.

Why is it obvious that it's "a win for all involved", as opposed to some big powerful financial companies taking advantage of a bunch of less organized merchants while providing benefit to some subset of cardholders? Obviously the merchants benefit overall from accepting credit cards, but I don't think it's anywhere near obvious that they benefit from funding the rewards programs. If there was any way for them to opt out, I feel a lot of them would. And it's hard to see how the non-rewards cards customers are benefitting from the current system---would any of them choose the current system if given a choice?

I definitely agree that someone is winning from the current system, but I don't think it's obvious that it's everyone.
I have mixed feelings about GenAI inside Google Search.

Sometimes I read the auto-generated results and they're quite useful. Other times, I sense that the text generated is just plain wrong and it's better to just go click on the links.

If they make me pay for it, I won't pay for it. I already pay GPT4 and it's nicer to use.

Perhaps they'll do a bundle where if you pay for Gemini, they'll keep showing you generated text at the top of search results. I personally won't bother with it. It's not good enough for me to pay for it - unlike GPT4.

I'm guessing that generating text for 8 billion queries per day is too costly for Google. They want to monetize it sooner rather than later.
> It's a reminder that even in the face of genocide, there's always room for a good laugh.

I'm pretty sure OP was serious with the question.
> Whatsapp/iMessage

Both can be bridged to Matrix, which can be accessed with any OS you like with FOSS software.

> Tickets can go on paper yeah, though some restaurants I visit don't do paper menus (especially the asian ones).

Many have said this to me initially, until I insist I do not own a cell phone. Then they always find a way to produce a tablet for me, or hastily print a screenshot from a phone, or find an old paper menu and cross out some old prices. When I go back to those restaurants later they sometimes have paper menus more readily available, because they were embarrassed the first time for being unable to accommodate a paying customer.

After all, even people who do have phones, end up with dead batteries. People with dead phone batteries need to eat too

> Also some stuff for work is mobile-only. We have a stupid 2FA system that only works with a mobile app (the company gives us a phone but it does mean being tracked), and the same with the desk booking (I absolutely hate the office since we implemented flexdesks).

Almost nothing is truly mobile only. You can run Android applications on QubesOS in a pinch, but more generally I find most 2FA apps actually use TOTP or FIDO under the hood, and can be replaced with open alternatives with a bit of research.

> and the same with the desk booking (I absolutely hate the office since we implemented flexdesks).

I have never seen one of these that does not have a webapp alternative. If they really don't have one, run their app in a VM and sniff the request traffic. Then you can make a simple shell script or webapp to book those desks for you. Open source it to annoy the company into producing their own. Done this sort of thing many times.

> Cash is still common here yeah though I don't like dealing with it. I wish there was a mobile payment method that didn't rely on Apple or Google.

In most countries instead of trying to flag down wait staff to take your card, then wait for them to come back, you can just drop cash on the table and leave at any time. I have not been to Spain specifically though.

Thing is, everything you buy with Google Apple Visa or Mastercard is logged. Everything you buy at the pharmacy is cross referenced from the cash register software and your credit card purchase then sold to insurance companies, etc etc.

Every time you use cash, you are making a small vote against those types of organizations having any more power over the public. Cash can be an annoyance, but it helps take power away from entities who will absolutely use your data to harm people for profit.
That "pause-free" GC engine performs worse than modern tracing collectors, so by using C++ you've already chosen lower footprint, and then you have to choose between worse performance or more work. I think many people are unaware of the advancements in tracing GCs over the past few years, but modern concurrent collectors don't do any collection in stop-the-world pauses.
> What about German or Austrian heritage groups?

No. No one has problems with these. You can find them in droves across broad swaths of any US town. In the Midwest especially they are central to festivals, police clubs, civic organizations and political organizations.

Men’s organizations are similar. Effectively every church in America has men’s clubs that do prayer meetings, prison outreach, homeless support etc. There are men’s clubs for fathers, learning to debate, and driving funny little cars around to help burn victims. There are fraternal organizations on most college campuses. Heck there are still old fashioned private clubs where men can get together to drink whiskey and smoke cigars.
Actually I think they spun off their media business to imation who kept making CDs and floppies
What tool do you use to manage Kubernetes manifests?

Do you not have any issues when needing to manage tens, hundreds, or thousands of different deployments across multiple Kubernetes clusters?
The British Are Coming for Your White-Collar Job

staff shortages in the U.S.

You mean the white-collar jobs Americans can't find anyone to do?
And I don't buy the argument that a document not being formated correctly is costly. People mostly don't care and when real administrative stuff needs to be shared it is done via pdf forms where the output is controlled.
Listening to people talk about the 00s like we barely invented fire is something else. There's been very little new in computing since the arpanet was invented. The cloud is someone's mainframe and we moved away from those for the same reason why government wants to leave the cloud.
I feel like you might want to consider the scale of data collection involved here purely from the perspective of Apple being one of the largest companies in the world, and this being a medium-sized university in Finland.
Who you do business with is up to you, and you are totally free to avoid firms that won't answer your questions about their ownership structure.

That's got nothing to do with attempts to force business owners to submit sensitive personal information into a central database, which you wouldn't even have access to unless you had corrupt influence over the organization maintaining it.
You are right, we need to make a bloated project and need to pour in millions into it like we did with Gaia-X. Then it will be a big trash-fire with smoke visible from afar and not just some small sandpit.
Well, in that case I'd say it's better to publish a post without a cover image. There are plenty of websites that offer the choices between high-quality, royalty-free images or make it easy to buy one.
Why bail out the US auto companies in 2008? Japanese cars had better gas mileage, it would be a win-win for the taxpayer, right?

The need for sovereignty in these areas of national strategic significance is going to override concerns about UX or a learning curve. Most LibreOffice apps are similar to Office anyway, and the Open Document Format it uses is standardized in ISO 2600.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument
Taking down the repo prevents more people inadvertendly pulling and building the backdoor so that makes sense. They should have immediately rehosted and archived the state at a different URL which makes it clear to not use it.
I believe the parent was hinting at the other possibility: not use an image at all.

When I see these AI-generated cover images in posts I'm left with a bad taste in my mouth. They look "ok" when glanced but pay more than a second of attention and they're terrible and uncanny.

If you truly care about the image's place in relation to the post, you'd go through the process that you mention and most likely you will end with a chess board and piece set that make sense, as opposed to whatever the image in the OP actually represents.

I agree with the folks behind iA Writer on this:

> Average AI images drag down everything around them. An AI hero image is a comedian opening the show with a knock-knock joke. Good images enrich your article, bad images steal its soul.

[0]: https://ia.net/topics/ai-art-is-the-new-stock-image
RIP Mr. Barth. I carried a dog eared copy of Lost in the Funhouse with me through 20 years of my life, picking it up and putting it down whenever I needed something to shift my perspective or jar me out of a rut. Psychoactive writing at its best, the titular story is so transpositional that sometimes I feel like that family trip to the beach was a real memory that actually happened to me.
> going to cost the taxpayers more money

It's an investment in a public good, which is one of the roles of governments. Sort of like how the German taxpayer helped kick start the solar industry decades ago.
Forgot "We only do road trips"?
> I do not remember if they require the owners to be human though.

I don't think there's yet any way for a non-human to count as a legal person. Entirely possible there may never be.
> If you're just an anonymous guy doing stuff for free and want to remain anonymous, that's fine, but then your software shouldn't be used by anyone who cares about toolchain attacks as there's just no way to trust you, and no way to verify every single commit you make on new releases.

What is, from security point of view, the difference between a toolchain attack performed by an anonymous contributor and by an identifiable real person?

> For software that gets used by many, which is a goal of OSS

It's not. The goal of OSS is to give users the possibility to study, change and improve the software. And that includes giving you ability to independently audit the code. All of that does not need any person behind it.
I'm now imagining you being kidnapped and waking up in a laundry basement, with a kingpin looming over you asking "Can you mix?"
Until you can bribe officials to the tune of billions the quality of your software won't matter. The only reason why ms keeps winning is that it keeps bribing.
Sorry, can you explain why the high spend is important? What is the benefit of a low risk buyer having a single card vs three different cards?

Low risk is clear -- the lower the risk the more money is left, after handling problems, for the rebates and profits.
My best guess is that their expectation of capabilities the car is nowhere near what the company actually deliverd. They were promised things within a certain future timeframe and the company did not produce these things within that certain timeframe.
Most logging libraries are bad because they're not designed to account for the requirements of a real-time system.

What you need:

- an asynchronous design where both the formatting and the writing to disk can happen on another thread.

- a lockfree buffer using pre-allocated memory. In particular every log record might be of different size.

- the ability to control where/when to drain that buffer, perform formatting and write data to disk (no good library should impose a threading model, needs to be able to cooperatively run with other tasks on one thread)

- an extensible and fast binary serialization/deserialization scheme -- easiest is to rely on simple copy construction as a default.

Most libraries focus on silly things like formatting and filtering which are all trivial problems.
When you find one cockroach, you can be sure there are thousands more you haven’t found.
That is not true for Tesla which automatically routes via charging stations when necessary. Tesla has an exceptionally good implementation that even re-routes drivers when chargers are busy, and they have top notch reliability.

There’s no hunting involved, you go where the nav tells you.
>But how far does this go in explaining why merchants "choose" to participate in this program. The obvious answer would seem to be that they get no benefit from the system as it exists but have no real choice,

Some merchants like Amazon, Target, Home Depot etc do want the ability to refuse the "rewards cards" with higher fees but can't because of the current contracts they have for credit-card acceptance. If a merchant signs a contract to accept VISA cards, they must accept all VISA cards and therefore can't selectively choose to reject some VISA cards because of higher swipe fees.

https://thepointsguy.com/news/retailers-want-to-reject-rewar...

https://www.google.com/search?q=merchants+want+to+refuse+rew...