skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots fired its campaign manager Ousman Noor as a result of him advocating against the IDF's killings in Gaza. The Campaign initially denied that it was over his Gaza advocacy, but eventually admitted that it was because of him speaking to diplomats which he met through the Campaign. Many members of the campaign support the IDF's arguable genocide, despite how surprising that might be.
Keyhole being a very old reference to the shape drawn on the earth by geostationary sat orbits.
Kind of speculation at this point, but I wonder if Lavendar was involved in the recent killing of the World Central Kitchen Aid workers.
The system is designed to kill the targets family. This is a war crime.
> Most of apples really inventive projects came when the company was smaller than it is today

Just want to point out that this isn't necessarily a causative effect.
I am unclear why regulators haven’t taken aim at this for safety reasons given how regulated every other component of a vehicle is. Same with the digitization of the dashboard, which is a massive distraction while driving.

And at the same time, height of the front hood - why haven’t regulators had anything to say with trucks having hoods well above the height of many pedestrians?
Google has a direct conflict of interest: the AVIF team.
They grow reasonably well in the PNW but I’m not so sure about the flavor intensity.
> Languages other than C give you options for flow control so that you don't need goto for that.

The idiom `if (error) goto cleanup` is about the only thing I see goto used for. What flow control replaces that other than exceptions?
Probably missing the missing link.

When I read this type of question I put on my empathy head and dip my toe in the stream of life to at the very least attempt to understand what goes on in someones mind that motivates them to type up this type of question.

Is it boredom? I for sure would love to be so bored I have to type up a banal question about an apple product to relieve my discomfort.

Maybe it is more about being heard and acknowledged in this ever dislocated world.

Surely, for me anyway, being an older type of retired, senile, ever sceptical delinquent.

I would search all the apple forums. I'm not an apple fanboy and I do not know if they even have an appstore, I'm personally not interested, But if they did, wouldnt it be worth while having a little look in there.

I am also sure that in this community most of the apple apps get used by someone some of the time if not all of the time.

I can truly live without all the apple apps for 2024 and the rest of my life.

DOH!
"A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision"

The IDF only read the first half of the classic IBM slide!
Note that hearing and touch have higher "frame" rates.
Office 365 got compromised by China and used to steal emails
Is it still written in Erlang?
I'll start by saying, I'm sorry this is happening to the retrododo team, I hadn't heard of them before this article (I'm not really intro retro games) but it seems like they make genuinely good and useful content for the community.

On the other hand, more and more these days I see articles & videos that I (possibly unfairly) summarize as "My content deserves to be prioritized by 'the algorithm' and $BIG_CORP is against me".

I'm not a full time content creator so again maybe that factors into the mentality - but I honestly don't understand why so many people seem to believe that their content not doing well by some arbitrary standard means some force is against them. To me it seems more like building your brand organically, publishing via "open" platforms (and yes, I'm aware that's getting harder and harder) and encouraging your supporters to interact with you on platforms you control would be much more sustainable than expecting 'the algorithm(s)' will provide you with your expected growth.

I don't even use google, so if I were interested in getting "the best arcade cabinet" as one of the examples the author used - I would actually be looking to either reddit, or gaming YouTubers or gaming sites I already use, which are the places I would expect to hear about Retro Dodo
That’s pretty clever, encoding atomic concepts as a token
I'm tired of hearing this opinion because its overly simplistic. Anyone expressing this opinion likely would praise a company for growth through innovation. They don't hate growth, they hate companies who are scrounging for additional price value without adding intrinsic value. If Apple came out with the next device/car/service that was a big value add to our lives I'm sure this opinion doesn't come back up in that instance.

Growth mindset is a good thing overall. And sometimes you get growth through pretty shitty means. I can't really throw out "growth" altogether just because a lot of companies employ accountants, MBA executives, and lawyers.
That is context dependent. In Texas traffic outside of the cities isn't that bad and so slow speed trains are much slower than driving. Inside the city of course traffic is a factor, but even then I'd expect in the normal case you get beyond traffic in a short time and then driving is much faster. And of course driving is door to door so you don't have to figure out time to/from the stations, waiting on trains and renting a car (this is Texas - not known for transit though these cities are getting better)
Your intuition is correct.

My place is inside the 610 in Houston. More precisely Third Ward/Museum District.

I think even most Texans wouldn't put Austin and Dallas in the same region. Dallas is radically different from Houston as well.

That said, if you look at what they are calling mega-regions, I think there are many departures from what people in those areas would think. For instance, most people in North Carolina would think of the Triangle as its own thing and Atlanta as another, separate thing. Here, they are saying that Atlanta and the Triangle are the same. Maybe because of people connections? Not sure? But that would strike people in the Southeast as strangely as looping Austin-Dallas-Houston into the same thing strikes Texans.

ETA:

Actually, now that I've looked more closely at the map, I'm not sure it lines up at all with what most people would think? I notice in the Midwest region, Columbus and Dayton are on the map in spite of Chicago's rail links to St Louis, Urbana-Champaign, and perhaps the most baffling omission on the map, Minneapolis? They got some serious economic firepower up there in that metro, and more commercial links between them and Chicago than anyone else in the region. Maybe because Minneapolis is thought to be its own thing? Whereas they don't believe Dayton or Columbus are their own thing?

It'd be interesting to read how these regions were determined? On the surface, yes, many of them seem a bit, off?
If you do creative work countless tools just don’t support webp, AVIF or HEIF.

It’s so prominent running into files you can’t open in your tools that I have a right click convert to PNG context menu
It is. (well, h3 actually)

> Introducing Jpegli: A New JPEG Coding Library
When has an APU ever been as fast as a GPU? How much cache does it have, a few hundred megabytes? That can't possibly be enough for matmul, no matter how much slow DDR4/5 is technically addressable.
Criminals and launderers have never and will likely never need to incorporate. Sure, it's a tool they might use, but at best you'd take some of their margins away from them. Doesn't seem like a great trade to me, stealing some of the criminals profits in exchange for exposing the people who need privacy.
> Keep a steady cushy job so these talent can make great product while enjoy their life is a net gain for society

No, it's a gross gain. And probably a small one, honestly. Whereas the associated costs to society are in the billions or trillions of dollars when we measure the environmental and social effects of mandatory-growth-culture. So it's a net loss.
Corporate death is infinitely preferable to Corporate immortality
> In November 2017 Munich city council decided to revert to Windows by 2020 with all systems being replaced by Windows 10 counterparts. Some of the reasons cited were adoption and users being unhappy with the lack of software available for Linux. A report commissioned by Munich and undertaken by Accenture, found the most important issues were organizational.
>
> In 2018, journalistic group Investigate Europe released a video documentary via German public television network ARD that claimed that the majority of city workers were satisfied with the operating system, with council members insinuating that the reversal was a personally motivated decision by lord mayor Dieter Reiter. Reiter denied that he had initiated the reversal in gratitude for Microsoft moving its German headquarters from Unterschleißheim back to Munich.

Basically corruption.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux
The time value of money is always more than inflation. The classic simple example is that if you need food today, the money for food is worth much more today than it is worth a year from now.

Therefore to ask someone to surrender money today, they have to give you more money to return it to you next year.

This isn’t the same as growth (ie you’re doing a job, but next year they expect you to make 25% more sales, or else…)
The mystery didn't last long, and no problem to admit it, I maybe even contacted them.
I guess they put safeguards after that, but I didn't try again to check ;)
If you're "train stop to train stop" LA to SD is great.

I used to use it all the time, it was only faster than driving on Friday afternoons, and even then half the time it would be quite a close cut.

Much, much more comfortable and fun! But not exactly faster, especially when I counted getting dropped off in time to catch the train and getting picked up on the other end.
Not all green for me there!

https://metastatus.com/whatsapp-business-api

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It's not fashionable either by any stretch of the imagination.
There’s an orangish red pigment that is made of lead. Most recently there was a turmeric contamination scandal involving lead contamination.
Does the decoder have to be aware of it to properly display such an image?
We're onboarding to Cloudflare MagicWan and want to use them for logging, which they do to 's3-compliant' buckets.... on Google or Amazon.

I was pretty surprised at the lack of dogfooding, wondered if it's an oversight, on somebody's Gantt, or just not something R2 can handle for some reason.
It's a problem for managers too. They may want employees to keep doing exactly what they are doing, but the employees themselves want "growth" in some sense.

So they have to create the illusion of growth, new title, a few inconsequential responsibilities, maybe some small salary bump. You get the idea.
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I left the article being like "oh it can't be that bad" and left my little Kagi oasis to try out some Google searches similar to the article and I've completely changed my tune. What in the hell happened? There's nary an organic result to be found, 80% of the page is shopping garbage and sponsored links, the few organic results are blogspam, and there's banner ads in the middle of results now?

The folks here in the comments are missing the forest for the trees here, sure algo tweaks reshuffle winners and losers but there's almost no results that aren't Google's own scraped content and ad spots. No amount of "make better content" can push you above the fold.
Arithmetic, Population and Energy - a talk by Al Bartlett:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O133ppiVnWY
I'm no longer there, but I grew up there, and I would say yes to an extent. Yes in that there's a large amount of movement within the area (e.g., grow up in Dallas, go to school at A&M, settle in San Antonio) and that you may have to go to one of the other cities now and then for something specialized (e.g., from Austin to Houston for a consulate or a highly specialized medical visit). There's also somewhat of a rivalry, I guess. But, still, there's not a "feeling" of connectedness, but is there between, say, Baltimore and Philadelphia?

I can't really compare it to the Northeast Corridor, though. I lived in NYC, but not long enough to really have a connection much beyond the city.
Cheap? I just checked there and Austin to Dallas return is 270 dollars... On a bus. That's just incomprehensibly expensive to me (as a European).
> Does anyone really believe this company is viable in 2024? In this scenario, Apple is dead.

Death is not a "couldn't hack it" outcome. Death is an evolved and persistently retained pattern in all living systems that have arrived here to share spacetime with us (the exceptions that are sustainable are vanishingly small, and those unsustainable are synonymous with approaching-death, aka cancer)

Death is adaptive to systems. With very few exceptions, all living things DIE. We've been selected to DIE. Things that don't die, kill their ecology. They are terrible neighbors, and so are selected for extinction.

So your "would apple survive" question feels like it's missing the point.

All agents must eventually die for the larger performance to thrive. But no actor* will ever choose that, the system does. (Governments often plays this role in the noosphere, as a corporation won't.)

*Humans seem different in that we can model a system, and think like systems. We are an actor, flirting with being a system. I'm open to the fact that we can maybe decide to choose death, even when we have put other options on the table ("defeating death"). So far as a collective of supposedly smart agents, we're kinda failing to realize the adaptive nature of death, and are mostly driving for increased longevity.

(All of the above is informed by complexity science or complex systems, if anyone finds the above trains of thought interesting.)
> I honestly don't understand why so many people seem to believe that their content not doing well by some arbitrary standard means some force is against them

How long have you been using the internet for? You don't have to be a content creator to have noticed the huge shift in the past decade, that is basically killing the internet.

Google's algorithm played a huge,role in that, it has become nearly impossible to find independent websites, and they don't even bother giving you more than a couple pages of search results. There is no possibility of the "organic growth" you talk about outside of social media platforms. And then the flood of AI-generated content nailed that coffin.
I agree with the other commenter that this goes way beyond "friendly fire". According to a Haaretz article, those aid workers were targeted 3 times in a row and I assume someone had to confirm the bombing for all 3 of them. This isn't friendly fire. I would love to see their validation data to check on their claim of 90% accuracy.
Have been using it the past few weeks and loving it so far. Highly recommend
Data backs your intuition: https://www.axios.com/ford-pickup-trucks-history
https://github.com/ollama/ollama
> Umstieg von Microsoft Office auf LibreOffice

> Umstieg des Betriebssystems von Microsoft Windows auf Linux

Would Google Docs/Sheets/Slides be allowed under Schleswig Holstein's open source strategy even though Google services are not open source? I could see some users preferring Google Docs/Sheets/Slides over LibreOffice and make the switch from Windows to Linux more palatable.
"Pragmatic politics" is a complete joke when discussed in the context of Texas. Also, Austin is one of the most segregated metropolitan cities in the U.S. in all categories: politically, racially, and economically. It is also, no surprise, one of the grossest examples of gerrymandering.
Recursion in production code is bad news, because you can't control the depth of your call tree.

At some point you will crash because the runtime won't be able to allocate any more stack. And you can't preflight it because if you could preflight it you wouldn't be doing recursion.

Recursion is a nice toy, but in real life it's a ticking time bomb.
> Growth is required for society to function.

Yes, but this is the noncompetitive growth of a single industry, which is monopolizing trade and labor. This is actually the opposite of social growth, and it's the reason we have anti monopoly laws.
Reminds me of this song from an other era: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udhd9fmOdCs
MiniDiscs for peak portable storage aesthetic. I'm still holding out hope that maybe someday we'll go back to visible mini platters on portable devices.
I don’t see magnitude of mortality as necessarily a good indicator for the prevalence of violence or “peace”.

Let’s say, for the sake of the thought experiment, that every weekday, a small swarm of killer drones is released in your city. These drones reliably, randomly target and kill 250 commuters per weekday.

That’s only 62,500 people per year. Pretty mild. Certainly nowhere near as bad as Covid, maybe about as bad as a bad flu year, right? Heart disease kills about 700,000 people a year, so it’s not even 10% of that. Barely registers on the dashboard.
There's a LOT of LLM frameworks out there. The "bring your own framework" adds flexibility instead of endless integrations (like in ML libraries and MLOps tooling).

If I'm getting started with LLMs or have 1-2 POC deployed at my company what's the benefit of adding burr to my stack?
Cobol upto and including the 85 Standard was stackless and heapless which is quite a cognitive divide. For those going to and coming from that language.

I didn’t read Raymond say anything about security in the present article, but the advantages a clear. No stack or buffer overflow vulnerability for example.
The Moral and Religious Incompatibility with Contemporary Politics
https://metastatus.com/

Not sure if it officially belongs to Meta though
Loan Portfolio Dataset from MakerDAO Blockchain Project
I have no love for Google, at all.

It's really hard to say this in public, because people are treating it like a divisive "us or them" issue that's obvious, but the JPEG-XL stuff is _weird_.

I've been in codecs for 15 years, and have never seen as unconstructive behavior like the JPEG-XL work. If I had infinite time and money and it came across my plate, we'd have a year or two of constructive work to do, so we didn't just rush something in with obvious issues and opportunities.

It turned into "just figure out how to merge it in, and if you don't like it, that's malfeasance!" Bread and circus for commentators, maybe, but, actively preventing even foundational elements of a successful effort.
And many of them are for animal feed.....
UWS, Below 80th St. 2016. Lived with a roommate for 1700 bucks/m that I never saw since they lived on another floor (could have afforded it myself, but liked saving money). Had a backyard, close to Central Park (1.5 blocks), had a garden w/ backyard where we held BBQs and parties.

So crime ridden, so uptown.

My starving artist friend lives in a rent controlled apt, UES, roughly 86th st. Went to a backyard party to their place with BBQ last fall. Right next to transit.

People have no idea how awesome cities can be.
Maybe for you and even me. But not for the owners and workers of said company. If you were 42 years old, with 3 children to feed would you not mind if your company was dying and suddenly you had to start brushing up your resume, applying for new jobs which you don't even know if will be as good as what you have now?

What I mean is, it's absurd to expect companies not to behave the way they have always did.
I don't really agree. First, having lived in a few of those "megaregions", I really agree with the author that they each have distinct and unique characters. I also see other nitpicks in some comments here about "there is a lot of wide-open spaces in those circles!" - that seems a bit silly to me given that many of those circles include wide expanses of ocean, and it seems clear to me that the author just means to highlight the related urban areas, not the emptiness in between.

But more to your point, there are plenty of other sizable cities that are not part of the megaregions the author highlights, and I would agree that those cities are less dynamic and less engines of economic growth due to their isolation - places like Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Minneapolis, etc. The only difference I think is that it "feels" to me like there is an emerging megaregion on the eastern slope of the Front Range in Colorado, i.e. Ft. Collins-Boulder-Denver-Colorado Springs area.
I cannot, struggled for years, haha :-)
Designing one-to-one relationships in PostgreSQL
It's not about whether you agree with their content, it's that AI and aggregated results are getting ranked above all original pages. I don't have any more hard evidence than the author does, but it's also been my experience that the film of mashed up self-contradictory detritus has been growing thicker and thicker over time. This new wave of non-content is totally different from the old landscape of true or false content.
It's not possible to use it safely unless you know that the source string fits in the destination buffer. Every strncpy must be followed by `dst[sizeof dst - 1] = 0`, and even if you do that you still have no idea if you truncated the source string, so you have to put in a further check.

strncpy (dst, src, (sizeof dst) - 1);
dst[(sizeof dst) - 1] = 0;
int truncated = strlen (dst) - strlen (src);

Without the extra two lines after every strncpy, you're probably going to have a a hard to discover transient bug.
> However, criminalization may be a less worse way to mitigate the impacts of the problem.

There's no data to support this claim, and copious evidence against it.

> This feels like "no true Scotsman" at policy-scale: it's unscientific to point out the flaws in actual sausage making as the reason the Platonically ideal sausage turned out poorly in reality. Those political characteristics are inherent to the process! If one path to utopia requires pissing voters off, then it's more logical to engineer a different path to get there while placating voters, because the former in untenable in a democracy.

It's not a "no true Scotsman" to point out that the measure that voters passed was never actually implemented. Some of the provisions weren't even due to kick in until later this year!

Ironically, your statement is a great example of begging the question (in the correct usage of the term): by your logic, any world in which decriminalization is not already implemented is "proof" that it's a bad policy, because if it were, the Logical Politicians™ would implement it, as that would surely appease voters.

In reality, what happened is simple: voters approved an initiative, elected officials didn't like what voters chose, so they just refused to implement it, then called it a "failure".
Yours is also a very naive and rosy view of the system.

> Capital flows into the places where it can be best put to work.

It also flows to places which it can return the most to capital owners, not necessarily that means best put to work. Financial markets decouple productivity from value, the cryptocurrency market is not even close to be productive but has massive capital inflows; the housing market collapse of 2008 was not money being put where it could be best worked. Money flows to where returns are expected, that's about it, the more decoupled that returns became from actual productivity and improvements to society (and mostly by the hyperfinancialisation of economies since the 80s) the less that statement is true.
I don't know if off the clock accurate. My job is to work on postgres, I was helping out with the development of a feature (avoid a perf regression in a degenerate case, in a patch improving much more common cases). OTOH, I think it was late at night at that point. What's on/off the clock for an OSS dev...