skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From a policy making perspective, this article is on point. Lottery advocates justify their existence by saying the money goes to a good cause, like education or sports. And sure it does, by taxing the people who can afford it the least. The tax system is mostly progressive, taxing people with higher incomes more. But this is regressive tax that hurts poor people most.

But if you looked at it from the perspective of the people who are buying the lottery tickets, this view is paternalistic. They know that they're unlikely to win, but they buy anyway because it's a chance of winning something big. They're buying hope. And they're doing it of their own free will. Any attempt to "save" them from this regressive tax won't find much support from them.
The whole source of the value increase is that it's verifiably non-AI generated content
Yeah, this pretty much. Big companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Redhat etc. depend on Linux distros and open source software like xz to make large sums of money. But they are too cheap to fund these projects and prevent security fiascos like this.

Just like with openssl, where they didn't bother investing until months after HeartBleed.
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It is rational in many cases to gamble at low levels of wealth. The difference between $1,000 in net worth and $0, or $10K and 0, is infinitesimal. At extremely low levels of utility, it doesn't really matter.

Kelly criterion only applies if you have a substantial bag already. Then, you can size your bets according to probability.

For the lower wealth strata, they need to target convex payoffs, however. Lottery, meme coins, otm options (like the Gamestop situation) make sense. Things with a more linear payoff, such as sports betting (only double if you win the coin flip), less so.
You'll hit game engine CPU usage limits way before getting anywhere near Gbit/s in outbound game traffic on a game server, and the cost of network I/O is going to be negligible.

XDP is useful for applications that are network I/O bound. Gaming is not one of those.
From these I barely heard about Bluesky and never used it.
I have no clue about what Jitsi is, first time even reading this combination of letters :)

The rest I know. And I do read Hacker News...
If the status page officially authorized by the company’s management team cannot be trusted, then why trust the company in the first place?
"Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." [1]

It will be interesting to see how Google tackles the "quality of content" phase in the Google Search algorithm, since a key input in ranking is when other prominent websites link or refer to the content. [2]

[1] https://www.google.com/search/howsearchworks/our-approach/#:....

[2] https://www.google.com/search/howsearchworks/how-search-work...
I would add though, that TB has features, that Outlook does not have, so it is not like TB only implements a subset of functionality that Outlook offers, but rather it implements different features and, at least for me, it is way better than Outlook ever was.
Oh, I agree so much, but I am not sure about your examples either:

Snapchat - does it even exist anymore? It had its time, but personally I don't know anyone still there.

Same with Facebook Messenger, which has completely been replaced by WhatsApp in my (non-nerd) circles.

I thought about including TikTok but it would be more in the

- YouTube, TikTok, Vimeo, PeerTube

category. To me, these are borderline social media and more akin to television - pure consumption, heavily discouraged participation. Just look at the comments on any of these for a proof.

I'd give you Instagram, it seems immensely popular and intensively used as a communication platform.

If we disregard our own bubbles and go strictly by popularity we should have considered WeChat and Douyin too, I guess.
Did you do it biking the whole way? Did you rough sleep or crash at hotels/motels?
Auth-pass thru is impossible/impractical with OpenAI tool API, because there is no way to identify users. Thus even if users log into my website first and I get their OAuth there, I can't associate to their OpenAI session.
"It takes an admin to take down a server, it takes a configuration management system to take down a site".
> becomes a pain to deal with when you're trying to do something like add packages made in the language to distros, requiring a bunch of hacks

The package managers in distros are pretty awful for a language like rust though. They are designed for dynamically linked C code, not a language like rust where small, developer published libraries are the norm and there’s no dynamic linking. Distro package managers also don’t support rust’s feature flags well (C programs with compile time config often has the same problem).

Apt, rpm and friends’ biggest problem is they’re awful for developers. If I write a program or library for people to use, now I’m expected to test and keep up-to-date packages (or at a minimum build instructions) for like, 6 different operating systems. “On Debian, apt install packages X and Y. Z is also needed but it’s out of date so install that from source. On Ubuntu it’s nearly the same but library Z is usable in apt. On redhat everything is available but named differently. And gentoo. And arch. And nixos. And FreeBSD pkg. Also here’s the configure script. And CMake, visual studio project files, Xcode project files, homebrew and a windows installer too.

What version of rust is even available on Debian and redhat? Is it 2 months old or 2 years old? Do my rust project’s dependencies work on that version of rustc? Are they available in apt? Urgh just kill me.

Cargo means I can just ship my project in the form I use while developing. Users get all the latest packages, chosen by me, no matter their OS. And I know their build environment is sane. Hate on cargo if you want, but cargo, npm and friends are the only sane way to ship cross platform code.
> We should improve the system to make it resilient to individual failures

This isn't a solution. It is a wish. Obviously, we all would like it to be the case that innocent people are never punished. But first, is the rate of false convictions of the innocent actually egregiously high? This article gives an example of one case, but it does not follow that we are facing high rates of false convictions, especially for serious crimes that carry serious penalties. Second, is there a way to reduce false convictions, especially in a way that doesn't comprise the system in some serious way?

> I think a judge making a mistake this egregious should not be allowed to continue being a judge.

Perhaps, perhaps not. You risk incentivizing behavior among judges that subverts the justice system.
According to the article,
“Some 45 states, and the District of Columbia, operate them”

So a majority of the 5 states without them are red states?
At least you get less SEO spam emails than I do!
And their solution is to gamble instead of making a budget? If they have $50/mo to spend on lotto tickets, they have more disposable income than they probably realize.
They were mostly redeployed. The car division was ~2000 people and ~600 are being laid off.
> Also document forgeries are not a thing

That's such an odd thing to say. This is just the tip of the iceberg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gert_Postel
Agreed! But it also depends on the goals for the game--- min-maxing isn't the only way to play and not everyone is super competitive.
I'd watch it twice if Tom Hanks played detective Mallory.
What I've noticed from working on the Cybershow over the past year is
that the digital world is split cleanly into two realms that never
touch each other.

I avoid social media, and have never gone near Facebook, Linked-In or
that stuff. But I do recognise and respect the audience out there who
should not be ignored. So Helen does the "social media". I do the old
fashioned web, email reaching out to other bloggers, publishers etc.

We see practically no correlation between these worlds. Helen will say
"We're trending on platform X" and I look and see nothing in the web
stats. Maybe 2 out of 2000 hits cross over from Facebook or
Twitter. Conversely, we can get on the front page of a big website,
but have no activity on social media.

I hadn't realised that SM platforms basically no longer allow links
and that everyone on the web has given up on "sharing" to social
media.

They're literally two separate worlds now, right?
I’d like to highlight the last two paragraphs with two different people quoted:

“Google also didn’t say whether it has or is formulating a policy to filter out AI-generated books from Google Books, and it did not remove any of the AI-generated books I’ve flagged to the company. “We continually work to adapt our systems and policies to ensure users find helpful and relevant books within the Google Books corpus,” the Google spokesperson said.

““It strikes me as another instance of AI-generated text becoming an ouroboros, where AI-generated content will be ingested into Google Books, then Google using the content to train new models,” Hanna said. “I'm sure they will say they have a ‘quality filter’ but I'm sure the details of such won't be described anywhere publicly.””

The spokesperson sounds like AI, while the other person does not. An interesting parallel.
It is called tap tuning and violin makers have been doing it for years. We don't know what Stradivarius, but nobody would be surprised by the claim that he was doing the same thing when making his violins.

There is however a lot of debate in the luthier community on if it actually matters. Some claim it does and spend a lot of time on it, and have even setup fancy test fixtures to show patterns with different frequencies. However some claim it makes no difference and [I'm not sure what]. Both produce great instruments.
> That's also possible, depends on details of the dynamic between OP and the rest of the group

Sorry, no. That's not also possible. That's in fact exactly what happened if we believe OP's story.
For those missing kde2, try Trinity aka TDE, a kde2 fork.
Regardless of what the author himself is saying, this is a clear example of someone that did not actually get passed intermediate level in knowledge and expertise.
Am I the only one who doesn't buy the "Apple canceled the car project because it couldn't do full self driving" story?

Obviously they would have had to create a simpler project before the fsd car. Just like they did the iPod before they did the iPhone.
I'm dubious about all long duration energy storage systems (LDES).

I feel their addressable market gets squashed between a) simply building more renewables and short term battery storage, both of which are reducing in cost due to massive buildout, b) making chemicals from renewable energy (i.e. green hydrogen, that then gets used as a building block for Ammonia or hydrocarbons).

As long as the former is able to cheaply eat marketshare then you can just use the fossil fuels it displaces in the hard to decarbonise markets and still come out ahead financially and in terms of carbon.

The latter can be used in jumbo jets or whatever, but also in fairly standard turbines for electricity production if needed, but emphasis on "if" because if you need it just as insurance against unpredictable demand/weather, then it's a plus point if you can just sell it to farmers, airlines or factories once you get to spring, and the physical storage already exists on a large scale for those purposes.

I think this already makes pumped hydro financially dubious, never mind more theoretical ideas.

The timeshifting of electrical heat demand for industry is another market nibbling away at this, and might be another use for the fluidized bed and sand storage part though.
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And highly concentrating mirrors only work with direct sunlight, while PV works with diffuse sunlight scattered off clouds, dust, or the air itself. Bifacial PV cells even capture light hitting the back of the panel.
"100% backed by U.S. dollar deposits..."

So it is really just like any US dollar bank account --- except it lacks FDIC insurance and oversight and comes with high redemption and transfer fees.
> The booking systems you are referring to are based on paying cash and have all of the airlines inventory available.

Every ticket goes through a booking system. Not every ticked goes through an online booking system.

> I can’t pay cash …

Again I agree, you don’t have the option. That doesn’t mean nobody can get discounts. KLM also offers a military discount etc.

Or just look at their fees, a classic case of price discrimination:

Cancel a ticket through the online refund request form USD 30
Change or cancel your ticket via phone reservations free
Change a ticket via an airport ticket office USD 25

https://www.klm.com/information/legal/fees-paid-options

The airline industry charges people setting next to each other wildly different rates.

PS: Jumping through airline miles points is worth X$ to you, they aren’t worth X$ to everyone.
Living longer can be advantageous as you can take care of your children and grandchildren for longer, as well as continue to amass resources after the reproductive age, but indirectly improving the chances of your descendants.
Depends on what your goals are, I suppose. The difference between $10k in the bank and $0 in the bank is gargantuan when you need to buy groceries for your kids.
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It is still important news, however it seems to me this shouldn't be grouped into the same discussion as all of the other tech layoffs since this was tied to a canceled project.

Especially given that the car project was apparently 2000 people from the project, not being able to find other positions for about a quarter of those people is I think valid.

I mean yeah it is unfortunate for the people affected, but projects are canceled. It is entirely possible, especially given some of the unique skills needed specifically for a car, there are people who just won't have a place anywhere else.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/python-map-function/

The whole point of map is that it does the iteration for you and you pass it a function. Iteration is literally the reason it exists.
It doesn't exist with Terraform either if you are following least privilege and using a cloud provider.
Yes exactly this. If they were false charges as he claims, then he wouldn't be listed on the sex offender registry. His story just doesn't add up.
> When social media came online in the 00s it was just a way to keep track of your friends. That's it. You made friends, you added them to your network.

Current closest to that is Whatsapp( and Telegram). Even though Meta just added channels, but at its core, you only get access to your contacts updates. There are also groups which makes it more like IRC without the flexibility.
I'm pretty sure I have a consistent copy/paste experience on my Fedora laptop, despite it being "open". Do you have examples of a "fragmented experience"?

> I get less calls from grandparents asking for iOS assistance than Android, the interface is more intuitively laid out.

I'm trying to think of a time that either my parents or grandparents called for support on Android. On iOS I've had plenty of questions posed, though usually because Apple don't want people to get WhatsApp notifications, for example.
If the goal is conversion back to electrical energy, the high temperature is a huge advantage.
kinda matters what those jobs are
Even with a zero size game client, there is only so much to stream in textures and geometry. And when you're done with that, the game world itself is trivial.

The only thing in games that is bandwidth heavy is on-demand game asset delivery, which is highly cacheable and shardable. It will need no XDP-like networking tricks in either servers or clients.
I think you’re onto something but it’s more immediate than a comfortable life. Somebody focused on immediate satisfaction or surviving the next few days is at a convenience store. There’s something they need/want that costs $10, but they only have $2. If getting that $10 item is all that matters to them at that point and there’s no partial substitute they can get for $2, then a $2 scratch off ticket with a 2% of paying $10 may be the highest utility for their money.
Mastodon was the epicenter of the XZ discourse. The original discoverer uses it. Krebs uses it. I attribute my success to it. Maybe this was true a few months ago, but it's very quickly establishing itself for tech discussion
Ok, but probability doesn't work like that. Even if 99.99% of the time a given individual is delusional, you still have to check every time because this person might be the 0.01%. It's like the question of "you flip a coin 9 times in a row, and it has come up heads all 9 times. If you flip the coin a 10th time, how likely is it to be heads?"

Also, and perhaps even more importantly, if you aren't actually checking every time, then you don't actually know what the statistics for delusional vs not are, you're just guessing.
While I share Mr. Hodgson’s concern about funding free software, I do not think that State funding is a good idea. My biggest concern is simply that the State does not have the ability to make good technical choices[0], and that its presence sucks all the air out of the room. Had the United States government decided on software funding in the 1990s, all public developers would probably be using Ada. How likely would IBM have been to fund Linux development with its investors’ dollars in the early 2000s, rather than just taking federal Ada money for a hypothetical ADA-OS 2000?

Even more frightening, if federal dollars were allocated today, we might all be stuck with Javascript for a century.

OTOH, the government does have a role to play in solving collective-action problems. Perhaps, like X11, it could focus on mechanism, not policy; perhaps free-software-development expenses could get extra, or earlier, tax deductions? Perhaps free software development could count as a charitable purpose (maybe it already does, I don’t know)?

0: Neither do private companies! Indeed, they make poor technical choices all the time. But with private companies, there is competition and at least a chance that the bad ones will fail. States are far more resistant to competition, and their failures are far more catastrophic than a corporate failure.
As someone else pointed out in the threads, the Apple Car division was around 2000 people, most of whom (AI folks?) have been redeployed, resulting in a remaining 600 being fired - so it is presumably a set of skills that Apple does not think makes sense to redeploy elsewhere such as other manufacturing plants or retail stores or PR department or finance department, etc.
Yours is an improvement, the example from the article suffers from uniform weighting of all characters and numbers in the table.
LXQt may be something for you :)

Trinity is great too, dont get me wrong.
Batteries are likely better for diurnal storage, but the per-energy capital cost of the sand silos ($2/kWh(th))) would be really hard to beat with batteries, so for longer periods this could be superior.
They want you to move everything to the cloud, for obvious reasons. However, if you have on-prem/non-cloud servers, AD is still in the mix. They actually recommend running an AD DC as a VM in the cloud as a backup and to integrate cloud resources in scenarios that are more complex than Entra and Intune can handle.
I've got to ask...why? If the schools don't already have WiFi, they don't have curriculums that could use it. Or they have internet access that's wired and no computers that would be on the WiFi anyway, and then you're just connecting kids' phones (which already have internet).

Besides the wild amounts of red tape in the US that the other commenters mention, don't you think what you're doing is creepy? If I had kids, I 100% would NOT want some random guy to be using his own money to build a WiFi network in my kid's school. The optics of that are terrible. How do I know you're not going to be creeping on the network traffic? There's no obvious reason for you to 1) want to do this project and 2) not just give the money to the schools' existing IT staff to do it (and I'm sure most districts would gladly accept a gift like that). Seriously, why do YOU need to be the one doing it?
Heck, I'd be happy if it were my uncles in my feed. It's not, it's random strangers LARPing at what's obviously a very contrived lifestyle. "Hey look at me in my camper van - this is awesome - oh and I'm wearing a thong just in case the content isn't interesting enough" LOLWUT, I don't need that in my life. I only keep a FB/Insta account to stop somebody else squatting/stealing my name.
Agree. Yet, I find myself checking social media to see if the company is still alive/active. When seeing a lot of activity on social media, I assume they do well or at least they are still in business.
I think the disconnect is that he's talking about building plugins/"gpts" inside of chat GPT while others are thinking about using the API to build something from scratch?
It doesn't add up. The average income in the poorest 1% of zip codes in the US is over $12000. Now, that's two different averages so you could have one of those statistical paradox things going on, but it's at least very poorly worded.

As another sanity check, if you were to play the biggest lotteries - Powerball and Mega Millions - every time (2x a week each at $2), it would be over $400/year, so $600 is not that surprising.
I dream that it blows into my open car window so that I don't even have to bend over to pick it up. Might as well dream big.
100%. I recently had to research scuba diving centers in a city I’ll visit soon, and part of my criteria was to check how recent their Google Maps comments were, and how active their Instagram was. Some diving centers are the center of a community of divers, who will follow and comment on their pictures… while other are more commercial endeavors for tourists that just post on a schedule and no one cares about it. Social media activity is also a good way to deduce if they’re active, positive and growing their business or if they’ve checked out and entered “maintenance mode”.
Yes. But you can also get into a project and realize a commercially viable output is going to take too long and cost too much. (And pretty much every auto manufacturer already has assistive driving systems at some level.)
Ok, how do you verify that?
AI "Mind" and the Inner Loop
Clever, you searching their books for the common ChatGPT content update cutoff. Well done.
I installed a few rust binaries the other day, like wasm-tools and the typst compiler. I installed them from cargo. Each program probably had 30-50 dependencies which were downloaded and compiled from cargo.

Do fedora and apt try to mirror all of the packages from crates.io? Are they kept up to date? Is this a manual process, where a human picks and chooses some packages and hopes nothing is missing, or is it a live mirror? If it’s done by hand, what are the chances all the dependencies for some given project will even be available?
Coming from defense, projects or contracts end all of the time but usually everyone is able to find other projects to work on. Why are they hiring for a bazillion positions while laying off these people?

https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/search
If I had to build a visionOS version of Twitter, it would be Times Square. Then a potentiometer as a control to move the timeline.
However anyone that uses Claude to generating code is 'supplanting' OpenAI's Code Interpreter mode (at the very least if it's python). So, once Code Interpreter gets into Claude, that whole use case violates the TOS.
It's absolutely AI. Perhaps this is one of those weird redefinitions that happens when a gold rush takes over a word, like how "crypto" now means digital currency instead of merely "encryption". But what does "AI" mean now then? Generative AI?
IRC is not a website.

Speaks a lot as to the changing sands of time.