skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Elon has stated relentlessly that the price of FSD will only go up as it gets closer to release because it’s going to become increasingly better and more valuable.

It went from $15->$12->$8k in the span of a year. Seems like it’s doing the opposite of getting better.
Hilarious thank you
https://archive.ph/2024.04.21-160459/https://www.nytimes.com...
> his own words from his own books - including the book you said he never said that in.

Sure, read and quote him out of context all you want. Still not buying it.

> that which you have no experience

Nonsense. I've already told you my experience.

> The fact you think Dennett is not eliminative about consciousness is all I need to know.

And the fact that you think he is is all I need to know. We're not going to resolve that here. Nor am I trying to; I'm not trying to convince you. I'm just putting on record my disagreement with your wrong and uncharitable description of one of the central areas of Dennett's work--one which unfortunately is made by many of his critics. They don't know what they are talking about and neither do you.
Those 2 banners about usage are so prominent and distracting without the option to hide them. It makes it unusable for me.
'Nano stitches' enable lighter and tougher composite materials
Correct. The full guideline is "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

In this case the original title is linkbait, so we changed it.
Even if you pretended Microsoft didn't exist, I don't really see how any similar alternative actually presents a secure alternative. There's a mess of vulnerabilities and complexity at every layer of any modern computing stack you can think of.

If you ACTUALLY want security, you're going to be dealing with computers which are 100x slower than what we're used to with a tiny fraction of the features. For the most part I'm not convinced people actually want secure computer systems, they want computer systems which are productive and they'll just cope with the regular security breaches.
Microsoft success cannot be explained by the old story with IBM. Obviously Bill Gates has/had amazing skills, was lucky to born in a rich family, to be in the IBM deal, etc. All condiments that does not explain the Microsoft success until today. I think Microsoft has a record of unsuccessful projects while being successful as a business, as you say they don't use their own UI offerings and had zilliones but look at their balance sheet...

If it were by the original IBM tale, Xerox and others dead companies were thriving. I recommend to read "Idea Man", Paul Allen (Microsoft cofounder) autobiography. You will realize there was an incredible Bill Gates before the IBM deal. Also check the non-official chronicles of Bill Gates in "Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire" [2] (1993).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idea_Man

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Hard-Drive-Making-Microsoft-Empire/dp...
Yup. When a VC-backed company goes bankrupt, no one bats an eye. When Solyndra's loans go bad, even though it was a tiny fraction of the government's green energy portfolio, you get headlines and congressional hearings.
Shocking how a person who's deeply thought through something and has developed a strong stance against something may also have created a solution to help fill in the gap where VC industrial complex may be beneficial, e.g. networking and education.

I'd argue it's more of a service for them to engage than them cowering away afraid of certain judgement.

Arguably 400+ other people who upvoted the post agree; even though it's been flagged.
This is cool - for Metal, the debugging tools are pretty useful in Xcode - you can access buffers and read values directly.

Related - a while I made a process to convert DICOM / MRI files to voxels for printing at the native resolution of 3D printers [0]. It means you can preserve all the fine detail of the scans, rather than converting to a mesh (segmentation).

On the CD question - it's probably because there is little incentive to build a secure / cross platform solution for patients to access their scans. The CD model is very outdated, but does work, and there is no need for HIPAA compliance even though a CD isn't very secure.

[0] https://www.lukehale.com/voxelprinting
I think there is a strong point for you to break down your stance, if you want to be heard.

It's not like people would believe you but not someone else just because you say so; you both are strangers to me, so only facts matter really.
That’s why I ask actually.

Whats the generally accepted legal interpretation for “personal use”.
It would also be great to have the foreground apps as metadata.
Sometimes you have to write it to understand why you shouldn’t have written it.
because gov payscale limits do not match market reality

The same people and corporations who leach off govt contracts and subsidies speak often about how govt spending is wasteful.

State/federal govts receive 10-20% of every single citizens salary on top of being able to literally create money. They aren't hurting for money.

This is entirely caused by corruption and incompetence.
As an autistic person, I don't understand why this has to be so complicated. What people have to say either makes sense and is helpful, in which case I take it into account going forward. Otherwise, I simply disregard it.

I wouldn't expect or require people to put so much effort into preparing their feedback for me, or preparing me to hear it. It seems excessive and inefficient. Their time would be better spent making sure the feedback was as valuable as possible.
Why does government use cloud for general public? Why don't they use government cloud with high security?
Clarity in meaning.
If other plants get in to this ability it could revolutionize agriculture. Also, will tank the fertilizer industry.
The only thing that keeps me using it are tools that decided only to support VSCode.
Oh certainly, and the way you have designed it is doing what you want - it seems to work for you - along with causing unmeasurable externalized consequences, but to each their own.

Repetition doesn't bother me personally, especially when understanding that what's repetition for one may be novel for another. I can understand you being in your position of having to scour HN reports - and that you'll likely see a far higher percentage of content and comments than most, etc, and that it could certainly take a toll and easily become annoying.
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Most of the world has huge sanctions on weed, so I wouldn't say that. Maybe you just hang out with lots of people who enjoy some nice MJ.
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I’ve received MRI data by both CD and online. I think it just comes down to what systems the hospital/consultant supports and how recently their systems were set up of modernised.
With a native editor, like Sublime, it may take a while to become functional, but it will eventually do what I want.

With VS Code, loading in a big file usually crashes it.

Thankfully I don’t have to deal with this as much as I used to.
If you want to use Windows outside of an air gapped environment, it’s reckless to use anything less than Windows 10, and even for that you have only about a year left unless you pay for extended support.

Also, as someone who actually uses Windows 11 Professional all day, every working day, I honestly haven’t encountered these adverts everyone is always referring to (maybe it’s because I’m not in the US).

As for the UI, initial release didn’t allow ungrouping of Windows on taskbar and context menus hid most things behind an extra click. This was crap, but a major update a while back has resolved these.

I’ve tried Linux, I occasionally need to use it or macOS for development of our cross platform Electron based product, and I would still choose Windows as it really has consistently “just worked” for me since around Windows 2000.

But if macOS or Linux works well for you, I’m happy you’re happy and perhaps you in turn could be happy for people who are happy with Windows (and ideally without thinking they must be deluded or something).
The full privacy policy is here.

https://new.mta.info/privacy-policy

As a transit provider, they seem to be offering the option to report detailed location data for a “smart alerts” feature provided by subcontract to a third party. My walking speed is relevant to predictive alerting for transit, given the non-uniform distribution of US transit, so it makes sense that personalized fitness data is a thing. (I don’t approve of doing so server-side — that particular function should be device-local.) I also assume, unverified as I’m not in their city, that their transit improvement option may also use it. (See below.)

They explicitly do not use your data for marketing. It’s a clearly written policy with full declarations in most respects. However —

App authors, please update your privacy policy to explicitly describe how and which fitness data is collected and used? I’m having to make inferences and that’s understandable but will need to be corrected.
Understanding What Matters for LLM Ingestion and Preprocessing
it's ok, they said they're "not a fan of microsoft", clearly that means they're not corrupted.
> UNIX filenames are NOT necessarily printable text, they're byte strings. Don't treat them as printable text.

But they nearly always also happen to be printable text. Treating them as printable text is soooo convenient 99.9% of the time.

Having them be almost printable text, but not quite, is an API design wart that is begging to be used incorrectly. It's the inverse of an affordance.
I don't understand how local governments could possibly lack the authority to remove people from public spaces.

You can argue all you want about the impact of different policies but at the core of the issue is whether or not local governments are allowed to remove people from public spaces.

If they lack that power they fundamentally lack the authority to govern in that area.
Penguins enter the water all the time to hunt fish.

Not off cliffs.
Now there are two phrases I'm curious to know what you mean by!

"that one thing" and "unmeasurable externalized consequences"
Like out of the nest? That doesn’t really track with the mass movement towards the cliff edge as a precursor.
I'll take decriminalisation any day of the week over illegal.
Airlines have long realized that there are generally two groups of customers: the occasional flyer that will always choose the cheapest flight, regardless of customer service; and the regular flyer that takes service, comfort, reliability, and other things into account. That's why they have frequent flyer programs where the service level goes up as you fly more with the same airlines, from expedited checkin, free food and drinks, free upgrades, and free flights.

Customer service costs money - why bother spending it on a customer who doesn't care about the difference?
I'm glad! I finally got a copy of the paper and unfortunately that quote was the only interesting thing in it, as far as I could tell. But Milner is fascinating and did many other things - for example she wrote a brilliant book called "A life of one's own" about experiments she did with self-observation. She was already using the word 'mindfulness' in 1934.
TipTap is fantastic.
All my work in a corporate setting is personal use. It's me personally using the software to earn money.

Point is, "personal use" is such a nonsense term.
I recognised Jeff on the tube on the way to a computer exhibition at some point in the 80s. I was just a pimply youth, but he was really charming and happy to have a chat. Made my day!
Well if the history in the past 3 years is relevant I would say that the power of elites to project their will onto the rest of the world is small. In both sides: Russia is still grinding through a war that may be their second Afghanistan; and on the western side it took US Congress half a year to approve some funds so someone else (Ukraine) would to fight China’s gas station.
Looks great, but outside Google I do not personally know anyone who uses Jax, and I work in this space.
How I imagine conversations going in the NSA:

"Hey guys, we should fix this vulnerability ASAP."

"No can do, it has to wait and be stealth-patched indirectly, otherwise we'll lose the advantage of using it ourselves."
Hm. When I read this, it sounds as if they first looked for Dementia and then looked at all the different parameters that preceded.
That doesn’t feel like good science where you verify a hypothesis you have _before_ starting the experiment. That’s how the dead fish in the MRI reacted to images of people (https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/scicurious-brain/ign...)
Also more general structured data. Like being able to search only the window titles, or text within a certain windows (Discord, Chrome).
Parent literally said "I don't want my missiles to not have code I cannot edit"
Email solutions are company-wide, and companies are big.

Tons of companies use exchange on-prem either for historical reasons or legal reasons (e.g. they can't store email in the cloud - yes, this is very much a thing).

Beyond a certain size, companies inevitably have to support teams on different OSes. You have to let the accounting and finance guys use Windows (they'll die without Excel), you have to let the creatives use OSX or they'll throw a fit, and you have to let some in house IT teams use Linux.

But they all have to use the same email platform, and if it's on-prem exchange, the Linux guys are in a tough spot.
I used to think the way I’d try to tackle a challenge like that would be essentially embracing the ChromeOS model by going web-first for everything so you’d avoid accumulating new accidental dependencies on proprietary software, and trying to shift legacy apps to WINE, terminal servers, etc. Obviously you’d need thousands of exceptions but the important part would be removing the inertia which means that new code starts out being non-portable.

Unfortunately, these days the browser engine market is pretty lopsided so that strategy would need to be paired with something like a requirement to test in Gecko and WebKit because I trust Google’s long-term management even less than Microsoft.
Well yeah, quick mitigation is easier with open source. But the cause is still entirely on the gTLD mechanism itself. The ability to register gTLDs such as .zip is ridiculous and opens up this sort of phishing and hijacking in absolutely unforeseen places.
cult classic is defined as "something such as a movie or book that is considered to be one of the best of its kind by a small group of people." which I would say is pretty accurate
The Coddling of the American Parent
> And some, notably Manchester, are entirely absent.

But Wrexham is shown - so the priorities seem correct. ;-)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrexham_A.F.C.#2020%E2%80%93pr...
In terms of weapon effect, nukes really are in a whole other category, particularly against invasions, which require concentration of force by their nature. Even a dozen nukes with 1950s delivery systems can make the price of invasion untenable - particularly for democratic governments. And once a country is making them, they're very easy to stash, so you can never be sure you got them all. We faced a similar problem with Cuba, when we learned that they'd stashed possibly quite a lot of FROG launchers in addition to the big missiles.

Chemical weapons are a bit like Age of Sail line of battle, with an awful lot depending on the weather. Biologicals are even worse, since neighboring populations - surprise! - turn out to be pretty closely related, making it difficult to target foreign ethnicities. Humans in general are pretty tightly clustered, although I would imagine one of the great weapon uses for AI systems in this century (or decade) will be biologicals very tightly targeted at micropopulations, very small cell factors (so, with your new AI-designed bioagent, instead of 80% enemy 40% friendly [which was the estimate for an Anti-Black People agent in South Africa] it goes to something like 70% enemy 10% friendly). Both biologicals and chemical can have unpredictable weapon effect, which is the primary reason we don't see them more often. A really great rifle that shoots backwards even .1% of the time would still be the world's worst rifle.

Nuclear states have a form of "super-sovereignty" that effectively makes them a different kind of state. No one's chucking rockets or missiles at you anymore, no one's going to risk an airstrike or putting you on the Regime Change list. The long term effect of holding a nuclear arsenal has some nasty follow-on effects internally, for a nation, beyond just the sanctions and such, but it's such a cost-effective method of deterrence that such factors fade into the background.
Same, I've been looking for something like this ever since Rewind came out.
Try simdutf. You’ll get a performance boost too.
> The problem is that there’s an entire political ideology holding that government is inherently wasteful and its adherents will oppose any attempt to track market salaries because that allows them both to say they’re saving money at the time and later to cite the struggling/failed project as proof that they were right

Why is it a surprise that employees who are essentially unfirable don't perform well? Aside from a very small percentage where the hiring culture is exceptional, it's almost universal. This is a problem with governments across at all levels in almost all countries.

How many times do we have to match this movie before realizing that just increasing the salaries won't make a difference, and instead will be wasteful.
> If Haidt wants us to take results from one subgroup and apply it to another, he has to provide evidence. That's how this process works.

Perhaps considering where he does so, further in the article which you stopped reading.
But where do homeless people go if removed from public spaces?

If homeless can be removed from any public space, and, obviously, can't legally occupy private spaces then that implies being homeless is a criminal activity since there is no space where it can legally happen.

I suppose you're proposing prison, but it seems the question as to "whether or not being homeless is a crime" is a least worth a legal discussion.
I'm in the same boat...2 kids. The one who always wants a tablet also always want snacks and candy. Any good resources on curbing this before it gets worse?
I agree, the "natural" syntax is awful. Worst of both worlds. Terrible for experienced programmers because the syntax is so bad; terrible for beginners because it pretends to be natural but isn't.

Fortunately they offer a (barely documented) JavaScript alternative these days.
Is this the world you wish to live in? Where the greatest concern is not for the provisioning of housing for all but instead the punishment of those who have no other options available?
Don't hear this much about Apple. And most of tech companies run on Apple devices.
> This has nothing to do with it. Contractors cost notably more, so if the goal was economizing it’d be an obvious step to cut out the middlemen by hiring staff directly.

It certainly has something to do with it.

The market rates for engineers was distorted because FAANG had a lot of money to throw around, so therefore hiring staff at government pay rates is quite difficult and is subject to the General Schedule (https://federalnewsnetwork.com/pay-benefits/2023/12/biden-fi...).

Contractors work from bills and projects, where the money is carved out; I agree it’s terribly inefficient.

The other issue is how difficult it is to get into government vs getting in as a contractor.

I tried the former many times without success; the latter? Easier than FAANG or finance.
Developer is clearly from Liverpool :D

It's odd - they've got places like Stockport, Salford, Oldham etc, just not Manchester. Manchester has the highest population of the boroughs in Greater Manchester
He can't just walk away.

He better be driving that cyber truck with 3000 dollars cyber tent professionally installed at full speed while leaving the company.
The logic is probably as discussed above. Opening files is relatively expensive on Windows, so intuitively, maildir should be worse in terms of performance. I believe there's also some filesystem reasons to prefer avoiding lots of small files but that's beyond my pay-grade.

The reason maildir is faster despite this is the antivirus factor.

The fastest solution is adding an exception so that Defender doesn't scan your Thunderbird email, however that has the trade off that your antivirus isn't able to scan your email.
High schools, at least, run on a giant pile of Chromebooks, not Mac hardware.
Not having an exclusion for a development directory is like using a 10yo machine or using a laptop without the power brick connected: it’s basically leaving half the perf on the table.

Still, a second seems a bit much for a real-time scan.
In what way does the authority to govern require the ability to remove people from public spaces?
This is a straw man. Even if the top richest people paid an additional 16 billion in taxes that would run the gov for like a day. Our problem is with spending.
Yeah, if people truly think that they've never been to a casino in their life. Go walk to any roulette table that shows the results of previous spins. You'll find multiple people going "it's been reds for a while, black is due" or "this machine gets more reds, you should bet on red".
The single most well funded organization the world has ever seen struggles to pay the market rate, which the government also regulates?
I'm pretty sure you don't find any passage in Kant where he says anything remotely like "Gallilean/neo-Newtonian space-time is absolutely true and forever true" (these words or the term "Euclidean geometry" didn't, I'm pretty sure, even exist back then). What is usually meant by ascribing him these views, I assume, is that he proceeds as if this were the case, i.e. he doesn't specify any empirical method for determining what is the proper geometry of space-time. These were developed in the nineteenth century. But even remarkably smart people, like Poincare, had troubles with figuring out how empirical evidence can help determine us the physically valid geometry of space-time (he thought it was necessarily conventional - a view falsified by general relativity), so I don't think this in any way makes Kant's enterprise as such questionable.

I find it interesting that you say: "although he might say we nevertheless have to experience time as constant and space in three dimensions". The physicist/philosopher/physiologist/mathematician Hermann von Helmholtz (who was, I think, very much inspired by Kant) wanted to prove that, given some basic measurement axioms (demanding constant curvature etc.), Euclidean geometry is necessarily the geometry of our internal perceptual manifolds (Kant's view is, I believe, essentially that these internal manifolds must have the same geometry as physical space-time). But it turned out that pseudo-spherical geometry also satisfies these axioms. So, although there is something, as far as your general description goes, to your 'defence' of Kant, and I think Helmholtz himself would've said that he's working within Kant's framework, it is still insufficient to vindicate everything that Kant said. I believe Helmholtz agreed, however, that our spatial imagination is three dimensional.