skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It feels like everyone has short memories. Net neutrality abuse did indeed happen, a few notable incidents,

— Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile slowed down YouTube + Netflix traffic. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-04/youtube-a...

— Verizon throttles so much that the Santa Clara County Fire Department’s ability to provide emergency services during the California wildfires. "The fire department experienced slowed down speeds on their devices and had to sign up for a new, expensive plan before speeds were restored." https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/verizon-throttle...

— CenturyLink blocked content to insert their ads, https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/12/centurylink-bloc...

Claiming that nothing happened is false. A lot did happen. A lot of people have been fighting very hard to preserve internet access and the internet has been degraded.
The only reason agricultural yields haven't collapsed is we have printed fertilizer with fossil fuels and dug it out of the ground. Sustaining contemporary agricultural output is just going to become more and more difficult as energy becomes more costly.
I fear we will look back nostalgically at times when advertising was obvious and direct: intermittent video, image banners, text prompts and the like. The future may see Truman Show-style placement by characters, agents modifying the content itself on the fly to add hard-to-see changes and cues. This is already illegal in most of the world, but it will be easier to do and harder to detect on a large scale.
Plenty of studies have shown "processed food" (ie. hotdogs) leads to poorer health outcomes. Processed food, in general, comes from far more individual animals than other foods.
In Chinese: “当局者迷，旁观者清”. The players are confused, but the audience sees clearly.
Self driving cars are simple too
This is what happens when MBA's take over a creative platform.

They can't help themselves.
Hardly anyone is. One of the problems with the EU is that because the media focus on national governments, and because the EU often acts indirectly (through directives, requiring national governments to pass legislation, rather than direct legislation) people really have little idea of what the EU does legislatively.

I am aware of the current attempts to push surveillance laws, although AFAIK the EU parliament did reject the worst of the legislation the commission tried to push.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_the_Dead_Cow

I dunno, but maybe try being informative instead of critical that losers like me never got the memo?
What is Floorp and what does the comment from the creator say? When I click to see the translation, it fails.
With extensions, VSCode is a full-blown IDE, not a mere text editor. IDEs have always been notorious for how bloated they are. Some of the memory is wasted on Electron/JS, and some of it is wasted on the IPC indirection of the language servers, but VSCode seems pretty well optimized for the level of versatility it offers. Eclipse, IDEA, and good old Visual Studio all get really bloated when you throw lots of different languages at them too.
> Grey tribe's social progressiveness is mostly an accident

It’s not an accident. It’s rooted in the counter culture moment that was that basis for Silicon Valley moving beyond weapons manufacturing and embracing the internet.
Apple needs a Steve Jobs, someone with more of a marketing or engineering background, to dictatorially push forward new ideas, and crush bad ones. Steve would have never approved the Apple Helmet.
Tesla gave me, totally out of the blue, a one-month free trial for Full Self-Driving for my Model Y. I have it until the end of April.

My thoughts:

- It feels like a very cool tech demo.

- It feels like a very stupid driver.

- I have to watch the road, because the cabin camera tracks my eyes, and my car will scream at me if I look away for more than a few seconds.

FSD feels absolutely magical to me: I'm in a car! Driving itself! It's making lane changes, putting on blinkers, stopping for pedestrians, dynamically reacting to traffic. Unbelievably cool. Totally feels like the future.

At the same time: I would not trust this thing to drive me to the grocery store down the street without supervision. It's both dangerously cautious and foolhardy. It once stopped for a red light 3 feet past an intersection stop line. It has also spent 30 seconds waiting to make a left turn, with no cross traffic, only to abruptly make the turn right in front of an oncoming car.

My verdict overall: it is nowhere close to replacing a human. It will cause dangerous situations if left to drive without human interferance. *AND YET:* it's a great technology when supervised, it is probably safer to drive FSD + human than just human alone, and it is absolutely & inevitably the future for all driving.
3 cities. You could move.
Sure. If it's about ethics then I could argue that corporations are not people. So I can give the right to all people to use, inspect, modify and share modifications to the software they use, but corporations aren't people so they don't get those rights. :D
No, no... once we understand it we no longer call it AI, it becomes ML. ;P
In the rust belt, cars have become less disposable every decade. Coatings/paint/corrosion-inhibition have gotten wayyyyyy better.

I’ll take the brand new modern car over anything from the 60s,70s,80s or 90s for durability.
Floorp is a Web Browser. A Fireox fork, I think.

I'm guessing this is the Floorp Browser account?
> Later I saw one of them come over and eat one

One weirdo from the herd showed a preference for it one time. Whereas if you threw it among your dogs they'd likely fight over it. That's the difference.
https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/general-motors/2024/0...

GM cuts ties with 2 data firms amid heated lawsuit over driver data

Published: 1:47 p.m. ET March 22, 2024 Updated: 5:18 p.m. ET March 22, 2024

General Motors said Friday it is severing ties with two data brokers following a lawsuit that connected the automaker to sharing driver data that resulted in higher auto insurance rates for that plaintiff.

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Disclosure: I work for GM, not on this program. I will not be commenting further on this.
Here is the legal definition of a money transmitting business.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/31/5330#d_1
I can at least say that people use banks for other reasons.
I came across the above on a twitter thread by Shashank Joshi where he posted comments given by a GCHQ data scientist at a Turing Institute presentation. The thread link below contains some of the purported quotes.

https://x.com/shashj/status/1783872773355373039
Ask HN: Anyone following UAP disclosure and what are your thought?
Mine doesn't go to LexisNexis like the GM data does, at least. I checked.
Biggest 3D printer whirs into action
... we got things like the Magna Carta

Did she die in vain?
They should like the idea: when properly designed, EVs don't weight more than ICE peers.

Take the latest Model 3 Performance: 4054 pounds, 296 miles on a charge. The 2024 BMW M3? 3840 pounds.

The Tesla beats the BMW on every metric and has plenty of range. Yet, it weighs less than 5% more than the BMW hybrid.

You can also compare the standard Model 3 with the 3 series, or the Model Y with the X3. Weigh is not an issue any more and specific energy of new batteries keep getting better. We're only started.
Your next Linkedin Bio Company.

Tactical Stealth Alpha. Launching in 2025.
> to a friend

I think with my friend I pitched it more like "I tricked you for your own good to show you not to trust random EXE files"... though I don't think it was quite that altruistic a prank. :p

I recall another similar trojan (perhaps a little later) was Netbus, both showed up a lot when volunteering on an IRC help channel to help diagnose and walk victims through removal.
I love how it is supported by patrons rather than charging everyone.
Gosh, how hateful
> Philosophy is an art.

No, philosophy is fishing, in one's subconscious sea. For most people anyway.

Prove me wrong!

Of course, creating software is a science, er, I mean engineering. Oh hell, a craft? Guess and test?

In both cases there is a core of mathematical thinking and science-like exploration, inspiring the higher minded names for the subjects. All wrapped in a massive amount of less formal stuff and activity whose nature is not really emphasized or formally named.
It has already transferred to humans from dairy cows.

https://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/news/20240408/cdc-issues-...
The CDC was formed at an actual cow slaughterhouse.
Know your history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_the_Dead_Cow
Festo is developing a new biologically inspired device/bionic animal for the Hannover Messe (a renowned trade fair in Hanover, Germany) for many years now. Searching YouTube/the web for Festo and bionic will return a lot of amazing results.
I did exactly this a few months ago. My card company put a temporary hold on the transaction and contacted me to confirm that I authorized it. I said "yes" and the transaction completed immediately.

Personally, I actually like this approach. My US card being used to purchase from a UK vendor and shipping the merchandise to a UK address when the immediate history of my card usage makes it really clear that I'm not currently in the UK?

That's objectively suspicious. They checked with me, I said "I authorize this" and the deal was done with little fuss. That's a win-win-win in my book.
Yes, this is true, but within the judicial branch itself, the SCOTUS does have a fair bit of power.
Luckily for my I’m not sure Jeep does it. Pretty sure my wife’s BMW sends everything short of audio/video recordings back to home.
If it validates against an accelerometer, you’re going to find it difficult.

But could possibly put the OBD thingamajig in grandma’s Corolla but MiTM your Ferrari’s VIN to it.
You can buy [1] polarization cameras, both mono and with a Bayer filter. They're expensive right now, but I agree it would be really cool to see what could be done with a consumer grade version in a smart phone.

[1] https://thinklucid.com/product/phoenix-5-0-mp-polarized-mode... (among many others)
Yep. I think most recent Bay Area transplants got used to how clean and shiny SF was in the 2010-17 period, which was inherently an anomaly in SF's history.

It's always had a transient issue, and the high availability of support resource, the conversions of RSOs into hotels and airbnbs made visible, and the increased gentrification of SF (upper middle class white collar families didn't live in Mission, much of the SoMA-Potrero flatlands, much of Castro, etc until the 2010s) made these extremely visible.

Now that hybrid work has been normalized, I expect to see housing in the inner city (Tenderloin, Union Square) portion of SF to become significantly affordable, as those boutique hotels are returning to their RSO roots. And it already has based on the lack of rent increases with my former landlord's management company (all the 1-2 bdrms their renting out have stabilized in the $1500-2000/mo range in the inner city areas)

The city still has a lot of value in the tech ecosystem, but there's a reason the tech industry is called "Silicon Valley", not San Francisco. The gravity has always been in Santa Clara County, and always will be, but now San Francisco County has a decent bigtech scene as well (which didn't really exist there before the 2000s).
LCAMM2 should be fast enough: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ddr5/micron-unvei...

And they could combine onboard unified RAM with a slightly slower non-unified expandable RAM slot. There is some precedent for such configurations in computer history.
Only one script? Out of how many?
That definitely happens.

Meanwhile we know that these mixers are being used enmasse to sell exploitative content, fund terrorist organisations, evade tax, run scams, hacks, the list goes on, and on, and on, and on.
> I could also complain about the incentives Youtube gives creators to make phenomenally irritating thumbnails, video structures (everything is 20 goddam minutes long now), the list goes on.

Totally agreed, the whole thing is a mess. Many creators know exactly what rituals they need to perform to please God that It will bestow them with wealth and are pretty transparent about doing so. ("Make sure to turn on notifications and watch this video the second it comes out, because we get rewarded more for that" is a particularly insane one. Very few things I could want notifications for less than 10+ minute videos on quantum physics.)
Another case: As a boardgamer, I frequently pause videos to read rules/cards/components in board game reviews/unboxings. I'm sure there are similar use cases for all kinds of other hobbyists (e.g. movie buffs pausing a scene to study lighting/blocking/etc., musicians pausing to study fingering, etc.)
> L0pht

Oh man, that reminds me of NTLM passwords: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L0phtCrack
Status page is still all green though.

https://status.proton.me/
Something like: Strong people make good times, good times make soft people, soft people make bad times, bad times make strong people?

Looks interesting I’ll check it out, thanks!
I was shopping for some steak today. There were two packages side by side of the same steak. One expired a day later than the other.

The one with the later expiration was $4 more a pound.

Is this inflation or something to do with the H5N1?
All good points. Cheers.
Why is this article flagged? It seems very appropriate to be here.
The main issue is that memory reporting tools don't handle paging well. You cannot tell if the ram is actually being used. You can only tell that some app has X amount in the allocation table which is often more likely backed by files on storage than actively used RAM.

When you have lots of chrome tabs open the ram isn't being actively used. You may be using a tool that shows total memory allocated. I'd actually recommend looking for a tool that shows page table misses (points where the OS has to load from disk into RAM). Huge numbers of page table misses and actual noticable performance drops are more indicative of any actual problem than a simple allocation which can easily mislead just by having large files mapped.
America will end up looking like Cuba.

On the other hand the 3G system shutdown might help this issue.
I'm very far away from a profesional photographer, but I use Gimp [1], mostly for editing gif-like [2] images. I also instaled Krita [3] because I read a few recomendations in HN but I never used it. How do they compare with Darktable and Lightroom for the usecase of the OP?

[1] https://www.gimp.org/

[2] Simple imgages with a solid backgroung with a few geometric objects and only a few colors, more similar to clipart than photographs.

[3] https://krita.org/
>handle errors with exceptions

What's the logic behind this?
Sure there is, Nuclear is zero emission and renewable and powers 70% of the French electric grid. Uranium in the oceans is thought to regenerate itself but even if that turned out to not be true, should be good for at least a few hundred thousand years. It would require a massive infrastructure investment so now would be a good time to get started.
That feels very limiting. It's one thing to have a program run only on one core, but you're supposed to have your entire dev environment, including editor and debugger inside the VM. Won't that end up with the env freezing on compute heavy tasks?
The smoking ban is incredibly popular and supported by most people across all generations, also given we have tax payer funded healthcare this is a clear win for the nation.
These tarpits have been around for a while now, do they even do anything anymore?
Dollar denominated crypto is still crypto.
My comment was a joke, there are no charity video platforms.
I moved all my systems to Debian about a year ago. I didn't have a big problem with snaps, just kind of irritated by them, just like the MOTDs when logging in via SSH that would sometimes mysteriously change from time to time, often nagging to upgrade to Ubuntu Pro (because I was running 20.04 in 2023).

I had to manually set up sudo and unattended-upgrades, otherwise in my experience and uses, Debian is Ubuntu.
"Evangelists" = People promoting ideas not firmly rooted in reality.

The software industry seems to harbor more than it's fair share --- crypto evangelists, open source evangelists. As folks from the ghetto used to say, "You gotta be rich to even think like that".
> why can't all of the workers quit, reform a new company where they control 100% of it, and then put Amazon out of business?

A dude called Karl wrote a book that answers this.
Because a lot of my work happens in containers and VMs and Ubuntu used to have the best (for me) solution.
I think it's pretty certain that under Chevron and w/o W. Virginia vs. EPA the EPA could ban ICEs tomorrow and the courts would allow it, and Congress would be unable to stop it, but that would be a very drastic thing to do and it should require debate, and we wouldn't get it. If you don't think that scenario is likely, there are others somewhat less extreme and more likely ones one could conjure up.

I think that's abdication.
It seems like the real problem is that you've got a ton of drift between your Prod and Dev environments. How old is your Prod compared to your Dev?

Since you're running something in a container, you should be able to upgrade the host OS (more accurately, recreate the hosts with current images) very easily. I wouldn't expect there to be more than a few weeks of drift between Prod and Dev.
You're countering arguments I never made. If you think the only choices we have are modern industrial farming or starving on porridge you seriously lack imagination. Also you're completely ignoring the externalities and the long term consequences both on the environment and on human health, if the question was just about having meat or not having meat we wouldn't have this discussion.

> and rightfully noone is willing to let it go.

A cancer also won't let go even if it means the death of its host.

Your analogy is plain wrong because there is 0 trade off in your example, the right analogy would be to trade your $1500 iphone for five $100 backdoored chinese phones of much lower quality and pretend you're happier because you have more
Holy crap, that is a surprising connection between two names I individually knew in a social graph.
What is PBR? Not Pabst Blue Ribbon! Here's a brief description from Adobe:

Physically based rendering (PBR), sometimes known as physically based shading (PBS), is a method of shading and rendering that provides a more accurate representation of how light interacts with material properties. Depending on which aspect of the 3D modeling workflow is being discussed, PBS is usually specific to shading concepts while PBR refers to rendering and lighting. Both terms describe the process of representing assets from a physically accurate standpoint.
Community forks of e.g. Unity have cropped up that ditch the CLA. Open source is open source, after all.

That said I do agree that the CLA has doomed most of their projects from gaining considerable adoption in the wider Linux community. At least while Canonical is still running the project.
To my surprise, I have seen this more often than I would have expected (expectation = zero). It's not super common but not unheard of.
Alright, good point. I need to find a good places API. The current ones are hardcoded.
By your description, you don't have adblock on your TV but on your linux box.
> "These changes mean that not only will our citizens be better protected from serious dangers such as terrorism and child sexual abuse online [...]"

Sometimes you just love it when the band knock out one of their classics.
I don’t see any source for that from their paper. It just says a duplicate version of Pile with a citation linking to the original Pile paper itself.

[15] Leo Gao, Stella Biderman, Sid Black, Laurence Golding, Travis Hoppe, Charles Foster, Jason Phang, Horace He, An-ish Thite, Noa Nabeshima, et al. The pile: An 800gb dataset of diverse text for language modeling. arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.00027, 2020.
So does the castle at Disneyland.
> ... the so-called bug for us, the public, is most likely a feature crafted by them, Canonical folks.

> Otherwise, Ubuntu developer won't say that they "didn't have capacity to work on it".

What the developer actually said was they didn't have the capacity to work on it for that version, but that it would be a priority for the next cycle. Did they not read the second part of that sentence, or are they choosing to ignore it, or what?
> judging the fact by the amount of her donation

I said the dollar amount isn't meaningful. Because the original claim was that "crypto, much less crypto from Russians, hasn't been a meaningful contribution vector for Ukraine."

> Even if it would be 99%, so what?

It means crypto is being used to send U.S. dollars. It's a derivative financial system, and one completely subject to U.S. law, surveillance and sanctions.

The Ukraine example is not a case study for crypto delivering value add at scale.
I bet you in 10 years there will be a scandal where the Tories spied on an opposing party MP, or vice versa. Doesn't even need malicious intent because the mere act of doing this carries the stench of malicious incompetence.
A mission statement is meant to direct effort and help executives make ambiguous decisions. "Our mission is to be profitable in the payments space" is both too narrow and too broad. "Being profitable" is too broad because of course they want to be profitable. They will shut down if they aren't. It's literally just the definition of running a business. It doesn't help anyone make any decisions. "in the payments space" is too narrow because it specifies the "payments space". Now anybody trying to make decisions that align with the mission has to have an agreed definition of the "payments space", and what activities fit within it.

"Our mission is to grow the GDP of the internet" is much better since it captures the value they are trying to create. Presumably this is mostly things that make online payments faster and more ubiquitous, bringing more commercial activity onto the internet.

With "Our mission is to be profitable in the payments space", someone might decide to open Stripe check cashing locations, which presumably is not something that upper management wants the company spending time on. With "Our mission is to grow the GDP of the internet", Stripe's activities will be much more closely focused on their core competencies.
> Like..not helpful.

Sometimes it would be...
I say this as a big time BSD friend, the same can be said about the BSDs. OpenBSD and FreeBSD are very different , I’ve never used NetBSD, but I can only imagine it’s not the same as the other two.