skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's really easy for me to imagine my government being run worse than it is today.

But anyway, it's a fallacy to think that just because something is bad, replacing it with just anything at all would be an improvement. The thing you replace government with would have to be better suited to it, which there is just no basis for saying Silicon Valley is. In fact, there's enough evidence that SV is bad at governing their own very very small kingdoms, even with the benefit of an existing infrastructure and rule of law, established by others, in place.

Man, it's weird for me to be in the position of defending government. I'm not that guy. But tech leadership is just laughably unsuited to replacing them.
Thank you so much! I didn't know about the X, as I don't see it in the android app, which I use 99pct of the time.

Just used desktop to hide those awful shorts for 30 blessed days!
What's your point? That these people shouldn't have been arrested, or that money laundering on crypto should be ignored? Or something else?

Besides, crypto is clearly sometimes used for money laundering - hence the article.
This article is about “FSD”/Autopilot and compares what others in the industry do with similar features. This isn’t Tesla autopilot vs Toyota camry drivers.
downvote if you suffer from cognitive dissonance :)
> I admittedly do most workloads 'in the cloud'

You never open documentation? Even if you only run local apps, a few tens of browser tabs in addition to an IDE or three will eat those 16 Gb ram instantly.
> idea of violently overcoming an organised tyrannical and violent government that has millions of people supporting is a US myth

It's designed to increase the cost of an unpopular takeover, not let Joe who thinks he can shoot 100 yards with a glock take on the U.S. army. The Nazis were popular when they came to power. Contrast that with e.g. Hong Kong.
Non-upgradeable RAM and SSD. Why? To save $1 in manufacture or 1mm in case height?
A Strong 'Night Effect' for Bitcoin: All of Bitcoin's gains come from overnight
If these drivers hadn't been using FSD would they be alive today?
The existence of folks like Andrew Tate suggests otherwise. Aren't there dudes doing like infrared blasting off their balls or getting penile implants?

Both toxic masculinity and toxic femininity exist.
There was a temporary glitch in the Matrix this morning where comments wouldn't show. On my machine it lasted a few minutes, and the URL above works fine now (though it is flagged).

EDIT: and 35 minutes after I left this comment, it did it again for about 20 seconds. Just a bad HN day, I guess.
Yep, and more and more OSes and browsers detect this situation and propose you a button to go to the portal. At least for me, both KDE and firefox have their mechanism for this.

It still breaks a lot of stuff (notably, the Nextcloud client) as long as you are not logged on the captive portal, but well…
I don't know where the issue is but I've been having tons of problems with Adobe stuff only when my MBP is connected to an external monitor.

It's like the canvas in Illustrator stops rendering frames randomly. Sometimes I do something like writing text or dragging an object and it takes a second or two for the change to render.

It's been almost a year now and most issues are still there.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/multi...
Or an other perspective is that politics and religions are just byproducts of propaganda mesmerizing people. So they are already many battle proofed efficient way to brain wash people, and probably many more furtive and cost effective than these new stuffs.

Thankfully you still can rely on fellow HN commenters like myself to bring you thoughts free of any mind binding manipulations and exempt of sarcasm.
Ubuntu is mostly aimed at the less experienced user, so it seems OK in that context. I just hope that kind of thing doesn't spread to other distros. If Debian did this, I'd be pretty irritated.
I find Argos to be a good substitute for Amazon here. I choose it 9/10 over Amazon. There is much less product choice which for many products filled with Chinese crap is actually a benefit.
To me, it seems that there are two general categories of things referred to as "math": A: the one used in this article: What people generally refer to as math. What's used by engineers, (most) scientists, etc. B: The one used by math majors and mathematicians. This type is abstract, contains things domains that end in "theory".

My question: Do you think an approach like in the article is possible to learn Math B? I have tried several times, unsuccessfully. I'm proficient in most domains of Math A. (Differential equations, linear algebra etc, symbol manipulation, geometry, and how tho apply them to practical problems).

Math B seems, in contrast, beyond me. There is a programming analogy: Math B is like Haskell, or pure functional programming, which also is as ungraspable to me. I am wondering if maybe this is partially genetic, partially something you have to learn at an early age. Or maybe it takes a formal learning path.
Do you think they use less ram if they're browser tabs?

They're just memory leaks even there.
Can you get a 16GB new Mac for $900? AFAIK the $699 M1 MBAs are base models only and sold at Walmart exclusively with no customisable options. If you want a 16GB Air the cheapest is $1200 for an upgraded M2.

I guess you can get a 16GB M2 Mac Mini with a 256GB SSD for $800 but is that really that compelling when a Ryzen 7840HS Mini PC can easily be found with 32GB RAM and a 500GB SSD for sub $600?
> The controversial question (and one that cannot be dismissed easily) is whether the universe is in some broader sense "mathematical"

A similar question: does time evolve in discrete steps, or is it continuous?

The passage of time can only be established by comparing with physical phenomena that evolve over time. Even if that comparison would suggest "discrete steps", that doesn't exclude the possibility of time evolving continuously, but instrument / experiment too 'crude' to see between steps.

Right up there with "are we living in a simulation?", and "does $DEITY exist?". As long as you can't break into a deeper layer (assuming that exists!), it's undecidable, and a philosophical rather than a scientific question, imho.
New York State gives EVs and plugin EVs discounts on tolls (and maybe reg fees), but looking at the list, some of the SUVs have an eMPG in the 40s.

Meanwhile your non-plugin Corolla Hybrid, doesn’t get a discount, gets a 50mpg mileage.

And those plugin SUVs can drop to under 25mpg (some under 20!) if you don’t plug them in.

https://www.nyserda.ny.gov/All-Programs/Drive-Clean-Rebate-F...

https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/PowerSearch.do?action=noform...

https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/PowerSearch.do?action=noform...
Isn't meat, like, a significant part of most people's diets?
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Money corrupts; bitcoin corrupts absolutely.
Disregarding all of bitcoin's shortcomings, a financial instrument that brings out the worst in people—greed—won't change the world for the better. https://www.cynicusrex.com/file/cryptocultscience.html
Nothing wrong / illegal about what we did. Legitimate business, Used stable coins, filed taxes.
Perhaps they will start uploading to Nebula as well, with a disclaimer that "this video won't work properly on Youtube" or something, but realistically Nebula is never going to get anywhere near the viewership YT gets unless something catastrophic happens to google via legislation, etc.
Being surprised that there were more attacks from X countries as opposed to Y countries implies an expectation that there would be the opposite.
Wow DisplayMaid looks useful.

I managed to get my system "working" without knowing about it.

I have a macbook and an external display, and I utilize "desktops" heavily.

Basically desktop: 1 = gmail/calendar | 2 = slack, messenger, imessage, etc. | 3 = chrome | 4 = terminal | 5 = vscode

In the dock you can right click an app, and Options, Assign to Desktop N.

Luckily, when I plug my macbook into the dock with monitor, I actually want it to be a static desktop, showing just the website I'm working on. And I want the monitor to switch through desktops that have my applications.

This basically just works with one caveat. When switching from plugged in to unplugged, the macbook screen becomes desktop 1, and all the desktops shift over by one. So I just rearranged everything to be +1 (i.e. gmail/calendar are actually always desktop 2), and everything works seamlessly.
I think Pharo would benefit a lot from having lots and lots of screen casts, since so much stuff is visual. I don't think something like ESUG is a sustainable way to spread techniques. A lot of stuff that is well documented in the Pharo ecosystem is old. A lot of the new stuff doesn't have great docs. Just reference docs and code is not enough. There has to be a coherent narrative around an API to put it together.

Also, I'm all onboard having a UI environment for programming, but it needs to have great keybindings that follow platform HIGs, and at least my Pharo 10 experience of the window management was really bad.

I wrote about this some https://nikhilism.com/post/2021/experiencing-smalltalk/
If there's a mod chip why wouldn't you just modify the OBD tracking device? You can wire up a complete simulated OBD interface with a microcontroller and don't even need a car attached to it.
That's the main problem with Linux these days: Experience with distro A rarely transfers to distro B.

Also, at least with Ubuntu, switching to a new LTS means that most administration tools have been replaced with different (usually buggier) ones, so knowledge of the old release doesn't necessarily transfer either.

It wasn't this way in the early days, but the community focus stopped aligning with end user interest about a decade go. At that point fragmentation + complexity exploded.
My Tesla insurance has gone down ~$30/mo showing that I've been a 'careful' driver or whatever. Perhaps they were overcharging when I first signed up, but I'm not complaining too much.

That said, the anxiety of always being watched when I'm driving and knowing that I'm directly impacting my wallet has made me consider just eating the extra $100 my old insurance provider wanted just to have the peace of mind that I can drive without feeling like taking that turn too fast just cost me $5
Not in the alternate timeline.
You are making my point: it is largely useless when considering how powerful but evil governments have formed or oppressed some minorities etc.
As a libertarian, I suspect most of us would disagree with you on what rights the powerless have.

For example, libertarians do not believe people have a right to food or shelter. You only have a right to keep and use your body and your property.
Teach category theory, and if you can't, then don't bother teaching math at all.

Because you'll be teaching the awful wasteful rote math that everyone hates and can't use, instead of the nice universal stuff that lets you transfer intuition and see how ideas communicate between different knowledge domains far beyond what was traditionally seen as math.

The 20th century gave us real new ideas in math. But our primary math education is still 200 years out of date. Until that changes, math education will remain a deadening cargo cult that throws away far more human potential than it develops.
Worked for me with no changing of any referrer or other HTTP settings. Clicking on the first georgia.gov resulted redirected me to the spam site. (Win11 + Chrome)
Why did it took so long to figure out that passkeys was a bad idea?
passkeys are ok, but passwords should also be an option if you want

only passkeys is a problem
> $50 is not meaningful.

for her it is, in many ways
Exactly. It's the risk management system that a company implements.
Tech companies also serve customers who are in competition with each other. No company is above this. It's all about how you handle these tricky situations.
I have yet to see concrete evidences saying that the internal firewall was breached. I'll wait and see.
> The situation of base 8GB macbooks wearing down their SSD in the hands of power users is well documented but it's extremely specific.

I can't really find it documented much at all. Conducting a web search reveals that 90% of the user documented concern around this has nothing to do with actual failures but "I'm worried about my SSD failing" or "Will your SSD fail?" discussion.

If it is rare, extremely specific, etc. then I think that bolsters the case that it doesn't make sense to increase base RAM out of that concern alone.
But did it affect the overall user experience?

I was a heavy Google Docs user myself on my 8/256 M1 Air.
DOS 5 was when I really got into computers. I spent hours pouring through the included manual learning all the shell commands and learning how to write .BAT files. Then I discovered QBasic and it changed everything.
That's not how advertising works. Advertising is supposed to keep the brand top of mind, so you'll recall it when going through your options. That's why ads used to have memorable jingles, instead of crappy cover songs designed to imitate memorability, while skipping out on having to pay license fees.

Forming a negative opinion on an ad is only beneficial if it is polarizing enough that many more people like it than hate it. These ads are not polarizing, they are simply annoying and repetitive.
Age 13-29, I mostly had oodles of free time to listen, explore music and a network of friends sharing their discoveries.
Age 30-40, I got really busy and had more people involved in my professional and private life so it became harder to fit in music exploration (something I really enjoy). And less friends sharing their music.

I think streaming has a lot to do with this as my parents had a monthly record club they organized. A bunch of friends with their kids got together at someones home, made dinner, drank and listened to new music in the background.
> Have you ever considered there may be legitimate use cases for such technology?

Ok, so we all are well aware of the illegitimate use cases for which crypto mixers are used - in vast volumes daily.

What are the legitimate use cases for which they are commonly used?
It’s a bit head scratch. Is it because local management is assholes, incompetent, or is this something that has been ordered from the high up and employees to be bullied?
> There has to be a better way to tax road usage.

There is, tax vehicles based on weight. The EV advocates don't seem to like this idea however.
If you're being passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane.
iptables has been with us for more than 20 years and is only now being replaced (pretty slowly I might add). The old rules are still supported through iptables-nft, you can just import them and forget nft exists.

Distributions I prefer have never used NetworkManager and haven't changed network configuration in a long time. RHEL and its rebuilds have used NM for what feels like an eternity. Ubuntu is the odd one out here with its constant churn, afaik.

Same with firewall wrappers like ufw and firewalld. Either your distribution uses one and you just use whatever has been chosen for you, or it doesn't and you go with nftables (or iptables-nft if you prefer).

This is all only really a problem if your organization uses a bunch of distributions instead of standardizing on one, but then you probably have a lot more other serious problems than learning how to configure your firewall...

As a counterpoint, I evaluated FreeBSD for a project about a year ago and was really put off by its primitive service management (compared to systemd which I know pretty well and use its features extensively, they really do help in your daily work), and the three firewalls which all seem to be approximately equally supported and you never really know where to put your time. (Unfortunately, I had to pass the OS for other reasons which have no relation to its technical merit.)
That is a plot point of Ghost in the Shell's Laughing Man.

People where unable to see the face of the hacker. Instead they saw a smiley.
I know people are retorting “non assisted drivers are dangerous too, you know” and that’s true. But:

> In 59 crashes examined by NHTSA, the agency found that Tesla drivers had enough time, “five or more seconds,” prior to crashing into another object in which to react. In 19 of those crashes, the hazard was visible for 10 or more seconds before the collision. Reviewing crash logs and data provided by Tesla, NHTSA found that drivers failed to brake or steer to avoid the hazard in a majority of the crashes analyzed.

If an unassisted driver had reactions like they'd be arrested for reckless driving at minimum.

Tesla’s systems are obviously not safe. I suspect naming them things like “autopilot” and “full self drive” really don’t help perceptions and the systems themselves are clearly not able to get a useful gauge of driver attention. They’re overselling ability and under checking driver compliance.
If management was all it takes, why can't they fire all the workers and work the warehouse floor themselves?
You are free to use any other video service that doesn't serve ads and doesn't charge a subscription.
What's the value of the middle finger?
> Walmart exclusively

Definitely not exclusive to Walmart. Costco also has $649 MBAs, and there may be other sources as well.
I agree. I really dislike technical-sounding jargon that really are just replacements for feeling-talk.

Use scientific terms for science. Use normal words for your own experience unless you really were hooked up to a machine and were measured in some way.
If if-else are AI, what have I created using switch cases?

God forbid; if-else switch cases.
While MacOS does seem to rearrange windows occasionally for no clear reason, and there have been serious bugs in past releases, it does correctly restore my window positions across two 4k external displays when I connect them through a Thunderbolt 4 docking station.

Maybe some applications have custom window position management and fail at multiple displays? I haven't noticed any.

The only third party tool that I use to help with window management is BetterSnapTool. It restores some basic missing functionality that comes built in in Windows, most importantly the ability to maximize windows and snap them to the left and right half of the screen, plus a few other things.

FWIW I am by far at my most productive with a 43" 4K display in front of me with a sidecar 23" arranged vertically for long vertical documents. I do wish that 43" was an 8K to double the DPI though.
Yep one thing in this discussion is that people have no idea how to read memory usage. A 4GB set of videos that are memory mapped will use a few megabytes of ram as the current portion of video is paged in. It will show 4GB of memory used in pretty much every tool. Chrome suffers from this as browsers work with lots of media that may or may not need access as the page is scrolled around. Using the mechanism all OSs have to deal with this (memory mapping) will report GB of ram used. But it will still be responsive! It's not actually using that much RAM!

I see so many comments along the lines of 'chrome reports xGB of ram usage when I open tabs. You can't get by with 8GB of ram!!!!' yet the computer will be running smoothly. Just as my old iPad with 256MB of ram runs smoothly with those same tabs open in chrome.

You might need more than 8GB but please don't try to claim people can't do the basics with only 8GB. I have an 8gb MacBook Air as a lounge PC. A PC used for the basics when I couldn't be bothered firing up the big gaming rig. Unsurprisingly the 8gb laptop is better than my still perfectly capable 256mb ram iPad running the same apps although the iPad was still decent at the role in any case.

The claims that 8GB is completely useless and can't even do web browsing because Chrome shows 8gb ram usage is so obviously stupid and false. Many are probably reading such claims on a portable device running the same browser with less RAM. Yet media and even tech sites are posting this crap repeatedly.
You use it because a concensus of security experts is cool with them, a normal person has no way of analyzing it properly. I see a few post regarding “I rather stick to generated passwords and have a program memorize it for them” it’s rather funny the way they rebuke new vetted tech
I completely agree - would love for the RAM and SSD to be upgradeable.
It's nothing short of astonishing how persistent and predictable this pattern is. It's playing out again today perfectly, with Bitcoin dropping $1k after the NYSE open and the Nasdaq up 1.7%

https://i.postimg.cc/DZD1vpCL/btcbito.png

The anomaly has gotten no media coverage even though it's so obvious
> I never said there aren't reasonable reasons to want to mix. Just that it's also reasonable to cast that activity as suspicious.

I agree. The problem I have is that the federal government is making it illegal to obfuscate the source of funds, in this case by going after mixers, the most reasonable way to obfuscate your identity when making transactions.
"at a lower cost" except the actual cost difference between 8GB and 16GB is less than 50 dollars (and that's being very generous)

Edit: checking Mouser, 16GB (the actual DRAM chip) costs between $15 and $25
You were likely logged in, there seemed to be a glitch where comments weren't visible to logged-in users this morning.
Widespread TLS/HTTPS adoption is sufficient.
> Sure, but there's absolutely nothing to suggest that it will be some kind of deterministic computation underneath

The universe behaves very deterministically if we look at "clumps of matter". Why is it this way when this determinism isn't already part of the "base"? For me that's at least a "suggestion". Not a proof of course, but still a hint.

> ... because of general relativity.

General relativity doesn't fits together with QM, so either one is (or both are) "wrong" (in the sense that they only approximate reality to a certain degree).

I'm even sceptical about special relativity: It's a good model and works well in most occasions, but it may still be wrong on a fundamental level. Most of the assumptions under which Einstein proposed SR (no QM, static universe) don't hold anymore.
This is a deal breaker for me. You might have the coolest product but in this space I’ll buy something I can quote the price for to management without having to waste my time trying to talk to a sales rep.
Having a mental model of encryption has never improved security
Sending personalized messages to customers
Importantly, FSD has had very aggressive cabin monitoring for years, while autopilot gained this feature from a recall sometime last year.

This article notes that the NHTSA will launch a new investigation to see if the new driver monitoring features are sufficient.

Part of the problem with investigations that take many years to complete is that the conclusion is meaningless due to over-the-air updates, as this issue was solved at least last year.
You mean the Diagolon group who's leader is a cocaine using ceramic time travelling goat ?

https://www.tiktok.com/@alphaaaroxy_teammoto/video/716155578...

The Diagolon that the House of Commons said was a "violent extremist organisation." but has never committed a crime ?

The same Diagolon that the RCMP determined:
"DIAGOLON does not pose a criminal or national security threat."
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/documents-reveal-shocking-rcm...

Diagolon is a meme and you don't get it, which is ok but stop spreading misinformation.
So the FCC Net Neutrality is inconsequential.
Modern operating systems tend to swap out pages pretty aggressively even when memory pressure is light. Keeping hot files in RAM cache can result in a much snappier experience than e.g. dumping the disk cache in favor of a bunch of seldom-used pages from some background service. More RAM will reduce memory pressure ceteris paribus, but may not reduce page swapping as much as one might expect with intuition from older systems.
I love: https://www.theonion.com/bush-finds-error-in-fermilab-calcul...