skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spotify almost certainly developed Car Thing using license encumbered software, and this illustrates how encumbered licenses are anti-freedom and are causes of unnecessary e-waste.

Thankfully folks have started organizing to reverse engineer the device:

- https://github.com/err4o4/spotify-car-thing-reverse-engineer...

- https://hackaday.com/2024/05/30/old-spotify-car-thing-hacks-...
I agree the data doesn't need to persist forever, but I don't want to think about backups either. Fussy, I know :)
Doesn't appear to be working. Go woke, go broke.
> won't tolerate being fucked with,

OK. So you have your own rules, which you enforce on others? That's swell but I can imagine it could lead to problems. Maybe some form of committee where people can settle disputes and agree on standards?
I've heard from the folks at Pineboard[1] there's been some new activity, as this year manufacturing ramped back up... it's still decent hardware but is getting long in the tooth.

Regarding the Hailo featured in the article, a few of us have been messing with it on a Raspberry Pi 5[2], and it offers more performance in a similar power envelope. The major downside is availability. I can buy the Coral on many electronics supplier sites, but Hailo seems to be selling through 'Product inquiry' right now, which is not easy to navigate as an individual!

[1] https://pineboards.io

[2] https://pipci.jeffgeerling.com/cards_m2/hailo-8-ai-module.ht...
> I'd rather see efforts to make mass transit more attractive and encourage its use in a POSITIVE way

Where do you think the money is going?

> Within a year of the rule’s adoption in 2021, Colorado’s Department of Transportation, or CDOT, had canceled two major highway expansions, including Interstate 25, and shifted $100 million to transit projects. In 2022, a regional planning body in Denver reallocated $900 million from highway expansions to so-called multimodal projects, including faster buses and better bike lanes.
This is not correct. In, say, Aspen locals are priced out. If there was a two tiered pricing system this could alleviate some major concerns. Haven’t thought about unintended consequences of this. Just wanted to point out that what you said is not correct in my opinion.
I didn't mean to hijack the conversation - I started pondering the substantial impact Scully has had on American society. As a role model to young girls - absolutely, as pointed out by this article. She had a pretty profound but more immeasurable effect on male/female dynamics in general.

The famous duo, she is so obviously the smart one and he obviously a typical alpha male - needs to be in charge, so she "let's him think he is" so to say, that whole schtick is everywhere now, advertising really ran with this for example

Anyways, I was literally going to talk about that when I realized that I think my Scully is Jack from Will and Grace... not bc I'm anything like him or kno anyone that is but bc he at least seemed happy most of the time

Out of all the queers I can recall on TV from my youth he is the one I'd tell my son to be like, if I had one.
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Just like research on X wonder drug cures y needs the mandatory [on nice] feels like 4 day work week articles need the mandatory [for the same pay as 5 days]
Usually businesses wait until they capture the market before saying the quiet part out loud.
My guess (and this is only a guess) that the Chinese guy set up bots that applied for $5.9 billion but very little if any of that was ever paid to him.

It is my guess that the powers that be stole $trillions$. To cover up, they are going to blame this one foreign national then say the investigations are over.
So, Brave is now tossed onto the enshitification pile?

Recommended replacement?
Wow, that’s even better than my old PNY GTX 465. It was really a 470 that was cut down by the VBIOS. I was able to download 256MB of VRAM, a wider memory bus and some GPU cores on that one.
They don't realize it would, or they don't believe it would? Are you so confident about your assessment of what life experiences would have what effects on each of those 80% of people?
This is definitely a geographical issue. For about 2 years everything prime was taking a week to process for me in upstate NY. If I travelled anywhere else, the 2 day shipping was holding. Suddenly out of nowhere the shipping gets fixed in upstate NY.

I’m seriously wondering if they’re A/B testing retention of prime users when they make the service worse.
Browsers usually try to multiplex things, sometimes even the same image if the server supports "get specific byte range" or whatever.

There may be a setting to turn a browser back into a dumb wget visual displayer.
in the meantime the fair housing act makes this generally illegal
This is anti-right to repair rhetoric; the potential of electrocution is similarly high when fixing your car or doing your home electrical.

Everyone should be able to fix their own things, AND have the choice to leave it to a professional. Only a few things are legally required to be done by professionals, things like asbestos removal.
Hey, I don't view this as arguing at all. I'm sorry you do. I find it valuable as a check on my own thinking and assumptions. If you are feeling negative emotions with this exchange, please walk away!

>if you refuse to accept very basic arithmetic facts in the simple example

I refuse to accept your assertions because they're simply incorrect. Basic power law math - a higher value exponent will always win, eventually.

>Stock market option: $20k with no leverage -> 11% ROI on a $20k investment

P = P_o * e^(r*t)

P = 20,000 * e^(0.11*t)

>Real estate option: $20k of your own money + $80k of the bank's money -> 4% ROI on $100k investment (counting both your money and the loan)

P = 100,000 * e^(0.04*t)

Set these two equations equal to each other and solve for t. This will give you the number of years the 4% return with a 100k initial investment will beat the 11% return with a 20k initial investment.

20,000 * e^(.04*t) = 100,000 * e^(0.11*t)

t = 23 years. After 40 years, the 11% return has beaten the 4% return by 3.3x

If I'm misinterpreting your "very simple and easily verifiable scenario," please let me know. But I don't think so. Your error is in this statement. I'll leave it to you to figure out why, let me know if you need help! ;P

>(counting both your money and the loan) -> 20% ROI on $20k investment (counting only your own money) 20% is better than 11%,*
People may use sin taxes or similar as an outward excuse, but I doubt rational individuals want to overthrow the government because they are paying an extra 25 cents for soda or haven't had their wetlands paved over for additional parking spaces.
So you were! I apologize for my oversight.

> you have seemed to use it more for "indexing" and "caching", which is a domain shared by other interpreters used for the web

That's the idea! I think CLIPS is a good framework for a generic run-loop (or `while` loop). If you can conceptualize your app as such, you can reap the benefits inherent in the rete algorithm within your application logic.

To see what I mean, take a look at the tcp server in the CLIPSockets repo: https://github.com/mrryanjohnston/CLIPSockets/blob/6.4.1/exa...

UPDATE: I edited the link to point to the 6.4.1 tag version of the repo. The `main` branch is using the latest (7.x) from CLIPS svn as the base.

UPDATE2: I edited my previous comment to specify that it is a tcp server, not an http server.
Foreigners buying property are not tourists. I would say that's a way bigger issue than tourism.
Punishing people into having correct desires is the role of government?
No, it’s more like.. they don’t realize it’s a thing you can just do.
Yea, but just keeping everything in the static superconducting state wouldn't be a computer either.
Your defense was to mention that they were tied up in crypto?

Maybe it's just me, but it really devalues a product when there is a crypto association.
I wouldn't assume that, particularly when the study is very careful to always say it led to an increase in diagnosis.

And really, 'I dislike the term they used to describe how diagnosis spread' is fairly nitpicky.
And people can make the government change policy.

I don't think the prod that is in the people's hands is a good idea here.
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Beef with rivals is a great way to get media attention. Trash talk is entertainment.
Humans output has a larger percentage of garbage than does AI output.

I have not trusted the output of humans for decades.
I would like to see more research into superconducting applied to computing, vs. the "quantum computing" applied to computing. I feel that while superconductibility is actual and proven technology that just waits to be applied to a new field (computing), QC is a "dream about the future".

OTOH I think there are theoretical lower bounds on the amount of energy that needs to be ejected as heat from a non-reversible computation, such that a non-reversible SC would still need to produce some heat.
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Why more young people are getting cancer [video]
its a one-click stop for most people. Though all I can think of is:

"All ads are bad, block them... except for mine."
Some of their marketing mentions no need for external DRAM, for example, from this CNX article[1]:

"One of the key reasons for the performance improvement is that RAM is self-contained without the need for external DRAM like other solutions. This decreases latency a lot and reduces power consumption."

Not sure how much RAM is included on the chip, but I'm also thinking in the tens of MB range, certainly not gigabytes.

[1] https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/10/07/learn-more-about-hai...
I've been on a Master of Orion game for a few months now. I'm also a big fan of Stardew Valley. It's not turn-based, but close enough. Same with Surviving Mars, which has become one of my favorite games.
Ultimately I don't think the world needs more technological marvels. No amount of giant screens will matter to the person used to buying a sub-$30k SUV or 4-cylinder sedans that doesn't want to drive 20 minutes out of their way to charge. What we need are EV Toyota Corolla, not $80k vans.
WiFi at a stop is as easy as putting up a few wireless routers, it's a bit more complex than at home but the same general idea.

Wifi inside the trains involves much more work, and to get them to ALSO be seamless across the entire setup - even harder. Easily 10x or 100x the cost.

It's sad, because the Internet shouldn't be that bad when the network drops all the time; it should just be slower as it waits to send good data.
Many rentals are not used by tourists, but people who come and stay for couple of months or years. Europe has open borders, and it is perfectly ethical to retire on Canary Islands.

Locals should demand better salary.
I used it side by side with Android Auto, before split screen was released. I'd have the map full screen on my head unit, and the car thing on the dashboard controlling spotify playback.

I haven't checked for this - does anybody know whether the car thing has the "safety pause" that the spotify app has on Android Auto? If not, that would be enough reason to use it by itself.
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For me the most significant help it gave was when learning shaders. Of course there is a large amount of tutorials but i am the type of person who has a hard time learning in a linear way if there a unclear points open (which perhaps are solved some chapters later). This type of conquering much ground by asking many questions is perfect for me and it was the first time i did not immediately gave up on shaders after two hours or so.
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> the roads aren't suddenly going away or falling into ruin, they're just not getting enlarged.

This is also great for owners of current housing since the road network will not be enlarged to accomodate large new housing developments. Win-win.
Whether run-down areas of cities or aging suburban areas, cyclone/chainlink fences were a cheap alternative during the 50s and 60s boom period.

Installing cyclone/chainlink today looks cheap and is cheap and gnarly looking. It's like people who build a "deck" and use the cheapest materials --it looks awful. Chainlinks is for used car backlots and train depots, not yards.

Pickets, vertical redwood, post and rail, even welded wire look way better than chainlink. I'll take a waddle fence too while we're at it. Chainlink is cheap and looks cheap. Worst is people do not maintain them after installation.
> Santander has apologised for what it says is "the concern this will understandably cause"

This seems to be the new normal. Bank apologises for victims' behaviour, and not at all for its own.
What you prefer as a tourist is not much a concern

“Biggest” is not particularly relevant either. The question is simply whether it’s overcrowded by tourists or not.
If every customer is entitled to a refund then why isn't it automatic and automated?
There needs to be a term for this kind of malicious refund policy that does everything possible to prevent you from claiming it.
If you ask people: would you vote for bonds for a highway expansion that will not make your commute better, but will add a lot more cars to the road, they will overwhelmingly say no.

There is only one reason why the public agrees to highway construction: the idea that their commute will get better. But it won't after a few years.

The highway will always be full! That's induced demand. If you have a highway to a desirable destination people will build out along it until it's full. You can expand that highway as much as you want, it will always be full after a few years.

This isn't a solution. It's just a way to design horrible cities that punish drivers with stressful, unproductive, and long commutes.

You cannot win by adding highways. You can only win by not playing that game.
I agree with you, but I imagine I’m a bit more pessimistic. I don’t like anything about the above scenario, but it’s what I believe would be the likely outcome of 4 day work weeks.
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What was the warning for? Not being registered, not moving, etc? Those are things that your parents can fix without you being 16.
> You live in a country with the wrong type of political system for that. Valuing everyone's opinion equally is called democracy.

Infrastructure should not be subject to peoples' opinions. Like utilities and defense, infrastructure is crucial for security and commerce. People simply don't know better.
I really liked the ending of the series a lot; I thought the final two episodes tied together the loose ends I cared about and finished on a theme that really highlighted the core messages of the show. To me, it was exactly the ending I wanted for the show. When they announced Distant Lands, I immediately felt annoyed, because I thought "they're going to take a nearly perfect ending and risk ruining it by adding more crap to it??"

Initially I wasn't going to watch Distant Lands because I was afraid it might tarnish the series for me, but eventually I caved and was surprised to find that it a) didn't do anything to ruin the original ending, and b) actually had interesting ideas to share that the show is better for having. I thought Obsidian and Together Again really did a great job continuing the series in such a way that it didn't negate anything I loved about the original show, and posed some more interesting thematic elements about the characters. I don't know if it's Pendleton or someone else in the Cartoon Network staff, but whomever is in charge of Adventure Time really seems to know what they're doing. I get the impression that they will only allow a new thing to be added to the franchise if it has a good reason to exist.

Fionna and Cake did a great job maturing the series a bit, without it being gratuitous. It ended so well that I'm a bit concerned that they renewed it for a second season, but I've been wrong twice before and I'm cautiously optimistic that they'll keep up the quality.
This almost certainly has nothing to do with “saving CPU cycles” and is most likely just that whoever created the Cloudwatch console used the same rounding that is used for all other metrics in CW, rather than the proper calculation for disk size, and it was a small enough issue that it was never caught until it was too late to change it because changing it would disrupt the customers that have gotten used to it.
Describing the US as a democracy is totally normal among actual experts in the study of governments (political scientists).
> Ask the locals, try some sort of ideas?

That's what the article is about...

> Mr. Tafoya was working for the City Council when he heard about the plan to expand the highway just blocks from where his mother still lived. “I-70 radicalized me,” he said. He quit his job and helped organize a statewide coalition of activists and community members who tried to stop the Interstate 70 expansion with lawsuits and protests. In the end, Interstate 70 was expanded. But the fight served as a warning to leaders like Ms. Lew that future highway construction would face spirited opposition.
No. You can reproduce the works of Shakespeare without learning them, and you can learn the works of Shakespeare without being able to reproduce them.

There is some overlap, but if you think you've found some undiscovered loophole in centuries of copyright law, you're mistaken.
> I'd get a Framework if I didn't have Apple Silicon as an option

> I like having a supercomputer in my backpack

This shows where your priorities are, which is personal abundance over helping bigger global issues like waste and resource mining. Unfortunately you are joined by the majority of the population which is why things like climate change and poverty are still increasing even though everyone is very well aware of it.
http://archive.today/SbLGa

https://www.wsj.com/world/trigger-warning-bones-archaeology-...
Sure, there are a lot of potential rationales offered for more and more, and more advertising. But when I looked into it, awareness was literally the only one with clear statistical evidence that independent researchers had gone yeah, that actually works. If you don't tell any customers your product exists, that's definitely not going to help sell more. Story checks out. Beyond that? I haven't seen the evidence.

Obviously the guy at the TV network is not going to tell Jim from Ad Co. that it's futile to advertise Pepsi because everybody knows about Pepsi. And Jim isn't going tell Pepsi's Head of Marketing that it's futile to spend money with Ad Co. because Pepsi makes up a noticeable part of Jim's annual sales bonus. The Head of Marketing would no longer have a job if they stopped advertising, so no fear they will spontaneously realise. All of them will prefer to make up stories for why it makes sense to spend more and more and more on advertising, because they all benefit. But does it actually work?
It’s one of the few options (the only other being Orion afaik) that you can natively block ads from the browser on iOS. The other solutions like firefox/chrome/safari have to go through the declarative content blocking API since you can’t install Chrome/Firefox plugins.
How does the not-vote-thing help?

The result is calculated on the basis of the votes cast.

So if you have 10 votes of 20 possible you get 50%, if 5 don't vote it's 10 out of 15 = 66.6%
That's a good idea in theory but most people have dozens of issues that are important to them and there's rarely a candidate for office who is aligned with them on everything, so they have to pick which issues are their most important. And of course their position on every possible issue isn't know when evaluating candidates. Some change their position after being elected. Sometimes issues come up that weren't really considered to be an issue at the time of the election.
But won't work as well once Manifest V2 is dropped from Chrome
Since I moved here in the mid 1990’s we now have added light rail to Golden, down to Lincoln on I-25, all the way up I225, and I70 from downtown to the airport. Not exactly nothing. Rail to Loveland/Ft Collins would be a great addition.
That's because adding hospital capacity doesn't create more sick people. Unless your hospital goes around breaking people's kneecaps to make money.

Adding highways creates more traffic by telling developers to put housing in the newly accessible land.
There is an difference between the government punishing murderers and government bureaucrats employed by elected representatives to build roads deciding to punish the general population by not building roads (and still being paid tax dollars)
From reading Alf Henriksson's "Byzantinsk Historia", I gather that one problem with writing a history of Eastern Rome is that they wrote about war and politics and lots and lots about christian doctrine but precious little on other subjects, so we know all we care to know about various christian sects and which emperor assassinated which, but not much about art, science or daily life.

Being emperor wasn't something you did for your health, by the way. The book ends by saying that only 34 out of 107 emperors died of natural causes.
It says it is using openstreetmap, so you can probably edit that tree if its added to OSM.
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The World Economic Forum thinks these are the top countries for travel and tourism: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2024/05/tourism-travel-pandem...

US, Spain, Japan, France, Australia.
That's not what induced demand is.

Imagine if there was a portal on your front lawn that allowed you instant access to downtown London. How much more frequently would you travel to London if it took you literally no time at all? All of those trips are induced demand--that is, it is extra demand that is induced by the ease of the trip. Shifting demand from one route to another is, by definition, not induced demand, since it already existed!
Love to hear that, let me know what other features you'd like to see :)
JSON is all you need: Easily monitor LLM apps with structlog
I think he means motor-sensors in AI robots not Sensorimotor in humans.

I read down to these two lines:

"this section is all my personal non-expert speculation and I want you to take this with a bucket of salt. I added it for potential fun discussions."

"My speculation is that the idea that some motor tasks being harder than what we as a society consider “high intelligence tasks” is an uncomfortable idea, because it questions our belief in human exceptionalism.

Want to know how sensorimotor reactions, intrusive images, sounds, smells, body sensations, physical pain, constriction, numbing really impact humans.

The great Pat Ogden

Trauma and the body: A sensorimotor approach to psychotherapy. Ogden, P., Minton, K., & Pain, C. (2006). W. W. Norton & Company.
I am not unable to validate. Its just hard to get answers to specific questions. Once you have the answer and the corresponding vocabulary its not hard to find by web search.
The mutant wildlife adapting to New York City
They are equivalent in terms of the features I listed - the core product.

The big difference is in vibes. Slack is unashamedly corporate and would love to sell you premium SSO integration. They could cut out (or offend) the free community tier, no sweat. On the other hand Discord is more gaming aligned, and would love to sell you some premium custom emojis. Offending the free tier users or getting rid of the free tier is a lot less compatible with their business model.