skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rampant would be more like the 70s into the first part of the 80s, more than a decade of inflation above today's levels.

What we are seeing is the outcome of a global pandemic and the ad hoc responses to a once in a 100+ year event. Things could be worse, we never had the recession that was predicted
I’ve seen some pretty vivid demos of how soot affects melt rate of snow. Anything dark fucks up the albedo.

And the thing with soot is that it’s the sort of thing where if you could fix it, the benefits would be nearly immediate. All you need is a couple clean layers of snow on top of the pack and most of the absorption stops.
You're saying about what I said when I first got paid to do some mac software :)

I bought a crappy used mac, used it to make the money, then thought it was immoral to not get a new laptop (it wasn't a big project but it paid like 3x the laptop, and i was moonlighting it so it was all bonus money).

15 years later i have more macs than x86 boxes in my home office...
There's nothing police-like about this. The point is to make them highly visible as a deterrent. The police OTOH can turn them off before going off on a different path. If anything the point is more like civilians wearing cameras to watch the police.
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>stupid and bigoted

What was stupid and bigoted? I provided a factual instance of this happening in the not distance past.

>as a human I contributed to down voting it

I never made the claim that the flagging was automatic or non-human.
Σ is uppercase σ. Maybe this happened automatically? Pretty funny if so. Correct in a Greek context; clearly incorrect in a math context.
Right, but being fatalistic and giving up is even less likely to be successful than attempting to create counterbalancing force in the system.
This has been happening for years now. Just adding "AI" or "LLM" gets the views and $$ these days.
It's too bad the author didn't think to restore the factory RAM before shipping it. My unrelenting cynicism always makes me very careful to hide any evidence of tinkering on the rare occasions when I need to send a tech product off for warranty repairs.
Update on the Recall preview feature for Copilot+ PCs
I’m trying to redirect people to the open web versions of my profiles, e.g. a activitypub/rss/indieweb. It’s just taking a while.

I don't use IG to browse (it’s cringe), just to upload my drawings (always a bit later than on open web).
For the record, I think that a "push-and-pull" approach to progress and democracy is probably helpful. If every progressive policy of the last 150 years was actually enacted it would be pretty terrible - eugenics, prohibition, reeducation, de-industrialization, etc. To the extent that a democracy is still healthy good ideas should still win out in the long run over bad ideas. One side applies the gas and one side applies the breaks.

But I also don't think that's a great description of current politics in the US either. Both parties are in alignment on a lot of key issues, especially economic: both support de-globalization, both fight for entitlements (for different groups though, of course), both are fighting for government expansion.

A lot of the "culture war" issues are kind of a political window dressing for the actual war over the economy.
Adobe is the new comcast... Cancellation fees?

There is also no security in using any other tool, especially with this predatory precedent, and especially if you're designing in a web browser.

My best option is to use a copy of CS6 on a computer I keep offline, really all the content aware and other features issued since CS6 aren't that necessary for me, and by going old school, it sets my artistry apart from everyone else.

It's long overdue for people to resist and reject the price/service manipulation fetish model that is exhibited by many major software companies. These companies shouldn't be saddling consumers with higher and higher prices and monthly subscriptions, and cancellation fees... Prices should be going down over time, not up as products mature.

There is no longer an "older software" sale bin at the computer software store for people that don't have volumes of wealth to spend, and that's pretty crazy to think about... And then on the flip side arbitrarily and illegally sunsetting older software whenever they wish. These companies are not even respecting the EULAs they've issued prior, and scraping older promises off the Internet over time.

Fraudulent exploitative software buy/update/service schemes, even in long-trusted companies, are becoming rampant, it's likely profit desperation, but also highly predatory in all the wrong ways.
Sounds like they rebuilt QLDB?
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/qldb/latest/developerguide/what-...
This is what people tell themselves, but 99% of the time, what your business does and the scale it operates at aren't special.
A lot of people I’ve met the neurodivergent camp end up on a soup of anti depressants, adhd meds, and other random antis. All because they are treating symptoms rather than the underlying issue.
> However, they don’t actually have to land it 500 times - all they need is an engineering analysis

That very analysis will include the fact that they have no launch abort system like normal capsule based systems and that the belly flop landing is much more dangerous than landing a capsule. Space Shuttle memories may come to mind. So the only realistic way to get the 1 in 500 confidence would probably be to really land hundreds of times for unmanned missions and not mess up even once. Granted, they may eventually get there, but I estimate this would take about two decades, if Falcon 9 is any indication.
It would certainly be a pretty wild turn of events if the sources for this story were all lying.

That the reporter themselves had already been given a quid pro quo request to drop a previous story is telling, though.
I think one of the fundamental problems here is that the line has become blurred between "Company can access user's data" and "Company's application can access user's data."

In the past, this was pretty clear. The application is running on my computer, unconnected to the outside world, running on my behalf, in order to do what I want it to do. When I ran Borland's C++ compiler on DOS, I would have never even considered "Borland" having access to my data.

These days, with every device connected to the Internet, companies are deliberately blurring the line between the application and the company that made it. If my iPhone accesses my location, is Apple accessing my location? Who knows? Some people think no, some people think yes. If my Windows PC takes a screenshot of my desktop, is Microsoft accessing the contents of my desktop? No clue. They say they aren't, but all they can offer for proof is "Trust me, bro."

I'm so tired of software that is so hopelessly intertwined and tethered to the software's vendor. When I buy a software from someone, I buy it in order to use it, by itself, with no "help" from the vendor. I don't want a relationship with my software vendor. I just want to use the software alone.
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> batteries powered by tears

i don't like the way this is heading...
hmmm I haven't tried but does apple's OCR api do better here? ie. is it possible to do it.
The gist:

>> "First, we are updating the set-up experience of Copilot+ PCs to give people a clearer choice to opt-in to saving snapshots using Recall. If you don’t proactively choose to turn it on, it will be off by default."
In some U.S. states there's a direct democratic processes that allow citizens to create and vote for legislation, apparently including California.

I'm not fully up to speed with politics in California or many of the states, but I wonder if there are groups working to create citizen driven legislation around consumer and privacy protections.
It's a minor nit, but I like that Ice doesn't force me to have extra icons in the bar. Unless I missed a setting, Hidden Bar required having < and | icons for separators
> YouTube videos are not very difficult to edit.

And academic papers are not difficult to fudge up with edited fraudulent data [1].

Even Ivy League colleges are committing rampant fraud sometimes for activism sometimes just to get attention and get more papers published.

It’s sad that we’re at a time where academia is as untrustworthy as random videos on YouTube.

But i agree with noiseless windmills part, they should be promoted more instead of noisy ones that will discourage more clean energy initiatives.

[1](https://retractionwatch.com/)
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In my experience in Canada, there's usually more to those situations.

Customers can certainly get frustrated or upset, but time and time again I've seen that happening because the front-line staff either directly or indirectly provoked a hostile response to begin with.

The most common direct cause I've seen is simply a staff member providing objectively poor service. This can include ineptitude, a lack of care, making mistakes, a bad attitude (such as disinterest), slowness, language barriers, lying, and taking personal phone calls while in the middle of assisting customers, among others.

Indirect causes would be company policies that harm the customer, equipment/facility/utility outages that prevent services from being delivered, long waits, and so on.

The vast majority of customers I've ever been around or dealt with have had much better things to do with their time than hassle retail or other front-line staff. The customers get upset because the retail staff, or the businesses the staff represent, are impeding the fast and successful completion of the transaction at hand.
I checked and I indeed have an ipv6 assigned to my router! Now I just need to figure out how to make it request a prefix.
While that's obviously staged as an ad for body cameras, it's something that absolutely happens.

There are some scummy people out there, and clout-chasing on social media essentially encourages it.
The video explains the main idea(s) behind the two papers which are linked at the top of the page.
A really cool story. But I have to say, everyone will notice that rewriting a file transfer tool in Rust is a poor use of the engineering time without having first understood the cause of the slowness. It's almost like a blind cult-like trust in Rust.

> So just like with everything else, we decided to write our own, in Rust. After days of digging through Tokio documentation and networking theory blog posts to understand how to move bytes as fast as possible between the filesystem and an HTTP endpoint, we had a pretty basic application that could chunk a byte stream, send it to an object storage service as separate files, download those files as they are being created in real time, re-assemble and pipe them into a ZFS snapshot.

I mean this sounds like a fun engineering project and I suspect I would enjoy writing it very much. While this might be bring me joy personally, as an organization this is still a failure.
Do I win anything for noting, in a video about hyper-detail orientation, that, when the text on screen says "Is this the most beautiful ____", the voice-over says "This is the most beautiful ____"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y65FRxE7uMc&t=9m07s

(I'm not sure if it's also an error, or part of the joke, or if it just parses in a way that I can't accomplish on my own, that the text before the video reads "Way three (recommended) is to sit back and bathe in the 4k, 60Hz flashing lights that are Badness 0 (Apostrophe‛s version) is the newest installment in the Main Sequence:".)
Is there a way to read this style of C, without prior knowledge of APL, J, or K? Can people with prior knowledge read this more easily? I'm asking this because this is the first time I took the time to read that `j.c` and it wasn't really any more readable than normal C code. I was expecting to "read the C source in chunks" but that didn't really happen.
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Randomly generated url (even by a bad random generator like a human) is equivalent to an API key. Your exact same argument you made about the url can be made about a baked in API key.

Implement auth, do extremely basic auth if you have to using http basic auth over https and check against a hardcoded value on the server, it's not secure by any stretch of the imagination but is better than giving "api keys" to any intermediary that can do a string dump on your APK...
Is polar ice very sooty?
So, I personally like the idea of someone working with a builder to build your house. I also like the idea of only ever buying something rather than financing it.

I also think that if that was only the option, housing prices would rise rather than fall.

Cash up front, I assume in an escrow so that buyer can't cheat builder and builder can't run away with the money.

This means that a someone who wants to build/buy a home is going to need around 150k saved up.

Assuming that 50k yearly salary and rent is immoral, they have to live at home until saved up. 1/3 put aside is 16.66k per year, 9 years before they can get a house.

In actuality, the cost is probably going to be more expensive as you would no longer have developments going up.
I can see Microsoft pulling this feature as the backlash picks up.

But they'll try again
As long as they stay sane and reliable they will have nothing to worry about. Internet connectivity is too important to rely on service that can be taken away without notice by one irrational angry tweet or xhit or whatever they’re called now.
Add it to the list: RAPL, PSU metering, PDU metering, UPS metering, utility metering, etc...
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Not a blind experiment. They know the chip is there. That may be enough to change their performance.

Does it mean they shouldn't chip? Sure, why not. Psychological effects are very real.
The desoldering did it for me but good for him if it works in the end. It could be done by way less technical people with the proper (cheap) tools though. The article is a bit of a double edged sword because of it.
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> Replacement of a lost card is onerous. For a minor, incredibly onerous - you need a healthcare provider to sign a statement identifying the minor. (Good luck with that)

Huh?

All you need for a child of yours under 12 is:

1. Birth certificate for child

2. Proof that you are a parent (usually #1 plus a government issued ID covers this; an adoption order may be needed if you aren't on the birth certificate)

3. Proof that the child was alive recently. Either medical or school records will cover this; it needs to have parent and child's name on it.

If the child over 12, you need the above, plus the child must present themselves at an office, preferrably with a photo ID (it need not be government issued; e.g. a school ID is fine). If your child doesn't have a photo ID, the individual officer may be a bit persnickety in this case, so having both medical and school records are good, though may not be required.

As an aside, if the child has a passport (possibly even a recently expired one) you're basically good to go, since it establishes both identity and citizenship.
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When I copy and paste it into a Google doc, it says it's 18pt.

Looks big to me in Safari on an ipad and in Chrome on Windows. Here's three websites (Engadget, NYTimes, and IEEE) at 100% scaling in Chrome for me (all three images are 1200x800):

https://imgur.com/a/695ipVb
When I was a kid HP products were well-supported and famed for their durability. My dad still uses the HP scientific calculator his father bought in the '70s and my uncle has an old PC hooked up to a '90s LaserJet printer that works perfectly well. Retired engineers I've talked to gush about working there in the HP Way days, they were respected and got to create fantastic products that their customers loved.

Now "HP" is a curse word to anyone in tech. It's a damn shame.
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I didn't mean write-off from a tax perspective, I meant it in the colloquial sense of eating the cost. Most restaurants are able to absorb the cost of a few mistakes without it impacting their bottom line horribly.

I've only ever seen someone dine and dash once or twice ever in my life, but I've seen restaurants fix mistaken orders plenty of times.

It seems like body cams on servers is a huge overreaction.
No, I've been applying to companies all-in on the "leetcode" style of testing and I think you are misconstruing it.
You just wrote your prompt and its output, what were you trying to point out here?
Almost every predicate in natural languages is an arbitrary association of properties in the world. There isn't any property a person has "bald", nor are there "tree"s in the world. What bundles of properties the vast majority of language names are a product of historical and contingent associations we've made for practical reasons.

Likewise, languages do not have the same distributional structure. There is no reason an alien language would use discrete tokens to name properties, nor co-locate tokens by linear position in a 'sentence'. Historical human languages did not; using, eg., the full 2D structure of the clay tablet.

To suppose that it is the glyphs and their colocation which somehow bare meaning is a nonesensical superstition. The world is what our words mean, and it is we, in that world, who provide them their meaning. We can do so with arbitrary linguistic structures.
OK, I grant the point but it doesn't fundamentally change my argument.
Maybe those are their herb fingers while they sit still waiting during the photo and walt disney edited it out
CO2 levels surging "faster than ever", beyond anything ever experienced
> This post is for paid subscribers

Thanks, I feel so enlightened
It's also a decent thing to do. In science it is actually expected behavior.
On the contrary, there's a knowledge about spaceflight that was lost because the funding dropped so low in between, and the older generation retired without having a steady flow of projects to train the new generation(s) with.

Also, with this round of space enthusiasm, everyone is trying to improve on what was done before, to make the cost of ongoing operations finally more sustainable. For example, EVA suits are built more maneuverable and agile, while at the same being more modular, repairable, and no longer custom fitted to each individual.
> The only real tangible benefit to cloud that I've seen is that a team can instantly provision hardware, database, etc. resources without much planning. That's it. And is that worth it? (I don't really think so.)

Yes! Maybe not for you or me, but it’s definitely worth it to tons of organizations where everyone including engineering was beholden to old school IT departments that take months to spin up a VM after pages of bureaucratic back and forth. The cloud moves it from an IT issue to department budgeting.

The other advantage of cloud was moving capex to opex which the finance people liked because *hand wave* something about amortization. Those are the two reasons most established companies moved to the cloud. It had little to do with the actual cost but how it was spent and who was in charge of doing it.
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That is indeed an issue. Their sampling method rejects impossible combinations.
I don't agree that the test is "irrelevant," but what option do you recommend?
I hope readers realize anyone using the term woke in 2024 to express an opinion can and should ignored. The term has been fully co-opted into smear that basically is a catch-all for all the terms for all the bad words that used to be used for black people, gay people, and most other minorities in the US.
The ulnar nerve goes to finger 4 and 5, and the median to 2 and 3 plus a branch to 4. For me, 3+4 is the most difficult combination to maintain, and raising 4 is the most difficult, but the effect (as you suggest) is strongest in the non-dominant hand.

So I interpret this position as simply the most difficult hand position to maintain, thus indicating some intention, practice, or awareness -- and thus self-control, which was considered the master virtue classically.
Does anyone know why projects like this always seem to specify using a particular type of tiny, low-power computer (usually a Raspberry Pi or something similar) to drive the display?

I already have plenty of non-tiny computers that run Debian GNU/Linux. Suppose I wanted to run an e-paper display from one of those computers, using this code, just via a normal USB cable. I could do that, right? There's no reason I would have to use a Raspberry Pi or something similar?
> I'm an occasional user and there's nothing I can do in under ten minutes of futzing or seeking tutorials.

This is true of occasional users of Photoshop, too. If you don't know how to use Photoshop, its UI is an atrocity.
I mean, nobody would say the academic publishing ecosystem is super healthy (every academic hates it, for one). But the existence of something like “retraction watch” points to the fact that these aren’t really comparable ecosystems. Nobody need bothers to catalogue the lies on YouTube because that’s an impossible and pointless task.

The academic process has always been messy and political, and yet universities do keep churning out research and students.
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Maybe the answer is that you run NAT even with ipv6.
The way is to stop using user hostile products and encouraging others to use more open platforms. In Metas own words and many like it by using products/services you are consenting to being product for companies interest as they see fit.
Right, but neural networks at a certain level of scale begin to compress the perception described by the text rather than the text per se. The lexical features are abstracted away and the network begins to understand meaning directly. Of course, you'd still have differentiation by different perceptions and focus on different parts of reality, but I see no reason why that should not likewise abstract out at even higher levels. Ultimately, the whole point of language is that it's about reality, and there is only one reality no matter how many different cultures you feed in. The network isn't doing magic - it's just doing exactly the same thing that we're doing with language. The reason why language is useful is the same reason it's learnable.
Yeah I ditched most of their products ages ago (anything besides IG), and I’m not an active user, just poster (art). But moving my friends away from this crap just takes time. And they’re really patient with me already (I don’t want to alienate people, but I want to help them make the right choice. A slower approach has worked with WA → Signal for instance)
That comment made me laugh out loud, solely because of how incredibly quick it took for it to make it's way into the discussion. That being comment #2 is insane, any screenshots of the post for articles are going to have to crop it out lmao
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