skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Uber could certainly throw additional tech at this problem, but, realistically, the problem is the fault of NYC, not Uber. If NYC got rid of their antiquated laws, this would be a non-issue, and, rides would likely be cheaper and easier to obtain.

No, you've got it ass-backwards. It's Uber's job to provide the best customer experience given their constraints, it's not NYC's job to bend over backwards to adapt its laws to Uber's model.

The problem is the fault of Uber.

> Not to mention you really don't want big names like Uber/Lyft to be the only players that can enter the game because they have the resources to enter a complex regulatory market.

It sounds the additional tech required to "enter a complex regulatory market" is a boolean flag.
T&LC = New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission
Its curious, because I have pretty stark objections to The Little Mermaid (chiefly, the subtext seems to be "it's totally ok to change everything about yourself to win the affection of a boy you literally just met" and in light of that, the only moral becomes "read the fine print before signing a contract"), they are neatly addressed by the original text. The original is more an allegory about how changing everything about yourself is actually bad than the fairy tale romance that Disney pitches, which is not AT ALL what I expected.

There's real benefit to exposing kids to darker themes (my eldest loves a book that kills its main character's father on the second page, and after she recovered from being a little weepy about it, it became one of her favorites), but there's also merit to letting the kids choose to hit pause on scary/disturbing/whatever themes until they're in a place to deal with it.

Showing your kids The Two Towers might have a really positive impact on them at the right time, but only if they're mature enough that it doesn't lead to e.g. bed-wetting levels of dis-regulation.
Is using server editions of Windows as desktop OSs any better? I mean in regards to making such changes (without explicit user's consent, at least) and wasting system resources with [background running] junkware, for instance.
This is the same folder with the every three seconds screenshot feature or no?
The EX30 does 0-100kmph in 3.5 seconds.
I really wish more internet infrastructure would switch to using NTS. It addresses these kinds of issues.
> But I genuinely cannot figure out what Microsoft's vision for Windows 11 is. Or if they even have one beyond "idk, shove crap in, meet OKR, get promotion... maybe?"

100% agreed

I can't figure out who MS's target audience is for Windows now. They're losing marketshare to Apple in the casual home user market. Heck, based on my last two jobs, even developers are switching to MacBook, though I acknowledge that that's confirmation bias.

Technical users are happily switching to Linux or Mac.

That leaves who else? Gamers? They're still stuck on Windows depending on the games they play. Anything written in a cross-platform like Unity is fine, and Proton is getting better and better, and now even many anti-cheat software has a native Linux client, but some major games with proprietary engines still struggle under Linux. Hopefully more games start getting native Steam Deck support, which ends up making them Linux native.

But like...how many customers is MS going to burn for short-term gains?
This is the same folder as the every three second screenshot feature?
The copernican principle is separate from the model. Basically it says that our position in the universe is random - we don't exist at the center of the universe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernican_principle

"Hermann Bondi named the principle after Copernicus in the mid-20th century, although the principle itself dates back to the 16th-17th century paradigm shift away from the Ptolemaic system, which placed Earth at the center of the universe. Copernicus proposed that the motion of the planets could be explained by reference to an assumption that the Sun is centrally located and stationary in contrast to the geocentrism. "
Wow, had not seen that development. Would love to know how the Dutch lost that fight. Thanks for the updated info.
I had to go into the registry to break Microsoft Word from constantly wanting to save my documents to the cloud. It’s absolutely awful.
For comparison: in 2001 there were 2,000,000 laid off between the DotCom crash, the Enron scandal and the Sept 11th attacks.
I think you are missing a part of the Federal Healthcare Insurance Mandate (part of the ACA): the mandate is on the worker, not the employer. Many employers have no insurance benefits for their employers.

And then the other part of it: the penalty for not having healthcare insurance was deducted to $0 at the end of 2018. So there is currently no penalty at all (other than the massive ones if you get sick) to not carrying insurance.
My feeling is that the market was down and falling, but AI gave the tech and startup market a lifeline with investments starting to happen again. However, the question is whether the AI market really is big or just a few companies will win and the rest really were in a bubble.
Would you describe this as similar to proprioception? Like one knows the position of his own limbs without looking or visualizing.
There's a problem with driving like this.

The whole time that a driver is checking their mirror(s) to look behind them, attempting to ward off a crash that they cannot actually control, and that may not even have the potential to happen, they're NOT slowing down for the real observed conditions ahead of them that DO warrant slowing down or stopping for and that they can control.

I mean: Suppose a driver is going down the road at 25MPH and sees a kid run into the street chasing a ball, necessitating a hard stop.

Which of the following should the driver do?

A) Stop. Hard. Now. Remove as much kinetic energy from the problem as possible, as soon as possible.
B) Sound the horn and proceed through the kid; the kid should know better and Darwinism is more important than anything else.
C) Look around, check mirrors, and spend some time (while still travelling at 25MPH) attempting to triage whether it is better to hit the kid, run off the side of road, switch to F1 mode and neatly drive around all moving obstacles, stop hard, or do something else?

The only correct answer here is A. It is the driver's job to avoid running into people, and to stay on the road, and to remain in control of their own vehicle, and braking sooner is more effective at accomplishing this than braking later is.

(This applies to the drivers of any cars that may be seen in the rearview mirror, too: It's their job to avoid hitting the car in front of them even if it is suddenly stopping, and to never follow so closely that this would ever be a problem for them to begin with.)
Just this weekend, I've decided to nuke my Windows 11 drive because of Recall and all the shitty practives and give a sweet extra 1GB SSD to Linux Mint for storage. Didn't know Microsoft would give me additional reasons to feel good for doing it.

I'm not missing anything. I've got the newest Nvidia drivers and kernel which were all very easy to install and one search away to find instructions on how to do it. Everything is rock solid. No surprise dark patterns, no enabling/disabling of issues. I keep Timeshift backups of the last 2 days and one for last week and month. If whatever I am playing with on the system goes haywire, I just restore my system with Timeshift.

I've also been giving up on modern gaming, too much enshittification (loot boxes, engagement driven gameplay, messages for modern audiences, etc.) happening lately, but everything I've thrown at Proton ran great. I've been rediscovering the great libraries of retro gaming consoles, especially the DS and 3DS so my computer is actually a workhorse now and my gaming is single player retro bliss.
You are definitely right but I still feel like this is Stockholm syndrome, if they keep dark-patterning people more and more into logging in, it doesn't really make this a substantial improvement, they'll update they're way into tracking you and uploading your personal files somehow.
> Question is how many of these needs to be added for all the rogue cities

"Rogue cities," seriously? I've seen some twisted propaganda ("PR") in my life, but that takes the cake.
This comment is bound to generate controversy here, and I'm all for it, as someone who also moved back to Windows. I dabbled with Arch Linux a couple years ago, found it a pain in the neck to manage because of HiDPI and my NVIDIA graphics card, moved back to Windows where everything works.
No. As mentioned downthread, you've got to be able to stop in time in case the lead vehicle leaves the lane and there's a stopped car or something else you shouldn't hit there. Or in case the lead vehicle hits an object you couldn't see and stops faster than their brakes would have.

At least, that's the goal. It might be that much distance is impossible to keep while maintaining flow of traffic speeds, in which case, it's a shared risk and part of why you have insurance is sometimes you're legally at fault for something you were compelled to do by forces legally unaccountable.
> I do care if the software that mediates our lives is

If you DO care about this, implementing this regulation as is will only make the software worse, not better. Apple did a good job so far keeping developers in check.
Ironic since meta is developing some of the best ai models you can use for inference on an edge device
I believe they only provide a low-quality 720p stream to browsers because of DRM.
> We are not allowed iCloud accounts on our work lappies

Is it possible to have an Apple account for apps and security updates, without iCloud? On iOS, the default login panel in Settings will sign into both iCloud and App Store. To avoid iCloud, one must use the App Store app to sign into "Media and Purchases", rather than using Settings.
Perjury is in a sense a more offensive crime than the petty acts that fills prisons everywhere, for it is the one crime that makes criminals of us all. And it is far worse when it is done by a member of a professional class that enjoys the benefit of being assumed credible rather than criminal. Faking data is in a sense much worse than overtly punching someone in the face, because the number of lives I can adversely affect by punching someone in the face is just one, and the number of people I can probably get away with punching in the face before being caught is also just one.

I see your point about wanting to reserve prison for strictly violent offenses, but there is such a thing as serious yet non-violent crime, which is the entire reason why low-security prison is there.
Now I want to manually override it!!
Firefox is my default browser because it's minimal and non-intrusive, but I'm afraid the temptation to bring shiny crap into it is too much. Devs just leave it alone.
Yesterday I found out that OneDrive was silently running on startup on my Windows 10 machine, only because I went to disable the EA launcher. Have never used it on that machine.
This although would hurt its credibility is still an issue with a problem with sessions not being assigned to the right people.
FTA:

> The new draft of APRA also creates a massive loophole for personal data collected and used on an individual’s device. Tech companies would be able to do almost anything they want with data that stays on a personal device–no data minimization rules, no protections for kids, no advertising limits, no transparency requirements, no civil rights safeguards, and no right to sue for injured consumers. As AI and computing become more powerful, allowing more processing to occur on a device, this loophole will grow. As a result, this draft of APRA is weaker than state laws it is preempting.

That hardly amounts to an uncontroversial and obvious good—I would say regardless of your feelings on the anti discrimination provisions that it should be the uncontroversial to reject this legislation.
Interestingly, OneDrive is likely the only Microsoft QT app. It's amusing that the applications they aim to integrate most into their system are no longer native. Last month, they crippled Windows Co-Pilot by replacing the native app with an EdgeWebView, which has significantly less system integration.
So are you accusing of most of the readers and participants in this comment section of being dishonest?

Do you commonly just assume that people who disagree with you are dishonest?
I’m not sure how they could have gone broader. The EU is saying that Apple payments offering need to compete on level playing field with other payment options. I don’t really see what being “inclusive of technical expertise” would bring to the table, beyond what’s already there.
Except when it doesn't ask you if you want it to do that, and suddenly after investigating why my games are patching slow as shit it turns out my OneDrive is full from game patches that it synced from my Documents/My Games folder and my network speed is being destroyed by OneDrive syncing the patches up every time the launcher replaces a patch file.

I'm all in for automated backups, but let the user know that their entire user folder is gonna get synced and give an option to disable it (opt-out) on the OOBE. Make this optional and explicit.
I definitely see why businesses might be hesitant about such a feature (obviously they could also read whatever onedrive-related contract they have with Microsoft and make an informed decision). I mostly think users don’t really think of this as some stark distinction, though perhaps they should. I still think the real risk of expensive (in the general sense) data loss is worse for users than the cost of this kind of ‘major violation of trust’.
Makes a lot of sense and seems right given the perception I’m projecting with a post in a vacuum.

Not really seeking help or a break. Just going with the flow until death. Just taking a bit longer than expected to get there.
> ou have no idea of what visibility I actually had

Yes.

But I have a very good idea of what products Nokia shipped before the memo and they were quite shit, compared to the other options on the market.

Just re-read the memo itself and explain with a honest heart how exactly Apple got to 61% in 2010?
Was that the evil Elop doing things?
Or that was Nokia and Nokia employees doing shit for years before 2010?

You are perfectly aware what to lose the market in 2010 you need to make shit products in 2007-2009, because you can't be totally fine all this time and at Dec 31 2010 BAM all the base belong to Apple.

> which buildings we shared, common lunch talks

Puhlease, lunch talks don't push a shitty products to the market. It's the internal bureaucracy, lack of the ability to take the responsibility and overall the bloated and entrenched corporate culture of Nokia what does that.
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fwiw I was using the same math they did here to get 4.755 bits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_coding#Sources_of_i...
[-(1/3)log2(1/3)-(1/3)log2(1/3)-(1/3)log2(1/3)]*3=4.7548
>Is this what young people want nowadays?

Yes, but it's not just young people.

>The genre seems to have crossed over from Asian culture, with many novels being translations of Chinese/Korean ones.

You can basically trace a lot of the web novel versions back to anime/manga/light novels. (Maybe the reason is that in Asia these are also web novel, eg Shousetsuka ni Narou.)

However, this kind of a genre is and was popular in the west independently of that. Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote A Princess of Mars in 1912. It hits onto most of the same ideas these more modern stories do.
IMO, the FDA's authority should be limited to making sure that the snake oil does indeed contain genuine oil from genuine snakes.

They could put a label on it to the effect of "We don't think this stuff works, and it might even be harmful", but they should not be allowed to ban it outright.

The current situation is one-sided:

FDA approves something harmful -> people are harmed and their friends and family start calling for the FDA's heads.

FDA doesn't approve something helpful -> people are also harmed, but most of them don't even know they were harmed. There's little chance of an angry mob showing up at the FDA's door.

The FDA is biased in favor of rejection, not approval.
Apple Spurned Idea of iPhone AI Partnership with Meta Months Ago
Oh, I mean, the "why" is pretty simple. They're going to enable onedrive upload by default, wait until the sync finishes, then change the EULA to allow them to scrape everyone's onedrive for machine learning data that they can then sell.

>>Welcome to hell.
After trying it out: Thank you so much zeppelin101 / tavavex! This app is perfect.
> But it's relatively easy to only have the people that need specific information to have it.

Which brings us back to...

> "Privacy" until a disgruntled staffer copies or takes a picture or just takes the pieces of paper and publishes them.

With paper, it's primarily about the trust you place in people.

With digital it is not only the trust you place in people, you add the trust required for the systems you use; not only the ones you select, but the ones they depend on.

Across a range of systems, we are seeing that we haven't yet mastered complexity.

> Many a small company has been caught with terrible physical or digital security, because nobody cares and at their scale dedicated people to care don't make sense.

Which brings me back to those boutique firms... with paper-only you reduce the problems to one that have been well-understood for hundreds of years. Air-gapped systems seem like an attractive option, but even then, you're depending on both the trust you place in the hardware, OS, and package vendors and in the practice of the new field of digital hygiene by the staff. My prediction is that some clientele somewhere - actors, politicians, billionaires - will decide that their private data should be as private as they can possibly make it, and that it will be the old-fashioned way.
It probably has more to do with reputation & appearances than with specific practices. Meta is well known for its bad practices regarding privacy, OpenAI is not (yet).
Evidently it varies by region how much information about the destination is given to the drivers.
> That's still a number because everything in a digital computer is a number or an operation on a number.

I feel like in this conversation you are equivocating over distinct but related concepts that happen to have the same name. For example, “numbers” in mathematics versus “numbers” in computers. They are different things - e.g. there are an infinite number of mathematical numbers but only a finite number of computer numbers - even considering bignums, there are only a finite number of bignums, since any bignum implementation only supports a finite physical address space.

In mathematics, a set of numbers is not itself number.

What about in digital computers? Well, digital computers don’t actually contain “numbers”, they contain electrical patterns which humans interpret as numbers. And it is a true that at that level of interpretation, we call those patterns “numbers”, because we see the correspondence between those patterns and mathematical numbers.

However, is it true that in a computer, a set of numbers is itself a number? Well, if I was storing a set of 8 bit numbers, I’d store them each in consecutive bytes, and I’d consider each to be a separate 8-bit number, not one big 8n-bit number. Of course, I could choose to view them as one big 8n-bit number - but conversely, any finite set of natural numbers can be viewed as a single natural number (by Gödel numbering); indeed, any finite set of computable or definable real numbers can be viewed as a single natural number (by similar constructions)-indeed, by such constructions even infinite sets of natural or real numbers can be equated to natural numbers, provided the set is computable/definable. However, “can be viewed as” is not the same thing as “is”. Furthermore, whether a sequence of n 8-bit numbers is n separate numbers or a single 8n-bit number is ultimately a subjective or conventional question rather than an objective one - the physical electrical signals are exactly the same in either case, it is just our choice as to how to interpret them
I think it's the last one, inertia. A lot of people, companies, and governments here are slow to adopt stuff, especially tech. Look how long it took us to get chip cards and tap payments, and there are still places that don't have either.
The README says that "komorebi is a free and open-source project", but on the contrary, the software licence that this is released under (the 'PolyForm Strict License 1.0.0') makes it proprietary software, not free and open source (FOSS). The source code is available, but the licence doesn't permit modification, which is a key aspect of FOSS. So if the author is reading this, please change either the README or the licence so that they correspond!
Can you still decrypt that pgp encrypted file? I assume GPG doesn’t support that file.
Atacms Comes Out on Top versus Russia's S-500 Anti-Missile System
> I remember reading that children gain the ability to understand that around the age of 7. Prior to that, seeing the bad taints the whole world for them.

My country had a [short] war when I was 4 years old. Kids are plenty capable of experiencing bad and not being permanently tainted by it. Takes parental guidance of course.

I also grew up on the version of Little Red Riding Hood where they actually get eaten and the hunter has to cut them out of the wolf after killing it. It was one of my favorite stories growing up because bad things happen but they get rescued.

Anyway I think my argument is that bad stuff exists and you can't hide it from kids, but you have to guide them in how to process and have some uncomfortable conversations sometimes.
This is a fun thing to think about, but commercialization of drugs is antagonistic towards the drugs working around the drug enforcement agencies that technically provide legal highs.

Cannabis is the closest thing that’s combining the two. MDMA is possible, but I can imagine can be synthesized to remove the euphoria once there has been more testing. Mushrooms, LSD, and Ketamine all show their maximum effectuation at lower doses would be taken recreationally.
Yeah everything online looks so terrible
I read somewhere (on HN?) that a team automatically generated every possible melody and copyrighted them all to provide a free license to anyone--to prevent this exact type of lawsuit. Does anyone have the link?
The impact of iOS 16 Lockdown mode in Safari (2022)
That was the case before NYC instituted laws that mandated drivers be paid for idle time, converting them to basically employees.
So Apple is in a weird situation because they are in the few groups that have above 700 million active users [2] that can actually fall under this clause:

Additional Commercial Terms. If, on the Meta Llama 3 version release date, the monthly active users of the products or services made available by or for Licensee, or Licensee’s affiliates, is greater than 700 million monthly active users in the preceding calendar month, you must request a license from Meta, which Meta may grant to you in its sole discretion, and you are not authorized to exercise any of the rights under this Agreement unless or until Meta otherwise expressly grants you such rights.

So they have to reinvent the wheel and not use llama unless they negotiate with Meta and instead they just acquired AI companies to make local models. I don't see any Meta products that are close to OpenAI and they rather have the AI in house regardless.

[1] https://llama.meta.com/llama3/license/
[2] https://www.skillademia.com/blog/iphone-statistics/#:~:text=....
> Microsoft has built up good will through efforts like VS Code

That's the Trojan Horse

https://ghuntley.com/fracture/