skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing I don’t see covered here is that awnings have never seemed helpful to me in a humid climate. In Florida you can stand in the shade or the sun and barely feel a temperature variation (if at all). In the summer it may only get a few degrees cooler at night, because the air traps all the heat anyway. So even if you have an awning the air is still hot.
It's hard to get lots of fresh air into a pressurized plane, so I'm willing to have a good bit of leeway on that front. And airflow patterns are important; a lot of fresh air running from front to back would likely do more harm than good.
Out of curiosity: which dialect on Algol, and on what platform?
The situation described in Iran after the Islamic Revolution did not even remotely constitute genocide or similar. Genocide is defined as the intentional action to destroy a people—usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group—in whole or in part. While the Jewish community in Iran has faced discrimination, emigration, and instances of harassment and persecution, these conditions do not amount to genocide. The term genocide involves deliberate acts aimed at the physical extermination of a group, and this has not been the case with the Jewish community in Iran, despite the difficulties they have faced. The Iranian government officially recognizes Judaism, allows for Jewish religious practices, and Jews also have a reserved seat in Parliament.
There has never been widespread killings or any organized campaign targeting Jews specifically for eradication in Iran, except for isolated cases against jews accused of spying for America and/or Israel. None of this was ethnic-cleansing or genocide.

The establishment of Israel in 1948 and its Law of Return, which grants automatic citizenship to Jews worldwide, made Israel an appealing destination for many Jewish emigrants from Iran, that's why the overwhelming majority emigrated, but there were also substantial numbers who resettled in the United States, particularly in cities like Los Angeles and New York.
I’ve studied economics for years and I’m still of the opinion that the only government intervention to the market should be breaking monopolies and cartels. I’m waiting for a piece of literature that would convince me otherwise, maybe you could provide one?
Oh wow, I didn't imagine it's this many people. I stand corrected, thank you for looking up the numbers.
You don’t need to be a great engineer for most startups, unless they’re particularly specialised. Most apps are really just CRUD at small scale. These apps aren’t really hard until you scale. Eg Airbnb is really simple to make, technically speaking, at small scale.

I think it’s valuable to be able to implement your own ideas. Its going to be more productive than trying to explain what you want to someone else. (This isn’t mutually exclusive with having a cofounder as well)
Thank you for doing the lord’s work.
And with a headset on, they could have still resumed the conversation.

Or is it also rude if one tries to sleep? Or if they decided to listen to music or watch a movie on the screens?

Really the fact is that all those things are normalized and this isn’t. The arguments against it would equally apply to all of the rest of the things people do on planes to occupy their time.
…particularly to German chancellors in the 1930s.
Because they compete with other employers? If an employee costs X, it doesn't matter to the employer if X is all cash to the employee or split with the insurance provider.

The entire reason health insurance got so mixed up with employment was as a workaround to WW-II era wage freezes. Employers couldn't pay more salary, so they offered other benefits including insurance to attract and retain employees. Now we're stuck with that.
So biased toward American public education, in New York City of all places.

For what it's worth, I look back on my time in school with relative fondness. Certainly I don't agree with anything like it 'being a cage' or feeling isolated from other people (????)
Agreed. I get daily emails from Salesforce/Tableau that start, "this is a non-promotional email," as if those magic words cleanse anything that follows.
>inordinate amount of field support engineers to groom the dirty disparate data that governments do a poor job cleaning

Getting clean data seems like a universal need, but the job is still difficult, under-appreciated and underpaid. How come?
At least you’ve got some tech freedom at home
What exactly does Windows do with a NPU? I don't own an 'AI PC' but it seems like the NPUs are slow and can't run much.

I know Apple's Neural Engine is used to power Face ID and the facial recognition stuff in Photos, among other things.
I had no idea that’s what Spatial Audio meant. I thought naively that it was just another marketing jargon for surround sound.

Now I wish I had gone for the bose QC ultra buds instead of the QC II buds.
Great news! Next up: reject all cookies button.
That gets old after about an hour.

Especially if you're travelling through cityscapes that aren't that appealing.
The Vision Pro might be brilliant for consuming content, but if you're trying to get work done...
No, everything currently free will stay free.

The paid stuff currently is:

- per-user permissions & groups

- audit logging

- auto CAPTCHA solving

- burner credential management for FB/Insta/Twitter/etc. w/ auto phone based account verification ability

- custom JS scripts for expanding comments, hiding pop ups, etc.

- managed hosting + support

Some of this stuff ^ is going to become free in upcoming releases, some will stay paid. What I decide to make free is mostly based on abuse potential and legal ramifications, I'd rather have a say in how the risky stuff is used so that it doesn't become a tool weaponized for botting.
To whom is this "unfair"? A business has a legitimate interest in preventing customers from taking advantage of bulk discounts (committing to a long term of service in exchange for lower prices), and customers have a legitimate interest in opting to discontinue a service that is no longer needed. Where to draw that line does not seem cut and dry to me.

What is the specific nature of the "deception" -- what claim was made, and how is it not being honored?

Don't get me wrong -- I've been bit by this and I hate it and I think Lina Khan has done wonders for antitrust enforcement and I wish that she would take it even further, but the proper body to address this is Congress, through legislation rather than regulation.
It's usually a small marketplace like Leanpub. Tilted Windmill Press (Michael W Lucas) [0] is another one I've done a good bit of purchasing from in the last six months or so.

[0] https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/
I'd like to think that Pakistan would be on a better road if their democratically elected leader wasn't ousted by the US.

Thats one example, there are many others.

In terms of solutions, well looking at history of the US, the only time the people at the top ever gave any semblance of crumbs to everyone else was when they knew they were in deep trouble and were forced to part with whatever little they could give to calm the masses.

Think of Medicare, Social Security etc. We saw it again with Obamacare. The country was in a rage so out came the bare minimum. Elimination of barbaric things like pre-existing conditions in exchange for guaranteed income for the insurance companies. Absolute breadcrumbs but it was something.

We just need something like that on a worldwide level. Maybe China rising will finally put pressure on the US given that the EU never amounted to much more than being a US vassal state.
I love Redox as a project because while it still has a massive ways to go, it's the closest to being a new OS/Kernel that has the potential to make it to a viable daily driver. Windows/MacOS/Unix/Linux are all incredibly old by software standards and Redox is bringing some cool design decisions.
School for me (in Ireland) was more or less a race to get out of school (+ concomitant bullying) and into university to study what I was interested in (maths - at that point I wasn't able to advance any further on my own and there was nobody who could help/guide me further where I lived) - the idea of adding a year on felt like it would be a waste. In retrospect, yeah I think I made a good call. Happy to see other people getting benefit from it though.
This could help reduce spam and scam calls, once adopted widely. A call from someone who is not in my contacts and not a registered business is more likely to be spam. I super hope the next step is "block all calls not in contacts or from a registered business"
I thought the purpose of these things was not to be fast, but to be able to run small models with very little power usage? I have a newer AMD laptop with an NPU, and my power usage doesn't change using the video effects that supposedly run on it, but goes up when using the nvidia studio effects.

It seems like the NPUs are for very optimized models that do small tasks, like eye contact, background blur, autocorrect models, transcription, and OCR. In particular, on Windows, I assumed they were running the full screen OCR (and maybe embeddings for search) for the rewind feature.
In enterprise monorepos I find this hard because "one level deeper" is often code you don't own.

Fun article, good mantra!
The UK is planning on having gas peaker plants that will run for a maximum of two weeks a year. The plan is to use CCS to make them carbon neutral.
That's a very "I got mine" type of attitude.

You think everyone should be expected to pay extra not to

- fly with nothing but the clothes on their back

- separated from their family

- with no food or drink, on a 5, 10, 15-hour flight

- with no leg or elbow room

- and no pillow or blanket to make it even vaguely possible to sleep?
> I only shared the solution and technique with one other server operator I fully trusted based in the UK

I think that was us! We ended up combining it with other fingerprinting indicators, but the whole 'use VGUI' was a surprisingly effective way at handling this. I believe they removed the web browser in ~2018, which was disappointing. Being able to have custom skill trees / fun integrations with servers was really powerful!
The worst for this is Shopify. If you've ever given your email to shopify, they will absolutely share it to a page you visit, even if you don't check out.

Throw something in the cart at a random website? Now you're on their mailing list and get reminders to finish checking out. Doesn't matter that you never consented. I don't know how this isn't a violate of the CAN-SPAM act
> Also, people often mistake the reason for an NPU is "speed". That's not correct. The whole point of the NPU is rather to focus on low power consumption.

I have a sneaking suspicion that the real real reason for an NPU is marketing. "Oh look, NVDA is worth $3.3T - let's make sure we stick some AI stuff in our products too."
more that is is lame the watch isn't just an fully independent device yet.
For those occasions you use GDPR if you are European.
> The flight attendant came by and told me, "okay, time to put your toys away sweetie" referring to my tablet and phone.

The audacity! I hope you called them sweetie too.
I generally agree, but for "products" like housing there are too many interfering influences to really sit back and say well the market will take care of it. The government gives enormous subsidizes to road and highway construction, for example, think about lending regulations, zoning rules, hook ups for city utilities, etc.. That's not much of "allowing the market to work". I don't think it's fair to say when housing is built in one way it is the free market at work but when it's built in a different way it's all government regulations.

We often times think of zoning being restricted in cities, but it's arguably more restrictive outside of cities. Notice how everything that is built is the exact same spread out suburban lots, with no mixed use development, giant highways, giant parking lots, Wal-Marts, Starbucks, and other developments? Is there a single developer in the United States that's building differently en masse?

My wife and I live in a historic neighborhood close to downtown Columbus. There are bars and restaurants and shops nearby, a park in the middle, etc. The home prices here are quite substantial because it's a nice, charming village within an urban environment. Though it's not the only one.

People move here and pay large sums of money to live here. Clearly it's worth a lot right? So why don't developers build more developments like this when there's such high demand and prices command such a premium? One could build the homes a little closer together, make the streets a little more narrow, add buildings and churches and market stalls within. The economic value is clearly demonstrated. What's the barrier?

Where you are concerned about letting market forces go to work I agree, one way to do that is to stop subsidizing a specific development pattern.
That is not true. Censorship is the suppression of expression. Full stop. Anyone who controls a medium can do it. Only the U.S. government can violate the First Amendment to the Constitution.

People often conflate the two. That censorship and First Amendment violations are one and the same. They are not.

And the reason the U.S. government saw fit to restrict its ability to censor its public is because they recognized that that ability could be used to censor legitimate criticism of the government.
The Pacific Railroad Act of 1863 established that the gauge of the first transcontinental railroad was to be 4'8½", which is I believe the first time the US actually legally established a particular gauge. Some states had established their own (non-4'8½") gauges before then, but it looks like by the eve of the Civil War, 4'8"-4'9" gauge (the various gauges in this range can be treated as identical for rolling stock purposes) was the plurality of track.

By the Civil War, it looks like you have a Midwestern standard gauge, a Northeast standard gauge separated into two islands by a I think 5'6" New York/New Jersey gauge, and Ohio using a 4'10" gauge separating these two networks; the South's network--which is far less dense--is 5' gauge; and now you get transcontinental railroads being planned for a 4'8½" gauge. Now it is true that the Southern railroads largely switched to the 5' gauge as a result of connecting to the original few lines that connected isolated lines being 5', but a similar process in the North also broke up the non-standard gauge areas, and between the much smaller track area of the South and the fact that there were almost no 5' lines outside of the CSA, it is incredibly unlikely that the creeping 5' would ever have been adopted in the US.

(From attempting to browse the Confederacy's laws, I don't think they ever fixed a gauge for the routes they authorized to be completed).
Rails works with a connection pool and multiple threads processing incoming requests. Not a problem. In fact, Rails has one of the very best tunings to use SQLite in production in the context of a web application. And yes, you can also start a console session in production while your app is running. Just maybe don't make a long-running write query from within that console ;)
>Apple’s are still by far the best

MacOS may not even be the best (that's subjective), let alone "by far" the best. How can you make this claim when you haven't used Linux in a decade?
Which subs? How did you avoid getting banned?
There were back in the day. Apple really screwed up the development story for the watch as the initial watches just couldn't really do apps. They should have waiting for Series 3 before introducing apps and they still could do a lot to make things easier for devs.
Sorry, you're absolutely right. The overhead of it was more than I cared to do (needing to use Calibre instead of a drag and drop of a file), especially since Amazon would then report my newly loaded books back to themselves. That's the part that I really didn't like.

Shame to hear about your Kobo's battery. FWIW, they have great repairability (in newer models at least). That said, the Kindle's battery does smash the Kobo's in my experience as well.
Rehydrate! Rehydrate!
> With that license, linking to an unmodified library in proprietary software is fine.

Was it linked dynamically? Static linking to an LGPL library from a proprietary application is also possible, but way trickier.
I don't really understand this argument. How are dozens of nuclear power plants a single point of failure? Because of the uranium mining and processing? Then we can invest in fast reactors, which consume 100x less and require less R&D than renewables have benefited from in the last decades. Or seawater uranium, another 100x in reserves, distributed all around the world.
I'd rather wait for fusion. Fission is dirty and creates more radioactive waste than we know how to deal with. A tsunami hitting a fusion plant would not do much except knock it out of commission. Fission on the other hand ....well, we've seen that already. We've seen many times how messy fission is.
OpenTimestamps alone can not currently prove anything because TLS session keys are symmetric. The client can forge anything and attest to it falsely. Unless you 100% trust the archiver (in which case you can trust their timestamps), you need TLSNotary or another reputable third party in the loop as a bare minimum.

But more critically: currently the legal standard for evidence is... screenshots. We have a lot of educating work to do before the public understands the value of attestation and signing.
Hilarious if true. Still hilarious if not.
Group policy editor allows you to select what type of updates you want (if any), if you want them to be downloaded/ installed automatically or just notify.
You don't need to re-pay for the blue checkmark for everyone who reads your post.

The key insight here was making it expensive for spammers, but cheap for everyone else.
I'd reserve the judgement on the last one. It may become hard to get attention of the school, and the damage to the student at this stage is very real. However as stated in the article, the part about school policies, even the use of AI to research for the paper was forbidden. Well, maybe this is unreasonable enough... but I wouldn't be swift with decisions here.
This is one of the reasons I still use Seamonkey - it has an RSS reader built in (among many, many other features). The nostalgic Netscape Navigator UI is also better than the crazy user-hostile designs that Firefox and Chrome use nowadays too.
>I am very curious what exactly this means? Is it the number of pages or forms you had to fill out? People you had to talk too?

Captcha games are going to become an olympic sport.
It’s nice to have something to switch to
> Doing things […] on their behalf

We train grad students to do reviews by having them do reviews under close supervision, yes. You say it like it’s a bad thing.
Odd that you never found what you weren't looking for ...
Looks like the submission shows 2 ranking lists. If "style control" is accurate then claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620 is at the top of the list if your goal isn't to baffle them with..
Oh thanks for sharing this!
I was wondering exactly the same : did the flight attendant consent to being in a video on the internet while doing her job ?
Thanks—we changed the URL to that from https://petewarden.com/2024/10/16/ai-pcs-arent-very-good-at-.... Readers may way want to look at both, of course!
I personally am not very interested in this research. WeChat is well known not to use end-to-end encryption. Considering that the app is unlikely to adopt end-to-end encryption (likely due to censorship being a business requirement, which was mentioned in the article and previously uncovered by this lab), I don't really feel like I care a whole lot between good non-end-to-end encryption and bad non-end-to-end encryption. Parties that are interested in subverting this kind of encryption, such as governments, likely already collaborate Tencent to get decrypted messages from the source.
I'm pretty sure that most marketeers correlate with the "it's fine to send lots of useless crap to people for $x justifcation" philosphy. You pick a Marketeer(D) or Marketeer(R) and they'll be happy to use whatever legal tools they can use in that vein (Sure there's good ones but they're rarer). I'd classify it as a failing in their world view rather than a moral one, not to say there aren't immoral marketeers.
In Switzerland most offices and the majority of houses have exterior metal slat blinds or rolling shutters. Almost all are operated electrically and quite a few are controlled by inputs from wind and sunlight sensors. Since you can adjust the angle of the slats you can significantly cut down solar gains and glare while still providing ventilation and natural light
It's a tablet. It probably has like one DDR channel. It's not so much that they "fucked it up" as that they knowingly built a grossly unbalanced system so they could report a pointless number.
Not really. The reason in this case is that they wanted to share the source code exclusively for direct collaboration under their own direction; so they wrote an incomprehensible and incoherent license, and gave up after everyone called them out on their bullshit.
If a similar and equally large-scale attack was done by a nation at war with US, targeting US military command, would that be a low-casualty operation or an act of terrorism?

And would it matter if the technical interpretation differed wildly from the general perception?

For what it's worth, I consider both parties in their forever war to be irredeemable bastards. As I learned early on, the network of tunnels in Gaza has no civilian shelter space, a clear indication that their general population's safety has not been a concern. On the upside, if there is any to be found, at least it means there won't be human shields to speak of down there.

That said, I don't know if that would make a difference. Both sides have demonstrated that they are perfectly happy to slaughter civilians.
Is that a thing where they build wind farms? Like are there any wind farms where it is likely to occur with any regularity?

In my region wind generation dipped down to only 1pc of capacity for a day or two last winter which seems to be the floor as far as I can tell.

That tells me that we only need to increase capacity by 100x to get the coverage we want, and as a bonus we get all that surplus capacity most of the time to use on non-essential industry.
Nice, but the thing that holds a sensible person back from joining is point 10 in the ToS
“10. Changes to the Terms

- We reserve the right to modify these Terms at any time. Any changes will be effective immediately upon posting the revised Terms. Your continued use of Simple Lister following any changes constitutes acceptance of the new Terms.”
Very nice graphics in this.
It's part of the leadership principles at amazon. "Earns Trust" is a strong guideline, with the saying that trust is hard earned and easily lost.
Given how little the ecosystem is regulated, post Citizens United / PACs, I'm not sure that'd be legally scalable.

An elegant weapon of a more civilized age (the early internet): if they're pushy in requiring one -- just lie.
>The OS tinkering that is as requirement of Linux racks up a massive time investment.

Huh, strange.

I install Ubuntu as a daily driver on every system in my house and don't have to do any tinkering outside of customizations I want (which I have more freedom to do).

I mean, I understand there are certain proprietary devices or software that are going to require Windows or MacOS, and that's unfortunate. But the idea that everything is breaking all the time? I just don't see it.
> especially bootstrapped firms or solopreneurs

My company is bootstrapped, and I'm a solo founder. If you don't have any money to grow your business, then you aren't going to be able to do much until you have some money. Hard truth, but it takes money to earn money -- either your money, or somebody else's. You have to get buyer's eyes on you, somehow.
Thanks for feedback, I will think about it