skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a better one, a senior architect who wrote a proposal for a new piece of documentation, and when asked about his 3 main topics in the doc and why them, said "LLM said those are the main ones". The rest of the doc was obviously incoherent LLM soup as well.
It's such a great book, both hilarious and sad at times. I also went to eBay to search for a copy before realizing I already own the book.
I intentionally bought a used car with only a 3G network connection, knowing (at the time, almost 3 years ago) it would soon shut down in the US. I smiled at the "Your OnStar will soon stop working" messages, and intend to hold onto it for a good long time.
Canon truly is the HP of cameras.

Good thing there's Sony and Nikon.
I wonder when we'll reach a tipping point for the subscription hell that the world is moving towards. On the other hand, with the amount of consolidation and difficulty competing (especially with Lina Khan out) I'm not sure if that will ever happen.
When OneDrive Ruins Your Day by James Lee (Animation)
And this is probably because Canon corporate won't justify a budget for developing this software unless they expect separate revenue for it, even though it's clearly just value-add to the (already very expensive) hardware.
I can't now find the webpage that orignially proposed this, but FWIW just now I found this: https://peacecountry0.tripod.com/earlyfin.htm#vara

Lost in the mists of history. A mistory.
Apple halts AI news alerts after errors
> If it has to make any profits - or at least pay salaries - it's guaranteed to be a bad deal for everyone.

It is insurance. You pay money, the company takes away the risk. That doesn't make it a bad deal, that makes it a service. That is like complaining about a hypothetical garbage company that charges for taking away trash even though the trash might have some notional value.

Insurance isn't an investment scheme. If you want to pay money for a positive-expected-value deal, go buy stocks and bonds.
I guess someone higher up said “well, someone who has forked out over $6k won’t even blink for an additional $5”
This may be of interest:

Cancer in the Cold - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32440688 - Aug 2022 (99 comments)
Over 660k Rsync servers exposed to code execution attacks
Encrypted data are noise now, maybe, but may be decryptable in the future with advances in computing.

So all this depends on what you worry about.
Growing up is realizing nothing has changed fundamentally for humans as a species since the written word was recorded

Same reason feudal lords killed people back in the day with all sorts of rules there's no psychology or deeper layer other than power in beings living in a eugenic reality
I'm not sure since I don't have any Canon gear, but it's very likely that the app just uses the PTP protocol, which is an old but stil common standard. The main ioen source implementation is libgphoto2 and there's an OBS Studio plugin to use it as a camera source, after which you can use its built-in virtual webcam mode to use it as a webcam.
The straight face is rooted to numbers:

https://nuejs.org/docs/compare.html
Building to protect occupants and building to make the structure salvageable afterwards may be two different goals. Think crumple zones in cars.
Bit of a weird argument considering you can use other brand cameras as webcams without any third party software. At least, all my Sony cameras can just be plugged in using USB and it works immediately. No drivers required.
Yeah so what happens when that IP is recycled in the Cloud?
I think about Zig and Rust
Why $6,2999 when the article says he payed around $900?
More importantly, why would anyone care? Is this some 5th dimensional chess marketing strategy by McDonald's? I hear more about their app these days than ever, and more than about any other security issue anywhere else.
This is what we call cherry-picking stats. You pick a single stat but ignore everything else. Your comment seems to imply that the UK government has been lying about austerity for 10 years. While I don't trust the tory party and think they're corrupt with their deals-for-buddies approach, I don't think they outright lie for 10 years.

The policing budget is so bare-bones that the police have literally admitted they will not attend all 999 calls. To make that clear, they have admitted if you call them in an emergency they may not show up. NHS waiting times are sky-high. The number of NHS hospitals and beds are rock bottom. We can dig and dig into various public sectors and see them being terrible because of austerity. Which Labour is kinda being forced to continue due to the effects of covid on the finincals of the UK (and Brexit)
> In reality getting rid of those kinds of batch jobs is often a hard engineering project that requires a redesign of the algorithms or changes to business processes.

That right here is the meat of so many issues in large IT projects: large corporations or government are very, very skeptical about changing their "established processes", usually due to "we have always done it this way". And no matter how often you try to explain them "do it a tiny bit differently to get the same end result but MUCH more efficiently" you'll always run into walls.
Finally someone points out the obvious
He likely bought an old model second-hand :)

Edit: The camera he uses is a 2019 pocket camera. The 6299 must be another model that has the same restrictions.
> It could also let the TPM verify the disk decryption password (when it's needed.)

The design intent is basically:

1. The TPM is very sensitive, and errs on the side of not unlocking your disk.

Booting into recovery mode to fix a driver? Reinstalled your distro? Added a MOK so you can install the nvidia drivers? Toggled certain options in your BIOS? The expected-computer-state checksums are wrong, better not unlock the disk as it could be an attack.

2. When this happens, you key in the password instead.

You can't rely on the TPM to verify the manually entered password, as the intent of the manually entered password is to recover when the TPM is in a broken state.
Honestly just give it up at this point and go to Pizza Hut
There's more to "overall success" then launch failure rate. Cost and time are very important, which are the other dimensions they are optimizing for here.
Yeah, as I say. But the other pressures are often temporary and political.
It's called UX Research.
The latest firmware update for the Sony A7S III has introduced unlockable licenses and a website where you can buy them. The first one (for DCI 4K) is free, but it looks like they'll be chraging for unlocking more "professional" firmware features in the future.
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Right there with the infamous $18 BMW heated seats subscription
This is a fantastic idea. Now how to get it on RDS…
I’ve used Cursor a lot and the conclusion doesn’t surprise me. I feel like I’m the one *forcing* the system in a certain direction and sometimes an LLM gives a small snippet of useful code. Sometimes it goes in the wrong direction and I have to abort the suggestion and force it into another direction. For me, the main benefit is having a typing assistant which can save me from typing one line here and there. Especially refactorings is where Cursor shines. Things like moving argument order around or adding/removing a parameter at function callsites is great. Saved me a ton of typing and time already. I’m way more comfortable just quickly doing a refactoring when I see one.
First of all: this is not the guardian, this is a opinion piece.

And I think it is extremely funny and sadly kind of true.

There is extensive literature about the psychology of fragile men
People start out a certain way, and will do things like "try to communicate", but what they speak is taught rather than invented by them.
Edit: i think were talking past each other until agreeing that risk/cost/rates are being intentionally suppressed by or on behalf of the public. Kind if like this other housing related mortgage thing Ive heard if that may be mispriced/misstructured in favor of many at the expense of all.

I dont get it. Your argument is that if everything was priced accurately and aggregated "fairly" insurance would work. Ok, totally true statement. Very much the case that's not what is happening now for any of the example markets or gov programs.

You appear to believe "profit" is the problem, which is true in that negative profit is known as "loss" which is what has and will be occurring even with the public "last resort" rates. The private insurers are not withdrawing because their "fantastic" 6-15% margin on disaster insurance isnt enough. Using CA as an example they withdrew because 1) the state required they dont use risk based modeling for individual rates and 2) they dont include reinsurance costs as a rate signal. Shockingly their CA insurance pool turned upside down on costs/losses in a decade or two and they bailed.

FAIR is exactly the sort of or youre talking about; non profit government mandated insurance pool, open to all residents, with proportional policy/loss assignment, rates set based on regulated-interpretation-of-risk-exposure + costs, regulated by the CA Dept of Insurance. And yes, their policies are risk adjusted, but theyre not _accurate_. And yes, insurance should accurate according to risk and (payout) costs but basically none of the public last resort issuers can!

See again florida, national flood, etc. In every case 1) risk & cost modeling (accurate pricing) is suppressed on behalf of the public 2) risk prices/costs soon exceed private risk markets 3) private insurers withdraw 4) public "last resort" insurers emerge 5) risks/costs continue to grow, private insurers withdraw, the "last resort" insurer becomes the risk aggregating insurer 6) last resort insurer shockingly cant meet its commitments 7) public funds and/or backdoor insurance taxes socialize losses due to unprices disk.
Will I enjoy it? What's that got to do with anything?
> Bullying seems to be a phenomenon almost exclusive to children.

Plenty of teachers are bullies, including up until Uni.
> What's the channel you use to get the devs' attention in these cases?

Why do you think that's the correct thing to do?
Reading both posts it sounds like they're in violent agreement rather than disagreeing. There is a lot of FOMO in the aesthetics of productivity but at the end of the day everyone needs a system. It's wise to balance trying to improve the system with getting work done.

Personally I run with a very minimalist setup, am unlikely to change software defaults unless I need too, keep a todo list for myself and use whatever we're using this week to work with others.

I do wonder how much the more productivity systems optimizing people are measuring the actual result versus chasing aesthetics but at the same time I've not noticed it being a net drain so don't particularly care. In part I think it's a case of doing what works for you unless it becomes detrimental. There's a lot to be said for ritual making you comfortable.
Not all companies. The DJI Action camera has a built-in webcam mode that you can select whenever you plug it in via USB, and it just works.
Converting a 700 Page PDF to Excel with Claude Sonnet
Canon G5 X mark 2 does not seem to be supported by gphoto:

http://www.gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2/support.php
They do not have their houses standing. Look at the recent earthquake in Turkey and Syria. 60k dead and 150 billion in damage.
Enshitification, incarnate.
I'm not sure this is the case, but to play devils advocate - Sony themselves might have to license it from a third party
Trivalent: Arguably the most secure desktop browser
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> And often failed projects produce things of value to society

True, although also, criminals buy things and pay VAT.

> You don't vote for criminals to take your money.

I vote for elected officials who pass bills (if I were American) that allow/disallow criminal activity.
Absolutely! As well as 1€ camera covers from AliExpress.
I also discovered that I couldn't use my Canon SLR to record more than 30 minutes of video continuously.

The problem however wasn't Canon, but that I lived in a region (EU) that would have imposed a customs tariff on cameras that could do that, but by keeping it under that, the camera would be classed as a 'stills' camera and so was therefore exempt.

Admittedly this is different from the case in the article - but it would appear that owning something that could physically do what you want it to is only half the battle for numerous reasons, and in this case it would have been my government demanding extra money to 'unlock' this functionality.
Hah I am aware. There's a lot of shit in Sony camp, but Canon is a whole other level.

Nikon seems to be the "good guy" these days.
Im still waiting for mass-piracy where large parts of the population walk out on the subscription systems leaving the vendors to starve.
> a few HTTP proxies

I've never seen more than one, where are these people using "a few HTTP proxies"
The ingredients are there as Chrome OS and Android have shown, but robust hardware-bound disk encryption has just never been a priority for the general purpose distros.
Does the world need another RSS reader/mousetrap? We already have so many.

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=rss+readers

What is your friend's idea to revolutionize with their new reader?
Why does it cost $5 billion to upgrade? The article says they have a working, reasonably modern system.

So is it $5 billion worth of excavations or construction? How much does it really cost to add these cables? Couldn't the cables go in metal tubes attached to the walls of the tunnels? How does that cost $5 billion?
The term "uninsurable" is not linked to "too expensive" or (equivalently) "too high risk". It's linked to "unpredictable".

The business insurances are in is a business of statistics. As long as you can model things giving you an expected value and a standard deviation, you can offer an insurance policy which gives you X amount of profit with Y amount of risk, and the insurance premiums are adjusted such that the insurance's risk for negative profit is negligible, according to the model.

What does it mean for climate change? Current insurance models apparently don't work well, so they don't dare to offer policies in certain areas. But just like city planners need to adjust (build further away from shore, higher up, build in flooding protections) and home owners do (AC, think twice if you want a basement) and farmers (choice of crops, irrigation systems), so do insurances by finding better models that allow them to have better statistics.

My expectation in the long run is that insurances will be offered again, but with so high premiums for certain areas (of high risk) that it will just be too expensive to live there. Which is fine. Nobody lives on the moon either. And the public shouldn't be paying for somebody's privilege to have a nice waterfront property in a hurricane area.

TL;DR: The current public discourse about this topic conflates predictability with cost when talking about "insurability". They are very different things.
Personal experience: I stopped at a point where brute-forcing started to feel "unwelcomed", I think it was this one: https://martin-ueding.de/posts/project-euler-solution-66-dio...
Reproducing RNA without proteins has nothing to do with the necessity of peptides/proteins existing before any RNA.

Polymerizing nucleotides into RNA requires energy and monomers that can be provided only by an already living being with a functional metabolism.

That requires enzymes for catalyzing the chemical reactions that compose the metabolism, which must have been non-ribosomal peptides, before the existence of nucleic acids.

The main source of energy for the first life forms must have been the conversion of free hydrogen (dihydrogen) and carbon monoxide and/or dioxide into acetic acid (acetogenesis). An auxiliary source of energy could have been the gradient of ions that exists in hydrothermal vents. Both sources of energy have their origin in the oxidation of volcanic rocks by water, and the energy comes ultimately from the internal heat of the planet (because the volcanic rocks formed at high temperatures, where they are in chemical equilibrium, are no longer in chemical equilibrium in the presence of water after they cool to lower temperatures). At least for now, there is no known mechanism for the appearance of life elsewhere than on a planet with water, internal heat and volcanism.

Some people see that simple organic substances can form in any place in the cosmic space where there is not enough oxygen to oxidize them, so they assume that perhaps life could appear there. However that is wrong, because without a continuous source of energy all those organic substances will stay dead forever. The only suitable continuous source of energy is the internal heat of big enough planets, which will not cool quickly, because capturing the energy of stellar light requires very complex structures that cannot be generated spontaneously, but they can be only the result of a long evolution of already existing life forms.
Privacy ? But I have nothing to hide.

Everyone has something to hide, be it as simple as your driving behavior, so you don't end up over paying for insurance or even in the situation where all company refuse to insure a 'risky' profile.
Probably not that dangerous. The ethanol has likely evaporated leaving behind vinegar and unpleasant byproducts. There’s a risk of mold and bacterial contamination depending on how well the seal has remained intact. Depending on the process used, it’s possible the wine could contain lead salts (for sweetness), which are toxic. I doubt it would kill you, but it’d likely be very unpleasant to drink.
Alternatively, I see an LLVM front-end for Ada [0], but I'm not a user, so the maturity of such a solution is unclear to me.

[0]: https://blog.adacore.com/combining-gnat-with-llvm
No voting rights until X. Higher sales tax until X. Marriage lottery at age Y if no X.
It's just a business model like segmentation IMHO. BMWs or Tesla's having the hardware but require a payment for enabling it or CPU manufacturers disabling certain features to sell them at a lower price. IIRC the idea is that to let people pay what they can so you can have larger profits when allowing lower price points. In this case it appears to directly charge for a service(a software that needs to be created and maintained) that you may choose not to have.

I don't have problem with these practices at all as long as they don't try to prevent it you from running your hardware through alternative means. If the camera police isn't trying to get you for writing your own software to avoid paying Canon 5$ a month, its all good.
Great article, yeah it is quite sad with these things. Louis Rossman talked extensively on these issues.

By the way, your images go to a weird url for me, maybe it is because it is Brave browser.

For example

https://romanzipp.com/blog/[%7B%22id%22:%22assets::blog//no-...
Great article, scientifically written. I wish it was as confident as you are in your conclusion.

> No, we cannot confidently detect a trend today in observed Atlantic hurricane activity due to man-made (greenhouse gas-driven) climate change. Some human influence may be present

> The importance of this distinction between potential causes of AMV for future hurricane projections is clear: if strong man-made aerosol forcing and volcanic forcing were responsible for most of the “quiet period” of Atlantic major hurricane activity from the 1970s through the early 1990s, then a return to this more “quiet” regime in the coming decades may not occur. But if the “quiet period” of the 1970s through early 1990s (as well as the earlier quiet period of the early 20th Century) was caused mainly by internal climate variability, one would expect to return to relatively “quiet” conditions in the coming decades as the climate swings back and forth between more active and inactive Atlantic hurricane periods. This is an important research question that does not yet have a clear answer.

Meanwhile we continue to see stronger storms.

> Another hurricane metric, the fraction of rapidly intensifying Atlantic hurricanes, was reported to have increased since around 1980 (Bhatia et al. 2019), and they found that this change was highly unusual compared with simulated natural variability from a climate model, while being consistent in sign with the expected change from human-caused forcing. Even so, however, their confidence was limited by uncertainty in how well the single climate model used was representing real-world natural variability in the Atlantic region.

We do know for a fact that the ocean temperatures are rising. Also from your article,

> Global surface temperatures and tropical Atlantic sea surface temperatures have increased since 1900 (by around +1.3 ˚C [+2.3 ˚F] and +1.0 ˚C [+1.8 ˚F], respectively), unlike the reconstructed hurricane counts or U.S. landfalling hurricanes. Finally, a number of studies have found that several Atlantic hurricane metrics, including hurricane maximum intensities, hurricane numbers, major hurricane numbers, and Accumulated Cyclone Energy have all increased since around 1980.

But climate science is about studying a complex system, and finding direct causations is hard.

> However, in a 2019 tropical cyclone-climate change assessment, the majority of authors concluded that the recent hurricane activity increases mentioned above did not qualify as a detectable man-made influences (meaning clearly distinguishable from natural variability).

Another study linked recently from climate.gov (near the bottom)
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/beyond-data/2024...

>[R]ecent studies in attribution science show that climate change is causing an increase in the frequency and/or severity of tropical storms, heavy rainfall, and extreme temperatures.

So at the end of the day, it's fine to say there is no smoking gun, but it is absolutely not 'obviously false'. I think your biases are showing.
> People need to be able to say "I studied what you asked me to make, and refuse to work on this illegal, insecure, depressing cruft, and if you fire me for having professional ethics my lawyers will empty your company bank account."

This only works if everyone or the vast majority join unions. Otherwise, those who join will get penalised with lower offers or no offers at all.
There’s no policy. The person or team owning an open source repo does what they want.

Some are very closely watched, some were mostly just meant as extraction and not really expecting outside contributions.
I thought not trusting clients was already security 101?
Are you sure? The article talks about using it as a webcam and none of the Sony gear I've used supports that (A6500, A7 I/RI/II/SII/III/RIII/SIII).

They did make the "Imaging Edge Webcam" program, I think some time during the pandemic, but AFAIK it's just a PTP preview to webcam driver, so the quality is pretty terrible and you can do that with OBS+gphoto2.
Mandatory Palestine was way more than 21% Arab. And Jews did live side by side & were culturally assimilated, but those that migrated to Palestine/South Syria (after 1890s) didn't & had ambitions of an exclusive state for themselves.

> Why on earth would the Jews displace some of the Arabs and give full citizenship to the others

No, those that were allowed to remain ("the good Arabs") post 48 were under military rule for 2 decades.

Those that now remain occupied after 67 are under hybrid IDF+PA rule.

> hate your pseudo-intellectualism

Intellectualism? You give me too much credit. Hate the "New Historians" who are all Israeli & speaking their truth.