skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see how aggregate data is 'about you' in a way that impacts privacy, unless they aggregate it from just a few users.

From one of your linked comments:

> Abstracted profiling still works, and digs deeper than you might suspect (I recall the netflix data that could predict interests across different categories, like people watching House of Cards also liking It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia).

Abstracted profiling (if we're talking about the same thing) predicts things about the user - otherwise it wouldn't be valuable - but the question is whether it identifies the user.

> It's also just part of the long slow, death by one thousand cuts transformation into a company that doesn't have categorical commitments to privacy

They've been doing privacy-preserving ads for - a decade? It's not part of a transformation. The claim that Mozilla "doesn't have categorical commitments to privacy" would need to be stablished, unless 'categorial' means 'absolutely perfect in every way'.
I ended up changing to mailu recently, very happy with it.
https://mailu.io
This is a great highlight from this piece: "Take two recent stories that perfectly illustrate the difference in coverage. First, there’s the TikTok ban. Political reporters focused on which party would benefit from the ban, and who would get credit for being “tough on China” — the usual horse-race nonsense. Tech and law reporters, meanwhile, were highlighting how the legislation would actually weaken security protections and create dangerous precedents for government intervention in private companies. (Not to mention how it would undermine decades of US work promoting an open internet.)"

Most of the political press is chasing clicks, without realizing they are just cheerleaders for their own demise. The open internet is going away. And nobody is doing anything about it.
Emphasis in "yet"
I read an article, can’t find it now, that the Christian right believes Trump is basically a biblical messiah like Cyrus the Great from Isaiah 45. Basically a nonbeliever who God controls to help his people.

People believe what they want to believe.
Sure, thanks for your concern. The war started back in 2014 and at that time I didn’t even know what to do. Now, I have some experience which I’m sharing.
Wow. Never heard of them.

Corel refugee here refusing to buy another upgrade license.

I have been using open and free code to do all I can.

Don't mind paying for great apps, and these guys offering almost all the operating systems I value in their universal license and at only $170?

Sweet deal, I may buy in.

That said, I find this software collection worth a donation:

Http://portableapps.com
> Lightning strikes...how do EVs currently guard against it?

They don't. If lightning strikes, you make a claim and get an insurance payoff.

> Without galvanic isolation, battery goes...boom? Hopefully without you or your family waiting inside the vehicle under some false pretense of safety.

Nope. The lightning current won't go through the battery, it'll just melt the conductors in the charging cable.
What Is the Carried Interest Loophole, and Why Is It Difficult to Close? (2024)
- I think the ultimate safety improvement would be to move the human out of the realtime control loops and getting him focused more on the big picture.

- there is opportunity for permissionless passive RF sensors like this startup shows. Imagine the pilots in the CRJ received an immediate notification that an intercepting aircraft was getting blocked with(transmitting over) ATC comms on their UHF frequency. I think this could be done without decoding the voices.

- Passive radar combined with direction-finding of the VHF/UHF voice transmissions could also be integrated as another source of high-resolution tracking data
Been running my own mail server since 1999 or so. No issues.
One of the reasons I keep doing it is because I know if I fall off the wagon it will very quickly translate into that situation. As long as I have everything set up like the actual devs do and know all the processes, it isn't a lot of time for me to jump in and do bits and pieces. And even though its a very slippery slope, there are absolutely cases where it takes longer to explain what I want than just to do it. Sometimes I will start it off to get the architecture right and then leave a trail of points to complete it with someone on the team. So there are times when it's a "time saver" and it's a win all round.
In case anybody doesn't get the reference, printer driver trouble is what initially motivated Stallman to come up with the idea of free software and ultimately the GPL and the FSF.
> Or is it the baked in firmware using RARP and then the modern NetBSD kernel using DHCP? That would make more sense

Yes, firmware only knows how to use rarp and tftp to fetch a kernel or a better bootloader, kernel is modern and speaks DHCP. This is a pretty common pattern with netbooting; some will bootp rather than rarp, sometimes you use tftp to fetch something that can do an http fetch, etc. Always lots of fun :D
It can be easy to forget but bacteria is omnipresent in everywhere human can ever be, and even beyond.

It is not possible to scrub every trace of bacteria if the goal is ever to have a living human there. The human itself is the carrier of germs. Remove all the germs from the human and that human will not be very happy or very healthy for long.

Not to mention it is ridiculously hard to fully sterilize everything, especially in places where lots of nooks and tiny crinks exist like a space station. All it take is one bacteria and you will have a thriving and diverse ecosystem in a decade or two, complete with niche subspecies and unique populations[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._coli_long-term_evolution_ex...
A lot of projects were planned to start this year. It takes a while to get all the surveys and permits.
Goldman Sachs to Target Vice Presidents in Next Round of Cuts
There are three tmux customisations that I love and use all day:

1. Set the prefix key to C-Space. Much easier to type then any letter, and (in my case) only collides with Emacs set-mark. Its easy to remember and just type C-Space C-Space in that case.

2. Set IC (insert key) as prefix2. If you have a full-size keyboard, you can now scroll up by pressing insert (on the block of 6) and pageup. Easy to type.

3. Using sessions for ssh hosts. Add ControlPersist and/or AddKeysToAgent to ~/.config/ssh and bind the following to some key. Pressing that key will prompt for a hostname, and create a new session named after that hostname. The default-command will make it such that Prefix c will open a new window which is already logged in on that host. Its not the same as running a remote tmux, as your windows/session will not persist on the remote host, but it avoids nested tmux. I use it all the time during a typical day...

command-prompt -p "Secure Shell ([user@]host):" { new-session -A -s "%1" "ssh %1" ; set-option default-command "ssh %1" }
Portable Apps is great. You can load the install / menu tool. Pick all you want to load go!

It is possible to load a serious setup quicker than you are used to.

Very highly recommended.
I don't disagree that it looks unimpressive.
IMHO Windows 8 era (~2012) is when things started to go down the drain noticeably quickly.
This takes me back to 2004 when I inherited a NasRaQ, the original company file server, which had been replaced by a Windows Server 2000/2003 a few years prior. It became my go-to storage for Ghost and ISO images until the company gifted it to me around 2009. I may have had to replace one of the two drives while it was in service, but it was a rock-solid machine! Finally sold it on Craigslist in 2011, but I’m pretty sure it would’ve kept on trucking. Would've loved to try this out!"
China is collapsing!
Ibn Khaldoun said that once a state economics start deteriorating, everyone becomes an expert.

The way I see it, if the markets led by PhD and Noble laureates fails, people start looking for alternatives. Since the "establishment" has been proven useless, the door is open for "anyone" to chime in. The reality is that the economist at the top do not want to see the deficiencies because they have their salaries on the line.
If you had spent the time writing this and other comments googling/chatgpting you could have learned why returning to the gold standard is a joke.
Btw, I ended up disabling webmail. I don't the users really need it. Nothing will compare to the Gmail experience anyway, so might as well just encourage people to use proper Mail clients like Mail.app or Mail on iOS.
https://archive.today/LVNHL
How'd you integrate REST APIs in this?
This misses the forest for the trees.

I understand most people have negative experiences with managers that can't code, but I would argue that the experience with these managers would also be bad if they could code.

You don't need to be able to code as a manager but you need to be highly skilled.

The only problem that arises then is that for decisions based on technical knowledge you have to trust others.

The main problem I see is that a lot of managers are too mediocre for the job and compensate it by trying to sell themselves.
Netflix knows you're on your phone–and it's changing how shows get made
Et tu, Brother?

Nevertheless, isn't Brother still the cheapest per page even with official cartridges? I would like to get some recommendations.
I'm friends with plenty of starving artists or folks working day jobs and forced to keep their music on the side. If you're sad about not making money in music then there are dozens of other things you can blame besides AI that doesn't actually work well enough to take the job you currently don't have because of reasons not controlled by the evil software nerds.
I would guess it will jump to a grounded conductor inside the charging cabinet or the grounded case of the cabinet itself before it goes to the car that is sitting on rubber tires
Vending-Bench: Testing long-term coherence in agents
I block my printers from doing any Internet requests for this reason. They're only allowed established and related traffic on the LAN.
Two dots over a letter can be one of three types:

- umlaut

- diaeresis

- trema

A diaeresis signals you pronounce the vowel separately, a trema signals the pronunciation of the previous vowel (e.g. in the French ambiguë), an umlaut changes the sound of the vowel ( the German a sounds a bit like the English a in bat, but ä sounds like the English e in bed).

In this instance the double dot is a diaeresis.

https://thelanguagecloset.com/2023/05/27/diaresis-trema-umla...
Detroit woman sues police for technological error
I have no idea how/why it is hated. For me it is one of the best open source server packages. For instance if you have a specific problem you will find some configuration directives on the Internet and they will actually work.
Adding support for Manifest v3 is fine and not an issue for ad blockers. The issue for ad blockers is removing support for Manifest v2, which AFAIK Firefox has no plans to do.
If you've got a machine running Proxmox you can throw the VM right in and boot it! It should enable all the required settings automatically and let you log in with the default admin/admin credentials
The National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program and the Charging and Fueling Infrastructure (CFI) Discretionary Grant Program have made significant progress in expanding electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure across the United States.

As of July 2024, eight states had opened their first NEVI-funded stations, totaling 61 ports, and powered thousands of charging sessions.

Over the course of the Biden-Harris Administration, the number of publicly available EV chargers more than doubled. With approximately 1,000 new public chargers being added each week, there are over 200,000 publicly available charging ports.

It's irritating to see Joe Rogan's moronic talking points repeated uncritically in these hallowed halls. Truly, as Brandolini[0] observed, public discourse is flooded with misinformation faster than we can bail it out.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law
What's a 'coin'?
I think I disagree with the article. I think it is true that if you choose to expend time and energy on something that few people spend effort on, then you can become better than most people at that one thing. However, it seems that the article is trying to say that is true for everything and for everyone, and i disagree with that.

The missing key factor is that you have to find something unpopular and easy which will actually have a payoff if you become an expert. Risky and easier said than done.

If you read a few books on mathematics you think you're easily going to become one of the top mathematicians? Many ambitious people try to study math and decades later are disappointed by how they are still mediocre in their field or simply fail to make it into an academic career. Many PhDs in general, actually.
That building specifically has been targeted as a tear-down for a long time. It's truly a shitty building and the FBI has been trying to relocate for years. If they succeed in selling it, it will get knocked down.
There's a concept called "Every Page Is Page One":
https://idratherbewriting.com/trends/trends-to-follow-or-for...

An attempt to meet the needs of people following search engine links right into the middle of documentation.

This is where I wonder if an A.I. could provide missing introductory context, based on the conversation that got you to the doc.
Sounds pretty hit or miss, the 1 star reviews don't inspire confidence.

https://epson.com/For-Work/Printers/Inkjet/EcoTank-Photo-ET-...
> Hey, Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, was selling out all your principles worth it?

I don't think they have sold out their principles. These are their principles.

Thiel thinks democracy and freedom are incompatible. Thiel thinks women getting the vote was bad. Thiel's ambition is to "escape" democracy by seasteading or by building "freedom cities" or "network states":

https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/donald-trump...

https://www.thenerdreich.com/trumps-weird-freedom-cities-and...

It's a juvenile perspective. It's John Galt cosplay.

They think they will build a utopia. In reality what they're proposing is garden variety authoritarianism.
I mean, yeah, OK, try not flossing...
Barring a particularly good reason, I reckon your best bet is to just block internet access from the printer altogether. I can't think of a good reason why it should have internet access.
AI agents could make the internet go dark
It would also be interesting to have "transient" dependencies count towards "Used by metric"

E.g., Request is used by more packages than URLlib3, even though requests requires urllib, so in a sense, urllib is used by many more than requests.
There is also https://github.com/stalwartlabs/mail-server
This is so funny, I dived into the custom keyboard rabbit hole just 3 weeks ago. Never thought this would be so intriguing and time consuming.

Did you consider Mill-Max Sockets?

My personal favorite are 80% TKL ISO low profile keyboards, which is quite uncommon and I've not found much except the

Keychron K1 Max

having this layout. Unfortunately, the integrated Gateron brown/red/... low profile switches are not my thing - my favorite ones would be Lofree Kailh Ghost, but these don't fit the keyboard, although it is hot swappable because low profile switches are non standard (at least 2 different layouts I know of).

So I also thought about a custom solution. I found pretty impressive open source firmware and pcbs [1], but I noticed that I just didn't have the time to do all this. Since keyboards are so an individual device, manufacturing bigger batches is risky and manufacturing smaller batches is expensive... so pretty much no choice than waiting for someone having the same dream as I have or do it myself after shoving free enough time.

1: https://github.com/4pplet/waffling80/issues/1
He comments a lot on politics, actually. He just makes intentional efforts to obfuscate them, likely because they are controversial (yet weird. The weirdness may be a part of the obfuscation).

My VERY TLDR of his political world view is that he thinks the current world politics are f'ed to an extremely serious degree, so much so that we are in "lets get rid of democracy" land, and I think he wants a technocratic authoritarian strongman/"hero" to enforce some sort of libertarian paradise.

Its those controversial, obfuscated, and wacky ideas mixed with a healthy tech focus that leads to an entertaining read.
> as it'll have to be able to break the fault if it happens

Are you talking about the case where both of the ground wires fail while charging? If either is non-functional when charging starts, it disallows charging. If one fails during charging, charging disconnects.
I particularly dislike how this article tries to sweep the power loss issue under the rug: The first mention of loss says that the isolation link is "responsible for about 50 percent of the charger’s power loss". The second mention of loss says "the power loss would be less than 20 percent". They want you to think that those numbers are comparable, and that they've reduced loss from 50% to 20%.
We also require arc-fault breakers in the electrical code for new construction despite even their first-order effects being negative. We're drowning in over-regulation and the most prominent people pretending to care aren't going after the real problems.
Why not ideal?
I think it's the opposite. They are not saying "those people shouldn't draw [using AI]", they are saying "those people should've been drawing all this time".
I used mailinabox[1] for years before finally biting the bullet and switching everything over to a hosted email platform.

Hosting your own email servers sounds good, until:

- Gmail and MS fling your emails in junk, despite ranking 10/10 on mailtester.net

- You have to search for old emails through RoundCube's byzantine UI (and eventually giving up)

[1] https://mailinabox.email/
If you can downvote any comment, then you've got downvote powers.

You cannot downvote direct replies to your own comments though if that helps understanding what might be happening here.
Since the pandemic China on Western TVs is about to "collapse". However, what I saw is new EVs, new Phones, record high exports, record high solar panels installations, new metros/airports etc...

Something must be very wrong in your assessment, right?
Not just that, but bacteria are integral to the evolution and functioning of eukaryotes like ourselves.
luxury beliefs from people who have never imagined a world where their basic security and economic success was not guaranteed by the mere fact of being US citizens. Founders have so much power to just not take their money, so why do we take them seriously again?
I can't really tell. They also claim this change would improve total energy efficiency by 2-3%. So maybe those numbers are supposed to be comparable.
Once again, your argument is in favor of not helping the Allies against the Axis powers. This is not about democracy promotion. It's about repelling an invasion from a dictatorship. Invading a nonexpansionist Third Reich is a different proposition from helping other countries fight off an invasion from a Morgen die Welt conqueror. As I said, I agree the US shouldn't install and prop up illegitimate governments like the RVN. The people ruled by the illegitimate government won't appreciate it. That's not what's going on here.
It's alright, I'm not shy to the flagging and downvotes. I appreciate your thoughtful response

From my understanding, your argument is a variation of "many/all things are politics and therefore politics cannot be disentangled from the topic" which I've seen others mention before. Sure, you can find ways to connect things to certain policies and politicians and then talk about that solely. Yes, economics becomes politics and recent tariffs are certainly policy-related. That doesn't mean we must discuss the political aspects of it.

The problem becomes that jumping to politics is very polarizing, identity-driven, and quickly drowns out curious discussion. The OP made a political statement, which won him easy points to push his comment to the top since there are so many who share the mindset of OP's comment. Any discussion about things not directly related to politics was pushed down. The effect happens across threads so frequently that no other conversation is left but politics. Those who don't want to talk politics spend time elsewhere, creating a feedback loop.

PG has a great essay about this here:
https://paulgraham.com/identity.html
I don't know why you think I'm worried about confusing programmers? Did I say that?

My claim is that all of the results you are attributing to "infinity" are true for other reasons, like diagonalisation, and cannot be proven directly from the concept of infinity like you are claiming. It's a heuristic that is not helpful for actually doing the mathematics.

Feel free to prove me wrong by giving me a (mathematical, not hand waving) proof of the halting theorem that only makes use of "infinity" as you are describing it. You won't be able to do it, because it's not the crux of the halting problem. It holds for infinite programs too, because diagonalization arguments don't care how big your set is.

Anyway, I don't really have the energy for this. I appreciate the time and discussion, for which I thank you. But as someone who studied maths at a PhD level and now programs for a living, I'm not getting much out of these ideas. Perhaps we can just agree to disagree for now.
I think the concept revolves around a small IoT chip that connects to an online payment system. It could trigger a relay to enable/disable the outlet.
Construction with decades old regulations and fast paced technology is a pretty different environment from electric vehicle development where regulators are (usually) actively trying to make things easier.
That FAQ doesn't address anything. Suppose you're in a blacklisted block. Now what? Most residential IPs are blacklisted.

When I say I'm self-hosting, I mean I have a machine under a table right here in my home: True Scotsman's cotsman's self-hosting.
Not only dangerous but also unhinged - the way the "crowd" laughs like he's hosting a roast.