skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you asked how they strayed far from their goal of being a "neutral historian of world events",

I asked him how they strayed far far far away from being free, neutral and preserving facts.

> Those grants are specifically funding activism which many would argue is not neutral, so your question has been answered.

this does not follow again. I mean first of all, free and preserving facts would be fulfilled so the only part that could be compromised as you said is neutrality. But their grants affect future events not the ones recorded and wikimedia aren't even the people writting the text on wikipedia, they are unpaid moderators. So you would have to prove how the parent company donating to some company can affect volunteers in a way so blatant they would stray "far far far away" from those three missions.

> Exxon is not a charitable organization so you're drawing a false equivalency.

how so? The non voting shareholders of exxon and the donators in wikimedia have the same role, financing the operation.

> I think most people would be quite surprised to see some of that money going to activist DEI initiatives that many would consider to be far from the goal of increasing Wikipedia's utility.

Sure, but that is still not proof of them not being neutral though. You are implying things and letting people read between the lines but even if you try and prove ideological bias in the grants given, there is not logical throughline into the unpaid moderation of the content of the pages.

At most you could argue they betrayed the trust of donors by using those donations for paying for things beyond the server costs of wikipedia. Which is fair, but from that to calling their mission compromised seems a leap a tad far
This seems to be related to both gender roles and class. The culture around the male role in a diadic relationship is classist. I wouldn't use the term toxic femininity, but I think in spirit it has some merit. The complaining about what words you "can say" is annoying for sure.
Patreon supporters generally know where their money is going: Straight into the YouTuber's (or whatever) pocket. That's the goal of the contributor and there's generally no particular deception on the YouTuber's part either. I want to give them $5 even if they already have a lot of other $5, because that's the value I'm getting or whatever.

I agree with others that Wikipedia very carefully makes it sound like they've got a sob story where if you don't donate they're going to shut down, so they probably get a lot of donations made with the belief that they're funding Wikipedia, but instead it gets shunted out to something else. Maybe something the donor is OK with, but maybe something not.
I don't know if you're ESL or if you just didn't read the article but none of what you wrote is in the article. You're assuming so much here.
HN readers are aware about poor contrast. Eg, your comment (which seems tame) is downvoted and has some lovely light color on light background combo.
Grave robbery is the plundering of grave goods to sell them on the antiquities market. Gaining evidence about the past is not a goal, so there's no attention given to documenting the site as it is excavated nor to preserving non-salable artifacts. Indeed, since these digs are usually illicit, documenting the provenance of the objects and the excavation process is a liability. Any "restoration" that's done to the grave goods is done to increase its attractiveness in the market, often using techniques that destroy any of the limited value it already had to archeology after being divorced from its original archeological context.

Archeology digs things up to learn about the past. Sure, some of the prettier objects might end up on display in a museum, but studying the objects and the context they were found in is the point. The majority of a dig's finds are going to live in basement storage for scholars to study. These aren't treasures to be collected to impress people or demonstrate wealth. We're often talking about scraps of leather, potsherds, nails, scraps of wood... nothing impressive. Grave robbers would just destroy any of this if it got in the way of the treasure they're after. The digging is careful and well-documented. The context the objects are found in is often more telling than the objects themselves.
Science is epistemologically limited: I won't go into depth, but instead suggest you read Nietzsche for your answers.
See also https://security.googleblog.com/2022/10/SecurityofPasskeysin... which provides a more technical overview
Microsoft's new Designer app uses DALL-E 2 image generator for graphic design
Another take - perhaps there is a "women are wonderful" sentiment because they are less likely to commit violent crime (and things like that).
no wonder he needs your help to complete levels
Seems pretty tame compared to the Amazon shopping lens thing they did, what’s it been like a decade ago iirc. Seems like this will be even easier to fix.
They didn’t tell us, but that’s our best guess.
I recently played Bone Labs on the Occulus Quest 2, and it totally redefines where I thought we were with VR (and with no PC to have to play it). Seriously, just check it out if you haven’t and you have a headset.

I am a huge VR skeptic for many of the reasons that people state here. I have also thought that VR’s killer app was any dangerous professional training situation that you wanted to present as accurately as possible without injuries to your staff (firefighting, EMS response, etc.). If the road to adoption begins with experiences that are decidedly more interactive and immersive than screens and monitors, I am starting to see the (long) path that leads towards that future.
I assume you run these behind a VPN? Or is traffic obfuscation part of these packages?
And there's the factor that communicating through writing is hard as the lack of non-verbal cues means that you have to seek clarifications to be sure that you actually understood what the other person was trying to say. More so if they are strangers.
Yea, that's totally fair. Meta is about as shady as it gets with this stuff.
Here you go: http://www.forth.org/POL.pdf

Great read, highly recommended. I'd go on but this is my second drop of POL in this thread.
> His posts were being flagged by the PR team.

The article specifically says that they were not.
People love to talk about cosmic rays, but in the business (of safety-related systems) it is well-known that most causes of single event upsets (SEU)/soft errors are the microchips (or their packaging) themselves.

"In the terrestrial environment, the key radiations of concern are alpha particles emitted by trace impurities in the chip materials themselves"

(https://www.ti.com/support-quality/faqs/soft-error-rate-faqs...)
But that is sort of the point. In theory, it's the same. But that's not how you should actually compute it.

The cheap way is to compute 21/7.

The hard way is to compute 1/7 (one floating point operation), and then multiply it by 21 (another floating point operation).

With matrices, the discrepancy in work and possibly precision between "solve Ax=b" and "compute x = A^-1 b" can be very large.
I get it, but I still prefer these:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBb9wFP7uZM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf-2Imh6a54
The PDFs for Higham's "What is" series are available on Github: https://github.com/higham/what-is
They haven't broken any laws. And "text heavy articles" are bad now? They share this information, and it's very public.

Prove to me they are lying. Nothing on their donation page seems to be a lie.

Your comment on the other hand is very misleading.
I love this story! A few years ago I had a server in my apartment with a similar 'dingdong.html' that would ring an old elevator bell I had salvaged from the junk. I didn't end up giving people the URL; I just made an ESP8266 button that would send a request.

If it had been a bit more reliable I would have kept using it but I had some issues with either the bell coil or the relay and it kept sticking. All in all the project ended up being more expensive than a wireless doorbell, but I enjoyed the experience (and the smartwatch notification when someone was at the door).
I don't know if everything has been collected in an easy-to-digest form, but GKH has gone out of his way a few times to shut out OpenZFS.
Of course, it was a flippant remark, but it's more that there are some people who have the right "polish" (looks/Stanford/wit/connections/etc) and they can raise hundreds of millions of dollars for their companies regardless of whether it's a smart investment.
"return on investment" ... you realize how that sounds, right?

The good news is with the new "investment" of my tax dollars into the tax and audit arm of the government, they can no go after the top tax dollars AND middle and lower-class citizen "offenders"! Yea!

Let's kill the income tax entirely, it's a completely unfair system. Middle and lower class would thrive, and the "big guys" would not notice because none of their real "income" is taxed, it's designed not to be taxed.
I thought the bag banning was the wrong thing myself. I always reused my grocery bags as trash bags, now I have to buy trash bags...which seem like they use more plastic. But maybe most people don't use them that way.
Funny, in Switzerland is 1800 euro still... but available.
What tech and/or societal changes would be needed to reach a world where a fair amount of user generated content is spatial (as opposed to 2D)?
This is like the first half of Flatland visualized[1]!

I always found imaginating Square's point of view a fun challenge. Seeing a world, I otherwise recognize the same way gives it a whole new dimension.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland
I enjoyed these TV shows:
- Ted Lasso
- Severance
- Bad Sisters
- Servant
- Trying
- Mythic Quest
- The Morning Show (season 1)

And these movies:
- Cha Cha Real Smooth
- Swan Song
- Coda
- The Banker
- The Tragedy of MacBeth
- The Greatest Beer Run Ever

Looking forward to the Sidney movie as well.
Summary: some produce contains a lot of water, and is normally processed into something with much less water. Like tomatoes into ketchup. This company captures and sells that water.

Doesn't look like enough water to be relevant. It takes ~100x as much water to grow a tomato as ends up in the final tomato. [1]

[1] https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/7d92/40efa5321ba0e2a8596894...
True, but Apple has so many interesting spaces it could grow into through M&A activity as opposed to putting ads in its TV service. Off the top of my head, wearables and gaming are just two that could promote a ton of genuine growth as opposed to promoting pirating by introducing ads.

There are plenty of whip-smart folks at Apple, surely they know people adopted streaming services due to lack of ads, and have the ability to pirate stuff pretty easily.
Make whatever case you want, doesn't mean anyone has to accept it.
This feels like tablets all over again. Microsoft had them for years but couldn't make something convincing.

The core of Facebook is the idea of reinventing Myspace as a business app with a formal design. From that point of view, it makes sense to let Microsoft reinvent the 3d user experience.

I doubt that it will create the package that will establish 3d headsets. For a workplace, it's a feature that the colleagues in a meeting are at a distance. On the other hand, we would already know if a virtual desktop with a huge spreadsheet would be more efficient than a monitor.

Without a Steve Jobs, users have to figure out the purpose of 3d headsets by themselves. Meta should follow the model of the PC and let every producer of electronics build a compatible product. Let everybody use the patents as long as they build a headset that fulfills the spec.

They should also avoid any lock-in and choose a free operating system. Only then can it be used by enthusiasts to experiment until the purpose of 3d headsets is found.

This can still be beneficial for Meta because they can establish themselves as the leading market place for 3d apps.
Furthermore, like ads on the web, there is a need for an ad network because all the free apps need to be financed. Meta can ride the network effect of being the first mover.

Meta has the chance to create the next platform. I doubt that they will take the risk. By locking it down, they can be sure that they will never lose whatever they create. Unfortunately, they are only on a way to create the precursor to the 3d ipad.
A quote I saw somewhere, and backed up with links to research that I (unfortunately) did not save, went something like this:

“For the exact same crime with the exact same damages, the gender sentencing gap is three times larger than the wealth sentencing gap, and seven times larger than the racial sentencing gap. Having been born female is the single largest get-out-of-jail-free card you could possibly possess.”

This hesitancy by police, prosecutors, judges, and juries to properly charge, prosecute, and sentence women to the same degree as men are treated, is certainly sounding a lot like the “women are wonderful, they couldn’t possibly be responsible or capable of this” effect in action.
Defund the FBI, CIA, NSA, ATF, and DEA.

Not just "defund", but "abolish".
For one, you get no performance benefit over non-cow unless you update in place. It’s what every ‘fast and easy’ filesystem has to do - fat (including exfat), ext3, ext4, etc.

The failure modes are well documented - and got worse in many cases trying to work around performance issues due to journaling, but the journaling doesn’t resolve the issue fully because they can’t store all the data they need without making the performance issues worse. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4 and ‘Delayed allocation and data loss’ for one example.

This isn’t a solved (or likely solvable in a reasonable way) problem with non-COW filesystems, which is one of the reasons why all newer filesystems are COW. The other being latency hits from tracking down COW delta blocks aren’t a big issue now due to SSDs and having enough RAM to have decent caches and pre-allocation buffers.

Also, COW doesn’t need to allocate (or re-read/re-checksum) the entire prior block when someone changes something, unlike modify in place. Due to alignment issues, doing SOME usually makes sense, but it’s highly configurable.

It only needs to add new metadata with updated mapping information for the updated range in the file, and then checksum/write out the newly updated data (only), plus or minus alignment issues or whatever. It acts like a patch. That’s literally the whole point of COW filesystems.

Update in place has an already allocated block it has to deal with in real time, either now consuming less space in it’s already allocated area (leaving tiny fragmentation) or by having to allocate a new block and toss the old one, which will have worse real time performance than a COW system, as it’s doing the new block allocation (which is more space than a COW write, unless the COW write is for the entire blocks contents!), plus going back and removing the old block.

ZFS record size for instance is just the maximum size of one of the patch ‘blocks’. The actual records are only the size of the actual write data + Filesystem overhead.

ZFS only then goes back and removes old records when they aren’t referenced by anyone, which is typically async/background, and doesn’t need to happen as part of the write itself.

This allows freeing up entire regions of pool space easier, and fragmentation becomes much less of an issue.
Why do you feel that my posts were flagged? They were never flagged. Marketing and PR had no issues with what I was doing.
In that case, your comment is a lie, and I can freely dismiss it.
Interesting. I'm still struggling to see how this is better than just using a yubi/solo-key
Sending 3 kids to nursery cost in excess of 5K per month, that is not half a person’s salary. It is the entire after tax income of somebody earning 100K a year.
> There's no special 'lifetime extension' operation involved. ... The garbage collector takes care of deallocating it when nothing references it anymore.

I never used the word "special". As you say, adding a reference will mean the garbage collector won't deallocate it (until that reference is removed). In other words... its lifetime is extended. That's exactly what I meant.

> If the use of & in the example code is puzzling, it's probably because you're expecting Go to have some C-like concept of an automatic (i.e. stack allocated) variable ...

Not at all. In C++, you can use & on a reference variable and it will return the address of the object being referred to, regardless of whether it is allocated on the stack or the heap (or even statically allocated). Even in C, you can do &*x on a pointer to any object (which is silly by itself, but useful when combined with pointer arithmetic e.g. &x[3] translates to &*(x+3)).

> It [the & operator in Go] is in fact a trivial operation in Go too, as I hope the above has clarified.

Maybe I should have avoided the word "trivial" as its meaning is subjective, but I was careful to define what I meant by it: "returning a numerical value that the compiler had access to at that point anyway". Your comment just confirms that, as I said, it does more than that – it also adds a reference to the object.

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To be clear, I'm not saying that it's bad or wrong that Go uses the & operator to mean this. Once you're familiar with the language, you probably get used to it very quickly. My point was just that it's a surprise initially if you're not familiar with the language, that's all.
"Why is there no regulation to force non-plastic packaging when a viable alternative packing exists?"

Because democracy requires agreement with majority of people. Most people have their own problems and they don't care about PET bottles or whatever. Also, corporation are always lobbying government to not take any actions.

Lobbying works because companies can get direct benefits. But many people who cares about climate changes seriously wont lobby as they don't have that much money to lobby politicians to take actions.
It's fantastic. I also really enjoy the blues show the immediately follows it, Preachin' the Blues. Bit of a contrast but the curation on both shows is stellar.
The argument is that our selection process for leaders is basically broken, and the winners are less "men and women" than "aggressive egotists with varying genitalia".

Males are more often in the extreme edges of the personality curves. It seems likely to be the case with aggression and egotism also. Women who compete with them are less common (in the field, but also in the female population), but often similarly extreme.
The first time the excuse was some gibberish about "primary sources."

The second time was something more esoteric, which I can't remember.

Then Wikipedia deleted my account during some transition and I lost interest in the whole thing.
See also, the glEnd() of Zelda http://tom7.org/zelda/
Limits on distribution are limits on use. If you don’t understand that, I suggest you Google for some discussions about why many people don’t use GPL’s software - it’s because the limits on distribution affect their usage.

Fair point about the XCode license being more restrictive than I said.
running ads with that amount of content is a no-brainer and it's pretty much going to be required to keep it profitable. I wouldn't be surprised if apple TV+ is losing money, I've seen $1B tossed around online.
Governments are basically the mob, except that they figured out that they can exert more control over a longer period of time if they have documents that "constrain" their powers and they offer you a say in some matters.

Every year, I pay the US government protection money at a higher rate than the mob demanded (~35% vs ~15%). They mark their territory, control who enters and exits, and demand compliance with their rules. If you are under their protection, they give you a little document that tells other gangs not to screw with you.

They back all of this up with guns and threats of violence, held by unelected thugs. They give you a process to prove your innocence, but the process itself is a punishment, since it is a huge resource drain to go through.

The FBI are the most visible thugs.
The intention was for you to have friends with CD players, and all of you hit play at the same time.
Also Google / Android, but that doesn't get the clicks.
More people own an Android phone than a yubikey?
IMO people are thinking on a time scale that is too short. VR is different from crypto, and though it may not succeed, it can solve real problems.

One example: Reducing inequality. With the purchase of a headset (~400$), everyone can have a 60" TV, and learn how to play the piano, and have access to 100s of board games (the last one hasn't been implemented yet, but possibly soon).

Crypto OTOH provides no real value, and has been out as long, if not longer.
> Or is it that because of this bias fewer women end up in prison?

That's well documented [0]. Money quote: "In the United States men are most adversely affected by sentencing disparity being twice as likely to be sentenced to jail after conviction than women and receiving on average 63% longer jail sentences."

An interesting side-note: the effect shrinks when the judge is a woman.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentencing_disparity
It's not clear what you are asking then. You should clarify.

The info in the link provided addresses the only concrete portion of your comment, which is that, yes, most Russian employees have moved elsewhere.
Mwell, the article claims, and points to work that also claims, that large language models can actually be made to perform arithmetic well. They need fine-tuning, verification, chain of thought prompting and majority voting to be combined but the linked Google blog says that Minerva hit 78.5% accuracy (on the GSM8K benchmark).

For me the problem is that we can look at the output and say if it's right or wrong, but we know what language models do, internally: they predict the next token in a sequence. And we know that this is no way to do arithmetic, in the long run, even though it might well work over finite domains.

Which is to say, I'm just as skeptical as you are, and probably even more, but I think it's useful to separate the claim from what has actually been demonstrated. Google claims its Minerva model is "solving maths problems" but what it's really doing is predicting solutions to problems like the ones it's been fine-tuned on, and those problems are problems stated at least partly in natural language, not "naked" arithmetic operations. In the latter, language models are still crap because they can't use the context of the natural language problem statement to help them predict the solution.

Btw, "chain of thought prompting" if I remember correctly is a process by which an experimenter prompts the language model with a sequence of intermediary problems. So it's not so much the model's chain of thought, as the experimenter's chain of thought and the experimenter is asking the model to help him or her complete their chain of thought. I have a fuzzy recollection of that though.
I think he's referring to the cast: (double*)->(void*)->(double*) which should be fine. I'm guessing the original article author prefers using memcpy because there doesn't seem to be any performance cost and its correct in other situations where the alignment is wrong, or there is type aliasing. The advantage would be if you always use a safe method in a code base then you don't have to worry about proving that possibly unsafe methods are safe.
Or like most they just doesn't care about that?
And what happens if your Google account that these keys are tied to is locked/revoked for a nebulous ToS violation?
Women cannot even commit violent crime against half the population.
Is WhatsApp open? Are there alternative clients?
I think if we replaced "AI" with "taking averages over subsets of historical examples", then there'd be no mystery for when "AI" will be good or bad at anything.

Would we expect a discrete melodic structure to be expressible as averages of prior music? No.