skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main issue in the article are calls to getaddrinfo() on every send which create a delay, which is not only DNS related. The function does DNS lookups but also translates IP address strings to address data that can be used by the kernel (e.g. the different ways to write IPv6 addresses like “fe80::1%eth0”)
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> But that was a choice made by the market to adopt Flash instead of having of having all of the Microsoft stuff forced on them. Nobody forced developers to adopt Flash and there were other choices for audio/video, even if they weren’t as popular as Flash.

The comment I replied to gave credit to the FTC. Which is not true.

> Microsoft made a deal with the government to stop most of its anticompetitive behavior. It was less about the bundling of IE with Windows than giving OEMs the choice to ship other browsers in addition to IE

Microsoft didn’t just promise “we will be good little boys”. The parent poster gave the credit to the FTC. Firefox didn’t become popular for awhile because it was bundled by OEMs. MS basically just stopped development on IE. Then Chrome took off because it was heavily advertised on the Google home page and bundled with third party downloads.

As far as IE not being bundled with windows 7 because of the EU. This is an example of government ineffectiveness. Windows 7 came out in 2009. Web browsing on the desktop was starting Gibbs yesterdays news by then. The iPhone had been out for two years and Chrome was already ascendant.
Google did it again; tweet replied to Tim Cook while tweeting from an iPhone
I lived in a city with argubly the best public transportation in the world. there were still plenty of times a taxi was needed. going somewhere when public transportation stops
is one. Another is when carrying something large. when going to something formal in bad weather, when too sick to walk, ...
You can probably fairly easily average out the low-frequency pressure changes. Trivially, you can consider the minimum weight per week the weight of the plant, and calculate the difference based on that.
RCT3 was great but it was so buggy. I think they patched a lot of the bugs with a big update but I was on 56k dialup at the time and couldn't download it. By the time I got ADSL I forgot about it. It's a shame and really sucked for people like me who bought it but couldn't update it.
Very interesting information as context, thanks for that.
In a hurry? China’s ‘electromagnetic sledge’ cruises at the speed of sound
This is so true, probably even without "a sufficient number of users". I wrote lots of code generation stuffs for binding and networking and I've seen a good number of people who always want to just hack into generated codes because it's easier than asking me nicely. Of course, I did put a very clear "DO NOT EDIT" headline for every single generated files. They just don't care. They just edit and commit. Unfortunately the team at the moment didn't have a tool or process to block them, like code review or CI. But even if we had that, I'm sure that they would find a creative way to circumvent that. Anyway, I could stop them only after making the generated code to somehow validate itself and ensuring it hard enough to understand and bypass.

Also, there was another creative exploit of our in-house slab allocator like object pool. The contract was simple; if the client asks, it will return a new object handle, which is just a pointer with some metadata. And every time it needs to access object, it should explicitly fetch the object pointer with some utility function which performs very basic memory safety checks like dangling pointer or double free etc. I wasn't its designer and it's not perfect but it actually caught some potential bugs on earlier stages so probably gave us some value. Anyway these are tangential to the real story.

One day someone found out that its implementation resembled a sort of linked list on a large array and technically you can go through those objects if you're willing to play with reinterpret_cast. They decided to exploit that for "an efficient object query" and did it secretly. Obviously they didn't have all the handles, so safety checks are bypassed. This seemed to work for most cases because the code checked a tombstone bit, a part of object metadata rather than handle metadata. But for some case, an object could be released and a new object takes that memory place during the iteration (it's multi threaded) and this caused a number of subtle memory bugs since the object access was done out of iteration context.

Yeah, library writers might deserve the right to break its clients if they ignores the contract. But I just wanted to say that sometime, it could be inevitable if the job's done as your means of livelihood and in that case you probably want to keep those creative people in your mind when you design your library. That probably won't stop them, but at least you will be less shocked by finding out their sole existence...
I was recently thinking about a similar hardware (although I have no hardware background). I have a lot of plants, some shared with my roommates, and many frequently die. Taking care of plants together is hard and sometimes we are all away for a few weeks so somebody else is taking care. I would love to have an app that alerts me if something basic is wrong, for which 90% of the time would be too much or not enough water. But what I would need is a cheap plant sensor, I would need like 10 or 15, I don't want to spend more than a few bucks per plant. I didn't find an available solution! I've found a few sensors but they were way to expensive. I know quite a few struggling with plants, having great plans but then killing most so I think quite a few would be interested.

I don't know whether the sensors are too expensive or what's the problem. This looks like the right idea, a dumb sensor that could be paired with a inexpensive hub plugged in somewhere talking to some server that distributed notifications and statistics to an app.
I was shocked when he "knew" I had a sodastream.

I wanted to believe this thing so badly. It had nice things to say about me.
In general, the client socket needs to timeout on black-holed connection attempts (several minutes), and the server never sees a TCP handshake packet if the IP is on the global routers ban lists.

As a side note, some people build spider traps that reply with a pre-baked bzip file as a spoofed HTML compressed response. Thus a client program dutifully decompresses a few TB sized document, and browser exits due to memory issues. Note most modern Browsers are wise to this trick these days, but I doubt a dodgy plugin disk-usage limit check would catch a client side storage-flood. People shouldn't do this though, even if it is epically funny and harmless. =)
Microsoft Teams is having issues
Muphry's law at play.
What does "correctly" mean? I assume "In an ergonomic way, allowing rapid fingering and resulting in a nice sound". If anything, this should be easier with a vertical flute.

> Most woodwinds use a much more natural playing position where the arms are comfortably in front of you, including some ("end-blown") flutes.
>please, think about this: can the "result" of any thought experiment be surprising, not what you expected?

Not necessarily for the framer of the experiment, but that's not the point - it's to get other people to think about a problem in a different way.
That's a completely different concept, though.

Peter Cooper Village in a collection of near-100% residential highrises. It is completely lacking in shops, restaurants, or bars at street level. When it comes to amenities, it is a virtual desert. Despite the lack of cars, you still can't really walk anywhere you want to go to.

Due to the large number of highrises the access streets are still very car-focused and hostile to pedestrians.

Additionally, the remaining space is filled with small closed-off snippets of high-density greenery. The large amount of trees block any kind of visibility from the residencies, greatly reducing safety.

It reminds me a lot of the Bijlmermeer neighbourhood in Amsterdam. Constructed in the 1970s it is best-known for being unsafe and undesirable - until a massive reconstruction starting around 2000.
Thankfully wasn't all that accurate for me.
Erm... why not? Everyone knows cloud providers are gouging customers on egress bandwidth fees, it's great that someone bucks the trend and calls them out on it.
I will piggyback on your comment as I totally agree. I am amazed at the amount of work that must go into not just writing the article itself but all the implementations along the way. Really amazing job!
> those models will become illegal by the mere fact they were trained on copyrighted material

The blog post says they are worried about the ability to use the model to "use it for illegal purposes and hurting people". I think that they are referring to the ability to create all kinds of compromising pictures (porn) with celebrities, kids, etc. Am I misreading that? They don't mention copyright anywhere.
I agree. I didn't find Barcelona superblocks appealing at all. All the cities you named felt much better for walking than Barcelona
We're an international telco, with two separate local entities & local teams, that are governed by different laws. The voys.nl website most certainly has the cookie consent screen.
There will always be some inept politician pushing for stuff like this. I am glad for measures like the GDPR and I think the EU is doing more good than harm to its state members.
You’re right, I was going based on their description. It’s actually higher than 2K.

https://amcrest.com/4mp-wifi-camera-doorbell-ad410.html
I was aiming more at the centralized-control angle (though I didn't make that very clear), i.e. are open-source models actually viable long-term? If only orgs with absurd amounts of compute can do updates because those imply a full re-training, wouldn't that effectively centralize control over any such model? Is there the option to to an incremental, limited re-training?
Going Down the Rabbit Hole
The client can just set a custom timeout and close the socket after 5 seconds of no or low activity. Then try again.

On your side note; EasyList probably does not want people to start suing for starting to distribute malicious content to users (and crashing your browser on purpose is arguably malicious).
Or simply the maps the car needs to rely on to find your route to your destination...
Worth remembering that both Spotify and Youtube got started with pirated music on their services and then worked it into fully legal platforms.
I read both Snir's port and the HN thread, but I'd like to see more details about his workload and setup. $2500/day is a lot. Of course, it's possible to reach such numbers, but IMHO and AFAIK:
1) it's not the same setup as " $800 Azure VMs deployment " - I promise you
2) the post is useless w/o detailed bill

At a glance, Atlas pricing includes the typical ~ 20% premium if we compare it with AWS (Azure/GCP) VM setup. 20% is very far from *100 price difference as per article.

Vitaly
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Do you have any idea of what is in place to prevent cheating in those competitions? The only possible improvement would be for the players to be naked.

This is just an easy excuse.

"He cheated!" "There are anticheat measures" "They're not good enough"

It's a cycle that can never be solved. The loser can always claim the anticheat measures were "not enough".

You know what. I think Carlsen has cheated in every single one of his games. Prove the contrary.
My understanding is that computer aided humans lose vs pure computer opponents. The human is a handicap.
> I fear commercial entities will be able to easily navigate the legal landmines and continually improve while open efforts perpetually lag far behind

Is it possible to crowdsource AI training with something that looks similar to folding@home?
Literally just tried this and no, it doesn't work at all. Devices are connected but the sending fails (Android -> Mac)
Surely eventually, hardware will catch up and in ten years people will be able to create models like this on their home PC, and people will just share PBs of images as datatasets/models like with normal piracy?
Biden seems to be doing already a stellar job at that.
The article makes no mention of the two most influential exposés by CIA insiders, Philip Agee's Inside the Company: CIA Diary (1975) and Frank Snepp's Decent Interval (1978). Either book would give a better illustration of conditions inside the CIA than any book the article mentions. Those two accounts made a deep impression on my cohorts and contributed to our feeling that the CIA was exceptionally incompetent among the various US intelligence operations.
I have it set up with the Amcrest app, so I still get notifications, I can do two-way audio, etc. The motion / person detection is happening on-device, as it is not sending a stream to Amcrest. I don’t subscribe to their cloud storage plan, but I do have a micro SD card in the device, so it stores clips of detected motion and people that play back in the app as if I did. The feed to my NVR is secondary to all of that.

Their app is not as polished as the Nest app, but it is sufficient. From what I understand though, after Nest moved everything under Google, their app isn’t as good anymore either.
If you don't crack down on free subway rides, next they'll be taking free books from the libraries, helping themselves to health checkups or worse expecting police to investigate their petty crime reports at no expense.

And who ends up paying for all that? That's right, the taxpayer.
Deep Learning for Text to Speech
This is exactly what I am talking about. I paid 400 euro for a brand new 1070FE back in 2016 and here you are refuting my statement with a line that you have bought a used 3060 for 250 dollars how many years after release?

I am glad you are happy with your purchase and yet I wouldn't pay that for a new 3060, even if I wanted one
+1 - the post speaks about 100 times difference between VM and Atlas setup.
At a glance, Atlas cloud has typical ~ 20% premium if we compare their pricing to AWS/Azure VM setup. 20% is not x100.
So IMHO and AFAIK we're speaking here about serious misconfiguration.
> The model was trained on copyrighted material. There are enormous pressures to close and stop this.

> getting these tools in the future will only be from untrustworthy websites where half the download buttons give you an exe

These models can already be downloaded via well known (ie community reviewed) torrents. So can many terabytes of labeled training data. This particular horse is well out of the barn.
I think the dream is that, when 5PM hits, you'll be somewhere (hopefully) exotic and exciting straight away. And I guess one just needs a few days if moving places, to get settled.
This is a very good idea that I would love to see implemented but it goes against the economic incentives driving websites today.

Lower fidelity would also mean to restrict tracking. Good luck with that. Internet advertising and data mining companies are not exactly renowned for their moral and ethical integrity. They would have no issue draining the data plan of a hurricane victim with ads for homeowners insurance.

It also means more work building those sites. Which is not something I see happening, given that in most projects there is little time to fix structural issues as is. Why fix bugs or optimize payloads when you can ship features?

I would also bet that if lower fidelity meant less (or no) ads, many people would use lower fidelity as a workaround for not having to see them. Which would be exactly what the world needs but is, again, entirely misaligned with most online companies’ economic interests.

Unless the incentives change, websites will continue to bloat until they break.
I'm sure this may be interesting, but with such low contrast it's simply impossible to read.
I found that I dive deeply into topics only if I work on my own projects. Studying stuff out of interest and being paid for it does feel right.
At first I was offended by how accurate the SodaStream comment was, but hey... we all want to create our own bubbly drinks.
I'm not sure there is really anything to fear here. "Traditional white Christian" is a declining demographic on all three axes, and no amount of pronatalist thought will be enough to save it.
That's fine until the next brand new model based on a better architecture where the above hacks won't suffice. My concerns here are long term, like 1 or 2 years out in AI-years.
It's pretty much a transport-level protocol, just like QUIC.
Obviously we cannot launch such 3node cluster in Azure/AWS for $800/month :-)
> so much for TPS doesn't work.

Well, just like agile, most companies aren't actually implementing TPS but something that looks similar on the surface.

"A Toyota spokesman said one of the goals of its lean inventories strategy was to become sensitive to inefficiencies and risks in supply chains, identify the most potentially damaging bottlenecks and figure out how to avoid them.

“The BCP for us was a classic lean solution,” he said."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-fukushima-anniversa...

It's much more about seeing problems faster than just cutting down on inventory for the sake of cutting down on inventory
Will this collapse affect the price of popular brands like Mac, Pixel etc?
This isn't accurate. AWS added Managed Rulesets several years ago: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/solutions/security/waf-ma...
I used the current values, they should be valid for a reasonable timeframe.

Edit: only by a few percents; the distances are too large to appreciably change the visible size of the sun in the sky.
This is a case of cognitive biases, and an unfortunate reflection on peoples inability to reason about risk.

Obviously if it is possible that COVID came from a lab then we should act as though it did - the best case is these labs are catastrophes still waiting to happen. And I suspect so is the web of international travel we've built up over the last few decades.

But at a population level, the human race can't process the implications of that. People are profoundly evidence based - we won't see action until there is evidence that a risk is manifesting. Which is possibly why people care about whether COVID originated in a lab or outside one.
Is creating weapons for nations military good, or evil? I’m sure those fighting to protect themselves have an opinion…
When you are already in a deep hole, it's a good idea to stop digging.

How much time did it took you to understand all this? What chances does a beginner has to understand these subtle differences and learn the particular way your codebase uses std::span and not footgun themselves? How much productivity is lost to the sheer terror of such footguns - not actual bugs, but time and effort lost that did not move the product forward?

And most importantly, what is the point of accepting that huge cost instead of writing in a language where unsafe data access is impossible?
>> it has the potential to end our current era of unprecedented peace and prosperity.

>Is this supposed to be sarcastic? Or are we just ignoring iraq, yemen, libya, afghanistan because they're far enough away and aren't white?

Not at all. Even considering Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Syria, Tigray, Chad, Myanmar, Sudan, Rwanda, Nigeria, and all of the other conflicts combined, we are globally in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity. Fewer people per capita are dying in wars than ever in the history of humanity. Fewer people live in poverty, by far, in the history of the world. Fewer children dying before 5 years old. I can speak more about this if anything is unclear.

> because they're far enough away and aren't white?

I'm not saying it's you, but those who are quick to fling accusations like that are often struggling internally with their own racism. Just a thought.

> So I'm genuinely interested, how do you see that going? The Ukrainian army marching in red square?

Russia entirely out of Ukraine. Despite what you have been told, the war is going quite well for Ukraine and quite badly for Russia. Ukraine has a very good chance to win, and by win that means Russia even out of Crimea.

> What do you think is more likely to lead to nuclear conflict, absolutism or a negotiated peace?

What is "likely" to lead to nuclear conflict is Russia deciding to use nuclear weapons. There is no other path to nuclear conflict. That is Russia's choice. Assuming the threat is real (arguable), being cowed in the face of such threats will lead to more threats and more escalation, not less. I can speak more about this if something is unclear.

> which seems to be the latest argument used by people with a poor understanding of history

Again, your own discourse here is pretty inflammatory. You can be more persuasive without hostility.

The relevant history here is - and it sucks to say this because Godwin has made a joke of it, but here we are - the relevant history here is Nazi Germany. The world should never have given into Hitler's demands, because doing so led to more instability, not less. That is a clear lesson we would ignore at our peril.

As an aside, the USSR and Nazi Germany were allies at the beginning of WW2. USSR didn't turn out to be better than the Nazis in any respect. While Germany has come to terms with its past, Russia never truly owned it. Russia is continuing the same policies, and the same genocides, as it did then.

>>Russian mafia leaders must be brought to trial for breaking international law

A condition of normalizing trade and diplomatic relationships will be Russia extraditing its war criminals. When Russia loses this war and Putin loses his leadership, the subsequent leadership may be willing to negotiate.
Neville Chamberlain wants his peace for our time back.

Outcome of such negotiations can also mean expulsion of Russian population from Ukraine to Russia as it was done after WW2 with Germans in neighboring states.
I would certainly welcome a dramatic price drop. It's ridiculous how expensive some processors have been these past couple of years.
Wouldn't that mean the old fabs or their equipment will go down the line to make older chips? I figured that's how it goes with these things.
I think I explained my point, why do you ask?

But to summarize for you: it's not true that Mary "knew all" just by reading about the color red. The premise is false. She lacked one bit of information: to have her optic nerve stimulated by a red apple. Note this isn't metaphysical, it's physical; such stimulation can be physically measured and she lacked this experience, which -- to emphasize the point -- is entirely physical.

Again, I think the thought experiment can be probably reframed in order to fix this flaw, but Mary and her red apple as currently stated are not convincing of any duality.
That's exactly the point: to frame the "experiment" in a way that only admits the viewpoint of the framer. The only value is to analize why it's impossible to make it a real experiment.
I appreciate the concern, I mosty use an ergonomic mouse and rarely use the touchpad (the one in my ThinkPad is utter trash anyway but that's a different story). It's just for me personally, build quality and UX will always be decisive factors and I will pay extra for that with no hesitation.

macOS' weirdness is actually what's preventing me from buying into this ecosystem although I love how it looks. Pretty sure it's not a very 1337h4x0r thing to say but I like nice colors and consistent designs more than tweaking configs and writing cursed scripts. YMMV
Agree, makes no sense, there's a saying more appropriate, the higher the monkey climbs the more you can see it's ass.
Well you're gonna be really disappointed to find out lots of people do use "mm" particularly in finance, and that Roman numerals have been used far longer than the SI system has existed.

Just because you don't use them, or aren't aware they are used, does not make it unnecessary.
SpaceX drone ship captures view of Falcon 9 launch and landing