skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, that's what kills me.

And the only viable mitigation strategies involve giving Apple more money.

Spec'ing a larger onboard SSD to spread out the writes for hopefully longer endurance should be effective.

And, perhaps, opting for more RAM to reduce VM writes to disk? I'm not sure if that's effective. Perhaps the resulting sleep file will be larger as well, resulting on more writes overall. I'm sure somebody can chime in on that?

At least the newer models have SD card slots; can use SD cards for semidurable storage. They are obviously unsuitable for some things, but fine for others.
We thought Apple was unlocking the smartphone’s potential, not locking the computer’s.
That's a good point, but the server can still enforce an ordering of encrypted messages it can't read. You just don't get the benefit of the server being able to detect invariant violations in this case; all change operations would be sent to all clients and the client state machine would throw away the ones that created conflicts.
this works really well on Chrome/Brave for Android.

chrome://flags/#darken-websites-checkbox-in-themes-setting

See also
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/auto-dark-theme/
> I wonder if over time SEO spam becomes an invisible problem to us and instead the AIs have sort it out for us

There have been some good Twitter threads about this. Basically, this is the last generation of AI to be trained with inputs that were ~100% human. It probably won't take long until the bulk of the content online is generated by AI, at which point it will just be an AI feedback loop. Any new concept, idea, technology, whatever, that doesn't already have a bunch of content about it will never have a guaranteed fully-human-written corpus to start from.

Once there's a viable OpenAI competitor or two, it's probably only a matter of time until the AIs start an arms race to feed each other bad data. Tweak the model to generate subtly incorrect information, regenerate your training corpus in a way that it feeds into other AIs but ensures you ignore it, and now you're basically all the way back to having a few trusted "information gatekeepers".
> I'm sure you have reasons for downplaying this, but I would follow this with "and told them, in your face losers", or something to that effect.

Why would I ~ever mention it when it's somehow contentious? Family member in question has a truck that costs ~50% more. Why would I care?

> Saying "saving money and hassle" isn't for everyone is suspicious to say the least. Why wouldn't it be for everyone?

I never told anyone it saved money. I paid ~50% more for an electric Honda Civic. For my area/family group I was a new-tech adopter. I wasn't getting told, "You wasted money!" I was told, "That death trap will explode/catch on fire/not make it through the snow, battery will randomly empty, etc", harangued on the absolute basics on simple fallacies.
Personally I don't think our jobs are at risk, but perhaps some junior-level positions might have a reduction in volume.

More than anything, I see this type of system being used in combination with a system like Github Copilot to produce much more useful suggestions through feedback loop.

Things that used to be long, annoying-but-easy tasks may be offloaded to ML.

Remember that GPT is ultimately a very fancy Markov chain. It does not and cannot reason. It's more likely to replace busywork and give engineers better time to work on important architectural features.
Asymmetry Detected in the Distribution of Galaxies
I would agree up to the bump in the road part. Dev says email them and they will sort it BUT it will take time.

So how do you avoid this? Well use a different type of speed bump. Make an automated site to issue new keys to these people (because they are entitled to it) and then use that website to explain the situation. Inform the user how many years of use they have had out of their initial purchase, then offer them a “pay what you like” purchase / donation to the next key.

You could even set it up that if the user choices “free” for their next key, that new key will stop working in 6-12 months time and they will have to repeat the process.

This will prevent people on hard times having to beg and wait for a new license on something they already have paid for, and will still allow those with means and value the use of the software to continue to support the software if they so wish. Heck I wouldn’t be surprised if they gave more.

For me personally I stopped using mIRC years ago when I moved to a Linux based desktop for a few years, at which time I swapped to Hex Chat and just never swapped back when I returned to a Windows Desktop.
Also Vietnam vets and LSD-fueled hippies exist in the same set, and each can have effects that go in different directions.

On top of that, merging their effects (in policy setting for example) sort of is a barrier to attributing causality. It forces a 2 dimensional signal to go to 1 dimension. Neural networks can backpropagate attribution through that, but only with the convention that this attribution is the marginal effect. And that's a complex problem: who would be responsible for a policy change when there's a population contributing long-term for 48%, but a short term population adds 4%. Which population is the real cause? the 48% or the 4%? Is there a right answer to this question?
> Others may find value in my personal experience with Linux and Mac

I don't see how "Linux bad, Mac good" experience would help anyone without providing any specific details. There are already millions of such "experiences" on the Internet. By the way, I have the opposite experience.

Also, you again provided no value with your comment and it's not just my subjective opinion, it's a fact. Your both comments look like ChatGPT.
This, if nothing else is why AI will take over and rule the world - it has already surpassed politicians in terms of non-answers.
There's nothing "fake" about self-answered questions, and Stack Exchange even includes UI specifically for posting an answer at the same time as your question.
Here in Europe kubii does preorders for list price. I got my 400 with 3 or so weeks waiting. But yeah they really have to start solving this issue otherwise raspberry is just going to become obsolete.
Jesus Christ. You’re just digging yourself deeper and deeper, aren’t you?
Luckily, the phenomenon of puberty will make sure that young people absolutely do _not_ want to comply ;).
> make his people more like white Europeans is not lost on me.

What’s white about it ?
Thats honestly incredible to me. I've had like 5 _different_ game breaking bugs in multiplayer and countless crashes/quality-of-life bugs in warzone 2. Thats not even considering the broken looting that will come up almost once per game. I really enjoy the multiplayer overall (except Border Crossing) but Warzone is a buggy mess that isn't fun at the end of the day because it ends up being a looting simulator a lot of times. I much preferred the tempo of Warzone 1.
You're confusing helmets with mandatory helmet laws.
Normally outages don't call for a curfew in the area, but in this case there was looting going on.
In countries like Norway, they tell you that a life sentence is 21 years when you get it.
Careful what you wish for, GPT and the police are listening.
> reinventing the wheel is just fun.

Agreed: https://github.com/mschaef/vcsh

At least for hobby development, I find the fun/utility trade off to be a point of ongoing thought.
I do not like taking risks and I think i am a risk avoiding person.

Here in the Netherlands, I guess that my risk for getting involved in an accident, is not any higher than walking and other forms of transportation. I am not using an e-bike and I usually bike at a speed of about 15km/h. I do not use a racing bike, but a bike where you sit in an upright position allowing you to look around easily. I also take care of using routes that are safe. Here in the Netherlands, where are more bikes than cars, and biking is an important means of transportation for daily commutes and doing shoppings. We have good infrastructures for bikes.
There’s nothing hypocritical about a car mechanic saying cars should not be allowed on the sidewalk.
> there is no conspiracy alleged here, just that a single company is behaving shadily given the incentives.

This is the equivalent of "I'm just saying"

> The trend toward dismissing anything one disagrees with as a "conspiracy theory" is going to rob the term of any meaning.

No, I'm not dismissing anything I disagree with. I'm dismissing the idea that activision ban cheaters from their single player games to encourage cheaters to repurchase as a conspiracy theory.
Where are studded tires banned?
I think something a lot of people miss is the difference between Democratic voters and Democratic politicians.

Democratic politicians generally lean substantially farther right than their voters.

"Centrists" typically take the position that Democratic politicians are too left-leaning. This puts them very far to the right of the Democratic voter. It puts them much closer to... Republicans.
It’s interesting that a search engine would choose to encode recency bias.
RPi 400 is available, you can also buy other RPis in bundles with other accessories, only bare bones are missing.

Examples: https://botland.store/raspberry-pi-400/17918-raspberry-pi-40...

https://botland.store/forbot-sets-and-courses/14856-forbot-k...
I don't think it helps to put them in the same bag though. The problem is not being man, is being a criminal or any other form of machismo that limits women freedom.
But we currently have the option to bypass those restrictions if we want. Isn't it concerning that these systems might become more or less "mandatory" at some point?
It only takes one crash where the helmet was needed for you to never need one again...if you didn't wear one.

We went through this same nonsense with motorcycles. Stop acting like it's the end of the world to put a piece of foam and plastic on your head for a little bit.
It may not be perfect, but if it's the best study we have on the matter I think we should tentatively and judiciously accept it.
One thing I've always wondered about is how the ECC is handled on a modern SSD with regards to data retention.

SSDs often have a data retention spec that basically defines how long you have until your bits start flipping, and it usually falls off a cliff w.r.t. temperature, which can make SSDs non-ideal for offline backups.

However, I've read that reading from the SSD periodically allows it to detect these errors. Some say that even keeping it just powered on is enough.

My question is, do SSDs run some sort of internal scrub while they're powered on? I don't think so, based off of some power consumption tests I've done.

Also, if they do detect an ECC error, will they actually re-write the block in question, or just correct it and return a successful IO, while leaving the compromised data still on the media?
Sorry for not being clear.

In terms of creative expression, I think TikTok and YouTube are vastly more egalitarian allowing greater artistic expression by many many more people.

And I think they are certainly filled with better dancing in terms of technique, aesthetics, and expression.

What they don't have is the production value of a crewed soundstage...plus three additional studio cameras in the dance. There's the equivalent of a few million dollars worth of hardware as a "prop."
I still nurse disappointment, mixed with a hint of resentment, going back to the age of maybe 3 or 4 years old that mince pies contain mincemeat (which is fruit, not meat) rather than minced beef. In the view of my 4 year old mind, and frankly my 40-something year old mind, the names of ingredients and dishes ought not to provide a misleading impression of what they might be made out of. "Mincemeat" still feels a little like false advertising.
The whole point of selling something as a lifetime license is that you can charge substantially more. You’re not a tightwad ponying up. The developer is a tightwad for trying to double dip on the customers that thought he meant what he said.
Never expected to see a Friends reference on HN.
This exists all over the world. Just not here. Our regulations have killed simplicity in cars. Now we could adjust the regulations to allow more of this - like 'kei trucks' would be a big win. In fact, allowing small horsepower vehicles to skip safety requirements if they operate under 25mph is a great idea, and give a pathway for registration and insurance.

instead of motorcycles which are licensed, registered and insured, i now see more electric bicycles, which actually look like motorcycles, cost as much as motorcycles, and just ride around willy nilly.

Any small time manufactuer should be allowed to produce road legal vehicles for intracity use, and be allowed to skip most regulations that are onerous. Lighting, fine, brakes fine, but does it need a reverse camera or onstar or lane departure? no probably not.
We use the MZ, SCD as well as Senseair S8 and in my opinion all of them give a good enough accuracy. The build quality of the S8 and SCD is a lot better though. The most important thing is to stay away from eCO2 (estimated CO2) that some TVOC sensors offer which is very inaccurate.
LOL you completely made that up.
> It was a poorly thought-out policy

It was robbing people. Poorly thought out policy is an expression for people with good intentions, I just don't believe in that when it comes to the Indian government.
Actually I was gesturing to two things: one, yes, there’s a time element. But that’s not the important point. More important was the thought process behind - “of course I’m not going to write 5 pages because some random person on the internet asked me to”. It’s difficult to define agency, so I just wanted to tangibly evoke the feeling of it, as a reflection on why the models are not yet the same as what people are.
No I think that is pretty much it- it is deep learning after all, the scope of the training data limits the model.
It's so good with code because not only is there a TON of code in the data set, there is a TON of data of tutorials and examples and documentation EXPLAINING the code!
I've long been amazed at the computer programming world at the amount of content programmers write about... programming. When it comes to other engineering fields, people don't write nearly as much on the internet (and, ofter, are not allowed to write as much, publicly) about the topics. So of course these large language models are simply not going to be able to produce super detailed analysis of those fields.

There is something a bit more needed - Meta did a deep model recently with training specifically more on scientific papers, and it is able to 'talk the talk' better but unfortunately the 'understanding' just isn't there.

I think at the end of the day, programming languages are languages after all, thus work well with these tools, but there is something harder about scientific reasoning and interdisciplinary planning that is going to take something a bit more. This is the main goal of various research into bring symbolic methods back into interface with deep learning models.
So your rationale here is: if you already have a passport/drivers license, you should be okay with facial recognition software being used by the government? Hmm, very convincing.
This is becoming a trend. SourceHut has banned cryptocurrency-related software from its platform. While I'm a vocal opponent of cryptocurrency and related technologies, I'm a little bit torn on this particular issue - it's a soft form of censorship.

The cryptocurrency market is currently already collapsing under its own weight. I don't think the idea should be attacked directly though (ideas are bulletproof), rather we should assess the side effects and ensure any harm is repaired. So if there was an opportunity to take direct action, it should have been at a regulatory level: carbon tax on the electricity, treat and regulate exchanges the same way you'd treat "brick&mortar" banks/exchanges/transfer services, tax mined coins as income, etc. GPU OEMs should've limited availability per buyer (no normal person needs more than 2 high-end gaming GPUs if they're actually just gaming). Even if you're a cloud provider, you should just charge extra for any excess wear on the hardware, maybe co-locate the "hot" nodes together, and leave politics at the door.

So on one hand, this is a form of censorship. I can imagine that given a sufficiently broad definition of a blockchain, you could use it to shut down any distributed, log-structured database project. On the other hand, the service provider also has the full right to refuse service to anyone, no explanation necessary - I'm certainly happy my company did so, whenever approached by any cryptobros.
Beethoven's tenth.
My understanding is that Google does essentially allow searchers to "vote" on what they consider good by looking for bounces. If the searcher follows on a search results link and then quickly returns to the search page then it's considered a failure.
Some people might want to help their grandmother organize themselves better as they age, why do they need to learn a DSL and ecosystem instead of just downloading an intuitive app with modern UX sensibilities?

Is that offensive to you?
I need to get more serious about my washing machine cycle notifications. I have an ultrasonic water flow sensor on my water main and a whole-house power meter, but need to put a power meter on the washer/drier circuits directly to really sense them going off.

For now, I just have a button I press when I start a load and it starts a complex timer that waits an hour and then starts giving voice notifications through the whole house (mimic3 TTS + snapcast) saying "The Laundry has been finished for 1.5 hours", etc every 30 mins until I clear it.

Home Assistant is truly awesome though, gotta say.
> In multiple cases, these were not parents, or didn't even have kids in the schools they were protesting.

What if I have a significant other and we intend on having kids next year? Or in 5 years? We don't wish to move to a new district. What if we have nieces, nephews, cousins, or family that teach in the district but are too afraid to speak out for fear of reprisal? What if we have grand children, or volunteer with children in the district?

What if I am simply being taxed to pay for public servants who know preach topics I find morally reprehensible?

What if I simply recognize that "the children are our future" and so have a both legitimate self-interest and extrinsic-interest in seeing my version of what is right and wrong being promulgated?

Just please stop - this is obvious-as-all-hell political flame-bait.
I wear a helmet 99.9% of the time on a bike. They are not zero hassle. If you live somewhere where stuff gets nicked in public and you’ve got a nicer helmet, you bring it inside your destination with you. They mess up hair too.

They’re not GOOD reasons but let’s not pretend there aren’t any at all.
As an embedded dev I hope that at one time it can adapt my code to a new CPU by being fed the respective manual. It would remap register names for the new device.

This is probably a very hard task, even if it is mundane for the developer. You would need to interpret the meaning and usage of register names to find the respective mapping.

The advent of code examples I have seen were already impressive. I also think the code was quite good. Some complained there were lacking optimizations for memory and runtime, but you cannot have both and the results were decent, straight forward and most impressively even commented. Better code that you often find in the wild.
>There are websites that offer free images but either require attribution of the source of the image or else require paying a premium membership or subscription.

There're no prerequisites for fair use. I.e. licenses don't apply in such cases.

You could read more about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use

P.S. I am not a lawyer.
There's entire YouTube channels dedicated to videos of Tesla Self Driving doing stupid things like trying to turn into a tram. At scale, 99.99% correct will still kill many thousands of people. Compared to the sheer volume of cars, there aren't actually that many Teslas out there.
You're making the same fallacy again thinking the sample you have of politically intolerant people represents the wider population.

Only 66% of Americans voted

That means 33% are likely highly politically tolerant. So tolerant they can't be bothered to vote.

Even if Intelegence and Political Tolerance had nearly perfect positive correlation you would expect even extremely intolerant people to show full spectrum of IQ and the converse.

Add on that, the discourse is dominated by the extremely intolerant and you get your claim.
I like CBDCs, and I’m a big privacy guy generally. I really do not see them as being significantly worse than the status quo of digital payments. For every horrifying what-if mentioned there’s already an example of it in our current system (in the US, at least). If having them means I don’t have to deal with ACH again, I’m all for it.
I'm scared they'll start charging for it and I will lose access to it
> and triangulation could track down any one of them.

You know, I used to think that, but I'm not sure anymore that triangulation is easily done with radio signals. I mean, if we're talking about triangulating as measuring the difference in time of reception of a signal between 2 or 3 antennas, because light travels so fast you need an impractical distance between them, like the distance between GPS satellites, or maybe at least cell towers.

There's probably other techniques that are more achievable though, like measuring changes in signal strength as you change positions, or using a directional antenna and pointing it in different directions.

> Phone lines might even be worse though since that would mean having a record of your every call and its duration handed directly over to the state by the phone company and maybe even sold to any number of interested third parties as well.

Was thinking more about anonymity from the general public you're communicating with. You know, the threat model being someone taking offense at some comment, political or otherwise, and deciding to do something extreme. Death threats for dumb stuff like opinions are seemingly not super rare.

> Total anonymity wouldn't really be the point though. In the BBS days we used to have regular meetups/events and so at least for most of the frequent users you could already put a face to a username/handle. Making meatspace friends with the people near you was often a part of the appeal.

Yes, but I imagine you had the level of control for not anyone to know your physical address, at least. I didn't mean total anonymity.
I briefly skimmed content of the article, and had an impression that most of the data generated by different ML models for it is laying in the segment from infonoise to garbage. Does author understands that and publishing his findings anyway, or they are truely content with that level of quality, since it's free?
You're very lucky. The worst wipeout I ever had was on the side of a small town street. I was accelerating, the chain popped of my gears, and I basically flipped the bike over and ground to a stop on my helmet. My reactions and training absolutely helped me; I knew how to roll into it and how to not break my wrists. But without that helmet, I would have ground a hole into my skull.

You don't need that helmet until you do.