skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comparison with QEMU is with KVM disabled, right? Assuming this is true, how does it compare with KVM enabled?
Saltpetre was available from chemists (ie pharmacies) in the UK, but me and my pals had limited success making decent gunpowder with it - I strongly suspect it was heavily laced with some form of fire retardant precisely to thwart pyromaniacal little herberts like us.
Paramount sued for $500M over 1968 ‘Romeo and Juliet’ nude scene
Twitter says it will relax ban on political advertising
Author here. I'm planning to get Blink to compile with Cosmopolitan Libc as soon as possible. There's just a few switch statements that need to be refactored. There's a really nice `cosmocc` toolchain that makes building POSIX software with Cosmo easier than ever. See https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/tool/script... and https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/tool/script...
The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America, published in 1962, details how news media in the 20th century transformed into a powerful engine generating passable stories and news, fueled only tentatively by developments in the real world.

Conferences, interviews, panels of experts, reactions, leaks, behind the scenes peeks, press releases, debates, endless opinions and think pieces, so much else... We already live in the synthetic age.

Is it about to get worse? It's hard to say. GPT may eventually be able to sling it with the best of them, but humans have a trillion dollar media culture complex in place already. In a sense, we are prepared for this.

The question posed here is broadly the same as the issue we've been coping with since the invention of printing and photography. Is it real or is it staged?

My parents both worked in a newsroom -- my father was an editor and columnist, and my mom a reporter. There is something called a "byline strike", where reporters collectively withdraw consent to have their names appear in the paper. It's not a work stoppage -- the product (newspaper) goes out just the same, just without bylines. Among other things, this is embarrassing for the paper because it draws attention to their labor problems at the top of every article. More fundamental, at least from my dad's perspective, was that it seriously undermined the credibility of the paper. Who are the people writing these articles? Do they even live in this city? Who would trust a paper full of reports that nobody was willing to put their name on?

This paper went on to change hands in the 90s, fire its editors and buy out senior staff, then moved editorial operations out of the state entirely

I am concerned about GPT but I don't think we are going into anything fundamentally new yet, in this sense. Media culture is overwhelmingly powerful in the west, and profitable. GPTs and their successors will massively disrupt labor economics and work (again), but not like... the nature of believability and personhood, or the ratio of real to synthetic. That ship is already long gone, the mixture already saturated.
I'd sure hope not. Reddit comments are a masterclass in disguising ethos and pathos as logos.

I'd expect that the boring reality is that it's trained on highly ethos/logos text (academic works) and thus always presents itself as such, even when its weights cause an invalid assertion.
>On the other hand, in IT, this style of learning is considered normal. "This is how the kool kids do things today. The past does not matter and probably didn't exist anyway. The end."

And yet nand2tetris is one of the most common suggestions for people who actually want to figure out how computers work. Because you actually are posed with problems that real world engineers used to struggle with, and are allowed to play with the problem before finding out the answer. It builds a much deeper understanding than "it works like this because it is"
I was thinking about vehicles that can't switch to electric power. The tech's not there yet, and may never be.

Cargo ships. Jumbo jets. Military aircraft. Specialized industrial vehicles, such as those used for mines.

Unless these use cases are made obsolete (possible, such as military) society will depend on fossil fuels for many decades to come.
In which country is this??? Definitely not in Europe
Who said "zoom"?

We're talking secure!
Can ChatGPT Build a Guitar Pedal Plugin?
Sounds great. To be clear, I don't think weekend projects are a huge help in getting a job in the sense of having a portfolio, more to give yourself the confidence and polish your skillset a bit.
And it makes more logical sense to you that everyone is just weak-willed?
Yeah that's not my argument at all.

My argument is specifically: "SHA3 implementations are necessary for Ed448, which increases code size and therefore also increases attack surface". The memory corruption bug was just a specific recent data point about the attack surface increase.

The more meta point is "just add one more algorithm" isn't a free decision. It involves non-obvious trade-offs.

I hope that makes it clearer.
Can you talk more about your trading bot? I've also done something similar the last year, mainly systematic trading and cross-sectional system.
> Does the EU have jurisdiction over Meta?

Yes, through their legal entity in Ireland, and through various laws that govern the ways you can do business in the EU.

> What happens if Meta.. just doesn't pay the fine?

It will eventually result in either the fine being paid by Meta, the fine being nullified by the judge, or the seizure of Meta's properties by force by the government, depending on Meta's actions and court rulings if Meta sues against these fines.

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> But what if Facebook doesn't have that European presence? What if Facebook is entirely based in the US, or moves all those seizable assets and arrestable employees out of Europe before the payment deadline? Does the EU have a way to order all its ISP's to block Meta?

Not necessarily, but that does not matter much, because the government could at that point seize any outgoing bank payments to Meta to the amount of the fine, effectively shutting down their income flows from the EU.
I know this is a joke, but I think it's important to recognize that it's because the ChatGPT language model does not have the ability to introspect and decide how accurate its knowledge is in a given domain. No amount of training on new input data can ensure it provides accurate responses.
Ldtk: Modern, lightweight and efficient 2D level editor
Not necessarily. You're allowed to make backups and whatnot in a few scenarios carved out ahead of time that likely wouldn't adversely affect the creator.
It is closer to light than dark. It's not your grim dark forest. There is some humor, including of the Other Intelligence kind. There is, however, a LOT of fairly dark stuff, various killings, gigadeaths, lots of epic fights. Check it out by starting at Consider Phlebas, its quite representative!
Could you share this information as a percentage of your monthly expenses?

I'm pulling the trigger on this after 17 years in business and our ARR covered 50% of our anticipated annual expenses last year.

We also grew by 100% last year, all while on coast with $0 spent in marketing.

The time we spend on the products, when added up over time, the most valuable time we spend, so we have cut expenses and plowed away revenue to help us make this launch this year.

The goal is to meet 100% of anticipated annual expenses in net ARR by the end of this year and it feels very doable.

After 17 years, I'm also shy to discuss details because it's taken dozens, if not hundreds of attempts to find something that worked. Started in 2005.
Hi Ben

> We're targeting databases of 1 to 10 GB right now and those seem to work pretty well overall.

What are some reasons you reckon that the current setup won't scale beyond 10GB? Or, is it some arbitrary threshold beyond which you folks don't stress test things?

Also, if I may, you mentioned on Twitter that this work was 3 months in the making with 100s of PRs. Leaving aside stability related bugs, what design decisions previously made were the caused painful bugs / roadblocks? Consequently, what things majorly surprised you in a way that perhaps has altered your approach / outlook towards this project or engineering in general?

Thanks.
Famous TCL paper from 1995, regarding event based programming.

"Why Threads Are A Bad Idea (for most purposes)"

https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/papers/threads.pdf
Brad Feld: Same as it ever was
Sure. My point is any change in salary would be insignificant in comparison.
I had the P-51 Mustang one in the late 80s. At the time I wanted to be a pilot and was busily building balsa models, windup flying models, plastic Testors models, and Estes rockets.

The thing with the Cox airplanes was they were cheap enough for your parents to actually buy one. RC stuff used to be really expensive and clunky. My first RC plane was in the late 2000s and it was about 5 foot wingspan and had an even bigger, even messier glow-plug engine like the Cox flyers. I had to join a club to go fly it cause the radio equipment was still kind of sketchy. Total cost once all the accessories to fly it were included was probably closer to $1000 and even though it was "Ready to Fly" it still probably took 10 hours of work to get it actually flying well. (By that point the models were starting to be partially assembled in China)

If it cost near $1000 in the late 2000s with it being partially assembled in China you weren't getting much in the 70s or 80s at an affordable price with it assembled in the US, so anything good meant many hours of you assembling it. Hence the Cox type stuff that was a couple pieces of cheap plastic.

I crashed mine for sure, but never that badly. It was pretty good fun and I used it for a good period, though never without supervision. I never managed to learn any tricks, but I remember seeing an adult at the school fields one day who had one and was very good and did all kinds of tricks.

I have a DJI drone.. it's amazing.. but is it actually as fun as that old stuff that took 10x-100x more work to get it to work? No, I don't think so, for me it's so easy it's kind of boring, though a good portion of that is that it's a quadcopter. Fixed wing is so much more fun to fly.
Yeah, college students routinely bring down clusters by submitting large jobs with naive IO patterns. A common strategy at supercomputer centers is to not mount the home dir at all, and force jobs to stage every single bit they need into the work node's filesystem.

We put tons of artifacts and modules on NFS but our filers are designed to scale. Once, I even had to evaluate a product (Gear 6) which was a read-only cache of another NFS server, just to offload the heavy reads caused by cluster scripts.

With all that said, the best cluster I ever ran was diskless- all the worker nodes mounted / and /home from a master node, booting straight into a root NFS filesystem.
That makes sense. Backwards compatibility can be a large burden. I'm still sad that they haven't managed to make a new thing that just works. NodeJS is repurposing a language and runtime originally meant for hacky web scripting, but it ended up ok in the end.

In general, if a community doesn't agree on how to fix a problem, someone else will provide a solution at a higher layer. Now it's common to install a whole Docker image to run some Python code instead of a few Python deps.
True but there is less signal available. It was much more effort and time consuming to learn. Now the effort is spent in filtering out the noise but it still seems like a net gain. Things like learning to cook or fix a bicycle, or find books and music are so much easier, despite the overwhelming amount of garbage/noise. At least that's my take as an adult who has lived in both worlds.
> This isn't even a new fact about the internet. If you pick a random book written in the last 100 years, the odds are very poor that it will be high quality and a good use of time. Even most textbooks, which are high-effort projects consuming years of human labor, are low quality and not worth reading.

I doubt this is true. If you pick up a random bit of written prose from 1900, I’m guessing that it’s closer to the best written prose of 1900 than a random bit of the 2020 is to the best of 2020.

It’s like your point about textbooks. Yes, the average textbook is crap compared to the best textbook, but it’s still a textbook, which is infinitely more useful than the hundred billion or so spam emails sent every day.
> and that doesn’t go away just because it becomes self-aware.

So funny that, biology offers correlation to the contrary. Animals we think are "less conscious" tend to actually have many better cognitive abilities than us. Chimps have faster reaction times and better memory. Octopi have much better spatial and visual reasoning.

Consciousness makes us dumber in exchange for more adaptability. If it was a free lunch, biology would be handing it out like candy.
> I'd say the driver definitely should be alerted that that PDF they opened was infected

When you actively open an infected or malicious file you do get alerted - those are the alerts shown in TFA.
Given the OPM breach, I'm not too keen on the competence of governments holding records either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management...

> Approximately 22.1 million records were affected, including records related to government employees, other people who had undergone background checks, and their friends and family.

> One of the largest breaches of government data in U.S. history, information that was obtained and exfiltrated in the breach included personally identifiable information such as Social Security numbers, as well as names, dates and places of birth, and addresses.
> This one from 2022 for Penn and Teller is amazing

For some reason I'm not very interested in magic and I don't especially like being fooled. But this... this is well beyond anything I have ever seen. So thanks for that.
No, but the ADD/ADHD stims are. I also had nausea all day and could not eat more than approx 1. slice of pizza for lunch and dinner up til age 16 on days that I took the smallest dose of methylpenidate. In summer, when I was not on it, I actually resumed average eating and growth. My growth chart, before age 8 starting it, was right around 50th percentile in height/weight, and by age 16, was was around bottom 5th percentile.
Agree, but I would argue that 'climate change' is not making it fall necessary across the board for all use cases; what I notice here in Colorado is that we might get fewer snow days, but when we do get snow now, wow, it's crazy how much dumps.

Another way of looking at this is, I used to get by with a ~$250 dollar electric snowblower; that thing died just last week when I asked too much of it trying to rid 10+ inches of very heavy, wet snow off our long driveway.

I'll be replacing it with nice Toro gas powered snow blower (~$1000-1500) because I expect the same / worse going forward. Fewer snow days, but when it does snow, it's a lot more than we used to get.
Armorpaint: Cross-Platform 3D PBR Texture Painting Software
Russia’s Zircon Hypersonic Missiles Now Deployed on Frigate Officials Claim
Unofficial Solution to Cain’s Jawbone
Cain’s Jawbone is a mystery puzzle written by Edward Powys Mathers and published in 1934. This is the first public (but unofficial) solution.
Where were the parents? That a kid was able to pull such off without the parents knowing, demonstrates that Louisiana's nanny state laws are not going to help at all. Sneaky kids with some tech knowledge (access to a VPN being just the start) are going to circumvent the state, as easily as they can their parents.

What the state is really trying to do, is push unreasonable police state control over adult citizens. They are making excuses for tracking and monitoring adults, along with censoring freedom of speech and expression.

> ...seems like great news to me...

There are people that think it's a great idea for all the women to cover up from head to toe. And even others that feel any violations of their religious beliefs (including sexual practices) are punishable with death. The state and those seeking to impose on others can keep taking this as far as others are willing to let them.
Oh, I follow the argument, I just don't think it's persuasive. You wouldn't look at a system that deliberately built on SHA3 and say it was worse than a Blake2 scheme because of SHA3 code quality concerns, so I don't think it's a particularly compelling reason to pick a curve.
Some PHP fan trying to bring their deception to go.
This is a non-issue. Like any other technology, EVs will (do) get traction where they provide a significant advantage, and then as the tech matures they will eat away at the rest of the problem space.

One of the few business books worth reading, the Innovator's Dilemma, is all about this, and is supposedly beloved in the tech business. It's where "disruption" entered marketing discussion.
Actually there were limited restrictions on what could be done to slaves, but that's irrelevant since the 13th ammendment doesn't make prisoners slaves, it merely doesn't make involuntary labor as part of a punishment illegal.
My biggest problem is that I've probably got ~15,000 days of life remaining.

There are only a few ways I might get lucky:

- somebody uploads my mind into a computer

- somebody cures aging

- somebody cures sleep (extra 30% of each day would be nice)

- I decide that ~15,000 days is good enough
Personally I have no idea what you're talking about...have visited the city many many times for work from bronx to manhattan, and come from a much "dirtier" city.

If you think there's garbage everywhere in NYC, I advise you to never visit most European capitals, and especially not the asian subcontinent. Which is not to shame these places, but more so to say that NYC is doing OK.
Drugs can reduce your desire to eat or increase your metabolism.

You don't need a drug, but changing habits is very hard and obesity very deadly.
I think the main problem aside from the side effects you listed is the fact that frequent injections sounds really inconvienent, and the cost is pretty prehibitive unless insurance is covering it.
Oh you're going to love it! Feel free to email me if you want more info.
“Undergoing deprecation” as in not deprecated yet. Great majority of pkgs using it, and Python takes a decade+ to deprecate things.

Also this is a few lines of well understood Python, not exactly a huge investment, right? Does several lines even need to be future proof?

My bet is you’ll need to modify the toml solution more often than the setup.py in the next decade.
Peoples appetites are larger than their physical ability level provides for.

We transitioned from a hunter gatherer, to an agrarian, to an industrial society - because most people needed to do much physical activity to survive, even when food was plentiful.

The information age is much more sedentary, but people have evolved needs to eat a certain amount of volume to feel satiated. The fact that our foods are super nutritious/calorie dense makes matters worse.
Think AI was impressive last year? Wait until you see what’s coming
I don't understand how NYC couldn't make money for a private trash company. The trash company I use makes money, and our population density isn't anywhere near what it is in NYC. I have to imagine the largest cost is fuel, and it stands to reason that it takes much more fuel to get all of the trash where I live.

I don't understand what you're saying, I guess. I don't understand how a city being large can just automatically lead to a loss for trash companies.
I am pretty sure I had a windows key on the windows 95 packard bell I got for christmas 95.

Edit: it was the same model as this reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/s518wo/i_...
If you're getting a ~20% weight loss in 6 months, the cost is a steal compared to the alternatives.

I don't think this is the most interesting or curious discussion we can be having about these drugs --- the science story is much more interesting and relevant than HN's general opinions about "big pharma" or the obesity epidemic, and the science story stays interesting even if you think the drugs are not a net good --- but of the non-science discussions we can be having, the pricing seems like the least interesting thing happening here. These are injections whose competition is major surgery.
Lifestyle change alone is NOT all it takes.
I've been fat all of my life, so has everybody in the last 3 generations of genetic contributors.

I can easily drop 20-40lbs if I cut sugar out of my diet. Then it stops.
I've cycled 15miles/day for 7 years (on non-snowy days).
During that time I went on a water-only fast, (7days on, eat one day, then 14days eat one day, then 7 days more of fasting before I stopped.) I lost 13 lbs during that period. I was doing a keto diet before and after this period. I was killing myself trying to have a high energy output with minimal caloric intake.

In the end, winter came and I stopped. Total weight loss during that time: 35lbs. There is no way I can lose the extra 160lbs that I need to drop. My body just won't drop it.

I'm diabetic now. I take metformin and invokana. As of today I'm down almost 30lbs since august.

Lifestyle changes maybe enough for you. That's awesome, good for you. Don't make blanket assumptions and think that they are true.
The article seems to definitively answer that you can. But yes — if the theory is that Apple is pretending to log malware detection and remediation, one would have to disassemble the relevant parts of the OS to prove that.
"So they can definitely tell you the combined liklihood that the answer is 'Peru is a cat' vs 'Peru is a country' and provide you the exact statistical likelihood of each..."

...in the context of the texts that the LLM is built on. Not in the context of the real world, where P('Peru is a country') = 1.0 and P('Peru is a cat') = #cats named Peru / #things in the world (or something).
And during that time, it can turn to ice.
The goal of that idea is to push for being being more healthy regardless of size, not to validate that you can become obese if you want with no downsides. It's basically "being obese and having issues dieting doesn't stop you from making healthy changes in other ways".
Charge control should be standard, but at least samsung puts in the option for 85% charge.
Sounds worth checking out, thank you!
It's difficult to determine whether you follow an argument when you summarize it in a way that sounds incorrect.

If that's an attempt at highlighting that what you summarized is not persuasive, your tactic also isn't very persuasive. Instead it comes across as snarky, dismissive, or that you misunderstood. It might be worth reconsidering this tactic.

The main reason I wouldn't pick Ed448 is simpler: Nothing else really uses it.
100% agreed - the issue is that people aren't giving _informed_ consent, I think it'd be great to have a law that basically says "the default has to be not tracking, and you can prompt and allow users to opt-in for targeted ads"
> And there's zero reason to believe that they're substantially unhealthy unless consumed to the point of sustained caloric surplus.

I have a hard time believing this without some very strong evidence for this claim. There's already existing evidence for greatly varying health effects of differences in cooking method, oil-type, omega ratios in fats, amino-acid ratios in proteins, glycemic index of carbs, sodium content, etc etc. It's hard for me to reconcile the suggestion that the content of food does not affect whether it is "substantially unhealthy"...
It’s not some people, it’s most people.

We need to tax the ** out of high calorie foods to fund the extreme cost on health care/society that overeating is causing.
Not fossil fuels, but rather hydrocarbon fuels. You can technically synthesize fuel for those use cases in a carbon-neutral manner.