skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> underclocks from ~4.4GHz to ~1.5-2.5GHz when on battery (seemingly no way to disable this)

digression: I believe there's no way to disable that because the laptop's battery is physically incapable of reliably supplying the necessary amperage at those higher clock rates. It's an 80 watt-hour battery for a laptop that needs a 200W+ power adapter. The battery can't drain that fast even if it wanted to.
Hey that's me. And yeah, if you don't hear much about Cap'n Proto, it's not because it isn't advancing, but more because I don't really have any reason to advertise it. Cap'n Proto's goal right now -- for me at least -- is not to take over the world or anything, but rather to support the needs of my main project, which is Cloudflare Workers. If other people find it useful to, great! But that's not my focus.
Yes, I know, hence my statement. Tom Scott to the rescue:

https://youtu.be/l6lGe5jgZgI
> It feels like our culture’s impulse is to wring every last cent possible out of any creative endeavor — or at least leave open the possibility for more from the outset.

It's easy to criticize other people for wanting to ride their success after they've peaked

But I can't really blame them. We only get so many big wins in our lifetime. When someone hits on something successful, riding it as far as they possibly can makes a lot of sense.

Some people get lucky and hit success with different ventures throughout their lives, but I suspect most successful people may only get a small number of opportunities to capitalize on. Seize them while you can. Ignore the critics.
Olympic Scrapheap Challenge/Junkyard Wars [1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapheap_Challenge
it's definitely wrong. The DSM V was a big step backwards and it was not great beforehand. it essentially a diagnosis for whatever you want lol
Also a boon. I asked it for a 50 question multiple choice test on Canadian history and it assembled a remarkably good test.
Huh, maybe the people I know are the exception, but everyone I know gripes constantly "ugh, I wish my car didn't have all this electronic crap, I just want the analog stuff and no computer." The exception for at least a portion of that group would be the rear camera, which I believe is now mandated by law, but... the rest of it could be left dumb and I think most people (I know) would be as happy, if not happier.

ETA: I guess it could be debated as well whether the "auto brake" type features would be desirable by that group. My personal opinion is no, but I think other threads have indicated I may be in the minority.
I appreciate how Tailscale reacted here. This isn't a great bug, but things happen.

I specifically appreciate:

- There's a specific date when the regression was introduced
- There's an end-date when the regression was fixed
- There was a thorough and conclusive analysis that was done that proves no exploitation occurred
I'm not well-versed on what the fearmongering was that turned out to be bullshit, because I wasn't a voter for most of it. Besides obvious hysteria, were there strong, substantive arguments against it that turned out to be false? Or do you consider any objection to gay marriage as "conservative fearmongering", because the strength of your position for marriage equality is such that there are no conceivable legitimate arguments against it?

For the sake of steelmanning: do you see the ~30 countries around the world that have legalized gay marriage as being more advanced than the rest, or as merely having different customs and cultural values that aren't translatable?
WireGuard is a pain in the ass to setup though. Also, their Windows client is no longer supported and has showstopper bugs (tunnels disappear until UI is launched and they are manually reactivated there).
And for a long time, and still now, a lot of the verbiage around FSD implies that "Availability of FSD depends on regulatory approval" which makes it sound like regulatory approval is holding Tesla back from giving this to you. Ironically, there's actual very little "regulatory approval" required if things work. So it requires very little regulatory approval and a whole hell of a lot of "actually make it work".
Lord of the Rings was great in general. However, the actual ending was in an appendix and the scouring of the shire was an unnecessary epilogue in the actual book. It was a great fantasy series but it was also a bit of a mess at the end. Faithful to the books should never be a primary goal of film.
It's a verbatim copy of the original article, published by the Queen Mary University of London.
Ask this question of the mystics, and you will hear an opinion that this dream of "reality" is very hackable. The essential ingredient of any effective hack is understanding.

Many teachers have put a lot of work into clarifying the particular information you seek, but nobody has succeeded in making it easy.
>build really good electric cars, that people choose to buy over cheaper alternatives.

From the perspective of an employee at another OEM, I’d say they already do that. They have several moats outside of autonomous gimmicks:

1) Charging network. Nobody comes close.
2) Infotainment software (combined with underlying architecture and in-house silicon). They have the best experience in the industry. Their architecture is streamlined unlike disjoint legacy OEM 15 ECU hell. The broad market doesn’t really understand how far ahead they are in terms of architecture. Any new OEM has a huge advantage of starting fresh.
3)Packaging and battery density. They have the best range. They have the best packaging (tons of trunk and frunk space), where as many other manufacturers end up with weird raised trunk floors and no frunks in their competitor products that also somehow get worse range.

So yeah, I think Musk definitely undersells their lead in these areas. With no redesigns of the main models yet, they really could have focused a lot of effort on improving quality, interior materials, etc, but they instead poured money into the quagmire of autonomy.
As I have mentioned on other posts. Things like this need to be native apps, and not just a chrome extension or a web app. We need to get away from webapps for everything, and go back to native apps. Heck why do we have package tools then?
They comparison exists because the majority of buyers will probably have an Intel-based Macbook Pro. From a marketing perspective, it is more useful to focus on how much faster it is than that product than it would be to focus on how much faster it is than some-very-specific Windows laptop, or an M1 Pro.
Not related to Tor, but food for thought regarding anonymity...

Quite a few people online wear multiple masks. You're that wonderful professional on linkedin with your full name on display, the ideal grandson on Facebook, but also a Twitter shitposter and toxic gamer under the disguise of anonymity.

Its worthwhile to consider the anonymous version of you. I'm imagining that it won't take long before a few dots can be connected. Not by the FBI, surely they already can, but as a public service. AI reverse engineering your clicks, writing style, whatever other input.

Meaning, if there's a "socially less accepted" version of you, do worry. It seems inevitable to me that they ultimately get linked back to your true identity.

And to be clear, this isn't just about a burner account to let off some steam. Anonymity is also used to freely criticize employers, political ideas, the establishment in authoritarian regimes, and it's an essential defense for people/groups that are often the target of harassment.

To illustrate how easily this can go wrong, recently a giant Twitter dump resurfaced. It turned out to be a cleaned up 2 year old file, but it did send a lot of people into a moral panic. Specifically, some made the mistake to link their real identifiable email address to their burner account.

The bottom line is that anonymity is fragile and unlikely to last.
That's another big difference with the US. Honors are about GPA here, nothing else.

The whole A-level system was confusing for a long time because of this kind of conflation of terms between the systems.
Yes but even in these analogy the balloon is still expanding into something. There is space around the balloon and when the balloon expands, there is less of that surrounding space.
They're already there. You just don't know it because the algo creates a textbook filter bubble to keep you happy.

This is one of TikTok's greatest strengths as an entertainment platform (compare to Youtube or whatever). People never see shit they'd be Outraged(TM) at keeping their user experience generally positive, or if not generally positive at least basically never negative.
Well, an 'exit' (!!) is a great time to, financially. Your compensation that year is going to dwarf next, presumably. (Perhaps unless acqui-hired by FAANG.) Yet the company (unless bought out to shut down) presumably warrants being called 'successful'. Even if not for a raise, it's a good time to move on to another start-up and hope to repeat, financially.
The only one I want to accept is the one that remembers that I've chosen to block all cookies.
What about the insider risk prospective? A random int64 isn't that hard to guess if you can easily look at a database.
A more recent example: Putin invaded Ukraine even though it was obvious to everyone outside Russia that it was a bad idea and the resulting sanctions would hurt Russia even if he won.

World leaders are generally logical within the bounds of their incentives -- and China's incentives are probably such that an invasion of Taiwan makes more sense to them than it does to outside observers.
Read-only access wouldn't prevent bots spamming views for ad revenue.
great analysis. Netflix is run by producers and financiers....maybe a political fad from time to time, but it certainly is not run by people who are passionate about entertainment or movies or films or the art....

the platform has little creativity in any aspect of it...and the shows being done for a single viewing may just be the side effect of having no talent in anything except infrastructure planning....
This is awesome. I am impressed.

I recently wrote a toy compiler for x86_64. I use an external assembler.

My dream is to write a JIT compiler runtime.

https://GitHub.com/samsquire/compiler

My understanding is that you generate machine code and then mprotect the code to be executable then jump to the void * as a function pointer to execute generated instructions.

What I would like to understand more is tracing compilers and how they optimise hot loops. And how they deoptimise and optimise at runtime based on runtime information.
At least in my circle, I've found (for mass company wide layoffs)

1. Lower level managers usually find out them at the same time as IC's
2. Managers and directors can be part of the layoffs.
3. If a manager/director is part of the layoff, they are even less likely to be consulted in the process.
What's interesting about that is that VW thinks that even if they improve their processes, it should still take VW about 50% longer than Tesla to manufacture their cars.

But then again VW has a lot higher consistency and less QC issues coming off their lines...

Tesla just wants to crack the whip on quarterly deliveries. God help you if you take delivery of a vehicle manufactured at the end of the quarter - you're going to spend a lot of time arguing at a Service Center for them to fix manufacturing defects.

I wonder if there's a correlation between that and "time on the line"...
https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2021/10/how-to-build-a-low-t... Schottky cells are another bandgap, which could be lower cost:

"According to Philip Pesavento, Cove then managed to refine the composition of the alloy close to Zn4Sb3 – a zinc-antimony alloy with proportions of 4 parts zinc to 6 parts antimony. That, we now know, is also a semiconductor. However, it has a bandgap of 1.2 eV – very close to the bandgap of silicon (1.1 eV). Consequently, it turned his thermophotovoltaic generator into a photovoltaic generator:

“In his enthusiasm, Cove probably made up a larger number of plugs and somehow got the proportions “wrong” on one batch. He then measured an even larger voltage. Finally, he made a careful study of zinc-antimony alloys and found that the 40-42% range zinc alloy gave the highest voltage (compared to 35% zinc in ZnSb). Having – accidentally – discovered Zn4Sb3, the higher bandgap of this semiconductor meant that it no longer worked when it was exposed to the heat from a wood stove. However, it worked even better when it was exposed to solar energy – because it was now converting far more of the visible spectrum of sunlight efficiently into electricity.”

Using colored glass filters, George Cove determined that most of the response was from the violet end of the spectrum and only a little from the so-called heat rays. His earlier PV plugs had responded equally well to heat rays and violet rays, while the older thermoelectric generators (German silver at both sides) did not respond to the violet rays at all.

Bring back the Schottky solar cell?
Schottky junction solar cells have commanded only a small amount of attention from researchers and corporations – few solar cell designs use metals in the active region, other than for contacts. [22] Nevertheless, Philip Pesavento believes that it would be worthwhile to attempt to fabricate some Schottky solar cells according to Cove’s design:

“If it could be demonstrated that Zn4Sb3 (bandgap 1.2 eV) can be used in a photovoltaic cell, there is a good chance that such a solar cell design will be sustainable. It would be a good candidate for a quick EROI and have an acceptably long operational life with a surplus energy output over several decades. It’s astounding that everyone seems to have missed this material and its application to photovoltaic cells and that no development has been done – even after researchers briefly recognized it as being a possible option in the early to mid-1980s. It fits in the category of a premature discovery which should mean it could be developed very quickly in this day and age.”
The Office is a good example though, because it's the same premise, so you can't really say 'oh but they just don't come up with good shows so they have to move on'.

House of Cards is another, but the (original) UK version isn't so well known as that of the The Office. (Even here in the UK to be honest. It is significantly older though, '80s/'90s.)
Perhaps they can make it so that the element's XPath / node id is stored and used for capture rather than X + Y coordinates. Still prone to failure I know, but ultimately more reliable.
If you rephrased to say you have more opportunities to take more bets.
Apple's insane hardware pricing
When a frigate has a similar amount of offensive capability to a carrier battle group, it's time to rethink what a navy is, and what it's usefulness is.

Many other people besides myself, have maintained that the Carrier Battle Group in today's world is as obsolete as the battleship was in 1941.

It's time all navies got rid of their White Elephants and started afresh.
Keeping my fingers close to the home row is, in my opinion, the TrackPoint’s killer feature.
For me it's The Simpsons. I made the mistake of looking at a few episodes lately. It had the barest of wit, no whimsy, little inventiveness. Made me sad.

And every time I think of the latest watery Avatar -- AARGH. It was ... nothing but some nice scenes and some shoot em up.
Just realized that the trackpoint on my laptop is completely worn smooth. I've been using Thinkpads for 25 years, I doubt I could switch to anything else. First thing I do when getting a new laptop is to unplug the ribbon cable going to the touchpad. Can't accidently enable it when it's unplugged!
Oh man, this brings back memories! I worked helpdesk for a mid-sized company in SF these years. Things got so bad with our Dell machines that I would call my local Dell repair tech and he would answer the phone with "Ok how many bulging capacitors this time?". We probably replaced at least 100 motherboards for bad caps in such a short time. Reflecting on that, the amount of e-waste generated from this must have been staggering.

Jerry - if you're reading this, you probably single-handedly kept that place running ;)
You know, there are a bunch of things that come across this website that concern me, but I can honestly say I've not seen anything that's pegged my "doomsday" alert as aggressively and unexpectedly as the ChatGPT bots.

You have an advanced computer system that seems almost oracular in its knowledge and abilities, except it lies confidently about things it doesn't know, is primed to say what people want to hear, and is easily convinced to give responses to questions its authors tried to prevent it from addressing.

I understand this is a computer algorithm, I understand the limits of what it is, and it's frankly a technical wonder for what it can do, but after everything we've seen over the last decade of the influence of social media and "confident wrongness" on politics and the national dialogue, of the treatment of things like facial recognition as truths and not just statistical guesses, of the impact of the YouTube recommender algorithms among others, these systems just absolutely scare the hell out of me.
Success breeds success. If you’ve created one successful book/startup/song/etc and suddenly a great number of doors open up.

However, riding something to failure taints that legacy. As the saying goes, always leave them wanting something more.
You are explaining why UT-Austin should have the power of say in what traffic they allow on their network, which I agree with they should have. It can be used for many legitimate things, including blocking malicious endpoints associated with DDoS, blocking websites with known malware, stuff that very negatively affects the campus network infra, etc.

However, you aren't explaining why UT-Austin should get to decide which apps (that don't affect network operations or campus device security) people can use on their personal devices on UT-Austin network.

Sure, it technically falls under the very large umbrella of "allowing traffic". No one is disputing that they de-facto have that power. I believe the original question was more along the lines of "how can they reasonably justify doing so without jumping to non-sequeters and bs excuses".
Honestly, didn't really find the ergonomics of putting significant lateral force on my fingers. My fingers didn't feel like it was well constrained with lateral force applied to it.
She argues for including emotional factors in the EV calculation.

"Will this make me feel good" is a question of value.

An example she uses is a person who's miserable at their job and is trying to decide whether to take a job offer. They know they'll be miserable without changing jobs, but taking the new job might feel better. Therefore you should change jobs because the expected value of changing is higher than the expected value of staying.
I'm sorry, completely unrelated - Where can I buy a trackpoint? Or the closest standalone part that resembles it?

If I can smash a trackpoint onto a mechanical keyboard I would love to.
"On average" is mostly meaningless because it depends so much on the kind of code you use it with that you need to do your own measurements to judge. I've seen a 30% improvement on one project, 200% on another, and none at all on yet another.
Humans are tribal and want power and resources as signifiers of status. Worrying about AI becoming the masters of humanity has got to be one of the weirdest forms of status anxiety. To make this article even more hilarious, the prescription to the problem is more status for the author and his buddies.
You can get a replacement nipple for that.
I can give you prof perspective on this. Going between different stages of education, you can't really double or triple the amount of time you study, but you need to change your study and thinking techniques to learn 2x or 3x more [1].

The problem is that if the teachers try to set up too easy a ramp at the start of a new stage, many students refuse to upgrade their study/thinking techniques. They continue to use suboptimal methods from their last stage, because its easier. But before they know it, they progress to a point where their suboptimal techniques are wildy unrealistic. At this point, they try to upgrade, except its much harder to upgrade your techniques at MATH301 then it is at MATH101.

One way out of it is to jolt incoming students with assessments where the old techniques simply don't work, and they are forced to upgrade immediately. It is kind of cruel, but it works well.

[1] For instance, a freshman PHY101 Mechanics course covers the same material as 1-1.5 years of high school with higher difficulty.
At this point even if there was an edge you couldn't get to it because points move apart faster than the speed of light and we can't go faster. The points themselves aren't actually moving (rather space is being created in between) so there's no speed limit violation.
There are limits to what can be done to ban alcohol. Prohibition was not a success. Bright side is that trends look like younger generations are already drinking less than older ones. They just aren't that into it.
> The point of "no bosses" is no manager is tasked with considering you. You're not on anyone's books. There's numerous ways of doing this if you're interested.

Can you speak more to this? I don't know that I've ever seen this somewhere I worked.
A woman receives the first-ever successful transplant of a living 3D-printed ear
> Their security thinking though is pretty bad - they've had a sequence of pretty serious security flaws

They are targeting 6 OSes plus web, each of which has unique ways to get security wrong. On its own, that's one hell of an attack surface and I'd say the rate of vulnerabilities reflects that.

However, I'd say their security _posture_ is pretty good - from what I've seen, reported issues are typically patched within 48h of initial report (most companies ask for a 90 day window before bug reporters go public with issues, and often let it pass without fixing the issue).

They've had many flaws become widely publicized because they have great writeups of the issue, but I think I've only seen one critical-severity issue - most are low-impact. EG in this case you need to make requests until you guess an int64 correctly - which on average would 'only' take a year if you could somehow make ten trillion requests per second without being detected.
Fucking hilarious.

2022: "Our focus is on solving the problem."

Musk in 2015: "Self-piloting cars are a solved problem." "I view it as a solved problem. We know exactly what we need to do and we will be there in a few years."

Apparently it got unsolved along the way.

Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/teslas-elon-musk-says-autonomou...
Without embodiment, these AIs are just maximising some fitness function, which their creators have a hand in by selecting the data and manually tweaking (see the Fascism vs Communism example).

The real answer here is that the "smarter" these AIs get, they more accurately reflect either the political will of their creators or the material they train on (which may by means of the political will of the creators). In some cases it may get some indication you may have a certain political opinion and then give you answers based on this - which would be quite a smart behaviour.
I scrounged enough chips and a carrier board to max my Compaq out at 3.6MB. That may have been a model specific limitation.

I believe that this computer had a 20MB hard drive, and that I eventually ran Stacker to compress the volume and squeeze out a bit more space. I know for sure that I never got anywhere close to 100MB.

On one of my computers in this era, I managed to get a paperwhite VGA and Windows 3.11 (for workgroups) running despite not meeting product specs. My 40-something brain is not quite reliable enough for me to state this with any certainty.