skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stalkers and rapists act knowing that they have approximately zero risk of getting caught. And if caught, a less than one percent chance of conviction.

> The breakdown between the modus operandi of the rapists also tells us a lot about how wrong the script is. Of all 120 admitted rapists, only about 30% reported using force or threats, while the remainder raped intoxicated victims. This proportion was roughly the same between the 44 rapists who reported one assault and the 76 who reported multiple assaults.

> If we could eliminate the men who rape again and again and again, a quarter of the violence against women and children would disappear.

> The vast majority of the offenses are being committed by a relatively small group of men, somewhere between 4% and 8% of the population, who do it again … and again … and again. That just doesn’t square with the notion of innocent mistake. Further, since the repeaters are also responsible for a hugely disproportionate share of the intimate partner violence, child beating and child sexual abuse, the notion that these predators are somehow confused good guys does not square with the data. Most of the raping is done by guys who like to rape, and to abuse, assault and violate. If we could get the one-in-twelve or one-in-25 repeat rapists out of the population (that is a lot of men — perhaps six or twelve million men in the U.S. alone) or find a way to stop them from hurting others, most sexual assault, and a lot of intimate partner violence and child abuse, would go away. Really. [0]

And:

> The result is a criminal justice system that shows an unexamined bias toward accused sexual predators—particularly those from the dominant race and class—by protecting them in advance from punishments that (in practice) very rarely materialize. And this is a hypercorrection that occurs again and again even though false claims remain statistically minuscule, and even though less than 1 percent of rapes result in a conviction. [1]

0 - https://yesmeansyesblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/meet-the-pr...

1 - https://yesmeansyesblog.wordpress.com/2013/10/20/cockblockin...
Do you really think you've achieved immortality? I have no clue who my great grandfather is. My mom's last name dies with her. It's unlikely, but not out of the question that my dad's name could too... and assuming it doesn't, it very well might in 1-3 generations.

Even if you somehow achieve mega-fame it doesn't take, but 50-200 years for people to start really not caring. 1-4 generation, and a nanosecond in geological time (maybe a picosecond).

I do agree that death seems like an ideal one. I don't want to die slowly of a debilitating condition... on the other hand, there's some pluses to knowing you'll die and being able to prepare.
Who reviews tests then? Empty tests and assertEquals(1, 1) always show green.
That's how it is. At the end of the year, they ask you how much you made in tips, calculate the tax off that and then "pay" you the exact amount of your taxes by giving it to the government.

It's the same as strippers. Better, because strippers often have to pay to dance.
Foolish move. I’ll bet the restaurant owner loves (fires) the waiters for doing this. It hurts the restaurant and the waiters more than the single customer.
I track my entire life since 1995
I defer to better people about the strength of the encryption.

But the reason why I moved away from lastpass was because the only thing that was encrypted was the password, rather than the whole lot.
Just had ChatGPT write code for scipy and saved at least hour (it ran correctly as-is). $42 is way too cheap for people in software development at least where hourly rates far more than compensates such costs.
> Plenty of time for people to adapt on how to write proper, safer C++ code than using C idioms.

See, this is yet another instance of the strawman argument I pointed out.

This is not a "enough time" problem. It's a resource allocation problem. Time is irrelevant if no resources are allocated to a task. Rust does not add manpower to rewrite things.

Rust fanatics just perpetuate survivorship biases because the project they did with the express purpose of fixing a specific issue ended up fixing the specific issue, and proceed to somehow go the cargo cult way and praise the framework instead of the rewrite effort. It's disingenuous and a gross misrepresentation of reality, and one which will inevitably come around to bite Rust in the ass. We already see backpedalling with regards to some of these claims once Rust started showing up in SVEs.
They are exercising it by chosing to buy an iPhone.
SIM Swap Scams: How to Protect Yourself (2019)
It's interesting that the article mentions Kosher rules as if abiding by them is trivial and as if the practice isn't ridden with gray areas.
But wouldn't the GPU help if you were mapping e.g. 256x192 virtual pixels to say 1024x768? I.e., each of the pixels from the low-res space being represented by a NxM patch of actual screen pixels, like a Win32 GDI StretchBlt() call.

If you had a frame buffer for the actual screen and you tried to do even a 1 to 2x2 expansion on the CPU's time, that'd have to be a serious speed hit. Presumably GPU hardware can do that sort of thing.
Just the other day, I tried to sign up for a monthly rolling account with Sky TV so that I could watch The Last Of Us. About 20 minutes after I signed up, they cancelled my account due to a failed non-credit "identity check" with Experian. They won't tell me any information about what the issue is due to "data protection" other than to say there's nothing that I or anyone else can do.

My credit report looks fine but I'm guessing there's some incorrect data floating around somewhere, but I don't even know where to start in figuring out what's wrong since nobody will even discuss it with me.
How would I do that? I think there is any such function in the Win32 API.
Not Germany, but here in The Netherlands the banks just developed an online payment system together 18 years ago, and everyone uses that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDEAL
>I don’t think you can stop technological progress. Humanity moves in the direction of better and more sophisticated tools to make life more convenient, and it will be more convenient to introduce more and more AI-produced content into the culture.

That is a rather boldly positive perspective.

History show us how great technologies can come and go and is never distributed uniformly. Think sewers and drainage systems for example.

Obviously sophisticated technologies can be used in odious endeavors, where more efficiency means more atrocity. Think genocides for example.
It was this board: https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/a2sdi-2c-...

I think it was idling at something like 30-40W with four HDDs and a UPS. I didn't have an especially efficient PSU and the UPS must have taken some power too. The motherboard alone would draw as little as 15W, I suppose.
Married, no kids. Wake up, no alarm, between 6:30 and 7:30.
Oatmeal w/ banana, coffee.
Work until about 11. Get lunch.
Sometimes I'll do my afternoon walk post-lunch or after work, depending on what's going on at work, or if I feel like I need a break.
Work until about 3:00-4:30, depending on when I got my start.
Play guitar, play video games, other hobbies, etc., until about dinner time.
Eat dinner with wife, watch TV with wife, get ready for bed.
Read in bed.
Repeat!
If shared libraries are the level at which your OS exposes its interfaces, then yes.
I truly believe that the success of Electron is not limited to only being cross-platform. It is a very compelling motivation, really. But I think one of the key aspects is that the HTML/CSS/JS ecosystem is so huge for building UIs that is a lot simpler than to rely on the classic UI desktop frameworks
We live in the dumbest possible timeline.

What people call AI today is in fact not AI. It is a model that has been trained on input data, and generates prompted output based on that input.

In other words THEY ARE AUTOMATED PLAGIARISM MACHINES. THAT IS HOW ALL "AI" today work.

Truely dumb.
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ashtrays :: cigarettes :: cancer
cup holder :: fructose beverage :: ?
> Published content will be later used to train subsequent models, and being able to distinguish AI from human input may be very valuable going forward

I find this to be a particularly interesting problem in this whole debacle.

Could we end up having AI quality trend downwards due to AI ingesting its own old outputs and reinforcing bad habits? I think it's a particular risk for text generation.

I've already run into scenarios where ChatGPT generated code that looked perfectly plausible, except for that the actual API used didn't really exist.

Now imagine a myriad fake blogs using ChatGPT under the hood to generate blog entries explaining how to solve often wanted problems, and that then being spidered and fed into ChatGPT 2.0. Such things could end up creating a downwards trend in quality, as more and more of such junk gets posted, absorbed into the model and amplified further.

I think image generation should be less vulnerable to this since all images need tagging to be useful, "ai generated" is a common tag that can be used to exclude reingesting old outputs, and also because with artwork precision doesn't matter so much. If people like the results, then it doesn't matter that much that something isn't drawn realistically.
You're not trying hard enough.
The Dutch are pathologically practical. Love it.

Every time I need to send mail I’m jealous of that whole “write 9 digits in a grid to serve as a stamp” system.
> … which uses Blink

… which is open source and therefore forkable. Google forked Blink from Webkit. What makes you think that Brave and Microsoft can’t do the same?
I was intrigued by your post but unfortunately after visiting the site I see no indication of pricing. Since an account is required to submit a stack, I did not proceed without a clear idea of potential cost.
Am I the only one who thinks it would be incredibly rude to ask for a code review before I'd actually fleshed out my ideas and also cleaned up to make it presentable? For that matter, if early code review is for design decisions, doesn't that mean tasks are large enough to require plans and reviews of those?

Shifting code reviews left seems to be either (or both of):

- look, I made a poopie!

- let's do Big Planning Up Front (agile has failed)
The front page of HN will get you 4k-6k visitors
Binance acknowledges they can do and have done whatever *they* want with your *funds* and there's nothing you can really do to stop them.

The crypto market is "trustless" --- as in, there is no logical reason for sensible people to trust it.
> History show us how great technologies can come and go…

I don’t see generative AI ever going.
How is this different than any other large corporation?
Did you ever go to a prostitute?
Do you expect her to be paid by the establishment?

You cannot simply say that because you are ignorant of the customs in some place, or you would never go to such a place, that people should not have to learn and abide by the customs if they do go to them.

As with prosties, so with New York restaurants.

As far as leaving coins outside temples... perhaps it was a local contribution thing, but it seemed like the right thing to do.
The US could completely source all it’s lithium needs internally and still be vastly better off. It’s got the 5th largest proven reserve of any country, but that’s understating things as lithium is surprisingly abundant we just haven’t had much use for the stuff before lithium ion batteries.

In terms of total harm, even people working lithium mines are better off if that eliminates ICE engines.
Five Ways Toward a Fairer, More Transparent Hiring Process
That’s a bold assumption. I don’t see why is unreasonable to think that a generative AI could evade even this.
Calling others' work product "content" is pretty offensive.
That's literally how this "AI" (autoregressive language model) works. The logic is essentially: A little plagiarism is plagiarism, a lot of plagiarism is original works. So if it is detected, then they need to increase their level of plagiarism until it isn't.

While what I just wrote may come across like a joke, there's a lot of truth in it. These language models aren't actually smart, they're just good at parroting smart sounding things they've been taught (although one could argue humans often do the same thing); the problem here is they need more sources to intersplice to hide the true origins.

For other "AI" like Computer Vision this is less of a problem since even if you're inputting proprietary visual content, they aren't typically outputting parts of that content, but rather the tags that have been assigned to it (often by humans). This is becoming a problem as the outputs are directly made up using the inputs, and those inputs are proprietary.
Many European countries have secure quick payment solutions which interface with the banking system without giving away sensitive information. All that I've used require you to use your phone or an OTP device/printed card to authenticate.

The downside is that it's not as fast as having username and password filled in like you can do with PayPal, and that these only work for the specific country.
This is assuming that their funding is dependent on their share of browser use, or that Mozilla would get bored of Firefox if it stays at a lower share, and move on to other projects.

These assumptions would be true of a for-profit entity like Google, Apple, Microsoft, but it's not as directly applicable to Mozilla.
Have you tried? I've seen women friends of mine try this more than once. Go through lot of effort to collect evidence and all the police will do is take your statement, promise that they will "look into it", and then promptly ignore you.
> Chase has a hard 5/24 rule where you can’t have opened more than 5 cards with any issuer within 24 months. But that doesn’t include business cards.

I've never been able to get a Chase card.

> You also have to space credit card applications out. It also helps that I have a long credit history. I opened my first card in 1996.

I think I applied for too many at once. Also I take advantage of those 0% introductory APRs and run a balance (only paying the monthly minimum for the duration, and paying the remainder as one lump sum before it expires), which adversely affects my score.
Nasal snuff is absolutely legal to sell in UK: https://www.mcchrystals.co.uk/news/nasal-snuff

Snus refers to Swedish pouches with boiled (or somehow sanitized, can’t remember exactly) tobacco, as opposed to other kinds. Snuff can refer to stuff you put under your lip or up yer nose.
Apple should be forced to show users a screen where they select the browser they want to install when purchasing or upgrading iOS. There are more browsers than Safari and Chrome.
> Firefox on Linux ... the combination that lets me get the most battery life out of my laptop.

If you've managed to get battery life from Linux and Firefox even remotely near default fresh install of MacOS and Safari, you should write that up and post the link to it on HN.
The problem with some of these books is that they normalise horrendous practices, e.g. extreme sex acts like anal fisting, or extreme body modifications like young girls having their breasts amputated because they have a false belief that they are boys.

The books that just talk about standard sex education and give an overview of sexuality aren't a problem. It's these other ones that attempt to push the boundaries to their extremes, that parents and teachers are pushing back on.
Agreed!
Doomscrolling is binge-eating junk food... and thoughtful engagement on HN is mental floss. ;b
Cool! Would be nice if you could permalink to specific photos.
Imagine if the title of the article was instead:

"Is companies not paying a fair and living wage getting out of control?"
The ability for the robot to move in multiple directions at once… bending knees and arms and waist at the same time, threw me for a loop.
Thankfully I've noticed an uptick in younger Firefox users due to memes on Reddit about how using Firefox is cool.
Huh, so the benchmarks that show that a FX-8xxx is about on par to i3 for ST, but even better than a i5 for MT are misleading ??

I actually have no complaints about MT performance (even though learning that it wasn't a "real" 8-core was disappointing), I can even run VR because it takes full advantage of MT, even though ST is often struggling for other tasks...
It depends what you mean by "hard real time". In theory, user input you get while scanning out pixel x might change pixel x + 1, and this leaves you with no choice but rendering single pixels in a strictly serial way. In practice, no existing emulator cares about that.
That’s cool.
It's not really hash collisions: SHA256 is still too secure for that, you're unlikely to find a value which isn't the password used to generate it. It's just brute forcing the password
> in the 90's, a rather obese lady

I suppose you wrote the 90's lest our mental image was of a 2020's rather obese lady? The woman probably would be skinny today
You don't tip at Tim Horton's.
Honest question: does xterm emulate teletypes by hooking in shared libraries and re-implementing functions? This is what I understand wine is doing
This is a topic I am really interested in - copilot or chatGPT? I was thinking of getting copilot because it comes with IDE extensions.
The point is that, even with all those flaws, developers have to target at least two browsers instead of just building for Chrome.

The force keeping Safari afloat is not the one keeping Firefox down, the problem is that Firefox has nothing to drive up its adoption. Telling people that they're "free" to use Firefox and see as the web is swallowed whole by Google with Chrome, like MS did with IE, is missing the point so badly.
Eliza 2.0
I've also played a few indie VR games that are using it. It's not like you have to be some technical wizard to enable it, you just need to make sure you aren't stomping on your FPS with a bunch of other stuff at the same time.
While based on chrome without the privacy issues, I'd highly recommend Vivaldi browser (the company is also a worker co-op). They removed a lot of proprietary stuff too from the source.
Bullshit.

This statistic is listing the share of exported plastics that are exported to certain countries. But that's not "most of our plastic", because overall exports are around ~10%. So "most of our plastic" is either recycled or burned within Germany. (Not saying any of this is ideal, but it's not helping to spread false information.)
“I apologize for such a long letter - I didn't have time to write a short one.” - Mark Twain
> As a member of society, you also have to think for yourself and question things. If 100% of society is just following everyone else

But are you questioning 100% of everything that's around you?

Do you do your own research on absolutely everything, from granola bars to plumbing of your toilet?

Ofcourse not, thats impossible.

So you have to prioritise,
what is suspicious - maybe the financial system or why did Boeing MAX fall out of the sky.

A frying pan and a toilet is not gonna be at the top of that list.
While intellectually interesting I don’t think it’s particularly helpful in any sort of practical context.
Also, typically, the "journalist" doesn't pick the headline...an editor does. Not sure if their AI section follows that tradition.
This definitely happens for plastic. But food waste does tend to actually get composted.
Whatever they'll do, company policies will only let Safari run on Apple hardware where they want developers create apps to make Apple profit from. Any improvement to Safari is less profit for the Store. However maybe the EU will really force Apple to let other browser engines run on their devices and they'll have to let go a part of the Store. We will see.

On the other side, Chrome runs on any hardware and people using Safari on their iPhone are likely to use Chrome at work or on their PCs. The competition is almost one sided and can't be won by staying inside the closed world of Macs and ìPhones, especially ìPhones because of the internal competition from native apps.
I think the Xlib dependency would prevent compilation as an αpε. I put some effort into doing X11 from scratch (without Xlib or Xcb) to make this possible. Or at least, my aim was to be able to build with musl libc and generate a single executable that would run on many different Linuxes.

https://github.com/abainbridge/deadfrog-lib/blob/master/src/.... It is janky though.
South America’s Lithium Triangle: Opportunities for the Biden Administration
> do you really want to cry watching a movie that was 100% produced by robots?

The fear reminds me of the early days of hip hop, where songs remixed from the past were blasted as unoriginal. I think we've all mostly agreed now that you can build new content that honors the old whole being completely fresh.
Sounds like opinion of those who haven't used the many rich home screen web apps available, indistinguishable from an app store app for most users.

Complaining about this is memetic rather than fact based.
Memory-hard is not a panacea. I think the point, which is pretty well made by the blog post I linked to, is that the security of the vault is extremely sensitive to the passphrase anyways. Adding more PBKDF2 rounds is a nearly free way to make bruteforcing harder, whereas switching to Argon2 or scrypt or bcrypt or any other KDF requires more effort, not to mention yes, lacking Webcrypto support is a significant performance problem (WASM Argon2 implementations are at least multiple times slower than native IIRC.)
Agree. ChatGPT can help with taking a rough or vague idea and better articulate what you are trying to say.
Another issue is the hash used: SHA-256 is a hash which can be calculated extremely quickly on dedicated hardware (which has been incentivised heavily by bitcoin mining). So the gap between the speed at which an attacker can run the hashes vs the intended user is larger than with other hashes, like argon2, which is specifically designed to be resistant to acceleration by dedicated hardware.
Pair programming solves this.
Keyless Signing with Witness and SigStore
Nope. With E2EE, and I believe with Security Keys, you must be running a supported OS on supported hardware or you can’t sign in with your Apple ID for anything.
Not really. I find the blind optimizing principle of the process of evolution on all levels (most acutely felt by us are the memetic ones, generating oppressive states, evil monopolies and such) to be the most ruinous force. Very Yin-Yang actually, because that same process is the best known source of progress..
Layoffs in Startupland Differ Between B2B and B2C Companies
With me they demanded identification after using them for years and refused to delete the account otherwise.
Yes, for fancy upscaling or applying pixel shader effects like CRT filters, doing the final pass on the GPU definitely makes sense. This would no longer be a "minimal" library though.

Window system composers should also be able to upscale bitmaps on their own though, and nothing prevents them to use the GPU for this.
no way the final price us $42. that’s just filler copy drawn from what the ai computer says in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Going from free to $500/yr is nuts. $10/mo seems more like the right price
Where Is Physics Headed (and How Soon Do We Get There)?
I always thought the criticism of that quote was misplaced. In networking it's extremely common for us to refer to connections as "Pipes". It's even embedded in many of the programming languages exactly as such. It's also important to note, that he never used the word "just" - that's a misquote.
Yeah, you resample fractional pixel values in the shears, ideally with a sinc() kernel. This has the virtue that the resampling weights are identical across lines in the shear, which allows a very efficient SIMD implementation. This is how we do CPU-based image rotations!