skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not sure it would affect total opinion reversals in the US, but it might serve to radicalize existing opinions in the hopes of inciting violence. It might also help reinforce existing extremism by providing the appearance of unanimity within a subgroup (e.g. pick a random Republican and punish them for an insufficiently extreme view by creating a false consensus that “everyone knows” they are OK with Shakespeare casting men in drag).
SC4 is the best SimCity.

Cities Skylines isn’t a SimCity but it’s a very very good modern game.
I would consider a move to Germany, but not giving up my 500Mbps internet connection.
You are right trade routes could have exchanges at the most efficient waypoints. These vessels could meet smaller vessels for the final destination delivery. These waypoints could be accessible to any form of transportation causing another distortion in the time efficiency of goods delivery.
True, but the high prices mostly come from company greed. They were insanely high even before that.
Proof-of-work vs. proof-of-stake by the tale
They would likely immediately file to dismiss based on the TOS. It would be an uphill battle to convince a judge that you shouldn’t go through arbitration first.
Semi trailers rarely mix with pedestrians at any appreciable speed.

Your beefy EV SUV will be rolling by school pickup through your nearby crosswalk.

But I would expect most of these cars should have automatic breaking and pedestrian detection — perhaps add some external pedestrian airbags and it will be a wash?
This Is How Long It Would Really Take Ukraine’s Pilots to Convert to F-16s
For any profession I asked it gives such generic responses that it's useless. You want to breed horses? Learn biology and apply for horse breeding jobs in your area.
Then which brand is? And I'm mostly looking for reliable rather than premium.
> Our models are continuous. The map is not the territory.

Because all our evidence is that it is continuous. Our models are the best description of the evidence we observe -- i.e. the territory.

Unless you have evidence of time and space being non-continuous?
+ 1. Let me filter by most to least insane.
CSAM seems to be the accepted industry term. (The industry being Trust & Safety).
Yeah I’m surprised they’ve let him go so far. He’s not generally wrong but the level of bias and snark in the articles is fairly unprofessional for a site like Ars.
Zero trust. Getting there is painful but it seems to be the answer to huge systems with known actors.
This is a quite nice article. Do not stop at the first example that shows something passed by value that would probably better be passed by reference instead of always cloning.

I really like how the author used green/red backgrounds to show code that doesn't compile.
Here are the key sentences from the article:

"Vehicle safety standards mostly reflect the safety of people inside a vehicle, not those outside. And despite improvements in safety technology and car design, heavier vehicles have contributed to increasing road deaths in recent years, according to data from the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration—particularly among pedestrians, cyclists, and people driving smaller vehicles. Now EVs are tipping the scales even further. They often combine the beefy dimensions of supersize SUVs with a battery that itself weighs as much as a small sedan. Oh, and also blazing acceleration."
How Secret London talks led to Air India's gigantic plane order
Artist says he took it from other sources (and yet somehow it reproduces every detail of the photograph).
https://old.reddit.com/r/AskOldPeople/
I have been a enterprise customer of google cloud.

There is a chasm between google cloud and microsoft azure. Azure sucks as a product, but they really, really, really want you as costumer. Damn, I get a weekly one-to-one with the guy which was part of the team that created their kubernetes offering, just because I needed someone with expertise in the matter to help us maximize the benefit or ours. NO EXTRA COST.

With Google I got a guy that knows Kubernetes less than me. I sometimes get embarrassed asking them questions because they don't know how to answer but must come up with something to answer because the account manager is in the call. It feels like their poor account managers take a uphill battle just to get someone to talk to us. I feel sorry for them.

Guess what happens? must deployments are in azure, even if the azure CLI sucks, the azure portal is a mess and azure products are inconsistent.

But Google's GKE ingress takes 20 minutes to update (there is a years old bug opened, nobody cares), vs Azure application gateway taking 30 seconds. Both being very bad for us, but I get to talk to the Microsoft the guy who worked on that integration and discussing with him the pros and cons of using ingress-nginx instead.

Google don't want us as costumers, they just want to brag about having a better cloud (they don't).

(as a PS, please microsoft your employees don't like to answer questions on stack overflow. But great to be able to get stackoverflow answers from the product managers).
Enablers, just like in the US, are complicit.
I tried something similar with my own startup, it didn't work, my best engineers quit on me! best engineers don't want to manage, they want to code an solve challenging problems, admin work may burn them out.
Who's next? Jeff Keane? Jim Davis?
It's funny that you call them delusional, when we both know that the problem of AI consciousness is unsolved (and might even be unsolvable).

I, for one, would most likely become a member of PETAi as soon as I was convinced, without reasonable doubt, that AI had true consciousness like me.

I don't see any fundamental reason why matrix multiplication couldn't serve as a vessel to consciousness, but a bunch of chemical reactions in neurons could.
Can any of these privacy-oriented forks support a device from within the last two years with a headphone jack?
https://archive.is/YNWux
Somewhat unrelated, but I adore their ‘solar’ subdomain mirror that runs on solar power alone. It’s fun to see compelling commitment to the ethics espoused by the articles in the very site itself.
But it's not sleeping.
I agree. Not sure why all the hate. I’ve used SpinRite to recover some bad drives of mine and friends/family over the years and it’s worked quite well. Had one Windows box that was failing to boot before the login screen, ran SpinRite and it found / fixed some issues. Rebooted and the machine was fine. At least fine enough to copy everything to a new drive and ditch the old one. Haven’t tried it on an SSD though.
At what point of the machine telling you it is aware do you believe that it is actually aware?

The building blocks are the same - neural nets. The language outputs are the same enough to fool a human.

So what’s that elusive secret sauce that makes you ‘aware’ and other things not?
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.05981.pdf
Fun!
I trolled your bit and it froze.
To the first question I replied: “Hell I know??? You are the consultant!”
I think the idea is that emotion should never interfere with your actions.
True but this take is a bit naive. I used to live in Brazil, where Whatsapp is the defacto communication method, for example. You might stand on principle all you want, but if you don't have that as a primary communication channel for a service/end-user oriented business -- even if you have all the alternatives imaginable!!! -- you are going to have a RIDICOUSLY hard time. Just on my personal life with folks there, if I were to just not participate in Whatsapp it is not an understatement that the social fabric of my life would significantly change. For the worse.
Only on the web version for now[1]. Will definitely switch to this when all clients are supported.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitwarden/comments/112onwn/argon2_s...
You just told us.

(Your IP)
That seems extremely hypothetical. Sure, in specific anecdotal places/times wages got frozen and employment stayed fixed, but I don't think _anyone_ expects that to happen at a national level if the policy goal of the day is to "soften labor conditions". The expectation is higher unemployment. I think most people understand this.
Yes, as I recall, when Rackspace ruined Slicehost, a lot of people moved to Linode. I am guessing the same thing is likely to happen to Linode now. I'm just not sure if there is as clear a choice for a new company as it seemed to be when a lot of people moved from Slicehost to Linode.
Also, leaking memory with reference cycles from shared ownership
> That said, if my password can't contain emoji, I don't trust your system.

Note that most emoji are outside the BMP and will take four bytes per code point with both UTF-8 and UTF-16. Many are comprised of multiple code points.
Yes it is. They also like to fly fighter jets and bombers near US Carrier fleets.
Same. At least not on desktop machines.
Yes, but that may or may not be important.

For real-time performance, yes; but that doesn't represent the whole, or even the majority, of audio work.
For me, and apparently thousands of others, it was insisting on showing these bullshit podcasts at the very top of my home screen. I had to scroll down past it to see any actual music.

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/All-Platforms-Po...

After a year or two of this they finally moved it further down the page where I don't have to see it every day, though.
Something tells me there is an untold story behind...
I asked how to become a more useful AI bot and it told me to apply to Google, Amazon or IBM. Should AI bot know how to become another AI bot?
What does that have to do with what I said?
I agree. I have a 2013 Prius C that cost me $20K brand new and gets 50mpg without even trying. My fuel expenses are negligible. The new 2023 Prius gets even better milage and has TWICE the horsepower (99 vs 196).

Before the Prius I had a 2000 Lexus ES with 200HP and I got about 17MPG. The advancement in ~20 years is incredible. Gas savings alone covered more than half of my loan payments each month.
My new Tacoma is garbage, so many electric/computer problems and under 20k miles. Has spent at least 4 weeks in shop during first year of owning it.
I believe they started the star ratings as a way to encourage people to drive more. They saw it as part of “Travel”.
Do the sample images look kinda ... AI generated to anyone else? This sentence hints at something: "Both artists abandoned their past ways of working, inventing images together that neither could anticipate—a mysterious process in its own right."
Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34658286
Doesn't that post explain that this is just what they do, and that melting the snow is pretty involved?
I don't know if it is possible where you live, but can you demand a refund without returning the device?

That's how people in China countered fake 2TB thumb drives on taobao. They knowingly buy the device and ask for refund (because it's fake) without returning. They have an online forum full of "which merchant is selling fake drives today".

The trick is there are "Mass Production Tools" (I think it actually means firmware configurator) for the flash controller used in these scam drives, which can turn them back to their original capacity (usually 4GB or less). So by doing so they effectively win some free tiny-ish thumb drives.
It does say this on the IRS site:

> Expect delays in data updates for the Tax Exempt Organization Search tool. We are still processing paper-filed 990 series received 2021 and later.

https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/search-for-tax-exe...

I don't know anything about this, but that does kind of sound like forms from the 2020 FY and onward may not all be online yet.
Paper-based accounting was append-only, so I think the idea's always been there but was uneconomic in machine readable media for a long time.

(in particular, "new master = old master + updates" card/tape jobs were in principle append-only but —due to finite number of tapes— in practice overwriting)
Thanks for the insights and clarifications - I agree with all that completely :)

I mainly responded because "Datomic ∈ Datalog" is worthy of discussion in itself ...but I now realise this is probably the wrong subthread for that.
Correct, the US has not figured that out
AI could become mind bendingly more powerful than humans, but raw power is no use against the powerful idea that humans are just automatically better than anything else.

Many animals are far more powerful than humans, they could tear us to shreds and move at insane speeds, and yet the order of the world has dictated that animals are far less important than humans. Perhaps the justification is lack of consciousness.

With AI, it will be a lack of something else. An AI could be vastly intelligent and occupy a powerful body that can interact with the physical world in ways that humans could only dream of. But even with all that, an AI will never, ever, be a human. And for that it will always be considered inferior within human hierarchies. An AI is nothing but another example of human power.
You don't shit where you eat, to put it colloquially - a common tactic employed by bad actors worldwide, I remember reports about malware disabling itself should it detect a Russian keyboard layout way over a decade ago.
Word is that it's roughly ~10-11% of the company - am seeing a lot of (deactivated) in slack.
Please open an issue to discuss any improvements you'd like to see!
How to make this usable with CIFS/SMB? I don't know if a mounted drive on either Linux or Windows will keep to "keepalive" the connection.
Hearing that a lot of Community teams were let go, including the teams responsible for tutorials. Seems obvious DigitalOcean doesn't care about developers anymore. But this has been obvious for a while now. I guess their value "Our Community is bigger than just us" only matters when profits are up.

Pour one out for DigitalOcean. It's the end of an era.
What is the way to genuinely communicate “I will think about it” then?
Holy crap, I keep/use-modify maybe a line or two of what co-pilot suggests per file. To the point I probably won't pay for it when my trial end today.

What am I right differently that results in me needing/using it much less than the stated 40+% ? That's an incredible high figure - maybe it's not an accurate figure?
RFC PR: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2981

RFC text: https://github.com/jswrenn/rfcs/blob/safer-transmute/text/00...

I don't know what the status quo is, but it is very exciting work.

There are also crates in this domain that work today. The two I'm aware of are https://docs.rs/zerocopy/latest/zerocopy/ and https://docs.rs/bytemuck/latest/bytemuck/
Per day!
Descrypt is 8 characters.

This becomes super relevant in dealing with FreeIPA with its yp/NIS server component supporting systems from the early 90s. NIS broadcasts the shadow file to the L2 every two minutes, and everyone's password is truncated to the first 8 characters. Hashcat cracked 30% of a 500 user shadow file in a few days on a GTX1060.
Usually in such outcast places they have a room equipped for light surgery and some emergency procedures. You won't receive the same level of care that you would have in a proper hospital, but they should be able to at least do some "temporary fix" while transportation to a proper hospital is arranged if needed. Appendectomy shouldn't be a problem.
Off-grid earthship communities are no longer just a utopian fantasy
So the naive MCTS implementation in Python is ridiculously inefficient. Of course, you could reimplement it in C++ but this then requires you to use the C wrappers of Tensorflow/JAX to do the MCTS/neural network interop.

I came up with a nifty implementation in Python that outperforms the naive impl by 30x, allowing a pure python MCTS/NN interop implementation. See https://www.moderndescartes.com/essays/deep_dive_mcts/

MCTX comes up with an even niftier implementation in JAX that runs the entire MCTS algorithm on the TPU. This is quite a feat because tree search is typically a heavily pointer based algorithm. It uses the object pool pattern described in https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/object-pool.html to serialize all of the nodes of the search tree into one flat array (which is how it manages to fit into JAX formalisms). I suspect it's not a particularly efficient use of the TPU, but it does cut out all of the CPU-TPU round trip latency, which I'm sure more than compensates.
This viewpoint leads to an irresolvable contradiction, in the U.S. at least, as another user pointed out:

> The US enshrined in the Constitution that every single person, no matter what they did, will have the right to a legal defense. If that is the case, how would morality play a role here? Are you suggesting that we should teach lawyers to only represent clients they think are good people?

If lawyers exercised their own independent views of morality and ethics that would imply the possibility that very odious people can be left without any legal representation. Which is contrary to the constitution.
I remember seeing that canary list online in the 2012-13 era. It was frightening.
We've bought Toyotas for years. All our family cars are Toyotas.

I don't plan to buy another one, unless they can make a good EV.
These types of character input screens do help against some forms of shoulder surfing or maybe even phishing, but only if your password is random and long enough for it not to be brute-forcible. The problem with this method is that most people will keep their passwords short if you make them more difficult to enter.

It's easy to watch someone unlock their phone with a PIN or gesture, steal the phone and open it later if the location of the keys never changes. Especially if the fingerprints are left on the screen.

If we can make this work with soft materials like rubber, it'd also be a defence against skimmers. It's trivial to see someone's PIN on a payment terminal even after they've already left the store if the keys don't immediately disappate body heat. Aim an infrared camera at the keypad and you'll see which keys were pressed, sometimes even in what order.
Asking for the law to be followed is an "outburst"? Okay buddy. You americans are really far gone.
You're interjections are not what is being said or implied. It's stating that's how people perceived human slavery and will apply the same logic to cyber. There is no reason. People put themselves first, period, that's it.
Well, yes. There's the famous case of when a station's only doctor had appendicitis so he removed his own [1], and another who had to do her own cancer biopsy and chemotherapy [2]. The equations may be simple but they are still very cold.

[1] Leonid Rogozov, 1961. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32481442

[2] Jerri Nielsen, 1998. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerri_Nielsen
What a pitiable man.
Control of a CNC machine is one example.

Presumably this means one could run LinuxCNC.

(though AFAICT, most folks as using Grbl on an Arduino these days).
I believe so.

He is almost revered, in Japan.

I'm told he was laughed out of the US, which is why he set up shop in Japan.
Jesus christ.

"In one online survey published in PLOS ONE and covered by Science in 2014, 71% of 512 female respondents reported being sexually harassed during fieldwork; 84% of them were trainees."

"In the NSF report, one interviewee said she’d been told on her first day at McMurdo to stay clear of a certain building unless she “wanted to be raped.” Another woman said she felt like she was seen as “prey” no matter where she was physically on the base."

"Another was so "freaked out" by the pervasive sexual harassment that she began carrying around a hammer."

"Another survivor of sexual harassment said she didn't report the incident for fear her employer would fire her; when she could no longer cope, she quit."

This fucking David Marchant guy was a fucking terror. Holy shit. (https://www.science.org/content/article/disturbing-allegatio...)

"Boston University suspended prominent Antarctic geologist David Marchant with pay. Multiple women had come forward with allegations of sexual harassment against him"

"The first complainant, Jane Willenbring, now an associate professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, part of the University of California, San Diego, alleges that Marchant repeatedly shoved her down a steep slope, pelted her with rocks while she was urinating in the field, called her a "slut" and a "whore," and urged her to have sex with his brother, who was also on the trip."

"According to Willenbring, Marchant told her repeatedly that his brother had a "porn-sized" penis, and said she should have sex with him and feel lucky for the opportunity." "One week, Willenbring alleges, David Marchant "decided that he would throw rocks at me every time I urinated in the field." She cut her water consumption so she could last the 12-hour days far from camp without urinating, then drank liters at night. She says she developed a urinary tract infection and urinary incontinence, which has since recurred. When blood appeared in her urine, she alleges, Marchant prohibited her from going back to McMurdo for treatment."

"The second complainant, Deborah Doe (a pseudonym), who was in Antarctica for two austral summers during this era, reports that Marchant called her a "c--t" and a "bitch" repeatedly. She alleges that he promised to block her access to research funding should she earn a Ph.D. She abandoned her career dreams and left academe."

"A third woman, Hillary Tulley, a Skokie, Illinois, high school teacher, describes her experience in a supporting letter filed with BU investigators. "His taunts, degrading comments about my body, brain, and general inadequacies never ended," she writes. She claims Marchant tried to exhaust her into leaving Antarctica. "Every day was terrifying," she says in an interview with Science."
Great list. I would strongly suggest reading Ward's Lean Product and Process Developer, or if you have, adding it to the list. It focuses entirely on product development rather than manufacturing -- so easier to apply to software development!
The chemicals are not very toxic and they have low environmental and biological persistence and they were almost all destroyed in the controlled fire
In my lifetime, all copyright changes have either been term extensions or measures that effectively strengthened copyright protections like the DMCA. So if I had to guess...
I have the fairphone 4 with divestOS:

https://shop.fairphone.com/

https://divestos.org/pages/devices#device-fp4

Super happy with it, but yeah no headphone jack, but i have it with the usb-c convertor.
Semantic Search with Phoenix, Axon, Bumblebee, and ExFaiss
Centralized, programmable "currency" (CBDC) would logistically enable social policy enforcement on a per-transaction, per-person basis, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34716542 & https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32234361
Don't let perfect be the enemy of the good. Many people won't use a password manager at all if it has no cross-device syncing, and that almost always means a cloud implementation. Sure, it's less secure than a pure local-only password manager, but it's way more secure than not using a password manager at all.
Imagine how much scammers would use such a service with stolen credit card info.
Do they at least tell you which one you're failing to comply with, or do they just let you figure it out on your own?
> Some of the activity, Jorge casually admitted, is used to inflate the value of cryptocurrency.

I know of some farm operators too and this tracks.

Theyll equally do campaigns for or against NGOs, and any political party anywhere. Getting those contracts are lucrative but the crypto ones are faster.

Like I would say them approaching a crypto project is top of the funnel. And then as customer relationship they also know everyone is in a country they want to influence.