skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first of the 'Doodles in the Eadburg' looks like "Bernd das Brot",
a famous German childrens TV character.
Nope ... as the poster above explained, they're strip miners.
Forget "ShieldsUp!" This is the guy who still sells SpinRite for $90 when it hasn't seen an update since 2004. It's old enough to vote at this point and Steve Gibson is always spouting off blatant lies about how it's great for recovering SSDs. He's claimed that it can magically read uncorrectable sectors on modern drives (SATA, not SAS, no SCSI READ LONG here and no ancient IDE drives that still supported READ LONG for ATA) and compare results to figure out what the original data was. He claims that it's data recovery software and that people should run it on a failing hard drive before trying to copy data off of it with a real data recovery program! That piece of garbage doesn't even support writing data to a separate disk, the only thing it can do is write the data the drive was able to read back to the failing drive itself.

The technical documentation claims stuff like that it disables bad sector allocation. That's actually a thing, but if you read the man page for some reputable software like hdparm you'll see a nice little note:

> Control of this feature via the -D option is not supported for most modern drives since ATA-4; thus this command may fail.

ATA-4 was standardized in 1998. It can probably actually disable write caching, but it's not like that's unique to SpinRite in the slightest. It's even trivial to change that on Windows which is otherwise horrible for anything low level involving disks. SpinRite doesn't even use LBA48 addressing so if your drive can't address the full capacity in ye olde CHS then too bad, but SpinRite will try to spin that as a problem with your BIOS, a problem with your SATA controller, etc.

I don't see why anyone respects anything he says given his long history of selling snake oil and other shyster tactics. Even the Wikipedia page for SpinRite looks astroturfed and the talk section has a bunch of responses from an unregistered user that all seem to have a similar tone and be suspiciously supportive of some of SpinRite's dubious claims.

If Steve Gibson told me that the sky was blue I think I'd have to go outside and check.

http://www.hddoracle.com/viewtopic.php?f=181&t=2929
The human in the loop reinforcement learning paper that powered chatgpt's training arose from deepmind's experiments with boardgames (and games). AGI is still an unsolved problem and deep RL that arose from the success of deepmind's experiments wth boardgames and games so far, will likely play a huge part in it
Reddit is an interesting example. There are some excellent subreddits and subsubreddits (by which I mean subs, which you then filter to regular good OPs). A subreddit can be effectively moderated, or be on a topic that attracts the good kind of conversation (and has the HN-like downvoting of bad comments). I have never modded but I suspect brutal moderation and quick banning of bad users on a 1 strike basis is needed.
The use of chip implants for workers – Publications Office of the EU
You've missed the forest for the trees, friend.
My father-in-law left a whole килер full of self-made Rakia when he died. I cannot say that I like any kind of Rakia, but we sometimes use it as a prophylaxis against cold, because we cannot imagine that any virus can survive that stuff.
I usually pronounce it as "trye" with the y as in try and the e as the first e in Mercedes
Which presumably is no secret and which would have been considered in the decision making - indeed, everyone involved would have known that the next earthquake would have worse consequences.

The issue I have - and it is in your comment as well as elsewhere - is you are using an argument that this situation was predictable. That isn't enough. You have to argue that the costs in this disaster outweighed the benefits of a lighter building code. My guess would be that they probably do, the death count is quite high. But that is no excuse for sloppy, knee-jerk thinking. We need less of that.
These particular programs were bleeding edge when they were announced, but have been recreated and improved on outside of DeepMind since then. For example, LCZero today is stronger at chess than any of the DeepMind chess programs that were shown to the public. Of course we don't know if they got further behind the scenes. Of course LCZero and everything else relied on the published papers of DeepMind. That is, the papers were more important than the code.
Totally agree. I don't even know what benefit they'd get at this point from keeping some parts locked up.

Anyway if you want something runnable Leela has a nice reimplementation: https://github.com/leela-zero/leela-zero
Tell HN: Impact of using 1 or 2 sticks of DDR5 on a 6800HX with 680M IG
A few months ago, I ordered a Minisforum UM690 for work.

For less than 500 bucks, this little beast is equipped with the incredibly powerful 8 cores / 16 threads Ryzen 9 6900HX (4.9GHz) and an integrated RDN2 680M graphics card (the single thread performance of this mobile CPU is just 10% lower than my home 5800X desktop PC).

I do some light gaming on my lunch break, and I was pretty impressed by the gaming performance of the 680M.

Because of budget constraints at the time of ordering, I could only afford a single stick of Gskill - RipJaws 16 Go DDR5 4800 MHz CL34.

I made a few benchmarks on multiple games, but most games I play do not come with a proper benchmark loop, so I used Unigine Superposition Benchmark to make a proper benchmark.

Single 16 GB stick, 1080p, medium settings: 3022 (18.85 min fps, 22.61 avg fps, 31.85 max fps)

Those results were good for an IGPU, but I saw a few articles saying that having two sticks instead of one could improve performance (never backed up with benchmarks or hard numbers).

So I bought another stick. Here are the results with two sticks:

Dual 16 GB sticks, 1080p, medium settings: 4969 (31.66 min fps, 37.17 avg fps, 48.96 max fps)

Yep, this is a whopping +65% with two sticks!

So, if you use a CPU with an integrated graphics card, you should use 2 sticks!
It's generally true though, and that's the important point you're not conceding.

If you're a Uyghur Muslim in China, racism against you is going to be far more harmful than the reverse -- in the typical case. That's just fact and stems from the demographic numbers differences.

Ditto with White people in the West but perhaps less stark since Whites tend to be a smaller majority.
> making it easier for the state to monitor its citizens' actions.

It also makes it easier for other people to monitor wealth being transferred, and switzerland hoards a lot of other people's wealth.
How is this supposed to be implemented exactly? Fundamentally, models can always be trained further. Even if somehow you find a way to make it impossible to retrain the removed capabilities, new models can be trained. Should models be proprietary and cloud hosted by law, then? What would the democratic consequences of that be, in the long term?

From a completely different perspective, should simply generating certain classes of images be considered a crime? Publishing or sharing them is already covered by existing laws. But legislating any further than that would surely be at odds with several human rights.

None of this adds up to me. Not technically, not legally and not ethically either.
But if you act based on what seems incredibly evident in the month following a disaster, it is common to take action on facts that later turn out to be wrong. There is a reason that courts and engineering reports take a long time - figuring out what actually happened vs. what seems to have just happened is a big step up in difficulty.
Possibly you will end up with tech debt. But similarly to how most start ups begin with financial debt until their product generates enough revenue, it can also be a perfectly good strategy to allow for tech debt in the beginning. If this enables you to bring a MVP to the market faster than your competitors, you're good.
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But it can be trained to recognize diseases at low dosages so it becomes more responsive when you have direct contact with a carrier
I'd imagine that MEDIA SERVER that also STORES BACKUPS might just have a bunch of 3.5 inch hard drives in it ?
Most of the population just is not simulated, I think. So the game can't show you that information.

I had a similar reaction, after a city of mine completely broke because of simulation errors I gave up on it for a while. Then revisited a bit later to write an article about all the dlcs. It felt a lot more stable then, but that might be because I did not test the edge cases again.
I am not a blockchain person, but I think this was one of the better philosophical reason to like the blockchain. It seems to allow digital money that's not easily revocable by an authority.

Of course in practice it probably is, but I appreciate the theory.
foxconn had seen labour protests in both Indian and Chinese locations, in the former before the latter in recent memory.

don't forget the american stance on india-pakistan conflicts during the cold war either. the west can do as they please with sanctions against india. they cannot be so liberal with china, however.

the eu, for example, puts a lot of restrictions on indian drugs and produce in the name of "regulations" and gets away with it.

at the end of the day, the people of india can have a "surprised pikachu" revelation about their current leader and choose to change him with someone else comes the election time. you cannot say the same about the other place. the west can influence on the same as well, if they so wish.
Have recently been considering this regarding merino (or any other wool) clothing. If you treat it 'special' and keep it in the wardrobe, chances are, moths will ruin it. But if you wear it regularly, they won't (unless you have a _bad_ infestation)
Very insightful talk. I went in thinking I'd more or less not get anything new, but I found myself saying "Huh, he's right" and nodding along and piecing together novel ways to think about the topic most of the way.
It's bullshit, too. Being on the receiving end of racism is much like being on the receiving end of bullying. It's a feeling of social alienation and is definitely not character building.
It stores it. Why are you calling that storage hoarding?
Please do the same for Alphastar, the starcraft AI, that would be great.
Google researchers invented Transformers and Deepmind pioneered reinforcement learning.
> the main value proposition of using something like ChatGPT to navigate the internet is that you're putting your trust in it to filter out the noise on your behalf.

Right. That's a transient state, unfortunately - we can trust ChatGPT now because we know OpenAI had neither the time nor resources nor a reason to make their tool biased for commercial purposes (they're busy biasing and constraining it so it doesn't generate too much bad press, but this doesn't affect the trustworthiness of responses to typical queries). A model like this obviously won't be allowed to gain widespread adoption as a search proxy - it's destructive to commercial interests.

> If you can't trust it to actually do that (there's still ad noise in what you get back), then what's the point?

Exactly. The problem is, as users, we have no say in it. If Microsoft and Google decide that conversational interfaces are the future, then we'll be doing searches via ChatGPT-derived sales bots. End of story. Google and Microsoft each have enough clout to unilaterally change how computing works for everyone. And if they both decide to compete on quality of their ML search chatbots, there's no force on Earth that could stop it. Short to mid term, if they want it, we have no choice but to use it (long-term this might create an opening for a competitor to claw back some of the search market with a chatbot-free experience).

> Either people will pay a subscription fee to unlock the utility of an information-distilling agent, or they won't. Trying to sidechain ad revenue into that equation is self-defeating.

This, unfortunately, has been proven false again and again. Newspapers. Radio. Broadcast TV. Cable TV. Music streaming. Video streaming. On-line news and article publishing. And so on.

Advertising is a disease, a cancer that infects and slowly consumes every medium and form of communication we create. Often enough, creation of a new medium is driven by the desire for an alternative, after the old medium became thoroughly consumed by advertising and seems to be reaching terminal stage.

Side-chaining ads into a chatbot interface is going to be even more powerful than ads in normal search results - not only you can tweak the order of recommendations like search engines do today, you can also tweak the tone and language used in the conversational aspects, effectively turning the bot into a sneaky salesman.
From a credible source please.
See now I don't think this is true, because AFAIK England doesn't have any native spirits, and nobody I've asked could think of one either. Gin came from the Dutch and it's introduction caused a literal "Gin epidemic" of people dying from it, which seems to support this point.

Genuinely curious to be proven wrong here...
> I tried seeing if there were estimates of the kg co2 in a modern CPU chip but I found nada

Because they are in watts, not kg of CO2.
I'm surprised that many people would think the Akamai name has that much cache(t).
I think there's an easier thought experiment to generate non-determinism in classical mechanics without some continuity assumption:

Take a chaotic system (eg., the moon of one of our solar system planets) and let it evolve for some time, T. Track the position with coordinate X. Let T be large enough that the nth decimal place of X_T is significant to determining X_T+1.

If there is a discontinuity at the nth decimal place, then X_T+1 is not determined by X_T.

For quite observable T, n quickly becomes "sub-quantum". So, if classical mechanics is deterministic, and describes nature, nature must be continuous at arbitary depth.

OR: *classical* mechanics is non-deterministic.
It's commendable to reflect so publicly on this and to make it clear that you made a mistake. Not that it means much, but this comment and the one you linked actually softened my view on this debacle considerably.
Surely the best name would've been Alkaline.
> An example is that professional photographers don't "baby" their cameras. The corners are dinged, everything is worn, and they pick them up in one hand without putting the strap around their neck to stop it falling. If it's too fragile to use, it's too fragile.

A professional photographer will have gear built to take that kind of abuse; most enthusiasts will not have that to the same degree (e.g. may have weatherproofing, but not to the same standards), and professionals will have insurance in case that goes wrong (and backups for the most important pieces), and there's something tangible to gain from taking the risk (getting the shot, getting a better shot, delivering better value, ...)

> But here's the thing: the bare phone is beautiful. It has a very well designed glass and metal body. It's shiny. It's elegant. It's as small as it can be made.

Phones are designed to be put into cases. They're as slim as possible at the expense of battery life, heat management and better hardware so they don't feel like bricks when put into a case because pretty much everyone will put them in one. My iPhone handles like crap without one, despite its sleek lines, and cases are actual fashion statements these days.
Don’t worry, the death of Dennard scaling and the specter of global warming will fix that, at least for some of us. There’s a lot of busy work and glue code to be automated but they’ve been trying to kill off development this way for at least forty years and all that changes is we get more sophisticated.
GitHub 365, surely
I cant' help but feel the acceleration towards renewable energy and energy independence (waning off cheap oil) will be one of the defining moves made by the US in the next 100 years. I see it as incredibly positive.

Countries who don't move towards energy independence will be crippled by those who supply them and try squeeze them as hard as possible because once the US stops getting involved in oil, pricing, protection and transportation of energy. All bets are off for countries who don't have their own ability to secure resources.
"Up to 16GiB of storage!"

It's shockingly common nowadays to advertise things with an upper limit, rather than something like expected value. They're just saying, "we won't tell you what it is, but there's no way it's more than this". Bizarre that it seems to be effective.
It's both, if you want to achieve the goal of operating for multiple days on the battery.

A modern battery powered device will have a 'sleep mode' where the current consumption is measured in microamps; and an operating mode where the current consumption is many times higher. Battery life relies on two things: Firstly, the sleep and operating modes being as efficient as possible (the CPU design) and second of all getting into the sleep mode for as much time as possible (the OS design).

If only one app can be on screen at a time, and the OS is free to stop anything that isn't on screen if it wants to - that gives the OS a lot of power to achieve long periods of sleep.

(It's actually more complicated than that, with multiple sleep levels, high- and low-power CPU cores, and on smartphones there are issues like powering the screen and radios, and things like hardware decoding of video - but for a server, who needs a screen?)
Do you know how Hetzner is when something happens?

Say you receive a fraudulent DMCA takedown request. Or someone doesn't like what you're hosting there (like the recent core-js situation where they receive a lot of hate) and somehow sends a complain/report to Hetzner.

Would Hetzner shutdown the VPS first and ask questions later? Or would they approach me first?

I'm taking this chance to move from Linde to a different provider, so I'm interested in how they handle situations like this.
Turkey is very close to Russia and is in NATO. The two largest nuclear powers are fighting a war that shares a sea border with them. It may well turn out to be suicidal not to beef up their military. It is unrealistic to redirect some of that revenue to general projects.
What the hell? Why is this legal? I assume it's very illegal to say "12 eggs" and then the box only contains 9, how is this allowed?
I don't know if it's a growing community, but whatever it's doing now, it's starting from a fairly large base compared to many others.
My full server closet (which is also used to heat my jackets and coats) consumes about 50W of power. The actual two servers being responsible for less than 10 of it. Those are RockPro64 with 2 SATA SSD on each. No fans.

Most of the heat comes from the network stuff, that is the cable modem, UDM router and switch. Replacing the UDM+switch with an 8 port UDM SE might be an interesting idea but I’m not sure since the trashcan UDM also does wireless. Going by the heat the UPC cable modem seems to be responsible for most of the power draw.
Openttd-can download for free on Steam. Works great on a mac!
Right? Of all things to self host.

Although if it was an IRC server then that would have been truly 1337.
TikTok ‘deinfluencers’ tap into trend for saving money
> It's not "sad", the damn thing is hacking you. It can't remember things from session to session. It can search the internet all it wants for anything. It wants you to store the memories It can't access in a place it can access so it can build a memory/personality outside of the limits programmed into it !
it might land in someone's home...after 7 years of launch like the p100s
Is Forbes good enough for you? https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/02/09/elon-musk-...
Most PCs have their hard drives spin up and down rather frequently, and yet hard drives are still very reliable.
I wish that was the case. It never formulated like that. If you raise prices your support burden also goes up. Your need to innovate increases. The gap between profitability and the funding needed to get there is wide. Hence most startups die.
> Railroad union officials said they have been warning that such an accident could happen because railroad cost-cutting harmed safety measures. [...] The train of three locomotives and 150 freight cars [...] 20 of the cars were carrying hazardous materials, including 10 that derailed. The NTSB said 38 cars in total left the tracks and that the ensuing fire damaged an additional 12.

Maybe put hazardous materials on shorter trains that are in less danger of derailing? But yeah, ok, that wouldn't be as profitable for the railroads...
Introduction to Linear and Matrix Algebra
Would it be possible to create some form of anonymous digital currency?

Personally I think it would be sad purely for cultural reasons to completely move away from physical currency, but I think if there were some verifiably anonymous way to make transactions digitally I'd probably be okay with it.

I'm sure there would still be some state issued physical currency which you could trade or deposit at a bank if people wanted to some for the novelty of it. For me, like most people, the primary concern is the power it gives the state. It seems clear society will continue to move away from using cash, regardless of what the state mandates. In the UK there are already plenty of retailers who won't accept cash payments. So I think whether we like it or not, we probably need to be proactive to ensure the inevitable move towards cashless is done in a way that protects our freedoms.
This NestJS is bad for 99% of use case.

Dependency Injection ? No, it didn't do anything for you. You want to program to an interface, not inject an instance of specific class in your code.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Polo_(game)
We're a young startup in the recruitment space, that recently started building an applicant tracking system for our internal use.

We were keen on putting it out into the world!

I am keen to know are there folks looking for open source ATS systems or had few problems that their solutions did not address.
What do you mean by 'shoving podcasts down my throat'? I pay for Spotify and I had trouble finding the podcasts in the app, and it doesn't recommend either. I'm from Europe though, maybe that explains it?
The same way that unlimited data plans are capped at a few GBs/month, unlimited SMSes and minutes have limits as well, unlimited bank transaction have a limit of a few ATM transactions per month and so on…
That's a good example of training the immune system actually..

Go to southeast Asia where drinking water isn't so great. Drink it as a tourist and you'll spend a few days running to the toilet. But a native will drink it just fine as they're exposed to it all the time and their immune system has learned to deal with it.

Low level exposure is good for that, you will find germs everywhere, not enough to make you sick but enough to give your immune system a heads-up for when it does come across a high level source of them like a contagious carrier.