skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The judge did not make conclusions about "the entire body of scientific evidence", only the evidence presented to them. Nor did they make conclusions on whether contaminates in Zantac were cancerous. She concluded there was insufficient evidence to prove that Zatnac caused the plaintiff's cancer. And that does not mean that the evidence doesn't exist - if the plaintiff's attorneys failed to present a sufficient legal case, that doesn't mean the science is wrong or doesn't exist.

Further, one judge is not an arbiter of whether science is sound or not. In fact, the American legal system is infamous for its persistent reliance on fraudulent forensic techniques even well after there's widespread consensus that they're unreliable if not outright fraudulent.

Polygraphs, writing analysis, fiber analysis, hair analysis, fingerprint analysis, drug-sniffing dogs...all have long been found to be far less reliable than courts treat them to be.

The latter is probably the most egregious example, with the Supreme Court agreeing that such dogs are actually worse than a coin flip in terms of correctly indicating a "hit" on drugs...and then shrugged and said dogs were still a valid legal basis for further, more invasive searching.
There's a TOCTTOU going from the filename to the file handle, but once you have a handle,

- on Windows, another process deleting the file is prevented (unless you explicitly opted-in to cooperative FILE_SHARE_DELETE); and

- on Linux, another process deleting the file only unlinks its name, and your handle continues working with the nameless file and its content
That was indeed the next level.
>The suppression of speech and ideas leads to a dictatorship.

That's not true. Nazi ideology is banned in Germany, and they are a far healthier democracy than the United States.

> I just think that the consequences of suppression of speech are worse.

So if a group of people were plotting to kill you, you'd only want the State (i.e. the police) to step in after they had gone through with their plot?

> Sometimes. Are you willing to ban Islam since so often it's ideals are corrupted and lead to groups like Isis or the Taliban?

You're making up things that I 'believe'. I don't personally think that nazi ideology should be banned.

I was merely pointing out that your fantasy of 'responding in kind' is nonsense. The end result of these hate ideologies is mass shootings and terrorism, not street fights you can be prepared for or defend yourself against.
Ads is 80% of all revenue on your chart (search ads + network ads + youtube ads).

If you want, you can stretch their products to ads, cloud, and play store. But ads are still 80% of the whole pie. More if one accepts that some percentage of youtube subscribers are only paying to get rid of ads.
"Ordinateur", which is French for "computer", literally means "sorting machine". So wherever the sorting instructions would go, the computer would follow.
The problem is that even a single user matrix server can be very resource intensive if that user joins big rooms with thousands of users spread over thousands of servers. Synapse is very database heavy, so the parallelism in Postgres helps a lot - plus some of the hot DB paths have special cased queries for Postgres to use some of its more obscure features that Sqlite lacks. Finally, we don’t dogfood or optimise Synapse with Sqlite, so there’s a risk of perf regressions.
Why? It’s been supported since the 2000s and is popular for test suites so it gets more exercise than you might think.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.1/ref/databases/
There is zero reason to restrict transfer speeds to a USB 2.0 level in today's age.

This is Apple once again not respecting their customer.
BTW, for schema migrations, I've found the approach described here [1] to be pretty good!

[1]: https://david.rothlis.net/declarative-schema-migration-for-s...
Like say going from 80GB/sec memory bandwidth to 400GB/sec?

Or maybe having the iGPU performance go up 4-8x so most won't need a $500+ GPU?

I'm considering an Apple studio, once refreshed with the M2 Max, even for Linux. Sure the GPU driver isn't quite there, but it's improving quickly.
Chrome extensions using ChatGPT Summary of latest Google search results
Chrome extensions like new Bing with ChatGPT, using ChatGPT to summarize the latest Google search results.Can compensate for ChatGPT's lack of access to up-to-date information.
It seems like the internet has had to become less "fun" as it's become more essential and universal to modern life.

It used to be a much sillier place where such error messages could be flippant, but now our software has gotten more complicated and capable, so getting an error on step 7 of 31 in some complex task is infuriating whereas it used to be a fun wink for computer hobbyists.
> Intense public scrutiny on Zantac started in 2019, when an online pharmacy found high levels of a likely carcinogen in the drug and its generics.

And the linked article says:

> Valisure discovered the link of Zantac and its generics to the carcinogen NDMA during its routine testing of every batch of every medication, and first notified the FDA of its initial findings in June of 2019. On September 13th, Valisure filed a detailed petition with the Food and Drug Administration asking the agency to recall all products containing ranitidine.

How in the world is it profitable for an online pharmacy to do this? It's great, but honestly who would pay extra to an online pharmacy to do this testing? Would most people even believe an online pharmacy that said that they did such testing? I'd love to know how they survive.
> That's an area I think a lot of the LessWrong crowd get very wrong; they think an AI is so alien it has no rights, and therefore we can do anything to it, or at least, that humanity's rights necessarily trump any rights an AI system might theoretically have.

I don't recall anyone in the LessWrong sphere ever thinking or saying anything like this. The LW take on this is that AI will think in ways alien to us, and any kind of value system it has will not be aligned with ours, which is what makes it dangerous. AI rights are an interesting topic[0], but mostly irrelevant to AI risk.

>> This was like the lesson behind every dystopian AI fiction. You treat it like a threat, it treats us like a threat.

LessWrong crowd has some good thoughts about dangers of generalizing from fictional evidence :).

Dystopian AI fiction tends to describe AIs that are pretty much digitized versions of humans - because the plot and the message relies on us seeing the AIs as a class of people, and understanding their motivations in human terms. But real AI is highly unlikely to be anything like that.

There's a reason the paperclip maximizer is being thrown around so much: that's the kind of AI we'll be dealing with. An alien mind, semi-randomly pulled out of space of possible minds, with some goals or preferences to achieve, and a value system that's nothing like our own morality. Given enough power, it will hurt or destroy us simply because it won't be prioritizing outcomes the same way we do.

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[0] - Mostly because we'll be screwed over no matter how we try to slice it. Our idea of people having rights is tuned for dealing with humans. Unlike an AI, a human can't make a trillion copies of itself overnight, each one with full rights of a person. Whatever moral or legal rights we grant an AI, when it starts to clone itself, it'll quickly take over all the "moral mass" in the society. And $deity help us if someone decides the AI should have a right to vote in a human democracy.
Oh, I get it. You think you are demonstrating that the post you are mocking is meaningless because you can artificially insert other words to it in an arbitrary fashion that renders it meaningless? Shocking that you are being smarmy about it, but I guess that comes with the territory of not realizing the pie is in your own face.
What will happen for people that have Ipad pro cables and accessories? Those are usb-c and don't have any mfi chip afaik.
A logical fallacy is a flawed argument that can be revealed by reasoning. For instance, someone suggesting that attributing blame to capitalism is a way to silence another's speech. That is a logical fallacy, because it omits any explanation of how such an attribution could silence another person. :-)

Seriously though, do you not see how private ownership of communication services impacts the question of who is allowed to use those services? And that if there were a truly public service, how that would dramatically change the situation with respect to First Amendment rights?

For the record, I'm a huge fan of capitalism. But it surprises me how many people don't understand that it has drawbacks, and that we should be honest with ourselves about those drawbacks. It's ok to say that you're pro-capitalism but that you also think that the Internet (or at least some of it) should be a public utility, for instance.
Is a Chromebook a "desktop", or "mobility"? I have a hard time thinking of a Chromebook as a "desktop" PC.

Honestly, I think the research firm's divisions are crap. WTF is "mobility" anyway? Why would this not include laptops?
"On average, more than 1,000 workers are dispatched each day to a high-speed rail construction site."

So for the low price of $105 billion, 1000 people get to go to an ultimately temporary job every day. Could have made every one of them a millionaire and saved $104 billion. And California would still have the same amount of HSR they have now!

https://www.constructiondive.com/news/california-high-speed-...
My apologies for misstating this. According to the internet archive, he stopped complaining about this problem sometime in 2008, a mere four years after the raw sockets restrictions were added to XP.

Do keep in mind, however, that his entire reason for continuing to publicize this was because it allowed him to continue making foolish claims like "Microsoft Does Not Understand Security," and to pretend that the eventual restrictions (not removal) of raw sockets in XP were proof that he was right. They were not.

In fact, the entire issue was over his own misunderstanding of security. You can't secure a network by asking client operating systems to restrict their own behavior on some kind of honor system (guess what: the bad guys' computers will not have these restrictions). The use of raw sockets did not disappear and the internet still exists. The claim that this was "a tremendous threat to the global Internet" basically amounted to "the sky is falling and only I can see it because none of the other security experts 'get it' like I do." Which is entirely bogus.
Yeah I think a qualification to add would be “Take the qualified interview.” If you apply, that’s your qualification so take the interview. If they contact you and you tell them what you want, that’s your qualification, so if they agree and offer an interview, take it.
When did I say what your political beliefs were? It's obvious to anyone reading your post, that you shared what you did to further your beliefs. Sheesh! And go figure, you're just shy of an absolutist. Who would have guessed that? (me! I would have!)
Is anyone really surprised by this?
The root should be locatable in ~constant time. If you use something like the splay tree, the most recently-used/modified/inserted data remains near the hotter side of the log. There is no linear scanning aside from initial bootstrap in an approach like this.

You can search for some comments I made recently about an append-only database scheme.
I will be surprised if they ever release this product.
Black Hawk helicopter crashes in Alabama, killing 2
You're welcome. The most interesting part is the "fire in a theater" was at a time when the government was throwing people in jail for protesting WWI under the Wilson administration. When the SCOTUS affirmed the Debs conviction and 10 year sentence and permanent disenfranchisement, they referenced the case of "fire in a theater," as justification. It was a pretty dark time in our history. I'm glad it was overturned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs
Well thank you for the suggestion and I am pleasantly surprised. I had written that brand off for a long time knowing that it was a made-up word and made by Nestle... the ingredients appear very clean and quality though
It's a file is relevant. It allows you to think of it like other files:

- how do you back up a JPG? You copy it, cause it's a file

- how do you replicate it? You copy it, cause it's a file. Unless you're talking about fancy DB replication, in which case well, that's not really a thing we do with files much. You'll have to do more research. but that's cause you're trying to do non-file things to a file.

- how do you handle two different processes accessing a JPG? They both open and read the JPG. Same for SQLite. For other concerns, you're trying to do things that don't map well to files, so once again more research needed.
I know that traveling by plane is safe (statistically speaking) but even with news like that on millions of flights where nothing happens, they make scared.

My biggest problem is on takeoff, when the plane turns on its maximum power to take off. My mind takes me into a crazy spiral where I am bombarded with adrenaline as if my death were imminent. I went to a therapy that helped just a little bit and I take a very light medicine, but it's still not enough.

I have a short flight in 7 days and if anyone has some effective tips to overcome my fear of flying, I would be very grateful.
I have been told my entire life that these chemicals are safe
I don't know why this is downvoted, it's probably the best advice on this page. Learning a few things about deployment definitely helps to make better software.
Screw that; I want them to dump x86 altogether and move to ARM, or maybe come up with something even better, to compete with Apple's M2. Why are we stuck with this shitty old ISA from the 1970s?
2000 I had alot of tooth pain, I could get all kind of good pain killers for that...

About a year ago I had an infected tooth... Nothing more than 600mg advil was on the table... take that at suffer through the rest of the pain...
Secret sauce, no clue. Some folks are working on AGI precisely looking for that secret sauce. ChatGPT is just a tool, a very clever one. Just as a chainsaw cannot drill holes, ChatGPT cannot do many, many other intellectual tasks. We have other very clever AI tools. All can fool humans as well. But I imagine the first phones or TVs also fooled humans. Tools, just tools so far. I think even if we ever build an artificial brain and wire it correctly, it will still be just a tool. I think AGI is not a hardware problem but a software one. Given the necessary hardware, can we program AGI?
I think that the benefits of AGI research are often omitted from the analysis, so I'm generally supportive of considering the cost/benefit. However I think you need to do a lot more work than just gesturing in the direction of very high potential benefits to actually convince anyone, in particular since we're dealing with extremely large numbers, that are extremely sensitive to small probabilities.

EV = P(AlignedAI) * Utility(AGI) + P(1-AlignedAI) * Utility(ruin)

(I'm aware that all I did up-thread was gesture in the direction of risks, but I think "unintended/un-measured existential risks" are in general more urgent to understand than "un-measured huge benefits"; there is no catching up from ruin, but you can often come back later and harvest fruit that you skipped earlier. Ideally we study both of course.)
"Intel has decided that CPUs no longer should sort, and instead will return original arrays in constant time. This has shown to have a 10^17 performance increase in some benchmarks."
I'd go further and just point out the obvious - all DBs have incredibly well supported container run options in 2023, that mean you don't have to install the DB at all. I know of no DB that cannot be easily learned or deployed this way - even Microsoft SQLServer has a Linux image these days.

Since the advent of containers for running software, deploying any DB software is largely as easy as any other with a one line run statement, and if container image is cached you are getting a new DB in seconds.

If just starting out, running PG from a container is exactly how I would tell someone to learn today, and the process is largely identical whether they learn on windows, linux or a mac.

I haven't natively installed a DB since probably 2015 for any kind of local development use, its just a waste of your time more often than not now.

> https://hub.docker.com/_/postgres
That list is a bit absurd. Very USA-centric. And completely wrong in the case of picnic (pique-nique)
How I hate this war is peace "newspeech" . I don't even know what it's called. Anti speech? Lying ?
February WebAssembly North America Meetup
To be clear, I am not saying it doesn't occur.

I am just pushing pack on the idea that just because something happens regularly or frequently, it is normalized. There are 350 Americans and 5+ billion people on the internet.

You could probably run a news story every day about a mother who murdered their child, but that doesn't mean infanticide is normalized. It doesn't even mean infanticide is a serious problem.
I've ordered medication from them because they test to make sure that there's no impurities. It's not that much more expensive and I would gladly pay to know there's no extra chemicals in there that could give me cancer.
What complications?

>The same complications exist in far higher rates with COVID itself.

Is that relevant if most people who get the jab also later get covid?
I don't live in Essex County so Newark's schools don't effect me directly.

Newark's problems are at the family level, not at the school level. Parental involvement is a baseline requirement for a successful student. It's unfortunate but Newark is hurting in this regard.
The user likely doesn’t want any details about the error itself. Instead, they want to know the consequences of it and/or how to recover from it. In this case, what parts were finalized (was the money spent or not) and where in the ticket buying process they need to restart from.

The problem is that the developers use these messages for debugging their own problems. If that’s necessary, include a unique error ID in the message also, but that’s much less important than telling the user what to do next.
For us, we only allocate ie 8 runners to a VM with 8 cores, which we pin to 8 cores on the actual server, so our focus is getting as many cores as possible to get as many runners as possible.

We kind of expected that scaling HW with more CPUs instead of more entire rack systems would be more energy efficient, but I don’t think it makes too much of a difference compared to other factors like CPU/vendor architecture.

FWIW our energy bill is $1000+ per month just from servers, and then several $k for various licensing on each host per year, so there was some sweet spot we were optimising for (low power, but less licensing cost via less racks). Our cost in the cloud would be $5k per month or more, so either way we still saved money this year.
Wow, I love that they do this. A few online nootropics suppliers do the same for the supplements they provide but I guess "legit" pharmacies just trust whatever they get from their suppliers usually.
You bring up a real issue, but we can value education and have an imperfect implementation at the same time though.
I haven't used Intel since Zen 1 came out. Never regretted it.
Tesla wants more to insure my Model 3 than USAA does, and that’s with lower coverage limits. Perfect safety score.

That’s without getting into how much better USAA’s service is compared to Tesla.

And if you have other non-Tesla cars you probably will benefit from having them on the same policy.
The rainy days were more like months for a lot of companies though. Imagine storing enough fuel in case you couldn’t get fuel for 5 months… it’s just unreasonable. It costs too much. At some point you just have to accept that you depend on a functioning world
PasS my ass. What's so difficult about setting up a VPS and installing PostgreSQL, MySQL or whatever floats your boat? At Hetzner.com (no I don't work for them) you can get a dual-CPU VPS with 4Gb RAM, 40Gb SSD and 20TB traffic. That'll get you off to the races with Spring Boot and PostgreSQL if you limit the JVM to half the available RAM. For something like Rails, Laravel or Express even easier.
They have “asked to allow [SBF] only the use of a monitored Gmail account, and SMS and voice calls on a tracked phone” [1]. Basically, he’s being switched from a blacklist to a whitelist.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/347e2d5c-b146-472d-bbd1-3793300dd...
There is always going to be a day they do it, and a next time when they don't. When it coincides with a press release, makes all the more sense.
Might as well be using MongoDB if you are going to use SQLite in prod.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
> This seems to be a uniquely Walmart experience. I don’t experience it anywhere else in the States.

Literally 95% of the US shops at Walmart, so... you might be in a very small bubble
I'm not sure if I should be scared or impressed. Or both.
>I blame Intel for that.

As you should. I worked at Intel back in the 00s when they were in the "megahertz wars". All they talked about internally was "we're winning the MHz wars!!! Yay!". When anyone mentioned power consumption, or how fucking loud the cooling fans were, or MIPS/Watt, they didn't care; all that mattered was MHz. Hitching their wagon to RAMBUS memory was part of this. Then they got pissed and indignant when consumers didn't want to spend a fortune on RAMBUS memory and bought AMD CPUs with cheap SDRAM instead.
> The article says that the number of overdose deaths is 110,000 per year.

For comparison NHTSA recorded just under 43,000 car accident deaths in the US in 2021. That’s also very close to the 2020 death by suicide number of 45,000.

That’s 25% more opioid deaths per year than our both cars and suicides COMBINED.

In fact we could add in the 19,000 Americans who were killed with guns in homicides in 2020.

Cars + Gun Homicides + Suicides = 107,000. Still less than opioid deaths by a few thousand.

It’s bad out there.
I guess it depends upon how SQLite is configured and what storage it's deployed on. If it's setup with WAL mode and on SSD storage then it should handle thousands of writes a second fairly easily.
in 6th edition it was already 14

https://github.com/memnoth/unix-v6/blob/master/sys/ken/nami....

https://github.com/memnoth/unix-v6/blob/master/sys/param.h#L...

i guess this 'edition zero' is from 01971, and 6th edition is 01975
I don't think the metal is fully molten. That's why you need the huge pressures to bring it to shape
"So if a group of people were plotting to kill you, you'd only want the State (i.e. the police) to step in after they had gone through with their plot?" That's already a crime friend. Conspiracy. I think you are smart enough to understand the difference between free speech and plotting a murder.

"I was merely pointing out that your fantasy of 'responding in kind' is nonsense". Cool, I still support near absolute free speech.

Nazis are banned in Germany as a result of WW2 and was part of their rehabilitation. Who do we give the power of deciding what speech is banned in modern day America? Biden? Trump? Desantis? Elizabeth Warren? The supreme court? I agree Nazis are bad, I just don't think anyone in the United States should have the power to ban ideas.
Because middle-class can vote with their feet, California continues to be the first state in both number of and percentage pf people moving out of California.

Further income divide is good for progressive political ideals of achieving fuller government control (without the middle-class' irate.

https://www.ppic.org/blog/californias-population-shifts-may-...