skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As long as optical drives are still being built, you should be good (and perhaps ~5 years after that).

Once it's obvious that the most recently built drives that can read the media are getting unreliable (due to their age), it's time to switch to a new medium.
Yes, it's bad they did that. But while the tiny "ea" might not be good, the order confirmation page is extremely clear, includes all the totals you expect, and it seems like the author just clicked past it.

They should have done the morally right thing and refunded him, but, I am just not sure how much clearer the UI really needs to be here. It says the total price multiple times in multiple places and says multiple times "we will charge you this amount and we will not give it back."
Nostr Nests
Not to mention tons of contributions to VR. They may have mismanaged the PR on that, but the product, as it exists is quite a thrill.
"Virus" kinda refers more to the phenomenon of the species as a whole (kinda like how "humanity" refers to all of us, plus people who came before, plus all the stuff associated with us). Likewise "COVID-19" refers to the pandemic, rather than the viral species.

Meanwhile "virion" is the term to refer to the virus particles, so I suppose the most precise/pedantic way to say it would be "all SARS-CoV-2 Virions"?
There is no reason to hate yourself. This is morally right ground. Children need privacy protections. That isn't just a counter-narrative: it's a deep and direct criticism of the narrative that says we should dismantle privacy to protect children.

If an effort to protect children also endangers children, then that effort is not worthy of implementation.

Narratives are not limited to "how we share ideas", but also "how we contextualize them".

If you haven't heard the counter narrative we are proposing, then you may not be aware of the way encryption backdoors endanger children. It's important for us to share that context as narrative.
Good for you if you don't see your telecom provider as a shady company.
Only if we stretch the term to mean “clearly communicating”. The point is that you won’t need to add keywords to the prompt to “trick” the AI.
>>I believe this technology could be used in destructive ways. If it were in unscrupulous hands, for instance, it could spread misinformation, political propaganda, or hateful information about people of different ethnicities and religions.

Blake is absolutely right about this.

But, unless there's something going on beyond a Large Language Model, he's very wrong about it being sentient.

These LLMs are effectively, and merely, increasingly high-fidelity mirrors of human expression.

Like a foggy mirror, the ELIZA model reflected human actions and elicited real responses from humans.

Today's LLMs have a fantastically wider dynamic range of producing high-fidelity high-probability responses. The results often accurately mirror human responses, and clearly can evoke human emotional responses and connections.

But like a more highly polished and cleaned mirror, just because we cannot personally and in real-time ray-trace every photon, or debug the path to the selection of each word, does not mean that they in any way sentient or independent minds able to wield concepts.

But is also does not mean they aren't dangerous
I don't think that's legally correct. Including automated repossession technology in the vehicle wouldn't cause ownership to stay with the manufacturer or dealer. Even if the manufacturer retained legal ownership it wouldn't change anything from a product liability standpoint. Many drivers lease their vehicles today instead of buying and so the vehicle still belongs to the lessor. If a person is injured by a faulty vehicle then they can potentially sue the original manufacturer anyway regardless of who happens to own the vehicle.
Well-off people can buy or rent cars without difficulty. Increasing the security of cars as collateral will reduce the credit risk of car loans and therefore the car loan interest rates charged to borrowers with low credit scores.
> lab-made virus might bring about the apocalypse.

So the conclusion is he predicts the future pretty well with some uncertainty! Sounds like we should listen to him.
You'll get no arguments from me on the need to refine the rights of life as we expand our society.

I am merely pointing out that if we want to extend any rights or protections to AI we need to define a model outside the corpus of law protecting humans. That will take time and will be a slow process.

My only point here is that in its current state AI does not qualify for any rights or protections related to humans and how they function in society.
I had a Toshiba Blu-ray player that i didn't use for 3+ years and it had the same issue.
>This is a terrible metric for attribution.

It may be the only metric for attribution, once those packets have left your network, who knows where they go!

>attribution at the state actor level is really just larping.
Is Larping the new name for Walter Mitty?

I know Walter is a favourite with the British establishment.

https://www.google.com/search?q=DODIDCA_59_PIV.crl

http://crl.disa.mil/crl/DODIDCA_59_PIV.crl
AFAIK a NTP client doesn't accept a value which highly differentiates from the current time. At least, not without user interaction. Does that render this attack less likely?
My hope is that the Python team can keep it snappy by default so we don't end up with another Julia. And don't get me wrong, Julia is cool, but the primary drawback is its warmup time. And besides the adoption momentum that Python has, this is the main differentiator in my mind.

But Julia's warmup time should serve as a warning: the expertise you claim exists has not saved major projects from the drawbacks of JIT.
EXT4 Scores a Nice Direct I/O Performance Improvement with Linux 6.3
Ah yes. An empty, denuded world, with unprecedented flourishing for our friends, family, and fellow humans. This type of nostalgia for a wild world full of disease and dangerous predators fails so utterly to motivate me.
It’s software.

Software is a computer program, by definition not sentient.
The articles I read assume you just want to emulate a game using RetroPI. I want to create a Unity game that runs as arcade cabinet, hopefully that distinction makes sense.

I suppose I could read the sourcecode of RetroPI and see how they configure linux to run RetroPI. That seems applicable. Alternatively, I guess I can see if I can export my game for one of the supported RetroPI systems...?
Single-source C++ shaders for graphics and compute with Circle (2021)
Wonder what it'd taste like!
This is ridiculous. Not only is Bellard no longer involved, but to say 'written' implies he did this by himself.

You wouldn't say Linux Torvalds wrote Linux. It's literally written by thousands of people.

I work with people like this, and I hate it when people say "I wrote X feature."
No, no you didn't. It was written by a whole team.
Something to ponder…

The world was all model-based analysis, and then neural networks came along. Model-based analysis-which requires a thorough understanding of the model mathematics-went out the window. Now, we let the network develop its own model, but it’s based on the data that is used to train it. But what if that data is biased? What if the data doesn’t contain some necessary “truth?”

I feel that I t’s like driving a car looking out of the rear window to see where you have been. This can’t be good.
If GPT is good at one thing, it's unconditional positive regard. Unfortunately, I think unless you really goad it, it won't prescribe bitter pills. Self-reported satisfaction with therapy might actually measure kissedness of asses.
Indian transport ministry flaws potentially allowed creation of counterfeit
Well, today, a good example is core-js. But it depends what you mean by "understaffed".
Do you really have that long of notes that summarizing your handwritten note into a couple sentences max, and serializing it into org-mode is such a travesty?

It really seems like people hate org-mode just to hate it, because they've heard so much praise that there needs to be some sort of counter-culture. Even if it doesn't actually make sense.
We got about 4 eggs a day ~10 months a year. Though that does drop off as birds get older.

We had a ~8'x12' fully enclosed run that they got locked in at night since we had surprisingly bad predator issues for being in town. That just meant open the door to give them the run of the (fenced) yard during the day and close it again before bed. They had enough space that they could stay in their run if we were out of town for a day or two.

We used a big PVC gravity feed system for food and poultry cups for water so just had to check that once a week or so.

Whenever the run started smelling, we'd add a layer of mulch or straw in the bottom - maybe once a month.
You can do that on top of a public/private keypair, too.
The Navajo code talk in WW II was a childishly easy code to break
Origin is hard to beat and unfortunately a must have nowadays.

Although I must admit for a longer while I've been ignoring sites that are annoying or unusable without a blocker and it made my day much calmer. I stopped even clicking links on most "news" sites that are just borderline clickbaits.
I still think politicians don’t seem to understand that without proper encryption their behaviour will be subject to blackmail, public scrutiny and more problems than it even is now. I’m not sure they want financial information and off shore transactions to be more easily discovered.

Adding in these type of backdoors and key registries or whatever other madness these fantasists want means you can guarantee these will be broken by foreign adversaries and others.
My understanding is that you create a new key in the external key management service, re-encrypt all applicable data in Workspace with the new key and then revoke/delete the old key. All this is API-based, of course, so it can be automated.

(Testing Cunningham's Law here)
So for those that slowly metabolize caffeine, would it be prudent to take a statin?
That implies that using linux doesn't have you still beholden to a black box which is controlled by 2 US companies, when most likely you're still using an X86 Intel or AMD processor. But let's say you're using some ARM chip instead. Now your black box was built by TSMC or Samsung instead. It's black boxes all the way down.
Was it a proper dark mode? I seem to remember that there were some unwanted theme appearance exceptions in Windows back then.
> The best engineers disappear for 1-2 days in quiet and then deliver exactly what you needed

Communication is hard, and what someone communicates what they want is very rarely exactly what they actually want (or need). Sure, sometimes the stars align and you have perfect communication of exactly the needed specification and a dev who can perfectly translate that to code. But in most real world conditions you need good communication skills at both ends. Language is full of ambiguities, and it's possible to have a perfectly reasonable interpretation of something that is totally wrong.

I've worked with plenty of competent people who have had plenty of bad ideas. If I wasn't competent at communicating my issues with these ideas I would have spent many more weeks of my life on unnecessary or poorly thought out features.
Just curious but why are you highlighting the "retro gaming tools" features? Does that tooling help run the unity game I write?

Edit: I updated the title of this post to better describe my question. I'm not looking to emulate someone else's game but instead run my own game I create.
> if you're from a "third rate" city that doesn't apply

Third-tier, not third rate.

And I’d argue it’s tier two cities which fuck up their cocktails and wine lists most passionately. Go to Bisby or Enniscorthy and they’ll pour a great, simple drink and tell you to kindly fuck off if you order something they don’t know. Order an aviation or Gibson in Manhattan or Palo Alto, and you’re likely to be treated well. But try the same in Phoenix or Aspen, and god knows what saccharine nonsense even a gin and tonic will arrive as.
While the education plans aren't publicly available, apparently there is no minimum for Enterprise Plus accounts. Theoretically, an enterprising (unless nonplussed) individual could indeed get this feature at I think $30/mo.
What country are you from where SMS messaging is more popular than apps?
The More Things Change: ChatGPT Echoes Google's Early Days
In a recent-ish paper, there was an analysis of positional encodings using Neural Tangent Kernels which showed positional encodings are very similar to Fourier transformations of the inputs:

Fourier Features Let Networks Learn High Frequency Functions in Low Dimensional Domains, https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.10739
Based on what, exaxtly?
I think the technical solution to this is to simply index the documents in their rendered (or plain text) format and search against that. Unfortunately that would require an additional tool or plugin.
That's awesome, I'm jealous.
It looks like macOS Ventura won't load a .dylib from this set until you approve it in Privacy & Security settings.
The true killer feature in my book is the compression: I get ~93% for my largest datasets, which makes disk space requirements far more sane and dramatically speeds big analytical queries. You’re right that if you have a small (<1GB) table, Timescale is overkill, but shrinking a 70GB table to 5GB is quite a big deal if you’re trying to run on a budget VPS.

Continuous aggs and the job daemon are really nice bonuses too.
>never have any mails flagged as spam

You don't know this for certain, no one can unless you monitor both ends.
You could hide that behind a proxy
It is a little odd that the US is so iMessage-heavy when the rest of the world isn't

It's not odd at all.

Lots of iPhones in the US because of high incomes, and high iPhone availability. Lots of non-iPhones in the rest of the world because of comparatively low incomes, and significantly less iPhone availability.

I see no mystery.
An Augmented Reality Walmart? We're there already?

Ohhhhh, that kind of AR!
Git is a fundamentally different kind of tool than a video codec, and I don't think comparing them is particularly helpful.

I agree that Git could be a bit more internally consistent, and have a few more convenience shortcuts for very basic usage. But I can also see a strong argument that, as part of the Linux ecosystem, that's a perfectly good opportunity for someone who wants to build a wrapper around Git (and I believe many have).

It seems to me that unless you really only want to use Git in the most basic way possible (add all your changes every commit, never roll anything back, single branch, no stashes), understanding something of Git's internal model is less like understanding how the compiler's internals work, and more like understanding the fact that a C program needs to be compiled into object code and potentially linked into an executable before it can be run.
This is why I always find pastoralists ridiculous. They fantasize about us returning to nature, thinking that you can swap out factory-farmed cattle with wild buffalo and support the same population.

Any greener way to eat involves a hard move away from animal agriculture altogether towards more veg-heavy diets, or mass death.

As always, people with Malthusian/Thanos ideas are cordially invited to go first.
No they aren't. You posit they are because of alleged threats and I and others suggest that the biggest threat is policies like this and people like you trying to give governments huge censorship abilities to coerce conformity.

Your arguments are basic and the kind that lead us to the Iraq invasion and many other wars that are for profit but, at the time, always sold as a matter of national security or similar and dissent is punished in whichever way possible.

You can make dissent virtually nonexistent online if you censor enough.
Facebook invented PyTorch
> What is wrong with that?

It's associated with the enemy in the culture war.
The one I used the longest was from 2012 and WiFi worked just fine. I do remember it taking a bit of googling to get it working back then but I think it mostly just works with like Ubuntu 18. maybe I got lucky with my particular WiFi chip or something.
If humans are sentient, are molecules in their body sentient?

There are around ~22,000 proteins types in their body, yet we are billions, all different.
You may be thinking of Michael Hastings?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hastings_(journalist...
That example is part of the tooling, not the format. One can do the same with markdown, just write the tool for it. Obsidian.md, a popular markdown-environment for example, has many extensions doing stuff like this. Similar has VS Code.
I used to work for an automotive OEM. I can confirm this. We got regular (yearly) reminders to submit patient ideas for concepts we’d come up with. There was a bonus incentive once the patent was awarded (maybe just submitted) It was something on the order of $500-1000 IIRC.

Our lawyers were pragmatic about it. They were very clear that the concept should be novel and plausible, and were willing to offer guidance and help with the text of the parent. It was neat, and I wish I’d taken advantage of it.
This is a good example of what the author calls a code-focused attitude. I'm not going to judge anyone for wanting to work that way, but there's a lot of roles where it's just not very useful.

Stripe Atlas, to take the author's example, is in the fundamentally communication-based business of helping new companies legally incorporate. The vast majority of their technical challenges are going to sound less like "how do we write code that does X" and more like "should the code do X or Y"? So people who see only the former as "actual work" are going to have a hard time producing any value.
AI and Law: Legal Insights on the Formal Verification of AI Systems
Finally, a chatbot which lives in the office.
> Is your "privacy stolen" when you register your vehicle?

No because these are in trusts or LLCs. This makes it difficult to tie a car to a specific driver license in an automated manner.

Many people are too busy checking social media to do the necessary to protect privacy.
It helps to read the article
> EDIT: Seems to come from German Max-Planck Institute which is funded by German government.

On the Github repo it says:

"Supported by

Funded through NLNet with financial support for the European Commission's NGI Assure program."

On the website it says:

"Funded through NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's NGI Assure program."
Ford patents car that can repossess itself and drive back to showroom
Anyone know if Neon supports pgvector?
Having worked retail I can tell you the video feed is interesting for all of about 10 minutes. After that, there is a job to do. The only time it gets looked at is if a hot girl or some sketchy AF walks into the store and down tall isles. In practical terms, no one is watching the camera feed after their first day on the job.
Fearless Fosdick
The Mining Industry’s Next Frontier Is Deep, Deep Under the Sea
Just because it's about to be March right now, I think was the intention there.
I imagine investing in Nvidia and possibly a company like Google who make their own AI accelerators (TPUs is it?) is a good idea? Is there going to be enough fab space for the coming AI revolution? With Apple taking all of TSMC 3nm output are they planning their own Mac Pro with external GPUs and a possible move to the datacenter too? It’s certainly an interesting time to be alive…
> the mere capability renders the machine fundamentally untrustworthy.

I've said this a couple of times before, but I find it fairly astonishing that we don't have legislation covering what manufacturers are allowed to do to a product with embedded devices after a user has purchased it.

I want to be very clear - after I have bought a product, ANY CHANGE WITHOUT MY CONSENT done by the embedded software at the behest of the manufacturer is essentially breaking and entering (Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA)). They have the ability to stick a "little green man" inside the car, that should not absolve them of the legal repercussions of using it without my permission.

I don't believe that sticking a term/clause into a user agreement that is not negotiable is an acceptable way to deal with this situation.

This is rapidly becoming one of my strongest political beliefs. I think the concept of ownership is at stake.

My wishlist is essentially:

1. Devices that contain digital locks MUST provide all keys to all locks to the buyer at time of purchase. The user can opt into allowing the manufacturer to keep a copy, but they must be allowed to opt out.

2. Devices that require remote services must explicitly list all services and features that depend on those services. The user must have the option to opt out of remote services.

3. Buyers of devices that choose to opt out of remote services are revoking consent for manufacturer access to the device. Any future access by the manufacturer (at all, from updating code to reporting usage to remotely starting a car) will be considered a violation of the CFAA.

4. Manufacturers must justify why a feature requires a remote service. "Profit" is not an acceptable answer.
Ask HN: What did a sabbatical do for you?
I've just come across this HN post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34958102) about sabbaticals which is fascinating and exciting to imagine. But I wonder if it is all true. So I'm calling everyone who has ever taken a sabbatical!

- Why did you take the sabbatical in the first place? What made you consider it and eventually muster up the courage to take it in the end?

- Did you take an income while on a sabbatical?

- What were the positive benefits in hindsight related to work, relationships, family, personal meaning?

- Did you do any projects while on your sabbatical? What was the biggest benefit from it?

- Did you return to your old job? Did the sabbatical have an effect on your attitude when you returned?

- Would you have done anything differently?

- Is there anything bad out of the sabbatical that you didn't expect?
Writing Shouldn't Be Hard
a generous amount of the latter, at least
If you don't use it every day, then this will be the typical result. But that can be said about anything, not specific to ffmpeg.

Practice, practice, practice. Eventually, you'll start thinking like ffmpeg. Knowing how ffmpeg labels the various streams inside a file is a great place to start. For example [0:a:1] means the second audio stream inside the first input. This is key for stringing together complex filter chains in the appropriately named -filter_complex.

There are some filters that require you to merge streams together so the processing is done evenly, followed by a split to get back to the original stream layout. amerge/channelsplit is a common combo in most of my commands.
So he puts polymorphic function calls into enormous loops to simulate a heavy load with a huge amount of data to conclude "we have 20x loss in performance everywhere"? He is either a huge troll or he has a typical fallacy of premature optimization: if we would call this virtual method 1 billion times we will lose hours per day, but if we optimize it will take less than a second! The real situation: a virtual method is called only a few hundred times and is barely visible in profiling tools.

No one is working with a huge amount of data in big loops using virtual methods to take every element out of a huge dataset like he is showing. That's a false pre-position he is trying to debunk. Polymorphic classes/structs are used to represent some business logic of applications or structured data with a few hundred such objects that keep some states and a small amount of other data so they are never involved in intensive computations as he shows. In real projects, such "horrible" polymorphic calls never pop up under profiling and usually occupy a fraction of a percent overall.
Initiating VTOL sequence...
"It's all in your head bro. Keeping track of things the way you find most effective isn't important."
ah, TIL, thanks!