skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its creators can't be blamed for this. Just like we don't blame the post office for circulating CSAM and drugs.

Unfortunately you can't have near-absolute privacy without some people abusing it. This is just a given.

And if the US hadn't supplied tor, the bad actors would have used i2p or invented their own. By supplying the tech at least they have some measure of visibility.
> Some people will react negatively to the mathematical formulation, preferring the intuitive section that follows instead.

They have no place in software engineering then.
There's a subtle difference between "average Costco shopper" and "average Costco card holder".
IIRC, the BSD lawsuits were mostly about userspace stuff, ISTR the kernel was known clean. I wonder how big the license incompatibility was thought to be at that time to prevent releasing a BSD with a GNU userspace. I don't even know if the GNU stuff was complete enough.
hah - but having grown up in rural Wisconsin - the rural highways there are full of drunk drivers because there are no ubers or taxies out there, and full of amish buggies that are nearly invisible at night (they just have one reflector on the back). It is a terrifying combination. Just have your drink at home.
Internal Developer Platforms
A case against Layer 4 security tools
IIRC many states other than just CA will give you a DUI for driving a lawn tractor drunk. On the road, at least. And in plenty of places just being in the car drunk is enough, even if you're in the back seat trying to sleep it off.
interesting but not what I asked
I disagree, I think this is a very tech community centric point of view. You will find most people outside of this circle cares very little about Elon Musk when thinking "do I worry or not about autonomous cars when going to buy groceries or crossing the street with my daughter".
The problem with GPT is there’s a good chance that it introduces information which is plain wrong while doing that transformation.
I'll help you with the reason: people who make Emacs are professionals at editing text. They understand what tools a good professional needs when working with text. The only editor that can complete with that is Vim. IntelliJ / MS / Eclipse products don't hold a candle to that, their authors simply don't know how to edit text well, and consequently don't know how to make tools to that end.

It's the same reason why anyone would buy Hasselblad camera over, say, Canon. Canon is fine for a person who simply wants to take pictures of things they want to remember. Maybe even for a student in photography class. But, if you are going to earn your money as a photographer... well, you want a tool that you can rely on. If you go to the Moon and want your camera to work, you'll choose Hasselblad etc.
As someone who has fought wildfire before, I personally found that sweat does not accumulate in front of a source of heat. You start to feel damp or wet after you walk away from the heat. Perhaps it is the same with a hot furnace.
This is brought up sometimes as some clever gotcha but Tor gets funding from many sources, and DARPA and the other US agencies that give money to Tor (like OTF) give on the order of 10s of thousands of US dollars per year. OTF (Open Technology Fund) — recently severely diminished — was funding tons of anti-censorship efforts like this with small grants to help get American propaganda into Iran, China, etc. Helping spread the message of the US Government is apparently a more valuable goal than surveillance of western citizens.
There is such camera based enforcement in many countries on highways in Europe. Conceptually, it isn’t different than toll gates, just stopping isn’t needed. There are also speed cameras everywhere in Europe.

The only conspiracy theory is that there would be anybody who cannot leave from somewhere no matter what, but that’s just a very stupid assumption.
"No IP protection for software at all" is your position, then?
That's true. Like I said, my comment is based on personal experience, and I don't have any hard data to confirm it.

Looking for studies just now, these are interesting:

- https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/11/15/americans-an...

- https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2019/03/labs-survey-f...

So most people seem to "care", but apparently not enough to change their usage habits, or they feel powerless and lack the technical skills to protect themselves. So it could be a matter of education after all, but _most_ of the people I've talked about this, stop me much earlier than we get to the point of discussing what they can do about it.
They sorta already do, it's called Echo. I'm not convinced there's a market for what you're describing, or at least not one that's necessarily worth the cost. A lot of the cheap Chinese IoT devices generally available already go through AWS. People with the skills and desire to do that type of thing themselves are both a small market, and less likely to use AWS for the types of projects they'd be building with said device.
You are missing the point entirely.

Yes think of smaller entities - which are not all commercial, mind you - just don't think of them more often and more thoroughly than the multinational megacorporations that have been racking up endless violations, most of which they are continuously worsening rather than fixing, and are in many cases actively trying to litigate into oblivion.
> Why are you doubling down on your assumption that this is about Lena without you knowing what actually happened? What makes you assume she didn’t know full well the image was not under her control? What makes you assume control over the image is even a relevant issue here?

Three loaded questions in a row. I think you're reading more into my comments than I stated or intended. I'm not assuming anything, just answering a question and pointing out that regardless of whether she thought it through or not, the the photo was not produced or distributed unethically. The title is literally "Ethically Sourced Lena Picture," which implies the original was sourced unethically. That's all I'm arguing. The words we use matter, and I'd like to be able to point out when the words don't match reality without folks thinking they need to give me a lesson in empathy.
I'm real glad they have DUI checks outside of night clubs during the weekend here, they bust hundreds of drunk drivers before they get on the roads.

Alcohol is responsible for 30% of road deaths here, 23% due to other drugs. That's a lot of death you can avoid with a 30 seconds spit test
I'm confused by this, this only happens if you discovered the user outside of your normal server (like if you opened a link to their profile/post from an external source). If you discovered them within your feed just click their profile within your home server and click follow. "logging in to the foreign server" is almost never the right move. Am I missing a particular situation you're describing?
I was told mass EV adoption was a solution to destroying the earth, rather than re-evaluating our transportation system!
Your numbers prove the exact opposite of your conclusion. If, with the tiny amount of lithium that we have bothered to look for, we can already provide for 2x our current car needs, then we are golden.

Batteries last far longer than 8-10 years, I'm not sure where you are getting that bad number. But even if you were right, our very first attempts at recycling already recover 95% of input metals:

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/03/heres-what-redwood-lear...

And every year we discover massive new amounts of lithium resources, because until the mid 2010s, nobody really bothered to look for lithium.

FUD about amounts of lithium should be abandoned as a stall tactic; they no longer pass basic sniff tests arms are easily shut down hard. Other stall FUD needs to be invented if the energy interchange is to be stopped.
I only have a little grey in my beard so far, but like all optimizations it heavily depends on context. My broad rule of thumb is that if you only care what the code does, you should let the compiler figure it out. If you care how the compiler accomplishes that goal, you should specify that rather than hoping things don't silently break in the future. This is a fairly common thing in crypto and systems code.

But yes, fast inverse sqrt is obsolete.
But I didn't type

import antigravity

I typed

pydoc3 antigravity

(Cue clip of industrial disaster in background.)
It's still not clear to me why there hasn't been more discussion about dedicated lanes and roadside sensors to make self-driving safer & more reliable.

Even if the tech grows significantly in capability, the unpredictability of other drivers and the ways snow affects roads seem to me to make these kinds of assists necessary.
How does matching work in live chess at chess.com?
I don't believe they could, need CUDA and more VRAM...
Because it's not about MY expectations, it's about the expectations of the guy behind the wheel of the car crossing my path.

Therefore I don't need it to be good enough to convince ME, I need to go be good enough to convince HIM not to abuse it, and given the large variety of him out there the system needs to have a very high safety bar.
Recently learned there was a computer with dual Z80 and 68000 CPUs (my two favorites) from Cromemco.
Is there anything stopping Meta (or openai etc) from using The Whole Web for commercial purposes in their LLM's?
Depending on the use case and usage patterns which I'm not sure we have the information to know, I'm just curious if it might be easier to whitelist safe domains rather than to try and blacklist dangerous domains? No blacklist is ever going to be comprehensive, and the possibility for false positives with a blacklist is pretty substantial. But you can cover a pretty substantial part of typical peoples web browsing just by selecting say the top 1,000 US domains and figuring out which ones are generally safe enough to have a green light with your App. This might not work with your app's use case, however, especially if generally obscure URLs are used with your site.
Money doesn’t buy happiness, but for the things it does buy, it has no substitute.
Exactly. Nobody is saying that but still it was removed from eg Roald Dahls books.
I hadn't heard of Darl McBride (CEO of SCO) and I looked at his LinkedIn; this is his side of the story from his time at SCO, as he puts in in his work experience section. I found it super interesting.

All of my work experience before and after SCO was of the startup/entrepreneurial variety. Fun stuff, new, exciting and positive. Then some former colleagues on the board of SCO (previously Caldera) convinced me to come in and try and turn around a company that had fallen from a billion dollar valuation down to a measly six million. They only had $8 million of cash and they were burning $4 million per quarter so I basically had 6 months to complete the turnaround.

What they didn't tell me was the company was in a dispute with IBM over disputed UNIX software code. This led to us filing a lawsuit against IBM, retaining David Boies to represent us, raising $76M to fight the battle, seeing our stock go from $0.66 per share to $22 per share, then falling back down to pennies per share after losing an important trial.

IBM teamed up with Linux programmers worldwide to go against me and I showed up on the cover of Fortune Magazine as "Corporate Enemy Number One". Hey, at least you can say that I was number one at something huh? I was as popular in the tech industry as Donald Trump hanging out at an Oscars after party with a bunch of Hollywooders.

The legal battle is not actually over, 15 years later, the case is in review at the 10th circuit court of appeals in Denver.

Silver Lining: While the courtroom battles were raging, we started a mobile apps business that I later bought out of SCO with some friends. That is where Shout came from. Back to the worlds I know and love - tech startup tied to sports and entertainment.
School bus drivers are safer than airline pilots per exposure hour, in fact they are safer than walking.

The big problem with driver assistance products is the automation bias issue with human drivers. Mixed in with humans being really bad at maintaining attention while bored.

We see this even with highly trained airline pilots with backup crashing due to automation bias.

Despite the common myth, drunk drivers have higher fatality rates than those who are hit.

Selling driver assistance as self driving or allowing it to be used without serious attention detection safeguards won't make distracted or impaired drivers safer.

I'm fact for first responders, highway workers and pedestrians, any form of driver assistance that allows drivers to checkout of the driving task, they will be far less safe.

The only way that these companies claim that there systems are safer today is the they disengage quick enough to claim they weren't at fault but without time for the distracted drivers to respond.

By ignoring automation bias, which is a well known human flaw, they pad their numbers and make them seem safer, while not having enough data to even make statistical claims that they do.

Outside of naive beliefs that autonomous cars are safe driving confirmation bias the common myth that self driving cars are safer is baseless.

I get that is the goal, but assuming it is true without evidence is part of the reason the public is starting to doubt the claims.
> Ah, good catch! Which browser are you using and what's your locale? Must be a bug specific to one or both since I couldn't recreate it.

I tried it in Firefox, Chrome and Edge now, and get the undefined with all of them. FF has an English locale and I'm getting undefined with it too, so I'm not sure if it really is related to that.

They have the following accept headers

Edge: accept-language: de,de-DE;q=0.9,en;q=0.8,en-GB;q=0.7,en-US;q=0.6
Chrome: accept-language: de-DE,de;q=0.9,en-US;q=0.8,en;q=0.7
Firefox: Accept-Language: en,en-GB;q=0.5
Exactly. Lithium scarcity is a similar mindset to what peak oil was in the 90s. It seems like an issue given our current understanding, but there's a huge economic incentive to discover new deposits and make their extraction economically viable.

Some of the the largest oil fields currently known were only discovered in the past decade or two. I wouldn't be surprised if battery materials follow a similar discovery curve.
I'm one of Python's biggest critics (to me it's a Monkey's Paw of software development), but I think this is exactly the appropriate situation to use it. It's great for one-off fancy calculations, system scripts, ideally with no dependencies and/or a short lifetime
The jewel cooler seems only inches away from the assimilator.
You can even run Guix System with the Hurd kernel. It really feels like a forgotten dream renewed.
> Why do people work so hard to intentionally misunderstand what self driving and autopilot mean? (they don't mean autonomous)

Self driving is not autonomous? I think maybe your definition is quite different from Average Driver, and so the intentionality may be more yours than theirs.
Fifty odd years ago, the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the US Department of Defense invented a major portion of the internet's foundation: ARPANET.

Now, the internet is used to shitpost en masse, and serve porn and cat photos to billions across the globe, do its creators have any regrets?

I think the ethics of the US is on display for all!!!

lol.
It looks like a signup for for some new project of Basement Studio. Repost it when it's already launched. Nobody here upvotes signup forms.
I used to regularly cross the old Goethals Bridge between NJ and Staten Island early in the morning, maybe 3-4am. At that time there was volume (trucks and cars) AND speed. The lanes were ten feet wide, and tractor trailers are 8.5 feet wide. No shoulder. I look back and have no idea how I did it without freaking out.
In what sense is lithium mining more destructive than iron, copper, or other mining? And does it have to be that way?
The organization is a future adversary. You build the technology knowing you won’t be staying at the company forever, and you signpost the things that protect users / your-future-self. This includes open sourcing everything, moving specs to standards bodies when they stabilize, and building the network around low switching costs.

I can’t predict the future. We may screw it up. I’m trying to protect the community from us if we do.
That's not how regulations work. Big corporations are targeted first, because they're big obvious targets and have auditable paper trails. Small-time hobbyists are the ones who fly under the radar.
Childcare is a pretty large expense. Whether you have two working parents and use daycare, or one stay at home parent (single income instead of double), there's a significant cost associated with each.

The average amount spent on a child per year is 17k [1]. It may not be that much if you're making $200k+/yr, but on the median household income of $71k/yr [2], it's a pretty significant chunk — about ~24% of your income for just one child.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2022/cos...

[2] https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2022/demo/p60-27...
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https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama/blob/main/FAQ.md#3

Looks like it needs 14gb for weights and it isn't clear what the minimum size for the decoding cache is, but it defaults to settings for 30gb GPUs.
Accurate or not, there is a "Tree of Knowledge" where the Tigris and Euphrates meet https://goo.gl/maps/GQjs6LcHsmVdxH5k6
Apologize if I over-stated its diversity. California might have been a better comparison, but I do not think it is completely misleading and incorrect.
The same way that cruise control = self accelerating car, autopilot = self driving car. In both cases the human is using a tool to operate the vehicle.

Are you asserting that other systems like drivepilot, pro pilot assist, or blue cruise are safer and promote a better understanding of their capability because a few letters are different in the marketing name?
Yep. He's the OG. I started watching him in something like 2016 or so.
Can you imagine if taco trucks gave away food for free, or if engineers built and maintained some of the biggest bridges in the world out of their own pockets and didn’t ask for a dime, or if accountants did their job without charging any fees?
You say that like drug trade was a bad thing.
BetterHelp shared user’s sensitive health data, FTC says
They absolutely test releases ahead of time. They test on more data & better data than anyone else and they dogfood every version before wide release, which they still call a beta. They used to gate it behind a safety score until it started to get good and they still have not-paying-attention detection, nags, and lockouts.

But yeah, if you don't consider any of their testing and precautions I guess they don't have any testing and precautions.
Researchers are using sound-waves and holograms to instantly mold tiny 3D shapes
You're comparing the risks quantitatively when you should be comparing them qualitatively.

We have a lot of decades of understanding of the extent and surface area of the risk around human drivers and non-autonomous car technology. The technology and the norms around safety and regulations came about in a different time, when it was less perverted by profit and the chaos of software bugs.

We have no data about the safety of autonomous vehicles at scale, in the full spectrum of driving conditions and scenarios.

And there's the extra nuance that any change to a model or algorithm could have regressions for an entire fleet at once that at best invalidate any safety metrics we learned from the previous version, and at worst make the whole fleet unsafe overnight.

We have metrics that tell us roughly how many drivers will be distracted or drunk on a given day. It's not perfect, but we evolved an equilibrium that makes us feel safe enough about getting on the road. And we have accountability for the people who are unsafe.

You might not even distrust autonomous car technology, but it's logical to distrust the new forces of unaccountability for the technologists who inevitably introduce regressions that kill people at scale, the corners that will be cut in today's version of capitalism, laws being disregarded by technology giants because they can get away with things that automakers in a more innocent time couldn't.
That's not true. I qualified the statement with "potentially" because I don't know whether she regrets it or not. The article title implies the image was sourced unethically, and my whole point was whether she regrets the photo or not today has nothing to do with whether it was of ethical origins.
I think he's probably sweating, but the sweat evaporates faster than it can bead up. Or maybe he's dehydrated.. I have wondered what the "behind the scenes" of his videos looks like; when he goes out into the woods does he bring modern water bottles and pack a lunch?
There is no way the exchange rate makes it work out to actually be cheaper to cross the border to shop these days.

Does it?

Our dollar sucks
This article doesn't give Microsoft enough credit for funding the whole thing.

I was going to write that the Internet remembers, but apparently that has its generational limitations. :(
Now you are going to hear the US yelling "Iran needs democracy". Here we go again...
It is a NoVA thing. The '07/08/09 recession had minimal impact on the DC area housing market compared to the rest of the country. It peaked and fell like the rest but the fall wasn't as bad and the recovery was far quicker. The federal government and its related commercial contractors are the main ingredient in that.
What is most annoying in development is how often people just decide to all jump off a building for no good reason.

Usually that talk is nonsense, but not here.
> Also IIRC it took 23 days to train the biggest mode

A100 costs $2/h, so it is $2M to train biggest model.
Easily kikstart crowdfundable project.
Wow, thanks for the blast from the past, SCO were my first Unix servers along with IBM AIX ironically, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...
> Things cannot be left alone and be called "done" anymore,

The problem of tracking changes across dependencies exists whether or not this is true. Perhaps the problem is more evident because the feature development and software change processes have become more efficient. eg Detecting the need for changes, new features that are expected to stay competitive, etc. These efficient processes are highlighting this mismatch mitigation, that was easily manageable (or ignored) in the past.
Only synchronous power generation without modern control electronics.

Pretty much anything where the generator speed isn't 50/60Hz fixed uses something with permanent magnets.
It's really funny that one of the subheadings under "Why is Python so popular?" is "It has high corporate demand."
Recent comment in this discussion thread of the PR

> looks like some people have been complaining about the link. it will need more seeders before we can merge into main

from someone claiming to be

> Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research. Working on [...]

and who has previously merged pull requests for a repo under https://github.com/facebookresearch

(I'm going to leave their name out of this... because it feels like that comment might come back to bite them)