skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a double edged sword, because while there might be fewer Android exploits discovered per year, the number of publicly-known and exploitable vulnerabilities in circulation at any given time is almost certainly lower on iOS, where most users have updated to the latest version within two weeks of its release, than on any device in the fragmented Android ecosystem, where only users of devices from proactive vendors even have the option to update their device to the latest version with upstream security patches. And that's assuming their device isn't EOL, which tends to happen more quickly to Android devices than Apple devices, despite the latter's reputation for planned obsolescence.
I doubt that anything can kill BS medical records. Two reasons that I see:

1) privacy and other laws have high demand of "structured" and "secure" information keeping ("it's a law that I must fill this information into this BS table and it's 100 BS fields");

2) governments love to spend the money on "standalone" software that has 1000 BS requirements... And contact companies do love to make that software as BS as they can because the worse system it is, the more additional contracts do they get to solve the problems they made.

Basically, I am sceptical that anything could help medical staff. (I am pessimistic because of what I see in my country of Lithuania. Barely working proprietary systems ("e-sveikata" and "e-receptai") that costs tax payers hundreds of millions Euros.)
Online real estate firm Opendoor cuts 22% of workforce
Do you think he’ll win the primary. DeSantis seems real popular among the Republican Party and is generally more… composed.
Do they not remember your decision? Most sites I visit never have them and if they do, only need to select it once.
Ok so you understand but your original comment, before you changed it, talked about a tax on revenue, which isn’t accurate.

I also wrote my own accounting systems based on ledger-cli and regularly deal with amortization of assets.

The change is extremely bad and I’m not trying to say otherwise. Just wanted to clarify the exact calculation and difference between income statement and cash flow calculation.
Carbon fiber or diamond would be the best options. Most other materials would require a counter-ion, e.g. calcium carbonate Ca2+(CO3-)2
Do they produce something that a voter would read and see prior to actually casting the vote or is it just an internal log?

If it’s the former then the voter can actually verify that the machine cast their vote as intended. If it’s the latter, there is literally nothing stopping the machine from changing votes as they are cast.

To clarify I’m not saying that is actually happening, just that there is nothing stopping your vote from being switched by the machine either through malice or a software bug if the machine doesn’t generate a physical slip of paper that you actually put in a ballot box.
Reddit users don't monetize their comments in the first place. So unlike say artists there is really no issue of them being outcompeted by a derivative of their own material.

gpt-style models are by far the least problematic and the most clearly beneficial of the new innovations.

This is a just a cashgrab.
I've bought a lot of used network gear over the years. Virtually all of it came with it's last config intact. I got a stack of Cisco switches just before Covid that had clearly been the conference room switches for a municipal government, private keys and type 5 passwords included (wiped immediately; Covid unlikely to be a factor in the oversight). The only folks who seemed to regularly wipe them are the larger VARs (e.g. Cisco gold partners) who apparently have a "wipe and load latest IOS image" processes before they go on eBay.
The "unnatural direction" that people dressing counter to their gender is steering children in is the knowledge that there are things people can choose to do that are unconventional but ultimately not harmful. It has never caused anybody harm if a stranger has chosen to wear a dress or pants, or apply more or less makeup to themselves.

It's not really a bad message. If anything, it's kind of the hacker ethos.
Evangelion is Anno deconstructing the insanity that was the mecha anime genre of teenagers being forced to go to war and become killing machines with little to no impact on their mental health, showing his general distaste for the "otaku" lifestyle, and also using it as an outlet for his own struggles with depression.

The biblical stuff was added just because they thought it looked cool.
Fox pays $787M to Dominion to avoid defamation lawsuit
Yes to all of that, when houses are being built. But if you want solar to be cost-effective and to slow down the course of catastrophic climate change then we need to build vast amounts of it as possible as cheaply as possible. And doing that means building at utility scale with as little labor as possible, and adding solar to tiny rooftops is exactly the opposite of that.
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The real injustice is that “news” can do what Fox did, and it doesn’t constitute a crime. At a minimum, They should lose their broadcast license if they are going to manufacture truth that threatens democracy.
Disagree, I think that moderately early on in the process parties need to make a decision about settle or litigate. What we have now is a system where people are incentivized to bluff endlessly, treating litigation like high-stakes poker. Even those with no legal education can see it's bullshit, and it brings the entire legal system into disrepute.
Nah. Just Russian trolls.
Doesn't understanding language require that a model understands trends in the features of text embeddings inputted into it? And haven't we found that the more text and transformers the complex the trends it can understand in that text? If you have enough features present in medical records, why wouldn't it be able to find trends?
I think it's a fair point to raise, 'had to' implies some form of compulsion or fixed process or unmovable obstacle in any context I've heard of.
Ooh! That's a really good point - ChatGPT is effectively rubber-ducky as a service =)
> How is this different than refusing to tell where you've buried the bodies?

It would be more equivalent to refusing to let the police search one room in your house after they’ve established a reason to believe that you might be hiding bodies in it.

> Why should the police be permitted to assume you're guilty and in possession of vital information under certain circumstances?

They haven’t assumed guilt of the suspected crimes. However, if they have sufficient reason to believe that evidence of a crime exists in a certain location then they can compel someone to provide access to it. It’s similar to how the police can search your private property if they have sufficient evidence that a crime has been committed

That said, I don’t know the standard of evidence necessary in the UK to get this far.
The line is sometime after early 1981, when Jobs took over the Macintosh project from Jef Raskin. Mac development did not start with the Lisa, Lisa development started with the Lisa. The Mac and the Lisa are distinct products and projects. It's kind of funny you're saying I'm putting up a strawman. But... whatever.

If Mac development started with the Alto in the early 70s or the Lisa in the late 70s, then shouldn't we also say Mac development started with PDP development in the 60s that influenced the design of the 74181 chips used in the Alto?

No.

Because that's silly. A project starts when the project starts and the project starters elucidate an objective. When the Alto launched, no one said "hey, let's build this computer that will one day become a small desktop computer for another company." They build the Alto for their own reasons. When the Lisa project started, it's objective was to build a "modern" system at Apple. When the Macintosh project started in 1980, it was intended to build an inexpensive, keyboard-based, non-expandable 6809-based system as a follow-on to the Apple ][. In '81 when Jobs took over the Macintosh project he added features from the Lisa (mouse, bit-mapped display, proportional fonts, WIMP) but Apple didn't cancel the Lisa and say "The Lisa is now the Macintosh." They were considered separate products targeting different markets. Which is why in the original Macintosh business plan it says "The Lisa is a different product than the Macintosh and has a different target market."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awM0nrlOZxk at 6:10

found by copy pasting "Tucker Carlson, in his interview with Ben Shapiro while discussing self-driving trucks" into the google and getting lucky
I did something similar -- though I didn't burn as many discs (my friends did, however) because I've always been a collector. But like you, Netflix exposed me to so many movies and TV shows I would have otherwise not been able to see (or afford, and I used to spend a couple hundred a month on physical media!)

The recommendation system was so good -- it's a shame they had to get rid of it because of the lawsuit. I don't think it is just hindsight but I really do think it was better than the recommendation system they have now for the streaming product.
Coming from Java I have the same thought. Other languages seem infantile in comparison.
Not everyone actually follows the law though, sometimes they mix in essential cookies and you have to click through a bunch of layers to turn them off without turning off essential ones.

I wouldn't be surprised if they find some way to defeat this in a not quite legal way and break stuff for people who use it.
> Who decided that sorting by date instead of name was a good idea?

It depends on the context. Sometimes when I'm looking at photos, I really do prefer sorting by date. Similarly, when I'm looking at the Downloads folder, I'm probably most interested in the thing I just downloaded, so having that near the top makes a lot of sense and would gladly prefer that than having it sorted alphabetically.

However, if I'm just looking at a directory of documents, alphabetical wins for sure. If I'm looking at a music collection, I'd probably want to sort by artist name alphabetically, but not necessarily filename.
> Pollution implies harm

That's news
"We want to be ready when video-on-demand happens. That’s why the company is called Netflix, not DVD-by-Mail."
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/23/netflix-ceo-reed-hastings-on...
That's why he's saying they should just buy OpenAI's base model instead of investing the money to catch up.
This has to be the biggest pivot I've seen in my life. A truly epic reworking of an entire company from successful business model A to successful business model B -- both wildly successful. And really there was a second pivot too: from streaming platform to original content studio.

It's a great reminder to focus on what value you bring to your customers (watching videos), not on any particular business model or way of doing business.
Is assortative mating eugenics?
Children are simply too expensive. My first child cost me over $15,000 in co-pays. School for six hours a day is $1100 a month. The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates it'll cost over $230,000 to raise a child to 18. That's before college.
Minor nitpick: FNN is a cable channel and thus does not require a license. however they're in the middle of renegotiating their fees with the cable companies, so if you are a cable customer and hate Rupert Murdoch, now is a good time to get on the phone with your cable company and whine about how you don't want to pay for Fox News as part of the basic package.
I did this and then realized I have no way of using a CD.
NO! I still use and love DVD Netflix.

It's the only way to see a ton of things short of piracy.
I credit Valve's Steam for retiring me from software piracy, Spotify for retiring me from music piracy, and Netflix for retiring me from movie piracy.

And "the terrible quality of primetime network TV programs" for retiring me from TV piracy ;)
Europe should have just mandated Do-not-Track, what they did was a billion dollar mistake.
Fixing bugs sounds like betterment to me.
Or use UEFI + Secure Boot instead if your motherboard lets you.
Ha I had the same experience renting Xbox games from Blockbuster. Got to the point where I'd rent a stack of games, rip them to my modded Xbox in my car then return them to the drop bin to perplexed faces of employees inside who had just rung me up an hour earlier.

Don't think I played any of the games, for me the game was just amassing a library.

For what its worth I'm in game development now ha so maybe I've atoned for some of these 'crimes'
We drastically need copyright reform for text, imagery, video. It was never designed for this AI era.

If you take a concept like "fair use". Let's say I embed your photo and express an opinion about it. That's what fair use was designed for. In-context relatively harmless usage of the content of others, for the sake of expression, culture and education.

That's not the same thing as "let me suck up all content ever created without permission, attribution or compensation, mangle it and sell it via the backdoor whilst making you obsolete".

You can't call that fair use, they are wildly different usages at wildly different scales with wildly different impact.

We need a new copyright category specifically for AI usage. If nothing is expressed, no training permission is given. One can opt-in and allow for training, allow for training under conditions, etc.
If it is legitimately overkill for the situation and processing power perhaps. Like making 1KB into 1TB with a huge key.
Me too. It's the best.
See, but if you refused to open a safe for the cops, their fallback would be to drill it, not incarcerate you for failure to disclose the combination. Under that precedence, the cops have the right to try and crack my phone's encryption, but not to compel me to give them my passwords.
https://youtu.be/awM0nrlOZxk?t=372

At 6:12

Transcribed by me: "I would maybe make up some pretext for public consumption, like 'oh they're dangerous', 'the technology's not there yet'"
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My choice as a user is that it's all bad, all of it is no good, no one gets any cookies.

Firefox as a user-agent is mirroring me-the-user's choice.

Admittedly that doesn't hold for every user. Some users might make other choices.
I no longer own any DVD or Blu-ray drives, or any optical drives at all! And even if I did, I wouldn't want to sit through the title screens or deal with the menus. Too many years of instant playing from streaming services and pirated downloads has spoiled me. And I don't miss the old ways even a little.
Agreed, options are great! Unfortunately this bill removes all options.

Also operating losses can be carried forward and used for 20 years, so recognizing a big loss in a single year isn't really that bad.
The root problem is that AWS charges way too much for data egress, and then sell cheap instances bundled with several times their purchase worth of egress.

AWS doesn't want people putting their apps behind LightSail instances solely for the purpose of reducing data egress costs. I think it's a very reasonable rule considering the situation they put themselves in.

The problem of course is it quickly leads to bad faith instances of people doing just that, then claiming not to be doing it. But it's going to be impossible for them to write a lawyer-proof rule that prevents it while also not preventing legitimate usage.

Like, if I run a web app that accepts requests to example.com/mybucket/myfile.zip, and the app merely pulls myfile.zip from the mybucket S3 bucket and sends it, then yeah, that's a pretty cut-and-dry case of using LightSail to avoid egress fees from S3.

But what if I'm using a LightSail instance as just a load balancer in front of EC2, because I don't think an ELB/ALB is flexible enough? That starts to be a bit more of a grey area.
.. at which point they'll just be shredding visual records of the sky in their regular orbits as densely as the companies have been allowed to cram in.
Smolin was not "cancelled".

He runs a prestigious institute (Perimeter) and has published several books and
papers since his 2006 polemic "The Trouble with Physics"

http://leesmolin.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cv_Lee-Smoli...
I think parent is talking about colo.
Yeah, I didn't rip a bunch of Netflix stuff because I'm a movie collector, but I used to abuse Blockbuster's video game service and rip Xbox and Wii games from on the reg. I still have my modded Xbox from 2002 with a bunch of old games on it (my hacked Wii still works too).
> But we have to live in the real world, and here in the real world we need to build an enormous amount of low-carbon power generation in a ridiculously short amount of time.

We do. Moreover, we need to overbuild those sources by yet nknown amounts because they are intermittent.

> This holds even when you apply the most generous assumptions when comparing them. And non-nuclear renewables are getting cheaper every day, something that just isn't happening to nuclear.

Are they getting cheaper enough? Including all the required overbuilding and all the (yet non-existent) grid-scale storage that is required for renewable energy?

> So fine, build some nuclear around the edges. Baseload is great!

Indeed. Baseload is great. And when talking about renewables their proponents almost never talk about it. Or about daily power fluctuations. About requirement spikes etc. Because we just have to believe that there's some magical solution just around the corner.

And yeah, that revolution you're talking about is definitely not going to happen precisely of the emotionally-charged discourse. And we don't really need a tech. revolution for nuclear. We're already pretty capable of building them quickly, given the political will.

The great renewable project project we're talking about? It started in 2018. On top of that "As of November 2021, [cable production] production is planned to start in 2024, and it will take four years to produce the cables required by the project." [1] Expected to be completed by 2030. [2]

So, about 10 years or more. On par with some nuclear stations. Expect costs overruns to be just as on par.

Meanwhile in China. Fuqing Nuclear Power Plant. Construction of each reactor is about 6 years. Total nameplate capacity is now 6GW. Estimated cost of construction: 16 bln USD.

> So let's please get on with making that happen quickly, because every month we burn fossil fuels brings more future devastation.

Meanwhile Germany shut down its nuclear plants and replaced them with fossil fuels. Additionally 13% of the country is given over to corn to create biofuel which is also burned.

It's hard to be passionate about these moronic things. Especially since the renewable revolution needs to bring in probably as much of a technological revolution to become truly scalable (e.g. grid storage required at these scales is literally nowhere to be found).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xlinks_Morocco-UK_Power_Projec...

[2] https://xlinks.co/morocco-uk-power-project/
Of course, there's the issue that a lot of the info for useful LLMs probably comes from places like Stack Overflow
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It's complete double speak, is it not? Any commitment to even mediocre journalistic standards would not have led to this whole situation, much less this outcome.
> It's about momentum, not energy. Near Earth, you can get energy from the Sun quite easily, or fuel a nuclear reactor with the asteroid.

I'm not sure if you're being deliberately obtuse. Momentum does absolutely nothing for you by itself-- it does not even affect penetration depth of your asteroid.

The only thing momentum does is that it scales with speed (hint: like kinetic energy).

If you have enough fuel for a nuclear reactor to throw pieces of asteroid into space, then MAAAYYYYYBE just launch nuke at the planet?!

Because that is:

1) Easier to build

2) Simpler

3) Harder to detect

4) Harder to defend against

edit: Sorry for the tone. This whole topic just really infuriates me because I absolutely can not understand how anyone with even elementary physics education could ever defend this concept as viable...
This one is in the tl;dr HN uninformed expert Hall of Fame. Did you click even one level down? NIST is a standards organization whose usually very careful work is to provide frameworks for people to make products, make business decisions, and create entire industries. It's not a single Github repo you can clone or a blog post can can dissect. The companies, researchers, and organizations that will use this framework understand it and will I am sure be able to use it and suggest areas of improvement.
They took that decision after windows 8 and all the push for windows phones failed to compete with android and iOS.

Now they just focus hard on offering software for people who pays and ads for people who doesn't. They can't just dictate the technology trends and styles like before (Metro lost space to Material, so they can't even influence the look & feel of computers like before).

One of the few parts where Microsoft is still focusing on being cutting edge and force their proprietary ecosystem is XBox. They're still trying to be unique and stand out against Sony and Nintendo
It is very sad. I still use the DVD service more than the streaming service simply because most of the content I want to watch isn't available streaming. The back catalog on Netflix gets smaller every year as publishers move content off to their own services, or to deliberately withhold it.
In the video on https://vimeo.com/818040730?embedded=true&source=video_title..., it appears around the 1m29s for a few seconds corresponding to 08:46:54 - 09:57:09 UTC in real time.
Founders work for free because they're investing, taking a risk like all investments. If they lose the bet, they lose. No harm, no foul. That's true of any investment you and I make. People lose money on investments every day.

There are a lot concepts being not very well defined here: employment, investing, taxation, salaries. It's not all one thing.

What is it that you think "we" are having both ways?
If you know where I can get paid for posting this, please let me know.
> It aggravates me that the wealthy can just buy their way out of legal humiliation literally as the trial is underway.

Coughing up nearly a billion dollars to settle a trial because they know they’ll lose is quite humiliating.
780 million reasons to not do it. This will bankroll the executives till the end of time.
Sure, it makes sense. They’re still intrusive, unavoidable, unwanted, and make the experience worse.

It would also “make sense” for “sudo apt install firefox” to show me an Google-sponsored ad to instead consider Chrome.