skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If the answer is parental wealth, that means as long as black people (in aggregate) are poor, black candidates (in aggregate) are going to be measurably worse

This just means it will take more than one generation to reach a random socioeconomic distribution, which is exactly what you would expect. If you have two buckets, poor & not poor, with a 10% chance to escape poverty, the system will reach random equilibrium eventually. It might just take a long time (10 generations to get within 5% of a random distribution in this example).

If outcomes are based on parental wealth (races treated equal), you will eventually achieve a random race distribution among social classes.

If outcomes are based on biased treatment due to skin color (not wealth), the system will not reach a random racial equilibrium.

We know parental wealth produces better performing children (merit). This is one reason why growing up in poverty is considered a bad thing (lost potential).

The question then becomes (1) do we care more about having meritocratic systems or racial equality. If we care more about racial economic equality, the question then becomes (2) how much are we willing to deviate from meritocracy to achieve racial economic equality. The more you deviate from meritocracy, the faster racial equality will be achieved.

I think these are both valid questions and worth discussing openly.
I swear I saw it a few minutes ago but I might be crazy.
Yep. OAuth is more of a concept than a standard. There are common patterns, and you might get lucky and find 2 integrations that handle it the same way... but I wouldn't bet on it. I worked on a system that OAuth'd with about 5 different 3rd party systems and each one was a little bit different.
Nutritionists will tell you what really matters is what type of fat/protein/carbohydrate. It's not one or the other. You need to eat plant based whole foods protein, fat and carbs too. For the most part, humans are carbohydrate processing machines (good carbs: like beans, whole grains, fruits, vegetables), these should be your staples.
Anecdotally, I agree with the conclusions the researchers propose.
From an academic perspective, this study is poorly done, with an abstract that fails to fully encapsulate their findings.

While this is a topic that is very important and deserves the attention,people shouldn’t be mislead into taking this paper at face value.
Though written in C for no apparent reason. It's ironic to me how security focused OpenBSD is while at the same time looking down on any other language besides C.
In case anyone is wondering what Sibyl is all about, here's a video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SaZ5UAQrQM
Transactions are only necessary when the change is tightly coupled.

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In this case, it's okay for individual records to fail. They can either be manually processed, re-run, or root caused for failure and handled individually.
I've never worked at Google Brain, but I've been a research manager in tech for a decade, and nothing here seems surprising to me. It discusses the archetype of the well funded industry lab that is too academic and ultimately winds down.

The post makes sensible but generic statements based on the view of an IC. It tries to work back from the conclusion (Google struggles to move academic research into product) and produces plausible but hardly definitive explanations, with no ranking, primarily because there's no discussion of the thinking, actions and promises made at the executive level that kept the lab funded for all these years.
We have introduced bills in 28 states so far this year. Some are ag, some are medical, some are consumer electronics focused. Making very good progress.
> passes 500M active users

In which direction?
True, this wasn't the most egregious. But the principle still applies. He said himself he held this back until his final check cleared.
What does “high degree of freedom” mean in video games?
I don't miss the days of torrenting. The thing that still stands out in my mind is having to slog my way through tons of pornographic advertising and popups to find a single actually working torrent link.
This was going to be my comment too. N = 20 is atrocious and that too only over 2 weeks. Think any significant, measurable changes to mental health outcomes would probably take a lot longer than that to manifest. I further find results from any kind of "food recall" surveys (or just surveys in general) hard to believe. Stated vs. revealed preferences/outcomes should be a bigger debate imo.
> Because of the "Most Favored Nation" issue, you can't meaningfully compare prices of products between Amazon and other platforms.

Sure you can. Amazon lists millions of SKUs. A huge proportion of those are sold elsewhere, often by sellers who do not also sell on Amazon.

But more fundamentally, if data can't be had, how does the author know this is actually happening? Either it is an unfalsifiable claim or its not, and there should be data. The bottom line is, the author makes an extraordinary claim and thus the onus is on them to provide commensurate evidence.
Ugh, this has exploded on reddit and through a game of telephone seems to have turned a couple of anecdotes, a single photo of a damaged chip, speculation from users and media and a statement saying "We're aware of the reports and are investigating" into a massive issue that is "Confirmed" to affect all processors and spouting advice and recommendations based on it.

It's a great example of a hype train and something like citogenesis, each loop through comments and media seems to turn more speculation into fact.
"Probably", but not guaranteed. This isn't a normal thing to have happen, even with overclocked chips. The temperature sensors used for thermal protection aren't usually the first thing to break.
Well they had a whole suite of presentations at NeurIPS that suggests they hired a bunch.
What I'm not sure of is DDR5 - it had seemed DDR5 offered more flexibility in voltage/speeds, i.e. the "stock" ddr5 speeds at 1.2V seemed conservative compared to 1.35 or 1.5V for DDR3 or DDR4. But if going about 1.2V or whatever voltage DDR5-6000 EXPO profiles are setting, also necessitates increasing SOC/CPU voltage...maybe it's better to hang back and just stick w/ DDR5-5200 or 5400 or something like that.
But we don’t live in a world where we expect carpenters to double the complexity of their output every 2 years. At some point, the theoretic limits of the tooling becomes a thing.

I’m pretty sure you are confused about the optical system. All of the lithography machines have the same setup inside because only one company makes them (ASML). The next big upgrade involves upgrading the optics, but no one has that upgrade yet. We know, because again only company makes them and they haven’t produced them yet.
https://huggingface.co/DeepFloyd/IF-I-IF-v1.0 is a 404 currently.
Of course it is unethical. The fundamental right to data privacy means that corporations are not allowed to track and profile their users activities without consent and contract. And such consent is purpose-bound, consenting to an autocompletion feature does not imply being ok with that data being used for whatever.

Imagine you buy some shoes and learn that they share location information with their manufacturer. Now you think "well they do have this feature warning me if you walk in a dangerous area, so i kind of knew they do", but then your health insurance changes your policy because "you haven't been walking enough".

Does it become more ethical when the shoe producer and the insurance company happen to belong to the some corporate group, because they are not sharing with a third party?

The primary ethical problem is about using the data for purposes the users did not know about and did not agree to.

People use Edge to browse the web. Microsoft adds a new feature called "Follow Creator" and enables it by default, without asking for consent, and then fails to disclose why exactly that feature needs to collect all urls their users browse to and what that data is used for. These are highly unethical business practices.
3 Newton-meter?

edit: This was a comment on the incorrect capitalization in the title. SI units are case sensitive 1 Nm != 1 nm. HN should really stop the autocapitalization of titles.
That's insightful. What would you say the most important documentation is?
That is important, but asking in certain ways can make a big difference. E.g. https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/1645562198935347205. And just putting “let’s think step by step” at the end can really help some of the larger GPT models. https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.11903
> If you ask me user-facing performance was always a priority.

Go compare a Mac in 1998 vs. a garbage-tier shopping mall Windows machine. Apple almost died for a reason.
https://archive.ph/LqMuk
Even then getting ASML equipment at cost only saves a few hundred million. They'd still be left with almost $20 billion in other expenses like the hundreds of millions in robotics and material handling equipment (the most precise in the world), hundreds of millions in HVAC and electrical equipment (heavily specialized to fabs), hundreds of millions in chemical cleaning (ditto), hundreds of millions in structure dampening, hundreds of millions in doping and chemical vapor deposition equipment, all the permitting and civil infrastructure to support the fab (water and power), and so on and on for a very long list.

The core competency of a semiconductor fab is getting all of that equipment to work together. It's more systems engineering (in the old school NASA sense) than anything else.
3b. realize that library is deprecated or hasn't been updated in many years and is either totally broken, or incompatible with something else you're using.
Exactly - one of the major reason American BigTech is so invasive today in collecting our personal data is because the US government has shown them how valuable it is for them. Project PRISM has evolved and is huge success ...
Schrödinger cat states of a 16-microgram mechanical oscillator – Science
> it is a complex piece of software

That's the problem. It shouldn't be. I hope the sudo-rs variant does better.
Are torrents even the primary methods of piracy now? That's an actual question: I get the impression that a lot of piracy has switched to grey market file hosting and streaming sites, but I don't have the perspective to say if that's accurate.
Everyone will tout performance when they're ahead in performance but that's not why customers are really buying. If the iPhone was slower than Qualcomm people would still buy iPhones. Likewise with Macs.
OAuth is such a pain in the ass for small projects. I miss api keys.
1. Open Ai spinning up

2. Reinforcement Learning an introduction, Sutton & Barto

3. For the implementation: CleanRL is pretty neat for understanding

4. David Silver's RL playlist
Samsung just makes ungodly slow Android UIs. I have stock Android on my Pixel 5 and I haven't noticed any slowness.
Creating the Most Secure Carrier
Like provably evil.
Ya but turning off 2fa could be actively harmful. I'm not picturing what the guy is getting at.
We are getting closer and closer to physical limitations of current microchip technology. Even TSMC starting to slip schedules is not really surprising.
I think this is a bit of a stretch from tomshardware, as if you actually read the statement https://i.imgur.com/pM358j6.jpg it doesn't actually say what the problem is, or even that there is a problem. Just they released a new BIOS that has more limitations.

And the other "evidence" of a photo of a damaged pin pad on a ryzen processor shows the damaged pins aren't related to the SoC rail mentioned in the article.
I integrated my product using OAuth 2.0 with 3 other systems from 3 different companies. Each one required different code on my side. Not fun at all.
>If choosing one of several instances requires too high of activation energy then that legitimately is a "you" problem.

No it's not.

The reasons why were outlined in the article, but I'll re-iterate them:

1. Choosing a community has long-lasting consequences for the user:

-a: Losing an account due to server being unstable or unable to keep up with growth is a risk;

-b: Choice of community determines the user's ability to communicate with other users, due to the community whitelist/blacklist nature of moderation. Join a "wrong" community, good luck being seen by anyone;

2. Choice of a server is supposed to reflect the identity of the user, and they will be treated differently on the entire network depending on which community they join

-a: The moderators of the instance you join can kick you off the entire network for violating the rules of that community, even if your activity is elsewhere;

-b: In addition to other users not being able to interact with you at all if your instance is blacklisted by the admins of another instance, you will be judged by others depending on which instance you join - so you need to know what reputation the users of a community have on the network before joining the network

-c: Instance admins have complete control over your account, including the ability to read your messages and kick you off the network because of things you say in your communications, so the user needs to know the reputation of the admins on the network before they join it

>> They lost me as a potential user

>Since mastodon instances don't profit off of users (actually they cost money), this isn't really a tragedy.

Oh right, why does a social network need users for, after all?

Are you kidding me? It is a tragedy for a social network if nobody uses it.

Social network users aren't just customers - they are also the product, part of the value proposition. Both in their identities and the content they create.

Mastodon has far less to offer by design, so it's a no-go for me.

You can say "oh what a tragedy", but I'm easily in the top 1% of users on reddit with nonzero karma by either post/comment karma/number of comments/amount of text typed; so people like me are what keeps a platform alive.

Because we give others a reason to log in.

And since choosing an instance effectively means choosing an audience - yes, it is a hurdle for content creators in particular, and your dismissive attitude is an indicator that it's not an issue that is understood well by fans of the platform.

Which is why it's doomed.
Neat idea! I've added it to the todo list.
Sure. I guess your way of "criticizing" is to accuse the author of spreading FUD and shorting the stock, while questioning his credentials by calling him a "quasi expert shilling a point of view". Meanwhile, all your points of rebuttal are provably false.
> It's very hard for anybody to be persuaded about any set of ideas where you see a large part of the discussion shut down.

The problem is that any discussion involving gender, sexuality or identity will sooner or later devolve into flamewars, with zero arguments backed by serious research - particularly the "liberal" crowd tends to aggressively stick to "there are more than two genders" while ignoring every single research piece to the contrary.
But most of that happens already? That's how record labels and publishers do business. You are already living in that dark an intellectually subdued world. A few examples I remember:

https://www.pcgamer.com/the-legal-war-over-disco-elysium-rea...

https://kotaku.com/witcher-author-threatens-cd-projekt-red-w...

https://www.dualshockers.com/nintendo-copyright-strikes-laws...

Copyright is not in place to protect the authors, but to protect the corporations that own the rights.
I've always wondered if you replace the cat with a person are they an observer?
In case anyone sees this, someone found this:

https://defcon.social/@mysk/110262313275622023

TL;DR don't use it as there is no encryption.
it is like not teaching geography. now, i kind of can get behind this thought, as whenever i went into a geography lesson at school, there would be a clunk which was my head falling on the desk into deep slumber - teacher: "somebody wake up hicks", except this was long pre "alien", much less "aliens".

but people should have the chance of being taught these things, or indeed anything. to deny them of this is flatly wrong.
The USA currently has the its highest immigrant ratio in ~100yrs: https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/imm...

I’m not sure about that compared to other countries, but I’m also not sure why it’d be desirable to have a higher percentage. Seems like it’d be extremely risky to an existing society to even hit something like 33%
> and of course it’s AI enhanced

did they mention LLM/ChatGPT?..
And https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.00449
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They could but hard to compete on content
I often use https://xkcd.com/1732/ when someone says "well, temperature has always varied...this is just part of a natural cycle".
> Sales was up 7% last quarter, profit 9%, but inflation is 10% year-on-year. So Microsoft is effective losing value.

To illustrate, suppose they sold $100 last year, or $25 per quarter. That means they sold $26.75 last quarter [a], of which $2.41 was profit [b]. Last year it was $2.25 [c]. Inflation means last year's profit bought as much as $2.48 today [d], i.e. real profit is down 3%.

[a] 25 x 107%*

[b] 26.75 x 9%*

[c] 25 x 9%*

[d] 2.25 x 110%*
Of course people are moving to piracy. No one wants to subscribe to 5 services á 10 bucks to view all their shows. This is gonna blow up sooner or later.
“Free-after-use” is not a vulnerability class; it’s “use-after-free.” And Rust’s borrow checker provides temporal memory safety; you could even say that it primarily exists to prevent temporal vulnerability classes like UAFs.
Because you can still watch something that is highly recommended? You think people only discuss shows that are week to week? Plenty of people won't even watch something unless they can binge at least a season.
Yes but for Outlook.com/Hotmail/Live aka Microsoft consumer mail.

My 15 year old email is finally on some spam list and somehow Norton, Macafee, Fedex, Office 365 and Loan scams can come straight into the inbox.
Yeah, but...

Recently learned that it doesn't implement using a new pty, which makes it vulnerable to TIOCSTI and TIOCLINUX ioctl attacks. Which doesn't matter on OpenBSD, because OpenBSD does not have these features. But Linux does, so not ideal.
https://github.com/Duncaen/OpenDoas/issues/106
U.S. Senators Debut Protecting Kids on Social Media Act
> If even 1 of those people decides to re-subscribe, Netflix has lost nothing. If 2 or more subscribe, they win.

While extrapolating over a large dataset, it's important to get the initial numbers as correct as possible. Since the person you're replying to is paying for the most expensive plan (probably to get the 4x devices-at-a-time perk for so many people), the plan those people would re-subscribe at is important (and less likely to be the same plan if only for one person).

They'd need at least 3 people to re-subscribe on either of the two cheapest plans to net a profit, or they'd need at least 2 people to re-subscribe on the "Standard" $16/mo plan to net a profit. Anything less is a net negative. It's a favorably-biased population for Netflix, but that'd still require a 15%-30% conversion rate for users.

I'm sure they'll come ahead in the end, but I imagine a high % of the expected profit comes from cutting costs from serving 20x "free" users per plan rather than converting them into paying users themselves.
Every business is essentially in the business of making people addicted to their products in some way.

You're an oil company - you want people to drive as much as possible.

You're an airline company - you want people to fly all over the world as much as possible.

You're a fashion company - you want people to buy new clothes constantly.

You're a beverage company - you want people drinking your drink all the time instead of water.

You're an Internet advertising company - you want people's eyeballs on your products as much as possible (to blast them with ads).

It's just business.
They could afford them then…
I have read many docs.

The one that I find easiest to understanding is still the one that I wrote about a decade ago when I first had to work with OAuth 2. All others I understanding by mapping what they said to concepts in mine, and that seems to work pretty well.

My document is available at https://metacpan.org/dist/LWP-Authen-OAuth2/view/lib/LWP/Aut.... Even though you're unlikely to ever use that library or language, you may find it worthwhile.
erdtree - x-platform + multi-threaded filesystem and disk-usage analysis tool
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This is the perfect time to drop down into the database and let the database handle it. If you're doing mass migration of data, the data should not ever touch rails.

Also, this is another example of why normalizing your schemas is important - in a normalized schema, you would only have fiftyish state records, and a few tens of thousands of city records. (Yes, this is just an example, I'm sure they wouldn't actually update city and state on every record this way, but it's a useful example of why normalized data is easier to work with. Imagine if you missed a few records - now you have a random assortment of Cleveland, CLEVELAND, and cleveland, where if your schema were normalized with a constraint, you'd have one city_id pointing to Cleveland, OH)
Same. Every doc relative would have some, despite their current crackdown on antibiotics prescribing online (not sales -- you can still fudge some paper and get it done).

The most striking thing about antibiotics use is not human use, however. Colistin, mentioned in the article, became the last line of defense against resistant bacteria while China was still liberally giving it to livestock. Thankfully use of this one is going to end…
That may be true but here is the issue. An iPhone is an iPhone is an iPhone for the most part, the same cannot be said for Android. I don't have a Pixel but I have a Samsung phone to test with that makes me want to pull my hair out but a similarly old iOS device doesn't. The older iOS device might be slower than a new one but it still outperforms the Samsung.
I think it’s aimed to be a dummy-proof version of “it’s okay to use chatGPT for proprietary code help because no one will be able to see that I did it, and it wont end up being regurgitated to someone else ten years from now.”

If the controls were more granular people would screw it up leading to another round of news stories like the “Samsung leak” one
Is MVCC actually superior by some other considerations? Less lock contentions, transactional DML.
Yeah, and it's important in the laptop market too.

The top line performance of the M chips is obviously fantastic per se, but probably more important for most use cases is that performance also being delivered reliably and dependably for a day (ish) on a single charge.

The combo of those two is a massively bigger win for most people than simply a little bit of extra incremental perf Vs the last gen, or whatever.
I've been working on a fair bit of RTOS/embedded code recently and we've used a decent number of semaphores for exactly this reason: you can signal a semaphore from an interrupt context. Usually this is being done with a ring buffer where only the interrupt context writes to it and only "userland"[1] reads from it. We initialize the semaphore with an initial value of 0 and a max capacity that matches the capacity of the ring buffer. This lets the userland threads sleep until there's something in the ring buffer without having to worry about trying to use a mutex from inside an interrupt context (which is forbidden).

[1] It's not actually userland since it's a Cortex M0 with no MMU, but it's still practical to think of it that way.