skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe we shouldn't have allowed 1 billion of them to accumulate in the first place in such an inhospitable area.

This is yet again a direct consequence of technology advances and government meddling that has created a down-the-line humanitarian crisis by propping up unsustainable behavior.

We will sadly have either a billion dead bodies, or the rest of the world incurring the cost to house an extra billion.
Some of the few buildings that resisted the Lisbon’s 1755 earthquake had a wooden cage structure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaiola_(construction)

Reconstruction immediately after the earthquake saw a generalised adoption of this type of architecture.
They can't do that under the GDPR: you can demand at any time that your personal data be deleted (and everything you create and all data stored about you by any social network is, by definition, personal data).
Sensenmann: Code Deletion at Scale
It's the size. Specifically the number of parameters, the amount of training data, and the off-the-charts amount of computer power. Probably the architecture has changed in some way since GPT-2 but that's not the most important thing. The important thing is how this architecture class benefits from such massive scaling.

I remember an interview with Ilya Sutskever where he said something that was very interesting to me. He said, the GPT architecture is the first one where you can just keep scaling it and it keeps unlocking new cognitive abilities. The point that he was making in the interview was that it's not going to be the last one. Probably there are much better architectures that we will be discovered and GPT will become obsolete. But the point that I thought was important, was that GPT was the first one.

I should put some caveat that possibly ancient experimental architectures could have allowed it but GPT was the first one to actually show such amazing emergent abilities because such powerful GPGPU systems were brought to bear on it. Maybe some academic architecture from the 70s would have worked too, if they had been allowed to use such exaflops of computer power, but GPT was the first to demonstrate it.
That’s clever on the scammers' part. I wonder why so many universities have public uploads that are not excluded in the robots file.
How would you know how frequently it hallucinates if it has "mostly replaced Google" for you? Are you fact-checking all your queries? This is a very strange self-inflicted echo chamber.
Here dark likely stands for "not clear" or "not plaintext" i.e. encrypted.

"blackmail" means something else, so it is good they avoided that name.
The Frankfurt school is a set of communist revolutionaries who promoted “critical theories” as their methodology of fomenting civil unrest and social breakdown to bring about Marxist revolution. When the Germans chased them out by preferring literal Nazis, they settled in the US and performed the same schtick — most recently with “critical race theory” and “critical queer theory”, both of which have increased division in US society and undermined social progress, such as civil rights. Eg, “critical race theory” promotes continued organized racism against Asians while promoting grievance myths which encourage terrorism. As seen in the burning of dozens of cities and dozens of murders and institutions such as Harvard arguing before the Supreme Court they’re allowed to discriminate against Asians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory

BLM founder explaining: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM5zUwiCTzw

Harvard case: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/31/us/supreme-court-harvard-...

Harvard filing showing nearly double chance of admission if you’re black or Hispanic versus white or Asian, in exhibit 26:
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/diverse-education/file...
Losing plants is still a bummer. I think I average over my lifetime ~60/40 for survive/die over here. The soil here is hard clay, which is not helped by decades of previous owners mowing the grass and setting the clippings out for collection. I've seen plants slowly push up and die because the roots couldn't work into the soil. Even with nearly 2 decades of amendment, it's nowhere near ideal. Weeds don't seem to mind, though. Funny how that works.
Is this consensus opinion? I personally find gas to be far superior. It could be that I’ve used low quality electric.
Rust doesn't have a runtime.

Nobody is suggesting that a language solves all security issues.

It does have much better memory safety than C, which is the cause of the majority of security issues.
Because they are not as good of a fit. Rust strikes an extremely good balance between memory safety and productivity. Also almost nobody knows Ada, and even fewer the flavor you mentioned
I used this same reply elsewhere, but it’s relevant here as well:

Diet/sleep/exercise/sunlight are always the first step, and if you don’t at least get those, you’ll be hard-pressed to feel decent no matter what else you do, regardless of whether you have other medication-dependent conditions.

That said, there are way too many people out there who have no experience with conditions which require medication, who seem to think that those things are a substitute for medication rather than a baseline that must be kept up alongside medication.

I’m no psychologist, but I tend to assume that a driver to thinking this way might be the sense of safety that comes with self-righteousness. Similar to victim-blaming in crimes, where people pick at the personal faults of crime victims (however slight) in order to reassure themselves that a similar thing couldn’t happen to them. Imo it’s a coping mechanism for a world where long-term suffering can be brought on totally at random.
Yeah, sorry for confusion. AWS Lambda.
Quantifying Blockchain Extractable Value: How dark is the forest?
Nearly three-quarters U.S. millennials live paycheck to paycheck, survey shows
Thanks for the link. It looks pretty cool. Form fact wise it looks to be competitive with an Android phone and a portable keyboard. So it's not clear immediately which is better.

I use termux daily, and you can stand up pretty much anything including a production grade PostgresDB. It's not a toy.
Jack isn't even "at" Bluesky today.
Pichai is that you?
I think it was three years before it stopped being unpleasant and another three that made it largely go away.

I remember designing an amplifier circuit for a college project, listening to the output sine wave while looking at the frequency domain and thinking "that unpleasant feeling is just the THD being over 0,5%".

Fingers crossed for your recovery!
You would have thought a self-proclaimed researcher would cite plenty of references in what they publish. Not one in what I looked at. Pretty shocking even by blogging standards, let alone scientific standards.
> organized crime and persistent retail theft the way SF does

Those were in a single grouping.

I’m currently in SE Asia: factually, they don’t allow organized retail theft akin to what I’ve seen in Seattle or SF.

Their downtowns also aren’t littered with drug zombies.
But the videos are completely anonymized... So no one who know who recorded who, or what do you think?
Huh? What are you talking about and who is it directed at?
it’s like the t-shirt from happy gilmore: guns don’t kill people, i kill people.

for whatever reasons, rails became easy to discover and use.

that so many ended up committing git based crimes with it is not rails fault.

personally i blame education and media. we can do better.
Actually yes. If the patient refuses treatment you do not give them a prescription they is useless but rather tell them of an alternative if one exists. If none exists then tell them that.

In the end, it’s the patients right to have the treatment they want and can afford so long as it’s efficacious.
Looked him up, apparently he was released in 2022. The government auctioned that Wu Tang album though.
Meaningless gesture inspired more by Terminator movies than any real concern for such a scenario, which wouldn't happen in the first place unless they wanted it to.
You wouldn't though. Because a lot of different crashes (not to mention warnings) are handled automatically and are restarted before you even notice.
If you have android, just connect it to pc, open logcat and filter for errors only. There are still messages every couple seccond. You would get frustrated even if those were simply showed to You as a user, not to mention actively going out of your way to report them
It’s easier to decarbonize energy generation than it is to retrofit every house in America. If you electrify everything the decarbonization will follow.
It may not be a threat to the genetic diversity of humans at large but when there are so many siblings in a local area who don't know they are siblings then the chance of recessive genetic disorders greatly increases
Old people also tend to be the poorest people, have poorer health are often unable to work full-time , and won't benefit from tax cuts.
Ondat does that, a bunch of people are using them. And Akamai acquired them, probably to scale their model
Obviously this author has their biases, but shouldn’t a hiring / promotion committee be able to cut through this and find “the best teachers” for their students, and incorporate these factors you’ve outlined.

Similarly in the corporate world some companies have much better developers than others even though there isn’t a perfect way of evaluating a developer, especially at the more senior level.
Yuval Noah Harari argues AI has hacked operating system of human civilisation
Gas hookups not being a practical requirement makes building new homes easier.

Gas being prohibited makes it no longer a feature developers feel is needed to be competitive with other new buildings competing in the same local market, making it no longer a practical requirement.
link to the court case or any other such?
This is very strange. Why not just require a warning to anyone using his donated material to have kids that there are hundreds of siblings? It seems tyrannical to tell someone that they CANNOT help others have more kids.
I don’t have the energy to refute these claims one by one, but I would recommend you do some more research into the lifestyles and health conditions of previous generations.

Glad you’ve found something that works for you though
>With so few people having children in the Netherlands

Has the Netherlands tried to address its housing crisis first?

In most of Europe, lack of affordability and quality family friendly housing, is the number one reason for couples not having kids.

Everyone spends their fertile years trying to get that well paying job that can get you up the housing ladder or just taps out of the race completely and chooses to not have any kids.

You can't complain people aren't having kids when you're collectively treating them like cash cows, monetizing them so that you can make a bigger return on your housing investment.
I have mixed feelings about the whole stuck with your major from day 1 scenario. It is simultaneously appealing and frightening to have to make such a major decision that early in your life (which will have a strong impact on the other 70 or so years to come).

I didn't find my major (chemistry) until about a year in, and then I didn't even add my second major (biochemistry) until I was in my third year. Who knows what I would've picked if I were forced to choose from the get go. I was a "pre-engineering" major before I had to pick one. Whatever that means...
It is not always a cheaper option. Especially, if for example, you don’t have natural gas service at all currently. In some areas of Seattle there is no natural gas service and so homes may be all electric if newer, or if older may only have oil heating.

Also, I know you likely didn’t mean to exclude this, but in cases where gas service might be cheaper in the short term that’s only because it’s effectively heavily subsidized and many of the costs are externalized.
Eugene is way past its prime unfortunately. There used to be a giant festering pit in the middle of downtown, now it looks worse.
>has managed to update multiple times in the intervening years.

Not fully though. There is typically some amount of people who still haven't updated and at name point you just end up ending support for them.

>we switched from 2G to 3G to 4G and now to 5G mobile telephony since then; HTTP has been mostly deprecated for HTTPS

These solves real problems for consumers. IPv6 doesn't. CGNAT has turned out to be good enough for most people.
> and everything you create and all data stored about you by any social network is, by definition, personal data

This isn’t true. This is a common misconception. GDPR strictly defines personal data into a narrow band of attributes. Generally any content that you make public that doesn’t identify a natural person or is sensitive by some other definition is not personal data.

> Personal data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable living individual. Different pieces of information, which collected together can lead to the identification of a particular person, also constitute personal data.

> Personal data that has been de-identified, encrypted or pseudonymised but can be used to re-identify a person remains personal data and falls within the scope of the GDPR.

> Personal data that has been rendered anonymous in such a way that the individual is not or no longer identifiable is no longer considered personal data. For data to be truly anonymised, the anonymisation must be irreversible.

See: https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/r...
Yep there's 0 incentive to allow this by the actual decision makers (companies) to open themselves up to sending potentially law-suite leading footage to a 3rd party.
Some people like some products other people like others. There are tons of terrible products out there and many of them are also completely overengineered.

37signals and DHH did a lot right with Rails, so I'm looking forward to trying their approach on deployment.

IMO kubernetes is quite a lot of moving pieces that are absolutely not needed for most deployments, if you like it great! I'm sure many will love the opinions guiding MRSK (myself included).

I personally wouldn't touch K8s but I'm also not telling anyone not to try it.
I’ve done something similar here https://github.com/mcdallas/summarize it feeds an audio file to whisper and then summarizes the transcript. You can easily wrap it with yt-dlp to download the audio portion of a video
Seems like the sibling network they discuss where people can become aware of who's related to them would solve that problem. What are the odds that 500 out of 5 million people would match with each other?
He was just arguing against (what he perceived as) excessive sinophilia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iodised_salt#In_public_health_...
> Worldwide, iodine deficiency affects two billion people and is the leading preventable cause of intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Mass damping in trees is interesting too.
Folks who want a more traditional linux environment and libraries then what termux comes with might find proot-distro[1] to meet their needs. Basically it allows running an actual arm linux distro in a pseudo container created by (ab)using the ptrace syscall to emulate root privileges. This has a fairly big performance impact, but it works if you want to run arbitrary arm linux binaries.

[1] https://github.com/termux/proot-distro
Needs anti dust surface performance or else it absorbs soon, also doesn’t reflect on the mid far IR.
Technical debt is a function of management's priorities.

If management does not see good practice as a priority or prefers not to make long term choices, then there is no managing technical debt. What happens is that the number of engineers grows faster than the management and management will leave some number of engineers relatively unattended who will take it upon themselves to be a "hero" (jargon for someone who does thankless work) while they slowly become more cynical doing the equivalent of janitorial work.

The gambit every manager is making is that with today's investments in product you can hire a team to solve infrastructure problems tomorrow. That is because all these companies get advice from companies with very successful exits, but fail to see the survivorship bias and fail to see that being in a rocket ship is different than being in a cessna. Your company's advisor from google/investor's advisor from google is giving you advice from the perspective of a company that could hire an engineer and devote them to a microscopic problem if they wanted. Advice from companies that are not practically resource bound is bad advice.

Another important thing to consider is that these upper management types might incur a lot of technical debt in order to get short term gains which pads their resume which allows them to go to other companies where they then do the same thing. This is the conflict of interest that results in technical debt. Managers can create problems they won't have to solve because they can just leave.

Short-termism is a disease that can only be fought via leadership, and the fish rots from the head.

By the third time you see an obvious problem not being addressed until it becomes a catastrophe, it's probably time to understand that your leadership doesn't get it.

My take is take the lessons of other cynical people who work near operations and only work on feature production. Don't ever be the poor sap fixing problems before they are a catastrophe because nobody can understand the catastrophe before it happens. Nobody can measure the impact of resolving a catastrophe before it happens.
I personally don’t like seeing this kind of sarcastic, politically vitriolic, substance-less comment on HN.
Here you go: https://github.com/tiborsaas/vlc-sync
I got my first computer when I was about 6. It would boot to BASIC if there wasn't a floppy disk inserted. I typed something random and got back "SYNTAX ERROR". I wasn't old enough to know what either sin or taxes were, but my impression was they were both real bad.
Are there real-life examples where "traditional non-safe" sudo/su lead to problems?
To themselves of course. That's pretty clear.

But there is a renewed focus on corporate laptops to remove admin rights on windows. Not really because the user is not being trusted, but because malware has a lot more options for bypassing EDR/antimalware and persistence when it runs with admin rights.

I'm sure this will come to Linux too at some point.
Engineers nèè Dart
As a Rust developer, I second the question.

I love to see the broad move towards safer languages, but let's not forget that Rust is not the only safe language for system development. Plus iirc the model-checking ecosystem of Ada/SPARK is much more mature than that of Rust.
It's really restricted for free-tryout users. I'm not sure why it's so restricted though.

Seems like it might be helpful to offer a 1-5x try-out of videos up to 2 hours and then go down from there? I went straight for 1+ hour YT videos that came to mind, but was told to upgrade.

Ideally this experience could be smoothed out a bit, especially since the transcript is in some cases functionally unreadable and jarringly different from a summary.
Missing Meredith Perry and her uBeam trying to sell idea of ubiquitous wireless charging. Tedtalk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukgnU2aXM2c Analysis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1R9IQF0Y9s

"for each technological hurdle deemed insurmountable by the experts I

would spend just a few hours thinking about the problem from a variety of

approaches so I was able to solve problems when the PhD experts couldn't

with just a few hours of really simple research every single argument over why

the technology couldn't work has been indisputably wrong has taught me to be

skeptical of experts the expertise represented a narrow way of looking at things

engineers are inherently linear thinkers and tend to take a very binary approach

to solving problems as a non expert I had an advantage because I could look at

a problem from different angles because I just didn't know it was possible by

thinking outside the box by thinking around corners you can out think the top

thinkers and now eight months later I have four of the top ultrasonic

engineers in the world working for me we're working with me

it's going to work and it's going to be awesome and I can't wait to give the

middle finger and smiled all the engineers that criticize the crap out of me"

Spoilers: She is a fraud, it never worked, one of the ultrasonic engineers she boasted about hiring even ran a blog debunking her claims https://liesandstartuppr.blogspot.com. >$20 million from Andreessen Horowitz/Mark Cuban/Marissa Mayer down the crapper. At least it didnt manage to IPO.
If it was spread out over a large geographical area, maybe… else people are gonna start falling in love with their siblings not even realizing it.
Appears to only work if the video has subtitles.
Interesting question! The swing is about 0,5 to 1 degree C (1 - 2 degrees F) over the day. If it's very cold out the controller makes sure to spread out the heating in a few blocks during the day instead of a single block at the most efficient timespan.

So it's much less stable than with the original PID controller which kept the temperature very stable, but surprisingly it doesn't bother us, proved by the fact that WAF is high. Which to be honest I did not expect.

I still have plans to improve on it by modeling the temperature drop in the house and making sure it stays within certain bounds. But that is for "later".
> Most people around here buy enough battery or generators to keep the power on.

This is a surprising assertion to me. How can “most people” afford batteries and generators?
They know precisely how they were parented and that the actual identity of one of their parents is technically unknown. These people will have to take a single additional genetic testing step in family planning to avoid the problem.
That’s the natural conclusion to draw when factually accurate information is repeatedly censored in support of establishment narratives:

This isn’t about “misinformation” but suppressing voices which challenge the government narrative — especially when the “official” narrative is misinformation.
Europe is still reeling from the displacement of about 14M Syrian refugees. What do you think that will happen if any significant percentage of one billion people will try to find a better life by "moving North"? Do you think China and Russia are better equipped to accept those numbers?
A 1000 line long dependency file full of random literally whos code doing god knows what does not instill alot of confidence when I want to build and audit security critical programs.
It seems irresponsible to have an ability to father kids without actually supporting them. And using the support of others for them. This guy does not even know their names.
It's called The Law of Merited Impossibility. It's a popular tactic for authoritarians in the last 30 years or so. Deny something is happening, and anyone who claims it is is paranoid. Then quickly do the thing, and smear anyone who says it's a bad thing. The point is to avoid ever actually debating the ideas they're pushing by denying it.
I'm pointing out that there is a market inefficiency if I have to pay over $100 a month to be able to lease something that is worth only $40.
True but that's an extremely low bar.
It is not a problem that can be fixed "forever". Iodised salt solved it, so moving away to non-iodised salts can make it resurface. One should evaluate their own personal iodine intake - if you are not getting it from salt then you should be getting it from somewhere else.
I Challenged My AI Clone to Replace Me for 24 Hours