skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And for your use case, the latency is not a concern? I suppose that would be true if you were mostly dealing with really big files and only cared about reading large contiguous chunks of them, but I would consider this a fairly niche application.

In my use case, taking ~1 second each time to `ls` a directory, `stat` a file, or `lseek` within a file was simply unacceptable. This was on a cloud VM, so the latency would be at its absolute minimum.
More likely they have not had sex or been to a strip club.

Whenever I see people argue that porn is just like sex they always turn out to be minors or young adults who have only ever experienced porn and not intimate relationships.
probably not many? but even if the answer were literally zero it would still be the case that most people use android now instead of desktop operating systems, just not everybody

they just don't run android studio or work as office clerks
That would tobacco's tax revenues a positive thing too.
Erm… yes, actually.

For DRM to work, it has to be running in a trusted environment where the user can’t just load up a debugger as superuser and read the keys from memory.

The way you do that is by using secure boot to ensure that you are running a trusted kernel that enforces appropriate access controls… which requires TPM.

One of the main selling points of TPM is that you have chain of trust to ensure the boot process wasn’t tampered by a rogue boot loader that modified your code. And, yes, that has security benefits as well, but don’t for a second think that DRM wasn’t a major consideration.
Of course there's a black market for anything but controlling distribution definitely does help.
Attach a microphone to the device while they are not looking, decode the keys they are pressing from the sounds, figure out what keys are the password, done.

This is _trivial_ for any mildly sophisticated attacker.
Lego seems to continually discontinue the trains and then release a new version with slightly different parts. Thankfully they tend to be backward compatible (but not always forward).

And no, I use real Lego parts. There is a huge quality difference, especially against lepin
I don't get the impression from this case that US law would behave much differently. This case involved reddit users who had nothing to do with the litigation and were not, themselves being sued. The court saw fit to protect their right to speak anonymously.

In the case of a person making a defamatory post, that person can be sued and reddit would likely be compelled to identify them to the best of its ability.
> There was a near 100% chance of the launchpad not being able to handle the launch, sending chunks of it and the dirt underneath everywhere

It was expected to erode slightly, just as it did with the 30 engine fire, not to fail destructively.

> just to hit a launch date of 4/20 that was not accounted for.

The first launch attempt was 4/17, and it takes >48 hours to depress and refill. 4/20 was a coincidence.

> He says he can clear out the existing launchpad and install the working one in a matter of weeks. Then the question is why he didn't do that prior to this launch.

SpaceX is estimated to be spending $2M per day on Starship development. A 2 month delay is a big deal.

And if a 2 month delay would have resulted in a successful test then the Flight Termination System problem wouldn't have been discovered.
Some even upload their credit card numbers to Amazon.
Someone I tutored in math in highschool went out and murdered someone on the subway while on spice.

So yeah, bad drug (probably also bad person)
ChatGPT Memory Project
Bit of a tangent but it seems to me that the talking, self-programming computers will make questions like 'what language to start with' completely obsolete.

When I read the title I thought, "You're writing this for the AIs now." as in the machines are the target audience ( since human programmers will no longer need to design programs, not more than once anyway.)
Not only do they hide it under a group policy even when you enable an "Enhanced PIN" there is a maximum length of 20.
Sex ed provides context to pornography. It doesn't compare but it sets a baseline as to what's normal and what's fiction.

I'm sure none of my school peers thought bukkake sessions were actually normal behavior even though they would have been aware of them.
This has been a thing for a while; I remember using it (or something like it) several years ago. While it's great for random files you might want to place in the G-Cloud, what I really wanted was to access my google docs content from the Linux command line. And you can do that, it's just that they're in non-obvious, non-documented, frequently changing formats that will only ever be usable with Google Docs.

But if you're using the google cloud like you might use Box.Net or DropBox, it seems fine for light usage.
How about: If you don't want your kids to see it, that's on you. Either accept that you are a shitty parent who can't raise children to your satisfaction, or get better at parenting. Don't force consequences on me just because you are incompetent.
Your comment is aging well: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/t-mob...
It's called the TPM because it is trusted. The real question is, who is it that trusted that thing?
It’s probably not a net gain though (I guess?). Money not spent on weed would probably be spent on something else and taxed, unless we’re assuming nearly all money spent on legal weed would have been spent on illegal weed (maybe true??)
And to Google and Amazon and GitHub and Slack and 100 other SaaSs. Not sure why openai is supposed to be more of a concern.
I think you’re very right about this. To me:

- It’s important that my repos show up in GitHub search (self promotion, essentially).
- In the ‘other direction’, Github search feels fairly comprehensive. I don’t feel the need to search for things elsewhere.

This is obviously rather self-reinforcing. For an independent index to be successful it needs to be _better than GitHub search_ ad searching GitHub, which seems challenging.

It doesn’t help that if I see results that seem to be indexing GitHub in a Google search nowadays, I assume they’re SEO spam.

Two other things I find important:

- It’s easy to fork repositories.
- It’s easy to contribute back to repositories I’ve forked.

Gitea really should be focusing on making it a first class UI concept to fork got repos from elsewhere. I know they’re also working on ‘federated’ pull requests - though making them _to Github repos_ seems like a more challenging idea, and is probably just as important.
TFA literally shows a TPM+PIN is totally insufficient to protect your data
When I think about it, rental e-scooters would be probably even better.
I am so disappointed with the path Germany took. Its clear above all it poses no serious risk to general population, especially when compared to alcohol and tobacco.

Yet they do this crappy in-between, which excludes most people (no, I dont want to have growing aparatus at home and tinker with setup, worry for vacations fire hazards etc), excludes completely access to more advanced and healthier forms (vapes are by far the best and healthiest way for me, dont force me to smoke stuff, I actually care about my health and state should appreciate that).

The problem is, what Germany pushes for sets the tone in rest of EU, and they did set the bar very low. They could have been champions of personal freedom, but they decide to drag this, I guess to please (clueless) conservatives.
Ecstasy is usually shortened as "XTC", "E" or "X"
I can't imagine I would ever stop. I don't drink very much (maybe 1 drink a week) but what I do have I really enjoy.

I also enjoy cooking with it. Deglazing a pan with some red wine after you seared a big piece of beef is a great way to start a sauce.
> The types of gun misuse that are most concerning today were once culturally unthinkable. There’s no reason they can’t be that way again.

Wonderful! Any suggestions about how to do that? The current culture around guns would seem to forbid even discussion of such cultural measures. The article claims that ISIS-inspired terrorism has become culturally unthinkable because claiming ISIS-inspiration marks one as a loser. Gun use will almost certainly never mean that.
The idea we can treat mental health through yet an another skinner box is a horrifying unfunny joke. Mental health problems are literally caused by screen addiction and social atomization. The solution is to put the phone down!
It has been already admitted. O̶p̶e̶n̶AI.com is nothing more than a Microsoft acquired AI division.

Might as well call it Microsoft® O̶p̶e̶n̶AI.com since they are now doing the marketing, selling, hyping and PR spin all over the so-called AI hype.
I don’t know how one would go about doing that research. Anecdotally I figured out the parental lock code on a cable box when I was 12, watched one of the porn channels, I was more excited that I was able to guess the code than anything else. The porn itself didn’t really have any impact on me.

My school also showed us Holocaust documentary footage around the same age. People getting shot in the head, piles and piles of dead bodies, etc. That plus gory movies like Hostel and scenes where people are chopped up and stuffed into a suitcase fucked me up WAY more than any of the porn I happened to come across at that age.
The main question is whether Texas gets to launch or if Florida and California keep a monopoly.
> They are on SSI and Medic[are|aid] (not sure which).

The mnemonic I heard from Planet Money was "grey hair? Medicare. Underpaid? Medicaid." Although Medicare will also apply to people under 65 with some conditions.
> Political ads serve no meaningful purpose at this point; it would be better to ban all of them...When I receive any political adverstisements in the mail I don't look at them

You're proposing to ban speech that, by your own admission, you do not read.
The way Google released "experimental" features behind prefixes instead of configuration for years always seemed like a way to get developers to break their sites in non-Chrome browsers as much or more than a way to test features.

I assume that Google's takeaway from the Internet Explorer anti-trust case was that they needed plausible deniability for their non-standard browser features.
As they say, five drunk people start a fight, five high people start a band.
The term "XTC" was a lot more common in the 90s rave scene.

As far as being synonyms, people generally differentiate between "ecstasy"/"E" as MDMA in pill form and "molly" as MDMA in powder form.
To be fair, regular therapy is also slightly dehumanising and dystopian. Not too long ago we had cultural constructions to prevent the issues we are now solving with therapy. Do you lack social context, close relationships and meaningful interactions with other people? Wait until you go nuts and then pay 100 euros a session to a stranger to help you deal with it.

And I speak from experience after going to therapy for my anxiety. I guess it sort of helped, but also I could very easily imagine a world where the whole problem wouldn't have existed in the first place - it's just not the world that we live in.
> - There are absolutely not protections for whistleblowers. We have seen this time and time again.

So much so that even Chuck Grassley, the guy who wrote the book on protecting whistleblowers, was fine going after the whistleblower who made it public that the President was attempting to extort bribes from Ukraine.
Mandatory reminder that the US covers more land area than the entire EU. And while the population is 185 million people smaller, think about how wildly different the various EU countries are culturally.

While the US has something of a shared culture, the South has a wildly different culture than New York. It's OK for Germany and France to say that the politics of Hungary and Poland shouldn't represent them, and vice versa.

Blanket statements about the US aren't much different than blanket statements about the EU. It greatly depends where you are. And in an alternate timeline, the US may have been more like the EU, especially back when US states had very large armies (er, "militias") of their own. And some still do though they are much smaller now (SDFs).
> Now, as for what will happen, in practice, society will, over time, likely decide it's okay to not hire people who are transphobic, the same way society is okay not hiring all sorts of people that society does not agree with

I hope you're right, but I also worry you're giving "society" too much credit. In many countries, trans people are executed. There are very few where they have the same protections and status that they do in, say, Canada, and there is still a ton of transphobia in Canada (the U.S. is certainly quite far behind Canada in policy)

While it's nice the tech is more progressive with regards to inclusivity than many other male-dominated industries, this thread is living proof that even in a community which has been shaped by the zeitgeist of Silicon Valley (and the accompanying progressive lean of its historically LGBTQ-heavy constituency), there is still tons of transphobia.
Addictiveness was one of the multiple points I made about pornography. The other aspects apply to pornography and not to sugar. So it was apples and oranges to begin with.

But in terms of addiction potential alone Utah already has precedent in legislating for that. Example: Utah doesn't allow minors to purchase alcohol because of its addictive nature.
HN: "Social media, tech, and media companies are evil. regulators should do something about this!"

Also HN: "How dare Utah try and regulate a pornographic media company"
Awesome news!

But I think reports that only focus on tax income are underselling the results of cannabis legalization policy slightly.

What I would be much more interested in would be the whole picture, ie. added to the tax income we should also be able to see the taxpayer money saved by relieving the police, corrective and judicial systems of cannabis related processes.
Always append "...and include a passing unit test" to code prompts.

Sometimes it's a dick and will test the assertion that 1==1 though.
You are incredibly emotionally manipulative.

Perhaps you should remember yourself that the lives destroyed by companies outsourcing American wealth (both directly and indirectly via immigration) had a real cost on real people.
Yeah, if it's so unique it allows you to produce rockets that land 10 times, then yeah, it's much better. Not even a grift at that point.
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A recent Party Down episode made reference to the pronunciation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr-nZJNg0-A :)
> Eh, you don't have to smoke cannabis (although even that is much healthier than tobacco) - you can vape it, or eat it.

Plus, ~nobody uses weed as a nicotine alternative, because the effects are totally different. It's such a weird comparison to bring up, like comparing alcohol to caffeine and deciding alcohol's a shit replacement for caffeine. Yes, of course it is, nobody thought otherwise.

Now, replacing (at least some) alcohol use with weed? Now that's almost certainly a big win, health-wise, and the effects are at least semi-comparable.
Extremely inexpensive is infinitely expensive when you're a 13 year old with 2 dollars to your name.
I believe in the GPT-4 demo they fed it api docs and it was able to then answer questions on it. You would just need to export the info into raw text
shows that people shouldn't trust closed HW crypto (HW SSD passwords - same)

trust only open-source software crypto
How would you feel about a lifestyle guidance app?

Perhaps something that uses CBT, gratitude, and postive reinforcement to help people build good exercise and diet habits?

Is there a way for a company to implement sufficient privacy protocols that would appease the most privacy-concious users?
It may seem difficult to avoid creating subjectively negative impacts such as this when launching the largest rocket in history

This outcome was entirely avoidable, right from the beginning of development at Starbase -- and entirely predictable.

It's not even as if SpaceX doesn't already have a second Starship launch pad at Launch Complex 39A, at Kennedy Space Center. (Where they routinely launch rockets without environmental damage lawsuits, up to and including (historically) Saturn V and the Space Shuttle, which are the only vehicles of remotely comparable size to Starship.)

If they don't want lawsuits, they shouldn't have built a potentially explosive chemical plant on a space-constrained sites next to nature reserves full of protected species. Or should ship the Starship elements to KSC by barge for launch. Blaming the nature reserve and conservationists -- they were there first, before SpaceX moved in -- is a dick move.
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What do you think? And have you used ChatGPT for something like this?
Why do people pretend like Chegg is an educational site that exists for any purpose other than cheating? The entire point of Chegg is to look at the answers. It got big because when you search a question, word for word, it comes up in Chegg's database and is linked to by Google. I know of absolutely zero use of Chegg other than renting access to answer sheets. Of course chatGPT is going to disrupt the market of letting students cheat on their homework.
Fascinating, I just call it all molly.

But maybe that's because I grew up in a time where you can send stuff to a lab to confirm what it is.
All my data has been leaked so often now by various companies, including my W2 when a past employer got spear phished. Meanwhile I have a really good contract with T-Mobile and been very happy with the service. Both in terms of connectivity and in-store service. While I'm upset about this, I'm not gonna go through the hassle of moving to a different service provider, all of whom have bad reputations anyways.
There's also the problem that lots is highly viewed NSFW content on Reddit isn't porn. Check out r/AskReddit. There are questions about how people feel about death that are marked NSFW for reasons I can't understand.
If you produce N goods now and want to produce N+1 goods but cannot find labor how does that result in producing N-1 goods?
I feel `#!/bin/chatgpt` incoming soon
I am getting a PhD after some career years, and I am having such a hard time finding a cohort of similar peers. Almost everyone is 6+ years younger and not at the same lifestage (w.r.t money or life outlook). I look much younger than I am, so I still get to make friends and acquaintances. However, I disagree with one of the central points of this article that some sort of elitism prevents one from pursuing a PhD. Almost everyone, at least 90%, of the students I've encountered are young, on fellowships, and from poor or middle income backgrounds. My program is in a top 30 R1 institution, so maybe that's why it attracts more of this type of student because of the availability of research funding. I did my MSc at another R1, and similar situation there. I do kinda wish there were more people like me in my program, but I don't think any elitism is barring them from entry, it's more that their cost/benefit calculus is different from mine, and they would rather not pay any opportunity costs.
> The system was installed with the express intent of solving and reducing residential burglaries.

Can you link to the source of this claim?
I sincerely doubt this will go anywhere. I think any serious options will be shut down. Consider this option a couple years ago:

https://insightcrime.org/news/brief/canadian-company-custom-...
If you look around in the world, you see all these little pockets of bullshit, where those in power and control see the system as a way to screw over and steal from the individual who's just trying to live their life.

It's the mentality that making as much money as possible is the sole reason we exist. Paying interns nothing because "they're in school, learning" is no different than saying you don't want to pay college athletes because "they're supposed to be in school". Nah, you just want free work from people who you've led to believe that the way to grow in their life is to give you that free work.

Pay your workers, whether they're students or not. Stop working for free.
The main criticism of AutoML type frameworks was that they generate models that cannot be understood by a human. It seems that GPT based AutoML will solve that problem to a large extent. Model building / selection is almost certainly going to be fully automated away in the next few years.
Well the state of Utah defines pornography as anything showing a female nipple, so they don't really have any ground to stand on when it comes to defining what is or isn't "harmful".
Catfs is not super production (there are some small changes you need to make in inode handling), but you can do this. We have it on top of goofys. They both need a few changes to work under load but what we do is quite standard:

1. Goofys for S3 FUSE

2. Catfs for local disk caching

3. Linux caches in memory

4. Mmap file means processes share it

5. One device then exports this over the network to other machines, each of which have an application layer disk cache.

6. Machines are linked via 10 GigE (we use SFP+).

Overall the goofys and catfs guy (kahing) wrote very performant software. Big fan.
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Even if Mercurial is fine, Git is really good and is the standard in most cases. It's not worth confusing new hires with an alternative repo system when Git is this good, this common, and also happens to be FOSS.
Then we should also ban any material that contains violence until there are no more homicides.

Just watching, or even enacting (as in violent games), violence doesn't make them violent beings. Why would this other outlet lead to more real-world sexual assault? I understand why one might think it a priori (without having evidence either way), but we do have evidence: the reality we live in where, to my knowledge, it hasn't gotten more common despite porn having become 100x easier to get by, as well as the research on how virtual violence enactment relates to real-world violent behaviour.
I imagine a similar thing is happening in the phone space too. Scam calls are 99% of the calls I get on my cell phone now, and probably close to that for "revenue from calls" that the providers are raking in.

If I could spin up my own cell network like I could an email server and a domain, you bet that the big cell/telecom players would "blacklist" my domain for "spam" the moment they caught whiff and instantly make it almost useless, same as Gmail does.
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bumper stickers, custom paint jobs, or just not buying identical cars in the first place?

this seems like an absurdly self-inflicted problem

if you're banging your head on the wall and it hurts, you could stop?
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>How can you say that Intel copied the initial lowercase 'i' from Apple when every Intel product from the 1960s forward was an i123 of some kind?

For these people, the tech world has existed only since the launch of the iPhone. Nothing that came before or after it matters, and Apple is the sun around which all tech revolves around.

Plenty of other companies had 'i' prefix in front of product names, even cars or dish washers.
But I thought Portugal did the same (decriminalise) and by all accounts they've had fantastic results?