skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe people spend about a year of their lives commuting. If you commute an hour a day, every weekday, for 40 years, that’s 10400 hours, compared to the 8760 hours in a year.
There's also a difference between outright fake science i.e. lies/fabricated data in the manuscript and bad science i.e. the conclusions drawn by the authors were always "fake" because of bad practices but if you look at the details of the work they are honest about what they did. Of course ideally you would minimize both types of bad paper, but the latter isn't too damaging to the system in isolation while the former can cause a handful of papers to mislead a subfield of science for years. Also how to screen for and how to systemically discourage these two things could be quite different.
> look at what happened to Hong Kong as an example

You mean the violent breaking off of it from China by the imperial "enlightened" United Kingdom? Its massacre of Chinese protesting UK imperialism in the 1960s?

What a hilarious joke it is to see the westerners finally kicked out of their imperial colony taking some self-righteous posture of supposed concern about the Chinese there. What a laugh.

Sandwiched between posts complaining about African "vagrants" begging for food in San Francisco.
It is not debatable. Github does it, lot of companies deploy ruby on rails daily. Github has a huge codebase, and still rocks. Back in 2008, there weren't any better option, to be honest. I'm quite sure if github was written in go, it would be a nightmare too, specially from devops point of view.

https://github.blog/2023-04-06-building-github-with-ruby-and...
I think in general it's almost impossible to cut out human consideration and still get auto-clarity. With an auto-formatter you gain a little speed and lose a little readability. I think most people are really arguing about whether this trade off is worth it. Some are arguing that any readability gains are minimal (and debatable), but then it's like arguing that there's no point to being a better writer, and information can just be auto-formatted for human consumption with a set of standard heuristics. I guess we might actually get this world once everything is written by ChatGPT to maximize consistency. But then, how can we both claim to like complete and total mechanical consistency in code, and dislike it in any other form of writing? If code can be written more than one way, shouldn't we optimize it the same way for fellow devs as good writers would for their readers?
I don't know if there's any liability for doing that, but some of those car owners occasionally find out that their car was seized by the cops to "investigate". This might depend on state law, too. E.g. in New York:

"Members of the state police, any local police department or any peace officer acting pursuant to his special duties shall seize and confiscate a motor vehicle or trailer if any original identification number or special identification number is destroyed, removed, altered, defaced or so covered as to be effectually concealed."
It's the ecosystem - everyone else is using CUDA, so you need a very good incentive to stray away from that ecosystem. a x2-3 cost of hardware won't justify such move.

The cryptomarket was less favorable to Nvidia because it harmed the loyal customers (gamers, AI) for a temporary market (crypto) that indeed largely declined.
Leakage like this was never a consideration before the price of oil skyrocketed in the 1970's.

The valves you were working on were designed back then using more advanced technology than ever.

Once the price of oil shot up and stayed, the loss of still-relatively-cheap gas didn't seem so bad after all. They were raking in the bucks on the oil itself like never before.

So will not fix.
Unfortunately, it's prevented from working in Firefox by Firefox's anti-default-audio feature. The trouble is, the thing creates an audio context on page load, not when you click the on button. Firefox won't let a page create an audio context without user interaction.
For me, when you "purchase" something, it's yours and you can do whatever the hell you want with it.

If a "purchase" comes with "terms of use", it should not be classified as a purchase. It should be clearly labeled as "rent".
I'm sure that bagder (https://twitter.com/bagder) tweeted about this, but I cannot find the tweet (either I'm losing it, bagder deleted it, or twitter's search is broken)

At any rate, `.com` is a (windows) file extension and we've not been too fussed about that as a TLD for the last 40 years.
>And the 66% of US teens on TikTok are 100% of the next generation of US senators,

FTFY

That's the threat.
Or buy a Brother printer. They aren’t without sin, but they make quality printers and don’t pull crap like this.
Why is it odd? Are people not allowed to like things that you don’t?
Would China allow US to spy on hundreds of millions of its citizens everyday? Answer: no, reference the Great Firewall.
I looked at past sponsors of Fintech devcon, Elixir shops are well represented.
How much traction could a lawsuit against Reddit, Twitter, etc. have against the practice of banning or shadowbanning?

If a user could show good faith participation, could they claim they've been prohibited from exercising freedom of expression in a public forum?

Suppose someone was banned from a subreddit for their particular hobby or, worse, city or region. This might be the single biggest forum for that person to address their neighbors and peers, and banning could prohibit their ability to find work, housing, opportunities, etc.

Moderators often ban users on a whim. Sometimes they ban users for merely commenting on other items or subreddits that they deem "wrong", and this practice is often automated.

If you can't sue Reddit, could you sue the moderators?
I was going to post this exact issue.

It's been a thing as far back as I can remember.

The worst part is when you don't remember what the last thing you moved was. You know you've undone something, but you don't know what it is.

Is something going to be broken now?

Are you going to lose something that's now in a place where you weren't expecting it to be any more?

Good luck figuring it out!
The horse is already out of the barn on this one, but .zip really is a moronic TLD and I'm surprised it was inflicted on us.

Pedantically it shouldn't matter, but in practice it seems like a real headache. We can all think of common usage and edge cases where it could lead to real issues, from automatic link detection to malware spread.

At this point all we can do is shake our heads at the stupidity and prepare ourselves for the worst.
Just wait until Windows Update automatically rolls out a beta BIOS update to every customer.
You are bringing up the exceptions.

If everyone you know played Russian roulette, well, that is a stupid game to play, even if nobody you know landed on the chamber with the bullet in it.

"Play stupid games, win stupid prizes" as the saying goes.
I do think the “cure” framing is a bit odd, but then started thinking back to my own initial discovery.

When I first learned this is a thing and realized that I have it, I initially started feeling like I’d been deprived of something. That this mode of experience was so absent in me that I couldn’t even imagine what other people actually meant when they talked about visualization, and this bothered me.

But over time my perspective shifted, and I stopped seeing it as a disability of some kind and instead as a different flavor of experiencing the world. To your point, I have linguistic strengths that are far more attuned than the strong visualizers I know. They come to me when they need something written. I go to them when I need advice about arranging my living room.
So it's not a super-computer, its a single server with 8 GPUs. Hilarious branding.
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As someone absolutely fascinated with the idea of having your own personal blog, this is an excellent thread for finding some very interesting blogs!

A big thanks to everyone who contributed in the comments!
Before the firmware update, the printers were able to print with third-party cartridges. HP disabled that ability. Their customers' printers are now disabled.
Those roles don't have to pay very little - that's a choice we make as a society. We can always subsidize the pay by taxing wealthy business owners, programmers, doctors and lawyers a bit more (and real estate speculators, etc).

It is actually a pretty bad thing for society how much people are paid to optimize ads and dark patterns for example - something that is absolutely of zero net benefit to society as a whole. I think there should be a tax on anyone working in ad-space.
So, to start with, I absolutely agree that the news can distort out notions of what is representative or not and it's something I've done my best to notice and account for by looking at broader statistics and trends in the data. In this case, though, it's part of a new phenomenon and there's no lack of examples.

Here's Alvin Bragg, talking about no longer charging certain crimes at all:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/06/us/alvin-bragg-manhattan-dist...

Here's George Gascon doing the same in LA:

https://abc7.com/george-gascon-los-angeles-district-attorney...

If you prefer specific cases, here are some lawyers who were facing domestic terrorism charges for firebombing a police car. They had already plead guilty. They were given a new, lesser plea deal:

https://jonathanturley.org/2022/06/05/new-york-attorneys-acc...

I can find a lot more individual cases. For example, the Zimminskis who may only have been prosecuted because Binger was called to account for that during trial. They managed to get arrested for multiple other crimes, including a kidnapping, while on bail.
>What's your motivation if I may ask? Just curious.

Same. Mostly the possibility of WFH which is absent if you ever need to touch lower level HW. Pay I can take it or leave it.

> the higher level stuff seems easier

It's not really easier though. I had a 3 month stint doing some backend contract work and the amount of framework fuckery and the speed of development on live web systems that customers use, can be crazy stressful compared to embedded.

It's like changing the components of a car, while driving it. Shit breaks much more often. Embedded felt much less stressful since any of my commits to production didn't instantly impact thousands of customers at once like on the web, with the risk of fucking their data or experience.
What if I were to tell you performing at 200% is not a good way to get a promotion?

I will promote the person with regular output and an eye for outcomes, doing the right thing, improving process, etc over the one who just blindly runs at full steam all of the time.

If you think you’re at 200% and not getting recognized, step back and evaluate how much it’s really helping.

If you think it is, write out the argument you would make to get a 100% raise and try to negotiate it. You will likely receive candid feedback about how your grinding is not actually important for the team or the company. At that point you can cut back your push on doing X as fast as possible and start to focus on how and why you do X in the first place.
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I have now directly addressed your defense that he has only done it once by bringing up another case.
The lawsuit isn’t really even about backdoors or tracking, it’s for wrongful termination. When I say it’s outrage bait, I mean it’s making explosive allegations that ByteDance would really prefer not to deal with right now. It feels like a legal move calculated to pressure the company into a quiet and generous settlement.
This is not something new. History shows that when the government controls the media, it can control people's opinions and beliefs. The only difference is that now the control over TikTok users' minds is not in the hands of US Government and that's why they are unhappy.
If you do wish to play around with it, given the age, I would suggest having someone familiar with older power supplies and CRT displays to test the PSU and CRT high voltage circuits.

It's possible something of that vintage will have a capacitor fail shorted, and applying power could fry what would have otherwise been a relatively easy fix. They're basically museum pieces at this point, and somewhat valuable (both $ and historically) if it is working regardless of cosmetic condition.
How can I expect take any reviewer seriously when they're getting paid by the people they're reviewing? It sounds like the guy in this video didn't get a sponsorship agreement and went scorched earth. I can at least respect Steve to some degree despite his constant negativity, that he will say what he feels regardless. I don't alway agree with the doom and gloom, but that's his style and it seems to work for him.

I could understand this Jay person being with upset with Asus if they had some skin in the game but getting upset about free merchandize is outlandish, especially when you're requesting gear to essentially give away which is exactly what he mentions doing. The level of entitlement is off the charts. I'm also unsure why he mentioned the box having all sorts of labels from China on it.

Here's the real irony. Just weeks ago this youtuber built themselves a rig with a 7950X3D, and given all the offerings available, they chose Asus. He even uses language in his rant to describe Asus as "seemingly solid". So the question is, what is this really about?
It doesn't. "Propaganda" is a western word for any argument coming from the eastern enemies of the state, and "Brainwashing" is a western word for being convinced by them.

The way we control behavior is by depriving people of unfiltered information, not showing them cat videos and remembering if they liked them.
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Right. Network Solutions keeps gifting me with unwanted domains in strange TLDs. Then they add "privacy protection" and other unwanted services for which they try to bill. I have to transfer those domains to another registrar to stop that.
It does not understand humor. LLMs respond affirmatively to whatever input you give it and use the elements of whatever you feed it to try and explain. That's the core mistake the article makes and why that specific point is wrong. Let me demonstrate.

I asked the LLM the following prompt: Can you explain why the joke "Where's the joke?" is funny?

The response: "The humor in the joke "Where's the joke?" is derived from its meta or self-referential nature. The joke plays with the expectation of a traditional joke setup and punchline structure. Typically, when someone tells a joke, there is an expected punchline that delivers the humor. However, in this case, the punchline is intentionally missing, and instead, the question "Where's the joke?" is posed."

All it's doing is the same thing when you ask it to summarize a piece of data. This isn't a joke or meant to be a joke, but by telling it to explain it as a joke/meme will cause the output to differ in and regurgitate a bunch of nonsense about humor. This isn't understanding humor.
You’re right. I need to do some serious soul searching to try to figure out why I am getting drawn into this head wall banging.
Right but if you're not hosting Web content then you wouldn't want it linkified in a Web context. If you're using it for something else, e.g. SMTP, then you'd represent the domain name differently as username@your.domain
You know what, I'd tried JuliaMono in my editor (gVim) and for some reason didn't like it there, but making it my console font makes my terminal look so much better. Thanks for the recommendation.
So like Java, C#, (or Erlang, JS/Node, etc)?
It’s ‘1234’.
My outlook is from experience. I used to be a believer in representative democracy, but I simply cannot reconcile that with observations anymore.

Note, by the way, that I'm not claiming that changes don't happen in this system. What I'm saying is that changes happen when the ruling class is convinced it's time for them, not when the populace as a whole is - and no amount of voting changes that.

The fewer people each representative represents, the closer it is to an actual democracy, which is why city councils etc generally work better (although they are still far from ideal and have the same fundamental problems I described). But the nature of modern politics weaves local issues into broader ones on higher levels, and what ought to be local politics increasingly becomes national.
I immensely enjoy my work at IBM Research and have been here 10+ years. Most of the people I interact with are top notch experts in their respective fields.
I mean it is a problem for researchers though. The blatantly fake paper mill ones (which seem to be the topic of this article anyway) aren't, but scientific fraud or even just minor misconduct from people that know how to mask it can waste a great deal of grant funding and scientist time to figure out.

Like look how many times that 2006 Nature paper on amyloid beta in Alzheimer's was cited, turns out some of the images were completely fabricated.
Hmm.. 16MB of RAM might not be enough. The Unreal Engine website says that 8GB is the minimum recommended
But that's because trn was a "threaded news reader" not a "USENET archive search console". It was a very good tool for its intended purpose which, as you mention, was to consume a flow of news. Compare it to an email client or to other real-time chat fora. Also, it was a medium meant for participation, not just passive consumption. The client helped you find current topics and reply.

Generally, nobody expected a newsgroup message archive to exist much less for searching of stale messages to be a normal activity. The client tools and most servers were meant to buffer just a useful fringe of traffic to allow people to follow the flow while engaging and disengaging from the groups in async bursts. We would sit at the terminal and participate for a session, then walk away.

Back in the heyday of trn and USENET in general, it would be considered odd for people to hoard old messages, necropost on old threads (other than if there was some running in-joke to perpetuate in a certain group), or to be constantly online and obsessively responding with low latency throughout the whole day. Reply chains would often have multi-hour to multi-day latency, and higher volume groups were usually from more concurrent users and threads rather than more rapid messaging in a single chain.
GPT-4 seems to handle it ok in my testing... but there are infinite variations of this, and I'm sure some of them would work.
Sure... Like the earth is flat you mean? ;)

Quantum computing is very real.
In response to the new TLDs I’ve made www. the official primary part of most of my websites.

www.example.com would be the primary, and example.com redirects to www.example.com

It’s my simple approach to overcome the cognitive overload issue.
You just can't trust '.' separators to always mean something is a file. I think most people have known that since the dotcom era. It's annoying that Google owns them, but there's no shortage of power inequalities in the domain registrar field. It sounds to me like a minor roadbump that is exacerbated by common misconceptions around FQDNs and MIME types.
“Solved by market” is such a bullshit concept in this context. Firstly, the idea that the “market” is this self-correcting process that works out fairly is demonstrably bullshit.

Secondly - who gives a fuck if “the market” in the abstract solves a problem when you, personally, get fucked because of ageism? People need to stop spouting off abstract market theory bullshit in response to real people being harmed as if it’s any real consolation to the actual humans involved.
Because making decisions on account of an asset's price being higher 2 years ago is just falling victim to price anchoring? Would Nvidia not be worth buying in 2020 because its price was much lower in 2018 and thus must be overvalued in 2020?

Investments should be based on the actual value of the company relative to its price, as well as relative to other investment oppertunities. Trying to making a profit by trading based on historical stock prices will get you whipped by quants who are already doing a much better job of that sort of thing than you could ever hope to do.
What criminal law have they violated?
Might want to look into LiveSvelte[0]. LiveView by itself is already really nice. LiveSvelte on top of LiveView gets you into JS land for really rich interactive content.

[0] https://github.com/woutdp/live_svelte
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Tried to download it on my M2, the installer was taking so long and I never saw any windows saying the install was working. Am I doing something wrong?
Look at Florida's voterbase and demographics
QZSS is supplementary GNSS coverage that can service Japanese territory if it needs to.

Only issue with BeiDou is it is controlled by the PRC. QZSS is already supported by at least iPhones. Someone else can check Android device compatibility.
I’ve got a friend I went to high school with who couldn’t qualify for a mortgage, so he took out a $15k credit card cash advance and bought a cheap house with some land in a rural area. Will have it paid off within 10 years of working for near-minimum-wage on a farm.
I was thinking of Utah when I wrote that.

https://www.abc4.com/news/top-stories/2022-23-statewide-snow...
Because that’s what Apple says and Apple generally doesn’t lie about their products. If you don’t believe them then the onus is on you to prove it, not for someone else to disprove it.
Let's see a statute this would fall under.
The approach is simple (I've implemented it, and so have many others):

It takes three steps. Steps 1 and 3 are parellisable, and 2 should be very quick:

1. Convert every file in the repository to an AST, and perform static reflection on that AST.

2. Calcuate the inheritance graph for all the functions, classes etc. you've collected

3. Analyse every file, using the pre-calculated list of functions and classes available in each case.
Do your part and say no. Unlike the EU, we won’t make that illegal.
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Things get obfuscated because someone's viewing the problems from a different abstraction lens, and they're building a system onto that lens.

Eg.
Iterate through an array:

const arr = [1, 2, 3];
for (let i = 0, l = arr.length; i < l; ++i) { console.log(arr[i]) }

Let's model it differently using an iterator:

const arr = [1, 2, 3];
const arrIter = arr[Symbol.iterator]();
let i = arrIter.next();
while (!i.done) {
console.log(i.value);
i = arrIter.next();
}

At this level it's still pretty obvious what's going on, but you can still see that there's a level of abstraction between an array access vs calling 'next/value', and that obfuscates what is actually happening at the computation/instruction level.

If I extend this another level then I'm going to start modelling problems using an iterable and not an array/index. New requirements come in and we extend to use an async iterable. Everything still works nicely, but in some scenarios where the actual iterable is just an array, now there's a lot of extra overhead to just do an index lookup.

Using the iterator allows the code to be reused in more scenarios, but there's usually a cost to switching the lens of abstraction so that it fits into a problems modeled differently.
The “secret information” in this case are the instructions to the LLM. Without it, it cannot do what you asked.

The way to do what you describe, I think, is train a model to do what the prompt says without the model knowing what the prompt is.

Probably a case of this vintage XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1425/