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> I'm also having trouble buying the argument that to lower the salt concentration we can extract it and sell the salt. Sure we can, but are talking about the same scale here?

Besides, this is not economical.
This is any big old US tech company. Working infosec, I don't really mess with "spy on users" stuff but I do get exposed to the tech and the people that make use of it. I have a separate lan and ISP for my work stuff on purpose.

Needless to say, I envy germns and swedish people the most but even countries you would by HN standards consider authoritarian have better privacy protections than the US because what I can do for malware/incident response is red-taped a lot.

I still prefer living here though, I guess you gotta accept the good with the bad.
Live manipulatable waveforms. Think DJ decks, etc. It tends to be one of those "tearing is better than stuttering" situations so it goes against a lot of compositing assumptions.
It's a good argument for maintaining status quo of oppression yes.
Perhaps we are talking about overlapping but slightly different concepts? If I run the program and it goes wrong then I know there is a bug - but I don't know what or where it is.

So observing that Rowhammer causes buggy behavior may be simple. But finding the actual bug - i.e. this sequence of instructions on this data causes the memory corruption would be much harder.

Part of this comes down to how you interpret the "many eyes makes bugs shallow" but I suspect that no number of eyes would have found the Rowhammer bugs by looking at the code.
I've only been programming professionally for 15~ years and I fully agree with the article.

In my career I've gone through so many tech stacks, most of which are dead or dying today. A lot of my projects you could today replace with a couple API calls or an AWS product.

At least I like to think I learnt a few things along the way that make me a better developer, I never know what to say when recruiters or interviewers ask me about my tech stack experience expecting some sort of very specific answer – to me it makes as much sense as asking whether I have firefox experience, or just chrome.
Am I the only one finding this "piecemeal licencing" of music or other content featured in a film complete BS?

Even if contracts exist, these should be declared invalid by law. Protecting the integrity of mixed media productions (film, tv, video games etc.) should be paramount.
It’s a cultural thing, I don’t mean it literally. The web is cooked now, I have nothing to do with it except some comments on HN. I now work in arts and crafts and have all but rejected technology, I am glad I was there for the golden era!
The proposition is to expropriate landowners (sorry the “corporate oligarchy”), force people to move to farming and rationalise production methods with a top-down approach. The comparaison to the Great Leap Forward is not far fetched. I think it’s legitimate to point to disastrous precedent when people suggest things.
That is something I didn't knew I needed. Thanks a lot!
Ha ha, this indeed. But how to form consensus?

Consensus might be imposed (e.g. a monopoly situation) which does not seem to apply yet (thankfully).

Consensus might also emerge if independent entities realize that they might benefit greatly from it (e.g. accelerating the maturity of consensus approaches, reducing costs etc.).

So far we can empirically state the obvious (that centrifugal forces are stronger than consensus forming forces). Whether the future will look like the past is anybody's guess.
People are reading this text in two ways:

1) A suggestion is made for the readers and to the society to change how the judge and think about artists.

2) Writers tries to convey new norms, forbid judgement.

What do you think the writer tried to do here?
Ignoring whether your assertion is true or not for a second, solving this problem doesn't require violating anyone's constitutional rights.
Show HN: A Solution to durably store your likes/dislikes counts
Hi All,

vDB is Solution to durably store your likes/dislikes count (or any count of your choice).

Its takes O(1) time to read and put unsigned long values to DB, as it similar to Arrays (there are no keys but you use index to store counts).

Single header only C++ file for storing and retreiving numbers.

And one more thing it does this without increasing the file size, as its not append only DB. Which also means it can be slower on simultenous writes. Well if you task is just to store likes/dislikes counts, than it must not be much of a problem. As reads are done more than writes for such cases.
No one is arguing with you. You were making an argument based on a misinformed software category assertion and the error was pointed out. So r/fyi/til maybe?
Same here. I would prefer someone who uses any / all tools at their disposal to accomplish the objectives. I also do recognize that there is a chance that someone blindly using generated code (the new version of copy/pasting from StackOverflow). The results of those will surface at some point or the other.
If this song is the reason Americans use "mos-cow" I am 100% here for it and will back any campaign to change the British pronunciation to match :)
Lol. More people live in London than any three of those other areas combined; depending on how large you draw the circle that is 'London' you are looking at around 25% of the population. Trust me, everyone in London has an equal amount of loathing for the parasitic gammons outside the London area who could not survive without the handouts we provide but still bitch and moan about every pound they get.
> This is very old-school style, that fell out of favor for... whatever reason this industry likes to make two steps forward, and then 1.9 steps backwards. It survives in the legacy of Smalltalk and Lisp. To a lesser degree, it's featured in Erlang, and I hear C# these days.

The reason is very, very simple: It's hard to do right at any level of complexity.

Imagine simple cache server: what about the cache? If binary format changed, you either have to have some migration code or you need to throw it away. Once you threw the cache away you might as well just restart the server in the first place, if you want availability you need 2+ servers anyway so it buys you few seconds of boot time at most.

If all you need to replace is a bunch of function calls sure, that's doable but what if new function takes some extra arguments (or just struct that it gets passed changes) ?

If you have well-defined lines (like plugin APIs to use, or ability to load the "logic" part as separate thing) it can work but otherwise it is a LOT of work and bug potential to gain not that much. Better to focus on making seamless update (in case of apps used directly by users), or in "server" apps realize you need redundancy, code reload or not, so just focus on good deployment process.
Vodafone to cut 11,000 jobs worldwide over next three years
i finished my phd quite a few years ago. My topic started out as signal processing applied to speech, but morphed into signal processing applied to bioinformatics because it was easier to publish.

it was an extension of undergrad, electronics engineering.

a day was either reading papers or writing matlab code, or waiting for matlab code to finish running. Pretty much everything was either reading research or working on future research. If I tried 20 ideas, one might work well enough to get a paper out of. Then a whole lot of testing to flesh it out, then writing the paper and editing and typesetting a creating images.

I was in a lab so there were other people to talk to working on similar things, that helped a lot.

most useful skills i think are just the research process, how to go from undergrad to expert in a topic. how to interact with the academic community.
I enjoyed the process of learning so much. Not so much the process of writing papers.
Well, the balloon dog example simply boils down to the fact that your work will only be seen as a rip-off.

> There's a whole subset of the art market that is valuing on provenance not the physical object.

Subset? I believe provenance is almost everything that matters in art, because it's what equips an artifact with meaning. Duchamp's urinal neatly exemplifies this.
That's a product which seems to have dropped off the World Wide Web. I remember seeing a demonstration of it running on PowerPC at a trade show, but that's the only time I ever saw it running. Most webpages that mention it today just redirect to a definition of the word "pin". It's a bit of a shame -- it was a clever idea, but I think that Novell overestimated the desirability of Netware to corporate clients at that point in time.

As a Netware admin at the time, I think the real killer opportunity that Novell missed was Netware for OS/2. That gave them a real nondedicated Netware 4 server using early 1990s technology, which could've been a web server or an email server or whatever you needed using OS/2 binaries in the background alongside the industry beating performance of Netware at that time, but instead Novell decided to go it alone and wasted a huge amount of time and effort on making Netware 5 and 6 into products capable of running their own native binaries meaning that they re-implemented half of UNIX into what had been a tiny, sleek, dedicated file and print server.
The article claims:

> The problem is, while it’s easy to lie to yourself, Jim isn’t fooled.

While you claim:

> So in order to fool Jim, don't think about doing that whole big thing you need to do. Just tell yourself you'll only work on it a little bit for, say, ten minutes.

I will say that Jim can sometimes be fooled to a ridiculous degree.

When I’m out for a run and the going gets tough, Jim really wants me to stop. However I can just tell Jim that OK, I will stop but not before I reach the next light post, which is super close. Once I reach it, I’ll just shift the goal to the next light post.

This works wonders and I can keep going for miles. Often giggling to myself how easily Jim is fooled, as I’m literally thinking in that moment that I’ll just keep shifting the goal.
Push is made by Ableton. I am not sure they are willing to help a company build by some of their ex developer who left them to build a new DAW with possibly stolen code and at least many ideas that were discussed internally.

Despite the headquarters proximity, I think they are not the best friends.
What was the title originally?
Astro - https://astro.build/

Is probably the fastest thing you can use with extremely sensible defaults and that you can use alongside most web frameworks.

I've been using React for 6 years but this has changed my view of what is possible. You can write React/Vue and have it compiled statically or keep the component's interactivity.

It's the tool I had been looking for for years.
Europe’s rules for crypto wallets nears final showdown
Http/2 Server Push is pretty jiggy as well!
Do you imply a positive correlation between quality and commercial success? I don't think I can name many instances of this, really.

E.g. by far the most commercially successful video games are the bottom-of-the-barrel casinos for kids.
Why are there no antitrust claims vs. GitHub Copilot, when there is a precedent?
Stupid trick would be to copy to temporary file and run that file, then update the original now-not-used one. Tho that might be weird enough to trigger AV
UK universities slide down global rankings
The number of speakers indicated for various languages is off by several orders of magnitude. This is garbage.
I don’t mean that it is written in contrived manner. I mean that it is vague. There is no context, there is only a clickbait title.
Those under 18 are people too and they have fundamental rights just as other people do. This includes free speech rights. This right is even specifically protected by Article 13 of the Convention on the Rights of Children. I recognize that free speech rights have limitations, but I consider any decision by the state to limit speech major and should require more than casual correlation based upon shady data. Individual parents can decide what they want for their children but the state should stay out of it.
When I was a CS student 10 years ago I screened this movie during our institute's bi-semesterly movie night. The other students were quite baffled that the movie just ... ends. Without a happy end. Forbin just loses.

It's not uncommon for sci-fi movies of that era to not have a happy end. But having the bad guy straight up "win" is still quite rare.
EU Farming subsidies and ecological ambition are a near perfect fit.

Just politics gets in the way as usual. But as the climate deniers power wanes it's a powerful tool ready to be used for good.
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Not using AI tools too much at the moment, but probably ChatGPT is my number 1 tool right now. Playing around with the OpenAI API at the moment to launch some of my own micro projects soon though.
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EPFL PhD student here. The lecture was organised by a student association, not by EPFL. Please note that the linked website is CLIC (the name of the student association), not EPFL!
Another perception game is Dive (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/304324/dive), which has a stack of translucent plastic sheets. Some of these sheets have silhouettes of sea creatures on them (fish, sharks, even a whale) and you need to estimate how many sheets down that shark is.
What I meant was that there's a very marked disconnect between being a boss and being an employee. Most people are often both. Yet, when one's a boss, one forgets what it's like for the employee on the other end, and vice versa.

Work by / working with people that can bridge this gap is what startup culture (in tech) used to be all about.
I used to dream of large scale solar and nuclear-powered desalination plants lining the mediterranean, solely for the purpose of pumping inland to create fresh water lakes to cool the local environment and perhaps stymie the increasing desertification of thre Iberian peninsula further north.

Then I grew up a bit and realised how mind-bogglingly massive such a scheme would have to be :)

These seems like a far more likely possibility, given the scale.

Given we might be in part historically responsible for a lot of the desertification around the periphery of the Med, I don't personally have major qualms about geo-engineering 'mostly useless' spaces back into something a little more fertile and a little cooler.
Ask HN: Those learning about neural networks, what do you find most difficult?
About a decade ago I ran a blog focused on AI where I would try to post interesting practical tutorials for people to learn from. But around 2012ish with the launch of professional e-learning sites like Coursera I figured I was probably doing a disservice making content when people would probably be better served learning elsewhere from well regarded experts in the field.

However, since the launch of ChatGPT I've been thinking about reviving my blog partly to discus AI risk, but also to educate those new to neural networks how they work. To this day I still find the vast majority of the content on neural networks online to be extremely poor. You tend to find content is either highly academic and therefore inaccessible, or too high level, eg, "build a CNN in pytorch".

The first I dislike because it's not accessible or useful for those new to the field. The latter I dislike because they rarely touch on why things are done – sure anyone can copy paste some Pytorch code, but how does the Adam optimiser work? Why do we use ReLU activation vs sigmoid? How should weights be initialised? These are things that those inaccessible academic articles are actually useful for.

In my experience it's only when you try to build your own ANNs (without libraries) that you realise how much hand holding the libraries do and how little you actually understand. I had this issue when I was learning about AI at university too. It was mostly focused on the theory and it was only when trying translating that theory to something practical I realised how little I understood.

I recently watched Andrej Karpathy's introduction to neural networks and I was really impressed since it was both practical and informative. There's no magic libraries and everything discussed is demonstrated with practical examples helping develop intuition – exactly the kind of content I find difficult to find online.

Anyway, I guess this is a really long-winded way of asking if anyone learning about ANNs at the moment shares this frustration? Or if there's anything else you've found difficult?
There was never an "NT 4.1".

Do you mean 3.1, the 1st release?
Why though? Does it really matter if something outlives you by 200 years? 500? On a not-that-long timeline like 10,000 years, nothing lasts. The "cathedral-like" timeline is completely arbitrary I think.

Imho, there’s freedom in accepting that nothing I produce will last a long time.
Why didn't they put tariffs in place? Well, how many governments, and people in power, did you ever hear of that worried about the poor and common folks? There are a lot of people profitting from these things, including the social conciousness of us in the developed world. And those interests, combined with a ton of money and close to no oversight, result in a system that just doesn't care about what happens to the average people.
> I mean that it is vague. There is no context, there is only a clickbait title.

If you can't parse the context from the writing, there is no context for you.
You might like this trick I used on a colleague.

We were supposed to break the computer (Win XP) in a fixable way then pass it down and the next person was asking for it so I did two simple things:

1. Stop the explorer process from running on boot. For those who don’t know, this mean that when the computer was done starting there was just the background and the mouse cursor. No login screen, no windows, no right-click menu. Nothing.

2. Replace the taskmgr.exe file with notepad.exe. This meant that when you were at the blank screen and pressed ctrl-alt-del it brought up notepad.

Nothing else did anything.

A viable solution would be to use Notepad, go to File > Open, navigate to explorer.exe (it was still in it’s default location), right-click it and select Open. But it meant you had to know that the open dialog was itself a fully functioning explorer window.
A DAW is going to be doing far more audio processing on tens or hundreds of channels simultaneously, while playing back some of the audio from disk, some from memory, some from live inputs, and also receiving, processing, and recording/playing MIDI events. And hosting both the audio and GUIs of third party plugins.
Considering how much more funding US universities have, this is inevitable. Also, most people here don't fund endowments or really give back to their universities.
What makes it stand out from all the other motivational SMS/WhatsApp services?
okey-dokey, valued HN-member.
To be clear, the official role of HR is to protect the company, which objectives are defined by the owners, represented by the board, not the CEO. Goals of the CEO and the board may align, but they may not, in that latter case a non-corrupt HR function sides with the board. At the end of the day, the CEO is just another employee.
As usual, concrete results are poor, with best results obtained for Python, reported on HumanEval at 40.8% and 52.7% on MBPP, where previous best was 33.5 and 45.9 respectively (both by original copilot model). Results on DS-100 (simle data science programming tasks) are much more modest, at around 30%.

And all this despite the "pass@k" evaluation metric, which is very misleading: it's clearly selected to make a code generating model look its absolute best. For example, the "pass@1" metric is _estimated_ not by choosing a single solution generated by a model, for a given programming task, and checking whether the solution completes the programming task correctly, but by generating a single solution multiple times (200 or 20, depending on model) and then averaging over them. So while it's called "pass-at-one" the "one" is actually a bunch of randomly drawn samples and not a single solution. Like I say, very misleading. See Section 6.1.1 in the paper.
Interesting. To be fair it's not something I've experimented with personally - I'm just extrapolating based on pure CPU clock speeds.

I have definitely encountered the issue that it's hard to draw pixels using many modern graphics API's, but I would have thought there was a way to make it fast.

I guess it depends on what you're drawing and what the primitives are too. Interesting topic, and another reason making a DAW must be a fun project!
what many rollerball users dont know is that you can take a Mont Blanc roller ball refill, which is by most rollerball users considered to be one of the best rollerball writing experiences, and place it in a Pilot G2 with out any issue.

you'd get a 200+ dollar writing experience for about 8 dollars.
https://unsharpen.com/pilot-g2-montblanc-hack-200-pen-for-7/

You could also do this with a fountain pen buy buying a gold Diplomat 149 replacement nib and put on a Jinhao 159 Mont Blanc "homage pen" (pirate copy).
and use mont blanc ink in that pen. Gold Nibs are not cheap but they are about 150-200 usd, but when a pen could easily be 1000-10000 usd in the extreme high end then that's a bargain https://www.instagram.com/p/ChJSq-Iv6HE/

Why would you do this?
Because some people like to have good writing tools without paying an extra premium.
Nobody writes FactoryBuilderFactoryImpl as a class name, they define an XML schema and then use a code generator to create the source files... 1/2 /s
>Leverage Astro's unique zero-JS frontend architecture to unlock higher conversion rates with better SEO.

I don't know Astro, and I'm sure other frameworks write similar stuff on their landing pages, but this state of web design just makes me puke.
I am using an 8*A100 machine from Lambda Labs, but I honestly cannot understand how it can be so cheap. I haven't found a cheaper one than this. It is even cheaper than most of spot-like interruptible offerings.
Here forests and trees in general are all cut so the farmers can do farming. Considering the amount of land that is changing into a deserts (which negatively affects the farmers too), it's a bit strange they keep cutting forest cover instead of subsidising maintaining and replanting.
I wasn't trying to make any larger point about income inequality - just saying that employer matches do not contribute to your individual 401k limits :)