skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cheap android phones coming from some countries manufacturing them (you know which one-s) often have pre-installed shady apps disguised as regular bloat/admin process apps that can't be uninstalled, which deploys all kinds of attacks once the phone get configured and online. Same thing can be said of any smartphone (and pc os's), with the difference being you get spooked / polluted by knowned corps and so-called friendlies when you get Korean or US brands.

Nothing new, this has been going on since the early days of android / ios. Good hygiene: deactivate/uninstall any/all apps you can at first boot, reboot, then install anew all the apps you really use. Takes a few minutes/hours, worth it most of the time. YMMV.
I don't know about Outlook and others, but you can still use any client you want, both for IMAP and SMTP access, using application passwords[1]. I have been doing that for years, both for Gmail and Google Workspace, without any issue.

[1] https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en
Anything by Neal Stephenson. (Except Fall, maybe.) Cryptonomicron is my fav modern novel.

Project Hail Mary. The Martian. Artemis.

Expanse series.

William Gibson,s stuff. Loved Peripheral, and it's sequel Agency.
'BlackBerry' review: The comedy and tragedy of the innovator's dilemma
> ME: stop using words like please, sorry, apologize, etc...
> ME: you used the word please, again. stop.

When you're struggling with things like this, try splitting it into two inferences. First, ask it to give you the answer, then run the answer through another inference asking it to state the content and removing words like please and sorry, and provide just the answer.

Often, splitting things like this into two is very effective. First, think things through, then post-process the answer.
Adware can also be installed on any Mac or Windows device, no matter the price. Apple fans always gesture at a supposed threat of breaking the AppStore monopoly, yet they conveniently ignore that such a monopoly already doesn't exist on their beloved Macs.
Thank you for your comment! I plan to add it in the next implementation.
Yes, me too! Soon we might have real 'Ractives' -- of course with all the baggage that comes along with them, probably with developing world actors creating the custom content for the wealthiest
Great exhibitions, great location, great rooftop... But you'll never be able to please everybody I guess.
Here's a way that I think about it.

The old way was never perfect. Writing short essays and grading them by hand was never a facsimile of any real world task, either in academia or elsewhere. There was only a hunch or tradition -- and likely a weak one -- that the exercise had some useful correlation to real tasks, or that students could adapt from their training exercises to real-world exercises themselves.

And the teachers -- especially at the college level -- were never trained to teach. They learned teaching by trial and error, attrition, and the age old process of mimesis. Thus there is no mechanism for training teachers, or for developing new teaching methods.

Now the teachers are utterly unprepared for this kind of technological revolution. They were barely prepared at all for straightforward plagiarism, and now this. They can reasonably anticipate that they will receive no training or support to learn how to adapt, while also being told it's their fault for not figuring it out. They're completely on their own.

All they will hear from the tech world is: You now have the wrong methods, adapt or die. Here in the tech world, we adapt to new technologies all the time, because the new stuff is really pretty easy to learn, like the old stuff was. In the case of teaching, "adapt" means change careers.
Always assume all these cheap, obscure brands of electronics, from TV sets, to keyboards and security cameras are plagued with malware. I'm shocked to see how many people I know who are highly educated and tech savvy bring these junk into their homes, add them to their network and download apps to set them up and manage them.
I share that vision but I don’t see the current Apple doing this.

With their performance advantage they could easily work towards something like Samsung Dex with a compute core that you plug into different terminals, or macOS on the iPad.

But they choose not to, most likely trying not to cannibalize different device categories.

I would love to be wrong but I don’t see this happening for many years until some Chinese brand offers cheap alternative glasses and everyone runs around with a battery powered Mac mini.

Besides that we also obviously don’t know how long until the battery and display tech is good enough to compete with screens
Yes, and it's because of monetary manipulation. Value creation tends to feel meaningful. It's unfortunate that our current system rewards self-flagellation over value creation.

But I guess the top 1% don't want to live among happy people. They'd rather the masses be self-loathing, exploitable commodities than fulfilled human beings.

And sadly, it often seems that the masses are just too dumb to even trust their own senses.
I don't know why you'd think they'd be live. I don't eat live chickens, fish or cows. Some people eat live oysters, I guess.

I have actually eaten insects on more than one occasion (some kind of fried cricket, I think). They weren't especially tasty, but they also weren't bad. Just a fairly unexciting snack taste-wise. I'd say "high" game or strong cheese is far, far more of an acquired taste than they were.

Crustaceans are not insects, but insects basically derive from arthropod proto-crustaceans: fundamentally a prawn and a cricket are each roughly the same distance, phylogenetically speaking, from a cow (actually they have 6 legs, not 10, and most are air-breathers, so they're closer in some ways!). Indeed, they can both trigger shellfish allergies. Maybe we're just more used to "weird sea things" being food than "weird land things".

Putting aside the obvious aversion to insect morphologies, if they're being processed into some kind of protein meal, I don't really find that any more objectionable than mechanically-recovered meat slurry, which is a major component of lots of food. Which, to be fair, I do already, generally, avoid.
- A Fire Upon The Deep

- Brave New World

- The Dispossessed

- The Sirens of Titan / Slaughterhouse 5

- Recursion

- Exhalation

- There Is No Antimemetics Division

- Foundation Series
It guessed properly when I gave it swords-stadium-king.
Because it makes immature adults, who were raised by immature adults, uncomfortable.
There's a lot of strong statements here:

> Seeing your surroundings only through a camera and screen is unacceptable.

Without qualification this statement is strange. I don't care if I'm seeing through a camera and screen or through a transparant piece of plastic. What I care about is image quality, distortion, FOV, latency etc.

So the question is surely a more nuanced one about the relative importance of each of these factors?

> Not to mention the fact that people around you can’t see your face either.

When I'm working I'm not sure this is a huge deal.

> Unless other people have these glasses, they can’t see your screen either. Even if these glasses have no shortcomings whatsoever, I can’t imagine a future where everyone in the room needs compatible glasses to look at the same screen.

Ah. I get it - you're assuming there's other people in the same room as you! Why would you make that assumption for this device? I rarely work with anyone in the room, and when I do, they tend to be working on their own stuff. My collaborations are 90% remote (and for the 10% I can take the headset off)
I also think they will, not for the main creative work but that it makes lots of tedious exploring work a lot more easy, even if in the end you discard all GPT output.
With much lower risk and severity.

From that list:

4 Luxembourg 0.52%

13 Switzerland 1.03%

88 Germany 3.92%

110 United Kingdom 5.78%

131 Spain 9.68%

168 United States 22.73%

Though this does definitely tell me I was wrong about Australia, and that it only looks safe from a distance because the news isn't reporting on it:

164 Australia 21.36%
Yes, hindsight changes perception of past decisions. But there is no "end" to the economy. It ebbs and flows. Maybe today this is "worth" 75% less, but what if next year at this time it's "worth" 25% more? Now suddenly it was "worth" even more than you originally paid for it. This it the problem with how you're defining worth: it's going to change depending on when you, in the future, decide to ultimately sell it.

But that's not a particularly useful definition of worth. Worth measures a moment in time. We can only price something based on what we know about it today and what we predict about it in the future, and we're not perfect predictors of the future.

I think about "worth" using the only definition of worth that is particularly helpful (to me): the amount you could get for the asset if you were to sell it now. Part of that decision almost certainly a prediction of what you believe an asset will be worth in whatever time horizon you plan to sell it. You may be right or wrong about that prediction. But it doesn't change that in the moment at which your purchased the asset, it was "worth" that to you/the market. The reality is that many, many people were under the perception that the value of these assets would continue to appreciate as they were all collectively willing to pay what we now believe to be high prices for them.

In hindsight, we may all have been wrong. But in that moment, I could absolutely have sold the asset for the price I paid to purchase it. So it certainly was "worth" that when the transaction happened.
Yep, GPT's default "mode" seems to be the bland "five paragraph essay" encouraged by high-school courses. First, it tells you what it's about to describe. Then it describes it, inventing some supporting evidence. Then it restates what it just told you.

Sadly many students never move beyond this introductory framework, so their professional writing (which GPT trained on) ends up with the same uninspired style. It's a way to automate the creation of content that even the "lowest common denominator" of students can manage, but it doesn't produce good writing.
I've used XP Pro x64 for several years on Pentium D CPU with full 4GiB of memory.
It was rather pleasant experience, with one caveat: some desktop software refuses to sun because they detected server OS, and vice versa. But there were not so much so picky software, so it was not a real problem.
We need to rethink the concept of a term paper and how it is graded. If a machine can produce a paper then why should we be doing it at all?

In my opinion, the purpose of producing a paper is to interrogate an issue in depth. I think we should replace/augment papers with oral defenses if the topic and hard questioning . Obviously this is more effort to grade but academia has been quite lax for awhile now.
That's a characteristic of the language you write the extension in, not Python.

E.G, if you use, rust, through maturin, cross platform compilation is pretty decent: https://www.maturin.rs/distribution.html
> LTT did a video[1] on the same topic showing a few Chinese smart TV boxes with malware.

This is completely irrelevant as it doesn't contradict anything I said.

> There is no reason to believe the report is illegitimate.

It seems you didn't read the Ars Technica piece.
It'd be cool if you could submit a specific Github commit (or similar) and then have the app store build it and distribute it. Then the user only needs to trust Apple or Google to not be malicious, which they kinda already need to do if they're using both an OS and app store from them.
What I find fascinating is that it took so long for this to become reality:

Originally, office space was needed for secretaries, typewriters, meeting rooms, desk telephones that were hooked up to a central company number. Eventually office buildings were needed for mainframes, other servers, copy machines, fax machines, printers, desktop computers etc. Offices were truly needed until around 1998-2008 or so.

But after that - which is already some 15-25 years ago - most of us worked on a laptop that hooked up to whatever screen was available, and used email, chats and perhaps some collaboration software, and where data storage was in the cloud. Our cell phones were easily connected with office numbers. Lately, we don't need to sign anything physically anymore, and we don't need to write actual checks.

Nevertheless, going to the office kept being the preferred working mode, new office buildings kept being built, and rents kept increasing, long after the office wasn't strictly necessary. Only when the pandemic showed management that remote work works, did offices finally come out of fashion. Now, it's hard to imagine that companies will keep the office spaces when their leases expire without asking for large reductions.

Often it takes long for new tech and new habits to be adopted.
This is missing any semblance of nuance. When the article makes a point that "the wrong side" is using children to push their beliefs and does the same at the end of the text (think of the kids!), you know that it isn't worth the (digital) paper it was written on.
The Rise of Somatic Therapy
Half of all adults in Australia have a 4 year degree. To add a specialization in education and meet the requirement it's just another year for those people. Hence, "easily qualifiable".

As the salary increases, the pool of potential and interested applicants rises dramatically.
Using AI to detect LLM writing is a fool's errand. You can easily generate text using GPT4 that is absolutely same as how many humans would write it (off course apart from the boilerplate "As an AI language model"). All it will do is penalize some specific writing styles. Ironically it will drive those people to use GPT and ask it to rewrite their work in a different style.
Historical mostly.

Github usage predates the Gitlab instance and some projects haven't been migrated. We also keep some repositories on Github as a secondary mirror.

We've also had some performance issues on Gitlab for `svntogit` repository because of weird branch structures. However this repo is not deprecated so it doesn't matter anymore.
MKB POM
https://archive.ph/uMGAU
Outside of some of the ones listed here, here are a couple of others:

* Alan Dean Foster -- Call to Arms, in this case the we are the strong ones.

* Hal Clement -- Nitrogen Fix, replace Nitrogen with CO2 in your head and this could be rather current :)

* An obscure one I liked, but I forgot the Author and Title --

Seems Interstellar Travel could be achieved with 15th Century Tech.

So Aliens landed on late 20th Century Earth with the goal of taking it over. But were easily defeated due to how advanced Earth Tech was compared to what they had. We analyzed their spacecraft and learned how easy it was to achieve interstellar travel. Was a rather interesting read IIRC.
There's also a massive generalist library.. I wonder if it will be closed to. Lots of people and students go there to work...
Is there a vidéo giving détails about how to type a { or a Alt-F4 ?
And the first phase of the Pergamon project has already been ongoing for years.
Correct me if wrong but you don't need to request network permissions to be able to make outside connections.

Almost all apps make outside connections and it would make no sense to prompt the user for that.
"It feels oddly in tension with the rest of our digital lives. We have been conditioned to expect a kind of data maximalism from years of free storage on Gmail, iMessage, and Facebook. But it seems wireless carriers, who have stored voicemails on behalf of customers since the pre-smartphone era, would rather not be in the business of hosting an unlimited supply of audio messages. Instead, they force the data equivalent of the KonMari Method: Declutter your inbox and save whatever is sentimental or important."
List of countries by natural disaster risk
A few favourites off the top of my head:

The Difference Engine - William Gibson & Bruce Sterling
Diaspora - Greg Egan
Flashback - Dan Simmons
Timescape - Gregory Benford
Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C. Clarke (but the "co"-authored sequels are too terrible for words)
People have, and will continue to concede mental authority to rule based systems. "I'm sorry but the rules say" is one of the very common statements you here, but when you look at the situation one would think it would be easy to recognise the rule in question does not apply. The rules in cases like that could be considered a 'dumb machine'.

Now imagine what happens when the machine becomes semi-smart.
Here is a simple litmus test of whether a book is any good. When you go to someone's birthday with kids present, think about casually mentioning something from that book. If you can reasonably expect to be kicked out from the party, the book is no good.
Flat Lenses Made of Nanostructures Transform Tiny Cameras and Projectors
Update: this post is wrong. Edge preserves and utilize Chrome app APIs.

AFAICT, There is nothing Chrome about Edge.
I don't think a book can be rated NC-17.
Nobody had to "work this out" because it was widely known and acknowledged by MS since the first AS beta release (1993). The original idea was to sell a product to complete with Novell Netware (at the time the dominant thing you ran on the office file server). If MS made it easy to use the desktop NT as a file server, then they'd be "leaving money on the table" vs what Novell charged for Netware (per-client licensing that meant $thousands for a large server). So they invented a license for clients (CAL) and a product that bundled some number of licenses in the SKU, and AS was born, sold for iirc about $500. Much cheaper than Netware, which subsequently died. Then, to make it harder for customers to simply use the cheaper desktop NT in place of AS, a limit on the number of connected clients was enforced (5?). There were also some kernel tuning parameters that were different between workstation and server.

Subsequently, through the 2000, 2003, ... generations, more applications were bundled into the server product (e.g. ActiveDirectory) that were obviously not present in the desktop version.
There is plenty of land. There are not enough houses, apartments, condos, etc.
Exxon Joins Hunt for Lithium in Bet on EV Boom
Screenplay for "A Topiary"
The “banking system” is an anachronism. We now have a machinery for securitizing asset backed loans. People and companies that just want somewhere safe to store their cash should not be implicitly investing in commercial real estate.

Banking should be a boring industry that charges a cost of carry for storing and transferring cash. No lending, no fiscal assets.
I have the advantage of having standards for the quality and candor things I read. :)
Doesn't mean it's simple
On the Air
I'm saddened none of the comments here acknowledge that alternative sources of protein lead to the demise of the industrial exploitation of animals, who suffer immensely.

I support all efforts to find alternatives. The article states:

>the environmental impact of near-term ACBM (animal cell-based meat) production is likely to be orders of magnitude higher than median beef production if a highly refined growth medium is utilized for ACBM production.

A future of affordable cultured meat is absolutely possible, humans are good enough at problem solving and environmental impact and price will go down.

Without invoking PETA, consider animal welfare before dismissing laboratory/engineered proteins as unnecessary.
* Greg Egan’s short story collections, Diaspora, and Permutation City. Fair warning, Egan puts the “hard” in “hard sci-fi”.

* Haven’t finished the Expanse final trilogy, but I really enjoyed the first two.

* The Wool series

* Project Hail Mary, for story reasons I’d recommend the audio book.

* We Are Bob trilogy, fourth book is garbage.

* Old Man’s War

* The Culture Series by Ian Banks

* If you enjoyed Seveneves, and thus can tolerate Stephenson’s consistent habit to drop the ball in the last 20% of his books, Diamond Age is enjoyable.
Ya, you'd have to adjust your initial prompt to GPT to remove as much prose and limit responses to be as short and terse as possible.

Add to that GPT doesn't count characters, but instead tokens and it's difficult.
Side question about redis:

Does redis do async operations? I'm not sure how that would work because it's known to be in memory. But I do know it persists to disk. So basically my question is:

Does almost absolutely every operation on a redis database happen serially? Maybe not every single operation, but in general.
This is definition of spam: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spam
To the best of my knowledge this page was not sent to anyone.
What a polarizing building!

I had a professor that spent a considerable amount of time in France and he said a common joke among the building’s detractors was:

“The best view in Paris is atop the Centre Pompidou, because you cannot see it.”
I don't do any of the actual server infra so I don't have all the details.

The btrfs raid setup is standardized across all our infra and can be found on ansible.

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/infrastructure/-/blob...

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/infrastructure/-/blob...

From what I can tell it's been working fine and behaves nicely with failing disks.
So many listed here are already in my top list, what I haven’t seen is the Luna Trilogy by Ian McDonald. Neat ideas from corporate run future moon colony.
It's not exactly sci-fi but there are sci-fi elements and it's one of my favorite books so I'll just mention it anyway: Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut.
Did you try v1.9 or v1.10 yet? From others I'm hearing that the code caching changed Makie from about 70 seconds down to 10 in v1.9, and then the loading time improvements brought it to like 5 (unreleased of course, though v1.10 should be branching in a few weeks). Makie load times were of course one of the ones highlighted in the release notes of v1.9: https://julialang.org/blog/2023/04/julia-1.9-highlights/. So while Makie won't be "instant" by v1.10 (<1 second), it was one of the worst offenders before and has gone from "wtf" to "bad but manageable".
Discussed about a week ago:

• part 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35902506 (>160 comments)

• part 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35919942 (>30 comments)
Facebook to be fined £648M for mishandling user information
GC is nice because you don’t have to constantly think about ownership and lifetimes.
The broader point is "game mechanics with permanent memory", which is interesting as a thought experiment.

Imagine chess with "you may have your opponent retract a move, but only once in this 9-round swiss", or a Magic the Gathering card with "you may only use this effect once per tournament", or a penalty in sports where you must sit out the rest of the season.

I wish they hadn't picked pain and mutilation examples as it's the most deranged way possible to make the above point.