skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "This technology could be used to blah blah blah," but is it actually used that way?

For one, you're falling towards the "preparedness paradoxon".

But much worse: Yes, we absolutely have examples in the real world just how fucked up surveillance can get. The GDR's Stasi for example tracked people, just using people instead of technology, to an insane degree. Erich Mielke would openly drool in his grave if he knew just how powerful technology has become. In recent times, look at China and their "social credit" score.

Don't believe for a single second the US is unable to sink that low. Even decades-old stuff believed to be safe can be struck down with the stroke of a pen of the Supreme Court. Get your expectations codified in a constitutional amendment, or be prepared to literally have to fight for your expectations. Abortion was just the beginning.
Paralysed man walks thanks to digital bridge that connects brain and spinal cord
As someone who has gerd it’s worth a shot. Little bummed to see there was nothing about controlling for at least diet.
There are several comments about "oh well, whatever species replaces us will have a new chance".

Unless the cockroaches want to wait 300 million years, they won't have the easy coal and oil reserves to jumpstart them to an 'advanced' civilization.

Which might be a good thing? Maybe some future inhabitants will invent an oil-producing algae because they didn't have an easier option like we did.
This is objectively great news.

As long as it's function is to keep the program locked in, and not the user locked out from modifying it...
I agree Putin said false things about the Khinzal, I don't think anybody is disputing this... Russians are inflating and lying about their own capabilities, yes.
Miami zoo abuses Kiwi for revenue, New Zealand puts a stop to it
Mathematics: Hermann Grassmann Was Right (1986)
The increased evaporation wouldn't really do that much re: sea levels. That water doesn't vanish, it falls as rain and goes back into the ocean, buffering a (relatively) miniscule additional amount of water in clouds.

It would do tons for the local ecosystem, though. That evaporated water would fall as rain across eastern Egypt and the Middle East.

Not to mention of course the truly incredible amount of hydropower.
I doubt Pakistanis will ever allow them to just "move north".

A global war would ensue, where everyone would try to defend their southern borders from the intruders and try to "go north". And billions of deaths will happen out of necessity, since "the north" can't sustain enough food production for 7-8bn of people.

And since many would die anyways, every nuclear power will make sure to use their nukes to destroy the ones trying to come from the south and to break up north.

In the end, it would be a nuclear war between the USA and Russia trying to use the situation and extend the full control over the Arctic.
Windows 10X was a re-architecture of Windows, and because developers weren't repackaging their apps, 10X was trying to figure out how to automatically package apps from unpackaged installers, and run them with compatibility for old Windows without affecting the modern 10X architectural design. It was not successful.
As a hobbyist with only limited C++ and Rust experience, reading things like the abstract of this paper push me towards Rust a bit.

The snark is really offputting. As a user of software trying to protect my personal information in an increasingly threatening world, I would like memory safety in more places. From the outside looking in it feels like there are a lot of C and C++ programmers trying to deflect from how poorly their attempts at memory safety have gone and just snarking at the people trying to fix it.

I will say that the point about FFI boundaries needing more care is a valid one I had not considered.

Is there a name for people who don't work in C++ and never, ever hear "rewrite it in Rust" except from programmers who seem like they're a bit hurt that their language has a competitor?
This is a bit of a false dichotomy.

It's possible to both be (efficiently) "tough on crime" while simultaneously affording people the right to privacy.
> I did that for 6 months, I was thinking I would start looking for another job in IT when I was contacted by someone filling a role and got it.

Why did you end up going back?
Keeping state consistent between two systems: Temporal and our dev platform
My home laptop has pretty much become just a web browser, so I have little need to upgrade it, I have a 5 year old Lenovo X1 G6, and it continues to serve my needs adequately. Long gone are the days when upgrading every year or two got you a laptop with significantly better performance… especially for the kinds of workloads that most people use a home laptop for.
> Medical school class sizes are not artificially restricted. Schools limit class sizes to ensure that almost all graduates can find a residency program slot.

This is paradoxical. Class sizes are limited by the school, but not artificially limited?

Medical school class sizes are artificially restricted by outsized requirements for admissions. For example, the requirement of an undergraduate degree in order to enter medical school is not something that exists in Europe. Or that the admissions and exam requirements are much less hyper-competitive in Europe, than the U.S. This is, of course, “to restrict the supply of residents, so each one can find a job.” It’s still artificial restriction, rather than a natural bottleneck.

The same AMA that “Twenty years ago, the AMA lobbied for reducing the number of medical schools, capping federal funding for residencies, and cutting a quarter of all residency positions,”[0] is now asking for support in reversing its schemes? That’s rich. The same AMA that makes hundreds of millions in revenues, by speculating in securities[1].

Like an alma mater asking you to donate to its investment coffers after it’s shackled you with debt.

[0] https://blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2022/03/15/ama-scope...

[1] https://www.epsilontheory.com/ama-bitfd/
I hoped that "examples in the US" and "in modern times" was implied. I'm still waiting for those examples instead of "Remember the Stasi" and your parting slippery slope.
I look forward to hearing what your colleague reports.
Tax payers = patients. And by the way, not every single payer system is using tax money.
Personally I found that the following caused reflux: fiber consumption, drinking tap-water that hasn't been boiled, consuming lentils, consuming too much red meat - e.g. 2 x large steaks a day. FYI.
Your example doesn’t suffer from, for example, not being able to bookmark a step in the booking process. At the end of the article, “forms to update/create entities” is specifically mentioned as a valid use case.
The issue is engenders confusion—"wait, how many people are we talking about, again?"
NOVA has an amazing episode on how completely deluded we are at how our brain actually works. Our consciousness spends a lot of time lying to us.

https://www.pbs.org/video/your-brain-perception-deception-pr...
Yes, the “what about China excuse comes up a lot”. Another worthless excuse for doing absolutely nothing. Ranks up there with “we don’t want to destroy the economy”

“adopt aggressive climate saving measures”

They could have adopted “non-aggressive” measures and not feed the climate deniers. By doing nothing sooner, requires more pain later. We have been discussing the problem for almost 5 decades.
At least you are aware of it.
I've often thought a smaller, faster form of transport like this would be lovely for summer day trips across to the Isle of Man. There's a currently a car ferry and scheduled flights from Liverpool airport but the faff involved in driving to Liverpool only to queue up for hours just for a 70 mile flight puts me off!
A lot falls on earth & is absorbed too, is my understanding. There's plenty of talk about farmers flooding fields & what not to restore groundwater.

100% I think the main benefit of this project would be to restore some ecology & create power. There may be some small benefit to the earth as a whole too, but it seems silly to make this effort for somewhat enhanced evaporation.
I have been saying this forever, this is basic economics, you get more of what you subsidize. here govt should have subsidized creating more high quality colleges instead of federally-backed-non-dischargable loan. IMNSHO the non-dischargability is really the key here. if you can get rid of it in bankruptcy then they will be forced to evaluate which programs are not good ROI and possibly charge more interest for them. this way govt saddles students with the consequences of bad-policy on their part.
> sodium alginate

Now you've got me wondering whether the problems of "cattle producing too much methane" (which sodium alginate is a treatment for), and "humans producing too much stomach acid" have some strong link. Maybe every feed supplement that the agro industry has invented to lower methane emissions in cattle, is actually also a treatment for GERD?
The CIA did something similar with:

> Frank Snepp’s Decent Interval: An Insider’s Account of Saigon’s Indecent End Told by the CIA’s Chief Strategy Analyst in Vietnam, which was published in late 1977.

> At the very least Snepp had written the definitive history of the final days of the American imperium—in Vietnam anyway—in a gripping, page-turning style. The rooftop escape defined so much about the blundering American experience in Vietnam, and Snepp was the only witness to the tawdry retreat who wrote it all down as if a modern-day Xenophon, on the payroll of the CIA, retreating from the Asian wars.

> In 1981, the CIA had dragged him into the Supreme Court, to block his earnings from the book and to teach other agents in the field that there were costs associated with tell-all books about the failings within agency. I remember being shocked that Snepp lost his appeal to the Supreme Court and that he had been forced to pay $300,000 in book royalties to his former CIA handlers.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/04/09/why-vietnam-still-ma...
>Some times it feels like we're re-arranging deck chairs

That's because we are. Action on this should feel at least as global, as desperate and as uncomfortable as what was done during the pandemic. It should have a very tangible economic impact, because the measures require a big reorganizing of the economy. Which is why nothing is being done about it.
Of course the firmware bug is from Dell, but it's Ubuntu automatically installing it that made the user experience it out of the blue.
I remember recently, one of my friends had to do community service, and picking up trash. They knew a few skills like these, but was yelled at by the manager not to do them.

Suffice to say, he barely picked anything up.
I suspect you'd just disagree or fail to understand if it were explained. Safest to just trust the implied advice in this instance!
Kind of missing the forest for the trees here.

But okay, let's play that game. The 21k employees they laid off were _all_ high comp workers, really? The 150k employees that got laid off since the beginning of the year, just in tech? The slightly smaller amount from last year? All those workers from other industries? Come the F on.
> I'm mostly ignorant of the recall process, but it seems like they should be more widespread than they are

Fully agree. The reason is, it's easier (and fits into more popular narratives) to blame Tiktok and Youtube than to hold large corporations accountable.
we'll be in the terabyte architectures soon enough : - )
I'd be surprised if this is an issue for cargo flights with how expensive air freight is.
Someone just posted an article above about how our climate models just got precise enough to model cloud layer changes as CO2 increases. Somehow I doubt we can model things effectively enough to really predict that more evaporation will make things better instead of worse. Moisture can also be effective at raising the wet bulb temperature above what we can survive if it hasn't condensed into clouds.
This is a nice writeup on length-extension attacks, although I wish it had placed the takeaway further up: `H(s || m)` is almost always the wrong signature construction, even if the hashing function itself doesn't enable length extension attacks. You almost always want an HMAC.
I guess that's one way to get around the labyrinth that is the new and improved windows UI.

It will start off with pre-defined registry tweaks/powershell scripts, but it will continue expanding. My money is on less than 6 months before we hear about it deleting all of a users data or being tricked into ransomware.
Realtime UIAppearance Refresh
OMG please, enough with the "X considered harmful". It just makes me not want to even look at it.
It's done all of the time prior to now for student loans.

And for income, at least, the IRS should be able to easily do this.

Blanket forgiveness of loans comes with a societal cost for those who are in precarious situations but do not have loans to forgive. By increasing the money available to be spent for non-basic purposes there is almost guaranteed to be a demand-driven inflationary effect.

This inflation would hurt those on the margin the worst. The parent comment that I originally replied to wants this forgiveness, in part, so that Millennials and GenZers will bid up the value of their house in order to help fund their retirement. This is the housing situation we've been in for the last couple of decades. In general it's been to the benefit of current homeowners, but not so much for the rest of us.
Lenovo's laptops have begun soldering things to the board making them less desirable.
They took over my yard last summer. Even my weather station got the anemometer so wrapped up in Joro webs that it couldn't move anymore. Any part of the yard I hadn't been in for more than a couple of days, I'd carry a stick to clear the way. I felt bad for delivery drivers because houses like mine with a breezeway to the front door were guaranteed to have several Joro webs at body level. If I had a delivery scheduled, I'd go out in the morning and clear a path. Hopefully birds will take a liking to the spiders and their numbers will be kept in check. Combine this with the newly arrived kudzu beetles that are reducing the biomass of kudzu, Georgia and surrounding states are in for a good bit of change this decade.
Probably benefiting from a number of things coming together, is my guess. Not that I'm an economist, or even pretending to be one. But birth rates dropped precipitously throughout the 1960s, marriage was more common than in recent years, and mortgage rates were higher than in recent years (nothing like the 1980s, of course, but still, 7-8%). All of these, to my lay understanding, would tend to put downward pressure on house prices by reducing demand.

Since then we've ratcheted up expectations for what minimal housing should be, which raises the price floor. Dropped interest rates, which pushes up demand. People not getting married need their own home, pushing up demand some more. Forcibly constrained sprawl, pushing down supply. Zoning, etc. It's hard to imagine how we actually lower prices significantly (aside from the bubbles, which I'd guess have as much to do with interest rates as anything else).
True. In my case I was going to put Linux on it and use it for a home automation server.
Looks neat, but I would only want a privacy preserving offline version of this.
I assume you mean this paragraph from TFA:

> But its 1946 debut reflected a delay of more than a decade by the country’s real dictators, who disrupted the novel’s genesis and sent its author into exile. And in this act of suppression, Asturias’s censors and exilers were aided by the US, specifically the CIA.

I think it's clumsily worded. There was suppression of the novel and the author was exiled (the novel was self-published in Mexico in 1946, out of the author's own pockets). Guatemala's dictatorship was behind this and the US helped them. But the international discrediting of the author was orchestrated by the CIA through a front, and this took place many years after.

So "this" suppression that the CIA aided is not just 1946 -- that's poorly worded -- but in the ensuing years, after the CIA was already formed.
SCOTUS has repeatedly considered the "chilling effect" of government policies to be sufficient to strike down government policies. Here's a long article from MTSU about the history of the "chilling effect" on First Amendment jurisprudence: https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/897/chilling-effect

tl;dr: having a "chilling effect" is, according to SCOTUS, often (but not always) the same thing as "actively suppressing" freedom of speech.
Advertising encourages watching. Ads are being paid for and shown through other media creating a demand. You are being encouraged to watch the content by the creators of the movie.

Now you have a group of people who want to watch. Some of them can afford to watch and pay for it. Some of them can't and won't see it. Some of them can but it's not available so they pirate. Some can but will pirate because it's easier or cheaper.

This are all caused by the demand the movie creators paid for. Don't create demand and gaslight people when they want to watch it by saying it isn't necessary for survival. People want to see it because the movie creators are telling them to and they spent money to get people who can't afford or won't pay to want to see the movie
> which is probably a really great evolutionary driver

While true, I find this ironic since this constant drive for new things is a huge source of dissatisfaction, unhappiness, and general lack of desire to procreate.

You can tell me all day to find fulfillment in the journey, but life isn't setup that way. Most often the highest paying work is devoid of novelty and is mostly an exercise in focus and repetition.

We spend our most healthy and youthful years, sitting a chair staring at a monitor for the majority of our days and the worst part is we're payed so incredibly well that you'd be a fool to do anything else.

"Enjoy the journey" I hear everyone say. What journey?
I've posted an excerpt from the start of the article at the start of this thread, you could check it.

As it is written, it clearly seems to give the responsibility of the delay in publication to the CIA.

The most charitable interpretation is "poor editing".
Bit random, but a while ago I created this extension to remove "actually", "literally" and other words (it is slighty configurable) that can be annoying. It is sort of a joke, but some days I think it is not a joke.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/actually-no-remove...

Maybe I should extend it :)
Using ChatGPT to design and automate biology experiments
Nice tool. I like the name choice as well. It has nice associations with the forges, magic and a good medieval vibe.
It will also contribute to a heating effect, because water vapor is itself a greenhouse gas.
> Yes, but the MBP costs what like 1800 while the Windows laptops corporate is willing to buy often cost around half that or less?

Yes, also why the corp waited on those Lenovo orders rather than switching some developers to Macs.
Considered harmful articles considered harmful.
There are plenty of areas where there is a standardised starting point for contracts - ISDA has already been mentioned but you also have LMA loan documentation in the financial space, standard/default articles of association for companies, various standardised construction contracts (eg NEC in the UK), standardised contracts (sometimes even written into legislation) for land purchases, etc - the point is you draft (to greater or lesser extent) on the basis of where you want to differ from the standardised contract. Creating standardised contracts in such a way that the commonly customised parts are machine readable data sounds like a very good thing to me.
Perhaps they assumed from WFH was going to become the new norm, which would likely result in some continued demand (though certainly less than pandemic levels)
I'm old enough to remember when Antarctic sea ice extent set a record high in 2014. The cause? Probably global warming.

"So as counterintuitive as expanding winter Antarctic sea ice may appear on a warming planet, it may actually be a manifestation of recent warming."

[1] https://www.climate.gov/news-features/featured-images/antarc...
CISA releases updated StopRansomware Guide
My first thought was also: unfiltered marketing crap, and completely over the top. Starting with the sideswipe on Meta. Gentle reminder: Meta gives away LLaMa and Galactica under quite liberal non commercial license, OPT is even under MIT license if I recall correctly.

I’m not a fan of either company btw.
Microsoft as a UI company historically has been absolutely god awful: Probably one of the main reasons Apple stayed in business before the iPhone. I wouldn't expect them to wake up one day and start making clean UIs.
I assume a few hundred project managers have jockeyed to get their stupid widget on the page and whoever is in charge now holds onto their team’s widget as their only real visible contribution to the company.
That’s the thing. When I think if Kubernetes, I think of the whole ecosystem, and not just the bits released by the Cloud Native Foundation.
In case you haven't seen them, Olivia Fox-Cabane has a number of interesting YouTube videos on the subject of charisma and how to improve your own.
> I'm still waiting for those examples instead of "Remember the Stasi" and your parting slippery slope.

I'm German. Unlike you in the US, we have museums dedicated to the horrors of the NS regime as well as the Stasi and general GDR dictatorship around the country. I can recommend you a visit if you get the chance to visit Germany - there is no argument as convincing as actually seeing eyewitness accounts and evidence of how depraved humans can get.
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Oily greasy food, not exercising, extra weight on the chest, and alcohol that further relaxes the muscle all contribute in my experience.
Maybe he wants to build a ladder to heaven
The things that still confuse me about transformers is:

1. Why do we _add_ the positional embedding to the semantic embedding? It seems like it means certain semantic directions are irreversibly with certain positions.

2. I don't understand why the attention head (which I can implement and follow the math of) is described as "key query value lookup". Specifically, the Q and K matrices aren't structurally distinct – the projections into them will learn different weights, but one doesn't start out biased key-ward and the other query-ward.
Those are great questions! I believe Emscripten will be required for some cases as it provides more features for targeting a Web Browser. If WASI is the only requirement for a Wasm module, then there are three possible solutions:

- Use a library that provides the WASI bindings in a browser environments: there are some OSS projects that provides WASI bindings on top of browser technologies. For example, workers-wasi from Cloudflare [1]. It could be even another Wasm module that provides the implementation for the main one. I know the people from Loophole Labs are experimenting with virtual filesystems (VFS) [2].

- Browsers provides a WASI implementation: server-oriented runtimes like NodeJS are already providing these bindings (under a experimental flag). I shouldn't have stated that as a fact, as browsers may provide it or not. However, I saw in the past the Google Chrome team experimenting with WASI and the browser FileSystem API [3]. So, I think it may happen :)

- [1] https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-wasi

- [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46jZSXVxYPw

- [3] https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/wasi-fs-access
Russian hypersonic scientist accused of betraying secrets to China
https://archive.is/Od5yX
Most porn objectifies women and many employees are women who do not like being objectified.

Perhaps I missed the irony.
10/50 states have them, though as two are California and New York it's slightly higher then 20% of the population.