skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Targeted Advertising serves a valuable role in free markets by giving exposure to innovative and novel products that improve people's lives. Without advertising, there would be no playing field for new products to challenge incumbents. Everybody would end up sticking to products they know without ever knowing about superior alternatives like in some kind of communist dystopia. Food for thought.
Don't forget that you need to do this not only for the crate you depend on, but the whole dependency subtree that comes with it as well.
As a fellow Puerto Rican who also endured this, wholeheartedly agree

In a total disaster, the only thing barely working is AM radio. I remember even during the hurricane listening to the only radio station available in AM. Their broadcast room was flooding, they were running on a generator and they were still broadcasting and reporting what was going on.

Thinking about it today, listening to that radio station was terrifying. I remember they were taking calls from people almost about to drown from flooding, clamoring for any sort of emergency response… which was unlikely to arrive. It was an apocalyptic moment.
A Retrospective on the Surprising Costs of Moving Data to the Cloud
A single trip between Paris and Nantes is calculated (using some random website) to be between 0.1-0.3 tons of Co2 per person on the plane.

Using some other random website, the same trip for one person on train is calculated to be 2kg.

So that makes it a factor of about 100x. How much could the tax be that would still make it distinguishable from a ban? How would people react if say the tax would be 1€ per kg?
This is done on projects like VeraCrypt with hidden containers to give you plausible deniability - one password opens the decoy container and another opens the real one. Of course this means a ton of wasted space on the disk, and as soon as you boot the decoy container it starts desytroying hidden container data. And also there's apparently ways to detect hidden containers if this is to be believed:

https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredi...

Wildly unrealistic but it exists.
> office perks like free lunches, WFH, on site laundry and daycare

WFH perks like lunch, laundry, and daycare.
The firmware on most modern hearing aid devices can be easily updated. These updates may include updates for the sound processing as well, indeed. However, you can't easily "replace the chip" like you can just swap out an old SSD drive with a new, faster model.

To the best of my knowledge (first hand experience from the industry), they receive a final update one day and will then only be updated in extreme situations, like, say, imagine you plug in your devices one day and suddenly get a max volume high pitched feedback screech in your ears (this should never happen, ever, mind you). But I'm only guessing here.

However, just like my old trusty iPod Touch 1st Generation, they are due an upgrade eventually if you want to use the latest features (my iPod still works, it's just not very fancy anymore...).
Hanson might indeed be doing triplets; it's too hard for me to tell without doing the Audacity legwork. (Although it sounds like straight 16ths to me.) But in any case, Metallica is definitely not doing swing here.
Your old processor needs a new battery. it gets damaged.
But it was EOL'd a few months ago. No spare parts, no servicing. You need a new one.
Indeed, there are many different levels of control loops.
They are of course free to use http in a closed environment, without any encryption. Or use any internal proprietary protocols. There is absolutely nor reason to mandate the world to follow their 'requirements'.
Annual maintenance of gravel roads constitutes driving one pass with a road grader wholly owned by a local or municipal government.
I generally agree. I've used an XKCD-style password for a long time for my 1Password master password. But it does have downsides -- on a mobile device, it's a lot of typing, if you need to enter it.
I think we are approaching a dead-end. If you, as many do, consider where we are to be "late-stage capitalism", where do you go but backwards? There is no forwards, because we are at the end.
I'll chip in that Civ 6 is kind of notoriously buggy and crash prone. I have a top of the line Windows PC and the game spontaneously crashes for me in full screen mode so I can only do windowed mode.

It's still super fun (I have over 1,000 hours played) but it's not something I would call a reliable or stable piece of software.

Porting it to a different CPU architecture sounds like a recipe for introducing even more bugs to an already unstable program.
Most QUIC implementations I've seen so far indeed use BoringSSL.

Not sure about the status quo in NGINX. They had a HTTP/3 implementation on Quiche (a Rust lib implementing QUIC, and HTTP/3 as a side project, but afik NGINX never used that part, only the QUIC protocol implementation). But after reading a post here I'm not sure they still use Quiche (and with it BoringSSL). Maybe they have now an own QUIC implementation (with support for other crypto libs). But given QUIC is complex and therefore hard to implement I would actually expect they still base of their HTTP/3 efforts on the by now quite popular Quiche library. But I'm maybe wrong in this regard. Have to look into that.
Any advice for aspiriing programmers? I work full-time and go to school part-time so finding time / motiviation to practice and learn is incredibly difficult most days.
Even wilder bit: imagine reading any of this 6 months ago. ChatGPT just came out. It was a fun toy with some potential, but mostly seen as another example of the copilot-y "might make some jobs somewhat different in the mid-term future" tech demo.

Who would've thought that in just four months, GPT-4 will completely transform people's perception of AI progress timeline and impact.
Lotus was at a crossroads. They could continue with DOS, port to Windows, or port to OS/2. Which path should a cash-rich company with one product pick?

All three.

I have little sympathy for Lotus. They need to own their decisions. Blaming their competitor for misdirection is eye rolling.
Agreed this makes much more sense, from both a UX perspective as well as a code-cleanliness perspective.

There's also the AI evolution question. When we have GPT-10 next year, do we go through and regenerate all the comments? That would introduce a lot of noise into the repo's commit history and `git blame`, which I think is another indicator that the repo is not the right place to store this sort of thing. (And it'd have to be done again every time the AI got smarter...)

Having the AI perched on your shoulder and just analyzing the code as you look at it seems much simpler. Like a friendly, modern version of the pirate's parrot.
I'm surprised that Apple allows apps on its devices to spy on SSIDs. Kinda not very privacy.

Maybe we all should change our SSIDs to "FBI Surveillance Van#1".
They might miss OPs business, though
Well, their stock price fell to levels not seen since ~Aug 2017, and obviously COVID-19 didn't happen until, well, 2019.

So while Covid might have been part of it, it's nowhere near the full story.
> families spend money (a lot of it - upwards $50,000 per ear iirc), only to be told later that they have to go through it all again

You make it sound like the surgery is the expensive bit, but as you pointed out, the implant is very basic electronics. The medical procedure is certainly expensive, but the processors are the truly expensive physical product.
> I wonder why so many people feel the urge to justify blocking ads?

because the "ad blocking is unethical and stealing!" crowd is really annoying, as I'm sure the pro-ad blocking side is to them
That seems like a punitive effort to respond to netflix, but I bet if they do it they will be likely to resubscribe later on if they actually enjoy watching it.
>Advertising based 'free' things cost you far more than a subscription ever would.

Let's say someone watches 1 YouTube video per month. Is it worth it to buy YouTube premium at $12/month? What if that person makes minimum wage in the US? What if that person makes the global median wage: $227/month? Free advertising-supported things provide web resources that the poor wouldn't otherwise be able to afford.

Disclosure: I work at Google.
Sounds like an interesting problem to have. Would something peer-to-peer like BitTorrent work to spread the load? Utilize more of the networks' bisectional bandwidth, as opposed to just saturating a smaller number of server uplinks. I recall reading many years ago that Facebook did this (I think it was them?)
I imagine there's at minimum 120 volt lines going through those posts, and worse case 240 volt. Cut at your own risk (but I support the sentiment)
...and the manufacturing price is so low it makes me physically sad to think about.
Let's refocus back on the codpieces, folks, we have a good idea here.
So, Chokepoint Capitalism.
You should not have to remember more than 2 or 3 passwords, enough to log in to your main computers and password managers. If you have few enough passwords that you use frequently enough, they can be completely random, and there is no need to get creative with “memorable” generation schemes.
To be fair the spoilers for Total Recall are whoppers.
Some useful context here:

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/third_party/rus...

Seems there are 3-4 folks who helped build this and spent a lot of time doing initial audits; they outsource crypto algorithm audits to specialists.
it sounds unhealthy and a pain in the butt for robotics
Is it though?

The word "abuse" is pretty strong. If I'm abusing substances it's not like I'm just having a puff now and then do I?

The term "substance" is a bit generic, I grant you that. But does that make it an euphemism just because the exact substance is not specified?
Here goes me never using Windows again for anything serious. This is a ticking time bomb of privacy and security issues.
The winter was exceptionally warm, and no one could really predict that.

But putting that aside, this whole episode was making me uneasy. To this day so many people in Europe cannot engage in strategic thinking. I think they simply do not believe that bombs can ever land on their own roofs. The understanding of foreign governments and their real intentions is often at a comical level, even when applied to actors that pretty much lay out their own plans in public then execute on them, decade after decade.

Effective international policy requires tools, but before that it requires an even basic understanding of the situation and courage/resolve. That means sacrificing something small (like a gas shortage) for something valuable (no major war in Europe).
I have not read the entire article, but one factor that helped was the moderate winter.
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It's amazing to see MS leverating the AI in all the product :)
Like many here I haven't seen the Google sausage being made, but I've had many Googler coworkers and friends over the years. I've learned that they may really be in another universe (e.g. put every single line of code over all space and time in the same SCCS, oh and write a new kind of build system while you're at it because otherwise that...doesn't work). So possibly they just don't use external dependencies, and the small number they do use really are "properly" audited?

But meanwhile in the regular universe, yes it happens the way you say.
I appreciate that. It's not an open-source solution, I'm afraid. It's going to be a training platform we're selling access to. Maybe one day, though.
> When an organization is large and siloed

I'd argue that lose coupling is a core principle of good software architecture. Bing able to deploy separately only makes it more convenient to manage.

> frequently deploying breaking changes

That's never a good sign. Frequently deploying, yes. Frequently breaking, not so much.
Or maybe we just like open source...
Product placement and native advertising is rampant across all media.
seems to be
What’s the actual K-12 chance though? If you’re saying that the cumulative 0.7% chance is incorrect, can you provide a more accurate figure?
I would strongly avoid Alpine.

Most software isn't written with Musl in mind! And that shows.

You can run in all kinds of extremely hard to debug issues and especially massive performance problems. Stuff may slow down to fractions of the performance comparison to regular Linux distros.

If you want maximal small containers go with Distroless.
If only there was some kind of android head we could use for that?

https://slate.com/culture/2012/06/philip-k-dick-robot-an-and...
Glad to hear it! Feel free to reach out if you have any questions. We went the kubernetes route ourselves before coming to the conclusion that it was not the right fit for the problem.
Mazda Soul Red is what's called a "Candy Color“. It's achieved with a translucent red layer applied over a base color layer.
It's rare for an OEM to offer a color like this because the thickness the coating is applied changes the color and It's much more difficult to achieve a consistent color.
You just want to get a free ride, and they want to feed their kids.
I hope not, adding that kind of bloat tends to be what kills these things.
There's a passage in Martian Timeslip[1] where protagonist Jack Bohlen is brought in to repair an artificial teacher called "Kindly Dad":

> "Hi, Kindly Dad," he said without enthusiasm. Setting down his tool case he began unscrewing the back plate of the Teacher.

> Kindly Dad said in a warm, sympathetic voice, "What's your name, young fellow?"

> "My name," Jack said, as he unfastened the plate and laid it down beside him, "is Jack Bohlen, and I'm a kindly dad, too, just like you, Kindly Dad. My boy is ten years old, Kindly Dad. So don't call me young fellow, O.K.?" Again he was trembling hard, and sweating.

> "Ohh," Kindly Dad said. "I see!"

> "What do you see?" Jack said, and discovered that he was almost shouting. "Look," he said. "Go through your goddamn cycle, O.K.? If it makes it easier for you, go ahead and pretend I'm a little boy." I just want to get this done and get out of here, he said to himself, with as little trouble as possible. He could feel the swelling, complicated emotions inside him. Three hours! he thought dismally.

> Kindly Dad said, "Little Jackie, it seems to me you've got a mighty heavy weight on your chest today. Am I right?"

> "Today and every day." Jack clicked on his trouble-light and shone it up into the works of the Teacher. The mechanism seemed to be moving along its cycle properly so far.

Conceiving this as an LLM with a "kindly dad" prompt doesn't seem too far a stretch. PKD nicely catches the interpersonal "uncanny valley" into which his protagonist has wandered.

1: https://the-eye.eu/public/Books/ManyThings/PDF/Martian%20Tim...
It is kind of funny to me because the spirit of punk is all about flaunting authority to piss off people who are used to having complete control.
It's wild how often I click the comments on a reddit post and there's a link to buy something within the first full screen display of comments. Most recently it was some random dish towel in the background of a staged couples-prank video.
Do you have a link to a processor with the price? It doesn't sound that complicated to make tbh. It might just all be FDA approvals.
This looks like it could be great. I use GPT-4 all the time, so a system-wide integration and especially assistant capabilities sound nice to me. And yet I cannot make myself excited for this.

I can't get past the feeling that Windows Copilot will be used in slimy anti-privacy ways. I am somehow very sceptical that it will only use the screen's context as context for the user's queries. Probably because many new Windows 11 features have been anti-consumer, and Microsoft have been consistent at building this kind of reputation for years. It has numbed all of my excitement for anything Microsoft does.
I think these posts equating decoupling and war are from CPP troll farms.
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What percentage of humans have that mathematical tooling?

The fact that people are even raising these sorts of obscure tests shows just how far AI has advanced.
I wasn't aware FullStory used Rust! That's good to know. I was worried I might have a hard time hiring folks in Atlanta with Rust experience.

The more Rust proliferates, the better. It's good at client, server, systems, and so many other things.
Thanks for mentioning this. A quick search turned up this book, is it the right one? https://archive.org/details/modernsurvivalma0000agui. Fernando Aguirre, 2009. The Modern Survival Manual: Surviving the Economic Collapse.

It would be really interesting to compare/contrast his account from others from Ukraine, Syria, the Balkans. What I hear in your comment is that the advice you heard was about having weapons for a strong defensive posture rather than to be used offensively. I guess the strength of both communities and gangs is in their size, they'll win out over the lone wolf fantasy.
The surgery is the expensive bit. It's a 10-to-1* kind of expense compared to the hearing device you attach to the head.

* Rough guess based on the price of regular, high-end "in-the-ear-canal" hearing aids.
Good point. On his passing away right before Blade Runner was release, not even a mention that reportedly Ridley Scott screened parts of the movie, and he evidently was lost for words, saying “I’m in awe that you were able to reproduce what was in my mind”.
Transitioning from CD player to Apple iPod was pretty great. All my iPods (earlier models, when the color options were white, then black and white) remain fully functional.

There was also a moment in time when Google Translate "broke the mold" for me. It was mid-2010s. I was traveling through Eastern Europe. Using Google Translate I could have real-time conversations with persons speaking another language, in a less common dialect of that language. Translate captured both the semantics and pragmatics of each conversational exchange. Couldn't believe it. I could also use my phone's camera to translate text on signs and menus in real-time. Granted, it ate my battery. It also closed the gap in human-human communication instantly.
On VMware you can hide CPU features - ie backrev the CPU and I'm sure HV can do the same, and no doubt KVM/QEMMU too.

I used to run a lot of NW back in the day. I remember deploying a NW 5 cluster of three Compaq boxes with six NICs each (for each VLAN) to do just DHCP/Dynamic DNS! I also ran up four HP boxes a year later with single ATM cards in them with a lot of VLANs to replace a load of 4.11 jobbies. The autoexec.ncf was a masterpiece! The cluster hosts had 6GB RAM each and despite being 32bit had quite a lot of cache which nss absolutely loved. I can't remember when NW 32 bit managed to devote >4Gb to cache but it was handy. As a file server it was absolutely unmatched. Apply an ACL and it simply worked - none of that marking subfolders and files thing that MS and Unix need. NDS/eDir was streets ahead of that weird LDAP n Kerberos thingie that MS "invented" and frankly still is.

I would suggest that you virty them as a matter of urgency. Presumably you have limited and dwindling hardware resources available and at some point something will go pop that can't be fixed. Once you have them as VMs then you can snapshot and all the other lovely things that virty brings to the game and you will never run out of hardware!
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You also are going to quickly run into scaling issues. A main sell is that you have a team of “experts” draft the standard terms. But this means a new “expert” team for every new contract-type AND industry. The same type of contract (e.g., an MSA) can look very different in tech (where most of your expert attorneys work) than in pharma, ag, or oil & gas, for example.

Trust is also a big issue. “Standard” is never really standard. Contract language is always going to be biased towards one side of a deal. Take NVCA forms. They claim to be “model” but the language generally is drafted to favor VCs over founders. How can one trust that your “expert” group is creating truly neutral forms?

This also has malpractice / UPL written all over it. You are representing that your standard contracts are fair and balanced, but then are simultaneously attempting to disclaim liability by stating that you don't provide legal advice about the suitability of your standard contracts. Who bears responsibility if a 100M+ deal goes bust because of your standard contract?
Kind of related, but I'm also getting wary of relying on small third parties building important binaries in my life (like a browser or mobile OS) I'm thinking that it's better to use what's mainstream and look for privacy with other means.
Man, I don’t know what to say. 32 student deaths from on-campus shootings in a single year still seems outrageously high to me.
This is the way it was handled when I worked in a place that had 3 8 hour shifts. You actually were there 8.5 hours with a 30 minute lunch, so this additional .25 hours just seemed odd that it was necessary.
Oh yes. This is going to be glorious to watch. Before, prompt injections were mostly a joke. With this, they will truly become a proper, new type of attack vector.
The highly LLM-like artificial teachers in Martian Timeslip (see my other comment here) contribute to the protagonist's psychotic episode in that book, iirc.
It’s also comically broad, as if they’re talking about the concept of sharing in general.

“An update on sharing: it’s bad now”
not to mention 6 years of a trade war
One of the best things I learned from an older software engineer ever, way back, was when we were discussing about whether it was worth investing effort into building some new tool or not.

"Is this actionable?" he said. Meaning, we shouldnt bother investing the effort to decisively learn some thing X if once knowing its value its... not really actionable.

That it doesnt empower us to do something differently than we would have done otherwise, in the absence of knowing X.

It was my first thought when I saw a story on HN about scientists figuring out (and only approximately, mind you) when the first kiss happened.

Who cares? What would we do differently today if we were confident the 1st kiss was exactly 8000 years ago or 5000 years ago or 120,523.74 years ago?

Nothing. Nothing would be different. So perhaps we should spend our time and focus on higher priorities (like say democracy dangers, climate, curing cancer etc.)
> They're easily discernible, if you just look.

100%, although dall-e is getting better with hands specifically.

Anyway, Microsoft can keep throwing compute on it until a point where it becomes impossible to distinguish fakes by sight and a mechanism like suggested will make sense.

But with homegrown ones I don't see it happening soon. Only those who spend a lot of money on top of the line GPUs and keep desktop PCs may get to that point. Those GPUs will jump in price like they did at crypto mining peak or become impossible to buy if Microsoft gets the government to require "AI license" for them.

> Who is going to pay $20/mo other than professionals

Apple Music costs $10 and people easily spend ten times that on Patreon...
Median house price is still $590k there, which is $4200 a month plus taxes and PMI. $150k is $8800 a month take home pay after taxes (including CO state). Making $150k and still spending more than half your post-tax income (after taxes/PMI/repairs/HOA) on housing is wild.
Acetone is not considered to be a VOC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VOC_exempt_solvent
Very cute! I started out with basically this, and my kids kept asking me for more and more features :-). Recently they asked to make animations, and that took a chunk of time to get right. I'm looking forward to whatever they ask for as they grow more advanced!
Have the authorities change the requirements for EOL. Hearing Health companies just follow the instructions, pretty much...