skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me the final proof was that a very very similar route was programmed into the pilot's simulation software at home days before the fatal flight. With that knowledge in hand I consider the cause of the accident pretty clear.
I never saw much at all in terms of real, taste-level, user-based personalization beyond "keep hammering them with this one thing they clicked once" retargeting.

Everything is is by aggregate. So they can put you in a bucket with a bunch of other people with a similar footprint, and if 75% of people in that bucket convert when being shown that one you hate, you get to see it too.

Low-level optimization beyond that was rare at the places I worked.

"Sneaky but obvious" was way more common. And the browsers and platform vendors kept making it harder to do certain things, so it was a constant rat race to maintain the same level of browser tracking.
mr egg dont leave us hanging, which are your recommendationss
The Seventh Day Adventists are strict vegans. I assume that has more to do with it than anything.
Among other things, open source is a manifestation of generosity and collaboration. The systems we build supporting it also scale the forces of generosity, collaboration. I find this part hopeful.
The federated alternatives have collapsed under the strain. It's all about the infrastructure.
This is unsurprising, as ARM lacks the verification ecosystem RISC-V has.

In one or two generations, Samsung will have moved to RISC-V, alongside the rest of the industry
> OpenAI hasn't scammed anyone.

Its CEO did, with Worldcoin. Which is pivoting to be essentially the same with an AI spin.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/06/1048981/worldcoi...

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/richardnieva/worldcoin-...
It's the opposite, the folks willing to become moles for the US are usually the most corrupt and least scrupulous of their cohort. Or at least that's the common sentiment in the bureaucracy of every Asian country I've heard of.

For example, rumours in the grapevine suggest that by 2013 all the efforts of the various agencies combined managed to plant a grand total of 1 mole into the State Council of China.

That's after 40 years of trying since the CIA office in Beijing was established, and likely hundreds of billions spent trying to secure promotions, favours, pay bribes, etc. Allegedly, the CIA had kept index cards on every prospective career official in China, and the filing cabinets took up a football pitch of floorspace.

This amounted to nothing pretty soon after, which would explain the geopolitical movements since.
Isn't MIDI something the userland can and should handle?
> Jobs was already ballistic about Android vs. iPhone.

This was 2005, well before that, which is part of what makes it interesting.

I think this was about the time that Apple picked up the KDE Konqueror browser Webkit platform and reworked it. I seem to recall there being some objections to Apple fulfilling its open-source obligations by tossing a massive patch "over the wall" ...

P.S. quick search result, 2003: https://dot.kde.org/2003/01/08/apple-announces-new-safari-br...
This even happens with expensive shoe brands. Loakes and Church’s are two such brands of shoes and Danner boots used to be decent too.

Small shoe makers get a good reputation for quality then can’t keep up with demand and sell or partner with huge fashion companies which cut costs and offshore manufacturing while keeping the price high.

Enshitification for shoes I guess.
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Please give the benefit of the doubt on HN.

This company created ZincSearch:

https://github.com/zincsearch/zincsearch

Prabhat is one of the core contributors/maintainers:

https://github.com/zincsearch/zincsearch/graphs/contributors

https://github.com/prabhatsharma

Also the negative insinuation of using “cheap” labor out of India to build the product is unnecessary. If you’re concerned about code quality, look at the code.

Assuming everyone working with devs in India is doing so cynically is not charitable.

I dont know why the headquarters was set as india versus SF but does it actually even matter?
There is a huge difference though between “lab leak” meaning “a wild virus collected and stored at the Wuhan lab escaped”, vs. “biomedical engineers manufactured a super weapon which escaped.” I think the evidence, or at least the plausibility, of the former is excellent. For the latter, it’s poor.
There are significant costs to this but maybe some real benefits too. This post certainly doesn't sell the potential benefits well enough.

The big functional gain would be better connection handling. The current process-per-connection model has overhead and it's pretty common to see large database instances with double-digit max connection limits. Because connections are expensive and in (artificially) limited supply, application developers work around the limitations with connection pooling and/or proxy services.

Theoretically, a multi-threaded postgres could easily deal with thousands of concurrent connections - not just a performance improvement but a game changer in terms of application developer UX. When connections are cheap, the application just connects when it needs to communicate, no pgbouncer or connection pools needed.

I have no idea if the multi-threading proposal here is viable, but if it can make connections easier to manage it might be worth it.
$20 takeout or counter pickup lunch is unfortunately a thing in multiple US cities.

On the up side, airport pricing doesn't seem so shocking anymore.
There's nothing particularly "intelligent" in any of the stuff I described - "see common device/profile/IP/whatever, make link."

Tracking is easy, intelligent personalization is hard. But tracking alone takes a lot of constant investment with tech development and arms race and all.
Fwiw I agree with Tom lane, there’s a bunch of extension code out there, that would need to be upgraded and verification around multithreaded safety. It’s a python 2 to 3 transition except assuming correct multi threading in c (most popular lang on extension atm) aka potential disasters for end users.

What was missing from the new thread (it’s ref’d in footnotes) is why.. atm the hypothesis is (quoting from linked experiment on multi threading a while back)

Direct link which has more discussion,

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/9defcb14-a918-13f...

‘’’

What are the advantages of using threads instead of processes?

1. No need to use shared memory. So there is no static limit for amount
of memory which can be used by Postgres. No need in distributed shared
memory and other stuff designed to share memory between backends and
bgworkers.
2. Threads significantly simplify implementation of parallel algorithms:
interaction and transferring data between threads can be done easily and
more efficiently.
3. It is possible to use more efficient/lightweight synchronization
primitives. Postgres now mostly relies on its own low level
sync.primitives which user-level implementation
is using spinlocks and atomics and then fallback to OS semaphores/poll.
I am not sure how much gain can we get by replacing this primitives with
one optimized for threads.
My colleague from Firebird community told me that just replacing
processes with threads can obtain 20% increase of performance, but it is
just first step and replacing sync. primitive
can give much greater advantage. But may be for Postgres with its low
level primitives it is not true.
4. Threads are more lightweight entities than processes. Context switch
between threads takes less time than between process. And them consume
less memory. It is usually possible to spawn more threads than processes.
5. More efficient access to virtual memory. As far as all threads are
sharing the same memory space, TLB is used much efficiently in this case.
6. Faster backend startup. Certainly starting backend at each user's
request is bad thing in any case. Some kind of connection pooling should
be used in any case to provide acceptable performance. But in any case,
start of new backend process in postgres causes a lot of page faults
which have dramatical impact on performance. And there is no such
problem with threads.
‘’’
774, 993? Would that be recent enough for some myth, lore or even written record to exist of these events?

And on the subject of solar weather on the scale of the carrington event. What would actually happen? Most things I have seen leave it at "There was arcing in the telegraph lines... Imagine what would happen today" What would happen today? We have many magnitudes more electrical equipment. but it is better isolated and grounded. but it is more delicate. What are the mechanisms involved? is it like an EMP from a nuclear bomb? Are there any good papers that cover this with any sort of engineering integrity?
> Even if AI is wrong 90% of the time, 10% of the time it makes someone's job easier.

Being 90% wrong causes a lot of extra work, severely reducing the gains of that 10%.
In cases where the integral you describe is well-defined and physically meaningful, yes, you are correct, it is a center of mass (or center of momentum) integral not a geometric center. But it's not the center of mass of the "volume" over which the integral is done, it's the center of mass of the stress-energy over which the integral is done. In order to obtain the function m(x), you need to look at the stress-energy tensor.

Also, the integral you describe will not, in general, be invariant; it will depend on your choice of coordinates, because you are integrating over a spacelike surface of constant coordinate time, and which surfaces those are depends on your choice of coordinates.

Your intuition about the "usual" invariant mass is based on the special cases where the integral you describe can be equated to one of the known invariants, the ADM mass, the Bondi mass, or the Komar mass. (Strictly speaking, even the Komar case is problematic, because the integral in question in a general stationary spacetime does not necessarily converge. In cases where it does converge, AFAIK the spacetime must be asymptotically flat and the Komar mass is equal to the ADM mass.) But an expanding universe is not one of those cases.
It's hard to find the history, but facebook is on the preload list by the great grandfathered method: they asked the chrome team to be added prior to the existance of the hsts preload submission site. It's been forever since I looked at the config file, but last time I looked, FB had hand configured CA pinning as well.

Disclosure: I worked at WhatsApp until 2019, and was the person who submitted whatsapp domains to the preload site after I setup hsts headers on them. I think WhatsApp domains should be in the FB CA pinning config now, but I'm not 100% sure, and don't really want to try to find the preload config file to check.
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Propaganda is gaslighting users that the apps make API requests.

No, users do, using their web client of choice for the site.

Reddit is fighting its own users, and fighting what it used to mean to be a web site.
Old school cool...
Or, it is a viable strategy because enough people are doing it. We’ve seen this with ESG funds for instance. More investors want to invest in ESG funds, because bigger firms decided to. That makes ESG funds go up, and those investors then look like geniuses. Similarly, when a huge portion of the population market buys the S&P 500 every single week, how can it not go up?
The fundamental reality of everyday people hasn't changed whatsoever. It's getting worse as people get financially drained by higher rents and higher food prices.

None of these recent surges feel sustainable but who knows.
It was the criticisms section specifically that I found unconvincing.
Oh no, this worm is targeting literally our entire population! I guess we have carte blanche now...
I think it happens in many other fields as others have mentioned.

Perhaps what is peculiar in this story is how obsolete a C64 is by today's standards. There aren't many fields which changed so much in the course of a few decades.
I didn't even call you out, yet here you are acting like you've been personally attacked. You weren't. Whatever your fascination with Kaczynski, his manifesto is only of significance because of his terrorism. We're better off that he was found, arrested, and convicted.
I witnessed El Paquete first hand in Cuba. To be honest, it's an easier and cheaper way to get quality content than the mess of walled gardens and DRM we have in the US.
Rivest’s thing is used in a bunch of RSA crypto standards. You are probably using it right now as part of your SSL stack.
This was an excellent article and should be required reading for managers
Reminds me of a few months ago when Nvidia announced their new CuLitho fabrication process, which is Spanish means “cute little ass”.

I hope Nvidia adds backside power delivery to their new CuLitho chips, just so we can get as many jokes as possible out of this fab cycle.
I explicitly stated we'd create government policies which would result in cratering their population just like we did in rural areas. Are you imagining rural areas in the US were "mass exterminated?"
McDonalds starts at $15 an hour, it's no longer minimum wage.
> The way I interpret a decision like that is the court saying "yes the government does have the power to do this and it always has, it is specified in the constitution and if you thought otherwise you've been reading it wrong."

That is indeed the theory but it’s completely fictional.
It seems like you can just add "reddit.com" to "My Filters", and it still works.
How can k3s be simpler to operate than Kubernetes when k3s is a Kubernetes distribution?
Are you imagining rural towns were the victims of mass murder?

People talk about the goal of destroying rural and suburban life through policy all the time. If you found it jarring for someone to openly advocate for the destruction of your way of living, maybe take that into consideration.
I set HASS up a year ago or so and it’s been great. Don’t need to fiddle with anything aside from having to migrate when my zigbee stick died.
I fed ChatGPT my resume and it writes my personal technical blog
> How disillusioned are the execs who come up with these ideas?

They love hearing themselves talk, they probably assume that everyone thinks the same way.
Thanks so much for this list! I'm always on the prowl for things to read that changed how people see the world, but explicit attempts to solicit examples have proved surprisingly unsuccessful. And here you just volunteered it :)
You are right that one problem is possibly humans don't drive with their heads fixed in place, they move their neck and constantly adjust viewing angles.

w.r.t. the super computer point, AI systems have been able to out perform humans for specialized tasks for a while.
Adversarial interoperability like this would be a great way to neutralise network lock-in effects and create a more level competetive playing field between social media companies. I think we should enshrine protections for this kind of thing.

There was a strong 2019 precedent in favour of allowing this kind of scraping of public content (from LinkedIn in that case): https://www.techdirt.com/2019/09/10/big-news-appeals-court-s...
> MIDI 2.0 is a major overhaul to the original MIDI protocol that is widely-used by musical devices.

Reshuffling that sentence for clarity:

The original MIDI protocol is widely-used by musical devices. MIDI 2.0 is a major overhaul to the original protocol.
Ads are getting in the way on mobile. Don’t know how sites like this are going to exist. For me personally the content does not out weigh the ads
> The spread of SARS-CoV-2 looks exactly like it originated in the Seafood market.

Huh? No it doesn’t. The discussion of a possible SARS outbreak started weeks before the seafood market incident. The lab leak theory started in China BEFORE the seafood market was pinned as the cause.
Unfortunately reddit isn't a tech commune. If its intent is to be publicly traded, then it needs to find a way to turn a profit sooner or later.
I would add “Meditations on Moloch” from Slate Star Codex.
Wouldn't it be easier for the app to pursue its own monetization and charge for API use?

A headless program that does moderation actions (changing flares, approving or deleting posts, updating wiki) uses the same API that a mobile app would use - and ads would only get in the way of those tools.

If the app is poorly behaved or you have a very heavy hitting backend service, then you pay more. If you (the app owner) wants to put advertisements in the user's view - that's up to you. If you want to do offer the app advertisement free out of the generosity of your heart, that's up to you.

The API calls cost the same no matter how they're made - the API doesn't care where it's called from. Be it polling backend service, moderation tool, or mobile app - it's all billed the same with the exception of it being free for certain exceptional cases.

That's much easier to work with for all parties involved.
> Encrypted information, on the other hand, can theoretically be “owned” if it’s implemented correctly. No police, no court or law, no government, nothing can take your encrypted digital property from you.

Exactly! You can always access it from your jail cell.

Oh wait
but this is useless, isn't it?

if blocking information is only available to a given third-party on an opt-on basis from the blocker, then what purpose does this information serve?
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_value_available.html#xy_sca...

It looks like Intel still has a solid lead in single core perf, which is frankly the biggest factor for me for a general purpose desktop CPU. Of course, other uses have other priorities. The charts are missing one important measure, power efficiency.
Regular fruit at a regular cheap grocery store in Tokyo is still 2-3x as expensive as the USA, even in relatively expensive US cities

You can get sushi that's actually good for 80% cheaper than the "California rolls with crap on them" you'll find in most of the USA, though, so it all evens out IMO
Idk, when treasury rates spiked I think it was rational to pull money out of stocks and buy them.
Sverdlovsk was instantly and correctly interpreted in western intelligence communities as evidence for a weaponized anthrax program. It wasn't admitted to be so until the 90's. It's true this wasn't a "leak", but only because there was no one to leak to (the civilian world was mostly unaware it had even happened). I'm not sure I understand why you think this is evidence for the ability of the USSR to keep it secret or otherwise control perceptions?
That's a big IF for HN tbh lmao
If you're on this sub reddit you're in bubble. Talk to the 40+ non tech crowd in middle of America. The number of them that have tried and used ChatGPT is going to be shockingly low. Even take the 40+ non tech office worker, my gut says a huge percent has not used chat gpt.
Timing is pretty crucial for MIDI and sound, does that mean being in the kernel space is helpful?
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If Reddit actually wanted to make money on users of third party clients they would have handled this completely differently.

I suspect at first they didn't really care about the 3P clients in coming up with pricing, they were looking at the bulk of API usage which is elsewhere (not sure where, but based on numbers provided by Reddit Apollo would be at most 1.4% of API usage and likely much less; other clients likely significantly lower given how Apollo was singled out) and looking at preparing to get paid for user content by VC-backed AI startups.

Once the pricing was announced and the 3P app developers started complaining, there was probably a Cartman moment in the executive offices and things just went downstairs from there.

Because of their hamfisted handling of this they're going to lose a significant number of long-term users, a fair amount of content as a noticeable chunk of those users delete their content on the way out the door, an absurd amount of community and unpaid volunteer moderator goodwill, etc.

Reddit is likely to keep most of the users for now, but the reaction is also driving a lot of people to suddenly explore alternatives that would have been completely ignored before - and at some point it's quite possible that those popular clients that don't even have Reddit in the name will shift to providing mature and familiar interfaces to those alternatives and that may be enough to push growth. Remember that no social platform started out big.

If Reddit actually wanted to make money from the third party app users it would have been almost trivial to do - require a paid account for API usage, introduce new paid account tiers ($18-24/year, $3-4/mo, the current Premium, a couple of more expensive 'family'/multiuser tiers). Have them variable in how much monthly API usage was allowed and other perks (e.g. multiple IDs with either split or pooled API usage). Run it through the payment system Reddit already uses which means they get almost all the money instead of 30% off the top for app store fees plus a chunk going to the app developers so they're safe from getting screwed by mis-estimating usage. Edit: heck, just converting a chunk of users to paid accounts would likely have been huge for them because it gives potential for converting even more in the future, plus the chances of upsells.

But no, 'You have 30 days to change your business model, prepare to handle $millions/year in cash flow, and rewrite chunks of your software to be subscription-based.' Hell, the only 2 that I know of that even used subscriptions are Apollo and Sync, they might have had a chance. Instead, Reddit went for plausible deniability, 'we didn't kill the apps, they had a path to work with us but they all just gave up!'

Feh.
I’ve also had a handful of good non-technical managers over the decades, and they succeeded by having trust in the right technical people (for whatever reason, sometimes it may have been luck). What I’ve seen more often is non-technical managers place trust in the wrong people, get taken for a ride, and generally fail to pinpoint problems correctly.

You’re right that people skills are more important but they are often necessary but insufficient depending on the specific team and business situation.
https://archive.is/exAE4
I have a teenager trying to get a job and is running into this.

The local grocery store used to have a certain time each week to show up and interview. Now they have a web site. My kid filled out the web site multiple times and they’ve never called or emailed to follow up. Kid followed up in person and they just pointed to the web site.

It’s frustrating because the stores are understaffed and always ask for applicants during checkout.

Same for local fast food places.

Their hiring process is so stupid.
‘A portion of paradise’: how drought is bringing a lost US canyon back to life
Look forward to that.
Ten years ago: https://youtu.be/xVrJ8DxECbg
My litmus test in this case would be are other political youtuber of similar or smaller size being deleted? If you go through the page and the previous attempts at deletion you'll see that this was not the case. I also noticed this as well during the event as it was occurring. Thats where I think something more suspicious is occuring.
I have no certainty, that's the point! The evidence for natural evolution is pretty reasonable (it matches every other pandemic ever -- these are hardly unknown!), the evidence for lab genesis is at best circumstantial and frankly pretty heavily spun by everyone dealing in it.

You want the fact that I can't prove you wrong to be evidence that you're right, and that's not how logic works.