skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be clear, this doesn't change what programs get accepted by the borrow checker, so for most rust users it changes absolutely nothing.

It changes the abstract rules behind rust's safety model, which impacts which unsafe functions are considered sound, and which optimizations the compiler is allowed to perform.
I read the book and found it literally forgettable -- as in, I remember almost nothing about it except that (a) the characters kept taking Xanax or something for stupid reasons, and (b) the cover had sort of a cool grid of letters. But the actual content? There was nothing there. I'll assume that was the point. These peoples' lives were empty and pointless, and you get to experience that in book form.
No, FDR has 99% of useful data (signals from sensors and input controls). It's much more important than voice. Video would probably just show what toggles they touch, and FDR already has that. Voice is used just for figuring out pilots' thought process and commands received.
If they hadn't blatantly tried to slander him personally and had given a reasonable price or timeline for the price changes, people wouldn't be nearly as upset.

All of this has left a sour taste in their mouths. They also see the writing on the wall; they'll shut down old.reddit.com, push more ads via the official app, and continue to milk as much money as possible.

The claim that it's not profitable seems kind of crazy to me. They have a huge amount of data on their users to target ads. It's mostly text content so the bandwidth shouldn't be horrible. Maybe I'm naive, but how can Facebook make so much money and yet they can't make a profit? It smells like poor management to me.
I am sure there are examples where JPEG XL outperforms AVIF. But looking through all those images in the test sample I get the impression that AVIF on average in the lowest quality setting is significantly better than JPEG XL.

I agree that the example you presented indeed has the mentioned shadow issue in AVIF.
Apple has publicly referred to the compiler that they ship with Xcode as the "Apple LLVM Compiler", even though the command line tool was still "clang". E.g., `clang --version` might have reported "Apple LLVM version 7.0.0 (clang-700.1.76)" instead of what it says now, "Apple clang version 14.0.3" on my system.

MacPorts suggests that the --version string changed in Xcode 11 with macOS 10.14 Mojave, but I don't know if the Clang name was reflected in the Xcode GUI at that point. https://trac.macports.org/wiki/XcodeVersionInfo
Hopefully this idea that thoughtful road design can effect positive outcomes catches on and proliferates throughout the road system.
If you need to allocate and free objects from multiple threads, you could put a mutex around the necessary reads and writes. But why would you when you can just have a pool per-thread and then merge them at a global sync boundary? You can have contentionless allocation this way, which is not something you get with system malloc.

It's out of scope for the article, but you can add watertight generational checks to all handle-to-record accesses by encoding the allocation generation in the upper bits of a handle, then checking them against the record's current generation on handle-to-record resolution.

In practice this throws a breakpoint with diagnostic logging at what would be the equivalent of a method call, which in nicer than a stale context (this) pointer that may or may not be immediately be at the point of violation. It makes bugs more shallow and is an improvement. You can also add things to handles in debug mode, such as the frame number, line and file that it was allocated that you cannot as easily with a pointer.

In practice you end up with more than 16 bytes of overhead management, but you get it back because arrays of handles can be 32-bit instead of 64-bit pointers. But if that sort of thing bothers you, you may want to look into allocation housekeeping. How do you think free knows how much memory to free up? Isn't that tracked per-malloc? In either case, this is happening in your address space.
Venture-capital firm cites clearer regulatory path for U.K. crypto startups due to ‘more political will’ there

https://www.wsj.com/articles/andreessen-to-open-london-offic...
We license doctors you visit to practice medicine, not to do research. Unless they're working at a dedicated research hospital like the Mayo clinic, doctors don't do research on their own.

They'll stay up to date with what is standards of care, but even that is dictated to them by their EHR software or what they expect your insurance will cover.

When I've gotten prescribed a new medicine, I don't really recall a doctor ever even telling me what side effects to watch out for. At most, they've told me not to drink alcohol while on someone.
> AI generates text - it does nothing other than that. It's admittedly great at manipulating text, but that's where it's "general purpose transforming" stops.

I will refer you to the Vision Transformer: https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11929

I suggest you do a literature review on the applications of ANNs, CNNs and attention mechanisms. They are quite numerous but I will concede that they generally 'just' do compression.

AI encodes human concepts like emotions and spatial reasoning into vectors. Which, their analogous-ness to the real world, is more of a philosophical question than a practical one at this point.

> It has impressive results, but comparing the value of human labor to the work AI can do is startlingly parallel to comparing the value of a database to the work a blockchain can do.

I mean 'human labor' is a very general thing, compared to 'database' IMO.

> The first most common use case of AI is for military purposes.

This is true but the AI that the military uses is probably a far cry from what the public is able to access - and not from a technological advancement but a specificity standpoint. The military will want deterministic, non-opaque methods that are probably closer to the policy-gradient recommendation systems of old. Think Netflix and TikTok, not GPT.

I can say from an investor standpoint AI is probably a bubble but only because its entire foundations are open source. There's no money to be made from it, therefore it's a bubble.

Crypto on the other hand always had somewhat dubious foundations. There are few use cases for it, therefore it's a bubble.
If the legacy of Taylorism wasn't a persistent issue, the epidemic of Dilbert comics in cubicles wouldn't have happened.

Much of Dilbert is about the irrelevance of Taylorism to engineering and product work, and the absurdity and ennui workers endure when their managers are somehow "responsible for product success", but neither know nor are expected to know how the work is supposed to be done.
Power Via is more of a fab technology and AMD is fabless. Therefore not really possible to compare directly in this aspect. AMD relies on TSMC or Samsung to make their chips.
So.... I'm guessing if the AI messes up spectacularly, or if some reddit group manages to trick it to overinflate some penny stock, the stock markets will undo all the trades, so that billionaires don't lose a few million?
That Louis Rossman quote is really great actually. I feels to me like a lot of people see very popular platform services "suddenly and unexpectedly" turning around and start changing things in ways that are very unpopular, but I don't see it very common for people (on reddit at least) to point out the common characteristic between them, that they're almost always startups with investors to answer to, is the reason that they end up making unpopular changes. It really does feel a little bit like an abusive relationship that it keeps happening and yet people keep using these investor-backed startup platforms that initially offer deals that are too good to be true.
Are they engaged in generally questionable behavior? Otherwise I can’t imagine why they’d have such a short retention policy.
They really are not making amazing GPUs. The ones on the market are only decent value because Intel is selling them far below what it cost to make them, because there's no way they could sell them at proper prices. Even still, they have ceased production, and the product is still on the shelves.
Remembering what the Iraq War was like, 20 years later
> and why would I trust angry activists over Reddit's own internal analysis?

This is literally authortiarianism and the problem is that you can use it to justify any change by any company ever.

They're the owners so they know better because they're the owners.

No move can be criticized.

It turns out that you end, like many that defend this and is irrationally against others protesting, with a comment about how it doesn't affect "you".

Ok. So you don't get it. Good for you. Keep on doing whatever it is you're doing. Some people will absolutely quit using it with different UXs or decrease over time until they move elsewhere.

It's a risk and a decision and we will see what happens down the line.

But it'll be fun if other sites get much of the traffic and they likes of you come out with "it was obvious this would happen".
For thousands of years the natural opioids morphine & codeine have been almost universally recognized as harmful dependency-inducing substances in their own category, that build a tolerance which can almost never be limited beyond a certain number of years, before the toxicity overcomes any therapeutic benefit there might have been upon initial administration.

After all this time a religious person of many different faiths over the recent centuries might have often said that for long-term use they were put on earth by god for people who can not be expected to recover.

Synthetic opioids are just the modern version which were developed because the natural product itself can not be patented.

Hence "patent medicine".

The habit-forming effect is what made the Sacklers the richest pharmaceutical barons so far.
Do we have a massive, free, encyclopedia? Yes? Then it isn’t a scam.
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The scientists who DO usually start from goals, don't want to grope around "just for the science" and spend ten years on how "tail spike protein x interacts with blah blah blah"... the ones who aren't blind are usually cast away and made fun of not being "pure scientists" and cast away as "translational". It's an entire caste system lots of people have created for themselves.

So these "translational" people either go back obediently to doing the pure stuff, or they just leave and go to biotech / pharma.

The field is better off viewing those two as two sides of the same coin, but to keep people in the walls they've built a "if you do translational science, you're an outcast and should never come back!"
Profit is a balance between income and expenses. He's hired a ton of people in hopes that they could radically increase their revenues. So it's a little rich for him to complain that Reddit isn't profitable when he's the one who made the choices making that way. In contrast, they could have taken the path of Wikipedia or Craigslist or Whatsapp, keeping the costs very low as a way of achieving profitability.
Nobara Is the Fastest Growing Linux Distro for Gaming
you’re somewhat correct, a certain type of moderation was absolutely solved way back then—the owner/ops/mods would simply set down a list of rules and if someone broke them or pushed the limits, they were banned. done.

very similar to the real world, if someone comes to my dinner party and they’re a dick, i make them leave. done.

however, somewhere along the line people got it in their head that they could behave however they wanted and the person hosting the party somehow had no rights to remove them.

it boggles my mind that some people are still struggling to understand that this really is no different from the real world analogs. this is a people problem, not a technical problem.

in the real world there are neighborhoods, bars, events, etc… with little to no interference or expectations of behaviors, think of the hole-in-the-wall rough bars in the rough areas of town where violence breaks out regularly.

then think about the bar with massive security/bouncers who take no shit and remove people quickly.

but we still have these people who believe you can have both at once. it’s just never going to work.

you’re either going to have a bar where everything goes: spam and child porn and violent behaviors are accepted or you’re going to need some kind of bouncers removing people who are doing fentanyl at the bar.

of course there is a spectrum in there, but at the end of the day, this is a human problem, not a technical one. anytime someone tells you there can be no moderation, then it will absolutely be full of spam and child porn and all kinds of other shit. if we remove those, then we’re now absolutely and firmly in the “ok, yep, we accept moderation” territory at which point it’s just a matter of “what kind of clientele does our bar want?” and we tailor our expected behaviors accordingly.

as you pointed out, in the early days it was just understood, “ok, we want to hang out in this bar, so we’ll behave accordingly. it is their space afterall.” this is why we had such a massive diversity of places to go. so many different irc networks each with different expectations. so many different forums. so many different comment sections. so many different newsgroups. etc…

the root of this is not a technical problem. its really not a problem at all unless we’re somehow expected to pick only one bar we go party at (which is absurd, btw) sometimes i like to eat at nice restaurant and once in a while i like to slum it at a shithole bar. and most of the time i prefer parties amongst just me and my friends.

again, this is basic human relation shit. but these guys keep going on these wild goose chases—repeatedly showing how little they understand people. ironic af considering what they’re doing…
For a sample crypto use case, low fees remittances.

Crypto's killer feature is being an open standard for finance that anyone can integrate with. Having a use case in drug and weapons transactions is still utility though, you're disagreeing with yourself

Ai doesn't do anything you couldn't hire a person to do, and you still need a expert person to vet it's outputs, so I think it also provides no utility?
If Reddit gave any paid account an API key that could be used for x-thousand calls per day, where that account API key could be added to a third party app, there'd be literally no problem at all. This is a nonsense problem, since they have a way of making revenue with very inexpensive monthly accounts that doesn't in any way break their existing model other than cutting keys off after x-thousand calls per month.
There has been stuff leaking out. The DEFUSE paper for example. As to why someone in the Wuhan lab wouldn't leak direct info, you are dealing with a military related lab in the country with the highest number of executions in the world. That could be a disincentive.
I think people dramatically underestimate the importance of having a small team of passionate, highly skilled, dare I say, 10x developers, creating the actual product. When venture capitalists come in, they just hire someone somebody they know, then get lost in architectural complexity, even outsourcing some coding. The whole thing turns into a mess.

At my company, my small team ends up doing about 80% of the work, while four other teams, each with 10-plus members, seem to do absolutely nothing.
ARM Instruction LDRB Fault Identified in Samsung Devices via Firefox Bug
A new Mozilla bug report suspects an issue with the load-after-write operation on certain Samsung phones. The problem is due to the ARM instruction LDRB causing a sign extension in w12, leading to reading a value from an incorrect memory page. Check out from the report:

“Since we just stored 0xba, that's what x12 should contain. However, that's not what we're seeing. Looking at a dump, I see x12 = 0x00000000ffffffba. That's not zero-extended.”

This means that the upper bits are not getting cleared. Likely a bug in the Mongoose M5 core used in Non-US Samsung devices.
>actions like that are beyond me

I have this theory that religion is part of the human psyche, and that in 2023 we have more people that belong to a specific but as of yet unnamed religion than any point in history.

It just doesn’t have a bible, it’s a screen. Requires conformity, but doesn’t have a dress code. There is ceremony seen in emojis. And the priests are people you know are lying but it’s the other guys that are always “the problem”. You are a good person only if you do what you are told.

Honestly it explains A LOT.
So many interesting things there. Jobs and Campbell knew each other from Apple antiquity, and both Campbell and Eric Schmidt sat on Apple's board - and Jobs was already ballistic about Android vs. iPhone.

On one hand I understand how Jobs would have been angry about Google trying to poach the Safari team for Chrome, but on the other I completely agree that anti-poaching schemes (as well as non-compete clauses) are harmful to employees and illegal for good reason.

One fair solution for employees would presumably have been to deal with it head on and make competing offers up to the level of the Safari team's actual value to Apple, but companies are rarely enthusiastic about that as it costs them money and encourages other employees to ask for raises and/or to interview at other companies (probably to discover that they are underpaid.)

An interesting possibility would have been for Apple and Google (or Google and Mozilla for that matter) to collaborate more closely on web browsers, although that would have run into problems eventually due to business incentives.

Sadly one of the primary results from Chrome seems to have been the erosion of Firefox's browser share.
I think it's probably enough for the purposes of gauging pedestrians' interactions with a car they quickly perceive to be driverless.
IRC with DCC.
I’m using sarcasm, sure. But do you think it’s unwarranted when I’m against arguments how only person driving the car could be affected by FSD or that self driving is an AI problem?

I assume you either don’t argue in good faith, or have understanding of the problem area from following Musk’s and his influencer’s tweets.

But I agree with you, it’s not productive. I’ll take my “small set of points” about such an irrelevant things like safety engineering (and no, it’s not a just noun, it’s an engineering discipline) and disengage here.

Just to address one thing tho - YouTubers making videos is and Tesla releasing it to more people to recognize deferred revenue is not testing. And you can see from constant regressions that it doesn’t work as testing.

And before you throw “well, that’s just how AI works”, maybe you’ll make a connection on how self driving isn’t an AI problem. It’s just one of the many many tools used to solve it.
The comedy here is that he says this decline started in the 1990s. Since then corporations haven't really done anything have they? There hasn't been fundamental changes to every part of our lives driven by corporate decision making, has there?
How does this compare to Prometheus + Grafana + Loki?
I think the major mistake in your statement is that the billionaires would lose more than a few million. But yes, they have reversed trades when people take advantage of flaws in automated market-marking scripts.
yup. theres way too much stock put on "best practices" driven by the biggest corps as if whatever they're doing must be good.

Agile and MVP development is my favourite example. "race as fast as possible with no documentation to build the shittiest piece of software that bamboozles your customers into continuing to pay you because otherwise they wouldnt have the patience to wait for good engineering"

It "works" only in a market client-vendor relationship, but the "works" part has nothing to do with leading towards good software development.
> This basically means that if you are part of compromised traffic/target, then as interpreted legally, it's open season on anything you have associated to you.

This is the point (also discussed in previous thread). It sucks (for some), but is only logical.

I suspect this is all NL finally getting around to dealing with its reputation for being a child-porn hosting haven. The goal of this legislation does allow the cops to "break a window" so they can look at domestic hardware currently only accessible from foreign endpoints. NL cops can't get a search warrant on someone in NL when their supposed IP maps to MIT. MIT says there's no server here, just a Tor exit node. Oh well, nothing we can do!

Thus, they're now allowed to hack domestically (force entry), and anybody found interacting with the child porn server they're monitoring necessarily falls under the same scope as the purveyor and rightfully becomes a target themselves.

It would make no sense to say you can hack the principal target, but not any subjects subsequently implicated in criminal activity.

This stuff is literally impossible to prosecute under the status quo-- the NL cops get tips but don't have cause to act (otherwise it'd just be SWAT-ing), nobody can crack the encrypted traffic, and the clients aren't necessarily resharing outside of this channel. It's a perfect closed system with solid technical and legal OPSEC.

But yes, once they punish all of those who have evaded the law this way for the last two decades, they'll come for the torrenters and other petty criminals next. Thank the pedophiles for getting the party shut down.
Every theory is in the end the discovery of an underlying pattern that can be verified, reproduced and cast our understandimg about something in terms of a reduced set of explanatory factors.

The challenge with theories of human societies and economies is that their enormous complexity, constant flux and the inability of the observer to truly distance themselves from the object of study make any proposed explanatory frameworks very sketchy.
It sounds like you think it odd that exec-level staff should be honoring the wishes of the people who do all the work, but I'm not getting why. Sure, most companies are authoritarian hierarchies. But most companies also pay people enough that they'll put up with the authoritarianism, at least for a while. When you pay $0 for core labor, that means you've given up most of your ability to push people around.