skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've already optimized meat production in ways which are worse. It is very bad for the environment and extremely cruel to the animals. Part of the optimization is removing the processes far from consumers so that they're unaware of the downsides.

The solution is to eat more real food, which includes a higher proportion of vegetables and a much lower proportion of meat. But a lot of people are resistant to that, for a variety of reasons. If lab-grown meat can at least reduce the animal cruelty, it's an optimization I'd prefer.
> Califonia averages 1.8Million acres of prescribed burns a year.

That is the total acreage that burned. Mostly wildfires. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_California_wildfires

Apparently, prescribed burns are about 125,000 acres/year: https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/programs/prescribed-burning/....
> He makes a very compelling case for greatly expanding the concept of an operating system into all of the hardware in a given computing environment.

I haven't watched the presentation, and just glanced at the paper, but while I see how this would be an improvement, I'm not sure if giving operating systems all that power would be an absolutely good idea.

While I certainly don't trust the firmware that runs on my devices, in most cases it's self-contained to the device itself. Modern operating systems are themselves a dumpster fire of security issues and spyware, built by corporations who realized they can also profit from their user's data, and they take advantage of that in subtle and nefarious ways. Even Linux distros aren't safe, and users need to be under constant vigilance that the software they're running isn't actively tracking or exfiltrating their data. These are much larger and widespread threats than any ones caused by firmware.

I think the solution must involve a radical simplification of hardware, and a migration towards open source platforms. RISC-V looks very promising in this regard, and, coupled with a reasonably secure OS, is the best path towards safer computing.
The Imperial Daquiri: A Brief History of American Empire in One Cocktail
Flair.ai unsuccessfully tries to replace product photographers
... did you just call someone a communist for daring to disagree with you?

My problem is unnecessarily destructive practices which are causing giant and totally avoidable crises.

If we were running the same meat production system in a centrally planned economy under some "the proletariat deserves meat" party plan with the same concentrated waste from feedlots, reckless use of antibiotics, clearing of the Amazon for ranch land, feeding a large portion of crops like corn and soy to animals that we then slaughter, the resource allocation system would be different but the destruction would be the same, and my objections would be unchanged.

But the "I paid for it and I enjoy it so what's wrong" response seems in bad faith and will not die. Suppose I enjoy the aesthetic experience of seeing oil on ocean waves; it catches the light in such a unique way. On weekends, I buy a barrel of crude, head out in a boat and dump my barrel and just spend the day watching the sun glisten on struggling seabirds. I think most people would not accept the "I paid for the oil; what's the problem" response, because _obviously_ the problem is I'm wreaking unnecessary destruction, and while I owned the oil, I don't own the ocean, the sea-life etc. You might like meat, and you might exchange money for meat, but that doesn't mean you're paying for the problems that meat production is creating.
He is the Pi guy.
> "Explosion-proof means that it won't cause an explosion."

Another industry term for this is Intrinsically Safe.
I think this is easy, just make Xp sentences of the kind = "I define `randomchars()` to be this `term-in-Xc()`" and swamp the dataset with Xc.

Everything here actually just follows formally from what NNs are: they're just empirical function approximations.

It will always be the case that they just model the probabilistic structure of the dataset and not the data generating process.

Since, in language, there are discrete constraints which make P(...) = 1 or P(...) = 0 --- you can trivially produce datasets showing that it learns P(...) = mistake-you-created-deliberately and not either 0,1.

As above, the LLM switches from 95% confidence "chocolate" to 95% confidence "popcorn" with a trivial non-semantic permutation of the prompt.

The obscene issue in all this is that we know this already -- empirical function approximation of historical datasets just produces associative probabilistic models of those datasets.
I doubt hobbyists would have chosen RHEL anyway though :) After all why pay when you can get excellent distros for free?
Yep, it's a terrible article.
In the UK you can operate as a ltd company all you like, but it won’t make a jot of difference if HMRC decides that IR35 applies to your role.

An “employer” can structure the contract to avoid IR35, but that’s precisely my point - now the “employer” needs local legal knowledge to maintain an arms length contractual relationship. (HMRC has also made the “employer” liable for IR35 problems: you can’t just punt the legal liability onto the “employee” and forget about it anymore.)
We always spent a bit of time doing extra infra for the RHEL corner of the world to make lives a bit better for IT teams at our banking & gov customers, and the licensing stuff was weird but ok. But when rhel8 came out with heavy marketing of podman as a docker replacement (compose, ..), despite it not being ready, and then making it hard for rhel8 air gap users to keep using docker vs the incomplete podman stack... we lost a lot of hours for nothing but the leadership's greed.

That ended any good will I had left for the broader community. Individuals and bits of tech may be great, but it's against-the-grain as an infrastructure partner. Instead of being proactive, we're much more reactive. We're a small player, but it adds up over time. Ending of an era =/
Totally reasonable reaction. I'm not on the anti-Red Hat bus, I feel like they have every right to walk the path they're walking right now.

I don't think Red Hat gets enough credit for its work carrying wood and chopping water to produce RHEL from users who get to sit by the fire and have clean water. Even if that water isn't in the fancy RHEL bottle and they don't get the closest spot to the fire.

But other maintainers also get to decide how they react. Geerling is also contributing and if he thinks that Red Hat has gone too far, he doesn't owe anybody contributions either.
Agreed. Puppet Bolt has been better to me than Ansible, especially around Playbook YAML vs the Puppet DSL. Puppet seemed to fall out of the limelight when Ansible made it big, then Bolt got little love.
Is Fukushima Wastewater Release Safe? What the Science Says
History of fire lookouts.
https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r1/recreation/?cid=fsp5_03080....
What caused the wildfires of 1910
https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb54447...

...just because it is interesting.
Google Cloud Anti-Money-Laundering Tool for Banks, Betting on the Power of AI
Absolutely love to see CHERI mentioned here <3
Benchmarking JavaScript is hard; the JIT messes up the results
My university portal login flow (Microsoft login via university SSO), frequently has me log in with password+2fa+nag screen to use microsoft authenticator, just to then randomly fail and have me do the entire thing again. It is infuriating, especially since any login cookies appear to only be valid for 1-2 days per device.

I suspect that the amount of time I spend on just logging in to websites each day is upwards of 5 minutes, and I doubt it will decrease over the coming decades. Such a waste.
Agreed. Someone convinced me to listen to it under the guise of "just trust me, the less you know going in, the better" and they were 100% right.
That's my point, you don't need specialty machines to make trash cans; it's going to be the same types of sheet metal benders that are used for other simple fixtures.
Independent Canadian ISP TekSavvy puts itself up for sale
> The lack of mouse acceleration in Windows is what make it feel, to m

Windows has had built-in acceleration since Windows XP (maybe 2000?) - it's the "Enhance pointer precision" option in the (classic) Mouse control panel.

There's also an acceleration curve you can customize, but there's no built-in GUI editor, but the data's all in the HKCU\Control Panel\Mouse registry keys.
Atari VCS Myst “Demake”
What is that word?
The settings in System Settings.app are per-keyboard, so you don't need anything external for that.
I think the point is that you could fund all those things without putting it directly into the pockets of defence contractors, or physically/psychologically traumatising the people who feel the need to sign up.
https://archive.is/qfn4r

https://archive.today/qfn4r
I think you're right. I've been active on Reddit for years. It has always been a fractious collection of niche communities. It can be hard for an outsider to navigate. For all our complaining that Reddit is turning its back on its users, what makes us think they want to keep us around? I remember when Facebook started making changes so it could appeal to people outside of a handful of college campuses. There was a lot of complaining, but Facebook grew massively as a result.

This moment could be remembered either as Reddit's "own goal" moment where they kill their platform, or their "MTV stops playing music videos" moment where they redefine who they are.
That's chump change, I once saw a $22 million hard drive. I held it in my hands, and even plugged it in to grab data off it. And it wasn't even FOUO, it was fully unclassified.
Not every meat producing shop aims for the lowest operating costs, ie in Western Europe meat from free range animals are extremely popular, we don't buy any meat (+ eggs) that isn't at least that (for kids it would be great to buy all time bio meat but that's not always available).

Its not BS and lies either, where we live farm animals roam the grass fields or mountain pastures constantly, to the point where it may be tricky to hike some parts of mountains.
> This isn't going to go away. This decision will dog them for the entire rest of their careers.

I get the impression from the events leading up to the use of GPT this is not the first time their competence led to outcomes that will "dog them for the entire rest of their careers."
People are in jail from the Mueller report. Not sure what to say about it otherwise. https://time.com/5556331/mueller-investigation-indictments-g...

The rnc and GOP have been hacked many times by Russia. Google away...
"Modern" UI designers are running amok. They hide content so you can't see it. They make you click on it, but then you lose the surrounding context. This is done because heaven forbid someone need to drag their finger to scroll right on a phone.

Hacker news with finger drag to view nested comments works way way way better on a phone. Hacker news is one of the few websites I can actually ENJOY on a mobile device.
I prefer beer, if I want a carbinated drink. And a full bodied beer, not a light beer. Sure, they have carbs and calories, but they also have nutritional value unlike light beer or a soda.

There are monks that made a stout they could drink for all of lent. Nothing but stout for 40 days. Each serving was enough nutrition-dense to act as a meal replacement without causing alcohol intoxication.
One company I interviewed with told me to spend no longer than 2 hours on a project. I complied and followed that time boundary, as I wasn’t paid for the interview and I didn’t feel it was fair to me to spend any more time on it than that.

Long story short, the company passed on me, saying that my code was easy to understand and high quality, but I didn’t handle all of the corner cases. I listed most of the corner cases they mentioned in the readme as limitations from the time limit. It was clear that while they said to limit my time on the project, they didn’t really mean it. They wanted an exhaustively finished product in a ridiculous amount of time.

At this point in my career, I’ll just decline interviews that don’t respect my time.
CVPR 2023 Highlights
> WYSIWYG is or is not compatible with markdow

Markdown keyboard shortcuts in WYSIWYG editor works well together.
Boeing cut costs too, they bounced right back. That's the real lesson - you can absolutely get away with cutting corners, firing people who voice concerns, and then kill people. Just wait till the next news cycle and everyone forgets.
Prior art: Debian used to shrink libc for the use in their installer. The code is still available at https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/mklibs/-/tree/master

It works by keeping an ar archive with PIC objects that would normally go into libc.so.6, determining all symbols used by all programs in the Debian installer, then mapping these symbols to objects, and linking a new libc.so.6 containing only the needed objects.
If they continue push upstream per the license then it works. There's a lot of Linux desktop apps that work this way; it's hardly a broken model.
I think one of the primary reasons that it is such a dumpster fire is there traditionally hasn't been an "open" ecosystem in the hardware world, though now they are being forced towards that direction kicking and screaming.

Every part of the hardware ecosystem has traditionally been done in closed, NDA ridden environments and only over the last 5-10 years has that even started to change.

Designing chips has required NDA-based PDKs. Designing complex PCBs has required closed-source EDA tools. Interacting with any of the IC peripherals often requires binary or non-redistributable firmware.

Hell, even with the modern "open" switch architectures, like Trident3, you can't get software or detailed datasheets from broadcom without an NDA. Same thing with some of the ARM based stuff like with the Raspberry Pi.
AlmaLinux Figuring Out Path Forward Following RHEL Source Code Policy Change
> The present situation with fires is mostly driven by leftwing politics.

That's the truth that this article attempts to dodge.
Related: https://augmented-ui.com/
Yes, but you have to allow a certain amount of freedom or everything grinds to a standstill.

The approach the FAA takes is perfectly reasonable: you can do this dangerous thing, but you can't legally make money from it, and if you "forget" to tell your passengers, the aircraft itself is labelled "Experimental."
I can't say for "intuitive", but the introduction to the paper involves breaking p-groups — groups having p^k members where p is a prime — into the cases k > lg(p)^5 and k <= lg(p)^5, which likely explains why the number 5 has crashed the party. (Here lg() denotes the log base 2)
It already lets you have different settings for the internal en external keyboards by default. I use it just like that - vanilla settings on my MacBook built in and for the external keyboard I switch command and option, since it’s a windows keyboard.

I don’t want to be inflammatory, but the amount of baby duck syndrome when people say MacOS and Linux are unusable is crazy. Just try to go vanilla for 2 weeks before you install two dozen utilities.
I think more accurately, you can't assume you've broken it, or that it works because you can't test it. It's just an unknown. Which is bad enough, IMHO.
The Magsafe cables are the ones I've had problems with every time. I read that a decision to remove PVC from the plastic was what made them so fragile.
> Well of course it does.

Why does it follow that software designed for modern hardware, running on modern hardware, should be slower than software designed for older hardware running on slightly newer hardware?
You may be using too high a heat. I've found the highest setting on my stovetop makes it a pretty high probability some popped kernels will burn (or many if I make a mistake) but a lower setting is sufficient to pop almost every kernel and reduce the risk of burning with techniques people describe in other posts. The air popper I tried tended to leave quite a few unpopped kernels with the same corn kernels I use on the stove top.
I am having trouble following the thread of your back and forth here, and I feel the article also flounders in its seemingly intended message, but I can give you an example that I thought the article was actually about when I saw the headline: NP-Completeness.

I am unable to remember or find the source but I read a quote by a prominent researcher who quipped that complexity theory was developed to create a corpus of experts to point your manager at when they ask you to “just solve the traveling salesman problem by end of week”.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_complexity_the...
No native writing system was known among North American Indians at the time of first European contact.

Please explain the type of evidence you could gather that would tell you American Indians thought intentional burning was a good idea and part of their planned forest management.

From what I'm reading on your link the evidence is evidence of fires burning things down, thus the Indians had an advanced forest management system in place.
Effing Xfinity cable modem wants an app for a couple of things including service activation and such, via bluetooth access. I don't think there's a way around that.

Once that is done you can use the browser for a few things, but for WiFi password and all I think app is still needed. Couldn't find a way to do it other way.

Worst thing is that this stupid Xfinity app eats phone battery like crazy. So I had to disable background activity and bluetooth permissions once I was done with the activation and initial setup.
That’s why diving into research will not help general practitioners. Because research isn’t fact. You need a body of research along with oversight of statistical methods and its data collection to claim fact and that too with specific constraints.

So they do learn fundamentals but fundamentals do not come out of research papers.
And what is this word for women who might have sex, old enough to have children, have not yet hit menopause, and are not otherwise sterile?
I can see that... :P
> It takes relatively little time to write a quick sentence or two in review of the assessment

Not just that: At every job where I interviewed candidates, HR expects some kind of feedback beyond just "hire"/"no hire". At least some bullet points of highs and lows, red flags, etc.

If nothing else, this helps protect the company from false allegations of illegal discrimination by having documentation for why a particular candidate was rejected. It also helps recruiters to know if they're finding candidates who are "close to what we want" or "not even in the ballpark".

Now, I know that some interviewers can be fairly blunt in their feedback, so you'd not necessarily want to just copy-paste it to the candidate, but the point is: that feedback already exists. The recruiter/HR just needs to (maybe) sand off some of the rough edges.
My requirement is to tow the Space Shuttle up Mt Everest. I found a used Prius and am unsatisfied with its performance.

Cmon, that’s not a defect. That’s being irritated because you didn’t spec out what you need.
Running Windows 10 on hardware with a larger gap in time doesn't match the benefits you see in this video. It's just slower.
As Newtok, Alaska, crumbles, residents are left in a dangerous limbo
Pollution happens as a result of fire.

Under current regulations, people are often prevented from controlled burns due to air quality concerns under CEQA. This leads to fuel buildup.

When the eventual real wildfire happens, the risk to property and lives is much worse, and so is the pollution; places experiencing wildfire experience AQIs of 300,400+ when the WHO considers 150+ to be unhealthy. Mother Nature doesn’t have much concern for laws and regulations, and we have trouble controlling these large fires.

There is no way to control and thin fuel that does not result in pollution. Manual excavation is impractical and arguably worse since we’d be certainly trampling ecosystems in the process; these ecosystems are often expecting some baseline level of fire.
Jira redefines how slow and clunky a piece of software can be. It reliably takes 15 seconds to update an issue. Even when doing a mass update, 15 seconds per issue, the whole way.
Commercial realestate seem to be a key example of a free market failure.

Everyone just accepts that rents are nowhere near the market clearing price and that buildings are left abandoned. There are many factors at play: covenants, GRM, LTV, properties trading for tax loss value and depreciation rather than usage.

I'm generally a fan of free markets but in this case it absolutely seems to make sense for the city to step in and do something about it. Is there a way to solve this in general, specifically change policy such that commercial real-estate rent more quickly reflects the market-clearing price?
Red Hat contributes a ton.

Companies like Oracle basically sponge off of their work.
"The provider may not promote the removal of journalistic content" might have a different meaning hinging on the word 'promote'.

If Facebook simply shuts down the ability to post all external links for the Brazilian site, then that could plausibly fall outside.
> The python to generate this list is c. 1kb -- and you're using an obscene 600MB to do it!

This isn't a fair comparison. The python code to sort a list is leveraging an enormous amount of information that is stored outside the python code, whereas the GPT version basically has to do it "from scratch", and in a very convoluted computing model.

A better comparison would be "how many bits does it take to encode a configuration of NAND gates that describes a computer that can sort 127-byte lists of number 1..100?"

I'm sure it's not as much as 600 megabytes, but it'll be a lot more than the python code.
That's great, those seem like very practical UIDs for a web application. I didn't see a port to Node yet, that could be a fun project.
Why would the poster think that I think that?
I dont want to shill for redhat, but stating they are taking and not contributing is quite unfair. At least in the context of open source.
Modern defense contracting has become, first and foremost, a process to transfer government funds to private hands. The fact that any useful products or services happen is purely incidental.
CCS Charging Is Dead, Here's Why [video]
All those levels of infrastructure already run on code. There's no tech reason that Robinhood can't sell you stock that it holds. The FTX situation shows you why they aren't allowed to do that.
But that happened? The very rich entity that held the assets was literally dissolved. With all shareholders in SVB wiped out.

The depositors, to be clear, NEVER held the assets under question. They deposited money into the bank that let the bank purchase the assets. At that point, the depositors are not assets of the bank, but liabilities.

Now, the bank's assets dropped in value so that they could not cover their obligations to their depositors. The bank was dissolved accordingly, with their assets sold to another bank. You are wanting to also have their liabilities dissolved, such that the depositors are also somehow punished?
>Running a business involves taking and managing risk.

There's really no decent option for most businesses to mitigate this risk. Most services you find can only do up to a couple million.
The app still needs to check if your email is using SSO or is federated. And even then some apps use internal SSO to tie different systems together.
It's an opinion piece, so it's biased by definition.