skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the API that's supposed to allow advertisers to target netizens with adverts tailored to their individual interests without impinging on people's privacy

1. malevolent advertiser creates an ad campaign for cat-food but targeted at people who are interested in bondage.

2. user who is into bondage and owns a cat sees the ad, clicks on it, orders the cat food, types their home address and personal info. Note: user is unaware of the bondage link.

3. malevolent advertiser now has another datapoint containing the bondage connection with personal info.
Agreed! I love negronis, but have found that they can easily be screwed up. I've had more barely-adequate negronis than ones that were good or even worth drinking, but they're my favorite cocktail when they're good. They're just uncommon enough that many bartenders forget exactly what's in them.
The title is a little clickbaity - the behaviour can be changed:

“ Ultimately though, if this experience isn't right for you, you can turn off this feature the first time it launches in Microsoft Edge, and then in Outlook settings at any time after that. ”

Having said that, Microsoft seem to be entering another phase of baiting antitrust regulators.
He's also doing this thing we need a name for, something like "fallacious pithiness".

I've noticed that when people reduce some random thesis to a level of brevity beyond the minimum to actually express it coherently -- but do so succinctly and perhaps a bit archly -- the audience enjoys the illusion of effective communication, and fills in the intellectual voids on their own, affirmatively.

As if they've gotten a bargain, or been saved some time.

I mainly noticed this when so many people stopped writing awesome long-form blog posts, and supplanted it with tweeting. I seldom found value in the tweets, even from people whose blogs I prized. But many people did! And the tweeters were encouraged.

I see the same thing here. I mainly know the OP from his essays, which are overall quite good (IMHO). I subscribed to the RSS feed of them. I think I've read them all, even.

But it's hard to imagine a version of this tweet as a full essay (even a short one) that didn't end up repudiating the core idea entirely.

Because once you had to add even a bit more detail -- such as examples of it happening in the wild -- you'd end up realizing that people don't generally get mocked for changing their minds. That changing your mind is actually encouraged and praised by various books, corporate 'leadership principles', philosophers, etc... and in most cases, derision and animosity aimed at opinion-changers tends to be aimed at the ones who are obviously self-serving hypocrites, not those who've genuinely reconsidered things and come to a better conclusion.

So even though you still could, no dooubt, come up with some examples, through the process of writing the essay (or blog post), you'd... realize it was bullshit.

And then, you wouldn't publish the essay.
Walking fast with a steep slope is a good way to exercise I think. Andrew Weil even wrote that walking is a complete form of exercise: you don't need anything else to be a good athlete. But I guess it is a long hard walk, not a short easy one. I walk regularly and I found that it was really demanding if I do that in the woods with regular slopes. And sometimes I run a little bit, alternating walk and run.
Massachusetts I think

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/06/feds-tell-automakers-no...
Alcohol is often lovingly referred to as a social lubricant. While some people (such as yourself apparently) have great social skills out of the box others like myself occasionally require the help of some Dutch courage when acting outside of our comfort zone and I think it is unfair to judge us so harshly for it.
Quilt Trail
Dude, this is the IMF admitting it is true!
It has less to do with the regulatory environment and more to do with cultures that are accepting of corruption. Government regulators are often part of the corruption in weak cultures.
Everytime we discuss this here, there are still a ton of ways people defend using Chrome. It’s like being sucked into the network effect and they feel powerless without using Chrome.

I would like to counter that and say that diversity is better for the ecosystem than any gain you might find in using Chrome. Use Brave, Firefox… any other of the new browsers… anything really that brings more choice and less power to Google. It’s about balance.

Nobody wants to go back to IE6 - part 2.
I don't think they were quoting an actual ChatGPT output there, just using an invented sentence to illustrate the concept of word-by-word generation.
What it really needs is a way to prevent sleeping when the lid is closed (only) during a system update.
Very informative and well informed article, like all articles by Ron Amadeo.

>This plastic layer is critical to the OLED's survival, but it doesn't stretch to the edges. Every company that builds these screens leaves a margin around the perimeter of the display where there is no plastic layer, just a raw, exposed OLED panel peeking out into the world. We would normally expect a foldable to break along the crease, where the screen sees the most stress. But mine died due to this exposed OLED gap.

...

>The scary part for Google customers is that a broken Pixel Fold means dealing with the company's notoriously unhelpful support team. Horror stories are a regular occurrence on the /r/GooglePixel subreddit, where users have called Google Support "hilariously incompetent" and a "nightmare" to deal with, begging the company to improve. It's one thing to ship normal glass smartphones, but these fragile foldables will put more stress on Google's support network
A steady increase in LLM power sounds like bad news for artists and other professions who can easily be replaced by them.

The internet will fill up with bots even more than it already is. Maybe it will be nicer, because smarter bots would be more fun to talk to.
Formally they never removed "don't be evil" from their code of conduct, although it's now part of the last sentence rather than a standalone sentence at the beginning of the preface as it used to be, and I think it's far more often disregarded by their policymaking levels of leadership than it was in their earlier years.

https://abc.xyz/investor/google-code-of-conduct/

Much of the media reporting got this wrong when Google made this change in 2018.

They never promised to "do no evil", and that's become increasingly evident over time.

Disclosure: I have worked for Google in the past, most recently more than 8 years ago now, but I have never been in any way part of Google's policymaking leadership ranks and am certainly not speaking for them here.
Yes, except that you do not want to alignas writeInner and readInner. The size of your whole ringbuffer should be 128 bytes.
Yeah, I could see maybe life circumstances not bringing it out. I'm naturally quite shy and reserved and not particularly outgoing around new people. So I feel some drinks help in this regards as it set a nice social setting to open up. But for instance if you're mainly meeting friends-of-friends then I could see alcohol playing a smaller role

Interesting to think about. Thanks for the perspective :)
Oh yeah, its a terrible idea, but waiting is what Google would do... And they would certainly fumble it either way.
I haven’t had the feeling that computers are awesome in quite a long time (probably since starting my career). The video in the landing page gave me the feeling that computers can be such an amazing thing!
Frosgren comes off like a newb, because they equate home-rolling with downtime and being embarrassed explaining to your customer what you do.

When I home-roll I have less downtime usually than relying on a vendor solution. But I have been doing this a very long time so maybe it is an unfair comparison; of course, I’m not so gauche that I am prefixing Dr in front of my name on Twitter.
If a janitor can just wander in without supervision and plug/unplug stuff in a lab, I wouldn't trust that research in the first place...
Russia's ruble drops to 14-month low after “rebellion” challenges leadership
Software defined (Internet) radio with Liquidsoap
One alternative is to require that the new odometer is wound forward to match the old odometer's value. But I'm not sure if odometers have this capability.
Tinc is incredible, it has worked flawlessly for me for 6+ years with exactly 0 maintenance.

As trustworthy as it is, I am sadly on the hunt to replace it. Compared to wireguard, the throughput ain't great, and it takes way too much CPU on my low power nodes. I would pay good money for "tinc, but with wireguard transport" -- there's of course projects purporting to do this but I haven't found one I trust yet.
I suppose it's best to start with 1 or 3 months of 100% foraged food like they are doing. If that works, later experiments can find out whether less than 100% is enough.
Not a bad list of basic macOS specific cli tools. For a more in depth list, I usually reference https://ss64.com/osx/.
Well at least Microsoft allows you to install other browsers. Apple only allows skins for their mobile browser.
Right, and the very next sentence (after the infographic) is: "Wages have driven only a small part of inflation in Europe. I also suspect that is true here too."

So the body of the article only talks about EU data but then he "suspects" it applies similarly to the UK by putting it in the headline, without drawing any actual connection with data.
I'm not even sure if I've ever went to a bar alone in my whole life, but from my observations it's not very common to talk to strangers at all here in Germany, I guess the best chances are outside in a beer garden and not in a bar or cafe, or if the venue is packed enough that you get someone seated at your table (or vice versa). Then again, if you're out with people you're probably more focused on your group so you don't necessarily notice the strangers connecting, but I still doubt I'd missed it all the time.
Not everyone has the luxury to die on the hill of quality, and we’re not talking about safety-critical changes to the drinks.
I'm not sure we have the ability to just build a new city from scratch. They already tried to build New Towns and politics got in the way, as detailed further in the article.
That is very annoying. On s related note I personally hate how I need to enter the settings of every app on my phone to tell them not to use the embedded browser? Why would I ever want to use something which is not my default browser? The only scenario I csn see is offering to open in private browsing but still in my browser or something like tor. Just some web view makes no sense.

And this is similar. There is no non-malicious use case for this setting that I can see.
> most auctions don't allow computer diagnostics on a car.

I was thinking about running the diagnostics immediately after delivery instead of after two dozen mechanical failures.

But another comment says the diagnostics software is very expensive and difficult to acquire, makes sense if true.
When did we move to a "do whatever you think you can get away with" model of society?

Maybe I'm naive but I think there used to be at least a modicum of self-restraint on this kind of thing. Sure, people always tried to make as much money as possible, but there used to be some limit somewhere - not because you'll get caught but because c'mon, we just don't do that! That seems to have now been totally lost.
‘Adversarial’ search for neural basis of consciousness yields first results
>Two rival theories about the basis of perception went head-to-head in neuroscience experiments, but advocates of “losing” idea aren’t conceding yet
I'm deeply insulted that Skiing & Snowboarding got its own category, but surfing did not.
Ha yeah and if the 20 year chef asks "what?", then push away from the table with a shocked look: "um how long have you been cooking again?"
you might find that it mysteriously reappears
One I use a lot: mdls.

It's ls for metadata. Very helpful for getting quick and scripted access to the date/time when and the latitude/longitude where a photograph was taken.

Also, the say command is a lot more versatile than it seems.

Combined with the ability to save the speech to an audio file, my wife uses it as the disc jockey for her little hobby AM radio station. It introduces the song and does little station IDs and such.

You can customize it with dozens of dozens of voices, some in very high quality.

When a song from her Japanese playlists comes on, it switches to one of the Japanese voices. I don't speak Japanese, so I don't know if it actually translates the DJ words into Japanese, but it sounds pretty close to my untrained ears.
> ~1.5 years ago it was totally racist and xenophobic to think a lab escape in Wuhan could be a viable source of the pandemic.

I really dislike the framing that the only objection people have ever had to the lab leak theory is that it is "racist".
If the replacement process is controlled (in the technical sense of the word) then yeah, you have room to make the case that your title should not have an asterisk next to it saying the true mileage is unknown.
The only reason I realized this was a thing is because a coworker blew past the initial popup about the behavior and couldnt figure out what the hell was going on.

Users don't pay attention to this stuff. And then when you have to go back and switch it to the correct behavior of using the default browser, they've buried the option in Outlook (Options > Advanced > Link Handling).
Moral panics. We still haven't found all those satanists. We haven't found the clowns. The Prius started working again once Toyota paid $1 billion and bolted the mat to the floor. Popcorn lung has apparently subsided. And the murder hornets were just visiting.

Still going strong is anything can be "grooming". And your child can be taken from you if you look away from them even once.

I really like the last one -- images of professional gangs having difficulty snatching that child because the mom is going to stop a professional gang.
Yeah, I think I wasn't clear. I wasn't referring to the _existence_ of loud bars. The "problem" is that we have few-to-none of the quiet bars. The drinking/third-place culture in America is simply worse than the rest of the world (outside of NYC).
Cool initiative, it would be nice if this had some form of quality control / polish (I guess that is what the upvoting is for once there is enough users).

The two I clicked on had lots of exchange where the model didn't know what the user was asking for, saying, "as an LLM, I cannot ..."
> Each subdomain currently maps to a single Durable Object. This gives you a throughput of between 100-500 RPS (informally tested), and isolates each subdomain from each other for security and fault/load isolation. The WebSocket Hibernation API is used, so you only get charged for the time you are forwarding requests, and should generally be less than $5/month (pricing).
I thought mergers increased efficiency to better serve the customer. /s
Haha, no, I read a lot of his work as a teenager as well as in college. I'm Algerian (Kabyle) and Fanon lived in my father's home city for a while. His work was very important in the decolonization movements and you'll encounter his writing all over classes in political economy, afro-am, marxism, etc.
Fuck Beta.

Soylent News was a nice spinoff that the refugees founded, and it is still going, but it does suffer from a bit of a dearth of userbase. The codebase is pretty old, but design wise, it's the old Slashdot you remember from decades ago, in red rather than green.
Google made one of the biggest pivots in history that the average person has no clue about. Rooted in search, pivoted to advertising, sort of like how McDonald's is one of the world's largest real estate companies due to owning the land that McDonald's restaurants are built upon.
I suspect, like me, a lot of people have learned about pbcopy/pbpaste from the Github docs for adding a new SSH key to your account https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/connecting-to-gith...
In case anyone else finds this helpful: I found my phone was still making the occasional pocket dial emergency call even after disabling the five power button press shortcut. A combination of features and scenarios led to the calls: using fingerprint login - which if you swipe and decide to use a manual login entry reveals an emergency call button. Double tap screen to wake, is the feature that turns the screen on in your pocket. Disabling this has ended all accidental emergency calls thus far for me.
Yikes, I have to create an account and subscribe to read the second half of the article? Think the complaints about that are obvious. Leaving a comment in case anyone else wants to avoid that particular experience.

Shame, it was an interesting and well written article.
Congressional Space Medal of Honor
Nominal GDP, real GDP, personal income, and government tax receipts are all macroeconomically tracked stats. Subtract out taxes and personal income from nominal GDP and you have profits.
Ask HN: Resources for getting started with modern Fortran?
Hey! I've been doing scientific computing in Python&co (numpy, torch etc.) for awhile now. Realizing that many things deep down remain some sort of Fortran, I'd like to learn more about this final layer. I see there are many standards etc., which makes one wonder, is there a go-to list of resources for newcomers targeting modern scientific Fortran? Thanks!
When you're with friends/acquaintances, you'd have to catch up with the average speed of the group. Otherwise you might not be able to enjoy all the series of things that get ordered. Probably what the commenter meant.
Microsoft is always striving to improve and streamline our product experiences—offering a new way to use the classic Microsoft Outlook app on Windows and the Microsoft Edge web browser.

to help you stay engaged in conversations as you browse the web.

I wonder if the people who write this sort of BS-filled prose really believe in what they're writing. To be completely honest, the style almost sounds like LLM output.
IMO if you look at how much better GPT-4 is at coding compared to GPT-3.5, and advances in letting GPT test and debug it’s own code, it’s not going to be “cheaper and worse” in the future.

GPT and LLMs will allow good and seasoned programmers to produce better code in time-constrained environments.
> including Joyce’s notation that the book was based on “The Odyssey,” without which the world might never have noticed the connection

Given that 'Ulysses' is the Roman name for Odysseus, I think we might've worked it out :p
That's a nice catch phrase. You're presumed innocent until accused. Then you're jailed until proven innocent. The burden of proof is dependent on how often your attorney plays golf with the judge.
Howdoes figma contribute to laggy UI of the end product?
Replicable brain–phenotype associations require large-scale neuroimaging data
:D That was my point, you can get there with other representations. It amuses me that Common Lisp lets me type that as 1/3. Such that (+ 1/3 1/3 1/3) gives the expected answer.

This isn't without drawback, of course.
Source for which section? I am basing this on mostly my experience and codedigging - I don't think there are many written sources about observing this other than anecdotes on forums or reddit or whatever.

With that being said, I'm happy to investigate in detail if you can tell which parts you are interested in.

You are right, the JVM has many optimisations built in to de-virtualise calls and avoid allocations and the such, but if you abuse it, the JIT will give up. I don't think any JIT will de-virtualise or perform escape analysis on 5-6 layers of indirection with branching.
Sounds to me like CVE scanners aren't doing a great job if they can't pick up a nodejs installation from the official nodejs image distribution. Just looking at package manager metadata effectively won't give you the full picture.
The allegation is that both FedEx and Holman were involved, yes. If FedEx can produce an audit trail showing that the vehicles left FedEx facilities with true odometers then I don’t think Holman stands a chance.
powermetrics gives a lot of energy usage info per CPU core and apps.
> Nobody wants to go back to IE6 - part 2.

Indeed. The IE dominance and then stagnation set back web development for half a decade at least.
Way to dismiss everybody else's opinions. You won't win the "war" by doing that.

I use Chrome because it's fast and it gets out of my way. Firefox on the other hand is slower (not slow, but slower than Chrome) and shows ads every now and then. Other browsers are Blink-based so they are as fast as Chrome but there are concerns about ads too (think Brave, Opera, etc).

So maybe Firefox should get their act together? Why are you blaming users? Is it our fault that things are this way? We do what we can with the tools we have.
Here's a highly rated one for $26

https://www.amazon.com/Veepeak-OBDCheck-Bluetooth-Diagnostic...
Unless they already have some CS knowledge I would just start them w/ a chatgpt subscription, the notebooks could come later. Something like Poe would also be worth considering to get access to more models.
If you follow the Ruble value it isn't like it fell off a cliff. It was a small dip bringing it down to the same value as at the start of the war. Overall since the start of the war it is definitely down, but from 14 months ago this dip was pretty minor in the grand picture.
Looks like this article is from 2000. Perhaps the post title needs to be updated?
My theory is that there are three ways to "know" something:

1) Socially

2) Intuitively

3) Structurally

Each with their own pros and cons. Structurally is more or less having a mathematical proof of the knowledge. Intuitively is having enough experience with a domain that your gut decisions have a very good probability of being very good. And socially is listening to peer pressure.

In defense of peer pressure. Imagine a forest that is absolutely littered with abandoned ancient wells. A person walking through the forest is at constant threat of falling into a hidden well and then dying, never to be seen again.

Structurally, we cannot prove or disprove the existence of ancient wells in a forest that were dug out and then forgotten long before our civilization came along.

Intuitively it doesn't really matter how much experience you have with the woods. Either you enter the woods and you live or you die. Your first mistake will result in your immediate death, so you can't build up a good intuition through trial and error.

But socially, we can tell our kids that the demon bear lives in the woods and it'll eat your brain if you go in there and nobody will ever see you again, so stay out.

If you are going to rely not on your intuition OR you ability to reason something out, but you are going to store your knowledge "in the cloud" of society. Then you're going to tend to want reliability.

If I google how to spell "peace" because I can't be bothered to remember how to spell it myself, then I'm probably going to start mocking it if it starts returning "pease".

People get mocked because the mocker doesn't like that their cognitive cloud storage is acting faulty. Mocking which you'll find stops once many queried "nodes" starts to return the new result instead of just a single one.
I argue that a politician going against what the people (aka voters) demands will not get elected in the first place. So the real work must be done before election - a matter of influence in a direction or another.
Is there a subtext to the comment he is making? I.e., a specific individual that he is referencing with this tweet?