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That regulations should be strict and they should be followed strictly. If you live somewhere where they are not enforced then that's not a problem of regulation. But I also don't know why we moved onto this topic from me saying that robotaxis shouldn't be allowed. I got the impression that the argument was that they should because they are competing against overworked Uber drivers pulling 14 hour shifts - to which I'll say again that Uber drivers doing 14 hour shifts isn't some unmovable law of the universe, it can and should be prevented.
> There once was a miracle material

"Was"? Here on HN we do sometimes forget about "the rest of the world" don't we?

Asbestos is still mined in Russia, Kazakhstan, Brazil and China[0] and is still widely used in India[1], which imports more than any other country.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/264923/world-mine-produc...
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/dec/19/w...
People here don't generally understand politics, much less geopolitics.
Nonfiction tech books of all time
A few years ago, when I was studying, my friend and I did a project on that in Xamarin. It took us two evenings, and the accuracy was 300 meters at worst, and 30 meters at best. It's worth noting that this was in a larger city.

So, if two students can achieve even 30 meters accuracy in two days, big telecom corporations will certainly do better in a few decades.

EDIT: By the way, it wasn't only triangulation but also signal strength change analysis. It wasn't as serious as it sounds, there are formulas already made for calculating that.
Yeah, they didn’t receive their minimum rest hours or something along those lines.

My suspicion is the crew were up partying and had a smoke break inside which set off an alarm.
That is entirely unneccessary. An == expression will always evaluate to 1 or 0. The !!x trick can be useful in some other situations, though.

Here’s a thing you could do (but I don’t know why):

+= !(c-’s’) - !(c-’p’)
Everyone made fun of "Twittr" and "Tweets" when it was still new
I was thinking more the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch
I am Vietnamese, some context followed.

The map looks indeed ridiculous. And I don't know if the movie was trying to appeal to China, or whether it was actually some misguided sarcasm, but the whole dashed-line isn't just some small controversy. It is a big deal, if not the deal for the whole area. Just last year, Uncharted (another AAA movie I believed) was also banned by both Vietnam and Philippines.

At this point, if your movie is banned due to this issue, I don't think it was accidental anymore. This is the third hundred-million dollars movie that was banned for this reason just in the past few years.

I have no opinion on whether movie should try to avoid the issue itself, but I do think it's justifiable and non-surprising (ie. it's good) that the government bans the movie. Geopolitics is both hard and weird, and being consistent is good.
It's great. You can do it in the app now and get money back fast. My colleagues also book exclusively late night trains (which are often delayed) so they get a free overnight stay in a hotel.
When in Italy, my train was delayed by more than two hours due to bad weather. I got an email saying I might be entitled to compensation. So I completed a simple form regarding my itinerary, and it confirmed it, and processed it automatically.
I completely agree with this sentiment. Capitalism, Democracy and a free society only works if the citizens are educated and healthy. Why do we even elect a government and pay our taxes then. We could go back to having Kings and the "educated" aristrocrats while all of us can grow wheat. Free access to education to all in a democratic society is mandatory. Put my taxes to good use for the future of my country. I don't need another F-16 but I will definitely need a large educated workforce in the future. Invest in people first, fighter jets can come second.
There wasn't something like "old bread" at old times except if it had mold on it. You just placed it near fire and made a toast of it, or you softened it either with wine or homemade liquors.
If you were a loaded guy (not rich but the one who had a TV in the village in the 60's), you for sure culd acces milk at a daily pace.
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I find it interesting how on HN is verboten to even suggest that maybe some innovation pushed on us and our cities by these companies isn't actually great and isn't the same as progress of humanity. It's just shit tech used to make some techbros money at the cost of making our cities worse. But apparently that's a "luddite" view now?
It is very possible (and I'd wager even common) to be a master in some things and suck at others. If you find a good author, it's OK not to agree with what they say or do while still thinking they write good books.
I remember reading a newspaper article back then about a couple who explained how they just don't want to be seen on the internet. The article had photos of them in front of their house. I read it on the internet.
I am owner of a service in the same space (10y+). The whack a mole game is definitely a thing - specifically attracting phishing and 'students'. We have been following development of the first PaaS, specifically free tier offerings with Heroku being the role model constantly trying new counter measurements against abuse.
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Google has access to the pictures without the blur of faces and car plates and what not. It is very reasonable to not want a spyware company to roam your streets and record it.
We fed them pretty well; I've never heard of Triops that weren't cannibalistic.

The Hydrae are exceptionally interesting, we just collect glass jars of lake water and watch them grow over a few weeks before releasing them .. its quite an adventure watching the budding occur, seeing the growth, watching the nematodes being chomped on ..
People keep saying this and yet it’s never happened despite the GDPR being in place for 5 years now.

As a tech manager for an EU company, I can honestly say that it isn’t that hard to be GDPR compliant.

Even when I worked for a company that did need to collect customer information, we pretty well understood what we could and couldn’t do under GDPR.

This whole “GDPR is dangerous” meme needs to die because businesses aren’t being dragged in court over trivial things because of it. The only people moaning are those who were abusing peoples data to begin with. And those are exactly the types of companies this law is protecting people from.
Lufthansa moved my girlfriend's flight by an entire day and then when calling in, the worker even admitted it saying she could see she was never informed. She found this out upon arrival to the airport. They never did anything for her. After she kept the tickets leaving a day later, on one of her legs she missed a connection and had to spend the night and they refused to do anything for her. Not pay the hotel not pay a late fee, nothing. In fact, they didn't even get on the phone with here at the airport.

Lufthansa has changed flights on me and never done anything for it and basically just said "cancel it and take back the 15% which is taxes which we'll return to you". At the time I didn't have the bandwidth to do anything else. They never even paid and it's too much energy to even get anyone to acknowledge this.

Fact is Lufthansa also is a shit organization. The correct thing is to either (1) with minimal effort send official complaints to government agencies with documentation, (2) to hire one of those companies to just do it for you, or (3) go zen and just stop caring that companies are breaking their contracts and ignoring their legal obligations.

Sure sometimes it works, but no Lufthansa isn't one of the good airlines. They're just as corrupt as the rest.
> Zero chance Musk wouldn’t have armadas of randos complaining raining in on Threads.

Note that Musk has zero need to tell anyone to do this. Some fans will do so on their own initiative and that will suffice.
Google Maps has a function to view older panoramas - "See more dates" button at the top left.
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As all Geoguessr players know, official Street View coverage in Germany was extremely limited and all very old. There was a small amount of coverage in around a dozen or so of the largest cities that dated back to the mid-2000s and that's about it. There's also various bits of crowdsourced unofficial coverage in the country which you are perhaps referring to, but it's very limited. Just go to Google Maps, look at Europe, and grab the Street View person, and you'll see.
What if Hetzner would do the same? Post a new subscription plan on HN, wouldn't that be nothing else but an ad?
It's not hard to understand. We just have a disagreement about something that you think is very important probably partly because you know more about this than I do. Have a nice day. Thanks for explaining.
This would be more interesting for discussion if the comment described an actual threat scenario instead of a vague hypothetical. Even in the hypothetical, there’s no actual described consequence, only that China gains some undefined level of soft power which means nothing on its own.

Some ideas:

- How are these LLMs being used? Who is the end user and what are they using the application for?

- If a state-level threat actor wanted to compromise an LLM, how would they do it? What would their goals be? How would they then use the attack vector to accomplish their goals?

- What benefit would the actor get from doing so? What are the costs? What are the consequences if they fail or are discovered?

- How would a target detect if they’ve been compromised? How easily could they recover?
Even simpler: just sum all elements of the array. Then at the end subtract 'p'*len from the sum, then divide by ('s'-'p') to get the s count. The 'p' count is len minus the 's' count.

The initial sum is easily vectorized as well.

If I've not made any mistakes it should work. Only issue is possible overflow on the running sum.

Can't be bothered to benchmark it though:).

edit: missed the decrement when you see 's'. So the final result is p_count - s_count.
I think it's a uniquely German problem, because nowhere else in the EU did Google have to blur buildings. Having immigrated to Germany I can tell that Germans are pretty much privacy-obsessed, with strict regulations on CCTV (you will get in trouble if your camera points to the street) and hardly anyone having a social media account.
This is an escalation of the intelligence over-reach because the Police are a much more intrusive force on everyday life.
There's a lot of hard work that goes into luck, but one aspect of the Nvidia story is of AMD's mismanagement. There's an alternate reality where OpenCL became the default instead of CUDA but that's not our reality.
The reason is that regulation has killed competition and the market has reached an equilibrium where margins are razor thin.
There are ways to make this problem less bad though. You have your permissive case and then write a number of examples into the law that show what you do not consider allowed and invite future courts to consider them. Pre-emptive case law (which is a lot cheaper than actual case law), if you will.
You can still download Reddit archives with the same data they used.
Five is right out!
Heh yeah sonic seems to be eating cumulus lunch downmarket but upmarket maybe not?
the highlighted thing is a microphone? i can't find anything about it googling for "s1457 4257". usually this leads you to specs etc.
* ... a compute-oriented continuation of the practice where they take the average of Nvidia and AMD's implementations, and then force the developer to deal with the overhead of harmonizing the details without going insane.

GPU compute is awful, almost as bad as GPU rendering.
I'm just imagining a pogo stick with a critically damped spring.
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Yet users use HN, Discord, and many other forums. I think "there can be only one" is what's misguided.
> They've been uploaded by some third party. No one cared in the slightest. I don't understand why this is news now.

Not saying it's right or wrong but there is a big difference between some random people uploading photos every now and then VS a huge conglomerate with huge resources repeatedly mapping everything with 360 photos. I can understand why one might make the news and the other doesn't.
These laws being byzantine is the result of almost two decades of legal battles. Meta and Google have batteries of competent lawyers and lobbyists, constantly testing for legal loopholes, interpretations and contesting complaints in European courts.

Privacy laws aren't new, they existed before the GDPR. But they were fractured and not up-to-par with the new digital reality of large scale collection of personal data. These laws are geared exactly against the very business model of Google and Meta: offer free services, be first to market and become a gatekeeper, collect user data as broadly as possible, sell business intelligence and marketing services to actual paying customers.

When Meta states that it can't release Threads due to "unknown legal liabilities" that's a round-about way of admitting that their business model doesn't entirely square with European laws, such as they are.

Finally, as far as size in terms of user base, revenue and expenses go, the likes of Meta, Google and Twitter are very much a league of their own. Given their business model and its profitability, it's inevitable that their goals and motives are at odds with the interests and legal rights of citizens.
So how does this work technically? Does the bill require, for example, Apple to build the capability to remotely activate the microphone and camera on their laptops? Or does it just say that the government can use their magic spy tech to do this when they want to?
Meta have already stated that no former twitter employees worked on Threads.

That's not all that surprising though, Meta could obviously build such a product from their own learnings and IP.
Did the friend park the car out the front of his house, with a license plate that would have been shared by the sister? In the suburbs you don’t need to be overly precise, do a drive by and stop at the house with the car?
> STEM grad students often have much bigger stipends than humanities grad students given that STEM is more well funded.

That was the opposite of my experience, actually.
where do you live that you are so certain this isn't already done?
You do this by first learning C (or similar languages) and then compilers and maybe also operating systems. What you're seeing in this blog is the equivalent result of at least one or two years university level education, so it's not like there is a single book or tutorial you could use to get you up to speed, especially if you have no previous experience in that area. And building a better compiler optimisation in general is a PhD thesis level task. But it's also not necessary if you want to design user applications on today's hardware.
Where can we aquire or access these local LLMs? How much space and specs does it actually require?
> Nowadays you can't really question anything that's taken as common knowledge. During Covid times it happened that stuff that were questioned in a year were disproved in the next year. Yet people who questioned it were treated like assholes (like it's already happening here).

Care to give examples? Because I don't remember anything those "questioning" were right about. I'll give you a short list of things they were wrong about that I can remember:

- "masks don't work"

- "it's just a flu"

- "vaccines are either perfect or fully ineffective"

- "they are using the crisis to control us and will never open back up"

- "as soon as the next US president is elected it will suddenly be over"
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An analysis using some reasonable assumptions suggests that is not a profitable idea for major tech companies.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24487744
I found that too reductive too (emails aren't always tasks either).

Making the point that notes are emails are tasks wasn't even necessary as an introduction to the main ideas of the article.
"Done is better than perfect" is still a good phrase for Meta.
No it's not and neither is writing a proper commit message. That's why you do both, but most of it goes in the commit. Like in the Git project
Because private debt is each individual responsibility. Public debt is the money of all tax payers
Given how AMD/ATI has fared with their shitty software ecosystem after close to 20 years (the first paper on using GPUs for CNN was in '05/'06 -ish where they were using shaders), calling Nvidia 'lucky' is quite unfair.

Those of us who were unlucky enough to buy a AMD GPU based on 'flop-count' were hurt quite badly. Nvidia's software compute-infra is simply unmatched.
Our founding fathers made the distinction between civil law and natural law.

Rights are granted by natural law. If rights were granted by civil law then they would not be rights, they would be privileges and privileges can be taken away.

That is a clear basis for which to make distinctions between cases a person might agree or disagree with even if the process is identical.

When law is used against the weak, it's probably wrong. When law is used against the powerful, it's probably right.

If you believe in rule of law, rule of law is the idea of preventing arbitrary exercises of power. You have to have power to exercise it, so rule of law is first and foremost a belief that the law should protect the weak and bind the powerful.
I'm sure people do that (even though it's not necessary per some year C standard) but generally the pattern is actually for converting things which are not already 0 or 1 into 0 or 1. For example, you might want to use it here:

int num_empty_strings = !!(strlen(s1)) + !!(strlen(s2)) + !!(strlen(s3))

which is equivalent to:

int num_empty_strings = (strlen(s1) != 0) + (strlen(s2) != 0) + (strlen(s3) != 0)

Which you use is really a matter of coding style.
> The point of this argument is that humans as a species are not going to go extinct (we have thumbs!)

And your evidence for that is temperatures millions of years ago, when neither we nor any of our close ancestors lived?
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The fall of Binance is overdue.

I hope the effects on account holders are small.
Makes you wonder if there's a possible set of RNA enzymes which could be isolated exist would be able to bootstrap the cytoplasmic environment as well.

The ultimate experiment would obviously be to go from a surfactant micelle in an amino acid soup to a functional cell synthesizing proteins using just genetic code or code precursors.
> People who saw the same marketing messages from the same people to believe the same things, who would think it.

Yes, except all of the people who don’t.

Let’s do a little experiment. Pick any 1 position or belief that I don’t hold and you brainwash me into it. Of course, you won’t be able to. Why not?

Edit: by the way are you even from the US? Or are you just speculating about what it’s like over here? Because the way you speak about jaywalking is completely alien to anyone actually living over here. Everyone jaywalks all the time; No one ever actually gets in trouble. And when cars hit people, it’s definitely the people driving that get in trouble
> But instead AMD has just followed Nvidia into making slow, uncompetitive GPUs at high prices.

It's true that modern GPUs are ridiculously expensive compared to where they were 10 years ago, but there still is a good sub-$200 GPU available: the RX 6600, from AMD. It's not the fastest, but from what I understand, it gives the most power for your buck of any modern GPU.