skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> despite that Germany was (or almost) defeated.

You forget that Germany started the war together with Russia. In 1939 Russia has also invaded several countries and unleashed terror.
There were plans to drop nuclear bomb on Moscow after Hitler was defeated, but instead the US and the UK thrown Eastern European countries under the bus and the war was frozen.

I wonder if Russia had received the same treatment as Japan, that we would have this ongoing threat for decades and now the invasion of Ukraine.
Because "engagement".

And because these are mega-corps run as money factories, the product of which is practically incidental. This is what it looks like when you have MBA/Growth specialists steering the ship based on "data". And the big table says "engagement numbers need to be higher". Then this makes perfect sense. What better way to boost all your numbers, incentivise activity, drop some permanently dead accounts (reducing the deonominator making first derivative numbers better), recoup purchases from returning accounts and pivot to the gold mine that is "not your games"/rentierism.
It's familiarity and following online "tuts" that show how to use particular tools.
How is legal?
When I buy something, I expect me to own it, that's why it's called "a sale" and not a "a lease" / whatever

I can't imagine a single reason how one party in the contract singlehandedly decides to change the nature of the contact
It does sound clever at first glance. It caught me at first, too.

The problem is, your fresh water is now several hundred feet below the surface. To raise it up to where you are, you need pumps to push up the same exact pressure differential that you got by putting the membrane so deep. And if you need to do that anyway, just use surface level water and pumps for ease of maintenance and access.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is a stinker... that's a take.

Movie wad fantastic. The Bruce Lee scene is fucking hilarious also.
Well, that seems more than a little draconian.

Where I live there's banned dogs too, but that mostly pertains to pugs with incredibly short snouts and other such health problems. Never mind that the police can't just seize your dog and get a court to approve having it killed.
Just when you thought you'd seen peak Hacker News...
There seems to be two things going on here:

1. World ID - a database of retina information about people.

2. Worldcoin - a cryptocurrency aimed at incentivizing people to give over this data.

Rather than rehashing a debate about cryptocurrency that's already well-trodden, it's worth looking at what's new here: their iris scanning tool as a way of validating a user's uniqueness.

This is already a well established problem domain, companies like Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple struggle to verify that users are unique (with an account or multiple accounts tied to a single human).

4chan blocks the ip addresses of bad users, many services require a phone number to sign up, some sites have tried requiring a credit card, Facebook I believe uses the social graph to figure out how likely an account is to be real. Apple, Microsoft, and Google all use some combination of biometrics and telemetry data to authenticate users. I've noticed more sites requiring government ID (see LinkedIn's verification process).

I'm not seeing any obvious advantage that World Id will have over these existing systems.

Also any time biometric data comes up it's worth pointing out that if your biometric data gets stolen unlike a password there's no easy way to change it.
> Yet to see other auto manufacturers come anywhere near Tesla’s driver assistance system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsb2XBAIWyA

There is nothing more to say about the 'glorious Tesla driver assistance system'. It can't even do basic tasks with super slow speed, no moving objects and all time in the world.
There's already a secondary market in fake Worldcoin retina scans.[1] Costs around $20.

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/05/24/black-market-for-...
Much like nprateem’s story i have refused to tell people my star sign before and it has resulted in uncomfortable situations.

They think it’s fun or maybe even “pophetic” and I think it’s a dangerous fantasy that most definitely should not guide life decisions.

But even if i protest these beliefs in a passive way by politely declining to engage, it ends up in heated arguments.
I think the author of that title could well do with a refresher course in epistemology and physics, as it is just not possible to do what they suggest. But even more unfortunate is how many people fall for deceptive marketing that really should not even fool the average 16-year-old.
Looks great! I was gifted a pen plotter 6 months ago and wrote a short post on my setup and workflow https://shahinrostami.com/articles/my-pen-plotter-setup/
Not to mention our wetbrain software is analog, resonant with the environment, continuous and has a single uptime, in most cases. We should consider developing llms in proto human history style, random noise meets environs, evolve useful signs and symbols based on clusters of semantic embedding. Uno reverse it through a dynamic parallel narrative simulator circuit with range of values for interpretative feedback of context analysis. Assign allomorphic symbols to conceptual clusters. Refine resolution. Add modules for memory and inputs for updating knowledge, shine it up with some polish and you've got AGI
I blatantly lie. Then when they tell me what I should like, tell them it was a lie and say a different one, also fake.
Was curious and got one but it does not remove everything. I have to finish the job with paper anyway. The result is bit better but I expected more. Like no more toilet paper just wipe with a towel. Am I mistaken?
How Older People Get Scammed
I use this crate to avoid the boilerplate https://jeltef.github.io/derive_more/derive_more/from.html
Tailored Access Division and Vault7.

And I'm sorry, you aren't entitled to any of that information one way or another it's CLASSIFIED.

Isn't your own government keeping secrets from you grand?
We are slowly working also on that
> [This more or less happened to a college roommate of mine (not CP though), and a Tor developer I knew through work.]

I'm getting a hunch that this happened in the US. Did this happen in the US?
Not a lawyer, but surely something can be both open source and trademarked? As far as I understand those are unrelated concepts. In this context, the “source” is the SVG markup.
its been there for a very long time
They are probably dumb rebroadcasters which is a bit of a hack, useful in some circumstances but not without causing their own problems.
That coin cost you one penny. Astrology props up an entire industry of grifters.
So, I understand the appeal of having something use pens to plot such things but… If I were to just use a regular printer to print those things (art, drawings, …), would the result be really different ? I have no pen plotter nor printer, so… I don't really understand what would be the main differences…
As an aside, the fact that Ubisoft try to get you to sign up for an online account from a console and will actively prevent you from playing a game if you don't (so long as you're connected to the internet) is too user hostile for me to begin with. I've basically stopped interacting with their games as a result.
Remember that EA had EA downloader around the time steam came around. However, their packaged goods division, who made most of the profit, saw it as infringing at their KPIs and someone pushed the inane idea it could make more money if it just allowed you to download the games you bought a fixed number of times to keep the project from getting killed.
Out of curiosity since it seems you have a lot of experience in this field, how does UTM compare to VMware Fusion on macOS? I used to run VirtualBox for years but switched to VMware due to recurring performance issues. Trying out VMware was like a breath of fresh air, things that used to take a lot of effort to configure suddenly worked right out of the box. How does UTM fare?
Maybe they updated their TOS to allow them to do something new with the users data (selling it, storing it in another region, etc) and they want to get rid of accounts that haven't accepted the change.

Its just a guess on my side what a possible rationale may be. Its equally likely that someone just put in a feature request for account expiry without really having a good reason and fully understanding the consequences.
> As a Worldcoin Operator, you earn money for everyone you sign up with an Orb

Uhuh.
I agree with everything you said. But I just one to make a correction.

Musk couldn't keep Twitter equal to what it was. To think I'd trust him with my money. Ha.
Yes, you are right. I should have said hair shaft instead of follicle.
> The new supercapacitor is using a material with a carbon “nano-onion” core structure, which creates multiple pores that allow storage of a greater volume of energy.

thats the only tech sentence in the whole article
> When I buy something, I expect me to own it

Well there's your problem, you never bought the thing. They use the language like 'buy' and 'sell', but in reality you're renting. This should be illegal IMO.
So, what made those who did managed to grok it, grok it? Given that they had the same teachers and material?
Europe also doesn’t have as much widespread air condition as the U.S. does.
Regarding the last point, that's true. Notice how there aren't any forums/communities/Discord channels centered on a single astrological sign.

It would be amusing though, to stumble upon a, say, Pisces forum where members try to figure out their behavior.
Given what Pushover does, I would say it is reasonable. It is a text notification service, not a bank instructions processor. "I'm not receiving any notifications" is likely to be a much more common customer complaint than "my message got truncated". Given that many of the users would not be coding the API integration themselves but using a tool like Zapier, it is reasonable to expect that they don't do text processing on the client side, and it would be the server's responsibility to deal with overflow text.
Isn't the fundamental issue that it doesn't have any way to tell if what it thinks it knows is or isn't true?

This article sounds like an idea I had independent not too long ago, but with a different goal:

LLMs are great at natural language comprehension, but also have a lot of neurons dedicated to factoids. Using neurons that way is really inefficient, can we split the "language" capability from the "knowledge" capability and have the former just look things up in a database?

My question was more about reducing the size of the network rather than reducing hallucinations, but it's still a separately updatable knowledge resource.

(The answer may actually be "no"; I don't study this professionally, but technical jargon is kinda both factual domain knowledge and also linguistic comprehension, which is why Oracle isn't competing with Starbucks for Java beans).
Also consider that while star sign might be the stated reason for incompatibility, the truth could have been an impression or gut feeling and so the astrological mismatch is simply a way to give a reason for their feelings, whether done consciously to save face, or subconsciously to have something decisive to latch onto.
Hence all my bits in brackets…
Soviet Union was an ally, and it is widely accepted that Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was a necessity to delay a looming war between Nazi Germany and Soviet Union, because Soviet Union was weaker but developing faster.
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The Nazi's never won an election, and even that was after a false-flag attack on congress. This would be like a US party receving 37% of the vote, after claiming the other party attacked congress (but really doing it themselves), then having their president appointed after the sitting president first gives up (after the party manages to create enough problems (with constant accusations that they used violence and personal threats to achieve that) that congress puts the president out of power with a vote of no confidence twice in just over a year. But each time the sitting president gets the confidence back from congress after a while.

Then the president essentially challenges the 37% of the vote party to form a government, then dies (ok - THIS one was not the Nazi's doing), and appoints, on his deathbed (against regulations) NOT the vice president, but the leader of the party that managed to vote his government out of office twice. Frankly, he did this out of desperation (well, probably, we don't know).

So no, Hitler got to power through ... uh ... "agressive political maneuvering" (with a lot of violence and killing on the side). NOT through elections. He was never elected. Never even managed to falsify an election.
> CPU-wise, JH7110 performs between rpi3 and rpi4. TH1520 is faster than rpi4.

In reality closer to a rpi3

> Else (GPU, I/O, cryptographic acceleration, hardware video codec acceleration and other peripherals), they are both significantly faster than rpi4.

if you can the GPU working, right now on Vision2 it's only usable in very few applications
On the other hand, it burns almost invisible.
>First, why the market share of IE is so resilient to die?

Because it came bundled with Windows and because the internet was designed for IE. You can see that even today: Chrome is bundled with Android, and the internet is designed for Chrome.

>Second, why did IE lose to Chrome from the position of market domination while Windows has always been dominating the desktop OS market?

Because IE, and specifically IE6, was a product of 2001. When Firefox (NOT Chrome) finally usurped the throne, it was because almost five years had passed since IE6 had released and the technologies for the internet and computers in general were being held back by what was then an ancient decrepit relic that was IE6.

Firefox introduced (mostly) W3C compliant (X)HTML, advanced CSS, JavaScript, tabbed browsing (nonchalantly stolen from Opera), and browser extensions/plugins among other things. Firefox was plain better than IE6 which at that point was frozen ancient technology, and Firefox usurped the throne from IE6. Microsoft's kneejerk reactions that were IE7 onwards and Trident!Edge came far too slow far too late and they never recovered from the loss.

Now you're probably asking why Chrome is the dominant monopoly browser today, and that answer is also easy: Chrome incorporated what Firefox introduced but marketed themselves more aggressively, continued to improve where Firefox languished upon obtaining the throne, and for better or worse threw out a lot of conventional computer nerd traditions which ultimately made for a more performant browser in line with common user desires.
Isn't this a serious simplification? Tokens are just the medium
Page Margins were the big missing feature for me. I'm glad they've been added.
And just you wait until the author of the article tries to work out why the wire isn't straight across but has a bend in it when the painting is hanging on a hook.

The tension on cable strung between two points is a function of the weight pulling down on it, and the reciprocal of the sine of the angle the cable makes where the weight hooks on. For it to be straight, the latter becomes infinite...
Strict liability would always apply in that case, if you sell product X for the intent of purpose Y and doing Y with X causes injury then the seller of X is strictly liable.

Strangely enough since raw milk is sold for "dog/animal use" that limits any liability for human consumption since it's explicitly sold for not human consumption.
> no law shall be made preventing an informed and consenting adult from consuming whatever substance they so please

Which is as stupid as it can get, unless you add the prescription that said adult must be the only one to bear the consequences of its consumption.

You want to binge-drink every night? Sure, why not? Just make sure in advance that you won't come in contact with civilised people while intoxicated, and sign a statement releasing the society from any duty to assist you when your liver shuts down. Similar for lighter or heavier drugs.

You want to smoke as a chimney? Damn, I'll fight with you to protect your right to fill your lungs with tar! Just don't go to the E.R. every time a small cold turns into a serious respiratory issue, and especially make sure you collect all the ashes and all the smoke, before they poison unwilling people.
So it's about the cartels now, huh? And you're really concerned by wellbeing and "life satisfaction" that you want to put people in jail because they consume a substance you don't. Prohibition style thinking.

Arguably, The most dangerous criminal organizations in the world are probably the security agencies and forces which cause untold damage around the world and, incidentally, have ties with druglords like in Afghanistan.

But I'm sure you'd support those over the individual's choice of what to do with their body regardless of what your Religious like belief that's you should get to decide what fulfills someone's life. Maybe reading certain books is something we don't need, right?

The insult at the end just exposes you further. Drug cartels exist due to those things being illegal, not the other way around, but stay classy.
You need something that demonstrates that you can code - not just PyTorch and ML-specific code but general software development - creating and deploying an API, using a database, being comfortable with cloud tools etc.

That + having a math PhD is enough to get interviews, the rest is interview prep which can be company dependent but it's usually basic ML knowledge + a coding test.
> Enough unit testing will test everything the type system can

Depends on the type system. For example, if we have parametricity then we can constrain possible values quite a lot; e.g. a value with type 'forall t. t -> t' is the identity function (or diverges, if our language is non-total). If we don't have parametricity, such values could do all sorts of shenanigans, e.g.

def f[T](x: T): T = x match {
case n: BigInt if isOdd(n) && isPerfect(n) => n+1
case _ => x
}

This acts as the identity function for all values of all types; except if we give it a BigInt which is an odd perfect number. This is probably the identity function, but ensuring there are no edge cases would require our test suite to solve a famously hard problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_number#Odd_perfect_num...

(This sort of guarantee is known as a "free theorem", e.g. see https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/09/22/parametricity-money-f... )
I agree with all of that, I just prefer Dio. I definitely wouldn't want War Pigs to not have existed, though, or to not have been sung by Ozzy.
If I think for print the single most important thing that I would think of is CMYK support
It wasn't a chronological order, of course...
But if before the languages were more or less field specific, now with each language you can build any kind of application and it became very difficult to make a choice or simply keep up with the daily updates.
> Not everyone views astrology’s rising prominence as a positive development.

What bs journalism is this? Would she phrases it thia way of it was about flat earth theory? Racism? Etc.?
> I seem to recall trademark troubles with Oracle, which led to everyone forking and starting Jenkins.

Well, you have a keyword in there, "everyone". All but 1 major contributor (not even the main contributor and definitely not the project architect and lead) disagreed with their decision.

Oracle persisted with the help of that major contributor - an Oracle employee, BTW - and while Jenkins was being created, they did not want to contribute and instead tried to create a competing effort over at the Eclipse Foundation.

Jenkins was receiving 95% of the contributions because, as you said, "everyone" was helping out, while Hudson was slowly dying on the vine at the Eclipse Foundation, and Oracle was putting out cheerful release announcements for it <<for years>> even though anyone who checked the commit logs could clearly see that Hudson was dying.

Oracle kept pushing with Hudson internally for quite a few years but even they gave up and buried Hudson a while ago.

Similar story with OpenOffice. They <<really, really>> wanted control so they forced everyone else to force through their actions and OpenOffice basically had the same face, Apache Foundation, death. Though OpenOffice is more of a zombie these days, I don't think it's been shut down completely like Hudson.
I recently re-logged in to my Steam account for the first time since 2014 and everything was just fine. I had no idea how to work anything but managed to play my old friend at Counterstrike. I sucked.
Once upon a time, I was pretty involved with Finnish student organizations. It's more accurate to say that Finnish universities don't have that many organized clubs. It's the students who have them. Students often have a lot of free time, and they get involved in all kinds of activities. Their clubs tend to be independent legal entities with minimal formal connections to the university. Some of the more successful ones I knew often had some trouble maintaining >50% students in their membership in order to qualify for various benefits from the student union.

Second, according to Finnish law,

> The mission of the universities is to promote independent academic research as well as academic and artistic education, to provide research-based higher education and to educate students to serve their country and humanity at large.

It has been argued that getting involved in volunteer activities is part of the education. Participating in college sports would qualify, while watching them and supporting your team would not.
> I'll grant you, but it has adaptive cruise and lane centering, which makes long cruises effortless.

That's all stuff that Mercedes cars have since decades?

The first radar-based dynamic cruise control was implemented on the 1999 W-220 S class. Mercedes cars had lane centering and even automatic lane changing since 2013.

Even today Mercedes is the first and only manufacturer to offer level 3 automatic self driving.

There's lots of things that Mercedes has been doing wrong in years (design wise especially, but engine choices on AMG models have also been questionable lately) but the safety and comfort of their premium cars (E class and upwards) is still at the top end of the industry.
SPARC is dead and Power was only recently opened (probably in response to RISC-V).

Neither of them originated from a neutral source.
People are not shocked and poor training data is not the main reason LLMs are not trustworthy.
We have had pretty bad experience with NATS. Apart from core NATS which is just in memory, you need their sub modules to build any kind of serious business on top of it.

We initially built our code around NATSStreaming, they then went ahead and deprecated that.

But since we saw so many big companies using NATS, they thought it might be a good idea to stick with it and we did a year long migration to their shiny new NATSJetstream Push based approach, but from what I see now in the conversations they are going to deprecate that too in favour of Pull based approach which is architecturally very different, now we will have to somehow convince management for another rewrite. I am not sure if we should even rewrite or just move to another product at this point.

Dear NATS, please stop throwing away and rewriting protocols and products. Or make it such that the end client libraries would handle that upgrade automatically with a library upgrade.

We should have just stuck with the more traditional Kafka or RabbitMQ.

What I have also learnt is that when companies put big brand logos on their websites, it just means some random Dev from that company is using it for their side project or experimental mini project.
Uhh. Google tent cities for a start.
California is pretty brutal.