skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It always comes down to trust. With WorldCoin you have to trust a private company which in turn trusts random "Orb Operators" to operate the Orb devices which you again have to trust. For a system which wants to be used for UBI and voting the incentives are too strong to not to abuse this big amount of required trust.

It doesn't matter if the source code and hardware plans of the Orbs are made public if we can't inspect a given Orb. Who's to say if that Orb doesn't generate 10% more IDs for someone than real ones.

You think those concerns are theoretical? Well there has been already abuse before the project officially was launched: https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/06/1048981/worldcoi...

And then there is the inflationary nature of the coin itself due to the weekly issueance of coins for each user. This gives an incentive for the people behind the project like Sam Altman and Andressen Horowitz to cash out their part. They allocated 20% of the whole supply to themselves. A quarter billion dollars was put into the project and you can bet they'll want a good return on it while trying to portrait it as something like a charitable project.

I remain very sceptical.
Build it and they will come.

The trains in the Boston - NYC - DC corridor seem fairly decent and useful, although I’ve only ridden them as a tourist (from Europe).
> The universe started with light in both accounts.

First light was estimated to be about 240,000 to 300,000 years after the big bang, so I would hesitate to say that the universe started with light [1]. You could determine that the first "day" started 300,000 years or so after the big bang, but then that throws off the other timings of creation. This demonstrates how the bible isn't even precise enough to be proven wrong as the "day" can seem to mean whatever people want it to mean.

> I take it to mean the creation account is from God's perspective not ours.

This sounds to me almost like a get-out clause as presumably God's perspective can be interpreted to be anything you want and cannot be proven false (similar to how an invisible pink unicorn's perspective can never be proven false).

[1] https://phys.org/news/2016-11-universe.html
That’s the claim, but no such process has been implemented yet. At best we’re in the early stages. One thing to be aware is just how much BS there is around this topic. It is classic greenwashing and it is similar to the plastic recycling story.

> The batteries are valuable and recyclable, but because of technical, economic, and other factors, less than 5% are recycled today.

https://cen.acs.org/materials/energy-storage/time-serious-re...
While the article is dated July 23, the event took place July 14.
https://ams.imo.net/members/imo_view/event/2023/3513
AI researcher Geoffrey Hinton thinks AI has or will have emotions
Nah, it has nothing to do with aggression, violence or crime. That's a misconception of outsiders who hear the loud music and growled vocals and assume they are an attempt at intimidation. In truth it's just a very strict art form, and I know it's hard to see it as an art form but that's what it is. It has a certain range of emotions that it chooses to express but it doesn't really have a message, like, go out and eat some babies alive.

There's going to be exceptions to the rule of course, but the majority of kids who dig this stuff are nerds. They finish school and go into a STEM field in science or work in the industry as coders. Like, my best friend in high school was into Cannibal Corpse and splatter gore bands like that, and now he's a doctor. And, hey, I was all into Black Metal and now I got a PhD in computer science. Yeah?

In fact, for me and my friends at least, being into this stuff was also a way to draw a clean line between us and the kids who wanted to grow up and be rich bimbos like their moms and dads, that sort of thing. Not that my friend who's a doctor is poor, but in my school at least we had lots of the kind of kid who comes in with expensive new clothes and brags about her dad's car or where the family is going skiing this Christmas, and it was fun to flip them the bird every day by coming into school with a Kreator t-shirt with a severed head sinking into blood (albeit very stylised; and Kreator aren't death metal). So for some kids at least there was a bit of that. Nerd solidarity, like.
Recommended reading Sandworm.

Loud discoverable attacks are more of a benefit for the industry than not. Industry builds more resilience. This exploit also becomes closed to those who cover their trails. This is actionable news and therefore good.
Parents Hire $4K Sorority Consultants to Help Daughters Impress During Rush
You don't own data. You can copyright data, maybe.

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/science_technology/public...
uh yes? Did you pay for textbooks in school?

Do you regularly copy protected software and claim it as your own creation?

I’ve seen this argument every time someone states that these for profit ai companies should not have complete access to a all of human knowledge and I just don’t see how we’re living in the same world.
What views in particular have made her controversial?
I share the sentiment. It's sad that given the tools available to securely verify someone without exposing PII we still scan people's ID and shrug when they get leaked/resold/etc. (By design, of course)
I've used MermaidJS to create sequence diagrams for the project I'm working on and it helped tremendously in discovering what a heap of steaming manure I wrought.
Whew, my 5600X looks like it avoided this one too. :)
Most of this Cloud technology we like to go all atwitter about is a retread or a redesign of software that's been on mainframes for thirty years. The old farts must laugh themselves silly looking at us acting like we discovered a large white object orbiting the earth.
Stable-Diffusion-Webui-Colab
I guess I find the name collision with Google X—quoting the guidelines again—to be "too common to be interesting." But one man's pithy is another's snarky, so to each their own.
There's no mention of distribution, which is a huge advantage for rust since it compiles to a static binary.

There are many applications where the algorithms are written by a specialist which is then compiled into a static binary for use in another application or UI. This is why FORTRAN C and C++ are so popular in the scientific computing field for writing numerical algorithms. It's not just for speed, there is clear separation of concerns here.

Julia is still far behind here as you can't compile to a GC free static binary yet. There is PackageCompiler.jl but it appears it makes large binaries.

Scientific analysis and plotting is just one aspect, ultimately your algorithms would have to be distributed for use by others.
Hey, thanks for the feedback! Greatly appreciated.

1. Yes I think "locking" makes sense. The entire action of viewing the paths to different destinations still needs to be polished up, especially for the mobile version as well. When I tried it before posting to HN it was instant (30ms) but now it seems to be extra laggy because the CPU is maxed. I just upgraded the server from 4 -> 16 cpus, so let's hope that does something haha.

2. 100%

3. Agree as well. I chose the easiest solution when developing (and I also develop on a large monitor so it's harder to notice the occlusion), but adding a hide toggle would certainly have been better.
Statement on “HXP CTF Chrome 0day bug”
Why does disabling SMT not fully prevent this? I don't know the details of Zen 2 architecture, but register files are usually implemented as SRAM on the CPU-die itself. So unless the core is running SMT, I don't understand how another thread could be accessing the register file to write a secret.
Text-to-Video-Synthesis-Colab
Sometimes they do, sometimes they don’t. I think most people want credit for the original ideas and effort they put in, even for something like fanfiction. And fanfic is already legally very gray! Street artists in NYC selling copies of copyrighted work aren’t there to be creative, of course. But they’re also definitely breaking copyright law.
Thanks! Will definitely look them up
"Ultimately, your apps can offer seamless continuity following a restart – for updates or otherwise – by following a few best practices:

Save the user’s state.
Remember how their previous views were positioned.
Relaunch the app following the update.

"

The app that does this the best for me as a user, is Firefox with it's restore tabs feature. The App that I dislike the most in this context MS Teams. It is too pushy.

I am curious about your interactions with these state-saving features. Which work best for you and which do you think just get in the way?
And???

Sometimes a bug just doesn't have the same importance to the maintainers as it does to you.

If it's that important, fix it yourself.
So are Ryzen 5000's without Radeon not vulnerable? I guess said processors are zen 3?

I have an "AMD Ryzen 9 5950x Desktop Processor" which appears to be Zen 3. I think I'm good?

(Not that I'm running untrusted workloads, but yknow, fortune favors the prepared)
I don't have any worries that SpaceX goes under financially. I'm more worried Musk allowing Russian or Chinese companies access to their launch vehicles, or refusing to launch US/Western hardware because he thinks his ass hasn't been kissed enough.
How many more platforms do we need where users can post all sorts of media and follow other’s content? Every social media site copies features from another, and they are all basically the same item wrapped in a different package. When will people wake up and return to RSS?
For God's sake stop highjacking scroll, people.
Two rent seekers fighting each other - will be interesting to see what happens.
Blood in the water on twitter (x). It’s time to pounce.
Past a certain density point probably. It also helps if there's some degree of concentration where people want to go even if the city as a whole is only medium density.

However, things get too spread out and it breaks down--including that transit runs on a sufficiently spaced-out schedule that people with a choice just don't want to take it.
Exactly this, I grew up very rural and studied computer science in college, since I didn’t have any connections to companies needing my skills through parents, friends, etc. these interactions in college with kids from cities and making friends with them netted me my first job out of college.
Wow, I want to take classes from whoever authored this document in how to business bullshit. They seem to have mastered it completely.
For God's sake people, stop highjacking scroll.
I suspect the "X" branding for these companies has less to do with Roman numerals and more to do with the prominent use of "X" in mathematics as a unknown variable, and that's due to René Descartes according to:

https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/8109/why-are-x-and-y...
Never Says Anybody : Never roll your own crypto, as a large org.
You don’t know how many times a minute I read HN.
Didn't Google Brain start as an X project?

EDIT: It did, it's listed on that page. "Attention is all you need" was published by Brain and was a key contributor to the current AI boom.
The angry/warning caw of a crow is sometimes called scolding, I think. It has a wide range of intensity. There were many American crows around my last house. The degree to which they cawed, and in particular started up a chorus, was proportional to the threat. On my normal routine, I would get a few caws, and then they'd settle. If I diverged from my routine and for example, walked off the path, or if I had others with me, it would get a bigger response. And when I let the dog out it was just a flood of angry cawing.
Drought and flooding happening in many places in the world destabilizing grain prices.

Agricultural risks consolidating ag into even more megacorps.

Insurance costs making a lot of currently habitable places uninsurable, and after a few natural catastrophes nobody willing to settle in them.

Wet-bulb temperatures making the deaths of a few hundred thousands of people a frequent occurrence in many parts of the world.

Marine die-offs making the source of cheap high-quality protein in many places no longer accessible and lowering nutrition in several human populations.
>the next big thing which recently got disbanded

A redesign that only applies to 30% of the website? A new video player that's even more broken?
I’m not sure if this will be any good, so I’m hoping to get some input.
> the 'this' has a very specific value even though you did not pass in an argument of that name nor did you ever assign a value to a local variable of that name.

It's just an implicit parameter named `this` whose argument happens to appear to the left of the `.` instead of after the `(`. Yes, there's a little extra work in the language to support this, but it's not particularly complex or deep semantically.

(In fact `this` is particularly semantically shallow in JavaScript because as your example notes, it's not even bound when a reference to a method is taken. In most other languages, `myOb.funk` will give you a function that partially applies `this`.)
Can confirm, although the resulting awareness might be worth the headache.
I swear to the Gawd, this morning it was redirecting to GoDaddy and I had a good belly-laugh
The original vector facility is gone, but the Z Vector Extension (VX) is utilized by AI/ML software, such as NumPy, OpenBLAS, etc.
Throughout my career, the term i heard most often for this type of scenario was: "Which neck to choke when stuff fails...", or something like "...the least number of necks to choke when stuff fails...", etc. lol :-D
>If they have pictures on their PCs they are.

If I have porn with men on my computer, it does not mean that I am gay or have raped men. Your reasoning is absurd.
If POST takes a long time it’s often memory training, backing off on the timings just slightly might make it go a lot quicker. Bios updates also often twiddle knobs in this area.
Because the context switch only affects architectural state not microarchitectural state.
What makes your reply different from a reply ChatGPT would have written?

If nothing - where is that intelligence you are talking about? That intelligence that only humans have?
I'd be really mad if I owned Twitter stock.
It's just a dodgy French to English translation which then became a convention. Instead of e.g. to_string's buddy being called from_string, it was called of_string.

Here's a thread of reddit about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/ocaml/comments/6es88t/what_does_the...
If you think the companies scraping the data care at all what your opinion is you're going to be disappointed. It's the forgiveness instead of permission approach. Break the rules and negotiate the costs after you've already trained your model and are raking in the money.
I use aol.com !
This has less to do with CS and more to do with engineering constraints. Conflating the two is common but in this case it matters. Algorithms themselves are not system-specific. RFCs codify an idea and the people who write the code make the system specific modifications. In this case routers are bespoke enough still that standards are basically controlled by a few major players.
Convex 1.0
This fun blog about infrastructure and living in Antarctica: https://brr.fyi
The correlation between MBTI and the Big-5 is surprisingly strong (except for neuroticism, which has no representation in the MBTI):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indi...

I look at personality typologies in general as approximations. If you actually want to get to know a person, get to know them. But when you need to make a snap judgment about how someone might see the world and react to you, on very little information, it's handy to have a general archetype as guidelines. You can fill in all the details later.

It's not unlike Carmack's fast inverse square root, a Bloom filter, or how Google hasn't used PageRank since 2006 (instead substituting a cheaper-to-calculate approximation). Yes, they give wrong answers. But the answers are usually close enough that when you lack the computing power to get a better result, they'll do.
I think most people don’t know this (I didn’t until recently) but you can upload documents to ChatGPT if you’re a paying member:
https://chat.openai.com

Choose GPT4 and Code Interpreter (you have to turn it on in your Settings).

Then click the “plus” icon in the chat box.

Don’t upload anything sensitive.
It doesn't sound better in french. Any reasonable french version should be translated as "from".
When I google for "koka effekt" I get pages in German about the effects of cocain. They should maybe reconsider the "Koka" part of the project name?
That’s not what most people would see as “institutionalised prejudice” though.
FS also co-authored the pre-chromium (presto) SVG engine in Opera so he probably has a unique perspective.
"It happened twice but let's make it look like a trend and get some clicks"
How is it natural to write code like that?

If it's None, don't put it in the cache. If T is None, don't put it in the cache.

if (typeof input != None) putInCache(input)
Oxide seems to be trying to build a similar arrangement with customers. That's half their motivation for switching to open firmware for the little computers hidden in your machine. There's a big game of fingerpointing these days where you call your vendor and they blame one of their vendors and can't/won't hunt down the issue for you.

The ways I've heard that explained sound exhausting. Paying anyone who you can say, "your machine broke come fix it" and they actually do, is probably worth the money. Right now Cloud providers and IBM are the only ones really providing that service. I suspect history will say that people were not running to the Cloud so much as running away from bullshit hardware vendors.
Magnificent read.
Banned for speaking the truth? Sad to hear of this.
I feel like a lot of people don’t fully appreciate this point because they are well adjusted and hear no constantly.

You have to view these billionaires as toddlers. They never hear a simple “no”, and when they do they go apoplectic.
He’s said X is an app to do everything similar to WeChat in China. I suspect this will blow over and twitter will remain a sub product within a larger app. No way people are going to change the language they use.
Why is every rich asshole obsessed with “X”?

Disgraced Uber CEO/founde (“TK” — within his inner circle, douche alert lol) with inserting X into their products

Twitter randomly renamed to “X” by Elon

Tesla car with X

Google has some X product, probably. I think their R&D dept is just named “X”

Apple had a brief “X” and “XS” phase with their iPhones (instead of just using 10 or 10S)
Does it?

Social media doesn't age well. Look at myspace. This will be controversial, but Google didn't get where it wanted/needed to be with Google+ and they ripped the cord out of the wall; it seemed like it was just google being google but it may have been genius.

I was also critical of FB/Meta buying Insta, I figured it was all going to somehow be Facebookgram but they kept it separate. FB is now for old people and Insta is probably at its peak. I will not be shocked when Meta launches a new video oriented application similar to TikTok or YouTube but somehow different.

Twitter has been toxic from day one, in fact I think the very idea of reducing discourse to something the size of a tweet is bad for the world. Lately it has been a cesspool, I get targeted political content that I absolutely never sought out, very obviously biased. That aside, do you somehow "rehabilitate" twitter? Or do you scuttle it and have a newness? Rebranding seems like the most realistic Hail Mary option, it can possibly be new without rebuilding everything. I don't think it will work and I don't really want it to, personally, but it's a bold play that is way better than continuing to watch it erode. I've heard 2 or 3 different media sources talking about twitter in the last week, partially about the "X" but also very openly about how it isn't the same thing and they don't like it. It might be too late when NYTimes podcasts are openly talking about how the reporters dislike using it anymore.

I'm not a super active participant in or consumer of "social media" but I can't remember one having a second act, once it was no longer "cool" it seemed like the party was over, did I miss one that reinvented itself? Twitter is not cool anymore.
That’s because mammals aren’t reptiles:

Mammals are from Synapsids[0] and dinosaurs (and modern reptiles) are from Sauropsida[1] — with the commonality being that amphibians split off first [2]. We can draw disjoint clades, which we cannot do for birds and dinosaurs. Beyond that, you’re just talking about tetrapods in general [3]. Reptiliomorpha has multiple names, precisely due to this — eg, pan-amniota.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synapsid

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauropsida

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amniote

3 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrapod
> why do we suddenly need to prove who’s an actual human?

Voting and UBI are often cited as valuable use cases.

It will definitely be subverted if it becomes widespread enough to be impactful.
Perhaps subscribers get to call it XX, or even XXX?

Rebranding requires careful thought and planning and even then is often unsuccessful. This name change hasn't even been given a second's thought.
This is quite possibly the first good language comparison I've seen on HN. Good job!

The upshot:

1. If you need to eke out that last extra drop of performance, and can't deal with any mistakes, Rust is good because it makes it very difficult to write slow code. Julia makes it easy, because Julia needs to be easy to write.

2. Julia's greater permissiveness means the compiler can't catch as many bugs as Rust's (although it still catches far more than Python's static analysis tools or C, where every other line has some undefined behavior).

3. If you need interactive+dynamic code, Julia is your best bet. It's a lot like Python in this regard, but with a much better UX in the form of a better REPL, package management, etc. Well-written Julia code will also be just as fast as Rust or C++, meaning you can use it for high-performance computing.

4. If you want a scientific/machine learning ecosystem, go with Julia.

I think this post is strongest in hitting Julia where its problems are -- Julia can be a bit too permissive/promiscuous with letting you do dumb things.

Where it's weakest is letting Rust off the hook a bit too easy. Rust is good at making it hard to write bad code, but the cost is it makes it hard to write code in general, unless you handle every detail that might slow your code down. You're not going to get users happily writing Rust when they just want to make a plot. It takes about 5-10 lines of Rust to create one line of Julia code.
It’s an old scam that certainly predates Derren Brown. I read about it in a Martin Gardner column.