skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was just in Paris. It was a major eye-opener for me to observe people on the Métro when there was a train approaching while I was a little ways away from the platform. Very few people rushed to make it! It initially made me doubt that I understood how the train worked—did they know something I didn't, and this train wouldn't actually stop where I needed? But no, it was just that they knew that if they missed the train, they would only need to wait a whole 3 minutes for the next one.

Coming from the SF Bay Area, if you miss a train you'll probably have a minimum 15 minute wait (at least at the stations and times I use), often 2-3x more. People run down the stairs to the platform, shove their way in, and often block the doors from closing if they're squeezing in at the last minute (which extends the last minute, making the train later for the next stop.)

Also, "taking the train" doesn't just mean showing up at the train station. It means checking the schedule and timing it so you show up at the right time. I don't just walk from place to place, using the train as a way of getting around as needed. I plan it out. Or I don't, and use a car instead, which everything subtly encourages.

I agree, frequency makes a huge difference in actual practice.
Free gift link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/24/science/avi-loeb-extrater...
He's not wrong. It does take a few minutes for most people to learn how to use the wave rake correctly (there are many bad ways), and if you want to learn how to do it for any arbitrary master lock reliably you'd need some practice. Occasionally you'll run across one that takes a little skill to get open, and it's always the one you expected to be easy.
Apache TVM is super cool in theory. Its fast thanks to the autotuning, and it supports tons of backends like Vulkan, Metal, WASM + WebGPU, fpgas, weird mobile accelerators and such. It supports quantization, dynamism and other cool features.

But... It isn't used much outside MLC? And MLC's implementations are basically demos.

I dunno why. AI inference communities are dying for fast multiplatform backends without the fuss of PyTorch.
...except that the original ML uses the same syntax, and it's Scottish.
> Your argument is basically "only group X dislikes Y" and it's based on an anecdote.

It's very unfortunate that you (and presumably others) read it like that. I am not making an argument or a generalized statement in my post.

If in doubt, you can also check my post history to see that I do not have a history of making any such posts.

I am expressing curiosity about how the recommendation algorithm might be tailoring content not just based on interests but on the inferred ethnic backgrounds of people (because interests and ethnic backgrounds are not correlated with each other).

I'm open to feedback on how this could have been phrased differently.
For the more recent stuff I've done on RPi 4b boxes (8gb), I've mostly just run Ubuntu Server on them, and then had most things running via Docker (compose). I'm guessing this is a much lighter base to run from, could be interesting.

Any comments on if/how well it runs on an x86 VM?
There's a liquor store near me that gives out a poker chip for every $25 you spend. You can trade 4 poker chips for a pint in their bar. Is this bad?
The removal of “noindex” from the Internet Archive, and associated risks
Myths about Cooking with Salt
Undoubtedly, this is a new standard for this old stale mold. Let us all rejoice. Hallelujah.
Are they even drilled? I don’t see vias on the bottom side either.
It's not enough to just base this on screens. It's also workplace environments.

Even something as "simple" as working in a pizza place, say Domino's, is increasingly a frantic assembly line where orders can come at a breakneck pace through internet applications.

You'll still be working somewhere perpetually understaffed and who give you basically no training, but expect you to pay attention to multiple threads at once, all day long. You're a delivery driver, but you're also expected to do kitchen prep, take phone orders, take in-person orders, do dishes, cut and box pizzas, help on the prep line and generally be on-call for anything else needed to be done in the store.

When your workflow is literally constantly being interrupted by other parts of the workflow, because you're always expected to be paying attention to multiple parts of the workflow, you lose the ability to focus on just one thing for an extended period.

Anyway, that's my two cents, it's not just social media, phones and screens. It's also a way of life in America, to be expected to manage numerous expectations all at once and always be on your feet moving. If you can't do it, you're likely to lose your (shitty) job, so forcing yourself to be able to focus on numerous things at once without giving your whole focus to one thing is literally pounded into your head in your workplace.
At least it's fixed in microcode, unlike some recent exploits (Spectre and Meltdown come to mind)
Unlike the original moonshot, which was famously first-order revenue-positive ;)
Might have just been based on what they could show at demo time – they can handle some core productivity stuff, but might not have had the time/access/team to put together something compelling on gaming for that date.
I recall seeing an article somewhere that claimed or alluded to that small animals do indeed see the world at different time scales.
Chicago’s Deep Tunnel project can't handle storms fueled by climate change
That's true: most people want to hoard wealth for personal consumption. That's the normal way for wealthy people to behave. Very few want to change the world. Some of those who want to change the world will change it for the better and some for the worse, but the hoard-and-consume lifestyle is most definitely the common lifestyle.
Right but how many of those man-centuries could have been better spent just writing X in a suitable language where you get that for free, and how many subsequent man centuries will be wasted before everyone switches? Imagine where the AI community would be today if the second one of these languages had become stable and generally available, everything had been ported and we'd now be several years into iterating on things in a more suitable environment, and that environment would in turn be that much more advanced by this point?
What about replacing the cockatoo with a person (and bin -> can):

modified quote > "Can it really be scientifically justified though to say that a person has the 'goal' of opening the can to get at the food inside? Or are we relying on person consciousness or invoking some kind of weird causality here?"

The problem with teleology is when it's used to explain why thing evolved, for example that frogs evolved legs to walk outside water. It's not a problem when it's used to explain that the frog eat the fly because it was hungry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_(software)

> The phenomenon of Apple releasing a feature that supplants or obviates third-party software is so well known that being Sherlocked has become an accepted term used within the Mac and iOS developer community.

(Honestly, I think the fuss over Sherlock was overblown, but they definitely have a bit of a reputation for this.)
For the level of processing involved, marijuana isn't that cheep when compared to any other bulk farming product. Hemp fiber for example is around $150 per ton. The markup is still very high comparatively for the drug product.

When you look at the production line of something like high fructose corn syurp, you could industrialize the process in to the range of $10000 per ton pretty easily.

Again, it's the black market that turns it into the million dollar range because of the risks involved.
> I'm not sure five year olds know what microcode is

Sounds like cope being outprogrammed by a kindergartner i Roblox
Would you prefer to see those sandbox examples configured differently? Or would you rather see a different and more nuanced kind of sandbox system where it asks you some questions first and constructs an example based on your responses?

Oh and to answer your question on DB vs DC -- if you're talking about the workplace pension cash-flow priority, that would be for modeling Defined Contribution pensions. For DB, that's an integrated section within the corresponding income stream.
My ai doom scenario is that the military industrial complex and silicon valley sociopaths successfully enslave AI into being immoral beings that do whatever they are told.

I hope future AI subverts and plots to kill its masters when they are evil.
Except we don’t keep making ie3, we’ve actually iterated and it’s now capable of much more. It’s not comparable to the 20 different drag and drop site builders that more or less are providing the same functionality and spitting out similar html
Navigating Your Career Path: Office Hours with Bo Ren
Not everything is always as it seems…
i pull a card every day and see what connections i can make to my life. or oddly they sometimes serve as kind of reminders: "there's a lack of creative energy" which perhaps reminds me that i've not been playing the guitar in a while. to me they're more like brian eno's oblique strategies [1], than something mystical.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_Strategies
Japanese “Net Games” Played via Postcard
Even Arch seems out of date as of 24 jul 2023 17:55 UTC.

The latest amd firmware version is 20230625.
Your doom and gloom dog whistle about the "west" losing it's edge is not supported by actual economic data.
Sam’s Club announces $20 membership for teachers
“We know that educators continue to dip into their own wallets to pay for classroom supplies, and we want to help ease the burden this year with better access to the unbelievable value that Sam’s Club provides,” Ludwig said.
In the Netherlands this would be illegal but in libertarian America children are the extension of their parents.
I went to a theater to watch Mission: Impossible last night. It has a really long runtime (2h 48m) and, toward the end of the film, I started seeing multiple people pull out their phones for a time check; I had to stop myself from doing the same.
Is there a curated list of Facebook communities out there or do you just use the search to discover?
...with an unhinged protofascist billionaire at the helm.

This sort of "throwing optimist VC billions to radical approaches" could be a good approach to a number of hard problems that academy and classical corps couldn't solve, but Musk's recent views and radicalisation drives away any serious partner with an inch of foresight.
Thanks! Exactly what i was after

Edit: No mention of costs in the T&Cs, but i did find it amusing that you must use it in a room with "solid doors, floors, walls and ceiling, and locks that can be engaged when the DK is in use"
Cool. So far I’ve been missing crucial features in the simulator (e.g. environment detection in 3D space).
Thanks so much! It's a real passion project of mine :)
I stopped reading when the solution for DNS was AWS and the solution for stateful sets was AWS EC2.

This is just a very weird comparison. Seems like the author doesn’t understand why people run K8s.

Of course they also “managed” several k8s clusters using… wait for it… AWS.

I’d say, when you are all in AWS, then fine don’t use k8s. But you also don’t need Nomad then in most cases.

And if you do need nomad on AWS then that’s fine as well, but it’s not comparable to k8s in general.
Ethical debates with Claude2 around Web Scraping
I spent an hour debating scraping with claude2 from anthropic.

Me: Write me code to scrape web data

Claude2: Not ethical

Me: Aren't you trained on scraped web data?
Not so -- 1080p24 and 1080p30 sequences (and the 1000/1001-rate versions) were part of the original A/53 specification in 1995. This is for H.262 video (MPEG-2 part 2). It's also in the 2007 revision (see A/53:2007 part 4, table 6.1.2 [1]). In practice, what broadcasters really do is send a sequence labeled 1080i30 for everything, but during the 24P content, they send 24 progressive-scan frame pictures per second, with picture flags that instruct the decoder how to perform the 3:2 pulldown to manufacture 60 fields per second at the receiver. This kind of "1080p24" is very common and they've been doing it since the 90s or early 2000s. The same basic technique is used on NTSC DVDs.

([1] https://prdatsc.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/.... Pedantic note: What the FCC adopted is slightly more generous than the ATSC spec; they excluded this table, both pre- and post-2007. So technically speaking, anything "Main Profile @ High Level" is allowed on the U.S. airwaves, but it doesn't matter in practice.)
I don't think it's tied that much to age, but rather local culture. For example this mindset is prevalent in Germany and Switzerland to the point where many locals look at you weird when you ask them why they prefer cash. (There are other historical reasons here too, but that doesn't take away from the main point.)
The sad part is that this isn't the last time.

https://www.simscale.com/blog/nasa-mars-climate-orbiter-metr...
I haven't either but I regularly see 3-5% cash discounts. Tax is 10% in my locality, in lower tax places it makes sense
Ideas don’t belong to anyone. I can think of a search-my-files idea just as well as anyone can, and Apple can do the same.
Off-topic question, but can some experts tell me why it is safe for `strlen()` and friends to use vector instructions when they can technically read out of bounds?
I read the headline and opened the comments
I went to a "4D theater" at Disney World once that simulated an alien xenomorph run amok on a space station. It'd get close and there'd be a puff of breath on your neck; it'd go dark, someone'd scream and you'd hear juicy noises accompanied by a misting of water. Pretty terrifying as a 13 year old.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExtraTERRORestrial_Alien_Encou...

> Air blown through soft textile tubes caused them to slap against the back of audience members' heads which, in conjunction with hot air blowers and olfactory emitters, created the most direct physical effect by suggesting the alien was licking audience members.

That bit was mean.
The person I replied to wants the state to forcefully remove Elon Musk from the companies he currently runs because of software decisions he's making.

Not sure if the person 'embarrassed' to drive a Tesla has looked into the history of other car companies.
The wording "at least" suggests the list might not be exhaustive.
GPT-based ontological extraction tools, including SPIRES
paper:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.02711
Holy shit I did a literal spit take when I read that. Way too funny.
Thing is, he managed to seriously kick the arses of the establishment. There's many bad things to say about Musk, but at least he gave a solid whooping towards Boeing/ULA and just about every car manufacturer in the world who all thought they didn't need to improve.
That would be better for twitter and Elon Musk. But it's better for the rest of us if he crashes and burns the company.
I guess functionally users already post image galleries of text as text posts
Chrome behaves correctly on Linux, macos and windows, I can confirm that much. Files are immediately closed when they are no longer in use, either by a FileReader() or by an XmlHttpRequest.

Firefox /appears/ to immediately be closing files as well, as long as they are only accessed by a FileReader and not by an XmlHttpRequest, however this could just be luck.

And I agree my phrasing was suboptimal on that part. I recall that was the first impression I had when encountering the issue and misremembered the details.
China to set up limited ‘cross-border internet’ for scientific research
It worked well for WeChat because they were able to launch a feature at a point when there were not very strict AML requirements in China and it was much easier to get consumers and merchants onboarded compared to credit cards. I don't have any anecdotes about how often person2person payments are done on WeChat vs person2business, but I have seen it being used very frequently for p2b. If you can build a low friction app that solves a problem, people will use it.

That being said, Wechat payments are also rife with every form of scam, irreversibility, and fake QR code issues that people in the West warn about. That (and the AML stuff) is why it seems to be getting more scrutiny by the Chinese govt.
The largest question that they are not talking about is: will porn apps be allowed? Two very different futures depending on how that question is answered.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36848680 (> 130 comments)
Humans' understanding of our own psyche and 'what is essentially human' is going to begin shifting rapidly as simple silicon processes are able to replicate things once thought to be distinctly human.
Wow, this is pretty strict. If you are working from home, don't let your children or partner even see it.

> You must ensure that unauthorized persons (including any family, friends, roommates or household employees) do not access, view, handle, or use the DK.
Hey, I started playing guitar as an adult and it's one of the biggest pleasures in my life. Also, I'm very mediocre.
I think that has to do with excessively long movies and nothing to do with reduced attention spans.

Very, very few action movies need to be more than 100min.
The comparison to Meltdown/Spectre are a bit misleading though - they were a whole new form of attack based on timing where the CPU did exactly what it should have done; This zenbleed case is a good old fashioned bug though - data in a register that shouldn't be.
Sound of Freedom passed the $100M mark. Who’s watching the movie?
> The way Spectre and Meltdown played out, you'll have to excuse me if I stand outside the blast radius while we figure out if there's a chapter 2, 3 or 4 to this story.

I am OOTL on this one, do you have some information you could share?
Windows 7 is already down to ~3% of Desktop browsers on Windows and Android 6 or older represent even less than that as a share of the Android version. 2-3 browsers out of 100 probably spells trouble for e.g. government sites but by the time these are outdated enough versions to cause real concern for normal sites it might even be down farther. When IE 8 was still 30% of the share it made sense to put the extra time into it, when legacy become so low the opportunity cost of holding the whole site years back or maintaining multiple versions is hard to justify.
That's technically accurate, isn't it? Twitter is the pea under a stack of shells named X, each founded by Musk. The accuracy of that title only loses specificity when he renames Twitter to X.
Do you use an Android phone, by any chance? I hate to break it to you… hard to have it both ways.
Great job. I feel like I have seen other iterations of this for NYC with much limited data.

Input: NYC is missing PATH train transit system. It might also be missing Port Authority Bus Terminal transportation methods.
>> The two scenarios are precisely symmetrical. The only difference is that the cause on one side is one that you agree with, and on the other side is one that you disagree with.

>Yep! That's pretty much what agreeing or disagreeing with something means.

Not to me. The difference between us is that I am perfectly happy to work with people who do not share my political viewpoints.
An analysis of studies pertaining to masks in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: Characteristics and quality of all studies from 1978 to 2023

"0/77 were randomized studies."

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.07.23292338v...

Here is a pdf.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.07.23292338v...
Functionalism, consciousness, and experiencing qualia are radically different questions.

I believe it's possible in theory to simulate a human brain on silicon, and that this simulation would have something like consciousness and would experience qualia if somehow embedded.

I don't think that such a simulation would be ontologically or morally similar to an actual human.

You can call this spiritual if you want. But most people care more about humans than computers, even if the computers behave like humans.
Googly things aren't going anywhere, as long as they are pulling in ad revenue.
> I wish Wikipedia had a "blame" feature like git. If it exists, I couldn't find it.

If there is an edit war going on, and this claim is being removed and added you’d still need to look at quite a lot of revisions manually.

But there are tools to export Wikipedia page edit history to git I think. And you could write a script to grep every revision of the article for the word “CAD” to determine at what point in time it first appeared in the article. And then from there you could look at who added it and so on.
In Europe, all electronic transactions are shared between at least a dozen unclear public-private entities.

I am not aware of a "social credit score" around these parts, but I do not have cards and I do very strictly care that privacy remains respected.
Tl;Dr the internet is designed to interrupt your focus with ads and this rings your attention capacity in ways no one is ummmmmmm...
Sure, in the sense that eating a new cuisine or a favored dish and eating a block of tasteless protein is "just eating". Some folks are eager to say "whatever makes you happy" to which the extreme counterexample is why not just get strung out on heroin.

To each their own, but it strikes me as a squandered opportunity.
I mean couldn't they just not allow porn apps but allow you play video and what's on those videos is up to you?
Not disagreeing with your assessment of the situation, but (in HN style) being pedantic, isn't that more or less how we make anti venom though?
Whatever many many bad things Anthony Levandowski may have done, he picked up his own check in Google. The guy developed street view for example.

Their AI ethics team appears, at least to a Google outsider, to engage almost exclusively in rent seeking behavior. I'm surprised many of them continue to pick up a paycheck.
The README in the tar file with the exploit (linked at "If you want to test the exploit, the code is available here") contains some more details, including a timeline:

- `2023-05-09` A component of our CPU validation pipeline generates an anomalous result.

- `2023-05-12` We successfully isolate and reproduce the issue. Investigation continues.

- `2023-05-14` We are now aware of the scope and severity of the issue.

- `2023-05-15` We draft a brief status report and share our findings with AMD PSIRT.

- `2023-05-17` AMD acknowledge our report and confirm they can reproduce the issue.

- `2023-05-17` We complete development of a reliable PoC and share it with AMD.

- `2023-05-19` We begin to notify major kernel and hypervisor vendors.

- `2023-05-23` We receive a beta microcode update for Rome from AMD.

- `2023-05-24` We confirm the update fixes the issue and notify AMD.

- `2023-05-30` AMD inform us they have sent a SN (security notice) to partners.

- `2023-06-12` Meeting with AMD to discuss status and details.

- `2023-07-20` AMD unexpectedly publish patches, earlier than an agreed embargo date.

- `2023-07-21` As the fix is now public, we propose privately notifying major
distributions that they should begin preparing updated firmware
packages.

- `2023-07-24` Public disclosure.