skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Email messages and Slack direct messages among authors of the paper obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) process or by the U.S. Congress and publicly released in full in or before July 2023 (2-7), show that the authors did not believe the core conclusions of the paper at the time it was written, at the time it was submitted for publication, and at the time it was published.

Quite damning if true.
Given how readily available 4K HDR content is on the high seas, I assume Widevine is cracked.
I mean even when you buy an expensive appliance, the majority of them still tend to break way too quickly and are just more costly to repair.

I'd happily pay more for something well made, but, unless it's like commercial kitchen quality, it's still not "great"
A-priori, is there any explanation for a platform charging 30% other than monopoly? Imagine if a grocery store charged 30% for slotting fees?
Every company/org posting their news using accounts on a decentralized interoperable service instance that they self host.

This is the future.
They do, apple sells ads too.
>It would be great to see the industry refocus on products that are designed to be consumed in moderation.

I feel that the legal weed industry is speedrunning the past decade of craft brewing. Craft beer focused on growing the scene while focusing on higher and higher ABV beers, but now is transitioning back towards beers that are a bit more sessionable and don’t get you blasted after 2 beers. Wouldn’t be surprised to see the weed industry start focusing on sessionable items sooner rather than later.
Nah,it is pretty stupid. If there were plans to actually manage the growth of the new forests as opposed to the "plant and forget" methodology used by a lot of tree planting efforts it wouldn't be so stupid:

https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/22679378/tree-planting-for...
When do you think millennials were born? The very youngest millennials were in their tweens when the first iPhone came out, and the oldest were pushing 30. They definitely experienced pre-smartphone computing. In fact, it's probably the defining characteristic of the generation: millennials grew up with modern computing, but before the smartphone. Gen Z grew up in a world were smartphones were ubiquitous.
> Apple has no financial incentive to collect my data

They simply understand most of your data isn't worth anything, it's a liability rather than an asset. They know it'd be a waste of energy and customer relations to peek into most of it, so they don't bother. They collect what they can readily use (such as your purchase history - they're pretty open about it), and don't care about the rest (spying on your conversations or photos in hope to build a marketing profile is still a cyberpunk fantasy).

And because they don't do this, there's no reason not to capitalize it by advertising themselves as some privacy guardians. Not doing so would be a waste.

Google and Facebook are failing, because they bought this "big data big brother big money" meme which they rode cheerfully while the hype was high, and now it's time for a realization. When contenders who say "we don't track you" perform no worse (or even better) than all those data hoards that were supposed to predict future, it's a sign that immense worth of personal data was overhyped.
No the client is just too buggy
Similar to why the flying experience can be so awful - consumers by airline tickets based largely on price. The airlines that lower costs (and experience) best win.
We don't care that she's Canadian
A few weeks ago I read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, and as a long time fan of Blade Runner it provided a lot of good back story on the movie. Highly recommended.
Sure you can.

We spent about $12,000 on our fridge 15 years ago when we first renod our house and its still going just fine. Never once has it had to be serviced.
It's about as self-conscious as you can get, too. You already have an audience for the entertainment products you produce. Out of all the places where you can sneak in a "value add," this is not one of them. As if you're going to out-produce your own creators.

It's audio only entertainment. Just.. go with _that_.
Remember when Jesus downloaded all those loaves and fishes and got crucified?
> Google's existence has spawned a horde of SEO spam sites that dilute and push down real content on the internet

They don't push real content "down the internet" they push it down the google rankings.

And while Google search is not as great as it was, it remains a strong contender for the best way to find stuff on the internet.

I don't think the internet would be better off without it.

You can however make good arguments for Google News, "Instant Answers" in Search, and other products, taking (impressions) from the internet.(And Chrome, Chrome worries me.)
Juul seeks authorization on a new vape it says can verify a user’s age
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You are right, nuclear reactions requires enough enormous energy to overcome the barrier OR a heavy particles (muon). However, fusor works at room temperature. It doesn't require preheating to 150MK to start operation, like ITER do.
I get them on several of my credit cards as rewards. I have the option of getting FF points or something else.
"From a new customer" is the key phrase. This is only a serious issue for amateurs, not for real established labs.
> unless there was some way of turning the GPU into a hardware-level compositor... which is generally not recognized as a good idea

I admit this isn't a domain I'm particularly fluent in. As a matter of fact, I thought that was already the case with all the talk about "GPU acceleration" of desktops. I think there was an HN post about Windows a few days ago, with people commenting on how all this changed between Windows 95 and 8/10.
Gotcha, that makes sense; I'm probably thinking of Cloudflare Workers, then. It might've come up from kentonv's comments in the recent post about Cap'n Proto 1.0.
You need an angel investor. AngelList aka wellfound might be a resource.
x86 is now permanently a part of humanity. 1000 years from now, when we've transcended our physical bodies and exist only as streams of sentient data and energy traveling between the stars, I 100% guarantee x86 will be detectable somewhere.
See also this timeline of the last four inter-glacial periods: https://co2coalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/104-4000...

It also shows how crazy it would be if we get the projected 2-3 degrees average temperature increase. Even in a period where we'd expect to be going into a new ice age; instead shooting to a previously unseen high temperature.
A few months ago the Supreme Court forced CA counties to begin issuing concealed carry weapon permits: https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-06-23/supreme-co.... Previously it was up to the discretion of the county's sheriff to issue them, which meant only well-connected people had them.

This could provide a deterrent effect once SF gets saturated with concealed carry permit holders. I'm assuming not though since most of the crime is non-robbery theft, where use of deadly force wouldn't be justified.
Is it? A lot of northern forests are comprised of only a handful of Fir species.
> but also why would they make it, publish a fake process and then go through all this rigamarole?

This, from this subthread and directly from the comment I replied to, is what I was responding to. I don’t think I’ve missed some obvious point. I think you just misunderstood which topic I was responding to.
It is entirely their fault its not that they don't support HDR its that they don't support resolutions higher than 720p
It seems like something that was designed to sell more cloud SaaS services: content hosting services, build services, etc. Instead of having one host for your site you now need three.
Fun to consider as both a computer scientist and a CFI.

Instrument training in FAA-land requires learners to understand the five hazardous attitudes: anti-authority ("the rules don't apply to me"), impulsivity ("gotta do something now!), invulnerability ("I can get away with it"), macho ("watch this!"), and resignation ("I can't do anything to stop the inevitable"). Although the stakes are different, they have applicability to software development. Before a situation gets out of hand, the pilot has to recognize and label a particular thought and then think of the antidote, e.g., "the rules are there to keep me safe" for anti-authority.

Part 121 or scheduled airline travel owes its safety record to many layers of redundancy. Two highly trained and experienced pilots are in the cockpit talking to a dispatcher on the ground, for example. They're looking outside and also have Air Traffic Control watching out for them. The author mentioned automation. This is an area where DevSecOps pipelines can add lots of redundancy in a way that leaves machines doing tedious tasks that machines are good at. As in the cockpit, it's important to understand and manage the automation rather than following the magenta line right into cumulogranite.
It doesn't helps what there is only the panel itself, circuit board and power cord, basically.
Hah, wow, it looks like I've been procrastinating on making a decision if I like that or not for three years!

I'll add it to the Datasette 1.0 milestone so it definitely gets my attention before shipping that release.
There has to be room in the conversation between extremes. He's saying "everything" and accusing me of saying "nothing" when I'm saying "everything is impossible; something is possible."
The Rise of Worse is Better (1991)
Are you saying bicycle/pedestrian deaths are under-reported? I find that very hard to believe.
It is also the streaming services fault because they limit the resolution on Linux to 720p in most cases.
Very very very low. Bacteria and viruses are normally very sensitive to their hosts, they have a kind of symbiosis that means they can't just arbitrarily infect any species they bump into.

Jumping between species does happen, and when it happens it can be a big problem (see COVID-19, Swine Flu), but there is something like 100 million different virus species out there [1], and only 200 or so are able to infect humans [2]. Despite constant interaction between people and all other species of viral host all over the globe, and millions of brand new new virus exposures daily, jumps are still so rare that they are decade-defining when they happen.

1. https://virology.ws/2013/09/06/how-many-viruses-on-earth/

2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3427559/
I always wonder about that natural fission reactor in Gabon. They discovered the Uranium was pre depleted in particular mines.

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

Fun to imagine the possibilities.
Medvedev says Russia could use nuclear weapon if Ukraine’s fightback succeeds
The user you're responding to has no understanding of psychoanalysis, Freudian or otherwise. There is a long standing tradition of judging the field from incredulity at Freud's simiplified conclusions, and you never hear the real critiques of the field from anyone who disputes the way that user does. Better critique comes from seasoned psychoanalysts, e.g. Deleuze and Guattari, and is unfortunately often inaccessible to the public.
Docker as Gaffer Tape
It's not really misinformation though. Most vuln researchers aren't burning browser 0-days targetting pirates, but many piracy sites host malicious content, even if that content isn't looking to deliver malware through browser vulnerabilities.

There is a significant segment of the internet that thrives in the gutters between paid services, straight up piracy sites, and actual "dark web" sites that require TOR or other specialized access. The restreamers that live in those gutters are questionable at best, straight up illegal at worst, and fund themselves through fraudulent ads, or legit ads for sketchy or dangerous services and sites.

It is entirely possible to use those sites safely, just like it's also possible to navigate dark alleys in major urban centres in the late hours, but that doesn't make it a low-risk activity.
Introduction to Vector Search
> it costs me only about a dollar a month to run

The low end Frigidaires are estimated at $56 a year, perhaps $8 less per year for an Energy Star one.

I don't know anything about chest freezers, but there's no way a general purpose 1960s/70s fridge that one opens multiple times a day gets anything close to that.
I had followed this when I was learning DL through Andrew NG's course. In one of the lessons, he had the formula for calculating the loss as well as it's derivatives.

I tried driving these formulas from scratch using what I learned from OP's post but it felt like there was something missing. I think it boils down to me not knowing how to aggregate those element wise derivatives into a matrix form. Afaik the Matrix cookbook and certain notes from Stanford cs231n that helped me grok it fully
txtai (https://github.com/neuml/txtai) is another option to consider. It has vector search with SQL, topic modeling and LLM prompt-driven search (retrieval augmented generation).

Disclaimer: I am the author of txtai
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But the same is then also true for cannabis, alcohol and likely some more drugs.. underlining OPs statement? Or not? Just confused.
LLM: Building a WaveNet [video]
I think one of the greatest contributions launch window aerospace neurosurgeons make to society is the way they cause nobody else to ever feel stress in any way.
Twitter threatens to sue hate-speech watchdog group
https://web.archive.org/web/20031218192524/http://w3.uwyo.ed...
Most of us who drink coffee or tea are in the same boat. We do it every day, sometimes multiple times a day. There is withdrawal. There is tolerance. The half-life is so long that even if we stop in the morning, we are spending the majority of the day high.
I don't mind the churn, adopting new tech can be its own form of personal enjoyment.

What I dislike is the hype, people with sizeable bases acting irresponsibly about new tech. Encouraging early adoption, and spending so much time promoting it, funding conferences, and then after 5 years dumping all of it so you can "learn from your mistakes" to push for some new thing. It feels so dishonest, why would their current choice be any better if they made such reckless decisions not too long ago?

So you're right we really do need to think critically about new tech and give people the means to assess things critically without the hype.
You know, it's a bit peculiar that this thread has been here for an hour and there isn't a feverish level of enthusiasm over the topic. So strange given how most COVID threads on this site go.
Honestly, frontend development especially with all these crowded frameworks and libraries always confused me so pardon my ignorance, which is why in a project I’m working on right now I’m trying not to use js, instead I’m using egui [1]

Zola is a static site generator and it’s crazy fast, using one binary only [2], also there’s Blades [3], same concept but supposedly faster, never tried it though.

[1] https://github.com/emilk/egui

[2] https://www.getzola.org

[3] https://getblades.org
China makes some quality electronics, heavy industrial products, etc.

The problem isn't China intrinsically but the fact that a lot of companies in the US and EU outsource to China purely to save money. That's usually done on lower-end models or when pivoting from a quality product to a low-quality product sold on marketing.

Apple makes quality stuff in China because they're trying to make quality stuff. They work closely with their Chinese manufacturers. Of course they're also trying to move some things away from China but that's for geopolitical diversification reasons not quality reasons.
Maybe so. You wanna hear something crazy? I'm still salty over MS partnering with SuSE to offer Linux indemnification from SCO's legal action in 2004. But I'm not entirely impractical. Most how-tos and tutorials cover the Debian and RedHat descendents but only occasionally cover rolling distros or SuSE derivatives.
Bless you for mentioning that ZScaler doesn’t play nice with IPv6 - this gives me another possible cause for why a certain MSFT distributed app sometimes, but not always, installs on our users’ PCs when ZScaler is enabled, but works with it off.

Thanks so much!
Originally reported here: https://public.substack.com/p/top-scientists-misled-congress...
> Notifications are [...] ephemeral, meaning I might forget about it if I don't deal with it immediately.

If you do like the notification method aside from this issue, try passing "--urgency=critical" or "--expire-time=0" to notify-send. Either (or both) of those should make the notifications stay popped up, assuming your notification daemon is doing something reasonable with those hints.

(Disclosure: I'm the author of xfce4-notifyd, which does behave in this way; other daemons may do other things.)
Not sure why you're being sarcastic. PDF is terrible for anything other than printing documents.
The UK will drill for more oil and gas in the North Sea
App availabilty will be the replacement for carriage fights we see for sat/cable. Soon you will need multiple devices to have all services.
There is one great solution to all of this and it’s to never have a substance at all. I’ve had a few things but now don’t drink, smoke, or consume drugs and life is great.
They bought Sumo Logic, which is adjacent, a few months back, and I wonder if they plan to combine them to create a broader platform. (Ex-Sumo Logic dev here...)
The BBC has to prove it's serving the entire UK. An anonymous RSS doesn't allow that.

It's frustrating, but it's also inevitable from such a hostile environment.
Here is a document (PDF ~266 pages) about INFORMATION FOR HEALTH CARE
PROFESSIONALS Cannabis (marihuana, marijuana) and the cannabinoids

Dried or fresh plant and oil administration by ingestion or other means
Psychoactive agent

https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/hc-sc/documents/services/d...

I think what people need to be reminded of is that addiction will always exist. Whether it is collecting Pokémon, Video Games, Gambling, Drugs etc.

What cannabis brings is less damage, post use, than say, Oxycontin. This is one simple example.

Not a doctor, so don't ask me for details!
That's...not what they meant. That's not what's happening either. It discourages newer maintainers. older maintainers eventually retire.

What a strange POV. "Thank goodness x and y are blocked off."

It's easy to make the same argument for proprietary software. "Thank goodness x or y don't allow just randos to touch their source code and make PRs. That'd be DISASTROUS!"
Musk threatens to sue researchers who documented the rise in hateful tweets
Why is it so difficult to understand how people get addicted to gambling? I'm pretty sure it causes observable physiological changes, like increased heart rate
Don't forget their cousins "tree" and "fife" — or the overpronunciation of Papa as /papà/.
Not even a caveperson - a 200 million year old dude who fights tyrannosaurs.

It's ridiculous and it's awesome.
Is Youtube TV different from regular Youtube? I've never heard of that in France, but I'm admittedly not big on TV / streaming / movies.

For my needs (random videos I search on an ad-hoc basis) I can get 4K with no issue on Firefox on Linux.
PSA: VLC is available for Fire devices and is fantastic.

You can stream right off SMB shares.
Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner is a great documentary, really recommended.

It was to be called Dangerous Days in Fancher's last draft before eventually taking the name Blade Runner.
Ok, but that’s goalpost shifting. We’ve gone from there are not many people who can fine-tune a model (demonstrably untrue) to there are not many people who can do {???} that AI startups do. It’s unclear what is this special AI startup thing you’re referring to, but given that various fine-tuning strategies, like QLORA, emerged out of the open source community, this also seems unlikely to be true.
It should be obvious that a non-written language from 8000 years ago would not be spoken today, just as much newer languages Latin and Sanskrit are long dead, as was Hebrew until artificially revived. Spoken Hebrew is evolving fast.
What's.... dead ?

Heroku is dead to me and in the mean time, i'm using SPA to serve my customers really well and fast !

I have no clue what you're talking about.
I use the `OnFailure` property to trigger a service that emails me for failed services like backups which are run as system timers + service.

I also use `failure-monitor` which is Python service that monitors `journald`.

Files on Github for those interested:

https://github.com/kylemanna/systemd-utils
It's important to note the misleading paper purported to rule out the lab leak hypothesis. Calling it "COVID-19 lab leak paper" makes it sound to my ear like it's a paper affirming a lab leak origin, but it was the opposite.
Nature very much has a political axe to grind these days:

https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2022/08/26/nature-manuscripts...
> If you are worried about safety, ride your e-bike/bike in the middle of the lane.

I'm the sort of person who "takes the lane" when necessary but it doesn't work great in practice: Many drivers will aggressively tailgate and I've even been "bonked" by one who thought it was a totally normal and acceptable thing to do.

I even live in an area where cyclists are recommended (by the police) to ride ~3 feet from the curb and we require drivers (by law) to give cyclists ~3 feet of clearance. If cyclists were to follow those rules they'd be taking the full lane almost everywhere. But likely due to a combination of it not being common in practice and motorists being generally impatient it ends up being a dangerous set of guidelines to follow.

In the greater context of this and the NYT article: The answer is probably better bike infrastructure.
Sections in my markup language work like that. I definitely find it a better approach.

https://xidoc.nim.town/commands.html#section
Broad alerts are really good to have. Narrow metrics are great to have once something goes wrong. When a server does go down, what did CPU, memory, disk IO look like? Did the request count climb quickly before the outage? Having those other metrics help for speedy troubleshooting -- Is it a software problem that got out of control or did some piece of hardware die or get throttled?

I'm of the opinion that having charts and graphs to rely on can focus troubleshooting resources more quickly onto the most actionable areas.
But... Netlify is not required to play JAMstack, is it?
I found it amusing that clicking the “chat” icon in the corner of your website doesn’t demonstrate any of the “grounded generation” capabilities the site is referring to.
Apple has tried and failed several times to launch advertising services based on user data. Their current lack of motivation is due to those failures, not to the lack of a desire to make more money from exploiting user data.
Still, there's a point in the parent comment. One can more easily make observations about the behavior of their peers before/during/after use.
People really go crazy over the origins of COVID-19 but will happily inhale a purported bioweapon and give it to children and the elderly. What a world.
You are right, it is entirely unsurprising that the monopolist expects to see a positive ROI on their dumping scheme.
> free software updates

It's not like amazon is paying for the maintenance of the entire software stack. And the part they're doing they mostly have to do anyway to support new devices.