skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I may be way off base but I think on iPhones/iPads RAM isn't a concern so much as processes sitting in the background keeping the CPU and radios doing cartwheels indefinitely for little to no reason, as they tend to on desktop operating systems. By throttling or quitting backgrounded apps they've made it much more reasonable to deliver promised numbers on battery life.
Over 50% said "not sure", and the question was worded in a complicated way:

"Does the United States have a national privacy law that sets common standards for what companies can do with all data their products and services collect?'

The "wrong" answers to all the questions were <25% and had similar rates.
We already have to place full trust in DNS operators—a rogue DNS operator could trivially get a LetsEncrypt cert for your domain and redirect your traffic to a different server that they control.
Sure, and they don’t sell particularly well. That whole segment of the Microsoft ecosystem is a dusty corner that doesn’t get a lot of respect.

Hell, Microsoft has had a tablet offering since 2003 or earlier. It’s hard to do touch and traditional and do justice to both.
> You would not say of a football team

You also would not let one football team buy up 60% of the other football teams in the world and merge them into one MEGA-TEAM.

But apparently we still cannot summon the willpower to enforce simple and straightforward 100+-year-old antitrust laws (so instead we make new ones and just won't enforce those either).
Sorry but if it's as dire as the media made it sound, survival is first come first serve. Am I going to run out of food or have to venture into a deadly virus so that I can leave some stuff for the next guy?
Good practice run for everyone.
I've heard it said they are not especially good at absolute numbers, but for comparing i.e., last night to the night before, or to three months ago, that is, seeing the trends they are good.
This person doesn’t understand CRMs.
Bytecode encoding an interpreted language is only superficially similar to compilation.

After all you can't perform meaningful optimizations when the environment your code is running completely defines what the code does.

Sure you don't know the details of how syscalls work but you do know the exact process necessary to call a function in compiled languages. Interpreted languages tend to just emit the original names in the bytecode because you don't know want the function `sin` when that is environment dependent.
Personally I doubt that GPT-4 is really still at 67%.

I would love to see some head-to-head examples.

Is anyone hosting this somewhere that can be accessed for free right now?
Scientists are usually pretty tongue in cheek when naming things, but slime mold scientists are especially plain. I love it.
It takes 9 million micromorts to kill the average cat.
I wonder how much pre-CCP Chinese culture has been distorted since the CCP took over and implemented the Cultural Revolution and its more might-makes-right philosophy, and how much of that book still applies? Some does I’m sure, but is all of it still accurate?
"Because TEMPO uses visible sunlight to make measurements, it cannot see pollution below clouds. Cloudy areas appear as missing data in the visualization." No wonder SF is missing. Could have been sea fog that day, huh?
Network Resilience: Defending against attacks targeting network infrastructure
How to choose your chunk size for summarizing large documents using LLM
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2. For document division, a bad chunk size can result in the last chunk being much smaller than the previous ones. As a result, the global summary might overemphasize the last chunk and thus bias away from the core semantics of the document. See https://tinyurl.com/vectifyai-summarization for an example.

3. In our blog, we introduce a straightforward method to automatically decide the optimal chunk size for different documents. We find this new strategy significantly reduces bias in the global summary. The implementation can be found at https://github.com/VectifyAI/LargeDocumentSummarization.

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Click through to Pew and then Topline.

https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/wp-content/uploads/site...
Courts are adverse to addressing key issues because they want to avoid creating precedent.
Where you’re spot on is that is basically works on the principle of a cartoon. TVs are no computers. They send different signals.
As a person that always had, and still has, PCs, and also now has MacBooks, I'm suspecting that I use my devices in a significantly different way than you do.

> made all their software offerings over the last 20

What Apple software would people want outside of the Apple ecosystem? Do you have an example? Most of the "niceness" is system wide/cross device integration related, many of which don't have an equivalent in the other OSs to share. For example, try to wirelessly transfer a file, quickly, between any combination of linux and Windows without an active WiFi connection.

The only "substantial" software I can think of, from Apple, is iMovie. My only frequent use is Preview and Keynote. Everything else is either Microsoft (including Office), or third party.

> they walled it off and made mac's about as incompatible and hard to work with for any other device (android,windows,linux) as they possibly could.

Is this also about wired connections? Do you have an example? For me, NFS, VNC, and lots of third party stuff to take care of the rest, the same that I use for PC to PC/linux. I'm not aware of walls for macOS. There's no restrictions for software. I even have third party kernel extensions installed right now.

> plug an android phone into a windows or linux os device

That is obviously intentional, and probably annoying. Although, I can't say I've used wired transfer with a phone in over a decade, including on my Android phone. I have a far less $/Gb USB3 drive to go from computer to computer.

I might be breaking HN guidelines with this comment.
This just means you prefer Russia-sympathetic media when building your bubble.
Thank you for sharing this! Given the limited mathematical definitions in this area, we recommend reviewing our workshop paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.12767
Incidentally I wrote the post. Please don’t AMA. It’s all in the post. No further questions.
Covid is a vascular disease and amongst other things affects erectile function. It's the condom lobby at work, clearly.
The localllama subreddit has lots of content though mostly unstructured
Interestingly, the fastest in that benchmark, above Rust, C++, Java and C# is... JavaScript.

Goes to show how benchmark minigames are broken and also that most languages are good enough.
> No one is forcing you to be verified. It is not mandatory to use the platform.

I don't find that kind of an argument very convincing. It doesn't seem to hold true in the long run.

In the early days of the web, a username and password were typically enough for creating an account for the web sites that even required an account in the first place.

Then more and more sites started also requiring an email address be provided to create and/or keep using an existing account.

Then more and more sites started also requiring a phone number.

Then more and more sites started also requiring a real name.

Now more and more sites want to see some sort of government-issued ID.

Over time, more and more personal and private information seems to be demanded in order to use many web sites.

Even if some particular piece of information isn't demanded today, it seems likely enough to me that it will be demanded in the future.
I get the sense the implication is that the U.S. doesn't have strong protections. That's wrong. Many governments in allegedly civilized Western countries have security services with much more power than in the U.S., permission to seize and search your phone being pone of them (the U.K. and Australia are especially bad). The U.S. actually has unusually strong protections against the police in this regard and in others.

You also might consider that usually these protections don't apply to you if you're a foreigner who's trying to get in to a country not your own. They have no obligation to let you in and they can ask anything they want in exchange for access.
Actually, as I re-read this, this how it should go:

-hiQ sues LinkedIn for injunctive relief in the ND Cal., win on its CFAA claim.

-LinkedIn appeals to 9th Circuit, which sides with hiQ on CFAA claim

-hiQ loses its antitrust claims at the motion to dismiss stage

(somewhere in here hiQ goes out of business, but rich benefactor keeps paying its legal bills)

-LinkedIn continues with breach of contract and other claims, wins at motion to dismiss

-LinkedIn appeals to the Supremes, who vacates and remands back to 9th Circuit after Van Buren

-9th Circuit sides with hiQ a 2nd time on the CFAA claim

-injunction is dissolved

-hiQ suffers near-total defeat at summary judgment

-hiQ waves the white flag, agrees to permanent injunction agreeing to nearly all of LinkedIn's demands and pays LinkedIn 500k
Challenges and Approaches to Crop Improvement Through C3-to-C4 Engineering
LOL. I was born in the early 70s. I still don’t see a difference between radio and Spotify, other than Spotify is much better since there are no ads, no people talking over the beginning of songs, I can listen to whatever I want, etc. Anytime I’m in the car listening to the radio (my cars are so old that I can’t use Bluetooth to listen to Spotify from my phone) I’m reminded how bad it is. Flipping through stations to find something I want to listen to sucks.
Valuations are important when your business is unprofitable, core advertising revenue has cratered and new revenue streams eg. subscriptions have been a complete failure.

They are what investors will be looking at to decide if Twitter/X heads into bankruptcy or fights to live another day.
this approach does not allow UI scaling, because the UI is made up of pixels.

the open source modular synthesis software VCV Rack has a UI composed entirely of SVG descriptions (even though 95% of the UI is provided by 3rd party modules that get loaded into the main program). They can look like anything you want, but the result is an infinitely (more or less) zoomable/scalable UI.
I hold the same view as the parent poster on public data online and my opinion on spam e-mail is that it's a consequence of naivete bordering on faulty design. It should have been set up with strong authentication (proof that this e-mail is from whom it says it is) and explicit consent (you can only message me if I allow you to message me). The latter could be as simple as rate-limiting e-mail from addresses which you have not explicitly allowed, or to which you have not previously sent letters, to one per week or so, with all such e-mails automatically going to the spam folder to be purged in a month.
Damn an in my country (Indonesia) even in 2010 it's still the other way around. Even to this day I can't see my fellow countrymen paid for anything online partly because everything used to be so expensive we always have to find cheaper (pirated) version. By comparison privacy is worthless (for us).
"This book gives a thorough introduction to topological data analysis (TDA), the application of algebraic topology to data science."
You’re putting the cart before the horse here. If there isn’t a strong rule of law, any economic activity is going to come under the control of protection rackets and other armed factions. That’s completely independent of any drug prohibitions or commodity sanctions. When it comes to commodity sanctions you’re even reversing cause and effect; the sanctions are usually imposed as a half measure against whatever armed faction ends up controlling commodity extraction in a particular failed state.
Man, I've never had a Twitter for me, but I've had many joke accounts. Such fun. Huzzah!

I hope someone archived this stuff. I never figured out how to pull all of Twitter myself.
> It seems quite obvious to me that it will be cheaper

The New Zealand government estimates that a gravity storage scheme with a capacity of 5TWh would cost 14 billion NZ dollars to construct.

https://www.mbie.govt.nz/building-and-energy/energy-and-natu...
That's right: we should postpone all other attempts to improve our energy infrastructure till our network of highways is destroyed or at least reduced to 2 lanes everywhere.
Can I just drink a verification can instead?
What exactly am I wrong about? I don't doubt that decreasing animal ag would decrease emissions.

My argument was simply that it's not enough on its own (it isn't, since it's only a quarter of emissions as you pointed out). Yes, reforestation can help, but that's not synonymous with stopping animal ag, although of course there is overlap. And more significantly, that doing so at the necessary scales would be incredibly disruptive to world cultures and economies. Most people simply wouldn't stand for it. It hasn't ever been a realistic solution, despite decades of trying.

I also think it's a bit unnecessary to accuse me of lying... why would anyone be deceptive about their diet..? I was eating a tofu scramble as I was writing that, in fact. FWIW I've spent way too much time on HappyCow. My undergrad was also in environmental science (part of the reason I went vegan), and we've read a lot of these sorts of papers. I've dressed up in chicken suits and handed out PETA pamphlets. Anyway, it's a silly accusation. Whatever I eat personally wouldn't change the fact that most of the world is not going to go vegan or vegetarian, and we're not going to replant enough forests, on a timescale to matter.

It's too little, too late for that. The climate is getting worse despite rising awareness of dietary impacts (and way better vegan foods these days)... it's just not making a noticeable difference. We need more drastic actions. Covid did way more for emissions than decades of vegan propaganda, for example, and yet things went right back to the status quo afterward.
If it is going to be an "everything app", that also includes banking thus the KYC. I presume this is related to financial services, banking, etc.
Another climate doomer.

First of all, statistically speaking you're less likely to die off the grid after global warming because death from cold is just much much more common than all the other effects that global warming will have.

But I honestly don't buy the global warming narrative. And other physicists are starting to speak up against it, for example recent Nobel prize winner John F Clauser, known as the 'C' in CHSH inequality in quantum mechanics.

https://clintel.org/nobel-prize-winner-dr-john-f-clauser-sig...

Freeman Dyson, was also against the climate narrative. And these are two actual scientists which had profound unintuitive predictions about how the world works.

It is so important when people like this OP are speaking contagious fearful narratives that seek to propagate based on emotions, that more skeptics speak up and diffuse this infectious irrational fear that is dangerous to our society.
Why do cats love tuna so much?
Yes. “All dogs have fur” is untrue. “Dogs have fur” is true. The former is modern; the latter is classical.
True. But like watching Richard Pryor hold back tears on the sunset strip, or listening to Billie Holiday's voice crack, your reading someone's pain. In that situation, if it helps them in dealing with depression it's okay, otherwise enjoyment of the work can verge on being a peculiar sadism.

The cynicism and story of the abrupt end of the comic, leaves an ambiguous hole in the story of Calvin. Those next stages of dialogue, that a child such as he must go through to continue. The author's hermiting, who is Calvin, gives that a possible outcome for Calvin, is to not to succeed but to retreat or worse. If you like Calvin, you don't want that, or for his author.

It is a sad backdrop that colors the work, especially near the end of the run. I'd feel better about it if Watterson went on to new pursuits rather than going silent for years. That is was a good time to try something new, rather than a depression induced rage to end it.
> only use it for the exact, limited use cases it was designed for

Only if you stipulate that it was never designed to handle text editing, multi-object selection, and a number of other fundamental use cases that apparently no one at Apple bothers to do on their iPads — if they did, they’d either 1. Experiment to find better solutions; or 2. Admit that there is no good touch-based solution for this UX scenario.
Priority seem to be already downgraded to low, at least in Ubuntu:

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-19909

but in the original site it's still critical
https://cve.report/CVE-2020-19909

Hard to imagine how that could lead to any security compromise, the seemingly randomly assigned criticality is certainly unpleasant. Could it be that it was detected by "automated source code" and "website vulnerability" reports, when the tools very often assign HIGH, CRITICAL to random issues that aren't the problems
If this is a government strategy (which it is) then it's political, but this doesn't mean it makes economic sense to build chips in America, it might make military sense, but that is different.
From the repo: “This project is intended for educational / entertainment purposes only. In its current implementation, it is riddled with security issues, and it would probably be extremely irresponsible to use this for any sort of production grade web service.

...having said that, if you happen to use it for anything, I'd love to hear about it!”

So looks like a toy project for a bit of fun. Would like to see an example of what it does anyway though.
> then reasonable step is to not follow-up in that case.

Then a more reasonable step is not to get the scan. Why do the scan if you don’t follow up.

This is why not all screenings are recommended. People think that insurance won’t pay for scans because insurance is a jerk. They don’t pay because the scans aren’t medically effective at protecting populations.
> In response to Mr. Malik’s assertion of privilege, Officer Sullivan informed Mr. Malik that DHS was seizing the iPhone and that the digital contents would be searched. Officer Sullivan did not disconnect the iPhone from the internet or the communications network. He failed to take action that would protect the iPhone from accessing the internet or a communications network. Officer Sullivan ordered Mr. Malik to leave the deferred inspection area without the iPhone while the iPhone still was connected to the internet and a communications network.

That's the part I was curious about. For a while now, the suggestion shared by bar associations [on both sides of the border] has been that assertions of privileged should always, always, always be accompanied by disconnecting the device from the internet.

Here is a letter [1] from 2017 sent by [President of] the ABA to policymakers on changes that should be made to the process; but I'll just summarize the relevant part:

[Linda Klein, ABA President] suggested that, if and when a lawyer travels across the border with any electronic device that could contain privileged or otherwise confidential client information, officers should only be allowed to conduct a standardized, cursory physical inspection - AND - unless the officials obtain a subpoena based on reasonable suspicion or a warrant supported by probable cause, border agents should absolutely not be allowed to read, copy over, seize or share any privileged or confidential documents and or files stored on those devices.

For an attorney, the professional obligation to do everything you possibly can to disallow unauthorized access to privileged materials is essentially the golden rule of the profession; NY/Michigan has, for a while now, strongly suggested to members that, in the event of a border agent getting dangerously close to accessing information they shouldn't - the attorney should escalate to a superior officer to find a solution where the privileged information remains confidential - but - this decision seems to renders escalating as a waste of time which really isn't great.

Best thing to do is disconnect and power electronic devices off prior to presenting yourself at the border. That should be safest for the foreseeable future and I'm not aware of any specific challenges on whether LE should be allowed to power on/reconnect a device during an investigation - that would be an incredibly concerning development and thankfully we aren't there.

At the end of the day, there are tons arguments for how these interactions should be conducted presented by both sides. The whole 'security' thing does have some merit - but allowing increasingly infringing behavior in the spirit of 'security' isn't something that should go unchallenged.

[1] https://www.lexsage.com/documents/May%205,%202017%20ABA%20Le...
You can also disable these in regular Android, depending on the phone manufacture. Look for your phone's engineering screens.
Fewer university students are studying Mandarin
My friend had one too. And it did as you said, basically dumped memory to disk and made it bootable. It had a wire with a red button that came out of the case.

We used it for a couple games when one of us had a bought copy and one of the various copy programs didn’t work (I had a disk full of them being young and not having enough knowledge to crack on my own. )

Worked well for arcade games. Didn’t work well for games that loaded more stuff from disk..
Doesn't that mean that a border is at DEN, ORD, etc?
One of the things I really liked about the Nintendo Switch was just how cool it felt to grip the device and how natural playing it felt. That aspect of the Switch's industrial design is something Nintendo really nailed... even if they cheaped out on the sticks...
Pyanodons is literally a joke. It's not designed to be finished.
I thought Mitchell stepped down from an exec role a while ago.
If you listen to Humberman Labs podcasts[1] at all, you'll know he is a big advocate for going outside and getting some direct sunlight in the mornings (including no sunglasses).

Recently saw a sleep specialist who also gave this advice (amongst other things). It wont have an immediate impact, but give it a few weeks.

[1] https://hubermanlab.com/toolkit-for-sleep/

Also, if you think you might have sleep apnea, and frequently waking up during the night is indicative, then do try and get a sleep study done.
Are there existing tools today that can generate a diagram frim the output of the AWS API?
JavaScript thinks empty arrays are true and it’s annoying because you have to write if (a.length) instead of if (a).
There weren't any serious examples of degradation.

Does only GPT-4 have to suffer a penalty for HumanEval leaking into training data/RLHF data?

Ignoring those concerns, it fails a reaonable-ness smell test:

We'd have to pretend its the original GPT-4 release from March 2023 until GPT-5 comes out, and only then can OpenAI's work be compared to LLAMA-2 to LLAMA-N.
Private monopoly: takes all the blame, gets sued by state (public profit), raises rates to cover (private subsidy to state payout), gets corporate bailout from feds (double profit) regardless of who runs things

State monopoly: Governor gets blamed, impeached. Few hundred top HN posts. State raises taxes to pay off loses. Gets fed bailout if friendlies in WH.

Public monopolies don’t make any economic sense.