skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
COVID19 literally killed people I knew because they were too stupid to mask up and/or vaccinate people.

Truths matter. And the others who survived it are physically weaker (worse breathing) and have seemingly permanently lost their smell.

So yes, truths matter. Those who follow falsehoods will lead themselves (and their kin) into the depths of despair. While cheering and falsely claiming victory because victory/feeling good about their decisions is more important to truths to them.

That's... fine. Darwin's law will deal with them over time. But I'll stay on the side of truth thanks very much.

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I'm also in the business of programming, which is largely in the business of truths. Is X easier than Y? Do people prefer X or Y? Is X a better design than Y? Etc. etc.

You can't fundamentally alter ground truths, no matter how much money you throw into reputation. Eventually, the truth wins out as the money runs out. Seeking truth first leads to being correct over the long term, as the untruthful die out and/or fail in their projects.

Don't lose sight of the truth. There's objective truths that people have been failing to accept very recently.

Editors who care about the objective truth and seek it (however flawed our seeking of the truth is), is going to over the long term, reach the truth faster. Of course, broken clocks are occasionally correct (possibly more correct) than the truthseekers. But I've got more confidence in some communities than others.

I also recognize that truthseekers are _NOT_ as popular as I once thought, and that we have a need to create curated communities where truth-seeking is favored over popularity-machines that Twitter and/or Reddit prefers to generate. (likely due to advertising revenue. Youtube and TikTok seem to be falling into the same trap).
Retrieval Augmented Generation would be something to check out. There was a good intro on the subject posted here a week or 3 ago.
Not disappeared but lost significance: goats, Camel, horses (for meat), rabbits, eels, various poultry, and of course a 99% reduction of the commercially grown varieties of pigs, cows and chicken (now called „heritage breeds“)
I used nitter which shows the whole thread
https://nitter.net/JohnSpeakman4/status/1651246450314211329
> Citizens United in action

Are there PACs that specialize on CUPC policy? If not, Citizens is likely irrelevant.
34B Q4 will use around 20GB of memory.

If it's running slow, make sure metal is actually being used[0]. You can get as much as a 50-100% boost in tokens/s, if by chance it's not enabled.

I'm averaging 7 to 8 tokens/s on an M1 Max 10 core (24 GPU cores).

[0] if using llama-cpp-python (or text-generation-webui, ollama, etc) try:

`pip uninstall llama-cpp-python && CMAKE_ARGS="-DLLAMA_METAL=on" FORCE_CMAKE=1 pip install llama-cpp-python`
One of the most annoying things about learning ai/ml for me right now is how much of this stuff is hidden behind people's comlanies and projects with to many emojis.

Like I can't find simple straight foward solutions or content that isn't tied back to a company.
It is common. But before you curse at Google here. This is VERY well documented. When you create a database the UI screams at you that it's in dev mode, that security has not been setup etc.... if you keep ignoring the database will eventually close itself down automatically.

So this is entirely on the dev team to blame.
as a very different use case, I've been wondering about drones for de-mining.

being able to hover efficiently would be a major win, and it seems like detecting mines isn't so much of a technical problem as a practical one...
It's a great question. I think we answered it in one of our initial blog posts when we started LFortran:

https://lfortran.org/blog/2019/05/why-to-use-fortran-for-new...

Let me know if you have any follow up questions.
You're right that a higher market cap is one definition of success.

Keeping it high is another.

Electrification of human transport is another.

I suspect he wants it all, and having a higher market cap right now is a way to get the other two - TSLA raised a massive amount of capital off of their high valuation.
I think it might be to heavy for our use case.
Does this apply to criminal or just civil?
Starting stages of retina damage myself, which started coming to a head about 2 years ago... Not sure about corrective lenses, but as you are already using a book reader that can change the text size, that's a good start. Would also look into devices that have integrated text to speach. Not sure what to offer beyond that other than empathy.

Some critiques of what I've noticed in the past couple years. Scalable UI/UX is generally hit or miss, I absolutely hate applications that don't scale, and more so platforms that don't scale (steam deck, I'm talking to you here). Too many apps in Android don't respect font/text size settings. Too many websites use tiny little font settings and don't scale at all. I've gotten pretty good with triple-tap to zoom on my phone.

Low contrast text sucks beyond believe, it's really bad when I can't read the CC# on a physical card because it's really low contrast text.

Aside, I'm still able to work, though on a 32" 1440p display, I still have to zoom in/out a lot as my vision quality varies throughout the day quite a bit. I'm frankly terrified as I'm not sure what I'll be able to do with work should my vision get much worse... I'm working as a contract very sr/lead/staff/architect level, but less productivity with many dr appts every month, and current job wrapping Thursday. It's frankly hard enough to get up in the morning and I'm not sure what I'm going to do.
Can Julia pre-compile to a binary executable now? If not, they can't replace Fortran.
There can be consequences, but you have to be able to demonstrate you have been harmed. So, in what way have you been harmed by such a threat, and what is just compensation? How much will it cost to hire a lawyer to sue for compensation, and what are your chances of success? These are the same kinds of questions the entity sending the threatening letter asked themselves as well. If you think it is unfair because they have more resources, well that is more of a general societal problem - if you have more money you have access to better justice in all forms.
> I am also free to think that you are stalking him with toxic attacks on the minor issues which were resolved long ago.

You're accusing people who are mildly critical of "stalking", "toxic attacks", and trying to start a flame war. Ironic.
OpenTelemetry is several different things, so you'd have to be more specific.

But, for example, if you write a library and you want your downstream users to be able to see the telemetry. OpenTelemetry provides a standardized interface, so you don't need to make assumptions.
> Yes, it compels.... Just like heroin compels you to get more heroin.

This is an incredibly misleading comparison. Addiction is not a monolith, and there are degrees of addiction. If you cold turkey quit a serious heroin addiction, there's a serious chance you will die. That is absolutely never the case with social media addiction.

There are always times when we act against our own best interest because our body seems to override our brain - I had ice cream last night that I knew was bad for me. That doesn't mean we're compelled, and it isn't sufficient to call something addiction.

What you're doing here is the equivalent of invoking Nazis in an argument on the internet - going straight to "ITS LIKE HEROIN" for anything that be somewhat addictive is incredibly reductive and degrades the quality of what could otherwise be a useful conversation.
There are attempts to address this, “The quality-adjusted life year (QALY) is a generic measure of disease burden, including both the quality and the quantity of life lived. It is used in economic evaluation to assess the value of medical interventions.” See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-adjusted_life_year
> The HW3 situation was Tesla updating the hardware for people who both bought an older car and paid for the FSD "preorder" package

Also people who had initially opted for just enhanced autopilot on HW2.5 then later decided to upgrade to FSD.

> So they've been selling a product called "Full Self Driving" since 2016

They've been selling hardware capability (hence the HW3 upgrade for those who bought it) for when FSD eventually releases. To me it seems reasonably labelled that it's future functionality and not yet FSD.

Either way, FSD had not released at the time and as far as I can tell the allegations target regular autopilot, not about being mislead into preordering FSD capability.
Wonder if for the Enterprise version they will fix the Image Markdown Data Exfiltration vulnerability that's been known for a while.

https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2023/chatgpt-webpilot-d...

Seems like a no-go for companies if an attacker can steal stuff.
https://wavellroom.com/2023/02/10/armata-the-story-is-over/
>Customer prompts and company data are not used for training OpenAI models.

That's great. But can customer prompts and company data be resold to data brokers?
Using Nix-shell to create reproducible embedded development environments
Bangladeshis often buy live cows to slaughter for Eid celebrations. My cousin posted a picture of a live cow chilling in their house, hanging out with their kids, etc. I remember riding one around our yard (which was in the middle of the city) and making friends with it.

People who live closer to the slaughtering process have a more flexible view of the pet/food distinction.
You're absolutely right, I was mistaken.

Now I'm trying to remember if out SuperNode had T4s or T8s. I might have to dig out my notes.
We can withstand winds up to 10-11m/s. If there is more winds or rain that is forecasted then we'll just wait it out.
The 2017 recording's track listing comment still gets me

> 1:55:54-1:59:17 I don't really know how to discern individual tracks here

edit -- is it just me, or does the audio quality seem pretty naff in places ? i wonder if there might be another "(alt. audio)" version coming.
I'm not a lawyer, but I am professionally interested in this weird branch of the law, and it seems like EFF's staff attorney went a bit out on a limb here:

* Fizz appears to be a client/server application (presumably a web app?)

* The testing the researchers did was of software running on Fizz's servers

* After identifying a vulnerability, the researchers created administrator accounts using the database activity they obtained

* The researchers were not given permission to do this testing

If that fact pattern holds, then unless there's a California law governing this that I'm not aware of --- and even then, federal supremacy moots it, right? --- I think they did straightforwardly violate the CFAA, contra the claim in their response.

At least three things mitigate their legal risk:

1. It's very clear from their disclosure and behavior after disclosing that they were in good faith conducting security research, making them an unattractive target for prosecution.

2. It's not clear that they did any meaningful damage (this is subtle: you can easily rack up 5-6 figure damage numbers from unauthorized security research, but Fizz was so small and new that I'm assuming nobody even contemplating retaining a forensics firm or truing things up with their insurers, who probably did not exist), meaning there wouldn't have been much to prosecute.

3. Fizz's lawyers fucked up and threatened a criminal prosecution in order to obtain a valuable concession fro the researchers, which, as EFF points out, violates a state bar rule.

I think the good guys prevailed here, but I'm wary of taking too many lessons from this; if this hadn't been "Fizz", but rather the social media features of Dunder Mifflin Infinity, the outcome might have been gnarlier.
Hilarious and sad at the same time. All too accurate take on how hard-up so many of the people who put this stuff on the internet are. Author, bravo.
I realize it is quick to be against Fizz, but I thought ethical hacking required prior permission.

Am I to understand you can attempt to hack any computer to gain unauthorized access without prior approval? That doesn't seem legal at all.

Whether or not there was a vulnerability, was the action taken actually legal under current law? I don't see anything indicating for or against in the article. Just posturing that "ethical hacking" is good and saying you are secure when you aren't is bad. None of that seems relevant to the actual question of what the law says.
TIL: Microsoft make a web browser for linux!

We're a long way from the Halloween paper days.
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That's not the language they use. It will be more like "your actions may violate (law ref) and if convicted, penalties may be up to 20 years in prison." And how do you keep people from saying that? It's basically a statement of fact. If you have a problem with this, then your issue is with Congress for writing such a vague law.
Stone fruits such as apples, peaches and plums have a tendency to produce fruit more heavily every other year.
Reading this comment and its replies, I think it's evident that there's no "rule" as far as what you should or shouldn't do goes.

For example, I had a second major in theatre, but I had no delusion of working a living in theatre that could compare with the kind of career that a CS degree typically delivers. It was and is a personal passion of mine, and to be able to deepen my understanding of it in an academic setting was valuable and rewarding to me personally.

Studying theatre paid dividends in other ways as well. Managing a production is a beast, and you learn a lot about how to manage people and get things done. Dramaturgy, often called literary analysis, was quoted by my professor (a scholar on the topic) as "what are the parts, and how do they go together?" -- a shorthand that I still use to this day when thinking about a new system.

If it wasn't clear already, I had a very positive experience in my studies at a Liberal Arts school, where the connections between fields, and the value they can offer each other, are a big focus.

Just taking on a second major won't necessarily pay off, but keeping in mind the holistic point of your education may create an outcome where the sum is substantially larger than its parts.
I can't articulate this idea, because I'm not well versed enough in programming language implementation. Maybe some forth or lisp folks can help me. A programming language can be very minimal, which is great. But it does reach a certain minimum possible complexity with regard to syntax. It has to have either a toggle to switch from 'execute mode' into 'compile mode' a la forth's `:` operator, or it has to have a particular syntax difference between 'defining a function' versus 'call a function'. I'm not sure if this is true. Does lisp have such a difference, or is everything just function application all the way down? This idea is stuck in my head. Can anybody recommend a book or formal terminology for what I'm getting at here?
Folks flagged ae_throw's question and got it to be muted (which I found very interesting)... so I'm resurrecting his question from <dead> and answering it anyways:

>Can someone give a reasonable argument as to why we should read WSJ? Or WaPo? Or NYT or any other large publication of this nature (looking particularly at The Economist). We know they post propaganda, spin stories however they please, and we know their fact checking is awful. I don’t think they have any journalistic integrity left.Please enlighten, am curious.

I find it useful to understand the other side and the echo chamber/bubble they are in; and by extension, leads to better insight and critique of the echo chamber my side is in.

As a right-winger (I put my bias forward to help communicate up-front my angle/bias as everybody has their biases) - for instance, I stopped reacting to NYT, NPR and WaPo's headlines and instead just categorized and label mechanically (as an AI sentiment bot might do) what their purpose for "manufactured consent" is; the headline behind the headline, for example for the left:

Many headline news if you flip to any NYT headlines any time of day, you can categorize them as "climate insecurity" (Global Warming is eating up a local area, Maui/Florida), the "MAGA threat" (a minority group is being persecuted by the vengeful "white right"), "neo-conservative foreign policy endorsements" (Ukraine is 'wining the war; Ughyur human rights violations; America is winning against Russia/China bloc and always on the progressive side of human rights).

It helps me frame critically the right-wing biases in my own echo chamber. For instance, it makes me realize that WSJ's more endorsement for "holier-than-thou" free-wheeling enterprise/business is really the equivalent right-wing propaganda to indoctrinate its side against left's efforts to union and regulate businesses for consumer rights and the environment. Similarly, the anti-SJW, exodus from California to Texas theme in Fox News is parallel to the "MAGA threat" stories from the left; and is just right-wing identity politics - just as bad as left-wing identity politics. And foreign policy-wise, both left and right are surprisingly uniform and orthodox to American exceptionalism and interventionism.

It makes me realize that American politics and journalism is at large a game of sports, marketing where both sides hype up the "brand-values" of their sides and vilify the other side; but at the end of the day, the owners in the box seats at the top of the arena have the same values; and the fans/citizens though may spit and belittle each other in the spirit of factional rivalary, surprisingly have so much in common with each other as jersey-wearing blue collar tailgating fans - than the NFL owners in their suites and boardrooms. And this notion of simultaneously gives me both great cynicism and hope for the state of America.
>If we lived in a world where lawyers were more cautions about what they attached there name to out of concern for losing their license we would probably be better off.

That's already the case. Lawyers can be disbarred for filing frivolous lawsuits.
You could build a pack out of modules, the logical unit is the 'pod', the block of cells that are set to operate in parallel, typically there are three electrical connections (all the joined + contacts, all the joined - contacts and a sense wire connected to the +) the + and - are usually passed on to the rest of the string except for the topmost + and the bottommost -. Those are brought out using wire. You could allow a pack to be split on the pod boundaries. That would allow for one relatively easy unit of repair. You'd have to know which pod to replace but that is something that you might be able to figure out using a DVM.

Another thing they could do is to allow for a complete reset of the BMS instead of bricking the BMS as is now done. This would also take care of capacity drift, which causes a lot of trouble with older packs where the reserve becomes an ever larger part of the total pack capacity and which can render a fully functional pack effectively useless.

I would not bother with the right-to-repair on this one but demand that for an e-bike to be certified that there would be a cost+ arrangement to deliver a refurbished battery to the end user, and that this should happen at least twice during the life of the bike. This because the batteries are by far the weakest spot in the chain, they fail at a rate much higher than motors or controllers. And the life of a bike should be defined as no less than 20 years.

Finally, when you recycle you could break up a pod into its constituent cells fairly easily, test them, discard the ones that are not passing a testing regime and then to match the cells and recreate new pods. But unless this is done at a very large scale it is probably more cost effective to just discharge the batteries, grind them up and to recycle them completely. That will give you brand new cells at some loss of material.

I hope this answer is what you had in mind.
Yes exactly, we are doing a preventive maintenance solution. So we fly whenever possible to assess the condition of the power line.
Matlab is great for a lot of things, though it's not really a great general purpose language. Its main problem is that it's not free (though octave exists, obviously), which limits interoperability. Octave can trivially be embedded in C++ and Python; if it was easier to do that with Matlab I wonder if numpy would have ever existed...(after all, numpy is essentially a port of Matlab semantics to Python... most Python numeric programmers are unwittingly basically writing Matlab already...).
Then we have nothing to fear about emptying out cities and shrinking tax bases going to the suburbs. People will continue to live in the cities they do because they're great places to live. Case closed!
Leaving the store with items you didn't pay for is theft on any level, and bad for business.
(a) There's no such thing as "ethical hacking" (that's an Orwellian term designed to imply that testing conducted in ways unfavorable to vendors is "unethical").

(b) You don't require permission to test software running on hardware you control (absent some contract that says otherwise).

(c) But you're right, in this case, the researchers presumably did need permission to conduct this kind of testing lawfully.
> Interesting examples from that wicked language, thank you! (Studied French before but unfortunately lost interest.)

I won't blame you, as this was my thought when I wrote it.
100% scrum might work in very simple projects.

Once things become difficult, challenging, or new, it's garbage.

Projects that are taking more story points than expected are "behind schedule". No, your shitty schedule is the problem, because you were unable to estimate the difficulty of doing something new. And that's the hard thing about hard things. Maybe it will be done in 3 days or maybe you'll need 2 weeks, but you can't do that with very difficult things.

Scrum is an attempt to label Parkinson's Law: that a task will expand to fit the time it is allocated in the schedule.

With people that need to be micromanaged, and tasks that you know how to do but take time, scrum can work. This is because it basically gives you a way to measure whether you believe a junior developer is performing up to the level of expected, rather than slacking off or sandbagging.

Personally, I hate scrum.
I thought the same. I’m only 60 pages of a history book with tons of references to sources and it took me about 3 hours to go through that.
> Addiction is not a monolith, and there are degrees of addiction

There are also degrees of compulsion. The law compels me to adhere to a speed limit; that doesn't mean my reptilian brain flips out if I go 66.

Within the context of discussing compulsive social media use described as addictive, arguing ad absurdum with reference to heroin isn't as simple as calling everything distasteful Nazi.