skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not immediately aware of a solid consolidated book on this regard, it's a bit scattered to my knowledge over many journalistic articles and oral histories. If anyone else has a recommendation I am interested as well.

Anyhow, a good place to start on researching this topic might be the 9/11 Tribute Memorial and Museum's YouTube channel where they have some clips from survivor accounts[1], many of these individuals you can google their names and find articles from the time period, for example Stanley Praimnath and Brian Clark. [2] The 9/11 Museum also holds many more oral histories, and transcripts. [3] One account that sticks with me is from a Reddit user that fled lower Manhattan on an abandoned bicycle. [4] There are similar stories in the comments of that post.

I do actually have a book recommendation I have read but it's more about what happened in the months after the events of 9/11: "American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center" [5]

[1] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqCjsbFgQNH7awCj8Q-PJa9Kb...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20070827041945/http://archives.c...

[3] https://www.911memorial.org/learn/resources/oral-histories

[4] https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/zpxyv/i_submit_this_e...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Ground
Spoken like a true salesman.
Note: "X" refers to Twitter, rather than a generic placeholder.
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Namecheap is one of the worst. I keep saying here how I managed to persuade a rep to remove my MFA over chat and they didn't do proper auth. Look at NameBright - cheap and has a great new beta interface and it has an API as well.
Sorry I typed this on my commute so I didnt flush it out. What I believe (and didnt say) is that data ownership and privacy controls are important issues to individuals, but are not meaningful drivers of ongoing performance and market control of big tech. I don't believe their power lies in their access to my data, it lies in their control over the infrastructure I used to earn my living, engage with the world, etc.

Thus, to mitigate their control (assuming you want to), I believe we need to look to solutions that garner competition. MSFT collects rent on the corporate enterprise via Azure, they own corporate documentation via Office, they own the corporate code repository via Github, and they own the corporate identity via LinkedIn.
Yeah like, is everyone forgetting how fucking insanely racist that moment was in the US. Brutal nasty racism, it was utterly foul and EVERYWHERE just completely normalized in every venue.

Unreal everyone is pretending to have been taken in by the "war on terror" kayfabe at the time. I knew 15-year-olds who clocked the whole thing as an opportunistic political scam. The correct stance is contrition and repentance. All these stories about what kinds of cereal people were eating that day disgust me. We killed tens of thousands, destabilized and destroyed entire countries, created millions of refugees with these stories as the excuse.
From the decision:

The panel upheld the most important portion of U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty’s preliminary injunction order in Missouri, et al. v. Biden, et al., prohibiting those officials from pressuring social media companies to suppress constitutionally protected speech. The panel decision modified the injunction against federal officials to now read:

“Defendants, and their employees and agents, shall take no actions, formal or informal, directly or indirectly, to coerce or significantly encourage social-media companies to remove, delete, suppress, or reduce, including through altering their algorithms, posted social-media content containing protected free speech. That includes, but is not limited to, compelling the platforms to act, such as by intimating that some form of punishment will follow a failure to comply with any request, or supervising, directing, or otherwise meaningfully controlling the social-media companies’ decision-making processes.”
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AI might dominate, but it would be a loss. Here’s a tutorial explaining modern audio fiction:

https://www.drabblecast.org/2018/07/30/inside-drabblecast-au...

(In audio format, of course; roughly 1.5 hours)

————

This episode takes you inside Drabblecast audio production. Ever wonder how we produce an episode of the Drabblecast? Wonder no more!

We dig into all the technical aspects like voice acting, sound editing and mixing, foley effects, music and more.

Preproduction? Reading? Acting? Yeah, it’s all here folks, all the blood sweat and tears that go into every production of the Drabblecast.
You don't have to proxy records in cloudflare.
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For some types of business Intercom pricing is hilariously high. It's great if you're selling a high priced SaaS product to a small number of business users. If you're in B2C though it often makes no financial sense because of this per "active" user pricing.

It's not uncommon for a B2B active user to be worth $1k/mo, and a B2C active user to be worth $1 a month. There are great businesses in both of those, but only the former could even consider using Intercom.
Not really. C was an iconoclast even at the time. Pascal was the en vogue language of the moment, and it used a length-prefixed string format.

But sure: it's true that in (a half century of!) hindsight, C strings were probably a mistake. But don't sell null-terminated strings short either. C could play tricks that Pascal couldn't. Iterating over the characters of a string has a natural expression using the same compiler features as arrays. A pointer into the middle of a string was still a valid string. You could lex a string inline during parsing by adding termination to the end markers or whitespace, etc...
That's a good point! (Although in practice I assume the terms of a "voluntary resignation" under something like https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-voluntary-resignation... are written to make that claim very difficult.)
I disabled the ability to search the web through the start menu long before they started with the edge shenanigans. As far as I'm concerned that isn't the operating system's job, and the only things I should see when I search there are things actually on my computer.
in almost a non sequitur, the article reads, "plasmas have the potential for healing wounds, making computer chips...". it made for a good chuckle wondering if the journalist reporting on this was thinking we might harvest some plasma from space
I don't know about that; it's been around 50 years since market reforms happened in China. Add to this that China considers the century it was dominated by western powers as an abberation, and you've got a recipe for the current regime losing the mandate of heaven, as it were.
All I will say is that this is a very personal subject to many (especially the type of person who visits HN) and so a clear look at the evidence might be difficult on a forum like here.

ME/CFS is probably one of the conditions most difficult to discuss in a dispassionate way.
Been using Cloudflare registrar professionally and for personal use for the last few years. Came from google domains, which was a terrible experience even before all of this. Can't say enough positive things, if my opinion means anything to anyone at all - just wanted to second this recommendation.
> you could keep all the features and still cut the code to at least 1/10th of its size.

I do not disagree. I feel like, in some cases that might even be the minimum reduction. In some cases it might be more like 1/20th.

But does that cut require twice as many man-hours, or does it require x40 man-hours? More? Whatever the actual answer, I do not think it cheap. I don't even know how to guess how much added effort and time it requires.

In many cases and companies, it might even require hiring highly sought-after engineers... in-house talent simply isn't up to it.
that's the one I was trying to remember, it's my favorite
Why is it such an issue that people deny it?

Viruses can cause organ tissue damages, that's enough for me to believe a virus can cause all sort of "syndromes"

I'm not on the denier side but harass me with fear, threats, and free movement mandates and I will deny that syndromes even exist.
Sure, you shouldn't have to, but sometimes you're developing in an environment where adding a print statement + restarting + reproducing is faster than waiting for your IDE debugger to download whatever state information it needs (or whatever it's doing) l to render a prompt. For example, Xcode takes an eon to show a lldb prompt when you hit a breakpoint. Printing is instant every time.

Further, there are cases where variables are optimized out of builds so you have to add code to ensure they stick around (in which case you may as well print). Again, this applies to iOS development. Maybe others.
IPv4+NAT still exposes your router's address, which is still problematic, no? If you want more privacy than that you can use a VPN, which should work on IPv6 too.
Software has bugs, that's not really the damning part... The damning part is that in four hours and two levels of support teams, there was noone who actually knew anything about how the system worked who could remove the problematic flight plan so that the rest of the system could continue operating!

What exactly is the point of these support teams when they can't fix the most basic failure mode (a single bad input...)
The so-called 'double standard' in AB-587 (defining 'social media platform') is entirely consistent with the existing federal 'double standard' set up a quarter-century ago by Section 230, which makes providers of 'interactive computer services' immunity from liability for content moderation decisions. This bill can be seen as oversight layered on top of those existing content-moderation liability protections.

If you want to tilt at 'because computers' windmills, Section 230 is the real target.
There was once a term in more popular use, at least by doctors, that seems to have fallen out of fashion:

Post viral sequela

sequela

noun MEDICINE
plural noun: sequelae

a condition which is the consequence of a previous disease or injury.
"the long-term sequelae of infection"
Tech downsides (?) has always been with us since the Industrial Revolution. Like workers being forced by circumstance to work 12 hour days with no rights. Then some of them having to die to get any rights whatsoever.

Marketing also isn't new (“these days”). Smoking was marketed to women as “freedom sticks”.

There never was a time when we were all playing on the same team and trying to eventually colonize the Galaxy.
Video interview of him before 9/11:

https://vimeo.com/441396612
Some repos are deliberately 'frozen in time' for posterity purposes
I use https://www.wireshark.org/tools/oui-lookup.html exactly because of that reason.
Think about it. If they don’t keep your email that you unsubscribed then if it comes in through another data source or is reloaded then it’ll subscribe you again. Keeping track ensures they don’t do it accidentally or automatically. Or for exports/backups etc.
It's not only memory. Realtime perception is completely warped as well. An objective view of reality is impossible for humans.
Having a published content moderation policy would presumably mean that companies are expected to abide by it, which limits their editorial freedoms. Asking a company to be consistent in its approach to speech is still a restriction on its speech. Most people and companies are hypocritical and self-serving when opportunities arise, but that's still protected.

Maybe the reporting law doesn't itself prohibit a company from acting against its published terms, but it sure creates a database that could easily be weaponized against them by a future law or unchecked executive order.
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> it will never replace sitting next to someone and them showing you photos

It definitely does replace that. It sucks so much to be trapped next to someone showing you their photo album or vacation slides, when you don’t really care, that this became a stock scene in 20th-century comedy TV series and films. Nowadays when people are sharing their photos online, that gives their peers the choice of whether to look or whether to ignore, and that is immensely freeing.
Why would the companies cease to exist? Why would leadership quit simply because they could no longer be multi-billionaires.

I've always seen this as a very weak argument. With future automation we will have to figure out some form of collective ownership and dispersal of profits.
I will use your language, but no offense, if I see this in something I have to maintain I'm rewriting it.

(defn transformed-belt [xf]
(let [ch (chan 1 xf)]
(thread
(loop []
(when-some [value (<!! ch)]
(println "Value:" (pr-str value)))
(recur)))
ch))

No clue what it means, but I'm convinced it can be written in 3 lines with a for loop in a way that 100% of people looking it will understand it, and not 5%. Probably even in Clojure!
Except that was a completely different incident and it occurred in the United States, not the UK. The Daily Mail did try to make hay out of the idpol angle, but the British can't reasonably be accused of shirking responsibility for the FAA grounding flights in the US.
I can't seem to find a link to the git or documentation. I'm very curious how this is achieved? Is a model fine tuned? If so how? I'd be most interested in seeing how they formatted the input data if fine tune was done.
The BBC has an excellent series about this time, available as a podcast: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001k0ch/episodes/downloads
At least until the 70s most newspapers had a section called "Women" or something similar. Even the news about the 60s/70s women's movement appeared there, not in the main "news" sections. Those sections were mostly renamed around that time to "Lifestyle", "Home", or just "Features".
“Pledge” another 20 cents
Yeah, similar thing for me. I spent a good bit (probably ~Rs 30 of my Rs 50) Google Play Balance on the thank you app as I loved the idea. When I saw the "paid" versions, even though I got all of them when they were free in the introductory period it left a bad taste in my mouth.

(If you're wondering how someone had so little money to spend/disposable income try being a kid in a third-world country.)
The greatest loss of the 21st century is how far behind we are in all the industries you list. Not to mention news.

The option to pay today’s kingpin isn’t any recompense.
Sorry, could you please rephrase that? Didn't quite catch it?
The reality is that not doing it is also a slippery slope with greater incline. Avoiding one slope jeopardizes another.
I had a number and blew past it then set a bigger number and went past it too. I just enjoy doing cool technical stuff and working with interesting people. I’ve got an age now, 55, when I plan to retire, but even then I’m not sure I really want to not work. Thing is, I’ve always loved computers and doing awesome stuff with them, and it’s easier to do that in an organization. Thing is I’m starting to get more into electronics and embedded systems as I get older, and have some ideas about open source ultra low cost easy to self maintain and build irrigation and farm automation systems in developing countries. So I plan to shift my focus around 55 to less tech for techs sake and more tech for humanities sake, without regard for compensation.
The mind-body dualism is not real and mind & body symptoms can be co-productive.

That said, the evidence of 'actual physiological differences in people with ME/CFS' is not very strong at all (relative to the amount of scrutiny this problem has received) and research on other hypotheses has been halted numerous times due to death threats.
I was thinking about US law in particular.
I have a fun little addin board for my 7300 - https://www.radioanalog.com/ptrx-7300/ - Install was pretty straight forward, maybe 10 minutes.

It taps the internal wiring to grab IQ output, suitable to then feed into a SDR (RSPDuo for me), then into a computer from that.

It's receive only, but works pretty well. And you can always hook up the (natively supported) USB connection on the radio for transmit.
I'm still missing it.

If we were talking about alcohol consumption "slow down and think about it" absolutely makes sense: I might be having fun in my 20s binge drinking but there are very real negative consequences of that behavior long term.

But in the scenario where someone is in their car with their mask on I'm missing the "slow down and think about it" rationale. (Again, I've heard the talking points on this, so I'm looking more for a real answer).
What of the fact that my father and I both get painless clicking when we open our jaws too wide? Unless I'm having an arthritis flare, it doesn't hurt at all, but every dentist I've ever seen has pointed it out with curiosity. That certainly seems like a mechanical issue.

My immediate reaction here is that casting (my) TMJ pain as a matter of emotional avoidance feels a tad dismissive, tbh. Particularly when the pain comes in tandem with flare-ups of other systemic inflammatory issues... unless ankylosing spondylitis is an emotional problem as well :)
Not certain at all, it’s based on last universal common ancestor estimates(LUCA) and supported by (lack of) fossil record.
Have you looked at Fathom[0] or GoatCounter?

[0] https://usefathom.com/

[1] https://www.goatcounter.com/
> What exactly is the point of these support teams when they can't fix the most basic failure mode (a single bad input...)

To collect money on support contracts, I suspect.
AI 'nose' predicts smells from molecular structures
With some luck and love in the future hopefully we'll also be able to use them in containers https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/kvm/cover/2020011617242... which would simplify a lot of little things.
Would be interesting to see similar benchmarks for different Linux GUI toolkits, on different desktop environments and windowing systems.
So companies being required to file for taxes and put nutrition facts on their food products violates the rights of certain people within those companies?
You’re definitely in the minority. Most people agree that DLSS is the best upscaling tech available right now. It produces an image that is genuinely similar to a higher native resolution with fairly minor artifacts.

It probably could run on other GPU but Nvidia isn’t the type to just give tech to their competitors.
Why do you think it's a hype and why it'll die down?

I'm now a heavy user of AI personally & professionally (as a dev). The two work projects I'm involved with are increasing by a lot the usage of GPU to apply LLM tech.

I don't see this coming back. The market growth rate will slow down, but it'll continue to grow (and not come back) for quite a few years, I think.

When it starts to slow (growth rate, not market), I guess there'll be other breakthroughs in AI like GPT that'll renew the trend.
Preschoolers show cultural differences in generosity, competitiveness
It would be fine if they had summarized it as a minority 1/3 chance of earning less. It would be fine if they had compared the overall averages, where college grads earn more, and then compared the bottom third of college grads. But the story is trying to justify a summary point suggesting that college isn’t worth it, which justifies the title that Gen Z is giving up on college. The issue is that they didn’t point out that outcomes for college grads on average are quite a bit better, and that it’s only a minority of the time that things don’t work out as well for degree holders (and always has been only a minority of the time.) They didn’t explore the reasons behind the bottom third’s performance, and the comparison is more misleading than the parts I pointed out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37468176
The min age for president is double the min age to vote.

And the exclusion of minors from voting is made acceptable by existence of parents/guardians morally and legally responsible for their interests. Seniors often don't have the same.
New employees can mutiny too, and if they do that when they are only 40% of employees, you’re still in trouble.
I just did an extremely lazy version of that and posted a reply of "And the SHA-1 digest (in hex) of this tweet starts BEEF" - https://twitter.com/cooperx86/status/1701261047917633846

Basically I had several substitutions around words, case, punctuation, etc. and just ran it until it found some hits. Quite easy with just four characters though but was only a proof of concept.
I wasn't using spawn. It's an I/O bound program with a big select! loop at it's core. Rust spit out errors about Send and I made them go away by switching to flavor = "current_thread".
Globally distributed subducted materials along the Earth’s core-mantle boundary
> intentionally manipulating food to cause harm to people

I seriously doubt that this has ever been done.

Companies "manipulate" food so it tastes good and they'll sell more of it. They don't intentionally do it to "cause harm". At most, that might be an unintended consequence.

It turns out that intentionally killing your customers is bad for business.

It's like (IIRC) Ozzy Osbourne's comment back in the days when metal was being blamed for teen suicides. "Why would we do that? That would tank sales for the followup album." Or Rob Halford on the same subject "If we were going to put backward-masked subliminal commands in our records, it wouldn't be 'kill yourself', it would be 'buy more of our records'"

(probably not exact quotes in either case, but that was the gist)
The law has no penalties for the policy you implement. So AB 587 isn't restraining any speech. If CA passes another law that uses the information to restrain speech, then that law may be unconstitutional. But AB 587 doesnt become unconstitutional by imagining all the ways it could be used unconstitutionally.
It sounds like it could be very useful for performance debugging. Using 50% of available CPU is very different when 50% and 50% than 100% and 0% of each available CPU. It could also be helpful for debugging performance with heterogeneous CPUs such as SMT, NUMA or performance/efficiency cores.
> If all those companies acted within the bounds of law, then is it the companies fault for producing a product that the customer wants? [...] The big issue however, is that companies have infiltrated this layer of regulatory bodies, rendering them incapable.

Did you set out to answer your own question?
It said they sent emails previous to this project so presumably that's already been accounted for
"Inference costs will dominate" seems very short-sighted. I've kind of laughed at any startup saying "oh we will use AI to do <X>" for years but seeing what LLMs can do suddenly hardware seems like the limiting factor. I can think of endless applications if I had a few GPUs with a petabyte of onboard ram each that also run about 10000x the FLOPs of current GPUs and a few petabytes of storage for training data. I would be training models left and right to tackle whatever problem I thought of.

Of course, it's hard to say if such hardware will be available in my lifetime at a price point that I can get for personal use. In the meantime providing hardware for training will still underpin massive businesses.

And especially as hardware costs come down I suspect "fine-tuning" will become more and more common and there will even be use cases where running inference on a large number of tokens looks a lot more like fine-tuning, which is to say you're going to want the best GPU you can find and CPUs are just not going to work very well if at all.
Instead of Prop 65, look at it as like nutritional labeling rules. There is no implication in having to list e.g. how much protein is an a serving of your product means that protein is dangerous.
Fair point, the makefile is nice and portable.