skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
2008 ThinkPad t400 user here, running Ubuntu. Most business class notebooks are incredibly durable and the market offers replacement parts for 10 of 15 year old devices. A t400 battery is less than 25€ on Amazon and there are dozens of vendors.
> someone who's very easily manipulated by psy-ops done by the companies themselves

You’re alleging Unity fabricated these death threats?
> Surely you don't need anything from them to design a chip from scratch that implements the same instruction set, as Cyrix and AMD famously did to the ia32.

Cyrix and AMD had licenses to do so, ultimately deriving from a time when Intel needed second sources of their CPUs in order to win defense contracts.
Every website looks like TikTok now.
The article puts a lot of emphasis on Marl, the marginal user.
However, it's a two-way relationship: the society (culture, media, and products) created Marl.
If you watch YouTube since you were a kid and see video recommendations all the time, it's hard to develop a good attention span as there is always something attractive and new in the corner of your eye. Then you read online articles that are incredibly shallow and almost generated by a bot, with the sole purpose of gathering clicks. Over time, you get used to skimming the text contents.

The article is a good example; nobody wants to spend too much time creating a long blog post. So, a short text and a catchy title work better to attract your audience. For me, software is about products like an operating system or an editor; for the author, "software" is about websites like Google or Reddit. It's not the same. The incentives are different, but making a distinction requires more analysis, an analysis that Marl will not read. Marl will complain that macOS quality seems lower on each release without realizing the article is about something different.

Most people reading HN work in the software industry. In one way or another, we are also responsible for creating Marl. That's why having a better education in social topics should be an essential part of any engineering curriculum.
That's two LinkedIns
Consider the traffic, not from your computer to VPN to the internet, but from the internet to VPN to your computer. You will require that all traffic received by a particular port at an IP address at the VPN provider be forwarded to your computer.

In this manner, if you have a website with sensitive content, you can make it available to the Internet, with a VPN IP address. The IP address of the owner of the website is hidden behind the VPN.
Thank you for helping me clarify my point; I definitely could have done better.
New files shed light on ExxonMobil’s efforts to undermine climate science
Is Elon Musk calculated or crazed? Walter Isaacson discusses his new book
The problem wouldn't exist. This was about the phone fetching 80k new items from the server. If the phone just shows the item you're looking at, one at a time, and doesn't try to sync everything, there's no such problem.
23&Me failed in drug development because they started from a mistaken premise- that the data they collected (very specifically, genotype arrays) would produce data that was correlated with human health closely enough to identify targets (proteins or pathways to disrupt/modify). They have a huge genetics dataset, they don't have a huge genomics dataset, and the underlying relationship between the genome and phenotypes (especially complex disease phenotypes) is a highly nonlinear function.

Environment is important but we could still have huge improvements in medical care using genomics. It's easy to obtain and still has a very strong relationship to disease, and is a problem best solved by deep learning. I've watched people tilt against this windmill for 25+ years and it's kind of funny just how bad our labelling of diseases is.
Google Extends Lifespan of Chromebooks
Addressing concerns by school administrators that the laptops are too short-lived to be cost effective.
I normally don't reply to stuff like this because you are clearly arguing in bad faith. I just wanted to point out you either have failed to read my comment in context, are intentionally mischaracterizing what I said. Going from what I said to "write a custom client for Discord from scratch" has to be a joke. Also that TOS violation thing is simply not true. You are well within your rights to download the history of your own discord server.....
Neuralab “Client and Agency Communication Handbook”
Any similar GitHub for Python you recommend?
> When a profitable startup sells out, that's the founders also saying "profitable isn't enough for me".

Or just "I'm done with this shit". It's remarkably difficult to run a small (software) business in the US. Section 174, multi-state income tax filings. It's a bloody pain if your goal is not just to operate the business and be overhead, but to actually do stuff. Regulatory/tax complexity thresholds depending on business size would be a welcome improvement.
ASP.NET Core/C# with Vue. Older projects are with Angular.
The PackagingCon schedule is published
You can take them home. I have 458 ducks.
Alternately, there isn't.
> they know they'll be blamed if something goes wrong after they didn't cancel

Also you don’t want that on your conscience? Your colleagues’ lives and wellbeing against a corporate town hall.
It seems like that's part of his issue. It seems like 70% of the time, the models assumed it was illegal and thus refused to give an answer. If he said they were his escaped pet ducks, almost all the models suddenly gave very helpful answers. It was rarely actually confused by the question.
Its hardly surprising that an image would get more engagement than would an article. While an image has less meat to it, by the same token it requires less effort to engage with it. You look at the image, think for a second, then possibly retweet or like. With an article, you can hardly engage with it without following a link, reading some number of paragraphs, reflecting on them, etc. I would consider it quite natural that images and articles get roughly corresponding amounts of engagement. That this was the absolute level of analysis was quite disapointing. Besides trying to evaluate in more depth the viral capability of links today, I would have expected a comparison with days past. I can hardly, having read this article, confidently say that elon is trying to kill external links.
I think OP you should try more with YC Cofounder Matching! I've decided to sign up and actually explore using it myself to find a co-founder for some of the things I'm working on, I'll report back how it goes, waiting on my profile to be reviewed now. I think there'll be lots of there who are looking for lifestyle businesses, not just high growth startups.
As I said, the previous window was 8 years. Presumably schools are able to get end up with enough 8 year EOL laptops to have caused a storm about it. If they were manage cause that miracle, then they can probably manage to get enough of them to 10 years as well.

(And yes, I know what the real answer is - they bought bargain bin laptops like 4-6 years after RTM, so they only have like 2-4 years of actual wear and tear on them. Given their carelessness the first time, I wouldn't rule out a repeat in 2 years).
What is audio2audio? Can I beat box into a mic and have professionally produced tracks come out the other end?
Very cool, love the break down and journey. We ended up with something similar, and we definitely want to do a technical breakdown! Great minds think alike! In addition, we are also globally replicating our "core" as well.
Here's a simpler way to phrase the problem.

The current world population is about 8 billion.

By this argument, and also by your argument, it should actually be 999 billion. Or a number even higher than that.

The conclusion boils down to:

1. Find maximum population number earth can support.

2. Hit that number.

I do think that, when put this way, it seems simplistic.
Perhaps you run in more criminally inflected circles, but I have never seen anyone committing insider trading, and if I did, I would be more than happy to report it to the SEC.

Insider trading is a crime that is definitely enforced and comes with serious consequences. The SEC regularly publishes a list of people who have been convicted and it made a record number of convictions last year (nothing surprising since the population keeps growing). Martha Stewart was not exceptional. She was convicted because she committed crimes.
Well, encrypted OASIS these days for something like a higher perf CPU core, but close enough for the point you were making.
hey in this instance does this mean you are making ~150,000 or ~500,000?
It seems a goal of S&box is to allow more developers to ship games that are built using Source 2. I'm curious if we'll see much of that in the future.
Many consider OpenAI, Amazon, and TikTok to all be competitors to Google Search.
To be fair, users did have to install an app and go through the onboarding to be counted. That is a big ask for most users! That wasn't the case for Google+ where they straight up just considered all Google accounts to be Google+ accounts suddenly. And that was on the web where you don't have to install anything.

But I don't disagree, saying they got a lot of signups doesn't mean it's a home run success. Myself and most of the people I follow on IG signed up within the first few days, made a post that said something along the lines of "what's a Threads" and then haven't posted since then.
> My point is only how quickly americans adopt this "if someone's buying, it's excusable" morality as applied to business.

I'm not sure why you're talking about Americans, but my point is that the main thing a business does is create employment and useful goods or services.

> As-if politics were a place of heroic powerful individuals, and business merely a mechanism.

No, creating employment and useful goods or services is extremely important and heroic. It's just different to being the person who takes money from others on the sole basis that he/she will be impartial and not take bribes.
Unity will quietly waive fees if developers switch to its ad monetisation
Yeah, but these don't really work in my experience.

The advantage of a first-party solution would be being able to normally message, i.e. the recipient not having to have the app already open, mesh support in the background etc.
Windows 1.0 with Steve Ballmer (1986) [video]
Yeah I guess it's more of a continuum than a binary. But I do feel like there may be a discontinuity between free and cheap, where the business model totally changes in a way that (in my view) better aligns the incentives between the business and its customers.
resources for looking into this more (both FORTH and LISP)?
Many... Java, C, Python, Groovy, SQL, some Perl and Erlang(but migrating to Elixir). Thats some of em.
> instructions include a secure boot bypass

So do NSO’s work for them.
That ambiguity only lives in the article's title, the queries themselves are all quite clear.
> After the first year, about 1/5 laptops needed major repair. None of them would make it to 5 years.

The second sentenxe doesn't follow the first - it's a flavor of Zeno's paradox, after 5 years, you'll be left with 4/5 x 4/5 x 4/5 x 4/5 x 4/5 of the original batch.
Chromebooks are popular in schools because of ease of use and ease of device management. Suggesting school districts with thousands of students deploy and manage linux students is asinine.
Sure, that's always the hope. But leaders in two existing dominant political parties have gotten pretty good at triangulation. As soon as a nascent third party starts gaining significant support, the existing parties co-opt pieces of that platform and the third party fades away. So, third parties can be temporarily effective in moving the political needle but they won't win major elections in our lifetimes.
The rev share has been inconsistent and unreliable though.
While I can relate to that, as that's how I made Twitter tolerable, is that really as much of an issue on the Fediverse which doesn't have algorithmic recommendations? I only have to see posts from the people I follow and I don't follow anyone who has a tendency to like "rage post"ing so I basically never see that sort of stuff unless I look at the global feed.
It's obvious from the Abstract that they are not referring to the Dunning-Kruger Effect as it is NOT mentioned in the Abstract, which is the highlight of the paper.

Actually who the hell knows when the paper is essentially behind a paywall. The Abstract gives nothing away about what they have found.
I don't use Reddit, and clicking that link and its results confirm why it's an appalling platform.
> this can easily be gamed

There are other online services like Uber and AirBnB in which it is much easier to cheat by communicating with your counterpart outside of the app, that way you don't have to pay commissions and so on. It's a serious problem for them.

But this hypothetical online service marries people. Fraud is much riskier there, because divorce can be extremely expensive if your partner-in-fraud doesn't cooperate.

> the free market still needs a central authority for any proofs

Isn't marriage a relatively centralized institution? The central authority that marries people can easily provide proof that they indeed married some people.
Yeah this sucks. Afaik, they're debating about this and from what I read removing 3.3 means killing the plugin ecosystem.
Not to be antagonistic, but this story makes it sound like your advantage came from the fact you had a computer early and your peers didn't. If everyone gets one, there is no advantage. You've just created a new necessity instead.
They’re much more robust today
Ah, I see. This isn't necessarily virtualizing the static weights but the variable -sized and data dependent key value caches. These caches are built up as you go through the sequence of tokens. Makes sense.

How doesn't paging worsen speed performance though? If you are making more trips to the memory, then are you really just saving vram?

Also I see that vLLM which implements PagedAttention is also using a better scheduling? Wouldn't the speed improvements be coming from that instead? Don't put an expected short input and output in the same batch as a big input and big output?

What are the results of using the sequence-length only without virtualization?
Fuzzing image parsers on macOS with Jackalope
Unfortunately the lack of a definition of intelligence makes all claims unfalsifiable too.

But Western reductionism/Laplacian determinism is still taught even at the PHD level as cannon and not as a target for practical models.

Perhaps the rise of research into indecomposable continua and the discovery of Strange non-chaotic attractors in nature may help.

Obviously math and computer science as taught today is insufficient.

I particularly blame the way we teach things as absolute truth and then pull the rug out from under those previous supposed hard facts.

But I am showing my own ignorance here because we do learn about the computable set etc...

It doesn't seem to help with people making claims about universal quantifiers being a few quarters away.
Why are you regularly doing vacuum full instead of just vacuuming more aggressively?
I'm sure that there are a lot of Internet-empowered and recent-political-era-inspired mentally ill people who will make death threats casually. It's sad and shameful.

But did Unity not want to do the town hall over videoconferencing (if offices shut), or was there some other reason that they didn't want to do the town hall?
The developers are revolting.
Doesn't have to fight with unions either. The UAW really is one of the best unions in the world but there is no way they are going to let Detroit have a revolution in how they make cars.
> The real question is, did C++ give you any real ROI either?

We actually moved most of everything that was in BP (and a good bit of what was in C++) to Python, so it addressed all of our issues while also speeding up development and, somewhat surprisingly, giving us a decent performance boost too.

> You're using Unreal, but not with Perforce?

Yeah, definitely not going to use Perforce, haha - might as well be using SourceSafe!

> People's expectations about this extremely clunky engine are way too high.

Unreal absolutely does have its warts, an almost overwhelming amount of complexity, and we've run into our share of issues. Sometimes you're amazed at how quickly a feature can be implemented, and then other times you spend days on something you thought was going to be trivial. We replaced the replication system with something better suited to our needs, for example. That said, on the whole we're pretty happy with Unreal (both the renderer and the materials system are very impressive).
I've seen some of the chromebooks at my daughter's school and they are beyond abused by the kids. Missing keys, screens cracked, you name it. My daughter's is in pristine condition, though!
*alchemical
was the algorithm ever released or just the scale analytics code?
but it's rabbit season.
I worry more about Google’s service longevity than the updates on these.
Utility is very complicated and summing might not even be possible. Folks have argued for completely different utility systems, such as cardinal utility where utility is modeled purely as relations instead of something that is isomorphic to a real. Even going by the mainstream view of ordinal utility, utility tends to be a convex function (simplistically, having 1 food is much better than having no food, but having 1000 food isn't that much better than having 500 food.) Modeling utility as something purely isomorphic to reals gives it all the fun paradoxes that we know the reals have and can be used to create some really wacky results. The "repugnant conclusion" is a direct consequence of that.
But by virtue of blocking most of any given subreddit to get "an unchallenged soapbox" I mean... you will get that, but:

1) Your post will get very little traction or engagement, which means it'll be buried in New quite quickly

2) You won't really be a bother to the community at all, because of 1. Like, if someone posted something that was incredibly offensive to all in a given community but then hid it from everyone... like, is it even really posted? Isn't that just basically shadowbanning yourself?

I'm legit trying but I'm having a hard time picturing what purpose this would be used for, on the part of the poster. Seems like a huge waste of time to be honest.
In the Dutch system the judge has the last word not the prosecution so no it doesn't work.
Semantically speaking, I guess so. It's just a proxy address. Maybe it's you, maybe it's someone else with your name. Who can tell?

The point is to not be found. People showing up at any address that isn't your actual home address aligns with that goal. Registering it in the same ZIP code is self-doxxing though.

It's an innocuous form of synthetic identity fraud. If you really want to be anonymous, do pre-applications for credit cards and utilities in your name at other people's addresses then abandon them. One case I worked had a guy doing this using AirBNB hosts' addresses. His profile had him supposedly living everywhere all at once. This had the benefit of mapping to actual homes instead of The UPS Store when Googled.
They do, but I expect it becomes a big political issue - can you imagine how much it must cost in insurance alone, as soon as you mention the painting might have to be touched...? And then you'll need a committee to agree on how much varnish should be stripped, etc etc.
reminds me of Jazelle (for Java bytecode in ARM hardware)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle
The video is worth just for his expression at 1:07. Highly recommended. Have no interest in the topic and watched the whole thing!
Was it an issue with Chromebooks specifically, or just a general consequence of heavily-used shared laptops?
The description fits me perfectly except I am ahead of you. I quit almost a year ago and started consulting for a former employer just now.

I don’t have much advice to give though. It’s hard to get started and even when you do find a client it can take months before the paper work has been sorted if the client is a large (and slow) corporation.

Now I am making money again though after living on savings for almost a year, and I have a much better (more flexible) deal than when I was an employee there.
Can you give me -1 ducks, please?
I only glanced at the paper, but I wonder how much of this is explained by just random chance?

It looks like they used multiple choice quizzes to determine both knowledge in science and a propensity to respond "don't know" indicating confidence. Any "don't know" response was counted as an incorrect response, while a correct guess increased the participants "science knowledge".

Thus, a willingness to guess something at random in the multiple choice test would both increase "science knowledge" as well as make the participant appear overconfident.
1) There's a free version of AlDente.

2) You can turn off the MacBook's adaptive charging algorithm in Settings.
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No. That is too many ducks.
Great comment. I'm a big fan and customer of IPinfo, using your API in our login notification emails to say "You just logged in from Berlin, Germany. If this wasn't you click here." To provide country data for customers in their audit logs. And for anti-spam and fraud detection.
Have a sticker.

Meanwhile, I just sent a command to a USB hub in my mobile phone in order to suspend a modem connected to it - something every USB hub is capable of doing and what can be controlled by the user (yes, it's a function of the hub, not of the device). But you do you, enjoy your world.
Sounds like socialism. Why do you hate America?

And with those two sentences your party is done for, regardless of the truth or reality.
All of this having been said, replacing happiness with revenue makes chasing marginal users make a lot of sense.

If you have a sure-fire way to get half the people on the planet to give you $1, you can afford a yacht. Even if it means the tool you make for them only induces them to ever give you that $1 and not more... Why do you care? You have a yacht now. You can contemplate whether you should have made them something more useful from the relative safety and comfort of your yacht.
Accessibility software needs access to the window details like executable, new title, window size and so forth and to be able to emulate peripherals.
In fact, SoftBank is known for being the one of the stupidest big investors there is. They got lucky being an early investor in Alibaba, but have managed to piss most of that money away on getting left holding the bag on the peak.
> They have regularly enforced paying bad people more than good people because the only measure they allow is years on the job.

This is blatant propaganda. Stop repeating it, it's just false. There are plenty of unions where compensation has nothing to do with seniority, just look at SAG-AFTRA: Daniel Radcliffe was making a lot more than actor playing Mr. Dursely, despite the the latter having more acting experience than the former's experience living.

All you do by perpetuating lies about unions is making management more powerful. It doesn't benefit you at all. Yet here you are, going to bat for them.
Sounds like your intermediate knowledge of the paper is resulting in an overconfident negative attitude :P
Set up an entity, ideally non-Californian, and ignore the law. Obviously not legal advice. But if you’re still chugging along in a few years, you can afford to back comply. If you aren’t, there is nothing for a customer to sue.
Probably not. If they got to the point of needing a divorce that means the relationship looked like it was going to work, so much so that the people involved agreed to marry.

No online service can possibly promise to be more thorough in their due diligence than the actual humans who chose to marry each other.
It would help to understand the case for scripting vs compiled code.

Also for bit-banging speed is essential isn't it?