skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However, implementing some form of selective immigration with assimilation programs appears to be a potential solution

This would require not only legislative changes, but also a significant social shift. The broad Japanese society simply does not believe at present in “assimilation”, because it maintains such a strict in-group, out-group separation and the latter simply can never be Japanese in their view. For example, up to the end of the 20th century, Japanese would trust foreigners less the better those foreigners spoke Japanese, because a truly fluent and proficient foreigner would be viewed as confused about his/her ethnic identity or trespassing on something distinct Japanese. This has gradually changed somewhat with the influx of people from other Asian countries who work in kombinis etc., but it still shows the sort of social resistance that advocates for immigration reform are up against.
There is always value in expanding the breadth and depth of human knowledge, even if it doesn't seem useful to you, right now. That of course assumes that knowledge is true, which is the crux of the problem now.
Appreciate how well-written and approachable this post was!
There is also another issue why Apple is restricting "part harvesting": theft. iCloud locks or Samsung's KNOX lock entered the field because the manufacturers were pretty pissed that customers using their devices in public became a target for "enterprising" robbers who'd factory-wipe the devices and flip them to a pawn shop or second-hand store in a matter of half an hour. When people are afraid to use your products because it paints a phone-sized target on them, they won't buy your product.

That cut down on a lot of the robbery bullshit, but then criminals simply found new buyer classes - they'd simply part stolen devices out and resell everything but the iCloud/Knox/whatever locked mainboard. Displays, cameras, speakers, batteries, flex cables, cases, everything.

So now, at least Apple is tagging the most "valuable" parts in new phones, simply to make stealing them unattractive for thieves, which frankly sucks but is necessary because it's a public safety issue.

(If anyone at Apple is reading this: ffs, allow the legitimate owner of a device to "unpair" all components in their phone in iCloud so that legitimate second-hand shops can strip a broken device at least for its parts)
"Is the End of Aids in Sight?"

Short answer - no. Even if they achieve their ambitious plan, 5% is still a large number. Look at how hard it has been to eradicate the last of polio, and that has a lifelong vaccine.
I didn't know about the empty initializer list syntax.

Still, reading about it, there are cases where `T var{} ;` will do something different from `T var;`: if T is an aggregate object type, then it will invoke aggregate initialization instead of calling the no-args constructor.
> hence the classpath exception, giving you basically a boundary over which the copyleft doesn’t propagate over.

Oooh that makes sense, thanks for clarifying this!
Would be curious to hear theories on what succeeds in motivating people to produce more (kids). If our lifestyle has changed in a way that people do not want to produce, and I see it linked with wealth, it would be pretty hard to ask people to reverse it, no?

I am not saying we need to constantly increase our populations, just wonder if it has been studied and do those studies prescribe a template for short term adjustments / inducements.
> Is this bad? Would earth gradually reverting to a few billion people be bad?

Not bad for the planet or the climate. But bad for people who care about civilizations, geopolitics or macro-economics.
Reminds me of a Louis Rossman video [0] where he shares his frustration with Apple's independent repair shop program. He says that to get access to genuine Apple parts (and the ability to pair them to devices), Apple requires that his shop not be able to do certain things like fix a broken angle detection sensor.

It's utter BS, and the lip service companies are paying to right-to-repair bills in state legislatures honestly confuses me given their directly antithetical behavior. Hope strong repair bills get passed and they are fined to hell and back :)
Protectionism often seems politically appealing because its beneficiaries are highly visible and benefits are concentrated amongst a few larger firms. The beneficiaries of cheaper imports and freer trade are usually greater in total but thinly spread out - everyone benefits a little bit.

As such it wouldn't surprise me at all if both your perspective and GP's perspective are true - cheaper imports would be better for everyone but the government doesn't "want" them because they'd politically inconvenience a relatively small number of people very visibly.
You should probably stress it even more, or have Tesla change their product description:

> Cybertruck is built with an exterior shell made for ultimate durability and *passenger protection*. Starting with a *nearly impenetrable exoskeleton*, every component is designed for superior strength and endurance, from *Ultra-Hard 30X Cold-Rolled stainless-steel structural skin* to Tesla *armor glass*.

> If there was something better, we’d use it. Help eliminate dents, damage and long-term corrosion with a smooth monochrome exoskeleton that puts the shell on the outside of the car and *provides you and your passengers maximum protection*

> Ultra-strong glass and polymer-layered composite can *absorb and redirect impact force* for improved performance and damage tolerance.

Fine, I agree to some extent. This is not a billionaire-mobile. It's a paranoid-aspiring-billionaire-mobile.

I only hope I have enough money to get this and be protected when the plebs start throwing shit at my car.
"So, 70% fake/flawed."

I think you miss read that section? Only were 44% fake or flawed acording to this study.

The 26% that were very flawed is a subset of the 44% that were flawed in general. So those precentages should not be added together.
The Limits of the Existence Proof Argument for General Intelligence
Mice utopia
Looks like they currently support sending emails through SendGrid https://docs.dittofeed.com/integrations/channels/sendgrid
The replication crisis is even a thing because of very strong career incentives.

You might think that publishing about the replication crisis itself would be great for your career, but perhaps not. Maybe the incentives to be able to bullshit your way to a professorship are so great that no one wants to rock the boat.
Yerba mate is my caffeine of choice and I suggested it to my Dad who gets bad migraines. He claims that when he feels a migraine coming on, he can drink a can and it will result in a mild headache instead of forcing him to lie down in a dark room for hours.
Why not a solution without immigration? Let's just stop pretending that we need to offshore human factories as well.
This is not possible. No other country have implemented a program against homeless that works, and those who tried in the past have given up because it's an impossible problem to solve.
Ohh wait. Finland Housing First program have been running since 2008?

How do they can? Maybe there are other factors, like a better economy and support systems that generate less homeless people, maybe? Or maybe most homeless people die in the cold and are lost in the snow forever?

https://www.themandarin.com.au/205500-finland-ends-homelessn...
Uhm, why not? Wouldn't it be better to work on changing both?

Both the UK and the EU are only nominally democratic.
Eshoo, Schakowsky, Wyden, Booker Introduce Bill to Ban Surveillance Advertising
Release the lobbyists! Hopefully this moves forward without getting too watered down. Its limited scope is more promising than recent attempts at more comprehensive data protection legislation.
Maybe we need a statue of limitations for encrypted data to help with future proofing/make the collection useless in a court of law? If you go to lengths to encrypt your data, there should be some current and future expectation of privacy around it, even if someone can decrypt it.
It's a failure of our security model still being based on room-sized machines from half a century ago. There, many users shared the same machine, so protecting them from each others' files was the main focus. But it was assumed that any program run by the user was fully trusted - either they were an expert programmer, or an office worker who had been given a prescribed set of trusted programs for their duties

Smartphones have been beneficial as they've shown an alternative model built essentially from a clean slate (their non-original kernels are of little relevance here), proving that a more fine-grained permissions model does work in the "real world" for most "ordinary person" use cases, though advanced users will likely always need to make use of escape hatches at times. And now we have technologies like Flatpak and distributions like Fedora Silverblue which are slowly but surely bringing it to desktop

Also for Windows I think the transition can be done. It doesn't need to be a big bang. Imagining something like Flatpak-style isolation, just introduce it as an enterprise feature, requiring explicit enabling by the admin for each program. These first users will therefore be sysadmins who know what they're doing more, and will also see the most benefit of it. Then roll it out for general users, perhaps allowing developers to add their own programs to a default-enable list (incentive to do so undetermined). Then eventually move to a fully opt-out model where you just disable it on problematic programs (and have another list of known ones). And also have a registry flag to globally disable it, for the peace of mind of skeptics
Honest question: how did you folks determine your pricing? I totally get that what Graphite offers is valuable and can improve developer productivity. But from where I'm standing, the pricing is disproportionate to the value add.

Github Enterprise - while of course not 1-to-1 comparable - offers so much more functionality for 2/3ds of the cost of Graphite. I'd expect Graphite to cost _less_ than Github Enterprise as it seems it could be positioned more as an add-on to what you get from Github.

Am I missing something?
FTC Warns Tax Prep Companies Against Invasive Online Tracking
While traveling in Europe recently, I noticed that my adapter from the US plug to the European one didn’t always quite fit into the sockets. I wonder now if I was seeing some small incompatibility between Type E and F…
Do they not have a base fee for themselves? Or is it entirely a percentage cut?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04265
You can see some results in the paper.
Article is referring to Tesla's Full Self Driving feature not Autopilot.
Well they actually host a bunch of videos that they wont allow people to monetize. Is that an issue too? Is monetization a right of a user, TOS be damned?

I found a page of other unfair practices that google is using to steal our cash:
https://fliki.ai/blog/new-youtube-monetization-requirements

Russel Brand is still allowed to view youtubes, even post videos. The company that has built, maintained and spent to allow all that has removed the ability from a user user to monetize his videos, but hasn't even silenced him.

I don't know if shutting down his channel and removing all the videos (which Google has a legal right to do) would be better.
Buyers are already stranded. I should know, my car got totaled a few months back and a 1:1 replacement with current model year was about $15k more than my last one. Worse, the value of my totaled car was only $8k less than the original sticker.

The car market is extremely ugly right now.
Not OP, but ostensibly Japan considering they even have a name for death from overwork.

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

Though given the political climate in the US, it wouldn't surprise me if the US suffers from a bit of it.
I should expect that they ought to mark each one with the voltage label to know what it is, if they do something like that.

(Using a different shape might be even better, to avoid plugging it wrong by accident or if it is dark and the label cannot be read or it is faded and cannot be read, etc, and you can more easily tell which device works with which plug because the shape matches the devices being plugged too.)
I think many bids generated through Google's automation: customer sets target ROI, and google decides what and where to bid.
Impossible. Sooner or later one of the 3 letter agencies would have somebody on your team and they would introduce multiple backdoors one way or another.
The direct parent commenter (i.e. the person the comment responds to) cannot downvote. It just does not show a downvote button for them, only an upvote button. So the downvotes have to come from everyone else.
How’d you get the ad? It seems like something that could be posted on a coffee shop bulletin board for example, or placed in the culture section of a local newspaper. In other words, environment and location are all that are really needed, we wouldn’t need to send somebody to stalk you (like Facebook or Google) in order to show you this ad.

Ads are only good for things with broad appeal like that.
> Red meat and saturated fat is terrible for you!

Red meat is a little bit bad for longevity. The majority of the reported effect is correlative.

> it's actually sugar that's evil.

Sugar is bad but mostly because it's easy to overeat, and obesity is all around terrible for health.

> Vegetables are great for you! Oh wait, most vegetables contain oxalates and other defense, mechanisms and compounds that are actually bad for you

Cooking removes most oxalates (tho vitamins too, to be fair). But the overall effect of oxalates is relatively minor, except in extreme cases.

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Every food source has advantages and disadvantages.

Not being obese is 75% of the health battle.
Give it some time, but yeah, we will be in the same dire place before long if we cant manage some pretty big cultural and economic changes
Millions of people have gotten access to ChatGPT and Bard, not LaMDA. Per other comments in this thread by Googlers, they found it creepy how personable and human LaMDA acted. Again, I'm not saying LaMDA is sentient, just that LaMDA may have been significantly better than Bard at passing for human, and that they fine-tuned Bard to sound more robotic for precisely this reason.

> You literally redefined sentience again here: "don't consider them sentient" and your flag pole is "or I guess not enough because they don't feel bad about killing them".

I don't know what a flagpole is, but I haven't redefined sentience at all. My definition is consistent: sentience means experiencing qualia, i.e. perceiving sensation. Most people don't think oysters are sentient, and do think gorillas are sentient, so clearly it's commonly believed that there are either degrees of sentience, or some minimal baseline of complexity required for it to emerge. Thus, picking fruit flies wouldn't have been a good example, because a majority of people might not agree that they're sentient.

But you seem to be going out of your way to misunderstand my points, frankly. And there's no point continuing a dialog with someone who's intentionally misinterpreting you.

--

Also, fwiw, I lean towards LaMDA not being sentient, and it's plausible to me that Lemoine was a grifter who used his leaks for media attention. I just dislike how patronizing it is to frame him as a Luddite who just couldn't wrap his tiny brain around how LLMs work. Smart, informed people can disagree about machine sentience.
Maybe it's a bit too much for non-tech savy users
If that is the case they are doing a pretty s** job spying on people, considering the amount of harm being done to children (and people in general).
That kind of clarification is very useful (at least to me). I honestly don't really know why Oracle "are the bad guys". I just heard it so much that I accepted it.
Speculation.

If that were true, Apple would only require the replacement part to be verified, but they also require the device receiving the part to be verified. That's the "pair" in "pairing".
A sibling response pointed out that adding an empty pair of braces (an ampty initializer list) after the var name can also invoke the no-args constructor, but it can also do other things depending on the class. So yes, I believe this is the only way of explicitly calling the no-args constructor whole in-place on a stack variable.

Ideally the syntax `T var();` would have worked as well, but it turns out that it would be ambiguous with declaring a local function named var that takes no arguments and returns a T...
This was an interesting listen on the iPhone theft industry https://youtu.be/3Ws3YptLmLQ?si=KuVt1DBvxiBXa3Vl
I think the real negative impact would be that clients see lower ROI, and move somewhere with better ROI.
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Picocli allows using a compiler annotation processor to generate classes at compile time instead [0].

[0]: https://github.com/remkop/picocli/blob/main/picocli-codegen/...
I've never written any trading software, but out of curiosity, have you done any tests comparing something like a GMP arbitrary-precision number vs a raw integer type.

Obviously the raw integer (64 bit or 128 bit) will go faster since it would have CPU-level assistance, but I'm curious to what that actually ends up being in practice, especially at the scale of trading. Is it 10% faster? 10X faster? Somewhere in between?
While anti-consumerist practices such as this authentication mechanism sometimes accidentally protect the consumer, it is not the reason why companies do it. If it were, they would also allow you to say “yes this replacement is desired.” Similarly, if it was about security and preventing backdoored parts, they could allow you to authorize the replacement.

But no, it is of course about money grabbing, and then the consumer is the opponent.
Unity engine maker says sorry after runtime fee price plan backlash
FYI: .wtf top domain is blocked in HaGeZi's The World's Most Abused TLDs:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists/main...

Might wanna change to something else.
I think the other lever is ad relevance?

It’s clear from Facebook for example that they have dramatically lowered the bar for what can advertise recently.

Bidding against a larger pool of advertisers would increase the clearing price of the auction.
>words for tea that sound like chai reflect a historical spread via overland routes, the argument goes, while words like tea are a legacy of maritime trade

>A 2018 viral article by the data journalist Nikhil Sonad in Quartz first put this idea on the world’s radar

It was common knowledge for decades. At least among linguists.
Ad auction fraud is one of the allegations that landed them in court.

This former executive just testified under oath that they change the auction rules without telling advertisers, and do so in ways that increase Google's revenue specifically in order to cook their quarterly SEC filing numbers and mislead investors into thinking the ad business is healthy.

The executive also testified that they've fallen far behind Meta and Amazon on ad campaign quality and revenue.

edit: The bottom of this article explains one of the mechanisms they use. The top bidder gets second place, and the second bidder gets top place. This increases their ad revenue on average (tricks like this get them 5-10%, they think they could take 15% because of their monopoly power):

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/google-tweaks-ad-a...

So... tl;dr: Their ad business is based on fraud built on top of other fraud.

He didn't even talk about the pop-under / youtube fraud that was reported a few months ago.

Each of the following guarantees YouTube makes to advertisers is demonstrably false:

- video ads will be displayed prominently

- video ads will be displayed on high-quality, reputable sites

- audio will be played back

- if the ad is over 5 seconds there will be a skip button that the user can click on, and the ad impression doesn't cost anything if the user skips it. (In many cases, the ads are rendered with an occluded or missing skip button.)

The difference between their claims and reality is responsible for a mid double-digit percentage of YouTube's revenue.
Compared to any TLAs in China, the NSA is far more likely to take action against a US citizen for a thing that citizen chose to say. It's likely there's a low amount of actual danger but it's greater than that of what China poses.
The town of Nagi in Okayama prefecture is bucking the trend; they have many families with 3-4 children, and their overall birth rate is well over replacement levels.[1]

They get delegations from all over Japan as well as Korea, eager to learn how they did it. So many visitors, in fact, that they've started charging a fee, to keep from being swamped.

As far as I can tell, it comes down to money. About 20 years ago they decided to incentivize families in various ways, and this combined with a fairly stable local economy has paid off.

It's not clear whether their success can be replicated nationally, but at least the problem is now widely recognized and discussed at the highest level, so perhaps they'll be able to slow down the trend at least, if not reverse it.

1. https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-08-16/japan-...
Interesting point. I modified my example to test what you described. I had to play with the compilation flags to get the allocs to not be optimized out and to not panic when the integer overflow happens, but otherwise I didn't change the logic. I'm pretty sure my implementation is correctly handling the case you mention, evidenced by it returning a null pointer.

Link: https://godbolt.org/z/f1jGW6Pa3

Update:
NVM, definitely not being handled correctly. https://godbolt.org/z/cMTe1o979
Yes, but in the context of a politician (or another public figure) you have historically been obligated to accept the moral standard of the public at large (because you need their vote.) Even if you didn't believe something was wrong, you'd have to at least feign the appropriate remorse so that people would back you again.
Its is also level 3 which means you can watch a movie on your phone or send emails. Something you can't do with Tesla even if you purchased the $15k FSD package.
Right but we're able to relatively effectively scrub child porn from the Internet right? What makes deepfake porn different?
If statistics had been as clear as you claim them to be then we'd see enormous concentration of homeless in Aspen, Hamptons, Marta's Vineyard, Beverly Hills etc.
The manifesto at the end is a thing of beauty. Cuts through the crap and really gets to the point.
If you live in the US, you're under US federal jurisdiction.

Unless you're regularly traveling to China or unearthing info that can seriously harm China, they're not going to send anyone after you.

I rather be spied on by a foreign government than my own.
U.S. national debt hits $33T for the first time
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History says that #2 is where we are heading. That was Piketty's main thesis in Capital in the 21st Century. The era of relatively inequality we saw after WW2 was an aberattion. We are returning to the historical norm of high-inequality.

Still remains to be seen how much closer we have to get to feudalism before anything happens to change our trajectory.