skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to think that bad/naughty/wrong translations of phrases might be hard to catch with automated testing, but changes that would actually leave an install broken or vulnerable would be more likely to be detected... I hope...
This is not more accurate prices for consumers, it's more accurate prices for non-consumers (suppliers), so they end up indirectly colluding in a way that lowering prices might not give one any advantage (if the competitors can lower it nearly at the same time and you get negligeable additional sales).
> And mac PC sales outside of tech profession are very low.

Can you share any source for this claim? It strikes me as improbable.
> But as it gets wider use fact is the vast majority of systems have a single device and don't want to cut available storage in half for copies=1.

Setting copies=2 for the root filesystem, but segmenting stuff like caches, user downloads, etc into separate datasets with copies=1, is totally reasonable for this purpose. The base system in most distributions only takes a few GiB. 1 TiB SSDs are pretty common even on entry level laptops these days, and it's becoming increasingly difficult to find new machines without at least 512 GiB.
That is correct. I have lived in Tornado Alley for a half century. Serious tornadoes have landed all over my local area over the years, but I have also never even seen so much as a funnel cloud. They can be devastating though, but are also very localized and do not last long. That said, I do take tornado alerts seriously.
I have an OTP client and SMS on my PC, so I'm set there.
Right, this is also why we don't see breakthroughs in science or literature from AI.
Gotta love this "at will employment" for people doing work, and the "leaders" get to be an open and known sex pest and still manage to go home with huge checks.

Does Activision not have HR policies? If I sexually harassed my co-workers, you could bet I wouldn't get a golden parachute.
I just came out of prison, where I stayed 22 months in another country. I also had, besides another phone, a Nokia. When I left prison and turned it on, it started up and worked. It kept the charge nearly two years. I kid you not!
Is creativity something innate in humans, or can it be learned? I would argue that if a human can learn creativity then an AI can too. By the way, here's GPT-4 "Write a description of an unlikely basketball player. Be creative."

> Meet Ethel, a 4'9" grandmother of six, with a penchant for knitting and a mastery of Sudoku. With bifocal glasses perched on her nose, she's far from your typical basketball star. But what Ethel lacks in height and athleticism, she makes up for with an uncanny sixth sense for predicting opponents' moves and an underhand free-throw that rivals the best in the league. With her floral-print headband and orthopedic shoes squeaking down the court, she's both an anomaly and a secret weapon on her community center's basketball team.
They are quite literally trained to predict a distribution that could supply the next token given previous context. This is their primary objective.
It's a hash, but it's not a cryptographic hash.
The world is getting to a point where the only way you’re going to be able to do business or any type of transaction is through a smart phone. If you don’t have a smart phone, it’s gonna be very difficult for you to function in the world at some point.
> Your claims of things that don't happen are, unfortunately, false. Law enforcement agents whose jobs involve ever looking at CSAM basically cannot stand the mental toll of the job for any significant amount of time. Unthinkably horrible things happen to children to create these images.

literally just propaganda and i have no doubt that this is a massive exaggeration.

>The idea that we would legalize it is not on the table, and suggesting such a thing is a great way to immediately lose support from everyone in the world.

cool, and i was going to open my first post with "CP being contraband is out of the question and never should have became a thing".

> I don't think that analogy is hitting the way you're intending. Yes, we'd all love a "freedom-respecting solution to the murder problem". In fact convicted murderers still have some rights and freedoms, and balancing those against preventing murder and rehabilitating murderers is another difficult problem. Cutting off legs hasn't been seen as a reasonable punishment for a crime since the Bronze Age, so I'm not sure what that's supposed to mean.

i don't know what i didn't make clear. i said that i don't want a law to cut off everyone's legs at birth with a casus beli like "terrible people are going around murdering people with their bare hands now that we all live in a cage and if you don't want to get rid of legs you are part of the problem". the analogy is in fact absolutely perfect even better than i intended, since you know whoever argued this is hugely exaggerating.

and then we have the other guy i'm replying to who can't even write a coherent response (for instance calculating 30K instead of 300, and then ignoring the fact that most of those people will not actually do anything) because he's too angry from his inner sheep being offended because someone dared question is terrible law which is basically just racket where they can use fabricated and overblown cases instead of having to perpetrate the crimes themselves (although the FBI is also known for serving CP themselves, which contradicts a huge amount of the "CP should be illegal" arguments, such as "seeing it makes more pedos")
How does one opt out of these incredibly intrusive, unreliable, insecure and predatory financial surveillance mechanisms?
Thanks to so many breaches at various places I have gotten free identity theft protection from two or three providers for many years meanwhile. I'm just waiting for leaks to happen to the identity theft protection providers, so that I can stack up more free protection!
> In America, the crisis exposes a generational reckoning. While past generations focused on saving for starter homes, millennials now encounter bids hundreds of thousands over asking for fixer-uppers.

This has not been true for at least 18 months now, and was only ever true in a few small locales of the US for a brief period of time.
You can play via cloud streaming on other devices.
The article spends a lot of effort avoiding the root cause of the housing crisis in at least the US, which is that there just aren't enough homes in major metro areas in the first place. Commodification is a symptom, not a cause.
Which is why the FTC should break up Sony.
> It basically flickers between tasks very rapidly to simulate concurrency.

That’s usually used a description of preemptive multitasking, like what you get running a modern OS on a single core (on multiple cores it’s also this but on each core). Every once in a small while, the current task is made to inhale chloroform, another task is chosen to wake and takes its place. Pro: you can’t hang any given task from a single thread; con: shared memory is very difficult to impossible, as you never know when you’ll be interrupted.

Browser JavaScript and UI interactions instead use cooperative multitasking, which you’ll also find in classic Mac OS, 16-bit Windows, basically every embedded system ever, and languages like Python and Lua. A task has to explicitly call out to the scheduler to hand off execution resources to the next one. Pro: as task switching only happens at clearly visible points, many of the horrors of shared memory are diminished; con: you can and will hang the UI (or other outside-world interactions) if you accidentally write an infinite loop or just do too much CPU-bound work without yielding (as any developer using one of the aforementioned systems knows).

For how this works in the browser environment specifically, see Jake Archbald’s superb talk[1].

[1] https://youtu.be/cCOL7MC4Pl0
> As talk turns toward Housing, though, his buoyant mood deflates. Despite his business savvy, the trust of a well-established and nationally recognised VC fund, and new liquidity, the banks denied Mark a mortgage last year.

> I’m not asking you to feel sorry for Mark — and neither would he. He’s comfortable, secure, and in a position that a lot of folks would give anything to have. But his story underscores how Housing — whether to rent or own — has become a ubiquitous problem for all of us,

Getting a home loan as a startup founder (who presumably hasn't taken a salary or even reached significant revenue if "millions" of funding is a major milestone) has always been difficult.

I don't know why they would pick an early stage startup founder as an example of why home ownership is difficult.

> While past generations focused on saving for starter homes, millennials now encounter bids hundreds of thousands over asking for fixer-uppers.

Bidding "hundreds of thousands" over asking for fixer uppers only happens in a small number of high demand markets when real estate agents intentionally underprice homes to incite bidding wars. This was never a common occurrence across the country.

> And the upper echelons of tech offer little haven — six-figure salaries cannot guarantee smooth sailing in places like the Bay Area.

The only reason someone would use the Bay Area as an example of the nationwide real estate market is if they wanted to exaggerate their point as much as possible. The Bay Area is not a typical real estate market.
Home prices are crazy, but with WFH (I know not possible for everyone), you can typically work in cheap states (e.g. Missouri) and get a fairly new house for less than $200k. You just have to give up living in a big city.
Don't forget to tell the kids to get off your lawn.
>LLMs don't even have a concept of "being correct"

They clearly do as plenty research indicates. You've just decided not to accept this. Pure confirmation bias in action.
Control of oil was a huge thing but that in the end boiled down to geopolitical positioning vs. the USSR. Oil equals economic might, and control of oil also means the power to turn the oil spigot off and harm the economy.

The Cold War really dominated all foreign policy thinking in that era. Everyone else was seen as a chess piece up for grabs by either the US or the USSR.

I'm really not defending it. I think a lot of terrible decisions were made during that time. But it is useful to understand why.
Tinder is the only social media app that has ever directly extracted money from me
Even Lewis and Clark seemed to not know the word "tornado". On the way west, they found a patch of woods that had been torn up: https://lewis-clark.org/the-trail/nebraska-iowa/willards-bad...
"Good companies test their backups. Great companies test their restores."

Learned that lesson the hard way a few decades ago.
What do you mean? When you broadcast a transaction you do it from an IP address.

Validators/Miners/Nodes whatever can see which IP broadcast a transaction. There's definitely a way to link an IP address to a transaction if you're not using a VPN or TOR.
> Apple's proposed device scanning system had a threshold before your device would be flagged

Which always struck me as odd as it would extremely easy to spin this as “Apple detected CSAM on this device but their policy is only to alert authorities once a set quantity of CSAM is found…”
Building the Next Web
They include NHITS in their benchmark, but not much else.

I would have liked to see more detailed benchmarking, such as the electricity, exchange and weather benchmarks.
I love it in the context of hacking actually. When working on HackTheBox machines or other CTFs you sometimes need to deploy tools onto the machine like these:

https://github.com/jpillora/chisel
https://github.com/DominicBreuker/pspy

When you deploy them they just work. Compare that to compiled C++ code you often face issues with the deployment in my experience. And production machines usually do not ship compilers.
yes, esports titles will run on a potato pc

there's no need to rent a PC 50ms-100ms away for esports when a bottom of the range PC will happily run it at 144fps
If this idea gets too popular, we'll have to invent texting.

Perhaps someone could come up with a clever system for using a dumbphone's numpad to type efficiently...
Sorry. I typed out a reply, but it's like 5 pages. There's a lot wrong. Here's something extremely boiled down:

Too many administrators. Students having their phones in school. Out of control administrators who waste teachers' time. Students roaming halls. Phones. No consequences for skipping class, roaming halls, or cheating (administrators not enforcing discipline). Administrators desperate to get everyone to pass and graduate. Phones. Administrators pressuring teachers to pass students. No dress code. Endless accommodations for students. Endless meetings soaking up valuable teacher time. Administrators disallowing midterms and finals because that would cause too many students to fail their classes (now, many teachers are required to have projects and presentations, or similar as midterms and as finals). Valuable instruction time lost due to standardized testing. Rampant cheating. Zero consequences for students' behavior (extremely rare to see an out-of-school suspension, and expulsion is unheard of these days). Block scheduling (4 long periods per day) because students won't do homework (or will just cheat/copy/paste). Administrators constantly pushing group work, projects, posters (rather than real focused work).

There's more but I'm trying to stop typing now.
One of the CIA's in-house historians, who the following year went on to become CIA Chief Historian, David Robarge, wrote this review of All the Shah's Men in 2004: https://www.cia.gov/static/all-the-shahs-men.pdf

> In All the Shah's Men, Stephen Kinzer of the New York Times sugests that the explanation may lie next door in Iran, where the CIA carried out its first successful regime-change operation over half a century ago. The target was not an oppressive Soviet puppet but a democratically elected government whose
populist ideology and nationalist fervor threatened Western economic and
geopolitical interests. The CIA's covert intervention—codenamed TPAJAX—preserved the Shah's power and protected Western control of a hugely lucrative oil infrastructure. It also transformed a turbulent constitutional monarchy into an absolutist kingship and induced a succession of unintended consequences at least as far ahead as the Islamic revolution of 1979—and, Kinzer argues in his breezily written, well-researched popular history, perhaps to today.

Nearly 20 years ago already, this was an admission of a coup against a democratically elected government, instituting an "absolutist kingship", with "unintended consequences".

All of this used to be available in HTML before the recent CIA website redesign.

People would do well to read old books, and even watch old television news programs and documentary programs like those from CBS, all the way back to the 60s, before thinking that this wasn't in some sense, common knowledge, at least among those who attempt to be knowledgeable. One great success of the CIA has been that this and a litany of similar events have been hiding in plain sight, and that it is "conspiratorial thinking" just to remember this stuff.
So you are intentionally including a secret backdoor in your software that is only known to some customers? Yikes!
A lot of people did take Equifax to court, and many of them settled.[1]

But how does an individual demonstrate damages to a judge? Equifax leaked data on more than 150 million people. If a hypothetical business leaks data about an individual today, there is a good chance that data was already leaked by Equifax. So what additional harm did that hypothetical business inflict on that individual?

The discussion we need to be having is why it's somehow the consumer's fault that their data was leaked. Someone can find your SSN and other private information in a leak, dupe a bank into giving them cash, and now it's your responsibility to resolve this situation? How about the banks figure out a better identity verification system that allowed a bad actor to open the account in the first place?

1: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/people-successfully-suing-equ...
I know very little too, but just happened to listen to an interview about this topic.

Here is a paper suggesting that the region of where is Mexico had populations 30k years ago.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2509-0
Consider the penalties given for a crime, and compare those to the penalties given when police or prosecutorial or judicial misconduct falsely, incompetently, or corruptly imprisons someone for that crime.

The latter are overwhelmingly more rare, but overwhelmingly larger. Society in general thinks false penalties for crimes are worse than the crime itself.

"It is better that 10 guilty men go free, than that one innocent man should suffer." I think that if the penalty for copyright infringement is $250,000, the penalty for a false claim should be $2,500,000.

You're right that a $100 low-effort, frequently-enforced counterclaim process would weed out ContentID bot farms (just like a $0.01/email transaction cost would weed out spam). But remember that the whole ecosystem is already ridiculous; if the pro-copyright MPAA/RIAA are pushing for $250k/infringement you have to be equally ridiculous to balance counterclaims.
I don’t automate.

Automation is incidental complexity.

If automating X is an improvement, X isn’t worth doing.
It's worth noting that risk compensation [0], where certain safety measures lead to people taking more serious risks, is a thing. In your skiing accident, is it possible you would have made different decisions in the lead-up that decreased your risk? It's entirely possible the same is true of cycling (I know that I catch myself taking more risks when riding with a helmet than without one).

It's also not at all clear that the spike we're discussing is due to helmetless bicycle riders (notice that deaths for car occupants tick up in similar proportion).

To your prioritization point, there's a lot of evidence that increasing the number of cyclists on the road makes interactions with cars safer for all cyclists (because drivers are habituated to looking for them), so any intervention that decreased the number of cyclists to make them "safer" could have inverse consequences.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation
That's possible, but I do get a little annoyed at the moralism that people display on Reddit about this, acting like smartphones are the downfall of humanity and we'd be better off if they all went away (edit: to be clear, not accusing you of that!).

Fundamentally, I really really like having GPS on me at basically all times, I like having access to pretty much every song ever written wherever I go, I like being able to read and compose emails on the fly, I like having my TODO tasks synced between my computer and my phone. While not perfect, I do think that smartphones increase my quality of life.
I would love if when buying an iPhone I was able to specify an entire class of apps that I could not install. For example, I could be banned at an OS level from a curated suite of social media apps. They could also make each app report the domains that it connects to so that the ban could continue at a DNS level. Apple is in a great place to do this because of their walled garden App Store model and withholding of root access from users. To undo it you would have to go into a store to use their proprietary software to change the type of apps you're allowed to install.
Ouch! Personally I try to keep speeds to the 40s now. Worst thing I ever did was start using those run tracking apps which conveniently also give you your speed. Got in a competition with a friend on the other coast and was regularly hitting 55+ on runs that a wipe out could easily end in the trees. What stopped me was when a late teen girl did just that and died going at far slower speeds.

(sorry the late reply, been away)
I mean, statistically it's maybe bound to happen but if it's drowned by bullshit it's probably not a very useful method anyway due to running costs.
Every DB company - from giants like Oracle and MS to newcomers like Scylla and Cockroach - is pushing Cloud Service as their primary revenue model. At least for the growth of their business.

It's shocking to see them shut down the Cloud Service in favor of selling plain old on-prem Enterprise Support contracts. Hard to understand.

Anyone here a user of the cloud service? Was it just unable to compete against RDS, Aurora and the like? Too commodity?
> Any armed group in Gaza will have to live among the population.

Look at an aerial or satellite map of Gaza. There are plenty of places that all of the Hamas fighters and officials could be that would not be near civilians.
Yeah, crazy right? Our models are a bit better and about 20x smaller!
I remember when MIT used to do things. Same with RPI and Stanford. Now they just do papers.
Joe Sinks as Retailer Trader Joe's Sues Namesake DEX
> There was a time? Because of course they promised 100% that they would totally not do something like that again ever ever, and so of course they aren't doing anything like that anymore.

Indeed. They've finally found their moral compass and we should forgive them /s

> In it, CIA spokesman and podcast host Walter Trosin cites the claims of agency historians that the majority of the CIA’s clandestine activities in its history “bolstered” popularly elected governments.

This was really just one exception, normally they are the "good" actors /s

Does anyone believe that? After that they were involved in MKUltra, enhanced interrogation torture, toppling governments in South America and other places. Why bother pretending instead of staying quiet.
If anything, I suspect individual purchases of Macs are pretty high. It's the routine corporate PC/laptop purchases where Windows dominates. I see a whole lot of Macs in coffee shops that are presumably not all techworkers co-working.
See having completed Outer Worlds and also comparing it to Starfield, I’ve enjoyed both but Starfield feels much bigger while Outer Worlds feels smaller but deeper.
The sheer scale of planets on Starfield runs pretty well.
I’d love to have those two teams combined again for a great game.
Interesting; does MathJax support the AMS extensions? That was my issue with KaTeX in the past.
if you have a 401k or really any mutual fund, you own AAPL like it or not...

the M1 is marketed at the right price point to bring in volume sales, and they are still winning converts from Windows

so a decline this deep seems to speak more about rapidly deteriorating consumer activity
remain logout of your account
simple answer is you can't, because these mechanisms are used by other people to find information about you. The only way to opt out is to not use any services which participates in this ecosystem.

basically, use only cash (no debit or credit cards ever), no housing purchase, live in a tent on public land, do not register for a driver's license, and don't have a passport. No internet account, so no bitcoin (which needs a steady internet connection) - crypto currencies are not the answer because they depend on you being online, and it's super easy to get caught in the mesh with the KYC (know your customer) laws.

You might be able to get by with paper bitcoin but no one really wants to take your offline coins.

don't get any traffic tickets or cross paths with police, always avoid anyone who looks like they are in some kind of authority capacity.
That would explains why Ukraine went from mostly green around 20 February 2022, to ‘no data’ several days later.
A CEO once got up on stage to announce an important new phone to the world's assembled press not knowing that the picture on the screen of the phone was coming from a PC in a bedroom closet and the developers were sweating like dogs as they watched the broadcast on the BBC. I shall say no more.