skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
there were plenty of famous/noteworthy people who Twitter refused to verify, and plenty of completely non-noteworthy people who they did verify. I'm not sure why you're pretending that any famous/noteworthy person could be and was verified, because this was never, ever the case.

when Musk implemented cheap paid verification subscriptions, the first thing most of the formerly-exclusively-verified journalist-type users (that I follow, at least) did was post links to their profiles on new Twitter-clone platforms they were moving to, which, if investigated, revealed that they once again had a special "Verified" or "Verified Journalist" tag on their profiles there as well.

surely you're not implying that my analysis has zero merit and that nobody who was verified on Twitter before paid verification subscriptions were implemented was ever in it for the self-important narcissism?
Interesting, what could power companies use this for? Checking for overgrown power lines? Checking for roofs to place solar panels one?
https://archive.ph/mfZeZ
No, it's not that Bard was trained on information that wasn't public. It's that the author of the report thought that the information about the upcoming CVE was public somewhere because Bard was reproducing it, because the author thinks Bard is a search engine. So they filed a report that the curl devs should take that information offline until the embargo is lifted.
Is it actually an audience if nobody's viewing it?
This may be true, but finding these workers will be much more difficult. An American with a CS degree from a state school is a known entity, more or less. Someone with a 9.5/10 GPA from an Indian school is a question mark.
Review: Central Banking 101, by Joseph Wang
Back when we (Zürich, Switzerland ) had a more car friendly city I recall the green waves that would trun lights green if you drove the speed limit. Back then 1980 and 1990s it was just timing and traffic detection rings under the pavement.

Nowadays public transport gets to go first and the "green wave" is optimized for bus lanes etc. (in the 80s to but not as extreme. ).

I don't recall having hitting a green wave in a long while because traffic is so bad during the day (this is by design to discourage driving through the city) something like that you only get to enjoy at night but by then many lights get set to orange anyway.
Is that an explanation?

I get that if GDP growth is less than inflation, then in real terms the economy is shrinking, even if nominal GDP goes up. But stock prices are in nominal dollars; steady stock prices (or prices increasing at the same rate as GDP) would mean a real decline in value. But explaining why prices for these stocks are falling in nominal terms should involve something about why they would grow slower/shrink faster than the rest of the economy, right?
Middle-Age Weight Gain: Men Unlikely to Outrun It (1997)
You are braver than I am. The F900 is a beast and I did try it at a shop once. But yea, motorcycle riding makes you so much more aware on the road. No distraction and you are literally paying more attention to ensure Cars can actually see you and don't kill you, lol.
It should be ok to not be exceedingly profitable. Bandcamp produced loads of amazing valuable content. But greedy maniacs will always hate this. I am reminded of the Craigslist leadership who was mad insulted for the conscious decision to impose an upper bound to their growth which is a refreshingly moral thing to do under capitalism
Yeah mine news feed has turned into a condescending stream of thoughts buried under the empathy offering agendas.
If you're the kind of guy who worries about the kind of entities who can ask Apple for information and get it, you probably should not be using an iPhone to begin with.
damn...this is as good as bypass
Can't leave that hanging out there ... of course we're interested ...
Typically this sort of fine is a warning shot meant to encourage compliance rather than to damage. I don’t have time right now to dig in and verify, but there’s a Guardian article that mentions the potential for assessing retroactive daily non-compliance fines going back to March 2023. You’d also expect ongoing fines in that case.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/16/x-fined-6...
You’re completely missing my point: we already have firms who do what the BLS claims to be doing that have greater predictive power and determinative impact on what people play for housing. Ignoring that reality to shrug and go “lots of countries measure things in ways that don’t make any sense so what can you do” is not a refutation of anything.
Yes, we can build trustable hardware!

Own a fab, design and verify your own chips, produce them under a strict control and cross-checking, same for all other parts, assembly, transportation, storage, and operation. Background-check everyone you employ. This is basically how high-assurance military hardware is handled.

The question for the rest of us is: can we buy trustable hardware? Even more specifically, can we buy if for the peanuts we're used to pay, instead of buying the whole wad of production chains as the military does?

Here the answer is negative in the strict sense: we can't be certain. But the answer is mostly-somehow-positive in many cases, because nobody cares enough to add subtle behaviors to MCUs that go for cents and control light switches and kids toys. The more advanced is your machine though, and the more there is a reason to bug it, e.g. to have an ability to remotely disable affected devices, or worse.
For some people yes. Many people still imagine "Boeing aircraft assembly buildings." You know the ones south of Seattle that combine tires from the tire manufacturer, machined parts from everywhere, engines from another manufacturer, etc into an assembled aircraft.

Maybe 3D printing will truly take us back to "locally assembled" looking more like raw materials in, finished sellable product out. But we know that's probably going to also feel disappointing to someone remembering the way steam locomotives were assembled in those old films about the railways in England. Now that was assembly!
>As I understand it manufacturing your own firearms is explicitly legal in the US.

In the US, yes. But maybe not in NY.
I understand what you mean but I don't think I agree. Scientists are human and frequently experiment on things that they have strong beliefs or faith in. Francis Collins is famously a devout Christian, but still conducted experiments on the origins of human life. Personally, I have faith in gravity (an absolute belief that it will work despite never having studied it myself), but I would still be very interested in doing an experiment to test it, probably partly because like everyone else I enjoy confirming my own beliefs. On the other hand, I have no faith in prayer and have never considered running an experiment, and would not really be interested in doing so.

We can't know for sure, but my own intuition tells me that someone who conceived of and carried out that prayer experiment probably believed it was going to work.
FBI, CISA warn critical infrastructure organizations about AvosLocker ransomware
Classic Linux driver issues. None of the power saving or advanced hardware features get used most of the time. I've had the same with Dell and Lenovo Linux machines - CPU never throttles down and is at full-chat 100% of the time. You'll probably also find out that one or more of the following will also not work properly: Bluetooth, sleep, wake from sleep, fingerprint readers, audio.

I'd recommend installing windows 11 if battery life is important (not trolling - windows just works with this sort of thing, Linux never does in my experience). Use WSL or docker to run Linux if you need it for development
Yeah not popular - it ain't Lisp :).
Less so as people are leaving
Usually, but I'm referring to the broadcasts that have a live sign language interpreter on-screen.
Healthcare organizations a prime target for NoEscape ransomware, HHS warns
It's becoming less so. During the start of the war in Gaza, many journalists lamented how terrible Twitter has become for the thing it was best at: breaking news. There are many problems, but one of them is that intentionally misleading blue check accounts are boosted above actual journalists. Slate wrote a piece on the whole situation:

https://slate.com/technology/2023/10/x-twitter-gaza-israel-m...
It can be, but it very much depends on the context.

It's not quite the same as breaking news, but it's illustrative that a lot of the tech conferences I follow no longer have much if any of a Twitter back-channel. It's just not cool to hang out there any more, at least for some interest groups.
For desktop CPU's I would say things have been "good enough" for 12 years.

Sandy Lake was released in 2011, and was the last CPU from Intel that was at least 25% better than its predecessor. Ever since each generational bump has seen a ~10% bump or so.

I still work & game on an i5-2500k.
We in exUSSR once seen huge number of such cases, of "genius entrepreneurs-inventors" kidnapped by some bad persons.

But when I myself learn documents and talked to witnesses (or with these inventors), in nearly all cases I seen crazy person, who cannot deal with real life tasks and trying to play role of "genius inventor", and gather money from around (read about 4D investors in toilet paper entrepreneur), and cannot make any stable economy.

And when I analyze their works (sure many prefer to make all their crazy things top secret, but sometimes leak few things), I have seen all sorts of perpetuum mobile, faked science documents, demonstrative decline of strict accounting (to make robbery more easy), dramatic crazy stories.
I found that the hard part was separating the signal from the noise. There was too much noise and too many conflicting narratives. Not that there wasn't any of that on TV, but with Twitter it was amplified and came at you so quickly.
Something like Rosetta is not expensive to develop, and ARM Windows has an equivalent I believe.
> a big part of Apple Silicon success is fact that they throw enough money at TSMC to buy out all production of the latest and greatest node

I see this all the time and I'm skeptical.

Are you saying that Apple M(latest-1) is not faster and more thermally efficient than Intel/AMD(current) ?
OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications
No, they weren't able to "craft the exploit". The text claims an integer overflow bug in curl_easy_setopt, and provides a code snippet that fixes it. Except the code snippet has a completely different function signature than the real curl_easy_setopt, and doesn't even compile. I doubt this person did any follow through at all, just copy/pasted the output from Bard directly into this bug report.
> Because most people don’t understand finance.

Accounting

I’m not really interested in continuing this, but it’s irritating having you write so confidently while making basic mistakes
“There must indeed be a mysterious Holy Spirit which has an exact and intimate relation to Christ, which can indwell in human minds, guide and inform them, and even express itself through those humans, even without their awareness.”

When I finally realized this for myself I was rather shocked, not in a bad way, but it surprised me that it hadn’t been talked about more before I came face to face with it… God and Christ are the most well known and “perceivable” when people think of church literature yet ironically the Holy Spirit is the most accessible and influential of the three in the present reality. It wasn’t until I experienced it that I looked back and understood, as if it’s something that can’t be taught in the slightest, to any degree comparable to when the actual manifestation of that indwelling reveals itself.
I just watched the Tetris one for longer than I care to admit. If I weren't at work, it would have been even longer. I don't think I could fall asleep before it ended.
What on earth do you think ‘neoliberal’ means?

Are you claiming there has been a mass exodus of Thatcherite/Reaganomic thinkers supportive of the Chicago School of market led small state capitalism from the platform?

I guess I don’t see many Pinochet apologists on Twitter these days.

I suggest a quick read of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism
Yes, He Did That
"We don't need AI's impersonating humans in creative fields" <- Why? What's the harm (assuming they're not being used to copy and steal music/art/etc., but instead to creatively use and learn from it like humans do today)? Beyond that, many of these are allowing more people every day who wouldn't have been involved in these fields to create things themselves, working hand and hand with AI. AI augmenting humans is a beautiful thing and already is creating new types of art and will do so even more in the future.

No I don't see anything dystopian about generating images of pizza, and I don't believe there's any increase in sufereing caused by it, maybe even a decrease since someone would've spent time working on an uninteresting task and throwing away food to create some perfect pizza photo for advertising (like what happens with most food photos today), instead they just let a model siumulate one and went on with their day.
How exactly are you defining "authentic human"? It sounds like you're defining it as someone who always does the right thing without exception, who of course doesn't exist, QED.

What point are you trying to make, actually? Your argument seems to be that "authentic humans," however that's defined, are not just rare but nonexistent, even if other quietly heroic people who fill the same role do exist. I'm not sure what end you're trying to reach here.
Twitter is - now more than ever - also the first place for eyewitness accounts for things that didn't happen. For me, that nullifies most of the value of early breaking news on Twitter, I generally wait until it's verified by other more trustworthy platforms.

Edit: in the past, the rampant misinformation and botnet voting rings were limited to "Trending Hashtags". Now bad actors and edgelords have direct access to my (and everyone else's) default view ("For you")
It might be a stopper for some potential users, but gaining users/being popular is not a goal of the project.

https://www.openbsd.org/goals.html
Companies outsource because they think they can find better workers in another country (where better is some combination of better skills, lower compensation, or harder working). Fair enough. We should welcome that kind of competition, it makes everyone better when we fairly and do our best.

They also outsource because they think they can take advantage of lax labor and/or environmental regulation in other countries. We should impose tariffs to level the playing field when countries don’t have these sort of regulations.

Competition keeps us honest and innovating, it shouldn’t be avoided, it just needs to be fair and non-exploitive.
> Carl's Jr./Hardee's even advertised "The $6 Burger," which sold for about half that

Close to 2/3 ($3.95) when introduced in 2001.

The renamed 1/2-pound Original Thickburger is now $5.79, or 1.47× the 2001 price.
And reinforced their own opinions in the process. I wonder to what degree that overlaps with election forecasting. Could that have contributed to how off they’ve been?
It's a rough measure of business efficiency. You're right that many people aren't directly related to bringing in revenue, that's inefficient (although necessary at some level), and so they change the denominator and reduce the overall amount.

The fact that Google has ~$1.5m revenue per employee suggests that it's a more efficient business than LinkedIn's at $700k.
What the Heck Is That Giant Mineral Dome in Thermopolis?
I need to get it out anyway. If there's a better option I'd use it.
That doesn’t happen at LinkedIn. I don’t totally understand what I would have to gain from a union when I feel like my employer treats me really well. The union feels like unneeded overhead
This is great news. This could bring jobs and link lots of regions of what's a fairly large (bigger than texas) country. Someone should start a pilots school for these planes.
I don't know how the Polymega works, but for the example the Hyperkin Retron or the Atari 2600+ are "DOM Dumpers": You put in the cartridge, the system dumps the EEPROMs to RAM, and then plays them.

The issue is that if you have a cartridge with any custom chips in it, they won't work because the software doesn't actually connect the cartridge to the emulated system. It's possible to built in heuristics to detect a known game (e.g., if I detect Pitfall 2 on the 2600, I can tell the emulator to emulate the video/sound chip on the cartridge), but if I have a homebrew cartridge, I'm out of luck.

This is especially common on NES and SNES games, there were so many custom chips around, some used on only 1 game (e.g., the DSP2 chip on SNES Dungeon Master), though other consoles also occasionally used it (like Virtua Racer on the Genesis, or as mentioned, Pitfall 2 on the Atari 2600).

With a hardware-based emulation, it's possible to electrically connect the cartridge to the system and achieve full compatibility (assuming the hardware emulation is correct), but there's AFAIK no software emulator that can be fully coupled to a cartridge connector.

So, not sure what would happen if I grab a SNES cartridge with a DSP2 chip (aka. Dungeon Master) and flash my own EEPROM onto the game - would the Polymega work for that or not?
My family has been living the "15-minute city" life since we moved back to Seattle, and it sure is lovely. There are four grocery stores within ten minutes' walk, and we can get to our respective offices, or to our kid's school, in less than fifteen minutes by bike. We're not planning to get rid of our car, but we only need one, and we don't need it often.
Ouch. And to think these people will have to to use their former product to get a new job. The only time you really need LinkedIn.
> Most of the applicants we got were living in cities far away and not willing to relocate - even though the job spec clearly stated this is an in-person role in this city.

The reason this might happen so often is that a job is incorrectly categorized on the job boards. I've last track of the number of jobs I've seen that are listed on a job board as Remote with that word prominently displayed on the post, but buried in the job description is some clarification that says something like "Candidates must be able to work 4 days a week in the office."
Worse than that. For me, in recent months, the volume of adverts and 'suggested''s feels like it's been throttled up so much that it's completely overwhelming the majority of my personal networks output ... which is the only reason I'm there.

Potential RIP in a matter of weeks/months ... frustrating.
"You appeared in 1 purge this week"
I really admire the creative bullshit these execs come up with, AI can't compete: "This means adapting our organizational structures to improve agility and accountability, establishing unambiguous ownership and driving improved efficiency and transparency through reduced layering".
Bandcamp did have investors, they weren't 100% bootstrapped. Those investors likely had board seats and a significant say in whether to accept Epic's offer.

Not to mention that COVID led to a steep increase in the site's traffic. It's possible that the added operational burden meant that Bandcamp was no longer the chill lifestyle business that it used to be.
"business travelers on longer journeys"

I am not entirely sure if a 1 passenger airplane is great for business travel.
If you are a wanna be Larry Ellison pilot and businesstraveller.
For small companies it can be hard finding the "right person" and retaining them remotely in India - but for large companies they've worked out many of the kinks and issues and it's quite powerfully productive now.

Anyone who ignores that is falling victim to "how it used to be" not "how it is now" - just like the American car manufacturers who slept on the horrible but improving Japanese manufacturers decades ago.
I interpreted your original comment as suggesting that most/all of the people who cared about verification were self-important narcissists.

If someone got verified for narcissistic reasons it didn't particularly affect me: there were plenty of verified accounts that I paid no attention to at all.

I cared about the verified accounts where the verified user or organization was noteworthy and interesting to me.
"Lawyers for one of the suspects, Gavin Seymour, who was found to have Googled the home’s address 14 times in the days before the fire, argued that the keyword warrant constituted an illegal search and that any evidence from it should be suppressed. His motion is the first known challenge to the constitutionality of keyword search warrants. The case is ongoing.

In its 74-page decision, the court found that law enforcement had acted in good faith when it obtained the warrant for the teen’s search history. Still, it stressed that the findings were specific to the facts of the case, and it refrained from weighing in about the use of Google’s search data more broadly."

On the one hand, it sounds like a pretty, umm, smoking gun in this case. (And the court was fairly careful to emphasize that this wasn't a general carte blanche for this sort of warrant.) On the other hand, it's easy to imagine broader warrants returning results that are more ambiguous than seems to be the case here.
This is an tiny kit plane from a Czech manufacturer, though, not a company in Tanzania sourcing components from elsewhere for their own design.

It's still great if it lets them build expertise and provides jobs, but they meant it when they said assembled.
This article strongly covers a major SYMPTOM of the problem.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/suzystrutner/how-much-you-need-for-...

Housing / land valuation is wildly off from the needs of the people. For more than literally my entire life there has been a chronic shortage of housing, with less built than is necessary for multiple decades of time. The issue has compounded.

We are at the point where the solution is to literally build housing non-stop and just do that for years.

Edit:

The buzzfeed article mentions National Low Income Housing Coalition as the source of it's infographic. Here are some additional links. https://nlihc.org/oor/report-graphics

One bedroom home in hours worked by county:
https://nlihc.org/sites/default/files/oor/2023/2023OOR-ppt-f...

Two bedroom rental in dollars per hour:
https://nlihc.org/sites/default/files/oor/2023/2023OOR-ppt-f...
Fucking with memory maps like that is super expensive and I wouldn’t advise it in any part that’s performance critical due to the cross CPU TLB flush that syscall will entail.
A selfhosted instance of this, combined with Yattee https://github.com/yattee/yattee as a client on iOS and tvOS is a pretty decent way to consume YT subscriptions with minimal exposure to algorithm and ads.
This is especially true if you haven't had One True Career Path.
You are mistaking a small subset of computer systems (home and small server) as a silver bullet.

In my case servers have 512Gb-1Tb of RAM and the cost of running nodes with a lesser amount scales extremely bad.