skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isnt the same technology used on consumer drones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM7cg4Gi_BU ? This is just a bit of an improvement on all that.

> I would hope UN can come together and at a minimum make an arms treaty to limit/prevent/undo development of AI

Well good luck getting US / China to sign something like that.
That's a very personal story though, since she also writes that users are up 30%.

Before I remembered that I was going to make a similar anecdotal point that I thought a lot of the market uses Klipper (not Marlin) these days and that there are other options more popular with Klipper firmware.

But if Octoprint usage isn't declining, then anecdata about usage is besides the point.
FYI there is a toggle in Settings to switch between the power button either bringing up the shutdown/reboot prompt or the Google Assistant.
Not sure how relevant that is. Anyone who does anything impressive will always be dependent on their support network.

It is unfortunate that the most driven, intelligent person won't accomplish much if they don't have the network. But I don't see why that diminishes this person's accomplishments.
Not to mention, quite expensive for the specs.
Grace: Modern programming language for teaching novices how to program
I quite like https://diagrams.mingrammer.com/
"The core component of Uzbl is written in C, but other languages are also used, most notably Python."

Man, this thing was small and fast
That you can do trivially even today. Just show your web site using in-browser VNC client.
It's a terrible primer.

It's comments only from someone who owns a bitcoin mine, presented as if he's a hydro power expert.
Thank you for sending this. It's still quite puzzling to me if it's actually possible or not. Maybe what I want to train is a style? But then again, it should also remember other important things related to the friend..
That is a different claim.

Remote work can be the absolutely superior model for how/where people work for any tech company, but you still also fail for one of many other reasons companies can fail.
I'm inclined to believe that they consolidated their code across a lot of their microservices and simplified their architecture since that was stressed a lot from the moment Musk acquired Twitter. But we also can't really verify or disprove it.

I'm a bit confused about their so-called improvements to video recommendation quality and bot detection. I've seen a lot of sentiment from people that they see more bots, hate speech, and irrelevant content on their timelines. Maybe what I'm hearing is just anecdotal evidence or stories in a bubble?

The Sacramento data center migration to Portland is an entertaining story detailed here[1]. Here's the Hacker News thread on it[2].

They have a GPU supercompute cluster?? It seems like they have the capability to do training and inference with state-of-the-art algorithms at massive scales then. Why have Twitter's recommendations and ad revenue (even before the acquisition) been so poor then?

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/11/elon-musk-moved-twitter-serv...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37470110
I would think that metabolism is a clearer target considering the direct link between genetics and enzymes, not to say that your proposal isn’t still possible this just seems more proximate. That being said I’m not an expert at all and could be totally wrong.
> Among the changes we made was a shift of all media/blob artifacts out of the cloud, which reduced our overall cloud data storage size by 60%, and separately, we succeeded in reducing cloud data processing costs by 75%.

Huh. I feel like that's the one place to not leave cloud. 90% of why I want to use AWS is S3.
It is quite relevant if the focal point is the person's age and not the product by itself.
P2W games still have ads, and those make plenty of money considering they can't be scrolled past like in Twitter.
I found this rather ironic:

> Market research shows younger generations are pivoting to analog devices, like wired headphones and CDs.

(Well, an iPod is as analog as a CD and it does feature wired headphones, as well. So all marks checked?)
This is a bit like the age-old tale about the contractor that adds waits at the end of each function in his codebase, then when the client complains about performance in one area, he just removes the wait, then bills them more money for "optimizations."
buy extension tubes for a DSLR camera. you will quickly learn to appreciate the challenges of focusing and lighting at that scale.
A car having unnecessary hp is a great example against your point.
Does anyone have any good counterpoints to this? From my, naive, perspective, this seems to be relatively true.

I've always assumed that, by now, I would be able to write code, in a semi mainstream language, and it would be made somewhat parallel, by the compiler. No need for threads, or me thinking of it.

There's projects like https://polly.llvm.org, but I guess I assumed there would be more progress through the decades.
I'm currently impacted by this bug. My grandfather just passed away and the family has been trading pictures in group messages. I've nowost access to my copies of those images.

Yes, it's my fault I hadn't backed up yet. However it's not like _i did something_ to invite this, like jump in a pool with my phone or lose it out a car window.

I'm typing this message on this phone, and I'm hoping a fix comes, because I really don't want to lose those photos.
No, if you aren't using it to mean literally, you are using it figuratively, but not necessarily (or ever, IME) to mean figuratively (usually as an intensifier to a statement that is expected to be understood as figurative from context.)
YouTube is the only Google service that I still use, and I've been paying for premium. But, mostly for the reasons you list, I'm cancelling that subscription and abandoning YouTube altogether.

So that's at least two of us.

I'll have to give Nebula another try. I hope their app is better now. Last time, it was so bad that I cancelled that subscription.
Huh, I can't seem to get in the groove of using it, maybe I'm old or something, but it annoys me all the subtle ways it's wrong and I feel I have a much better grasp if I think through it myself supported by Google.
Coal generation is typically used for base loads, while gas generation is typically used for peakers. Intuitively, you can think of it like starting or stopping a charcoal vs gas grill. The coals are much more difficult to light, and they stay hot for a long time.

> Quite the contrary, the existence of cryptocurrency to mine acts as a 'productive' sink for power produced in excess of grid baselines

By that logic, any use of electricity is a sink for power, which is ridiculous logic. If you spend millions of dollars in mining equipment, you're not just going to let it sit idle for the 22 hours a day when there isn't any excess electricity. You're going to mine whenever it's profitable. Bitcoin users also need miners to clear transactions and provide security against 51% attacks.
A lot of things but not really much at the same time
Care putting those numbers into perspective with say, the amount of money the government has poured into the housing bubble over the past twenty years? A quick search says the current balance sheets of Fannie and Freddie are $5T. Money, especially fiat money that is conjured on a whim, is an abstraction and I'd say it's much better to have it directed to strategic purposes than squandered as aimless handouts to asset holders.
Plastic Waste Becomes Clean Hydrogen Goldmine
"Shutdown the Sacramento data center and re-provisioned the 5,200 racks and 148,000 servers, which generated more than $100M in annual savings."

Yeah, about that.. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/11/elon-musk-moved-twitter-serv...

"Musk turned to his security guard and asked to borrow his pocket knife. Using it, he was able to lift one of the air vents in the floor, which allowed him to pry open the floor panels. He then crawled under the server floor himself, used the knife to jimmy open an electrical cabinet, pulled the server plugs, and waited to see what happened. Nothing exploded. The server was ready to be moved."
> it's not worth their overhead to deal with someone working 30 hours a week.

How do you know this?
In DHH's post about leaving the cloud he goes through the costs of switching from cloud to on-prem.

https://world.hey.com/dhh/we-stand-to-save-7m-over-five-year...
No, the title is right
The problem with X's strategy is that the main reason that someone would pay to have their tweets boosted is to advertise, but X is clearly in serious financial troubles and leaking users every day. This completely removes any incentive to use this subscription.
I did consider that, the other factor is Japanese people travel for smaller periods of time so maybe carry tiny suitcases instead of the (multiple) huge ones you see foreigners carry.
Release of My Book: Practical Artificial Intelligence Development with Racket
I decided to release early, in honor of RacketCon that starts tomorrow morning!

I cover using Racket Scheme for implementing many short AI examples including LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, and Local Hugging Face), vector datastore, NLP, semantic web, Knowledge Graphs, and non-AI utilities.

I am about 60% done with this “live book” (there will never be a second edition: as I add material and make corrections, I simply update the book and the free to read online copy and all eBook formats for purchase get updated).

You can read my live eBook online for free using the link: https://leanpub.com/racket-ai/read
I can only find references to blood donation lowering PFAS levels, not heavy metals, but it does make some sense.
You are confusing traditional hybrids with true plug-in electric hybrids.

The entire drivetrain is electric, but there is the ICE generator only has to be a few horsepower, at a single static rpm, hence it can be tiny, dirt cheap, and more fuel efficient than any normal automotive engine. This more than offsets the massive battery size reduction, which is a huge cost for EVs.
I always have brightness on as low as possible and have noticed people in the office often have theirs up quite a lot.

Never suffered from dry eyes, at 36 still have 20/20 vision, and haven't felt a need to do anything about my monitors.

The biggest issue I've faced is actually environmental glare (light from windows / bouncing off walls) - but nothing some curtains couldn't fix.
what were the added instructions that were added? The only things I was aware of were TSO and adding back partial support for smaller page sizes
Take a look at Halide, which can autovectorize and multi-thread graphics computations (but does require a restricted language).
Al Jazeera is a known mouthpiece of Hamas. They amplified the Hamas misinformation about that explosion in the hospital parking lot, caused by a missile fired by themselves, into a mass casualty event that never happened. They laundered Hamas propaganda and NYT and others then picked it up.

Reuters "fact checked" the hundreds of killed at the music festival and said it didn't happen. Of course, their fact check looked at the wrong images.
What do you mean when you say "fat kernel"?

Also, FYI, OpenBSD is never going to stop being written in C, and is never going to introduce a language like Rust into the kernel [1], so there's little point in wishing for this.

If you wish to rid yourself of legacy of C (and therefore that of Unix), then OpenBSD, which is Unix (or derived from it) and will always be written in C, is not a good operating system for you.

Edit: Changed to be less rude; it wasn't my intention to be rude.

[1]: https://marc.info/?t=151233221700001&r=1&w=2
Argentina has had an enormous amount of instability in its recent history.
The numbers I see are declines in traffic of 15-20% with ad revenue declines of more than 50%.

https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/musk-twitter-x-acquisi...

I think for many sites this would be pretty horrible. I feel like the bar for X is that it still runs.
Assuming you're using Firefox, https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/extensions-private-brow...
The ancient Windows implementation of this was flawed because it doesn't use versioning. Newer systems do it sensibly: If two versions of a library are incompatible with each other then they can be installed in parallel.

Meanwhile you still don't need a thousand versions installed because the library only has to declare a version compatibility change if some part of the API is removed. Otherwise a newer version of the library will implement everything an older version does and only make additions or bug fixes.

Then you have some app which needs library version 2.3.4 or higher, some other app needs the same library with version 2.3.5 or higher, so the system sees those dependencies and installs version 2.3.9 which is backwards compatible and can be used by both of those apps. An old app needs version 1.2.0 or higher, which isn't compatible with 2.3.9, so the system installs version 1.2.15, which is. Then you have two versions of the library installed alongside each other instead of the three versions you have now -- and the two versions you have installed are both still maintained, instead of having apps that quietly statically include versions 1.2.0 and 2.3.4 which each have a big fat CVE, and 2.3.5 which patched the security vulnerability but still has a couple of inconvenient bugs you don't need.

This is all done by a package manager which uses the list of dependencies for each app to take care of it for you when you install an app. This has been a solved problem for decades. But mobile fails to implement the known solution and instead sticks you with inefficient manual updating of every individual app.
If you quote that post, you should also post the high-quality comment below the post, written by an anonymous Apple employee:

Airplay is not involved in the operation of this adapter.
It is true that the kernel the adapter SoC boots is based off of XNU, but that’s where the similarities between iOS and the adapter firmware end. The firmware environment doesn’t even run launchd. There’s no shell in the image, there’s no utilities (analogous to what we used to call the “BSD Subsystem” in Mac OS X). It boots straight into a daemon designed to accept incoming data from the host device, decode that data stream, and output it through the A/V connectors. There’s a set of kernel modules that handle the low level data transfer and HDMI output, but that’s about it. I wish I could offer more details then this but I’m posting as AC for a damned good reason.
The reason why this adapter exists is because Lightning is simply not capable of streaming a “raw” HDMI signal across the cable. Lightning is a serial bus. There is no clever wire multiplexing involved. Contrary to the opinions presented in this thread, we didn’t do this to screw the customer. We did this to specifically shift the complexity of the “adapter” bit into the adapter itself, leaving the host hardware free of any concerns in regards to what was hanging off the other end of the Lightning cable. If you wanted to produce a Lightning adapter that offered something like a GPIB port (don’t laugh, I know some guys doing exactly this) on the other end, then the only support you need to implement on the iDevice is in software- not hardware. The GPIB adapter contains all the relevant Lightning -> GPIB circuitry.
It’s vastly the same thing with the HDMI adapter. Lightning doesn’t have anything to do with HDMI at all. Again, it’s just a high speed serial interface. Airplay uses a bunch of hardware h264 encoding technology that we’ve already got access to, so what happens here is that we use the same hardware to encode an output stream on the fly and fire it down the Lightning cable straight into the ARM SoC the guys at Panic discovered. Airplay itself (the network protocol) is NOT involved in this process. The encoded data is transferred as packetized data across the Lightning bus, where it is decoded by the ARM SoC and pushed out over HDMI.
This system essentially allows us to output to any device on the planet, irregardless of the endpoint bus (HDMI, DisplayPort, and any future inventions) by simply producing the relevant adapter that plugs into the Lightning port. Since the iOS device doesn’t care about the hardware hanging off the other end, you don’t need a new iPad or iPhone when a new A/V connector hits the market.
Certain people are aware that the quality could be better and others are working on it. For the time being, the quality was deemed to be suitably acceptable. Given the dynamic nature of the system (and the fact that the firmware is stored in RAM rather then ROM), updates *will* be made available as a part of future iOS updates. When this will happen I can’t say for anonymous reasons, but these concerns haven’t gone unnoticed.
>They have a GPU supercompute cluster?? It seems like they have the capability to do training and inference with state-of-the-art algorithms at massive scales then. Why have Twitter's recommendations and ad revenue (even before the acquisition) been so poor then?

In general, assuming you are in some sort of decent state better ML doesn't make your revenue 50% better. It makes it 5% better per year.
The internet advertising industry needs to move past insisting that user machines have to be involved in a business relationship they have nothing to do with and no legal, or ethical, obligation to uphold. All other forms of advertising work that way. The advertiser and host need to figure out how to keep each other honest without involving passers-by.
Changelog: https://twitter.com/cb_doge/status/1717668534078034024
Better chance of that happening by the end of 2024 than of Twitter being a dominant financial platform by the same time, to cross the streams of current HN threads.
But aren't shellcode style exploits already fairly rare with W^X, so most end up using return-to-libc style attacks? Wouldn't CFI be a much better solution?
Yep. That's why I only watch YouTube on a tablet that is dedicated solely for watching YouTube on.
What Is Left Unsaid
I'm going to see if my boss can get me one of these bad boys. Sick of VS2022 builds and Windows 11 sapping the processor cycles.
>However all relevant CPUs on the market now has the same vulnerabilities so it became a feature so software has to be designed to mitigate it.

I don't understand what you mean when you say the vulnerabilies to speculative exucution side channel attacks is a CPU "feature." Could you expound on your meaning there?

In my mind, a CPU feature would be something like out-of-order execution or integrated memory controllers. Isn't this more of a side effect (or an "oh shit..."). For example, I'd consider speculative execution to be a feature of CPUs with a side effect causing these vulnerabilities to side channel attacks, much like weight loss is a feature of the medicine Xenical (orlistat) with a side effect causing anal leakage.

Also, mitigations for newly discovered spectre-like attacks have to be done software side, but successive processor generations will bake those mitigations into the silicon to reduce the performance penalties associated with software fixes.
Smart people do dumb things sometimes. If he'd gambled the customer money and won the gambling he'd probably have got away with it.
Also NASA's Inflatable Antenna Experiment, which looks like it spun off a successful commercial product.

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

https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2010/ps_5.html

https://www.cubic.com/inflatable-satellite-antenna
https://youtu.be/Bmy-Cr2bkZ0

they almost do that at the end.
Nutrition science does change at a surprising rate. In case of doubt... drink plenty of water!
The only reason chemical and biological weapons aren't used in warfare is because they just aren't very useful. An equivalent amount of high explosives is more lethal, easier to deliver, easier to transport and store, and less dangerous to your own troops. Which sucks, because it implies that arms control measures for landmines, cluster munitions, autonomous drones, and nuclear weapons are probably doomed to failure.

https://acoup.blog/2020/03/20/collections-why-dont-we-use-ch...
You're saying we can't tolerate nonzero amounts.

As pointed out, actually doing that would mean no food.

Since you brought up the overton window, it sounds like you want to claim we don't tolerate any at all, while actually tolerating it so people can eat. That would be lying.
Factory wipe/reset followed by 'Reload' sounds like you end up losing all of your data if it wasn't backed up elsewhere. Usually the value of the data outweighs the value of the device, especially with phones that are harder to backup than they should be.
"Have you tried SCF /scannow?"
I was thinking outside of "embarrassingly parallel" [1] type work. :) But, that is fair.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarrassingly_parallel#:~:tex....
Yes, that is the objective. We have these rules today for the same reason we had them yesterday: to protect proprietary interests.
Best course of action. More free time reading books.
I want a tier where users cannot navigate away from my tweets until they reply with “good post” or the thumbs up emoji
After 50k hours, this AI can play Pokémon Red
And I would assert that ~3250lb is rather porky for a compact ICE car, even though thats "normal" these days.
> "Why do we need currency when we can just store commodities?"

Did I imply that we don't need or shouldn't have currency? And are you implying that crypto and stored renewable energy should be equivalent priorities?

> You are deeply out of touch with reality if you believe they aren't curtailing capability

"At all times" was the key qualifier to my statement. I'm well aware that excess capacity from intermittent sources is a huge problem and curtailment is the workaround employed these days, which is precisely why I'm saying that storage should be a higher priority than crypto.
One company down...the entire rest of the tech industry to go.

As an over 40 the job search is grim
How Plants Reach for the Sun: Phototropism
Ada/SPARK is already popular in safety critical systems
Hello thank you for sharing my 9 ways of making sand. If you have any more ideas please let me know, I'm trying to make a sequel to this where I do 99 ways.
You hit the nail on the head. In today’s society the playbook is to find something, get some kind of science to write some lengthy research to justify the point, whether correct or not, it doesn’t matter. Then it’s either think of the children, the environment, race or sex. Once you have the critical mass of online bullies you can make it a political statement and leverage it for votes. Remember, don’t actually solve the perceived problem, that would waste all that efforts because you wouldn’t have the votes.
Rinse and repeat.
Logging for what?
I've been thinking about upgrading to a 50lb bottle. A swap on the 5lb bottle in my area runs $30, while a 50lb bottle is $40. I had a leak that cost me three 5lb bottles this year, but I could just refill the bottle myself with the 50lb.

I also use the CO2 for apple preservation, which can eat up a fair amount.
Do not write about nonconsensual hacks on the clearnet. Even if the hack is '1234', the law is clear, it's a felony. If you think scam sites are petty, just wait until they get petty in court.
Most of Canada's New Condos Are (Still) Investor Owned: Stat Can
Speaking of Electron... when I start my Slack client for work, there are a series of processes where at least one reports 1.130 terabytes of virtual memory. (Shown in top as "VIRT".)

Now, maybe that's just a potential usage that trust-me-bro it'll never actually try to use or access in RAM or on disk... but how on earth is that number for a chat client so much bigger than either Firefox with 100+ tabs or even Java-based IDEs like Webstorm?
The Mystic Art of Gardening
I wonder if it can work for adults. I'd love to be able to do without my hearing aids.
Also Gaza.