skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let’s consider the contrary. Do poor people sometimes hold highly questionable beliefs, promulgated by institutions, and does professing these beliefs in expensive and flamboyant ways confer status?

Religion ticks all these boxes.

In some contexts, so does patriotism, racism, worship of the military, publicly dumping cases of Bud Light, etc etc etc. In some ways, even disdain for education is a sort of expensive status display.

The author is just describing what people of all kinds do. Yes, there are very silly beliefs which sometimes seduce educated elites. But that just makes them like everybody else.

Also, the author is picking on some trendy ideas which are currently held by some of the elites, but so what? It would be truly surprising if a decade-plus of higher education and immersion in data and discourse did not produce a different consensus. The author offers no evidence that “defund the police” is an inherently absurd idea, no more than other formerly radical ideas like universal suffrage or abolishing slavery. In my town, the police absorb over 20% of the city budget, have doubled their spend in the past decade, and are unaccountable to the people. So I think it’s at least a topic worthy of interest!
Biden Orders: AI Companies Building 'Most Powerful' Models Must Inform Feds
I've got an M1 Pro MBP, studio display, ipad pro, apple watch, iphone. Meh. IT cost a lot and makes you feel special. That is all. It's not objectively better at achieving your goals.

At this point I don't agree that windows is inferior. It is just different. And quite frankly from a developer and productivity perspective it's actually a lot better.
You are evidently in a tiny tiny minority of people with very special needs. The vast majority of users want to get these notifications, and most want to have them sent by email because it is one of the most uniquitous channels along with SMS and allows the recipient to "keep living and check the message later on when the time is right" (contrary to a regular in-app notification).

The vast majority of Amazon customers do not have its app installed. And those who do have the app can disable Amazon emails or create filters in their own mailbox, it's not exactly difficult.
I hope tech companies see this as an incentive to get rid of the cookie prompts - a DNT clearly means "reject all tracking and non-essential cookies".
If the user installs a privacy-focused browser (NB: not sure if such things exist, marketing aside), one could argue that there is still user choice involved even though the browser sets DNT by default.

The original Internet Explorer situation was different because it came pre-installed with the operating system, and whether there is choice in operating systems for any given piece of consumer hardware is often rather dubious today (and was probably “no” in more cases back then).
I tried this with a coin and it fails to predict the coin in significantly more often than 50% events. What about human can not generate sequences of a decent randomness I knew since a Statistics course.
That would be preferable.
I wonder if nearest neighbor is actually what you want to begin with. Imagine points distributed in a U-shape, the nearest neighbor might require jumping across the gap but a better match could be a bit further away but somewhere along the shape. Especially if the dimension do not have a meaningful intrinsic scale, I could just scale the x dimension and pull the two sides of the U apart. So maybe I could actually be more useful to look at the topology of the points, something like a Vietoris–Rips complex [1] but invariant under [local] rescaling of dimensions. Not sure if something like that exists or is possible in a robust and efficient way.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietoris%E2%80%93Rips_complex
Different people have different needs. I certainly need a MacBook Pro for my work, but I use next to no storage. I’ve never purchase beyond the minimum storage for an Apple computer. I did however up the processor on my current MacBook Pro.

Minimum 8GB RAM is more universally egregious but I’m not going to sit here and justify my own exception whilst discounting the possibility that 8GB works for others.
> They're worth taking seriously.

1. While their contributions to AI tech are unmistakable, what do Bengio and Hinton really know about the human dangers of AI? Being an expert in one thing does not make one an expert in everything. It is unlikely that they understand the human dangers any more than any other random kook on Reddit. Why take them more seriously than the other kooks?

2. Hinton's big concern is that AI will make it easy to steal identities. Even if we assume that is true, it is already not that hard to steal identities. It is a danger that already exists even without AI and, realistically, already needs to be addressed. What's the takeaway if we are to take the message seriously? That AI will make the problems we already have more noticeable, and because of that we will finally have to get off our lazy asses and do something about those problems that we've tried to sweep under the rug? That seems like a good thing.
Yup. I’ve been looking at the Framework laptop, and it’s barely any thicker than the current MacBook Pro.
Disagree. When you look at a "less is more" engineer next to a "I need to solve the general case with the perfect API and refactor the foobar" after 6-12 months you'll notice that the former has a clear pattern of delivering, and the latter... usually doesn't.
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define "need"?

is this "need for my business model" or "need because we can't send a package without your address"?
Also not allowed.

Consent must be freely given

“Freely given” consent essentially means you have not cornered the data subject into agreeing to you using their data. For one thing, that means you cannot require consent to data processing as a condition of using the service. They need to be able to say no.

https://gdpr.eu/gdpr-consent-requirements/
First try: 0% prediction accuracy. What is trying to achieve?
Yes, but the number of cores in similar cpus do provide a good comparison. For example, with base M2pro at 6 p cores and base M3pro at 5 p cores, one would want ~20% faster cores to compensate for the lack of one core in parallel processing scenarios where things scale well. I don't think M3 brings that. I am waiting to see tests to understand what the new M3s are better for (prob battery life).
Thankfully that's just as illegal as tracking without consent (or in this case, explicit rejection).
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I have used it for the last 15 years and it hasn't got worse and hasn't got better. It has barely changed. It is done. However there are load of little annoying bugs (Reminders makes me want to kill people) and the developer story on the platform is a mess now. Literally minor releases will break things I use on a regular basis. Last month they broke something that broke Maxima (mathematical CAS) for me. I have to use that, so off to windows it is.
I notice English speakers have a tendency to assume final e's are silent.
That's because of the silo formation in the advertising market. Agencies want to have an easy time to spend a large budget and they don't want to negotiate individually with thousands of parties. So they do a bulk buy from some large provider which then provides a centralized way to return the statistics. These serve to - somewhat - keep property owners honest because both click fraud and placement fraud would probably be rampant.

Not every kind of advertising is that suspect to fraud but for every budget out there there is some way to siphon it off without giving the advertiser what they were looking for. It's been an arms race between fraudsters and marketeers with the end-users caught in the middle, and between the marketeers and the users with respect to privacy issues. This ruling injects some sanity for those that have declared themselves to be non-combatants.
For the longest time I noticed that many of those websites, typically small-town newspapers, all ran the same CMS, developed by a former employer of mine. Part of the problem, at least back then, could have been that the CMS simply didn't have the ability to disable the tracking cookie based on visitor settings, and development had pretty much stopped years earlier.
As the other person said, it's been 9 months since the m2.

You don't need to defend Apple here. They'll be fine. It's OK to question this.
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I remember back in the day when GDPR was announced this was an actual thing. Nowadays tho, 9/10 of the website that used that message caved and are serving EU without problems.
That is fine, it lets people understand that they need to make a choice between European values and technoslavery.
What types of messaging do you see, and on what sites? Asking from the US
This ruling opens up the door to enforcement, it is general enough that German companies and companies active in Germany will take notice and it might inspire other EU countries to follow suit.
> there’s a reason. Not saying I agree, just that’s how they operate.

Almost always it’s maximizing profit margins rather than anything else.
Can a human?
The only downside would be struggling with 8GB, which should be upgradable just as well. 10y old would have a cd/dvd tray - that can be replaced by an SSD for 4TB of goodliness (SATA but still good enough).

My spouse has a 12y old laptop that has had pretty much everything (but the soldered GPU) upgraded - CPU, memory, HDD->SSD, CD-SSD, WiFi (to support 5GHz), keyboard (replaced), fan & heatsink, battery (replaced, might rebuild one w/ LG's 18650 MJ1). Unfortunately pre-Sandy Bridge memory is capped at 8GB, so it shows its age - still an amazing thing.
I'm aware. It was a joke about how unlikely it is that two prominent Warez groups are named after women
I do too, but I doubt it. They have shown plenty of times theyll fight it as much as they can.
I got a figure that 40% of ATP production is used to maintain the ion pumps.
At least GDPR has protection built in against such behavior. Unless they exit European market entirely.
I've been using M1 since it came out. Loved it. Fast, snappy, smooth. Prior to that, I had a Dell XPS that ran loud and always felt laggy to use.

I was going to upgrade to M2, but $2k+ for an essentially base laptop. Nah.

I grabbed a new Zenbook 14 OLED w/current gen i7. Metal chassis, nice keyboard, nice trackpad. Nice 120Hz screen. Solid construction. Windows 11 which I have gotten used to. It feels pretty well polished in terms of hardware and OS. Feels snappy. i7 is a wonderful, fast CPU.

While it isn't an M2 Mac, an M2 Mac is no longer wildly better than a good Windows laptop. The $1300 difference for the same performance is a strong selling point for the Zenbook which is 96% as good as an M2.
Spec largely doesn't matter for what the courts think; DNT is considered by them to be a valid signal for not wanting to be tracked in the eyes of the court according to the ruling. (note: I am not a lawyer.)

You could argue that by using a browser where the DNT header is set by default, they are making that decision on their privacy by y'know, using those browsers over the ones where they're not set by default. Ad companies don't want that argument, they want you to opt out in every browser (and ideally they'd just ignore the header entirely, which they do after Microsoft enabled it by default in Explorer).
This would be plainly illegal. GDPR article 7:

4. When assessing whether consent is freely given, utmost account shall be taken of whether, inter alia, the performance of a contract, including the provision of a service, is conditional on consent to the processing of personal data that is not necessary for the performance of that contract.
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ThinkPad P1 gen 6 offers 96GB max. [1] I usually buy the minimum version of memory and SSD, and then upgrade myself.

[1] https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkPad/ThinkPad_P...
>The prediction algorithm is actually very straightforward[1]. It's a fun exercise to write a sequence generator specifically to defeat it.

if you are inspecting the prediction algorithm, and you want to specifically defeat it, doesn't that mean copy the prediction algorithm and throw a "not" on it? It's the old halting problem trick...
Generally yes in any tier with a big enough pool, and has been my experience. I've been playing team based competitive shooters for over 2 decades, and while I occasionally notice an obvious cheater with amazing aim and improbable aim jumps during replays. My experience is that they often aren't very good at the game in general. Or at least, it's their crutch to play at my level. Cheating was a much bigger problem for me when I'd personally pick the servers I played on, but I hardly think about it any more. Modern match making tends to be pretty good at leveling the playing field. Cheating kind of sucks, but generally I don't notice on the games I like to play. Plus, there's just as much chance the cheater will be on my team as the opponent, so it evens out that way as well.
What do you mean "need"? The only website whose business model is user tracking that I can think of are Facebook and google. Without tracking they would cease to make money.

Other than those two I don't see how spying on users is a business necessity.
It will be funny watching the entire planet continue to ignore this.

Edit: to clarify, a specification based on asking for something is a recipe for everyone to ignore you. It's a design flaw. And if they fix that with a legal patch then it will just be moved out of the jurisdiction that the legal patch applies to.
that is part of the 'free will'
Commonly "this website is not available in your country".

Fairly typically applies to small local news websites in the US.
Oh yeah I misread the comment.

Although that’s not quite true either e.g. on raptor lake H, the upper i5 (13600H) has 8 E cores while the low range i7 (13620H) has 4, but the i7 has 6 P-cores versus 4. The base frequencies also get lower as you move from i5 to i7. And you have less GPU EU (80 -> 64).
This legal proceeding is about do not track. It is not about anything else which you're pulling in. This is an appeal to ridicule and these are generally not very interesting.
Just because the benefits of sharing DNA data appear large, doesn't mean we should take potential drawbacks lightly. Imagine this: a future where a specific gene is linked to hard work. Companies start screening job applicants based purely on their genetic makeup -- if you don't have the gene, you don't get the job. Or even more worryingly, imagine the government starts surveillance on a group of people with a particular gene, claiming they're more likely to commit a certain crime based on some obscure study. It would lead to moral and ethical havoc. DNA data might not seem worth protecting right now, but unchecked, the misuse could be catastrophic.
That is assuming all health related costs can be predicted 100% correctly. If there is a 1/3rd chance to incur a cost then insurance lets you get away with only paying 1/3rd of the cost.
to me, every release is more locked down and dumbed down.

and privacy. I remember when macos used to ask you before sending data back to apple. Now it does it all day every day, with 1000 pages of privacy policy explaining what they do, but little or no ability to prevent it.
Except for Home Depot and many regional news syndicates
> I still don't get why websites are not able to find in-house ad solutions that are not provided by third parties.

Because marketing department people come and go so they don't have time/motivation to learn some in-house tool. They know gtag and they are happy with it.
The inertia of Java projects is huge. IMHO the future of Java depends on the perception that can be created for Java as an attractive ecosystem for greenfield projects.
YMMV but Gmail hasn't been that bad for me. The only problem I (knowingly) had was with a newly registered domain and mails still at least went to the spam folder there. Microsoft has been much more annoying, punishing you for bad IP "neighbors" that you have no relation with. Of course I don't know if all my mails get delivered since I don't do any tracking, just relying of voluntary in-band or out of band replies / receipt confirmations. And being based on black box heuristics (and "AI" lol) there is no guarantee that my experience with Gmails spam filters is the norm - but Gmail rejecting half of self-hosted mail seems a very pessimistic estimate.

Still, just citing numbers for how much spam they blocked is (deliberately?) only showing half of the picture.
When it comes down to it, I think you'll find most people buy Mac for the software.

I've tried using Windows and Linux and it's just not as good. If this weren't the case, then I doubt Apple could charge such exorbitant prices for their hardware.
Agreed. I'd love to see the manufacturing process for those heads. I can't imagine such fine detail being forged. Maybe it's some type of multi-step blind broaching process. Like you said, expensive.
> The more RAM you have, the faster + smoother your experience using an application will be,

This is the mentality that MSI targets with the $1300 AORUS Z790 Xtreme X motherboard. More is clearly better, right? Nope. Not at all. In this case, there is an amount of RAM an app will consume and you have that much, the rest will not do much. Even buffering/caching only can consume so much. It's very hard to fill even 64GB in a laptop but 128GB is near impossible.
Yes, and once a company like xim makes one, they can sell it and laypeople will buy it off the shelves. This method doesn't require any internal modifications or anything, that's the whole point of the adaptive controller.

The creators of the xim will want to make a new product to sell if their old one no longer works. It might even be possible with a software update.
It would be nice if DNT = deny all except mandatory. So browser would have one pop-up after installation and no more banners on websites.

One could dream.
>overriding decades of muscle memory reaching for cmd instead of ctrl

You get used to this in three days.
Every American YouTuber I watch in guiltier of dropping t's than any "bri'ish" person I know yet the meme exist somehow.
I am learning Python with Replit's 100 days of code. Not sure how useful it will be, but so far it has been good.
> The spec itself (at the time, at least) said that it could be ignored if the header was always sent/not user-enabled.

How would that work? Has the server a mechanism to check if DNT was set by default on the client/browser?
Yeah this is what I mean. And I am certainly not a snob that thinks only what the upper class or academics see as art is actual art.

In fact bad taste in art is equally common in the upper class. Just have a look at how Silvio Berlusconi's heirs are struggling to sell the stuff he considered art for example.

Being known doesn't mean you are exemplary of what you are doing. If you have a famous youtube tutorial channel for javascript, you might be one of the most widely known javascript programmers — but that doesn't automatically mean you are the "best" (or even a half-way decent) programmer. It still might mean that you are a stellar teacher and an exceptional communicator, which worth a lot, but if you confuse yourself for something that you are not this is where the problems start.

To the general public that guy might be what they think a good Javascript-Dev looks like, but ultimatly he isn't. I had to think of Bob Ross: A legendary communicator, a good ambassador for the arts and a good human being, but I wouldn't buy his art if I found it at a thrift store. But Bob Ross knew that his skill was being a communicator for the arts and didn't confuse himself with the painters who managed to get their works into the big art instutions.
> At this point I don't agree that windows is inferior. It is just different. And quite frankly from a developer and productivity perspective it's actually a lot better.

I think it depends a lot of what you're developing.

For a lot of open source stuff, even OSX is a 2nd class citizen, and windows isn't even considered. Of course, you can do everything in a VM, but that can have its own problems.

If you live out of Visual Studio, though, I'm sure the experience is nice.
That's the problem though: pampering to competitive gamers ruins the experience for the vast majority of people, who just want to, you know, enjoy a game. Unfortunately, competitive gamers are the only ones that matter - they're the cash cows of this part of the industry, which now focuses on creating as many such players as they can, and milking them for all they're worth.

Consider how cheating was handled back before AAA games turned into videogame equivalent of Marvel Cinematic Universe movies: if you were found cheating, you were booted off the server, period. There was no matchmaking bullshit, the games weren't nudging or limiting you to play on the ladder, against global ranking. Instead, you had local and international servers, public and private; you had neighbourhood servers, and servers run by groups of friends, and themed servers, etc. - in other words, servers were communities. As diverse and rich as human communities can be. And they handled cheating in ways communities do it.

On smaller / local servers, people wouldn't cheat because the community extended past the game to other on-line places, and/or to meatspace. Everyone was friends with each other, and being a cheating asshole is a fast way to lose your friends. Scaling up, you had all the mechanisms one also saw on discussion boards: some servers had owner or moderators ban anyone they didn't like; others voted. It was nicely self-regulating: servers weren't sticky, so being banned as false positive (or out of spite) didn't hurt. People didn't like power-tripping server operators? They'd switch over to a new server, run by someone saner.

Were there still cheaters? Yes. Assholes and griefers happened. But without a single global ranking to compete for, cheating was mostly self-defeating: there was no reward, no incentive, and you'd be just ruining the fun for yourself.

Yes, cheating is kind of a proxy reason why I don't enjoy multiplayer games. But the real reason is this: modern games feel like suddenly all the little soccer leagues were required to follow all the FIFA rules, were allowed only to play registered games, only to use pitches and equipment and balls and clothes that are certifiably up to spec, regularly audited - all because it might happen that our ad-hoc team of Sunday players would one day be visited by a World Cup team, and it would suck if we had an unfair advantage.

It's just ruining the game for everyone, for the sake of a small group of people running a racket.
Obviously his contribution is shattering the barter myth. You might consider that insignificant, but it is something.
ah, yes, that's truer than it seems. it's literally a bait on non-technical people.

but then again, you don't get to 1+ trillion valuation just like that...
Just give people extra off-days, like 2 days per each 1 of oncall for those days, or just give them more Oncall money. If there is the incentive and it is good, people will step up to do it, and overall that shouldn't be costly for a company that needs to run their infra 24x7.
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IIRC the people who wrote the spec did it in co-operation with the larger ad networks and this was the only way they could get the ad networks to comply with it.

Then Microsoft enabled it by default in Explorer 10 and the ad networks took it as carte blanche to ignore the DNT header forever, claiming Microsoft had violated the agreement. Nowadays it's usually not set even by the overly privacy conscious out of fingerprinting concerns, since its another unique way to identify your traffic.
> I paid £1899 for my M1 Pro. The M2 Pro was £2149. The M3 Pro is £1899 again for same spec.

How do you think Apple has become a 1+ trillions company?