skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot going on there. To prevent flicker, you not only have to preserve the screen resolution, but also all the graphics card memory and state and hand it off through stages of boot from efi to the os.

As an analogy this would be sort of like rebooting the OS in place while preserving all the running apps, network state and USB connections without resetting anything.

These kinds of things are possible, but have lots of corner cases.
The instructions and data, input and output are all mixed into a single domain.

So we end up with similar weaknesses as simple processors. And similar to how we all get tripped up by phishing.

So we need memory protection. Or MFA.
Yep! That was just one of several successes!
> Data which then can be used for purpose we didnt accept in the first place.

The obvious counter-argument is that, somewhere in the 100(+?)-page ToS, User Agreement, EULA, Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy documentation, you did.

We really need to make new laws to force companies to explain, in plain (terse) English, what they're doing with our data -- everyone knows nobody reads those documents.
Gha cron
It's good to know there are worse places than mine. some things are reminiscent of what I've seen, but nothing so extreme as even half of what's described.
> I really don't understand the hate boner everyone has for effective altruism - the whole core of the idea was just to choose charities that get the most value for the money donated

I admit to not doing in depth research but suspect the problem is with all that goes beyond that core idea. I really doubt that many people are genuinely complaining that someone decided to measure how effective are modern wood stoves at reducing CO2 emissions.

It's the fact that Sam Bankman-Fried could and did use the ideology as cover. The actual movement taking his money and giving him cover. Some of the weirder longtermist stuff that is at the minimum much harder to justify as charity to the everyman. Earning to give. The demographics of the movement. And a general feeling that at least the part of EA that Sam related to is a 21st century version of an ideology allowing the powerful to get an excuse for whatever they feel like doing from the present day equivalent of the priesthood.

> But just because SBF was a fraud doesn't mean the whole EA movement is bullshit,

I think a lot of people heard about EA because of and in relation to Sam Bankman-Fried. Of course people are going to find the message suspect when the first messenger turns out to be a fraudster using it as cover.

edit: and I say this as someone who is at least a bit concerned that this core idea may get hit in the crossfire.
> Text-only BIOS setup was the norm for a long time

I've had a GUI BIOS setup on almost every PC I've owned since the first 486 I built back in 1993.
If they go into liquidation or restructure then all their liabilities go up for renegotiation. So the threat of this happening makes all contracts renogotiable regardless of timeline.
The GDPR fines can actually be quite large, although they won't be paid out to you personally.

«The more serious infringements go against the very principles of the right to privacy and the right to be forgotten that are at the heart of the GDPR. These types of infringements could result in a fine of up to €20 million, or 4% of the firm’s worldwide annual revenue from the preceding financial year, whichever amount is higher.»

Source: https://gdpr.eu/fines/
Do you see any upper limit for how much you are willing to pay per student to have them educated in society?
If you've been in a public high school lately you wouldn't be surprised at homeschooling's growing popularity. I'm sure we all remember having a class with a "peanut gallery" in the back who refused to shut up and learn. Instead of being one class one year that's now every class every year for everybody. My brother, sister in law, and aunt are all public school teachers and none of them allow their children to attend public school.
Just wait 25 years and you should be good
That would be a lot of marginal startups such as lifestyle business running on <5% profit margins, and it's hard to see how making them fold could ever be a good thing.

Plus all the previously slightly-better-than-marginal startups will now descend to being merely marginal.
Louis Rossmann given three YouTube community guideline strikes
Webb has surprised me more than I hoped it would. Incredible.
This is nothing to do with the GDPR. It's the ePrivacy Directive that deals with cookies.
I'm sure they will accept more money for the same thing, if you'd like. I live in San Francisco, where locals constantly complained that there wasn't enough funding for essential things. As a result, we funded the things and it turns out that if you want to buy a thing that costs X, the person selling it to you will happily accept 10X if you want to spend that much on it.
I'm not norwegian but I can read norwegian fairly well and the article says the European Data Protection Board has decided that the norwegian ban should be made permanent, and expanded to apply to all of the EU and EEA. It's a little light on detail, but that's the gist of it anyway.
Oh good. I was planning to get a Mac for testing purposes, but I wanted something weak so that I could make sure my software is fast on slow devices! /s
Exactly. There are involved parents whose kids are going to thrive in the public school. There are uninvolved parents whose kids are going to do poorly no matter where they are.
Have you tried it though? I use it primarily for games and I've never had an issue with it
A simple change in the windows registry fixes that.
Targeted advertising creates an incentive to closely track and monitor users across the entire internet. This tracking data is then collated, packaged, and sold to various parties (advertisers, private intellegece companies, etc)

Without targeted advertising this cottage industry and the associated data on people would not have as much of a reason (or any) to exist, improving privacy for the average person.
We already pay more per student than literally any other socialist country. More so in the "bad schools". Money isn't the problem, it's "da culture".
You gotta be kidding me. Are those the stars of M51 individually resolved all over the image?
I saw this on r/android first, it appears Rossman does not have a twitter/x account.

Nitter link: https://nitter.net/FUTO_Tech/status/1719468941582442871
Very pretty. Looks like one of Gustave Doré's illustrations for Paradise in the Divine Comedy:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dor%C3%A9,_Gustave_-...
You're quite right. "extended to entire EU/EEA" would be more correct.
You wouldn’t know around here.. mega trucks everywhere. But maybe they are all 2020 or later models.
Easy fix

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/restor...
It's pragmatic. Being religious checks a box when they want to apply for parole.
A sly comment I saw elsewhere was this gives them a nice bump they can use when the M4 is released and they go back to 4x4

Edit: my personal feeling is this is just a cost savings they are doing like they did with the base SSDs
He can eat glass. It does not harm him.
Not many people understand what that means. I remember Romney saying that GM needed to go through bankruptcy (meaning chapter 11) back when he was running for president. He got crucified for saying that, but he wasn’t wrong, and iirc, they did end up in chapter 11.

Hopefully, WeWork restructures successfully. I’ve really enjoyed the few I’ve visited, and I think there’s a real business under all the nonsense.
My first commands:
>> ls -a
>> cat help.txt
>> pushd neighbors_house
I got back: "pushd not found."
>> cd ..

I'm a total scaredy cat.
"You're updating it wrong."
—Steve
I agree with your point.

One of the primary benefits (and drawbacks) of religion is that it provides a set of packaged values that are straightforward and generally work pretty well for a lot of people. Thousands of years of refinement went into the development of those packages.

They're mostly effective and convenient for a lot of people.

Determining values from first principles is hard, and there are a lot of easy mistakes along the way. You can easily find yourself trapped in nihilism or moral relativity or one of the other common philosophy potholes.

It's kind of like a happy meal vs cooking from scratch. We all know cooking is healthier and cheaper, but sometimes we just don't have time, and there's no guarantee on how it will turn out.
Cost per search isn't really a great metric. For me, I hit the cap of 30 searches/day pretty easily, but 500 is pretty hard to hit. For me, its just a question of what tier matches my volume.
When extracting or processing natural gas, it's common to burn off some of the byproduct in a process known as "flaring." So yes, there was a fire but there's always a fire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_flare
As in, "the hardware features that don't work are irrelevant to me", or "I enjoy tinkering"?

https://frame.work/de/en/linux
I agree that David Gerard is more bombastic and leaps to more conclusions than I would prefer. But I follow this story a little and the connections he and Amy Castor draw here make a lot of things make more sense.

The "staff psychiatrist" at FTX is real. It seemed like an insane indulgence when I read about it, but I didn't follow to the obvious conclusion, that it was to prescribe medications with a subverted doctor. And that implies that any Adderall abuse wasn't just a personal vice; FTX believed in said medications being crucial to its success as an organization. It's not hard to find "rationalist" folks who have the same ideas.

Is there a perfectly straight line between Scott Alexander's writings and some alleged Adderall abuse of a particular EA advocate? I don't know, but there's probably contributing factors there.

That said, your information on the "rationalist" and "effective altruist" cult is out of date. While there might be a lot of people who still cling to its earlier more modest ambitions, the core of the movement changed. It's no longer about choosing charities that are effective in the here and now, but about projecting consequences into a kind of science fiction eschatology. There are many stories online of rationalist/EA groups which descended into worship of big-brained leaders as the patriarchs of the coming galactic civilizations.

Beliefs like this may have made SBF far more dangerous. One interpretation of his actions is that he justified building a massive fortune from fraud in the present, because he planned to save billions of lives from rogue AI in the future.

I appreciate Gerard's framing even if it's a bit overstated. Because it kicks me out of futilely pondering "how could a smart person have done any of this?" and into "ok, this is obvious tweaker fantasy and the real question is how he bamboozled so many into thinking he was the adult in the crypto community".
Facebook 100% does not sell "tracking data" to advertisers or "private intelligence companies".

I'd like to see an example of an ad platform that actually does this.
Because “relevant” means “tuned to my personal neuroses, sources of recent depression, and weaknesses”. No one is showing you adverts to make you happy, they are hyper-tuned to dig money out of your pockets by any means.
I've had very good experiences with realtors.
> They should only be concerned with the here and now and future prediction

Anything that can help us figure out ways the past played out can help us understand the future. For example, if we see that many stars have likely gone supernova in the past, we can look at our own star, the sun, and figure out when or if it will go supernova as well. We can't test stars and supernovas because we don't have control over them, but studying those things means we will have a more accurate understanding of the topic than if we didn't.

Gathering data and making theories about that data is science. The scientific method with experiments is the most important signal and it trumps everything else, but when we lack the ability to do experiments then extrapolating what we know from those experiments is the next best thing and it is still science.

Anyway, I'm not sure why you are so anti-science here. Can you explain why you feel you need to put the big bang on the same level as "God did it"? Do you really think that those two things are on the same level here? The big bang comes from extrapolating what we know from experiments and applying it to the universe and then looking at what happens if we play that backwards. It is a very mundane thing.

Edit: An example that is similar to big bang:

You stand on an open field. You feel something hitting your head. You look down and see a ball. You turn around and see a person standing there, nobody else in sight. Do you think these two are the same level:

"God created the ball and dropped it on your head"

"The person you see had the ball and threw it at your head"

You would say "We can't know for sure which is true, they are equally valid beliefs!", right? If not, why do you think this is different?
> simply because ta1243 is reporting a Firefox bug and you're reporting user error

Don't tell me Firefox needs 40GB of virtual memory to keep a tab open for longer than a couple weeks. Or that it's the JavaScript engine when closing all tabs or windows didn't free the memory, only restarting the entire browser did. It wasn't the extensions, either.

If Chromium works properly without leaking memory, and Firefox leaks memory and calls it "user error" to not have overcommit enabled, I'm going to use Chromium, simply because it actually respects my computer's resources.

Also, you're citing ways in which Chromium's V8 uses virtual memory, when V8 does not suffer from this problem. Clearly you can use virtual memory in that way without having a memory leak.

Also remember that Windows does not have unlimited overcommit like Linux does, because it has no OOM killer. So if Firefox were to use 400GiB of virtual memory, that would require the page file to take up the remainder of that.

I did have issues with my page file "automatically" growing to 64GiB with Firefox running, so maybe it literally does do this and it actually uses up hundreds of gigabytes of space on Windows machines. But that is not acceptable behavior from Firefox and it is definitely not user error to not want to give up that much space.
Good on Tesla's legal team for winning in a case where they're so obviously at fault that they identified and fixed the issue -- "we don't have a bug, but if we did we fixed it." I mean this sincerely, it's a masterclass in misdirection to energy bend a jury's feelings about "drunk drivers" to their advantage to completely shut down the question as to whether that fact mattered at all to the crash.

But god I hope regulators bring down the banhammer on this garbage, every time it's tested humans can't take over control of the car in emergency situations fast enough by a huge margin. The car needs to handle its own shit in emergency situations or not offer self driving at all. Human supervised has to mean the car can pull over and say, "I'm not confident enough to drive safely here, help" and not "jesus take the wheel" two seconds before impact.
> The idea of Carrier Sense is that the "carrier" signal on the network indicates that the network is idle.

Wouldn't a carrier indicate that the network is busy? Actually, Ethernet is a baseband system and so doesn't actually have a carrier, but for Alohanet you would only have the carrier when a transmitter was on even if it wasn't actually sending 1s or 0s at that instant.
Great game! I am a fan of text-based adventures. This is a nice mix of text-based commands, and a GUI.

Wondering out loud: is it possible to generate an atmospheric horror tale like "Anchorhead" via prompts? Perhaps it's already possible.
When extracting or processing natural gas, it's common to burn off some of the byproduct in a process known as "flaring." It creates massive amounts of light pollution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_flare

Those are the gas and oil fields of North Dakota.
Everyone is raised with a system of beliefs, even if those beliefs are no about god. I was raised atheist (and hadn’t even heard the word “god” until I was about 4 or 5), but I definitely recognise that my moral beliefs have been strongly influenced by those of my parents, community and wider culture.
Easily 90%+ of the faults on Commodore 64s, especially the early models.

My Christmas 1982 model died with a faulty PLA well within the warranty period.
I guess you probably could, but any fines or such would not be paid out to you personally. Enforcement is primarily the responsibility of national data protection authorities (DPAs) in each EU member state.
Read up on Windows. Windows does not do overcommit whatsoever, unless swap is enabled, in which case it only allows overcommit up to the size of the swap file.

Overcommit cannot be enabled without a swap file, whatsoever. This differs from Linux that can tend to have overcommit enabled without swap.
For want of a better expression, amen. We're a couple million child sex abuse scandals past the point of pretending like organized religion has anything remotely resembling a monopoly on "moral" behavior.
Heh, and then I'm on the opposite end of the spectrum: I can happily get by with the CPU power offered by Skylake (or maybe even older) devices, but need 32GB RAM to be "mostly comfortable, usually" in my developer workflows. I could easily make use of 64GB. I'm considering putting 96-128GB in my next desktop build for some future-proofing.

And yet laptop manufacturers seem hellbent on insisting 4GB is still acceptable to ship at all, and even still market 8GB machines to professionals. Folks, "professional software" like Slack takes hundreds of MB of RAM to even render the splash screen these days, it should be nearly criminal to ship a consumer device with less than 16GB now (alternatively, we should be taxing software companies for the negative externalities their waste produces, but that's a messy political fight)
They did have a larger marketing budget than any other company offering their services.
I hate that take too. If the fear of eternal damnation is the only reason you arent out murdering people, then you are a jerk (in kinder words).
Not the case with ChatGPT 4.

Ls with spaces: https://chat.openai.com/share/af128dca-3589-4d1e-a144-507e43...

Rs with Non Breaking Spaces: https://chat.openai.com/share/16b9d461-503e-4d97-bdd4-e113d0...

The same As copy pasted from your example: https://chat.openai.com/share/21d3a01b-5a61-4951-a65f-e76043...
>Instead of changing all the rows in a single big transaction, the change was broken into thousands of little changes that were rolled out over a series of days.

Having been in a situation where a large schema update required migrating data in a transaction, which then broke for some data, but the data was so big that rolling back the transaction caused the database to become totally hosed, I can see this technique being very attractive.
TIL pushd. I should go add that to snail.

There is no bash running here, but I can promise nothing in the game is scarier than JavaScript!
If the memory is never released back to the OS after it is done being used (or when it is not going to be used), then the browser has failed to release it back to the OS.
Masking was not driving the homeschooling surge during COVID, it was driven by the sense parents had that during lockdowns they were effectively forced into homeschooling their kids with none of the agency that comes with full homeschooling. If they were going to be doing most of the teaching anyway while schools were closed, a lot of parents figured they'd ditch the poorly executed virtual lessons and just homeschool on their own terms.
In their 2019 S-1, WeWork stated 40% of their memberships were from companies with over 500 employees. For many companies, moving to remote did mean terminating WeWork memberships.
Yeah, the article refers to EU/EØS which includes the non-EU members of the EEA, of which some union regulations may apply and be ratified into national law, like on food safety, energy markets or data privacy, while others can be vetoed and do not apply, like on fishing where Norway wants to control quotas in its own waters.

Nevertheless, in cases where EEA countries are part of union law, decisions can be appealed to EU courts, and decisions there will apply to the whole area.

At least I think that’s how it works, it’s a bit messy at times.
One of the most rewarding things I have done in the past few years is learned component-level repair on Commodore 64s.

Take a dead 64 showing nothing but a black screen, try the dead test cartridge, follow its lead or start desoldering, socketing and replacing chips.

And suddenly you have a working forty year old Commodore 64.
I’ve made a significant amount of money from a “talk-to-your-files” website and at no point did I feel entitled to OpenAI not competing with me. The writing was on the wall 6 months ago.

In our case we used it to learn about very specific niches that we pivoted to 3 months ago. OpenAI is pretty clearly going to do everything possible to make ChatGPT an enterprise workhorse. If you compete directly with them, you’ll get slaughtered.
When you start looking at SQL tables that are just id,key,val then you know you've teleported into this forbidden realm.

There are 2 hard problems in computer science: caching, naming things, and off-by-one errors.
> remember Romney saying that GM needed to go through bankruptcy (meaning chapter 11) back when he was running for president

Investment bankers, being salespeople, solved this in the 80s: companies in chapter 11 are restructuring or reorganizing. Not bankrupt.
> “Average” people fall for bullshit all the time.

Everyone falls for bullshit. Not all fall for the same flavor, but everyone has a flavor they'll fall for.
It may be funny to you, but consider that many Americans have encountered "men of God" who've turned out to be your garden-variety dickhead using religious fervor as a fig leaf to mask their bad actions.
It's Chapter 11, not a good thing but hardly the end of the company. We work should survive this, this doesn't mean the business isn't viable
Do Macs still have this?
I love how these bad faith questions aren’t even tolerated here anymore. You know exactly why people aren’t comfortable with this, and if you weren’t a quick Google would enlighten you. But you 100% are.
Honestly, that's just human-level intelligence stuff - doing the same stuff we do to each other, only more of it, faster and in more coordinated fashion.

A superintelligent AI will find approaches that we never thought of, would not be able to in reasonable time, and might not even be able to comprehend afterwards. It won't just be thinking "outside the box", it'll be thinking outside a 5-dimensional box that we thought was 3-dimensional. This is the "bunch of ants trying to beat a human" scenario, with us playing the part of ants.

Within that analogy, being hit by an outside-the-5D-box trick will feel the same way an ant column might feel, when a human tricks the first ant to follow the last ant, causing the whole column to start walking in circles until it starves to death.
That's what capitalism's for.
Self-fulfilling prophecy - if people don't trust AI, and there will be a proverbial "electromagnetic shotgun" wired to its foreheard, it will be because of the doomers that insist we cannot trust AI. This is why we can't have nice things. How I detest doomers.
A test is, by most people's general understanding, is a closed-book, timed, evaluation of competency.

A grade is a permanent record of a snapshot-in-time evaluation of your understanding of a material.

"Read the chapter, solve the problems in it, we'll go over your work later" is neither a test, nor a grade.