skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s no a question of such mathematics, although I would call for this as a prerequisite for other reasons.

If any state requires encryption is only done in a way that allows the state to pierce encryption, that means there is a state that can pierce the encryption. If your agencies can pierce it, agencies of other governments can do it to you, personally, Mr. President. They can find your successor’s skeletons in the closet, Mrs. Prime Minister, and blackmail him or her.

And state intelligence appears to have already been used for enrichment of private corporation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON#Concerns

Leading to a recommendation that all residents of EU member states use encryption for all communications: https://web.archive.org/web/20131226152235if_/http://www.eur...
Something weird to think about is that it's literally impossible to fully know about every human on earth. 8 billion seconds is 253 years. Even staying 24/7 with a rapid information stream on every single person would only get through less than half in a person's lifetime.
> The fact that Nvidia are trying at all says it all about the size and importance of the China market to chip design and manufacturing

I'd maybe say there's more nuance there. China as a customer means very little; but Nvidia probably knows that China will pay top-dollar for last-gen tech on dirt cheap 8nm/whatever silicon.

Indeed like you said though, it's a window of opportunity. If Nvidia can run a cheap-o batch of Ampere inferencing hardware and sell it at GH200 prices, that's a great deal for them. US legislators are going to want their head for it, and will probably force Nvidia to make software sanctions later down the line. Who knows how well that will work.
Most of those areas have pocket reservoirs/don’t share groundwater meaningfully. Lots of isolated areas due to the geology.

Same reason that the nuclear test site hazard is mostly blown dust, not water contamination despite literally hundreds and hundreds of nuclear detonations. They have their own isolated watershed and water table, like most of those valleys.
Because of Geerling's early videos on Ansible - I started looking into Ansible and learning it. Also, went down the rabbit hole on how to compile a kernel. (For no real reason other than I could).
> The LA/Vegas corridor may look pristine and empty (owing in no small part to significant regulation that keeps it that way!), but it's not remotely a "low density" population area.

So, you are saying that there is a dense urban strip city hidden under the regulated, pristine desert?

Or... what?
Bill Gates – AI is about to change how you use computers
The Evolution of My Mario Kart AI [video]
Nvidia will reportedly sell new chips to China that still meet U.S. rules
most employees at faang data centers are contractors at rates like $30/hr, nowhere near the faang salaries.

dont need CS grads to do racking and stacking compute appliances, might as well hire associates from home depot
In their defense, Outlook and Exchange were created to compete with Lotus Notes. As much as Office interacted poorly with open standards, it was that it interacted with them at all that made it more successful than the other commercial office software in the 90s.
Emulating Games is Amazing and You Should be Doing it [video]
Except in this case, the knowledge is 'how to search the web for X" instead of 'an understanding or familiarity with X'.
We Built a VS Code Extension with Rust, WebAssembly, and TypeScript
First-of-a-kind nuclear project is terminated
> with similar software

The interpretation of this is important, as many Windows PCs come with unspeakably bad bloatware out of the box, not to mention stuff that's piled on by users like questionable antivirus suites and huge background auto updaters.

And then there's the question of hardware. Lets say the closest analogue to a Mac's low-noise GPU performance is an Asus G14... then you are factoring in discrete GPU RAM. If you just pick a decent AMD-7000 series IGP laptop, then its way cheaper than the Mac, but has less GPU oomph.
Is overall speed faster than M2, if yes then buy
One point that I heard William Gibson make about cyberpunk as a dystopia is that it depends on your point of reference. There are many places in the world where a cyberpunk dystopia would be a welcome change
Sure, though my point was only that the stock is the product when large enough. Nothing stops you from betting for or against the stock
> I think the best reaction would be shame. Just a big round of shame for a trillion dollar company being so greedy to cripple their top equipment.

You're not going to shame a company into changing how it does market segmentation.

They do this because it makes them more money, and if you don't like padding their profit margins your best reaction would be to simply not buy their products. There are plenty of other PC vendors out there.
Lossless Diffusion
Population counting isn't an exact science, there were estimates suggesting we hit 8 billion about a year ago. But the 90s are right out- last big milestone was 7 billion in 2011.
what was the caching strategy?
And my (2018) Razer Phone 2.
War for the overworld[0] is not only great, it’s fantastic. I’ve played it since launch and it just kept getting better and better! The devs where and are also great with the community <3

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/230190/War_for_the_Overwo...
Let the snake eat own tail: Google Voice.
> Sounds more like very simple cruise control, at least for the main leg of the flight.

And it is.

Although it had been already abused to hell and back, see "children of the magenta", ca 1997.

Turbulence is undetectable, TCAS is shit and there is no replacement for a warm butt in the chair which hopefully understands how the thing handles, especially in the hell on the ground that the major airports are.
To be honest, this is because society wants to monetize everything. Went to Whole Foods the other day and they expected me to pay for the basic human right of having food to eat. Society these days is sick. Bezos is a billionaire and we still have to pay for food?!
I'm not sure if the name “Texture Healing” is descriptive enough (perhaps I'm not that much of a typography nerd I think I am!), but I love the idea. Basically it resolves pairs or triplets of monospace letters to make some of them wider when adjacent letter can be made narrower instead.

Another variation on that theme are “duospace fonts”, like iA Writer Duo [1]. Those use two character widths instead of one (i.e. wide characters are always 1.5x wider than narrow). I think this could work for code, too.

[1]: https://ia.net/topics/in-search-of-the-perfect-writing-font
Time to go CD archive digging to find my original disc so I can play.

Looks like a great project.
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I love this and I'm super glad it's being developed, but I think I'd have to break my arm or hand (or have severe RSI) to really dive in. The startup cost seems high, mentally speaking.
Please, take a look at the map. Even cursory inspection of it will reveal to you that Finland is the land of lakes.

Finland has vast stores of fresh water and annual precipitation has nothing to do with it.
I tried to use it to login somewhere and apparently the typing node types "emailyahoocom", instead of "email@yahoo.com"... weird.

But generally this is a very nice project.
What specifically did they want to do?
- It Takes Two, though it has love themes but is fairly innocent
- Lego Batman or other Lego games
- Minecraft?
- Slime Rancher
I don't even understand how its possible to think this.

He revolutionized classical physics, made huge advancements in the brand new field of quantum mechanics (unwillingly at first) and made tons of very interesting philosophical works.
Recommend to them the solar punk movement, which is overtaking the cyber punk movement.
EU Parliament on Digital ID Introduction Pro-Censorship Chief Suggests CBDC
meh, I opted for the free version yesterday expecting better personalized ads and still getting the same irrelevant stuff as before. Now edge in the other hand... I've never accepted anything from them and are targeting me hard (can't find the opt-out button, the "new page" feeds are a sooo bs)
The anniversary edition will also include extensive/detailed commentary.
On page 96 of a 110-page report.

Of course the co-pilot is to blame. But that isn’t where the report starts nor ends. It’s incidental to fixing the problem. Those who choose to focus on blame are indeed propagating the root problems that led to the crash. Same in most other circumstances.
If one didn't have such a spreadsheet and did't know how to start tracking such things as they were a bit financially illiterate, where would you recommend they start?
They're taking baby steps with the roll-out. It's not going mainstream any time soon.
My point was that large investments, especially in infrastructure, need decades of time to bake. So investments made this century could just be cooking.

I also suspect the push by the uS right wing have impacted the number of great government innovations. The federal role nowadays seems to be to do the core research that is not directly profitable, then transfer control to companies to reap the rewards. (Because of the often incorrect “the government can’t do anything right” narrative pushed in the states)
These tend to have buffer underrun issues causing latency in the order of seconds, requiring deeper knowledge in the embedded field to mitigate.

Most educational content that involve the Pi tend to use system GPIO libraries and integration, making other SBCs or USB expansion boards difficult to use for newcomers. The Pi is a platform other than the hardware, their forum should be more welcoming though.
Vimium uses a similar concept to jump around the browser.
Autopilot will not automatically route itself around turbulence, that would be a path entered by the pilots. It can correct from being blown off course. Autopilot is by necessity a direction following system, it must not make its own choices about navigation.

In commercial flight, collisions are incredibly rare and unlikely, and there are already systems in place to avoid them, but there are separate systems to warn about proximity. Essentially, there is a transponder system that alerts with increasing frequency at closer distances.

Taxiing is not automated, and only older planes need to be towed with tug trucks. The idea behind autopilot as it exists is to lower the pilots' workload so that they have more mental capacity available if something serious happens. Taxing is a much more limited problem space, so limited payoff in automating.

For the record, I'm not a pilot, just an enthusiast. The systems are all pretty well documented if you're interested.
I don't believe it is stupidity at all, they are corrupt full-stop

Even if a politician isn't knowledgable they have staff (look up the staff sizes of some powerful US senators) who can get experts on the phone.

The problem is that what the populace wants is not a parallel incentive with what the politicians and their paymasters want. Banning e2ee, the disneyfication of the internet, it's all old power games with a digital twist, can't let ordinary people have force amplifiers like technology because they might actually carve some power away from them.
Not really: if one is happy with money then gets sad, money doesn't help it. Poor people think that money fix sadness but that's not true. A meaningful life brings happiness, poor or rich
There needs to be a term similar to "embedded emissions"[0] (embedded labour?) to capture this concept. Anyone who contributes with something deemed worthwhile to society by these types can only do so because they have a lot of embodied "un-worthwhile" work done for them by other people. Whether that is the farmer producing the food your eat, the truck driver delivering your amazon packages, the engineers maintaining the infrastructure you rely on, the person picking up your garbage, and so on.

Nobody produces independently of others in a modern society, and any libertarian type that pretends otherwise needs a reality check.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded_emissions
This is a fascinating psychological phenomenon:

People can get absolutely furious when something is offered for sale that they don't personally want to buy.

To me this attitude is bizarre, but apparently this is mortally offensive to some people.
And how rewriting of history saved Steve multiple times ?
I don't think it is this water that is going to be fed directly to homes. More likely there is going to be systems of heat exchangers.

They mention they are recovering heat from waste water. Obviously, they aren't pumping waste water into the system but rather use heat exchange to extract energy.
We can have both: space exploration and a more livable Earth. We don't have to choose. If you're serious about wanting to leave the planet, you should want the planet to be able to sustain life long enough to allow for that to happen. It may be a couple of hundred years yet, or maybe less.

I cannot see a path that allows for sustainable colonies in Musk's lifetime. We would have had to start thirty-forty years ago.
where's my flechette pistol?

i was promised flying cars and flechette pistols
While you're correct in the purest sense of what you say, this is an unfair realization of the exchange. It's very zoomed in to the micro level. The macro level is much more interesting.

It's not wanting free stuff. "Meta", and many many web services, literally scream "hey here's a free way to connect with your friends" or whatever their pitch is. And then operate in ways that violate the rights of the people they attract to use their service in the name of "more money" (note, more money because the reality of it is that Meta could easily offer privacy and still operate, just at lower profits). Offering a paid version, in the way that this does, is putting a bandaid on a bullet wound. It's holding you hostage and saying "you can use this the way we intend and we'll violate your privacy or you can pay for that to not happen".

When in reality the proper way to have such an exchange would be to say "Dear Users, the service we provide you costs $200 a year, however if you would like that to be free you can opt in to these incredibly hostile and violating contracts if you would like". But, we all know that no one would join that service because it's too honest about its exploitative nature and so the user-hostile nature of these companies goes on ad nauseam.
Without RAM upgradability, it's a risky bet even for those buyers.
Once upon a time that was a reasonable position to hold.

But nowadays full dynamic applications are shipped in a browser tab, and a huge number of "desktop" applications are written in JavaScript using electron, so they're essentially an isolated chrome instance for running that app.

People talk about chrome being a resource hog, and maybe it is, but if you have dozens of JavaScript applications running in different tabs, then chrome is just taking the blame for the fact that it's essentially serving as the user application layer of your OS.
You need to stop giving them ideas.
it appears so, if you're in the EU: https://about.fb.com/news/2023/10/facebook-and-instagram-to-...
One person's blacklist is another person's whitelist.
HS.fi had an article (in Finnish) about this today that said how it won't even increase privacy because the terms of service are completely unchanged and they'll want to keep collecting that data in case you stop paying for the ad-free version. The data they collect on you just won't be used to show you targeted ads while you pay.

https://www.hs.fi/talous/art-2000009982537.html
"a shocking infringement": services cost money. Building and operating a thing like fb / instagram / whatsapp is extremely expensive.

Not sure why EU is entitled to Meta's charity. They currently pay for the service via ads and data; they're now being allowed to choose to pay via ads/data or pay via subs.

If this is ruled illegal, the almost certain next step is everyone pays a fee or no / minimal use of the services allowed.
Ha - I love this!
Blindly buying because one number goes up without looking at the whole picture (like competition or their own product line) just leads to over paying for shiny baubles.
Yes, I can't recommend it enough. It's amazing how it feels like every detail of the environment was deliberately and meticulously placed.
If you don't want people to try to build it, then don't give it an awesome name.
Are there recommendations that result in IPv6 looking like something more than just IPv4 with bigger addresses? Yes.

Is there anything stopping you from effectively running IPv6 networks the same way as you run IPv4 networks, but with larger address pools? No.

You can do NAT66, you can do DHCPv6, you can run every network as a /120 (IPv6 equivalent of a /24 - 256 addresses) if you want to as well.

You can even (outside of whatever prefix is delegated to you) only use numbers for the host addressing portion if you want to, and not bother with letters.

Just because the recommendations and standards say you SHOULD do things a particular way, it doesn’t mean you MUST.
German newspapers do the same thing. Süddeutsche Zeitung's welcoming message asks you to choose between cookies + ads or a subscription.
The antitrust "stuff" disappeared very quickly, 23 years ago, when George W Bush was elected President and his administration wasted no time in stopping the imminent harsh ruling against Microsoft in its antitrust trial, giving them barely a slap on the wrist, compared to the much stronger penalties they were undoubtedly facing (it was not at all unrealistic at that point to be expecting them to be broken up in some way).

Recently, Biden's administration has started changing the federal tune on antitrust, formally rejecting the intellectually and morally bankrupt Chicago School interpretation that has hobbled all antitrust efforts for decades. That's why we're starting to see some real antitrust cases again.
It should be very easy. For example, here's a video of myself making a random number generator: https://youtu.be/8az4jRItXok?t=9147
Is it though? I think I've seen one page shared multiple times. Where are the iconic books and stories and movies about solar punk? What are the salient ideas from it that will stick with us for decades?
I've only seen that in Debian-based or Ubuntu-based distributions
Wait..I thought this charge is for removing ads, not actually adding privacy.
Yes, but that CMake option also doesn't specify thin LTO, so you're only going to get 1 thread with LLVM.
> It would be more efficient without the heat exchanger,

No, the only cost really is the cost of heat exchanger and maybe energy to pump water through the heat exchanger. Heat exchange approaches 100% thermal efficiency with large enough heat exchanger.
I've done part time contract gigs on nights and weekends over the years. Latest rate was $95 / hr, did ~15 hrs / week.

I don't really have too much advice since I got lucky and found some great people to work with who provided a chill stream of work when I needed it. But what I did was:

- Contact a lot of small tech companies who had open roles

- Make a pitch that I could help them out part time on a trial basis

- When I got a chance, I made sure to exceed expectations by delivering good work with excellent communication (this led to them giving me more work)

I did try out the Upwork route and really didn't like the kinds of jobs or the level of competition.

But now that I have kids I think that time for contracting is behind me -- I tried doing ~15 hrs a week this year and it was just too much for the family. Fortunately I was able to leverage those contract contacts to get a decent primary job in fintech.
I heard he used to use the alias Dave Cutler and was the inspiration behind Clippy
I'm not sure i would agree that the JVM and its ilk do LTO. They compile code to machine code at runtime, after loading the code it calls, and often after spending some time interpreting it. That means they can do interprocedural optimisations of the kind LTO can do (and then some). But they don't have the separate stages of compilation and linking that many ahead-of-time compiled languages do, which means they don't do linking, which surely means they can't do link-time optimisation!
Cinematic quality! Love it!
Another cool thing about this is that if you're at any of the universities that use this connection, they have a network monitoring tool available internally that shows the link utilization for the connection (uninett's nav). It's pretty cool to see the variation. (spotted this myself during an extended stay on the lofoten islands)

Seems like a really neat place to visit, hope to be able to go one day.
It's a "naive" statement maybe.

But idk. Were Charles Manson or the unibomber "naive" to think they could achieve their goals, their way?

It's not a naive mindset, whether or not the conclusion is. I don't think it's lack of experience or depth that leads here.
Fail to build yes, but I don't know that it can cause failure to run. LTO can identify existing issues as you point out which will cause a failure to build, but if it does build then it would not introduce any new issues that weren't already there nor would any of those issues prevent an application from running.
This is a product for advertisers, not users. The users are just corralled into the consuming the feed.

And paying for a service does not mean that the relationship is not abusive. Meta would be happy to collect both money and data from all parties.
It’s up-to-date as per the comment (edit) of the author. No changes in the legal text.
Does that "privacy" include not tracking outside FB and the correlation / profiling they are already doing?
Zuck's Metaverse may not be solving a problem you face, but it is solving one for Zuck (trying to, anyways) - controlling a distribution platform where potential competitors like Apple or Google cannot dictate terms. SpaceX and Starlink are solving plenty of real-world problems even if "get to Mars" is the long-term vision (and one I'm frankly thankful for, as little as I like Musk). LLMs are clearly a distinct phase in AI evolution, even if it's too early to talk of AGI - real-world applicability here is a bit more tenuous, but I certainly wouldn't throw it in the same bucket as, say, crypto. I think this idea that these explorations at the edge are a waste is a form of Luddism. Countless innovations that _do_ benefit humanity (including allowing us to have this conversation) have sprung out of them.
Regular russians are being forced to accept the consequences of their fellow compatriots raping, murdering, killing civilians and destroying civilian infrastructure, and all-round generic war-criming, multiple times on a daily basis for almost two years now.

Good.
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> In effect, users are expected to pay up to €228 a year to preserve their fundamental right to privacy

No, they are expected to pay that to use services offered by Meta. I don't see the same people complaining that you need to pay Starbucks $5 for the "fundamental right to coffee".

Pay money to use the services, or pay via watching ads, or delete the app. This expectation that everything on the internet needs to be free with no strings attached is laughably naive.
FBI informant Peter Thiel dished about two Kremlin invites to Putin meetings
Classy. FYI the population is not invading, the government and military is. You can go there and take a look, its not too hard to go and see that the people are normal people like anyone else. You can even talk to them.
Indeed, megaprojects are something of a hallmark of central planning, for good and for ill.
Stack blur is a fast, discrete tent filter (weights are 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, normalize, it makes a triangle/tent shape). You can find tent filter blurs all over, including in Apple's own image processing library:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/accelerate/vimage/...