skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Israel's Strategy Against Gaza's Underground Tunnels [video]
I'm reminded of the classic "Caveman Science Fiction" comic page: https://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/22/caveman-science-fiction/
Indeed, there is some (usually much smaller, but depending on buffer sizes) audio delay even in regular desktop systems so video players and audio APIs mostly already had proper handling for it.
The probability is exactly 0, because the article is vague humbug. As for playing God, that is more or less the definition of having a consciousness.
I find it quite strange they didnt cancel the whole thing and redo the auction. Even normal stock exchanges do this occasionally due to glitches with clearly erroneous bids of smaller proportional sizes
Is this the kind performance gap that a windows patch is going to narrow ?
Solution is simple: take it step by step, so that we deploy technologies/inventions that are only ever so slightly beyond our control. Learning means making mistakes; we can control the magnitude, but ultimately, the only way to not make mistakes is to never do anything at all.
The whole net neutrality argument was made by people who've never operated a large scale network. I've shifted Tbps for a big content provider for some years now and I also worked for two ISPs.

The idea of paying for premium access and it negatively affecting the competition is looking at the challenge wrong. It also presumes that ISPs have one fat pipe that gets divided up, which is not usually the case unless you're a tiny ISP.

What actually affects performance and is probably the case with this user is that ISPs and CDNs need to come to an agreement over what connectivity they peer with. At scale they don't do that over public peering, it's private peering either through a third party (like Equinix or Digital Realty) or directly patching fibres within the major data centres and linking their networks together. New and unusual services will likely use public peering instead of private peering, or they won't use an tier 1 CDN like Akamai who an ISP would peer with, instead using someone like Bunny CDN, a fine CDN but not peering on the same scale.

The fairness risk comes not from the CDN or content provider 'paying' for priority, but comes from the ISP not investing in public peering. That's not the content providers fault, it's just bad operational practice. You could say it's the content providers fault for subsidising the route that gets their traffic through, but its really the ISPs poor infrastructure investments playing out. There's a small risk from content providers doing deals with ISPs to "zero rate" traffic where that ISP (or more usually cellular provider) charges users for bandwidth (or caps it), where the big content provider can use their leverage to make their service cheaper to the consumer. But the reality is that zero rating isn't particularly commercially popular, I've seen it once or twice in my career.
Why is this list not common sense? Do people get born and randomly be like, "but it must be THIS way"?
It's not glib. It's a polite way of saying, we are gods, and we are not playing.
Taking from a comment above:

"Remarkably, the microenvironmental change and the functional decline of mid-old cells could be reversed by a young cell-originated protein, SLIT2"

I wonder then if this could be the magical factor in the blood of younger people. If there is indeed one or a small set of factors that induce the positive effects of young blood transfusions, then that type of "rejuvenation" becomes available to everyone and without any ethical issue.
We should not attempt to solve all diseases. Many people live a long life without much disease. Yes, it's sad that some people get diseases and of course I've had friends with diseases -- but I am not naive enough to think that it will be a good thing overall to solve all diseases because the end result of a very long life for everyone will be massive overpopulation.

Death is a natural part of life, and we should not attempt to avoid it too much because it makes us more machine-like and less human. How many people have questioned the 9-5 lifestyle because they realize they could die at any time?

The ultimate logical end of advanced science and AI may be an immortal life, which we are not prepared to handle.
>Bicycles don't have the minimum size problem GGP is talking about.

They do, in a slightly different way. Bicycle frames are (broadly) stiffness-critical structures. Wider-diameter tubes have a higher specific stiffness because of the increased moment of inertia - that's why we use structures like tubes and I-beams instead of solid bars. Steel frames have skinny tubes, because they're limited by the minimum wall thickness of the tubing; increase the diameter too much and you have a tube that is very vulnerable to dents and very prone to buckling. Steel racing frames of the 1970s are remarkably flimsy, because framebuilders were pushing wall thickness to the absolute limit.

Aluminium bicycle frames are only lighter because the lower density allows you to retain an acceptable wall thickness on larger-diameter tubes. An aluminium frame with the same tube diameters as a steel frame would be considerably heavier than the steel frame, because an aluminium frame needs to be overbuilt to compensate for the lack of a defined fatigue limit.

All common steel alloys have essentially the same stiffness (~207GPa), but higher-strength steels allow us to use wider-diameter tubes with thinner wall sections; incidentally, this is why it's quite pointless to use an expensive tubeset in a lugged frame. CFRP obviously has immense specific stiffness, but it also allows frame designers to really optimise the geometry and use the material more efficiently.

Titanium is a really nice frame material, but it does have some significant issues in practical use. Titanium is very prone to embrittlement if there is any amount of contamination in the weld. Most framebuilders aren't capable of maintaining the level of cleanliness and the comprehensive gas purging required to produce really good welds in titanium, so it's very common to see titanium frames eventually crack around the welds.

To my mind the perfect material for a non-sporting frame was the superb Reynolds 953 maraging steel, but unfortunately it is no longer available. Reynolds 931 and KVA MS2 are still very good materials, particularly when fillet brazed rather than welded. CFRP obviously wins out in terms of pure performance, but I'm not sure that I'd ever trust an old and battle-scarred carbon frame on a hard descent.
Sure, but the people who can charge at home are still convinced they need 600 miles of range. I charge at home so my charging time is 0 and it costs 1/5 of the price. There are 70 houses on my street with similar configurations to mine.

I also did 3 months without a home charger with no issues.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/10/03/personal-best
Driving anywhere with an EV is no issue if you have unlimited time at your disposal to keep stopping to charge on route. But time is money. Your vacation time is limited.

How much time does it take to reach Portugal from the UK with an EV that has a realistic 200km range and 30 minute fast charge(if your you're lucky to find them on route) versus a diesel with a 800km range wich takes 3 minutes to fill up.
Judging by where I am, it’s all the other manufacturers who gave up on it. YMMV.
Are you aware of examples with a formal priority?

My understanding was that solar and wind are just necessarily the low bids so that's why they always sell into basically any market until they saturate all demand.

They're the low bids because if your power plant needs fuel, you must bid high enough to pay for the fuel, at least on average and at least most of the time, or else you go bankrupt when you can't pay your fuel bills. But wind and solar don't need fuel. While you're not going to make a profit selling wind electricity for $5 per MWh because of your enormous capital costs - you make more money doing that than if you bid $50 per MWh and lost the auction to a gas plant.

These auctions actually pay everybody the same price, so even though your bid was $5, if some $45 per MWh gas plants were needed to hit the target capacity, you're getting $45 per MWh for your wind power. But because your bid was low, you always sell at whatever the price is.
What makes you think this technology is out of control?
If anything a 1T param model would only run in like 5-10 computers in this world. As much control as it gets.

By the way this is doomer rhetoric. Bashing scientific advancements as dangerous or useless by trying to attach vacuously scary ideas that are as speculative as they are outlandish.
And it also doesn't mean individuals can't revolt against it either. It could happen, and 1% might try and make it happen, but we can ALSO try and stop that 1%, with a mob if necessary.
“The people” are not building an AGI, mostly don’t have the skills for it.
To viruses and bacteria the human body is like a buffet table. If one virus is eliminated, another virus will evolve to take its place. Already we have acute flaccid paralysis, a disease with the symptoms of polio that is not caused by the polio virus. Although we can celebrate our successes, we shouldn't imagine we can eliminate all childhood diseases through vaccination programs.
Bit of an aside, but these are not the only two options.

It's true that Rust is currently the only stable language in this space, so it has some advantage there, but "Rust or forever C, there are no other options" is of course a load of nonsense.
Did they have other options? I thought it’s the only one with a big enough fairing.
Photoshop was not my first image editing program. I used to use Corel back in the day and moved to PS when it became industry standard. Unfortunately I think gimp baby duck syndrome (the is an argument gimp users like to use against other without irony) because why can I jump between a handful of image editors without issue except gimp? Gimp is the odd one out unfortunately.
To be a bit more precise, what we achieved so far: apart from web servers and TLS reverse proxies (with DNS-backed let's encrypt provisioning), DNS authoritative servers, a CalDAV server, git client and servers, SMTP stack (including dkim etc.), OpenVPN implementation, archive mirror (using tar as file system), monitoring with syslog and influx, ...

A big milestone was binary releases and deployment instructions, see https://robur.coop/Projects/Reproducible_builds

see more at https://blog.robur.coop https://hannes.robur.coop https://blog.osau.re/ https://reyn.ir/archive.html

If you're curious how/what to integrate MirageOS into your infrastructure, please reach out (best via email).
nothing propelled me more to the competition like owning a Google made phone.
Isn't this what Periscope used to be before Twitter acquisition. I saw Louvre this way back in 2016.
> Might provide a proverbial cold shower for climate scientists.

Why?
Fair enough, I like putting quite first just because I can see and refer back to it if Imm referencing its content and theres a bunch of things I need to refer back to
Or, as in the UK, they can be paid not to run if they would be otherwise generating too much power.
If they were just developing software that would be way too many, sure.

But if you count streetview car drivers trying to drive every street in the entire world every few years, people manually moderating crowdsourced contributions, people updating the map for all new construction worldwide, people working to maintain business listings for every business with a physical location (including those without much web presence), people dealing with adversaries who want to list their fake '24 hour emergency locksmith' all over every city, people parsing train and bus timetables in every city worldwide no matter how awful their websites are, an advertising sales team specifically targeting smaller businesses who are interested in local advertising...
Exactly. It's no skin off your nose. Which is why I don't understand the drive of commenters who try to take skin off the nose of the maintainers by bashing their free product.
The outbreak of HIV in Pakistan is because of needle reuse.
I don't believe scientific discovery is making much better. Some yes of course, but the majority of inventions like smartphones, social media, AI, 5G, fast transportation, fossil fuel extraction, global meat industry, are making it worse.

Technology does make certain TASKS in life easier, but I'd argue that it's NOT a logical consequence that technology makes life BETTER.
I think that's exactly what the author of the story meant.
And the orbit injection was so precise that they greatly increased the theoretical lifetime of the mission, from an expected minimum of 5 years to well beyond 10 years.
I don't live in the US anymore, so it's hard for me to speak to the US healthcare system, but as an outsider it seems to me that the problems with the system stem from the incentive structure, and won't be fixed by any technology.

It seems to me the US healthcare system sits in this weird gap where it's not funded by private individuals, but it's also not publicly funded (excluding medicare/medicade/VA/tricare etc)

So it doesn't benefit from efficiencies of a single-payer system like the UK has, and it doesn't have to obey proper market forces either, since you have a bunch of for-profit entities in the middle, but the costs are obfuscated from the consumer unless you're unlucky enough not to have employer-funded health insurance.

So until you fix those core issues, I don't see how technological advancements are going to have much of an effect either positive or negative.

It's an orthogonal issue.
P.I.I.V
> It's hard to be anything else but that given the colossal failures of so many so expensive European projects. So much inefficiency and waste just because we can't get our shit together.

I'm seriously wondering what kind of brainwashing are you reading to think that - and why are you ignorring all the "colossal" successes many of the projects also are.

Maybe cut out on american media a bit?
For you to have that it’s fine, maybe there are more and you can volunteer to die. For me, I am not so interested in disease or death for me, so I would like it fixed.
> Almost all devices you’re carrying with you will regularly rotate the ID they transmit in order to avoid correlation, so reading those beacons in a location can’t really be used for much beyond rough numbers of devices.

Maybe that's true for those devices, but it doesn't protect you if your apps are tracking beacons as you encounter them in the wild. Your mac changing doesn't change that it saw a beacon somewhere, and attached that to your account in the app you're signed in.

Turns out, that's exactly what they do...

> But these apps may also be tracking you in less obvious ways. As the New York Times noted last June, many retailers deploy Bluetooth “beacons” throughout stores. If you have the store’s app installed on your device, the beacons send it signals. The app then knows where in the store you are and sends you information (like coupons or store maps) specific to that location. *But this also means the app can track your movements as you pass by the beacons. Depending on where and how the beacons are placed, your location can be measured in inches.* Some device manufacturers have wised up to this practice; for instance, the iPhone’s newest operating system requires apps to get your permission to use Bluetooth.

https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/12/19/21011527/retail-tracki...

> Retailers can send that data to services like LiveRamp to match it with your online identity

https://liveramp.com/
> Without batting an eyelash.

You have to be quite precise to accomplish that!
GPT-4 is unlikely to be 1.7T params. This is a number floating around in the internet with no justification.

The largest US open model is Google’s Switch-C which is 1.6T and only because it is a Mixture of experts model, i.e. it is constituted of many small models working together.
We have never applied this type of deployment so far. For example, fossil fuels -- we still can't control it.

I'd argue that it's much better to live a simple life more connected to nature, even if that means more diseases and more manual labor.

We might have a comfortable life in some ways, but this life is at the expense of the DEATH of millions of nonhuman organisms so we do not deserve it.
I don’t doubt that. I don’t have unlimited time but a 20 minute top up after 2-3 hours of driving is worth the 80% reduction in fuel costs to me.
Krita is new, GIMP is legacy.

It's a hard and very time consuming tax to replace UI within a legacy application.

GIMP has existed long before the entitled generation of Linuxers who wish for everything to be handed to them on a golden plate.

However sometimes that plate is covered in muck that you need to clean yourself.
Yeah I wonder how much "tying down" the test required, or if the engine alone is insufficient to make it fly (but still, if you make it too light it might wobble too much, etc).

The SRBs are certainly fire and forget but I'm not sure how the ratio of SRBs/Main engine thrust are compared with something like the Space Shuttle
This is a DILD (Dream Induced Lucid Dreaming) technique, reality checking. These techniques are generally not as reliable as WILD, you can’t control the timing of your LDs and they tend to create pseudo-lucid dreams[1]. If you have a consistent sleep cycle (REM and non-REM), I recommend WILD techniques. If you are young it’s even easier, as sleep phases tend to get messed up as you get older.

1: These are just regular dreams in which you dream about that you are lucid dreaming. Your awake consciousness is not actually present, your memory is as suspended as it is in regular dreams, you don’t notice flaws in the dream reality and it feels distinctly like regular dreams (like a “bystander”) as opposed to the self awareness feeling in lucid dreams. See https://youtu.be/fqWikLRVby8?si=J0E2BpxO4ff4mam4
Propaganda for billionaires and the various methodologies they use to control and slowly reshape society. The following video is a good start:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjHMoNGqQTI

The optimism you mention in your comment is key. Conditioning the public to perceive and blindly accept the ideas and procedures commonly discussed in many of their videos as something net-positive seems to be the primary goal.

The art-style I think plays a very well-defined role in that: yes it's bland, but it's the most unlikely one to offend any one average viewer, irrespective of nationality or culture. It's just cute 2D flat birds after all.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/nasdaq-says-sweden-fi...

> The Finnish government said its loans to power companies under the guarantee scheme would initially come at an interest rate of 10% plus the six months Euribor daily reference rate.

Not dirt cheap at all!
Especially for companies such as Renault who could share some R&D costs with Nissan, but are still quite small and a wrong bet can bankrupt them.
i don't agree. The way that most LLMs currently generate response might be through this modality. But the purpose of LLMs is to get closer to simulating how human minds and languages operate. A lot of models have been trying to overcome the problem of fabrications. GPT bots like SciSpace's ResearchGPT are trying to do precisely that.
> I start taking LLVM serious when they give easy to follow documentation on how to compile LLVM completely GCC/binutils/gnu libc independent. I mean a single go to point with easy instructions.

That's a very niche use-cases. Most people don't care about being "completely GCC/binutils/gnu libc independent".

It's fine to care about your niche use case, but to claim a project is not "serious" because this one thing isn't supported is ridiculous.
- At least on my phone screen, the button to dismiss the upsell page is covered by other UI elements.

I find this to be incredibly common on so many sites on mobile. Cookie popups or "subscribe to our newsletter" popups where the dismiss button is either missing, hidden or rendered off the bottom of the screen, with no ability to scroll.
I don't get how it ships. Don't the site owners notice a massive increase in vistor bounce rate?
“ do you believe the frustration came from the fact that Gimp has made actually bad choices about placement and design of its features? (tools, menus, options, etc...)”

Yes, yes absolutely without a doubt because I can use photoshop, photopea, krita, paint.net and maybe Corel if ever use it again without issues. Gimps interface is objectively bad.
Genocide is defined by intention to remove population or preventing their breeding. It has nothing to with who attacked who first or whether something ia nation state or not.

EU as in European Union came to be long after colonization and have member states that were colonies of someone else.
No, I think it's written like that on purpose.
Is there a link to an official announcement please, not to some suspicious site hosted in Muscovy? Thank you.
We're not talking about cubesats and smartphone cameras. The second-generation Starlink satellites are so big they're waiting for Starship to be ready (2000kg each, with solar arrays 20m long [1]).

[1] https://starlinkinsider.com/starlink-gen2-satellites/
> Energy companies are subsidied all the time. About year ago to date a 10 billion subsidy program (in the form of gov backed dirt cheap loans) was started in Finland.

Uh no. Government gave above market rate short term loans (literally mostly 1 day) so the electricity producers could sell their electricity to the market due to the price being high and the market rules requiring you to put money into escrow as insurance.

Basically if you had 200 million worth of electricity to sell and had to put 1 billion into escrow as insurance but did not have that money it meant you could not sell that electricity and it would have driven the price up further forcing every producer to not sell their electricity crashing the whole system.
Not really. Firecracker fits on the host kernel - guest kernel axis while Mirage is a unikernel that is orthogonal to the concept of microvm concept.

https://dev.l1x.be/posts/2020/11/22/getting-started-with-fir...
As someone else pointed out I've used that term wrong. Rule of thumb/observation you might better say.
The alternative is what we've seen with COVID-19, where they had to take samples and spent months devising a vaccine. That said, that one advanced vaccine technology by a lot, and I think it was a record speed for developing a vaccine.

That is, if smallpox or another new disease shows up, I hope that vaccine development will be quicker and quicker.
Now I have this mental image of Holy War playing only for there to be a record scratch and some guy going "join Anglicanism, we have cake."
ah very fair point on voice - didn't think about that.
That got solved using Deep-Q learning. I think David Silver did loads of work on it?

Basically, instead of computing every state value like in normal Q learning. You use a Neural Network to estimate the best value.
> without transformers, nobody knows how to build new transformers

I feel like you've forgotten that books exist. Literally anywhere with a university is going to have a heap of books documenting how to rebuild modern technological society from scratch.
As far as I've understood it, the pirates don't buy their own equipment. Instead there is a "Venture Capitalist" somewhere like UAE funding the trip.

A colleague of mine was on a navy ship that captured a boat full of pirates off Somalia, but it's been a while and my recollection of the details they found out is hazy.
Then for power companies we wouldn't expect them to make high profits during periods of high energy prices (they're just passing on the higher cost of fuel to the consume) - sort of defeating the OP's point.

For fossil fuel companies, their costs of exploration and development remained the same during the pandemic, forcing them to eat the losses - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/feb/02/bp-loss-cov....