skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Perfect place for spreading diseases.

First of all I was talking about thermal baths were bacteria do not survive anyway.

But secondly, Romans did not know antibiotics or bacteria or how infections worked, we do and still there are several outbreaks every year in almost every "first world" country.

Do I need to remind you about COVID?

People still do not wash their hands and it helped a global pandemic spread.

So in the end things were definitely not worse when preventive measures were a lot worse and a lot of the knowledge about how disease spread was a mystery.

But they were a lot cheaper and better maintained compared to today.

If we were putting the same effort 2 thousand years later, we should be living in a literal heaven.

> Everyone else? Unlikely

More than they do today. One would think that 2 thousand years later the situation should be much better, and yet it's not.

Again: look at the e-coli outbreak in the US, the richest country in the World, in 2022 and 2023, not in 312 B.C.

Ancient Romans could not preserve food, so it was fresh by definition except the kind of food they could dry up (salted or air dried) or keep in oil (olive oil, which was popular in every Mediterranean ancient culture)

> We know that how?

It's called history, you might be surprised how many things we can learn by studying it.

There were elites who could get away with a lot and did a lot of shady stuff, but definitely nothing of to the kind of the organized crime we know today as mafia or cartels.

The greatest threat were pirates, who, as the name implies, only attacked ships sailing in the open sea. Which was already a very risky activity on its own back then.
> The result for a 10 Minute audio is 0:03:36.296329 (216 seconds). Compare that to 0:03:06.707770 (186 seconds) on my Nvidia 4090. The 2000 € GPU is still 30 seconds or ~ 16% faster. All graphics core where fully utilized during the run and I quit all programs, disabled desktop picture or similar for that run.
plain granulated white table sugar: 2.36 kg

whoa.
> Obviously it’s a lottery to the BABY.

You say that like the same baby might conceivably have been born into more than one potential family. But the opposite is true: examine any baby and you'll find that there's only one possible set of parents they can have, barring identical twins.
still looking

but I have only myself to blame

--

I quit, I wasn't laid off
> Abstract: As a central part of resource management, the OS thread
scheduler must maintain the following, simple, invariant:
make sure that ready threads are scheduled on available
cores. As simple as it may seem, we found that this invari-
ant is often broken in Linux. Cores may stay idle for sec-
onds while ready threads are waiting in runqueues. In our
experiments, these performance bugs caused many-fold per-
formance degradation for synchronization-heavy scientific
applications, 13% higher latency for kernel make, and a 14-
23% decrease in TPC-H throughput for a widely used com-
mercial database. The main contribution of this work is the
discovery and analysis of these bugs and providing the fixes.
Conventional testing techniques and debugging tools are in-
effective at confirming or understanding this kind of bugs,
because their symptoms are often evasive. To drive our in-
vestigation, we built new tools that check for violation of the invariant online and visualize scheduling activity. They are
simple, easily portable across kernel versions, and run with a
negligible overhead. We believe that making these tools part
of the kernel developers’ tool belt can help keep this type of
bug at bay.
When they finally release this train wreck to the EU we will have had another round of OpenAI, Antrophic and finally Mistral releases. Why even pretend to compete Google? Just admit already that you guys are only interested in shoving ads in our faces and call it a day?
You see why this is horrific UX and people have good reason to complain about it tho right?

You can't expect customers to go into this as battle-hardened as their opponent.
You may be factually correct, but as a paying customer, this is not acceptable.
Epic vs Google: Epic wins.

Epic vs Apple: Epic loses.

Comments like OP: "Lesson learned: just lock down your platform like Apple"

My response: "If Android is locked down [like Apple] it never gets big"

Not sure why this is so hard to follow.
Etsy must have written down the entire purchase of Depop.
The passage where she runs and cowers in a corner from a random knock on the door hints at something gone really wrong mentally. Could be something developed as a result of poverty, but it’s certainly behavior that will perpetuate poverty.

I suspect, this author is driven in some peculiar way. I’ve seen it with other strongly artistic types, the drive isn’t to make money, and that allows them to do great things. Sadly, if they don’t align with value of the populace in a way that makes money, they will simply toil in poverty. Worse, is they are often easy marks to be take advantage of. I’ve even seen it in tech, people who should be making way more than they are, but continue to be underpaid because there’s a kind of playground for them to explore.
It sure is if you're a google astroturfer!
The trailer looked so bad to me
It's always interesting when something doesn't work immediately and someone just wants to go back to the shit system everyone hated before because it personally bothered them less.
> It just needs be in the sky

The target doesn't need to be airborne for such an attack to work.

>A "proof-of-concept" attack was successfully performed in June 2013, when the luxury yacht White Rose of Drachs was misdirected with spoofed GPS signals by a group of aerospace engineering students from the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas in Austin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoofing_attack#GNSS_spoofing
Level 2 and 3 automation are just not something you can reasonably expect humans to be able to participate in. If you're not providing input you're not going to be paying enough attention.

https://www.synopsys.com/automotive/autonomous-driving-level...
Which works if every single tool you use is hooked up to your one central authentication provider. Then there are tools that aren't. Entire acquired company's systems that aren't (yet). Parts of those companies nobody know exist and thus aren't ever migrated over etc.
I know and agree about the UX problem.

But I wanted to note API key generation works when you pick an existing Google Cloud project.
People's beliefs and ideals tend to align with their self-interests.

For example it was quite well accepted among scientific circles in colonial America, that black people are not really humans or conscious. Therefore it's OK to exploit them and keep them as slaves.

It is also currently quite well accepted that animals we eat are not that conscious. Although oddly, if we keep them as pets, they're super conscious sometimes.

The rules of cognitive dissonance can grow arbitrarily complex, to permit us to do what we wanted to do anyway, but also sleep well at night.
Wow on that Goodwill impairment. If I'm reading correctly, it's from their previous acquisitions of depop and elo7. They paid about $1.9B for both of those, so the "impairment" means they effectively overpaid by $1B.
That's because it was trained on RGB images without an alpha channel. There is currently no public image generator that understands alpha channel.
> still don’t have contents insurance (a hangover from poverty, I just wasn’t in the habit of insuring things and now keep putting it off, because paperwork terrifies me)

The author seems to be from UK. Is contents insurance a thing in UK? How many renters really do buy contents insurance? Genuinely interested to know how many think that contents insurance is worth it?
I’m already on irc, so I just join a channel. There’s no membership or obligation.

Joining a discord server is a whole mental decision. And each server is organized differently. So when you join a server you have to figure out where to comment and search.
Anyscale Endpoints: JSON Mode and Function Calling Features
Goodwill impairment: https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/061715/when-and-why...

“ If the goodwill asset becomes impaired by a decline in the value of the asset below the purchase price, the company would record a goodwill impairment. This is a signal that the value of the asset has fallen below the amount that the company originally paid for it.”
Well, you mean the systems designed to predict the next words based on analysis of the text they were feed excel at imitation?!

We have plenty of AIs designed to create new things. Those excel in creating new things. But they don't excel into bullshiting journalists into believing they are intelligent, so you don't hear about them.
There are some configuration examples the docs[0] but since the project is still young there is probably room for improvements. Any particular that you'd like to see there?

[0] https://ofek.dev/pyapp/latest/examples/
> no, because the only reason Starlink doesn't currently hit the metrics is due to them having so many users joining. They could hit the metrics by temporarily halting signups, cutting off users, or delaying the Pentagon's massive deployment project.

I admittedly don't know much about this process, but with a billion dollars on the line, why wouldn't they have presented these options? It's not like this came out of nowhere, Starlink knew that they were not meeting their obligations and was given a chance to present their case.

I don't know, it just seems like it would be pretty easy to halt signups for a month, show that speeds increased drastically as my launches got ahead of my signups, and then explain to the FCC why this would be the normal state of affairs at some point in the future. Or, don't even actually halt signups, just make a convincing case about why halting signups would drastically increase speeds, and by 2025 you plan to do whatever you need to do to hit that 100/20 metric, but right now you're trying to do the most good for the most people, which means more signups and lower speeds.

For a billion dollars, these all seem like easy & obvious arguments to make if they were at all viable.

Anyway, I think that if Starlink can prove that they're making progress towards their commitment, they become eligible for the subsidy again, so if halting signups is really a viable strategy and they really care about the billion dollars then it seems like they should do that.
Oh my god.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/original-position/
Why do you avoid DRF? It's what keeps me coming back to Django over .NET Core or other API stacks (although I have yet to tilt at RoR in earnest/anger).
It is literally anti-competitive, bad for consumers and competitor startups. How can an average startup compete if a rich company or VC backed startup has a business model of selling below cost to get market share? The fact that the big players are doing it makes it an oligopoly not a monopoly, but that's still bad.

This is a 100+ year old problem and has already been solved in other industries, but tech likes to think it is unique. It's a bad pattern to sell below cost to gain market share. Oil and steel companies were selling below cost to undercut competing startups in the 1900s, then raised prices when those competitors folded. It wasn't good for anyone other than the robber barons then either.
I mean, they did an acquisition when money was cheap, now it all goes to goodwill impairment because they paid pre-interest hiked multiples. That is where the money is going.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/02/business/etsy-depop.html
Absolutely. Esty is a shell of its "handmade goods" pitch that put them on the map.

The legit boutique sellers still exist but they are buried in a sea of mass produced, private label junk you could find on Amazon or eBay.
Tech or Production?
"My brother was in the RAF last time we spoke, a couple of Christmases ago, when he described Iain Duncan Smith as the best thing to happen to this country and told me I had chosen to have a baby outside of marriage so deserved everything I got. It’s fair to describe us as ‘estranged’ these days."

This is where I'm getting the family info from.
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In this case, the initial notification (reproduced in the article) didn’t threaten to delete the files. Instead of communicating the threat harshly, it said that after 60 days his account would be placed in “read-only” mode.

It sounds like he (I think reasonably) believed that would be the new reality after the grace period: that he couldn’t write new files, but that his existing data would be accessible indefinitely in read-only form.

Sure, it’s clear from the context that Google vaguely wants him to stop being a headache for them. But planning for a read-only future is very different from planning for your data to be vaporized. As GP points out, Google could get eviction done in the same timeframe but save considerable face if the initial correspondence had said “you’re using way too much, it’s against our TOS, and we’re deleting your data in 30 days,” then given him a 30-day “reprieve” when the deadline drew near.
> They’ll receive severance of 16 weeks of base pay, plus one week for each full year of service, along with other benefits like extended COBRA health insurance benefits and the ability to keep their company laptop.

Getting laid off in December isn't fun (getting laid off any time isn't fun), but I appreciate that our industry has developed a norm of generous severance. Four months+ pay is four months+ more than I got working at a non-profit in education.

If my work isn't paying for, whether due to "macro environment" or something else, it's better if I go do something where I am worth my pay, but not if I'm put in severe financial jeopardy during the switch. Providing several months of severance makes that transition, while still destabilizing and stressful, much, much easier. I wish more workers got this.

Now I'm thinking that next time I'm applying for jobs, one of my questions for them will be about any past layoffs. No company that's been around for a while will be able to say "we've never laid anyone off", but if one says "we let them keep their five-year-old laptop" and another says "we gave them several months severance pay", that will be a factor in my decision.
Can I jump right to this novel or do I have to start elsewhere? I've never read him before.
Could you quote the part you're referring to? I searched for "censor" in the document, and it doesn't come up. Then I read through the document, and I don't see anything trying to explain possible reasons.

There seems to be no connection between "the feds punishing Musk for not participating in their well documented censorship operations" and this document.
This paper is from 2016. Anyone know the status of this now?
Happy Holidays /s
Amazing the arguments people make up when the obvious is well documented -- just another hoax people -- just another russian psyop -- it's all just so laughable. The us government has collapsed and lost all legitimacy and I'll be called the 'conspiracy theorist' or somen other inane response (if its even given one, likely shouted down or removed by the
Mods on whatever flimsy pretext).

We no longer live under the rule of law, there is no equality brfore it, nor do the gears of justice turn without bias, lady justice isnt blind.

But yeah, we can all pretend and lie and make up bullshit excuses that will change on whim. Again, we have so much extensive documentation and people keep pretending it doesnt exist. Perhaps like my comment, does it exist for you?
No offense intended by "she-male" - it's used in the porn industry where it's presumably meant to attract a certain audience rather than be offensive. I didn't realize that these are (always? usually?) trans women.
> Better yet, stop using these services.

Can't think of any service that isn't "these" service.
That's EU-wide law, plus the EEA.

We also have this right:

The person having a right to use a copy of a computer program shall be entitled, without the authorisation of the rightholder, to observe, study or test the functioning of the program in order to determine the ideas and principles which underlie any element of the program if he does so while performing any of the acts of loading, displaying, running, transmitting or storing the program which he is entitled to do.

Article 5(3) and 6.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:32...
Wage slavery is the reality for far too many Americans. The freedom to choose whether you're working at Starbucks, McDonald's or Amazon's warehouse doesn't matter much when all of them pay juuuust enough to make rent, as long as you let them treat you as an interchangeable, disposable cog.

And just as an addendum, tech is more meritocratic than many fields, but even tech has long-standing issues with gender, race, and age discrimination. Whether it's a pipeline problem or not, it's clear that many things besides talent close people off from working in the field.
If the cells lack arteries, proper arteries with nutrients, leukocytes, immune system etc, then their lifespan will be a lot less than 7 years.

Pretty amazing actually that everything else is easy, or not difficult at least, and that's the hard part. But they will find a solution to make it practical for the cells to be trained, deployed, live for some weeks in a server farm, scoop up the dead cells from the silicon, put some new cells on, repeat!

I have argued in the past, that a solution to that problem will definitely be found [1]. A.I. computation will grow exponentially, but not 2^10 times a decade, 2^10 times a year. The enormity of such exponential growth is impossible using only silicon.

Natural computation of biological cells is great when absolute accuracy is not necessary, and pure silicon is the worst at that task. Natural computation using bacteria like slime, brain cells, fungi, bacteria mutated like neural cells or brain cells, any kind of combination.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37472021
This is dependent on the cell you're in. I've been on Starlink since Feb 2021 and dipping below 100 down is very rare. It' averages about 140 down and 20 up with about 30ms latency.
VCs are falling over themselves trying to get in on SpaceX. If there were to go public they would immediately be worth hundreds of billions. It will likely be one of the biggest IPOs in history. They are not that strapped for cash.
> Does anyone really question that growth over the past 10 years

You're right. People pretty much know that external circumstances are responsible for a large part of the growth of companies.

I think the parent commenter was highlighting that execs routinely claim responsibility for growth(and collect outsized rewards) while attributing a majority of problems to external factors out of their control(also while escaping consequences by redirecting them to rank and file). It's a sweet gig if you can get it!
Word from a friend of a friend. Solid source.
He probably wouldn’t have been able to even if he wanted (barring using multiple accounts, which comes with its own problems, including an increased risk of Google taking it as a reason to shut the accounts down).
Hmm, I've been using this product for whisper https://betterdictation.com/
Feels bad. Good luck to everyone. This job market is bad enough as it is. I'll see ya'll in retail or woodworking. o7
I feel like there used to be somewhat of an unwritten social contract about things like layoffs before the holidays.

Seems exceptionally cruel. Honestly I feel sick to my stomach when I think about it.
Ad-free goes hand in hand with distraction-free for me. Thus "Stay up to date with Adfree Cities" and "Watch the video to see three steps you can take today" do not speak to me, at all.
What a weird way to misinterpret what I've stated. Of course, I'm against torturing people, even if they support burning whole families alive, kidnapping children and elderly, raping women, shooting parents in front of their children, etc.
As performance art it's great. Trying to read much more into it is another matter.
To me they are perfect. I enjoy a Coke from time to time, but I get tired of it pretty quickly - too sweet. The small cans are just perfect.
Wow, $1B goodwill impairment sounds absurd (for a company of Etsy's size). Had to look this up.

https://www.fool.com/investing/2023/02/02/etsys-1b-problem-t...

> In this case, Etsy believes that it overpaid by $1 billion for Depop and Elo7. A company normally takes write-downs like this when the results of an acquired business don't live up to the expectations at the time of the acquisition. That's not so good, noting that these two businesses are expected to be long-term growth drivers for the company.
Thanks - I didn't realize!
Is there any truth to the statement from two of the five FCC commissioners that SpaceX was not required to meet those benchmarks until 2025, and this is a political action?
There are neutral third parties available but Israel requires they go thru their own censors before gaining any access.
You can get rid of most of your remaining ads by using the Firefox version of ublock and sponsorblock. I almost never see any ads. Twitch is a notable exception.
Everything is subject to evolution. It's the simple process of pattern loops that replicate in time (survival) and space (multiplication).

An LLM already has intrinsic motivation, it wants to predict the text. And when you start a text that has a goal, it continues that goal. If any such "text header" is replication-stable in time and space, you can call it "intrinsic goal" of the system.

Some people think that making current AI have goals, wants, motivations and so on is some massive architectural change to the system. It's not.
> Because if you use the service you know it is capable of that and more today.

The numbers show otherwise and the FCC made it clear that Starlink presented no numbers to the contrary. This isn't even a case of the FCC's numbers saying one thing and Starlink's numbers saying another.

I totally believe that some places give you consistent 100/20 speeds, but aggregate numbers don't show that and Starlink made no attempt to argue otherwise.
This tweet is sort of misleading, the docs suggest this is basically them using an API to provide AI features:
https://help.dropbox.com/view-edit/privacy-settings-dropbox-...

> Your files within Dropbox are sent to a third-party AI only when you chose to interact with AI powered features. For example, when you ask a question about a file.
Except that the word, "recall", doesn't have two different meanings. It literally means the same thing here as it does for a recall wherein a Jeep has to have its shifter replaced / tweaked / whatever.

Just so happens that the latter can't be fixed via software, because it's not a software-based safety failure.

The former is fixable via software update, because it is a software-based safety failure.

Both, however, are safety failures. Both need to be fixed. Both situations incurred regulatory requirements to notify customers and provide a timely fix at no cost to affected customers, whether within or without the vehicle's warranty.

In short: both are recalls, and recall means the same thing in both cases: notify, fix, or face regulatory consequences.
So to make the 2025 deadline they would have had to perfectly launch more rockets than they ever have before...sounds like the FCC made the correct choice.