skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I totally agree, but want to add two observations:

1. Humanity has already been on the path of exponential growth. Take GDP for example. We measure GDP growth by percentages, and that's exponential. (Of course, real GDP growth has stagnated for a bit, but at least for the past ~3 centuries it has been generally exponential AFAIK). Not saying it can be sustained, just that we've been quite exponential for a while.

2. Not every function is linear. Sometimes the exponentially increased inputs will produce a linear output. I'd argue R&D is kind of like that. When the lower hanging fruits are already taken, you'd need to expend even more effort into achieving the next breakthrough. So despite the "exponential" increase in productivity, the result could feel very linear.

I would also like to add that physical and computational limits make the whole singularity thing literally impossible. 3D space means that even theoretically sound speedups (eg. binary trees) are impossible in scale because you can't assume O(1) lookups - the best you can get is O(n^1/3). Maybe people understand the singularity concept poetically, I don't know.
fwiw the correct email for this is arbitrationoptout@23andme.com
Agreed, the snapshot does output a message in the logs but based on our conversations with AWS it was suggested that we use the SQL Command to determine the LSN. Sometimes depending on revision you won't get the logs and other times the log line is emitted twice based on the internal RDS consistency checks. Makes me long for GTIDs from MySQL MariaDB Galera[1]. They worked super well and we never looked back at my last company.

[1] https://mariadb.com/kb/en/using-mariadb-gtids-with-mariadb-g...
It is important context as the person I was responding to is insinuating that this was just a civilian scholar, which in verifiably false by reading his own tweets.

EDIT: I just saw the same remark towards the comment I responded to, fair enough
I feel like this article was surely written by someone who has never actually looked at cellular baseband firmware, listened to researcher’s talks, or even stayed at a Holiday Inn.

Cellular hardware companies have to care first… As in NOT using crappy 32bit processors without virtual memory.

Things like non-executable stacks have merit… ASLR has merit…

Then, we can start yapping about compiler flags…
Thank you. I didn't know that.

It seems two essential patents will expire in 2029 and 2030 [1]. So we are basically stuck in this mess till then.

[1] http://www.fosspatents.com/2022/06/lessons-from-rejection-of...
I don't watch any TV, with a few exception for prestige shows that everyone else is watching - and I recognized a lot on that list - Walking Dead, Suits, Grey's Anatony, Gilmore Girls, Breaking Bad (which I've watched), Friends, Lucifer, Big Bang Theory.
USB? Not UART serial? It seemed a lot of early smartphones did have the modem over AT commands through serial port, like good old DOS computers.
In this certain case, it is. The aggressions (during this round) started on October 7th by Hamas. You can replace "defense" with "response" / "retaliation" / or "zionist agressions" if you're reading certain news sources. I will admit that the my background affected my word choice to some extent.

The history of this conflict is a lot more complex than the occupier/ occupied framing would imply. For one, there was a Jewish presence here for centuries, not to mention the ancient kingdom of Judea. But I find these discussions unconstructive usually since they seem to get into these "he hit me first" kind of arguments. I agree that a two state solution is what we should be striving for. Humans are creative, if the will was there, we would find a way to connect Gaza and the West Bank (tunnel/bridge/whatever), do some territory swaps as needed, divide Jerusalem, etc. The plans for this exist, it's the leadership that's failing (on both sides).
> If you fall out of the rat race in the US you are screwed. No job, no insurance, no health care, no house, no car followed by homelessness and drug use. After all that it would take an insane amount of effort to get you back up to the ladder.

This isn't true at all. The US has a good social safety net, just like European countries. San Francisco in particular has free, universal healthcare, rent assistance programs, eviction protection programs, public transportation, pretty much everything you mentioned.

The problem is if you're a nuisance to your neighbors (i.e., smoking drugs indoors, which my downstairs neighbor decided to start doing during 2020), you will be kicked out if you don't own your place (and you don't have an HOA). At which point, you can go to a shelter (of which there are many in SF), but if you refuse to do that, well…
Discontinuing the SafetyNet Attestation API
> But a lot more approved of violence and terrorism, and they did prefer Hamas over alternatives (that's why no election for 17 years - because everyone knew Hamas would win).

That makes no sense: why prevent an election you’re going to win? Palestinians don’t like the way Israel treats them, with no small amount of past incidents to base that on, but that doesn’t mean that Hamas is the only option.

> Basically, there's nothing Israel can do that will compare with the main driver in Gaza: Hamas control of media and education or ability to just conscript

This is just propaganda designed to absolve the Israeli right-wing of decades of bad decisions. If the Israeli government had done anything to help Palestinians have viable jobs or elections, for example, then the Hamas leaders would have had to justify their positions rather than blaming all of their problems on Israel. The underlying problem is that Netanyahu liked having Hamas as a justification for why they couldn’t allow Palestinians to have a state, and as a bogeyman to point to any time they needed political support.

https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/netanyahu-money-...

https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/world/middleeast/israel-q...
I don't think he knows who this guy is or even cares. He's just pandering. And it's pretty low effort pandering at that.
I am sorry for that, the web application works better with "Hardware acceleration" turned on, so that it makes use of the GPU. The native apps should perform way better.
Is there some part of the Apache 2 license that insists that people using Apache 2 licensed code in a project clearly mark what code is Apache 2 and what code is under some other license? Of course not.

Nobody is relicensing the code on other people's computers. If you downloaded code under Apache 2, somebody other than you incorporating that same code into their AGPL project won't relicense the code on your computer, but it certainly will relicense the code on theirs.
Musk's X 2023 Ad Sales Projected to Slump to About $2.5 Billion
If I drop a baby on your desk you have to pay for it for the next 18 years. If I connect a small unit to a flying drone, stick a knife on it, and tell it to stab you in your head then you have a problem today.
People with a Mac mini may not have a webcam, either!
It's incredible that in retrospective. Apple avoided this problem by being absolute The Monopoly of IOs development.
I remember when big names in semi industry were laughing on the floor when asked about the possibility of sub 10nm ICs.

And now I wonder what kind of physics will be investigated for sub nanometer electronics .. spin ? neutronics ? photonics ?
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I've seen the first episode of that; I should note that it was not called out in TFA ("C-f breaking" at least shows no hits).
> reflective rather than reflexive responses

I understand where you are coming from. In my experience, the reflective response is often a steel manning of one's own position. This often involves framing, as in using phrases that are agreeable in another context into the author's position. The error I see is both sides of the argument constraining the scope of their discourse to only use information that supports their position. Lies by omission & more often than not, lying to oneself first.

In my experience, having tools to expand the contextual scope is vital, if not the definition, to supporting intellectual curiosity. That's where we seem to disagree on flagging & even downvoting. I think being able to somehow deconstruct comments to extract the insightful (& indicative) as signal over the noise in the comment would also be useful. It's open ended on how that would be done but it's worth exploring IMO.

I think tools that improve expression, understanding, & evaluation of context are critical to improving cohesion across humanity. I am busy writing open source libraries with the intent of creating apps to support contextual expression & understanding. I hope others create & collaborate in building these sorts of tools (tech, social, spiritual, etc) because it may be one of the most important advances for healing our many divides.

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> That's where we seem to disagree on flagging & even downvoting.

I think the author's intent of expression is often not heard with the same context. So the meaning of what was spoken & what was heard is different. Often one applies their judgements to what was heard while not grasping the context of what was spoken.

Have you done any analysis on who downvotes/flags, on what they downvote/flag, & how often?
Still waiting. Maybe you should go and look again in the comic strip you got the reference from?
The absorption refrigerator already existed, but had room for refinement as seen in the patent cited.

Einstein's and Szilard's real innovation, maybe not seen there, was for a different, electric design with a moving part, sealed inside, that was moved back and forth by a varying magnetic field applied from outside. It is often described incorrectly as having no moving parts. (I used to think ammonia was itself diamagnetic or ferromagnetic, which would have been very cool, until I got a look at their design.) What was innovative was that it had no need for sealed bearings that might leak. Nowadays just the wires for the motor pierce the fluid chamber, less elegantly than a strictly magnetic coupling.

Absorption refrigerators are strictly better than the compressor designs used everywhere today, running continuously, silently, and efficiently. The main driver of the latter was that General Electric wanted people to use electric refrigerators, not gas-fired, and wanted them to buy electric motors. Mass production soon gave GE an insuperable economic advantage except in niche applications.

Modern institutional refrigeration systems often use ammonia as their working fluid, but nobody likes putting ammonia systems in houses or cars. The modern alternative to freon/"cfc" and "hfc" is liquid CO2 at very high pressure. Hfc that leaks traps heat more than 2000x as well as CO2, so there is a push on to replace it.
This makes sense. Please excuse my post!
> Palestine, which extends from the River Jordan in the east to the Mediterranean in the west and from Ras Al-Naqurah in the north to Umm Al-Rashrash in the south, is an integral territorial unit. It is the land and the home of the Palestinian people. The expulsion and banishment of the Palestinian people from their land and the establishment of the Zionist entity therein do not annul the right of the Palestinian people to their entire land and do not entrench any rights therein for the usurping Zionist entity.

Which in the context of the cited request for 1967 borders and right of return, could read to be an additional call for the right of return of Palestinians to the lands within the Israeli side of the 1967 borders.
Tim Sweeney on Epic's victory royale over Google
European party coalitions change all the time, what are you even talking about. You can easily go start a new party and get into parliament since many EU countries have proportionate representation.
Yikes. Google put my grug brain [1] synopsis on full display?

Google, please use less grug brained explanation of baseband processors [2]. ty

[1] https://grugbrain.dev/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseband_processor
Culture is just social technology. Common patterns and routines for behaving in certain situations or ways to interact with people.

It can be good. It can be bad. It can be useful. It can be deleterious.

If a specific piece of social technology is not serving you well, don't make that social technology (culture) your identity -- reject it and try to adopt different social technology.
Not true. There have been serious peace attempts and real changes in every decade since 1967.
60% of surveyed Palestinians “extremely supported” the military actions on Jan 7, an additional 15% somewhat supported. This was research done by Palestinians based locally.

There is a lot of hopeful thinking about humanity being conjured out of thin air, evidence on the ground is to the contrary. Many people on the ground support the conflict and expect to win. A great majority of Palestinians supported the attacks in January. A great majority of Israelis insist on a military response taken to its conclusion.

This is not the case of peoples being held hostage by their leaders. They might not like their leaders but they would put new ones in power who were substantially the same.

https://news.stanford.edu/report/2023/12/05/palestinians-vie...

https://www.awrad.org/files/server/polls/polls2023/Public%20...
> Though I've heard it's quite common in large enterprises that are fragmented due to a lot of aqui-hires, for corporate HR to forget or miss people

I've worked at small (<1000 people) firms where there were at least 10 different entitlements systems and removing someone was a nightmare. I can 100% believe that this also happens at large companies (due to acquisition as you mention) too.
> moved onto the land only after the UN divided it

Why should people who have lived in an area for generations heed the dictates of nations thousands of miles away?

> ancestors who also abandoned their land after the war defeat on the advice of their warlike leaders.

This is a gross misrepresentation of what actually happened. A full accounting won't fit in an HN comment, but it's beyond question that many Palestinians were expelled at gunpoint from homes they had been living in for generations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Palestinian_expulsion_fro...

Personally, I would recommend the series "Fear and Loathing in the New Jerusalem" [0]. The guy behind it is a former US DoD contractor who worked for many years with the IDF, friends with Israeli soldiers, etc, but who is also married to a woman with Palestinian relatives. It's extremely well-researched, and explains the motivations of all the players without exculpating any side.

[0]: https://martyrmade.com/fear-loathing-in-the-new-jerusalem/
Given that I subscribe to meme groups, participate in #meme slack groups - and am bombarded by memes incessantly in twitter - I was surprised to see that I didn't recognize any of your memes.
That's right, it's a very promising technology, however. ncube started as a native app and making a web port was a plus, using Web Assembly.
you can of course make malloc arbitrarily complex, and a simple malloc will not be very efficient, but musl's entire malloc/free implementation is only 600 lines of c (`cloc musl-1.1.24/src/malloc`) and even a fair bit of that is no longer actually used (`#if 1 ... #else ... #endif`)

so i don't think a cursory investigation supports your vague innuendo, which seems to be implying that adding thread-local allocation pools to musl would require enormously more than 'a few dozen lines of code', as i said. the entire allocator is 50 dozen lines

the code isn't 'involved'; it's nice and straightforward, except for a clever algorithm or two from hacker's delight. what's involved is debugging it when you break it
Yeah, I’ve read all the stories. Unfortunately my wife loves the car, and while it is paid off, it isn’t worth much on the secondary market, so we plan to just drive it until it dies.
the O was confusing but later the I crossing the O was kinda like a gate to me

it's funny to realize that nobody had the same interpretation of this ubiquitous thing
Oof, $20/month is a lot, when I already have my own OpenAI API key.
Consider how that would have gone if we had then moved settlers into that space, including areas we hadn’t formally claimed, and dared the former residents to make us leave. There’s a big difference between “we have to rebuild” and “other people are living well in your fathers’ homes but you live in a squalid camp”.
The costs get kind of complicated since various bits get out of date and have different value.

For example, there is speculation that a finless "Starship" that had been seen at the site some time ago which now appears to be being scrapped without any use was thrown together in case S25 was not ready in time for the second flight. So while construction wise they spent money, is that money that was part of the test cost?

Similarly, they're moving to Starship V2 and Raptors are moving to V3, making the previous hardware obsolete. But since they can still gather data from launching the older hardware, they will launch and lose it since scrapping is supposed to happen anyway. So at that point losing the vehicle in flight hasn't cost them much more than just scrapping it.

However, since you probably mean actual construction cost, the boosters must clearly be expensive, thus their interest in getting those working even if it means sticking sacrificial Starships on top.

I'd guess each unit is probably around $40-50 million each. Still revolutionarily cheap per kg, but certainly not so cheap that they can keep endlessly throwing them away on incremental steps.
Israel is emphatically not a colony, and viewing it through the lens of colonialism will lead you astray.

Jews have a legitimate and ancient claim to indigeneity in the Levant. (In fact, Chanukah is about Jews being persecuted and evicted from their homes in the Levant by the Greeks.)

Jews are obviously not the only ethnic group with a legitimate claim to the land. Turks, Ottomans, Arabs, and Palestinians all lived in the area "historically."

In fact, many Israeli Jews are the opposite of colonizers: millions of Mizrahi Jews fled persecution from Arab countries (especially Yemen and Morocco), to return their ancestral homeland in Israel.
This is great! I wrote a tool that automates most of the things you came across. If you find it useful or would like to extend it with your feedback/ideas, I'd love to have them! Thanks for sharing

https://github.com/shayonj/pg_easy_replicate
Unreasonable customers are best sent to competitors. Let them be their problem. All revenue is not equal.
On Android only apparently.
Possible? Try it and see =)
That's a legit assessment, though I didn't feel as if De Laurentiis had in fact preserved the mythology. Again: far more time would have been required.

Checking, it appears that among the longest-running mainstream films of all time were Cleopatra (243 minutes, or 4h8m), Gone With the Wind (238 minutes, or 3h58m), Lawrence of Arabia (222 minutes), and Ben Hur (217 minutes).

Gandhi, which I recall being remarkable at the time and including an intermission, ran only 191 minutes, or 3h11m.

The full Lord of the Rings trilogy runs 9h17m.

<https://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/the-top-15-longest-holly...>
1. Drug use and the fallout was infitesimal compared to what it is after it was widely culturally promoted and approved of. Neither has alcohol abuse been supplanted.

2. Drug addicts (which especially includes pot users) will argue for maximum legalization until everyone is blue in the face, and despite any counter argument. Such is the nature of addiction.

At some point, people need to be again ignored for the social good. Drug use legalization advocates will always remain, but they will be less with time.
I'm just done with the unfair word salad. I'm also afraid the cat is already out of the bag. Language is too powerful and this made up word doesn't fit the bill. Simple wording that points towards a not-yet-existing future - whether that's utopian or dystopian or somewhere in between - is finding steady ground in the mainstream.

As devs, as nerds, as programmers... we should know better. Naming things is already hard enough.
I am a it technician for vmware horizon client vmware sessions crashed
Autofilled data is made available to the app that the data is given to.

From Keeper:

> Keeper received a report from the researcher about a potential vulnerability. We requested a video from the researcher to demonstrate the reported issue. Based upon our analysis, we determined the researcher had first installed a malicious application and subsequently, accepted a prompt by Keeper to force the association of the malicious application to a Keeper password record.

and from Google:

> We recommend third-party password managers be sensitive as to where passwords are being inputted, and we have WebView best practices that we recommend all password managers implement. Android provides password managers with the required context to distinguish between native views and WebViews, as well as whether the WebView being loaded is not related to the hosting app.

> For example, when using the Google Password Manager for autofill on Android, users are warned if they are entering a password for a domain Google determines may not be owned by the hosting app, and the password is only filled in on the proper field. Google implements server side protections for logins via WebView
Yes, https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/. Just ask there and a bunch of Non-Artificial Intelligent agents will give you that answer ;).
We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us.” Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2018)
Two things I've noticed myself and have been thinking about recently:

- It seems like there's a lot fewer miserable people being miserable on Twitter.

- There's more... openness to merit, science, free discussion about controversial topics (eg DEI) with less risk of being cancelled, no matter which side of the debate you sit on. I am having my beliefs challenged and being (slightly) offended far more than before. Which is good.

This isn't to say there isn't any of this on Twitter, but for my feed, it's died down considerably and other people I talk to seem to think the same.

That said, while I continually try to see things from his point of view, my personal opinion of Elon Musk has really nose-dived. He really seems like a hot mess.
Lots of discussion last week when this was news:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38559582

And then when the shares sank:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38574940
Kind of funny that Netflix, the video hosting website, uses YouTube to host their videos on their website.
The free market would have created many trustworthy gatekeepers itself.

And given how much scammy shit there is on the two major AppStores, I would say that it is clear as day and night that Apple and Google utterly suck as "gatekeepers".
It's usually Linux that gets isolated by classical(not like modern VMM) monitor and kept away from baseband, not the other way around.
AI won’t run away in a vacuum, there will be time to understand what the AI is up to when iterating towards singularity, there would likely be many model in various stage of progress and a way to go back to understand.
Or that we will not need the power of singularity to get a lot of benefits. People don’t think scenarios and use the status quo school of thought like this one.
It sounds like it's part of their contractual obligation to NASA. HLS can't fly without it, so they need to demonstrate the ability ASAP.
What do you see as the limit to this improvement?
This is ridiculous speech policing. If some Israeli calls it that, how would you react? It’s not disparaging like “Zionist entity”