skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the public doesn't care about the environment in general, they are in a frenzy about prices, inflation is the big boogie man.

so it's not surprising that as long as its not in my backyard it doesn't matter.

and you can see this in other problems too. there's a very unfortunate hivemind-level congnitive dissonance in this, you can easily find a few million very dedicated voices that want action (let's say in foreign policy, trade policy, crime, education, drugs, etc...) and then of course many millions who want low taxes, etc.. and that's how you get half-assed semi-solutions.. out of sight out of mind

of course propaganda works. there's a feedback loop. no doubt about it.

also, regarding commenting vibe, of course it makes sense to advocate for a more progressive taxation/redistribution system. and for more foresight, exactly because of these biases of society. of course many would then raise the usual excuses. the tyranny of the FDA, how public procurement wastes money, the defense budget, etc.

regarding cleanup. trenching is already extremely cheap. sure, for many big diameter pipes it's possible do do it without, and with higher pressure usually the same flow rate is achievable with the smaller plastic pipe. usually the cost is the last "mile", meaning to change the pipes in the buildings. but that's why usually adding these chemicals that prevent the lead from dissolving in water (and thus from leaving the surface of the inside of the pipes) works best. also pretty cheap too. what's expensive is shitty backwater towns with near zero economic value. and that's the real problem, not the lead pipes. the problem is that people are ossified into these hellholes, and then propaganda tells them to be proud of it, as that's real living. and so on.

...

people benefited from cheap prices, of not having to redo pipes (or to replace engines more frequently). was it worth it? I don't think so, but millions would swear that it did!

it's easy to fall into despair, became a libertarian misanthrope because the general public is irredeemably dumb/brainwashed. but it's easy to do the opposite, to say that it would be amazing if everyone would run around with PhDs. but reality is somewhere between. just look at how shitty academia is, and it's definitely not due to a lack of brainpower.

and, well, there's maybe some minimal comfort to he had that in the fact that these same Fortune 500 companies that of course fund a lot of lobbyists also tend to care a bit about their brands, and the same Disney that absolutely botched the last 2-3 SW movies also doesn't want to advertise next to neonazi posts on Musk's X. (and maybe it's just because they are shameless opportunistic amoral bastards who maximize profits through ads depending on public sentiment, but then this means that the same dumb public at least doesn't find neonazi content a good palate cleanser before/after ads. and of course due to historical path dependence even a minority can elect a President and Senate)
That's fair! If you are doing something low-level enough that the bulk of the work is interfacing directly with a C library (or with the kernel, in the case of syscalls) then C might make more sense than Rust.
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I'm not sure if it's because I have dark mode enabled or something, but... the text is black on a dark colored background, making reading most of the content impossible without highlighting it.
There's one ad that sounds like Donald Trump (it's an AI voice gen) promoting Donald Trump gold bars. It's not a short ad; I've seen it several times, so one of the times I recorded it. At the end, there's a brief display which says:

"Disclaimer. This ad and it's entirety is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Donald Trump or any political party associated with him. The content and views expressed on this ad are solely those of the website owner and contributors, and they do not represent the opinions or official positions of Donald Trump or his party. Any references to individuals, organizations, or political figures are used for informational purposes only and do not imply endorsement or association.
This ad also has no affiliation with Donald Trump and his party in any way. Additionally, this ad is not endorsed by Donald Trump and his party in any capacity.
Lastly, the audio used in this ad was computer generated. Thank you and enjoy!"

The link goes to "Free Trump Gold -> wewillbegreatagain dot co". I didn't bother clicking the link, but I searched and found that this scam ad has been in existence for over a year.

I'm no lawyer, but I would be really surprised if this obvious attempt to ride on someone's name/(in)fame was legal. Surely Trump could sue this person for what they are doing. Surely normal people have flagged this ad to YouTube, but it's still up.

When searching for details about this particular ad, I read about general frustation people have with the vast number of scam ads on Truth Social. But that's a whole other topic...
Btw here are two recent examples what can be done when a monopoly like Youtube tries using their dominant position in the market to squeeze workers or consumers:

- Organized action in all Nordics vs Tesla, where Musk thought he can simply do whatever he wants to the workers and their wages and not negotiate with the unions: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/05/danish-union-j...

- FTC finally chasing telecoms for the insane prices of broadband in America https://www.techdirt.com/2023/12/12/the-telecom-industry-is-...

As you can see, both organized worker action and government oversight work very well to curb greedy companies. So please, when you see people outraged and trying to organize, if you don't want to join, don't, but don't try to tell people to 'just accept it', because we won't. We are angry and have had it up to here with corporate greed.

Organized action and government regulation work!
It baffles me how often behaviour that any 'traditional' media company would get slapped down for is just common practice in 'digital' media.

'Digital' isn't new anymore, but somehow it avoids growing up.
Could you argue that California's proposition system addresses the single-issue problem?

(I say "addresses" rather than "solves" because IIUC some people are very unhappy with it.)
The lesson of this would be terrible - never leave any openings in your walled garden or allow any compromise in excluding third parties, always keep it 100% closed.
I mean the Wikipedia article says that the superior court changed their mind and declared it to not be libel (and the Supreme Court said "Yeah they can do that."), so the precedent is still that it's pretty hard to (successfully) sue someone for libel.
Perhaps, but reviewing code for memory safety issues is a more well defined task than general code generation so LLMs can be more easily trained to get better at it.
"The image on the billboard that appeared in downtown San Francisco in early 2020 would have been familiar to anyone who'd ever seen a beer commercial: Attractive young people laughing and smiling as they shared a carefree high. But the intoxicant being celebrated was fentanyl, not beer. "Do it with friends," the billboard advised, so as to reduce the risks of overdose.

The advertising campaign was part of an ongoing national effort by activists and health officials to [encourage "safe"] hard-drug use on the theory that doing so would lessen its harms. Particularly in blue cities and states, that idea is having a moment. The general message carried by the San Francisco billboard appeared as well in the New York City health department's "Let's Talk Fentanyl" campaign, which last year told subway riders, "Don't be ashamed you are using, be empowered that you are using safely," and further counseled them to "start with a small dose and go slowly.""
It is baffling how many HNers in this thread don't understand what "test flight" means.

Yeah, for SpaceX, experimental hardware is expendable. Yeah, it is not very typical in space industry. But it is a tried-and-tested approach, which gave them the Falcon 9, the most reliable and technologically advanced launcher of today.
Unix timestamp stating date (?)
Where's your proof? Show it and I'll gladly quit buying from them.
Cloud cost-consciousness is having a moment
Companies are rediscovering cost awareness, which Amazon CTO Werner Vogels calls a “lost art.”
Just a reminder that Aljazeera is the state sponsored news of Qatar, a county that hosts Hamas leaders and is close allies with Iran.

It’s not a valid news source.
It exploded after flipping around 180 degrees.

A few people have slosh modeled the booster flip around duplicating observed speeds and accelerations and surmise the following. The flip around was too rapid causing slosh to one size of the booster. In addition there was negative acceleration that would have allowed the remaining fuel to experience zero gees pulling it away from the bottom of the rocket. When the engines fired back up it would have hit the bottom of the rocket with something between 20 and 100 tons of force. Based on SpaceX description, the FTS was not used.

The second stage at least appears to be oxygen leakage. The graphs shown on flight day started showing a more rapid depletion of oxygen after second stage lighting. SpaceXs language was something like 'flight was unable to reach orbital insertion and was terminated, pointing to the FTS being used.
What interests do they have?
Does it increase the cost of the ad? Or does it decrease the cost of ads because the larger number of legitimate products don't want to be there and so are not buying ads at all.
i don't get it, what could "X-men" possibly be other than a superhero comic-book franchise?
Yeah. I pay for 1200/35mbps from comcast just for the 35.
Sorry, I meant cost of goods sold, as the other commenter noted. We're in agreement: basically the entire cost to grow revenue is selling expenses because the main function of a B2B SaaS is sales.
> Their dynamic optimization encoding framework - allocating more bits for complex scenes and fewer bits for simpler, quieter scenes: https://netflixtechblog.com/dynamic-optimizer-a-perceptual-v... and https://netflixtechblog.com/optimized-shot-based-encodes-now...

This is overrated - of course that's how you do it, what else would you do?

> Mean-squared-error (MSE), typically used for encoder decisions, is a number that doesn’t always correlate very nicely with human perception.

Academics, the reference MPEG encoder, and old proprietary encoder vendors like On2 VP9 did make decisions this way because their customers didn't know what they wanted. But people who care about quality, i.e. anime and movie pirate college students with a lot of free time, didn't.

It looks like they've run x264 in an unnatural mode to get an improvement here, because the default "constant ratefactor" and "psy-rd" always behaved like this.
Ah, I see now, thank you.
I'm looking forward to seeing what what projects you work on at Answer.ai! I'm a big fan of your fast.ai courses and all the work you've done in the AI industry.
I think HN readers have a strong desire to speak the inconvenient or untouchable topics. I think this is a healthy impulse.

This topic is hard because so many commenters are triggered by it, for lack of a better word.

Could AI help here? What if a comment was given an automatic 'emotional temperature' score? We might be able to address the fact that a lot of the comments will be basically pure emotion, and we can discuss the emotions instead of being distracted by the content.
which is why I said I take steps to avoid the influence, but not that I'm not influenced.
Yes, exactly, I want a search interface that's an LLM instead of a bunch of menus.
The difference here is that the ads are not just neutral revenue generators, but they are actively harmful revenue generators.
In my experience, the "benefit of the doubt" has been lost in relation to this subject. I no longer believe it is possible to have any thread about this remain civil. It's tragic and a tragic subject, although I dispute the "there couldn't be a more significant current event" - lots of events are equally (or more) significant and relevant. I hope to be proven wrong, but I have doubts.
They did.

The skipped my burb 10 years ago because they were required to run underground. Last year, after they said they were giving up, they decided to go ahead and dig the whole town.

Clearly, they reversed course (again), and didn't announce it.
Once you get married you get used to it :p
Right, I know Windows isn't free. My point is, it's the same situation with OS X, and with iMessage. Just because OS X is made by the hardwae developers doesn't change it. Windows still isn't free on Surface laptops, believe me that the OS team gets a cut of hardware sales.

Maybe it seems confusing because OS X isn't sold as a standalone product, but consider how Apple cracks down on Hackintoshes. They definitely consider it stealing.
I have two kids with diagnosed ADHD and I can guarantee you that we did not shove a screen in front of them as toddlers and we push them both to exert themselves through physical activity, even though one in particular actively fights it every time.
There is a big difference between the 60-70mm distance between human eyes and the 10mm distance between iPhone lenses.

So, are you confirming they record from two lenses or just here for the reductio ad absurdum?
Or it could click "hide" on cookie banners for me!
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That would explain the factual inaccuracies that I've noticed in their reporting since the events of October.

I assumed it was because of a religious ideology, but a state sponsor makes sense too.
Zotero might work, but only as a highly imperfect solution, since it is more focused on research
You are right, CenturyLink support is apparently non-existent these days. My aunt recently had issues for weeks before finally giving up trying to get any real engineering support, and eventually it resolved itself, presuming some monkey noticed a rampant trend for problems in the area. Cox wasn't much better at times unless you knew exactly how to deal with support (I for a time ran part of their engineering and do), but it's still volumes better than the worse than nothing you get with CenturyLink now.

That said I've been lucky, in the 6-7 years I've been on CL moving from Cox I've had 0 problems with my DSL, where I'll say there's something to be said for the old legacy 2-wire stuff. At least every 3-4 years, I'd have to have cox out to fix my cable terminations for suck-out (center conductor eventually contracts itself to lose contact with hot/cold over time) with the extreme heat in Phoenix, so it's been almost a nice change.
The things I've read about happening in Gaza are horrific.

I'm ashamed that my taxes are funding this. It doesn't feel like there's much that can be done to change that. AIPAC has a very serious influence on our government and I worry that its impact is just leading to more deaths and more suffering.
If you go back in time, 23andMe was founded to collect genetic data with the goal of using that data to improve the health condition of humanity.

Over time it became clear that 23andMe's data set had limited predictive ability for health for a number of technical reasons (previously, dahinds, one of their statistical geneticists, has defended the quality of their predictions on HN, you can search for his comments. I suspect he can no longer comment on HN because of 23&Me's security debacle).

However, around that same time, 23&Me's dataset turned out to be excellent for ancestry analysis. It's generally considered fairly accurate (not just 23&Me- the entire process of ancestry through snp genotyping workings really well).

I never did 23&Me but my dad did- and he learned he has children all around the US (half brothers and sisters of mine) from some samples he provided some 45+ years ago. Both my dad and those people gained value from making that connection. It's interesting because my dad had already done most of the paper research (including going to SLC to visit the Mormon archives) to identify our obvious ancestors, and these relatives would never have shown up.
> The government isn’t some nefarious entity that acts on its own volition, it is US

Unless you are not, in this case, Canadian. In any case, despite your attempt to paint it as malicious, the distinction is very relevant when reporting on government policy.
Canadian here. I also live in a city with municipal fibre. No fancy additional services like some others here, but I pay around US$20 per month for Gigabit symmetric internet. The major national ISPs start at around 4x higher.
> machine learning

This is already kind of skewed by hype. It's not possible to teach a transformer architecture LLM the fact "Dell T420s Tower Servers have very poor cooling for the raid controllers". All that can be done is have a corpus of text where the statistically most likely text associated with a prompts about "raid controller cooling Dell T420" includes the text "Dell T420s Tower Servers have very poor cooling for the raid controllers", or some variant of it. But the model doesn't know that fact, or any other fact, so it's not being taught this knowledge.
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Feynman would have disagreed with you

https://www.rangevoting.org/FeynTexts.html

>The reason was that the books were so lousy. They were false. They were hurried. They would try to be rigorous, but they would use examples (like automobiles in the street for "sets") which were almost OK, but in which there were always some subtleties. The definitions weren't accurate. Everything was a little bit ambiguous – they weren't smart enough to understand what was meant by "rigor." They were faking it. They were teaching something they didn't understand, and which was, in fact, useless, at that time, for the child.
Aljazeera posts high quality documentaries and news articles. It has been much better than US media at publishing news about the Israel Palestine situation. Even the BBC was quite poisoned by bias on this issue. Aljazeera has been the largest news outlet that actually published a Palestinian view also.
I'm baffled that the support of single file, offline HTML is still so bad today :

https://www.russellbeattie.com/notes/posts/the-decades-long-...

(I'm suspecting because this goes against the wants of some of the biggest players who have the incentive of making us leave as many online footprints as possible ?)

Even here, Mozilla recommends converting to PDF for easier (?!?) human readability. Except PDF is a very bad format for digital documents, with no support for reflow and very bad support of multimedia. (PDF is perhaps good for archival of offline documents, even despite its other issues).
I have an i9-9880H with 16GB of RAM, I'm in the queue for an upgrade.

VS 2022 Enterprise takes a solid 78 seconds to load to the "Open recent" splash page and idles there at 5%. Opening a 16 project solution takes another 34 seconds and the CPU hovers around 48-67% CPU for a minute after opening the solution before dropping down to around 6%. Any coding causes CPU spikes with each keystroke up to 67%. Loading a 150 line class is pretty instantaneous but it takes another 15-20 seconds for the references, last changes, collapsible UI, and inherit/override dialogs to appear.

It always feels like I'm waiting, even if it's just 5 or 10 seconds, for what I need.
>well, gattaca, and maybe something else we can't predict, or insurance, or something something

Sure, if you don't believe in any of the potential negative scenarios, anything goes. You could also post your full name, SSN, DOB, address, etc. here if you are secure in the knowledge that no harm could ever come of it.
Agree. Leaders (though I think "Gatekeepers" is a more accurate term in this context) should not stand in the way of anyone's awesomeness.
> People writing C are the people that really do have to make syscalls directly,

Not really. See for example desktop Linux (i.e. Gnome).
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It doesn't catch all signed overflow. If you define a function like this:

int8_t abs8(int8_t n) {
return (n >= 0) ? n : -n;
}

Even with `-ftrapv`, evaluating abs8(-128) will produce -128, because 127 is the maximum value for a signed 8-bit integer (so trying to get 128 wraps around to -128), but this isn't caught. However, both Rust and Ada do catch this. This article highlights this difference between C and Ada:

https://borretti.me/article/signed-integers-asymmetrical

I know Rust catches it because after I read that article, I tested it with Rust in debug mode.
I felt SOOO bad for the sweet-sounding (sincere? I'll never actually know) woman interviewing me — like a lamb-to-slaughter, I think the corporate intention was to make me feel bad for "believing such nonsense ISP could actually exist."

My last semi-corporate gig, a performance review indicated "[ProllyInfamous] uses too much profanity." I responded verbally by informing them that "from now on I'll stop 'giving a shit,' and instead will start 'giving a hoot'." The owner's complaining wife was NOT thrilled. [I know "I AM fucking difficult"].
> I wonder how on earth the US legal system could deteriorate so much that such a story becomes possible.

My impression is that everything in the USA has become lawyerized. Politicians are all lawyers. If you have assets of more than a mill, you have a legal team. You can't move for lawyers. I'm watching stories about a man facing 90 charges, who is still running for president (and has a good chance of winning). All of his co-accused are lawyers.

Youd think that, with so many lawyers around, it should be really quick to get justice. But it's the opposite; apparently, the more lawyers are involved, the longer justice is delayed.
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> “When they spoke to us in Hebrew and we wouldn’t understand, they’d beat us up,” he continues.

> “They hit me in the back where my kidneys are and my legs. They took my family, and I don’t know where they are,” he says, his voice breaking.

> Before they were forced inside the warehouse, Israeli female soldiers came and spat on the men, Mohammed recalls.

> In the warehouse, it was common for groups of five soldiers to suddenly enter and beat one person while the others were forced to listen to his screams of pain. If any of the men and teenagers nodded off from exhaustion, the soldiers poured cold water on them.

> “Their contempt for us was unnatural, like we were lesser beings,” Mohammed says.

For some reason I find this last sentence so utterly beautiful in context it brings tears to my eyes. Here is a 14-year-old Arabic boy being tortured by Jews and STILL he operates from a worldview that viewing other human beings as lesser is unnatural. Thank you, Mohammed. What an image of beauty and horror.
TN state literally threw a fit and outlawed this as a result.
ABC Australia’s MediaWatch did a good segment on this recently (starting 10:09):

https://youtu.be/ziVHNDFxtno?si=6i4JMYHF1YxLvopJ
That's true in the no-homegrow states, but it's a significant new set of entitlements.

Also, the gun stuff is a huge win for reduction in state power.
Maybe it is just me, since I lived through the Firefox OS era as a past intern: this feels like a possible re-entrance of offering a Mozilla-built OS in the future. They said Internet was born to connect people - but building everything into a browser is not the most optimal way of adding all these fancy stuff. Firefox OS was basically a small linux kernel plus Gecko plus HTML5 for rendering. So much like iOS and iPadOS Mozilla could offer similar OS for devices/platform. I mean, for the past 5 years they have been invested in AR and VR. So I won’t be surprised if they eventually bet on another Firefox OS…