skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are completely missing the point that this is not just about an individual's ability to buy hardware that they can do what they want with, but rather two corporations (Apple and Google) locking out all competition on their respective platforms they have a duopoly on.

Your view seems to be that the free market will solve all ills then and that if this was really something so important then the average consumer would care about it and change the situation. However, 100+ years of anti-trust laws would disagree with this position. It should be fairly obvious that building a new mobile ecosystem would require an insane amount of investment to the point that it's essentially impossible now. As such, the conclusion that "everyone who cares can just buy a Linux phone" is not a viable solution as it's not feasible for a competitor trying to do that to survive long enough in the industry before being run into the ground due to the anti-competitive behavior of Apple and Google locking everyone else out of access to their operating system's users outside of their formal, approved channels.

If we relied on the average person to act in the interest of ensuring viable competition can enter a market we'd be living in the world of the early 1900s with completely vertically and horizontally integrated Standard Oil type corporations controlling every industry. Not that we're too far off from that currently unfortunately, but your view of letting the free market control who has adequate access to potential marketshare in a given industry is incredibly naive and illustrates the exact reason why we need anti-trust laws in the first place and enforcement of those laws. That's all I have to say on the matter.
Stuff that comes out weekly seems to do better on cultural impact. ~Everyone's seen the Invincible memes.[0][1] I see What We Do In The Shadows references all the time.[2] There are a few shows I've never watched, but know bits and pieces about through stuff like this.

[0] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/thats-the-neat-part-you-dont

[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/look-what-they-need-to-mimic-...

[2] https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2470104-sheher-theythem-cool...
What’s interesting to me is how big the steps in process node sizes are. I thought the 5nm to 3nm step was huge—it’s a 40% reduction! And 3nm to 2nm is similar—a 33% reduction. But then I looked at wikipedia’s list of process node sizes and, well, they’ve all been 30% to 50% over more than five decades. Which is of course Moore’s law, but I figured there would be more, smaller steps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_scale_ex...
Not a valid reason. First, they can just charge the cost of ad review to the advertisers. Second, if they can’t do it without causing problems for innocent third-parties — the viewers — then they just can’t do it. We regulate all kinds of industries, no reason the fuck privacy for profit industry should be exempt.
A separate device. Work should be separated anyway, at a minimum you have access to confidential information from employee data to customer data to code to reports.

That your company doesn't provide this is... not on. And a problem for their compliance and legal departments.

In the mean time, get a burner Android device for $100-200 for anything work.
This seems like the perfect reasoning to build a country upon. The US brain drain was hugely accelerated by WW2 and is in steady decline. Having a system that encourages new people to take out loans/credit just to build a score probably doesn't make it better, don't think that won't affect the US economy long term.

On a single individuals level it doesn't matter ofc, but don't be ignorant towards how that might affect your future if you're young enough to live through brilliant people leaving.
It's the Latency, FCC
Section 706 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 orders the FCC to “encourage the deployment on a reasonable and timely basis of advanced telecommunications capability to all Americans.” On October 25, The FCC issued a notice of inquiry (NOI) into how well we are doing and invited comments.
I remember a sci-fi book where they were talking about one of the characters hacking on thousand-year-old code, but I could never remember what book it was from. Maybe this was it and it's time for a reread.
Isn't two pass encoding similar? In the first pass you collect statistics you use in the second pass for bandwidth allocation?

Possibly Netflix statistics are way better.
I think it depends on what the "probability" is meant to indicate. You're correct if it's meant to indicate whether a particular attacker can get through a particular hoop. But probabilities could also refer to e.g. the chance that it's possible to get through a particular hoop, period. Or the fraction of some input space which corresponds to an exploitation.
From the provided recording it seems to be working properly. Keep in mind that in most hardware I wouldn't even try to go beyond the 7th/8th dimension. It becomes too intensive, way too many vertices, edges and faces to calculate. There's an on-going issue to attempt to move some logic into compute shaders.
Buy a cheap Android phone on eBay, use it on Wi-Fi for work accounts instead of your personal phone.
Though on reflection: if you're really interested in a technical discussion site, the speedbump of needing to code (or at least install) your own client might make for an interesting form of gating.

To that extent, your suggestion's somewhat growing on me.
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During the pandemic I made a list of predictions for the next year and when I revisited it I realised that I was expecting things to move faster than they did. I think some of them might come true eventually, but when is harder to determine.

I didn't expect AI to explode in the way it did; reading books like The Singularity Is Near and Superintelligence I was led to think that common AI tools would be self-learning and iterative systems that operate autonomously rather than prompting back and forth.

Here is the list I made in 2020:

• AI will become mature and we will interact with it as something with rights and individuality

• Stationary computers will be niche as laptops become powerful

• Music production on phones common

• Phone connection points disappear (headphones, SIM card, SD card)

• All newly built cars and some planes will be electric

• Phones will process everything in the cloud, the phone is a receiver/sender for information not a full computer, leading to cheaper/less powerful phones

• We will have clothes with digital aspects (colours, patterns, maybe textures)

• More (straight) boys will wear make up

• India will replace China as manufacturing powerhouse

• Asian culture will merge with Western, especially music

• Knowledge will be seen as more subjective and concept of privacy will disappear
> Licenses don't typically allow licensees to re-license code.

This still doesn't make any sense. Permissive licenses are designed to allow code to be relicensed freely, hence the term "permissive." There may be a few catches, like having to include attribution or a copy of the old license, but if those were significant, the code wouldn't be open source.

How could that interpretation be compatible with the fact that if the author and copyright holder relicenses the code, you can ignore them if "you got it from someone who legally obtained it back when it had the old license." LGPL projects are "someone."

> So, if the code is not relicensed, you can theoretically download a bundle that claims it's AGPLv3, select the portions that are licensed under Apache, and incorporate those into your proprietary product without providing any access to your sources, and be legally in the clear.

Very theoretically. It's very unlikely that the Apache code will sit in the AGPL project forever unmixed with new, AGPL'd, code. Since the new code is not under a permissive license, it can't be relicensed to Apache.
Well, they did call it Gemini for goodness sake. If that’s not intentional I don’t know why is. The twin that kills the other twin, pines for his death, and is then is resurrected by the grief of the surviving twin by a God (Zeus)?

Intense-ass branding choice for an AI dear Google.

People don’t know that the name Thomas is in fact is an Aramaic word that is equivalent to the Greek word Didymus, which literally means “twin.”

Biblical scholars argue that Thomas was allegedly Jesus’ identical twin, but I often muse as to whether Thomas was the advanced AI of a previous incarnation of human civilization. Fits your narrative quite nicely.

Links to further reading on what you are talking of? I find myself ignorant of this movement and discovery and would love to learn more.
Palestinian citizens are absolutely victims of this conflict. But there are also real Israelis who have real rockets hit their houses and businesses every couple of years. And it's been this way for decades! These people are absolutely victims. Both can be true.
The sun is about 400,000x the brightness of the moon, with about the same apparent size. So I think the full moon's brightness concentrated 100,000x would be almost that bad. However, having the sun in your field of view momentarily doesn't blind you (disclaimer: don't stare at the sun until it blinds you; that will blind you ("solar retinopathy")).

There are a couple of other factors. Supernova "light curves" only reach their maximum gradually over several days. Also, your eye doesn't focus an arbitrarily small light source to an arbitrarily small spot on the retina. Instead it's something like an "airy disk". At some point, the relationship between apparent size and the size of the (blurred, "diffraction limited") image on the retina is appreciably non-linear. I think it matters in this case, because Betelgeuse is a lot smaller than the eye's "resolution" of about 1/60th degree. So its light is concentrated that much less (squared). In a supernova, the "size" of the star increases over time, though maybe not enough to matter, even for Betelgeuse.
I think your concerns are misplaced.

Things like TCP/IP and DNS are child’s play compared to the complexity of cellular baseband firmware — even for just a single 2G/3G/4G standard.

The SIM card layer is also another nightmare in itself.
I have not seen the Invincible memes.
I'm curious how many students would agree that textbooks are useful at all. My memories of college include actively finding ways to avoid having to buy textbooks and never opening a textbook if lectures were recorded. The best classes by far were seminar classes where the entire text basis for the class would be reading publications in the field - cell signaling and microbiology and others didn't have any recommended books at all. I don't remember ever using a textbook in a CS class either. I'm pretty sure GPT-4 would be infinitely more useful than a textbook in those classes considering we didn't use textbooks
Token-as-a-Service
Software to tokenize a physical object, transfer, track.

Looks to be based on Hyperledger fabric so low transaction cost.
What We Do In The Shadows is extremely queer and has managed to develop significant reach, and that makes me happy. I thought some of the jokey bi stuff in the first season would be throwaway like usual, but they keep dialing it up.

The writers are very well-versed in the vampire meta, and it shows.
Thanks, I do think we are largely in agreement. Despite me somehow needing a wall of text to communicate it all.
That's the neat part, you have now.
> A 15min downtime window announced in advance is fine for approximately 100% of SaaS businesses

What? As a customer, this would piss me off to no end and honestly be a dealbreaker for something like payments or general hosting.

It's pushing dysfunction onto your customers, and if your customers are technically experienced, they'd know it's a completely avoidable problem.
They’re nowhere near as obnoxious as evangelicals in small towns in the Bible Belt.
Possibly, will see if I can add the option to not render faces sometime in the future. Feel free to submit a feature request in the repository in the meantime. And those controls are present, zooming and rotating, click the `help` button for the current controls :)
The disadvantage with floats is you can't do accurate computations due to having an inexact representation. Python has the same issues with floats.

For example: I do a lot of work with financial software and also some basic applied cryptography. And the essential rule is to never ever use floats. Where 'decimals' are needed you want them to be simulated using integers. Python has a module called decimal which I think helps mitigate some of these issues.

I've written some code to work with accurate, large precision numbers in Python and C before. Mostly the annoying part with this is having data types for the numbers that correspond well to database fields (like uint64) or are portable (in C its easiest if you can get a u128 but this type is very compiler-specific so some hacking may be needed.)

It's fun to work on code like this but definitely needs to be precise and have good test coverage. Writing your own math libraries that are going to be used for such important operations is hair-raising stuff.
The design (term?) half of Intel is allowed to outsource to other fabs, the fab half is allowed to seek other design customers.
I’m not sure how you come to those conclusions.

You’re talking about brief intermittent literal “sticks and stones” based “warfare.”

The entire transition into the neolithic was based on violent and persistent coercive usurpation of land and resources.

So what was intermittent became persistent and over arching. For example, slavery is a nonstop, coercive warfare condition.

Further warfare itself became larger scale, bloodier and more impactful on your average citizen, with entire populations killed as opposed to people here and there in select group of class.

I can tell you that the brutality of modern wars, and when I talk about modern, I’m talking about Rwanda, World War II, the Japanese invasion in China etc…

These are unmatched in pre-agricultural periods if for no other reason than the technology and depravity of concept (copper bulls are uniquely terrifying creations of pain) didn’t exist yet.

So neither the scope, type, nor scale of persistent warfare will ever match the period 0-2000AD
How is that the other side? Israeli- and Palestinian-Americans, for example, don’t have any real reason to be on opposite sides here. (Not to mention all the American Jews who aren’t actually Israeli.)

I’m reminded of an excellent Middle Eastern restaurant in California that I went to on occasion during the Second Intifada. The had Hebrew- and Arabic language newspapers. The patrons (I assume) mostly had some form of Middle Eastern or Jewish heritage, but I don’t really know which. The falafel sandwiches were fantastic. The only sides were things like tahini and harissa. As far as I know, basically everyone who ate there wanted peace and didn’t really want any particular group to “win” the ongoing conflict.

I think the owners were Lebanese-American, but it didn’t matter.
This person didn't own this music in iTunes. They are using Apple Music, which is a subscription service that has a fluctuating catalog of music. Right now there are some 100 million songs.
I think salaries aren't as crazy as software because the while there is high demand and limited supply, there is also a limited selection of places you can do that kind of work at, while computer people have a spot in basically everything.
Israel supplies only a small percentage of Gaza water.

Israel left in 2005, the "blockade" (which ignores the third border with Egypt) started in 2007 after Hamas seized control and Israel found itself with an enemy worse than Fatah despite it's largest since the Sinai withdrawal to exchange land for peace.

Natanyahu "supporting" Hamas was a policy of containment (coupled with recent pre-Oct-7 increase in work permits to Israel amogst other overtures) and which led to the October 7th. Israelis think a ceasefire would result in resumption of containment and eventually another October 7th so no go.
It really isnt. You would be blind to think otherwise.

“I am the only one who will prevent a Palestinian state in Gaza and [the West Bank] after the war” - Netanyahu
People reading this should check out Iris[1]. I’ve been using it for about a month, and it’s the best macOS GPT client I’ve found.

[1]: https://iris.fun/
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Yeah, the moment Hamas rockets start actually hitting civilians en masse the brakes would be off.

You can’t negotiate with Hamas.
Hands up if you don't feel any closer to understanding high dimensional geometry.

I could not have imagined seeing what I was going to see, and having seen it, I still don't intuitively understand why it looked the way it did.

I suppose the problem is that I have no experience of anything but a 3D world. I can imagine 3D to 2D embeddings but nothing beyond that.
A physics textbook? For intro to physics? Instead of Khan academy? I wouldn't be surprised is a double digit percentage of students never even open their 30 year old decaying textbook in their high school physics class.
Yes, you did reference both, and I lost track in my response.

I expect a few relatively wealthy people to get some benefit, for example when they have real health conditions that can be helped by genetic knowledge. I don't expect benefit for the rest. Across the population, some will have net benefit, some will have net drawback, and it would be very easy for the second group to be an order of magnitude larger than the first.
Because if you're homeless, you totally want to stay somewhere with no social programs. Here in California, our Medicaid insurance is infinitely better than any private insurance. Why would you stay somewhere where you get zero help? I. E. Zero Medicaid expansion in conservative states
You may want to give "Breaking Bad" a try - watch the first season to see if you enjoy it.

I'm not sure if it qualifies as "cultural value" but many critics like it. I liked it too, even though I hate almost everything. It has some good acting and writing, and a compelling storyline.
Sure, that may be. But you still have to ride the first half of the curve, before it inflects. I'd rather make sure the ride isn't too bumpy.
In fact, public opposition to Hamas[0][1] is frequently cited[2] as a primary motivation for the 10/7 attack. Gazans widely viewed Hamas as corrupt and the main reason for their destitution, and overwhelmingly preferred Fatah leaders over Hamas (despite having installed Hamas primarily due to Fatah's perceived corruption).

The theory goes: if Hamas were to embarrass Israel on the public stage with a humiliating attack, this might provoke an overwhelmingly disproportionate response by Israel against Gaza, cementing the public perception of Gazans as the victims in the conflict even in light of the 10/7 aggression - and Hamas as their freedom fighters.
This in turn would attract public sympathy for Hamas, bolstering their political prospects in Palestine, meanwhile derailing Saudi peace talks that might have resulted in formal recognition of the Palestinian Authority as the legitimate sovereigns. (Neutralizing peace talks between the two greatest enemies of one of Hamas's greatest benefactors, Iran, could only be viewed as a nice "plus").

[0] https://www.arabbarometer.org/media-news/survey-sheds-light-...
[1] https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/polls-sh...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMxHU34IgyY
There was an old pulpy SF novel named Killobyte(sic) with the premis being a VR that gave increasingly (with each death) intense electric shocks as for death to increase the realism. MC was someone who didn't read the warning labels and has a pacemaker. If they die the third time it will potentially damage their pacemaker and kill them.
> How much does it cost them to lose a starship lower stage?

About the same as every rocket that has ever been launched in all of history.

i.e. even when they are successful, every rocket in history before SpaceX's Falcon 9 "loses" the lower stage.
Regradless of the issue at hand, the authors are appealing to a platform of free speech that these student bodies long ago jettisoned.
They said a transparency report was released, but they don't link to it? Anyone know where we can read this report?

Edit: Their blog post is here - https://about.netflix.com/en/news/what-we-watched-a-netflix-... and there is a download excel at the bottom
You surely know that pasting a dictionary definition is condescending, but I'll take a swing anyway.

Jews have a legitimate and ancient claim to indigeneity in the Levant. (In fact, this week's story of Chanukkah is about Jews being persecuted and evicted from from their homes in the region by a Greek empire.) Of course, Jews eventually left the region due to forcible diaspora.

Jews are obviously not the only ethnic group with a legitimate claim to the land. At least the following groups can all claim to be native to the land, for some definition of native: Turks, Ottomans, Arabs, and yes, Palestinians.

In a very real sense, the millions of Mizrahi Jews are in fact refugees from Arab countries (especially Yemen and Morocco), who fled persecution to their ancestral homeland.

But calling Israeli Jews settlers -- especially within the UN Green Line! -- is terribly inflammatory, and not particularly accurate.
Improvements in consumer AI Improve death AI. Saying nothing new here when you drop the weapon cost 10-100x is misunderstanding what leads to war.
Also, areas of Germany were given to Poland and the Soviet Union post WWII and many Germans were displaced.
> But it is an absurd request, like calling for a ceasefire between Britain and Germany at the height of World War 2.

Except, al-Qassam is not a regular military with weapons of mass destruction at its disposal. An overwhelming casualties have been civilians.

> A peace is meant to be lasting, which means people have to believe in its durability.

Just now I see Israelis calling for a war on Qatar, Iran, and Lebanon. Where does one find solution for this obsession with violence, if not in Tel Aviv? By dismantling the settlements in the West Bank and immediately moving to secure a state for the Palestinians?
Absolutely, and I'm saying that there's been a change in Egyptian policy wrt Gaza and Israel since Oct 7th. Egypt visibly stopped including the IDF in import decisions for a while leading Israel to declare that they would bomb any imports Egypt let in. https://www.gbnews.com/news/world/israel-issues-warning-to-e... Such a statement would only be required if Egypt intended to allow imports without Israel's approval. Such disagreement wrt humanitarian policies could also be seen in not wanting to be complicit in what might be seen as a crime against humanity. A "we tried to give them aid, violating our long standing agreement with Israel, and also weren't complicit in the ethnic cleansing" argument.
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Possibly unrelated but similar idea at least: in Japan a lot of the Japanese TV shows I watch don't have English subtitles available, but in the US the same shows on Netflix do have English subtitles. I don't fully understand the reasoning for this on Netflix's side.
Good time to mention that 120 MILLION people watched the series finale of MASH.

To this day it's still in the top 10 of most viewed television events with the other being primarily sports events (e.g. Super Bowl etc)
trying is the keyword here!
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Hopefully this helps https://github.com/ndavd/ncube/#but-what-am-i-actually-visua...