skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is where things like drone swarms really put a kink in this whole ethical norms thing.

I'm watching drones drop handgrenades from half the planet away in 4k on a daily basis. Moreso every military analysis out there says we need more of these and they need to control themselves so they can't be easily jammed.

It's easy to say the future will be more of the same of what we have now, that is, if you ignore the people demanding an escalation of military capabilities.
>Refaat Alareer

>Poet

Ah. One of the most known Hamas propagandists is now a mere poet.
Saying impossible under our current understanding of physics is a massive understatement. It’s would require not just new physics but a very very specific kind of universe with zero evidence in support of it.

Suggesting the singularity is physically possible is roughly like suggesting that human telekinesis is possible, ie physics would need many very interesting errors.
How do you expect Palestine to defend itself against an enemy that lives next door and is indistinguishable from the citizenry? Doing nothing is not an option: Israel's explicit, public goal is the annihilation of Palestine, and they are right next door.

The reality is, there is no good solution. Because Israel has engineered it that way, not Palestine, not Hamas.
You do realize that Israel left Gaza alone in 2005? Everything that is happening since then is the direct result of what Palestinians did since then.

Netanyahu uses this situation to stay in power. He has no plans beyond that.
I'm not sure if this is exactly what that paper is referring to, but a real neutron firing is not like an artificial one firing.

An artificial one always fires on a fixed clock, as you say, but some numeric output says how much it is firing.

With a real neuron, it either fires or it doesn't, there's no numeric intensity. But how often it fires says how intense the response is.

So that does agree with your overall statement that they're not very good analogues... At the very least, their mechanism is quite different. But it does mean that the 600Hz figure is quite misleading, because it's only after a period somewhat longer than 1/600th of a second that you can start to understand the intensity of the output.
Part of the reason CoPilot is so good is that they reportedly ingested a huge chunk of GitHub. Now that everyone's onto this scam where they're not getting paid to help train some model, there's legal challenges to the legality of this approach, and a move back towards self-hosted infrastructure. If there's an injunction and a ruling on that legality, it may be that GPT-4 will be the only model that will ever be trained on a codebase as large as GitHub.
It doesn’t look like Stéphane has a direct problem with Canonical or anyone else using his code - it’s why he licensed it under Apache in the first place. He’s mostly calling attention to the attempt to relicense as AGPLv3 some code that Canonical has no authority to relicense.

The fact that contributions to LXD are now under AGPLv3 and require signing canonical’s much maligned CLA are concerns but I think the author nuances them well : it’s unfortunate (in his pov - me, I always prefer a Copy left license) but well within Canonical’s rights.

(Edit: Stéphane beat me by a minute and explains his own position better than I could ;)
Mobile standards themselves are largely driven by groups like 3GPP in order to hopefully skirt around oligopolies like Qualcomm who intentionally patent the entire superset of the Latin alphabet in order to sue anyone with a heartbeat.

So, security itself is driven by third party organization(s) that consists of engineers from mobile technology companies. If Qualcomm wants their cell modems to be 3GPP certified, they _must_ comply to the 5G standard in it's fullest, including all security features (the same will be true for future revisions, 6G, etc)

There's also groups attempting to make mobile protocols and provisioning entirely open source (O-RAN) which, ironically, will likely improve mobile protocol implementation security practices as they can be audited by anyone with an internet connection.
Same thing that prevents them from having the leading Cloud offering?
That is an excellent point. There have to be people with enough disposable income to take Ubers and order from Amazon.
Islamic terrorism has roots in Arab nationalism that has risen after collapse of Ottoman Empire. Sure, you can see the fall of Ottoman Empire as a result of Western foreign policy, but even late Ottoman Empire was not such a peaceful place, and committed several well-described genocides.

Since then every country in Middle East existed in one of two modes:

1. Murderous dictatorship (sometimes supporting terrorist groups)

2. Failed state controlled by various terrorist groups.

The only thing the West has arguably been doing in the XX century is moving countries from first category to the second one.

Israel is a happy exception here, although it has many flaws compared to democracies established in more peaceful regions
So you're telling me the dumbest richest human is holding us hostage.
How many flights do they want to get out of each rocket? For Falcon 9 the current record seems to be 18 which would be about one moon mission. They will have to go far beyond that, otherwise it would essentially be an expendable system - one rocket, one mission, just with a couple of launches each costing time and money and probably increasing the risk. Then again, if one does the accounting in terms of mass delivered to the moon, it would probably look more favorable even if they could only get one mission out of each rocket.
> - there are only three big players in town: Qualcomm, Mediatek and Samsung, and the latter is pretty rare to find outside of Samsung's own devices

For basebands yes. I'll complete this for a quick overview for IMS/VoLTE, which is often in baseband, but not always. (And VoLTE is at least partly what the article is about, and the last public Pixel remote flaw was caused by VoLTE)

Just to give a quick approximate overlook:

- If you're on a Verizon-branded device, Verizon probably made their own IMS implementation mandatory [1]

- If you're on a Samsung or LGE-branded device (no matter the SoC), they use their own IMS implementation [1]

- If you're using a non-Samsung-branded Samsung Silicon device (=SLSI: Pixels, Moto One Action and few others), they use a different IMS implementation than the IMS Samsung uses in their smartphones

- In other cases, you're indeed likely using the IMS/VoLTE implementation provided by the baseband/SoC vendor

As far as I know, the implementations I've marked with [1] are at least partially [2] done in userland in application processor rather than in modem, but it's hard understanding really. The ones that are not marked with [1] are in modem afaik.

[2] Partially meaning the annoying protocol stuff, but audio encoding/decoding + RTP encapsulation might remain in hardware
The same. Also the one who spec'd JSON.
I hope this will contribute to strengthening open source solutions.
For some reason, the acceptable ads program from eyeo led them to allow some of the worst, chumboxy paid content - as far as I remember.

Coincidentally, the effort was paid for by the very same companies that ended up on the whitelist. From the outside, at least, this gave the impression that the whitelisting was simply paid for and covered up by a fig leaf process.

I haven't checked in a while, but that program always struck me as deeply problematic.

Today, that no longer matters, as ublock origin has emerged as a time-tested, no-compromise, user-choice content blocking solution.
Unlimited Indemnity for Unpaid Developers?
What I have heard from people I know in the industry is that the proposal they are talking about now is to restrict all models over 20 billion parameters. This arbitrary rule would be a massive moat to the few companies that have these models already.
I really hope you got in to Pantera and Slayer afterwards.
Every homeopathic eye drop should be pulled off the market, FDA says
You can, kind of. It's not pretty though.

Unless you have a remarkably specific need, disabling GC is almost always the wrong path.

The "correct" way is to manipulate GC. You can suspend, manually start a GC run, pin memory, exempt an object from GC, and a few other things I've never played with.

AFAIK the only thing you can't do is immediately deallocate an object. But honestly I can't come up with a situation where an object must be deallocated immediately. Depending on your exact use case, there's ways around that if you really, really need to.

In general, the GC will almost always perform better than any manual manipulation you'd do to it. The main "acceptable" use is suspending GC inside very hot code and deferring the collection until your program is less busy. Like suspending GC while processing one frame in a game, and manually running GC in the space between frames. Even then, this is still discouraged.

Out of curiosity, what's your use case here? I really can't think of any situation that doesn't have a better solution.
Or a DNA fragment?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38555655
Do you have an Answer.AI discord? Could you start one please?
Google already tried this 15 years ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Search_Appliance
You just happened to post a day after "Ruby 3.3.0-Rc1 Released" "many performance improvements especially YJIT"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38599293
Not quite the same, but I negotiated my current role while on a stroll around the neighborhood with the CTO. Really gave me a fresh perspective on how to do important meetings differently from now on.
And yet spacex was profitable this year.
So if it’s true that they are spending $2B per year on starship while being profitable it’s unbelievably good for them.
It's coming whether the Chinese tariffs go away or not. BYD is building a manufacturing plant in Mexico. Mexican built cars are tariff free.
We are, sadly,practically twins in this.

My mom died from lung cancer at 50. Horrible horrible way to go. My dad is 79 and (thankfully) going reasonably well. Bit started smoking in early early teens ;-(
My best wishes for your fork!
Are nuclear weapons and their effects only hypothesized to exist? You could still create cults around them, for example, by claiming nuclear war is imminent or needed or some other end-of-times view.
Licenses don't typically allow licensees to re-license code. You can use Apache v2 code in a proprietary or AGPL product and redistribute binaries or other source code derived from it under any other license, but you can't change the license of the original code: anyone can still use it under the Apache license.

Conversely, a copyright holder may re-license code. Depending on the exact terms of the old license, this may mean that you are no longer allowed to use it under the old license (at least, not unless you got it from someone who legally obtained it back when it had the old license).

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.
A series of blog posts about it[1]: https://aiascendant.substack.com/p/extropias-children-chapte...

[1] I think, this is Yudkowsky, Lesswrong, MIRI, the doom cult it became, the crazy revelations like https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MnFqyPLqbiKL8nSR7/my-experie... and https://old.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/qa14kg/my_e...
Changes to the consumer law in Norway tries to account for digital services that a product you bought had at the time of purchase and that no longer work. Also where a lack of an update has caused something to not work an expected.

The actual ramifications of this are yet to be seen, since the changes come into effect from next year. It will be interesting if this means that apps need to be updated to support new iOS and android versions, or if phones will need to get security updates, or if cloud services must be available, or if a feature can be removed from an app or not.
I grew up in Texas and now live in Tennessee. I would say the states are, in general, equally conservative.

However, Tennessee is WAY more OLD MONEY CORRUPT than Texas [even with Mr. Paxton back in his seat] good-ole-boys could ever dream up.

¢¢
And meta doesn't? They released LLAMA2 and many other models.

Microsoft has a play, meta has a play and google has? A fear of failing? I am not sure....
This is a wonderful gold mine for data geeks. The real question to me is why Netflix is releasing this. It's a massive boon for their competitors. My instinct is they either were hacked/people were able to game the recommendations enough to get at it that they decided to just share it. Unexpected.
Also, alcohol causes cancer.

https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/causes-of-canc...
The reason they need the CLA is to exempt themselves from the burdens of the AGPL license, however.

It's not much work to use Apache 2.0 in a proprietary (or AGPLv3) project. Unlike the AGPLv3 it doesn't impose many burdens or the project using it.
As a sibling comment mentioned, I think the US was both held to a high standard and determined to be failing that standard during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Reports of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, the Nisour Square massacre, etc.

And while it might be frustrating to expect one side to behave without having similar expectations for the other side, I again offer up the US wars in the Middle East as an analogous situation where ISIS wasn't being held to the same expectations of warfare as the US was.

None of the above is to excuse what Hamas has done/is doing, naturally. Just to point out that this isn't the first time and that in the longer context of history, Israel isn't somehow being singled out as an exception.
It's time for someone else to replace Canonical, that's all I can read from this. We can expect more of this rubbish in the future.
> It's a ground invasion in which they tell civilians to evacuate beforehand.

As required by international law reaching back to the Hague Convention in 1907 (and with precedent earlier.)

> given that Hamas is maybe 10% of the population

Hamas is closer to 1% of the population (20-25,000 [0] out of 2.4 million population of Gaza.)

[0] https://www.dni.gov/nctc/ftos/hamas_fto.html
I was referring to the language people use to convert other humans into objects or automatons.

But if you deny the addict any agency, you deny the possibility of eventual recovery. One could also point to the Sacklers as the ones with agency in that scenario. But somebody made choices; it didn’t just happen and there’s nothing that anyone could have done.
It’s owned by the Rust Foundation.
I don't get it. Merchandising is still huge business. Just look at Disney toy sales. Why don't Hasbro invest in new IP?
A former colleague died of throat cancer. He was an avid tobacco chewer.
As a former CEO of a pharma startup I can tell you that you can buy this information as well. Really useful for market research, but shit for patient privacy.
That is a common argument. If you spend time arguing with people about housing costs, houses in less desirable areas often turn out not to count for various reasons.

It makes a lot more sense to talk about how to support cheaper communities and migrate people to them than it does to bring down housing costs in expensive areas where the locals are fighting back against bringing in new people.
Not to downplay the absolute behemoth of a task they manage to pull out successfully...but why not upgrading as new versions came along, with less fanfare?

It is a great read, but I can't shake the feeling that it's about a bunch of sailors that, instead of going around a huge storm, decided to go through it knowing fully well that it could end in tragedy.

Is the small upgrades out of the question in this case? As in "each small one costs us as much downtime as a big one, so we put it off for as long as we could" (they hint at that in the intro, but I might be reading too much into it).
Actually working on something like that right now. Hopefully have a rough prototype in a month or so.
I completely agree. I was just saying for the person I replied to that maybe Reddit was more their thing, which is fine. I still use Reddit for some things. It can be a really great resource at times. But I much prefer to spend my time on HN, overall.

And yes, the community and moderation here are a literal breath of fresh air compared to most of Reddit.
Except Heroku has an issue of your backup etc is too large (despite paying for the correct size), it would cause the replica to go down and spin up a new one, and this process could take hours.
Also food causes heart disease, and cancer.
What about VP9? And any of the other codecs that Netflix uses (I'll assume AV1 is one they currently use)?
Would you also argue that radon gas is fine because radiation is a radioisotope problem not a radon-specific one?

The point of AI is to automate stuff.
Again, John Carmack.
he was a consultant for the tobacco industry. I think he may have raised some legitimate questions of what constitutes "sufficient evidence" for making large-scale public health policy. But yes, I think his position mostly came from his biases.
"Their ancestors lost their homes when they needlessly started, and then lost, a war" - the Palestinian villagers did not start any wars - the war was started by the rulers of neighboring states...
I have no idea how much of this is true. Caveat emptor.
pjmlp's claim is: there are people out there who over-hype WASM, who claim that simply compiling a C program to WASM will automatically make it secure. pjmlp is claiming that these over-hyped claims are wrong (in their words: "programs inside the sandbox can still be tricked into internal memory corruption"). You agree that those over-hyped claims are wrong (in your own words: "compiling C to webasm doesn't fix C bugs within the local memory space of webasm"). I agree that those over-hyped claims are wrong.

If one wants to argue against pjmlp (as you and I both do), there are two ways to go: 1) you can say that nobody is making those claims, or 2) you can say that if people are making those claims, the problem is with those people, not WASM.

I choose #2, because it seems plausible to me that VC-backed startup types over-hype WASM. If I was more familiar with the discourse around WASM, I might try to argue #1 if I thought I could demonstrate that over-hyping WASM doesn't really happen. Maybe you could go the burden of proof route, that it's their responsibility to prove that people are over-hyping WASM and take the discussion from there.

But you ... don't seem to be engaging with the argument. You agree that "compiling C to wasm doesn't fix C bugs within the local memory space of wasm", yet you say that "the claim of insecurity is not being backed up by anything" when the claim of insecurity is that compiling C to wasm doesn't fix C bugs within the local memory space of wasm. That's literally what was meant by "internal memory corruption" in pjmlp's very first comment which mentioned the security angle. Again, they're wrong to mention this as a flaw of WASM because making C code resistant against "internal memory corruption" was never a goal of WASM, but that doesn't mean that their "claim of insecurity" is wrong.

To show an example of the kind of exploit pjmlp is talking about, just take any C program with some kind of exploitable buffer overflow, run it in wasmtime or wasmer or whatever, and exploit the buffer overflow. Maybe the buffer overflow lets an attacker write 101 bytes to a 100 byte buffer and therefore flip an "isAdministrator" flag from 0 to 1. You, I and pjmlp all agree that such security issues can exist; WASM doesn't magically protect C code from memory corruption. And that is not a flaw in WASM, which is what your argument should be focusing on.
What's beyond that is science fiction.

If there is anything "beyond" that at all, I think it's pretty safe to say that any idea we have as to what it would be is very unlikely to be anywhere near the realm of correct.
It's definitely in large part genetic. Similar to how some people get sick frequently and others don't - the immune system plays a large part in someone's risk for developing cancer but we've only started really internalizing that in medical research over the last decade or two.
That’s what I like about Go. The platform is prescriptive, but in all the right places. For things like this, Go leaves the abstraction building to you, if you need it.
Google Loses Court Fight over App Store with Makers of Fortnite
VR hasn't solved the problem of "legs". Which are pretty important in FPS.

It's great for playing games based on standing in one place and blasting, but that's the same genre as Time Crisis and Duck Hunt.
I similarly didn't know much about him beyond being the JSON/JS-book guy, but found this podcast episode very enjoyable https://corecursive.com/json-vs-xml-douglas-crockford/ in which he details a cool career. Recommended listen when you have the time.
> Instead of coming up with conspiracy theories we could consider what other options there are. There are effectively only three powers which could control Gaza if/when Hamas is defeat: Egypt, Israel and the PA.

I'm sorry, but the US installing powers that are favorable to it is not a conspiracy theory. It's a conspiracy fact. How do you think Pinochet and others happened? It certainly wasn't organic (at least not entirely so).

Anyway, regarding the options, there's technically a few more like Jordan or other arab states, or a new organization arising (albeit in reality the US and others would intervene to stop them taking power). But beyond those quibbles I don't disagree with you that there's no good options, I'm just stating my belief that if we support organization X, it's because organization X is directly controlled by us or indirectly its incentives align well with our own.

> Well to some extent Hamas was the closest they got to that for decades.

Agreed fully, and that's one of the problems.

> I'm almost certain that stupidity and incompetence (and one might guess a good dose of corruption) rather than outright malice or imperialism were to blame for that entire disaster.

Why not both? Imperialism is a pretty stupid ideology, at least if one's goal is to keep one's country safe and powerful. If one's goal is to extract resources from one's own country at the cost of lots of bloodshed of your citizens and others', then it achieves the goal fine.
https://archive.ph/lgDjJ
>Without competition, it's not a true free market as the companies have no incentive to improve since everyone just has to deal with their subpar product or forego it all together.

South Park captures this best by having their cableguys rub their nipples when complaining cartoon characters ask for better service/treatment. "What're'you gonna'do 'bout'it?!" the South Park Cable Guys mockingly ask.

Nothing. You'll DO NOTHING and be happy. Perhaps the beatings will end when morale improves? [avg joe gets community fiber for $60/month] "Is this socialism? Is socialism wrong?"
You also see dependencies early. Even if you never get to use the refuelling mechanism, you’ll gain data on how the reserved fuel sloshes and alters flight characteristics. This refines your models and may give clues as to efficiency gains that otherwise would have been an afterthought or, more likely, scrapped in the face of a deadline.