skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spoofs masquerade using confirmed serial numbers. In the case of Hackintoshes you manually repeat activation until you get a valid serial number; I don't know what Beeper's implementation does.

So Apple can maintain this database but they still have the problem of proving that a serial number attestation, sending all the right information, is from that actual hardware and not a spoof of the hardware.

Without intensely protected cryptography like the T1/T2 enclaves, there is nothing legitimate hardware can send that can't be mimicked once the protocol is reversed. Maintaining a stricter database of unsold and destroyed products can only slow down activation, not stop it.

That means Apple would have to use other means to determine whether an attestation is valid like number of sign-ins, locations, the user trying to sign in, etc. If it enforces any of these, it will lock out and anger more legitimate users than it will block Hackintoshes and Android iMessage clients.

Hopefully that makes sense. Apologies if this is a repeat of previous answers.
Pex is used in water supply, not drain and vent.
A black hole has a mass, and a volume defined by its event horizon.

From that you can compute a density number, but I agree it's not quite the same concept as the density of water.
Quicktake for Apple II
Short answer: No.

Longer answer: Let's assume you have a "star" (more later) and teleport it into the middle of a Jupiter-like object or other such planet. Jupiter isn't a stars and generally once you get to about thirteen Jupiter masses, fusion begins (for a gas giant) and now it is a star. So, let's go over our stars:

1) Red dwarf: This is the largest "star" object that might fit inside of Jupiter. Some are only 70,000 kilometers in diameter and so could fit inside of Jupiter. Upon teleportation, equilibrium is disturbed and the surface of the red dwarf, pulling upon the gases at hundreds of gs, simply absorbs the gas giant with some alacrity. Likely some stellar brightening, changes in color, for a while.

2) White dwarf: Smaller than a red dwarf, their diameters are only a few thousand kilometers, give or take. You get the same results as a red dwarf but, if the gas giant absorbed has enough matter or the white dwarf is already on the edge, you might get a nova. Not a supernova, that's a different system and a different process. Just a nova.

3) Neutron star: Much smaller than your white dwarf and it will have a larger mass. Again you get a collapse of the gas giant but likely no nova since the gas hits the surface and its electron degeneracy pressure is overcome, blah blah, and everything turns into just another layer of neutrons.

4) Black hole: Not really a star any longer, but some older classifications included it and I will add it for completeness' sake. Much like #3, but instead of neutrons the black hole simply increases in size. You may or may not get an accretion disc, depending on the rotations of your gas giant and your black hole.

So, in all four cases, none of the stars could exist within the gas giant where the gas giant would remain stable.
> • Crashes per mile on each manufacturer's "self-driving" systems

...counting miles where self-driving was activated including the 5 minutes afterwards — https://www.motortrend.com/news/nhtsa-tesla-autopilot-invest...

(Honi soit qui mal y pense.)
Well, my statement was for _cash_ transactions, and why I mentioned arbitrage.

We could as easily add a 1/1000th unit to the dollar, and mandate that for cash transactions round to the 1/10th but for credit and other electronic transactions they'd be to the "iota" or some other charming term for the millidollar. I'm pretty sure that aeons ago there were half pennies, so it isn't completely absurd.

Also, I'm pretty sure that in the not so distant past stocks used some weird fraction of dollars not decimals[1].

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/why-nyse-switch-fra...

[edited to add example of fractionally denominated stock prices]

[edit2: ah, sorry you mentioned the fractional stock issue with the observation "precise values are good" which they are. I still retain my position that, for retail cash based commerce, precise values are less valuable than the time invested in the transaction. ]
It reacts with acids and bases, so using the other half of drain cleaners that are sulfuric or hydrochloric acid won't help.
As you say, The crucial aspect here is “yet” meaning at the moment, no. In the future, maybe yes, maybe still no.

Until and if that day comes, then yes. But right now it's no. Speculation is speculation.
I’m not aware yet that any cryptocurrency has been proven fully impossible to deanonymize, especially if there’s any off ramps anywhere.

For example: https://crypto.stanford.edu/timings/paper.pdf is for zcash and monero

It’s possible that someone comes up with a robust mechanism but if you interact with any other coin (crypto or fiat) it can expose additional side channels that are impossible to close.
Could you provide evidence? How do we differentiate these claims from the many others, in many domains, that blame hidden powers?
You’re picturing a system where high-skill jobs are created and low skill jobs are destroyed while the rest of the system remain static.

Consider an alternative dynamic: High-skill jobs created by AI will drain the brains from the next lower level skill jobs, which will open up promotion opportunities from even lower skill levels, creating openings at those levels as well. It’s turtles all the way down.

Not saying it’s true, but it could play out that way.
This is like conspiracy theory but for Astrophysics
You get less dynamic power loss. Static power hasn’t been as forgiving for a while now though.
What's the hassle of a cryptic grub prompt on a machine that might or might not have a screen or keyboard?
I hadn't known this until recently, but it's theorized that in the early universe there were super huge stars that had black holes in them - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-star
I don’t see them doing direct sales and it looks like a cloud offerings.

For training the big part of using these things isn’t batching it’s mainly designing the network and cleaning the data and then training it to get results. Training involves batching but it’s already baked in to libraries .

For inference you take the trained model which is huge and load it into memory and then take the model and have it predict output. The design of this architecture is to not use quantization because lower precision means you want to use less memory while this has a huge amount of memory . To handle multiple users requests you don’t do batching a message queue with multiple receivers it copies of the latest trained model would work.
A bit above where he mentions checking a bag, he says:

> But in our context, I am not a tourist. First, I need to perform, second, where I go I may not have shops. Or much of anything really.

Just the supplies to stay functional without being able to rely on any local infra (food/water/shelter/medical) makes not having a checked bag challenging IMO.

I'm on-roster with a tech NGO (sounds like he does something similar?) and travel with a duffel that gets checked in addition to my carry-on backpack.
Backpack has "here and now" stuff. A change of clothes, lots of socks, laptops, GPS, satphone, granola bars. Basically whatever I need to live for a day or two and get started doing site surveys so I'm not totally useless even if the duffel gets held up or lost.

Duffel gets _everything_(1) that I need to do what I've been sent to do, which gets bulky and usually makes airport security unhappy: Tools (EMT shears(2), multitool, screwdriver, wrenches to assemble VSAT dishes, ethernet crimpers, etc). Food/MREs for half a week of working hard, maybe a small drone if it's legal. Sometimes cable and network equipment if it's a small response and nobody is pulling stocks from UNHRD.

Granted, I usually do field networking instead of coding, but the basic idea is the same. Sometimes you have to do the project even if it means sleeping in a house with no roof on an island with no power after a hurricane.

1. Technically, everything short of local transportation.
2. TSA doesn't mind the EMT shears, but airports south of the equator kept confiscating mine.
It does seem fitting that an actuary would win this considering how much of their work day and job description revolves around Excel and what it can do
Don’t even need to be squeezed out. Here’s an attack on zcash: https://crypto.stanford.edu/timings/paper.pdf

Most private crypto coins are private by declaration rather than robust mathematical proofs (often because proving the absence of side channels is very difficult)
It's a 10ft drain pipe, Michael. What could it cost? $500?
I mean yeah, this is transparently a BSD esque project it looks like, as in its pretty clearly tailored specifically to provide the kinds of features professional systems programmers and admins have been clamoring for from Linux for a very long time. Chimera is basically exactly what FreeBSD is but with a Linux kernel (for instance, clang/LLVM as the system compiler and lack of glibc as system libc), I'd imagine there is substantial overlap in our communities. I'll also add that I think these are worthwhile and long overdo technical improvements over the very substandard and strictly worse-than-unix situation in common Linux distros these days. So I support the project, if only to support something that can hopefully prevent Linux from completing its transition into utter shit.

You are spot on about this project I think in your analysis and I think it simply isn't ever going to be something everybody will want to use. That's okay, like you said, some don't want to participate in operating system development, you are mostly looking to be a user. There are plenty of free and open source operating systems that will mostly provide that kind of experience for you. The intent with something like Chimera is probably to dogfood these sorts of improvements so that other more user friendly distributions can use it as an upstream source in the future. So maybe one day we will see a more user friendly version of this.
Well at least as a new hire you know to get out, early on. So there's that.
This!

Just pass both the content and query through unidecode and some simple filter that removes stop words and cruft in the content, works wonders for autocomplete. Applying that idea to true full-text search is somewhat more involved (you have to somehow produce a stemmer that works on the output of unidecode), but doable and it works.
GNU is defined as what it is; that it is an operating system and that it is free software.

"What is GNU?
GNU is an operating system that is free software—that is, it respects users' freedom."

https://www.gnu.org

Although GNU stands for "GNU is NOT Unix" that doesn't count as its a boomer hacker meme that started before GNU.
It's two issues. The fifth amendment covers both. The court covers both. That your silence is not incriminating is a natural and mandatory extension of the right to be silent.
Commenter is referring to the case where life is a common occurrence as an "an evolutionary emergent phenomenon where inorganic material reactions create life" in contrast to the case where life has only happened once, which would be more like an extremely lucky fluke where inorganic material reactions create life.
My experience is completely different. I've painstakingly scanned my family's old pictures, transcribed the letters they wrote when on holiday, and still have some school crafts made by my grandparents.

After the death of one of my great uncles who died childless I picked up his photo and music collection. And I discovered the grandfather of a friend of mine in one of his holiday pictures, turns out they used to be friends and we had no idea.
Building a better salt substitute: New formula helps reduce high blood pressure
PVC is also made in CTS size, it's very commonly used for underground service lines to homes.

Less common inside a home, but certainly available.
This is a good point, and by your example it's obviously feasible to find enough of a "collision" on both ends of the digest to make it look like a match at a careless first glance.

In your particular example, I counted at least 96 bits that match on the ends (in total...from 48 bits on each end), and now I'm curious what kind of hardware you used and how long it took to find this match.
Kafka was made 15 years ago.
They look pretty much the same with what I see when I visit the nearest highest peak in the place I live. Not convinced, not trolling, I am trying to ask fair questions.
Waugh is sometimes playfully credited with being "the first person to put two feet on top of Mount Everest".
I used to agree with this, I no longer do. There was an interesting read on HN yesterday coincidentally that articulates a part of my reasoning, https://www.devever.net/~hl/ruthlessness

The difference is that machines have no agency. Imagine a scenario where on roads with 100% human driving, the most of the people that are killed are PCP addled people running naked across freeways where they aren't expected to be, but with self driving you have 50% grandmas walking with babies in a stroller across crosswalks. We don't have to say that one life is more valuable than another to come to the conclusion that the latter is worse, all we have to do is acknowledge the pedestrian's portion of the responsibility for the outcome.

With that in mind, your last sentence is false, the aggregate death count is not all that matters, what matters is the situations in which they occur.

Now let's think about the link in this comment. We begin to form the rules of crossing a street around the behaviors of machines. Not unreasonable. But then it's just a small step from there to "you should've known how the machine was going to behave because it's behavior is simple and predictable." We wind up in a situation where we absolve the self driving car of all liability when an accident occurs because the only entity involved with agency was the pedestrian. We do this already with train tracks.

So with that in mind, the machine systems killing less people is not enough, it has to be so good that the only deaths are suicides, unbelievably bad behavior by those killed, or freak accidents so unlikely that they genuinely shock everyone who learns of them. That's the only way to transition from humans to software operating the machines and be able to justify the ruthlessness with which machines operate themselves.
Don't have any numbers myself, but per persons who recently attended KubeCon China earlier this year they have not seen Shanghai this empty of tourists in years. Also, supported by a friend of mine who was head of accounting for a cosumer goods firm over there until recently.
McDonalds serves BILLIONS. Still garbage.
The point is that the number of “nanometers” has precious little physical significance anymore. It’s just a version number that counts downwards.
Am I missing some demos of LLM’s producing jr. Dev level work, because from my experience this seems implausible.
So the goal here is not 100% full autonomy?
The problem here is with the hosted service, not the database itself or its performance.
Ghosts on the Glacier
A few days ago it was reported that Chine companies started producing 5nm chips (model Kirin 9006C) - many years earlier than US government expected they will be able to do so. With this insane progress I will not wonder if Chinese companies start mass producing 2nm chips earlier than anyone else.
Once the automatic coins are mined, the idea is you pay miners a tip to get your transactions completed.

I'm more curious how they plan to handle a drop in popularity from a security standpoint. Will the total compute always need to remain high enough to keep a bad actor from dominating? As popularity wanes that sounds expensive.
Any legislation stemming from this effort would (and should) ostensibly forbid the import of said material, otherwise the production will shift overseas while usage will not noticably change.
Which sounds like more of a disadvantage if you are running a firewall.
SNI is absolutely needed. Over at https://pico.sh we have to request an IP for each ssh server even though from a resource perspective we really only need 1 VM. It increases the complexity of our deployments and overall makes us want to figure out how to merge all of our SSH apps into one.
Peer review in its original intent is about validating that this particular paper is following scientific method. And that it is not completely made up or plagiarized. And most importantly is an honest try, not committing obvious mistakes and that the conclusion is supported by some evidence. People sometime confuse peer-reviewed with peer-checked which means in most cases reproduced independently. Of course in some fields things get complicated but the core idea of peer-reviewed is the same. You can consider it as an effort to maximize signal to noise ratio in science more than fact checking process
Induction welding joins metal foams without cramping their style
Somewhere around Black sea.
I see them as a restricted (so, less powerful than a goto). That’s why they are better. Perhaps that’s what you meant when you said “stronger”
WaPo article says:

>If you do decide you want that information in the cloud — say, as a backup for when you get a new phone — the data will be encrypted.

So maybe it'll still be available? https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/12/14/google-...
Has anyone here used Cody? Any thoughts or opinions on it?
Seems easier to just break Beeper's implementation a few times. No one wants to use a messaging service that works sometimes.
In traditional Australia Tea meaning Tea the drink .. vast quantities have been consumed here, at least until the rise of the coffee shop - but the main thing is water is mostly boiled before drinking - flavour added.

It was once universal custom in Australia to offer either tea or a beer when someone arrived - rehydration in a hot country is a thing to do.

"Have you finished that drink yet" - depending on inflection it's either an offer of another or a strong cue to hit the road.
Unless it's not.
All a matter of perspective. Did you lose $10 mil to avoid losing $1 billion in wasted effort?

Totally worth it. Your entire org also learned in the process.
> Anyone who's not an Arch/Kali/BSD/suckless enthusiast type

Not sure if Arch should be grouped with those. On the Steam statistics it's more popular than ubuntu, and that's not counting SteamOS.
Body Awareness: Scientists Give Robots a Basic Sense of 'Proprioception'
Wouldn't the next civilization just find itself mining the remains of human cities? IIRC, the majority of the copper ever extracted is still in use.
The interesting thing about that is that while a fairly impressive number of the beginning and end values match, a trivial side-by-side comparison glance makes it clear they don't match even if you don't directly compare any of the digits. I think humans are actually pretty good at this task if they approach it more like humans than machines and just give the two values a quick glance with the intent of spotting differences rather than a nibble by nibble comparison.
Title was a bit of a letdown. I was hoping for a discussion of silicon planar transformers (like, the electrical component), which are of increasing interest in RF ICs. :)
It says lead free though. Are you sure it’s not actually lead free brass and not the free machining kind?
it would only be a pinhole at first, though start to grow quite rapidly(? no idea in what time scale?) and at some point consume the sun quite violently from within, no?
isostick also does this in hardware, $99:
http://isostick.com/
Yes, but black holes are bigger on the inside than on the outside, right? :)
This is why you shouldn’t drink or cook with hot water supply.

https://www.epa.gov/lead/why-cant-i-use-hot-water-tap-drinki...
I'm pretty sure even if CF went rouge you'd be able to keep your SSH connections ad free for a low $1.99/month subscription.
It is, and afaik no Voyager probe has been destroyed by the Klingons.
> The worst feeling is "cleaning up" some code, discovering the edge case under which the "simple" case fails, then re-implementing the same solution.

Whenever I encounter this I:

1. Add a comment explaining why the complexity is needed, because it will happen again.

2. Add it to my mental list of case examples of when I need to add a comment explaining something the first time I write it.
Tell that to my local newspaper. Most things come to an end at some point.
It's not exactly so right on the hardware level. Many architectures, including the ubiquitous x64, have an ability to add a direct offset to a memory-access operation (like mov), or efficiently compute the address with an offset and element size (like lea). This removes an extra pointer deteference, which may be hugely expensive.

With a cache-friendly structure like array, the one dereference you may need for the array access has a high chance to be served from L2 or L1, saving you a lot of clocks, because RAM has huge latency.
Had computers proceeded trains through you would be OK since UK had a time zone per town. Train timetables encouraged the single timezone.
If you have the available RAM/SSD for a birthday attack, you only need 48 bits worth of complexity, which makes this a manageable problem. I suppose the ASICs for bitcoin mining don't have the needed bandwidth to storage devices which would put my guess onto GPUs. Assuming 32 bytes of storage per hash (probably more but you wouldn't store the full hash, instead a hash table with the prefix+postfix up to a certain amount, then of course some hash table management overhead), you'd have to write around 9 PB if you write once, 1 petabyte if you write 64 times, for the raw hashes only.
Liquid-cooled laptop features EPYC 64-Core Zen 4 CPU and RTX 4080
"Deathrow prisoners are a non starter"

For me, deathrow itself is a non starter. I get your point about ... well, I remember New Scientist used to have a back page cartoon called "Albert the experimental rat". I'm still a subscriber but Albert was consigned to the history books a few years back.

I note your point about plants being "more alive" but I think that plants are perhaps more complicated, rather than more alive. The interplay between fungi and trees is quite well documented now and getting more interesting.

We might like to do some more basic studies first, before involving torture on non humans. For example:

When the covid-19 pandemic really kicked off, critical care wards fairly quickly discovered that lying intubated patients on their side instead of back sometimes helped. How on earth did that become a thing? Ask anyone with, say: a history of breathlessness due to long term smoking - "do you have a preferred side to sleep on, or your back?"

How about sciatica? I have largely cured mine. I am now 53. I used to have episodes lasting from a few days to a few months of crippling pain. I suffered from it starting around age 30ish.

I used to keep my wallet in my back pocket. I put 2+2 together aged around 48 and around five years later, I don't have sciatica any more. Just to ram the point home: I kept a leather wallet in my right back pocket. It was a hard surface under my bum and must have caused occasional damage to one of my sciatic nerves.

Top tip: sit on your arse and nothing else!

I'm an IT bod and I have to occasionally pick up SANs weighing something like 50Kg - for the last few years, that's not a problem: My back is fine now.
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Chimera uses the scudo allocator, which is Ajay also the default on Android and Fuscia.

Yet I can't find many benchmarks.

Frustratingly, it's listed here, but not actually included in the results:
https://github.com/daanx/mimalloc-bench
Might be fun trying to run the benchmarks myself.
I see what you’re saying about social contract, but by that logic any speculative investment vehicle becomes money.