skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The creator, gingerbill, uses it to build real time flame and smoke rendering [0]. AFAIK they have vectors and matrices built into the stdlib as well as various graphics apis[1].

So I'd say from what I know the niche is "batteries included high performance code that can target the gpu"

[0]https://jangafx.com/software/embergen/

[1]https://odin-lang.org/news/major-graphics-apis/
I think you might be proceeding backwards from your premises here, rather than proceeding from the evidence. Saying that people voluntarily being celibate are victims is a bit of a red flag. Do you think not having sex is an illness?
Almost all the links you provided show USA having a higher quality of life than France in almost every way. For instance the first link of the google search (at least for me) was

> https://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/compare_countries_res...

And then this

>https://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/countries/france/

shows USA as having in some ways having dramatically higher quality of life metrics, and minimally lacking only in a couple of ways.

I think it's sad because the problems France has could easily be fixed by liberalizing and minimizing the economics. But the french people are extremely against that and so it will practically not happen. And France is rich enough due to historical reasons that it'll probably never be compelled to do so.

Of course, USA should really be compared with EU, not a state like France. Comparing individual US states to France would be more accurate. Unfortunately, such metrics aren't usually available since USA is always considered a single entity in these reports.
I was trying to come up with a metric and threw that out because there is also more effort in creating ransomware and software ubiquity now.

Thought about CVE counts, but that has methodological problems too.
This is a fascinating take: what do you suggest the proper response would be to the current event you referenced in light of your opinion that any response will only radicalize the local population?
Yes but generally when curtailing free speech courts apply strict scrutiny, and even minors are generally understood to have the right to produce and accept speech, banning someone from viewing all visual depictions of sex outright seems overbroad even if only a minority is not 'harmful', whatever that means.
I don't believe that Linux capabilities are correctly named. They describe an ambient privilege, whereas capabilities represent explicit authorisation i.e. one invokes a capability to use it, and this is why entire classes of security vulnerabilities aren't possible in true capability-based systems.

Unfortunately capabilities have long been misunderstood as equivalent to access control lists, and therefore ignored or misnamed due to the difficulty of building working capability-based systems Vs ACL-based systems. (ACL-based systems should be built on top of a capability-based core, and only apply to a smallest possible domain of objects - a single global namespace with an ACL-based access control mechanism is where the common security vulnerabilities of modern operating systems begin.)

Smartphone permissions are also ambient privileges, but that's not the reason they get hacked: they get hacked because the operating systems are not designed around capabilities from boot and up, and have shared critical global namespaces with an ambient authority access control mechanism. Capabilities provide defense in depth, they don't make a system automatically unhackable but they do make it so that a critical attack path is highly unlikely to exist.
Yes, but there's a threshold for effective improvements. If the more compatible and more efficient format only uses 16 seconds to encode 1 hour of audio, it's hard to imagine this making a big difference in any real use case, offline or real-time.
> We know that providing free college to everyone would be a good idea

What??

College is a colossal waste of resources for most jobs, terrible ROI.

Given the utter confidence in being wrong, I'm not sure how seriously I can take the rest of the argument.
My fear is that shortening copyright now won’t do anything to stem corporate greed at all, but it would let the corporations pillage all the modern works of the massive sea of independent artists and individual creators while they’re still alive and trying to make a living.
Sodium's simulated transformation*.

This is a modelling paper, and did not observe the hypothesized state in the real world.
I think that pointing out of the misunderstanding about what exactly the metaverse was in the book and how it relates to silliness around Metas "metaverse" could actually become a meme in it own right. It speaks to how often the "torment nexus" meme is really just misinformed pessimism because "technology is scary" and many people just totally completely misunderstood the message in cyberpunk fiction.

"The radio is powered by satanic devils"
And then, sadly, you’ll most likely get beaten by some foreign country’s slap-shit-together-and-ship-it junk. Because people don’t think in terms of TCO and product lifespans, they see that “-30%” and “$X.99” and buy things that possibly even unable to do what they really need them to do, because ad made a different impression.

Solving junk requires much more than licensing and certifications (unless somehow it’s done globally, worldwide). It also bridging the consumer awareness/competence gap somehow.
Things don't change abruptly so society can protect itself from lunatics.

Whatever examples you can come up with for "why don't we solve this faster we have the solution", can be counter argumented with the fact that your solution can turn out to be strictly worse and have unintended side effects. Many times in history we thought we had solutions for things and then we didn't. If society, or "the system" is too easy to change, then anyone can take power and mess it up for everyone else equally as fast.

A slow changing system is preferable if you want to self protect against it, even if some avoidable misery is sometimes around due to this lag it's way better than someone blasting through everything because they know better.

This seems like classic immature "but why don't we change everything and do a revolution" which does not take into account the negatives of that or that the revolution will go like someone else wants to, not you - and these things only work if "you can control everything" which is basically why communism has not worked. A battle of competing incentives seems way better than some guy deciding he knows better about everything and if he can only "coordinate everyone" he can "solve everything". That's called a dictatorship, which comunist states tend to.
Why isn't it your thing? Isn't it similar to his youtube stuff? What it's like?
The US in WW2 invaded two other continents across oceans. Hitler thought the US wouldn't fight, and that the Soviet Union was too weak.

Having a strong military and a willingness to fight, means you don't have to fight.
Are there any books you recommend for deep learning that are written for developers who don't use math every day?

I suppose the goal would be to understand deep learning so that we know enough of what's going on but not to get stuck in math concepts that we probably don't know and won't use.
> It doesn't

What is this based on?

> it gets the wrong people to download the app

Who is a wrong person for a disaster-readiness app?

> the right people will be turned off from downloading it

One, nothing precludes multiple apps. Two, we have different definitions for the right people to save if they’re going to prioritise cultural comfort over safety.
He’s banned everyone from sex workers to activists to journalists from the platform. If you like conspiracy theorists who profit off of the mass murder of kindergartners, you’re the extremist, as is Musk. This isn’t actually complicated. Those with an agenda of amplifying vice signaling are always the biggest whiners about this stuff.
Profit isn't the only reason things cost to much. There is also just the fact that some things take too many resources to do.

Take the healthcare example, of cancer that we have a cure for but costs $2 million so no one gets it. The instinctive response is to say that is horrible, and that we should spend whatever it takes to cure someone... but should we?

Even if we said profit wasn't an issue, scarce resources still have to be allocated. Time and resources spent doing one thing means less to do something else.

Imagine a cure for cancer that required 10000 people to work 1000 hours each to produce... surely that would be too much to be worth it, right? Those are hours we can't do something else.

Even if we decided no amount of hours or resources were too many, we are still limited by the people we have and the resources available. We simply don't have enough to do everything.

So yes, maybe we can fix ANYTHING, but we certainly can't fix EVERYTHING
Is Wikipedia Safe?
Having only one producer of each product has never worked out well. Besides, how are you going to decide who gets to work and who gets the results for free?
Definitely - we recently moved issue tracking to another system after 15+ years and found there were too many links to abandon, so we run a service that just redirects old URLs.
It's not about doing the right thing from the start or picking the wrong technology. It's about knowing the tools you're using and being able to build a good product.
The young people I've seen recently would've fit in at my school. We didn't dress all that provocatively either.

I don't think we should conflate how people choose to dress with whether or not they're having sex - Victorian fashion was more conservative than today, but they had plenty of sex. I think fashion just ebbs and flows, independent of our sex lives.
While I am a very happy user of Bazel at $DAYJOB, I agree that it signs you up for a different but very real set of problems.
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90-99% of ransomeware attacks are really just social engineering. There is no question that software is more bulletproof today than it was in 2000 when nearly every website was susceptible to simple sql-injection, OSes didn’t have any sort of built-in security or access controls.
What's even the point of a newsletter in 2023 unless you need to gather people emails for marketing campaigns or other shady stuff? What does it do that RSS doesn't?
If "smart contracts" were decision tables, there would be much less trouble from them. Decision tables are exhaustively testable. But no, they had to be Turing-complete.
All people are selfish. People who give to others derive pleasure from it, and they like that pleasure. Not enough to base an economy on it, though. People soon get tired of working hard only to give the results to loafers.
archive url:
https://archive.ph/jW2kV
The long history of C has demonstrated pretty clearly that it's not possible for humans to write C (at scale) that is free of vulnerabilities.
A contract's effective date and execution date signify separate stages in the contract's life cycle. It is critical to establish performance and compliance in corporate contracts by determining and monitoring these dates. To assist you, here's a quick comparison of the two.
A capability is essentially a handle to a file or folder, chosen by the user at runtime using a "powerbox" (much like a file-open dialog). The OS doesn't give access to anything other that the files chosen by the user, so no matter how confused or evil the program, it's not going to have unauthorized side effects.

Permission flags just flags, not capabilities.
I agree, it sounds like people saying "our generation can't live as well as our grandparents", typing it from their mind blowing portable computer on the toilets of an airplane, going to vacations abroad.

Problems are only solved when they're solved, if we didn't fix a problem, either it wasn't a problem or we couldn't fix it just yet: it's not that some people are so mean they prefer the problem to persist because they gain something rather than fixing it to maximize problem solving numbers.

If you can't incentivize society to cure cancer, then THAT is the problem that is impossible to fix just yet, and that person should maybe focus on this ?

Look at cancer. I'm a regular smoker, I'll probably die a lonely death, of cancer, in pain, abandoned by everyone in my life who told me for years I should stop. Why don't I stop ? I can cure my own cancer but I don't, why ? The problem is way deeper, way more complex, than just some rich people abusing me for their profit I feel: I give way more money smoking to the government than I do any cigarette industrial, yet nobody seems to have found a way to cure my cancer, myself included, when we all know it will happen most likely.

Maybe we just can't yet find a way to rewire my brain to never need cigarettes anymore, and the problem is deeper than capitalist profit-seeking ? And if it wasn't a cigarette addiction I had, it would be another one, because what I need somehow is a dangerous vice and that is not an easy thing to make me not want ?
“costs too much money or other societal concerns“
Uhh you coupled these together which is a little odd, since societal concerns might be more addressable than the basic fact of resource scarcity is.
Summary of 300 top gen AI tools entering 2024
2023 has seen a massive surge in AI projects. Competition is expected to get fiercer in 2024, as more companies look to adopt generative AI in their products or operations. To understand where these AI tools stand as of 2023 year-end, I spent 30 hours and compiled a comprehensive infographic based on data from airankings.co.

It’s an featuring rankings and a quick overview of each tool.

Overall -

* Top 3 tools in popularity: ChatGPT is the No.1 tool among all, DeepL - a Translation tool at No.2, and Quillbot in Copywriting at No.3;

* Taking the top spot in the copywriting AI race isn’t Copy.ai or Jasper, but Quillbot, with Wordtune following closely;

* Contrary to expectations, Pixlr, not Midjourney or Dall-E, takes the lead in image generation popularity;

* The most populated categories in our list are Image Generation, Image Editing, and Productivity. The shakeout in 2024 is something to watch for for these categories. See here for the top 10 categories.

* Top categories by average ranking: Audio editing, Coding, and Photo editing.

* Notice many popular tools, like ChatGPT Writer (email tool) and Pixlr (image generation), are all available for free.

- Highly ranked tools that Growth teams should watch in 2024:

Forethought: generative AI company that provides customer service automation.
Unbounce: website builder that helps businesses create and optimize landing pages for better conversions.
GetResponse: all-in-one online marketing platform for businesses to create, automate and analyze campaigns.
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Landbot: helps automate conversations for marketing, sales and customer service.
That's funny, the people who are dumb and emotional in my entourage are those who are still completely afraid of COVID even after like, 5 boosters, even if they are in their thirties, no immune condition, etc. They don't go out, don't see anyone, only order stuff online, and actually think that they are smarter than everyone else who just... lives their lives. (r/zerocovidcommunity is a good example of that, just to give you more than a personal anecdote)

To me that's a much more emotional take on life than anti Vax lunatics because they at least "live their life" as it has always been. Which might be a bad thing in this case, but to me it is much less insane than becoming a hermit over something that is objectively not an actual danger to them anymore, unless they believe their 5 boosters don't help. So I'm not sure that reducing it to caring or not is actually helpful. You can care about something but disagree about the method.

I guess my point is that I don't think antivaxxers don't believe in vaccines because they just want people to die, they don't believe in vaccines because they think it doesn't help people from dying. They actually believe vaccines don't work, it's not just pretend play. It's very very dumb, but I don't think that framing as is just not caring until stuff happens to them is helpful.

If you didn't believe that for example, homeopathy works, you won't suddenly think that it should be used if someone close to you dies. Maybe in desperation, but that's different from believing it. Obviously the difference is that homeopathy doesn't work, and vaccines absolutely do. But remember, that's literally what antivaxxers disagree with!
Sure. Bear in mind I have custom instructions active - which, if you want to make full and proper use of ChatGPT, you should configure, along with customised GPTs - so I get lots of dot-point descriptions, because that's what I've asked for.

Also I would not normally write ChatGPT queries the same as I write them for search engines but for the sake of comparison, I'll use their queries verbatim except where my custom instructions affect the context too much.

> download youtube videos

https://chat.openai.com/share/3e18e4f0-5527-4479-8a2f-ef17bd...

I got - good results.
They got - "Very bad results (fails to return any kind of useful result)
ChatGPT: basically refuses to answer the question, although you can probably prompt engineer your way to an answer if you don't just naively ask the question you want answered".

> [What] ad blocker [can I use?]

https://chat.openai.com/share/e1985d7a-c89f-4b5e-bb59-70bd11...

Looks good to me

> download firefox

https://chat.openai.com/share/3a62e5ae-8dbd-4179-8eb0-cc38ee...

Also good

> Why do wider tires have better grip?

> [Provide links to scientific sites that describe] why wider tires have better grip?

https://chat.openai.com/share/8cbcd1dc-b23f-41f3-83ad-f43f3d...

Honestly, I have no idea if this is a good answer or not. But I don't use ChatGPT for answers that I don't have confidence that I can determine its veracity; if I needed to know this with certainty, I'd use ChatGPT as a jumping off point for my own research.

> Why do they keep making cpu transistors smaller?

> [Provide links to scientific sites that describe] why do they keep making cpu transistors smaller?

https://chat.openai.com/share/dbb97ac0-840c-402c-a917-657af6...

> vancouver snow forecast winter 2023

> Environment Canada winter 2023

https://chat.openai.com/share/aab017d7-f86b-49c9-b5c0-86a0b1...

I don't know if almanac.com is any good but giving it the specific "Environment Canada winter 2023" query gave the expected very good result.

I think ChatGPT 4 generally provided very good results for the test queries, if you tailor the queries just slightly for the format
It's no use if you know your attackers are from SE Asia or Russia. It just creates another incentive for corporations to hoard use data and sell it. Block them and go on with your life. They have an IP address, so it's not 'anonymous'. Law enforcnent could probably get to them if it's worth it and they try hard enough.
The number of update reminders is a measure that I use. Updating software has become expected, as a reminder to open the app again.

It would be nice if apps were developed as software for satellites: updating satellite software in flight is expensive, so constant updating isn't an option.
That argument could be applied to prohibition too for example. If we just changed society enough... we could be alcohol free! Same for drug usage. But the thing is, if you have to literally change society to do something maybe it's not such a practical or useful idea.
Already explained that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38838337

Not to mention that in the case of Germany and Korea both parts are similar in size. And the conditions for the worst off-people improves (or improved in the case of Germany) considerably.

In the case of Taiwan their population's freedom will be reduced and for the people in China there will be no change. It's not reunification, it's forced subordination.

And reunification isn't always a good thing. For example look at Ukraine, they have no interest in 'reunification' with Russia. Another big example where those quotes would be justified. Because they'd be transformed from a proud independent country to a crumple zone for Russia.

Or Yugoslavia. Bringing all those different populations together in one country again is a guarantee for another war.
Well, as my highschool friend said 30 years ago, "I think teachers should be paid more...just not these teachers."

If they paid teachers more, they'd have better teachers, though.
Lower latency for real time streaming over the Internet, for one
I don't get tired of recommending "When we cease to understand the world" (though I read it in its original Spanish). But no one seems to listen to me.

It was my favorite book I read in 2023. I would say.
I think this applies more to creatives, than to other professions.
Unfortunately the quality might be the same but we didn't have mobile phones and all sorts of other critical infrastructure depended on software.

Social engineering has also been a problem since human communication was invented.
Yeah the same happens these days for the hole in the ozone layer and acid rain. People think they were hoaxes because the problems are gone.

But they are gone precisely because we took them seriously. Luckily they were quite easy to solve, unlike climate change.
Very curious about this as well, or anything python-specific if anyone has any suggestions.
Maybe this is just how all databases are but the caveats here give me some anxiety: https://litestream.io/tips/
I think there’s a difference here in the sense that the “torment nexus” meme was originally “off” (in the sense that it was apparently misunderstanding the Metaverse from fiction—I don’t know, didn’t read the book). I still don’t 100% understand why they dislike the meme, but I think it just might be that people are misunderstanding a book they like. I don’t really get why anyone who isn’t a fan of that particular book should care about this, it is just trivia about the book, the meme stands alone.

A change in the meaning of enshittification would be worse, IMO, because it is a nice description of a widespread phenomenon. It didn’t really have a great name before (“platform decay” sounds too passive, enshittification is good because it emphasizes the fact that it is incentivized to proactively make the platform bad).

So, I think we should go along with the former but not the latter.
No it's not.

The utility for the users is the same.

The lobbying power trying to make that choice is completely different.
First let me say, I'm not trying to make a policy prescription. I'm pointing out what I thought was a misconception about how terrorism works.

But to answer your question, I have absolutely no idea. I follow a military news YouTuber named Ryan McBeth, and something he says that makes sense to me is that effective strategies present adversaries with dilemmas rather than problems, where each option is terrible but you have no choice but to pick one. The reason terrorism is effective, to the extent that it is effective, is that no one has discovered an effective means to counter it.