skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have two disabled siblings, what I wish I could do is give my parents (who are both dead now) some appreciation of how I now appreciate as a parent how hard it must have been for them and what a splendid job they did for all four of their kids.
Yes but the concrete example of how this plays out doesn't contradict what I said. If you wanted to contradict what I said you would find an example where someone showed up to the ER and the hospital said sorry we're not treating you because you can't pay, and then they died outside of the hospital or in the waiting room. And even then you'd have to find a number of examples to establish a pattern.

Also once you reach the point that you are describing that is typically when state resources kick in. If you become sick enough (for example with cancer) you go on Medicaid and disability. I recently went through this exact process with my mom. It wasn't fun and boy do the spam and scam calls really add to the experience. Why we tolerate this crap in America is absolutely bewildering.
If you do it for the money, I doubt your productivity is en par
people writing konglish or euroenglish etc can also write articles now. For the majority English is the second or 3rd language.
Seems like everyone disagrees with the ranking of 3PB books. Probably a good thing. On 2 read-throughs, I vastly prefer 2 then 3, and consider 1 a bit of a slog.
I think perhaps you had a bad experience with GPT at some point or didnt ask it to provide sources that you then read through. Either way it is far more reliable than you seem to believe.
Why do you think that her being a mail order bride makes it less bad?

If anything it just shows that he wanted to buy another human that he could control and, when it turned out not to be the case, he decided to kill her.
I am not going to touch on your other points as you clearly have decided your mind.

> why a mistake he committed in personal life would make his file system a taboo to touch.

He is no longer here to fix bugs or improve the file system, it is not that it's Taboo to touch per se. The benefits of ReiserFS are no longer clear compared to alternatives, there's a cost to including ReiserFS (which Reiser acknowledges), no other FS is associated with the name of a premeditated murderer.
> And where will these models run?

Locally, on my devices. Where property law says I own the fine-tuned model and the device.

> And who exactly will create the content?

Anyone and everyone? I don't understand what you mean. What you just posted here is content. You produced content. I assume you will continue doing that moving into the future.

> Your personal AI will just consume a shitload of content that the powers with most compute generates

I think that assumes a random walk through the internet? Content discovery probably shouldn't be random?

As your AI curates content, you give it ongoing feedback about the quality of the content it gives you, (feedback based on your highly biased definition of "good" and "bad" content). Your AI learns what is "good" to show you and what is "bad" to show you.

As your AI finds "identities" and "content channels" that produce reliably high-quality content that your highly-biased and highly-aligned AI can curate for you, I'd imagine your AI would prioritize searching those content spaces for quality content first.

For example, I'd like to think my personalized AI would learn to surface up interesting conversations and content from Hacker News.

As content channels get "overrun" by noise, the AI is filtering out the noise, the signal-to-noise ratio drops, and the AI slowly lowers the priority of those content channels in favor of channels that consistently produce content you find valuable to consume.

The key here is that the AI is ultimately accountable to me, overseen by me, controlled by me, fine-tuned on signals generated by me, etc.

Imagine you had an army of 1 million personal executive assistants who could scour the world looking for information relevant to you, and give you a curated feed of useful information on an ongoing basis. That sounds like a pretty cool future to me.

And if someone wants to spend their time squandering their wealth to accumulate enough hardware to run 1 trillion personal executive assistants to generate a bunch of valueless (or value-negative), coercive, uninteresting dribble on the internet? Cool. Let them squander their wealth. My executive assistants will filter that out for me.
This is a very different approach. The google approach is making an airplane fly in circles generating continuous power, this slowly lets a kite out then reels it in generating pulsed power that would need a battery to smooth out. This approach can use pretty standard kite technology which is far cheaper than airplane technology.
They can make a lot more consulting dollars on marginal software than for something that was sanely designed and worked well.
Oh I remember when that whole thing went down. It caused quite the buzz on Slashdot.

...but now I'm struggling to remember how many times I've logged into Slashdot in the past 10 years...
> then the comedian is guilty of fraud

Fraud

wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain

What's the personal gain here?
> I'm starting to wonder if there's something inherent in the design of the Airbus side-stick that makes this sequence of events (i.e. banking, overcorrecting, climbing) more likely if the aircraft suddenly switches from normal to alternate law.

I think it’s less something specific to the Airbus sidestick implementation and more over-reliance on cockpit automation in general. Airbus alternate law flies more like (not exactly like) a non-FBW traditional airplane, and pilots who never train that skill (because they always fly normal law) become overloaded when thrown into that situation unexpectedly.

A primary problem is that your muscle-memory is all wrong. Holding the stick to the side no longer gives a constant-bank turn. You have to re-center the stick when you get to the desired bank angle. Pulling all the way back doesn’t give you a constant near-maximum rate of climb (You can stall the airplane), and need to apply a little less back pressure when you get to the desired pitch. You also need to manually adjust pitch trim for any speed or power changes. So a failure that induces alt law means that you took off in one airplane and are now flying a different airplane.

The event that precipitated alt law is nearly always an emergency or near-emergency on its own. So not only are you flying a different airplane than the one you’re used to, you’re also diagnosing system failures at the same time.

If there’s anything to blame with Airbus’s implementation, I would argue it’s that the normal law is too dissimilar to how airplanes actually fly.

Edited for clarity.
Only if you believe in evil.

I'm not christian so I don't see the world like that.

He killed his s/o, like what 15 years ago now?

People change and deserves a second chance.
I wonder if robosexual will be a widely recognized sexual orientation someday. LGBTQIAR+
Sign off, go do something with the family.
It is a shame that medical bills can force you to change your way of life in the USA. In Germany or similiar countries with universal healthcare your cost would have been alomost 0$/€.
Since the prosecutor's office offered him a sentence of 3 years if he'd lead investigators to where he buried the body, the burden is on you IMHO to support your assertion because obviously if the informed professionals in the prosecutor's office thought it was a pre-planned murder they wouldn't've been that lenient. (In the US, pre-planned murders are routinely punished by life in prison without parole; California might be a little more lenient than the rest of the country, but not that much more lenient.)
I'm always wary of how manipulating some people can be. To be clear, I'm not declaring this letter or Reiser is that way necessarily, just how people have that capability.

That said, to me, some of the specific phrases used felt that they were for a parole board rather than the broader audience, or charitably, both. But perhaps I've become too jaded.
its absurd because its not going to happen. Its magical thinking to expect the general population to live past their daily life and understand these issues.
That can be not a great idea for subtle reasons even though it does seem like a better design at first.

When you do the madvise, based on the contact of the API, the kernel has to do a TLB shoot down which is really expensive. And not just “expensive for my process” but expensive in terms of a significant slowdown for entire machine. Honestly you could probably DDOS a machine if you could reliably trigger that shootdown.

As such you want to be very very careful where you place that data structure.

For what it’s worth your memory allocator (or at least a good one like mimalloc or the non-gperftools newer tcmalloc) will do exactly as you mentioned where it will free memory back to the OS using advanced heuristics tested out at scale.

As for why a shoot down is needed, it’s so that a racing allocation call in another process doesn’t get that virtual address but be running on a core where the TLB points elsewhere (the core that did the allocation may not even be the one where it’s used).
Brake lines on a traction kite like that can cause the foil to fully de-depower and fall out of the sky. So you can let the wind pull it up, and then let gravity bring it down.
The case for single-stair multifamily
> it should be pretty bloody obvious if dual control is going on.

Yet we have an example here where it wasn't obvious to a (presumably) fully competent crew who got to the point of missing an approach and declaring an emergency for a flight control anomaly that they couldn't diagnose as being the other human 4 feet away from them also being on the controls.

"Should be" obviously wasn't "is" in this case.

Edit to add: Also from the report:

The following factors may have contributed to the simultaneous inputs on the controls:
<snipped 5 other bullets>
• the conviction that simultaneous inputs on the controls would be quickly perceived by crews on this type of aeroplane.
I'm not impressed that much either (yet) but this is a little unfair, ChatGPT is barely a year old and while there is a lot of hype and talk it's also having concrete effects on the real world -- it was a key sticking point for the Writer's Guild and SAG-AFTRA during their strikes last year, and why they lasted so long.
For loads you can usually hide the clobbering by using the intended target register (the one you want to load to) as the temporary register, so e.g:

// a0 = load [a1 + a2*4]
slli a0,a2,2
add a0,a0,a1
lw a0,0(a0)

...but not always.
Maybe? Depends on how you monitor and what your expectations are. But for workloads that use a lot of memory, and want to avoid wasteful empty allocations, or have sparse data, etc. it's a reasonable strategy.
Ultimately if you over load, you overload. A system has a capacity, and a load. If the load is over the capacity, then not everything is gonna happen. This seems like a pretty basic law of, like, doing stuff.

[reads more]

Oh, OK that's a lot of words to say "benchmark to find bottlenecks" and "focus on bottlenecks when optimising" but I understand, sometimes it takes a lot of words to get this simple idea across. There's a few times over the years since it was published that this article would have been perfect to send to a special someone who keeps insisting we implement Merkle trees or whatever in order to speed up a product that reads in all its files using

while (fscanf(cur_file, "%c", ch)) {
// process character here
}
Android was much more competitive with iPhone back then, as social circles hadn't yet solidified around one platform. Google was also still widely praised back then as an innovative leader. BB had lost enormous market share by 2012, it was too late.

All google had to do was make an iMessage clone, probably even could have made a better service back then, and make it the default on all android phones. Suddenly Google would have had a powerhouse feature for the main thing phones were used for in 2012: communication.

But instead Google decided to leave SMS default and instead toy around with their stupid a/b model that nobody ended up using anyway.
Strong agree.

Caches can be horrible:

- adds complexity of code and architecture

- adds run-time complexity, with new failure modes

- adds semi-random delays

- see also: Buffer Bloat

There's a reason it's one of the Two Hard Problems in Computer Science! https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html
I pay windows a fee to use their OS. I'm guessing they take a cut of anything sold via microsoft store as well. My ISP gets a fee for its service. My motherboard was paid for. Nvidia card was paid for.

I don't know exactly how every store works but doesnt every digital store, and non digital store, take a cut of what they sell?

I agree with the fact that we should own our own computers but you do own your iphone. You can jailbreak it and do whatever you want with it. You can even sideload apps, like altstore, through an incredible tedious process.

It sucks that Apple doesnt make this easier to do but that is another topic... Right?
My < $10 purchase was a bottle of black fingernail polish. I used it to paint over the little red light on my bedside cordless phone, recharging bluetooth headset, etc. In bed at night I can't tell the difference when I open or close my eyes.

But on a full moon some light leaks under the blackout blinds. I kinda doubt it makes a difference to my sleep. Same with the other small stuff. It'd be nice to have an idea of the inflection point at which such optimizations don't generate worthwhile returns. But it's cheap enough for me to indulge even if it turns out to be marginally neurotic.
Generally, yeah. Red tape bad, and anything that reduces a pilot's cognitive load is generally going to be a very good thing. In an emergency, there is a lot for them to process.

But this?

Expecting pilots to communicate to each other about which one of them is flying the aircraft (as opposed to like, just grabbing a yoke and YOLOing it?) does not seem like an overly onerous amount of red tape.

That seems like an absolutely fundamental aspect of flying. It's so fundamental I'm not even sure it would qualify as CRM (crew resource management)
The only "things" my friend wanted to talk about were:

1. how the election was stolen

2. how woke people/media were trying to cancel Alex Jones

3. how it's so cool that Andrew Tate makes $$$ off of getting girls to webcam for him and he wishes we could do the same
What do you mean by "illegal monopoly power" ?

The word illegal doesn't mean unethical or wrong. So you will have to be very specific with what you mean.

Just because some politicians decided to write something on a piece of paper doesn't make it right.

How would you want the free market to be any "better"?

The philosophy of a free market means a "free" market. Freedom for businesses to use what ever strategy they want to participate. Their is nothing it is specifically optimizing for.
Taking away already earned compensation is wrong.
And probably illegal.

Even if it is just points that convert into cash.
You're right! I read (in the original article?) that it wasn't completed yet, but it was:

> The acquisition was completed on June 23, 2023.
How does remote work affect commercial property values?
So, in the larger context of how AI will be used by people seeking a quick buck, was Sam Altman right in the need for something like World Coin, or are there other proposed alternatives?
Possibly an indication that the value of patents has declined? It'd be a good thing if that is the case.
Only as much nonsense as rowing a boat without taking the paddle out of the water. In that specific example, you're going to be going in circles, but you will be moving.
I had a lot of experience with patent rewards programs like this; both starting one (Packeteer) and helping administer one (Google).

People who are named as inventors sometimes actually contributed to it. The legal definition is "they conceived of at least one element in one claim." In practice, the claims change as the prosecution proceeds, usually removing things rather than adding, and the inventor list should shrink. It rarely does.

That's if the company is following the rules. Often the manager just puts himself or herself on as an "inventor."

As for the monetary value: occasionally a patent is worth a lot to the company, and often it's zero. Google acquired a number of IBM patents, so in that case you could put an exact value on it!
High levels of calculation in times when high levels of calculation are required to keep you out of prison are not a sign of anything.

Humans are amazing at compartmentalizing things like this away, even while they are happening.

It is impossible to know from this single datapoint if he is remorseful or not, but it is not at all outside of the realm of possibility.

As a child I merely punched my brother and I tried to kill myself afterwards because of the guilt. In the moment I could not have been more prescient about what I was about to do and what I was doing. I recalled how I had observed him fighting others, how he threw punches, how he swung his arm based on how angry he was, and I planned an arc that took advantage of his habits and clocked him. Knocked him out in one punch.

The instant he hit the floor I felt remorse like I had never felt before. Who the hell am I to take an action like that?!

Anyway, how someone feels while doing something like that does not necessarily reflect how they feel at any other time in their lives. It also may reflect how they are at all times, or anywhere in between.

There is no foolproof way to know.
If you've already read 1, you really should read 2/Dark Forest.
They seem like they are just replacing the program with another similar program with an incompatible payout scheme and this is just an excuse to not pay people.

>IBM canceled the program at the end of 2023 and replaced it with a new one that uses a different, incompatible point system called BluePoints.

>"The previous Invention Achievement Award Plan will be sunset at midnight (eastern time) on December 31st, 2023," company FAQs explain. "Since Plateau awards are one of the items being sunset, plateau levels must be obtained on or before December 31, 2023 to be eligible for the award. Any existing plateau points that have not been applied will not be converted to BluePoints."
Pretty much agree, but ultimately the onus on hiring the right people is on the hiring manager. The pattern here is management blaming their own incompetence on anything that doesn't lead back to themselves, such as WFH. Then you have higher level leadership eating this up because of their own laziness and incompetence. Incompetence all the way up.
> If 1/3 of your workforce meets 2 days a week your average utilization is about 14%

That's a good point. All that fancy real estate and coffee machines start to look like a wasted investment when they're used 14% of the time.
> Working remote has sucked all the personality and humanity from work imo.

Then mark me in the “I don’t want to talk to my coworkers ever if I can avoid it” column. My social life is already full. Don't make me commute for the benefit of those who are not so lucky.
Hey man, I don't know you and you don't know me, but if I may I'd like to point out that you don't have to explain your feelings or thoughts to a bunch of strangers on the Internet. Just getting them out there, in this form, is a gift for anyone willing to receive it.

Thank you.
Bosch aims to cut 1,200 jobs in software division by end 2026
Medium to maximum-security facilities are probably less likely to allow/provide internet access to their prisoners. Partly due to security, and partly due to punitive measures.

Although in this case, Reiser seems to be at a minimum-medium class facility.
Can your compiler generate code that uses them productively or is that an assembly-only thing?
they may not, but if there is a password dump, you password isn't super old and has been rotated fairly recently
Why would you need to use car power to warm the battery? If you're connected to a charger you can use charger power to warm the battery. And you can't charge if you're not connected to a charger, so charging a cold battery is impossible in that case.
You might like these

https://frame.work/blog/open-sourcing-our-firmware

https://support.system76.com/articles/open-firmware-systems/
I pay ford, or some other distributor, 100% of the cost of the replacement bulb plus whatever their markup is when I purchase it.
How does he end up imprisoned 4 years longer than his sentencing indicated?
Yes, well, I think you're right it's a lot about the contract of the API and the expectation of the user.

I'd certainly want intelligence (either by the user or by the framework) in how frequently you release pages back to the OS.

But the DONTNEED is really not the core of the value. It's being able to create vectors that don't fragment as badly.

And yes, you're right a decent allocator could help with this, and what I'm describing is really just a kind of specialized allocator.
Maybe the program is dominated by a few people who got really, uhh, efficient at cranking out patents and the new prices reflect the hourly rate of keeping the hustle going rather than attracting new prospective inventors with fresh ideas.
60 square meters of kite surface area is a lot of pull. 5 square meters can be enough to pick up 100kg in the right wind conditions.
For those interested in the trial, the SF Chronicle's Henry K. Lee ran a very detailed blog on it: https://web.archive.org/web/20080501184401/http://www.sfgate...
During the summer when I work from home I take a 20 minute walk at 8:30 (and water my tomatoes) and a 20 minute walk at 12:00 before settling back into my home office with lunch.

If I’m feeling up to it, I get another 30-40 minute walk in once it cools off in the evening.

I don’t mind driving in during the winter though, because then I don’t have to pay to heat my house (beyond 15C for the cat) for the day.
It's a .NET application, so may be windows only. :/
Let’s recap the problem:

Passwords don’t work because people can’t remember very much. Password generators don’t work because they have to store the key somewhere. Might as well just authenticate with the encryption key. Encryption keys often get lost, so they need to be stored in the cloud, accessible with a password, which brings us back to the first problem, but adds another point of exploit, or ‘lawful intercept’. Phone number second factor doesn’t work because that can be stolen or transferred, and the same device is probably used for password reset. Authenticator apps don’t work because devices can be stolen, and they require a password anyway to transfer to a new device. Biometrics don’t work because they can be cloned, or used on an incapacitated person, and in the case of phone biometrics, they can be overridden with a pin. FiDO devices don’t work because they can be lost or stolen and used by someone else. Social recovery doesn’t work because of moral hazard and probably the only people you trust that much are not particularly savvy with security around this kind of thing. Practically in an app, they would also have to authenticate in some technical manner, so this cascades.

What have I missed?