skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If the data was made up, they wouldn’t be able to serve effective ads.

The data being collected about you isn't about advertising. It's used for an ever increasing number of things that impact your real life including things like how much you get charged when you buy things, what services you're told exist or are eligible for, how long you get left on hold, what policies a company will tell you they have, and who will hire you. The data being collected about you can be used against you by police, or in courtrooms, and in custody/divorce hearings.

Even when the data is used for advertising (along with scam attempts, the manipulation of your opinion, and political propaganda) "effectiveness" is a very uncertain thing. No one expects that everyone they target with a campaign will bite. The effectiveness and accuracy of targeted ads isn't exactly certain to begin with.

> With just one parameter - gender - the data is only 42% accurate. That is less accurate than if you just did “spray and pray” with no targeting at all — i.e. you would have still hit the right gender 50% of the time. With two parameters - gender plus age - the accuracy is down to an average of 24%. Some data brokers were far worse, with single digit percent accuracy. Third party profiling of audiences is so inaccurate, it’s better to save your money and do “spray and pray” instead. (https://www.forbes.com/sites/augustinefou/2021/04/19/ad-rele...)
I agree that this is not a memory leak.

However, the semantic distinction between "this uses much more memory than expected" and "this is a memory leak" is a little subtle, and it seems pretty rude to call it clickbait.
Is-Jonschlinkert
Not gonna lie. Can't wait to run local AGI. First thing I'm going to task it with is producing paperclips.
No you are absolutely right and I was being tongue in cheek. Yeah he is basically toxic waste in terms of association. It’s a shame his personal toxicity will have had a negative effect not just on people vulnerable to predation perhaps even directly but also it will have undermined the popularity of FOSS more broadly and taken oxygen out of the air for things that aren’t Richard Stallmans scandalous behavior.
> it's essentially a non-issue, except for...

Hope you never get tripped up by the "except for".

People were mixing XML and XHTML with HTML before React and got themselves into trouble.

Why are you so triggered by someone who thinks people should just follow the standard and not write unnecessary markup/code? That is a programmer's worst nightmare but people here seem to support it.
Article is a bit of a nothingburger, here's the quote in question from Zuck's Instagram:

"Some updates on our AI efforts. Our long term vision is to build general intelligence, open source it responsibly, and make it widely available so everyone can benefit. We're bringing our two major AI research efforts (FAIR and GenAI) closer together to support this. We're currently training our next-gen model Llama 3, and we're building massive compute infrastructure to support our future roadmap, including 350k H100s by the end of this year -- and overall almost 600k H100s equivalents of compute if you include other GPUs."
Like in the dystopian Ready Player One, humans move to the VR world and who has the biggest investments in VR as of now?
Arc<str> is an atomically ref-counted string, also quite useful in async or multi-threaded code where (unlike w/ Box) you sometimes can't know in advance which task will drop the last reference to some data.
let me know when you've signed up for some german & french newspapers & have become educated
Good to hear, may we all find a niche that works for us.
That’s just corporate political shade throwing. Fiscal policy has, for a few generations now, incentivized trade deficits for foreign policy reasons. Overtime this results in offshoring of all industry.
Posssible, but unlikely. It is rather likely, that AI will become a increasing useful tool for human engineering. But replacing would require something fundamentally better.
The Chaos in the Middle East Is Not All an Overspill of the Gaza War
Yeah the second rule is: for anything that runs locally and for which your use doesn't require an internet connection: put it on a separate network without WAN access.

I also had to learn that lesson painfully when my network connected Brother printer got a (unasked for and unapproved) firmware update that disabled the 3rd party toner cartridge it was using. It's now blocked from the internet in my router, but it's unfortunately a case of shutting the barn door after the cows are gone.
"After the war, Flowers received little recognition for his contribution to cryptanalysis. Flowers was left in debt after the war after using his own personal funds to build Colossus" (src: wikipedia).

Incredible...
https://archive.is/EWpLJ
A (dystopian) future is more likely the Neuralink injecting visual signals or thoughts. Even an ultra-light HMD gives the Glasshole feeling, besides not being comfortable to wear.
The judge asked the DOJ if there were any divestures that could be made that would make them think this deal should go through. They said no. I believe this was in the closing statements. JetBlue also tried to work with the DOJ before the trial & had no luck. JetBlue did divestures without anyone's requests to win over Spirit agreeing to this. The DOJ was never interested in them though.

In the end, Spirit should have stayed with their Frontier merger though the DOJ probably would have tried to block that as well.

Today Spirit is saying they will be looking at restructuring. Every analyst seems to be saying they are going to declare bankruptcy.

I have no idea how the DOJ or the Judge sees this as increasing competition, which I'm all for by the way. Even if Spirit doesn't go bankrupt they cannot compete as a low fare provider anymore. They will just slowly bleed for the next several years as they sell off and are unable to grow. Same with JetBlue now as well.
It would not be "alongside me" unless you were participating in the same aim, which you just said you were not. It really seems like a rules for thee situation.
>This is the only time I feel I am able to share that quote, on a thread that hopefully tries to look past the right and wrong of his actions.

Well, people would still use the theory of relativity if Einstein was proven to be a serial killer, so intelligent people who don't play it "hollier than thou" should be able to separate between some person's acts and their unrelated achievements or expressions.
> Oscar Wilde's ... was a paedophile sex tourist

I've never heard of him being into children, have you a link for this, thanks (also, 'sex tourist'?)
I'm building FUD.
Depends on how much compute there is to mine it. Not that many valuable cryptos still use GPU PoW. You also need a counterparty to actually profit from it.
The whole social phenomenon surrounding George Floyd's veneration and martyrdom is very interesting. He was literally a convicted felon for multiple crimes, one of which was home invasion where he held a gun up to a pregnant woman's stomach. The day of the incident he was passing counterfeit bills and acting erratic which prompted the call. The toxicology report showed he had fentanyl and meth in his system. The body cam footage started with him in the driver's seat of an SUV without ID, acting erratic and resisting arrest, and when first put into the back seat of the police car Floyd said he couldn't breath. Odds are he was probably already having a heart attack from the drugs, and then Chauvin's maximum restraint technique pushed him over the edge.

Objectively speaking, Floyd was a miscreant at best and almost certainly a net-negative in terms of benefiting society. A fair trial would have classified the incident as manslaughter, but since cities were literally burning and the jurors were publicly known, they were not at liberty to judge the case impartially. The transformation of Floyd into a martyr and the violent quasi-religious movement that followed will be a good case study for future historians.
Unfortunately police don't tend to be very bright and seem to constantly try to find things to pin people for, it's what they're trained to do. Drugs being illegal is a bad idea partially because of this issue. This is just another example of how drug prohibition causes more harm than good.
EZH2 inhibitors promote β-like cell regeneration in type 1 diabetes donors
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/28/natural-born...

Humans and other primates are more prone to this deficiency of the brain than other mammals.

But even so, only 2% of humans were killed by other humans. And since many killers usually kill more than one person killers are a miscule minority even in such deficient species as humans. Even with all the cultural pressure that glorifies killing in the "right circumstances".

Given that anyone who volunteers to be a killer has something wrong in him. Falls on the far end of some spectrum.
If state-level actors are looking into your data with any amount of individual scrutiny you are already fucked, this is a ridiculous reason to not use ad nauseum.
That's a classic example used by proponents of LVT. But what is another example?

Terry buys a house in a run down, blighted, poor/cheap neighborhood, and along with other neighbors, starts to revitalize it. 15 years later, the formerly blighted neighborhood has become hip, due to the work and care Terry and others put in to it. Property prices increase as rich people want to move to the cool neighborhood, and now Terry has a hard time affording the taxes, and is forced to sell and essentially evicted from the neighborhood he helped build, because a rich person would rather live there.
1. lack of stable production lines due to real-estate securitization and zoning. i.e. it is a huge liability to install something expensive likely to break if moved, and burning capital in a sucker lease.

2. lack of cheap 3-phase power in said zoning, and aging power infrastructure. EVs will likely make the problem worse.

3. lack of skilled labor due to career churn from outsourcing. i.e. it became a demand-deficient labor-force now reassigned to other careers.

4. Manufacturing domestically is strictly a niche industry, as consumers are cost sensitive, and value blind

If you go to foundry districts in India, one will see many US machines that were sold for scrap still powering emerging economies. The mechanical equity of 60 year old machines are still supporting entire communities.
Thank you for sharing these. My brother was murdered a year ago and today I’m trying to finish writing my victim impact statement to be read at the sentencing of his killer. I’ve been frozen in my processing for several days and your descriptions helped me place myself back in my body as I tend to disassociate when faced with the overwhelming grief of his loss.
This must be a different philosophy. When I see something like this happening, I investigate to find out why the service is failing to start, which usually uncovers some dependency that can be encoded in the service unit, or some bug in the service.
yes but you also need to maintain/prepare for a time when the children won't need you so much. Mine are 16 and 19 but still need significant time.

But you don't to all of a sudden realize they are off on their own life, and they were your primary, or even only, focus.
If you are interested in medieval armour, then I strongly recommend a visit to Leeds Armoury (in Leeds) or The Wallace Collection (in London) in the UK. They both have amazing collections.
Another brand to add to the shit list
If you go in late August and have a strong affinity for amateur astronomy, you can have one heck of a weekend by visiting Stellafane 10 miles south of there in Springfield VT. Probably an abuse of a comment but it's so rare to find two things to do so close together in that area.
Some of them make a lot of money - both for the vendors, and for the self-declared professional consultants who has spent half a day with them (looking at you, Actimize -.-)

Otherwise yeah, usually they are very limited toy languages, making even the simplest tasks painful also. At least I have yet to see one that is actually useful in the sense of a generic (or even a single-purpose-built) language.
Car keys are getting a lot more troublesome these days. I see an analogy... if you lose your security device you can pay $XX to get on a call and verify with an account security rep. Of course this can be deepfaked nowadays. Maybe you need to do password recovery in person with a notary!

Notary public... the new digital locksmith for password recovery.
> 1. the height is generally determined by the height of the fire ladders available, providing a second means of egress

This is an interesting requirement and makes me wonder if some of the need for two staircases comes from the proximity - or lack thereof - to fire services. I'd be sitting in a burning home for a long time if I had to wait for a fire ladder.
> when your next would-be employer or would-be landlord ... uses a data broker for "background checking"

Knowing an SSN (US Social Security Number) was used like a password by banks and all kinds of organizations, but not anymore. Things change, albeit slowly, when society acknowledges mistakes. All of your examples rely on the data buyer trusting its accuracy. If enough people pollute the data, then it'll have no value. The data brokers won't be able to sell it because society will know that its garbage.
You know what's funny? Those tungsten cubes that were a fad recently will be among the most enduring relics of our time, because tungsten is extremely hard and corrosion-resistant. I imagine some archaeologist digging one of those up in a thousand years' time, thinking, "What the hell did they make this thing for?"
If the accuracy of the data are not intrinsic to their value, then data brokers could literally just manufacture data. “Is this person X?” flips coin “yes!” Who are you to say otherwise? We have a vast network of blah blah data sources and advanced AI inferencing. They would absolutely do this if they could get away with it because it is dramatically cheaper.

Targeted ads exist. People find them “creepy,” which implies that they are targeted based on factual data. Therefore, we know that data brokers are taking the more expensive route and collecting factual data (or striving to). They would not do this without a profit motive. Perhaps their data are being compared with a competitor’s to enforce quality… we don’t really know. But we know that they value the quality of their data because their customers do. Consequently, it must be the case that deliberately polluting their data devalues their product and erodes their business model over time.
And how do the vectors work with branch prediction? If the CPU speculatively starts executing a vector instruction and it turns out it shouldn't, there should be a mechanism to abort the vector sequencing (or nullify the writebacks while letting the vector sequencing play out).

I don't see that in the overview here, but I guess it's just a low-level detail that isn't drawn:

https://gitlab.com/mrisc32/mrisc32-a1/-/raw/master/mrisc32-a...
I feel like this is a subtle attempt to move the goalposts on what is meant by AGI. Regardless of whether the final product is truly an AGI (and I'm guessing it won't be) my guess is that it will be branded as such.
Case study: An Ex who got fully locked out of her phone by forgetting what new passcode she changed to, had no idea what her google account password was, either.

So in the end she was locked out of the encrypted backups and had to wipe the phone, losing photos and a lot of notes. Despite all this, somehow expected that a quick ring to the <Cell Provider> call center could get her files unlocked and restored. Once that proved fruitless, that a call to Google would do the trick.
I know this sounds dismissive and cynical, but I mean it genuinely: a Google hackathon focused on the problem of war would do as much to solve that problem as releasing a new feature to make it easier to impulse buy sunglasses.
yes, I measured my arm (we also did clothesmaking so we had all the ingredients) although when I left the SCA I gave it to somebody similar sized. Note that the vambrace is lined with fur and leather, which allows for some adjustment for forearm thickness. It has adjustable leather straps (like a belt). You can also disassemble the piece by removing rivets, and making new rivet holes if you need to change the length/size of pieces. The rivets actually act as bearing rods to allow the elbow to articulate, it's really an impressive piece of work.

Herre's the closest example I can find, https://www.ebay.com/itm/313682162596
only $123!
You may not have heard of Haier but I'm pretty sure you've heard of GE Appliance and Hoover.

>Haier is a multinational home appliances and consumer electronics corporation selling a wide range of products under the brands General Electric Appliances, Hotpoint, Hoover, Fisher & Paykel, and Candy.
Or better yet - $150 gift certificate tailored to the employee's interests. For example, if Tom likes to golf, find out where he likes to play and get a gift card there. And give him an afternoon (or better yet, whole day) off to play golf - and don't count that as PTO. The small personalization means a lot, at least in my experience.
Isn’t the alternative in the verification case just that you don’t get your account because they can’t verify you?
Minimum wage is unreasonable IMO and plenty of people will work for that amount.
From wikipedia:

> When blinatumomab was approved, Amgen announced that the price for the drug would be US$178,000 per year, which made it the most expensive cancer drug on the market. Merck's pembrolizumab was priced at US$150,000 per year when it launched (in September 2014).[14] At the time of initial approval, only about 1,000 patients in the US had an indication for blinatumomab.

I take it they prefer to pump chemotherapy poison ito patients for financial reasons?
Perhaps “truly worth paying for” is setting too high a bar for some kinds of content that people do find useful?
The Carlin auto-generated comedy special is everything that's wrong with AI now
Because improvements aren't taxed. So if you add improvements (read: more housing), you don't pay taxes and you become more profitable (more rent, same taxes).

So you move all tax to just the land value at a higher rate than present, then let people build to offset the tax.
If your server has a bug that makes it crash every two hours you still want it up the rest of the time until you fix it.
If you are bound in disk IO, adding master-master write nodes will not help you. The same number of bytes have to be written to the same volume whether they come from a replica or an application server. The only solution is partitioning/sharding, and there is no "easy button" to press and make that happen because it comes with its own limitations and trade-offs, and is something the application code will be intimately aware of.
It shines when comparing to commute by private transport, but not so much when comparing it to no commute at all. If you didn't have a commute to the office, you would still have an hour to do your reading, but you could do it in bed, or in a coffee shop, or in your kitchen, or on a walk...
Oh yeah that me too
Ah hell naw. Walled garden much?
If anyone dumps significant enough money into the project they're going to expect "a return".
I'd do it for 1-2%
Buy a cheap FPGA board and get started. I can't stress the importance of this step too much.

Use this if you are writing code in Verilog:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verilator

It really helps once your projects aren't small anymore. It is nowhere near as important as the first step.

Whatever else you do is 1) secondary and 2) will be obvious after step 1.
Hue bulbs and strips run fine on HA. For a couple of reasons, I have a completely offline system running in a Docker container with a ZigBee dongle (mainly I have no control over my LAN). I don't use the bridge any more. You don't get some of the scenes and other functionality that the bridge offers, but 90% of the functionality is there.

The bridge already has some weird requirements like refusing to work unless you connect an ethernet cable. As far as I know the update is to force you to use an account with the app, but the devices should still be compliant with other controllers.
Passwords work to a point, with some effort. Perhaps people just need to expect a level of security that is proportional to their efforts. No free lunch, it's all trade-offs. For people who are not capable of managing it themselves, they will need help or risk ending up victims.
Just because you can magically send some digits to someone thousands miles away you never saw IRL doesn’t mean your brain is designed for it nor is able to handle it without disruptions to its operation. Whether you believe in creation or evolution. Nobody lived like this.
+1 for anything written by Pettis. Very clear communicator, and his Chinese Financial Markets blog[1] (now hosted at the Carnegie Endowment for Peace) is required reading on the Chinese economy.

[1] https://carnegieendowment.org/chinafinancialmarkets/
> Especially once Apple Vision Pro ignites the industry.

Ah, yes, the inevitability of Apple success.

Just as everyone switched from cell phones to PDAs after 1993.
When I was young, and I was first experimenting with Linux, I was kindof confused at being asked to choose a filesystem type.

I wasn't completely confused: I was a Mac OS user, and I had been around when the HFS+ filesystem was introduced to replace HFS. So I read through the documentation I could get, I learned how ReiserFS was a journaling filesystem, and decided to use it.

I kept on using ReiserFS as my preferred filesystem, any time there wasn't a need to use a different filesystem (for example, I continued using ext2 for /boot). I don't remember ever having an issue with it.

Then I started dealing with larger filesystems, and XFS was available, and I understood that XFS worked better on large storage. Around the same time, I learned of Hans Reiser being charged with killing his wife. I was confused and sad, but moved on.

I hope for all the best for Hans Reiser's children.
This is not correct. Untrained people can't be inside the flight zone while operating. This is roughly the downwind quarter of the potential flight zone.
If you were rich it was made to measure. If you were a poor foot soldier, then much less so.

In the Royal Navy they used to joke that the ratings' uniforms only came in 2 sizes, too big and too small.

See also:

"Before he crunched his numbers, the consensus among his fellow air force researchers was that the vast majority of pilots would be within the average range on most dimensions. After all, these pilots had already been pre-selected because they appeared to be average sized. (If you were, say, six foot seven, you would never have been recruited in the first place.) The scientists also expected that a sizable number of pilots would be within the average range on all 10 dimensions. But even Daniels was stunned when he tabulated the actual number.

Zero."
https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/when-u-s-air-force-disc...
Unfortunately Boeing has been allowed to grow Too Big To Fail. They won't be allowed to die as they make up a significant portion of the Defense Industrial Base. Since stock buybacks are legal again, they can artificially maintain its price so long as they can raise the capital to do so. Worst case for them, the affected fleets get grounded and airlines stop buying those models. Plenty will still buy Boeing because the alternative is waiting forever for an Airbus, or being beholden to a single manufacturer. There are up and coming competitors like Embraer, but they cannot ramp up production fast enough to strangle Boeing. If Boeing dies it will be a zombie walk into oblivion. It is as you said, speculation.
> does trying to escape surveillance matter?

It certainly does to me. I can't plug all of the data leaks to these companies, of course, but this isn't an all-or-nothing sort of thing. Reducing the amount of leaking is still valuable.