skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That is not a good customer, but what if that customer is representative of most customers?

Then streaming is unsustainable and we go back to cable as the streaming providers go bust.

But it's not representative of most customers. https://deadline.com/2024/01/netflix-earnings-q4-2023-stream...
I wrote this a month ago or so. What I do in my specific case I keep a MD5 hash so it's technically not abuse. It lets google know when something has been updated. Supports Bing as well.

https://github.com/niemal/seo-auto-index
Hmm I investigated that and the missing sections on OSM are indeed tagged with boat: yes and motorboat: yes. I'll do a little more digging

PS. Despite using OSM for many years, I've never looked into editing it. Thanks for giving me the impetus to start! There are bits and bobs I've noticed aren't entirely correct as we move around the country, and now I'll be able to fix them where necessary.
Paper mills are not usually the prestigious journals. Those are usually obscure outlets whose sole purpose is to publish questionable research.

Leading the public opinion is happening elsewhere.
I think in exactly the same way as you do but if it didn't work at scale then corporations wouldn't do it. Most people are falling for it.
Next up: a command line generator for `cat`. Put the filenames you want to display in a form and click "generate"!

(sorry to be so negative, but it really seems weird when the only arguments of mysqldump it guides you through are the ones that don't require any guidance)
Colorado pastor accused of multimillion dollar crypto scheme
I am a fan of Carlsen too but that second plot you have should go to Guinness World Records as well.
I wouldn't say so.

It seems this was a personal itch that Mozilla's developer Graydon Hoare wanted to scratch and then Mozilla saw potentional and started sponsoring it for Servo.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/02/14/1067869/rust-wor...
Part of this is because the liberal parties are painting concern about crime as a “far right” concert. Well, if you are concerned about crime, and the far right is the only one really talking about it, then people are going to vote far right.
How Euler Did It, by Ed Sandifer
Exactly. Bribing editors to publish your paper is unethical, it's not breaking any laws. The word "bribe" the has the connotation of secretly paying government officials, which is illegal. But authors paying editors? I don't think that's legally viewed as any different for scientific publications than it is for fiction, where pay-to-publish is an accepted practice. (Disclaimer - IANAL)
The mass net migration out of China suggests otherwise. Chinese people apparently prefer USA to China.
[0] embeds a youtube video on a local html file, AFAICT there are no ads on locally embedded videos

[0]https://github.com/luvchurchill/NoAds
> That said, the penalty for spilling the RSE (They called this part the Register Stack Engine) for say, an OS context switch was quite heavy since you'd have to write the whoe RSE state to memory.

I've read that the original intention for the RSE was that it would have saved its state in the background during spare bus cycles, which would have reduced the amount of data to save when a context switch happened.

Supposedly, this was not implemented in early models of the Itanium. Was it ever?
AI rise will lead to increase in cyberattacks, GCHQ warns
It doesn't really help Airbus. Their production lines are sold out for ~7 years. They expect to increase production over time, but there is a long complex supply chain, so it is a slow steady uptick, not a rapid change. (Rapid changes are also how you stress suppliers financially and cause quality issues.) Then engines on some Airbus planes are having supply problems too, and existing engines are requiring more maintenance and earlier parts replacements than expected, leading to grounded aircraft.

It is very normal for airlines to mention the manufacturers, because that is how they do price negotiation.
You are aware that the stdlib is linked with --as-needed which tells the linker to not include unused code, right? The entire stdlib is not included in Rust binaries unless you use the entire stdlib. However, as this article shows, that does not apply to debug info.
> AI is a buzzword that allows the layoffs to happen

Not a single public layoff announcement has mentioned AI as the reason. In fact the current round of layoffs have been going on since before ChatGPT or Github Copilot even launched publicly.
The original it was faked from - https://youtu.be/urVolzJS_Ws
I’m sure big budget scams pay great CPM! You’re thinking too customer friendly
Apple patches iOS, macOS 0day that 'may have been exploited'
Extensions for PostgreSQL, how we participate at Adjust?
If you’re talking about Hyundai, that eventually became true, but with a huge time lag.
This is a very legitimate criticism of EVs.

I think people tolerate this feature of EVs largely because they are viewed as "green", unlike similarly-massive ICE vehicles.

Form factor also plays a role, which as the article here shows is not merely an aesthetic issue. A Model 3 is heavy but at least it has a low hood.

But you are probably right. Not only are they heavy, but, led by Tesla, EVs have put huge acceleration into the hands of untrained people, together with slightly-unfamiliar controls: Single-pedal interfaces without brake lights, touchscreens that don't clearly indicate when you're in reverse, etc. This combination is likely to cause fatalities.

Electric vehicles could provide fantastic local transportation, in the form of e-bikes, scooters, tuk-tuks, and small efficient vehicles like the Aptera. They could be cheaper than current ICE cars rather than (as they are) more expensive. But our infrastructure is not built for this -- probably trillions have been dumped into highways -- and they are incompatible with the current equilibrium on American roads, where large vehicles are a best response.

And fundamentally, the technology just doesn't permit the requisite ranges without large masses. And those ranges are required because of the way everything else has been built. So we're almost trapped by path dependence.
There is not really anywhere for the creators to go so they don’t really have any leverage. If you’re mad at YouTube you can go to an alternative and get 100-1000x less traffic and revenue. And some other obnoxious creator will take your spot on YouTube immediately
The point may be that time is a scarce resource and you better focus on what's important for you. C may be it, but I think Ned's point is that people might be learning C thinking it will give them a skill that it actually doesn't.
You're making it out to be a decision, but it's not. Creators can upload their content on several platforms and collect revenue from all.
I love C but, this is empirically obvious right? Most software engineers don't know C, things are going OK, QED.
that's what copyright is for, and what it's always been for: government-granted monopolies for publishers. the statute of anne was enacted thanks to lobbying from the worshipful company of stationers, not from authors
> Is it a demise like Twitter? I mostly see scam ads both places, does it mean proper advertisers have given up on these?

I'm wondering if it's everywhere. I've also seen a noticeable decline in quality of the ads on the New York Times app (including some weird ones, like "40 ideas for dentist signs" or something). I don't click on them, so I don't know if they're scams. I vaguely recall that a few years ago I'd never see stuff like that, and mostly see prestige brand ads (e.g. luxury designer clothes/watches/jewelry).

In the last year or so, it seemed like 100% of their banner ads were the ACLU spamming the same messages, over and over. So maybe the bottom fell out earlier, and the ACLU has just decided to stop spending money on it.
I don’t use windows often, but I was using it to check some hardware the other day and had to dig through nests of settings to get back to back to what was more or less the display settings screen from the Windows 9x/NT era, albeit with a less efficient layout and lots of superfluous white space.

Unfortunately, macOS has gone this direction as well and it’s settings have become inscrutable. Simple things like using drag and drop to reorder network interface priorities are luxuries of the past. It seems like those designing have never used them and never plan to.
Serious question:

The article points out that:

`C is far removed from modern computer architectures: there have been 50 years of innovation since it was created in the 1970’s.`

Is there a C-like language that uses abstractions based on current ARM or x86 processors? i.e. something above assembly that learning would help us understand how these modern processors actually work?
I wasn't talking about anything except Windows CE phones (I had a Palm-based Treo phone at one point, but it was not really a very good phone or palm pilot.) WinCE phones were barely usable for their primary task, and were almost completely unusable for anything else because of the limitations inherent in WinCE and Microsoft's insistence on trying to replicate the Windows UI on something that was fundamentally unsuited for it.

Palm devices embraced the limitations of their platform; WinCE just struggled to run well on anything.

I will also dispute your "in large numbers" assertion, although I do not have access to detailed statistics. In 2008, Gartner asserted ~1.3 billion devices sold, with most growth in emerging markets. A couple of publicly available charts on Statista suggest that slightly less than 10% (~120m) of those were smartphones (Apple sold less than 1% of all phones that year at ~11m units, a ~9x growth over its just-over 1m units in 2007).

The only "smartphone" models sold meaningfully in largish numbers before the iPhone would have been BlackBerry. Everything else was an also-ran. And even BlackBerry was an also-ran compared to people just buying phones.
That is a very naive understanding of power dynamics in the legacy media.
Ask HN: Would you fly on a Boeing 737 MAX?
Flying is one of my greatest fears, to the point where I require medication before each flight to avoid panic.

Despite doing my best to book flights which I am most comfortable with, I often worry about last-minute changes to my itinerary which somehow require me to board a Boeing 737 MAX to reach my destination. I feel like if this were to happen, however unlikely, I would not be able to continue my journey. I'd cancel the flight (or simply refuse to board).

Perhaps I'm behaving irrationally due to fear, but with all the news surrounding Boeing's quality control and this particular line of aircraft, I'm curious how others would feel flying in a 737 MAX? Would you be comfortable with it, or do you avoid it at all costs?
In my experience, papers published in these "special issues" don't really get any attention.
Eh, you can get google to index your site by just submitting a site map, it just takes a little longer.
Reduce is useful for aggregate metrics.
Is the author proficient in C?
You're right, there were ebbs and flows in their influence...but they were consistent in those trends. Releasing an extension during their strong period was almost certain to be picked up, especially if Intel wasn't offering an alternative (which Itanium wasn't considered as it was server only).
So far most of the research around establishing world models has shown its occurring in linear representations.

I suspect as we see networks become increasingly nonlinear (perhaps as we see hardware changes in the next few years to things like photonics), we will see additional jumps that bring it more in line with what we expect from human cognition.

For example, right now it's very hard for a model to conceptualize "I don't know." Which seems more like a nonlinear process.
ZX Spectrum Raytracer
Inspired by a recent article in HN about raytracing on some ancient architecture, I realized that I've implemented many a raytracer in my life, but never one for my first love, the ZX Spectrum. So I fixed the glitch.

Trigger warning: the source code includes GO TO statements. Because that's how we did it in the 80s! Enter at your own peril.
My understanding is that it was going to be the new core of Firefox, until the mass Mozilla layoff of 2020 where the Servo team was completely gutted.
> what motivations does one have ...

We are on a site named Hacker News, after all.

> Because it's there. — George Mallory
No thanks.

I will avoid Ryanair, for example. And check all other airlines.
I'm guessing "proper advertisers" won't lift a finger unless one of the scams impersonates them or does something the directly affects their day to day.

I wonder how cooperative YT is when Anniston's lawyers demand information on the advertiser using her likeness without permission.
WinCE phones? No, they mostly weren't. When they weren't crashing, they were only really accessible with a stylus and often not well built. Microsoft didn't get mobile UI and stability correct until Windows Mobile, and by then it was too late for Microsoft to be a major factor.
Dubbing Studio by Eleven Labs
This seems exciting, but I'm always curious about what techniques are behind this product.
> The problem is that we don't know which other parts and systems Boeing might have quality issues for.

We don't need to go through everything, at least not immediately.

We know the door/bolts have issues, so we can just scrutinise those really carefully. The crucial part is not looking at whether there are issues (we already know there are), but at the nature of those issues. Are they localised and contained, or are they systemic? The extent to which they're systemic tells us how worried we need to be about everything else in the planes

(Personally, given the MCAS situation, I don't believe for a moment these issues are not systemic, but a layperson's semi-educated guess isn't a valid basis for an airplane audit)
Actually I was not aware, thanks for clarifying!

Hrm, I read the comments of another user who contributes to Rust and it seems there is various formatting / panic / abort / symbol and location translation code that contributes to the size and currently there is not much that can be done about it.

Oh well.
Either way, this is clearly abusing the API by using it for things that it wasn't intended for.

The only outcome I can see from this is a) contributing to the rise of spam and b) harming people managing sites and apps for which this API is vital.
I think the cracking down on incompetent elites that aren't that elite is something Republicans feel should be left to the market to decide. I don't think it's an easy sell to argue the government should shut down an entire company over issues rather than letting the issues lead to fewer sales and having the market sort it out. I think most Republicans would vehemently disagree with a statement like "the government should decide who the elites are", which this action seems to be doing.

I agree the profit-seeking company killing Americans is an easy sell with democrats and possibly even a good chunk of independents.
Tim Hunkin is such a treasure. He has so much interesting and educational content available for free. Even modern stuff on his YT channel. It's all really excellent.

https://youtube.com/@timhunkin1
Well by definition 'complete' means to "the greatest extent or degree". So a complete SWE would need systems knowledge. But is anyone really a complete SWE? Even people that are experts in systems probably aren't complete because they don't know AI.

So we aim for well-rounded. That's the best we can maintain.
I just want to feed an LLM hunter x hunter episodes and get out new ones.

But on a more serious note, I vividly remember when GANs were the next big thing when I was in university and the output quality and variability was laughable compared to what midjourney and the likes can produce today (my mind was still blown back then). So I would be in no way suprised if we got to a point in the next decade where we have "midjourney" for video generation. So I wholeheartedly agree.

I also think the computational problem is tackled from so many angles in the field of ML. You have nvidia releasing absolute beasts of GPUs, some promising start ups pushing for specialized hardware, a new paper on more optimized training methods every week, mamba bursting on the scene, higher quality data sets, merging of models, framework optimizations here and there. Just the other day I think I saw a post here about locally running larger LLMs. Stable Diffusion is already available for iPhones at acceptable qualities and speed (given the devices power).

What I wonder about the most though is whether we will get more robust orchestration of different models or multi modal models. It's one thing to have a model which given a text prompt generates a short video snippet. But what if I instruct my model(s) to come up with a new ad for a sports drink and they/it does research, consolidates relevant data about the target group, comes up with a proper script for an ad, creates the ad, figures out an evaluation strategy for the ad, applies it and eventually gives me back a "well thought out" video. And all I had to do was provide a little bit of an intro and then let the thing do its magic for an hour. I know we have lang chain and baby AGI but they are not as robust as they would need to be to displace a bunch of jobs just yet (but I assume they will soon enough).
All of them. As shown by the overall statistics. And no, I haven't forgotten the MAX crashes. But the issue was addressed. And I hope all 737 pilots have checked the corresponding cutoff switches.

But that is exactly the point: a new plane would mean a new learning phase how to operate it safely. It can and should be done, but it isn't a silver bullet, especially none which would arrive withing the next 10 years.
You'd think it was obvious, but people keep saying it. And there are commenters here disagreeing.
LAPACK
Those justifications or "reasons" for learning fascinate me. C imagines a PDP-11-like abstract machine, and for reasons good and bad modern processor designers try to make that abstract machine fast.

But if you want to get a feel for what the hardware might be doing, as the author says, C is not a good choice, and never really was. If you want to start to understand the hardware, write some assembly code. It's not that hard, but you have to think about the actual hardware model.

The author's other point is also correct (much as it irks me -- I want to know everything): nobody understands the whole vertical stack from quantum mechanics to the latest frameworks, much less its horizontal ramifications (subtleties of TCP implementation or category theory). I could creditably* describe perhaps 60% of how a car works these days but I can no longer do more than simple maintenance. Infuriating, yet surely a good thing.

* creditable, sure, but credibly? Not for me to decide.
Interesting that the last git tag was pushed in 2019, and most of the Cargo.toml files show version "0.0.1."
I'm not entirely sure what you're referring to but the closest thing I'm aware of is video calls in Germany where you are asked to show your ID card. Those certainly wouldn't be easy to fool without being able to do this at runtime and consistently showing an altered ID with all safety features intact. The agent will give you specific instructions on how to hold your ID and where to put your face while also switching between front and rear cameras and using the camera light. They're also performed by specialised services that only offer that kind of verification.
The way people bring up "X is basically fine" on this site (not you, other comments) drives me insane. It's gone through multiple seriously breaking issues, its valuation has plummeted, and there's no indication that it's solved the bot and misinformation issue Musk was very loud about before purchase (but some indication it's worsened.) Regardless of your political leaning it's hard to imagine the site being a better experience than it was three years ago (unless you were chronically moderated for posting ToS-violating content.) Maybe nobody can speak with certainty yet that the layoffs have contributed to those issues. It's not hard to imagine that some of this carnage could have been avoided by not slicing out everyone with domain knowledge so the new owner could go on some extreme ideological warpath. Yes, the domain resolves to an IP address and renders a page in the browser. If this is the baseline to justify laying everyone off, we've gotta expect more from the web.
> C requires an OS to provide CRT and syscalls for it to function.

That doesn't make sense; the OS itself is written in C.

> If you were to write freestanding C code, this certainly changes. At which point the memory model becomes "what you decide to provide".

Okay, so we're back to, C doesn't impose anything on you, though the OS may.
>>imagine data is money, because it is. It’s your money, and someone is holding it for you, someone like a bank.

But it is not.

I'm not saying it SHOULD NOT be. But it is not, and such sentences perpetuate confusion rather than reduce it. Data is not "money" in general, and definitely not in this case in particular.

Banks have extreme regulatory framework within which they conduct their operations. There are checks (hah!) and balances and accountability and industry standard processes. This regulatory framework, and the formal backing and assurance by the government, is what gives me confidence to put my money there. Note some people's risk threshold is different and they go for cash or bitcoin instead - fair enough.

(Even so, there are situations even in banking where explicitly you are responsible for your data/money. E.g. a lot of wire services, if you grant somebody permission or you wire the wrong entity your money, that's on you.)

23andme does not fall under the same regulatory framework that banks do. It just, doesn't.

I might want and like it to be. Let's campaign for that change together! But it is not. People have given their data to a random new startup with limited regulatory and privacy framework, they have explicitly given that startup permissions to that data, and they have explicitly chosen to share that data with strangers on the quasi-social-network. Bluntly - I love my dad, but I definitely blame him for sending his data to this company despite my urge not to. This was the most predictable outcome in the world along long time scale.

If we are saying that it's 23andme's fault for existing and providing that service, and such services should be regulated, sure, I'll agree :).

But I also believe most news on this are also in the "depth of confusion" when it comes to the 7 million number and the chain of dependency/fault.
I've used SD to generate novel clipart with my kid for their school project to make a board game. It isn't taking away from an artist, I would never in a million years pay an artist to create throwaway art for a corner of a spray painted cardboard box. The alternative would be nothing or my kids scribbling in something of their own hand. But they were interested and it was available so it went from simple and plain to "custom" and rather nice and polished looking.

FWIW, my kid also designed their own board game pieces in TinkerCAD and we 3D printed them. It's nothing special but it's frankly astounding how far kids can go now towards creating something not just imaginative but almost professional quality with the tools at their disposal now. For throwaway school projects. It may not be my kids, but I'm excited for what the next generation will be able to accomplish without massive capital requirements to fulfill their vision and create something.
The other replies cover "the why" adequately already but as a tangent:

Every company makes some effort to be green and eco friendly these days, yet we're perfectly happy wasting billions of hours of compute time every second because "who cares" and "we can"... Same mindset.