skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did too. And later I did a bios upgrade that enabled the chip again and suddenly windows started showing me pop ups and telling me to upgrade.

After a lot of panic and powering down on an upgrade screen without a 'no' button I went to the bios and found my setting reset. Then I put a group policy in place not allowing such despicable behaviour.
oh wow ... can't wait to waste a bunch of time trying to get this running in hyper-v.
I don't see how randomness can make anything non-computable. Sure you may not know the exact random numbers but you get a similar enough universe with any other sequence of random numbers.

Also continuous doesn't mean uncomputable either, because in many cases the infinite amount of computation for continuum does not add anything interesting and finite approximation works good enough.

> So the metagame is lost regardless: reality isnt a computer (/ no complete physical theories of reality are computable).

I don't see any evidence for this. For now we do not have a proof for one way or another. If for instance it turns out that quantum computers really can run Shor's algorithm factoring very large numbers, it would be a good evidence for continuum, but we are not there yet.

But even that would not be an evidence for reality not being a computer, since it will still allow the possibility of reality being a computer that can perform operations on real numbers.
Why would I ever have a debug build without sanitizers? Nothing stops you from removing the asserts in this case, anyway. I don't see what the problem is with using __builtin_unreachable in this context.

I think you didn't understand - what I was implying is to leave the asserts in for a release build, because they (theoretically) never happen, because they are free optimization hints.

So effectively, instead of a macro, your asserts become controlled by the presence of sanitizers.

I think it's nice because it lets you keep the same definition for both debug and release.
What3Words is a Mess
Sorry, I'll shut up.
Not only blood transfusions, but ligament/tendon transplants from cadavers are extremely common for people who tear their ACL.

It would be a disaster if this type of surgery also transmitted some prior/protein misfolding disease decades later. Millions would be impacted. The practice stared in the 1980s, but really only became popular in the early 2000s with the boom in arthroscopic surgery standardization.

Hopefully the blood-brain barrier prevents this.
Assuming that you're asking why we need a relatively fixed quantity of money, then you need to consider what happens to the value of the money in our savings accounts, wages, pensions etc when new money is created.

And secondly, by what means or effort is this new money created? Is it done fairly (i.e. through performing work of equal value) or is it created to the advantage of those having the power to create it (therefore making them unjustly even more powerful)?
It's dismissive to say that these customers all lack long-term thinking. Even if you can accurately predict that the free one is going to kill off the competition, where's the long-term thinking in using the competitor? Besides, upfront costs have long-term ramifications too.
I agree. It's crazy that someone who didn't put up the skin to acquire the business thinks they should get to run it anyway.
I used to be an Erlang engineer, and you would have needed very explicit security controls around being able to attach to an Erlang cluster to get the "insider your program" experience. This was in FinTech, so I'm familiar with the constraint.

I would imagine you'd need the same thing for accessing the runtime of any production deployed application(s) in such an unfettered manner. Erlang, Lisp, C, or other?
I'm calling it now, this is like the War on Drugs. Banning it will only create an underground environment with even less oversight, not to mention the burning desire kids have for doing things they should not be doing, which is guaranteed because this is not even remotely enforceable.
What's wrong with Russian bonds? That land is unlikely to be going away, may contain even more mineral wealth and is climate change resistant.
I worked retail in the early 90s at a huge chain of appliance/electronic stores. The managers were paid very well.

If you survived the politics of being moved from store to store, never knowing your schedule, and blatant, miserable sexual harassment ("hey let's go out for drinks and discuss how I might let you sell large appliances instead of small electronics"...oh wait..."you didn't go to my apartment...we have this opening an hour away that you have to take with no advancement opportunity".

Okay, assuming the sexual harassment is gone/obsoleted by solid company policy, there's the "chasm" from peon to management that you can only aspire to if you never make a mistake or make them quietly. Or never leave the job to get a degree. Or get lucky somehow.

Those positions at management level above peon required a lot of sweat equity and risk on the part of the worker bee. If it doesn't pan out, well, that's what...3-15 years of your real actual life flushed down the toilet.

I'm with GenX. Screw that noise.
Or buy yourself a dvd/Blu-ray drive, several terabytes of storage, handbrake, and a public library card.
This scares me a lot. I'm hard-pressed to think of any group I trust less with healthcare-related anything than the US tech industry.

My fear is that it will, at some point, become impossible to get health care services without involving these companies. If that's not already the case.
Am I the only one who notices this article professes to be published _February_ 2024, as I read it on January 29, 2024?

It seems like a mistake a time traveler would make... who doesn't care enough to fix their mistakes.
So basically, we're at the point where we need to uniquely mark our luggage and then if our luggage is "lost" have an agent who shows up at the liquidation center, identifies it, and then seizes the luggage?
The brother inkjet I purchased four years ago was much harder to get fake chipped cartridges for than previous models. I got there I the end but at greater cost than I expected. I wouldn't buy another basic brother inkjet any more. In the past they did t even have chips. It has now died and I have just about given up compatibles or refilling. The manufacturers are getting too clever and the market for hacks is disappearing with the consumer printer market. Pay up for a tank filled inkjet or a laser now I think.
Oxide seems to be a lot more efficient than a rack full of 1U servers with each having 2 PSUs + 2 ToR switches + 1 management switch somewhere for all the OOBMs. All those little fans and power conversions eat a lot of power, the fans and the PSUs all cost something too. Also, have fun managing all of that in a secure manner or debugging anything at all. Once you add the VMware licensing you might end up with more or less the same cost up front and quite likely higher overall cost. And I am not even beginning to talk about racking/ stacking of the whole rack. I haven't seen much support even when Dell/EMC owned VMware and together produced the VXRail lineup and the company I used to work for was presented as the reference project in Saxony, Germany at that time. All of the boxes would add up to about 2 standard racks but it was representative of the other bigish customers in that area and time.

I imagine, some of the customers will order 1-2 racks half full and over a few years possibly add a few sleds, these will probably demand great GUI/ manual experience and possibly competitive Oracle/ SAP/ MSSQL benchmarks and I can imagine Veeam integreation. Other customers such as the DoE or some big enterprise customers will order whole rows of racks and demand perfect automation options. That is just a guess.
Apple Has Sold Approximately 200k Vision Pro Headsets
>I'm struggling to see how the headset could replace what is in my experience a mostly social activity.

Going out to eat at restaurants used to be a social activity, now people just sit together but stare at their phones.
FWIW I've seen managers burn down stores by pushing their employees to far in chase of those numbers.

Perhaps it can work situationally, but I've not seen it anywhere I or any of my friends have worked.
No it was nothing like that. It was basically their fault and they just verified my identity. It's literally just such an inexplicable activity that they have to investigate, and there's this weird pedestrian bias too IMO. (they thought I was a random weirdo in the building or stealing stuff)

It's honestly not something that's the most meaningful, but among other things it's made me distinctly aware how weird the culture is if you want to make driving not necessary to be a first class citizen. So while it doesn't prove my point, even prior I felt like "people are just gonna start calling the cops on me for not driving", and it basically was like that.

See how I'm now still kinda having to explain myself? I can't help but think this is a little proving my point. Now the notion of not-driving is such an inexplicable concept that it must be explained?
yes I think it was the building one back from Lawrence - they were much more like a traditional supermarket then - and the Computer Literacy Bookshop was a block up in the same strip mall
IMHO the general idea isn't terrible the implementation is, suppar. But hy that's why it's good that's it's not yet US wide as it means there is time to make improvements.

- I'm not the biggest fan of hard cutoff

- addictive dark patterns which cause compulsive use should be general banned or age restricted no matter where they are used, honestly just ban most dark patterns they are intentional always malicious consumer deception not that far away from outright committing fraud. (And age restrict some less dark but still problematic patterns.)

- I think this likely will make all MMORPGs (and Roblox, lol) and similar 16+, I'm quite split about that. I have seen people between 14-18 get addicted to them and mess up their education path. But I have also seen cases of people which might not be alive anymore today if they hadn't fund a refuge and companions in some MMORPG.

- I guess if it can make platforms like YT, Facebook, Instagram, Snapshat etc. implement a "teen" mode with less dark patterns and tracking it would be good.

- The balance between proving your age and making things available and keeping privacy is VERY tricky (especially in the US) and companies, the government and spy agencies will try to abuse the new requirements for age verification to spy more reliable on everyone 16+.

- It's interesting how that affects messengers. Many have less dark patterns, some do not track users, or can easily decide not to track children. The aren't social networks per-se. But most have some social network like features. Even such which do not try to create compulsive use might still end up with it as long as their as is "live" chatting.
Why would you want to make yourself 10 years younger?
You can play Doom using gut bacteria, but the framerate is atrocious
There's also this pretty detailed article on StarRocks' query optimizer. (StarRocks is open source - focused on OLAP)

https://medium.com/starrocks-engineering/starrocks-inside-sc...
> Netflix will have the patents and decide not to do anything with them. They're not idiots

…they don’t. They should. Which is why I’m calling it a beachhead.
Ask HN: Are you using a GPT to prompt-engineer another GPT?
I tried with combinations of GPT 3.5, 4 and Bard. Results are interesting.

It made me think that the obvious way to learn prompt engineering is… to not learn it, but to use another LLM to do that for you.

Any experience with this? Happy? Unhappy?
I have an Instinct 2X Tactical with solar charging, and from what I see with normal usage it prolongs battery life 1.5-2x in sunny weather. Probably if you optimize the power consumption it could fully offset the discharge, as advertised.

Very much like this watch, especially with aftermarket Velcro strap. It's also surprising how useful the builtin flashlight is on a watch, much more convenient in everyday use than one in a phone.
>Lot of innovation does come from companies.

Of course, i am not arguing that. But when it comes to software as general as code generation, or text generation, the possible applications are so broad, that a team of A.I. researchers in a company, however talented and productive they are, cannot possibly optimize it for every possible use case.

That's what Yan Le Cunn is referring to, and i agree with him. There are a lot of companies which push deep learning forward, and do not release their code or weights freely.
Yes, I mean the parents will help kids circumvent the ban.
We assume in good faith that statements made in comments on social media are true. If this was an academic paper, then perhaps you would be correct. But on social meda, asking for sources for what is basically common programming knowledge is borderline trolling.

If s/he thinks that what I'm saying is wrong so strongly then they can go back that up with something. They will obviously fail terribly because I'm correct but that is their choice.
I was disappointed that the author hadn't done a literature review, even a basic one. Perhaps they're an expert and didn't see the need, but they didn't cite anything or provide any further reading.

And it's not like this subject isn't researched.

There's so much [1] [2] that a literature review might be a really good place to start.

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=birt...

[2] https://ideas.repec.org/cgi-bin/htsearch?form=extended&wm=wr...

A further article, without using data to demonstrate normative hypotheses but also with visualisations, is this: [3]

https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate?source=content_typ...
Starlink's Latest Offering: Gigabit Gateways Starting at $75,000 per Month
Samsung makes a nice tag (https://amzn.to/47Wrlcz) for their Android phones.

It comes with a hole, whereas AirTags require you to purchase an additional case accessory for that feature.

It has a button that can be used to find your phone (makes it ring, even if silenced) or launch custom routines (SmartHome actions like turning on lights, etc.).

They're cheaper than AirTags.

They don't seem to update their location quite as often as AirTags, maybe because there are less Samsung devices walking around, compared to iOS devices.
Humans are altricial, not precocial; that's not something that's changed in the last fifty thousand years, let alone last fifty.
Someone posted this a while back https://www.newsminimalist.com/

Otherwise I used to check the news mostly for the dopamine hit or out of boredom but rarely benefit from that. I still do, but I limit it much more and have to say, less is better. I don't believe I've missed out on any news that would have made my life better and if it's ever something really really important, someone will probably tell me anyway
You provided a link to a Medium post.
Musk Says First Human Patient Has Received Brain Implant
This looks very interesting. One question: would I be able to develop a game using my favorite compile-to-JS language? Or would the game infrastructure force me to use TypeScript?
I very much do understand the goal and work in the field. Captcha is currently a bigger impediment to legitimate use than it is to malicious use.

The world has shifted and the underlying assumptions of the captcha design (computers are bad at vision tasks relative to humans) is no longer true.

We are also on the backend of a rapidly depreciating cost curve, and this will accelerate. People were already using mturk at scale anyway, and it was cost efficient.

In five years captcha won’t exist, and the entire “are you a human” paradigm is cooked.
Yeah, I was responding to the point about cost. A courier driving for 4 hours to get to me probably cost them at least 500$
Only because we've killed most of the whales already.
I bet it costs a fraction of what a similarly powerful mainframe would cost. However I don't think the customers for each overlap that much. If you need a mainframe, you need one and there is no discussion about possible alternatives because there are none.
no idea - my interest is primarily on media shapes the 'cognitive environment'

The fact that something is publicly advertised as 'secret' should tell us something. No sourcing provided from the FT, the media outlet selected to launch the campaign, which has now itself be cited as the authoritative source by other media outlets amplifying the message. Planted stories like this require only one editor to have political impact. Is not concerning?
Aren't tontines already illegal? Is a bet on other people's deaths structurally very different than those?
It has been a VERY long time since I've done this with `wget`, but here's what I pulled out of my notes.

I used to use this to mirror Slashdot when I was travelling for work and had limited/no internet:

```

wget --ignore-length --no-remove-listing --no-check-certificate --recursive --page-requisites --span-hosts --convert-links --no-verbose --tries=3 --timeout=60 --level=1 --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0" --html-extension --exclude-directories=my --directory-prefix="./slashdot/" -e robots=off --cookies --load-cookies slashdot-cookies.txt --keep-session-cookies http://slashdot.org/

```

I suspect that still works, just needs the user-agent updated.
Not sure if this is really an answer to your question, but you might find this discussion between Sam Harris and Jay Garfield interesting: https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/282...

It's been a while since I listened to it, but if I remember rightly they spend some time talking about a model of human psychology that doesn't depend on any concept of an actual 'self'. Instead, they talk about competing motivations and how they give rise to an illusion of a self.
Not always best, but in this case, yeah getting several years of free captchas would be worth. And it's not too hard to switch elsewhere if needed.
There's a book about the development of both of them, The Race for a New Game Machine: Creating the Chips Inside the XBox 360 and the Playstation 3 by
David Shippy & Mickie Phipps. [0]

It has some details on the awkward position the IBM developers were put in.

Rodrigo Copetti's excellent articles on the PS3[1] and Xbox 360 [2]

and Ars' Hannibal's article on the Xenon Chip. [3]

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/6056634

[1] https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/playstation-3/

[2] https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/xbox-360/

[3] https://arstechnica.com/features/2005/06/xbox360-2/
Ive never tried that but it sounds intriguing / tasty. Would you recommend this for just poultry or red meat, as well? Pork?
A predictions market is one of those things that sounds fine on paper and works terribly in practice. The crucial failure is the inability to separate the incentives created by the prediction from the event being predicted. The tail ends up wagging the dog.

So despite the "advocates claim that by providing a marketplace for bets on uncertain events, prediction markets give predictors a financial incentive to be correct", what happens is that prediction markets give predictors a financial incentive to make it be correct, which leads to all sorts of shenanigans in practice. Look at the stock market, which largely is a predictions market, and look at how much regulatory machinery is needed to dissuade obvious scams like insider trading and pump & dumps. And even then, the stock market is highly irrational precisely because of the financial incentive; look at how many years it's taken the GME fiasco to shake out and how many true believers are not merely still holding the bag, but buying up as many bags as they can.

The ultimate example that I always trot out is that a predictions market on the topic of "will $PROMINENT_POLITICIAN be dead by $DATE" is just a distributed assassination contract (to be fair, it's also a distributed bodyguard contract...). Welcome to the free market, I hope your friends are richer than your enemies!
I know that 6-8 seat jets are much cheaper, but what size do you have to go for to at least exceed the restroom in a public A320/737 based airline super cramped one? Not that I anticipate buying any jet, but I think that would be the threshold to be worth it to me if I ever was able to.
Does this apply to Red Hat or are they still immune to most of the IBM dysfunction?
Is there a forum where users share their decks? Asking for a couple kids that age who I mentor ;-)
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Answered my own question
Ankiweb /shared/decks
> when they imagine that the government won't abuse this power

I've suggested no such thing. In fact, I described putting regulations in place as a "nightmare". Parenting alone will not work. Self regulation from the socials will not work. The entire situation is a nightmare of our own making. There is no simple solution. These tendencies of human nature were present long before social media. It was just fuel for the fire for the worst qualities.
I hope iRobot manages to survive. I have one of their J9 robots with a camera and object detection. It’s amazing how it can vacuum our toy-riddled floor.

I’m very weary of buying a robot vacuum with a camera from a Chinese company. I don’t fully trust iRobot, but I trust them much more than I trust Chinese brands.

I also couldn’t see myself going back to a robot vacuum without a camera. After I got kids our old Neato vacuum robot got very little use since it always required that everything was picked up off the floor.

That being said I’m quite frustrated by my new J9. It’s supposed to have a feature called SmartScrub, but it’s not in the app. The robot is also supposed to drive back to the base to refill its water tank, but it hasn’t done that a single time since we bought it a month ago. The combination of vacuuming and mopping is also a bit unfortunate since it sucks up a lot of humid air when passing over areas that it’s already mopped, causing a buildup of wet-ish dirt in the air duct.
Deus Ex title killed after Embracer Group's cuts at Eidos
I'm hoping their market will stay the same or grow as more space missions with human pilots/cargo take place in the future, but I'm thrilled about the possibility of many more 'cheap and cheerful' automated missions running on cheap hardware. Think of all the possibilities that open up if you can deploy 50 little rovers, accepting the fact that you'll lose 10 or 15.
What makes the design of the IBM PC ultimately self-sufficient relative to other early designs like the Apple II, MITS Altair 8800, TRS-80, etc?
I think one difference is on facebook you can choose who sees your posts. Whereas on hackernews everything is public to everyone. Inevitably by accident or by deliberate choice some facebook communities won't end up with enough people willing to perform the community moderation role, at least not to the standard that facebook needs moderation to be done.
Thanks for that info! Didn't realize WARC predated SQLite. Makes me wonder, are there any modern updates that could enhance WARC, or is it only format for archiving?
The problem is can you trust the structure/QA process, is the documentation in place etc. Otherwise it’s a liability nightmare
What an unfortunate name to search for. Searching for debhelper finds mainly documentation but search for debputy and you are lost...
No, it just means you'll need to find a refillable version of your beloved Bubblegum Ice flavor...

> The latest changes would also introduce powers to stop refillable vapes being sold in a flavour marketed at children and to require that they be produced in plainer, less appealing packaging.

...provided it doesn't have an attractive label with pretty colors.