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Ask HN: Do you still use DVD?
Hi,
I'm a bit curious (and nostalgic) if anyone still use DVD for long term storage, like for backups
Yes I have. Look for other comments from me for nuance.

I'm thinking about extremists and terrorists. So you're against surveillance of a mosque that is known to interact on the regular with terrorists? Or a nazi pub where attacks on the state are planned?
Why are they talking so fast? (2013)
I clicked to add a comment, but as soon as the page changed I forgot what I was going to write ...

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Seriously though, happens to me all the time. Not sure if just getting dotty. The connection between spatial presence and memory is an interesting one; see also Memory Palaces[1]

It makes me wonder if it's different for people totally blind since birth. Is the visual aspect important, or just the "spacial-ness"?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci
TBH, we debated about this a lot before adding it. It's weird being beholden to someone else's API which can dictate what features we should (or shouldn't) be adding to our own project. If we add something cool/new/different to Ollama will people even be able to use it since there isn't an equivalent thing in the OpenAI API?
RSS is a great protocol in that it is simple to implement but it is a terrible protocol from the viewpoint of efficiency. The server gives you the N latest results, you might poll too quick and end up downloading the same file 200 times or you might poll too slow and there were 5N updates so you missed a whole lot.

With ActivityPub you can just ask “the last post I saw was X, show me what I missed?” and you just get it.

It seems like a slam dunk to publish something equivalent to RSS entries to ActivityPub but somehow people just don’t make connections like that, they just get hung up on the difference between RSS and Atom or JSON and XML whereas the protocol is so much more important.

My YOShInOn RSS reader looks like TikTok which means it collects thumbs up/thumbs down judgements from every item I look at. (Somehow people don’t get how revolutionary “thumbs down” is. If you had “thumbs down” that worked there would be no enshittification). I am thinking about making it be a Mastodon client.
I think the convention is that the person whose job it is to be on the phone is responsible for speaking first.

In the very rare event that somebody calls somebody else for leisure (who doesn’t text yet? Really.) I guess the caller should initiate.
Whose propaganda?

Even very plausible low thousands of artillery pieces can put out enough dakka to slag anything looking even remotely like an air defense radar or missile launchers.
Tangential C style survey... For code like this:

if (some_function(some_memory) != ERROR) {
// ...
} else {
goto cleanup;
}

This approaches what I dub "Happy Path Indentation Syndrome" (HPIS), where the "normal"/"happy path" functionality of the code happens under the `// ...` inside the passing scope.

If you have several such functions that can each fail, this approach means your "happy path" follows the deepening scope / indentation.

Instead, I much prefer styling it like this (assuming, obviously, that the "happy path" happens always):

if (some_function(some_memory) == ERROR) {
goto cleanup;
}
// ...

How do people approach this kind of situation?
Sure I can do that.

It's a lot harder to tell older relatives, just go buy a Samsung Android. Likely they will come back with some low end android that the salesperson said was on sale.

Where as If I tell, go get an Apple iPhone. They can pick that up and get the "right one", which ever it is.
When the rich get overtaxed, the hardworking-and-still-budget-strapped middle class often gets overtaxed as well, and the poor suffer for the lessened spending power of all of the above.

More money in the hands of an efficient government isn't always a good thing.
> Heads up displays projecting basic speed etc on to a windscreen are already a thing

Sure, but a lot of cars don't have them, and that's just the speedometer, not the speed limit or navigation directions (which are usually what I'm glancing at my phone's map app to check)

> No need to wear a headset being bombarded with irrelevant notifications from social media, messaging etc.

I would hope they'd implement a driving mode that suppresses those kinds of distractions, but having that mode at all would need to be preceded by society acknowledging that these devices aren't fundamentally incompatible with driving. Note that my comment said I don't have an intrinsic problem with these kinds of devices being used. The current implementation of them may be sub-par, but I don't feel like there's any fundamental issue here.

> Headset likely to cause physical damage to yourself in a crash as well when the airbag goes off

That's a valid concern that I hadn't thought of, but we don't generally ban other unnecessary head gear in cars for that reason (sunglasses?), and it would apply just as much to passengers.

> you are distracted.

I don't think that's an absolute. You can potentially use it as a distraction, or you can use it responsibly, just like anything else.
That means it is intentional and not a "bug".

It is 6 days since first reports. PR team should already given some answers.
Embeddings as an I/O schema are just text-in, a list of numbers out. There are very few embedding models which require enough preprocessing to warrant an abstraction. (A soft example is the new nomic-embed-text-v1, which requires adding prefix annotations: https://huggingface.co/nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v1 )
Does this have any impact on Google Duplex-like services? That was the thing that enabled Pixel users to ask Google Assistant to call a restaurant and make a reservation on their behalf, etc.
> but people involved with animal rights activism use the term sentience to refer to the capacity to suffer, which implies a sense of self.

Yes, I always have had a problem with that. They use it incorrectly, and most don't even consider the idea of a sense of self as relevant, only the ability to suffer, although the latter is only relevant in the context of the former IMO.

> Intelligence is the ability to acquire and apply knowledge- reasoning, problem solving, etc. This is readily observed in many experiments with octopuses.

Intelligence can be a property of 'dumb' systems though, e.g. slime mold and plants.

Octopuses don't just exhibit intelligence, but rather metacognition. They can think about themselves in relation to their environment and manipulate their environment to suit their needs, willfully and deliberately, and not in any replanned way.

They also are capable of mental time travel, the ability to beware of and plan for the future, not in an instinctual way such gathering nuts but on a short term basis in reaction to their environment and stimuli.

There are very few animals who exhibit these traits, and these traits are generally a strong indicator of self-awareness and intelligence to the level of at least a toddler.
I'm not ready for the leap to meatlessness, but my halfway house is to use meat as a flavoring, a sort of spice, rather than as a centerpiece.
> Either way, surveillance is just a symptom of deeper political failures.

I'd say, limited surveillance is trying to unify tolerance and openness while not putting all people of one belief/religion for example in the same category.
>We don’t know if it’s using implicit search either.

Sure

>it’s also possible it has just memorized the evaluations from 10M games and is performing some function of the similarity of the input to those previously seen.

That's not possible. The possible set of moves in chess is incredibly large and it is incredibly easy to play a game that has diverged from training. a model that has just memorized all evaluations would break within ten or so moves tops much less withstand robust evaluations.

However this model may work exactly and how much or little it relies on search is unknown but it is no doubt a model of the world of chess. https://adamkarvonen.github.io/machine_learning/2024/01/03/c...
Zelensky sacks Ukraine's commander-in-chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi
Area codes are increasingly meaningless as people A: drop land lines and B: Keep porting the same cell number around (for obvious reasons).

Really what's needed it ditching numbers, at least as user facing things, and having something like phone-over-dns.
One might think that people who claim their priority is "law and order" would strongly support enforcing existing laws without fear or favor.

One might think that people who claim their priority is reducing the budget deficit would strongly support spending tens of billions to increase revenues by hundreds of billions.

But when we observe that people's actions contradict their claims, we should stop believing their claims.
> Although the title of legal personhood is a unique way of approaching conservation, it can draw questions about how the Magpie will manage the intricacies of the legal system — especially since it can now theoretically sue and be sued.

> In the case of damage, due to flooding for instance, Cárdenas explains that the Magpie would likely not be found liable. "The river doesn't commit intentional damage, therefore it cannot be sued," she said, pointing out that those who build in known flood zones are also aware of the risks.

Intent is not a condition for successfully suing someone but realistically this entire thing is mostly a joke anyway so might as well make up the entire thing as they go.
More discussion on official post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39305452
Higher GDP, lower GDP per capita.

Not a great deal for workers.
Do you mean Club 33? Because I doubt that.
> Her salary kept going up as the marketshare was going down...

You'd really need to decide if you thought their marketshare would go down faster or not with someone else.
This seems way too advanced for an intro. imho you'd be better off with textbooks. this assumes you are very strong in math
This misses the best skimming trick I learned from an advisor: After you read the abstract, read the last couple lines/paragraphs of the introduction. That's where you'll find the authors best summary of the paper's contributions and novelty. For instance, the first paper that popped up with some random search terms [0]:

The present paper attempts to provide a structured and comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art automated driving related hardware-software practices. [...] The aim of this paper is to fill this gap in the literature with a thorough survey.

The remainder of this paper is written in eight sections. Section II is an overview [...] Details [...] are given in Section III. Section IV presents [...] etc.

When you have a meter high stack of papers for your lit review, comprehending long introductions and conclusions gets too expensive. You want to filter the irrelevant stuff as quickly as possible so you can spend time focused on the couple hundred papers you might actually read and cite.

[0] https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2983149
“What the law is, not what it should be” is code for a particular viewpoint on how to rule itself, which is activism.
Individual subreddits have usually been my go-to place to discuss and understand the nuances of academic papers. Love LocalLLama for discussions on generative AI papers.
I believe the issue with backwards compatibility was licensing, especially for games like JSRF that Phil Spencer explicitly wanted to add.

The 360 games I've played BC on a Bone have downloaded the whole game onto disk, even with the original DVD in the drive so I'm not sure how much they're changing behind the scenes.

Regardless, I share the sentiment that running everything on Microsoft's infrastructure is a troubling trend. I like xCloud for managing JRPG inventory on the bus, or demoing a game before I commit to the full download, but it's no replacement for local gaming and it shouldn't be pushed as such.
For clarity, Liquid Death is a beverage brand. Flavored water, ice tea, etc.
Can't you just reject email that comes in to the base address without the identifier?
User behavior profiling wouldn't be bad if and only if users owned the data and had complete control of what is done it. Currently the legal/political system isn't equipped to handle this new technological assault on digital property and it will remain that way as long as long people keep hand waving it away. Imagine the same callous attitude being applied to real estate or other physical property.
It seems odd to me that would work better necessarily considering that humans evolved different capabilities many millennia apart and integrated them all with intelligence comparatively late in the evolutionary cycle. So it’s not clear that multimodal from the get go is a better strategy than bolting on extra modalities over time. It could be though since technology is built differently from evolution but interesting to consider
Can we pivot to tab groups?
Letting tax evaders operate is a tax break for criminals, not even for rich people.
I'm pretty sure that if the phone system didn't exist, no one from a call center in South Asia would have ever come all the way to rural Canada to try to tell me I have a computer virus that they can fix for a few hundred dollars.
> Tax cheats

> over taxed
I suspect that information about memory aliasing from the borrow checker (that things are not aliased) allows the compiler to add in many optimizations that C/C++ can't perform, and the benefit from that is similar to the cost of bounds checking.

The memcpy vs. memmove thing comes to mind. So does stuff like iterating over the indices of a pointer to one std::vector while modifying another pointer to a std::vector. If you know you have exclusive access to the vector you are reading, then you know the size isn't changing, so you can just iterate from 0 to size and elide any bounds checking.

With C++, if the pointers to the vectors could alias, then it will have to bounds check at runtime. Templates and Link time optimization helps with this sort of thing, but I'm guessing Rust still has an advantage.
This is extremely amplified when taking psychedelics
> a backlash of well-documented abuses by the agency that peaked in the 80's

If they're well-documented it's not here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_allegations_of_misuse_... or here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_Revenue_Service
> That's pretty cynical

Yes

> and just a way to discard his

No

> He might have done his laundry at his mom's house

Removing his independence and adding making someone else responsible for complexity.

It is a beautiful story. Lots of people have told beautiful stories. Some of those beautiful stories have been used in movements that have done a great deal of harm. Thus the cynicism.

If a beautiful story resonates with you, by all means enjoy it.
oof

Since I'm not at v1 yet, I would consider changing the name if that KDE project is actively maintained.
They had not kidnapped Patty at that point. The only thing the SLA was taking credit for at that time was the Marcus Foster murder. They probably thought they had a safe house in east Oakland, which is why all the hippies (as described by the bystander) went there for the meeting.
Putting ad space for sale on a eBay listing has to be a first. Is this even allowed?
So it's a space time trade-off then? Store enough searched and weighted positions into the model and infer them. In this way, inference is replacing Stockfish search, just less accurately, but much faster and with memory required for the model.
The backlash in the 80's probably should have involved a simplification of the tax code instead of defunding the IRS.
I know a lot has changed in 10 years, but I'm sure glad to be done with flashing an alternative OS onto my phone to get continued support or to rid it of bloat.
The movie made from "High-Rise" is completely off the hook. So bizarre. I liked it.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKPghZ5cc_E
> If you have several such functions that can each fail, this approach means your "happy path" follows the deepening scope / indentation.

In fact, I once had an interview candidate approach a simple string parsing problem by checking each char in a nested scope, happily going a dozen deep and not seeing a problem!
I would guess likely, it just remind me of microsofts chatbot on twitter that would learn from interactions so some 4chan people decided to turn racist, and they did like within a day or so.
I'm not sure I understand. Your relatives can remember to buy Apple but not Samsung?

Also, Samsung offers lower end phones with lesser but still good update policies. They're good phones but a lot cheaper than any iPhone, which should satisfy your older relatives.
I pick up and don't say anything. Humans typically, after about 4 seconds, go "umm.. hello?" and I have a conversation with them, while bots simply hang up.
If you tax people less, they have less incentive to evade.
Modern farming is rather complex.

Subsistence farming can be simple. Dying in childbirth is also pretty simple.
Fake app masquerading as password manager LastPass just pulled from App Store
Related ongoing thread:

A New Chapter for Mozilla - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39302624 - Feb 2024 (8 comments)
That's really nice, especially with the perspective transform.
Well, a lot of people, including you, seem to misunderstand me. I had very specific examples in my head with demonstrated (planned) actions against others or the state. I was even thinking about a very specific nazi pub in Germany. It's not about beliefs or religion for me. I couldn't care less and don't agree with "Generalverdacht" or "Sippenhaft" at all. On the opposite.
What's the point if they're gonna squander them on war.
Related ongoing thread:

Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39302744 - Feb 2024 (331 comments)
> You're making a fundamental mistake in comprehending this. You're confusing the map for the territory. When I say the laws of physics I mean the map, and you're thinking about what they point to, the territory.

I agree with the map-territory distinction -- but the laws of physics (or, better, the "way things behave") is primarily in the territory, and only derivatively in the map. Our map may be more or less accurate, but the map presupposes the territory. Otherwise, nothing we can say about reality is more or less true than anything else, and absurdity results (like the hydrogen-oxygen example I gave before). If the way things behave is solely a property of the map, not of the territory, then it must be the case that we can't predict what will happen when we react hydrogen with oxygen. But we can predict this, and therefore the way things behave is a property of the territory. The map that says hydrogen+oxygen=water+heat is a better map -- that is, closer to the territory -- than one that says hydrogen+oxygen=chocolate bunny. But again, better vs worse map presupposes the territory, and presupposes that the stuff on the map points to real stuff on the territory, however imperfectly.

Are you in agreement with this as far as it goes? Do you agree with my premise that we can predict what will happen when we react H and O?

> What is the most fundamental fact? What is the first step, from which everything then can be derived? That first step is the fact that there's something observing. That observer can construct a theory.

Surely the fundamental fact is existence? Without this, there can be no observation, no observer, and no observed object. These things, like any individual thing, presuppose existence.

Further, your statement presupposes other things: for example, the law of non-contradiction (which is a facet of existence). Your statement says that there is a 'thing', that it observes, and that it constructs a theory. It must therefore take for granted that there is not nothing; that the 'thing' doesn't not observe; and that it doesn't not construct a theory. Otherwise the statement is meaningless.

This is just the beginning of what I could say, but your argument, like any argument, presupposes existence, the laws of logic, non-contradiction, the distinction of one object from another (the law of identity), etc. So we can't take an observer as a fundamental fact. More generally, we can't take any particular thing as the fundamental fact. Universal knowledge precedes particular knowledge. Existence in general precedes existence of the particular.

I'm not sure if this directly affects our disagreement, but it might help understand where I'm coming from :-)
There is def. a middle ground we have to find here, but underfunding for decades is definitely not the right place to be either. If you have ever had to call the IRS in the last decade and get anything at all done, you will find it nearly impossible to do. Their system is down, or the one person on the planet that knows how to do X is on vacation, so call back in a few weeks, etc.

So you go through your congress critter, and hope they can find the right person for you, which they generally manage to do, but it takes them 6 months. Or in my case, I have an issue from 2019 still pending. My congress critter has even changed, so I have to re-initiate and start the process all over again whenever that happens. Luckily it's a case where they owe me a little money and I don't really need it.

The IRS desperately needs the funding. But of course they could become over-funded and cause stupid ridiculous problems in the other direction.
tbh your prompt confused the hell out of me. As a somewhat intelligent human I don’t know the response. I’ve never heard the phrase “in mirror writing”
Your preferred version is often called "guard clause" when it's in the beginning of functions. Although there's nothing preventing them from being in the middle...

I do agree that it's much better for readability.
Came here to ask the same thing. I always assumed a higher class necessarily was a lower class before. Curious.
Yes, it's being lost in translation.

The notion that you might heat a house with electricity or by setting trees or dinosaurs on fire is so foreign to Icelanders that they don't think this is worth clarifying in the English translation of the news feed.

It'll have other long-tail effects, e.g. some people with outdoor hot tubs in the area are probably scrambling to drain them and all their plumbing now. Some rely on constant drip heating to avoid the pipes bursting.

Why are outdoor hot tubs full in the first place when it's -10°C (15°F) outside?

Well obviously when boiling water practically bubbles out of the ground for free you're going to get in it at scalding temperatures even if you need to dig it out of the snow first. Doesn't that go without saying?
The proposed FinCEN rule is specific to non-financed (i.e. all-cash) transfers to companies or trusts. That in itself rules out the vast majority of private individuals. I'm sure they could also add carve-outs for primary residences or otherwise reduce the impact of this rule on private individuals.

That being said, I think the number of people who live in fear of being swatted in their homes is at least two orders of magnitude smaller than the number of people who rent a home owned by a mysterious and unaccountable corporate landlord.
FYI: the Linux installation script for Ollama works in the "standard" style for tooling these days:

curl https://ollama.ai/install.sh | sh

However, that script asks for root-level privileges via sudo the last time I checked. So, if you want the tool, you may want to download the script and have a look at it, or modify it depending on your needs.
Could an alternate iOS browser in the EU add this back in?
Anyone wrestling with these issues could usefully read Animal Liberation by Pete Singer. He delves into many varieties of abstinence from speciesism (as he calls it).
Have a fairly thin layer than wraps the underlying LLM behind a common API (e.g., Ollama as being discussed here, Oobabooga, etc.) and leaves the application-level stuff for the application rather than a framework like LangChain.

(Better for certain use cases, that is, I’m not saying LangChain doesn't have uses.)