skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ERP is all about numbers, and lots of them. While you may rightfully argue that it's a job for SQL servers, the lack of fast base-10-exp numbers in apps creates a very inconvenient and performance-bound gap in development of these systems.

Also, ieee754 floats usually leak into most general purpose scripting languages from the fast-ish category, cause there's no hardware alternative. Two main issues with this are: 1. people who do scripting may be unaware of numeric issues related to base-mismatch, 2. "domestic" calculations and formatting still become cumbersome for those who know. Another issue is that to properly build decimals in (think native + - / * operators), you have to modify the language model around that, and it comes with all sorts of prices.

In short, people want the results to compare correctly to their pocket calculators. "A human number is [+-]<decimals>.<decimals> in a ~20-digit-max window" is an idiom everyone is familiar with and all business requirements assume that by default.
I'd suggest spending a little time with Docker and compose.. even in small, single server applications it helps a lot to smooth out application deployments.

It will reduce friction in practice.
Yeah, I'm not sure why Disney of all companies would be so enamored by another company's entertainment IP that they'd spend $1.5B to have dibs on it. There has to be a better explanation than Fortnite skins.
It's also a side effect of very bad urban design. I bike in the Netherlands and don't know if I've _ever_ seen a stop sign here. Traffic signals, sure, but not stop signs.
My honest hot take is that we made computers too easy to use.

I appreciate how liberating computers and the internet can be for a lot of people but it has been far too easy to implement dark control through them.
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Traffic is a complex real-time action game where there are serious consequences if people make mistakes. So the best approach is to be predictable within the traffic rules.

Like no shit, I never said cyclists shouldn't obey the rules, but motorists should be held to a much higher standard from a legal perspective because of the insane amounts of damage that can be inflicted by jerking around on Instagram while driving, for example.

I've ridden around cities my whole life on bikes and you can obey all the rules you like, you're still completely vulnerable when it comes to dangerous, inattentive driving.

Cars, for the most part, really are a stupid idea, especially in cities.
"This massive 45-ton electric dump truck never uses more energy than it generates on its own — here's how that works"

https://www.businessinsider.com/edumper-121-ton-electric-dum...

(You can find more articles if you search for "eDumper")
Russia annexed those territories, following referendums, because Ukraine refused to negotiate. Russia views them as Russian territory now — and has said they’re willing to use nuclear weapons in their defense (as they would for any territory). De facto those are Russian.

Ukraine has passed a law saying they absolutely refuse to negotiate a peace settlement with Putin.

Again, you can believe that’s righteous… but all I see is a world in which Ukraine has permanently lost territory due to failing to implement peace accords a decade ago while killing or displacing ~10% of their population (4M in 45M).

I think that’s a tragedy — and for what? …a worse outcome?
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The underlying mathematical driver of the power of two random choices is a pretty amazing fact about the "n balls into n bins" random experiment.

If the balls are thrown independently and uniformly at random, the most loaded bin will have theta(log n) balls in it (almost certainly).

If you instead pick two bins uniformly and independently at random for each ball and throw the ball into the bin which has fewer balls in it so far, then the most loaded bin will have theta(loglog n) balls in it, i.e a massive asymptotic improvement.
I was wondering because the toothbrushes I know use BT(LE) and aren't connected to the Internet.
However, some light bulbs do have WIFI and sure one day could be exploited. And there are definitely more light bulbs than toothbrushes around here.
What's the reason for the simulation to be smaller than the simulator?

Can't it just be the same but slower? This wouldn't be perceivable from the inside.
> My personal belief is that the deepest things we’ve learned about quantum gravity—including about the Planck scale, and the Bekenstein bound from black-hole thermodynamics, and AdS/CFT—all militate toward the view that the answer is “yes,” that in some sense (which needs to be spelled out carefully!) the physical universe really is a giant Turing machine.

Doesn't the non-determinism of QM in fact say that there's fundamentally an issue with computability?
As a user, web push is a terrible idea. It's not something I want. I'm glad its so hard to do on iOS.
If we are living in a simulation, where does the simulation live in?
Something most people miss, as it is only briefly mentioned, is he was eating on big meal each day after work. That's basically like 20/2 intermittent fasting. It definitely would have had an effect on his metabolism and insulin resistance. It's not a dictum, he just gives an anecdote and mentions it.

I was reviewing HD a few years ago to see if it still held up against current, prevailing wisdom and noticed this. Kind of blew my mind.
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Yeah this is really interesting, could make this kind of approach viable.
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I think this is good food for thought. Rust is so often billed as a magic be-all end-all solution, but security doesn't depend on Rust - it depends on the security awareness of the developers.

Like me.
Well, KVM is used by Google and AWS and others for their clouds. As such, there are a lot of eyes on KVM code. The vboxdrv kernel module that provides the same functionality in vanilla VBox definitely has fewer people looking at it. It also has anti-features, such as code upload from the userspace VirtualBox process to the kernel. This is also the largest security issue with vanilla VBox, because a lot of emulation code runs directly in the kernel.

From a performance perspective, it's a bit more complicated. KVM has support for modern virtualization features (Intel APICv, AMD AVIC, etc) that vanilla VBox lacks. You get these in the VirtualBox/KVM version. On the other hand, vanilla VBox emulates most devices in the kernel (see above). So SATA emulation in vanilla VBox is very fast compared to KVM/Qemu or KVM/VirtualBox for a bit unfair reasons. Modern devices, such as virtio or NVMe, are not as impacted by that.

tl;dr
So the performance you get depends on your workload. If it's very interrupt heavy, VirtualBox/KVM will win. If it uses antiquated virtual devices (SATA), vanilla VirtualBox (with vboxdrv) will have an edge.
the answer is not to hide their unlawful data scraping to save their business. The solution is to actually follow the rules
Because the legality for the paying customers is much more complex to navigate.
That's a poor take. The issue is that because there is no browser competition on iOS, Apple doesn't need to fear losing market share. That in turn ensures they have no reason to invest in Safari or web apps.

Apple has the staff and the budget to make a decent browser and to ensure web apps work, they don't because they don't want anyone competing with their AppStore or their 20b/year google search revenue.
At this point they should just buy Epic Healthcare and consolidate.
It seems like satire today given what's happened in the last 10 years but given it was published 2003, he was well ahead of the times and possibly writing with tongue in cheek, even if he did believe the thrust of it
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Was worth a shot!
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in Safari/webkit or more broadly?
The level of stupidity caused by corporate censorship is extreme in Bard,
I ask it(medium one) to generate a few paragraphs of content and it did it. Then I ask it to revise the text and fix some stuff and it refused the task because of plagiarism concern, no amount of logic could make the stupid AI understand that we "own" the f text we created just now and we can edit it.
That would be the user's choice :) stop trying to protect a wall garden against giving user options
Has anyone else noticed the increase of entirely AI generated videos in YouTube suggestions and search results? They tend to be about completely made historical or scientific facts

I’m much more interested in projects to detect junk like this than see more of it in the world
>saying goodbye to friends at 1 AM in a big city and having to drive one hour to my home in a little town

I doubt there are a lot of places where you're replacing that scenario with public transit.
Does Apple make their own DRAM? If not, there's a good chance they still are sourcing chips from Samsung.
The KVM backend in vanilla VBox cannot be activated without changing the code. If you tried it, you tried the vanilla VBox hypervisor (vboxdrv) instead of KVM.
Not literally infinite, but Llama2 scale models can handle about 10 trillion tokens.
It said "Bard is now Gemini"
Progressives just don't make sense to me. I have a pair of computer glasses, and a pair of bike riding glasses, and I never ride my bike while using the computer. So why would I want to have 50% of my vision blurry at all times?
Great, another Energy Vault grift... Hope this doesn't actually get built.
The hypothesis is that coding molecules predate cell membranes.

So we have “every current cell membrane requires the nucleus” and “the coding portion came first”; nobody is disputing that membranes build on membranes, just pointing out they integrally depend on the nucleus to operate (coding for proteins) — and always have.

> again more or less independently of the nucleus

Ie, this is wrong.
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Why? It’s not an unsolvable inherent problem.

You pay for cloud storage so you don’t have to think about these things. If you’re saying that one should pay for cloud storage and still worry about these things, then you’re trading money for a service which provides nothing, or at least you’re paying for a service which provides no real utility. You’re trading money for nothing. If anyone thinks that’s a normal transaction then I don’t know how to respond to that.
No, you would assign a probability to the event. And that probability would be higher for a Google product.
Doesn't necessarily need to be effective motor function: it's a probe that provides tactile feedback, both for posture and balance, as well as being the one who gets hit often - being on the outer edge - possibly saving more critical foot areas from irreparable damage. By way of consequence it's helpful when fully functional but not essential as you are prone to hit it by "design" and make it temporarily nonfunctional every so often, all without impairing the whole foot function critical for bipedal walk as humans do it. Also, redundancy: when you break some other toe you're super glad there's a pinky, however comparatively small and weak.

Anecdata: as a skateboarder it's obvious (sometimes painfully so) how every toe matters to get the most information from beneath one's feet.
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Same boat, major exchange backend and we just use 10MHz over 50ohm coax straight into the NIC which does the timestamping.
> I’ve done this before, but this time I made it a little simpler for me to do it again: everything in one Rust program rather than clunky scripts.

Warms my heart
Sure, in this case. But I can’t use my family Gmail account for my Nest thermostat for the same reason.
Fortnite skins are probably worth more than Star Wars as a property at the moment. At least, worth far more than $1.5b.
Breachers.

In fact a former colleague's husband fell into that bucket. He was a breacher for the local PD, and too much of that (the compression wave bounces your brain around inside the skull) caused him to have all sorts of issues that took years to stabilize.
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It's great for security - I know my supposedly encrypted discussions aren't lying around somewhere in plaintext.
"If they say, maybe you should live your life differently, just from knowing that you might be in a simulation, I respond: I can’t quite put my finger on it, but I have a vague feeling that this discussion predates the 80 or so years we’ve had digital computers! Why not just join the theologians in that earlier discussion, rather than pretending that this is something distinctive about computers? Is it relevantly different here if you’re being dreamed in the mind of God or being executed in Python?"

That sums up a bit my thoughts about it. The whole simulation hypothesis seems like a new way to introduce theological concepts with modern tech. Cannot be disproved, cannot be verified.
> just because people happen to have bought into its ecosystem.

I don't think that's a fair take. Plenty of us are developing webapps for safari/chrome/firefox, are barely ever consider browser differences. I think a lot of credit for this also goes to a wealth of high quality css/js frameworks that abstract what minor differences exist these days, rather than apple.

It's worth also considering what specifically was bad about the IE dominance era in order to understand how it maps to our current situation. IMO it wasn't just that IE was bad (of course it was), but that its usage share was _dominant_. That doesn't come close to reflecting the current state of mobile browser usage: https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/mobile/world...

Worldwide Safari is a minority player. In the US (probably the best case), safari holds a slight majority at 55%, and the other 45% are likely almost entirely blink. At one point (early NS6/pre-phoenix), IE had something like 95% usage, and closer to 99% for corporate usage.
which sdk were you using? there are tricks to keep heap down.
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<select> element without dropdown arrow indicator, nice... /s
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I'm still unsure what you're getting at. But what I suspect: if there is no local wikipedia version (e.g. the German wiki for Germany), then you possibly can't increase the number of data points, can't you? All depends on there being a Wikipedia in the first place.
I am really curious about this.

As a pentester, I run use Linux on my laptop and I spend a lot of time working inside a Kali VM with VirtualBox.

How much performance improvement can we expect with the KVM backend ?
And isn't the fact that the universe seems to be a result of computation in fact just because we are abstracting it with mathematics?
https://archive.is/hIygG
Minions is damn close, however. Freaking billion dollar movies and infinite numbers of the yellow dudes everywhere.
Isn’t a durable store the same thing as a transactional database where transactions are listed on a tape and then read in to reconstruct the state?
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#3: By 2050, we will have solved the challenge of safety and control, alignment,
and compatibility with increasingly powerful and capable AI systems and eventually those of artificial general intelligences (AGI)
#4: By 2050, there will have been game-changing contributions by AI to
humanity’s greatest challenges and opportunities, including in health and life sciences, climate, foundational science (including the social sciences) and mathematics.
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participation, and agency in the development of AI across countries, organizations, and segments of society, especially those not presently involved in the development of AI.
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research, deployment, and sociotechnical embedding of AI into different societies and subcultures, accounting for different cultures, participants, stakes, risks, societal externalities, and market and other forces.
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competition, cooperation, and coordination between countries and other key actors.
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institutions and social infrastructure to keep up with and harness AI progress for the benefit of society.
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Since it's webassembly, I wonder if it can be made to work completely on the client with something like Orca (https://orca-app.dev/) so you don't even need to trust the website.
Not a physicist, but I vaguely recall an argument that it might be only non-deterministic from where we stand. Like trying to predict a CSPRNG.
You point a finger at someone, at least three are pointing back to you. And one to the ground, that's a different story so.
tbf, that is 5 years old.
Non-deterministic Turing machines are computationally equivalent to deterministic ones. Quantum mechanics only causes issues with the practical feasibility of the computation, not its theoretical possibility given unbounded time and storage.
A nice example of how a simple program can be done in Rust.

I think that if some of the setup (mkfs, mount) is left to external tools¹, it show clearly how simple a program in Rust can be.

Sure, in Ruby, python, or even bash, it would be two or three lines, under ten statements and probably under 200 characters while remaining readable. But still it shows us how the idea that "in rust there is a lot of boilerplate" isn't really a practical issue.

I write most of my simple tools in rust lately. Needed a million URLs parsed and matched against denylists last week: my Python code took 5 minutes to run that (way too long for trial-error), the bash cut,sed,awk,grep pipe-chain quickly too wieldy to keep playing around with (yet seconds to run, not minutes). In a few minutes I was running a rust version that used all my cores, well readable and easy to iterate with. I guess go would be the perfect fit, but I don't speak go that well (nor have its tooling ready and up-front).

¹something I'd do regardless. If only to follow the part of the Unix philosophy "do one thing".
Agreed. Question Copyright was a non profit that advocated that but they just shut down recently.

I think the most prominent copyright abolition (or at least, reform) groups nowadays are the online pirates, who are essentially nullifying copyright in practice. No matter the legal status of AI, you'll be able to rely on them for a torrent.

Don't forget the pirate parties!
Encanto was fun but it didn’t merchandise the way Frozen did (nothing before or after has, to be fair).

Keep an eye on the clearance aisles for a feel on how merchandising is going; wish is doing exceptionally bad.
Is it knowable that we’re living in a simulation or not? Because if it’s not knowable, isn’t any argument for or against just meaningless cherry picking?

So I’m wondering what the ways might be that we can definitively know, versus new observations of how this universe works. Even a giant head appearing in the sky telling us it’s a sim would necessarily be reconcilable by changing our models?
That's kind of insane. The top few hundred most viral shorts get something, everyone else gets nothing. I heard a Hololive creator the other day talking about how pleased they were to get 1M views on something - but that was also in the context of hoping to drive traffic to their main channel, subscriptions etc.

On the other hand, what's the revenue of a short? They've got to be pretty worthless views. And of course AI just makes them more worthless.
> Because we humans are more important than them.

This seems to be self evident to you. Can you explain why this is true?
Wow, I love that!
I really appreciate your thoughtful answer!

Hire dev firm or individual
> Make sure they can provide ongoing support

CTO cofounder
> Need to consider upside/downside

Learn to code (or Bubble)
> Need to consider my available time + decide on a language

I have started and stopped the Python 3 course on Code Academy probably 3-4 times over the years. I'm leaning that route. With GPT I bet I could knock something out in a couple months that would at least get me to a point where I can invite a few customers to kick the tires.
->"Why not just join the theologians in that earlier discussion, rather than pretending that this is something distinctive about computers? Is it relevantly different here if you’re being dreamed in the mind of God or being executed in Python?"

Exactly. There is a few thousand years, since Plato's the Cave, dealing with same issues.

Why make it a 'computer' this time.

Because an entire generation has grown up after watching 'The Matrix', and that was their first introduction to the ideas. Now all the same old problems are put in that context. But they are shoe-horning it into current understandings of what a computer is.

If physical Church-Turing is correct, then we 'ARE' the computer, not 'IN' the computer.
I don't think that's a healthy mindset to have.

Just because something is widely used doesn't mean it's more secure (example: libwebp). The security issues tend to happen mostly when creating optimizations that bypass the "obviously secure" way to do things, but rely on an internal state that gets broken by another optimization down the line. This is way less frequent in "smaller" projects, just because they didn't need to go through that round of optimizations yet.

For this question specifically, tho, I think Ladybird is extremely interesting in terms of creating a security-focuses C++ project. Between the constant fuzzing that each part of Ladybird already goes under (courtesy of the OSS-Fuzz initiative), the first-class citizenship of process separation for the different features of the browser, the modern C++ used in Ladybird (that prevents a lot of the issues cropping up in commonly used media decoding libraries), the overall focus on accuracy over performance in library implementations, and the compiler-level sanitatization utils (UBSAN, ASAN) that are enabled-by-default, I think it's less likely that an critical security-impacting bug would exists in Ladybird's .ico support than in Webkit's for example.
Oh nice I’ll take a look!
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I’ve been around a few large data centers and have never heard anything close to the level of noise described. What’s different about this one? Is something broken?
And all those TVs and fridges. And even the peacemakers could one day deliver malware. /s

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Yes, but it's not articulated in detail why and how it works.

It's a good start, and for many it will help - hell, it did help me just by putting it down in clear numbers that ultimately calorie deficit is the crucial thing.
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