skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tend to understand 'controversial' here as a shorthand for new theories not explaining some observations. There's lots of good evidence for the models that require dark matter and dark energy (which I also understand to be very different), so if you want to propose an alternative model it must do at least as well as those.

My second belief is that popular science articles are not good at explaining nuance, and tend to focus on human factors. Both of these are fine for lay audiences but should probably not be used to judge the health of the scientific process itself
I wish that they were clear about whether they were talking about dark energy or dark matter. Quotes from the author of the paper seem to use both terms which is confusing.

All I know is that dark energy != dark matter

"Despite the name, dark energy isn’t like dark matter, except that they’re both invisible. Dark matter pulls galaxies together, while dark energy pushes them apart." - 0

[0] - https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/research/topic/dark-energy-and-d....
Seeing this a lot lately. Maybe it's a warning sign of the economy. Maybe it's just interest rates going up. Either way it seems companies are having a hard time meeting their goals without tarnishing their brand.

Microsoft spent a decade turning their image around. Now the past few years they've been taking several steps back. Their software quality from Windows to new versions of software to Azure are getting to the point where I have a really hard time justifying their use. I say this as a long time Microsoft ecosystem user.
Financial inventives and disincentives like these are used effectively all over the world.
The govt would not be doing this to get a piece of the pie. It's doing it to stop the practice.
A proper fine would probably be more effective though.
It does not. But i just want to know how he made it.
But both are awful compared to the other terminal emulators available. My favourites are alacritty and kitty.
This is how Google got everyone to use Chrome with incessant, annoying nagging and FUD (don't use Firefox, use a modern browser!) in every Google property.
Does not sound that bad. I've published like 10 very bad free apps when I was learning android development.
Meanwhile, there are plenty of disciplines in which practitioners would never seriously consider posing this question.
2600 Hz was a frequency used as a control tone by the old telephone switches.

Basically the old telephone switches would communicate with each other by sending different frequency tones or tone pairs to execute different commands, and 2600 Hz was the tone send to indicate that a call had ended. 2600 Hz was the first of these control frequencies discovered by phone phreaks back in the day and kicked off the whole phreaking scene, and so 2600 became a shorthand for phone phreaking
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* https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/afternoon-project-jpeg-dct-te...

* https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/not-so-fast-mr-fourier
My past self doesn’t own me. My past self is gone.

My future self is a thing that doesn’t exist.

My present self is all the matters. My story about my identity is intended to freeze it where it is. That’s not a bug. That’s called staying alive.
If you are on long contract with a cab company, for example if you are a corporation who regularly needs a cab to pick people up from Airport, the prices are almost 4x per trip as compared to Uber. Even at peak hours Uber is much better
> While his analysis concludes his hybrid tired light theory can play nicely with certain features of the Universe's residual echoes of light and sound, it does so only if we also ditch the idea that dark matter is also a thing.

Is it the journal or the researcher (or me) being obtuse here? A new theory can not just ignore observations of localized structure such as galaxy rotation speeds (and be taken seriously). If dark matter is removed, the theory must account for why galaxies rotate faster than merely their visible matter allows.
Wow, ok, it seems Hacker News rewrote my submission link to use old.reddit.com which doesn’t support the sharing link format given by the Reddit app? I’m sure I submitted https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/s/hZgOecxVcK

Edit: yes, exactly, I think what happened is they are replacing "reddit.com" with "old.reddit.com" before following any redirects. On old.reddit.com the link format I submitted is shorthand for "submission", and because the link processor is not logged in, gets redirected to the login page (and finally the URI parameter that would indicate where it came from gets cut off). Ok, next time I will stick to the traditional reddit links here :)
Or just delete all your social media.

All these hacks remind me of what I tried to do to cut down smoking cigarettes. They work for a bit but doesn't solve the real problem. The only thing that really works long term is to simply quit smoking cigarettes completely.
Are you sure? Or do you mean that you don't know how to stop those things?

My kindle WiFi is permanently off. I use a usb cable. It stops it from downloading adverts to p*ss me off.

My projector doesn't have a WiFi chip. It has an hdmi cable to my laptop.

My laptop runs a pared down Linux, the only thing on it that spies on me is Google Chrome. That's a trade-off I'm comfortable with, since I use pihole to block the adverts so I don't have to see them.
So now it's location streaming to the highest bidder from apps on your phone, the os of your phone, the service provider to your phone, and your car physically moving the phone. Turtles all the way down.
Is this related to the same issue reported with the JVM crashing on the same update?
I'm so curious to know how this re-alignment happens. They call it chatgpt 4, in what way is it different?
If it’s something the people/government thinks should be illegal, we should just make it illegal rather than indirectly making it kind of undesirable through the already Byzantine tax code.
>single threaded performance will end up being the bottle neck for fewer and fewer workloads

the bottleneck will always be the fact that software is either unable or unwilling to be paralellised
What is the alternative for programmatically start up a stack with a bunch of services?
To which disciplines are you referring?
It is built into macOS now, if you start using your camera, you can click the camera-icon in the top bar for more spectacular options. Link to the support page: https://support.apple.com/en-us/105117
I used Polaroid cameras, which had disposable consumables. I find I use modern digital cameras in different ways.
what a bizarre site.
It’s incredible to watch Microsoft squander the good will they created with WSL, VS Code, and the initial version of Chromium Edge (which was my browser of choice before they started its enshittification). It’s perplexing to think that some Product Manager is being evaluated on a single digit percentage point uptick in Edge usage at the expense of driving people away from the entire Windows product, right at the time where they have a potential reason to use Windows again with Copilot.

Been moving increasingly to macOS which at least doesn’t act like it’s adware when I’m using it.
Let me preface by saying that unlike many others here, I'm using windows on purpose, on my main machine, because I like it, and that since W95. And I'm still using it right now. I like how it's in a sort of spot between great customized but closed down experience of OSX, and completely open but very messy even today of Linux.

But for a long time, Windows struggled with some broken internals and screwed up stuff, drivers would destroy your computers randomly, security was essentially not a thing, virus and rootkit were more common than normal applications, the works.

Microsoft did a lot of great advance on that, Vista brought the great internals revamp, 7 cleaned it up and made it usable, ... But that's when they started having some "finished" part and let some idiot ruin them.

8 kept improving the internals, but the interface and settings were already fine so they let someone make it look and feel like a tablet OS, and a broken one at that. Then tried to hide it with 8.1, but the damage was done.

10 was, for me, the best Windows version; but with all the internals polished they now decided to add a veneer of crap on top, let's track users and install candy crush for them.

11 ... I have no idea what's happening. Forget the "apps like on phone" start menu brought by 8, now it's not even that good, also here are ads in it. The contextual menu is broken beyond belief, but there is a button to show the real working one. Changing browsers ? Oh no, people need to change the HTTP handler now ! And half of the stuff will ignore it and force-open edge anyway.

Microsoft was doing so much better with Windows when part of it was broken. They were working on fixing it. Since it's been done, they're now in the business of adding and changing parts of it just for the sake of it, and effectively breaking everything in the process.

Add to that, it was great for Microsoft the company to diversify away from Windows in revenue, but that lead them to consider it just one of their toys. They're doing to it what they did to Skype.
Good list, but it's something that I've seen (at least most of it), for many years.
Hey, I notice you sell via a variety of sources. Which one ensures you the most ROI? I've always been curious, and like supporting others, but I worry that there's so many hands between you and your customer that by the time it the money reaches you, there is not much left.
Good collection.

My gripe, for every one of them, I hear a contradicting one, from an equally reputable source. And then it gives me a cognitive dissonant Diarrhoea. And stresses me out. DAE face this? How do they handle it?
In 90% of all countries really, most common scam ever. That is why travelers use Uber more than natives.
Kenzians believe that they can accomplish anything with enough knob twiddling. I appreciate the straightforward principles of Austrian economics.
I suspect that it's got to do with excess availability of compute. Usage hasn't grown past the initial novelty wave and enough enthusiast programmers are recently talking about how Claude 3 performed better in their usage.
Is a good question.

This particular species feeds on Lepidoptera mainly, but Diptera are the second group most preyed upon (45% of diet, including mosquitoes). Smaller bats eat more mosquitoes, but is not clear how much. Each bat should eat between 600-1000 a night to survive only on mosquitoes. Fat juicy moths are preferred when available.
I think offering your opinion on a subject and being disproved is a very healthy way of learning about it. Having a conversation should be the norm
Which is probably subpar comparing to Linux terminals and macOS iTerm2?
>But Bloomberg doubling down on the story in 2021 strongly discounts the possibility that the original reporting was based on any kind of bad info.

How so? If there was an ulterior motive (I don't know if there was, but it's been suggested) then they'd also double down. They also didn't even attempt to respond to the issues. If they had good information based in reality, a lot of the claims would've been trivial to refute.
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There's one country they've not been so thrilled to publicize when they've acted against us in the past.

See: The USS Liberty Incident.

Not saying that's what's going on here. But it is the exception to the rule you posit.
I’m a physicist and I can tell you that physics is not one of them, we consider this question all the time
The USB licensing dongles used in Cubase [1] were clunky and annoying, but were pretty effective. A lot easier to manage than Flex-LM, assuming you weren't roaming around too much.

[1] https://www.steinberg.net/elicenser/
> Let's not pretend that Mac OS is immune to a bit of the old upsell too.

Of course but Microsoft is way more obnoxious about it. In macOS (and iOS) the upsell is a small icon in your system settings. On Windows it's big notifications when you start up your devices. Links in your start menu to third party apps. Notifications when you install and run third-party browsers.

Most mac apps work without an Apple ID. On Windows you can't even use the built in video editor (Clipchamp) without logging in to a Microsoft account.

Microsoft just sucks at UX. On Windows 11 a lot of people now have three versions of Microsoft teams installed. Teams Classic, Teams New, and Teams personal edition. And the search makes sure to avoid showing you the one you use most as the default result.

Don't get me started on how many nag screens and cookie warnings you have to go through when you start Microsoft Edge. I use both Windows and macOS regularly (macOS is my daily driver right now) and Windows has the way worse user experience.
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You never need padding as long as you know how many input characters are missing. My point is that if you encode the single byte binary input 0x01 as "00001" (big endian) instead of "10000" (little endian) you avoid the temptation for people to trim off the zeroes (leaving "1"). This means your decode() input will always be a multiple of 5 character chars by construction.

This comes down to whether there should be 5 valid encodings ("10000", "1000", "100", "10", "1") of a single 0x01 byte, or one. The variable length encoding of integers in Protocol Buffers has the same malleability problem

It's also not clear to me why you say 6 char input is invalid.
> And, at the end of the day, if your application is so sensitive about any loss of performance, you can simply profile your code in your lab using frame pointers, then omit them in the version released to your customers.

That is what should be done but TFA is about distros shipping code with frame pointers to end uses because some developers are too lazy to recompile libc when profiling. Somehow shipping different copies of libc, one indended for end users on low-powered devices and one indended for developers is not even considered.
There's also the Bullet Cluster[1].

I'm just a layman, but at this point it seems to me there's a strong chance there's two things going on, not just one. As in, we likely have actual dark matter, say sterile neutrinos, but we also have something else like quantum corrections to gravity.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster
Hey, I just read it.

Very good overview of the situation. My experience matches yours pretty closely. One difference is that I received less feedback, but I think I also applied to fewer jobs (I didn't count, but I think it was fewer than 100).

One issue particular to me is that, even though I've been doing freelancing for all these years, I never specialised and I also haven't mastered a specific deliverable, for several reasons, including fear of choosing something that would become obsolete or fear of boredom. So my profile is light on depth.

I think I now need to do some soul-searching and find a path I can commit to. I think I have good general problem-solving skills, but I lack expertise in one particular thing, which seems to be more in demand. Or maybe I'm bad at selling my strengths (also because I've been bad at seeing them).

I've been rambling a little with this comment. Anyway, I appreciate you commenting and sharing the article.
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Other replies have made good points I agree with, but another way of looking at this is what "spying on me" means.

For example, is bookmark sync "spying"? I would say no, but many would say yes simply because that sync goes through someone else's machine. If the browser vendor uses aggregated domain popularity across bookmarks to inform their browser testing, is that now spying on me? Maybe, but the term "spying" has significant negative connotations that still don't feel justified to me. What if the browser vendor uses those bookmarks to target personalised information about browser feature improvements, is that now spying? I might find that a bit weird, but there's still an arguable user benefit there, and if that happened on device it's not really any different to most offline data analysis.

"Spying" really is a wide spectrum, from things that greatly benefit users with no privacy downside, to things that greatly benefit service providers with no user benefit. It's a nuance discussion that is worth having – just because something syncs to a server doesn't mean it's not worth doing, just because something is end to end encrypted doesn't mean it's not spying on you.
They do sell some smaller AI platforms on their store in category https://store.supermicro.com/us_en/solutions/artificial-inte... but seeing as https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/system/gpu/8u/as-8125... is designed to hold as many as 8 AMD AI cards and has 6 3000W redundant power supplies, plus as you said there's a great deal of ceremony in getting one and AMD knows every customer....

See also its Nvidia equivalent https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/system/gpu/8u/as-8125... which is implicitly on allocation because TSMC has been contracted to make only so many H100 chips per unit of time, I think I heard 550,000 for 2023. I remember seeing that the Nvidia cards list at around $30K each....

I think the store is more for stuff that's in more plentiful supply and less ITAR restricted, with a limited number of SKUs and options for each that they're prepared to support for a long time.
While LLMs and generative AI are getting the hype, healthcare is where AI shines
While not immediately, ultimately Android was very explicitly a hedge against Apple, not Microsoft. Seems this became clear at Google near instantly after the iPhone announcement. Google actively shifted it's Android development toward touch screens directly as a result of the iPhone, for instance. By the 2010 Google IO keynote they made this explicit with Vic Gundottra's speech describing the mission of Android according to Andy Rubin (it's original creator): "If Google did not act, we faced a draconian future. A future where one man, one company, one device, one carrier would be our only choice. That's a future we don't want."

This was a reference to Steve Jobs, Apple, iPhone and AT&T (originally Cingular).

https://youtu.be/89xc_1Vv69k?si=1HkgjXT6P0ScuBZG
There is a major problem with economics: only Economists care about economics, while all media cares to use economics as propaganda, and that is it's effective purpose in our society, not economics and the study thereof, but to use as a conforming society utility.
Isn't that a common complaint from fine artists?

That their work must be dumbed down to fit into a coffee table book or match the colour coordination of some interior design?

Art appreciation has many dimensions, and arguably the most meaningful ones are the most personal and authentic, and do not require justification to other people.
> It's probably not macOS, but incorrect code that accidentally worked in the past

Well, it was correct code, as it was working, and after a macOS update, the code that used to be correct, is no longer correct. But it's not the fault of macOS, but the people who produced the code?
Sadly this is true for me. Much as I wish ebooks had the freedoms that come with paper, I value reduced physical clutter more than the ability to share and resell.
IIRC 9 GHz was broken a year or so ago: https://www.pcmag.com/news/intels-core-i9-13900k-processor-g...
Dont forget cooling. The 14900ks almost requires good watercooling to get its full potential.
> Not everyone agrees with you that the situation was "unjust".

More do, than don’t. You won’t find many shedding tears for the bullshit grift that was most of the Australian taxi industry. Good riddance to it and the completely terrible laws that allowed their nonsense to continue unabated for as long as it did.
Is it possible that what you call knob twiddling is more effective/humane than the effect of Austrian economics when those principles are followed?
Thanks! But people want an all-in-one solution for decompilation. Given the vast array of architectures and compilation settings, and the fact that these information are usually not predetermined, finding a way to effectively navigate this complexity is quite difficult.
All these takes here.

Two preambles: Y'all need to read Invisible Hands, really need to. That book is about how various losely connected sometimes even competing groups of businessmen worked to roll the New Deal back. It's not a conspiracy theory, there was no shadow cabal behind the scenes -- but the goal was common. https://wwnorton.com/books/Invisible-Hands/

Second, Amazon was started to become a monopoly in retail and only begun with books because it was a relatively easy thing to work with.

Similarly, while Uber started with fancy cars soon enough it became a means to destroy the protections organized labor managed to get in the last hundred or so years. Or at least what remained of them. In this the company was exceptionally successful by creating what is called the "gig economy". As people hate taxis, using that market for this purpose was the easy way. If you think past the introduction of UberX in 2012 Uber had anything to do with transportation then, pardon the pun, you have been taken for a ride.
I saw a "Do you want to try this new AI" in my Win 11 VM today, it's disgusting that they can send ADS into MY system with EVERYTHING shut off, I mean tracking, ads, statistics, usage, help, everything that can be turned off without doing anything extraordinary.
Sorry I’m unfamiliar. Why?
No. I know only that they can generalize within it, and only to a limited degree, but don't have solid evidence of even that.
Boeing makes a lot of different products. If I worked at Boeing I probably wouldn't want to work at a next company that smears all Boeing employees with the same brush.

If I worked at the 737 Max quality control it would be another story. But even then, I would think about how we screwed up before thinking how it would look on my resume. My 2c.
> And besides the flaws of the other OS’es, OS X had some of the nicest window management features

I'm always confused by such statements, because what KDE offers on Linux easily dwarfs every window management concept in every major OS. I always need to install additional third-party apps (e.g. Rectangle on macOS) to get a poor-man's equivalent of KDE-style window management functionality.
I was a kid fresh out of college at the time .. I've matured a lot since then.
You should try asking ChatGPT about Lord of the Rings esoterica. You might be surprised.
Add a 500ms delay for group A and compare to group B who don't have the delay. After a week of this compare the sales figures.
>Supporting alternative browser engines is something that can be done perfectly without JIT.

Unless I missed something and the DMA requirement is along the lines of "having to allow other browser engines as long as they don't bring their own JITting Javascript engine", no, it literally can't.
iLok, even when it was just a dongle-only protection, had a 100% chance of crashing and/or not working at all in any live setup I can think of. I learned the hard way about always exporting any stem of any track to lip-sync them as a last resort.

Even to this day I've kept the habit of doing any production or live stuff on a dedicated, offline-only box, and treat it as if it were an analog synth or dsp.
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Yes. East coast to Western Europe. The MAX 8 has nearly enough range to do JFK to Madrid nonstop.

https://simpleflying.com/icelandair-boeing-737-max-routes/
Where are all the "loving the new Microsoft" people at?
The funny thing about legislation is that you're responsible for the unintended consequences of your laws too.
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