skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds not so different from building a race car irl. There's no point in a big engine if you have to brake so early that you get passed in the corners. Plus all that braking will cook the brakes. It's often letter to have a lower top speed and never have to slow down.
>GoPro operations guy once, and asked how you can get the chinese ripoffs at $40, that looked the same as their $400 "real" deal. He said that they literally get chips from scrapyards

Chinese consumer electronics companies simply do not put huge margins on stuff. Here a great example, a $45 AlienTek DP100 100W USB-C micro lab power supply https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd6LG7iP2GQ something like this would cost $500 with Digilent logo.

>speced to work 6 months on avg not 6 years

while original gopros suffer above average defect rates and cant record at 4K without baking itself to death/random shutdowns.
The simple answer to this is that signaling rates were far behind the Pareto frontier of where they could be, and CPU clock rates are pretty much there. CPU clocks are also heat-limited far more than I/O data rates. CPUs are big and burn a lot of power when you clock them faster, while I/O circuits are comparatively small.

Transmitting and receiving high-speed data is actually mostly an analog circuits problem, and the circuits involved are very different than those in doubling CPU speed.
If you want to define a computer that broadly, then what exactly are modern cars but computers with engines/motors and wheels?

Hell, some new cars are literally driven by a computer, both in the AI sense and in that your steering wheel movements are not directly connected to your front wheels. An EPU for a long time has controlled how an engine runs, which is a literal computer. New cars’ components are connected with automotive-grade Ethernet. They use a screen to interface with “apps” like media playback and navigation. They connect to external services and devices like your phone.

What, exactly, makes it not a computer, if we’re defining the term loosely enough to encompass practically all devices Apple makes right now?
I think you're confusing DivX the codec and DIVX the disc media platform.

Afaict these aren't related.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DivX
Doesn't the ink dry up with such low usage?
The lesson of the Luddites is the mill owners had enough financial incentive to get the state to brutally suppress the Luddites.

If AI pays off as is hoped, the incentive to suppress neo-Luddites would be even greater.
Or if you just use the terraform cli properly and actually glance at the report it gives you before the “hey guy are you really, really sure about this?” Safety prompt.

You not paying attention is not terraforms fault.
for item in items.iter() {
if predicate(item) {
items.push(modify(item));
}
}

This is not a good idea in Python either. You are better off creating a new list in which you accumulate all items, both modified and unmodified.
Offsetof was just stabilized btw https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/core/mem/macro.offset_of.ht...
I just think there is a much more interesting conversation to be had is all, yah no shit everyone under 30 who has a billion bucks got it from their family, that's a very boring conversation to have, I thought mine was a bit more intellectually curious, nothing more than that really. :)
For sure, not trying to say it shouldn’t be :) comments are way better this time around.
There's some logic to hiding the identity... don't know who/who's family to hack/threaten? But, you can just target the 2nd, or 3rd in command it'll be just as effective really.... so I'm not sure what the point is, besides some sort of security theater coolness.
Vouchers for Starlink is probably the most effective way to achieve universal access.
600 jobs is impressive.
I guess they won't be building robots either.
Figure and Tesla will benefit.
I find it hard to trust studies like these made by the same companies that provide the tech and have a lot at stake.
Thanks, good article. I like the experiment of multiplexing unique
content to each service to correlate the "direct" returns. Way too
much work for my level of care... but a cool technique nonetheless.
>why is it that there has never been a black pope?

There were a few popes of African descent, though; don't know if their skin color happened to be black

Still, I don't get why it would matter to any Catholic (I'm not Catholic), except to (some) Catholics in the US of A maybe, since race seems to reign supreme over there, even more than God Himself to (some, supposed) believers
> It creates the possibility of atrocity with no accountability.

No it doesn't. If you use any tool to kill people (ie a gun, bomb, computer) the person (or people) who used the tool are accountable.
Utilities are weird anyway. A private company provides the service, but pretty much every aspect of the service is heavily regulated by the government. Isn't that basically a government-controlled company in that case? Why not just have the government handle it?
Not a very friendly comment and I didn't think electric vehicles needed oil.

Vehicles are doing more and more processing - the work of servers. Distributing moving servers around the world to process data at that specific location is useful and becoming more and more so.
You would literally be making the same argument for any other breakthrough tech:

Why invent a dishwasher? You can have someone do it! Why have automated elevators? You can have someone do it! Why have automated farming systems? You can hire cheap Mexicans to do it!

We like to invent technologies to help make people's lives easier.
They’re the second biggest company in the world now, and by not that much. They’re doing fine.

It would be a different story if they suddenly dropped a magnitude or more, but going from first to second has basically no relevance on the content of the comment. It would have read the exact same if it said “second biggest company”.
> D) episodic utilities (e.g. Airbnb, TripAdvisor)

I sort of struggle to think of the utility of these being installed apps. I feel like just doing a better job of designing web pages to run on mobile would be fine for booking a hotel. Notifications and location tracking is all you’d be missing, but that’s not THAT big of a deal. Those are both doable with PWAs now, and even before they were you could have just done it through email or SMS if you really had to.

There’s a lot of stuff where I just don’t feel like it needs to be an app and would be better off just a service that runs through a well designed website.
Or when "crypto" meant encryption rather than simply "hidden". (For example crypto zoology)
I've been saying exactly this from the beginning. I don't like being lied to, and calling ChatGPT AI was always a lie, from minute one. It is not intelligent in any sense of the word, whatsoever, nor may it aspire to intelligence. It's a highly adept predictive text model. It generates words based upon words it has been trained on as being the right words to minimize the errors in the words it generates. Not useless, mind you, and frankly tons of B2B salespeople especially would benefit from using it to clean up their nearly incoherent rambling emails; but not intelligence.

The way you can "talk to" these machines is certainly clever, and the way they generate their replies is fascinating technology and certainly beats the shit out of a traditional chatbot, all of these things are true and I think they have a bright future as such. Natural language UI is a cool concept and it's cool to see some serious progress there. But that's all it is, and all it really can be. I don't know for certain what the path is to true emergent intelligence from the machine, but I assure you that shoving billions of words scraped from the internet through an LLM is not that.

Now, if for whatever reason you want ream upon ream of pretty dull and repetitive content churned out on a given subject, that's far longer than it needs to be to convey the limited information within as apparently tons of online businesses do, written damn near to perfection? ChatGPT's your hookup, no question. However you will never get blinding insights, you will never get new ideas, and it will never be your friend. Sorry.
Read the article from Maariv that is linked in the parent article.
Quite eye-opening. The plans were known for two years, but the hubris blinded them.
Another recent, very painful article is this one - https://www.haaretz.co.il/magazine/2024-04-04/ty-article-mag...
Gmail was launched on April 1st and at the time it seemed like an April Fools prank - how could Google possibly give you 1GB of storage for free?
Clicks are currency. If you follow a link you are implicitly endorsing whatever is at the link, which I'm not going to do unless I'm already really sure of what it says. (Maybe you say "but I hated the article!" They don't care, they already got your hit and eyeballs that they will sell to advertisers.)
Probably you are using zsh and need:

MULTIOS=1 > file

- zsh isn't POSIX compatible by default
Bad move from Apple.

Classic instance of the sunken cost fallacy fallacy (not a typo).
They prefer to cut their losses and forget about how much they spent recruiting those people.

Keeping them might seem wasteful on the short term, but such skilled workers could likely be made profitable in a big R&D powerhouse.

But the real cost is damaging their reputation among future candidates and current employees, and lowering their perceived value as an employer.

For the most skilled and efficient engineers, choosing to work for big tech is always a tradeoff, a company like Apple is usually very appealing for the most risk-averse.
Why would he want to look like an idiot when he could just resign and become a civilian?

He could even go full Snowden if he wanted to.
What's weak about the grandmother effect? Selective pressure absolutely applies outside of reproductive phases of the individual. Evolution happens at the genetic level, not only at the level of the individual organism. If a related organism is able to increase the reproductive chances of another organism with shared DNA (i.e. a child, grandchild, sibling, etc.), the related organism won't be directly reproducing, but it will absolutely be affecting the genetic material being passed down.
What it does is create more levels of indirection and detachment.
I did read the article, which clearly stated that after they had sent an innocent man into a mental institution against his will a detective decided to track down the man's father. And a DNA test proved that what the innocent man said was true.

Which begs the question: why was the judge/court so incompetent/malicious that they didn't do that in the first place?
I remember when they put "frustration free packaging" on the agenda in a time when that was never talked about. Today they are the the slowest e-commerce company to ship packages to me except for Temu, even if I did pay a lot for a membership. I'm not expecting any innovation from them anymore, just Temu quality at 3x the price.
Yeah, I phrased that as generously as possible because I didn’t really want to kick that particular hornets’ nest, but the article does a fine job making that point.
After the genocide: what scientists are learning from Rwanda
If capitalism is the problem – what's the solution?
Ah, Scotland is a whole different country... :) Charging networks in the UK evolved from a set of regional schemes commissioned by the Government under the Plugged-In-Places programme. At that time, it couldn't be assumed that drivers had smartphones and contactless payment was still fairly new, so RFID cards were the exclusive route for accessing chargers. Many of these networks then folded into commercial providers in time, such as Source East being taken over by BP Pulse. During the programme you'd pay £10 for the card for the year, then all charging was free.

Charge Place Scotland continued to be run by the Scottish Government.

> non-British billing addresses

I can feel your pain there.

>And they do not charge your card per session, they randomly bill your card based on usage predictions.

ChargePoint has an auto-topup mechanism when your balance drops below a defined amount. The trick is to set the top up amount to be small.

> And again, no receipts anywhere.

In the app go to "Account" then "Monthly Statement". Select the month you care about, then share it using your email client. A PDF will be attached.

> All in all, it was an awful experience.

The big issue we've had has been with broken chargers and, at least in the past, a proliferation of charge networks. There's more roaming coming now, partly mandated by law, but the reliability issue still remains.

And yes, renting an EV in a market you're not familiar with is a pain. I've had that landed on me when visiting the USA, too.

> I only now notice that I wrote _most_ stations only link with your credit card.

Right - that's what I was disagreeing with.
There are also the related Kasami codes. Both are made by selecting uncorrelated LFSR sequences and combining them. That has the advantage of extending code length, while maintaining cross-correlation and whiteness properties. Really helpful in early error correction.
Marketing on Facebook or Twitter is a horizontal landscape. Those on the platform are your only traffic. Having a website outside of these types of platforms is a vertical market because one does not have become a platform tribal member to engage.

A number of restaurants and brick and mortar shops only use platforms to promote events and products. This means I have no idea of the soup of the day or when special trivia night is.

It is less expensive to just engage on a platform than maintain a non-tribal website. Those in the tribe do not see the exclusion they created with their horizontal market.

Irony is that a number of social media posts reference other sites. So the non-tribal website is scooped up by media platforms, creating a tilted vertical market.
If you can't beat shareholders, join em.
100% agree it’s a huge mistake to water down Rust’s `enum` and `match` when teaching Rust.

If anything, these concepts (algebraic data types and pattern matching) are by far the highest “ROI” features to learn of all: they’re super easy to learn, intuitive to read and write, immediately useful, and unlock a level of rich, expressive, inherently robust code not possible in many other languages.

However, I do agree with the author that the borrow checker is the first area of “friction” for most, and so suggesting more liberal use of cloning is a completely fair strategy to make the learning curve less steep for beginners.
> Right now people have gotten accustomed to GPT 4

Anecdotally, Lots of my friends and family was using it heavily when it came out but they seem to rarely use it anymore.

I use it all the time while coding and cooking but it is not something I couldn't live without. I can easily do the same thing even without chatgpt .
Do you think this holds up in court? It gives me Nuremberg defense vibes ("I was just following orders"), except humans are following an AI's orders.
Do you think I didn't vote?! Do you really believe a single vote changes anything when populist politicians promise to fleece "evil foreign corporations" while giving free money to their constituents?
A dishonest steel salesperson can also lie to you about when their steel is from. If you don't have a way of measuring the radiation, then you have to rely on trusted sources that you don't believe will lie to you, and not accept any steel from someone you don't know.

It's the same here, we have many trusted sources that we don't believe would lie about when content is from - Internet Archive, newspaper archives, widely used web crawls, Wikipedia exports, etc. Obviously you don't use an AI (or a black box search engine) to get non-AI content, you get it from people and systems you trust.
NRA joins US army to determine if bullets affect people
No - he included a different email address in the book to gather feedback from readers. This email address was then linked to his personal Google accounts (how, is not described - but I bet Krebs On Security would know how).
That's how people in governments want it. Vulnerabilities in our infrastructure allow government entities to justify there existence.

The population rely way too much on political institutions. People in positions of political power will, in most cases, have agendas that run counter to the will of its people.
Yeah. Many people in the Israeli government have been quite explicit about wanting to wipe out all Palestinians. They're not trying to hide it.
This theory doesn't make sense when you factor in the political consequence for Netanyahu.

A country's leader is always blamed for a lapse in decent, and Netanyahu knows that.
US LEO like to say The bad guys only need to slip up once to get found out.

This seems to be true.
I still don't see why you need to say fallacy twice.
>4 days before April 1st they "took control" of the Discord server.

if you're going to do april fools, do it on the day don't start it days in advance.
Indeed, they gave each hit 20 seconds - if that - to manually verify. That said, airstrikes, drones etc already add a layer of indirection and detachment. The thing that this "AI" tool allowed was to mark targets faster, or if you will, with less scrutiny, increasing the efficiency and speed of the killing machine.
100k a year doesn’t seem rare

https://ihpi.umich.edu/news/ihpi-briefs/FTR
How would you interface with rust-analyzer to make it do this? As I understand it rust analyzer acts like an LSP to your IDE, which in turn doesn’t let you just make raw calls to rust analyzer
Internet is different to most utilities because there are so many competing delivery methods: Cellular (several networks competing here alone), wired (competition between DSL, FTTP, Cable), and the emerging satellite internet market (currently led by Starlink but plenty of room for competition as it's a global market).

This compares to the power grid or water supply in a given city, which are more of a natural monopoly. (Or indeed the railway lines)
I just puked a little in my mouth..
All good - I'm reacting to people who remain at a place after layoffs then scoff at the people let go, like it couldn't happen to them. Usually sounds like drinking too much of HR's Kool-aid.
> I think one could explain the entirety of C in fewer words than this "easy mode" rust.

You really want to skip over the ruleset for undefined behaviour, otherwise "easy mode rust" becomes as long as the just the first chapter of the first book of "a quick intro of undefined behaviour in c".
> An electronic version of the book included an anonymous email address that can easily be traced to Sariel’s name and Google account. Contacted by the Guardian, an IDF spokesperson said the email address was not Sariel’s personal one, but “dedicated specifically for issues to do with the book itself”.

So it doesn't sound like his "real" email was leaked somehow through the book publishing workflow but more like there was a contact email listed (Maybe even in the book itself) in the book and it was not sufficiently private. Could be as easy as leaking some letters or a profile picture through the password reset workflow.
Can TikToks reduce gun violence?
Opsec is hard. 99999 times done everything right. 1 time making a mistake and you're done.
Nope, they moved to serverless. They compromise random computers in basements and send small functions to process in a distributed manner. Since the data is so small, it's not possible to construct what they are doing.

SETI@HOME in Soviet Russia fashion. You process their data, even without knowing it.

The only thing you can do is to format your system to get rid of the backdoor (hopefully).
Yes, for LFSRs it is often the high ratio of auto/cross correlation for the particular encode phase, along with the ease of generation and deconvolution for single bit signaling at low SNR. I don't know that most other pseudo-random codes have this property.
PCH?
Does it say anywhere that they were using LLM?
> Morality-washing was always going to be one of the first uses of AI

They even made a cruel joke by naming the automated killing system "Lavender". Lavender flowers were used in clothes washing since ancient times. The name of the flower cames from the Latin word for washing. Portuguese inherited it, for example, with the word for lavender, "lavanda", sounding similar to the verb to wash, "lavar".
You're conflating capitalism with privately-held public utilities, which are very different things.

I'm strongly in favor of capitalism, but deeply oppose the concept of privately-held utilities with local monopolies. No company should be able to "own the telephone poles" and have the last word on how they are used and by who. The poles, water pipes, gas pipes, sewer lines, etc, should all be owned by the municipality or county and vendors should have to compete to service and maintain them. There would be a lot of red tape, and plenty of room for corruption, but at least we wouldn't be starting from the position of, "oh, we can't have municipal broadband because that company a few states over owns all of our infrastructure."
It's effective giving users a worse user experience in general when you're trying to limit some action.

Have you ever tried to unsubscribing from Prime? If you want a crash course in how to stop a user doing something you don't want them to do then I'd start there.
I think it's kind of refreshing. They tried. They failed. They couldn't see how to make it work. They exited.

Much rather this than releasing yet another half-assed, techno-heavy, EV.

600 staff had a great time getting paid to muck around on a dev project at Apple. Priceless.
Eh, Azure has a big delete button for any Subscription. Seen it happen and take down a production system.

Thankfully they also must've realised this was a stupid button and provide a 90-day cooldown period on deleted subscriptions... but why have the easy button in the first place?
There is a one year cool down period.
> The security blunder is likely to place further pressure on Sariel, who is said to “live and breathe” intelligence but whose tenure running the IDF’s elite cyber intelligence division has become mired in controversy.

It seems weird to me that the news outlet that ousted Sariel is foreshadowing that the disclosure could put pressure on him. If they say "we try to oust Sariel," and also "ousting Sariel will put pressure on him", then through the transitive property I interpret it as "we are trying to put pressure on him." And, that seems like politics instead of journalism.
Whenever there's a question if the US government should provide a benefit to its population there's always someone coming up with a variation of the slippery slope fallacy trying to defend against it. The paranoia against the government the US has seems to bring more downsides than upsides, you pay for all the costs associated with that but no protection for when a tyrant governs your country (which seems to be approaching fast given the current political scenario).

The government has the monopoly of violence, if the government decides you can't say something on some media it won't be the fact of having it privatised that will stop them, it's as simple as that.

Your interstate highway system wasn't funded by private companies, a nationwide fiber optic infrastructure won't be either. Let the government invest in the wellbeing of its citizens, let them create a massive open fiber network (like what Sweden has done) to enable broadband for as many as possible, it's the centralisation of coordination that gives a government a lot of leverage to create benefits to its population, while you keep fighting ghosts the US will keep being a country for business first, citizens secondly.