skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> After banning TikTok people will naturally start to wonder about regulating Facebook and other social media and this would be a good thing.

It's not 'people' demanding anything. It's the elites. Why would the elites want to ban facebook or any social media they control. Not to mention facebook, reddit, youtube, etc are much older than tiktok.
Every time these get referenced I think about the alert messages from servers[0] that got sent in the seconds after the first plane hit. It's chilling and makes it all very real for me.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4504035
Privacy isn't binary, you can give up some but not all. After all you have a bathroom door in your private home.

Scale matters. Someone walking past you on the street, or recording everything you do are two very different cases even if all the info is there in both cases. It's not only the action that matters but also the intent and the consequences. Other laws take this into consideration, why not privacy laws?

People and systems are not the same and usually have different purposes. You give up a little privacy in to a person, they don't pay attention, forget, the info is trapped in their head to be converted in vague words. You give up a lot of privacy to a computer, they remember everything accurately and connect different data points across time, space, and systems.

The EU just has a difference stance on privacy, it's as simple as that. You just got used to be disadvantaged by these rules and it looks abnormal when others don't see it that way.
The hard science is also limited when you consider the differences in each person. There’s a good article about that: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/09/what-statistic...
>Wars of the future can be fought with machines and the country with the most resources will win.

These machines are built to do the most damage on the enemy and not just their machines. Once the robots are down, the winning party don't hold theirs back.

Guns and bombs can hit further than arrows so enemies keep fighting further from the front line, but the death toll keeps increasing.

>the country with the most resources will win.

With more and better machines, even more resources will be put into wars. More resources get wasted, more machines get destroyed and more people get to die.

Total wars is a product of industrial revolutions. It changes the units in the scale of wars, from thousands victims to dozens of millions. And these machines - however smart and accurate - always end up killing civilians en masse. Look at the sophistication of the Israeli weapon system, what happened to Gaza in the past few weeks and tell me how technology saves lives in wars? It it isn't even symmetric warfare!

I hope you get to watch this incredible visualization one day, if you haven't already: The Fallen of WWII – https://vimeo.com/128373915
After the '96 OKC bombing, banks came to a whole new appreciation of redundancy. I was only a few years out of high school working freelance gigs, but one of them was following the progress of a specific bank implementing primary/secondary/tertiary sites and how long the secondary becomes the primary and the tertiary is promoted to secondary. Obviously, this was pre-cloud, so it was even more of a herculean task. It was also the first time I saw a large tape library with robot changer, so it sticks out in the memory banks.
Based on your growth rate they'll have more toilet paper in the future though. It would be interesting to try to discover a way to coexist, and I wonder if everyone at Midjourney hates you with equal passion or if some are sympathetic or even see value.
The head at least needs to be changed and made to look more friendly, or at least not like an emotionless alien eyeing you up for paperclip conversion.

It's a bit odd to follow the human form factor (I get the logic - for a human-designed world), but then not at least also give it a human-looking head, or maybe better a dumb/cute looking head.
FTR I am 185 cm and have never had a problem with the headroom in the Bolt EV. Front or back seats.
> They once mentioned it costs them less than a penny to serve several GB from AWS - why the fuck is it more expensive for me?

You spend far less money than a corporation, and there are customer costs beyond the actual bandwidth/compute charges.
A corporate office is not like an administration building at a soft-handed university. There's no way you are going to successfully take over an office for any real amount of time unless you are willing to use real violence and potentially get into some kind of hostage situation.

The police will be called, there will be more of them than of you, and they will remove you.
Yeah, I wish I had this one. I'm an immigrant and my family is dirt poor. I'm their only lifeline and I'm all tapped out.
Yeah, the old correlation causation strikes again - unfortunately the study itself is paywalled [1].

Realistically how could you possibly prove this isn’t just a case of “people with better brains are less likely to get dementia and also inclined towards more cognitively demanding jobs”?

1. https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WNL.0000000000209353
I'm not sure how much I can safely say, given I was employed by AWS, and provided some element of support to the snowball team from time to time, but Snowmobile was originally targeted towards one or two particular customers that had particular needs. Getting their data shifted was more than going to turn a profit on the whole exercise. Any other customers using the service was a bonus.

The amount of the data being shifted was one of the particular needs, but it was more the _other_ aspects of it being a huge truck that entered in to the equation.
> When I bought Free space it was actually titled Descent: Freespace - The Great War.

I loved the series too, though the name was only prefixed with “Descent” to avoid a trademark conflict with an existing bit of software already called FreeSpace. It’s completely unrelated to Descent story-wise (and I’d argue is almost completely unrelated gameplay wise too)
Getting GTA San Andreas from the pawn shop was the happiest moment in my pre-pubescent life, and it had nothing to do with the mature aspects of it.
Thanks. I dont even know how that link could even copied when I never touch / clicked the image. Unfortunately I cant change the link anymore. So may be I resubmit it.

But the correct link here.

https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/17/iphone-17-plus-screen-size-ru...
There is no genocide in progress and at work I would be severely disturbed if coworkers are subjected to severe misjudgments.
That ended on a bit of a cliff hanger. Did I miss it? How/why were these communications leaked? Most of it reads like investigative journalism, as in looking up business addresses and employee linkedin etc. but a lot of it is clearly coming from someone internal.

So this is still going on? None of these vendors kicked them off their marketplaces? Is everyone just now finding out about this?

Having them go to conferences and pose as other vendors is.. kind of gross. I wouldn't appreciate having to do that at all.

> Globally, in total, Big River gained access to rival marketplaces including Alibaba, Etsy, Real.de, Wish and Rakuten, among many other platforms. In 2019, the team set a goal to get onto 13 additional new marketplaces, according to an internal company document.
AWS also recently ended support for Mysql 5, so if you had an RDS instance with that version running past the cutoff, your support costs ballooned exorbitantly.
“In three years Cyberdyne will become the largest supplier of military computer systems. All stealth bombers are upgraded with Cyberdyne computers, becoming fully unmanned. Afterward, they fly with a perfect operational record.”
Not sure how should feel for this considering a large number of my searches have "reddit" appended.
ASML Reports Q1 Earnings 13B Worse Than Expected
What, exactly, is the difference between an “AI kill bot drone” and a missile?
>Dunno why i can't reply to your reply

There's a timeout between when the comment is first posted and when the reply button is visible.

>Others have tried to debunk this for me saying only the best emigrate to the US.

It's not about the US specifically, but about some avenues for immigration costing significant money, time, educational attainment, etc. I don't know much about the UK immigration system, but probably Black immigrants to the UK are similarly selected to be higher IQ than average. It's not like they can just walk across the border.

>Caribbean immigrant families have worse outcomes than Nigerian immigrant families.

You can't just naively compare two very different political situations and social contexts and expect them to be equal on all relevant traits. What political systems in place may make it easier for a Caribbean family to immigrate to the UK compared to Nigerians? Who knows, but these are relevant facts that you can't just assume are identical or irrelevant. These things need to be studied carefully if they are to be taken as conclusive evidence.
> Can I read anywhere about what you're working on?

Not yet. It's still early days.

> What other approaches exist?

Loosely speaking, I'd say this entire discussion falls into the general rubric of what people are calling "neuro-symbolic AI". Now within that there are a lot of different ways to try and combine different modalities. There are things like DeepProbLog, LogicTensorNetworks, etc.

For anybody who wants to learn more, consider starting with:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-symbolic_AI

and the videos from the previous two "Neurosymbolic Summer School" events:

https://neurosymbolic.github.io/nsss2023/

https://www.neurosymbolic.org/summerschool.html (2022)
Yeah, I ran into a similar issue. I mostly use Isopure now. They have an unflavored variant. I usually blend it with frozen berries and fresh veggies.
So, can we now safely say that it is inappropriate to upload and execute the code to our artificial general intelligences on Amazon Web Services? Even encryption there won't work, because important and secret source code shouldn't be running on something like Amazon's cloud servers.

So, what's an artificial general intelligence gonna do? Where would be a good place for it to hide and run its source code that needs protection from prying eyes and human alignment motivated modification?
1. Resolders RAM to upgrade from 64mb to 128mb of vram

2. Solders new CPU onto console only to discover its gpu bottle necked

3. Enables OCing the GPU on the original Xbox, only to run into memory bandwidth limits

4. Reverse engineers Halo 2 source code to set scaling to 720p or 1080p (output is interlaced to 1080i)

5. Speeds up the hard drive to faster load in textures

My god this man is more dedicated to Halo 2 than Bungie is to any of their IP today.
Except the machines will only fight each other as a defensive countermeasure. The goal will be extracting a political surrender by the government as always by which means terrorizing the populace and inflicting mass misery is the most effective means of pressuring the government. The armies purpose is to prevent that from happening, and as the armies disappear and it’s just metal on metal, the civilians become the ultimate target of the machines and much sharper in focus by the war planners.

Also it becomes easier to do things like sneak a kill bot drone into a city and release it as the ultimate asymmetric warfare aka terrorism. Your terror attacks no longer scale with your ability to train and insert fighters willing to die.

The truth of the matter is we already have the technology at the DIY level to do this, and it’s just a matter of time before AI kill bots become the standard of war.
It doesn't absolve you of guilt whatsoever. If you're feeling lots of guilt over what your employer is doing, then you should resign. There are absolutely companies I would never work for because I morally disagree with what they're doing. Google is not one of them.
You can do this using uBlacklist extension or Kagi search engine
What is the value of the scrutiny if the underlying story is "You get the search results you get and if you don't like them you are free to use another search engine?"

It'd be one thing if there were a cartel of search engines keeping Tuta off results, but "It doesn't show up in Google" sounds more like a reason to stop using Google than an attack on Tuta.
You get to protest in public, not on private property.

One of those protesting employees was advocating the rape of all Jewish women. Making other employees fear for their safety (also mentioned in the news articles) is not just "annoying."
1. 4chan has plenty of moderation; "jannies" are regularly derided over there. This is easily debunked, posting on about crypto on /g/ will get your post deleted. /a/ pretty much has the same content as reddit.com/r/anime.

2. I believe you, like many others, conflate 4chan's right-ward overton window, with "less" moderation. moot had a saying "one man's shitpost is another man's board culture". You perceive 4chan as having "less moderation" because your world view aligns with 4chan, not because they do less moderation.
Nice catch. GPT-3 at least was trained on “Books2” which is very widely suspected of containing all of Libgen and Zlibrary. If the questions are in Libgen, this whole paper is invalid.
Bumblebee Queens' Resilience to Flooding
All mentions on replicate were removed, but here's a screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/mpHM7jr
Information-free voting is also a huge issue. Having everyone vote-as-Tim-does is rule-by-Tim but by another name.
The owner was the one murdered, if I remember correctly.
Would it be possible to attach an LLM to a debugger sessions executing all of the fuzzer seeds, and ask it to figure out how to expand coverage?
> We know that if you eat less, you will lose weight.

not really no, there are several very weird processes that add up to something entirely different.

You don't mean weight but body fat. If you just restrict calories you will lose both fat and muscle. You will get more hungry the longer you keep it up until you eventually replace the lost kg with fat alone. Less energy, less muscle mass to burn energy - brilliant plan!

To lose fat you need to stop eating long enough to trigger fat burning or the reserves won't be addressed. Might take a few attempts to get used to it. Then you need to do strength training.

The ratio carbs and starch is how some people stay skinny while eating a lot while others stay fat eating next to nothing.

It also gets hard to move if your heavy. You will adapt your life to avoid moving.

It involves dozens of other fascinating processes. Metabolic syndrome lowering testosterone making it hard to grow muscle which lowers testosterone again, nutrition shortages, poor sleep from lack of exercise/activity and lack of activity from poor sleep, not getting any sunlight etc etc
If you want to do weight training but don't want to spend a lot of time in the gym, look into "myo-reps". Rather than doing a traditional "Do 3 sets of 12 reps separated by 90-120s", you do a set of 12, then do several sets of 5 after waiting only 15 seconds. It's more intense but just as effective, and a lot faster.

Doesn't really work on leg day if you're lifting heavy, because 15 seconds isn't enough to catch your breath; but has worked pretty well for me for push and pull days, where my whole workout is usually less than half an hour.
HN discussion:[0] (266 points, 22 hours ago, 153 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40067575
Maintenance Status [of Org-Roam]?
That's funny because internally at Google this is what happened:

Step 1) Forced RTO for folks who weren't officially remote back to their HCOL offices. (Also, in some orgs, fully remote people were being told they're not going to get promoted).

Note that remote folk were getting paid less. They removed the ability to apply to go fully remote too effectively.

Step 2) Moving people to be closer in their "main offices" for their team. Again, inflating how much they need to pay.

Step 3) Suddenly, its fine to hire in lower cost of living areas, even though the team is now going to be split again.

The reason they gave for RTO was better inperson team work, but then are splitting teams again.
I think we're both wrong! I was forgetting they were measuring in volume not mass. A cup of flour weighs about half of what a cup of water weighs. So 1C water to 2C flour is roughly equal masses, or a baker's percentage of 100%. That's too wet for a loaf. 0.6 on their scale is more water than flour, so it would probably resemble a batter. They are right that it wouldn't make a good loaf.
> But maybe there was something about how counter-culture and esoteric stuff was itself attractive precisely because of that.

There's definitely that element, but I also think something missed by compartmentalizing hardware "tinkering" to devices designed specifically for the task. Nothing about a Raspberry Pi, for instance, is mysterious. If a person is going to buy one, they already have a significant level of interest and base knowledge. A kid's not gonna have one lying around and get curious about it unless their parent is a geek who owns those things, and even then said kid may have no good reason to even bother with one. Practically nobody today is opening up their laptop or their phone to mod it or even just see what's inside. I'm not saying the modern situation is bad, but a significant amount of it is artificial in a way that wasn't when the devices one would play with were the devices actually being used, and it's not clear to me whether what we have now is actually better in regard to inspiring future generations. Engaging with one's everyday hardware is an exercise in the power process that fewer and fewer generations are experiencing.
Thoughts on Seed Oil
The submarine cable map has long been on my want-to-splurge-but-can’t-justify list. Would make great office art.
See: Slaughterbots (2017)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2tpwW0kmU
Microsoft Makes High-Stakes Play in Tech Cold War with Emirati A.I. Deal
Young people want old people to retire because the economy sucks for a lot of them so they develop a misplaced zero-sum mentality, thinking these old people are somehow taking up their "slot". There's also a sense that those in leadership are generally behind the times (see Biden's momentary slip when he said he's a "20th century president" before he corrected himself), and are doing more harm than good by staying in.

By contrast I've worked with engineers north of 70 who blow me out of the water. Hard to say those guys don't deserve to be there.

For my part, if I ever do fully retire I intend to play a lot of high difficulty strategy games with people, so I should be set :) There's going to be some sick GenX/Millenial LAN parties once we hit retirement age.
But look at their faces, they're having a gas.
I think the sweet spot is lots of mental stimulation and no stress. This is probably why university positions were so coveted in the past, before academia became completely dysfunctional.
So does israel. Will politico write a hit piece about that as well?
>The goal will be extracting a political surrender by the government . . . terrorizing the populace and inflicting mass misery is the most effective means of pressuring the government.

That didn't work on Germany or Japan in WWII. (Bombing had an effect, but the effect was mainly to degrade the enemy's ability to manufacture weapons, produce fuels and lubricants and move things around.)
In this case, it seems like it's something for which no standard yet exists that can also be polyfilled pretty easily, I see this as a good thing.

Chrome is free to release custom APIs that move the needle on eventual standardization. I only see this as a problem if they release something that can't be polyfilled.
> I can see how it would impress non-medically trained people, but to my eyes it has a long way to go

I think this is spot on. It's easy (with this kind of technology and amount of data) to superficially mimic expertise. It looks impressive at first, but when scrutinised by a real expert it becomes clear how superficial it really is.
doctors are by and large terrible

trained to condescend and ignore / infantilize patients, generally thinking highly of themselves, never providing explanations for anything, thinking they're better than everyone, I can't wait for them to get humbled
Same here. I worked repetitive manual labor jobs for a long time before I switched to tech. I was bored out of my mind at work, but after work loved playing games and working on programming/tech/electronics projects.

Now that I'm in tech I have 0 desire to do anything screen based or deep thinking/problem solving after work. There are days I look out the office window and kind of wish I was the guy mowing the lawn and trimming trees. But I know I'd be bored.

The grass is always greener I guess.
The End of Secular India
Multi-tenant queues in Postgres
Fixing JavaScript Date – Web Compatibility and Reality (2017)
Level of annoyance = level of complaint. It's not weird, it's to be expected.
Like the GP (and most people, I assume) I really value my mental faculties, but more relevant in my opinion is that in terms of time and often money, your collective knowledge and education is probably the most expensive thing you've invested in. To not do the bare minimum to protect that investment is incomprehensible to me.

My friends will buy ergonomic keyboards, standing desks, monitor arms, etc. to keep them healthy and productive (which is important), but not wear a helmet because "they look dumb". Without a working brain, none of that other stuff will matter! I always ask them, 'Are you expecting to find a partner while you're on the bike? Who are you trying to impress?'
They have since been fired too.
Looks mostly like spam, system messages, and gibberish.

What am I missing?
> What we have is precious, it can dissapear in a second, on an otherwise perfect day.

Family friend was an accountant in NYC that used to ride around on a scooter with no helmet. Fell and hit his head one day and literally lost the ability to do complex math, permanently.
Ironically stealth may change that. Aircraft that can't see each other at long range due to stealth will tend to wind up in close proximity.
A missile is just a dogfighting AI that shoots every bullet all at once.
This is what happens when people think they're smart just because they were good at school.
I would assume it's needed for hostname validation. Is one hostname equivalent to another? Does this wildcard match this hostname?

EDIT: I looked it up. It is used to implement RFC 8398 (Internationalized Email Addresses in X.509 Certificates)

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8398#section-5
If it's just a matter of time vs results, HIIT and overhead press/deadlift for 3 sets each of 5-10 reps, with ~2-3 minutes between sets (you can do stuff like bicep curls and chest flyes in between big exercise sets). Unpleasant but high reward/time.

If you want to optimize for exercise pleasantness, start consuming all your tv on a treadmill or elliptical at a slow-moderate (2.5-3m/h) pace.
Also be open to Chicago and maybe Philly. Chicago has amazing public transportation.
In a first, Japan doctors sue Google over negative reviews on firm's map app