skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s my experience. Eating one slice of pizza feels like eating the entire pizza normally would.
This whole article boils down to "it's really stupid to execute people rather than putting them in prison for life". If it's even only "1 person in 1000 is innocent" then I don't see how you can conclude anything else when everything I've read says it's much higher imprisonment of the innocent than 1 in 1000.
"Secure by Design" [0] MacOS also ships with at least 2 different virus scanners [1] that are as active as Defender

[0] https://www.apple.com/business/docs/site/AAW_Platform_Securi...

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/apple-quietly-revamp...
How the FBI built its own smartphone company to hack the criminal underworld
In a sense, internal is just another way of viewing it as “private to the assembly”. If i don’t need something to be reached by another assembly, then typing `internal` when not necessary is just too much.

Note: I’m ignoring <InternalsVisibleTo> csproj property.
In 2020, I wanted to understand the issue better, so I followed all the links from my government website to any research regarding masks.

My government had first stated that wearing masks by the public was not effective and wearing them was actually very selfish and stupid, because masks were needed by the medical professionals.

The marrative then took a 180 turn, and then same officials said that masks were effective and not wearing masks was selfish and stupid. They also admitted to lying about the effectiveness of masks before, claiming they wanted save masks for the medical professionals.

The only research I could find
through links from these government health policy organizations was a meta analysis on the European CDC website, stating that the evidence was inconclusive but masks should be worn anyway. The recommendation of the organization did not follow from their own research.

So seeing that the policy had already been based on admitted lies about the research, and that even current research at the time by the organization itself could not support
the recommendation, I had to come to a conclusion that mask recommendations were a very political issue.

Then I went to read on the methdologies on how the effectiveness can is measured. The general scientific consensus before COVID appreared to be that using masks even by the surgeons did not reduce the risk of tramitting disaease from the surgeon to the patient, but still all surgeons thoughy that it was a good idea to use them.

The narrative “at least it prevents droplets from reaching and infecting others” actually relies in the assumption that we know the transmission mechanism for the specific disease.

We did not know it at the time for COVID, and I believe we still do not know it conclusively.

Some research has been done on the effectiveness of masks on diseases that are transmitted via aerosols. The surprising finding was that although the mask catches the droplets, the mask does not ultimately keep them but the droplets are vaporized in the process, and many of them are turned into aerosols. So using masks actually may increase the transmission for disases that are transmitted through aerosolic particles.
ICQ was the chat tool of the democratic internet, or internet of the people if you prefer the term.

After companies started dominating the internet, it was never be the same. We thought that any company would play by our rules, but they poisoned us with their research, gamification, single way information flow, and walled gardens.

This is why I moved to small web.

I miss the old internet dearly.
I believe there is probably reasonable doubt in this case and he shouldn't be executed. But I also think he probably did it.
Give 'em hell.

This motivates the TAM's to learn to work the system better. They will never be able to change things on their own, but sometimes you get escalation path promises and gentlemen's agreements.

Enough screaming TAM's may eventually motivate someone high up to take action. Someday.
Plenty of Teslas took fire while charging.

I kinda hate this "Chinese = crap" narrative, it's naive, it misses the forest for the trees.

Just because they are the biggest manufacturer in the world they also produce lots of crap, it's just statistically more probable that you gonna find lots of crap that's Chinese, but generalizing this over entire industries and all kind of products is just...naive.

It kinda reminds me of that documentary where a Chinese billionaire buys a plant in Ohio to make car glass and American workers looked like crap compared to their Chinese counterparts when it came to the craft, even though they did produce glass before already before the Chinese ownership.

It's the kind of narrative that people pushed on Russian army after their failures in Ukraine claiming huge incompetence and their incoming demise. Or when people were sure their economy was gonna collapse because this and that.

Just saying stuff doesn't make it true.

The longer we keep with those biases the more naive and vulnerable we'll keep being.
End of an era. One of the first IM apps I used in my early days of the internet.
If only I had known about this (or judging by commit history, if it existed) ~3 weeks ago. I've been saying for ages that either React ported to Go or a React-like framework for Go would be an incredible development experience, so this looks perfect (I used to be a big hater of React.js until I was enlightened by React.lua).
It always cracks me up to read these innocent seeming press releases with statements like:

“Neutron transport equations are useful in understanding processes in nuclear reactors and in particle beams employed in science and industry.”

And nuclear bombs. Bombs is why they’re doing these calculations. That’s why. Not for any other reason. The other uses are a mere side show. Nuclear power plants worked just fine before these calculations. Bombs can’t be tested any more due to treaties, so simulations must be used. This is for making bombs, and only bombs.

Sandia’s “Z machine” is often in the news with nearly identical press releases talking about future fusion power applications. It has no such applications, never will, and can’t possibly. Its only purpose is gathering experimental data for fusion bomb simulations. It has no other purpose. It’s for bombs!
But Unix itself took many years to write (if you count V7 as "properly finished Unix"). The first version was only a filesystem, for example.
Nope, but I offer a prayer that the end product performs more like Sunshine and less like Miracast.
I think the point is in this case, it can indeed be stopped since executions, once done, can't be undone. It's not an academic topic, it's a life and death topic, a basic morality issue. The current Texas government is quite corrupt, particularly Ken Paxton, the attorney general, but I'm not sure that matters here other than as a tangential point of data.
How private equity rolled Red Lobster
Road trips are important. If it’s my only car it needs to be able to do them even if I’m only doing a few of them every year.

If you have a family with kids and your other family members are a few hundred miles away the range matters. Nobody’s going to buy four plane tickets and a rental car just to take a 400 mile trip.

That sort of trip in an EV is going to be two or three charging stops especially in winter temperatures adding up to close to an extra hour to the travel time.

In Europe a trip of that length can be done on a train or a dirt cheap flight and you might not need a car at your destination. Or it won’t happen at all because your family is likely to be physically closer in a smaller country where language and culture borders are closer in.
Is IRC a tiny fraction of what it was? As a percentage of internet traffic sure, but has the population of IRC users actually declined?
US EPA sets health advisory limits for PFAS from 70 ppt to .02 ppt (2022)
Don't even know where to begin with this:

No, not all of finance is a zero-sum game. If you're connecting a buyer and seller that otherwise wouldn't have met, you provided value. Same for connecting them through time (in that you can e.g. help prevent somebody having to panic-sell their house from getting a suboptimal price).

Sure, there's speculation, nepotism, corruption; there are immoral and illegal market practices with no end, but you're making it sound like that's the entire purpose of finance, and not an undesirable byproduct.

Also, as if these only exist there, and not everywhere where there is power and money: Politics, business, even charity are not immune.

Starting a company is more ethical than trading – seriously? While there might be a general trend, can you think of no philanthropic traders and of no unethical founders (some of them in jail)?

> If you want to make some money get trained and get a good salary. Save your money in safe assets

100% agreement on the first part. But if everybody invests their money in "safe assets", there is no capital for people to start companies other than banks. Is that desirable? And who even determines what a safe asset is? What about people that manage and allocate risk? That's a function of finance again!

> Friends, look after friends. Maximise happiness. Be honest, be ethical, be safe

I agree, but this arguably has little to do with the remainder of your sweeping generalization.
It occurs to me that in year 2000, we had already invented Kerberos, Merkle trees, AES, and McEliece. Kerberos for one is built on symmetric cryptography, and is as far as I'm aware not vulnerable to the sorts of attacks that make RSA, Diffie-Hellman, and EC solve-able by a sufficiently advanced quantum computer.

How do you define your bet such that you don't just win by default?
I wish there had been something like MusicBrainz but for movies, they now have BookBrainz[1] so that would have covered most aspects of digital content.

[1] https://bookbrainz.org/
>Who will tell them how an LLM works and that the neural net does not calculate anything?

You don't understand LLMs as well as you think you do. Yes, the neural network calculates things.

>It only predicts the next token in a sentence of a calculation if it's been loss-minimized for that specific calculation.

No that's not necessary at all.

https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/N6WM6hs7RQMKDhYjB/a-mec...

https://cprimozic.net/blog/reverse-engineering-a-small-neura...
HN is so incredible. The topic can be just about anything and there’s someone here with just the right expertise and/or set of skills to share their two pennies. The current topic is AI and IP law and here comes someone who’s an IP lawyer and AI engineer. I truly love this place.
Out of curiosity I tried popping my # into the link format and my account was/is still, amazingly, there. I think I started using ICQ in '96 or '97.

The early Internet was an amazing place.
The most important numbers you can commit to memory are your emergency contact's phone number, your wedding anniversary, and 2ⁿ ∀n ∈ ℤ [1, 24].
But the judges are just interpreting the law /s
> Over the course of using their product, there have been few new, impactful features.

What new features do you want for a music player? Better audio quality? More discovery features? Lower memory usage? More responsive UI?
I think I'll put my critical but practical trust in government on a grand scale rather than small tribes of anarchist humans with each having their own idea of justice and laws. That didn't go so well for a lot of people in the "Old West" of the US and other examples of that.
In related news, 33% of dental floss tested in 2022 was found to have contained levels ranging from 11 parts per million to 248,900 ppm.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40471525
No it would probably be even worse from Google’s perspective: more expensive.
hah we need to come up with a campaign - "Consensual Computing".
https://protomaps.com/ is even simpler. Http range requests on a single static file.
I remember when the program started. The vehicle killed many soldiers, some as it was being tested. It is flying garbage. They deserved better.
I only get something done when I'm doing it to procrastinate doing something more important. It can be a viable system most of the time...
Yeah. I took some classes after completing a chemistry bachelor’s degree to enable me to apply to med school. One was an upper division physiology class. I realized early on that I had written so many lab reports that the two or three hours before the weekly lab was plenty of time for me to write up the previous week’s findings and not only get an A but have the professor single my reports out for excellence. They weren’t that good, by my internal standards, but if it’s good enough for an A, why spend more time on it? It’s not like writing the report really enhanced my learning.

It worked for me, so why not just do it in my midday down time? Class that morning, few hours off, lab in the afternoon. I just scheduled it into time I would have spent goofing off otherwise. Freed up my evenings for more fun things.
When I read stories like this I always think of Norm Macdonald's bit where he said if he were a juror he would not vote to convict a person on the basis of DNA evidence. He said, basically, "I don't know anything about DNA, how am I supposed to convict someone based on what I'm told about it?"

Basically calls into question the whole concept of "expert" witnesses. If a prosecutor cannot explain the evidence to a jury of peers, then he hasn't made an effective case.
How to hijack RDS and RemoteApp sessions to move through an organisation
It’d be really hard to keep track of what is happening in first person, but so totally awesome xD

I don’t think it’d make for a very good game though.
I only wish it wasn't written in Python - writing good GUI apps is way too hard with it, also the lack of static typing makes development of anything beyond simple scripts a potential minefield.
Hard agree. They clearly were more interested in making clear that there's not a systemic problem in how GCP's operators manage the platform, which read strongly and alarmingly that there is a systemic problem in how GCP's operators manage the platform. The lack of the common sense measures you outline in their postmortem just tells me that they aren't doing anything to fix it.
I have plenty of social apps but they're pretty much on perma-mute except for folks like my partner or my parents who have "priority access" to my attention. During work hours work gets access, but they go on mute after hours + 2 (since I generally work a bit late.) I have a work pager setup on my phone if someone really needs me for work. Works out fine for me FWIW. I'll shitpost when I have time/brain space but leave them alone for days or even weeks if I'm occupied enough.
I don't trust groups of people who can legally reach into my wallet and who vote on their own salaries.
If Elon was more diligent and spent less time philandering with the far-right he could have anticipated this and provided an appropriate solution or alternative.
When you take into consideration that drug companies don't fund studies unless it is for a substance they can monetize, it is not misleading, but expected that it is one of their products.
The reason that comes to my mind is to save memory to transfer from the CPU to the GPU.

If you do your tesselation inside the vertex shader, then you can send a low-poly mesh to the graphics card, which saves a lot on vertex buffers (e.g. uv coordinates and other per-vertex attributes). The vertex shader still emits the same number of vertices to the rest of the pipeline, but inter-stage bandwidth is more plentiful than CPU-GPU bandwidth so I can see that coming out ahead.

I’m not an expert though. Perhaps someone with a better understanding can clear this up, I’m curious too…
not much you can do about water that's under the bridge, I think at this point he's like to get to step one "get out of prison because I'm innocent", at that point he can get possible compensation, which is pretty low in texas.
It's a joke that they're not doing these things. How can you be an giant cloud provider and not think of putting safe guards around data deletion. I guess that realistically they thought of it many times but never implemented it because our costs money.
Fond memories of uni, standing in front of a dorm with dozens of students using ICQ inside. Sounds as if someone had just unloaded a truckload of Teletubbies in the yard, "Uh-Oh"'s coming from every direction in a hilarious cacophony.
I think one of the biggest barriers to your argument, is that prison is more than just a punishment for breaking the social contract and the law. It is supposed to reform behavior so that they don't just reoffend once released. Unfortunately, ex convicts have very limited employment opportunity and do face prejudice. If someone commits a crime, has served their sentence, then they should have the ability to reenter society and earn a living wage without their past mistakes constant haunting them. If they can't find a job and constantly face discrimination for their past that's just pushing them away and toward the prospect of reoffending.

While a lot of people have different stances on drugs or guns, the issue is that what's legal changes over time. Our classification of certain substance or weapons has not been effective, has overall just increased the incarceration rate, and once these people get mistreated because of an old policy or hell even a modern yet useless one, they are more likely to feel like they have less to lose.

Well I'm already in jain for X or Y which means its so hard for me to get a job....and so if they decide to turn back to doing those things because they don't see a viable method of reintegration into society and the workforce they might just accept the fact that they can't get rid of they past or escape it and might engage in more risk behavior.
My Mac player also supports tag editing. It’s a bit basic right now but more features are in the works:

https://plastaq.com/minimoon
In what domain have LLMs been demonstrated to so-called “think” consistently better than a college- or even high-school-educated adult?
I agree with you. The larger point with text to SQL, however, is that it will not work if it is a simple wrap of an LLM (GPT or otherwise). Text to SQL will only work if there is a sufficient understanding of the business context required. To do this is hard, but with tools such as Dataherald a dev's life gets a whole lot easier.
I suppose if mitigation fell over the weekend it might still make sense.
The California DMV only requires it for cars that are being operated by Waymo under the testing permit. Any car carrying a paid passenger does not require those same reports.

As an example, a Waymo ran a red light and caused a moped to crash in January ("due to remote ops"), and there is no DMV report for it but there is a completely redacted NHTSA report for it.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2024/03/26/waymo-...

For the new cases they are investigating, all but one of these went unreported to the NHTSA, otherwise they would provide the incident number in the letter they sent (as they do for the pole collision they mention).
One assumes they are getting a massive credit to their GCP bill, if not an outright remediation payment from Google.
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40454301 (82 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40233029 (379 comments)
Awesome! I want!
That's far too lenient. I think our current sentences are fine other than the death sentence which is too final. Our prison system needs a complete overhaul and steered towards rehabilitation for those who will be getting back out. However, the criminal punishment time, "the sentence", for most crimes is quite well planned out. The information should never leave your record though.
> This applies to so much of the financial system, that it baffles me people worry about the things they do.

That's easy to understand. For the "financial system", $1000 is nothing. For many people, $1000 means the difference between having something to eat or not. Even if you get your money back in the end, not having any money for several days can be a disaster; and the 1% chance that you might not get that back can be too much risk to bear.

> I have family members that are so scared of card skimming they only pay in cash

That's understandable. With cash, all you can lose is the cash you have in hand at that moment; if your card is skimmed and used without your permission, you can lose up to the card's limit (and perhaps even more, if the limit isn't strictly enforced). You might say that fraudulent transactions will be reversed, but there's always that 1% chance that the other side will somehow manage to convince your bank that the transactions were in fact legitimate.

> and friends who are still too scared of the internet to buy things online.

When you buy at a store, the goods you bought are in your physical possession at the moment of the payment. When you buy things online, the goods you bought show up days or even weeks later, if they do, and until they arrive, you have no idea whether they're actually what you bought (and that's on top of the "card skimming" risk).

Sure, if you have enough resources, you can tolerate losing $1000 of the limit of one of your credit cards for a few days until the charge is reversed (and even, in the worst case, absorb the loss in case that charge isn't reversed), but not everyone can do that. And the perceived risk can be higher than the unknowable real risk; someone who has heard about (or experienced) enough incidents in which money was lost (temporarily or not) will understandably be more reluctant to expose themselves to these risks.
Columbus Predicted a 1504 Eclipse and Avoided Starvation in Jamaica
Seems like a company willing to take risks. If this is successful, do you think Daylight will explore options for color devices? I know that I personally am very sad that twenty years ago transflective LCDs were in tons of devices and were perfectly viewable in direct sunlight and now they're nowhere to be found.
That seems likes a pretty bold statement to make without backing it up further. To say a state with the death penalty could sometimes get it wrong is one thing, but your phrasing makes it sound more like the state regularly commits murder.
This is actually the best 1-volume book on U.S. WW2 mobilization.
Using Jai's Unique and Powerful Compiler for Typesafe Units
I'm not dying on any hills – I'm just upset that the guy knowingly lied to the public, got rich-ish and famous as a result, and we all got screwed over for it.
I have both the XT4 and the XH2.
I’m still surprised that in 2024 these big cameras don’t have a built-in something that does gps and sets the time correctly. The current time is floating in the air in radio waves. And gps units are small and with many low power options. Super annoying when you’re traveling around across timezones and suddenly all your photos are in the wrong time zone if you didn’t update it. Or if there is daylight savings update… And for gps, even a ballpark 1km gps range would be better than nothing.
Interesting, didn't know that was an option. I'll have to give it a try.
Fair enough. I guess I just shouldn't have responded. I can't really say whether I agree with you or not; I think the whole line of speculation is a non sequitur.
>> Angry that your favorite Red Lobster closed down

Can't really say that I am.
Spotify destroyed Car Thing: 'You Will Own Nothing' & what to do about It [video]
Is the difference, in your opinion, scale?

We still have different state governments in the US and different country governments around the globe. Are you more confident in those because its larger groups of people deciding, and enforcing, what is right and wrong?
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act currently protects Google, and others, when they link to other html posts within their search results. Wouldn't it become ineffective with AI acting as a publisher? Wouldn't false statements about individuals be liable and open them up to lawsuits? For example, AI making the statement some is a pedophile through hallucinations versus actual court outcomes.