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>Morals and rights are different things,

I guess you didn't understand the point, I did not say that rights and morals were the same things, I said that a rights society would still have the moral opinion that its rights were morally good to have, and that respecting those rights was the moral thing to do.

You can, I'm sure, recall many discussions on HN where people who come from a society with the right to free speech discussing this as a moral good and castigating other societies that are rights based, but without that particular right, as being bad for not having it.

>Free markets are based on the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness (and property).

I seldom hear that particular basis given for free markets however, the basis seems tenuous.

>I'm sad that our K-12 schools never bother to explain what a free market is, given that our nation was founded on free markets.

there may be differences of opinion as to what a free market is/requires, and as to whether the free market was really fundamental to the founding of your country. It might be that your country could not really sustain too close a focus on those questions in its K-12 system of education though, best to leave it for later.
Its about time for economical sabctions against Israel to Guide it into a two state silution. Why is everyone afraid of that logical step ?
I/O scheduler was probably a bad example, since you might not need/want one for fast NVMe devices anyway, but yes, they help ensure limited resources (storage device bandwidth or IOPS) get shared fairly between multiple users/processes, as well as potentially reordering requests to improve batching (this matters more on spinning disks with seek latency, since a strategy of delaying a little bit to sort requests could save more time on seeks than it would spend on the delay+CPU overhead).

The more general point is that if you need any of the many features of a general-purpose OS kernel, a full userspace driver may not be a very good fit, since you will end up reinventing a lot of wheels. Cases where it could be a good fit would be things like database backends or dedicated block storage appliances, situations where the OS would just get in the way and where it's viable to dedicate a whole storage device (or several) and a whole CPU (or several) to one task.
Well put.

It's incredible how our minds are unable to grasp timescales greater than a decade. It dawned on me recently. I visited a place that had trees which were roughly my height 10 years ago. It's a genuine forest now.

Trees are perfectly fine with those timescales. Let them be and they will grow.

Another mind-blown moment was when I was visiting a park in Warsaw. Seemed like old-growth forest - little do I know! There was a display nearby which shared, that during WWII, the Nazis cut the park clear because the opposition was hiding in the trees. That was less than 100 years ago.
I think that by 2050, 443 will be the only port used by applications that require a non local connection, because the chance that some participant in the network has blocked any other port is simply too high.
Yes, of course they're aware of their precarious situation vis-a-vis global public opinion. The question is whether that is warranted.
Maybe due to 2x slower matmul (well known bottleneck), as one of multiple factors? https://github.com/tinygrad/tinygrad/blob/v0.9.0/extra/gemm/...

There are multiple bounties just for it in https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WKHbT-7KOgjEawq5h5Ic...
> Security vulnerabilities in Asian models and social media trends highlighting how to steal these vehicles are some factors for the change [breaking the years-long trend of full-size pickups topping the list and the surge in vehicle theft rates - in 2023, more than one million vehicles were reported stolen]

It would have been nice to also have numbers about "stolen/in_circulation" - these in the table are only the "absolute number of stolen" values, regardless of "how frequently a model is stolen".
Another especially funny part of that joke for me is that this is set in Boston (which has a couple of important colleges) ... because someone once told me that a lot of post-graduates of that college I was attending were driving taxicabs in that city.
Depends on how you do it.

If you have good eyetracking, a microphone array and decent object tracking on your AR glasses, then you don't really need much "AI" (ie you have access to https://facebookresearch.github.io/projectaria_tools/docs/AR...)

but its not quite possible to do it all on device yet. However its not far off.
I don't think that paragraph was meant to be an analysis of the accusations themselves, merely suggesting why the messengers fell on their own swords.
btw - its spelt Israel
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What sort of repositories are worth buying/selling? Seems very risky: e.g. if buyers put malware there and damage your reputation. Perhaps this is a scheme to increase the number of stars someone has (since that’s transferred along with the repository)? Also, what stops them from forking the sold repository and continue development?

Just very confused about the concept in general
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Getting a second job is tough
I got into this startup right after college and have been working in it now for more than 2 years.

Now I am looking to switch to advance in my career but I am finding it hard to do that.

I have applied to countless jobs but have not gotten any response. Though, I got reached out to one startup but after doing their take-home assignment the guy reached out to me and said they are moving forward with another candidate because of the fungibility. I had experience in frontend and backend development, and the other candidate also had experience in on-chain (contract) development (It was related to web3).

I have experience working on Wallet extensions, dApps, and Telegram bots. I have majorly worked with the CosmWasm contract, adding their support to the Leap Cosmos Wallet, and adding new chain and feature support to the Leap Cosmos Wallet.

Recently, I also handled the Sei EVM support to Compass Wallet single-hand, where I added functionality for in-wallet transactions and dApp transactions.

I applied to Sei, Pyth, Backpack, and Frax but didn't get any response. I got reached out by Stella's team but that didn't work out. I also applied to organizations in Zurich, Germany, and Tokyo but had no luck there as well.

I have built many projects that you can find on my GitHub account github.com/hsnice16.
I have experience working with React, TypeScript, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Express.js, and a bit with Next.js and MongoDB.
I am learning Rust these days, as I want to write a contract.
You’ll get a lot of answers to this question, I’ll try to give one that’s distinct from the others:

Practical observation of the two techniques reveals very different outcomes and behaviours. Selective breeding takes time and has intermediate stages that help you see if you’re on the right track. Direct modification: if you get it wrong you’re back to the drawing board.

Worse, legally they’re two very different animals that are treated very differently. If you want big bucks, you want to go the GMO route. The combination of the risky nature with the potential profits makes an ideal environment for malpractice, whether it’s cherry-picking data, deliberately making seeds that aren’t long-term viable or strategies such as long-term pesticides which have a detrimental effect of neighbouring farms.

So in theory, I don’t have a moral objection to GMO. In practice, I can see why the EU banned it.
> I think my main frustration with stuff like Go and Swift in this case is that their structs are not binary-compatible with C structs in this way because they rearrange things to be better aligned/packed/whatever.

If you need binary-compatibility with C structs in Swift, you can define them in a bridging header.
Imho, IPv6 has failed, it's time for a new version that is compatible to IPv4 by being a pure address space extension.
They know perfectly well why it's warranted. That's why they're so desperate.

As in literally every other case of prosecutor intimidation you will find.
Being able to selectively mute people was an element in a couple of Black Mirror episodes.
Or :

They are a pay for play publication, which some PR agency associated with Foggy Bottom "contacted" to tout the horn of some group of western capitalists.

Said capitalists got beat at their own anti-protectionist game IRL. They have no easy solution to end up on top, so they are trying their hand at "manifesting" the result they want, like some under-prepared teenagers before a test.

This "you're overproducing" meme is their try at using basic Marxist semantics. According to Marx, Capitalist economic crises are always crises of overproduction of commodities (exchange values).

The meme is designed to sow doubt in minds worldwide which are in the danger of thinking that Chinese Communism might have solved some of the basic contradictions of capitalism.

This meme is an ode to fatalism: even in Communism, ever declining rates of profit are inevitable and so are boom and bust cycles and crises.

With luck, even some people of high rank in the Chinese intelligentsia could be convinced of that...
I have a 24 core Intel cpu and llama3.cpp runs llama3 surprisingly fast in surprisingly little RAM. Yes it becomes a space heater but theres light at the end of the cuda free tunnel
You don’t need to stare at them. You only have to look at them for a moment to tell the system who you want to listen to. Then you can look away and it keeps listening to them.

Actually from the description it sounds (no pun intended!) like you wouldn’t even have to look at them. You just would need to be facing their direction. You could be looking at something else in the direction, like the ground in front of you.

When you tell it to start listening to the person you are looking at what it really does is start listening to the person whose sound is coming from that direction, which it figures out from arrival times at both ears.
"If there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you say." -Winston Zeddemore
Its obvious that Bibi is a war criminal and this "Hell on earth" can only be stoppped by harsh economical sanctions.
And of course every country should stop delivering weapons while condemning those actroceties.
Words are not enough.
Does noone has a moral Backbone ?
This is fine, but if you want something that does all this, but also:

* is header-only

* supports EDGE on Windows without the need to have the WebView2 SDK or to bundle a runtime DLL

* supports fetch intercepting and some other customisation

* is modern C++ rather than a sort of mashup of C/C++

then check out the one in the CHOC library here:
https://github.com/Tracktion/choc/blob/main/gui/choc_WebView...
Build a file sharing service without making your brain hurt
I don't think that complaining how articulate a board member was has any relevance to the outcome of a vote. Board members are there to decide, not to be professional entertainers or politicians.

You have a board member mentioning shady practices, lack of accountability, and toxic work culture, and you decided to ignore all that and instead attack the board by focusing on inane details such as how articulate you feel some members were.
SMR on a z-mirror is quite a bit different than a raidz/2/3 setup due to how SMR works. A mirror will do much better at optimizing the writes for SMR rebuild. When using raidz, your milage may vary, as they say.

It absolutely will work. Before I knew the difference between SMR & CMR, and when WD obscured this on their reds, I bought SMR to use in a raid2 setup. I first noticed something was wrong when sequential write performance would begin to tank sharply on the drives and it wasn't due to the ZiL. Replacement of a failed drive was slow, very slow but I would work. After 5 years in service I replaced them with CMR drives one at a time. The replacement speed from the first to the last increase about 3x.

So don't agree with the doom sayers about SMR but for the few $ more over the course of 5 years, I'll go with the speed.
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Dammit, why are monsters lurking under all my cool tech rocks?
This seems like it could do some cool code completion stuff with local models.
You should look into Luxottica's efforts in this category.
Wearable glasses are quite promising for the use case you mentioned, as they avoid the bulk and impoliteness of wearing headphones while talking to someone.

>> https://www.cnet.com/health/medical/what-did-you-say-these-e...
I’m still confused, why can’t they return to the real Darling 58? Are they saying even the real 58 is not that good, and if they are going to rewind that far back they might as well start from scratch?
90% accuracy on 10 digits is pretty disappointing but cool project.
Image based or any kind of visual captchas will never be extremely effective. I think we will see more of PoW captchas in the upcoming years (just like cloudflare's turnstile captcha)
One thing that the HN crowd should appreciate is just how expensive and shit hearing aids are.

go and look the up the price, they are deeply expensive, even for basic "make it louder" type aids.

Worse still, because they interfere with your ear, you tend to loose the ability to "steer" your hearing. This means that you can't tune out other conversations/noises or stuff.

The one good side effect of facebook spending billions on its (probably) futile search for practical and popular AR is https://www.projectaria.com/glasses/

Which is a (cheap) platform to do experimentation for AR type actions.

However it has eye tracking, microphone array and front facing cameras, so it can be fairly easily modified into being a steerable microphone.
Oh dear, why would any terminal user want that?
Since our convo I learned a lot of gamedevs use this website to get scraped revenue estimates, so I thought I'd share it here.

https://games-stats.com
What is the "middleware" in context of game development?
What if I want colors, but not animations?
Im really impressed how snappy it is, i played with it localy a bit cause you never know how the screencast was made etc;
I can confirm this looks just as good as the video, well done
Phased Consistency Model
The consistency model (CM) has recently made significant progress in accelerating the generation of diffusion models. However, its application to high-resolution, text-conditioned image generation in the latent space (a.k.a., LCM) remains unsatisfactory. In this paper, we identify three key flaws in the current design of LCM. We investigate the reasons behind these limitations and propose the Phased Consistency Model (PCM), which generalizes the design space and addresses all identified limitations. Our evaluations demonstrate that PCM significantly outperforms LCM across 1--16 step generation settings. While PCM is specifically designed for multi-step refinement, it achieves even superior or comparable 1-step generation results to previously state-of-the-art specifically designed 1-step methods. Furthermore, we show that PCM's methodology is versatile and applicable to video generation, enabling us to train the state-of-the-art few-step text-to-video generator. More details are available at https://g-u-n.github.io/projects/pcm/.
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Hm.

I can see how it looks cultish. I know people who work there, and I know someone who managed to escape (with outside assistance) from scientology, and… if they're a cult, it's one about how dangerous AI could be, not how great Altman is.

But both of these examples are mere anecdotes; I have no formal qualifications to discuss cults, and contact with only two current staff members.
> And even if it were, Musk builds the best rockets ever and stuff like that and to a first approximation knows how they work.

Being fed the tour guide's summary and high-level overview of an event is not the same thing as knowing how they work.

Elon Musk's virtues start and stop at the way projects were funded. He comes in, buys existing companies, pays people to continue doing the work, and that's it. It's well established that his takes are merely performative and with a substance of a pre-pubrescent edgy rant.

If there was any value in Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, and the hot mess that his tenure has been, is to put the spotlight on how incidental the success of companies like SpaceX is regarding Elon Musk's influence. You're talking about the guy behind stunts like the "pedo guy" incident and yanking live servers out of their sockets as a cost-cutting measure.
It's surprisingly a bad look for her. Plus all the criticism to AI itself. She seems set on slowing down AI development, which is clearly at odds with what the company is doing. Why would she event be involved in this company let alone in the board.
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Beyond a certain level of quality, what is the purpose of improving similarity with human voice other than scamming? I’m asking because I genuinely don’t know. It seems even a rudimentary TTS is usable as long as you can tell what it’s saying.
Hi. Is it possible to somehow run llm.c on an amd gpu?
Free software operating systems which do not call home are. Example: Qubes OS.
Instead of getting lost in manipulative discussions about Hamas and Israels " right for self defense" ( 1200 killed Israelis against 36.000 killed Palästinians and 81.000 wounded ...)
The traumatised and wounded felliw human beings can not even be treated, as almost all of their Hospitals have been destroyed. Its time to stop getting caught in Israels net.
Why are no countries putting economic sanctions as this is the only logical reaction to Deal with this sadistic Land grap.
> Is Paris Metro so shallow because of the quarries?

The Paris metro is a mixture of deep, subsurface, and surface tracks. There are a lot of shallow tunnels mostly because cut-and-cover was easier and cheaper than digging deep underground.

Paris is very complicated underground. Besides the quarries there are the sewers, catacombs, some underground lakes, reservoirs, etc. It is definitely a complicating factor when planning new metro tunnels.

> When is Tim Traveller's video on the subject coming out?

You’d think exploring the closed parts of the catacombs would be right up his alley (actually I would be surprised if he did not try, even though he might not want to put that on YouTube). They’ve been cracking up on trespassers recently but it still is fairly popular with the urban exploration crowd.
Interesting! The header as well as the entire library. Thanks
Well there is still StarLogo. Looks like it's even been rebooted: https://www.slnova.org/
Are you trying to say the initial internet was created and tested for crime and porn? This is major news to me...
Unclear why the presumption that it isn't known or easy. Perhaps share examples of where it is unknown or difficult?

Also not sure what is meant by "manually inspecting webpages". This is not how it is done.

Reading the www as text is a choice. If use the "right" client then it's easy. If use the "wrong" client then it's difficult, if not impossible. For example, if one wants to read www as text, then using a graphical browser that auto-loads resources and auto-runs Javascript is not going to make it easy.

I use a text-only browser, 1.4 to 2.0 MiB, to read HTML. For the majority of websites no "content URL" is needed. If there is a "content URL", it usually returns XML or JSON. In that case no HTML browser is needed and I can use even smaller clients. Text-only www is easy... if using the right clients.

That is the experience I have had. I have been reading www as text-only for over twenty years.
They were desperate because they believed (correctly) the court would target their officials. Whether or not it's warranted[1] is a quite independent consideration! For example, in principle a country could be confident that it would not be touched by the ICC, despite deserving to be.

[1] No pun intended!
Mixed feelings about this one, now every project has to start tweaking compiler options for lombok etc, I kind of like how it works out of the box.

I guess if you have a crazy project and a lot of transitive dependencies there is a small chance some processor lands on the classpath accidently and starts processing things, but I have not ran into this in practice
I don't know if it can be considered "underrated", but I know so many people who like anime and have never watched the 2004 Monster(and haven't heard of the manga either).
Nginx mirroring for API regression testing (2019)
If you are paying the cost of a TLS handshake, which you will have to anyway, why not just use client certificates to authenticate (mTLS) instead of hand rolled and rudimentary auth tokens on top. gRPC has built-in support for mTLS and it could be a good time to modernize your endpoints if you are looking to invest time to improve your API security.
Time team's great, glad to see them back.
Okay, I just jumped down a rabbit hole trying to figure out what OP might mean. I think they’ve got it sideways. I think they’re talking about vaccinia, a virus related to cowpox (and smallpox) that form the basis of modern smallpox vaccines. The origin of the virus is, entertainingly, lost to time due to poor record keeping.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccinia

There’s also “kinepox”, but I _think_ that’s just a different method of cowpox vaccine delivery.
The egg omelet is a classic for testing French chefs. It is much less about the ingredients (quality, etc), and much more about pure skill to cook it perfectly.

What would be the equivalent for a technical interview? Perhaps: Implement a generic linked list or dynamic array.
In voice assistants, robocalls, e-books, even singing, live voice interpretation/translation... a lot of stuff.
I would really like to see normies do regular computing tasks on their phones, then again HN is full of folks that rather buy an iPad and connect to a cloud VM via ssh, instead of a proper laptop.
So you still have the right to an abortion in Texas?
> to teach Aboriginal and Western science concepts

This distinction seems odd; science doesn’t change depending on culture or race.
Just finished reading the Wikipedia article in full and it actually seems fairly sensible given how quickly this had to come together.

Draws boundaries in what seems like sensible places (potential for social harm, amount of compute involved in training etc).

It tries to get out of the way entirely of a bunch of non controversial use cases.

Honestly I don’t hate it at first glance. The biggest thing I think people will get upset with is like GDPR this doesn’t just target EU based companies but companies who want EU users.
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I can only guess but I think it's either pharma money or just to hurt the political opposition - it was a pretty political event after all. And some had pretty vast influence on policies, so they're not innocent.
They did care. Or at least she did. You're right, though, that they didn't do much about it, other than complain loudly.

The main story about that incident was that the US had been spying on regular German citizens for years (decades?), as per Edward Snowden's revelations, and the German Government knew all about it. They didn't care at all. In fact, at the time it was sort of understood they were quite ok with it. It was only after "one of them" were hacked, they, sort of, cared.