skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uh, most? Memory safety is about data races and concurrent access violations. De-referencing a nil pointer isn't a memory safety violation, for example. But I guess if you re-define memory safety to mean anything that can produce a segfault then sure.
There are a few sources showing how pointless kernel anticheats are, and CS2 - another Valve title without kernel anticheat - does not have this problem. The issue here is neglect, nothing more.
You choose to have Google spying devices at home. You choose to have Gmail. You may have no choice for Internet search for quite some time, but you certainly choose your browser.

Start there.
I will always have a soft spot in my heart for Jazz Randyboy https://www.theage.com.au/national/angry-cabbies-stage-sit-i...
I already use the AI to help me come up with ideas that I can't come up with on my own. I was facing homelessness and drug addiction last year.. counseling myself with a I helped me break my isolation, reach out for help with housing, and change my relationship to drugs. On top of that it kept my one man business running, let me rewrite my automation codes with much less technical debt. On top of that it helped me reconnect with my brother who I had a major fight with 3 years ago and had not been on speaking terms with. By unpacking all of the hurt thoughts and entitlement I had stockpiled against my brother, the AI defused it and let me reconnect with my brother beyond the limits of my own petty judgments.

I am lucky in a way to be privileged enough to read AI papers and afford the most expensive AI out there, while at the same time having cognitive and material struggles that the AI can fulfill in its current form. If I was much more privileged I might not need AI to help me stay off the street for instance. Any less, and I would not have access to AI or be able to read AI papers.

As a result I have realized that it will be very important to accept AI writing as authentic writing. It has an incredible potential to help humans. And it's very likely that potential will increase, requiring our acceptance.

I want there to emerge a society of writers who accept AI writing.

I believe the idea that AI can't help us elaborate our ideas is based in people who did not spend enough time reading AI prompting papers, who have not spent even 100 hours in writing assignments with the help of AI. Or who are already so proficient writers that the AI feels like drafting with an annoying intern, so they haven't put in the work to see how to elevate it beyond that point.

I believe that our thoughts will eventually exist more than just inside our brains but also reflected in AI systems that belong intimately to us - I call such a system an extended cortex, or exocortex.

I think our personal ownership and societal perception of the AI will have to change before an exocortex can be an authentic component of a human mind. Even though current generations of AI can help with thought processing, it requires sending your thoughts on trips to corporate servers where they'll be trained on with no privacy. And it requires dealing with bigotry from people who do not accept AI assisted writing as valid writing.

I believe that we're on the cusp of a great growth of AI-human writing, which will bring effective writing to billions of humans who never had it before. And I think in a generation most writers will use AI. They'll be very effectively integrated with our thoughts, will be private and self-sufficient, and will be accepted by Society.
I've driven in NYC plenty. I think if they can navigate situations that are this narrow they can probably handle narrow roads in NYC adequately: https://youtu.be/YtbhoLp96DE?t=423

People said for a long time that self driving cars would never handle the complexity of SF, the fog, the rain, the hills, the bikes, the narrow streets, the crowds of pedestrians. Now that they do, I take the opposite view of you. I think the only hurdles left are snow, economics, and regulation. They are high hurdles, but seem solvable.
We're much more likely to perish through heat and insufficient/inefficient energy sources than anything spectacular like sentient machines though.
With regard to lifestyle factors, here is some evidence to get you started:

Healthy lifestyle and the risk of Alzheimer dementia (PMC7455318)

> Compared to participants with 0 to 1 healthy lifestyle factor, the risk of Alzheimer dementia was 37% lower (pooled HR 0.63, 95% CI 0.47–0.84) in those with 2 to 3 healthy lifestyle factors and 60% lower (pooled HR 0.40, 95% CI 0.28–0.56) in those with 4 to 5 healthy lifestyle factors.
It's not, It's doing snake shots.
> Both companies will provide any data they have, including the full contents of any messages, if provided with an appropriate court order.

As we have learned, many companies hosting your data do not even require a court order. An urgent-sounding email with an official-looking return address is all that is needed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30842757
Genuinely odd article. I mean the observation is right, there's a baseline shift in privacy, but that's just... civilizational development. Modern technology just like virtually anything in modernity, at least when used collectively means you share data. Unlike ecological decline this is usually a voluntary trade off and not obviously bad. You can go and live off the grid. People make these choices because they don't value privacy as much as they value other things.

Calling this espionage is just a misuse of language because espionage is done with malicious and intent and without knowledge of the subject.

There's never a real argument in these articles about privacy that addresses the fact that most users, not because they're all trapped in some false consciousness, accept tools that give them some safety in exchange for privacy. If you ask people, do you want Microsoft to scan your stuff if it finds some malware most will just say yes. None of this is a scandal to the majority of users. Which is why there's never any outrage.
Things to consider:
* Alzheimer might not be a disease, but a syndrome. (several diseases that look about the same)
* Alzheimer's onset might be multifactorial (like diabetes, unlike Hungtington's)
* Everything we know about the pathophysiology of Alzheimer might be wrong. What we believe is right would actually prevent us from making progress. It doesn't help that very loud idiots crave for recognition rather than discovery.

"I know that I know nothing" ~Socrates(?)
Caring about privacy has always been a rich person's game, since the poor have little to pay with other than their data. That's worth keeping in mind.
It's not opinion when there is evidence:

APOE4 homozygozity represents a distinct genetic form of Alzheimer's disease (PMID: 38710950)

> The study concludes that APOE4 homozygotes represent a genetic form of AD

Healthy lifestyle and the risk of Alzheimer dementia (PMC7455318)

> Compared to participants with 0 to 1 healthy lifestyle factor, the risk of Alzheimer dementia was 37% lower (pooled HR 0.63, 95% CI 0.47–0.84) in those with 2 to 3 healthy lifestyle factors and 60% lower (pooled HR 0.40, 95% CI 0.28–0.56) in those with 4 to 5 healthy lifestyle factors.
But anyone can see nVidia is ahead in GPU & software stack. They are 1 step ahead and that is all is necessary.
It used to be the nearest university (especially if they have an adjoining curriculum), sometimes a local business. Don't be afraid of microfiche for older pubs. Don't be afraid to introduce yourself.

I still find libraries pretty useful while simultaneously being amazed at the quantity of papers online - I have found papers I would have nearly killed for decades ago now online at faculty pages of my favorite researchers. I'm guessing online is better for most, especially when coupled with browsing faculty pages for the author of your random linked papers. Also, look for citations listings that include authors of papers You like (it's printed and at your local research/eng lib for older obscure authors).

Before Eternal September and still today (though maybe less?), sending an intro email to someone that is studying a subject You are interested in is often useful (possibly better for niches). I'm guilty of not responding in a timely manner.

Probably Semi-OT: look at some indexes for CoEvolution Quarterly.
The outrage would be from the security and privacy concious crowd I believe. Kernel level anti-cheat is a very invasive piece of software to require to play a game, and it does not solve all problems magically.

I think this is the real reason Valve avoids kernel level anti-cheat.
I guarantee you that if they stopped taking privacy seriously and had serious public missteps in it, it would barely affect their sales.
This is a bad title. The proper title should be the exact words of the scientists:

"in this population of sperm donor applicants, in these four Danish cities, sperm concentrations have not changed between 2017 and 2022."

Also, the paper finds that motile "healthy" sperm ACTUALLY WENT DOWN. "However, both the concentration and total numbers of motile (swimming) sperm provided for testing had declined by 16% and 22% respectively from 2019 to 2022."

Either way, this paper is just one against the hundreds of papers and studies of sperm count, from different areas, times, populations, and many show reduced numbers while many do not.

Of course I hope that there's nothing to worry about, but I think the default assumption should be take it very seriously (particularly when microplastics can even be found in men's testicles now).

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Here's a link to the original paper https://academic.oup.com/humrep/advance-article/doi/10.1093/...
Question is how often do humans get the question wrong unprompted ? I expect given the median IQ of 100 and assessing people of all types including those untrained on logic and generally uneducated humans might not be nearly as close to 1.0 as the authors seem to imply.

But it’s also fairly obvious LLMs don’t reason at all so it’s not shocking that LLMs don’t reason at all. What’s remarkable is that they’re able to perform as well at reasoning tasks as they do given that factual truth they have no reasoning facility. Coupled with their natural language ability and emergent abductive reasoning ability that’s generally hard in computing models it’s hard to draw much conclusion here other than “wow gpt-4o is amazing.”
It's a 20 year old game. Just play something else.
L2 isn't marketed as Full Self Driving
I know 2 people including my own mother who died of Alzheimer's and one who has it right now. Who knows where would we be right now if we didn't go on the wrong track with this fraudulent paper? Things like this is why trust in scientists are at an all-time low. There's corruption at every single layer of our society and I don't know what we can do to get honor and honesty back as top moral goals for citizens.

This amyloid theory has been completely debunked at this point but has wasted almost two decades of progress because of it. It's so infuriating, but I don't see this stopping because there's no accountability.
Boiling frog metaphor is much more emotionally compelling for the same argument.
That is an outstanding book. I second the recommendation.

I’ll even make a (sincere!) claim that I suspect will inspire a lot of angry attempts at rebuttals:

The 20 foot shipping container has had a greater impact on the world than large language models are likely to ever achieve.

Read the book first and then tell me why you think I’m wrong. (I’m not wrong :) )
ALL plastic recycling should go straight off the truck and back to china where it came from. anything less is a fraud on the American people to use chinese petrochemicals to pollute the amazing U S and A
Did Microsoft ever explain how “generative AI” was used for these “attacks”? Because I smell bullshit and I’ve yet to see anything concrete.
one would think the software that single handedly popularized MTX still generates some degree of revenue , although probably not enough to justify the man hours required in fixing it ...
I own a Model 3 and have used FSD v12.3.x as recently as a month ago. I've also taken several Waymo rides in that time. I can confidently say it's not even in the same league as Waymo.
Hmm, I wonder if people cheat at Counter-Strike 2 as well. Some folks are awfully good, almost inhumanly so, but I (perhaps foolishly) assumed the VAC system was working.
Espionage is not necessarily done with malicious intent if it’s for the good of the country, right? Doesn’t justify trampling peoples’ human rights in any particular instance tho
It won't be very useful if you're already old, more practical approach would be to freeze yourself in your youth until they find a way to stop ageing.
For any crucial data, you do want backups, outside of Google. It could become accessible or removed due to other factors outside of your control.
Everyone in power is in on it for revenue maximization. Treating someone at an early stage is never the goal; making money and winning awards is the goal. The FDA is 100% in on it.
There are clear benefits to building web apps vs native apps. You only have to write a single web app and it runs virtually everywhere. Also, there is a huge pool of talent that corporations can tap into, people who know web development. It's a less specialized skill.

What I really wish existed is a kind of web browser with a greatly limited feature set, so many web apps wouldn't need to be so bloated.
Diving into the Node.js Website Redesign
I don't really think he'll lose access, but they are absolutely in contact with the SEC and there is a non zero chance he gets charged with market manipulation.
They do that to cover their own asses, not because it sells more phones.
OS coverage vs pure numbers is something for the game developer to be worried about, and by extension the game engine devs.

You want to get into the iOS gaming market, go Metal. By definition you've expressed you don't care about the other OS's.

You want to make a AAA game, you probably don't go Metal if you want enough market coverage to recoup your costs - though I will be delighted to be proven wrong when a AAA iPhone game comes.

If Apple want to change their "AAA game" attractiveness they need to address this. It's not that hard - the article took a month but even a year is fine. Apple just needs to get it done, but it doesn't seem like they care to make User<->GameDev relationship easy. Either the gamedev needs a whole other version of their game on Metal. Or the users have to do a lot of homework and fiddling to get a modern AAA game to run.

I wonder if they have Vulkan internally and simply know their GPU won't look good in direct comparisons - which is fair; beating or even leveling with nVidia is hard. But if anyone can show AMD and Intel how to do it....
> You're describing the fake breakup. Where you tell your girlfriend/boyfriend you want a break, then let them talk you back into the relationship.

Oh no, you tell them before you start looking that you feel like your TC is too low based on your contribution. You don't threaten to shop around, you just tell them your skillet has value beyond what they're offering.

It goes like this: either they come back with something to make you happy and everybody is satisfied, or they don't and you start applying.

But people don't always give employers this chance and just start applying first. Then when they go to leave things get weird with counter offers.

If you think your job sucks and you're ready to move on, there's no reason to bother with this approach. But if the only reason you're thinking of moving on is to increase your pay, it never hurts to ask first.
Not sure if this is a joke but CS2 is rife with cheaters, especially on Valve servers
I kind of knew this already, I think many of us did, the idea that for kids growing up today, invasive technology is just normal for them. It's great to see the idea being formalized like this though.
Understanding the real threat generative AI poses to our jobs
So a few things... one, I don't think you can say a fact checker is slanted one way or another by finding a few examples of a bias; how do we know there isn't an equal or greater number of instances where the examples slant the other way? You would need a systemic analysis of all the articles with some rubric for grading.

Second, I find issue with the examples they did use. They say the tweet was actually true, but it doesn't seem that way to me. The tweet argued that Cuomo said that the vaccine being developed under Trump was bad, but the thing he actually said was that he thought the roll out plan would be bad. Very different.
How to train simple AIs to balance a double pendulum [video]
Microworld 1976 AT&T/Bell Microprocessor & Computer Film - Bill Shatner [video]
In my admittedly limited and relatively dated experience driving in SF, the potholes are pretty shallow and you can usually drive over them safely. I imagine they have also gotten a lot worse since I left, as the city's management has only grown in incompetence.

A quick Google search shows 50 inches of precipitation over 125 days in NYC, and 23 in SF in 71 days. That's less than half. The source (US NCEI) doesn't say how they measured, but I believe that's only rainfall.

It also does appear that as of 6 months ago, Waymos can now operate in rain and fog, but still stay off the streets when it gets heavy.
Since there is the mention of auth integration, I assume this app has a button where we can just click to start an impersonation session?

Also, are there any plans to integrate with other popular auth systems like firebase?
Understand there's custom auth option for that but it'd be better if firebase-auth users can just do minimal set up.
Yes, but CS2 anti cheat works a lot better.
> I know this will get downvoted hard

Yup. The diet endorsed by Jordan and Mikhaila Peterson, the 2 biggest grifters alive today? The diet with zero scientific backing or evidence of efficacy? Let's not forget about the Liver King, who it turns out was completely lying about his health, diet, and medicinal intake.

Not to mention that the purported benefits of the carnivore diet are often very similar to those claimed by staunchly vegan folks.

No thank you.
For what? Posting his position? If that is the case half of the superstonks subreddit would have to be charged.
And if you want to be noticed on the web, you have to go through Google. If you want to sell anything you either have to go through Facebook or Amazon.

The web is “open”. But Google and to a lesser extent Apple control the browsers to access it and they can control the platforms.

Meet the new boss…
I’m surprised he didn’t spread his position across multiple brokers. Oh well.
for the sake of being marketable to recruiters and other hiring people, I think being honest won't do much good. I'd leave a handful of jobs, not necessarily the most recent, but for example ones where impact was the most salable, and the rest just throw under the rug, make up some dates if needed. I think it is very reasonable thing to expect from senior people, to highlight the most relevant experience from their long list of jobs
Same here. I miss the days when you were given a take home or, god forbid, a real world problem, something the company has run into that you can work through with an experienced interviewer.

Some of the worst interviews I've had I've felt like I was a lab rat, just being evaluated for specific traits/reactions. The worst part is, like you said, every Tom, Dick, and Henry does this, its somehow become some kind of lazy industry standard hiring practice, hence the explosion of these interview aid services. Some people will argue it serves a purpose, but I really don't see how. It's like memorizing an answer sheet and doing well on a test. Is that really the type of problem solving you're looking for? Don't get me wrong, I do think its important to understand foundational concepts and algorithims, but like.. it's also the first thing thats abstracted away for good reason in the real world. Anyways its shit.

The worst part is even with my experience I still feel like shit after these calls though I should know better.
is it such a problem if people dont care? its not like they arent aware.

i mean its not too complicated to get to a desired privacy standard for the most part so it seems like the privacy conscious in general get angry for other people, who dont even care.

its because of those people that we can even use these products for free. i mean they arent making ad revenue off of us....
you missed the tl;dr of my point.

Are all 8 Billion people at their peak productivity? No.
There is slack in the economy.

If people don't want to work, it's a money printing problem. At constant $$ of say $1 Million annual salary, a lot more than 3% of the 38% slack will work.

The reason we don't pay $1 Million is because we don't think they will produce $1 Million worth of output. But, if we know that we are producing $100 T output, you'll pay them $1 M Dollars
Instead of the Instagram app, use the mobile web version in Brave Browser or Firefox with the ublock origin extension installed (which, the the way, can be installed on the mobile version). Perhaps keep the app for notification purposes only if you find them useful.

I understand the requirement for "free" sites to make money, but this is going too far.
I will hold on to my activation-free fully-offline Photoshop CS3 until the day Win32 finally dies. Still using it daily with an equally-old Wacom tablet to clean up all my flatbed scans :)
Vac only catches the most basic cheat techniques. Its not that hard to get past it, the real challenge is not distributing your code so that valve gets a copy of it to reverse.
Can you share some links or literature backing this claim up? I've done a few elimination diets and they did not start anywhere close to "meat only."
Associativity in this context doesn't mean "The associative property," it means "left-associative or right-associative" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operator_associativity
> You choose to have Gmail

Disagree with this. self hosting email is notoriously difficult. Gotta give the data to somebody. Plus, your work email is either going through MSFT or GOOG, 99% of the time
I suggest reading "Bastard Operator from Hell". Historically ISPs could read all email, see all AOL chats, and all the search queries. They could see you entering your payment information. If we go by fisheries example, there was no privacy in the 90s. It's reasonable expectation that you trust someone with your information. I feel lake author falls into imaginary world fallacy, where people don't know that the meat comes from killed animals, or that cooking is not normally done in latex gloves.
was living in a building owned by a corporate landlord until late last year. they took two years to fix a major roof leak and in the end only fixed it because i hired a lawyer.

on paper, corporate landlords should have better-maintained housing stock. in practice, i've never personally experienced it.
"Why ever enjoy anything old? Just consume the new!"
TF2 Orange Box was a good game. Then our digital software economy went off a cliff.
i agree. people just dont care. and if everyone did we would be paying cash for the online products we use for free
I agree, but to be a "propaganda outlet" that intent does not need to be by the republisher. If some news outlet is just reprinting garbage without thought they are culpable for spreading someone else's propaganda through negligence.
For thousands of years the economic level of humanity was basically a straight line with a very slow upward trend. then in the late 1700's things changed the economic graph went exponential and has not slowed down since.

There is this concept of a technological singularity, Some days I feel it has already happened. And collectively we all are in a sort of tech time dilation, caught up in them, we barely notice the exponential tides.
How the Times have changed...

> 2020 / 21 May: New York Times depicts the Wuhan Institute of Virology as a victim of “conspiracy theories”

https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n1656