skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Air isn't a liquid, but the virus is contained within a tiny bubble of water as I understand it.

Atmospheric CO2 change acidifying the oceans is a well known effect [1]. Once it's pointed out it isn't surprising that a tiny bubble of water surrounded by atmosphere would change PH quickly in response to atmospheric CO2 levels (the surface area to volume ratio is huge compared to the ocean after all). Nor that that affects viruses.

[1] https://www.noaa.gov/education/resource-collections/ocean-co...
Early reports indicate that the NHS cyber attack happened because non-technical managers refused to install or upgrade a security patch, believing it was unnecessary. So err yeah...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/nhs-hospital-cyber...
Thanks all the JS - SPA develops that insisting on putting JS all over the place. Wouldn't it be better to have everything in one .html, using <script> <style> just inline. Then it is also just one file over the internet. There must be a bundler that does that no?

Seems JS developer just want their code to the obfuscated and unachievable as possible unless it is via their web server.
Often stances of the governments across the world are: we’ll ignore it unless it becomes a problem for us. Often, in organized crime, money flows back to the government and creates job opportunities for people that keeps them happy. There is a reason. Why there’s so many scam call centers in India. The government will turn a blind eye until someone comes in with proof that raises a stink or if other international government agencies get involved.
My experience on the internet suggests that high-signal information usually has very low memetic fitness. All the good sources of information I've found have been buried away and I've come across them serendipitously.

Not particularly surprising though, entertainment is the lowest common denominator so it's much easier for that kind of stuff to spread. High-signal information is the complete opposite: very few people can actually tell if it's valuable, and it's not particularly shareable.

To be fair, most people aren't really looking for super high-signal info anyway. Closer to the minimal amount of information I need, presented in an easily digestible way, or looking for infotainment around something they're interested in!
> alien civilization whose mathematics began with graphs

They might be pleased by 2024 silicon for matrix (a.k.a. graph/AI) math: Apple, Qualcomm, Intel and AMD devices with 30-100 TOPS NPU.

https://github.com/topics/social-network-analysis
>These are relatively substantial meals with flatbread, a vegetable dish and an egg or two.

That is not substantial by developed country standards. I have seen these meals be served and among other factors that contribute to the low price, the hygiene standards (or lack thereof) are horrific.
Seriously, dude? Are you mad that sports referees effectively get free field-level seats?
I mean, that is why a key point of fascism is dehumanizing entire classes of people so you don't have to consider their values at all.

If AI/AGI even becomes moderately successful soon we'll quickly see companies remove neo-luddites from their list of general human values so their security bots can beat unemployed hungry factory workers to death when they attempt to picket in front of the company offices.
> You have to be careful of citing spec-sheet TDPs because AMD allows their CPUs to boost way above the configured TDP where for apple it’s normally obeyed

This is more Intel than AMD. AMD will generally stick to the rated TDP unless you manually reconfigure something.

> and usually not reached unless it’s a mixed cpu-gpu load like gaming.

For mobile chips you'll generally hit the rated TDP on anything compute-bound in any way, simply because the rated TDP is low enough for a single core at max boost to hit it. And you'll pretty much always hit the rated TDP on a multi-threaded workload regardless of if the GPU is involved because power/heat is the limit on how high the cores can clock in that context, outside of maybe some outliers like very low core count CPUs with relaxed (i.e. high) TDPs.

> you have to look at actual measurements from actual devices in a particular workload.

But then as you point out, nobody really does that. Combined with the relative scarcity of parts made on the same process, direct comparisons of that kind may not even exist. Implying that the people saying the Apple processors are more efficient on the same process are doing so with no real evidence.
The prize for the ugliest building in Cambridge, MA should go to the Stata building at MIT. An eyesore masquerading as "architecture".
Clearly written by an Human...or a very smart AI....
Why not the opposite? Track the Pro users all you want since these are people willing to spend more money on MS features and possibly also using their devices as a work device where the company pays for it. Leave the Home users (kids, parents, grandparents, etc.) alone and not get them into forcing signups, misclicking random shit, etc.
Well Detective Larson, you've come right to the scene for investigation, but the chalk lines hold no clues. If you step away from the blackboard, and go downstairs to the basement where the physical labs are, two doors down from Dr. Frankenstein's lab, you'll find some high-frequency operators who've got an atomic clock. Mrs. Frankenstein will show you the way ;)

Yes, they're using the matter itself as a clock. Who does that?

What kind of universe is it anyway when nobody's ever needed any other kind of clock since the beginning of . . . time? Oh wait . . .
> I've never thought about mounting a tmpfs folder for compiling stuff, but that's actually a pretty good idea.

Using tmpfs (or RAMDISK) for compiling and discovering that it’s not actually faster is a virtually rite of passage for every developer. :)

If you do try it, at least benchmark it. You’ll probably discover that you spent more time setting it up and copying files around to volatile storage than you’d ever gain back via minuscule compile time speedups. Compiling is not IO bound and your files are already being cached in RAM by the OS after the first read.
I've enjoyed using this

https://github.com/webrecorder

It has a standardized format and acts like a recorder for what you see.
The vast majority of people report their experiences with the DMT "Machine Elves" as being positive. Very few report the experience as being negative, and I have very very very rarely heard of a bad trip in the same vein that you see occur a significant amount of the time with shrooms and LSD.

Not all of my DMT trips involved these other entities, but when they did, they frequently had something to show me or say to me. These things weren't "new" knowledge - how could it be? I don't believe these are actually external entities - but instead things that on some level I knew to be true, but had trouble internalizing and operating on. These experiences helped integrate that knowledge from something I understood on a conceptual basis to something I could actually put in practice. One of my first serious long-term relationships ended when I was cheated on, and it resulted in me having some serious trust issues in relationships after that. I "knew" that this is a risk in relationships, but that people CAN be faithful, and that allowing these trust issues to fester would almost certainly directly result in relationships failing because of them. That didn't stop me from doing the things that I knew I shouldn't. A DMT trip with some experiences related to this didn't teach me anything new, but after I found it significantly easier to move past those trust issues and become a much better partner in relationships.

If I had to guess, something about being exposed to this information in such an altered state of conscious can allow for you internalize it when you otherwise struggle in your normal state of being.

> I have a really hard time thinking anyone that proposes tripping as a viable solution to true mental health problems is a serious person.

This seems likely to be a personal bias. There is a lot of real-deal research from serious people showing promising results.
> If it's just to prove those two words wrong, then this repo seems extremely overblown. "It works like every other program in the world" isn't very exploity.

The FAQ author explained it worked like every other program in the world. Some people doubted him because why wouldn't he show proof if it was so easy? The tool author called it a very simple tool and no rocket science whatsoever.

> Also I don't think many people even saw or noticed that particular claim.

Fewer people will see this repo. What is the correct number of people before misinformation should be corrected?
I quickly ran a backup just now, but I would've been one of the people slightly effected.

I symlink some of the desktop cache files to /var/tmp, but since that never got deleted for me (on Debian and Manjaro) I also started linking things like my browser profile there. I kind of knew that /var/tmp may not be the correct folder for it, but if it works, it works you know.

A bit of background on my setup, for why I even want to create such symlinks. My home folder is on an automatically mounted USB stick that I transfer between systems (laptop and desktop). On shutdown, I rsync the home folder to a local backup folder, which gives me a small distributed backup system. Using the same home directory between systems with different distributions and CPU architectures (I'm using the pinebook pro arm laptop) works surprisingly well. But I'd rather not stress the USB stick with a bunch of frequently accessed cache files, hence the symlink. I end up also symlinking the browser profile, because that caused version incompatibilities between systems, and I'm ok with having local browser settings/history on each device.
This makes perfect sense. If people were getting more organic business conversions they wouldn't pay for advertising as much.
Very good observation, and I strongly agree. A person's shitposting reads differently when they have some name recognition in the audience. Especially that of an expert - I find myself looking into deeper meaning in a throwaway comment that I wouldn't even notice if it came from some random Internet user.
I don't accept or condone theft. That's an extreme position. But I do try to understand the way our flawed world works, instead of just wishing that people would see things the same way I do.
I see this even on enthusiast discussion forums and subreddits where high value content is encouraged.

Very often someone will post some thoughtful, high value post in a thread that gets at least a handful of positive reactions. But if someone quotes it with some silly quip that's 5 words or less, it invariably gets 3-4x the response.

Yeah, sometimes it's a tdlr; situation, but it seems common enough even with just a few sentences.
When using GDP as a gauge of living standards, people usually use PPP (purchasing power parity) measures, which adjusts for the cost of goods in different places.

Any such adjustment isn’t going to be perfect, and there are other quirks (tax havens have artificially high GDP figures), but it’s a lot closer to what you want.
Direct link of interest
https://github.com/anthropics/courses/tree/master/ToolUse
Yeah, strangely enough I never connected Pale Fire to House of Leaves until this article and thread. Puts a slightly different spin on House of Leaves for me.
Indeed. That speculation is where we get into trouble as human beings (we like to see rabbits in clouds, we're evolved to see patterns where often there are none). And of course - in sociology, and all the variability of human behavior and the overall human experience - sociology is perhaps the toughest field of any to create any form of scientific knowledge at all. For example, the "great replication crisis". I appreciate your being open to dialog and having had a reasonably pleasant exchange. Thank you
"I have the luxury of an army of support staff to control the flow of information to me, for I am the peak of the information pyramid"

He has a sortof point which is you need to sift through the noise to get the signal. The issue is, and he's very much shielded from this, is that most places have a massive amount of noise, and its impossible to keep up.

If its my job to be the "decider" as he likes to be, and I am the top of the pyramid, then its trivial to be informed all the time.

If I have to do other things as well as this, then its hard.

At smaller companies I had an information network, which meant I was very well informed. I could, if I needed to, broker information.

At a large FAANG, and not living in the main country, that is impossible. You are reliant on third parties who you don't know personally.
the fact that I didn't quote something from each of the five doesn't mean I didn't read them.

sometimes scientists can do isotopic analyses on teeth to see what foods people were eating, or show that a particular material had to have been imported from far away. The Bronze Age relied on tin, which was only found in a few places. All those facts from "pre-history" are really valuable. But some of it does seem to be "collective imagination," as someone else here called it.
I used vim for 25 years and I expect to use neovim for another 25. Return on investment in knowledge and skill is off the charts.
The more problems you solve, the more likely you solve one that is worth solving.

The hard part is solving problems. Talking about problems is easy. Good luck.
It's obvious that Air Canada is trying to avoid setting precedent for what qualifies for compensation here.

Canada has a foul domestic airline industry. More times than not from what I've looked at and read - it's cheaper to fly domestic in Canada by picking an international flight that has a layover in the USA than it is to fly solely domestic in Canada - with all the extra fees, charges, etc. etc. etc.

Just a side effect of the government and oligopolies in Canada turning the screws trying to extract more and more money out of their citizens.
> At one point, one starts to think - is it all authentic, or just made-up stuff to increase views, affiliate sales, etc.

I've always gone the opposite. At what point was any of this authentic?
You destroyed this by altering the linebreaking. And it’s misquoted in other ways.
Shipping pre-production test devices is a long-established practise that predates the influencer era by decades.

Critics view movies before their release. Tech products are shipped to tech publications beforehand. Journalists have access to many press releases before they're published and on and on.

The benefits for those involved are clear: Sources get a coordinated press storm. Sources can restrict access to flattering publications. The publications can "instantly" release an in-depth review and beat their competition.

It's "only" all consumers who lose out. A free market might provide independent reviewers with a chance to beat the selected few on quality.
A good place, in my opinion, to start would be something like https://roadmap.sh/frontend. It lays out a good tree of knowledge that you may start following. Really, at the start, your looking to dive deep into topics such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Also you'll want to start getting a good foundation of how the internet works in general (stuff like HTTP, SSL, etc.). This stuff becomes your bedrock that all your other Frontend skills will build upon.

You can also look to some guided courses that may help if you just need some direction. Odin Project is a good one and free. Colt Steele has a good one (my nephew worked through it and liked it) on Udemy called the "Web Developer Bootcamp". Don't pay full price though for that one, clear your browser cache, go into incognito mode, etc and you should see it discounted to like $20... if a sale isn't already running.

I can't emphasize enough... learn HTML, CSS, and JavaScript deeply. They are the foundation before things like React, Angular, etc. Don't fall for the "get rich quick" promise of frameworks. Nothing makes a senior developer more insane than when you come in as a "React whiz" but don't understand the fundamentals at all.

And finally... BUILD BUILD BUILD. Build and abandon a thousand projects. See something on a website or in an app you like? Try to recreate it. Learn to pull it apart and see how it works.

If you have never done anything like this, your going to hit rough patches. The pain you feel is "learning". I'm the lead dev on my team and they act like I'm some genius. Truth is, I'm a slow learner but I'm not afraid of being uncomfortable and experimenting all the time. Best of luck!
Most countries, including mine or the ones I'm likely to travel to, don't have Apple Stores.
any money you want to spend on booze, put in savings!!!
And if there is no Apple Store around? There are entire countries without those, and even more that only have a few total.
I disagree. There are a lot of uses for an iCloud locked iPhone, such as a music player, podcast player, security camera, etc.

Edit: I should clarify that the embedded video clearly showed that a number of the iPhones she had were still able to be used. Perhaps the owner didn't or wasn't able to iCloud lock them, but that's what I originally meant.
Reminds me that it seems strange that most of the consumer products are still Lead Batteries. It seems like for weight/density it is past time to switch to Lithium Ion. It's kind of funny that every other computer battery we use has already switched. Probably just as much a sign about how little innovation is happening in the consumer "UPS" space.
but otherwise, it’s OK to write about what excites you, and to do it as you learn.”

yeah, but what if no one else cares what you write about or it does not gain traction
Schema Visualizer for Serverless Postgres
They don’t. They’re using another phone and texting the original owner, threatening them, in order to scare them into unlocking the device.

When you boot the “Lost” phone, it asks for the password of the owner’s iCloud account. There is probably an information leak where the original email or phone is presented and the thief can track the original owner through that.
But is this also cleaned up on boot?

The reason I’m doing this in /tmp is that I can just shut down the computer and have all those staging files gone.

(Same reason I shut the computer down at the end of the day instead of suspend - I want to start with a clean slate the next day)
>Highly prescient as well.

This was already widely recognized as each talk was originally being given.

Kind of stream-of-consciousness if you think about it.

Or if your head's a blank.
You gain writing cycles that are not going to wear out your SSD for files that are going to be erased anyway.
There's other AI tools that can split the audio into stems, though it's not a perfect solution since it introduces artifacts. Good enough to lightly remix and adjust levels, but taking whole instruments or vocals out usually leaves the mix sounding fairly hollow.
And again an extremely serious, device-compromising vulnerability, arises from a use-after-free. When will we learn?

I don't think I'll ever be able to trust modern devices until we finally abandon memory-unsafe languages. It's such low hanging fruit at this point I don't understand anymore why OS developers keep investing their time in other parts of the threat model of operating systems if memory usage vulnerabilities keep arising that completely destroy the existence of any security layer in the system.

Was Google's plan to replace Android with Fuchsia? Is there any plan to get rid of these vulnerabilities (specially use-after-free) at scale on Android like the Chrome project has attempted with the MiraclePtr project?
Yes, it would be great to have the best of both worlds.
No, if an iPhone is iCloud locked, you're not able to use the phone unless you enter the password of the account.
I hate the Work Number with a passion. What's more disgusting though is people's own employers giving them all your salary and other private information for their own convenience and without your consent and sometimes without your knowledge.
here, be blown away https://github.com/opral/monorepo/tree/main/lix

solving version control for files like jupyter notebooks brings collaboration to those files without the need to give up files in favor of the cloud. playbooks could leverage lix in 1-2 years to build a file-based version of their tool
I wonder whether they need to heat the zeolites to help them release the co2 or whether exposure to vacuum is enough.
If that isn't already the case, Apple should warn you when you put your phone in lost mode that the robbers may contact you to get you to remove it from your iCloud account, and to never do it.

Or add a big warning when trying to remove a device previously put in lost mode.
Remote Amazon tribe connects to Starlink, become hooked on porn, social media
Intel claims 120 TOPs AI performance for its new Lunar Lake chips
early stringent covid responses(such as in China) probably saved millions of lives in the responsive countries, but i guess post-covid will be litigated with vibes not numbers
Eric Helms, an exercise physiology researcher out of New Zealand who runs a reasonably well-known but certainly not viral Internet coaching practice and podcast, both for weighlifting, made a comment to this effect on a recent episode. If he fixates on engagement metrics, he can see the lowest effort cheap shit is what gets the clicks and the eyeballs. Books he has published push nowhere near that volume, and he can only coach a few people at a time.

But what kind of engagement are you looking for? One of his coaching clients is a two-time world champion. Think about some of history's great teachers. Jaime Escalante directly ever engaged with what? A few hundred, maybe a thousand math students in his entire 40 year career? Sure, but he deeply impacted these people, and in some cases totally changed their lives for the better. Do you want to briefly amuse a billion people for a few seconds each or produce world champions and paths from the ghetto to the middle class?
I'm not very experienced at hosting, but this is pretty close to what I'd do. If chip supply isn't a constraint, I'll aim for halving the quantity each step up then redistribute from there, so 12x25c 7x$1 2x$5 in your example. If chips are limited, I go based on the ratios of available chips.

At first glance, seems like you could do this with linear programming instead of mixed-integer if you're ok shaving off the fractions at the end and handing them out naively. Nobody will mind getting 1-2 more chips than theoretically necessary.
I miss those innocent good ole days.
It's depressing to see companies just throw out literal tons of UPS devices when all they need is 10 minutes and a 40 dollar battery, because it's cheaper to buy a new one instead of paying a guy to bring the batteries and install them in all the UPS devices.

Lots of e-waste - but thankfully there's people like in the article that repurposes them into more useful devices!
> Currently, the problem is "how do we robustly align an AI with any set of values."

That's a fair point, and you're absolutely right.

> They need to solve that problem before they can solve the next one.

Agreed. That, and they need to do it before they build an AGI.

Unfortunately, from X-risk perspective, the two are almost the same problem. The space of alignments that lead to prosperous, happy humanity is a very, very tiny area in the larger space of possible value systems an AI could have. Whether we align AI to something outside this area (failing the "what values should we align an AGI to" problem), or the AI drifts outside of it over time (chancing the "what values" problem, but failing the "how do we robustly align" one), the end result is the same.