skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an example of a group I’ve recently become a part of, I go to a sizable convention once a year. I met some people there and we traded Discord usernames. They invited me to their private group and we’ve coordinated events, and there are four other people that I’ve yet to meet in this group, and one is rooming with me at the convention.

So I guess in this case our communications are “we’re soon to be real life friends”. Also a coworker who lives in a different country who hasn’t gotten to meet us is in my group chats for my gaming group. We’d be in real life friends if the opportunity presents itself (maybe at a conference or something) but we’ve never met physically.

That said 90% of people in my group chats are people I’ve met in person, just trying to justify a few exceptions I personally have.
I don't actually think it will change all that much. Ad-supported media existed long before the Internet became mainstream.

In the good old days when we paid for newspapers and newspaper deliveries, newspapers made money off of selling ad space and classified ads. The cost of buying that newspaper barely covered the cost of the paper used to print the newspaper.

The only real difference nowadays is the fact that we can offer content for free at all, because the distribution costs are close to $0.
I wonder what the market size is. FANUC has $500b in revenue.
Single moms with sociology degrees unable to wrap their heads around power law.
PE is a very-long-chain saturated hydrocarbon, so it would not be surprising if this fungus will also be able to "burn" other petroleum products too.

Finding plastic-degrading organisms is urgent.

Is it?
Sure, but what's the point if the entire universe is pushing you toward Git. I understand that Mercurial has non-zero usage, just not anywhere where I ever worked.
Ok If you are comfortable emailing me, I will keep you in mind and send you the invite link when it opens.The service would be free for You for 3 months!
Not with that grammar in the title. You apply for jobs.
i see, that makes a certain amount of sense, thank you. normally you can share a single spi or dual/quad spi bus between multiple peripherals with different /cs lines, but i guess that would be pretty tough to make work for instruction fetches. older chips like the 8086 had a pin to tell the memory system when it was fetching an instruction, but i haven't seen that feature in a long time, not even enabled by a fuse

you can probably use qpi that way (with both psram and flash) if you sacrifice xip and settle for loading overlays? you could even store them on qpi nand
sure you can email me: anthony@profullstack.com
Like chess on a Scrabble board
In practice, it's not that restricting. It's pretty rare to find something actually requiring a more recent version. (And there's slow progress in updating it)
https://archive.is/GQWNN
Well, iTerm2 definitely has that option (at least now it does - not sure about past versions) and every time I see an announcement for some sort of terminal software, I seem to recall they are touting their ability to use the GPU to render.

I understand why the iTerm2 makers thought AI would be a good addition (not using that, either) but didn't know why GPU rendering was a thing. I've turned off GPU rendering - originally because I wasn't sure why it was needed so I didn't turn it on. Now that I see some explanation - I'n still not turning it on - I don't need it.
link rot doesn't happen by the slug in a url subtly changing
The biggest costs to online transactions, I believe, are related to fraud and fraud detection.
Actually all Australian states and the ACT have land taxes in lieu of property taxes
https://business.gov.au/finance/taxation/taxes-on-your-prope....
That workflow sounds so painful. Why not get a BI tool that can integrate directly into your data warehouse and do reporting through that?
A policy proposal needs a legal framework under which can actually can work. You can't just push that off as "that's the judiciary's problem".
I said net exporter, not just merely exporter. And NO, the US is not a net exporter of oil.
Yes, the US export around 3.6M bbl/d in 2022. But, it imported around 6.3M bbl/day in the same year. So, it was a net importer.

The reason why this happens I leave as an exercise for the reader that is so gung-ho in calling others wrong.
I think the sentiment you describe has more to do with alignment of interests: Starbucks wants to sell you coffee, free online services on the other hand want to sell access-to-you to some third party.

There also aren't the same network effects. No one feels obligated to visit Starbucks even though they dislike it due to all their friends/family only conversing at Starbucks.
In a sense, yes. The leaks shouldn’t be there, which means the craft is out of spec. Being out of spec in one area makes you consider how good/thorough the design and testing was. The next step is to consider what else isn’t working or might break sooner than anticipated. And that is not a pleasant thought.
I would be interested in a list of people who use this sort of service, so that I can be sure I never hire any of them.
If it's a Boeing I'm not going.
It seems like only a matter of time before this spreads uncontrollably, consuming all plastic in the world.
>In an extremely well-run socialist country, there'd probably be good, low-tech electric cars.

Yep, that's exactly what happened in the Soviet Union with the Lada...
... depending on your definition of a "good car".
With a few constraints and best practices, notebooks tend to be delightful to use. I've taught many teams to be successful with them over the years.

Certainly you can shoot yourself in the foot with notebooks, but you can also footgun with many other tools.
So Windows has to actually render out the filenames and sizes somewhere to get the total amount of space used by the files?

That seems a bit ... non-optimal.
So many of our calls were informational with a predictable/scriptable answer set. 90% may be high, but I know 80% of the calls would have been squashed by an AI bot.

There's definitely a ton of care that you have to put into creating it aside from just retrieval, like control flow, but the state of our outsourced CS was really, really bad. 5 minute wait times just to get connected to someone that mispronounced our company name and mostly told people to call us in the morning. The costs were absurd for the quality of service we got and they ended up making customers angry.
Is this a case of someone not realizing that pandemic-time laws suddenly reverted back to the normal right under them, or is this alleged to have been done with the full understanding of committing a violation?
What's nuts to me is the time scale on the bottom. That is not a lot of time for something so complex.

Then again, if they do an Intel 10nm+++++ and fail to maintain velocity even for a couple of years, their competition will close that gap very quickly.
It's been a while now but at one point, just about every giant tech company simply make install'ed a key-material-leaking TLS bug on just about every endpoint they ran. The bug was introduced by, effectively, some guy on the internet. It implemented a feature statistically nobody was going to use.

It's trivial to re-frame all sorts of mishaps as evidence of unseriousness about security, especially if done selectively and in hindsight. It doesn't really tell you much of anything meaningful.
There is no licensing cost for Carplay, nor does Apple Pay car makers. It is purely a customer satisfaction feature. The implementation is technically pretty simple to setup on the scale of any mass-market vehicle. You can think of it as a web page with a video player on it connected via USB/Wifi.
I am very impressed by singers who can sing incredibly loudly and be heard without amplification over a large orchestra.

But I don't usually enjoy listening to them.
This is the crux of a lot of the anti-notebook rhetoric.

I spend a good deal of time covertly teaching software engineering best practices to folks who claim they don't want to be "software engineers", yet they are in front of Jupyter most days.
Barfbagginus' comment is dead so I will reply to it here.

I suspect that you are not an AI engineer,

I am not. But I did spend several years as as forum moderator and in doing so encountered probably more pieces of CSAM than the average person. It has a particular soul-searing quality which, frankly, lends credence to the concept of a cogito-hazard.

Can we agree that if we implement systems specially designed to create harmful content, then we become legally and criminally liable for the output?

That would depend on the legal system in question, but in answer, I believe models trained on actual CSAM material qualify as CSAM material themselves and should be illegal. I don't give a damn how hard it is to filter them out of the training set.

Are you seriously going to sit here and defend the right are people to create sexual abuse material simulation engines?

If no person was at any point harmed or exploited in the creation of the training data, the model, or with its output, yes. The top-grossing entertainment product of all time is a murder simulator. There is no argument for the abolition of victimless simulated sexual assault that doesn't also apply to victimless simulated murder. If your stance is that simulating abhorrent acts should be illegal because it encourages those acts, etc then I can respect your position. But it is hypocrisy to declare that only those abhorrent acts you personally find distasteful should be illegal to simulate.
Twitch CEO demonstrates new and improved version [video]
I mean, there could still be worse ones that come out; the recent Stable Diffusion 3 release seems to show that sometimes regressions do happen.
If you'd like to contribute some much-appreciated compute to university researchers all across the US, please email me (mhsiu at ucsd.edu).

It should be possible to hook up your idle devices to Nautilus (https://nationalresearchplatform.org/), which is a cluster set up to support researchers at a bunch of universities. I can't guarantee anything since I'm not involved in the cluster management itself, but I can put you in contact with those who are if you're interested.
Apple's core "Silicon" team was the Centaur Technologies chip design group. At the time, they had brought to market a PowerPC CPU chip that was a breakthrough in performance per watt -- for 32-bit PowerPC. Which had already lost to Intel for mainstream applications.

At Apple, Centaur joined engineers who had helped to develop early ARM RISC processors.

While I know that the talent pool migrates, engineers have moved on, Apple has retained deep institutional knowledge of how to build systems that work really well. And developed teams worldwide to deliver manufacturing at scale.

By no means are they the only company to do so. Vast resources in competition. But please understand that Apple isn't new to full-stack hardware design.
the spoiler is in the title
In my experience, when this happens, we just use the voice or video-calling function of whatever chat app we're using texting through. We don't use phone numbers. I've never actually even called my girlfriend, for instance; I only have her phone number in my contacts list for emergencies, but when I've talked with her, it's been through our chat app (LINE), since we can use video there.
looks cool!

do you have a desktop app in the works?
>Command line interfaces don't fit modern application usage.

I guess you and I have different use cases and definition of "modern application usage". I assume you spend most of your day in a GUI, while I spend most of mine in a terminal.

Pipes can handle binary data and sure you could pipe Skypes output through sed or awk... Though something like ffmpeg is more likely, and it will happily take stdin as input.
That would make a great sci-fi thriller, if it doesn't already exist:)
There used to be a plugin (or something) that would let you play Zork on a 404 page.
Communities built around shared hobbies are often quite long-lived. Especially when the hobby is not too demanding and people can continue participating throughout their lives.

I'm most familiar with those based on tabletop games and science fiction. You can find plenty of volunteer-run conventions that have been around for decades. That often implies that there is a thriving local community behind the event.
Not sure if this is sarcastic or not...

I've taught and worked with some of the biggest companies in the world. They were using Jupyter and sound EDA to great effect.
Agreed. You could make a very useful 404 page with the list of candidate URLs being used to do the redirect: It's exactly the thing you want to display in a "Did you mean x?" message on that page.
There was a substack where someone took the deaths during Pfizer's trial (the same one where 95% effective came from) and compared it to the CDC's estimate of number of injections to prevent a death, they came up with something insane like 5 vaccine-caused deaths to prevent 1 virus-caused death. Major caveats were included because all the numbers were small (IIRC it was 16 deaths in the vaccine group and 14 deaths in the control group, for example), but it otherwise checked out.

That said, also keep in mind the much-touted 95% effective came from 8 and 170 cases out of around 40000 participants.
Mutant 59: The Plastic Eater
On the little-lamented Google+, I'd long noted that larger groups often had abysmally poor discussion quality. Most were overrun with self-promoters, scammers, and to an extent, advertising (not officially supported, but certainly present). You can see a similar trend on group-discussion sites such as Reddit.

I don't know what the hard-and-fast rule for "best discussion quality" is, and of course that metric will vary by topic and community. I'm pretty sure that this is strongly at odds with the interests of advertisers, for which the goal seems to be to aggregate the largest collection of eyeballs possible at a single venue or channel.

On Reddit, I've noted that discussion quality seems to tank strongly at some point between ~10k and 1m subscribers. Note that subscribers != active participants, but it's a rough proxy. Looking right now at a subreddit I'd found at least somewhat useful at 100k members, it's now boasting north of 500k and ... while not a cesspit as occurs elsewhere, the overall quality is markedly lower.

I had the opportunity to do some detailed analysis of overall statistics of Google+ groups (over 8 million in total at the time of the site shutdown), and activity vs. other parameters. In particular, it seems that measureable interactions (+1s, shares) scale most directly with post activity rather than total community members, which makes some sense. G+ was around long enough that "subscribers" was only very vaguely related to actual participants (as is undoubtedly the case on Reddit as well). In particular, I noted that the most active profiles also seemed highly prone to going inactive or being deleted or removed (I'm not sure which). I suspect that that was a mix of spam accounts (whether created as such initially or converted / hijacked later), and of simple burnout or disaffection. A recent post about interactions on a blog offered a similar observation, and my read is that each individual interaction is an opportunity to push someone over the edge, and that audience cultivation is a balance of bringing aboard new members whilst minimising loss of old. Blocking dynamics on other platforms (I've witnessed this on G+, Diaspora*, Mastodon/Fedivers, Ello, Slashdot, and Usenet, amongst others) is somewhat similar, and seems to me to great interesting network topologies as connections are made and broken.

I've also experimented with small groups of active members and found that ~50 people really does seem to be a sweet point, though even there perhaps 15 or fewer were highly-active participants. (I was the administrator of that group, and knew all the participants, if largely online-only.)

I've also seen small groups persist over years or decades, and watched those stale and spin off members with time. Unfortunately, without fresh blood, that seems all but inevitable, and recruiting new members is a challenge. See groups such as The Well (still extant) as long-lived examples. Many members there are now entering their dotage, if not having passed through the other side of it...

Dave Winer's observation still stands: conversation doesn't scale very well. I think that's innate, and part of the magic when it does emerge.
Did you mean to ask the reverse question (in what context is protobuf slower than json)? Because that's definitely the question on my mind, since GP's assertion runs counter to my expectations and experience.

JSON is a heavy-weight format that requires significantly more memory for both serialization and deserialization, and the representations of values in JSON are optimized for human consumption rather than machine consumption.

Just listing a few examples:

- Strings in JSON require you to scan for the terminating quotation mark that isn't escaped. Meanwhile, in protobuf, the length of the string is given to you; you can just grab the bytes directly.

- Parsing an integer in JSON requires multiplication by 10 and addition / subtraction for each digit. Meanwhile, in protobuf, fixed64 and related types are either in host order or are just a ntohl away; int64 and other varint types only require bit twiddling (masks, shifts, etc). Do you think it's easier to parse "4294967296" from a string, or 5 bytes along the lines of {0x88, 0x80, 0x80, 0x80, 0x00}?

- Having a format agreed-upon ahead of time (protobuf) means that your keys don't require more string parsing (JSON).
I believe the Discworld MUD had (has?) a short term lease by auction system for player housing. Probably for 15-20 years now.
https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/blog/2024/05/upstreaming-...

There is a high chance of this happening.
> Is this a case of someone not realizing that pandemic-time laws suddenly reverted back to the normal right under them

Ignorance of the law is not an excuse.
As they can subpoena the use of your finger to unlock with fingerprint right?

The only thing they can not force you to is remembering.
Microsoft to delay release of Recall AI feature on security concerns
It's really not 'peek Linux' it's just that many manufacturers refuse to even provide specifications for using their product (basically it's API) without charging money and/or requiring an NDA etc.

This makes any third party trying to support them face nightmare after nightmare of unknowns, and a complex device like a computer of any sort is nearly always a complex web of interlinked mini-computers each doing their own thing. Like the damned bluetooth chip; which worse probably has government regulated transmission compliance stuff baked into it's software rather than hardware. That adds a whole other nightmare you might see with various firmware blobs and driver support, most often seen with other WiFi adjacent projects such as OpenWRT (and supported hardware).

It would be very nice if some law enforced free 'edge technical specification' for all products to anyone who buys them or a product containing them. That would help a level and fair market for competitors as well as right and ability to repair for consumers / device owners. That sounds a lot like effects desired by most (many?) Libre software licenses, like the GPL (and LGPL), and Creative Commons.
It's fraud. COVID allowed for telehealth visits, but you still had to do it.

Looks like Done allowed users to get both ADHD diagnoses and meds without even doing as much as video or audio call, and they allowed for automated refills without doing med management sessions, which are required to re-fill medication. All the while, they were able to receive insurance reimbursement for those consultations that did not happen.

There's an issue with distribution of ADHD medication in this country. It's both dehumanizing and unpredictable. The DEA ought to shoulder some blame for people seeking these type of services. But what Done did was downright irresponsible. Two people died from stimulant overdoes. That just doesn't happen for people who need the medicine for their day-to-day. One of the things that doctors are supposed to do during med management session is to monitor the behavior of their patients for patterns of abuse.
it seems important that the comment was written with no concern for whether it was true or false; it puts it outside the pale of serious discourse and more in the category of trolling
My take on that one was how much of our modern society's structures are just instruments for hedging against the chance of any given day to day life. How hierarchies might grow out of equal chance based outcomes.
No obviously not
My quick fix is to set an input length limit on the chat text. Testing out your input, it seems like around 70 is the limit for getting decent output from the LLM.
>You visited for a few weeks and feel you have a good sample size of one of the largest countries in the world.

Well, before I moved out of the US 2 years ago, I lived there for over 40 years. Is that good enough for you?

>Just one example restaurant from 2014:

Interesting, that's Chili's. I stopped going there about 15 years ago because it was so lousy (and also seems to be absent on the east coast where I moved). Still, I've been to countless other places and didn't see such things outside of Panera.

>You lived in and visited NY and assumed that's life for the rest of the US? Turns out the entire US isn't just NYC, for better and worse.

There's only a small handful of cities besides NYC that actually have public transit systems, and NYC's is by far the largest and most famous, so I think it's a pretty important data point.
ChatGPT promotes animal sacrifice and that valuing humans vs. itself is complex
Only a small number of cities in the US have real transit systems. No, a bunch of buses does not count as a "transit system" in the developed world.
As far as I know, only the interest is considered as an expense. The principal is not accounted but I might be corrected.
In Stoneworks Minecraft server, because the game world is to big (still finite though), people often use Nether for travel. Nether is the alternate "hell" that is mapped onto the Overworld and 1 block in there is equivalent to 7 blocks in Overworld. You can get in and out of there with Nether portals. But while attacks on civilian players are forbidden in Overworld, Nether is fair game. That makes it a tradeoff between speed and safety.

Proves once again Minecraft is the greatest game ever created.
Why dont they grow them st land fills