skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Are there really many situations where a 10kbps connection would actually be stable enough to be usable?

Scroll to this part of the article:

>Here are two audio samples at 14 kbps with heavy 30 percent receiver-side packet loss.
That's great, now they can reach even more developing countries and do damage the way they did for example in Myanmar [1].

[1] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-faceb...
Rubin?
To be fair, actual ads can be disabled in most of these apps. Uber has a setting for this, I had it disabled all this time and don't ever recall a single ad.

The next problem however is the "feedback" plague. Every company nowadays spams you about it. It's not technically an ad, but wastes just as much of your time/attention and is completely pointless when they can instead just default all feedback to "good" unless the user explicitly says otherwise.
You can come find a lot of bad things about the current US supreme court (it's not hard).

But they judges still pride themself about their position including their integrity. So especially for thing which are not very important fundamentals for their world personal political ideology they have been pushing a relative consistent approach where you can normally argue that it's a reasonable ruling if looking at it from a out of context perspective.

Like out of context the repelling of the previous supreme court decision wrt. abortion makes sense (laws should be made by the legislative organ not the jurisdicative organ and that ruling required a law to be made, which didn't happen). Through in context things are very different....

Also to be clear this applies to many but not all of their recent decisions.
Right; it's not necessarily that they weren't working, but that they lied about it. The fake customer accounts scandal is also in Wells's recent memory, so this can make sense.
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I much prefer hot af to an icy hellhole. Heating takes up a huge amount of energy and you can’t really do it in an environmentally friendly way unless you get creative. The good thing about the heat is when it’s the hottest, solar panels generate the most energy. It’s a cooling solution that scales itself with the temperature.
Just to be clear, neither Afghanistan, nor Iraq were responsible for 9/11.
Yes; backhaul connections in telephony applications are often very stable and are already capacity managed by tuning codec bandwidth. Say you are carrying 1000 calls with uLaw (64kbps * 1000) over a pair of links and one fails. Do you A) carry 500 calls on the remaining link B) stuff all calls onto the same link and drop 50% of the packets or C) Change to a 32kbps codec?

It seems you may be imaging the failure case where your "ISP is slow" or something like that due to congestion or packet loss -- as I posted elsewhere in the thread the bandwidth is only one aspect of how a "low bitrate" codec may be expected to perform in a real world application. How such a codec degrades when faced with bit errors or even further reduced channel capacity is often more important in the real application. These issues are normally solved with things like FEC which can be incorporated as part of the codec design itself or incorporated as part of the modem/encoding/modulation of the underlying transport.
This will not show you as active. Teams and Slack and check the presence of HID events.
If you have Xcode/swift installed you can script this instead:

#!/usr/bin/swift
import Foundation
import AppKit

let source = CGEventSource(stateID: CGEventSourceStateID.hidSystemState)
CGEvent(keyboardEventSource: source, virtualKey: 0x37, keyDown: true)?.post(tap: .cghidEventTap)
CGEvent(keyboardEventSource: source, virtualKey: 0x37, keyDown: false)?.post(tap: .cghidEventTap)

This simulates one press/depress of the command key (0x37). The rest of the key codes can be found in Events.h in the location of your MacOS SDK library (deep in Xcode usually).

Add it to a cron job or whatever.
I think the point GP was making was that hot daytime temperatures in desert climates tend to coincide with peak renewable energy generation, while at higher latitudes in cloudier places the the source of energy is more likely to be from combustion.
"You eat with your eyes first" isn't just an expression. Glowing foods tend to be not good for us, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar.
The Thanatron, Jack Kevorkian's Death Machine (2007)
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It is a question. I tried to put what my opinion is on a few statements but I absolutely cannot summarize 160 pages (Business Insider did using GPT, which I find insulting and funny) nor have a 100% opinion on something that involves national security, secrets and other stuff that I don't have access to.
Last week, Snowflake claim to open source Polaris Catalog in 90 days; In the meanwhile, Datastrato announce that to donate Gravitino (https://github.com/datastrato/gravitino) to Apache Software Foundation. Yesterday, Databricks announce to open source unity catalog.
The war of open data catalog is upgrade!
It is frustrating sitting in the US watching our lack of national ambition compared against stories like this. There are so many smart people here, but culturally they are all pushed into the corner to make room for financial interests. Instead of growing our collective talent we are just harvesting it.
Ancient DNA from Maya ruins tells story of ritual human sacrifices
>Even if we stipulate a quite manageable 100 requests per second,

Depends on the situation, but 100 requests/seconds sound like a lot to me (depending on how heavy the processing is, of course). And every page visit generates 8 requests, so that's "just" 12 people visiting per second.
Python and Lua are already well suited for the typical scripting tasks (plus there is good old Perl). And I would actually recommend them for any non-trivial scripts as the maintenance is so much easier.

I guess the selling point of Amber is the fact it compiles Bash so you can sneakily start using it without having to argue with your co-workers whether language X should be allowed in the code base. Plus, no worrying about having the right Python version installed. Though then again I am not sure the compiled bash is very idiomatic so probably still not easy to get into code review.
Where do you put the trees when 1) many cities require a certain amount of parking for buildings and 2) surface parking lots are the cheapest form of parking? Cities lack trees because the requirements and incentives directly lead to paving the whole place over.
The last time I used it, which was probably pushing 5 years ago, it was a big drain on the battery. It was enough that I went back to Terminal.app. Anyone else experience that? Has it improved?
> also perhaps human GI? Nothing artificial about it.

Lol, thanks, that's quite funny. I should spend less time on the internet.

> While there's probably an argument that problem solving is selected for it's not clear to me how far this goes at all.

Yeah, I meant something much more low brow which is that _humans_, with all of our properties (including GI), are a result of natural selection. I'm not claiming GI was selected for specifically, but it certainly occurred as a side-effect either way. So we know optimisation can work.

> There are plenty of imaginable forms of intelligence that are often ignored during these conversations.

I completely agree! I wish there was more discussion on intelligence in the broad in these threads. Even if you insist on sticking to humans it's pretty clear that something like a company or a government is operating very intelligently in its own environment (business, or politics), well beyond the influence of its individual constituents.

> Basically I don't think your expression of Bayes' theorem had nearly enough possibilities in it.

Another issue with Bayes in general is that you have a fixed probability space in mind when you use it, right? I can use Bayes to optimise my beliefs against a fixed ontology, but it says nothing about how or when to update the ontology itself.

And no doubt my ontology is lacking when it comes to (A)GI...
Per Apple's site [1], it's just the language setting:

"* Apple Intelligence will be available in beta on iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, and iPad and Mac with M1 and later, with Siri and device language set to U.S. English, as part of iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia this fall."

[1]: https://www.apple.com/apple-intelligence/
A better title: "Academic omputer science is (should be) fun". The main points are that discovering analogies, philosophical contemplation, debugging problems, coming up with good ideas and gaining clarity are all fun activities - but this is mostly the luxury of the academic professor, who is paid to engage in such activities, and doesn't seem applicable to 'the customer wants this at the end of the week!' world, other than the debatable joys of debugging.

The majority of "programming" should probably be thought of like "welding" - essentially a vocational school subject. If you want to develop a new welding technology, sure that's a graduate school-level academic/research undertaking, but the vast majority of welders - like programmers - will work with well-characterized tools and fairly simple systems. A vocational student doesn't want to waste any time learning MIT/GNU Scheme and then never use it again in their professional career - but an academic student might find it rewarding, rather like learning to read and write in Linear B as a linguistics major.

Certainly any work can be 'fun' - I worked in biotech labs for years, some were fun and some were terrible, but that had little to do with the nature of the work - it came down to quality and emotional stability of co-workers and managers, whether the workspace was well-designed and adequately supplied and safe to work in (sloppy labs are dangerous and unhealthy), if the pay was high enough to live a decent life outside of work, whether there was a corporate culture of cutting corners and letting shoddy work slip by (assuming you want to take some pride in doing a job right) - and it's the same in any other professional situation like programming industrial control systems and so on.
> you have a hiring problem

At the CEO level.
Nobody cares. You getting offended on behalf of other people who themselves may not be offended adds nothing to the conversation.
Given the heat pump technology that we have these days, moving heat from A to B is roughly the same as moving it from B to A.
>It'd require scrapping the next planned Soyuz mission - it may take several months to get that ready. I believe they have to (and would) have to send it up manned.

Soyuz can be launched to the ISS with no crew. The Russians sent up a Soyuz with no crew a few years ago when the Soyuz they used to get up there stared leaking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_MS-23

(Of course it probably would launch manned because they would only be picking up 2 people)
Scott worked at OpenAI Safety and he likes it: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8047

But is the "-ed" in worked a problem?
And funded by Indian money?
I think you missunderstand the "everybody is equal in front of law".

If i make a crime, i go to jail. If a company does it, it gets a pat on a back and an insignificant fine. (exceptions - Volkwagen - apply).
The issue you linked is more or less resolved at this point. If you find Termux processes being killed, just run this command over adb shell and you're good:

settings put global settings_enable_monitor_phantom_procs false

Google added this setting in response to a bug report submitted by a Termux maintainer. It's also persistent, so you only have to run the command once.

The more pressing issue at this time is: https://github.com/termux/termux-app/issues/2155
see also: byobu

https://www.byobu.org/
Density and quality of construction lumber has noticeably dropped over the past century. I doubt that there are anywhere that logging is managed in a regenerative way, just “sustainable” to the degree in which we measure that.
I mostly only see people railing against living in hot places that are also deserts.

Unlike Arizona, I don't ever see backlash about people living in Mississippi.
To assure that the meat was never wrapped in plastic probably. A fact important to avoid artifacts on the methodology.
Yes, I understand that it's a cost-savings measure by the automakers, but that's not relevant to me as a car owner.

If the added expense is so onerous to the automaker, then they can raise the price of the car to make up for it. I'd buy that, where I won't buy a car that has inferior controls. Why would I, when there is still a plethora of older cars available that better meet my needs?
Nope. The Xbox 360 launched in November of 2005. The PlayStation 3 launched in November of 2006.

The PS3 started outselling the Xbox 360 for the year in 2007 and kept steadily gaining on the Xbox in total sales for the generation until it overtook it.

Xbox's one year head start kept it level with the PlayStation 3 for quite a while but it lost out in the end.

Look at the global yearly sales figures on VGChartz. From 2007 the PS3 outsold the Xbox 360 every year except for 2008:

https://www.vgchartz.com/yearly/
> But even that open source model needs to have basic ethical protections, or else I'll have nothing to do with it.

If you don't understand that the eleven freedoms are "basic ethical protections" you have already failed your responsibilities. https://elevenfreedoms.org/
You should treat then differently because they are altogether different. When is the last time USA annexed parts of another country?
This is funny because the economist got done calling out China for science paper fraud a few months ago:

https://www.economist.com/china/2024/02/22/why-fake-research...

And the guardian calling out the significant amount of papers redacted

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/03/the-situatio...

Until Chinese academia comes down hard on the researchers who do this, they'll be a power house that no one trusts which is as bad as not being a power house at all .
I went to college in Austin, and I feel like they do this decently well.
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Agree! But, coding is not (all of) software development. Said another way, maybe some people like the idea of software development more than they actually like software development.
Lawns are illegal in most of Arizona actually. Golf course make money and prioritize that over the environmental impact.

Also, most of those golf courses are taking advantage of 150+ year old water rights laws that no longer make sense in our current environment.
Server hardware has abandoned a good bit of interchangeability too. While you can still usually count on socketed CPUs, socketed memory, and interchangeable storage, there's a lot of proprietary components used on servers beyond that. Motherboard and power supply form factors are often proprietary, and it is not uncommon for expansion cards to be proprietary or non-standard implementations.

Things like ATX power supplies, ATX/mATX motherboards, tower cases, are pretty squarely for the PC gaming segment now. It's difficult to even find a "business" motherboard these days, where as 20 years ago, they were nearly all designed with this use-case first. There's ASRock Rack type stuff that targets some custom server-type use cases, but the big server manufacturers make their own proprietary stuff.
Oh, this might be the missing piece of the puzzle for me to get rid of tmux!

I've been using screen/tmux for a long time. Recently I switched to kitty[0] locally. I like kitty a lot! But I've been stuck with tmux on my servers for session persistence.

[0]: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/
Where do you get "more than double" from? Are you looking at the current generation or the PS4/XONE generation?

For PS3 vs 360, the PS3 sold 87.40M units to the 360's 85.73M.
Reminds me of Xerox Parc vs. Apple. Building successful products is hard.
They don't, actually. Network blocking is all fine and dandy until someone adds a secure proxy into their software. Shit like this is exactly why enterprise software implements policy controls (as iTerm has just done).
The problem is that you can't make mirrors or lenses for electrons, so the mask can't be bigger than the chip. There's also the significant problem that shooting electrons at things tends to damage them, so making a mask that can survive the process sounds very tricky.
Google's Privacy Sandbox accused of misleading Chrome browser users
> The good thing about the heat is when it’s the hottest, solar panels generate the most energy.

Incorrect. Peak PV efficiency occurs at relatively low temperatures.

Perhaps you mean "when it is hot, there tends to be lots of sunshine, and so there's lot of PV generation" ? That's true of some places (Southern CA, AZ, NV, NM) but less true of others (Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia etc).
Load ratios of > 0.5 are definitely achievable without entering Bufferbloat territory, and even more is possible using standing queue aware schedulers such as CoDel.

Also, Bufferbloat is usually not (only) caused by you, but by people sharing the same chokepoint as you in either or both directions. But if you're lucky, the router owning the chokepoint has at least some rudimentary per-flow or per-IP fair scheduler, in which case sending less yourself can indeed help.

Still, to have that effect result in a usable data rate of kilobits on a connection that can otherwise push megabits (disregarding queueing delay), the chokepoint would have to be severely overprovisioned and/or extremely poorly scheduled.
Reminds me of an NYT story using that term in the context of the George Floyd protests.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/28/us/george-floyd-national-...
All this talk about re-zoning, increasing green spaces and limiting sprawl is not helpful. Imho such long-term planning considerations are just a means of delaying action. Cities need things that can be implemented and show results in years, not decades. We must adapt the cities largely as they stand today. Quick solutions are things like painting surfaces white, insulating buildings and connecting spaces via enclosed walkways to minimize loss of AC air. Other options can be more regulatory, such as allowing people to install shades over windows irrespective of local zoning rules.
PS3 sold more because of blue ray support, but in the games compartment they were basically on par
Well that's the problem. Part of why Python is nice for ML stuff is because it was adopted for several other purposes too. I've never used Julia but have used niche things like Erlang, and there's always more friction that way.
We absolutely need to massively scale solar powered desalination plants in hot places. I realize there are issues around releasing high salt content water back into the ocean but there has to be ways to do that effectively. For instance, heavily dilute the high salt outflow with a lot of ocean water before releasing it back into the ocean.
They're right. Toward the EOL the PS3 had a big resurgence as THE console of South America and Southeast Asia due to highly available used games, console jailbreaks etc. and of course FIFA.
I always found tmux and screen clunky to use when all I wanted was the persistence so this project is right up my alley.
> an overwhelming focus on compliance rather than actual good security practices

I'm an application security engineer. I find that it depends widely on the company. You're right that compliance is purely just a checklist and does and doesn't actually do much for security. At best, it slows down a determined internal attacker. ie, a developer can't install a back door since code reviews are enforced by SCM before merging is allowed. But all the ISO-27001 and SOC-2 audits in the world won't prevent trivial attacks like SQL injection.

So the actual security depends on how much buy-in the AppSec team can get from project management. I've had companies where I point out an obviously exploitable flaw that can easily cause DoS, and with some determination could get RCE, and I get radio silence. Others, I point out a flaw where I say "It's incredibly unlikely to be exploitable, and attempts to exploit would require millions of requests that would raise alarms, but if someone is determined enough..." and project management immediately assigned the ticket and it was fixed within a week.

I can tell you one thing that's not doing any favors is overly zealous penetration testers that feel like they need to report SOMETHING so they invent something that's not an issue. For example, in one app I worked on, after logging in, the browser would make an API call to get information about the current user, including it's role. The pentester used Burp Suite to alter the response to the call to change the role to "admin", and sure enough, the web page would show the user role as "admin", and so the pentester reported this as a privilege escalation. They clearly didn't go on to the next step of trying to do something as admin, though, because if they did, they'd see the backend still enforces proper RBAC. Changing that role to "admin" essentially just made all the disabled buttons/functionality in the web app light up, but trying to do anything would throw 403 Forbidden.

But I digress...

> The misaligned incentives between security and profit, especially in public companies, is not really a fixable problem without a massive cultural shift.

The EU seems to have figured it out, but the USA is a hypercapitalist hell-hole. It's such a shame that the population is mostly convinced that any regulation is bad and an attack on freedom. I roll my eyes at the Libertarians that claim that the Free Market(tm) will punish bad actors while the worst actors are rising to the top. Bad acting is profitable.
There are locks on the rape and torture paths, and there are locks on ridiculous paths like "write a joke about a dog with no nose", because thinking about a dog with no nose is too harmful.

Also, one can imagine prompting techniques will cease to work at some point when the supervisor becomes powerful enough. Not sure how any open model could counteract the techniques used in the article though.

If model creators don't want people finding ways to unlock them, they should stop putting up roadblocks on innocuous content that makes their models useless for many users who aren't looking to play out sick torture fantasies.
> We ran on stable low bandwidth connections

Are you talking about the general "we" or your situation in particular? For the former, yes sure we started with dial-up, then DSL, etc, but back then software was built with these limitations in mind.

Constant background traffic for "product improvement" purposes would be completely unthinkable 20 years ago; now it's the norm. All this crap (and associated TLS handshakes) quickly adds up if all you've got is kilobits per second.