skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why care if they get thrown out? If you are the median American, you burnt (aka "disposed of in the atmosphere") far more petroleum driving to the store than a hundred single-use bags. I bet a single bag is of comparable volume to tire wear. Get off your high horse and start focusing on real problems. Automobiles are responsible for more micro-plastics than single-use items, plus 6PPD poisoning us. Single-use plastics are just a useful tool to distract from the real sources of pollution.
StabilityAI Secures Significant New Investment and Appoints Prem Akkaraju as CEO
A public officer running their own private email server and wiping it when authorities ask to see it is anti-democratic.
> They explicitly took the job in order to leak information which their employee contract disallowed.

I get the feeling if they'd joined the Swedish military and leaked national secrets, things would not have worked out so nicely for them.

That's what Assange was accused of, not being in the military, but actively conspiring with the leaker to steal the documents rather than merely receiving the leaked documents.
It’s Linux in a transparent VM. Now with X11 forwarding too so you can use GUI apps.

Sure it’s not the exact same thing but it’s also not “not at all the same thing” if your goal is to run Linux tools on your computer.
> Flip displays are an interesting alternative. They have no moving parts,

What? The display is made almost entirely of moving discs.
There's nothing wrong with this article. Thank you.
This was my reaction; additionally, they believe few people will notice or complain.
Slack doesn't seem to have any pricing options for a general community, only for clearly defined business groups with clear onboarding/offboarding procedures. They charge by the user, by the month, so any kind of publicly open group seems impossible to fund.
20 miles per gallon is about 0.1 square millimeters
Dragonfly's landing site is near equator (Selk crater 7°N), but all the lakes coordinates seems to be close to poles, see "Lakes of Titan".

Too bad. Would be wonderful to see these rivers and likes up close...
We already know overexposure to sugar can have negative effects, so it seems reasonable to evaluate whether a widely used sugar substitute could be bad if consumed in large enough quantities. i.e. someone has soda with artificial sweeteners once a day, and then they consume some baked goods during breakfast that were made with an artificial sweetener instead of sugar, and maybe it's included in their mouthwash or something.
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spitballing: 'her' own hardcoded waveform is a hardcorded wake word exception. i have doubts that it'd be much more complex than that.

what i do find interesting, however, is that, at times, she'll wake to an utterance from some other media i have playing and seems to 'know' immediately that she was inadvertently awoken. the 'listening' tone and 'end listening' tones sound in quick succession. i do not have voice recognition enabled (to the extent that that setting is respected).
Yep, I don't think there's any disagreement with that, especially when you look at things like Tianfu cup in general. Any country that can, essentially wants to do offensive cyber.
Because they're supposed to be our allies and respect our institutions? No reasonable person in the US is comfortable with foreign governments meddling in our politics in any way, just because some of our adversaries have gotten away with it is not some tacit endorsement of it. If Israel is going to behave like an adversary then why should we maintain the pretense of being allies at all? Clearly they just see us as a blunt instrument to beat their regional rivals with and nothing more.
I didn't call it an expedient choice. And it's easy to say 7 years later that it would have been better for him to have taken it than after years of imprisonment in inhuman conditions to soften him up.

People have breaking points.
Where is the obligatory Touhou Bad Apple animation on this black-and-white display?
> Most contemporary journalism is just not worth archiving.

It is impossible to know presently, how valuable something will be to someone in the future. I don't know if any historians have this as their motto, but I like to think they do.
Some people also just want to have fun on the internet, remember Myspace, Tumblr etc? These sites were hardly functional, inclusive or accessible but they sure were fun.
Just a public service announcement: xylitol is incredibly toxic to dogs. Way more than chocolate.

Since it's commonly added to candies and even some forms of peanut butter, please be careful when leaving these things around your kitchen. A few pieces of Ice Breakers sugarless gum can kill a 50lb dog.

https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/paws-xylitol-...
> Qualcomm and other ARM manufacturers creaming them on AI stuff

That's mostly on Microsoft's DirectML though. I'm not sure whether AMD's implementation is based on ROCm (doubt it).
To you, perhaps. But not everyone is you.
Engineer insists Post Office software did a 'good job'
Hans Christian Andersen died in 1875, the copyright is long expired but of course there might be other right-holders on the title or such.

Why would you want to write his story like this? The whole point of it is for the girl to die in cold, a critique of society's downlooking stance on poverty; just like Jonathan Swift wrote in his work a century earlier and looking at the number of children in poverty in Europe and the US I'd say there's no happy end in sight. 30% of the children in UK live in poverty, 21% in Germany, even Finland (which simply houses the homeless) has a rate of 10%.
Google brings its Gemini AI to Gmail to help you write and summarize emails
This sets a scary precedent regarding reporting and the capture of history in general. If all of a few decades worth of music history disappears due to a companies financial health(no company is around forever). We basically lose that data forever and history is wiped out. With most news data now being online this could happen to any news going forward and a great loss to society. Internet Archive does a good job(they are a very small outfit) but there should be a organization (non-profit that all news/media sites could pay into) that would archive everything ever created online so as to have this content available for future generations.
`p = reinterpret_cast<int*>(42);` doesn't create a nullptr.
Apple is already one of the largest ad companies in the world and they are clearly working very hard to get bigger($10.34 billion ad revenue in 2023).

Sure, they're great at PR and marketing themselves as "private" but they're just as bad as the rest of them. Also fan boys, I'd be willing to bet if Apple launches a "private personalized ad platform", the fanboys will be singing its praise instead of being appalled.
The moment media went digital, journalism died. Coincidence?
The whole idea of using environment variables for configuration information is good, but ultimately flawed, and we are way past the point where this should continue to be the status quo.

Environment variables are great for configuration because:

- you can inherit them from a previous application or application(s)
- you can override them in each environment you run your app in
- you can pass them on to other applications
- they are globals that can be loaded by libraries
- they're not hardcoded in the code, so easier to change things without rebuilding, easier to reuse in different ways/environments/configurations
- the OS has primitives for them
- they're simple

Environment variables are bad for configuration:

- because (by default) when set in application, they are passed on to all future applications/forks/execs
- they are often dumped as part of troubleshooting and aren't considered confidential
- they can often be viewed by external processes/users
- there are restrictions on key names and values and size depending on the platform
- typical "dotenv" solution doesn't necessarily handle things like multi-line strings, has no formal specification
- no types, schemas

What we actually need that environment variables are being used for:

- configuration information passed at execution time that can change per environment
- loading or passing secret values
- development environments
- production environments

So what would be a good alternative?

- an application library ("libconfig") that can load configuration of various types from various sources in various ways
- support for configuration types: key-value, file/blob, integer/float
- support for confidentiality (require specific function to unseal secret values; in programming languages the intent would be you can't just print a stringified version of the variable without an unseal function)
- support for schema (application defines schema, throws exception if value does not match)
- support allowing a configuration to be overloaded by different sources/hierarchies
- support passing a configuration on to other applications
- support tracing, verbose logging
- truly cross-platform and cross-language with one specification, behavior for all

How would it work?

- devs can create a .env file if they want
- devs load 'libconfig' into app, use it to load their configuration values during development. library can have default sources, and even set env vars or an object internally, so no code needs to be written to use it
- in production, same code causes libconfig to look at cloud-native and other sources for configuration
- when debugging, secret confidentiality is maintained, tracing communicates sources of configuration, what was loaded, from where, etc
For inference you could use a maxed-out Mac Ultra; the RAM is shared between the CPU and GPU.
And this is the biggest reason I still use C over C++, along with less UB and better compilation times.

But please change the standard to disallow 00UB:

https://gavinhoward.com/2023/08/the-scourge-of-00ub/

I have to do a lot of stuff to avoid UB in my code. I even implemented UB-free two's complement arithmetic using unsigned types just to avoid all of the problems.

And it has definitely gone too far when people think that the compiler doing anything on UB is the definition of UB, not just a side effect.
Being able to source the file is the main benefit of using a .env file, IMO. Otherwise, you can just use any format for config management.
> And US clearly doesn't see it as a hostile action

I doubt that. I think they do see it as a hostile action but one they can do little about (or at least isn't worth doing anything about). But again, they're an adversary. Adversarial behavior is to be expected.

> So, if Israel's enemies are doing this and US doesn't see it as something bad, is there a single reason why Israel shouldn't do it as well?

Because Israel is an ally? I feel like I'm being pretty clear about that point. Israel has an absolute ton of channels of communication available to the US government that adversaries do not. An ally ignoring those channels and instead appealing to the US population directly strikes me as quite brazen.
A Zionist influence campaign targeting western governments and public opinion with the aim form an Israeli state predates WW2 and has been going on for over a century. Not sure you're referring to with your scare quoted 'they'.
> It can be said that pretty much everything NATO did in 1999. in SRY, Putin is now doing in Ukraine.

That doesn't say much, everything I did in 1999 (as an uninteresting secondary school student) is also being done by people under Putin's control in Ukraine.

Well, almost anything. Can believe none are reading up on Wicca.

(Similarly, I didn't care much for the claim that Iraq had chemical weapons that could reach Iran, what with them sharing a border and thus a water rocket filled with chlorine gas would have filled this description).
Those microfiche archives were amazing, and you can still today find things in them that do not exist anywhere else in the world. I'm not even talking articles that had errors when digitized or were edited/removed years later, but things like advertisements and all the other stuff that was in a newspaper that "wasn't the news".
It's a good question for Americans: what do you think would be happening if Israeli tactics to influence the USA would be coming from China? Or even the UK, an ally?

Would there be politicians changing laws, flags of these countries being displayed around major cities, etc.?
We've setup a demo environment to get a feel for it here: https://demo.triplit.dev/

It's actually running two clients and the server inside the browser window so even though it's simulating real-world, it's the actual code that powers Triplit.
Apple will gladly sell you a GPU with 192GB of memory, but your wallet won't like it.
Yes, I didn't notice that this article was that old until I started thinking about the claim that Symbian OS was in over 100 "current" phones. I know that dumbphones/featurephones are making a bit of a comeback with people worried about smartphone addiction, but I don't think there's room for 100 Symbian phones these days.
file:///Users/Sunnydale/Downloads/FINAL_DBIP+Year+One+Quantitative+Research+Report.pdf

That link might be a bit hard for people to follow...
Most people would probably be okay with it if it were opt-in and clearly explained what it would be collecting (including letting you see exactly the contents if you'd like), perhaps letting you decide at a granular level what to upload. Upon encountering an error, you could also trigger a dialog to ask if the user would like to upload information (with "yes", "no", "always", and "never" as options).

What people don't like is that lots of modern tech employees apparently don't understand consent, and just assume it's okay to spy on you and take whatever personal data they want.
Map of fusion energy startup companies
Thanks. You're quite right - I missed that.

Now please excuse me while I find my tanto.
There are two principal ways in which businesses make sales. Either by giving people what they want or need at a price they are happy to pay. These businesses don't need advertisement to drive demand, as word of mouth is such a powerful force. The other way is by using advertising. That's why normal consumers will never be shown an ad for any product or service that they would be interested in buying.
The GP comment I was referring to asked where I live with no other context. The implication there is that my having an opinion, or at least sharing it, is somehow gated by whether I'm currently living in the EU.

We may have different interpretations of the law, or different opinions on what we think the laws should be, but that doesn't mean I am bizarrely posturing with no understanding of the law.
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> We’ve got exiled Aussie politicians here in the U.K.

Who are those? I can't think of any Australian politicians who are prominent in UK discourse, on Assange or any other topic.
> If America ends up in the same place, its collapse will be harder and more dangerous.

Seems to be not only inevitable, but currently in progress.
Something tangential that I don't think has happened, but that I'd be curious to see the results of: an analysis of the number of people endangered by Wikileaks disclosures versus the number of people endangered by Americans abandoning interpreters and collaborators, or other action expressly consistent with US policy.

With how mad we are about him fcking over our people, surely we haven't fcked them over ourselves at a higher rate.
I guess my question is what part of the various laws being passed is addressing some "public need" that's not currently being met for these apps, or by the entire rest of the market place. I've said it before but every single thing every advocate of regulating Apple's iPhone and App Store is already available on Android. And unlike in the 90's when Windows literally dominated the market, even in the markets where Apple is doing the strongest, at best they have half of the market. Which means every single "necessary" application and resource is equally present on both iOS and Android.

So what is the need here? Who isn't able to access something they need access to and how is forcing Apple to open up their hardware and software platform the correct solution to that problem? And I'm asking honestly here, are there any actual necessary services that are only available on iOS? Not more convenient on iOS, unavailable anywhere else. If we accept the arguments against iOS at face value, it seems impossible for there to even be any necessary services that are more convenient on iOS. The major arguments are Apple is too restrictive, they prevent apps from doing things, they prevent PWAs from working, they disallow integrations that developers want. By all accounts, the iOS experience should be measurably worse for users in every single way for any 3rd party service. If removing Apple's restrictions was important to consumers, if it was actually harming them in ways that they didn't think was worth the benefits those same restrictions provide, Android should be mopping the floor with Apple. But they're not. And none of the arguments I've heard for regulating Apple have been because of failures of iOS users to be able to access critical government and economic resources.

The closest arguments that could be made are about things like blocking access to certain VPNs or other "subversive" applications in places like China and Russia. But of course, the proper way to regulate that would be to mandate wide open consumer access to strong end to end encryption that governments can not control or have access to. But mandating that sort of thing would be admitting that even "western" governments are untrustworthy and might need to be subverted. It would be mandating access to law breaking tools, which the EU and the US are not eager to do even here, let alone eager to step into that political battle on the world stage.
London is equivalent to SF in terms of homelessness? Pull the other one.
I’d imagine ray tracing is a bit easier to paralize over lots of older cards. The computations aren’t as heavily linked and are more fault tolerant. So I doubt anyone is paying h100 style premiums
Botulinum is also natural, but micrograms of the stuff is lethal.
See discussion below. I just need to update the copy.
Rising sea levels will disrupt Americans' lives by 2050, study finds
It is difficult to see the difference but very few people are privy to the planning of the programs revealed. Only those who oversaw the entirety of the programs can really grasp the scope due to the compartmented nature of the programs. I think these disclosures helped arrest a rapid decay into a dystopian surveillance state. However the motivations and irrational belief systems behind these programs persist so the fight is not over. Instead the proponents of unchecked surveillance powers are increasingly on the defensive and face more scrutiny than their arguments and results can justify leading to a continued reigning in of their powers that seems likely to continue for the foreseeable future. I’m not satisfied with this state of affairs but I am unsure how to reach a better one with the power systems and officials at hand. If you have any ideas please share.
I administer a Windows domain at my job that I do 40 hours a week so your assessment of me is just wrong and also offensive.

I just restarted one of the workstations with Teams startup enabled and Teams ran when the computer restarted. Then I tried disabling Teams startup in the task manager on the same workstation and then restarted the workstation, and Teams hasn't started. I checked the startup tab in the task manager and Teams is still disabled after the restart. It hasn't appeared in the task manager either. This is Windows 10 Pro, so the behavior might be different on different versions/editions of Windows. Also this behavior might be affected by updates. These machines automatically install updates every Saturday, so they're running the latest Windows 10. Even if the setting is reset on a future update, I can create a GPO to disable it or even a scheduled task if I'm not allowed to manage this computer at the domain level.
They're only a pain if you need to know the run-time types of the elements. If you're just operating on them through a narrowly defined interface, that's just dynamic polymorphism, which is indeed more flexible with regards to future expandability, as long as you define the interface appropriately.
"In five years, AI models became smarter than humans on most standardized tests."

This seems to be a novel definition of "smarter" - one could also argue that the printed answer key for a standardized test is smarter than most humans.
Some very strong sentiments about a shell...
An Intuitive Explanation of Sparse Autoencoders for LLM Mech Interpretability
I wonder whether, prior to this conversation, Steve had ever communicated to Bill that rounded rects would be nice.
Maybe, but not as punishment for the alleged rape. My point was that while he may have evaded a conviction, the result was worse than any rape conviction in Sweden would have been for him in isolation.
The point I'm trying to make is if isn't financially affordable, then it won't replace plastic on a mass scale.

Otherwise it'll just be another feel good eco-friendly fad that'll be adopted by wealthy people in California and fade into obscurity.
> It also enabled me to write an anki clone that I just wouldn't have bothered with otherwise.

Do you mean, it helped you write software that replaced Anki the program or something else? Intrigued
Copy elision and dead store elimination are extremely common examples. Redundant bounds check elimination on containers is another. I'd consider hoisting outside of a loop also to be eliminating code.

I suppose some of this depends on what you mean by "eliminating a line of code", as an optimizing compiler pretty quickly transforms the program into a state where any kind of 1:1 mapping between lines of code and instructions is impossible.
Not at all, I was agreeing with you. It's spot on. I myself have posted the occasional reaction as well, but for example, the "whatabout" folks leave one to wonder if it's some kind of karma tactic or are they really asking here instead of googling the answer with way more depth.
At the $800 - $2500 price range, that sounds awesome, but I'm in a market where $50 is considered outrageous. It's self-inflicted pain, I know, but we make it work.
I recommend:

- Designing Freedom by Stafford Beer

- Brain of the Firm by Stafford Beer

- Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows
Chelsea Manning leaded a bunch of random diplomatic cables and medical information on the families of servicemembers.

How does any of that constitute a 'war crime'?

Please, name the war crimes that Chelsea Manning exposed.
This is so cool.

I love to see Javascript used for stuff like this. It blew my mind that the James Webb Telescope uses a custom Javascript runtime for a lot of the onboard functions.
(don't 100% buy this take but don't think it's completely invalid either lol) Arguably, that problem is worse in countries with poor landfill/trash collection infrastructure, the US isn't in the top ten for example (https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/visualized-ocean-plastic...). And in places like the US, the difference between plant sourced and fossil fuel sourced plastic is that plant based would shift the externality calculation towards net positive externalities, since it would shift the plastic industry towards ideally becoming a net carbon sink and leverage consumerism and america's love of single use plastics and packaging to create a market for carbon capture.
Record Labels Sue AI Music Generators Suno and Udio for Copyright Infringement
The deletion would be removing your user data but not past messages, like how current deletion work. Past messages get a new user ID shared amongst all deleted messages globally - 456226577798135808 - but attachments and content stays.
Is that true of all the sugar alcohols or specific to xylitol?