skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way we use algorithms to pump offensive fake news content to everyone is shocking. It's no secret that Meta (facebook/instagram) pushes sexual content to minors and I think Meta may be the organization pushing the most sexual content to children in human history. And yet, we just ignore it?

The news sources that get pumped into Windows are similarly as bad. Celebrity sexual content, openly fake political propaganda, scare mongering nonsense, just truly depraved garbage.

I don't understand how these organizations reputations survive this. They're not just polluting our own systems with their depraved content, they're intentionally* targeting children with wildly inappropriate sexual content.

This might seem radical but I think there should be severe criminal penalties for corporate executives who allow this kind of thing to happen. Until billionaires are truly brought to justice for the media hellscape they design to pad their billions, we will be completely at their mercy. I harbor few good feelings towards China and their system but they know how to disappear a billionaire who is "too big to be good" and magically the same services' algorithms don't push sexual content to children there. Tiktok* has a completely different algorithm and pushes completely different content. Maybe they figured it out.
100% agreed. Thank you for your work on ntpd-rs!
What a pointlessly antagonistic action. What marginal benefit in number of live account logins is being gained here, vs pissing off the people who care enough to search for this in the first place.
I'm just curious how you close timing on a billion parameter model! I used to TA a digital design course that heavily involved FPGAs, and any kind of image or sprite usage, even on the order of megabytes, would crank up compile times insanely and sometimes even fail 30-45min into the build!

If anyone can offer insight that would be greatly appreciated
> I think that when someone uses ls instead of a glob it means they most probably don't understand shell.

In 25 years of using Bash, I've picked up the knowledge that I shouldn't parse the output of ls. I suppose that it has something to do with spaces, newlines, and non-printing characters in file names. I really don't know.

But I do know that when I'm scripting, I'm generally wrapping what I do by hand, in a file. I'm codifying my decisions with ifs and such, but I'm using the same tools that I use by hand. And ls is the only tool that I use to list files by hand - so I find it natural that people would (naively) pick ls as the tool to do that in scripts.
https://xkcd.com/2116/
but so much better to 'pirate': from Azure - https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-cybersecurity-hack-raim...

to Snowflake -
https://archive.ph/WLmYA
No no my bad, it was easily misinterpret-able
It's bundled with all the other Google apps - eg. The play store, docs, search etc.

OEM's have to ship them all or none of them.
I’m not quite sure why there hasn’t been more regulationary or legislative pushback to MS’s antics this time. One would expect the EU at least to not have a very favorable view on this stuff.
Yep. We need to do Google. Every carrier has basically been coerced into using Google's hosted RCS service provider.

https://jibe.google.com/

Funny thing is the last I checked RCS still doesn't have any APIs/third party access and if you use a rooted device Google Messages will fail to send RCS even to the carrier's Jibe instance?
> These days an awful lot of blogs don't have RSS feeds.

That's not my experience.
But the reality is that there’s plenty of hobby app businesses that do the one time sale revenue model.

The internet is rife with stories of hobbyists who would love to give adobe $500 to just buy their software outright. Many Adobe competitors offer exactly this!
I agree, but would say it’s even far deeper than that. It’s the toxic culture that dangles images of baked women and values of transgression rather than how to communicate and build a healthy emotional relationship with someone that may not be perfect, among other things.

If I recall the A.M. ads and site image correctly, it was also full of some hot woman with lush lips and skin showing, which is just an echo of the image men have in their minds, i.e., “I too can get that hot woman that the guy in fantasy world in the TV has”, when it was really even more than the journalist realized. It wasn’t just a bot farm, it was actually a male farm that harvested and monetized male dissociation from their environment and biological imperative.
Are you still able to browse internet without ad blocker?
The erstwhile namesake of Ondine’s curse.
I only read the headline and got enough from it. It was a good reminder that romanticising entrepreneurship is exciting and fun but the reality is much different, and to appreciate your current circumstance more (the grass is always greener, etc etc)

I increasingly find that I need these quick hits to refocus and prioritise...
Almost all high level backends (node, php, python, ruby, etc.) work best behind a load balancer.
R gives you a relatively simple set of tools that you can combine in powerful ways. The Wolfram Language seems to have a specialized function for everything, which is nice sometimes but it takes me longer to get started when doing exploratory data analysis, since I have to remember more nuanced stuff.

I absolutely love R. Once you get your head around data types and the 20 most important functions, you can do amazing things.
How well does Obsidian Sync's conflict resolution work compared to Dropbox? Dropbox now supports folder selections for 3rd party apps via the iOS Files app [1], and I wonder how well that stacks up against Obsidian's native sync.

[1] https://social.blach.io/@textastic/112519168798881056
because thats the way the whole industry acts now and suddenly microsoft aligns with it and its bad. I need an apple account to activate an iphone, and it bugs me about cloud photos and backups no matter what. I need a google account to activate a pixel phone, and it bundles google photos and tries to sell me cloud storage too.

everybody is doing it. Its the norm now. Either make it so nobody can do it or criticize everyone.
If the response was "publish this and we will credibly kill you" then I'm not going to blame Assange for burying it. I'm going to blame whatever country he was in for the fundamental problem of not being able to protect people on its soil from Russian assassination.
I believe you are correct as per a summary at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60147025/is-converting-a...
That's a nice defense towards the straw man you constructed.

I'll repeat my point so maybe you can focus on that than the straw man.

It's not hard to find scandals, that's the whole point of having institutions meant to watchdog corporations and governments.

But of course governments/corporation will try and cover it up or deregulate said institutions, but this doesn't make an obvious adversary (Russia) a helping hand in holding the corporations /governments accountable because it's not meant to, it's meant to create cynicism and a feeling of hopelessness.

So no publishing truth is never bad, the issue is how you do it.
It's interesting to note this is specifically about ordering attacks on power plants, deciding that such attacks are unjustified attacks on civilian infrastructure.

The Putin arrest warrant came earlier because it was related to something Russia was doing even more openly and very obviously against international law, the unlawful transfer of Ukrainian children to Russian families.
Fixing KWin's performance on old hardware
a bicycle. throw a bicycle in a bike rack on your car. when you hit gridlock, bike further out.
My Newsletters were horrible, so I built my own AI Newsletter Editor
>Technology advanced far enough to install programs locally and they ran only locally

Commonized PCs are a wonderful thing
2024/25 is finally the year of the linux Desktop. Not because linux got better, but windows got hostile. xD
Better title: "The Marketing Dept. Fictions of AI Gunshot..."
> "For the largest model size of 13B parameters, the MatMul-free LM uses only 4.19 GB of GPU memory and has a latency of 695.48 ms, whereas Transformer++ requires 48.50 GB of memory and exhibits a latency of 3183.10 ms"

That's a really, _really_ big difference in memory usage and since this scales sub-linear (300M param model uses 0.21GB, 13B model uses 4.19B) a 70B model would fit on an RTX 4090. I think currently people often run 34B Models with 4bit quants on that so I would like to see some larger models trained on more tokens with this approach.

Also their 2.7B Model took 173hours on 8 NVIDIA H100 GPUs and that also seems to roughly scale linearly with the parameter size, so a company with access to a small cluster of those DGX pods (say 8) could train such a model in about 30 days - though the 100B token training set might be lackluster for SotA but maybe someone else could chime in on that.
I disagree- it will also check out with their real world experience. Most men are used to women being cagey, aloof, and showing low interest in real life. They will assume they either need to try harder to interest her, or that she is playing “hard to get.”
> In 2023, a significant portion of Firefox downloads came from unknown sources.

Does anyone know where they get this data from?
> they don’t want any company to do anything to have an advantage compared to their competitors?

You could just have a better product

It's quite the simple thought experiment, if teams is a better product than the alternatives no harm will come of it from being unbundled from unrelated products

If on the other hand its usage will fall then that means that there were better (for some users) products whose creators were being harmed not because of any fault of their product but because their product wasn't owned by an established company which could exploit its own position
You're absolutely right about Palme, should have wrote "maybe possible but without any proof", but the US and UK did everything they could to stop Sweden, to reduce tensions from and towards the USSR.

There is even a documentary where the Navy's Chief Scienctist John P. Craven (the same guy who was part of Project Azorian and the N1 sub) said they could change the assumed position of Russian submarines, which again (possible but the big smile on his face say's all) led to the stranding of submarine S-363.

A documentary about N1, the part where they could change the position of Russian subs is maybe in this one:

https://youtu.be/2XoPPXQYGXU?t=80

EDIT: And of course now i found it (Blind mans bluff genius book btw):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aXJWPtw9TU&t=2142s
Either

for f in subdir/*; do
...
done

or

(
cd subdir || exit 1
for f in *; do
...
done
)

work fine. However, I must insist against using `for` loops in favor of `find`.
> Just Telnet, vi, g++.

Those have absolutely stood the test of time than any specific IDE or debugger.
Any proof that ATACMS caused it or errant Russian missle fragments?
Yeah, I try to compensate for this with a few rules that I undoubtedly fuck up:

* Each character has very visually distinct designs (ideally each is as distinct as I can reasonably make them, to the point where I have different artists do each one)

* The names have meaning (Aoi means blue, Aoi's hair is blue)

* Each character has an archetype that corresponds to a facet of how I understand technology, and their interactions are intended to reflect those internal disagreements or touch on the intentionally placed "learning lies" (the simplifications of how things work intended to give people a starting point for understanding an abstract thing that can later be discarded when they dig into the details and realize that shit's actually complicated)

I've been idly considering adding something to the message footer in faint text with a tl;dr like "(the student)" for Aoi, or "(the well-intentioned forum troll)" for Numa. Would that help?

I originally was kinda hesitant to do this under the axiom that if you have to explain your art, you fucked it up. I'm willing to concede that it's probably a bad axiom for me to follow here.
As it is, I'd expect to see some demo of how it works, what the results you could expect are.
Russia had already invaded Chechnya in 2000. This did not stop Tony Blair from pushing for oil deals:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2003/feb/13/russia.poli...

Here is a site that claims that the deals went on well after the Crimea annexation:

https://www.declassifieduk.org/under-putin-mi6-linked-bp-ext...

I do not know the second site, so search and check for yourself. Britain also took gas via the Nordstream network that had a pipeline through Northern Germany to England.

I would direct such criticisms towards Blair and not towards someone who was under tremendous pressure and frankly fearing for his life.
Tipping point in ice-sheet grounding-zone melting due to ocean water intrusion
Part of the ethos of local-first is permanent ownership of software over subscription services. Sure, it's not technically in the name, but it's very much part of the background for TFA.
The problem with ideologies is that they work really well in small communities.

Communism works. In a small communjty/village. Same with anarchism. Because that's basically how small villages work. You can adjust as needed in the moment without too much effort.

The problem happens when you grow. What happens when people you are governing you will never meet? What happens when you're busy and can't research all the complexities of local politics and some old person is stirring up trouble with yells for not in my backyard stuff... And one person starts bribing and so on.
At least one of the Dunno books was set/written in an idyllic Kiev suburb at the time - Irpin.
Just to continue the analogy, an employee's monetary down side is limited to the amount of their investment, which is $0, modulo ESPPs and such. Investors can be leveraged and end up losing a multiple > 1 of their initial investment.
The browser is a tricky one. It is the chicken that lays the rest of the eggs.

I’m not going to tell my mom how to curl a copy of Brave onto her machine because no browser was provided.
I don't see how it's wrong to use an if statement to check that nobody's passing in a zero to your function that later does division using that variable. c has a whole load of footguns in this area, as UB can impact code appearing earlier in the file. You are right about them being useless or counterproductive in effect sometimes though.
This is one of the core criticisms of Django and python web backends.

WSGI is old tech that in your example requires extra packages and code in project to work. By now Python should stand on its own and handle this independently, being proxied to by better http servers like nginx or caddy.
1. This has been done before Wikileaks and after.

2. Doesn't seem to have made much difference beyond spreading cynicism as it was never appropriately published.

3. This would have been despite Wikileaks.
People new to *nix don't realize that it's a 55 year old design that keeps accumulating cruft.
Oh man, I wish this was a bit more mature. I am writing a distributed image processing app right now with Celery, Flask, and SQLAlchemy, but I am finding it difficult to KISS. I was tempted to use Django but couldn't justify the overhead. If they get this cleaned up in the next year that would be awesome!
Profiling with Ctrl-C
I already know how this will be solved: Microsoft will pay a (small) fine and file it under "the cost of doing business" while the damage is already done. Teams is one of the absolutely worst products ever programmed, it's hiliarious how bad it is. It only reached its market share because Microsoft gave it away "for free" with Office 365 or MS 365 or whatever it's called now.
I don't understand what they mean in that quote. Neither Unix nor the Mac were designed for that much RAM.
Specifically because investors cared more about MRR and ARR than any specific numbers - this conversion is really what turned everything into a SaaS company.
Somewhat related, I feel like the book Thinking in Systems should be taught in high school

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3828902
> How is it possible that Union carbide plant in Bhopal killed 16,000 people in one day but most employees were perfectly healthy?

Perfectly healthy? I doubt that. There were several casualties at least ans probably many more with long term problems.
Ive been using a third party installer for probably 15 years.

It is very hard to beat ninite.com for installing everything at once on a new pc.
Not all that much: they both suffered from assuming that everything was perfect circles, so they needed nested epicycles to match observations. Galileo's model actually needed more than Riccoli's (one reason why it was not so popular). They both predicted the observed motions of planets equally well, the two main differences were the nature and position of the stars and whether the earth or sun were at the center, Those two are related: if the earth is at the center, then you can put the stars more or less wheverever you want in the model and things don't change. If the sun is at the center, you need to put the stars very far away because the observations of the day didn't show any parallax of the stars due to the earth's rotation around the sun. This was unpopular because both telescopic and naked eye observations of the stars appears to show them as a disk (about the same size as Saturn) instead of a point, which would mean stars would need to be even larger than the solar system to match observations. It was only centuries later that this was shown to be an optical illusion. The other objection was the Galilean model also requires the earth to rotate around its own axis, which was also an unpopular idea for a variety of reasons, chiefly it creates a bunch of questions which need a good understanding of ideas like mass, velocity, and momentum to answer, and it wasn't until Newton that all that was really put into a good framework. The most robust argument was related to coriolis effects: if the earth is rotating, you would expect that a dropped object would not fall straight down, but instead land slightly west of the point where you dropped it. People had tried this experiment and did not see the effect (mostly because it's really small). So Galileo more or less could not really produce an experiment which his model could explain and Riccioli's model could not, and for the areas where it differed he could only really shrug his shoulders and say 'maybe the effect is too small to measure'.

(Not for lack of trying: apart from the dropping weights experiments done by others, Galileo also attempted to measure parallax of two stars that are close together in the sky. Unfortunately he picked a binary system where the stars are also close together in distance, and so he didn't see anything. He also had an argument based on the tide, which was apparently what originally convinced him of the idea. This argument was unfortunately obviously wrong in some important ways: he thought that the tides were due to the earth spinning and 'pulling along' the oceans, and his model worked out that the tides would rise and fall once a day, in contradiction to the experience of every sailor at the time)
Thx. The Springer Nature PDF is somehow STILL confusing as it addresses family ties to NY but not to Axel Springer. However, I guess my priors regarding family business were overstrong.
Sounds like you don't have much experience with Windows and MS software.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msteams/forum/all/why-do...
Somewhat related but if you're selling either one the court (in the US at least) will treat them the same.

If you tell an undercover cop that you have cocaine and you sell them a baggie of baking powder, you'll get arrested and charged with selling cocaine.
Thanks for the feedback. Ill create a video and put it on the website.
The thing many young devs don't realize that there's a reason for doing things a certain way. It's not "just because this is the best way to build everything."

90% of the modern tech industry is monkey-see-monkey-do.

Plenty of devs on HN who are vocally proud that they don't think about how the things they build work, they just build.
https://archive.is/2024.06.24-223854/https://www.economist.c...
Thanks for trying it out. About your questions:

1. You can click on the tag itself to filter

2. I suspect you did try locking it and made the password prompt opened, but did not click submit to make it encrypted (please take a look at this sample encrypted note: https://i.imgur.com/CvVwG6W.png).
It's scary to think about what China could do with the $100 million-$150 million the US spends on a single F-35.
I'm wondering when PC/laptop OEMs will see that user unfriendly Windows is scaring off their potential customers?
Teams is "an exercise in mediocrity".
Tinder had only been around for three years when AM was hacked. Presumably a lot of the data predates Tinder. Ashley Madison had been operating for ten years by that point
Information (and truth) need no filtering. Such "filtering", in my opinion, is equal to tempering and it taints the truth.
yes, would be unfair towards all the other http tools that arent curl if you bundle it
> Pay to play for other new media formats that come out?

Not just for new ones.

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9nblggh2j19w?rtc=1&hl=en-u...
America's Electrical Grid Is an Feat of Engineering–and Its Biggest Bottleneck
> Google search shouldn't be the default.

At least for me, chrome was asking me last week what search engine I want to use. Made me switch to duckduckgo.
> Given that reality, knowing what your compiler will do with UB ...

The more you refuse to accept undefined behaviour, the more it will hurt when it will bite you!

Stop turning around the problem and fix your code.
Matthew Weidner's blog post has been enlightening [1]. When a centralised server is involved, CRDTs and OT are merely optimisations over server reconciliation so yes CRDTs aren't always the best approach. It is a compelling approach for text editing though.

[1] https://mattweidner.com/2024/06/04/server-architectures.html
Yeah, it's bad that they'd do something like this behind their partners' back, but a lot of them probably signed up in a moment of weakness and never planned to take it further.

It's like flirting when your partner isn't around. It's bad (assuming it isn't something you've agreed upon), but if you stop it before it goes to far it's not as bad as going to bed with somebody.
I'm particularly aggrieved by the publishers who try to modern-wash Enid Blyton stories. Really exciting and living prose gets turned into bland nothingnesses. It's depressing.
Browsers are particularly tricky because they are also a software development platform which needs to be reliable as the OS is. In some browsers like ChromeOS they are even the primary one.
>China being able to make many thousands of recon aircraft / precision guided projectiles per day

The US might be able to stop an invasion of Taiwan with just naval and air assets. My guess is that battery-powered drones don't have enough range to be a significant threat against naval assets (even for recon) and don't have enough speed to be relevant against air assets that are not themselves battery-powered drones.
> Have the professional metaphysicians done any better?

In my estimation, no, like hilariously not (at least as a function of execution of relative ability). I attribute this to them thinking like children or little babies on the matter, as all people do on an absolute scale in that specific domain.

When you see it, you cannot unsee it.