skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Traceroute doesn't see 90% of the machines your packet passes through.

When your packet leaves a router at some-pop-some-port-wherever, that fiber isn't usually the same piece of glass that plugs into the next hop. There's a whole chain of amplifiers and possibly multiplexers that handle it between here and there.

Some of those provide reliable transport service, giving you the illusion of a fiber that never breaks, despite backhoes doing what backhoes do. Some of those shift the wavelength of your signal, letting you use cheap optics without troubling in the nuances of DWDM that packs your signal alongside dozens of others onto the same long-haul fiber. Some of those just boost the signal, along with all those others on the same fiber.

But what all those machines have in common, is that none of them speak IP. None of them touch the payload. None of them are capable of decrementing a hop count. They're "part of the wire" as far as the packet is concerned.

In my experience, this leads to two types of network engineers, separated by their understanding of these underlying realities.
Whether or not a judge understands this will probably form the basis of any precedent set about the legality of image models and copyright.
I’m wfh in a medium cost of living area. My salary is 140k and work life balance is great.

I'm not seeing much to regret there. Try 'looking for work' for a year or more, with no income and mounting debts, in comparison.

But be vigilant that the current job isn't a 'shrinking pond'. At least ensure you have 'up-to-date' skills. I would say 'in-demand' skills, but that seems like an oxymoron in today's market.
Editing Files at 1000 Tokens per Second
Have you reported it to them? I have nothing but praise for the EC on the way they have handled the few complaints I have registered regarding such things.
Many things can save your life. Most of them don’t have a UL-provided monopoly making it quite unpleasant for anyone to compete to produce the version that fits where you need it.

A 1-pole GFCI breaker, a 2-pole GFCI breaker, and an ordinary GFCI outlet all have the same clever pair of coils, the same IC, and rather similar trip mechanisms. Yet the costs are quite different, and the costs get _really_ absurd if you want a breaker that trips at a level other than ~5mA.

And yes, they’re all very much worth using. I do wish that electrical codes would at least start encouraging the use of GFCIs for 240V outlets, which might encourage manufacturers to start making them, and those would actually be able to compete with each other.
The environment and everything in it.

“Everything” would mean all objects and the elements they’re made of, their rules on how they interact and decay.

A modularized ecosystem i guess, comprised of “sub-systems” of sorts.

The other model, that provides all interaction (cause for effect) could either be run artificially or be used interactively by a human - opening up the possibility for being a tree : )

This all would need an interfacing agent that in principle would be an engine simulating the second law of thermodynamics and at the same time recording every state that has changed and diverged off the driving actor’s vector in time.

Basically the “effects” model keeping track of everyones history.

In the end a system with an “everything” model (that can grow overtime), a “cause” model messing with it, brought together and documented by the “effect” model.

(Again … non technical person, just fantasizing) : )
Nice. Interestingly, the JetBrains Mono OP uses has many opt-in OpenType feature variants that can make more like Fira Code that you use. Some highly opinionated changes I would personally do to like The Monospace Web more would be enabling more serif-y variants and less blockiness, i.e. something like:

/*

Character Variants settings for JetBrains Mono

(All are off by default, left them here all for reference.)
H/T https://wakamaifondue.com/ for the inspect!
This set is pretty much like "ss01" but with "cv07" on
or like "ss02" but with "cv05" off
"id" state `affected glyphs` effect when enabled (my pref/note)
*/
font-feature-settings:
"zero" off, /* `0` slashed, instead of dotted */
"cv01" on, /* `l` flat serif bottom instad of curve (on!!)*/
"cv02" off, /* `t` bottom curve instead of hook */
"cv03" off, /* `g` double-storey (sadly not nice) */
"cv04" off, /* `j` rounded bottom hook */
"cv05" off, /* `l` rounded bottom hook */
"cv06" on, /* `m` smaller middle apex (on!) */
"cv07" on, /* `W` smaller middle apex (on!) */
"cv08" off, /* `K Ж` straight without horizontal joint */
"cv09" on, /* `f` slab serifs (on!!) */
"cv10" on, /* `r` slab serifs (on!!) */
"cv11" on, /* `y λ` rounded tails (on!) */
"cv12" on, /* `u` spur (on!) */
"cv14" on, /* `¢ $` broken strikes (on?) */
"cv15" off, /* `&` like 'ET' */
"cv17" off, /* `f` curved */
"cv18" off, /* `2,6,9 curved diagonals */
"cv19" off, /* `8` symmetrical halves */
"cv20" off, /* `5` rounded bow */
"cv99" off, /* `С с` (cyrillic es) inverted‽‽ */
"liga" off, /* Sadly, not. */
"ss00" off !important; /* // just a terminating bogus without comma. */

Interestingly, what cannot be turned off are the "programming ligatures". Personally I don't like them lately, and I think for a regular webpage content can be odd, especially the triple equals (===) that in JetBrains Mono and other "coding" font produces three parallel lines (like two glyphs wide Identical to : `≡`, if it passes HN character filter).

I've put it into [1] along with some rules that makes it slightly easier to my eyes.

[1] https://userstyles.world/style/17888/owickstrom-github-iothe...
My take is that Google products have always punished people who have bad internet connections. 10 years ago I had a crappy DSL connection which could usually handle Netflix, Amazon Video, etc. YouTube was unreliable.

Google Meet never worked well for me, even after I got my ADSL upgraded to a more reasonable 20Mbps. Zoom works fine. Skype works fine. Discord works fine. The chat built into Slack... works fine. Google is a standout.
> "which was an improvement"

I needed to laugh this morning. Thank you.
Same it has worked fine for me for ages with Ublock, but this week it has been _bad_. I recently switched to 5g for home internet (i live in the woods), and thought that was the cause. But seeing others complain about it leaves me to believe some Google Manager is upset that people are A. blocking ads, and B. using Firefox.
I know this is supposed to be funny, but it is so non sequitur as to be uninterpretable. What are you getting at?
While human brains are
probably just scaled-up chimpanzee brains, individual primate neurons are significantly more sophisticated than other mammalian taxa, particularly with epigenetic changes: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-34800-w But also the plain structure of the dendrites and how they form connections: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22230639/

Now: I don't think wetware computing is actually sophisticated enough to leverage primate-specific advantages. But 10,000 primate neurons would probably be "more powerful" than 10,000 pig neurons. (OTOH it seems like corvid neurons are even more powerful than primates, maybe we should use crows.)
Works fine for me. Firefox on Linux.
People cheer these things on because they are tired of the other view point and don’t care to question solidarity during a global pandemic.

People question science all the time. Heck we all have people who tell us about this herb or diet that will fix things, or how plastic is deadly.

In addition the platforms removed this content, not the govt. And the platforms would 100% do it again, since we are discussing this topic with the benefit of hindsight.

Misinfo evidence shows that once misinfo is absorbed and accepted, people defend it.
If the data shows that those scientists and doctors were wrong - people would ignore the data and reiterate their talking points.
AI's race for US energy butts up against Bitcoin mining
What's the timeline for expanding the 8 electrodes (I assume that is the only way to get signals in and out)?
Musk's xAI accused of worsening Memphis smog with unauthorized gas turbines
I thought support from Google was "talk to the hand"; all the time I see posts where people got no satisfaction from Google make it to the HN front page.
Daily Golang #8
This is a bad take. Here's my take:
1. Standard IP and Ethernet are physically acceptable for their use case.
2. TCP/IP is optimized in a number of areas for un-reliable networks.
3. Their clusters are not unreliable.
4. Their servers already offer hardware acceleration that can be programmed, so remove aspects of TCP/IP that increase latency or might negatively affect throughput.
5. They get to continue to purchase the cheaper IP switches and retain their existing hardware without retooling everything.

As an afterthought, they publish this for marketing/engineering pull for people who like to optimize (do engineering) for specific situations, while supporting the ROI and keeping cost down.
I have a laptop with AMD and NPU. AMD still has no good easy to use out of the box examples on how to use that NPU for on-device AI applications. Nvidia has been delivering that for over 10 years now. SW seems like an afterthought at AMD.

If AMD expects their chips to take off for AI, they should be spamming us with ready made apps and code samples that just work and that we can then modify.
Finally, honest discussion!

Wealth inequality doesn't have any direct effects - merely having more money than someone else doesn't do anything. It's only after the money gets spent that you see negative effects, and the magnitude and type of spending determine the effects. It's more accurate to call this "spending inequality".

This proposal doesn't address the problem because it doesn't affect spending - only wealth. (a capital gains tax is actually a deceitfully name wealth tax) Wealth doesn't do anything until it's spent. That's the main problem with this proposal - it doesn't even try to address the problem it pretends to address.

As to how to actually address the problem: there's two types of wealth inequality that most people are concerned about - that between the super-rich and everyone else (discussed here), and that between the poor and everyone else (not discussed).

Thank you for engaging honestly, it's a breath of fresh air in this thread.

The ~wealth~ spending inequality problems of the super-rich seem to be mainly manifested in corruption - donating large amounts to political groups, and lobbying. You want to regulate/outlaw those specific things.

However, aside from corruption (which is a huge problem) most of the spending inequality problems seem to come from the middle and lower class. For instance, cost of housing and living - I think that that's being driven by the middle class having more access to capital in a supply-constrained environment (which is partially caused by big hedge funds buying up housing to rent it out - which again is a separate problem that can be addressed separately and isn't fixed by the capital gains tax). People like Zuckerberg aren't personally buying up housing all over the US on their own - this problem isn't at their level and this tax wouldn't help.
What I would like to see is a local GUI app that generates a static site.

I like Hugo, Gatsby, Ghost, Jekyll, and alike, but ever try to explain how to manage it to a machinist?

If there is one out there, please let me know.
There's a decent android app for it https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=be.martinelli....
It's a static site generator. You have some templates, some content, some themes, all in a repo.

Hugo looks at that and generates some HTML that you then need to somehow serve yourself.

It has some positives and negatives with respect to WordPress. Mostly, unlike WordPress, you don't have auth (authentication AND authorization) within the system itself, but have some access to some repo+some CI system+some upload system+some HTTP server through.... some other means.
> Taxes don’t fund government spending.

Cool, then let's just do away with them altogether. This is great news. All those people saying I needed to pay taxes so I can have roads and schools and a military and everything must be wrong.
Broadcom AI Compute ASIC with Optical Attach Detailed at Hot Chips 2024
I'm pretty sure GP was not suggesting reporting it to Google.
File Copying Olympics: How File Size Impacts the Race for Performance Gold
There's a lot of important stuff on YouTube. Google doesn't really feel trustworthy enough to be in charge of it. What options do we have to ensure that people can still access that information or whatever if the degradation gets to a point where it's literally unusable? Is the internet archive sufficient? I feel like I should be participating somehow...
>Japanese e-toilets

The scientific name for them is Toto.
Off days are simply not a thing. You can either be like physically sick and in that case you take the day off but there are no off days. If you are good at something and you can do things in a single threaded manner with focus and you have one to two things which are major items that you want to check off, every single day will be a good day. Now you might not make as much progress or some days you might make a lot of progress, but the days in which you do not have progress are not off days.
"Imagine someone set up a radio or a noisy machine somewhere in your own vicinity and you had no choice but to listen to it", you mean like a mosque :-D
Can confirm.

Google is a new Microsoft, they leverage their position to cross promote their shit browser and their shit data stealing services.

Sorry guys, if your data collection website doesn't work well with Firefox and uBlock Origin, I just won't use it.
>Our brains are not that different than other primates' brains. We do abhorrent things to other primates that __demonstrably__ have similar experiential qualia as humans, mostly for the benefit of our species. But somehow objectioners are losing their marbles over a human cell cluster that has no more than a few thousand constituent cells.

This is some kind of strawman. I'm confident that people who are against human cell cluster torture are also against primate torture. Or at least make the mental calculus required to justify it.
I think the grand admission of guilt is what was wanted from him. This is setting up to say that the Biden admin influenced platforms.
wowza! nice. I wonder what the version of that for a granny is?!
Making an interactive video of it. It is not playing the game, a human does that.

With that said, I wholly disagree that this is not an engine. This is absolutely a game engine and while this particular demo uses the engine to recreate DOOM, an existing game, you could certainly use this engine to produce new games in addition to extrapolating existing games in novel ways.
Software rendering isnt there yet. Did you have a hardware accilerated VM?
There is also Uno

https://platform.uno/
No, it happens for me on Linux too. Yesterday it crashed the page on my new laptop.
Interesting, I figured that they were basically subsidizing the first launch in the hopes of making it back in later launches.

I could have sworn I remember there being an article about them doing something for the Government and they wanted a fresh rocket so it cost more. But maybe I am remembering wrong.

So roughly first rocket at cost and then if they are successful (which is for sure an incentive) the rest is profit above maintenance cost.
Are you saying if I turn around, I’ll be surprised at what I find ? I don’t feel like this is accurate at all.
> witnessing it's neurons being used as a computing resource

What exactly is doing the witnessing here, if the neurons are being used for computation? A lot of these comments seem to tacitly assume there is a little person inside our brains who is at the controls, and that organoid computing means that these controls are forcibly taken away, causing the magic little person to suffer horribly. It's strangely childish.
Dave of Dave's Garage explained it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBn3FbKusZI

Basically (according to him) they disabled the spectre/meltdown mitigation if you were an admin - because you were an admin and have full rights to the machine anyway. So now they are doing that for all users?

He wasn't clear - or at least it wasn't clear to me. So the mitigations are no longer needed? I think I have more questions than before after listening to that.
SEC Sends Wells Notice to OpenSea, Alleging NFTs Are Securities
Yep, such ideas have been around. But congestion is a fundamental problem. Admission control is the only way to ensure there is no congestion collapse.

The technical issue is that you would need global arbitration to ensure that the _goodput_ (useful bytes delivered) is optimal. With training across 32k GPUs and more these days, global arbitration to ensure the correct packets are prioritised is going to be very difficult. If you are sending more traffic than the receiver's link capacity, packets _will_ get dropped, and it's suboptimal to transmit those dropped packets into the network as they waste link capacity elsewhere (upstream) within the network.
I found it freezes every 60 seconds, and I just click the "Share" button and "Starting at", and copied the time into the URL and reload the page... then it works.

After a few times I got into the habit of "increment seconds by 60, reload page".

I don't know why it has to be so hard, I seldom to never go to YouTube now because of how badly it works.

Feels super anti-competitive to own YouTube and Chrome, and to punish Firefox users so aggressively.
Oh, didn't know that! Thought the human advantage was mostly just balancing cancerous growth to get really big or something. And yeah, we should be studying bird brains, they are so smart in such a tiny package!
I was referring to reporting to the European Commission - an example of the “antitrust enforcers” you were looking for. They need to know of issues to investigate them. The more reports they get the more likely it will be raised for investigation quickly.
It's a terrible delay w.r.t. reviews, because all the reviews were done without these improvements. First impressions are very hard to fix, and Zen5 is already widely regarded as a flop, at least for desktop/gaming usage.
>I mean doing an actual analysis of how well the simulation matches the ground truth of the game.

Do you mean the PSNR and LPIPS metrics used in paper?
I reminds me of dreaming. When you do something and turn back to check it has turned into something completely different.

edit: someone should train it on MyHouse.wad
It's a memory of a video looped to controls, so frame 1 is "I wonder how would it look if the player pressed D instead of W", then the frame 2 is based on frame 1, etc. and couple frames in, it's already not remembering, but imagining the gameplay on the fly. It's not prerecorded, it responds to inputs during generation. That's what makes it a game engine.
Apparently Zen4 also benefits from this patch - Hardware Unboxed had an excellent video where they did lots of benchmarking.
There are significantly less bugs on the IOS version of YouTube which pretty much sums up the whole situation.
Sometimes the Torment Nexis is allegorical. Sometimes they build the actual thing...
The Atari 7800
The article said each organoid contains around 10k neurons
Here's What Caused 8.5M Computers to Crash
Doing a quick test (Windows 10, Firefox, NoScript, Privacy Badger) - it seems to work fine for me.

FWIW, I've got NoScript blocking most of the sites that YouTube wants to use js from.
How confident are you that these brain organoids are incapable of qualia and thus suffering?
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I'm Sidhant and I want to share SAM: Search Ads Manager AI agent. It's an AI agent-based workflow that lets you create search ad campaigns in a breeze. Users can research keywords for search ads, get ad copy suggestions, and make changes to your ad groups - all with a conversational AI agent.

Back when I joined my current company (Houseware), I had to set up our marketing function - which was the first time I actually used Google Ads. I've plenty of gripes, but my biggest problem with search ads is the insane amount of time and effort it takes to come up with the right ad to run (from keyword to ad copy). You need to know user insights, trending topics and business context - then combine them all together into specific keywords. The default for any marketer is to spend days (or weeks) researching the right keywords. With LLMs, this can become a simpler problem to solve.

A sneak peek on how it works:
- Currently, the user gives a prompt about the kind of campaign they're running, and under the hood, a call is fired to GPT to suggest the best keywords for the campaign. This list of keywords is then passed to the Google Ads API and the most relevant keywords, along with their forecast metrics (monthly search volume, etc.) is shown on the web app

Unlike Google Ads, which requires a set of keywords to suggest more keywords, I want the user to just be able to share the business context of the campaign that they're running, and let the AI agent create the rest of the campaign for them. The current app is quite basic, but I'm planning to improve the keyword research (do primary research on the web instead of just fire a call to the LLM).

Do check it out, I'd love your feedback! :)
Bechtel were the contractor for Boston's Big Dig too. Why do people keep hiring these guys
The high level of insanity of public debate made people shut up. I know at least one immunologist who quit Twitter fairly early on in the pandemic because of it. Doing health communication has hazards of its own.
Yes. Learning to "program" has never been easier, but nitty gritty stuff like networks and routing is still much more technical than the avg SWE
As a fellow ADHDr, I've found that I lose track of the entire task tracking system if it doesn't remind me of its existence. I recently wrapped the taskwarrior CLI with some bash and zenity popups that run on crob jobs to ask me what I'm doing and its proven quite effective at getting me to stay on task and log what I've been doing via timewarrior. Not sure how easy that is to do in a web UI, but if you find a similar struggle, it might be worth a shot.
Riiight. And the fact that this keeps protesters far away from anywhere they might be seen, or be effective, or have any impact at all is just an unintended side effect.

Anyway, you're entitled to yourself and W's interpretation. Me, I go with the ACLU on this one.
He can probably do it significantly more efficiently than an organization can. Governments and non-profits are not known for their efficiency, only their scale. Many non-profits are famously, scandalously inefficient.
> then looks for a user configuration file at ~/.tmux.conf [...] or ~/.tmux.conf

If the tmux devs are confused then it looks like a perfect example of why we need a standard for `.config` or similar. I have proposed something similar in the past for code repositories to remove the config file clutter to a subdirectory, but it's hard to gain traction.
Might as well just download videos and watch them later.
This is why I left my last position. I'd been there for 7 years and realized that not only was I not growing or improving my skillset, it was actively deteriorating.

I had to leave in order to protect my career.
I think I only have problems when there's a chat channel.
I was a dishy for years in a few different restaurants and hotels. It's hard work but if you do your best to help out the kitchen and wait staff wherever you can (picking up ingredients, helping mise en place, fetching dish carts yourself, stocking bar) then you can really make a difference in the day to day. Sometimes I miss the camaraderie. It's an easy industry to get stuck in though, and there's usually a lot of alcohol involved. It took me a while but eventually decided it's not for me.
What Is the EEE Virus?
They do it every now and then, and then they claim that it is a bug. Yea sure.