skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many (especially) Western countries deal with excess deaths, when comparing figures, especially compared to pre-COVID [0][1][2].

For example, I know for The Netherlands the excess deaths compared to pre-COVID have been hovering around 15%. Actually, due to the persistent excess deaths, the Dutch Central Bureau of Statistics will set the baseline to the current level I think starting either this year or next year. This means, from next year on, there should be no more excess deaths in The Netherlands, but mortality will be higher than prior to COVID.

Yet, for whatever reason, these excess deaths don't seem to be a big concern in mass media, it's something rarely talked about. But during COVID every death was one too many and supposedly everything was done to prevent as many deaths as possible (e.g. social distancing, vaccinations, remote working, etc...).

> It would be headline news if true, and impossible to suppress.

Are you sure it would be impossible to suppress? Why are you so sure about this? It seems in Thailand the government and media have been quite effective at suppressing such news, at least according to some authorities at Thai universities [3].

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[0]: https://globalnews.ca/news/10541434/excess-deaths-western-co...

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7vTqEmlkvw

[2]: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

[3]: https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2723934/long-co...
If the system draws 65 watts and you pay 12 cents/kwh, then it will cost you right at $68.377 dollars a year to run it at full tilt.

Math:
1,000 watts /65 watts/hour = 15.384 hours per kwh.
365.25 days/year * 24 hours/day = 8766 hours/yr <=(accounting for leap days)
8766 hours/yr / 15.384 hours/kwh = 569.81 kwh/yr
569.81 kwh/yr * $0.12/kwh = $68.377/yr

For quick math where accuracy isn't very important, at $0.12/kwh it will cost you ~$1.05/year per watt (65w = $68.38/yr), so every watt you save per year is a dollar in your pocket.

Of course, there are ways to reduce the energy usage of a system, a computer rarely has to run at 100% 24/7/365 unless it is very underspecced for your use case, even things as simple as enabling C states and not utilizing all of the PC resources available will save you many dollars a year.
Hinton's opinions on LLMs are frankly bonkers. Just because you're famous — and intelligent and successful — doesn't mean you can't be completely wrong.

Also: what's his rationale? It's no use simply claiming something without evidence. And as far as I (and seemingly most others) can see, there's no such evidence other than that they can sometimes output sentences that happen to be true. But so can Wikipedia — does that mean Wikipedia is reasoning?

Also, any form of reasoning in the usual sense of the word would surely require the ability to allocate arbitrary amounts of computation (i.e. thought) to each question. LLMs don't do this — they don't sit and ponder; each token takes exactly the same amount of computation to produce. Once they hit an 'end of text' token, they're done.

Even empirically speaking, LLMs' ability to reason can be seen to be nonexistent. Just try asking basic mathematics questions. As soon as you ask anything for which the answer isn't available — practically verbatim — on the web already, it produces intelligent-sounding gibberish.

This whole idea that 'LLMs must be able to reason because in order to learn to fake reasoning you must learn to actually reason' is like some kind of inverted no true Scotsman fallacy.
FWIW, as a regular user of login.gov, from the outside, it looks like a well-designed system. I am able to add strong forms of 2FA (e.g., security keys or biometric authenticators), it requires strong passwords, etc. It also has decent developer documentation, has a support process, and comes with a vulnerability disclosure form baked into the main website. However, I have not used their API, nor have I seen any of the code (although I wonder if a FOIA request would actually compel them to give it to you).
I figured everyone used those to upsell the CDs/vinyls. I suspect TV show and movie commentary is almost exclusively left to DVDs and BluRays for that reason.
I wouldn't want to have to be playing bidding games against one of the big consulting firms that sometimes bill massively to create disasters.

I'd rather just have more information systems be recognized as necessarily a government core competency, to in-house. And to pay well enough, to hire the best teams for that (without leaning on their altruism/patriotism so hard that they have to worry about money).
Markopolis: Self-hosted Obsidian publish with an API to extend functionality
It also seemed to conflate various topics that are only tangentially-related. Conflicts of interest in journalism have little (but not nothing, admittedly) to do with representation in media. And harassment in (online) communities is an umbrella issue that reaches far beyond either of the above.

The conflation was likely a (successful) attempt to define a binary: either you support journalists, want representation in media that reflects (almost always American) demography, and dislike online abuse. Or you dislike the gaming press, want every video game character to look like Doomguy, and spend your evenings telling women to make you a sandwich. It must all be in the binary that conveniently reflects the wider American culture war and political divide.

Maybe it had to be a binary to avoid the hard work tackling of these big issues individually: look at how many times the author(s) not only hand-wave away "ethics in gaming journalism" but disparage the suggestion. I'd hazard a guess that it's because it's much easier to call people out for sexism than it is to fix the structural issues with the press-publisher relationships.

The fact that the whole subject became a cesspool also kept a lot of people, myself included, from wading into it even if they have things to contribute. I'm not going to risk being called a misogynist or a sexist by suggesting that game reviewers buy their own games and not attend schmoozy press events.

I think that "kick men out completely" is hyperbole, but the "one-sided thinking" is spot-on.
Are you asking about the law, or are you asking our opinion?

Do you think its reasonable for social media to send videos to people without considering how harmful they are?

Do you even think its reasonable for search engine to respond to a specific request for this information?
Replied in another comment, but I’m aware of the regulation that made msft give access. To my knowledge though, there’s nothing in the regulation that stops them from saying “you have to pass xyz (reasonable) tests before we allow you to distribute kernel level software to millions of people”
The HN team explicitly and manually manages the front page of HN, so I think it's completely unarguable that they would be held liable under this ruling if at least the front page contained links to articles that caused harm. They manually promote certain posts that they find particularly good, even if they didn't get a lot of votes, so this is even more direct than what TikTok did in this case.
This is my approach, as well. And if I absolutely had to use their web service? Well, keep the bank in my Chrome bookmarks bar, and only go there when I'm in Chrome. Head on back to Firefox when I'm done doing whatever it is that I needed to do.
That's true in many (but by no means all) cases now, but it's a short term problem. Home batteries with capacity for a day or more's usage are on track to hit affordability in the next 5 years, which will remove this problem.

There is also a lot of scope for demand shifting. For example, timing washer and dryer runs during the day when people are out. Or running AC during the day (even if nobody is home!) so that it doesn't have to work so hard in the evening.
My understanding is the Linux kernel devs are refusing to explain the API and put it down in writing with clear documentation on what the contract is, and then they further gaslight and twist the situation with messaging like "you're trying to convince everyone to switch over to the religion as promulgated by Rust" (direct quote from a Kernel dev). Basically the worst of the worst behavior.
The person you're responding to didn't say they were confident about anything, they said (cynically, it seems to me) that it could lead to the end of many social media sites, and that'd be a good thing in their opinion.

This is a pedantic thing to point out, but I do it because the comment has been downvoted, and the top response to it seems to misunderstand it, so it's possible others did too.
Hah, this made me check it at YT and read comments:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pvy3M5gQ_cQ

A reply to top comment explains:

> @AdrienArnouxComedy, 4 years ago
Sample clearance issue.
The beat is entirely lifted from here at 8:48 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPhr1Eg7iiM
However there's no mention of a sample in the credits. I also can't find the name of this track anywhere. I did hear it in a cab once.
So they probably stole it, got caught and settled out of court for physical copies.
Now that it's all digital they would need to pay whoever they jacked it from again, so they'd rather put a remix instead.
Here's a quote from Wes Borland in an old Kerrang I have from 2008 :
"We actually got sued over this piece of s**. There was some sort of sample used in it that someone didnt get full clearance for, so we ended up getting into some serious trouble for a little while."
Previous discussions on this topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41350530

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41359502
vterm works nicely. My only gripe that Evil support in vterm isn't great, but that's irrelevant in this context.
Just know that Lenovo has set up a bootlock on these systems if a non-branded wifi card is detected in them. If you're just plugging in an ethernet cable and tossing it in a closet, you're fine, but upgrades are very limited.
I didn't chastise anyone. I was explaining, because it was asked, why you were being heavily downvoted.
Good to know, didn’t know this program existed, but makes a lot of sense that it does. Why it wasn’t enforced is an incredibly huge question now
You do realize that meta stock lost 60% of its value in the span of less than one year in 2022?
A living proof that there is always someone who can find the wrong of the thing that everyone else loves
Little Bobby Tables strikes again:

https://xkcd.com/327/
I’d imagine one that reasonable people would understand to be the meaning. If a “web hosting” company told me they only stored things on a server with no way to serve it to users, I’d laugh them out the room.
I omitted this part to keep the excerpt short, yet I indicated the omission appropriately. Might have been better to keep it though, I agree.
Why swim upstream?
Bringing out silly and absurd strawmen attacks like "you're trying to convince everyone to switch over to the religion as promulgated by Rust" is anything but "perfectly reasonable".
This right here people need to pay attention to gut the following reason:

One person can make a lot of impact

The most common thing I hear people say with respect to their jobs is: “I’m just one person, I can’t actually do anything to make things better/worse…”

But it’s just wrong and there’s thousands of examples of exactly that over and over and over

In this case, if this is true, it’s both amazing that:

One person, or a small number of people, could build something into the critical path as a sidecar and have it work for a long time and

And second, the consequences of “hero” systems that are not architecturally sound, prove that observability has to cover all possible couplings
But what the corporation cannot do is put you in jail, seize your assets, prevent you from starting a business, dictate what you can or can't do with your home etc.

a corporation can "put me in jail" for copyright violations, accuse me of criminal conduct (happened in the UK, took them years to fix), seize my money (paypal, etc),
destroy my business (amazon, google)...

But government is far more of a potential threat to liberty than the most "powerful" corporation could ever be.

you (in the US) should vote for a better government. i'll trust my government to protect my liberty over most corporations any day.
Anyone know if you still have to program the thing in assembly using Cerebras' own engineers?
*prior Governor, promoted to current US Senator. You would think stealing from billions of dollars from taxpayers, and this is billions in the 1990s, would disqualify you from attaining one of the highest government positions.
birthday != date of birth
Or start limiting Internet usage.
That's true but I think the US's overall IP regime is not going to change and they also aren't going to carve out many exceptions.
Ok but where do you think the term comes from? It didn't spawn into common use out of nowhere.

And I'll say - I don't think it matters. It's all stupid bullshit in my eyes. But if it doesn't matter, which it doesn't, then main shouldn't be a problem. In my opinion.
Curious about what needs you had that Brave didn't fill?
I guess they want to finish the transition to WordPress first, since WordPress also has an ActivityPub plugin https://automattic.com/2024/08/27/shipping-tumblr-and-wordpr...
Parsing Explained
And Ts'o works at Google.
He had to pierce veils to figure that out? Couldn’t he just check Wikipedia like everyone else?

Is this legal in the US?

If company A owns B and C; and C does something bad, can A or B be fined?
Show HN: Open-sourced AI for enterprises by Vanderbilt
I'm not the author of this program nor do I have any stake in it, but I just thought I'd show off a project coming out of my university.
That's a good plan, Merci. I will ask to access the data to understand why I was banned and then appeal to the decision.
NixOS drama is the most recent instance: https://chrismcdonough.substack.com/p/the-nixos-conflict-in-...
Humanity's newest brain gains are most at risk from ageing
I actually agree with many points you make, but some of them miss nuance that I think the article already addresses (we spent 2 months writing it, started even before the ruling). This is an important matter and I am in delicate position as the public spokesman (lots at risk) for the company and at the same time just a user here like any other HN user (obviously willing to engage with fellow HN users). So for that reason I will resist the urge to address such a complex topic ad hoc and ask you to email me at vlad@kagi.com to continue conversation in a more nuanced, async way where I am happy to engage and address each one of your concerns in good faith.
Oh, another thing. Just to be clear, the 15 password maximum is just an implementation choice to make our life easier, but we actually think it is a liability, and we are working to remove this limit completely. We do not think that anyone sane in their mind will ever need 15 levels of secrecy with Shufflecake, but that's not the point. The point is that, with a hardcoded maximum limit (regardless of the limit, even if it's 200 or 2000) there is a workaround that allows the user to do something very dangerous. By removing this limit (up to what is allowed by the disk size), we remove the possibility for the user to shoot in their foot. See the section "Safeword" in our research paper.
Spotify points finger at Apple over an unwelcome change to volume control
I guess you forgot the part where you're a mortal human, and where biomedical data helps discover patterns to solve problems. Just you wait until you get old. Also forgot the part about exposing statewide corruption wrt claims.
The issue is not Starlink. It's that the Brazilian government is too inept and corrupt to tackle illegal mining in its backyard. Many countries have huge landmasses (US, Canada, China, etc.), yet no one gets away with something as brash as illegal mining.
Thanks for this. Pretty terrible news site.
There is also topiary. From their website "The universal code formatter". I think it doesn't work with Javascript source for the moment, but it will surely work in the future.

[1] https://topiary.tweag.io/
So the theory is the girl in question was going to start competing with TikTok, so they showed a suicide inducing video to silence her?
Chainsaws are used as well. And fossil fuels. And electricity.

I’m sure if the Feds raid gold mining they’ll find some copper wires and other infrastructure.
> Brave has received negative press for diverting ad revenue from websites to itself,[30] collecting unsolicited donations for content creators without their consent,[43] suggesting affiliate links in the address bar[49] and installing a paid VPN service without the user's consent.[58]

These are the primary issues I hear about regarding Brave on this forum.

It's also founded by Brendan Eich who was forced out of Mozilla for his strong and vocal opposition of same-sex marriage. I tend to be a bit idealistic, but this is a strong reason for me to avoid Brave, especially when they are injecting content into pages.
For those names (access to $billions), curious how much due diligence they do any more. Just make a “chump change” investment in every hot trend? One phony AI startup pitch deck will look identical (if not better) to one with a real edge.
This puts it in enough perspective for me to ask: why doesn’t a university create a public/open source search index? Seems like a way to get a ton of attention.

Moreover, archive.org has all the data and data storage capabilities many times over. What prevents them from creating an open source search engine?
It's worth noting that you're a Java dev, working on OpenJDK at Oracle (per your profile here). Which is to say, your bias is....pretty extreme.
It's the opposite in democratic countries such as France: while every other person or entity is free to do everything except what's explicitly regulated, the government only has those powers that are explicitly granted to them by laws and regulations.

The comment you replied to was referring to the EU regulating major tech powers through e.g. GDPR and DSA.
Surely can, but you have to pay the installer guys and the structure that holds the panels even if they cost zero.
>4chin is too dumb to use HN

I don't frequent 4cuck, I use soyjak.party which I guess from your perspective is even worse, but there are of plenty of smart people on the 'cuck thoughbeit, like the gemmy /lit/ schizo. I think you would feel right at home in /sci/.
No, the website itself does not get to declare this. There’s a master list that they have to submit their site to and go through an approval process.

But as the article details, the contents of that preliminary list is already disconcerting. The whole “Google as the arbiter of all things ads” concept is a bust.

But the alternative isn’t great either - today’s system of third party cookies allows for far worse. We need some better ideas.
This is only for half-duplex ethernet communication so no one apart from some archaic systems.
I had 2FA, with a phone number that didn't change, and I didn't receive any emails about bookings (but my email address associated to the account was not changed by a hacker), so I really don't understand what happened.
Stealthy High-Tech Model 437 Vanguard Jet Has Flown (Updated)
What about filtering spam? Or showing the local weather / news headlines?
So it's also vulnerable to a Helicopter Injection Attack?
Re: Edit

The top level categorizations are indeed fixed, however the nodes themselves can be arbitrary. We've found this helps with grouping and organization while still allowing for the flexibility required to accommodate different systems. I'm curious, are there any categories missing here that could be added?

Currently, we categorize by: Frontend (UI/UX elements), Backend (API/Business/Data Access), DB(persisting storage), External Services (Backends maintained outside codebase), Shared Components (internally maintained libraries and helpers)
Sadly, I don't think many caught the joke :)
We're thinking alike. While we're iterating with customers, we're also thinking about how we can use it to contribute beneficially to projects (and in doing so prove it works reliably). One thing we are keeping a list of is popular OSS repos with notoriously spammy logs - if you know any, please let us know! We are planning to start with some of our YC batch mates' OSS projects once we get the quality right. I won't say exactly when we started showing the "fixes" but it was _very_ recently. Ensuring accuracy on identifying exceptions to the rules (aka the appropriate statements to touch in the first place) is the first thing we are perfecting.

We could expand to comments. The code maintenance direction is a possibility but the reason we get out of bed right now is to make a worthy contribution to logging -> debugging -> SRE sleep :)
I had an original iPhone and did not get such statements. As I recall while Cingular was indeed not ready to handle unlimited data for customers, it wasn’t really a problem for the first iPhone since it wasn’t 3g. Once the 3g dropped , it was a problem since people were actually able to consume a large amount of data.
From what I’ve seen, they’re usually marketed as “inverter fridges”.

And yeah, at least the fan turns off when you open the door, and I’d imagine if you put a bunch of ice into the fridge, it wouldn’t need to run at all for a while.

Meanwhile my local electric code (Ontario Canada) still requires a dedicated circuit for the fridge, which will now basically hum along at 1-2amps and never brownout/trip a circuit. What a waste.
It's fine for friend (small, private) communities. My problem is that Discord is virtually never a good option for public communities, but it's almost always the go-to choice (because "everyone already has it").
When Stalin did it, it was good. When the "western" "democracies" do it, it is "to protect the children".
> The tool costs 10c per million tokens for Lama 3.1 8B and 60c per million tokens for Llama 3 70B or roughly around 1/5 the price of GPU solutions.

but how much to purchase the chip itself?
"hosting" isn't actually used in the text of the relevant law - it's only shorthand in the decision. If they want to know what the CDA exempts they would read the CDA along with caselaw specifically interpreting it.
Pydantic Logfire Switches from Timescale to Datafusion
That'd be rather extreme, but who am I to disagree with a legally elected representative of the people?
That’s not really how they work. The auditor attests that they were provided with evidence that the systems/business units audited were compliant at the time of auditing. That doesn’t mean that the business didn’t intentionally fake the evidence, or that the business is compliant at any time subsequent to the assessment.

An auditor would certainly have some consequences if they were exposed for auditing negligently.

This is how the PCI SSC manages to claim that no compliant merchant/service provider has ever been breached, because they assume being breached means that the breached party was non-compliant at the time of the breach. Which is probably a technically true statement, but is a bit misleading about what they’re actually claiming that means.
Any chance this can have a country filter?
I actually preferred stock afterstep over windowmaker, but I agree with you in that I preferred any windows manager with a taskbar.