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> Would you say the binary is open source?

Great question. Is the assembly code in a git, with an open source license? Then yes! It's open source!

Think about it this way: just because someone wrote hello world in c and then a compiler translated that into assembly, doesn't invalidate the quality of that assembly code being open source! That's the point. Something is open source or not if the resulting stuff is published under an open source license. Can you see the assembly code? Can you change it? Can you re-publish it? If all of these are yes, then it's open source!

> Imagine if the Linux kernel ...

That is semantics. The linux kernel is published in c because it's easier for people to reason in that abstracted language, but it would not suddenly become "closed source" if it were written in asm, assuming it would still be published under an open source license.

In other words, you having access to the "dataset" would not make the weights any easier to work with. They would still be in a "blob" as you call it.
Retracted: Deaths induced by compassionate use of hydroxychloroquine
Patent medicine is how I like to think about it. Strong placebo effect, occasionally some health benefits, mostly nominal. Strong economic incentives and some harmful effects. Traveling salesmen who claim wonders, then leave town before the miracle is delivered.

Not working for you? Be the first to try the new elixir.
I can't speak to Google Sheets, but the Excel support for Python is currently severely lacking and poorly thought out.

People want VBA to be replaced with Python, JS, or something else widely used and respected. Typescript would be good.

That's not what's happening. They're adding in piecemeal functionality that doesn't necessarily solve any problems or fit into the ecosystem.
As Florida Storms Worsen, Some in Tampa Bay Wonder: Is Living There Worth It?
Saints don't profit. Priests do.
sounds like it, my first computer was an Atari 800 XL that shared the family TV as its monitor (and fortunately there was an RF switch to toggle between it and the antenna so we worked out a kind of timesharing system)
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This is true, and certainly easier than games. Don't worry, I download the FLACs and archive them immediately after purchase anyways.

The streaming service is Qobuz. Here's a forum thread of others who found the specific date and wording interesting: https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/70250-qobuz-may-be-...
Building the DataToaster 3000
> So now it’s become a bit more CAMPUB, and campaigns to save the business of public houses itself, the traditional bar games (skittles or bar billiards, anyone?), and the communities that sit in them.

Isn't it the case that the "pub scene" is healthy - revenues and number of pub employees hasn't decayed significantly, but the number of pubs has. A big part of that is people preferring the larger pubs - going to Wetherspoons for a cheaper pint from a wide range of beers (perhaps with food and sports) than a cosy local that is more expensive and has a limited range.

Unfortunately I can't see CAMRA being able to do much about the economics of a small traditional pub vs the current rental or sale value of the building its in.
A retro website framework in the theme of Mac OS 9
The knee-jerk replies you're getting are hilarious. The reality distortion field is as strong as ver. You see, because it's Apple, it can't be a bet in virtual reality with a bad connotation (metaverse). To some, Apple can do no wrong nor do they make mistakes. If they invest (and fail) in VR it was from a good angle, not purely for profit (just like Meta).

But seriously now, you can bet your left kidney that if Apple ever manages to make AR/VR work they will try to milk every penny and dime from the gullible while pretending that "it's good for you" like they do with their broken walled gardens. /rant
Show HN: Medley - Music listening with smooth, radio-inspired playback
who runs it, who funds it
No thanks. Sounds like a nightmare
Consider nginx + njs as a self-hosted Cloudflare worker
As someone who has done offshore sailing… the waves also look unnaturally steep/tall/pointy to me. It’s very cool, but needs some tweaking still.
Well you aren’t going to get tenure unless you distort your results and it’s hard to change established habits.

That, and you select for the kind of people who are willing to fake results to further their own careers.
I read it as a counter to Postman’s citing Huxley that society is becoming enamored with the superficial (ie the ignoble) pursuits. I read the OP as effectively saying “who is to say what is noble vs trivial, considering it varies in societal context.”

170 years ago, people may have thought chess was superficial. I think now, maybe it would be considered a more noble pursuit.

Or, maybe the OP was saying it’s a constant devolving towards the increasingly trivial.
Opinion: How to design a US data privacy law
Is there anything specific that makes HPUX particularly suitable for use in embedded contexts? You may as well use Linux or FreeBSD if you need a Unix like kernel for embedded stuff, or a specialised RTOS of some kind.

For it's more traditional markets, years ago they did consider porting HPUX to x86 to keep it alive (alongside other options like buying Solaris as it already ran on x86), but abandoned it for the "going down with the ship" option they did take. Stuff about it came out during the HP / Oracle dispute over Itanium support years back: https://www.theregister.com/2012/05/23/hp_project_blackbird_...
Tldr: cheaper, more white, more community based.

Note that I’m not against white people who are sick of the racial and political polarization in northern universities. I actually think it’s tiring too. However, we should understand that the choice to move to the south is mostly only viable if you are white.
Oh that does sound like a fun project!
This is a striking and sobering comment, sauceymew.

We’ll be lucky to live that long, and sorry to see them fall.

(Edit: s/fail/fall)
So does increasing the penalties.

If you publish a paper with fraudulent data, methods, or results, and you received any state or federal funds for it, there should be prison time. You stole taxpayer money.

I'm not saying for when people are wrong, I'm saying for when you can prove someone knowingly lied. It won't catch anyone, and you need to bar to be high enough that people don't go to jail for being bad scientists, but right now there is zero social, professional, or legal risk is just lying your ass off to get the next grant and keep the spice flowing.

Nobody's going to do that when changing the numbers in your Excel sheet carries a risk of a decade or two in a minimum security prison.
i tried an app like this at some point, the one where you had to solve a puzzle.

I was just terrified that one day I'd set the wrong alarm and have it blaring during a university lecture when I couldn't turn it off.
Role of Deliberate Practice in the Development of Creativity (2014)
I should have said "concerning", not "embarrassing".
I keep watching old Star Trek TNG episodes and the way Data and the ship’s computer is portrayed seems to have been largely matched or even surpassed. And that was supposed to be 24th century tech that we caught up to in 35 years.
Yeah that's true, random unrelated things did happen in the past, but that's not a credible argument against having slap on the wrist fines for advertising gambling.
Video game maker Activision Blizzard laying off California workers
Why are passwords leaving the auth services though?
Yes, true advice for now, however that's in niches; there is not enough work there for millions, let alone 10s or 100s of millions coders. And the experience is also often painted either more positive or negative because of their experience; I don't know what OP specifically does, but I have been integrating LLMs into everything I have made the past 6 months; the results are amazing and I guess also scary for some. Claude Haiku has been solving problems for us that were absolutely in the category of 'not possible' a few months ago.

I wrote code for 44 years now, but this is the last year; even when you need to explain the hard parts to llm; I simply don't need to bother with code anymore. I get more robust and better results from what we have created. My fear is just IF llama or a better open model will get there soon enough before these companies close the taps. Llama works well, but it's just slower (it requires more agent generations than claude or gpt).

Edit: ah quants; yeah niche and hard. Not a very big market for many coders.
Yeah I agree with you, I guess I just keep coming back to "make the punishment so eye-wateringly harsh very few people are stupid enough to try it."

Most types of fraud carry a $100-250k monetary penalty and up to 20, 25, 30 years in prison.

The number of people willing to fabricate research data decreases dramatically if you're going to have to pay the grant back from your $20/hr warehouse job after you spend the better part of a decade in a minimum security prison.
Well, people in offices need new shiny phones every year and new Teslas to get to the office after all...
It is in the paper:

"We find that: (1) ACR network traffic exists when watching linear TV
and when using smart TV as an external display using HDMI"
The book came out in 2005.

Was there any follow up, I didn't see one on the wiki.

It seems like we are accelerating to this.

Even the changes between 2005 and 2024. Near 20 years, we've leaned into the Huxley vision. Really leaned into it.

This is all getting really scary. I feel like we should do something. We should really band together and change course. I volunteer to go out and do something, except of course, I'm a bit distracted at the moment, so maybe can we put off the change for another week? I really need to see the end of this season of "Industry". Then we can do something, I'm sure I'll have some free time next week to get right on this.
I agree. For novels, digital works well—I have hundreds of books on my Kindle. But recently, while studying a math book, I bought the paperback for exactly the reason you mentioned.
So sad. I'd wanted to get a signed picture of him for my bathroom, as shorting SCO paid for it, but I guess that won't happen now
I got interested into the hashgraph algorithm quite early and wrote a toy implementation in python (in fact discovering an error in the paper in the process). Unless something changed it's entirely useless for open-membership internet-scale consensus. As I remember, the processing time of a message at a node is linear in the number of nodes and same for the local storage at a node, meaning it's not very scalable. Moreover, the nodes must somehow a priori agree on the list of participants of the consensus process, again something which is not realistic for internet-wide consensus. The protocol is quite neat and not too hard to implement but it's similar in scope to paxos/raft: consensus inside an organization, where some things are a priori agreed upon.
Energy, infrastructure, and the potential for new executive branches dedicated only to enforcing AI regulation would go pretty far. The government is pretty damn good at spending too much money and creating jobs, they often don't need much of a reason as long as it justifies spending more money and centralizing more power.
Plus, several times now we have changed one of our bases for a new city. Much easier to call up a short term rental agency and get a new furnished rental.
The tricky thing with randomizing is that science gets very specialized, both with equipment required and knowledge. So there may only be a handful of people whose work you can competently replicate.

And those same people are reviewing the papers you publish and will not hesitate to sabotage your career if you have made them look bad by failing to replicate their papers.
The competition for that is grocery stores that deliver, where there isn't really an extra middle man to cut out (and where they already have an extensive logistics operation, likely with multiple locations).

InstaCart and the like are selling extreme convenience, not groceries.
Those floppy disk emulators require special drivers to prevent the drive head moving off the transducer. It isn't worth the hassle to get them working on non-PCs.
lol 'smolder' I saw your comment before you deleted it.
the south is the blackest region in the country. ole miss, mentioned in this article, is located in mississippi, the blackest state in the union. more white? that would be new england if you want that...i live in new england and the whiteness is unbearable.

there is definitely an imbalance in the student bodies compared to the regions demographics. i don't think you were talking about that though, seems like you were just pointing to an entire region and saying, "everybody there is racist" which is what non-southerners tend to do.
> the Australian references

I read the comic. Which Aus refs?
I don't who is responsible for this amazing surgical attack.
If someone thinks he can fight terrorist hiding missile under people homes without any coletral damage he probably never suffer terrorist attacks
Soooo.... TPUv4?
So if the enemy acts exactly like them, they suddenly get even worse morals? What happened to "turnabout is fair play"?
I thought this paragraph was really interesting:

Another factor promoting the building of new homes is tax: the valuation of land and buildings for property taxes, or rates, paid to local councils declines over time, which increases the incentive for the councils to approve new houses to get their rates back up.

The New Zealand section is a bit outdated:

1: Christchurch gone gangbusters with new homes after the earthquake

2: Wellington is completely fucked

New Zealand has 30% population of immigrants so there is an immense pressure on housing supply.
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This happens more often than one would expect.

No researchers are going to invest the time needed to replicate complex neurobiological experiments such as those Masliah conducted.

However, if the results are sound, others will be able to build upon them, and this happens a lot more often than fraud does.
I run AdGuard at my parent’s home and it’s crazy the amount of logs (blocked DNS queries) I get from the TVs alone. Before that Windows was the biggest offender but I switched them to Linux Mint since.
When we get better quantum computers we can start using spaghetti sort.
What I'm wondering is, why would any app need to actually prevent uninstallation (and thus violate a fundamental right of the user to control their device), when it seems what such app makers would want is to prevent closing the app / escaping to the home screen.

How many people actually decide to uninstall an alarm app as it's going off?
Another reason for doing this is that if the people doing replication also do original research then calling out someone’s work as bad incentivizes them to sabotage your work when they inevitably review your papers.

You can avoid that to some extent by having replication and original work be separate specialities - and making sure that replication gets prestige so good people do it.
surprised they didn't go straight into cloud-hypervisor, though I haven't actually tested with gpu yet but it is on my todo list. OCI layers can use zstd compression. I wonder if they are defeating layer sharing by splitting in 500 mb chunks. Lambda splits your image into chunks and shares at the block layer (I believe even same chunk different (user's?) container on a single host). Esp for 15 GB images I'd think using lazy pulling with nydus/stargz or whatever would be beneficial. I'd like to test out snapshotting, though my testing already boots a guest and runs a container in ~170ms; and I'm not actually sure how you write the guest init to signal it is ready for snapshotting and then wait properly (maybe you just sleep 1000?) so it resumes from the snapshot in a good state. I know fly has written about their use of snapshotting but I don't think it went into that detail. Cool stuff overall though, not worrying about locations and the yucky networking to do so seems nice
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Nobody talks about the issue as a result of people chucking paint at the Mona Lisa. They talk about how dumb the people chucking paint are.

The “activists” doing the chucking are either intentionally self-sabotaging, or are doing the slightly harder version of shit-posting on social media. It’s useless, irrelevant, and easily ignored. But it’s also easier than voting, running for office, or getting new laws passed, which would require time, effort and actually being slightly serious about solving problems. So I get why they don’t bother.
Do they really need AI to prevent page breaks in the middle of images, which seems to be the main improvement demonstrated in the screenshots? Most word processing applications have handled this perfectly well for decades.
I got excited when I read "parametric"… thinking it would be akin to what Autocad Inventor had 20+ years ago (setting angles between lines, setting lines to be parallel etc.) since I was recently looking for a simple CAD tool that could do that. Alas.
Todays models don't hold a candle to data, they are better at reading emotions yes but everything else they are horrible at in comparison.

Sci fi writers just assumed that emotions would be hard for computers but apparently it isn't that hard at all compared to rational thinking.
I'm not talking about the map but the search by county feature on the page which shows many stores with significantly lower marketshare than Wegmans by any metric you want to use.
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It’s terrible and I’m currently arranging my escape to Asia. And I’m one of the lucky ones.
Come on, man. There's a plethora of reasons that people of all colors would rather be at Clemson or LSU than Boston College, and funny enough, some of them have to do with "viability" of the locale.
Calling out bad work is career suicide. You are defecting on your tribe. That’s half of the problem.
It's almost as cliche as the Russian gov blaming the west for all their troubles.
What does MtCellEdit set apart from the standard spreadsheet program apart from its lightweightness? Any special features?
Incremental Garbage Collection in Ruby 2.2 (2015)
The most likely reason for war would be to prevent the other country from achieving world domination by means other than war. John von Neumann (who knew a thing or two about game theory) recommended to attack the Soviet Union to prevent it from becoming a nuclear superpower. There is little doubt it would have worked. The powers between the US and China are more balanced now, but the stakes are also higher. A superintelligent weapon would be more powerful than a large amount of nuclear warheads.
Well, yeah, but there are established techniques that are still very finicky. For example, staining frozen sections with fluorescent antibodies can go wrong in many ways and favors the experienced. Electron microscopy can take a lot of training to get right, and also requires careful staining techniques to get meaningful results. RNA work (e.g. FISH) is very sensitive to the presence of RNase which is ubiquitous and difficult to exclude from preparations. So a procedure can be specified that is reproducible but getting the same conditions is more difficult than, say, using Nix.
> Github by itself is not enough; there are orders of magnitude more code outside of it and hence your assumption is wrong. Also most C/C++ folks prefer to keep code local (proprietary and personal reasons) and hence are not sampled.

"you're wrong man, C totally has a bunch of code being used thats private, I swear". you could say that about every single other language. only thing that matter is what can be measured. C is dead man, you are just in denial. its an old crap language that hasn't been relevant in at least a decade. if you need some evidence, just look to the fact that after decades it still doesn't have a package manager, so many people laughably just vendor code when working with C projects.
This incident in 2010: https://www.ensi.ch/de/2010/08/31/kkl-ueberschreitung-der-zu...

Worker touches something he shouldn't. Unlike in Los Alamos he survived though, and didn't loose his hand. With higher voltages such incidents are usually deadly, that's why we were explicitly trained to NOT touch anything, and put our hands behind our back.
I checked Quad9 a while back and wanted it to work for me. My thinking was, that being domiciled in Switzerland, it should be high it comes to privacy. Unfortunately, Quad9 is kind of pretty slow from Asia.

Google is good, but Cloudflare has caught up and is way faster. Personally, I'm happy with NextDNS for now.
Aren't most sanctions due to e.g. the US making it illegal for banks with a US presence to do business with sanctioned states/people? I don't think the US is telling some Polish bank that only operates in Poland and Russia that they need to stop doing business Russia, although they may sanction that bank as well if they don't.

I have no problem with voluntarily complying to GDPR-style privacy regulations because it's the right thing to do. Where I am able to make the decision, we store basically no user data beyond what's required to do whatever the user is trying to do.

My problem is the EU pretending that US companies must be fully GDPR-compliant because someone in France chooses to go to their website. At the end of the day, laws are only laws because you can enforce them. If I had a magic wand and could rob a bank but the police for some reason were unable to arrest me, the fact that bank robbery is illegal is merely semantic at that point. If I chose to flaunt GDPR non-compliance on a US-based website the EU would be impotent to do anything other than block the site, which wouldn't make me any more likely to suddenly become GDPR compliant.

It's a fiction and I probably wouldn't care about it nearly as much except it has essentially ruined the public internet with cookie banners everywhere.

Every time a cookie banner gets displayed on some non-EU resident's personal blog, a puppy dies.
> "Google pushes business decisions under the disguise of 'improvements'"

...while systematically sabotaging design improvements under the disguise of "strategy". Ask people on the Android design team.
How to get started in bot detection and bot development?
I think archive.org holds onto copies of websites, even if they're no longer accusable on the wayback machine, as long as they don't get a direct deletion request.

If a domain gets parked and someone adds a robots.txt that disallows all, past versions become unavailable in most cases. Very annoying.
We need more legislation and legal protections in this area.
Most working mathematicians don't care about pure set theory. They're not thinking about ZFC axioms while they're doing math. This only becomes a topic of conversation because we start getting counterintuitive results down the line, or because of an increasing awareness of mistakes (see video below).

I think this a good video about foundations:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btzE11jNbj4

He makes a point about how different foundational systems can interpret each other, eg Type Theory can be understood in Set Theory and vice versa, etc. I generally encourage people not to worry about these things.
Groq is unpredictable and while it might be fast for some requests about it's super slow or fails on others.

Fastest commercial model is Google's Gemini Flash (predictable speed)