skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ironically, I think it’s this kind of attitude that creates an environment where the parent is rightfully upset.

We are not isolated units. Almost all our choices have impact on others. Lack of a shared culture creates societies where people are rightfully scared what the next isolated unit will do with their sensitive data.

It’s possible to live in a high trust society.
As a scientist, I'm so glad that we're forced to publish all our primary/secondary data along with the publication itself. It's stored in a repository which is "locked" when the DOI (digital object identifier) is generated. Overall, the publishing process is tedious and frustrating, but this extra work is crucial and cases like this makes that very clear. However, in most of the recent cases you didn't even need to look at the data as even the publication itself shows the misconduct.
>I believe you, but how did you engage them?

From the article, it seems the engagement came in the form of DMCA take-down requests from university lawyers... which the publication then largely ignored for a considerable period of time (possibly due to counter-DMCA).

In an unrelated scientific field, EE, I recently witnessed how the DMCA process could be used by an "engineer" to silence criticism of his hybrid vehicle battery "upgrades" [2] — similar to Australian company DCS's snafu/lawsuit [1].

Just disgusting, these vultures that know [how to steal/lie/obfuscate] just well-enough to be dangerous... including how to manipulate our DMCA system to their dishonest advantage.

[1] youtube.com/watch?v=_QNMVMlx48E&pp

[2] theautopian.com/toyota-prius-owners-can-soon-swap-tired-old-batteries-for-sodium-ion-cells-but-drama-rages/
Lol, Spotify has precisely -zero- customers through Apple's IAP.

Tell me, what do you think 65 meetings are needed for when Spotify's dues to Apple are literally just the annual developer account fee.

So no, the EU isn't some bastion of fairness and moral right. By this example they're more corrupt and persuaded by their businesses than the USA.
Having worked at startups, my guess is that 23andMe doesn't even have the data a malicious company would want. Best case someone will buy them with some evil plan and realize the data is useless anyways.
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> My hunch is that in just a few years time single core computers will be almost extinct.

Single core computers are already functionally extinct, but single-threaded programs are not.
That's my bet; and so this 30-ish (I'd give it +/-5) year lag is the same reason that, when Back to the Future came out in the mid-80s, they traveled back in time to the mid-50s; why Forrest Gump centered on the 60s during the 90s; why That 70s Show was popular during the early 00s; why the now already decade-old Stranger Things was set in the 80s; and how 90s nostalgia has become "a thing" semi-recently.

Happy Days was big, and was set in the 50s while being from the mid-70s... but, I'd argue it could have been the early 50s, the show was on for over a decade, and AFAIK it wasn't an immediate hit (though it also didn't have the Fonz at first); also, FWIW, there was also a big nostalgia boom in the 70s that was focussed on the 40s (see the video linked below), so I would just lean on +/-5 years as why we see little discrepancies.

https://youtu.be/l0ZXItfw5r4

"[A behavioral scientist we asked about this] determined that we are not really all that happy about the present, we are terribly uncertain about the future, and when we talk about the old days we always refer to them -- I suppose because of our collective memory -- as the good ol' days; and, I guess, really, when you go back, you really can select the better parts of the good ol' days... like the music." -- a radio executive in the 70s
We have vastly different perceptions of beauty.
I would assume that the refrigerator sized ones are definitely already in submarines.
Because pixel games are an interesting aesthetic that's still pleasing now, whereas 3D games with ten polygons are the same as what we have now, just looking much much worse.

We still get games with "pixel" aesthetics, and they look just as good as Zelda did back in the day. We don't get low-poly games like Tomb Raider 1.
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Only a couple years ago full sequencing was closer to $10,000

Everyone knew price would drop in time, but, assuming you’re correct, it’s amazing to hear that’s happening
The width and count of the SIMD execution units are matched to the load throughput from the L1 cache memory, which is not shared between cores.

Any number of cores with any count and any width of SIMD functional units can reach the maximum throughput, as long as it can be ensured that the data can be found in the L1 cache memories at the right time.

So the limitations on the number of cores and/or SIMD width and count are completely determined by whether in the applications of interest it is possible to bring the data from the main memory to the L1 cache memories at the right times, or not.

This is what must be analyzed in discussions about such limits.
Apple has been talking more about AR and discounting VR (like Meta’s grocery shopping and other “metaverse”) for many years now. Past keynote addresses as well as interviews with Tim Cook show that Apple didn’t consider VR alone as a game changer.

So far, it looks like Meta changed its view from VR-only and got into AR (with the new glasses). Apple is still pushing AR (with some VR).

Will Apple change its mind? Perhaps. That’s a good thing for companies to do in the face of new evidence/reception from the market.
Automatic parallelization, as someone else linked to.

It is another one of those things that many programmers ask "Why hasn't this been tried?" and the answer is, it has, many times over. It just failed so hard and so fast you've never heard of the results. Toy problems speed up by less than you'd hope and real code gets basically nothing. Your intuition says your code is full of parallelization opportunities; your intuition turns out to be wrong. A subset of the general problem that even very experienced developers still never get great at knowing how code will perform without simply runninga profiler.

It has failed hard and fast in languages much friendlier to the process than Python. Proving something is truly parallel-safe in Fortran is hard enough. Proving it in Python is effectively impossible, you just don't know when something is going to dynamically dynamic the dynamics on you.
It's actually quite difficult to get a "single core" container (ie: a container with access to only one logical processor).

When you set "request: 1" in Kubernetes or another container manager, you're saying "give me 1 CPU worth of CPU time" but if the underlying Linux host has 16 logical cores your container will still see them.

Your container is free to use 1/16th of each of them, 100% of one of them, or anything in-between.

You might think this doesn't matter in the end but it can if you have a lot of workloads on that node and those cores are busy. Your single threaded throughout can become quite compromised as a result.
What's "sound on"? The thing on videos?
Matt hates PE firms so much, the only other active member of the WordPress Foundation board, as appointed by Matt is...

... the Managing Partner of one of those evil PE firms.
> Canonical provides the Ubuntu repos that are based on Debian. They don’t freeload.

At least for Ubuntu, the packages they distribute generally don't have the same checksum as Debian, so they're not the same packages (at least as binaries).

Also, "wordpress.org" is hard-coded as the plugin repo source all over WordPress.
Yep, so expect that in 2040 “retro” will mean the iPod and 1st gen iPhone. A working blue and white Mac G4 will be worth a fortune.
> Or the ignition that had to be ripped out to use the usb stick trick?

If by "ripped out," you mean depressing a tab and then pulling it out.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bTeVgfPM0Xw&t=357s
I lack faith in the longevity of laws regarding preexisting conditions, both the one in PPACA and the one in GINA. One vice presidential candidate is currently advocating against continuing the preexisting condition protections. There's too much money in the insurance industry to keep up a bulwark for these protections.
As someone who has been programming since the 1970s, I'll have to admit that I don't get this interest in the early 80s.
Culture of being proud of ignorance is on full display in the replies to my comment, btw.

Exactly the kind of less bright people that I inferred about. People so devoid of common sense, that they utterly reject anyone who applies systematic thinking. Unreal.
I can't respond to the comment above, b/c it's already been flagged, but I just wanted to say that I was surprised with the quality of the output as well.

I know it's not magic. I know it's not sentient. I know it's not perfect. BUT IT'S IMPRESSIVE, and things like this demonstrate the huge leap that has happened in computing possibilities, and I'm frustrated that it gets flagged because some people are triggered by their "AI bad... human good" false dichotomy.

Thank you to the person who posted it.
> Python's threading, multiprocessing, and asyncio paradigms were all developed to get around the limitations of Python's performance issues and the lack of support for multicore.

Threading is literally just Python's multithreading support, using standard OS threads, and async exists for the same reason it exists in a bunch of languages without even a GIL: OS threads have overhead, multiplexing IO-bound work over OS threads is useful.

Only multiprocessing can be construed as having been developed to get around the GIL.
because if they murder someone, they'll be easily traceable if they leave genetic data behind
It remains to be seen whether users want what Microsoft wants.
Prisoners should have access to healthcare and education at a similar level as provided for the general population. Other than security-related cost increases, the government is already bearing those costs.
I don't think it is that simple. For example, take a look at the Connections Museum in Seattle: despite most of the technology being 50-100 years old, a decent bunch of their volunteers are in their 20s! Some people just love the technology itself for what it is.

And honestly, I don't think there's a lot to be nostalgic about with semi-modern tech. The hardware is a bit faster now, but looks and works the same as a machine from 15 years ago. Windows Vista is almost 20 years old by now, and is functionally virtually identical to Windows 11: some stuff got moved around and the whole UI got a dash of paint, that's about it. Games like GTA, CoD and FIFA got flashier graphics, yet are identical gameplay-wise. Want to play something novel like Portal? Just install it on your 2024-era machine via Steam.

People aren't going to be nostalgic about 2000s or 2010s era computing for the same reason very few people are nostalgic about toasters.

There's definitely nostalgia around MP3 players, iPods, or early smartphones, though! Those were still novel, had a lot of variation, and were genuinely world-changing to people.
Well, “great”… I still remember the taste of hairspray.
Isn't that the point that if they couldn't have been fixed that they were problematic in the first place?
The smallest NES games had 16 KiB program ROM and 8 KiB graphics ROM. Super Mario Bros. had 32 KiB program ROM. Some games were as large as 1 MiB.
Supposedly.

I was an Estonian resident a while ago, and I wanted to delete data in my old VK.com account (a Russian company). They didn’t do anything, naturally, so I wrote to Estonian data protection inspector or something. They said that (surprise!) they can’t do anything either.

Things might be better now, but my bet is if you register a company in, say, Seychelles, and your business is purely digital, you can ignore GDPR all you want.

EU can, in theory, tell payment processors to stop working with you, but I haven’t heard of such cases. Even then it won’t help if you don’t sell anything (apart from user data).

Some EU countries have started blocking websites (by spoofing DNS) – this could actually work to put some actual pressure on non-compliant companies, but also is kinda too authoritarian for EU?

Tl;dr: GDPR has good intentions, it just doesn’t work right now if the data processor is not in EU.
Bob Metcalfe on why neural network hardware was not created 50 years ago
On other hand, get to something like Atari and well how many new things is emulating that?
Clojure.gdx: DSL for writing games in Clojure
Under the infallible leadership of Chairman DeSantis, it is the best of all possible worlds.
I wrote a role playing game I called 'Heroes' in the 80s. I should file something.
But typically modular synthesis allows you to modulate almost any parameter
I feel like a related motion could have a transformative effect on how individuals approach and societies react to "ownership" of financed things (e.g., cars and homes).
You are right that it's a limiting factor in general for that use case, just not in the case of this specific chip - this chip has far less cores per lanes, so latency will be the limiting factor. Even then, I assure you that no scientific workload is going to be consuming 40 bits/clock/core. It's just a staggering amount of memory, no correctly written program would hit this, you'd need to have abysmal cache hit ratios.

This processor has two lanes over 4 P-cores. Something like an EPYC-9754 has 12 lanes over 128 cores.
It's a curious thing, though. We have this idea that economic activity with consent is beneficial, and without consent it's theft and harmful. But this is a rule of thumb. The vast majority of things people do are - variously - pointless, inefficient, sentimental, superstitious, idle, crazy, and otherwise indefensible except by the reasoning that it's our right to do what we like with what we own, what we've earned and paid for. This we call wealth, and having it makes us feel happy and secure, but to actually centrally analyze it and assess its usefulness would be a bad thing. That would only make its value evaporate. We want to be free to do dumb things, and not to be told.
stonewalling, using the law as an excuse for noncompliance.
i suspect heavy coercion has occured, its too useful to agencies to let it be deleted.
It's not just people who gave them data who should be worried. If a close relative gave their info to 23andme, they probably have enough data to associate your DNA with that relative. For instance my mom did 23andme and now 50% of my DNA is in this private commercial database without my consent and this data is completely unencumbered by HIPAA privacy restrictions.
DNA replaced latent fingerprints to place individuals at the scene of a crime. We know fingerprints have led to wrongful conviction. Partial DNA profiles can lead prosecutors to individuals who were not involved.

Legal changes that allow insurance companies to use genetic information to increase or deny coverage. Not just to you but your entire lineage.
> Worst case this is a datarace [... w]hat am I missing here?

That the worst case being memory unsafety and a compromised VM is not acceptable? Especially for a language as open to low-skill developers as Python?
The github repository is a godot project. Godot is a game engine. The quickest way is to download godot. Clone the repository and open the folder as a project in godot.
It's because the IBM PC was released in 1981, and over the next several years, as prices came down, steadily overran pretty much every other competing platform and took all the variety out of the market from a historical perspective. If you're interested in 40-year-old computers you could have a collection with a z80 machine, a 68k, a 6502, a tms9918a, or an 8088, and that's just variety in CPU architecture, and just some of the popular ones. Everything else was the wild west, too. Go backward too many years from there, though and the home and small business computer manufacturing industry just isn't as big, and specimens become an order of magnitude harder to find that aren't just glorified calculators. You have to put up a lot of cash comparatively to get the fun part of the hobby of owning and using them yourself over just reading about them, which you can do for any machine in any era, plus they're harder to service. If you're collecting 20 years later, though, things had gotten so much more standardized and developed that it feels almost like a different hobby. Most all of what you'll buy will be some variant of the HP versus Emachines dichotony: either an expensive IBM PC Compatible using all the common standards, with a high-tier x86 that mostly does what they all do but faster, and maybe an add-in specialty card, or a cheap IBM PC Compatible with some of the common standards, some things shaved off for cost, a low-tier x86 processor that's just more frustrating than your fast one, and a motherboard covered in cheap components that you have to solder in replacements for before it even works again.

I've painted a bit of a skewed picture here, but not by much. You can still collect later computers, and people do, but it's understandable that most people are drawn to the "cambrian explosion" of the whole line of history, no? Variety is the spice of life, and plenty its staple food to be spiced.
This is awesome to see! Much more progress than I have made on my gplv3 version for my system. (the original intention was to replicate Blackwake style ship combat)

For what it's worth, the real difficulty in gameplay is getting physics objects to interact with the waves properly.
No because velocity only makes sense as relative to something else. There’s no ‘fixed points’ in the universe

This device will track acceleration rather than velocity
Up until a couple of days ago, when Matt retroactively changed (which is going to be hard to make stick) the trademark license explicitly permitted the use of "WP" by anyone and everyone.

The trademark license also cannot prohibit nominative usage - that's protected. If you actually, factually offer WordPress hosting, you can say so, in those exact words. You may need to call out somewhere (and WPEngine does) "WordPress is a trademark of the WPF", but no license can prohibit you saying so. What they can't (but don't) say, is anything that implies that they are WordPress - which is exactly why Matt is trying to make some big deal in his head that "my mom thought they were us" (while ignoring the elephant in the room of "Well, wordpress.COM isn't WordPress, either, it's just a licensee", because of course, nobody could be confused by that).
> shadow account

That sounds like a GDPR breach to me, you should report it to the ICO (if you’re in the UK, not sure what the EU equivalent is).

They should not hold data on any UK or EU citizen without the citizen’s consent.
The geometry package (LaTeX) [pdf]
Gzip vs. Brotli: Comparing Compression Techniques
We can only use the laws that exist. Bad actors will act bad regardless.
It's written in the website. Read the 3rd paragraph for all information you need.
Insurance companies denying coverage, or charging more.

Being added to a database searched by police - this has its own hazards even for non criminals.

There are certainly other possibilities, but once the cat is out of the bag you can't avoid them.
Yeah, Atari was too early so it didn't look good, so nobody wants to play those simplistic games.
To your point about perishables, services like hellofresh are doing just fine shipping perishables in a sealed cardboard box with an "icepack" (not really ice). With that in mind, I don't understand why the logistics Amazon has achieved with their warehouses and delivery drivers couldn't work for grocery. Unlike hellofresh, if they can re-fit their vans, they can do better and cheaper with less spoiled food. Amazon's idea of a grocery store where you don't have to check out (they use cameras+ML) was a good start but imagine if customers could use the same system to pick items in their warehouse instead, and amazon workers and/or machines select and pack them in a cooled box and deliver it same day just like they do with packages.

Existing grocery chains don't want to undercut their brick and mortar business, so they keep trying to make delivery a side hustle. The taxi and restaurant industry did the same thing and failed.

Americans are complaining a lot about groceries and grocery chains price gouging. And you also have the environmental benefits as well as societal benefits such as elimination of food deserts.
There is a cost-quality tradeoff companies are willing to make for AI model training using synthetic data. It shows up fairly often with AI research labs and their papers. There are also upcoming tools that remove the noise that would trip up some advanced models during annotation. Knowing this, I don't think the "human-labeled data is better" argument will last that long.
Um, no? The MBP has fans? The base level M2 in a MacBook Air is passively cooled and thermal throttles very aggressively when you push it.
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For the first two questions I wouldn't think so because it detects acceleration. But I also only have a high school level of physics knowledge so maybe I'm wrong.
Godot itself is open source, which I think has brought a strong community of people to it. My mega-big-ultra project I've been working on since 2013 would be nowhere near as close to where it is now (close to launching crowdfunding/alpha) if I hadn't transitioned to Godot! (I was fighting the UE4 system from the days when it was $20/mo, we linux people really got dealt dirty by Tim Sweeny, with lots of empty promises for linux support)
Relearning is fine if that’s on the way to a new stable state, but I just don’t see that happening. The fact that people are discussing the best pdf reader after like 2+ decades of widespread usage, or the fact that signing a pdf often means rebooting into a different OS or using a cloud service that just wants a look at what kind of stuff you’re signing just totally destroys the idea that this tech is working for us.

Further, does anyone believe that pdfs are going to fix something like textbook costs? You will still pay too much for something that you don’t really own now and cannot share or loan out, etc. Savings for the publisher or distributor cabals are not going to find their way to end users, or if they do then this will certainly be a temporary situation. They already know how much they can charge and get away with it, so…

I’m far from a Luddite, but just know that tech is great to the extent that it gets out of the way and lets us focus on things we care about. Corporate tech is the opposite though, because it always wants engagement, feeding, maintenance. PDFs and chrome books that empty out your backpack might look like a convenience for students but who really benefits? The people that push Chromebooks get a captive audience of tax payers and children who are future android fans, the distributors that can empty their warehouses and fire a forklift driver, etc.

Business as usual.. everyone should think critically about it when someone is telling them “these changes are for your own good”.
I asked it all sorts of specifics about how to use my esp32 and it does surprisingly well
HIPAA is not a joke, employees can be held personally liable for breeches. At Helix we take HIPAA very seriously
Awesome thanks for providing a reference!
Your comment adds nothing to the discussion, reveals your prejudice against social science, and could be copied and pasted anytime a non-rigorous subject comes up. I'm actually interested in criticisms of this work, but your comment doesn't even rise to that level.