skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While we don't have Ladbrokes, we do have a number of different companies running gambling halls, with slot machines and sports gambling. Those should be outlawed, there is nothing good about them, they provide absolutely no value to society. I'm fine with people being able to place a small bet on their local football team and I'm fine with casinos where people make it an occasional event, similar to going to the movies or seeing a concert.

But these commercial gambling halls, it's not some well of person who decides to pop in Friday afternoon and maybe lose €20 on a crazy sports bet or the slot machines and then go home and have dinner with the family. It is the some of our weakest and loneliest people who line up, waiting for the place to open and then spend the next 10 hours there. There are places who will provide free food for their best "customers", to ensure that they don't leave. We're transferring money from social welfare to private companies, using addiction and loneliness.

As for sports, I don't think professional soccer would like a ban on sports gambling. The revenue and salaries it have generated are to high for them to walk away now. It is hurting the sport though, in the sense that the community and local fans have been pushed out long ago. A local football club had to leave the premier league a few years ago, as a result they could no longer charge insane prices for tickets at the stadium. The result: They had more fans come to every single game, they sold more season passes, because the fans still wanted to see the games, and now they could afford it. Sure, they made less money, but the connection to the fans and the city grow.
Maybe a fine approach for the individual, but then the black market, and its general disregard for the law or the well being of others, comes along with them.
I sometimes do a port scan when I am in a foreign network.

What I find interesting is that people generally seem to not know that 0.0.0.0 means "all interfaces" and have a lot of stuff running and accessible from the network. I've seen developers running their live reload server, different software (i.e. syncthing), webservers, even databases (someone running postgres on their laptop)! So, I've long thought that this is the part that actually confuses people and it even happens to otherwise technologically competent people.

I also have often run into software where configuring the default listen address and port seemed to be way harder than it should, sometimes even requiring changes in the source code. So, I really think we need to start shipping some kind of client side firewall with a good UX by default (something like little snitch?).
“Get” sounds good to me. I’ll know not to get any games that have “Get” button. Hopefully this law spreads to Steam across the board so that people outside of California can also benefit from it.
Sure sports gambling ruins some lives. So do alcohol, fast food, you name it.
Does this mean all of those should be forbidden?

In the end these things are a trade-off: a very large part of the population has no problems with them and enjoys being able to gamble/drink or eat. A small portion does have serious problems.

Should these people be protected against themselves, at the price of forbidden most people their little pleasure? Personally, I think not.
uops.info's measurements show 'inc r64', interleaved with 'movsxd' instructions, still having zero latency[0], so it can't be just merging the immediates of successive increments (or there's additional fusion happening). Plain unrolled 'inc r64' shows an average latency of 0.2 cycles, i.e. 5 dependent ops per cycle. And 0.2 used ports per instr [1].

Similarly, 'lea r64, [r64+8]' (imm8) and 'lea r64, [r64+128]' (imm32) and 'add r64, 2' (imm8); but not 'add r64, 0x1000000' (imm32).

[0]: https://uops.info/html-lat/ADL-P/INC_R64-Measurements.html

[1]: https://uops.info/html-tp/ADL-P/INC_R64-Measurements.html
It’s called an analogy, and it was made specifically to address a point you made (which is why I quoted you, not them).
They're "creatively connecting" to an autotuned version of a human, not to a "flawed Bob Dylan"
First gen models trained on books directly. Latest Phi distilled textbook-like knowledge down from disparate sources to create novel training data. They are all fairly open about this change and some are even allowing upset publishers to confirm that their work wasn't used directly. So stones and ionized water go in the soup.
I have a graduate degree in neuroscience, worked with colleagues who focused on psychopharmacology for their research, and many of my friends and neighbors are biologists of various stripes, including still-active neuroscientists, as well as epidemiologists, and clinicians. They all agree cannabis is fairly harmless, and would outright laugh you out of the room if you compared its negative effects (either in the individual or to society) to alcohol.

Clinicians aren’t the ones to go to for harms anyways, they’re largely not doing the research at any level.
> If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right

- Arthur C. Clarke

Geoffrey Hinton is a 76 year old Turing Award* winner. What more do you want?

*Corrected by kranner
My guess is that -30- was first chosen as the typographic representation of the end of a floral ornament used to signify the end of a text.

For example, check these:

https://www.freepik.com/free-photos-vectors/text-end-divider...

Several of the ornament endings can be stylized as ---3O-
Need more free training data!

The most annoying part is the times outlook automatically updated to new outlook, of which I was not notified and could not decline. I guess it vacuumed up all my email data those times, even though I “reverted” to legacy outlook
Sunsetting Chartable
As usual, LLMs are an excellent tool when you already have a decent understanding of the field you're interested in using them in. Which is not the case of people posting in social media or creating their first programs. That's where the dullness and noise come from.

The noise ground has been elevated 100x by LLMs. It was already bad before but it's accelerated the trend.

So, yes, we should have never been trusting anything online but before LLMs we could rely on our brains to quickly identify the bad. Nowadays, it's exhausting. Maybe we need a LLM trained on spotting LLMs.

This month, I, with decades of experience, used Claude Dev as an experiment to create a small automation tool. After countless manual fixes, it finally worked and I was happy. Until I gave thr whole thing a decent look again and realized what a piece of garbage I had created. It's exhausting to be on the lookout for these situations. I prefer to think things through myself, it's a more rewarding experience with better end results anyway.
My assumption is that because you can easily do this through software when using UUID and probably a lot do it like this, the pressure of supporting it, is a lot lower than expected.
Sure, but it's not analogous, because your scenario has significant downside.

A person with the correct skills can choose to work at a charity or at say, a well paying software job. One choice gives them more money than the other and there is no luck involved.

This is self evident really, I assume that you also do know this, but then it's confusing when people focus on luck as if most people are even playing the game at all.

edit: Actually, that's probably a better way of framing it. The upper bound on wealth for a person is very much luck based, but almost no-one is operating remotely close to their skill cap, so in practice it doesn't matter that much.

You might need luck to make a billion, but to make a few million just needs dedication barring some obvious handicaps such as e.g. being born in North Korea.
I think the safest option would be not to connect the TV to the internet and buy an OpenSource smart box for connections. If anybody has suggestions for smart boxes, please reply here!
Brazil took long to allow it and now its spreading like wildfire!

In September, the central bank released a report revealing that in August, 20% of Bolsa Família — the largest cash transfer program for Brazil's poorest citizens — was spent on betting.

Out of the 20 million recipients, 5 million placed bets during that month, amounting to 2 billion reais (approximately $450 million) spent in just one month by the most vulnerable Brazilians.

Every day we are reading reports of family loosing their cars and saving because kids were betting, which is crazy.

https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/business/2024...
> They can ignore it because they never agreed to it in the first place.

They did by accessing and copying the code. Same as a human cloning a repository and using it's content or someone accessing a website with Terms of Use.

No signed contract is needed here.
Finally a valid reason for those 1000W platinum PSUs.

Their highest efficiency is at 80-90% utilization, but the efficiency drops off when underutilized.
Although there are potential upsides too.
Like I said, as long as you're not flying around- moving within it, then your inner ear doesn't care. Turning your head doesn't count. I don't see a need in a code-in-VR system to move like that. And most VR games solve this my having your teleport instead of translate.

I think the barf routine is because when your brain senses your vestibular system not working it thinks "oops I must be poisoned" and tries to make you throw up.
I keep my DVDs on those spindles that recordable discs come on. I take the paper and the disc, and throw out the case unless it's a really special one.
Heartbleed is a memory leak, this is a full RCE without user action - RCE obviously implies full information leakage, and more. Specifically the execution is delayed until the next time a user uses their own printer (which config has been substituted by the attacker). And the vulnerability is in cupsd-browser, not cupsd.

The author may have some attitude problem, but this is a legit Big Deal vulnerability.
First I thought, "S%%t, I am hacked," because I know in Fedora CUPSD is installed by default and runs at boot.

> /etc/cups/cupsd.conf

> Listen localhost:631

After some checking, I found out by default CUPSD only runs at localhost. So, yeah, you don't have to worry about this in Fedora either.
>> Unfortunately, our culture seems to have two settings: legal ban; full celebratory embrace.

If something is legally banned, there's generally a black market for it. Once it's legalized, the bar for consumers to enter the market is nearly eliminated; large companies can pour a ton of money into gaining new users in the legal market and moving users from the black market to the legal market.

>> Should there be half a dozen betting ads every hour on primetime TV? No, that’s crazy too.

It's even worse than that. There are betting ads during the actual game broadcast. Commentators read ads listing various odds on the current game. Betting companies sponsor a ton of stuff related to the teams and leagues. ESPN (Disney) both broadcasts games and runs its own sportsbook. You can't watch a sports game without hearing about betting on that game itself, much less sports in general.
Nvidia B100 has 192G VRAM.
None of which are causal associations. Given the millennia-long history of cannabis use to self-medicate, and lack of evidence (not without trying!) for a biological mechanism of any of this, it’s probably safe to assume this is largely people with an issue (or a proto-issue) self-medicating.
Not a fan of the term “normies” but as a Tor “normie” isn’t Tor traffic identifiable and wouldn’t using it make it easier for authorities to focus on you?
Reiteration as an Important Component of Communications (2008)
Hopefully there's nothing lurking in libcups2, https://packages.debian.org/sid/libcups2
This is essentially what macOS's Fusion Drive is/was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_Drive

I'm unsure if they ship any macs with these anymore. I guess not since the Apple Sillicon iMacs don't have spinning hard drives?
I think the best equilibrium is probably when gambling is illegal but unofficially tolerated as long as it doesn't cause too many problems.

Some people are going to gamble, but it should be dangerous. You should have to deal with the mob. It should reflect the risk inherent in gambling. It should be understood as a kind of shady and degenerate thing to do, not like a normal hobby.
> you kind of deserve to get owned, right?

The people who have no idea what services are listening on their machine due to some default that someone else decided upon absolutely deserve to get owned, yes, because that's a totally reasonable mentality to have.

Sarcasm in case it wasn't obvious. At what point did it just become normal to be so user-hostile?
I have been using Microsoft Flight Simulator from the earliest versions (maybe 2.0 or something) through all the versions afterwards.

I got to a juncture in my life where I was wondering what I should do. I thought "well, I love flight simulators, let's take a introductory flight".

Drove to my local airport, flew it. I was already familiar with all the controls thanks to the MSFS.

That flight had me convinced. Got my PPL, went to college and got my commercial and all the other ratings, and that was all due to one thing ...

Microsoft Flight Simulator

This new version is far beyond anything I would have imagined it would get to. I thought once it died, it was gone.

Oh no, they brought it back ... and they were serious.
You can get Macs with 192GB of UMA, so maybe 180GBusable VRAM. But of course the GPU horsepower is much less tban an A100.
The context is important with this one. For your web server or application server. You are probably fine.

On other hand if you run any sort of "Unix" based infra for desktops and like, there is real potential risks specially if printers are part of this.

This is more so an IT problem, not web server problem and there it can be a real deal, with possible real impacts down the line.
Does the "correction" you speak of involve business failures and acquisitions until a monopoly does exist?
OK, I'll correct you :)

This is the quintessential wrong way of thinking about computers and security. It's the equivalent of the "OK, but.. [insert BS argument trying to deflect]". There is no "but", "Your" system has a bug/vulnerability/non-compliance - FIX it and help the users/customers instead of waterboarding us with pseudo-moralistic quips about "deserving" and whatnot.

The Universe is quite a big place with realities, situations and contexts you wouldn't even fathom. Be humble.

( Hope I wasn't too blunt :) )
Other replies have mentioned the positive reasons why smoking declined, and I'd like to believe that because I want to imitate it in my country. But in my most skeptical heart I suspect it's because of marijuana and vape instead. I haven't researched further to support this hypothesis but the first Google hit I get looks confirming.
this article appears to be geared towards linux on a server rather than a desktop
That's why these days even TVs have cookie banners.

Most of them by default push you to accept and I guess that they are illegal under GDPR (the same happens on the web) but until we start seeing fine going down heavily the situation won't change.
How about alcohol consumption? That surely ruins a lot of lives as well and causes loads of health issues.
CUPS isn't required for printing on *nix, and even if you use it, cups-browsed isn't required. If you need to "discover" the printers on your network, something is probably wrong, as in my experience public printers are always labeled with the relevant information and home printers can print or show that information on their menus.
Capture everything, analyze little. Make Andy Jassy even richer.

Snark aside, it's like today's data scientists never heard of statistical sampling.
not really

I mean it depends a bit on your living situation.

I mean at jobs (e.g. self employed) you have to sometimes print things I guess often enough for it to be a viable attack.

And as a student if you might also sometimes prefer paper, but most universities have printer pools you mostly use over USB and that is just way cheaper then your own printer.

Sure if you play games like D&D you might print character sheets (or templates for them) but how often?

I think the last time I had to print anything was when I sold my car like 7 years ago (doesn't make sense to own one where I live).

And sure not everyone will have that experience but the combination of run Linux + has network discovery enabled and "publicly" accessible (i.e. no strict firewall) + uses a printer over the network before it's fixed + gets attacked with it seems not "that" high, actually as long as the fix is delivered quite fast and it wasn't abused for years it seem quite unlikely.
They're not connecting to the autotune, but to the artist. People have a lot of opinions about Taylor Swift's music but "not being personal enough" is definitely not a common one.

If you wanna advocate for unplugged music being more gratifying, I don't disagree, but acting like the autotune is what people are getting out of Taylor Swift songs is goofy.
Sort of works for inference, but not for anything else. For now, I bought a 4x4090 workstation… but I am crying how power-inefficient it is.
90% of projects are boring and somewhat repeatable. I've used it for generating codegen tools (https://github.com/codespin-ai/codespin), vscode plugins (https://github.com/codespin-ai/codespin-vscode-plugin), servers in .Net (https://github.com/lesser-app/tankman), and in about a dozen other work projects over the past year.

> Besides, I'd rather spent hours on writing a code, than trying to explain a stupid bot what I want and reshape it later anyway.

I have other things to do with my hours. If something gets me what I want in minutes, I'll take it.
Yeah bro but I read in twitter that I can just write "Code a health care app make it very profitable!" to AI and be billionaire!
I have used Vaadin and Streamlit for various small/medium projects. Apart from the obvious benefit of not having to touch JS(:D), the benefit is really, well, one codebase, one language for everything: There is no context switch, no need for various skillsets (to some extent), no need for explicitly designing/thinking about client-server communication, doing everything in the language you (or the team) know best, ...

Of course, your argument is totally valid and if things get complicated or you need to "dig deep" you have to make the separation.
Your off hand comment about spits and slurs makes me realize people all consume alcohol very differently. I feel like anytime there is a conversation around alcohol, dose needs to be stated. Obviously it's going to be hard to have deep conversations with someone who has had 12 beers, but someone who has had a drink or two, lowering their inhibitions, will likely open up more.
Independent verification is always good however not always possible and practical. At complex levels of life we have to just trust underlying processes work, usually until something fails.

I don’t go double checking civil engineers work (nor could I) for every bridge I drive over. I don’t check inspection records to make sure it was recent and proper actions were taken. I trust that enough people involved know what they’re doing with good enough intent that I can take my 20 second trip over it in my car without batting an eye.

If I had to verify everything, I’m not sure how I’d get across many bridges on a daily basis. Or use any major infrastructure in general where my life might be at risk. And those are cases where it’s very important to be done right, if it’s some accounting form or generated video on the internet… I have even less time to be concerned from a practical standpoint. Having the skills to do it should I want or need to are good and everyone should have these but we’re at a point in society we really have to outsource trust in a lot of cases.

This is true everywhere, even in science which these days many people just trust in ways akin to faith in some cases, and I don’t see anyway around that. The key being that all the information should exist to be able to independently verify something but from a practice standpoint it’s rarely viable.
As many have noted, not everyone aspires to wealth; a lot of people are happy with having just enough to live comfortably and go on vacation a couple times a year.

The way I see it, (though I could be mistaken), wealth empowers individuals to engage in pursuits they value without external concerns.

Exceptionally talented professionals (e.g., nurses, doctors, scientists, lawyers) are quite frequently rendered incapable of addressing issues they are passionate about due to financial constraints or bureaucratic indifference. Essentially, financial resources enable one to transition from being merely aspirational to being influential (contingent, of course, on the specific situation). Consider activism: many people strive to support their communities, but often, funding for such initiatives is lacking.
They are not shipping in any reasonable quantity. They are also 2x96GB.
That attitude was popular in the 90s but any definition of “sensibly configured” in this century involves a firewall.

The reason is that even experts make mistakes, get busy, or rely on assumptions which turn out to be incorrect. For example, you thought your service which uses strong authentication and encryption was safe to expose – and then Heartbleed or RegreSSHion happened. If you restricted ingress, you slept calmly. If you had it open, you had an emergency rush to patch and look for signs of compromise.
Eliza did not pass Turing tests in any reasonable capacity. It took anyone 10 seconds to realize what it was doing; no one was fooled by it. The comparison to modern LLMs is preposterous.

GP doesn't have to defend their position. They like something, and they don't shut up about it even though it makes a bunch of haters mad. That's good; no defense required. On the contrary: those who get mad need to defend themselves.
Do you really think out of the millions upon millions of installations with wildly diverse contexts and situations all the people including the unsuspecting users CHOOSE to "expose the printer to a public IP"?

Seriously, how are we still at this level of discussion?
I think one of the culprits of this bad default is docker containers.

Since docker by default runs your code in a separate network namespace, in that context '127.0.0.1' really means "accessible inside the container, effectively nowhere", and '0.0.0.0' means "accessible only on the local machine" (except that's not actually true, check out this open issue lol https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/22054 )

I think that's one reason for some software's default of 0.0.0.0 - people are cargo-culting from stuff that runs in docker and/or people want their stuff to run in docker and work by default.

This is only going to get worse as snap and flatpack become more common, since they have the same property.
Emacs implements something like this too! It’s pretty useful to be able to just enter a tarball and work with the files in it.

It looks like https://github.com/cybernoid/archivemount provides a similar experience in the shell, although one would have to mount the file first.
In the UK, and I'm guessing a lot of other parts of the world, many people live in apartments with only a single entrance door.

Pets which require medications on a schedule might become very ill without them. But yes, I suspect that any country where the weather is enough to kill your pet should probably be running AC/heat on a thermostat instead of manual. (Here in the UK, we rarely have AC, and a lot of people just put on heat manually when they're cold - but our weather is pretty mild.)

Personally I would never rely on a phone to get me into a house or vehicle. Mine runs out of battery too frequently. I've already been bitten by not being able to take a bus because my phone died and I couldn't pay for a ticket.