skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Equating TikTok to Rock 'n Roll, TV, Video Games, and Heavy Metal is a bit reductionist don't you think?

Numerous studies have been done on the effect of "dopamine hijacking" that is common to platforms like TikTok. The effect this has had on children's attention span has been measured. In particular CocoMelon has been at the forefront of this. Colloquially this has been called "brainrot". The pacing, colors, frame timing, etc are all studied in a lab to achieve maximum engagement. This isn't necessarily a problem for content designed for adults. Ostensibly, adults can make a choice whether or not to consume addictive entertainment. However, for children this type of material is sold as educational. There's a direct line from attention span to screen time that is suspected to be the reason for poor performance in Gen Alpha.

However, anyone, child or adult, that has spent time on these platforms has found themselves locked into a doom-scrolling loop.

This is all so well known at this point it's common knowledge. The only people shilling for this content to be unmoderated work for these companies themselves.

If we are to say TikTok is a moral panic than we should also say cigarettes are a moral panic. After-all, all you "have to do" is stop smoking. No harder than stopping scrolling. I would challenge you to sit through CoCoMelon or "gagagadee Chicken Nugget" and determine if it's a moral panic or a crisis originating from terrible parenting. Hell, just click over to Youtube Kids and leave it playing for a while. It will quickly diverge into brightly color, precisely measured, loud, fast paced, and nonsensical videos labeled as "educational".

> All the while these people never seem to get too concerned that a significant percentage of American children only get fed at school by the school, don't receive proper medical care and have very little wherewithal to get an education beyond high school

FWIW this is a classic misdirection. I care simultaneously about these things. But the lowest hanging fruit that I personally can understand is preventing our kids from watching the social media equivalent of a gallon of ice cream. There wouldn't be a "moral panic" if kids were binge watching full length episodes of Nova and National Geographic.
As I get it, it's a federal requirement for a lab to keep genetic data for a while with no way for the specimen to do anything about it.

So, it's a CDC thing, not exactly 23AndMe fault. Save for the fact that 23AndMe advertised it's easy to delete data on their front page, but with the small print somewhere out there that you can't really delete the actual data. To be entirely fair, it was there somewhere (I think in their help center in some article about data deletion process) when I went to check out their privacy policies - because that's how I learned about it and reconsidered buying a test, but I guess most people don't read the small print until the deed is done.

My understanding is that they will delete your data on their side (leaving only a few things like payment receipts), but the lab won't because they legally can't.
But drones can't even sustain that for minutes
The biggest argument for using cosine similarity is that hardware, software, and research have co-evolved to make it fast, robust, and well-understood.

As one simple example of that, most modern compilers can recognize false data dependency sharing and add some extra accumulators to the generated assembly for anything that looks like an inner product. For even slightly more complicated patterns though, that optimization is unlikely to have been implemented at a compiler level, so you'll have to do it yourself.

The author benchmarked, among other things, chebyshev distance. Here's two example (zig) implementations, one with an extra accumulator to avoid false sharing, making it better than 3x faster on my machine.

// 742ns per vec (1536-dim random uniform data)
fn chebyshev_scalar_traditional_ignoreerrs(F: type, a: []const F, b: []const F) F {
@setFloatMode(.optimized);

var result: F = 0;

for (a, b) |_a, _b|
result = @max(result, @abs(_a - _b));

return result;
}

// 226ns per vec (1536-dim random uniform data)
fn chebyshev_scalar_sharing2_ignoreerrs(F: type, a: []const F, b: []const F) F {
@setFloatMode(.optimized);

var result0: F = 0;
var result1: F = 0;

var i: usize = 0;

while (i + 1 < a.len) : (i += 2) {
result0 = @max(result0, @abs(a[i] - b[i]));
result1 = @max(result1, @abs(a[i + 1] - b[i + 1]));
}

if (a.len & 1 == 1)
result0 = @max(result0, @abs(a[a.len - 1] - b[b.len - 1]));

return @max(result0, result1);
}

This is apples to oranges, but if their chebyshev implementation were 3x faster after jitting it'd handily beat everything else.
Uh 3 years of 22% inflation (give or take) doubles prices. When you're a young kid it sure would seem like everything got twice as expensive really fast, especially since most stores and manufacturers aren't raising prices every week to track inflation.

If I estimate the 10-ish years of 20% +/- 3% that's around 7x which I can't imagine.
The way I read it, and I may be wrong, is that they will retain the _interpreted_ results, but now the raw and complete data.
This practical idea of spreadsheet has much more impact to society than many innovation. Nobel prize worthy.
Yeah okay, but that doesn't mean _cameras_ are bad (which, to be fair, they are in Teslas case), it means the algorithms feeding on them are.
Why the 1980s?

You don’t have to go back that far for less tech or tracking.
I did a re-write of a website for a highly-rated charity organization. They solicit monies to fund orphanages, build homes, and sponsor individual children in one specific country.

They were changing processors and backend CRMs and it was a big project that I handled as the only dev in a small shop.

The transition went well and I didn't disrupt the millions in donations the site takes in each year.

My work was small compared to that of the volunteers in the organization, though. It's cool to see what you can do with code--really some powerful leverage we wield.
TLDR: its a dead guy
That doesn't mean sharing them online with whoever buys the data is good... Every time I change my clothes at the gym I'm fully naked, I wouldn't want that to be showed on live TV, it's really not that hard of a nuance to grasp
I understand the sentiment but you may be overlooking how you and your interests can change as the company scales. The version of you running the 200 person company probably looks different from the seed stage version and won't want to quit at 250. That said, if you don't want to have a bunch of people working for you, it seems kind of unlikely that you'll find yourself in that position.
This tech does open up the plausible defense to just deny anything said not face to face though.
WGSL seems to inherit a more rust-like syntax versus GLSL which is similar to C.

I think the major advantage of WebGPU over WebGL2/OpenGLES3 is that you can write GPGPU shaders more easily versus OpenGL's Transform Feedback system which is very clunky. But this comes at a tradeoff of compatibility for the time being.

But in the rust ecosystem at least, WebGPU has taken the role of OpenGLES with libraries like wgpu becoming dominant.
Economies are a naturally occurring phenomenon and also a prerequisite for a functioning society. No group makes a decision to “create” the economy (especially not the government).
Yes, but these biometrics does not automatically come with your social information, and quite hard to sell.
It's true when you advertise the accomplishment as being played on "NES Tetris". The vast majority of readers will assume this means it was played on the original NES Tetris. This kind of misreporting is especially bad because it will subtract from any level overflow achieved on the original game. Despite being a much more difficult task, if somebody does manage it, it will get less attention because the reporters made it seem like it already happened.
Ish, take a look at the curves of the spiking neural network function, they are very different from the deep learning nets. When we "model" biological neural nets in code, we are essentially coming up with a mathematical transfer function that can replicate the chemical gradient changes and electrical impulses of a real neuron. Imagine playing a 3D computer game like Minecraft, the physics is not perfect but they are "close enough" to the real world.
I believe this is part of the argument in the post - the "architecture" of the nervous system (and the organism it is an inseparable part of) is itself largely a product of evolution. Its already optimized to deal with the challenges the organism needs to survive/reproduce, and depending on the organism, with little or even no data.
You seem to be very intent on insisting that anyone can make a game engine (which I mostly agree with). But, it’s not easy, even when you use a pre-existing framework like Raylib. I’ve used frameworks like Monogame, I’ve used bare metal C++ and OpenGL, I’ve used the HTML canvas and JavaScript, I’ve built physics engines and used physics engines like Box2D or Havok. What I’m trying to say is I’ve done a lot of game engine-y stuff at various levels of the stack.

I’ve _also_ used Godot, Unity and Unreal. There’s a tremendous difference. I just started learning Godot a week ago and I already have the core game loop practically done in a new RPG. Sure I could’ve done the same thing using C++ and OpenGL (or Raylib or something), but I would be missing out on a lot of useful things that _just work_. Godot’s BBCode text labels are amazing and give my dialogue boxes a whole bunch of character out of the box. The tilemap editor allows me to just build my levels without having to build an editor first. The lighting system can add a ton of visual polish with very little effort on my part.

I’ve also dabbled in VR games with Unreal. And I’ve tried making some simple 3D games in Unity. Is this all possible without those engines? Yea. Would I have been able to experiment with the kinds of tech I got to play with if I made it all myself from scratch? I doubt it (not because I couldn’t do it, I just don’t have the time).

Another thing to consider is porting your game to different platforms! There’s a whole lot of variability in what kind of support you’ll get for that with something you made yourself or a framework like Raylib.

Anyways, from someone who has experienced both sides of the coin, you’ll end up fighting with the engine either way ;) There’s nothing wrong with using a general purpose engine.
Fast CT technology can create scans in 0.1 seconds
Deadspin loses bid to toss defamation suit over accusing Chiefs fan of racism
Goodbye Windows 7
Fun fact: That was one of James Cameron's first gigs.
Or toothpath dynamic.
Not sure I understand the point you’re trying to make.

Regardless of the history, it’s a big issue that requires a massive effort to solve.
Breaking Down the Black Box (2019)
I also recently volunteered to do a digital project for a volunteer group I'm part of. I built a feature for their website that shows local River levels in a color-coded manner to determine if it's a good time to float or not.

The USGS data is hard to read, this makes it easier.
Obstacles: Mine always get stuck under the toilet because it almost fits and it's a very oblique angle
MDM does not imply surveillance. I wouldn't use it if it did. It does mean I can enforce full disk encryption and remotely wipe a machine if it is stolen, though.
What Is Responsible Disclosure?
I just dropped support for Android on my app. From now on it will be iOS only. That’s where all the users willing to pay for apps seem to be anyway any dealing with Google bureaucracy just isn’t worth it.
Samsung quits updating Galaxy Z Fold 2 that came out in 2020 for $2k
LVGL: Open-Source Embedded Graphics Library for UIs on Any Hardware
I’m a bit disappointed the mechanism to exfiltrate data is based on sharing the USB between an internet-connected and air gapped devices. It would have been cool if it used some other side channel like acoustic signals.
If the Django Software Foundation had $1M
The Mental Mapping from Annual to Monthly and Usage-Based SaaS Metrics
I am surprised it passed fire safety inspections when I see the amount of fire safety that is done on new tunnels here in Switzerland. From pressurized evacuation tunnels to smoke evacuation system and all the testing before opening.
Nothing stops them, some people do do that. Two examples that come to mind are Aella's research on fetishes[1] and Scott Alexander's research on birth order effects[2]. But you don't get academic credibility by publishing online without peer review, and it's much harder to get university funding.

[1] https://aella.substack.com/p/fetish-tabooness-vs-popularity

[2] https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/01/08/fight-me-psychologists...
Thunderbird is also a common deity in Pacific Northwest native mythology. The Seattle area AHL hockey team is the Thunderbirds. As is the UBC Football team.
Found the system admin
I certainly won't be first in line for that beer, but I'd wager that from a hygiene perspective they're cleaner than the door. It takes surprisingly little to sanitize dishes; that 3 part system is basically lightly scrubbing twice, and then either using a sanitizer or 30 seconds or more in water over 171F.

From a health perspective, I'd be more worried about the leftover sanitizer in the water in the glass. Bleach is pretty common, and it's honestly a tossup whether I'd rather drink someone else's dregs or bleach. It's probably the dregs, I'll take a stomach flu over melting my stomach lining with chronic low-grade bleach exposure.
The fact that people will disagree about what's political and what isn't is precisely why censorship, in general, is illegal. Because when people have power over others (including censorship power) it's guaranteed they'll abuse it, even if simply by being convinced their own interpretation of reality is correct.
Is this because these early computers were more often used to keep tabs and sort things (put things in order) rather than merely compute things?

(I'm aware that in order to perform those tasks the processing unit will also have to perform arithmetic operations)
LLMs as Markov Chains
I mean both T2 (which I meant by hardware security) and ARM hardware (which means that it relies on either the ARM CPU itself or the way it functions or is implemented). Features like iPhone mirroring apparently rely on hardware support on macOS.
Absolutely true. Italians love selling the story of how corrupted their country is. Despite it having roots in reality, it's no worse than most other eu countries.
> a big frontend component that loads as a Single Page Application and then performs navigation by requesting the content in JSON form, which then gets "rehydrated" client-side.

Huh? <confused-dog.jpg>
Either the page gets rendered server-side and (possibly) hydrated client-side, or it gets rendered client-side (i.e. a classic SPA) but then there is no hydration.
Just wait till neuralink gets hacked and people themselves become the side channel.
That’s not what the person you replied to is saying though… They’re saying just use an existing engine, and if you really need to, you can always write your own engine later if you really need it.
BP abandons goal to cut oil output, resets strategy
It's 2024 if you can't delete data without corruption or downtime you're an absolute buffoon of an engineer

If anything gdpr made painfully obvious how sloppy some devs/companies are
I'm fairly sure it's just dish soap in there, so it's not really a risk. Disgusting, though.
Don't ask 20th Century Fox:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937_Fox_vault_fire
If? I thought they took off more than a decade ago and pretty much all cars made since the advent of 4G have been collecting and sharing your data with virtually everyone who will buy it.
It literally says they have legal obligations to retain data and cite the exact laws that require them to. Did you even read the post you replied to?
> that provide an image in a format that can't be snooped in

There's no way to make information that can only be used in the way you want it to.

I would assume that the image is handled in software: IE, the vacuum runs software that uses the image as one of its many inputs to decide where to steer the vacuum. Doing this as hardware-only is technically possible, but in practice, it's probably so difficult to implement it that way that it may be impractical. (For example, how can you remotely update the vacuum to fix a bug in the algorithm if it's burned into a chip?)

Edit: I should point out that the vacuum is probably using a standard, off-the-shelf, camera part. They could consider figuring out how to blur the image (by manipulating the lens during manufacturing,) but I wouldn't make any assumptions about their algorithms to assert that this is practical.
People aren't getting the joke because nobody here realizes how essentially crappy the ZX Spectrum was. You'd do better to render it on a four-function calculator or, perhaps, an abacus.
svelte + primatejs
Oddly enough, no. It seems to affect a different desire pathway than dopamine and such. It’s not anhedonic, good stuff is still good and you still want it. Even food! It doesn’t make food not-pleasurable, just reduces hunger. It only seems to affect very particular kinds of cravings associated with food and addiction/compulsion, not sex drive (though maybe for “sex addicts”? IDK)
WebGL and WebGPU are still major vectors for device fingerprinting. In an ideal world, GPU access would result in a browser popup like location services and notifications currently do.

But admittedly this is not the only major vector for fingerprinting. I would also say that User-agent shouldn't be a header but an autofilliable form input, and that cookies should be some transparently manageable tab in the address bar (and should be renamed to something more comprehensible to the average person like "tokens" or "tickets").
Health insurance tied to an employer is a local maximum.
If only there were a shader IR that was made with portability in mind!
The common trick is to do these things while there are more interesting things that will grab people's attention.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Cross_(Japanese_company)

> Green Cross was founded in 1950 as Japan's first commercial blood bank and became a diversified international pharmaceutical company producing ethical drugs for delivery or administration by doctors and healthcare workers. Its founders included war criminals such as Masaji Kitano who performed torture and experiments on humans in the Japanese military's notorious Unit 731 during World War II. Also serving as a consultant for the company was Murray Sanders, the American officer and physician who had petitioned for Kitano's acquittal after the war.

> In the late 1980s, Green Cross and Takeshi Abe were at the center of a scandal in which up to 3,000 Japanese people contracted HIV through the distribution and use of blood products which were known to be unsafe.
In some areas of the US, there's no statewide emissions testing (or inspections) to be exempt from to begin with.

For example: Ohio is broadly this way, with the exception of some counties near Cleveland that require emissions testing for vehicles that are between 4 and 25 years old.

To extend that example: For most of Ohio, anyone can hire anyone else to work on their their cars (or DIY) without any practical third-party concern about things like "authorization" or "certification."
When a product is engineered to be as addictive as possible to increase sales/usage it should be considered a "drug like" substance and be heavily regulated/monitored for public health reasons.

This treatment should include lots of other products like for example videogames or flavour enhanced junk food
I love my '07. Juuuust old enough that smartphones had barely been invented, so nobody expected the car to be able to connect to the internet.
Ww1 is not a global war. The Asian and pacific theatre is not in play. It is mostly an European war.

But it triggers ww2 because the treaty is too hard on Germany. And crazy people has its soil prepared for their madness.
"Choosing problems is the primary determinant of what one accomplishes in science."

Work on meaningful work or work on meaningless work.
Netflix TimeSeries Data Abstraction Layer
> 1. Apple is not next, which is the main point

Sure, I agree with that point. I disagree with the rest of your framing why, which was a dismissal that "Apple won on the same claims in front of a different judge". The judge in Epic v Google didn't render the verdict (as that was performed by the jury), while the judge in Epic v Apple did.

> 2. The sanctions are 100% irrelevant here? Why do you think they mattered?

Sanctions mattered as far as explicitly informing the jury that they were permitted to assume the worst against Google. If you don't think that might have impacted the jury's decision, I don't know what to say. The fact that the judge who later handed down the punishment thought that the sanctions were necessary should also be relevant to any harshness associated with his ruling.

> And yet, the judge decided today that he would not issue a “mandatory inference instruction” — one that would tell the jury they should proceed with the understanding that Google destroyed evidence that could have been detrimental to its case.

> Instead, there will be a “permissive” jury instruction — the jury “may” infer that the missing evidence might have helped Epic and hurt Google.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/1/23984902/judge-james-dona...

> 3. The legal portion would have still been decided by a judge anyway - juries decide facts, not law. The judge decided the relevant market, etc.

Yes, Donato decided the punishment (to the extent that the law gave him discretion to do so), but it was a jury that decided that Google exercised illegal monopolistic behavior. The judge doesn't have discretion to completely disregard the jury's verdict, as per the seventh amendment.

The aforementioned behavior on Google's behalf certainly didn't help garner any favor with Donato.
Totally different. The Foundation has no employees, only volunteers and three board members. (I'm one of them.)
Gitea: Self-hosted Git service with CI/CD and team collaboration
Elon Musk doesn't have an army, and Brazil does. So the guys with guns win?

China made it clear that boycotting a country doesn't accomplish anything. Nobody supporting Elon on speech is upset that he bluffed and lost... that's life.
How can you be so sure? Even after reading all the source code, there still can be bugs, attacks, demanding letters from different agencies, misconfigurations, vulnerabilities in code and in libraries, etc. etc. etc.
I wouldn't even post this if denying it once was a solution that makes it work. There was no real choice here. The choice of surrendering privacy vs getting tfo-ed is not practical.

Nothing will change from then to later

Jailbreaking is a process an average consumer won't do, so it disincentivizes app makers from making jailbreak-only ios apps. Forced regulation will make sideloading a regular thing which will shift incentives to what happened to my relative (please note: not to me). This directly affects the garden. The logic you're using here is naive at best.
Meaning they were answerable to Prigozhin, not Putin during the revolt. But even more fundamentally (apart from what happened during "revolt time"): as an organization and in terms of the laws that applied to it, it was entirely separate from the regular Russian army (and supposedly didn't technically exist on paper at all). That's why it's official name was PMC Wagner, where PMC stands for, drum roll... Private Military Company.

I'm really not sure what you're trying to get at with this "not a private army" angle, when it by all indications it was exactly that, or with the idea that Prigozhin was just like any other commander in a regular army, when of course he wasn't.

But that's okay, you can model and label this information however you want.