skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a big fan of the EFF but this article basically comes down to "X Y and Z were designed to solve problem A and they were implemented poorly therefore problem A is unsolvable and no one should even try to address problem A"

This is especially ridiculous when the failures of X Y and Z came from administration issues (failures of oversight), picking shitty contractors, buying faulty equipment, etc. all of which are solvable/preventable.

The takeaway of these past failures shouldn't be that securing the border is impossible and not worth even attempting. The takeaway should be that programs need to be meaningfully and intelligently invested in (maybe going with the lowest bidder or your personal friends/donors isn't always a good idea), and that there needs to be oversight and accountability to make sure that those funds aren't being wasted or pocketed by corrupt public servants and private contractors to ensure that systems are implemented correctly and maintained.

Of course it's going to take "record-level funding" to implement a massive solution when previous attempts were entirely half-assed, designed to attract and allow for corruption, and then neglected. Congressional leaders and the American public should be shocked and outraged at the money that's been wasted and they should be working to design a system that avoids those pitfalls and actually does the job right. Ideally we should also be tracking down the people responsible for those past failures and holding them accountable too where it's possible.
The Big 3 Jira Mistakes
Anecdotally, the answer is a resounding yes. The two major academic communities I follow, mathematics and geology, have wholesale abandoned Twitter in the last several months for (mostly) Bluesky.
>Many of the barriers to interplanetary travel and colonisation that feature in popular science articles—such as the threat of cosmic radiation and the difficulties involved in running bioregenerative life support systems—are in fact mass problems in disguise. Radiation can be mitigated by travelling faster through deep space—which uses more propellant, so it’s a mass problem; and by employing additional shielding, also a mass problem.
Yes, the current situation could become much worse. But it's not committed to that, and it's not yet in that state. If it were, we wouldn't be having this conversation, as the game would already be over.
Give them Bitcoin.
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Do you have a source for that, or is this opinion?

I’m also not so worried about SWATting being possible - I want a ratio of times where the extreme response was warranted versus unwarranted.
You're supposed to work as hard as you can, then cheat for the grade.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41900402
The consequences of cheating could be made much more severe.

I am troubled by this argument because it suggests people have no ethical core. If that is true then we are going to have problems with them regardless.
This is a really poor counter.

Are you not familiar with the timespans of these previous events?
Testing REST endpoints with fake HTTP statuses
Since when can you summon a real cat using the word cat? Or any word?
It was a byproduct as far as I remember, finding good information is getting more difficult every year.

Why is it so difficult to believe? Haven't we seen enough examples of people in power not giving a shit?
It's the "ingenuity of Humanity" that's causing the collapse, is it not? Our intelligence, or ingenuity, has outpaced our wisdom. Surely the advent of thermonuclear weapons, biological weapons, poisoning ourselves and our ecosystem, is a hint that our little branch of the evolutionary tree is beset with peril of our clever little hands and brains.
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Someone already mentioned Aza Raskin, but the organisation you should look up is Earth Species Project. It’s a fairly open question and fairly philosophical - do the semantics of language transcend species? Certainly there is evidence that “concepts” are somewhat language agnostic in LLM embedding spaces.

https://www.earthspecies.org/about-us#team
Essay writing is a waste of time. The biggest waste of time is the essays students turn out for college admissions. I mean really - think back to when you were 17-19 yrs old. What exactly was going through your mind - how you plan to change the world or where you want to hang out and what your next adventure is going to be?

For me it was the latter. Luckily, where I grew up in India the bogeyman was entrance exams. They are bad but in a way better than essays because you have a very clear expectation of success.

Either way, I hope GenAI finally makes essay writing obsolete so that we may move on to other better methods of assessing students. For those in flux as this situation rolls through - my sympathies. Educators have been lazy and you're paying the price.
Who Owns OpenAI?
One third of cameras not working might mean that there is no camera coverage (because the only working cameras are all pointed at a single storage shed), or it might mean that there is 100% coverage (because of redundancies in coverage.)

Its a data point, but without further context, you can't draw meaningful conclusions.

If I were to take a wild guess, one third of all security cameras in the world are probably not fit for purpose, and yet, the world keeps adding more and more of them. Smile, comrade.
an intersection of the two curves must exist, at some point

when two roads diverge in a yellowed wood, blaze down the middle
The docs say 90% efficient from 0 to 500 RPM. I wonder if that's driven by marketing wanting to print a high efficiency number, or something else.

I suspect the gap between the plates needs to be kept small to keep forces high (force is something similar to 0.5QV/d), giving high viscous losses that would increase with RPM (proportional?). I suspect that's what eventually limits the speed.
Exactly, thanks for the clarification!
Don't hold your breath on this one. I expect it to take a lot longer, but not for technical reasons. The truth is that however you do this you are developing weapons. At best, your allies will be on your side but your enemies will play this up, discussing how versions of whatever you do can be used against them. And even if exaggerated (and boy will it be), there will be grains of truth. These are the hardest lies to fight because they're half lies.

The problem always lies in how you get that energy down to Earth. There's no way to do this that can't also be used in a way that can be destructive. Even this proposal at 1kW you can do some damage. They're doing IR because this is fairly transmissible through the atmosphere but it can still be damaging. These range from a directed energy weapon (likely aimed at electronics) to a more denial of service attack (you'd need higher energy than 1kW). There's another proposal about just redirecting light[0] and I think it is easier to imagine how this is a weapon. Could you imagine someone just making you, in your house (or worse, it follows you around), always live in daylight? It would drive you crazy. I know the Nords, Alaskans, Canadians, and others will tell you there's challenges to living in perpetual daylight. But you can destabilize crops, which need night, insects and wildlife, and I'll let your imagination run wild. But this is also true for IR light, you just won't see it with your eyes. That still affects many insects, snakes, fish, and other animals, not to mention plants. IR is heat, and it doesn't take much heat to disrupt things.

On a different point:

> told me he wants to reinvent the idea of space-based solar power beginning with a relatively small investment—likely a bit north of $10 million
> That physicist is Baiju Bhatt, who co-founded the electronic trading platform Robinhood in 2013

He's asking for $10m? Why? Can someone help me with this? Forbes has him at $1.7bn net worth[1]. $10m is nothing to this guy, right? Even if he doesn't have that cash liquid it should be very easy for him to get a very low interest rate loan where the maturity is upon death that will give him access to this level of money. So why does he need the investment? What am I missing?

[0] https://x.com/colecallinan/status/1826683972207661499

[1] https://www.forbes.com/profile/baiju-bhatt/
Don't all life's comforts work this way?
The CIA Fell into My Trap
Many don't but many countries do. Take a look at a world map and then note how many other countries have such long borders with countries with whom they have some sort of adversarial risk with.

I took a very quick look and stopped after a couple dozen and still had plenty to go. This is a problem not remotely unique to the US.
> If your security procedures are sufficient

that's the problem isn't it?

airport security is pretty much the definition of "security theater"

and deep down the authorities (hopefully) realise this
Unfortunately no, uBlock Origin has filters based on the the request path
…and my wife's Halloween present has been printed.

Tip: Load the pngs into Preview, hit "Auto Levels," and crank up "Sharpness" on each one. Looks pretty good!
That's mentioned in the comment you're replying to as "simple HTTP mirrors." Those are vulnerable to takedowns but are kept up for the sake of easy accessibility to the public that doesn't know how to access any of the other options. Their availability has no real bearing on the availability of the other options beyond the tech savviness of the general public.
if environmentalists were serious about saving environment, they would have supported Nuclear Energy & Dense housing.

Instead we have:

hectares and hectares of land dedicated to wind&solar with all wildlife habitat destroyed, and gas plants still continuing to burn fuel.
hectares of land dedicated to suburban sprawl
hectares of land dedicated to new highways that connect sprawl to downtown cities

to be truly efficient, cities must reduce the footprint and leave more areas to wildlife and nature preservation sites:

dense low footprint housing
dense low footprint commercial RE
safe, clean, cheap mass public transit that connects the two
safe, clean nuclear energy that powers it all
https://archive.ph/aHwIg
You can get to 24kW charging with single phase NACS, which is where the vast majority of EVs' on-board rectifiers max out at. Many max out lower than that.

If you need charging above that, especially at fleet level, it is cheaper to go with dedicated DC charging like the one's I linked. 48A single phase charging is more than enough for the vast majority of all EV use-cases, even for fleet vehicles. Amazon has the largest EV fleet fielded right now, and that's in the US.

You're complaining about a non-issue. Three phase AC EV charging is a solution in search of a problem.
Once You Try a Three-Day Workweek, It's Hard to Go Back
I agree. From the research paper:

> Soil treatment (n = 6; χ2 = 11.13, p = 0.049), but not contamination level (χ2 = 1.67, p = 0.196) nor the interaction between both variables (χ2 = 6.04, p = 0.302) had a significant effect on the proportion of queens found in soil crates.

It's easier to see the graphical representation: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004896972... . The error bars has too much overlap, and all of them overlap with the mean and the bars of the control group.
Why Rust is an increasingly beloved part of my programming toolbox
It wasn't an attack. The idea that it's hard to pick up on pronuclear folks being anti-fossil fuels when the entire debate is about how meet our energy needs in the face of climate change is absurd.
The exact same things have been shown for WFH as well, but that data is being overridden by the emotions and gut feelings of CEOs. When investors are pressuring you to make more money, doing RTO is a big, highly visible thing that feels good and is much simpler than analyzing and improving a business's fundamentals.
The bottleneck on a consumer-grade GPU like a 3090 isn't the processing power, it's the lack of RAM. The PCI-Express bus ends up being your bottleneck from having to swap in parts of the model.

Even with PCIe 5.0 and 16 lanes, you only get 64 GB/s of bandwidth. If you're trying to run a model too big for your GPU, then for every token, it has to reload the entire model. With a 70B parameter model, 8 bit quantization, you're looking at just under 1 token/sec just from having to transfer parts of the model in constantly. Making the actual computation faster won't make it any faster.
I mean, just about every trend encounters an equivalent amount of pushback, but there does seem to be a (very gradual) shift towards WFH happening. My guess is it'll follow demographic lines, with younger people working half- or even full-time remote and older people sticking to mostly in person work.
I suspect that finding a proximate hacker space, let alone one with such equipment, is even more of a challenge.
If anyone has a spare Raspberry Pi and is looking for a fun project, consider BirdNET-PI[0]. It turns your Raspberry Pi into a 24/7 bird monitoring device. You need a microphone and then it will automatically detect birds by their songs and report them to the BirdWeather service that helps monitor bird populations.

[0] https://www.birdweather.com/birdnetpi
As a sweepstake (essentially a free-to-enter lottery), it is legal.

If it would be a reward to register as a voter, it would be illegal.

The sweepstake is explicitly exclusively for registered voters in certain battleground states.

I've not checked what the deadline for registration is in all the relevant states. For Pennsylvania, one of those states, today is the last day to register as a voter.
Guess you need to livestream it on twitch with multiple camera angles.
You can run Microsoft Office, Adobe, and Affinity on a Mac, no Windows required.
One idea is that they're fake planted rumors. Certanily not the first time things like that happen
I had a blast with Rimworld. Still play it occasionally for the "Dwarf Fortress but sci-fi" urge it fulfills. But in the long run when trying to do a huge generational colony I can't stand how "gamey" it feels. Maybe there's some mod or something to fix it, I'm not sure. But the raids/diseases/bad events feel like they're more targeted for lack of a better way to put it, like the game is intentionally tailoring them to your situation vs just simulating a world where those things tend to happen. DF's "events" feel more natural over the long run.
It has been a game changer for code stuff, surfacing libraries and APIs I didn't know about. And I can verify them with the documentation.

And I don't think that's just for assisting experts: it would be extremely helpful to beginners too as long as they have the mindset that it can be wrong.
> Employers saw benefits, too: 70% reported that recruiting workers was easier once they went to a four-day schedule—a boon in a country where many industries complain that intense competition for talent drives up costs.

I mean, that's definitely going away if all other employers also move to four-day workweeks, so it seems like you shouldn't factor that in as one of the benefits of this schedule.
A minimum bar, for societal harm, would be against an identical data set of US drivers. The data for human drivers covers vastly more situations than FSD does. FSD refuses to activate in those situations. So an apples-to-apples comparison doesn't exist. The FSD data is effectively cherry picked for ideal driving conditions. Tesla's claims that FSD is safer than the average driver are not supported by their data, and as others have said, either their statisticians are incompetent or liars. This is basic stuff.

However the minimum bar for me to activate it is "compared to me". I've never come close to driving under a truck or into a divider. I slow down driving into the sunset and use a baseball hat if necessary to make sure I can see.
There's a trade-off.

Functional programs are easier to read, because the structure makes the state transitions and dependencies obvious - you see your dependencies in the arguments list. But it forces you to basically rewrite big parts of your program after even very simple changes.

You had the structure of the program so fine-tuned to the dependencies of every part of the code - that when any dependencies change you have to completely change that structure. It's rewrite-only programming style.

Imperative (and OO) programming idiomatically let you do a bigger mess with side effects, and you know less about the data dependencies just from looking at the function specifications - but it also allows you to do exploratory programming much faster (no need to pass a new argument down 20 levels of your call stack when some code deep down suddenly requires a new argument). And it allows you to modify the behaviour locally without refactoring the whole thing constantly.

If you have a for loop that filters out even numbers and suddenly you want to sum the numbers and find maximum and minimum too - most of the code stays the same.

If you have functional code doing the same and want to modify it in similar manner - it's a completely different code. Most people would just rewrite it from scratch.

And that's just a very small scale example. With larger programs the rewrite gets harder.

That's why big programs are almost never functional.
Aligning consciousness science and U.S. funding agency priorities
Wait til you try a one day workweek
You are right! I forgot about this completely.
Tip, meet iceberg.

Science is like music, most of it is never recorded to begin with.

Much less achieves widespread popularity.

When you restrict it to academic journals the real treasure-trove can not even be partially contained in the vessel which you are searching within.
The author must have specified in the title: "Blocking code IN RUST is a leaky abstraction".

I am so happy to be using Go for most programs!

It has one of the best concurrency implementations that I have ever seen (Erlang permitting ...). And for most of my programs, the garbage collection is not a problem. It's the opposite: simplifies programming incredibly.

No blocking versus async problems. No libraries for async are needed. Just concurrency (which has its own problems, but this is another story ...).
If we're meant to believe climate predictions coming out of the UN and similar, potential innovation spurred by an increase in energy production would slam face first into the wall of climate catastrophe even faster.

I'm not even saying I put much faith behind those predictions, but in the context of contradicting climate concerns with tech "innovation" requiring such massive amounts of energy it seems pertinent. We can't have it both ways, either most agree that the climate concerns are baseless or we accept that we collectively would be choosing to destroy the planet faster in the name of progress and innovation.

"Progress" itself is such an interesting term. There's no directionality to it, the only meaning is that we aren't standing still. There's nothing baked into progress that would stop us from progressing right off a cliff, I suppose unless we're already off the cliff and progress could change that.
Prior to the establishment of the RIRs (Regional Internet Registries) the IANA handled IPv4 allocations directly and without regard for geography. During that time most of the early adopters with US government, US Universities, and US Corporations. Several US Universities and Corporations (for easy examples, GE and MIT) simply asked early enough for IP addresses and got entire /8 allocations.

Sure, when the RIRs were built they were assigned roughly equal shares of the remainder of IPv4 space, but it certainly failed to account for those early years of early adopter allocations, which did accidentally favor the US heavily.
The effects of these type of events take a while to be fully realized, even when you are past the point of no return, e.g. where the species populations are too low to overcome the genetic bottleneck and survive long term, but aren't yet extinct.

If you were actually in most historical mass extinction events, I'd also say they seemed "not that bad yet" for quite a long time after the point of no return, much longer than all of human history even in some cases.
Are you not familiar with the difference in meaning between the words "largest" and "fastest"?
Generative models yes, since there are terabytes of audio available. High quality contextual info is much harder to obtain. It’s like saying that we could easily build a model for X if we had training data available.

With LLMs we can leverage human insight to e.g. caption or describe images (which was what made CLIP and successors possible). With animals we often have no idea beyond a location. There is work to include kinematic data with audio to try and associate movement with vocalisation but it’s early days.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/transform/can-generative-ai-he...
> I generally side with the EFF, but I find the article weirdly duplicitous. It's framed as a criticism of government waste, but would the EFF be happy if the government built a more effective surveillance system at the border? Of course not.

Right. Israel has towers like this. But theirs have guns.[1]

[1] https://www.globalresearch.ca/israels-remote-occupation-wome...
From what I know about malaria prevention, insecticides are mostly used in insecticide-treated bed nets.
I remember reading somewhere- I think it was in an annotated addition of Dracula, or maybe it was a journal article- that said that Bram Stoker wrote a large number of novels but everything he wrote other than Dracula was awful. Per Wikipedia he wrote 14 books, supposedly he was only able to write one good one.
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You and I might have a different view of reality. Teslas are among the safest vehicles on the road.
Nobody complaining about Dev Kit would be unaware of the base C# extension.
If people get to read shocking rumors, they don't feel that their information access is so censored, after all? I could see that at least partially working.

"It's just some dangerous information that is censored."
Speaking as a former M&A financial advisor and valuation nerd, historical financial data is very close to worthless for any valuation work, except perhaps for vaguely connecting the dots to your proprietary, forward looking financial model which is based on a deep understanding of a particular company and industry.

This reads to me like garbage in, garbage out... just like 99.9999% of current resources on financial data.

There's definitely an opportunity to disrupt this backwards "financial data" industry, but it's not going to be done by slapping LLMs and RAGs onto stale data in 10-Qs and 10-Ks.
This is case showing us they are not.
It's very hard to avoid rolling upside down and I wonder if that's intentional. IRL you can just let go of the controls and most aircraft will be stable and fly close to level
To expand slightly on Syonyk said: the compiler cannot do it, because the object is stored between addresses c and c + sizeof(unsigned int). You can use this information to, for example, copy the object to another place with memcpy, and that of course wouldn't work if c wasn't pointing to the "leftmost" byte in the memory.

Unless, I suppose, sizeof was negative :).
can it install plugins as easy as ollama
I think the point being made is it's hard to go back for the organization as well, considering that 35 out of 45 of the companies participating chose not to go back to a 5-day workweek.