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Because we're human and not behaving in a perfect way and the design of our daily tools should account for that.
>> Although I feel differently about companies benefiting from the commercial distribution but which do not fix accessibility or security issues.

Companies are free to use the software, and commercially distribute it, and are free to change it, or not to change it as they want.

This is explicitly baked into Free licenses.

Your feelings are not material to the freedoms.
Why are ML compilers so hard? (2021)
Skyscraper-high sewage plume erupts in Moscow
> So if you find a sword, it's a pretty safe bet the person who wielded it was taller than average for the time period.

> If this is accepted, it follows that the average Greek male was in fact likely less well nourished, and the skeletons examined by Angel may well belong in the absolute upper percentile."

These statements are saying the same thing. Whether you look at the remains of soldiers and overestimate the average for the population or you look at the population and underestimate the average for soldiers, the delta should be the same either way.

> Perhaps they were taller by a couple of centimeters, but it strains credulity that it would amount to any more than that.

The difference between ancient and modern heights is only a couple of centimeters.

> For, as a rule, hoplites were freeholders and yeomen -- military service was a matter of social class and social standing -- they were not conscripted and sorted as though they were 18th century Austrians or Prussians: "Tall men to the halberdiers, short men to the artillery, giants to the Potsdam Giants." That wasn't the way of the Hellenes, and they wouldn't stand for it. The historical record is very clear on this point.

Setting aside for the moment that we're talking about the bronze age, so centuries before the Hellenes, the fact is that those freeholders and yeomen were a small fraction of the population that was, as a rule, well off compared to the average man and far more likely to be the descendant of other men of this class. Their height was not selected artificially but naturally. This was likely even more extreme in the bronze age which appears to have had a more feudal structure.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Then scroll down to "Can I post a job ad?"
Reading this on 2017 iMac 27" - is the first 5k iMac that couldn't be used as a monitor after the computer inside is irrelevant.
I hope EU will push for some law that requires all AIO computers to work in monitor-only mode if internal hardware is no longer good enough or no longer supported by software updates.
I love the 5k screen on this iMac but the CPU is too old for photo or video editing as software got so much slower over the years.
I could have used this screen for many more years, but now it will hit landfill... Apple is only "green" in their presentations - in reality they care more about inifite sales only.
Interesting!

That's quite contrary to my experience, granted I've only used two magic mice, one for 2 years in 2014-16, and another from 2020-2023.

It's possible that your experience is much more common though!
Any chance scientists can make a drug for humans to have this benefit? This could help in tense relationship building/ repair. You get the social bonding of pounding alcohol w/o the negative effects of drunkeness.
The problem extends beyond WaPo, though. He is connected with other companies that rely on government contracts or are otherwise subject to current and/or future government regulation, e.g., Amazon, Blue Origin, etc. WaPo may be the one he's willing to risk in this instance?
Gemini's been a thing for android and Samsung has something too. I've heard nilch about "success stories". I've even heard it loses some accuracy on voice commands compared to Google Assist.

These are features to excite shareholders, not users.
Counterfeit Monkey - https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=aearuuxv83plclpl

Emily Short can generally be relied upon of worthwhile games, but this IMHO is the most imaginative and engrossing. It has a really cool central mechanic and I found it really enjoyable.
The lesson here is that there really is no free lunch. There is no secret, no-work way to make lots of money. If anyone can do it, there's little value in it so you won't make much money.

If you have thousands of dollars to invest and want to do no work, just buy index funds.
Then it sounds like OP ( and yourself) should spend your money elsewhere.

I mean, I’m livid Ferrari don’t make a cheap commuter for my family and 9 dogs. So I shop elsewhere.
I don't like Section 230 because "actual knowledge" no longer matters, as tech companies willfully blind themselves to the activities on their platforms.

~~As an example, there are subreddits like /r/therewasanattempt or /r/interestingasfuck that ban users that post in /r/judaism or /r/israel (there used to be a subreddit /r/bannedforbeingjewish that tracked this but that was banned by reddit admins). This isn't the First Amendment, since it's just a ban based on identity instead of posting content.

According to the US legal system, discrimination based on religion is wrong. I should be able to fix this by complaining to reddit and creating actual knowledge of discrimination. In practice, because there is no contact mechanism for reddit, it's impossible for me to create actual knowledge.~~

edit: I still believe the above behaviour is morally wrong, but it isn't an accurate example of the actual knowledge standard as others have pointed out. I'm leaving it here for context on the follow-up comments.

The TechDirt article doesn't engage with this. It asserts that:

>> Section 230 now has been used to shield tech from consequences for facilitating deadly drug sales, sexual harassment, illegal arms sales and human trafficking. And in the meantime, the companies grew to be some of the most valuable in the world.

> None of those cases would have succeeded under the First Amendment, again because the companies had no actual knowledge of the underlying issues, and thus could not be held liable.

However, if you try to use Facebook's defamation form[1] and list the United States as an option:

> Facebook is not in a position to adjudicate the truth or falsity of statements made by third parties, and consistent with Section 230(c) of the Communications Decency Act, is not responsible for those statements. As a result, we are not liable to act on the content you want to report. If you believe content on Facebook violates our Community Standards (e.g., bullying, harassment, hate speech), please visit the Help Center to learn more about how to report it to us.

[1]https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/430253071144967
Yours is about the most innovative keyboard I've seen in a while. Good luck with it, I wish you every success :)
My goal with the project was to compare higher performance memory safe languages to Javascript in terms of memory footprint, throughput, latency, as well as the difficulty of implementation. Rust was, relatively speaking, slightly more difficult: because concurrently manipulated data needed to be explicitly wrapped in a mutex, and transforming arbitrary JSON structures (which was what one of the endpoints did) was slightly more complex than in the others. But, overall, even the endpoints that I thought might be tricky in Rust weren't really what I'd call difficult to implement, and it wasn't difficult to read either. It seemed worth the trade-off to me and I regret not having more opportunities to work with it professionally in the time since.
It'll warn of a low battery for weeks in advance of fully going dead.
Buffett lies. He had much better investments. I likes to tell us all stories. The big-finance reality is much more inside-tradingish than he wants us all to believe.
The point I'm making is that people are making a point out of ignorance.

People think it will be a problem, so make ignorant commentary about it being idiotic, yet in practice it's fine, and not the worst aspect of a terrible mouse.
thanks, it's very understandable that you thought i was mistyping 'centred'.
Incredibly well said. This is precisely what makes it work so well.

The language never set out to solve this problem. It wasn't an intentional design goal. The language design and problem space just happen to overlap more or less perfectly.

Complete serendipity.
The metrics in GR relate the effects on spacetime of massive bodies, but... the effects relative to... what? Well, relative to flat spacetime. Those metrics are really projections. We need them to understand the effects on waves and matter (which is standing waves anyways, so it's all waves, all the time). But we don't have to take the view that curved spacetime is more fundamental than flat spacetime . There is an equivalence between them, therefore we can say that neither is more fundamental. That means that we can use the interpretation that is easiest to understand.
X is probably familiar to most people because of Xi Jinping's surname. I agree with the notion that Q is the Pinyin letter that would cause the most trouble for Westerners.
TB4 should be able to handle that resolution – I am running 2x Studio Displays + gigabit ethernet + countless USD devices in to one TB4 port on my MacBook via a TB4 dock.
"...when the developer does not have access to, say, a big-endian system to test with."

Currently, the most accessible big-endian platform that I know of is the Raspberry Pi running NetBSD.

https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/
Depends on what you want to launder. Drugs are paid for in cash, so you need to launder cash - and the best way to do that is to have a business that does some amount of cash legally. I can imagine vending machines being useful here.

You are right about needing to buy cans that you can then pretend to have sold. Unless of course you order from a supplier who is willing to write an invoice for a higher number of cans than he has sold you. I assume a more competent group would also own the supplier (though not, perhaps, on paper).
Ask HN: Who is Making Markets on Polymarket?
The eForth I commented on indeed derives from Muench and Dr Ting [1].

About GForth, it doesn't look convincing - actually the feature looks like an afterthought (like those libraries that have been teared out of a program, e.g. libCurl).

This use-case isn't well covered for Forth it seems, because the focus has always been mostly on the other embedding. That's why I'd recommend again the DIY route.

[1] https://github.com/chochain/eforth
they offer free recycling of old hardware https://www.apple.com/shop/open/free_recycling when you buy new hw

see also https://www.apple.com/me/recycling/
Borges seemed pretty happy in his old age.
Interesting, I don't use premium but is there a reason membership only videos don't support background audio? Seems like a weird exclusion
Welcome to Hacker News! Generally, job postings on Hacker News are done in the "Who Is Hiring" posts on the first non-holiday weekday of the month. You can see the most recent thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41709301. There is a specific format that is recommended that is described at the top of the thread. You may have more luck attracting candidates if you post in the upcoming thread on October 1st.
Agreed about the importance of a world model. People get enamored with increasing text volume with LLMs, but unless it ties back into distinct game state interactions, players quickly recognize it as fluff and it ends up not really adding to the game.

It's not exactly a text-based adventure game (more text-based trading), but recently I spent some time messing around with integrating an LLM with a text-based world model. It's not 100% reliable, but I've had some pretty satisfying interactions with it: https://github.com/heyitsguay/trader

Basically, you're a trader traveling around a world buying and selling goods, but the economy is tuned such that you can only really get ahead by conning the NPCs >:D
You meant use less water listen to more music, right?
I've studied kanji to some degree. I'm not a "master", but I am aware of the way it resolves a lot of ambiguities in Japanese.

But that does not on its own mean that Japanese couldn't evolve out of Kanji. It is not the case that if Kanji goes away, the entire rest of the language MUST stay static. It in fact would not. It would begin a multi-decade process of adjustment to the new issues.

It has happened before in other contexts, and it will happen again. There's a lot of signs that Chinese is on the verge of such a change (on a decadal time scale), which carries somewhat different baggage, but roughly the same amount of it.

What really throws the wrench into the whole thing is computers, and I don't just mean that it will simply speed up or slow down such a change, but that it could send all of this flying out in an entirely new direction. If we're all wearing augmented reality goggles full time in 20 years, what will happen to ideograms if every ideogram you see comes with floating pronunciation guides, and your googles can also translate phonetic spellings transparently in real time back into kanji/ideograms? Could languages like English start growing something like ideograms, presumably descended from modern-day emoji, if computers erase the disadvantages of emoji that cause languages to largely go alphabetic thousands of years ago?

What I absolutely do know is this: In 50 years, no language will be the same as it is today. Guessing what the changes will be, especially in a rapidly evolving novel landscape, is really hard. I don't think kanji/ideograms being seriously diminished is off the table.
But you’re likely comparing on different hardware though. Go compiling only 16k lines per second is hard to believe for me. Maybe they meant on single CPU core. Rustc compiles over 50k lines per second on my MBP in debug mode and Go must be definitely faster, as everyone knows rust is very slow to compile.

But anyway, you may be right. I just ran mvn install for the second time with no source change on my current project. It took 57 seconds.
You can be "retired" (don't _need_ to work) and still have a dayjob. My father-in-law does this and works 2 days a week so he doesn't get bored and has a little more spending money, all because he likes his profession but not because he has to work for a living anymore
I've been looking for an upgrade from my 2015 5k iMac 27.

Might finally pull the trigger on this version. What I will miss is the 27 inch 5k display.

Also, my use case is exactly what this iMac is meant for - shared family computer that takes up little space in the kitchen.
Marijuana is dirt cheap in legal states. I am talking like an ounce for $80 in some places.

You can also still get the half-gallons of super cheap vodka, but getting that is more difficult because you need someone who is 21 to procure it for you.
Fun to see someone else look at the cube as permutations. https://taeric.github.io/cube-permutations-1.html is one of the more fun visualizations I've made that was looking at this. Reminds me I need to finish it. I can't remember why I haven't gotten further.
Whisper hallucinations flagged by study on medical transcription errors
This is the source article for the claims about Whisper, but it's not very clear about how exactly Whisper was hallucinating in medical transcripts, barring a couple of examples. Without a description of the actual audio sample, you can't tell what's a transcription error (to be expected) and what's a hallucination.

It's also unclear what's a 'hallucination' here. Is it just mis-transcribing unclear audio or, like with ChatGPT, is it inserting random or targeted nonsense into otherwise legible bits of conversation?

For misheard sentences, it's definitely not something you want in medical transcription but it's also an understandable problem that humans aren't immune to either (I'm sure QC in human-led medical transcription works hard to avoid this).

But for everyone who uses Whisper, yeah, there's some due diligence you reasonably expected to have:
If you have bad or unclear audio in places, you should be cross-checking the recording to make sure the transcription is accurate.

However, that may not be possible in the case of tools using Nabla, according to the article:

> It’s impossible to compare Nabla’s AI-generated transcript to the original recording because Nabla’s tool erases the original audio for “data safety reasons,” Raison said.

Say this is bad design, and fixable. My real concern is whether Whisper is outright hallucinating in random places or just mis-transcribing tough audio. The former makes the tool completely unusable as you'd have to cross-check every word. The latter means you just keep up your regular diligence

> Researchers aren’t certain why Whisper and similar tools hallucinate, but software developers said the fabrications tend to occur amid pauses, background sounds or music playing.
I definitely am thinking of something more Rust-forward. As Rusty as possible without having to worry about lifetimes, the borrow checker, whatever. Huge performance hit is acceptable, so long as it remains trivial to intermix the Rust+scripting code. Something that gives a smooth on-ramp to push the heavy bits into pure Rust if required. The Python+C strategy in a more integrated package.
For what definition of 'very successful' are we using here? Mastodon has <900k MAU, Lemmy <45k. It's not nothing, but compared to what they're competing with(Twitter at > 330 million), they aren't even a blip on the radar.

If we're defining success as not having died out and generally working, I guess I could agree.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if P is not equal to NP, then we ought to be able to derive as much entropy as we need from a key which is non-brute forceable (at least for symmetric encryption). Eg, if we believe 1024 bits of entropy cannot be brute forced, but our algorithm requires a 4096 bit key to provide at least 512 bits of security against cryptanalysis (plus a margin of safety), then we can derive our larger key from our smaller key without sacrificing any security.

But there's an implicit assumption here that all keys are equally strong, so this doesn't apply to asymmetric encryption. At least not as straightforwardly. And it's possible that P is in fact equal to NP. And there's a bunch of other assumptions here too, like that we really do have a secure source of entropy and really can share keys securely.

Anyway, if we take all these assumptions as read, this suggests that symmetric key lengths will saturate at a certain point (and not much wider than they are today). Big if true.
I don't get the conclusion the author is trying to draw. If you look at the data presented, it seems that the model was actually pretty bad at guessing the real-world behavior of the posts listed. Out of the top ten it picked:

* 1 had a score that was reasonably close (8.4%) to what the model predicted

* 4 had scores wildly lower than the model predicted

* 2 had scores wildly higher than the model predicted

* the remaining 3 were not wildly off, but weren't really that close either (25%-42% off)

Then there's a list of 10 submissions that the model predicted would have scores ranging from 33 to 135, but they all only received a score of 1 in reality.

The graph shown paints a bit of a better picture, I guess, but it's still not all that compelling to me.
I think the deal is when you retire you no longer have to work. You can spend your time doing whatever you want. If you don’t feel like working today, you don’t have to. If something comes up last minute, you can change your mind. If you want to move to something new and more interesting, you can.
NASA chief calls for investigation into report that Musk, Putin spoke regularly
> For me the objective of "most up votes" is not fully correlated with where I get the most value on HN. Most of the time, the most up voted I would have found them anyway on other platforms.

Yes, this is a fantastic point. I'm curious if there's some other measurable proxy metric for "things I get the most value out of on HN"? Upvotes seems like the most natural but optimizing for it too strongly would definitely take HN down a dark path.
Remove the personalization aspect.

"The algorithm" was different in the early 2000's and all of our lives were richer for it. Before Facebook publicly embedded psychologists into the development teams and before the goal was more and more attention. The internet used to be great.
I bought mine like 2 years ago and it's been rock solid. IIRC they had some revisions over the years. And being rock solid: that's a bit of a lie because the monitor is wobbly as hell. So I've propped it with two supports on each side. Apart from that, the picture is the nicest I ever had from a monitor, and I had a lot of good ones. Text is super sharp and has acres of pixels. Compared to 4K monitor I can have both a terminal client and a browser side by side all looking nice. Can't fit that on 4K unfortunately.
I actually thought the game was pretty ok overall. It's not a masterpiece or anything, but I did play all the way through it, and I had fun the entire time. Certainly better than I thought a freeware promotion game would be.
> AMD Linux drivers

> Unfortunately, as of writing, AMD GPUs do not have HDMI 2.1 so you cannot use an 8K TV in 8K 60 Hz mode unless you use a DisplayPort to HDMI adapter.

Interesting workaround! This hadn't occurred to me at all as a solution when I read about the HDMI 2.1 driver licensing issue.

Edit: Added "AMD Linux drivers" to quotation.
Hard times for Tinder and Bumble: Why investors are cashing in dating app stock
> I don't think I've ever heard anyone but few power users here and on some other boards to be excited by Apple Intelligence.

So what? Users don't know what they want, or need. People claim phones haven't "noticeably improved" in 5 years and then spend $600 more on a new phone instead of buying an old one.
Go compiler is by far the weakest among those three. GC pause time is a little lie that leaves the allocation throttling, pause frequency and write barrier cost out of the picture. Go works quite well within its intended happy path but regresses massively under heavier allocation traffic in a way that just doesn’t happen in .NET or OpenJDK GC implementations.
> zero… economic need for this
Meanwhile: a crappy house in parts of California that aren’t even economically vibrant (that is to say: no particularly promising high-paying jobs in the area) costs $300k (a good house costs a lot more of course, and a good house in a desirable area costs over $1M) and something like 3 million people crossed the southern border into the US last year, all of whom need a place to live.

We have a tremendous amount of empty space, and while I know a desert isn’t technically lifeless, I suspect hypothetical supporters would be willing to accept (or even would prefer to establish) enormous swaths of the almost unfathomably large uninhabited West being made into new National Parks and wildlife reserves so that the desert animals and plants could be preserved. I know I would want that.

I would argue that there’s nothing immoral about expanding our population from 8 billion to 10 billion, any more than there was going from 500,000 to 1,000,000 centuries ago. Both were done at the expense of altering and ultimately domesticating land once used for other animals and plants.
I take a guess it is flagged because it the article itself does not give details on the situation and some of the comments are horrible. People are coming up with scenarios about being arrested if you own iPhone 16 while the situation is that at most your IMEI will be blocked from the local services so you will not be able to connect to local networks. It is not even something unique, Indonesia imposes block to illegal imported phones (That does not adhere to their regulation since many years) [1]

So I think the discussion went very far into flamewar. So some people flagged it ( I did not and I haven't seen it expect from visiting your link)

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2020/02/28/no-more-illega...