skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft did everything possible to keep backward compatibility for years and years even for niche software.
Someone says only stable linux ABI is win32...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32471624
Mind-Blowing Examples of OpenAI ChatGPT for Hacking – FuzzingWeekly CW 49
It may be non-linear. I guess I am not patient. If it takes up to ~40 seconds I just wait and don't context-switch; if it takes more than ~3 minutes I switch to another work-related task; but if it's in between -- I tend to check the e-mail, or the news, or something like it, and then 15 minutes later "Oh shit! My build\test is done, and I completely forgot I was doing it!"
i don't know much about ai or anything. but i would really like if ai can replace competitive programming. i really hate it. it's not programming and a very bad merit to judge. it's one of the thing i hates the most.
i hope this type of things makes us rethink how we are judging the people. and how cp rank one cannot design a full system which is maintainable and easy to reason about.
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The Postgres docs describe how to set up read replicas and HA. They're admirably clear and high quality, more so than many FLOSS projects. You can also set up sharding to scale out further.
Poll: Should any government be trusted as an Open Identity provider?
For context, in the United States, should the Social Security Administration be an Open Identity provider? Should state Departments of Motor Vehicles be Open Identity providers?

On the one hand, I can see a number of efficiency gains for being able to log into government websites using a single identity or in place of a physical ID.

But on the other, I can see liberty losses if government id is asked for when not legally required or allowed.
Yes, unequivocally
Yes, with exceptions
Agnostic
No, with exceptions
No, unequivocally
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Audio engine N22, and
Kanto SE6 speaker stand.

Edifier has nice budget options if Dali is too much.
What exactly are people expecting? All transformer models, of which ChatGPT is just one big fancy example, are just pattern matchers based on a large corpus of text trying to find the next string that completes the pattern. There's no reasoning, no understanding. It's just a big fancy parrot. Now ask your parrot to do some math. Polly want an AI cracker? We clearly haven't cracked the code on AGI yet, and transformer models probably won't get us there.
Isn't this more about goal dependencies?
Images are loading really slowly for me, so:

https://web.archive.org/web/20221209104039/https://www.lapha...
I don't think what you say is correct. See: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69065097/why-java-stack-...

Hence it works in Scala (and also Java) without throwing

Edit: maybe what you meant to say is that the stack is only unwinded at the time of generating the stacktrace and not when the exception is created? Which is true and a good thing since it's expensive to create it.
For what it's worth, if that is truly who invented it, use it all the more, because that's not how it worked out. Alt-right doesn't sound normalized to any civilized person I know, including those on the right.
You could use the Metrics API of OpenTelemetry and use the Prometheus exporter etc instead of hard dependency on prom-client
I've had a pair of Audio engine speakers for almost 8 years now and have no reason to change them. They're great!
TSMC was given it's monopoly through patents given by GE, it's hard to understand the levels of strange nationalism and subtle racism in many of these videos but from my understanding it's the fear of the US leaving Taiwan to China which is very unlikely to happen for the foreseeable future. Taiwan holding the semiconductor industry hostage is not very good for global trade. The Taiwanese as well do not experience an increase in quality of life due to it besides in small groups and causes people who wish to undergo this industry to not be able to find jobs suitable towards them.
> suddenly i am unable to log in to my github and the page just says "account suspended."

This happened to me the other day, out of nowhere. I have no idea why. At least OP managed to get a response out of their support, I've yet to get any sort of response after a couple weeks. All the other times I got an account banned from somewhere, I've always known why. In this case, I have literally no idea of what I did to get that kind of treatment

Maybe Github is purging accounts en masse or something? I have no clue

What I can say is this: Github/MS is highly unresponsive. The Copilot thing was highly disrespectful to users and shows how little regard MS has for the open source community

I self host gitea now and don't have any plans of using Github again for anything outside of school/work, where I don't have a choice (at least at the moment)

The service that Github offers has so many alternatives, there's literally no reason to stick around and play Micro$hit's head games (other than complacency)
So does this effectively mean Apple charges 25.2% in the base case, and potentially teens-low twenties in low price point apps ($10 and below)? PayPal, BrainTree and others seem to also be in this range - so backing out market payment rates, the App Store is not as egregious?
This is happening in Switzerland, where the Swiss are more and more having to deal with the French "hoods" ("racailles" in french) coming from around Lyon.

There are quite a lot of them too around Nice so i'd be curious to know why they don't go there.
> as your right to not request it/block it

But that's exactly what an adblocker does. It's something different than not requesting the entire website though.

I don't think anyone demanded that browsers block ads without the user's consent.
Yes and a murder in Luk yu tea house. This doesn't stop high net worth from feeling rather safe. The extremes like the billionaire tycoons are a different matter and I've seen Richard Li come in a restaurant I was eating with his entire retinue of body guards.
> It's so easy to make subtle assumptions when you redo their code that completely invalidates the work they've done.

It's equally easy to test whether those assumptions actually break anything. Especially when minor errors can be catastrophic.

I'm part of a team that was tasked with producing a web app from something that was originally a piece of Matlab code.

We considered just running the Matlab code in a container but ultimately IEEE 754 is IEEE 754 regardless of platform/language, so creating a 1:1 implementation in C++ proved possible.
TIL Skywalking exists. It seems like a complete package and very capable, why aren't more folks using it?
2FA isn't the end all be all if it can lock me out by losing a device or an arbitrary number I dont actually own (e.g. sms 2fa)
i really hate all this. codepilot and stuff. it takes away the joy of writing code. esp clean code.
Mighty? (Sorry, it's impossible to Google-search that term.)
It wrote a lot of incorrect tests at this point not only when non-Latin characters where involved.

Look at the mixed case tests below. Always the same string but sometimes a palindrome and sometimes not.

Same for the trailing whitespace test.

Maybe it got tired at this point. Could also explain why the performance test is missing warmup :D
They were standardizing a subset of POSIX, until they found out why POSIX is mostly legacy nowadays.

So, now the effort is being rebooted with WASM Components.

https://github.com/WebAssembly/component-model
this is fairly tangential, but if you follow the article’s link to a Wired article about the use of Hydrogen Cyanide, that article links to a liveleak video of a lawyer committing suicide in a courtroom using cyanide. through this I found out that liveleak is dead

I never really used liveleak - I’m not one for gory videos - but I liked that it existed. and now it’s just another example of the anodisation of the internet: anything vaguely controversial is gone. look at reddit. reddit isn’t even publicly traded and they are still bowing to the pressures to ban controversy. with those bans huge chunks of modern culture and history; tumblr banned porn and it’s not coming back[1]; stable diffusion and dall-e have the American idea of morals baked into them

the internet used to be a place of freedom of thought and expression, and now, thanks to censoring powers of mastercard and visa, it’s not. now it’s like television, or film, or any other old media censored before release. it’s incredibly fucking sad and I hope the obsessive archivers of this world have made a dent into saving these things

[1] - https://photomatt.tumblr.com/post/696629352701493248/why-go-...
Lugano is not on lake Como.
if it's agonising death, agent won't take it, so it is no longer reliable. They folled themselves. Too clever by half
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> BuildJet's bet is that single-core performance is critical for a fast CI,
Yes, but an even larger impact often comes from caching dependencies (node_modules/vendors/lint checks/etc). Caching via GitHub actions is slow, and if BuildJet would offer a custom GHA action with _local_ SSD caching, it would give a big advantage to people chasing fast CI.
Just a heads up that "More about our story here." at the very end is a 404: https://www.getlago.com/company/about-us
I'm guessing that the downvotes were because people were focusing on how easy c++ makes it to unwittingly introduce such bugs.

So suggesting a disciplined usage of c++ sounded like a hard sell. It's helpful that you elaborated on the details.
Getir acquires grocery app rival Gorillas in $1.2B deal
Agree with the ‘fear-mongering’ read BUT despite the click baiting… this is definitely the first time in my adult life where I have seen significant impact to the broad economy.

Yes, tech jobs were tough in 2000 but they came back pretty quickly. Sure my bank, Washington Mutual, went under in 2008, but FDIC, so shrug.

Clearly I have been lucky… wasn’t living month to month, didn’t buy a house in 06-07, my jobs continued on. My worst pain was having a company renege on the purchase of my business… but it worked out fine and I only ‘lost’ the feather in the cap.

Today, food, fuel and rent are all noticeably higher across the board. Everyone is seeing it wether they ‘feel it’ or not.

It is hard not the believe that Winter is coming…
I find it ironic that it can generate function which calculates average of an array of numbers in dozen programming languages, but it can't tell you the average when you ask it to.
Seems like "A Breakdown of Stripe's Pricing" would be a clearer title.
But the thing is that you're just sending me code. The thing that is executing the code (rendering the website) is software and hardware that I supposedly own. So I think it's reasonable to expect that those work in my interest and not in the interest of the website.
It does not seem you are searching for an audiophile experience (like a lot of suggestions here)

If you are, then your max price is something you need to specify.

Also, you need a lot of inputs so you will have to stick with a mixer whatever you choose.
The claim that current LLMs are not that good at deep thinking might be true in general, but it is definitely not the best or correct explanation for the rot13 task being described in the article (or other simple character manipulation tasks that can’t be represented at the subword token level, including base64 or arithmetic)
You don't need _most_ HTML. <plaintext> is still an HTML tag which was quite needed to make the page render in the first place.
The quote also perpetuates the free market myth: every actor is on an equal foot, has infinite amounts of time and energy to consider options, the alternatives exist and/or are essentially free to build, and money is not a problem. That's never been true. Somehow, there is no environment, no society at large, no inequality. I understand how someone living in the richest country working for the richest company could fool themselves into believing it, but it's incredibly shortsighted.

The society we live in demands that you earn money, if you don't want to die. The only thing that you have in a high enough amount is time, so if you use time to do anything, at some point it must earn money or you die. In the digital world there is no scarcity, so the old model of physical stuff you sell for $X a piece doesn't work. There are no systems to guarantee a life to everyone, everyone has to fight for themselves. If you want to produce content, content that is not necessary to live, you necessarily enter non a competition for attention, for money, against everyone else. If people justifiably can't give you money, you must resort to the only way that gives you a survival fee: shove crap in the eyes of the reader. Give them not what they want, but what others want. Influence their decisions.

It's a shitty system. The analogy is interesting because if there's a single vendor that holds what you need to survive, and they price it at an outrageously high price just for their profit, is it acceptable ? Is it OK, as a society, to say no to this practice ?
This article is a writing expert trying to write about animals. Not an animal expert taking a crack at writing.

If you are expecting information that gives you a better understanding of beavers and or their history or environmental niche look elsewhere.
Thank you very much!

So the scope of it is like Janet-lang, right?
Oh. Payments, wanks (and Megawanks) and CosmosDB – a unholy trinity, bless them all. I think I know what the Megawank was up to.

Since Apple (not entirely sure about Google/Android) denies anyone direct access to the NFC hardware in an iDevice, and presents a (mostly) anonymised unique payment token to the wank instead, reconstituting a people connection graph via tracking the fund movement across card accounts poses a challenge. Tracking the fund movement across conventional wank accounts is easier.

But, if the graph data model is devised correctly, it is still possible to incrementally build it out into a rich graph outlining social and material world connections for a given customer either for product placement or nefarious purposes (wanks do sell the transaction history and more to external parties such as Equifax without obtaining the customer's consent). Akin to a Facebook social graph. A gradual graph build-out is, in fact, a great feature of graph databases – a fluid «schema» (for the lack of a better term) that can evolve incrementally in place as new facts about the data become known, without causing a disruption to a production system. If the overall design is sound.

The problem is that traditional wanks are not well poised when it comes to technology related matters due to technology… not being their core competency. Quite the opposite, they see tech as a liability as such projects are driven by financially competent, somewhat business competent but entirely technically incompetent folks. Therefore such projects nearly always fail, technology is blamed in the end, and the CEO/CFO draws approriate (typically, inappropriate) conclusions. So the Megawank in question likely tried to shoehorn a poorly designed graph data model (more likely, an existing relational model) using an A.M.A.Z.I.N.G! multimodel! graph! CosmoDB database whilst being clueless about what they were trying to do. Of course, Microsoft sales people, unwittingly slouching nearby, were singing melliferous songs joy and delight reciting telltale stories of CosmosDB. Profit.

Neobanks, on the other hand, are driven entirely by technologists, and they can pull off such a feat easily or more easily.
1973 TV show theme rhythm encodes the show name in Morse Code
Interesting piece. I did not realize that freezing Russia's assets was an unprecedented move that did not even occur during WWII with the German assets.

Also shocking that less international trading partners are now willing to accept Euros. This will push the need for US Dollars even higher. Maybe that's why the Euro seems to be falling against the USD?
Pretty sure that application flow is a distributed monolith and not microservices. Food for thought.
Yep. In developer-targeted products the users are usually not the customers. Making the product appealing to users is (often) necessary, but it's insufficient to convince the actual customer. Sometimes the problem is in the product itself, but often it's just a matter of shaping the marketing message.
Elon Musk says Twitter is preparing to delete 1.5B inactive accounts
> Left wing extremists are currently saying that words are violence [1].

It’s the Republican, Trump-appointed, FBI director’s assessment that extremist right-wing political violence (read homegrown right-wing terrorism) is far and away a bigger problem than left-wing violence.

Jan 6 I hoped would have demonstrated that clearly once and for all. After that day, it has become impossible to “both sides” political violence in the US — it really is asymmetrically coming from the right.
>stable diffusion and dall-e have the American idea of morals baked into them

And even then only for a particular intersection of ranges on the political and socioeconomic class spectrums.

This is part of why people love tiktok. They can like and see more content from "their people" and the people that are running around trying to get this and that shut down for not being too far out there in any given direction are little the wiser to the content they don't see.
A bit too judgemental.

Please point us towards an ad-free paying service that doesn't simultaneously track your profile/views/clicks? The problem at the moment is that there is no multimedia host that actually just hosts, they all track unique customer habits chasing that recommendation engine big data gravy train.

Also reminder that most copyright infringement is from non-industrialized nations where people indeed cannot afford to 'chip in some money to the service provider'.
Java, PHP, RoR, C, they're all here to stay. Even Perl is still kicking, and it'll be decades still before the last line of COBOL has been written.

I think there is a general misconception that if a language is not new and growing, then it is somehow going away. If anything, it's probably the opposite.
Something like inertia is a much better predictor for language lifetime than than growth or features. In practice, the longer a language has been around and the more likely it is to stick around.
Indeed.. just completed "Chip War" by Chris Miller which delves into the history and the Geopolitics of this wonderful invention. After WWII Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea owe their prosperities to the transistor.
Thank you for working on Nuitka.

I've been thinking a lot about transpiling lately. GCC and Clang are state of the art optimizing compilers for C/C++ and it's interesting that all the effort to optimize compilers is for those languages.

Any other language has to do a significant amount of work to build a standard library and value-add features.

There's languages such as D, Dart, Nim, Crystal, Zig, Pony which are impressive but receive little attention.

I'm working on my own multithreaded language, I want multithreaded software to be easier to write. It currently looks similar to Javascript but that might change.

To come back to transpiling, it's interesting finding something that's orthogonal between the source language and the target language that you can add value add features. C with arbitrarily nested hashmaps, safe strings would be useful.

I love the simplicity of Python sourcecode and I think complicated tools should be built in it for approachability. But transpiling or compilation is the problem.
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Mighty is (was?) a company that made a cloud service that let you use a Chrome extension to remote into a powerful computer so that you could have hundreds of tabs open without slowing down your computer.

Sounds silly, but suppose you are a starving artist whose ancient laptop can't even run Photoshop. It might make sense to remote into a powerful computer that can run Google Chrome, then from that computer use a web-based Photoshop replacement like Figma.

Unfortunately the people at Mighty chose to focus on Mac users, because they had to impress wealthy investors to get them to invest, and those investors are Mac users.

https://www.mightyapp.com/
Premature "Premature optimization is the root of all evil" is the root of all evil. Recurse as needed.
They are since you are able to read the article which wouldn't be possible without the ad.
Cathedrals were not built based on “risk management strategy”, but on builders not fucking up. The civil engineers that I know of (basically my dad and his friends from his generation) looked up to those builders from the Middle Ages, not to today’s management consultants instructing them about “systemic risks” and “strategy”. Granted, I do not know what today’s generation of civil engineers looks up to.
Taiwan as a sovereign state wouldn’t exist without US backing.

And at least reading between the lines with China, Taiwans days are numbered.

They’re choice is move their factories offshore or give them up to China.
> Your GitHub user account was compromised by a bad actor, so it shouldn’t be surprising nor considered victim blaming.

But GitHub sees where did the request to create the stars come from. The requests all came with authentication tokens associated with the given malicious site. They have all the data to see how the account got “compromised”, and they also can see that the account owner is unlikely to have knowingly participated in the “star farming”.[1]

The obvious and correct solution is to delete all stars created through tokens associated with the malicious site[2], disable access for the malicious site and write a letter to the compromised users.

1: further absurdity is that by deciding that the stars were farmed Github already made the decision that they are not comming organically from users. Because if they were comming organically from the users then it wouldn’t be star farming, just a popular repo. So why are they punishing the users then?

2: one more absurdity is that stars don’t cost github anything. It is just a number in a DB. It is not like they incurred a cost due to this attack. Github decided that they care about some stupid stars, and make the farming of them a bannable offense.
I had this idea earlier that the 1st and 2nd Kahneman systems might correspond to 1st and 2nd Futamura projections. More details here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29603455
That common excuse doesn't fly in the face of Smalltalk, Lisp, Scheme, SELF, Prolog, JavaScript, Lua.

It is more a matter of wanting to have a JIT in the box or not.
Perhaps the self-interest in this case is "managing expectations".

If they tell everybody to prepare for a 20 percent drop but the market falls 10 percent, then everybody feels good about themselves and Blackrock.

If they tell people to expect flat markets but instead get the same 10 percent drop, then people panic. They withdraw their money. Move to a new broker. Because obviously Blackrock wasn't prepared for this. Or stuff it in a mattress. Because obviously something unexpectedly bad is happening.