skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was always the pitch of higher level programming. Pseudocode is slightly more of a spec than compilable C; C is slightly more of a spec than assembly language. It gets advertised as being "all you have to do is write a spec" and then it becomes just programming later.

Regardless, the studies have already demonstrated this: As you go higher-level, you write roughly the same amount of code and bugs per line, but also implement more features per line.

An AI tool will be ready for use when it demonstrates that same capability of "same bugs per line, more features per line".
Interesting project - interesting way to analyze data using generative models - I wonder how confident it is in its answer though.
No I’ve never heard of this, thanks for the tip. I’ll definitely be checking this out.
Most employee interfaces don't have a way to represent customer paid arbitrary dollars towards their ticket but not all of it. Try this at retail. I'm only going to pay 50c towards that candy bar because that's what I feel like it should cost and ask to swipe your card for 50c. Most systems could represent a payment of less than the cost of the ticket as a partially completed transaction but would be faced with the decision to either complete the ticket or void it returning all funds.
And once you deallocate the 3G stuff that spectrum can be used for the newer tech.
Fedi.Directory: Interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon
> Calvinist nonsense that says there are "bad people" and we should celebrate those people having bad things happen to them.

Can you talk more about how the doctrine of total depravity (I’m assuming that’s the “Calvinist nonsense” you meant) connects to putting people in prison?

Based on what you said earlier (“they are rewarded for cutting costs”), it seems entirely out of selfishness on the part of the prisons/cities/states, rather than a desire to exhibit specific harm on prisoners, that causes reductions in quality of life like this. But I do genuinely want to hear what you think regarding my question above.
I'm hoping that with mushrooms getting legalized here soon, we're on the path to where eventually I could get a hobby license to synthesize psychedelics on a small scale, the way some people brew beer for fun.

I'm in the same boat as you I think. I got into ochem as a teenager reading BL and thee Hive, but never did anything with it other than read and fantasize. if it were legal I'd do it in a heartbeat, it's just not worth the risk to me.
Sundar had some extensive history prior to google, including mckinsey
Do smart pointers protect against unsafe uses of other resources like open files and threads? Rust safety goes beyond just memory safety.
Semaphore: A Web Client for Mastodon
I wish visualization could be more expressive like this.

Nightingale & Canary - Bird sounds visualized by Andy Thomas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtIHJSRQvvk
My guess is they wanted you to pay the higher CS tuition to take the CS classes.

Math departments also tend to be a lot more lax in my experience. Case in point: I got sign-off to take a 300-level pure math class without its 300-level prereq. As well as just replace one required course for another to graduate.
One small township near us does this. They passed a law that states restaurants must put an additional 2% charge on every bill that is used to pay "kitchen staff." When we asked our server about this surprise charge they said "the law requires that we charge it now."

We decided to simply reduce our normal 20% tip by 2% and pay that. We don't like the fact that the city has stepped in to mandate additional fees like this and think this practice should stop.
I’m assuming their “threat model” wasn’t individual users going through sophisticated hoops to install their own hard drives.

More likely they wanted to make it difficult for grey-market vendors of unauthorized disk drives to escape cease and desist orders from Microsoft’s army of lawyers.
FWIW the "PS3 is faster" is still debated to this day, mainly due to the Cell's "weird" architecture

If you remove the SPE's from the equation (which many developers did) the PS3 has a much slower 2 Ghz Dual Core PPC64 CPU, while the Xbox has a 3.2Ghz Triple Core (6 thread) PPC64

The extra threads aren't directly as useful as games back then were almost entirely single-threaded, a trend that has only begun to really change course in the last decade or so (partially due to the Xbone and PS4 having anemic Bulldozer derived CPU's that had weak single-thread performance)
This article could have been written about IBM in the 1970s and 1980s! When I joined IBM in 1991, the old timers used to talk nostalgically about the old days when they could do anything they wanted and the internal politics were vicious.
Yes, I meant tax evasion :-)
Why frame it like that? They are protecting their userbase against malicious drive by attacks.
Well, mostly because it's incompatible with the idea of free software:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

Proprietary software like this violates all four of the essential freedoms.

Mastodon, for example, is AGPL; it's as much an ideology as it is a license, otherwise CC-0 or MIT would be fine. It is surprising that people take issue with software in this space that doesn't align with the ideology of the people contributing to the space?
Someday Rust will go the way of Oberon.
I wasnt very clear, sorry. I expect the payment terminal backend to match my credit card ID to the phone number I input at the terminal when I elect to have the receipt texted to me. After that, I do not expect to have to supply any more data (eg at a second merchant using Square).

Clover seems to have trouble with this, and their solution appears to be to lean on me to install their app and use it to check in at stores to get some discount, in exchange for knowing data like my date of birth.
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I just use Cloudflares tunnels instead of dyndns.
Meanwhile, the pirate with cracked Windows has none of these problems.
There was a PSEC 2019 talk on Azure Sphere (IoT), with some details on Pluton security features and the Microsoft Linux hardened kernel based on OpenEmbedded/Yocto. Briefly mentioned is Microsoft's QEMU emulation of Pluton for CI/CD and their segmented architecture for delivery of 10 years of Linux security updates to the device, even if the IoT vendor goes out of business leaving the application firmware unmaintained.

https://www.platformsecuritysummit.com/2019/speaker/seay/ (click Hardware tag to seek video to the Pluton section)

IEEE paper (2021, paywall) on Pluton, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9512305
It's hard to see how democracies are any better than the Chinese authoritarian system when stuff like this happens.

I want to believe in democracy, but most real democracies seem to be intent on self-destruction and devolving to authoritarian states.
These are definitely incredible.

Wonder how one can know to find and make these optimizations
The 360's early media capabilities were absolutely unheard of for the time

I was blown away when half way through the setup of my 360 my desktop running Vista helpfully chimed in saying it found the 360 and offered to let me stream all my MP3's right to it while playing games
You can already achieve that by taking VC funding, no?
Without being deactivated these are effectively stolen devices. The sin here isn’t on apple, it’s on the previous owner failing to unlock the device. I’m all for this it it means my devices won’t be stolen.
Well... if it was 300 anonymous, sequestered randos, with access to objective information about the subject, that might work. 300 randos being bombarded with intense lobbying and biased information? That still might work out better than the legislature, but I would trust it considerably less than the sequestered randos.
We are likely about to find out. In the end this could be a good thing, shake out a lot the bootcampers and leave the people who like to code. On the downside, people like me like to code and also rest n' vest. :/
Solve complex problems by Horizon Planning
You say that like bad things can't happen to privliged people or that it somehow doesn't suck for them when it happens.
The way "subset of properties" is being used here is loose and that's where the confusion is arising from. If we want to be a bit more rigorous:

* Define O as a set of possible (finite) objects

* Define properties as functions P: O -> {0, 1}

* A given property then is a function of the form p(o) = 1 for all o in O that satisfy the property p.

You can use property functions to generate subsets of O ({ o for o in O where p(o) = 1 }). The intersection of these generated subsets of multiple property functions will be strict subsets (strictly "smaller" as O is finite) of O as long as at least one property function is not of the form P(o) = 1 for * in O. Generally assuming that each property function generates strict subsets, applying more properties derives a smaller intersection set. That's all.
Would never have watched if it wasn't banned, the irony :)
Is a nuclear thermal engine expected to have a higher specific impulse than current-day ion thrusters, or is the benefit a higher absolute thrust?
It's worse than that. It's not about education anymore but pure credentialism.
Did you study at MIT, Harvard or Yale? Did you work at FAANG? No? Then surely you must be an idiot.

Nevermind all these difficult projects you worked on. Nevermind that your ex colleagues gave you glowing references. Nevermind all your open source projects. Nevermind that the project you led and worked on has never been hacked in 3 years in spite of having hundreds of millions of dollars at stake.
It's all worthless because I don't see any fancy branding in your resume.
I understand the law I was arguing against it.

"Or is your stance that a person committing robbery..."

Consider the crime of attempted murder.(IMAL) that's when a person attempted to commit murder but failed. So they had intent and action, they just failed

Armed robbery is someone whose intent is to rob someone and they are successful at the act of robbery.

The reason the robber is armed is not to harm the person but as a threat. If their intent is to harm the person that's an additional crime (assault, murder, attempted murder)

"that is highly likely to cause great injury or death?"

Highly likely for the robbery or if they carry out the threat. I believe the vast majority of robberies where violence was threatened don't end in violence. I don't have data for this so if you contest it I'll recind that claim.
Zuckerberg does not take stock compensation either
One question that I had immediately which you or other users might also want answered:

It’s only using books that OpenAI is already familiar with. This is not “have the AI digest a book and answer questions”
74 Gear deserves a mention https://youtube.com/@74gear
Username checks out.

Jokes aside, I’m excited about any future additions to Fortran, esp. to make it appealing to direct data science use.
Ok, how about I define a new property that my superset contains a 'rainbow' of colors. The subset has only one of the colors, it doesn't contain the rainbow property. The original post claimed that the superset always has the same or fewer properties. I was questioning whether this was true.

You've mentioned that it is generally true, which seems like a better way to describe the concept.

-- edit: I understand now, in my example above the subset must contain a property by which it could be identified. The original rainbow property is lost but a new one is gained.
"Collective perception" is not meaningful evidence
It's often not a matter of technical feasibility, but "is it on the list". Ideally things that could technically do it should be "on the list" but in reality it's probably a janky business process that decides what gets in and what doesn't.
What was the plane doing near Diego Garcia in the first place?
and many of these technologies are now showing up via Project Pluton.

More awareness needs to be made of how this will have a devestating impact on end-user freedom. They're attacking the PC, one of the last holdouts of general-purpose computing freedom. Remote attestation will make it so you "can" technically run your own hardware and software (and that's what the FUD-spreaders will always say), but you'll be denied access to lots of, increasingly online, services.

Edit: nice, downvotes. Hello corpo-authoritarians, we know what's up :-)
Ew. "Do you have any idea who I am?" is never a good look.
Don’t you mean split hairs?
“Artwork Title,” the first (known) Wikipedia article generated by ChatGPT
That’s still half of what the iPhone 5s got…
That would be true if we were sampling from the underlying distribution in an unbiased and balanced way from the beginning. Instead data is generated and incorporated one set at a time, and each set is biased. Jargon and terms vary, but the language plumbing is the same - new sets bolster common phrases/idioms and lengthen the tail with specific tokens.

Keep in mind though, language isn't a stationary process.
That may well be, but the beauty of a distributed system where each service has a discrete owner is that that’s their problem.
Right, it's very different than any other console. It's not particularly out of character for Valve, though, and they are definitely part of the DRM establishment.
> I am not aware of any us state that charges sales tax on staple food items. Also I feel sorry for anyone that lives in a place with 10% sales tax that is crazy high

Most major US cities are at 8-9%. Many smaller cities (and St Louis) are more than 10. Cumulatively it's a lot of people afflicted.

Also, I'm with you on staples not being taxed, but that's part of the problem with the tax being added later instead of precomputed into the total; if you're shopping at a general purpose store (the Walmart in Mt View AR has been an offender for awhile, but I rarely find perfectly correct tax calculations on receipts for all but the simplest of purchases at any store) and buy a mix of staples and clothes and whatever, very frequently you'll find that staples were taxed, and if you weren't tracking things closely you'll have missed where the extra few dollars went. You don't know till the register what the price will be and can't easily plan ahead.

Another related problem, especially in the poorer parts of the country, the cheapest calories you can buy, especially if you're working too many jobs to have time to cook, are often excluded from such tax exclusions to discourage unhealthy eating habits (note also how obesity negatively correlates strongly with income). If you go into it with a vague notion of food not being taxed you can get surprised with 10% sales tax, a 5% junk food tax, and often a 10-50 cent (on cheap food a non-negligible percentage) plastic use tax or some other crap.

And so on. The problems stemming from not knowing what you'll pay are common and real, and they disproportionately hit people who can least afford it.
Cray did some vector machines that were globally addressed but not coherent. That’s an interesting direction. So is latency hiding.

The really important thing is that the big ‘single machine’ you’re talking about already has numa latency problems. Sharing a chassis doesn’t actually save you from needing to tackle latency at scale.
This is a feature I want. If someone steals my MacBook, I want it to be worth the scrap aluminium.

Yes there is a case where someone forgets their Apple ID password and lost access to all their recovery methods, but I’ve got my password memorised and written down so I purely benefit from the theft protection.

The statement on the article is ridiculous too. Apple doesn’t prevent the second hand market, you just have to factory reset the thing before you sell it. The most likely case where this is impossible is the seller stole it.
Actually two things were proposed, real-time flight tracking and real-time virtual blackbox, the former was accepted but the latter was not.

If real-time flight tracking data is frequently and continuously monitored 24/7 like in NoC, it probably can prevent the disaster like MH370 from happening again.

The latter real-time virtual blackbox proposal if accepted can be even more pro-active in preventing future incidents, and it can be easily integrated and embedded with the real-time location tracking albeit with extra cost to the airline operators.

Apparently the latter proposal according to ICAO was rejected due to the complaints from the pilot's union that cited privacy concerns. It seems that pilot's privacy is of higher pririty than the passengers' safety. You can have all your privacy in your house but when you are piloting aeroplane with many people life is your responsibility, pilot's privacy probably the least of your concern.
I got food poisoning when at an American university and I used the university hospital. They followed up with me to ask me whether I ate out anywhere. Next thing you know they've gone and done an inspection on the place and it's closed for a couple of days. Seems a bit high risk.

Tbh I think I got sick off my own food but I was doing the thing where I just honestly gave them all the info. I never really expected anything to come of it.
> Tech workers have low levels of trust in leaders—even their own

I found this interesting and particularly relevant to the question of how we organize collaborations between the DoD and Silicon Valley. Having gone from RAND to Silicon Valley, I experienced a major culture shock. (Side note: hi you two! Funny that the comment section is us.) I can't imagine many tech workers would be too keen on how the DoD or even most Beltway Bandits manage their projects and workers.
A common approach is that there is a bug in the JavaScript engine (most often a bug in the JIT) which makes it possible for a bit of nasty JS code to start executing arbitrary native code inside the browser tab. This can, for example, involve corrupting the memory of a JavaScript object, gaining read/write access to the heap, and then further corrupting e.g. C++ virtual function tables to redirect control flow execution.

This gives the attacker control over the “renderer” process that handles the webpage inside a secured sandbox. So, the attacker has to then exploit the sandbox itself to gain more permissions. The renderer communicates with the parent browser process over IPC, and there are a lot of objects and communications channels between the two. So, a second bug in the browser process can be exploited by the (compromised) renderer process via IPC. Once successful, the attacker has full control over the browser and can do anything the browser can. Sometimes this is enough for the attacker; other times, they might exploit a third bug in the OS kernel to gain root access and thoroughly own your phone.
As ever with these discussions, I host my own email on a Hetzner VM with https://mailu.io/ and there was no special setup or precaution required to ensure delivery both ways.

Still - if you self-host just assume at some point it will go down and you may have to deal with a backup restore before you can receive any more email. If that gets in the way of your life, you may want to reconsider :)
Safeql[1] can also be a good middleground. Adds type checking to prisma raw queries.

[1] https://safeql.dev/compatibility/prisma.html
See, wear your helmet.
You're only an automatic update away from losing it. Hence why I suggested locking the version now until you find out what the last version with SMS support was, before transitioning to a fork.
Is it capitalism? That doesn't sound like it's specifically the result of the free market at work. I don't love the situation, but it seems like it's kind of a nuanced history that started with extra incentive for exceptional service, which changed over time. Why? I don't know. But ultimately we (in the US) know that we should be expecting to pay ~20% on top of our bill, and take that into consideration when we're making the decision to eat at a table service establishment.
To make it even worse, that's based on an average density 1.8 atoms/c3. The real values would probably vary wildly, and you won't be able to "break" in advance in order to go through a high density area.

And then there's the problem of hitting an interstellar grain of sand at 0.5c.
Sorry I should clarify: this was for the luggage x-ray and not the person scanner!
Facebook = "Metamates" = Peak cringe
Hetzner has been fine for me, only since 2018.
From the way of work document at FluxNinja[0]:

Task priorities are decided based on two factors:

1. The ratio of value generated per given effort: If there are two tasks with similar value but one of them requires less effort then the one with lesser effort goes higher in priority. On the contrary if two tasks require the same effort but one of them has higher value then the one with higher value gets higher priority.

2. Time sensitivity: Certain tasks are time sensitive and should be given higher priority. Tasks can be time sensitive because they are blockers for other tasks or because they help de-risk technical or business risks and may affect the fate of other tasks going on in parallel. These are usually information generating tasks and they help reduce wasted effort on other tasks if the information is revealed early.

One makes a priority decision based on the best judgement combining the above criteria. The intent is to increase the overall value generated by the team.

[0]: fluxninja.com
Was it bad Google leadership? Or capitalist excesses? I don't believe we even live in capitalism. We live in Creditism. It is obvious tech was the beneficiary of easy money, zero interest rates and expanded monetary supply. Its no coincidence as the Fed, raises rates and tries to simultaneously drain liquidity there will be less investment in tech, and pressure on income. If you are looking for someone to blame - blame the Fed. But as we see easy money is at the expense of causing inflation.

To turn this around a bit, Maybe you are being greedy? Perhaps you really want easy money - on the backs of the poor and middle class - to subsidize our industry?
It's definitely wild!

But "completely frozen" isn't quite right: if you slowly lowered the temperature of a "frozen" frog enough the tiny bit of water still within the cells would freeze, and the frog would die.
The Open Source Initiative exists and if you’re not following it then you’re going to have a hard time claiming to be open source.
"Another reason that Google is wasteful is that it's too easy. The people inside it don't see it as a business as they don't have to struggle against the market forces everyone else has to deal with. Why would you when ads is so profitable?"

When the people oustide it stop seeing it as a business, then Google's goose is cooked.
The company can make an official statement making it public at any time. Releasing information to the public is not restricted to earnings calls, but they generally don't have incentive to do otherwise.
"For the reasons listed above, most experts believe MH370 was the victim of some kind of deliberate action."

What if the plane was struck by a meteorite? It certainly sounds like there was some kind of incident that caused them to turn around abruptly to head back but they were disabled. It is possible they experienced an extreme rare event. Rare dpesnt mean impossible, just highly unlikely.