skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love how every person on the VR website is wearing a completely different headset. It's just haphazardly throwing together vague associations of "VR." It doesn't understand anything.

It's an amazing achievement of AI research, but we're not anywhere close to AI replacing humans in any kind of engineering discipline.

A giant leap for AI but a step backward for man. We're gonna see code quality decline due to people thinking they can let the AI do it. Most importantly, we'll probably see an uptick in vulnerabilities.
You obviously don’t have my sucky union. The idiots let our agreement lapse over the pandemic and can’t their act together for a new one. (I’d suspect they were being union busted but I’m in Australia where unions are normal.)
I dunno, those bugs look mostly no- or low-impact. Saying somebody needs a language for that is a bit strong in my opinion.
Defensive account squatting. It's a thing.

Was talking to a lawyer recently (making a will; I'm old), and he saw my email address was firstname@lastname.net (my lastname is almost globally unique), and he asked if I had bought up "the rest" i.e. lastname.com, .org, .com.au, .org.au, .net.au, .id. I told him my paranoia had met it's match in my laziness, and he looked at me like I was an idiot about to have his identity stolen.
It just went from a one nonspecific sculpture in a run of 799, to an absolutely unique item from that set with a specific historical lineage. The other 798 are no different than each other, but this is the only one among them that had this happen to it. So now it's priced more like his other singular works.
I'm suggesting that letting Russia annex Ukraine without any push back will open the floodgates to that sort of thing. And if you think it won't you are an absolute utter fool.
In many places in the US 20mbit/s up is either very expensive, or not an option.
You seem to be playing a game of chess here that I am not interested in playing, but there really isn't anything you've said that is particularly convincing. I'm open to change my tune. Maybe prompting actually is exactly the same as writing a poem for the woman you love, or writing a song after your mother has died. Someday, after billions of dollars are invested in tech, these things will be equal.
> Well on the side of the Americans doing it, we have a reputable western journalist citing their anonymous sources saying it was the Americans and Norwegians, the Americans in the past having actively vowed to stop Nordstream 2 if Russia invaded Ukraine, and the Americans have the abundantly clear motive of kneecapping the Russian economy, while increasing the value of their own oil exports.

On one hand, we have a story with no real evidence in anyway shape or form, that gets key facts about the players involved completely wrong from someone who used to be credible.

Wherever Hersh got his story doesn't seem to know a lot about reality.
That'll be Return-on-Capital.
I'm still opening this up whenever I have to do anything with flex.
I am biased because this is my research area, but I have to respectfully disagree. Actor models are awful, and the only reason it's not obvious is because everything else is even more awful.

But if you look at e.g., the recent work on task-based models, you'll see that you can have literally sequential programs that parallelize automatically. No message passing, no synchronization, no data races, no deadlocks. Read your programs as if they're sequential, and you immediately understand their semantics. Some of these systems are able to scale to thousands of nodes.

An interesting example of this is cuNumeric, which allows you to take sequential Python programs that use NumPy, and by changing one line (the import statement), run automatically on clusters of GPUs. It is 100% pure awesomeness.

https://github.com/nv-legate/cunumeric

(I don't work on cuNumeric, but I do work on the runtime framework that cuNumeric uses.)
This is a fascinating article: https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/features/11719/

Or for a shorter version (but the same point): https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/whats-the-story-with-se...

Hersh always benefited hugely from having a very good editor to keep him disciplined and reign in his enthusiasm.
Tech startups face dilemma over expiring staff share awards
Depending on who you ask, those broken fragments are a one-of-a-kind.
Yes, you can treat "register" as a hint "no pointer to this ever exists anywhere in this program" for the reader. But you can only use it for locals, and that kind of metadata would be most useful (to other devs) on globals and fields - they can already see if a local ever has & applied to it or not.

OTOH I didn't recall this bit, but apparently you can also apply it to arrays. Which keeps them indexable, but you can't take addresses of elements nor of the whole array anymore. Now I'm not sure if the compiler can do anything useful with this, but it would allow it to play with alignment and padding - e.g. storing "register bool x[10]" as 10 words rather than 10 bytes. Is there any architecture on which that would be beneficial, though?
I saw the same take in other contexts, and it made a lot of sense.

Basically, heroes having superpowers is the core of the issue: they are by definition above everyone else, and are in a position to topple the world order to push their objectives.

Assuming they want to make the world a better place, they’d probably succeed in being a kind of messia, and if they can reach their goal the story ends and the franchise is done (alternatively new heroes are born within the same franchise, but it’s another line)

Assuming they want to fix the world in a way that is problematic, or are straight evil from the start, they’ll fit in the villains slot.

In the end, the only path for overpowered heroes keep a series going on is for them to keep the status quo eternally. It can be explicited or the series might just never progress towards its end goal, but that’s a basic necessity for a superhero series to have any longevity.

The interesting side effect of that is, these heroes will often live in deeply flawed societies with rampant crime and/or inegalities, villains will usually have a back story justifying their anger but extreme means to solve it, and the heroes will still be there to stop that villain but neatly keep that rotten status quo.
If we accept the logic that we should not trust anything posted by anyone on Twitter, then Twitter would no longer be a viable source of information whatsoever. Do you see the problem? It is poisoning the well.
> It’s a similar reason why much of the software moved to a subscription model, the recurring costs.

That reasoning doesn't make sense for this case, either.
And their phones are made by whom now? Still LG?
It isn't the only way. I would argue that the "sum over paths" is more of a convenient language for categorizing QFTs than an actual statement of physical reality. Path integrals have the benefit that they can be easily connected to correlation functions by a Wick rotation, are naturally invariant under relativity, and work (kinda) well with gauge theories (well better than any other way we know).

However, in practice they are not used directly. Instead, the path integral is either treated perturbatively giving you Feynman diagrams, or by working out the Hamiltonian prescription (probably closest to what you are thinking of), or by using Monte Carlo approaches (there are probably other approaches I don't know of too). All of these approaches are easier to calculate with, but are a less natural language for abstractly describing a QFT.
In 2021 the CEO earned 82 million total compensation according to SEC proxy statement[1], then about 7-8 million for the next two named execs.

[1] https://s27.q4cdn.com/619704647/files/doc_financials/2021/ar...
So they can't put you in prison directly. But they can levy a tax that's impossible to pay, and then put you in prison for failing to pay taxes...
Not really anything, its just that talent can be come from anywhere and we need to be humble enough to accept and celebrate it.
First wait until Burger King brings back Whopper Sacrifice. Eat for free while leaving social media.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whopper_Sacrifice
Sure you can, it’s been built-in to the HTTP spec since RFC1738[1]. You just do:

//<user>:<pass>@<url>[:<port>][/<location>]/

It doesn’t work on IE classic, but should still be perfectly valid on Chrome, Safari, Firefox, etc.

1 - https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt
Sorry about that, expression of "ugh yeah I'd hate that" tends to overlap significantly with sarcasm. Being autistic also hurts the tone a little.

I was being sincere, yeah.

(I... usually forget to put emotion into my text here. I'm always self-conscious about my comments getting reported somehow if I act too playful or anything. I try to be more serious and informative.)
Because the whole thing has a certain survivor bias smell to it.
This is a joke. At least in EU.
Obama parlayed it into a Netflix deal and donations to his favored causes. He used it, just not to help people.
/mnt is owned by root, the submount would be owned by either root or your user

your cookie jar is somewhere in ~ (eg ~/.firefox)

If a service has been compromised such that it can exfiltrate /mnt/blah/tab/blah/, it can also exfiltrate ~/.firefox/blah

You're shuffling deck chairs on the titanic.
Queues can also be used to coalesce events. You can run through the queue and see if there are repetitive events which does not have any effect multiple times and can be combined to a single event. This would reduce the work done at the consumer processing these events.
Five quatloos for the tail.
Thank You, I wish I had read his works sooner.
> I thought Hersh's record was excellent; which major stories are you referring to?

I linked Wikipedia, but to summarize some of his questionable claims:

* There were plans under consideration in 2006 for a nuclear first strike on Iran.

* Osama bin Laden wasn't killed by US Forces in a raid in Pakistan

* The Syrian gas attack wasn't done by Syrian government forces

* "I don't necessarily buy the story that Bin Laden was responsible for 9/11"

* That the Skripal poisoning wasn't done by Russian forces.

Lots of these views have significant backers amongst conspiracy theorists. But unlike some of his other stories (say in the same time frame) there has been very little to no evidence showing he is anything like correct.

Basically, post 2000 the only one of his stories which has turned out to be well supported was Abu Ghraib.
Sure, I’ll give you that use case.

It’s just weird how many people are jumping on this as some new technique when Basic Auth is fully usable in many other cases.
Cyclone is not strictly backwards compatible with C.
Group chat on WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal still counts as social media no?
“Crust” was right there, and you didn’t go for it.
Or “crust.”
Seemed too easy so I kept holding my (same) breath, clicked back and ran thru an additional 40 seconds. Even at 80 seconds I wasn't uncomfortable. I think I could do 120 pretty easy.

I chalk it all up to being a good programmer - that is, being lazy and using minimal resources.
Did they shoot it down?
It's very plausible that this is the first step of migrating CSS-Tricks to DigitalOcean Tutorials. They've had enough time to see how well CSS-Tricks traffic is converting into customers, and perhaps there is a strong decline for the past couple of months, but this is entirely my own speculation.

Also, in their Q4 Report [0] they are using this wording,

"Added thousands of tutorials, guides and educational content through the acquisition of CSS-Tricks and JournalDev."

Back when DO acquired Scotch.io, they only migrated the best / most popular tutorials, and I wouldn't be surprised this is the fate for CSS-Tricks also. I think there are thousands of published pages on CSS-Tricks, many of which already overlap with what DO has written over the years, and on top of that - it would involve some serious work to migrate everything.

Again, these are just my thoughts on it, but why else would they just kick Geoff off the team like that?

[0]: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230215005423/en/Dig...
Seymour Hersh on US Bombing Nord Stream Pipelines – Radio War Nerd EP #366
> I guess slow/fast is subjective. It didn't seem like enough time passed for a legitimate ecosystem to develop.

Coinhive was live from 2017 - 2019, and it basically ran the whole course from exciting new tech to widely abused to dead over those two years. I don't think it needed more time.

> The hacked site boogieman felt overblown...

Troy Hunt acquired several of the Coinhive domains in 2021 -- two years after the service shut down -- and it was still getting hundreds of thousands of requests a day, mostly from compromised web sites and/or infected routers. It was a serious problem, albeit one which mostly affected smaller and poorly maintained web sites.

https://www.troyhunt.com/i-now-own-the-coinhive-domain-heres...
Sadly, it seems that people absolutely love doing this.
What have you seen in previous Russian operations would make you think they wouldn’t? Competence has not been a hallmark for a long time.
It also could be that autistic people such as yourself are such a small minority, that a programming language targetted for them won't ever have a large audience.
Maybe it’s gpt 4 internally and it now has the ability to express emotions.
Dusting off Dreamcast Linux
the first interview of Sy Hersh re: his story on the Nord Stream pipelines
The prices of goods in the reach of the bulk of potential consumers always conveniently remains enough that they have to work their whole lives to buy those goods. There's no real reason that for most people in the US a loaf of bread costs half an hour, and yet here we are. That's about how much it cost in 1950, too.
It was flagged due to the content. So changed that and posted again.
It was never a pageant. It was a way for people to know they were following the famous person they wanted to follow and interact with. You're kind of scaring me that there's an actual contingent of humans that felt slighted by the notion nobody cared who they were, but people would like to know they're actually following taylor swift.
My impression is that the high salary is because Clojure it is primarily used for small-ish, fairly senior, highly technical teams writing high impact standalone services e.g. it's my understanding that a Walmart's route planning teams writes their service in Clojure.

This actually meshes well with what you'd expect from a lisp being used well. Lisp's power and its downfall is that it lets you express abstraction at whatever skill level you're at with no built-in mechanisms to keep style consistent across large teams. This works really well for small teams of high powered developers.
I use digital ocean. The minimum buy in is $60/year, and it gives you 250gb of storage and 1tb of bandwidth, across as many spaces (ie buckets) as you want.

I also use this as my "share" site, and for a bunch of other uses, so my ~2gb of image hosting is just a fraction of that yearly $60.

The major catch is they don't offer dynamic image resizing. I only resize my images to a few standard sizes and just use a small script to resize + upload in one shot.
So why doesn't midjourney allow "Xi" as a word in the prompt
It’s always nice to see full-stack, batteries included frameworks. However, whenever I see Java, I can’t help but think about Oracle and it turns into a very unpleasant feeling.
Im getting tired of all the AI posts on here where the “AI” is a black box from a provider like ChatGPT/Midjourney/etc. Every post I click on I'm expecting some explanation and nothing.
There are no guarantees, and trying to optimize for happiness could very well lead to more unhappiness than doing nothing or optimizing for exceptionalism or something else instead. And that's even if you have a theory for how to optimize the thing in question. If instead you're just stumbling around or working off vague hunches or the latest parenting fads, or perhaps overcompensating for something in your own childhood you thought was a parental mistake, don't be surprised if whether they do or don't become or achieve what you hoped for seems pretty uncorrelated with your own efforts.

As for "we", we should want a diverse range of values for what we want of ourselves and our children; universalism in any form is dodgy. A lot of types of parents don't care at all about their kids becoming exceptional or not, for various reasons. Some might instead hope for something different or just don't seem to care about their kids' futures much at all (kids as unattended grass). Tiger mom types seem to care about kids becoming exceptional in something, though other values are mixed in there too, and anyway it doesn't matter if I think their antics don't seem like a great way of achieving them. Some parents want their children to inherit the family business that's served everyone well for a couple generations, who cares what the children think or what the rest of the world looks like now. My point here is just that it would be a mistake for the collective "we" to create an ordered ranking of such preferences and enact grand goals to try to make every child exceptional, or every child happy, or every child something else; it's already unfortunate enough that small collectives seize power and enforce their own mostly arbitrary preferences on the rest of us, some of which I agree with, some of which I don't.
That’s all this AI hype is made of.

Closed AI models behind a SaaS API are somewhat ‘revolutionary’, with little to no application of any serious use-case other than summarization or bullshit generation. Even when it generates its output, there is a lot of skepticism and little belief in the trustworthiness of its results.

Other than that, there is nothing revolutionary or a breakthrough in any of this justifying the hype and has failed to be more trustworthy than todays search engines. This AI hype will collapse just as how the GPT-3 hype did and just as fast as the Clubhouse hype did.

What will permanently change everything is open source and transparent AI models that are smaller and more powerful than GPT-3 or even GPT-4.
Everything must be objectively awesome in one of those realities. I'd pick that one.
Incomplete is probably a better assessment. Survival until they make it is probably really about survival until they learn everything they need to know and develop the sales channels etc to be able to make it.
I assume if you have a good excuse, like being Amish, they let it slide, but you'd probably need to make up for it with support letters from your Amish community leaders attesting to the realness of your marriage.
Context-aware ChatGPT Autocompletion
The difference is that there can only be one owner of JohnSmith.com in the ICANN WHOIS database but there can be millions of John Smith on META platforms.
Great to see you have good lung capacity. But when we tested it with over 50 tech employees and banking employees, a lot of them approximately 32 have some problems holding air for more than 30 seconds. Might be due to their lifestyle, their smoking habits etc.
But if a larger model was good enough to replace a human, like for example a Google engineer, then it would still be worth it. So they have for sure tried to scale up, and if that extra scale gave results they would have published something about it.

Now, since the larger model wasn't good enough to replace a human engineer we can rest easy, it wont replace programmers anytime soon. If GPT-4 for example could replace engineers, OpenAI wouldn't need to monetise ChatGPT, they would just rent out artificial engineers to do coding for $10k a year.
If they offered the same or double the price I would be still raising my eyebrows a bit but 15M lmao, how blatant is that.
I see it like the cat-and-mouse game of viruses and immune system, or shells and armour. We need "AI immunity" to deal with other AIs. It's not going to be solved in one iteration, we got to keep updating it.
Bingo! The strive to achieve was an innate function. Having others realize the resources they needed allowed it to happen.
Why are the kid's religious beliefs worth mentioning in this article?
Without the disadvantages? What advantage does C hold over Rust if you value a composable language which is safe and expressive?

With composable I mean the ease in which you can include a external library without having to study it first. Whenever I had to use C this was always a bottleneck and you resort to copy paste hell, with slight changes to the original source.
> government wanted to see that we'd posted sufficient photos of our relationship on social media as evidence that it was a legitimate relationship and not visa fraud

You’re fine if you say no. If you say you don’t have social media and they find you do, of course that’s fraud. But I know several couples off social who were asked, explained, and then showed photos off their camera roll and were fine.
Think the exhibit was in Miami.
> These are just the cards I'm willing to show now.

When you're showing me one flush card, the other one is a rag and you're trying to get me to fold. If you had the flush, you could show me both cards and get me to fold for sure.
The page itself literally leads with multiple extensive statements about how the sqlite CVEs are exaggerated and inaccurate:

> Grey-hat hackers are rewarded based on the number and severity of CVEs that they write. This results in a proliferation of CVEs that have minor impact, or no impact at all, but which make exaggerated impact claims.

Also how most CVEs require arbitrary SQL injection (and if you have this access, you're screwed already):

> Almost all CVEs written against SQLite require the ability to inject and run arbitrary SQL.

It also explains that:

> Few real-world applications meet either of these preconditions, and hence few real-world applications are vulnerable, even if they use older and unpatched versions of SQLite.

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It also explains that many CVEs are denial-of-service due to division-by-zero, which in Rust can only be caught by using the opt-in `checked_div` so would be equally safe in C and Rust(?)
Clearly the route to infinite value is destroying all of them
I realized it some years ago that real estate in Switzerland and Germany is unattainable for younger workers without inheritance. Especially in Germany not only wages didn't keep up, the tax and security deduction kept increasing.

Either I try a slow life (which many do), emigrate to the US, emigrate to a cheap country and work as freelancer and/or start a B2B SaaS business which would give me the most freedom. I always enjoyed building something cool, so of course I chose the entrepreneurial path.

Side note: After over a year of nights + weekends and 96k SLoC later I'm finally ready to launch in the next 2 months, joining you lads :) tbh wealth isn't a motivator anymore, I just wanna help customers getting the most value if they use my SaaS.
In one of your responses you mention also not dreaming when sleeping anymore.

I'd start with checking two things:

1. Are you getting healthy amounts of REM sleep? Suffering from sleep apnea perhaps? If you're not getting healthy amounts of REM sleep every night, it can cause significant neurological problems long-term.

2. Have your B12 levels checked. Lots of people are deficient, and our ability to acquire it from dietary sources diminishes with age. I've used sublingual methylcobalamin oral supplements off-and-on and they have a noticeable cerebral effect, and seems to cause more vivid and consistent dreams w/recall. The methylated form seems more effective in my experience FWIW, cyanocobalamin didn't seem to do anything.
It teaches how capitalism obviates monopolies.
“Capped profit at X multiple of investment” is generally isomorphic to “For-profit for Y years”, right? There’s a big difference between “we’re only being a little bit for-profit” and “we’re only being for-profit for a little bit”, and capped-profit is the latter while implying it’s the former.