skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remember the demon core thing happened more than once, too.
im a little sad they did not include some cool graph explaining whatever this is supposed to mean:

> But the pilot, guided by AI the team developed, flew to an unexpected position far ahead of the enemy aircraft and fired a missile “over the shoulder”, tossing it backwards towards the foe.
Zero-knowledge proof composition and recursion
That depends on the wording in license.txt.

In general, automated systems and humans are considered different by the law. For example: looking out the window and noticing that your neighbor is going to the shop is ok; building an automated system that tracks people everywhere: not ok.
> Chartreuse will now only be sold exclusively under allocation, making it much more difficult to find.

Allocation sucks. Just raise the price.
"Wild mammals"

nice one, journalism
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> how would the boom cycles ever happen where employees get whatever they ask for and 5 years of work straight out of university can get you enough money to retire to a modest life without ever lifting another finger.

Founders aren't your typical managers. The boom cycle you talk about started with Google paying ridiculous amounts and giving everyone huge nice benefits, and then others had to start matching that to not get all their best programmers stolen by Google.

But today there is no longer a founder led giant who is applying pressure here, so likely things will normalize over time back to 90's early 00's, where programmers were paid more like engineers instead of being a class above.
US states haven't been abbreviated like that since 1963. A news site should be a few decades more up-to-date. It's a little subconscious thing they do to appeal to older right-wing people, which sets my propaganda alarms off.
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> I see your point, but no one uses Windows notepad for coding anymore.

Did I miss an IDE that inlines all those things for you automatically? Because ones that only give you a "jump to definition", or maybe a one-at-a-time preview in a context popup, are not much better than Notepad++. You still don't get to see all the relevant things at the same time.
Obviously this improves interoperability and the handling of nulls and strings. My naïve understanding is that polars columns are immutable because that makes multiprocessing faster/easier. I’m assuming pandas will not change their api to make columns immutable, so they won’t be targeting multiprocessing like polars?
When Chuck Norris opens Windows, he only receives telemetry from Microsoft.
Ever try posting your comments and the reply you got on twitter?
Super nicely done! Thank you so much for contributing with this.
> Wasn't there a law passed that you need to provide ID before your ISP will serve porn sites?

What happens if you don't provide your ID, is there a blacklist that only gets disabled if you authenticate?

Do they also enquire about the type of porn, what you intend to do with it, how often, and whether it's wholesome, traditional, honest to goodness British porn or some unbearable thing with pesky foreigners?
Oh yeah this is a real nightmare.
The real joke, I guess, is that hundreds of people are talking about this.
I work alone, but not out of choice.

It's because no one wants to work with an "old."

This is something that the folks currently refusing to work with me, can look forward to.

It's ridiculous. We are highly unlikely to one day, wake up a different race, or [slightly more likely] wake up a different gender, but we will all become "old" (the alternative kinda sucks).

I suspect a lot of SV folks are already experiencing the "hoist by their own petard" problem. This will become a really big deal, with all these layoffs.

Also, the code I write isn't "overengineered," or "spaghetti." It's advanced code. Many modern corporations are obsessed with hiring the least possible qualified candidates, and throwing them at advanced ship projects. In these cases, someone right out of JS bootcamp, is supposed to take over a native Swift iOS app. They won't have fun.

Too cheap to hire the right people? You get what you pay for. Too bigoted to hire experienced people? You get what you ask for.
> During daytime mode it employs an IR cut filter, and during nighttime mode it removes the filter and adds additional IR lighting for "night vision".

Ah, I see

> Being able to see a faint blinking LED from a remote is not sufficient to prove that the effect is strong enough to completely obscure a person's face when an IR cut filter is applied, in my opinion.

It's just a matter of intensity. An IR filter is going to block some percentage. If it blocks 90%, you just need a 10X stronger light. At some point this gets impractical of course, but you can buy some really powerful LEDs. Most security cameras are cheap and the IR filter is there to improve the image in the daytime, not to counteract intentional attacks.
What about the neighbor above/below your apartment? A ceiling of ferroconcrete is a good blocker (or a good multiplier?)

From my apartment, I can see a telecommunication tower, about 1.2 kilometers away. Wondering what it could pick up with enterprise grade antennas if it wanted to. maybe the other monitors around would disturb the signals?

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/sec09/tech/full_papers/...
Overgeneralizing here. There's a very broad range of behaviour depending on location.
The auto-collection of nice-job messages sounds completely awesome. I wish I had this for my team.
As many as they can afford? or is Iran supposed to be scary bad country and prove nuclear is bad?
Under this new bill, would Apple be responsible if they still offered access to tutanota or signal ?
Western "democracies" at work. Constantly criticizing foreign dictatorships only to hypocritically play their same game, just a bit slower.
It certainly feels this way sometimes, but I'm hard headed. I know that's exactly how the powerful want us to feel. They want us to give up so they can continue to drain the lifeblood out of civilization freely and without much criticism. It's been this way for decades because we keep voting the same people in. We have to politically revolt and actively vote out the incumbents every time.
Perhaps some biases can be excused by committing to C++. Using dynamic dispatch in that language seems to be slow when it's pretty much always some vtable lookups under the hood, but it doesn't have to be that way. Implementations of other languages like Smalltalk or Common Lisp automatically apply (or have as options to specify) various strategies to make convenient abstractions a lot more performant. In Java Land the JVM can do many impressive things -- and interestingly, more numbers of smaller size methods helps, as it tends to "give up" if a function is a giant sprawling mess.

A fun story from https://snakeisland.com/aplhiperf.pdf on the utility of people using standard inner product / matrix multiplication operators, instead of hard-coding their own loops or whatever:

> In the late 1970’s, I was manager of the APL development department at I.P. Sharp Associates Limited. A number of users of our system were concerned about the performance of the ∨.∧ inner product on large Boolean arrays in graph computations. I realized that a permuted loop order would permit vectorization of the Boolean calculations, even on a non-vector machine. David Allen implemented the algorithm and obtained a thousand-fold speedup factor on the problem. This made all Boolean matrix products immediately practical in APL, and our user (and many others) went away very happy.

> What made things even better was that the work had benefit for all inner products, not just the Boolean ones. The standard +.× now ran 2.5—3 times faster than Fortran. The cost of inner products which required type conversion of the left argument ran considerably faster, because those elements were only fetched once, rather than N times. All array accesses were now stride one, which improved cache hit ratios, and so on. So, rather than merely speeding up one library subroutine, we sped up a whole family of hundreds of such routines (even those that had never been used yet!), with no more effort than would have been required for one.

Or, just look at SQL. I sure appreciate not having to write explicit loops querying the correct indexes every time I want to access some data.
i write a lot of stuff solo. i also realize that 75% of writing software is making sure others can read it. so what I usually do is this:

- write documentation upfront (with Hugo or something like that) to explain what I'm building, why, how to use and/or compile it, and how to test it. i do this before i lay down any code. this also helps me re-justify the time investment i'll be spending on writing the thing. (it is much much easier to maintain documentation before you start coding than after. once you're in the zone, you're in)

- write behavior/end to end tests that describe what major components of the software will do and how they will interact with each other. these tests usually change, but I consider this a second layer of documentation

- make code as readable as possible, i.e. small functions, high modularity, reasonable var names, etc. i also use linters heavily.

- i try to break up major pieces of work into pull requests despite me being the only contributor and explain what happened and what the work introduces within them. i'll also add comments to sections of the code that don't make sense. i use PRs for this instead of git commits or (only) comments because i've found them to be much better at digesting large codebases, and they are great spaces for discussing changes within context.
a box in your closet or bare metal in the datacenter, repectively?

While you read the TOS end-to-end (you do that, right?), I finish the site and have lunch.
> I think he couldn't do GitHub? Down near the end of the article he wrote:

It's not that he couldn't, it's more of an arbitrary self-imposed limitation.

I fail to understand why he needs to use any code generator on GitHub.

What's wrong with generating all static assets offline and just pushing to GitHub? I've been doing it for years.

Complaining that GitHub doesn't compile your source and generate your site is like complaining that the Play Store or App Store don't allow you to push your source code there, and then they do the build for you.
And, in fact, it depends. I have a scanner at home that is a camera with an LED light that basically takes a picture--and in this case, it obviously print side up. Obvious? Well, sort of but you need some mental model of how things work.
It certainly would be but looking at the options tells me that they're hooking into MacOS's widget libs and on Linux there's just so many. What I get by with to go mouseless is Tridactyl for Firefox, warpd for when I need a pointer, and when I absolutely, positively need a mouse, mouse emulation on QMK keyboards never fails me. I only need it these days for dealing with MacOS outside of my Linux VM. I also use keyd in order to remap keyboard shortcuts.

https://github.com/rvaiya/warpd
https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd

Why in the world are those links side by side?
I think it's a HN bug. I tried submitting another post from the same blog, HN software seems to rewrite the url to the homepage instead.
> Yes, that wiring doesn’t exist today and will have to be built out, but wiring conduits already exist in most cities for street lighting and residential distribution.

That's easily said than done. You can't build it wide enough, because maintenance and upkeep (you need to pay for reserved power) for big system will eat you alive. And if you build it small so maintenance and upkeep is as smallest fraction of revenue as possible, it won't make a difference for a comfort of BEV drivers compared to today.

And all of that is under assumption that your local substation has spare power. And that's usually not the case.
How to make a Git repo from a Google Doc
I have come to a similar conclusion. I still get better results generating d&d npcs with my usual random charts than using gpt. Although I have a suspicion it’s because openai has heavily clamped down on gpt responses so it will not give wild inappropriate responses that would be bad pr.

For example it generated exactly 1 Npc that could be considered rude with a special note how it’s sorry about that but that it’s important some npcs are rude for a more dynamic world (which I find amusing)
Google search and Google keep are strange things to merge as never kill off.

I think we can all agree on search.

Maps, Android, Chrome & YouTube would be very unlikely. Adsense too but maybe if they needed to avoid anti-trust .

Docs, drive and Gmail, probably not but I wouldn't say never.

The rest, Id say could go on the right whim of cost cutting.
There’s certain things that it’s better to “incorrectly” have people be scared of than trying to be precise. Just like the “treat every gun as loaded” rule - for those not directly involved in nuclear science, treat all nuclear vessels as demon cores and remain decently far away.
I swear folks. Take an hour and read the docs carefully. It’s not difficult to get a scratch site up and running with Hugo. The obsession with “mean time to dopamine” is exhausting.
ethics is probably the hardest problem out there
In the same vein, my local grocery store cuts open the bags of small oranges and sells the nearly-off fruits three for a dollar. Same chain grocery store in the town over has a speed rack it wheels out with nearly-off fruits and vegetables. Same store, but slightly different policies. I think my store is more working class, and the other is more affluent. Go figure.

Years ago there was a grocery store in Berkeley, CA which sold lots of near expiration foods, and other odds and ends—like small pieces of end cut cheeses, or products that seemed to be not popular or just failed. An example of the last was a cornmeal crust pizza shell. But something about the packaging was wrong and all of the crusts were broke in two. Haha. But it was all cheap and still wholesome to eat.
Managing lots of production is more work and work of a different character than managing small production. They are happier managing small production. It’s odd to fault them for that.

Do you work every hour you possibly could? Would it be reasonable for someone to complain that you owe them more work because they would really like it if you worked more?
People “unimpressed” with Enphase API update
While researching hardware for solar panels I scanned the web for possible hardware and saw that Enphase is supposed to have good inverters needed create AC. I am looking for hardware that does not need to be connected to the internet for all the obvious reasons like security, privacy, continuity, stability, resale value, etc.

So I asked myself the question; can Enphase hardware run without interaction with the Enphase company. Someone in their forum already asked this question:

https://support.enphase.com/s/question/0D53m00008IDVYmCAP/ca...

Looks like independent usage of the hardware is no longer the case because of a mandatory firmware update and people are "unimpressed":

https://support.enphase.com/s/question/0D53m00006ySLuRCAW/un...

What I understand is that people are forced now to periodically get a token with limited lifespan from the Enphase website to access the API of their hardware in stead of open local access. This seems to upset people with 20.000$ setups.

I am curious if I am reading this correctly, because this looks a bit like a "Bait and Switch" in the legal sense (not a lawyer btw) if this is true. It seems that Enphase removed a well known and coveted feature (independent local api connectivity) after the sale for the benefit of themselves. I am wondering if people have experience with this hardware and the situation, because I might be wrong and don't want to wrongfully suggest an issue. Hardware looks nice, but if this is true and does not get reverted, it would be a deal breaker for me.
They link to this repo at the top of the paper https://github.com/microsoft/unilm although I don't see anything that actually says "Kosmos".

Slightly interestingly, the last commit changes a heading from "AI" to "AGI" https://github.com/microsoft/unilm/commit/bbbb5b4b06c2dd501d...

The model is relatively small, 1.6B. I am guessing the goal is to be able to run on a user's home PC. But it would be interesting to see how much better it gets if you scale it up by a factor of 10 or 100.
You may want to look at [1] as a start.

[1] https://michaelwalczyk.com/project-unfolding.html
> You're absolutely right that it's never been universal in the workplace either. I have experienced endless incidents of people fiddling with projectors etc.

I like to think of myself as a pretty tech savvy person (I have held director level positions in FANG companies) but having interviewed again recently I still end up resorting to quitting and reconnecting when there’s no sound on my Google Meet/Zoom meeting. With 20 years of experience I have no real idea how to start debugging the problem. Maybe the problem wasn’t with the folks struggling with the projector?
? It isn't lol

Just Googling a bit reveals many options...
They're talking about total mass. So I think insects and whatever is in the ocean would probably be in very last place. According to them, it's white-tailed deer.

> The heavyweight champion is that furtive denizen of parks, meadows, and forests throughout the Americas, the white-tailed deer. It accounts for almost 10% of the total biomass of wild land mammals.
No, those were actual language issues, not missing headers or things like that. For instance: https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/if-constexprre...

Which is extremely frustrating when i reported a very similar issue in 17.4 which was reported as fixed (https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/if-constexprre...), etc.

I try building my code every once in a while against MSVC because it has some useful warnings but am very burn out with code breaking on almost every minor version - I shifted all my serious work to clang+libc++ on windows a few years ago already. E.g. I've reported something like 50+ bugs, internal compiler errors, etc... to MS over the years and only a couple for clang even though I use it much much more.
> This practice normalizes gratitude in the team, and sets a mild expectation for recognizing the people who helped you that week.

Honest question if your team also does this. How do you differentiate real thanks from the thanks of the week? I ask because in my experience kudos at a regular interval works for a while when it is launched but stops being effective over time, in some cases producing the opposite of intended effect.
does this mean the ai crossed the slower foes' course, practically leaving the missile like an aerial mine for the foe to fly into?

looks like the mach11 fighter would do better with a different style of weapons than slow missiles
> People who don't work with it legitimately do not understand the levels of automation and/or precision involved in large-scale (and medium scale) farms.

What I do not understand is why vegetables in the US taste like shit and cost 3x as much as in Eastern Europe (Poland, Bulgaria) where agro-automation is much less.
I don't understand why the topic always elicits snarky comments.

"Great firewalls" are necessary as a matter of fact. They have nothing to do with government overreach and curtailment of freedoms. In a liberal, democratic country what is blocked is what has been identified as illegal/criminal enough to warrant it, so why would Joe public want to get technical tools to "ignore all of that" has to raise red flags because that would not be "to protects his rights"...

Crucially, as mentioned, there is also the aspect of national security and protection against cyber attacks.

It's good to have ideals but on those issues we should not be "too simple, sometimes naive" (Jiang Zemin)

Edit: Oh dear, oh dear...
I have had it make new languages based off existing languages but change the weights on how thing are used and what semantics are allowed or fixed.

Are you building in a recursive layer by asking it to take on a role while also targeting its output at a constructed user persona?
Definitely something to keep in mind. Thank you for the wisdom.
1. Having N tools that are 95% the same is just frustrating for everyone trying to find a tool that will be maintained.

2. Contributing to a project that almost does what you want leads to better tools that are also maintained so they can be relied upon to build new things.

3. Instead of building the Nth version of something, you could be working on something novel.

Theres no value from building something new if you can just learn how something that exists works and contribute to it instead. NIH syndrome is actively harmful to open source.
I have just taken a look... https://wg21.link/p1179 is actually still not there, right?
I see some interesting stuff in https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-lifetime-annotations-for-c/... from last year. But, in general... once Herb started the whole Lifetime safety profile thing, there seemed to be a lot of interest, but for the last few years things seems to have died? I think things are better with Visual Studio, but being on Linux... I may need to start developing for Linux from Visual Studio with WSL2 :-(
I don’t disagree. Parent said it doesn’t happen, that’s what I commented on.
Sharopoyezd – Soviet high-speed monorail project from 1930s
Very little known engineering project from early Soviet era -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharopoyezd. Lead by Nikolai Yarmolchuk.

Theoretically, train speeds could achieve 300km/h. Built prototype has been tested only at 70 km/h.

Project was canceled due to high construction and operating costs. There were attempts by Yarmolchuk to revive the project in 50-60s. Although, as well unsuccessful.
The original comment did not come across as bitter-sweet as it should be. It came across as entitled, sort of disgruntled by the fact that the monks keep the secret to themselves and the drink can not be industrialized and produced to such an extent that they can enjoy their favorite drinks wherever they please and of course, at a reasonable cost!

Their attitude is akin to how people complain and demand stuff from open source projects and why authors are annoyed when supporting such projects.

It reminds me of "The Menu" movie, the producers got fed up with the consumers and they took drastic actions. Wasn't a big fan of the movie but I can see how creators would go to such extremes or at least fantasize about them.
Did computers get dumped in a pond at Digital Equipment‘s Maynard Complex?
I see, that's for sure. That's what every system does in one way or another. Both of the papers I have listed there describe different ways to do it: the Graphflow paper (and Kuzu) currently does this inside their dynamic programming-based join order optimizer. Umbra does it after a good join order is picked.
How are "real thanks" and "thanks of the week" different?
Ah, so purely a matter of separation in the case of a lab coat.
NordVPN app pentest report [pdf]
It's not quite so simple. A race to supply authentic Chartreuse at extremely high volumes is likely to produce ditchwater. Authentic ditchwater with the correct label on the bottle, but useless for drinking.
Agreed, but it sounded like your initial concern was:

> someone copying the web and claiming it's their own would be problematic surely?

Is it ok for humans to repurpose, repackage and regurgitate knowledge they've "scraped" and not software?