skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If demon-summoning circles are going to be a thing that exists, I'd much rather have them in every household than have them used exclusively by the rich and powerful.

I generally agree with "democratization" of technology but this is one that should be available to as few people as possible (ideally 0). Treat it like a biological weapon or a nuclear stockpile, the area of effect will be so large that it doesn't really matter who uses it or who they point it at; everyone ends up suffering once it is activated.

This is true under both limited tool-AI (under human command, but powerful and weaponized) and existential risk paperclip AI scenarios.

A disappointing number of otherwise intelligent people are unwilling or incapable of seeing how this technology will be able to inflict mass human suffering and death.
Uncle Bob's Response to Casey Muratori's Critique of Clean Code
I would rather take my chances and not hold on to it. I know eventually the stock in the company i work for will go up. But I would much rather be diversified
I stumbled upon this website , and come to find out, it updates every 30 minutes with new AI Tools.... pretty sick, thought i'd share
Switch off Dark Reader :)
Things aren’t impossible, but they are very hard. As you know about CPyExt, it’s probably best to point to you pypy’s article on why it makes things hard (you may have already read this!) https://www.pypy.org/posts/2018/09/inside-cpyext-why-emulati...
> One would think, as you put on the parachute before jumping out of a plane, that the Fed would have checked that raising interest rates to combat inflation would not tank lots of banks.

Well, that’s not what I would have thought but it’s refreshing to run across an optimist now and again.
No, I'm pretty sure Microsoft wants you to pay for it, not the other way around.
What's different is that each subtask now feels like a weekend hackathon. Plus a bunch of engineering to ensure high quality results and build the appropriate UI/UX for human drivers.

You could solve 5% of cases now and over five years drive it up beyond 100% (where you're getting new customers and startups that had never even tried the previous methods).
Interesting. I'm from a different part of industry so x86_64 Linux is support is enough, where is "everywhere" for you?
as a non-expert, it sounds like this would only affect federal cases? it's interesting to me that they don't seem confident that they can legislate over lower jurisdictions, despite the argument being that any such laws violate the US Constitution.
People have had ubiquitous cameras in their phones for a decade, but these fireballs happen way too fast to whip out your phone. The reason that we're seeing them more these days is because of the increasing prevalence of dashcams and home security cameras.
Just spin up three of these babies.
> The reason they weren't invaded during WW2 was mainly that they had a strong military in a very mountainous country with next to no strategic or material importance to Hitler. Just not worth the trouble. If Hitler saw a strategic reason to invade Switzerland he would have; he had no reservations about ignoring neutrality.

Are you sure? I was told in history class that it was because too many of Hitler's cronies stored massive amounts of money there. Which would obviously have disappeared to the allies before they could capture the whole country.

I've never investigated that in detail though so perhaps this was just wrong.
I'm not a huge fan of Kubernetes. However, I think there are some great use cases and undeniably some super intelligent people pushing it to amazing limits.

However, after reading over this there are some serious red flags. I wonder if this team even understands what alternatives there are for scheduling at this scale or the real trade offs. It seems like an average choice at best and if I was paying the light bill I'd definitely object to going this route.
I’m personally pretty excited for this…once I can figure out what it means for programmers.
The distinctive aspect of the 'transformer' family of neural networks is that they incorporate 'attention', which is a model that identifies which parts of the input are critical to its meaning. You're correct in that modern transformer models are essentially Markov chains, but the function that derives the probabilities (of which the attention heads are part of) is imbued with 'understanding' of related concepts during the training process. In contrast, a traditional Markov chain text generator might have a probability function that only takes into account the frequency of the n-grams in the training data, and so produces superficially coherent (but mostly meaningless) output.
Did I say move it to production? My question was that the generated code would me way more difficult to understand / modify than the original C.
Ironically, Docker wouldn't exist without Linux kernel support for containers.
I'm really glad I read the article, otherwise I'd be convinced that somehow Electronic Arts got snared in FTX
Does your company offer phone/video therapy/counseling? I procrastinated on trying it through my company for many months because it felt like “going to a therapist“ was some high bar. But I think that what you are dealing with is very easily worth a call, and just talking things out can be hugely helpful. They probably won’t even have a deep inside, but verbalizing it will help, and it’s amazing how convenient it can be to have that to turn to once you realize how easy it can be.
Reverse Tor?
Didn’t I just say that? Both App Store review processes are far from perfect. But even when app developers were inadvertently delivering malware to the App Store because of third party download of XCode, the blast radius was much more limited because Apple had sense enough to know that it might be a bad idea to let random third party apps intercept your text messages and phone calls
One interesting weak point I've noticed with GPT is that if you ask it to give examples from a category which in the real world has hundreds or thousands of different possibilities, it will give you the same half dozen answers every time. You ask it to give you "opponents" and it will always give you male humans. You ask it to give you "monsters" to kill and it always gives you orcs, giant spiders, skeletons. If a chest is supposed to have "useful items", it's always a healing potion.
Most of the post resonated with me, but the initial analogy and its concrete example give me pause.

> The dependency (oil, in this example) is an argument, not because anyone cares to customize it, but to simplify the implementation.

This is a huge leap! I know it’s an example, but it’s perfectly reasonable to satisfy both “don’t make me bring oil to the grease monkeys” and “express oil as an explicit dependency of grease monkey activity.” It will, of course, buck some recent discussions here, but the reasonable solution to that is an additional abstraction. And it will of course not buck another long time favorite here: functional core.

1. Provide the convenience interface which defaults to some way of determining a sensible default. In the example case, bringing your own highly configurable oil to the people who change your oil is an exceedingly idiosyncratic case, but for generalization purposes let’s say that’s optional.

2. For all cases, directly provide oil to the processes explicitly dependent on oil to proceed.

+ 3. Make sure you have your dependencies: if the weirdo with super weird oil opinions supplied their own weird oil, you’re done; otherwise get your sensible defaults ready. This is super cool because,

+ 4. Now you can just put oil in the car without making the oil selection everyone’s business (responsibility).

Maybe that’s “simplify[ing] the implementation”, but not in the ways that’s usually meant. It also has the really awesome property of preventing billion dollar mistakes. This:

> Leave the argument nil, and the function will silently leave the object in a bad state.

Doesn’t have to happen, even if your language/environment is predisposed to it. For the cost of a fairly mundane function boundary, you get a convenient interface for users who don’t care about how the oil sausage is made, and free null safety.

> What the caller probably wanted was more like this

I really don’t think that’s a reasonable assumption at all. What the caller probably wanted was more like this:

func ChangeOil(c Car, oilType OilType) error {
// There, that’s the whole function body
}

They don’t care if you also provide a good interface to the mechanics, they care about you managing a business (abstraction) they hired you to take care of for them.
Barney Frank defends role at Signature Bank: ‘I need to make money’
Using an expensive AI model to run a textual version of a game made for a portable console that came out 2 decades ago is some dystopian shit.
What prevented an IPO?
I’m going to use VR worlds as a major plot point, and I vaguely intuit that will be likely around the year 2035, why would I set my story in 2100?

That would require me to deliberately adjust my timeline to make “predictions” less likely.
i've found some luck with OrbStack by kdrag0n
No CUDA 12 support unfortunately..
>"never intend to modify"

This is ideal state of affairs but sometimes the reality can interfere with our intents.
Java Virtual Threads seems to be a ("better" in their mind) alternative than async/await, so not sure Microsoft should be credited for Java Virtual Threads?

> Also, the async/await approach, such as Kotlin coroutines, has its own problems. Even though it aims to model the one task per thread approach, it can’t rely on any native JVM construct. For example, Kotlin coroutines based the whole story on suspending functions, i.e., functions that can suspend a coroutine. However, the suspension is wholly based upon non-blocking IO, which we can achieve using libraries based on Netty, but not every task can be expressed in terms of non-blocking IO. Ultimately, we must divide our program into two parts: one based on non-blocking IO (suspending functions) and one that does not. This is a challenging task; it takes work to do it correctly. Moreover, we lose again the simplicity we want in our programs.

> The above are reasons why the JVM community is looking for a better way to write concurrent programs. Project Loom is one of the attempts to solve the problem. So, let’s introduce the first brick of the project: virtual threads.
They have a system of referendums that should remind everyone of why Plato and Aristotle of the dangers of the tyranny of the majority. An especially awful example has been Switzerland's treatment of women. In 1958 the men voted on the idea of giving women the vote, and they voted against it. Another referendum was held in 1971, at which point women finally got the vote. Of the Western nations that were nominally democratic, Switzerland was the last to give women the vote.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage_in_Switzerl...
I find this history really interesting.

Apparently there was a weird set of loans the UK took from the US during WW1 where the US put a moratorium on repayments during the Great Depression, and then loan payments never restarted:

> These loans remain in limbo. The UK Government's position is this: "Neither the debt owed to the United States by the UK nor the larger debts owed by other countries to the UK have been serviced since 1934, nor have they been written off."

That and a bunch of other interesting things about the history of the UK debt are in http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4757181.stm
if you do, consider approaching it in a similar manner. a single operation for multiple short term rental managers would be quite useful
> I live in a major metro area that should theoretically be impacted by sheer volume of use,

Nah, those towers tend to be built & upgraded to have the capacity. Where you mostly notice the MVNO suckage is if you take the biggest road out of town, drive two hours, make a left turn, and then drive an hour away from everything. But then again, wide coverage has historically not been T-mo's strength anyway (they've improved a lot in last few years).
What you just described is the absolute bane of my existence at work in embedded firmware development. Though typically size_t does mean what it says on the tin — the horrific drivers usually use some other unsigned int type if they’re doing dumb stuff with “n” there.
> Gerrymandering is only possible in a system without any sort of proportional representation.

interesting, so gerrymandering being a second-order effect and the main cause being first-past-the-post/non-proportional representation... interesting.
I'm not sure why it's so hard for anyone to find this on their own. OpenShift forced users to use CRI-O and RHEL removed Docker as part of the Yum repository.

Plenty of references to this:
https://crunchtools.com/docker-support/

Even though, at the time, CRI-O was a much worse option. Yes, Red Hat plays competitive lockout games all day long. This is just a singular example.
>"Time to start charging corporations to use your shell scripts I guess"

Believe me I do ;) I adapt those to particular products I develop for my clients. However not worth my time to bother releasing those in generic form. Suddenly I would have to satisfy bazillion specific constraints and requirements for generic users.
The XP ones
Nothing about "FedNow" is targeted at individuals. It's for financial institutions.
Or space trash, but I'm leaning meteor.
Agree. I remain skeptical of, e.g., the depression claims. Now, someone will jump in and explain that the virus can affect neural pathways, and (hand-waving) that can cause depression. Without hard evidence, which I have not seen, this is a tenous connection.
Whether it's grift or not, it's still keeping people out of the workforce.
While I'm not terribly familiar with the subject myself: Note that figure 2 in TFA calls out Astrid's character model as consisting of "1.67GB of geometry and 11.1GB of textures". That's stupidly massive compared to asset sizes for e.g. video game character models and texturing, and would probably choke a commercial real-time engine all on its own.
In better languages, the compiler will write that code for you, and eliminate it whenever it can prove that the condition will never be hit.

This is one of the philosophical differences between C and other languages that makes everyone consider C unsafe. A legacy language that should no longer be used, because all of its users are perpetually incentivised to take shortcuts precisely like the one you've just described.
As a completely uneducated guess, I’d argue more cameras of decent quality, and more of them with motion detection etc.

There’s certainly a case for the more cameras argument, though it doesn’t apply to this specific event: almost every UK news article about meteors, lightning storms, and at one point a sonic boom from a jet, features a recording from someone’s video doorbell.
No, it's using those features to provide a convenient to use tool to bundle applications. Sure, you can reinvent the wheel. Have fun.
The most common metallic meteors are iron-nickel, so green is a common color. This glow tends to be brightest when meteors hit the atmosphere at high speed.
(2017) should probably be added to the title. Really enjoyed this and noticed the published date after I read it.
Pardon my myopia, but what’s an example of Republican-proposed legislation or reform aimed at protecting Americans from exposure to potentially harmful waste products? I genuinely don’t know.
It would for sure be possible to restrict access to high end hardware if that’s what people wanted the government to do.

There is no NRA equivalent for graphics cards.
windows is equally as bad if not worse for me than macos. in no way would I suggest you use that.
Seems weird given that the dogma is small, local governments know best. What's really up?
Exploit Code Maturity
This metric measures the likelihood of the vulnerability being attacked, and is typically based on the current state of exploit techniques, exploit code availability, or active, 'in-the-wild' exploitation.
Unproven
No exploit code is available, or an exploit is theoretical.
Curious, but what do you find the most difficult or confusing so far in your journey?
Yes, just my one OpenAI key. I didn't hit any limits so far, though I wasn't hitting their APIs that hard.
They seem to have a lot of issues with Consul, is it the design of Consul or the way they use it that is the problem?
> Pakistan’s relationship with India, its economically ascendant neighbor now led by a hawkish Hindu nationalist government, also shows no signs of improvement

The following is pure fantasy, but what a world it would be if New Delhi stepped up and provided Pakistan with relief, e.g. joint buying of fuel.

Otherwise, I'm not sure which country would take the lead on a Pakistani render safe. It's not particularly in America's interest. Russia is impotent. India couldn't do it without triggering mass war. Which means we're counting on China.
I thought it was only feely redeemed until 2015.

This does show how the 2010s had historically low interest rates as new bonds were always more expensive for the government until then
Zero evidence. Are you writing off a bunch of people's medical issues due to your medical degree, or knowledge of their specific cases? If not, your opinion is worth nothing.
It is infrastructure for banks to provide instant payments to banking customers if you want to be pedantic.

https://www.frbservices.org/binaries/content/assets/crsocms/...

> The FedNow Service will facilitate end-to-end instant payment services for consumers and businesses, increase competition, and ensure equitable access to banks of all sizes nationwide.

https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2020/08/31/fednow-the-federa...
More regulation doesn't help. More of a bad thing is still bad. Better regulation helps. We need to question why the regulators didn't see this coming.
No there's no agreement, you're being overly pedantic. This analysis covers DOLLAR COST comparisons of the cities, it doesn't take into account anything outside of that. If it's not valuable to you then skip over it.
frightening

lybad business plan
…but for greater reward though, right?
no I know it works, I just got a m2 pro 32GB mac mini to do diffusion and GPT related stuff and found that all the apis are broken and the neural engine actually has no real support for any of the interesting generative ai programs yet. doing my best to port things over but having to rely on the free labor of homebrew developers is grating
NPR Corrections
What level of static checks are you comfortable with? Because I don’t exactly think you’re wrong, but writing deviation reports for nearly every cast is a bummer, and I think many who have worked with high levels of static checks are familiar with the situation where there is no possible way to write a line of code that does not cause at least one message. I’ve spent days writing justifications for disabling particular messages (justifications such as “analysis tool authors misunderstood misra-c, here is evidence” or “reason for message is based on single paper from 1978, does not align with programming practice of the past 30 years”).

I’m net positive on static analysis, but I will forgive a lot of grumbling. It’s a lot of effort and does not catch many issues.
Earthquake in matter of weeks HAARP
And this failure is the direct result of those protocols
The current implementation and purpose of currency transaction reports
The difference is that GrubHub has high fixed costs and high variable costs for drivers. A SaaS model has fixed costs for developers, sales, support etc. But marginal costs to add new customers is minimal.

Revenue may be in the billions. But they are all losing money. The smaller companies can easily be “lifestyle businesses” that hire in low cost of living areas and go after “enterprise devs” who are very happy to make $135k - $165K and don’t expect “equity”.

I spent most of my entire career as an “enterprise dev” working with SaaS companies in the bill payment space, field services, and health care.

I’m in $BigTech now working in the cloud consulting department working with a lot of the same types of companies.
thats interesting, any good examples?
Right, banks are financial institutions. You and I are not.
Since this involves an out-of-bounds write, anyone care to answer a shower thought?

How much harder is it to turn a typical OOB access to a stack-allocated buffer into a RCE if the stack grows up instead of down?
Hit me up if you want to discuss using BitTorrent to back images. https://github.com/anacrolix/torrent
Long Covid is likely not a real disease, and appears to be linked to other psychosomatic illnesses like fibromyalgia.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/09/depression-an...
Eek, why don't we fix AMT and stop treating employees so poorly? This whole scheme is utterly repellent to me and makes me feel incompetent to have to read and consume it. Why so many stratagems around something that is literally incompetent?
What are some entry points for (say) a motivated programmer to the topic of formal verification?
No, the guy is right.

The neutrality is used for propagating "you and your money are safe here", which is true at first glance. They are ready to take it from you as soon your seat gets a bit too hot for your liking.

The 1814 neutrality was granted after Napoleon invaded the confederation and made it a republic, only to be saved by Russia, no less, so a different solution had to be found.

They were dirt poor back then.

No country was afraid of Switzerland doing anything, they had no military might whatsoever, the current militia model was introduced in fear of a Nazi invasion.

Your statement about constitional changes is vastly incorrect, omitting many things, see here https://www.parlament.ch/de/%C3%BCber-das-parlament/parlamen...

There is no poverty is switzerland, even the worst off are better off than us citizens on food stamps. The treasury returns so much money to the cantons, they could build a socialst utopia if they wanted, so long the economy as a whole is fine. They already have such a thing on a federal level, its just not called guaranteed minimum income. Its been in place for a while. This all is before corporate and income taxes and vat.

Say what you want, but soviet russia and yugoslavia and such, exepct for the communist elite did not give an iota about appeasing the rich.
Not saying it was the best way, but they stood their ground until they sank.
Switzerland will sell out 1000 times any day before that happens.
There is no alternative as far as I know. Which open source or private solution scale above 10k nodes and 100k apps ( pods )?
> We're also way worse at building subway tunnels—slower and less efficient per dollar spent.

I think that’s a very good take.
It opposed everything trump did because Trump is a vile person who doesn't want equal civil rights for everyone, thus his clashes with the ACLU. He is a racist psychopath who needed to be fought on every front. ACLU is closely aligned with democrats because it supports civil rights and equality unlike the current iteration of the republican party (at least most of it, I know a few libertarian types who respect civil and personal rights as well)
I forced a book publisher to re-host videos on a particular CDN using the exact same URL’s because they advertised that the book came with videos, but the QR codes stopped working. Can’t imagine that was fun or cheap to fix.

I made a complaint to the advertising standards authority in the UK. They agreed with my complaint and forced the publisher to get the URL’s working again. I’m not sure how long they will keep working, but I imagine they have to at least for as long as the book is in print.

Not the EU, but I imagine the EU has a lot more clout than the ASA does.
I don't know if I agree that it's "dystopian" but I do somewhat feel it's strange to be "wasting" the massive amount of compute that GPT4 has in order to play a text based version of a Pokemon game that ran on a Gameboy Advance decades ago.

It's just funny our priorities with this stuff.