skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would have thought the browser was the most important thing. Do you have any examples to share?

No, you're right. The architectural differences like pointer signing sometimes need the code to adopt them but mostly you get them for free after the compiler adopts them.

A browser is special though because it runs JavaScript so it's got a compiler (JIT) in it. So exploiting the JIT lets you attack the rest of the system after you find something like a use-after-free or type confusion bug. The ARM security techniques MTE and PAC protect against this.

> Particularly and genuinely curious about how variable length instructions have affected browser security.

Basically the issue is that you can jump into the middle of an instruction and it can be another valid instruction. This lets you find something called a "ROP gadget" and construct a new evil program out of little bits of browser code. Harder but not impossible with fixed length instructions. BTI is meant to protect against this too.

It also makes it easier to hide evil code inside an innocent looking binary, but that's more of a problem for like an antivirus and there's other ways to do it anyway.

> "aren't running into problems". How would we know? (obviously talking about security problems here)

We wouldn't, that is possible. I just meant that they're making good progress getting everything to run at all, and most of the image of it being super hard is coming from commenters. (Of course it is pretty hard.)

Performance and power is pretty easy to observe just by watching your battery life though.
With the exception of some unicorns like Spotify, the EU failed a long time ago. To this day 90% of tech innovation is still coming out of California, OpenAI is just one example out of thousands.
Indeed. There are still 1574 references to XUL's "there.is.only.xul" XML namespace in Firefox code:

https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/search?case=true&q=htt...
Yeah, I definitely agree. I'd rather pay a premium to get the best employee and take a discount myself, rather than pay someone below market while paying myself some absurd salary. Frankly I don't care what I pay myself as long as I can afford an apartment and groceries, and so far this has worked out well, as I love the employees we have. If I were exfiltrating a bunch of money for my own salary we would have been out of business months ago.
I would love to have more specific learning objectives, such as language frameworks: SwiftUI, Flask, Django.
It’s not just to complain. It’s an actual political strategy.
Came expecting it was one of those classic Linux themes like Chicago95 or Redmond 95. Left educated and disappointed.
Go work from a coffee shop or something then.
Or maybe they will just push for robots.
Drinking during work in the military?

Yeah, I think you'd find that to be a problem.
If you're executing 10M flag tests per document, something has gone very horribly awry. If you discover production code that is doing this, send the maintainers a PR.
Meanwhile electron continues to ship
>It's one of the best Linux based operating systems for consumers because the design of it actually cares about security and privacy compared to most other Linux based distros.

No, consumers (read: most common users) quite literally don't know and don't care about security or privacy.

Assuming you weren't doing neckbeard things and were just using an Android phone like a reasonable human being, when was the last time you had to dive into the terminal in Android? Probably never, not the least because there isn't even a terminal readily accessible anyway.

Android is one of the best Linux distros for the common user because Android actually cares about usability and practicality. Android succeeded where the rest of the Linux world failed (and continues to fail) because, just like Windows and MacOS and iOS, it put the common users' needs front and center.

Steam Deck is succeeding down the path Android took because, just like Android, it puts usability and practicality front and center. "Stop using Windows programs and use these Linux alternatives", you say? No, the common user wants Windows programs and Steam Deck is striving to answer that demand.

Meanwhile, the rest of the Linux world continues to argue about X and Wayland and Flatpak and Snap and apt and dnf and Debian and Red Hat and systemd and PulseAudio and GNOME and KDE and vi and emacs and GNU and copyleft and libre and the Holy Divinity of the All-Mighty Terminal, and the world at large cannot and will not care less about any of it.
But do they all need to be accessed at the same time? If not, pages that are not being actively used can be dropped from memory until needed again.
We had this originally, but over the last year, the people who enjoyed and attended the social calls all ended up coming in to the office and ignoring the optional chat calls.
From hacking with XUL at around that time too, it could have been a contender if Mozilla had made more effort to document and promote it.

The developer experience was like “oh this could be cool to build in XUL” … spend some frustrating days scouring the code of different Firefox extensions to figure out how to do anything … produce an ugly UI that barely serves the purpose … realize XUL was completely unsuited for the purpose.
> In the last 10 years I haven’t had a single contract dealing with a windows server.

Windows is exceedingly rare, from a Silicon Valley perspective. The sales people often (not always) ask for windows laptops, but that's it. Everyone else is Mac or Linux. Servers are 100% Linux in the last decade, before that it was either Linux or Solaris. I've never encountered a windows server in 25+ years in the field and never used it myself for anything other than gaming.
The `realloc()` change calls for pitchforks.
Whatever health issues you may or may not have had before joining the military, it's often quite happy to give you a few new ones before you're out. Exposure to toxic chemicals, PTSD, or combat injuries, take your pick.
The Attention Mechanism from Scratch
I'm intentionally taking it slow with transformers. I'm still struggling with whether consciousness is a totally emergent property from a shared language.
It gets worse. Some American high schools have some form of military recruitment in a building on the same plot of land.

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1119257,-77.5784644,3a,75y,2...

https://www.google.com/maps/place/LCHS+Annex,+NJROTC/@39.111...
I mean, only a fool would mistake Youtube comments for real life. Was is the pro-Nazi comments that resonated with you and made you feel like you weren't alone?
Not sure about your actual goals, but maybe start with something like Pico-8 or TIC-80 fantasy computer? Our 8yo son got an instant grasp of the command line this way; I think at least TIC-80 had a handful of standard Unix commands available as well (e.g "ls").

Next thing I noticed, our son was checking wifi availability on his own via 1) opening the command prompt in Linux Mint and 2) typing "ping google.com". Made my day when I saw that.

I suppose the relevant part is to move step-by-step, and to focus on teaching "Unix mindset" instead of specific tools. TIC-80 or PICO-8 are not bad at all for that.

Good luck!
> movie adaptations of known franchises changes are made just for change sake

Franchise movies are cash grab paint-by-number productions. You can already rule out any kind of passion from anyone involved. Writing changes are made to appeal to international audience not to look smart.
It's still just physics and chemistry all the way down though. It's not clear that plants couldn't evolve something similar through a mechanism other than a nervous system.
Does Zotero use XUL?
Openfire – real time collaboration (RTC) server
The United States made a choice to have a contract military after Vietnam, under Nixon - the "All Volunteer Force". We could revert to a national draft, which is my preference, for National Defense. I was in the Army and deployed to Afghanistan and have my own issues and my friends (dead and alive) have their own as well. I agree with you if your point is that the US Government doesn't do enough for veterans. In a morbid way, I understand why suicide is so high, because we fought those wars for mostly nothing.
Page 14 of the document does exactly that.
if you define your data model to exclude the conditions where consistency is relevant, it's not particularly interesting, is it?
Your analysis seems correct to me. Lee Sedol quit after AlphaGo. I've seen posts about existential grief/panic from different fields and its justified from what I've seen.
Man These Elon companies are really the biggest split personality companies I have seen. I have heard stories like what you describe from some people but then you have people like Astronaut Garrett Reisman, Chip Designer Jim Keller, and AI Research Andrej Karpathy all give amazing praise to Elon and his companies.

And when the cars are torn down we see top tier engineering execution and innovation while at the same time we see mediocre build quality. I just don't understand how such organizations can be both filled with terrible people and rock stars at the same time and survive for as long as the Elon companies have done so.
Japan Wants Wage Winners. Is It Ready for Losers?
Your sanity. Discord is insanely cluttered. It's made for people who aren't trying to get any work done.
thanks for the correction, haha
Stable Diffusion came out of Germany.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34378561
Having a presence doesn't mean you can infer they are worried about not having a presence.
Don't ruin a good April fools joke! Please delete this post and I promise I'll update it tomorrow.
Like breaking bones and speech are both informative sounds emitted by a human from which you can learn something about that human condition. The difference between those sounds is more subtle than might appear at first
yes. this is my point. "highest usn" is arbitrary.
They don't think of service like that. The main important takeaway of military service for many is structure in your life (often a first for many), a feeling of brotherhood (often a first for many), and a tangible set of goals in life (often a first for many). The killing machine part is an abstraction that is easily ignored. After all, you're ultimately killing people that hate America, and that is obviously "a good thing."

Replace the brotherhood with a set of people with very different beliefs that ultimately wouldn't support each other and give them a mandate to work together to fight a common enemy. It just won't work that well.

That's probably what GP meant about the problems of woke.
I didn't choose 15 at random.

It's unclear why you think putting words in my mouth is going to achieve anything. ICOs don't need any special regulations, existing contract law is fine.

Finally, I'm not sure why you've written "regulatory clarity" there. Of course we'd like the authorities to act in a predicable way, but that's an orthagonal issue to how restrictive those regulations should be. It feels like you're just throwing out phrases you don't quite understand.
They've blown up SO many Starship prototypes now, I can't keep track. It has to be like more than 6, especially if you include MK1, etc.

(This isn’t supposed to be a dig at SpaceX… just a factual statement. I find this risk-tolerant approach to be inspiring, actually.)
I don't have a specific example handy, it's been a few years.

How it works is that blue shield (with employers I've typically always had blue shield in California) sends a statement saying your doctor visit cost $XXXX, blue shield will pay $YYY and this will credit $ZZZ towards your annual out of pocket total.

But $XXXX - $YYY > $ZZZ, so what I actually had to pay to the doctor was more than blue shield credits me for having paid. So at the end of the year what I've actually had to pay has been well above the so-called "out of pocket maximum".

It doesn't happen most years (to me), but has happened on multiple years.
It is completely understandable IMO. As someone with severe ADHD I would not want to be entrusted with the operation of sensitive military machinery in a situation in which I may run out of medication. I won't even drive my car if I don't have adderall or at least the ability to self medicate with a high caffeine dosage.
I was speaking with an advertiser who was somehow involved in the return of "Be All You Can Be".

He stated that military recruitment is highly sensitive to unemployment rates. Unemployment is very low now, especially for entry level and service roles that would hire an unskilled 18 year old.
There's no problem with this feature. I don't understand TFA's problem with it. As a programmer I get to not use `unreachable()` if I don't want to, and if I do I'm happy that the compiler takes my word for it and does the right thing. This is not at all like code elision in UB cases.

The `realloc()` change though...
As a fellow believer in the equivalence of Bramhan and Atman, I can't help but think that the only ones amused by the current situation with AI are the Nondualists. Sama seems to be one of them [1]. So, I say to sama, be fearless and invent the future. After all, it's not something new, and in the end, everyone is destined for liberation. Let's enjoy the ride and see where it takes us!

[1] https://twitter.com/sama/status/1607482407770554373
Sorry, I thought it was obvious. The overhead is practically zero compared to the amount of html you can comment out.

You can have a cached static html document with really huge (conditional) comments with tiny performance loss. display:none for example still does all kinds of things. Inserting html with js is even worse.
People who remove books from libraries are scared pitiful people.

People who claim that removing some books from a library is akin to banning or will have any affect on the actual dissemination of knowledge are fools at best and liars almost surely.

Education is like everything else. If you believe it is someone or something else’s responsibility, you won’t have much of it.
Tesla Semi is already in early release.
I've been thinking many times that maybe Mozilla could do an experiment with a rendering pipeline that chucks out everything that is just backwards compatibility at this point - and then maybe some - and make a much smaller and simpler pipeline that can only render modern and simple documents. Call it htmlcore or something.

This would run in parallel with the existing one and would trigger based on some meta tag or something, kind of like I understood asm.js did.

Maybe also pair it with some work on the JS engine to limit the JS engine significantly for such documents by only allowing a low number of JS operations pr user input. We already have something similar (although admittedly imperfect) today for audio were a web page can only play media as a response to a user action I think.

Would this be for every website? No, strictly opt in, but if it succeeded those who did would have significantly better performance.

And with time, maybe we'd see people asking themselves: why isn't this news site available as htmlcore? And maybe it becomes a competitive advantage.

But back to rendering Firefox: Such a limited, high performance form of html could maybe also be a better way to run Firefox UI? If necessary with whitelisting of certain parts that would need to run JS without the limitations I mentioned above?
Oh just pattern recognition, quite glad to be wrong though.
I mean - a good job will ramp you up.

But generally, you want to start small, on tasks that will expose you to the ins and outs of the codebase, and you want another more experienced dev to be ‘on call’ to help you out when you get stuck for the first few sprints. That’s the kind of support you wanna look for.
https://www.youtube.com/live/gX71TVsLf0s?feature=share&t=326
If they are bugs they should be reported to the user and end the compilation with an error.
The meat industry is so big and powerful that they have ag-gag laws that stop you from even reporting on them. Weird how the no-carb social media tribe acts like they’re the underdogs.

But this comment just seems like a way to force your favorite pet issue to e-fight over into the conversation.
Do you believe the wars other than Iraq and Afghanistan were better?

I mean sure, less Americans died but the gulf war reportedly caused 180k permanently disabled US soldiers, mostly PTSD I believe.

And the Vietnam war was pretty notorious for being bad for the US.

It seems to me every generation got a reckless and dubious war, tho the war on terror was insanely bad.
Is it just me that thinks that the article is a [skilfully drafted] joke (or parody or whatever the correct word is)? The fact that it has been published close to April 1st raises more suspicions.
Still, China is in much better shape, if you compare general population.
how to run your CEOs company as a sw dev :D
Taxes. I hate them. But they are on my todo list. Life is full of things we have to do but don’t want to.
What It Sounds Like When Plants Cry
what makes you think AGI is not already here?
>Sure I see race, I just don't see a good reason to judge people differently based on their race.

I don't believe you. I don't know if you're lying to me or yourself, but you have racial bias (we all do).

> Policies that treat people differently based on the color of their skin (something that is foundational to the entire framework of DEI initiatives) is a bad idea.

Sure! We already have a socioeconomic system that treats people differently based on the color of the their skin. That's reality. It's not DEI thats the problem, its racists.

>White neoliberals control most levers of power in society.

This true, but I'm guessing you don't really understand that neoliberalism is just another word for conservative. Neoliberals hate DEI.

>Judging people by the color of their skin is racism, and DEI seeks to institutionalize those racist policies. I do not support institutionalized racism regardless of the target, and I would hope more people begin to see the idiocy in doing so. All it does is breed resentment, divisiveness and racial animosity.

LMAO bruh, judging people by the color of their skin was institutionalized 150 before DEI was ever thought of. The United States had FUCKING SLAVES based on the color the skin. Stop being a racist shit. Its been less than 50 years since the federal government *had to outlaw racial segregation because racist ass racists wanted racial segregation*. Quit your horseshit bud. There is still time for you to heal.
People who work to develop and use this tech are rewarded. It's not just for capitalists.

Most people are not helping with AI or with tech in general. Most people are not working to develop AI nor are they attempting to integrate AI into their workflow. If they don't adapt, they won't benefit and rightly so. But people who are actually helping will be rewarded proportionately.

Fewer hours and higher pay? It's here. We've all heard of comfy tech jobs, writing 10 lines of code a day working from home for $250k. That's mostly people who use tech like Python and JavaScript. Soon people will be doing better than that with generative AI. 4-day workweeks are around the corner.

McKinsey estimated that the top 5% of employees produce 95% of the value. These are not capitalists, they are technologically sophisticated workers. The media likes to report "productivity is increasing, wages are not" but the median worker isn't any more productive than 20 years ago. The people actually driving productivity increases are rewarded fairly, their wages are going up rapidly.
What kind of hardware do you have? Google Chrome has been around for 14 years and is fast enough to do so.
Thanks, I see. It feels as if you're describing using a mirror pool as something that it isn't so I get the impedance mismatch.

> taking them offline ‘forever’ (really over multiple boot cycles) it makes the running ZFS instance angry because it expects those mirror copies to still be accessible somewhere

If a drive dies that's normal, it can be removed from the pool.

> Also, if you reconnect those old instances, it will try to resilver the older copies (and hence modify them).

I mean yes, because that's what one would want if it is a mirror. Every device should contain the same data so if one drive comes back from the dead it should be resilvered to be up to date.

If what you need is archival as opposed to a mirror pool, I'd say use snapshot and send to preserve that point in time in a backup somewhere.
My faith in humanity will never recover after Colin Powell died. No way to judge him anymore for agitating “definite proof of WMD” at the UN Security Council in 2003 which were not found on the field. Since the UN didn’t succeed to trial Colin Powell in time, I consider the UN itself is at fault.
American cuisine is extremely pedestrian, and basically kid’s food. That includes the local adaptations of foreign cuisines (every country adapts foreign cuisine to local tastes, not picking on the US here).
Right, this should have been left to the implementor if they didn't want to standardize one behavior. Making it UB is the worst possible outcome. Yes, people who write portable code will still want to not rely on `realloc()`'s freeing behavior, but if you do and your realloc() implementation doesn't, then you suffer a leak, while if you do and realloc() decides to wipe your drive and make your power supply explode...
GPT’s only sensor input is text, but if it were able to taste maybe it would learn a favorite ice cream flavor too.

Why do you prefer cake batter ice cream? Because of some sequence of events leading up to present point in time (not unlike training), and/or random genetic variations (not unlike setting “temperature” parameter in GPT to >0)
https://archive.is/EkNos
They did not overlap much.

I consider Subhas Bose an odious figure while Rash Bose is a much more sympathetic and interesting one.
It would be interesting to try and apply some of these rules to managing windows.

Sound can only be heard from the currently focused window, if a window is covered up it is killed (so you can only use what you can see on location), windows stuck to their default spawning positions, etc
> Kura doesn’t mean curry, its closest English translation would be a stew

FFS, no! A dry stir fry is called a podi kura, with podi meaning dry. A stew like curry would be called a pulusu kura.

> Lastly, you take great pains to say that Hyderabad is culturally and politically independent from the British rule. So by that logic it wouldn’t even be a usable argument to say Curry is derived from those words.

Telugu speakers of Hyderabad State used the same word as their colinguists in the British ruled Madras Presidency. This would suggest the term predates the annexation of the Northern Circars by the British who could have then adopted it.

> At the end of the day, the most well known etymology for curry is a mistranslation of the Tamil `Kari` where they mistook a single component of a dish to be the whole dish.

At the end of the day, curry is a perfectly valid coinage and is cognate with kura and used to mean the exact same thing.

> It was further perpetuated in the west as a stereotyped dish. Many Indians accept the word curry today because it was introduced into our zeitgeist but the concept of Curry as it is in the Uk has no foundation in actual Indian cuisine.

Curry is quintessentially Indian. The fact that some Indian languages don't have an equivalent encompassing term doesn't change that.
Sweden abolished inheritance taxes because the cost of enforcing the tax was greater than the taxes raised, and was passed by a left-wing coalition. At the time, it was considered a success of social democracy to not need inheritance taxes (and in fact, everyone, including the law, referred to dödsskatten - the death tax).
20 years isn’t ready enough time for wealth to consolidate like that via inheritance alone, and similar countries (like Norway and Germany) are seeing similarly rapid raises in their Gini Indexes for wealth, without chances to their inheritance tax systems. Something is broken in Western economies, but unfortunately, inheritance taxes in Sweden aren’t the problem.