skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"256-bit encryption" doesn't tell us anything. What's the algorithm? Where's the implementation?

AES-256 for example, is considered uncrackable. But it's perfectly possible that Motorola is using something wacky and home-grown and calls it "256-bit" just to get the bullet-point on the box.
The whole set of overlapping classes of “freedom of information”, “open meeting”, and “sunshine”/“digital sunshine” laws are all laws adopted by various jurisdictions directed at the transparency of government operations and official conduct within certain bounds.
Yes, those are broadly true generalizations, but they don't answer my question.

> it's upon the developer to fix it or not.

But why wouldn't the developer fix it? What incentives do they have for leaving a known problem unaddressed?
Earth isn't a closed system, we take in energy from the sun.
Prime is a completely different product, because it's aimed at a completely different target group: students, not engineers.
First, it came for the teachers (online course creators)...
I've been doing it for almost 10 years. :-)

https://www.philipotoole.com/9-years-of-open-source-database...
Not to mention that QuickSort isn't a single algorithm but rather a class of algorithms (as the choice of pivot is left unspecified), and there are methods to choose the pivot that give O(n log n) worst case or O(n log n) expected running time (e.g. median of medians or soft heaps for the former, random choice for the latter).
I do. Which is a surprise for me, because nobody else close to me seem to do it.
Look at progress.c, start with "#ifdef __APPLE__" and keep looking from there. Something called libproc, there's some headers[1] I've found but I couldn't find any man pages unfortunately. You need some way to look at open FDs and every system will have such an API, even if it looks slightly (or very) different from the next one.

[1]: https://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-7195.81.3/libsys...
That's nothing. I wouldn't even say that openly that they only got 15000 weapons.

That's a small number even for Belgrade.

Source; I'm from that region.
Tendentious nonsense. Copyright was instituted by the same people that came up with the first amendment. Publishers ripping off authors was a well-understood problem at the time, and even before; Daniel Defoe (author of Robinson Crusoe and many other successful books) wrote an essay addressing both freedom of the press and copyright in 1704: https://www.copyrighthistory.org/cam/tools/request/showRecor...
Most of them? If the instructor doesn't call out the difference and point out that all terms of a O() expression have invisible but important constants tacked on, it's easy to accidentally conflate scaling complexity with actual total speed.
pv is invaluable but my issue with it is it’s only useful if you think to include it before you run the command. Usually the thought doesn’t occur to me until I have some runaway cp or dd and I want to be reassured that it’s going to be done soon. For that case that this looks super interesting.
True but I think the real cause of this is surely that C makes it too hard to use a sorting library that someone competent has written. I would not be surprised if the author was fully aware of the N^2 complexity but opted for a simpler implementation anyway.
That's a pretty weird read on why Google pulled out of China.
This is basically how the Opium Wars started, but with East and West roles reversed.
i think it might do that when the app has an update pending?
Zelda's success: breaking the game in your own way
Matter 1.1 release – Enhancements for developers and devices
You can smell the ideology behind these developments from miles away. No cars of course (not that people didn't want them, the central planners simply weren't good enough to create an environment in which they could be manufactured).

Cramped living conditions but ample communal space, so a lot of time is spent in full view of the neighbor (so they can report anti-communist behaviors to the local police). No individuality, identical buildings with the same layout for identical cogs in the machine.
> also see it a s critical and make it centrally available to us soon

Why is it critical to use a boilerplate code generator?
Great gui!
How about we just make the subsidies equitable? Let’s start with removing all free, on street parking and charge market rates. You want to store your private car on the street? That will be $1,000/month please.
I'm probably the slow guy but how does this work? If I obtain any data I'm allowed to do anything I want with it? Law doesn't seem to work like that? Q: Where did you find the data? A: Someone uploaded it! People upload things to [say] the piratebay or [say] youtube all the time.

Could we then look at this type of automation as a kind of cryptographic data store where no one knows what is inside which instance?

The whole process of teaching it to keep things secret from the humans seems like a terrific idea. It only prevents people from checking if it knows something. It will just happily continue using it as long as possible deniability is satisfied.

If one can't provide a copy of the data about an EU citizen (and everything derived from it) the EU citizen should be entitled to receive the whole thing? And request it to be deleted?

Say I steal everyone's chat log, does rolling a giant ball of data from it absolve my sins? If I allow others to pay not to make their upload public does that grant me absolution? The events don't seem remotely related.

This is going to be the new cryptocurrency bubble. People are going to give speeches about the revolutionary new system while the room fills with sinister motives for personal gain until the toxicity is dense enough to crush any positive effort.
Debian 12 'Bookworm' New Features and Release Date
Indeed. I've also had a company-wide reminder that the "do not upload confidential data to external websites without authorization" also includes ChatGPT. Mind you, I don't think it would be any good at writing Verilog.
I'm surprised it wasn't already restricted. It's been blocked at our company for weeks, for better or worse. Would love for them to spin-up access to the api version.
Thanks, that's a fun read although I don't understand much of it. I do understand the gist.
It's somewhat amusing how these "big scary AI' articles never address the likelihood of AI replacing a good chunk of upper management and shareholder representatives on corporate boards (and these are the people most likely to be massively overpaid in comparison to their contribution to the bottom line).

I think this possibility accounts for a good deal of the overblown hysteria about AI's potential impacts in the corporate media world. I wonder if any of these outfits (The Economist, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, the New York Times) would ever explicitly discuss this, e.g.

"Here's How AI Will Come for Your Executive Bonus and Dividends"
I also used it for rubber duck debugging/thinking.

I'm pretty sure the current level is not the ceiling of it.

And for the first time ever it makes sense for a large company to put knowledge on purpose into a LLM.

People leave companies but that knowledge is even more critical for big projects and the loss of people as well.
This is true even if you're not going for monoculture. The daisies and clover can live in my lawn as much as they want, since their flowers are much less salient.
day lillies, I think, are also completely edible.
Very cute and very clever. I think this could be extended with a watcher/main loop of its own, and keep a bit of context to spot any long transfers (say longer than 5s), and display a system-wide summary of all large transfer going on.
> followed by 'nuthin burger' from the same sources? That's what seems to happen in Canada at least.

Didn't the government just suspend the constitution (that's a thing over there?) because of some peaceful, free-speech protected, protests in the capital and start arbitrary freezing protester's bank accounts?
Because openai likely wants people to train their model and pay openai in the process. No thanks.
Yeah, and Ahmdal's law comes directly into play here. At 7% of the total boot time, this bubble sort may be the slowest part of the kernel boot. But, even if you optimized away the sort entirely somehow, you could still only save 1.97 ms. And once you do that, the next slowest thing probably doesn't take more than ~1ms to run. Eventually, you get to a state that resists these kinds of targeted optimizations, where there are no bottlenecks, and the only improvements can come from new algorithms and data structures, i.e. "uniformly slow code."

Of course, calling anything that takes place in less than a blink of an eye "slow" is overstating things... lol :-)

If only I could get my desktop environment to come up in less than 28ms :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law

https://wiki.c2.com/?UniformlySlowCode
There's a fair amount of deciding what is "newsworthy" on the media's behalf.

Which murders, scandals, legislation to cover...
> political parties moving in response to the expressed will of the general public in a democracy

They dont care about the people, they are simply occupying the political ground that has been abandoned by the other party.
amazon did this early on
One of the replies:

https://twitter.com/cperciva/status/1659577625289928705

So this bubble sort is just under 2ms.

I think it's cool to find and optimize that, he says he'll put in a qsort and that's great. But 2ms? Probably not a huge deal.
>Two weeks after mass shootings shook their country, Serbians have surrendered more than 15,000 weapons, more than 2,500 explosive devices, and hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition, as part of a month-long amnesty announced by the government.

>It is not clear exactly how many weapons are in Serbia. But according to the 2018 Small Arms Survey, the country ranks third in the world for gun ownership per capita – behind the United States and Yemen, and tied with Montenegro. The survey estimates there are 2.7 million guns in Serbia, with fewer than half of these registered with the government.

If the estimation is correct, 15,000 out of 1/2 x 2,700,000 is 1% it doesn't seem like a much succcessful campaign.
If you're dealing with modern systems (which would hopefully include virtual machines), the PCI config space can be memory mapped, and then you don't need to read it through the PCI config registers.
Other thing we need to talk about is when funded startups run customer service that is not sustainably financed. Everybody apparently loves this and celebrates that the great service and listening to its customers.

But it is just the same thing: predatory pricing applied to a product delivered with high-end customer service.

Edit: Example: $5/month Todo list SaaS that has a 24h customer support telephone helpline
The Next Generation in Graphics, Part 3: Software Meets Hardware
It's exhausting & tiring hearing such absolutist statements.

Reddit is slow because it spends forever and ever waiting around pulling in data. Open DevTools, it's obvious. React isn't what made reddit slow; their shit fire data-archicture makes it awful.

People will also find ways to use Lit poorly too. We tend to judge each site as too strong an indicator of what the fundamentals of the framework really are. Slack in general is just a demon, has brought shame to the name Electron.
And let’s pay for all highways via tolls. No subsidies, right?
How does not having the app prevent geolocation? If you don’t give the app permission, all they get is you IP address. They would get the same information on the web.

Also, a web page can request your GPS permission just like an app can.
AWS Lambda does not support FreeBSD.

It would be great if that changed though...
Simple solution --- never buy any Android device that can't be unlocked and rooted and have the firmware replaced.
I mean, are you suggesting (for example) that someone who wanted a career in short-form video essays should skip YouTube and host their own videos? I don’t see how that could possibly work in general.
Do you think those devices boot every time you send them an input, or just when they're plugged in? Unless you're turning the TV on and off thousands of times per day this would be unnoticeable.
Or an RSA private key of a mere 256 bits, which would be way too small. :-)
Everything is edible; many things only once.
In the history of humanity, we have observed, time and time again, the discord and misery sown by men of means with too much idle time on their hands. I agree with you that, in the absence of guidance, most people would waste their idle time on activities that bring them pleasure. But if only takes one, or a few, usually the intelligent ones, to find a flaw or chink in the system and exploit that flaw for their own personal gains, and the intelligent individual can maximize the scope and scale of the exploit.

It's important to guide smart, intelligent people towards meaningful work for the betterment of society. There isn't much separating a clever scientist from a clever criminal, beyond ethics and discipline. To produce for the betterment of society is ultimately a moral goal. The notion that work is its own reward is not poisonous to society in and of itself, rather it's beneficial. When taken to excess, of course it is harmful as are most things taken to excess. But the complete absence thereof would be equally harmful to society.
Depends on the level of experience of the person using it or the given task. Less experienced coders find it useful because it saves time spent learning how to do things. Less demanding tasks are trivial if they involve basic coding. For others it doesnt help much.
I think this causes its own host of issues as there are a load of other nasties such as arsenic etc in seawater which would build up there.
> sounds false to me - lots of other companies changed their designs to handle the shortage.

Sure, if;

- You don't run any other OS then Linux. For example Raspberry PI has pretty decent FreeBSD support. Other boards often don't support FreeBSD or not all hardware on the board has drivers.

- You don't have a custom case which relies on the design of the PI.

- You don't already have dozens or hundreds of PI's in the field and are not that enthusiastic to add a new board to the mix.

- You will probably also have to add a new board to the mix every 3 or 4 years or so since these other boards often have a lot shorter lifecycle.

- etc.
1. The value in proprietary software largely lies in the source code, which is not available in on-premises, you are talking about compiled binaries. There is no such thing as "compiled binaries" for neural network weights.

2. License/copyright - Even in the best possible case, there are plenty of jurisdictions that don't care about US copyright and would love to get a hand on those weights.

3. We haven't seen copyright cases around model weights before. If I managed to exfiltrate OpenAIs model weights, I would continue training for a few iterations and then I think it would be quite difficult to prove that I actually have the same model as OpenAI. This is untested, why would they risk it.

4. Running these models requires a ton of resources, vastly beyond the typical onprem deployment - why would Azure invest in making this possible when it really could only impact a very small percentage of companies?

The weights are OAIs lifeblood, I imagine they are very protective of them.
This is so stupid. I just checked and yeah, that's why Browsing wasn't available for me! I wish their UI wasn't such a mess and it would have told me. I disabled history because I find it annoying that it sticks around and I don't care to use it. I didn't expect this would prevent me from seeing the Browsing plugin. Had I known I wouldn't have disabled it in the first place. Definitely a facepalm moment.
The only reason I think about that is because if I will do a practical engineer diploma I will have 1-2 years of experience before any degree student will finish study.
Because practical engineer it’s 2 years study and CS is 3-4 years
AI ‘Cheating’ Is More Bewildering Than Professors Imagined
Yes but when glaciers melt completely and water deposits are empty we will struggle even with extremely efficient water systems.
The opinion: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-1333_6j7a.pdf

The referenced Twitter opinion: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-1496_d18f.pdf
Migrating Bevy Can Be Easier with Semi-Automation. Here Is How
Dynatrace Expands Presence into Denver, Plans to Hire Hundreds
Such a great story. This part made me lol:

> // Don't remove this print statement. Game will crash!

:-)
> Some of these TLDs are such a cashgrab and so useless.

I think this is the primary reason why this is getting so much negativity: it’s something a bunch of people in the internet community will need to spend time thinking about but is mostly an exercise in collecting rent from a handful of companies like 7-Zip and WinZip.
A flipside effect to this is advertising and PPC which has trended up so high overtime, especially in education.

Strategies viable in 2019 are largely useless to bootstrapped businesses in 2023: the costs of ads even to acquire customers with low spending power is two to three times what it was (e.g. students)

As someone working on a NLP product for education, the pricing and subscriptions are also dropping rapidly, lead by the funded companies entering this niche (the founders almost entirely are non technical recently). The combination of the two is like a jaw - it's unclear what to do when your technology becomes a trend, other than grab and deploy your own funding and use marketing strategies and technical efficiencies to outlast your competition.
Some appear to be fixed on “replacement”. This is so last week.
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=300w*7000000*3years

"~= estimated energy released by krakatoa explosion"
In international trade this is called “dumping”, and it’s often considered illegal and most definitely unfair

It’s usually used as a reason for regulating imports/exports

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/dumping.asp#:~:text=Dum....
why would executives do this to themselves?

they're the ones ultimately deciding how AI gets used in a company.

As per The Dictators Handbook, I doubt a CEO with an inner circle replaced by AI could effectively direct a company.
When I was doing my PhD in hydrology modeling, I found a bubble sort in one of our pre-processing programs, which calculated the topographic flow network. This worked okay when the watersheds being modeled were small or the grid resolution was coarse. I however, was modeling at much finer resolution (3m^2) resulting in runtimes of more than an hour. I replaced the bubble sort with merge sort from libc and my runtimes fell to less than 5 minutes. Fun times.
Also we slowly lose upper atmosphere to the solar winds, when the magnetic fields fail to deflect it enough.
The 128 bit arithmetic part is really interesting. I wonder whether they used libquadmath and whether they needed to implement any extra funcitons beyond what’s available there.
Looking from the outside, this is astonishing.

I suspect Firecracker is set up to be as quick to initialize as possible, but still that a vanilla (ie not an optimized fork) can do that ... My phone takes a two orders of magnitude more!

I hope your BSDCan talk is getting recorded.
If you haven't been exposed to it, check out Noita. It's a falling sand action roguelike where the entirety of the world is simulated.
AI might be able to do that in a is-it-capable sense, but upper management and board members are the ones that have the final say on who gets replaced so...
Always a good time for[0]:

Skinner: Well, I was wrong; the lizards are a godsend.

Lisa: But isn't that a bit short-sighted? What happens when we're overrun by lizards?

Skinner: No problem. We simply release wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the lizards.

Lisa: But aren't the snakes even worse?

Skinner: Yes, but we're prepared for that. We've lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat.

Lisa: But then we're stuck with gorillas!

Skinner: No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.

[0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=P9yruQM1ggc
As far as I can tell, in the US they are only considered invasive in Oregon and Alaska. Invasive is a separate definition from non-native. An invasive(native or non-native) has to be a threat to the established ecosystem, which dandelions generally aren't.
Bank of Canada studied it and found that credit costs were over double the cash costs. Debit is the lowest-cost option for merchants.

https://www.bankofcanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/boc-r...
They're fun right up until you lose your house, or someone you know dies.
Bah! Programming is life long learning, GPT-4 is not just useful for beginners.
Is it a non-goal to be long term usable for larger databases? That would force the usage of something like turso your closest direct comparison as a possible migration strategy or relying on "Smart Placement" (which from my point of view reduces the benefit of global edge) for other serverless non-global dbs.
O(n^2) algorithms often cause performance issues. The main cases I have seen in business logic are: (A) offset pagination (select ... offset n) and then paginate over all entries, and (B) read a text value, append something, store, repeat.
For a collection of similar stories:

https://accidentallyquadratic.tumblr.com/
"It doesn’t seem necessary that pushing a button all day for someone else’s benefit is more moral than building a realm in Minecraft all day, but our culture is replete with admonishments that time spent laboring is the only time well spent."

It depends what happens when you push the button. Is all that happens really that you boss makes a profit, what is your company's business? Does it not have customers? Does it not do anything of benefit to anyone other than your boss? How could that even work, where does the revenue come for your salary?

It's called productivity because it's about producing. Somebody somewhere is paying for that. There's no mystery here, we know how this works. If productivity goes up, the product gets cheaper and demand goes up. The customer benefits, the company benefits and your society is now better off. That means in aggregate it can afford more stuff, including services, which generates jobs. That's how progress works. It's why we don't have thousands of unemployed horse drawn buggy drivers on every street corner because people can drive their own cars.
There could be some very juicy promotions in it for middle managers who secretly help themselves to a peek at that data and use it to make decisions

That's been a major problem at Amazon where they launch competitors to their biggest and most successful marketplace sellers' cash cows
So that's a very impressive number, but how long does it take to bring up userland?
My understanding is that any position for too long becomes un-ergonomic, and really our bodies crave variability. I do my most productive coding on my couch in a weird slouching position, but I try not to do it for too long. I'll frequently switch back to my desk, and then try and take as many calls as possibly walking around the neighborhood. I can't focus on code at a standing desk or sitting on a yoga ball or whatever other people prescribe, but if you can throw that into your mix go for it, but sitting on a yoga ball all day is probably as deleterious as doing anything else all day.

There are definitely different ways to use your body with different effects, but I think the problem is over use of any specific form.
US to take part in “coalition of fighter jets” and train Ukrainian pilots
This is brilliant.

The same designer made this Terracooler which is also a fascinating idea.

http://www.terracooler.org/