skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First case is good, the second one feels like cheating, if you are using a cat substitute like bat, well, you are not using cat already.
What does "manage the queue" mean? And how would that be better than dropping requests from the source of the abuse?
Gotta dumb yourself down to write your best code sometimes.

In this vain this often posted article is fun https://grugbrain.dev/
Eh, rules are meant to be broken. And keep in mind these are at best European rules -- and even then, certain areas (England!) took them more seriously than others.

There's also a lot of rules lawyering possible. e.g. red doesn't touch black on the German flag, because that would violate the first rule; instead, the field (background) is half black and half gold (color touching metal, fine), and the red stripe is on top of this field, totally legal, wink wink.

That said, trying to follow these rules has led to some strange decisions; e.g. it's interesting to look into (some unverified stories about) why the US flag has white (silver, metal) stripes on a red background, while the US seal has red stripes on a white background.
Metadata for Image Search and Discovery
If you don’t have evidence or due process, then you don’t know it’s for human trafficking.
Are you sure those "smartest developers" would be still smart if they have to maintain someone else abstract code? Easy to memorize layers of abstraction when it follow your own logic and you build it step by step.
Release it under a CC 4.0 license. Section 2b2:

> Patent and trademark rights are not licensed under this Public License.
There are surely ways to further constraint the set of programs to test, ie anything that output something not in the expected outcome should probably be an early return. I'd love for more work to be poured into this concept. There might be low hanging fruits and who knows an LLVM pass somewhere not to far in the distant future.
There is some 1930s bell labs paper on coaxial cables that considered available materials and concluded 30 ohms was best for power handling, 77 ohms was best for low loss, and 50 ohms was selected as a manufacturable compromise. The publication I'm thinking of would have been by Espenschied most likely.

Edit: ah, I see the fine article also says this-- in any case the name might be helpful to someone looking up the citation.
Nice from one student: "I’m not worried about AI getting to where we are now. I’m much more worried about the possibility of us reverting to where AI is."
Citation previews are nice, much more convenient than clicking the citation and then trying to find the back button. Link previews on desktop are useful too.
Wow, if churning out the "lousiest shitboxes on the road" leads to the making the best selling car in the world, imagine what could happen after all of these improvements? It's such a mystery why Toyota, a paragon of automotive excellence, would describe the Model Y as a "work of art". I mean, that's just puzzling, isn't it?

https://www.motor1.com/news/669135/tesla-model-y-worlds-best...

https://electrek.co/2023/02/28/tesla-model-y-work-of-art-toy...
I think you would enjoy applying dynamic programming to this problem!

I have a simple example, starting from a “generate all possible combinations” python function, here: https://tech.davis-hansson.com/p/price-wars.html
I’m still waiting on my invitation for the vs2022 copilot chat preview. :( Looking forward to it though.
From https://www.bcb.gov.br/en/about/faq

BCB is a governmental institution, composed mainly of career civil servants hired rather than appointed or elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leadership. They answer to the government, not a political party.

The Complementary Law No. 179/2021 defines a four-year term for the nine members of the BCB’s Board of Governors that does not coincide with the term of office of the President of the Republic, as well as establishes the rules for the dismissal of the Board’s members.

The personal information and the information related to the operation (value etc.) transmitted in Pix is protected by banking secrecy, as governed in Complementary Law 105, and in the provisions of the General Data Protection Law.

All transactions take place through digitally signed messages that travel in encrypted form.
Somewhere around half of the words in modern Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese are borrowed from Chinese. The impact of Chinese culture is massive across the board in these countries.
healthcare still costs regardless of who pays for it.

And the countries with the most comprehensive socialized systems also pride themselves on their civic-mindedness, think about others, not just yourself: shouldn't you, out of civic duty, balance trying to save the public money at the same time as you decide whether you save a life?
how do you define smartest developers?
Looks great for those without back problems. Esthetics before function.
This article made me think of this blog post:

https://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2012/05/configuration-comple...

I prefer the old version or the pre over-refactored code better too, I can at least understand it.

I've noticed that when control flow is abstracted away at runtime for flexibility of future changes just in case we need to handle other cases in the future, the code starts to become difficult to reason about.

When people extract everything out until you have hundreds of low signal-to-noise files.

I think it's a reaction to team based software delivery, where multiple people need to work on different layers independently and separately, but when you're working solo, a dense codebase you can fit in your head is a lot more enjoyable.

Maybe the size of the codebase determines this.
but our pee has the fixed nitrogen that trees crave
cat file leaves the contents on my screen as I compose my next shell command, as opposed to erasing them as quitting the editor flips back from the alt screen.
Have superoptimizers been run against math formulas? Seems like the quickest way to find holes in modern encryption.
Each to their own of course, but I can't imagine _not_ using colours. It would be like using a code editor with syntax highlighting turned off. Madness!
A bitcoin bearer instrument. Like this
https://opendime.com
yes, I think it seems to focus on rce vulnerabilities which in drupal are relatively rare. But also it seems almost like a research project or a work in progress, hence may not be immediately ready for prod? with that said, would be nice if both these things were stated upfront to set the expectations correctly. Like, add "experimental" to the title maybe.
I'm not sure there's a completely thorough way of proving cheating on a single measure of a relatively short test. If I wanted something more thorough I'd probably compare the mean score on the non-cheat questions vs the score on the cheat questions though. Let's say you provide the correct answers on the "leaked" test. If the score on the leaked questions is significantly higher than the score on the unseen questions then you can confidently say there was some cheating. At that point you'd probably interview the candidates on their tests rather than throw accusations.
Superoptimization has absolutely nothing to do with what GPT is doing. It doesn't happen in source and produces actually optimal code sequences (against some cost model) rather than doing some refactoring or tidying.
Liquidity isn't an issue. Ever heard of a secured loan?
Simple code is like the Zen ideal. Direct seeing, direct apprehension. It beats any abstraction. It's right there.

Like, we could almost have our ideal UI be a dozen lines of code (in some kind of CLIish dealy) , exposed for twiddling.

It would be the ultimate in informativeness, control and flexibility.
Julia 1.9 brings more speed and convenience
Isn't this akin to: "The cost of an iphone is $500" ? Sure, it's $500 in parts if you just quantify the final working result... but it ignores all prototyping, overhead, and manual work to link together code (e.g. assembling the phone)...

Maybe I'm misunderstanding just how good GPT-4 is at making entire repos of code... or exactly how this tool functions?
Isn't the common argument these days that life with oil is ruining the planet and will fundamentally break it as early as 2030?

Life would be very, very different without oil but if we honestly think our use of oil is breaking the planet I don't know what the choice really is. We'd be picking between breaking the planet on the time scale of decades or having to go back to life as it was lived up until the last few centuries. As terrible as that transition would be, the two paths seem like an obvious choice.
I'm pleased that the course I recorded (with massive support from 3mdeb colleagues) and contributed to, OpenSecurityTraining2, made its way here. It is an excellent opportunity to introduce myself and engage with you.
I'm Piotr Król, Founder of 3mdeb, a Poland-based open-source firmware vendor, and IBV, the instructor of the OpenSecurityTrainign2 in question. I have developed BIOS and open-source firmware development for 15 years (the last years focusing more on the education and business side of those topics).

This course aims to make the foundational aspects of coreboot more accessible to anyone interested in learning about open-source firmware development. In future classes, we'll dive deep into the nuts and bolts of coreboot, from its architecture to hands-on implementation on hardware.
I'd love to invite everyone reading this to check out the course, and whether you're an experienced firmware developer, an open-source enthusiast, or a newcomer curious about coreboot, your perspectives, and questions are all welcome.

Please feel free to ask me anything - about the course, coreboot, my experience in this field, or anything else you'd like to know. I am looking forward to a vibrant discussion!
If you have evidence that a murder is about to occur, you report it to the fucking police. You don’t just remove yourself from the pipeline and hope it doesn’t happen.
Funny that the admin would give vague instructions that anyone could figure out in a heartbeat. Why not just give the address?
Ask HN: Why didn't Boeing care that its F35 competitor looked bad?
Did aesthetics play a major role in Boeing's X-32 losing out to Lockheed Martin's X-35?
The most common cause of sudden cardiac death is blocked left anterior descending artery.

Generally this is unknown until it happens.

It kills 250,000 Americans every year.

It would make the most sense for people above 50 with a family history of heart disease to have a CT coronary angiogram or for those above 40 to have a Cardiac Calcium Score to risk stratify for future CTCA.

Distributing AEDs is infrastructure heavy and indiscriminate because you don’t know who actually needs one.
ChatGPT is not the product, you are
Well, that's a fun exercise, but it's not the volume of code that has value, it's how it's put together.
at best you suspect it, you don't know it unless you're on the sending or receiving side of the transaction.

it shouldn't be my decision whether i want to allow the transaction, even if i wouldn't want to allow it.
i'm not in a position to perform due legal process to determine whether you're indeed being paid for a hit job.

the provider should be in a neutral position.
It is an interesting phenomenon that people tend to just swallow, hook, line, sinker, rod and reel some obscure measure and metric or ranking as if it’s some kind of law of physics.
if the payment processor knew the transaction was for a contract killing but processed it anyway, would they not be facilitating a crime (“aiding and abetting”)? are you saying we should specifically exempt payment processors from being held responsible for crimes that the rest of us — or any other business — could be found guilty of when performing the same functions?

or are you suggesting something more broad: that in the chain of cause and effect that eventually effects a crime, only the “last” party should ever be held responsible? e.g. anyone can sell weapons to anybody, only the person who pulls the trigger should be legally responsible? in this case presumably it’s legal to hire a contract killer, the only illegal part is the killing itself, and a skilled contractor could probably shift that final act onto the victim as well.
Some people may say it is old and not as important as it once was. But imo that is like saying racism is an old and outdated mode of thinking in the US. It is still there and quite prevalent, but it is more out of sight yet whoever are interested in it still take it quite seriously.
Mostly yes. There is a lot of research on taking arbitrary programs and distilling constraints and invariants out of them or doing various forms of function simplification.
>No abstractions turns to spaghetti Too many abstractions turns to spaghetti

That's because abstraction is a myth perpetuated by the likes of Sussman (ie academics that never wrote real code) and in reality the only thing that matters is PSPACE ⊆ EXPTIME.
OP, I think you’d really enjoy the book “A Philosophy of Software Design” by John Ousterhout. It discusses this topic at length. With respect to reducing complexity, you pretty much drew the same conclusion he did.
Good question.

When gamers try Second Life, they complain that it's s-l-o-w. That's a fixable problem for people with gamer PCs. They have enough CPU and GPU to do this right. The classic clients are single-thread and OpenGL, so they can't use modern gamer hardware effectively.

If you get rid of the sluggishness, user acceptance improves considerably. Or so says the
literature on game design. You get flow. Performance and graphics quality alone are
not enough for a win, but not having them means a lose.

I don't have all the answers. But I've pushed things forward a bit.

Lots of people are now making noise about metaverses and AI. Unfortunately, most of the people
making noise are the same clowns that pushed NFTs. But there's some good work going on.
This has the potential to make metaverses less empty, and human users will have NPCs with which
to interact. It can definitely solve the emptyness problem.

NPCs are getting smarter. One of my NPCs in Second Life has a T-shirt that says on the back "Trainee - Someday we'll be in charge." That's less of a joke and more of a threat now.
It almost never works, unless you are seeing a witnessed cardiac arrest and know how to administer. That is the right ‘indication’ for a précordial thump, but the success rate is still terrible.
Yeah when I first moved to London after uni I used to carry ~£20, but about 6 years ago I naturally stopped using or replenishing it and ended up never having cash in my wallet. Now I rarely even have a wallet on me, even when abroad.
Happy to see this! Superoptimizers are one of my all time favorite topics.

My favorite trick when cutting down the search space of possible programs is to generate DAGs directly instead of an instruction sequence. This way, it's easier to write rules that avoid nonsensical programs and to some extent avoid generating multiple equivalent programs.

For example to avoid programs that overwrite calculations you make sure that each node in the generated DAG has something that depends on it.

In a suitable environment the DAG can then be executed directly without lowering to a sequence of instructions.
That's my biggest issue with this state of affairs. I am not a libertarian preaching unrestricted Laissez-Faire. But I do think that having your access to a payment system blocked should only happen as a result of a legal procedure with ample defense rights and based on laws voted by a parliament.
Cologne is a city with roots that reach back to the Roman empire. It has grown and developed over hundreds of years. Where would all these underground parking lots come from?

Why not go a step further and demand that all roads should be put underground, too, so that pedestrians can enjoy an idle stroll on green meadors above ground without all the annoyances that come from car traffic?
> It's very easy to only focus on the last group.

Not just easy, pretty sure it's the default that negative feedback looms disproportionately larger in the mind. A bias one must recognize and actively work against.
I really couldn't care less about Pornhub and any other digital pimps that made money off revenge porn and CSAM for decades. I'll never feel sorry for them, its executives are rich and without a conscience.

> The small organization that helped bring the porn industry to its knees

https://www.godreports.com/2022/12/the-small-organization-th...

> How Pornhub – one of the world's biggest sites – caused untold damage and pain

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/16/pornhu...

> Pornhub sued for allegedly serving “under-age, non-consensual” videos

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/06/pornhub-hosted-r...

> The Children of Pornhub

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/opinion/sunday/pornhub-ra...

A simpler exemple would be independent new commenters, political organizations, or non aligned artists suspended by Crowdfunding platforms, Patreon, Paypal or even VISA directly because the competition or politicians don't want them to exist.

> PayPal shuts accounts of anti-war publications Consortium News and MintPress News

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/05/04/uofx-m04.html

> Visa & Mastercard Reportedly Refuse Service to David Horowitz - Newest Victim of SPLC's Anti-Conservative Purge?

https://www2.cbn.com/news/us/visa-mastercard-reportedly-refu...

> PayPal Partners with Anti-Defamation League to Research Financial Pipelines of ‘Extremist’ Groups

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/paypal-partners-with-ant...

> Why Is PayPal Denying Service to Palestinians?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/10/why-paypal-denying-ser...
Just saw a service on the weekend that rents out for events with a setup to take fun shots like this. Assume it's more common than this might say. Kind of an update to the 'photo booth' trend.
Name a state that doesn't have civil marriage. This is a non issue.
> The better question is: Why use Javascript at all for a static website?

I've been developing websites professionally since 1996. HTML/CSS/JS and SQL.

I am still amazed there is the crowd out there who is "anti-JavaScript". They run NoScript to only allow it in certain places, etc.

It's 2023, a small amount of JavaScript on a page isn't going to hurt anyone and will (hopefully) improve the UX.

For the record, the last site I deployed as a personal project had 0 JavaScript. It was all statically generated HTML on the server in C#/Sqlite that was pushed to Github Pages. So I get it, it's not necessary.

For my little personal site. I'm also the senior lead on an enterprise Angular project.

JavaScript is fine, it's not going anywhere.

And yes, there are way too many React (specifically) websites that don't even need a framework at all, but it's become the go-to. That annoys me too. But some JavaScript in 2023 is fine.
As someone who owned 2 System76 machines, I would not say that noise ranks very high among issues they should tackle.
> “The heraldic scholar A. C. Fox-Davies proposed that, in some circumstances, white should be considered a heraldic colour, distinct from argent”

I took a look, just because Fox-Davies can be absurdly and amusingly pedantic about that stuff:

He only postulates White as tincture for labels of cadency – as in the CoA of the Prince of Wales. The idea is to difference it from argent. The supporters of the PoW’s CoA are a lion or and the unicorn argent – both with a label. If the label was argent it would be a violation of the rule of tinctures for the lion and without distinction from the unicorn.

https://archive.org/details/completeguidetoh00foxdrich/page/...

But I don’t think heraldic rules apply for flags. For banners and standards, which are CoAs in flag form, but the general flags are not CoA.
Yep, 2014 and 2018. Meanwhile, for the second one, if you scroll down to the "More Stories from NPR" section:

- Two dead, 23 wounded in a Russian strike on a Ukrainian medical clinic

- Ukraine secured military aid, including advanced fighter jets, at the G-7 summit

- Zelenskyy arrives at G-7 summit in Japan as leaders ramp up pressure on Russia

- Russia attacked the hometown of Ukraine's Eurovision band just before its performance

Fair and balanced reporting, right there. The first and last bullet points aren't at all the bald-faced examples of atrocity propaganda that we've just accepted as part of our daily feed.

Next, they're going to be raping nuns on tables[1] and throwing babies out of their incubators[2].

[1] http://www.telelib.com/authors/O/OrwellGeorge/prose/ComeingU...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony#:~:text=In%2....
Here's some AI research links I've collected over the past while, I put them in a public gist: https://gist.github.com/TikkunCreation/5de1df7b24800cc05b482...

Karpathy's post about the research process in particular may be helpful for you
In the 1974 political thriller The Parallax View, one of the characters boards a plane at LAX, and then purchases a ticket from the stewardess. It is the most jarring scene in the entire film.
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>Even the IDs of his aggregates were classes.

People were arguing for such a thing because e.g

if you have 2 guids then you can write code which handles two completely unrelated guids

like

`student.Id == car.Id`

meanwhile if you have types like StudentId and CarId then you'd have compilation error

While I'm not a fan of this, then the concept is sound.
I think that in the next iteraton, such curb stone chargers should be such that no interaction like manually plugging in a cable would be required.