skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Point taken, but I would assume that non voters have a mix of reasons ranging from “I hate everyone” to “I like things enough to not do anything about it”
Can you expand on this? I'm not following what you mean by your example. I tried googling the iron lung image but couldn't find much.
> …the moon does not have an atmosphere

> …would remain suspended in mid-air

Aside from the no-gravity hallucination, this is also funny.
I think people moving to the south know it gets hot?
Einstein was a genius of genius, Oppenheimer was a genius.
I bet you a nickel that -if you're a working programmer- most of the functions that you write don't check __every__ possible thing that could go wrong, but -instead- have some assumptions about validations that the caller must run before calling them (e.g. "My callers will hand me well-formed XML"), and impose some constraints on the shape and range of the data that they return to their caller (e.g. "Callers must be prepared to handle a graph that contains cycles.").

> ...did I just see a data race...

You did see a data race.

That race is pretty clearly unavoidable, as it would be triggered by a sysadmin setting the value of a particular sysctl knob "low enough" in between the check mentioned in another function in the chain of function calls that this function is part of being run and the commented code being run.

(You can tell that this function part of a chain of function calls because that comment refers to a check in a function that is not called by the function that contains the comment.)

> ...okay because it is faster if it’s horrifically unsafe...

I mean, here's the call site of the "objectionable" function and the site at which the issue gets detected: <https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/fs/file.c#L174...>. At both ends, there's a comment that says "Hey, it's faster to do this check here, rather than over there.".

It's clear that the folks who worked on this code were concerned about the performance, and had discovered that relying on callers to discover if that race had resulted in them getting a smaller allocation than they wanted was needed.
Such software works best when there's integration/plugins with most popular PDF viewers and editors: Okular, Evince, LibreOfice.
Their vanilla-js example doesn't just create the app, but also creates an MVC framework from scratch. If you're trying to figure out which framework (or none) to use for an MVC organized site, that's the correct way to do the comparison. That seems like what they're doing, so no issues there. However, if you're trying to figure out if you need MVC at all, then it's not the most valid comparison.

MV* is a good way to organize projects for teams. If you're doing a blog, personal site, or other project you don't expect to grow into something contributed to by multiple teams, the value proposition is different. Not saying frameworks or MVC are bad in that case, but they can become just another thing to worry about for a solo dev.
DMCA and copyright in general are huge legal doctrines that it takes multiple years of formal education just to begin practicing. You're definitely correct that people have a terrible understanding of it.

I think what you laid out is something visible in a lot of non dolphin emulators. They have disc rippers available but don't come with the device firmware or games pre loaded.
"compensating the authors for using their works would be the fair move"

Fundamentally their asking to renegotiate the sale price of their work depending on what the purchaser decides to do with the book.

I'm looking forward to the time when I must declare if I'm purchasing a book for:

- personal enjoyment
- to produce a parody
- burn it
https://archive.is/BD4Df
The absolute madman
You know how on a plane the flight attendant tells you to make sure your oxygen mask is on before helping others (in case of emergency)? I think of coding well and documentation the same way.

How can I help you without first helping myself?
> In the US, I write checks every week or so.

What the hell? I need 'checks' of some kind (regular check or cashier's check) maybe once a year for something like a deposit on a rental home.

For actual rent payments and the like I use Zelle, since most major banks support it. What do you need actual paper checks for?
They referring to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_payment

Here's a list of countries with similar payment systems
More likely, everyone in charge of this project on the government side is over 55 and still think of IBM as a signal of quality and reliability.
Beautifully put. These are important reminders.
It absolutely did, for decades. I would argue that, until the movie, more people knew the name Fermi.
Debit cards can be used for instant payments and are used to eg pay Uber drivers. Or wire transfers.

And Zelle is a bank to bank transfer network, not a third party service.
>Desperation born of ~100% market share in the mobile space

* If only considering the main application processors.

(and even that is in imminent danger, thanks to Google putting its weight behind the official Android RISC-V port)
Well said. I am certainly not in this game because I love building forms. Mastering my tools of choice grants me satisfaction. It's hard to find a place working on a product that is truly interesting, but fortunately at least, finding a place working with tools I like is easier.
The laws are well understood, but not universally, even among credentialed experts, either. And implications of them remain to be discovered. And on top of that, their predictive power is limited.
I mean, all you need for Zelle to send someone money is an id, if they have a Zelle-supported bank account. Which is effectively the same situation as bank transfer payments in other countries.
Drop a sled first, then try to watercool one! It would be fun content.
Fonts aren't copyrightable anyway, just the font files are.
>I don't think OP has read very many books and I would be surprised if they have a bachelors degree

this is so cringey. and you never actually make clear what you believe… what is your actual point?
I feel like this is conflating concurrency with parallelism. Also, Rust's learning curve is just "moderate"? I like Rust as much as the next fanboy, but as compared to what?! Rust is downright famous for its comparatively glacial learning curve.

The flowcharts accurately show both JavaScript and Rust, but in an apples-and-oranges kind of way. The JS chart is for event handlers and non-blocking I/O, not threads. Threads in JS would be Workers (or WebWorkers in the browser context), which also boast lack of deadlocks and enforced thread safety out of the box.

On the flip side, the Rust chart shows multithreading, not event handling and non-blocking I/O as found with async/await.

If you want to compare the two (and the differences are quite interesting from a language philosophy POV), it's JS's event loop compared to Rust's async/await OR JS Workers compared to Rust multithreading.
I don’t really think so. If you decide to become a farmer, then care of farm animals may be very relevant to you. Similarly, if you decide to become a software engineer or computer scientist then SICP is very relevant to you.

Not everyone uses geometry every day, but engineers do. And we all depend on engineers, so the understanding of geometry is a fundamental underpinning of our entire society. The same can be said of computer science. We don’t all program for a living, but the structure and interpretation of computer programs (the literal structure and interpretation, not the book) is becoming an ever larger factor in how our society functions.
What a fantastic project! Open Video Game Data's approach to aggregating lists instead of relying on traditional scores is a refreshing and much-needed alternative. By considering the evolving nature of games and offering equal opportunities for all titles, it ensures a more accurate and fair representation of the gaming industry. I'm excited to join the community and explore the world of playlists!
It sounds very much like some of the Interac services that we have here in Canada (and have had for ages). We can do what is called "email money transfer" where as long as I know your email address I can go into my bank app, transfer money to you and it will automatically show up in your bank account.
I don't know why that "word choice" is controversial. The FBI is not in the business of "prosecuting" crimes in the legal sense, they are an investigatory body, it's in the name. The FBI absolutely CAN investigate egregiously, for example by falsifying evidence, or eliding exculpatory evidence, which they have a long history of doing.

The mere existence of an FBI investigation can seriously injure the affected party, and so in that regard the FBI has tremendous power to influence people and organizations, and is an obvious organization to co-op if one wanted to wield political influence nefariously. The natural stance towards the FBI should be one of skepticism and apprehension at a minimum, if not outright deep suspicion.

I think what many people are pointing out is that left-wing politicians openly supporting the FBI, CIA and NSA in any capacity is a blatant about-face, and just downright distasteful, particularly when the most high profile "investigations" of late are political in nature.

Edit:

A simpler way of expressing this would be to point out that the FBI serves the same function as the "State Security Service(s)" of countries that we don't like.
Thank you! I’ll check it out.
How do you compare Einstein to Newton, in terms of how much each advanced physics?
The article was significantly rewritten after I posted my comment. However the original insinuation is still in the text:

> What makes the story of this bug interesting is that it was apparently found by an Apple employee in a Google product, and — for some reason — that Apple employee decided not to report the bug.
> And Zelle is a bank to bank transfer network, not a third party service.

That's...what I said? Well, I guess I should've contrasted it better with the old, 'traditional' bank transfer payments.
Relativity is insane. Einstein literally rewrote the formula for “add two velocities together”. You know, like 20 km/s + 20 km/s, WHICH YOU WOULD THINK just turns into 40km/s, but it’s actually ever so slightly less.

It goes really deep in terms of what it affects in physics.
> special-case mechanisms to violate that privacy (e.g. search warrants, targeted spying)… go through a process with some checks and balances. I don't have any objection to this type of spying

I think this is why it’s such a hot issue though. E2E Encryption is a “get out of all surveillance free card.” Even a mildly trained criminal or terrorist can easily guarantee that his communications will never be intercepted. This has never existed before.

I share with people in the pro-Encryption camp the acknowledgments that you can’t un-invent encryption, so you’ll only be catching the most dim-witted criminals by nerfing the mainstream messengers. Anybody can use the ‘OpenSSL” cli to make unbreakable encryption no matter what laws say.

But I also acknowledge how frustrating it is that a truly bad person can simply bypass all the “just” exceptions to privacy, like a search warrant, if they’re even a little savvy.

TL;DR nerfing iMessage (etc) ain’t it, but I can see how non-evil people in law enforcement wish something could be done about the root problem, which is somewhat new.
The Federal Reserve is self funded.
Thank god we are done with accusing people of being communists
Is the new protocol going to be patent-encumbered like 10gE was?
Politicians who don’t understand the internet using bad analogies (postal mail, plumbing, briefcases, etc) to regulate it. Plus companies trying to create a moat around their business using lobbying money.
If you like this sort of stuff, I recommend John Drury Clark's Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants.

Here's a quote about FOOF, which is your second link:

“It is, of course, extremely toxic, but that’s the least of the problem. It is hypergolic with every known fuel, and so rapidly hypergolic that no ignition delay has ever been measured. It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water-with which it reacts explosively. It can be kept in some of the ordinary structural metals-steel, copper, aluminium, etc.-because of the formation of a thin film of insoluble metal fluoride which protects the bulk of the metal, just as the invisible coat of oxide on aluminium keeps it from burning up in the atmosphere. If, however, this coat is melted or scrubbed off, and has no chance to reform, the operator is confronted with the problem of coping with a metal-fluorine fire. For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes.”
I think car dealers just run your credit and if it's good enough they accept a personal check these days.
It's slightly older than 3rd grade, but for Pi Day 2022, Matt Parker marshaled a couple dozen students to spend a weekend computing pi by hand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtiLxLrzjOQ
>who didn't even believe in his own (Oppenheimer's) landmark results in black holes

Einstein was famously skeptical and dogmatic about a lot of his own "landmark results", i.e. "God doesn't play dice with the universe", and Feynman was a massive attention ...attractor.

He's hardly in bad company if those are the worst criticisms.
> I'm happy to share anything that is not under NDA.

How will this eventually benefit consumers beyond what Zelle currently provides?
> The FTC says disclosures should be kept simple, such as “This is an ad for BRAND”, and should be prominent on each piece of media which contains that product.

Doesn't apply to movies, TV shows, and music videos right? Every once in awhile I see the 4th wall broken to make light of it being sponsored product placement, but it doesn't happen enough that I suspect the same sort of rules don't apply.

I actually think it'd be great to have it obvious ad messaging be embedded in movies for different scenes where it pops up in your face that "this is an ad for Bose" or "this is an ad for Pepsi." Having that front and center, especially if it destroys the value of the media some would be great. Because maybe then there'd be a little more concern around what it means to make quality.
If you’re interested in BMFF and don’t care to spend ISO prices, you can always go back to the original, Apple’s QuickTime File Format:
https://developer.apple.com/standards/qtff-2001.pdf
Part of the reason SVB collapsed is they couldn't get paid by government insurance fast enough IIRC.
There are almost 1,000 Nobel Laureates over the last century

There is only one physicist who moreorless created half of our contemporary understanding of physics
The title is funny to me. We should consider a new computation complexity class for LLMs. Let's call the ones that can be solved with a prompt, Promptable. For the problems that we cannot reliably solve with a single prompt yet, let's call them non-deterministic promptable, or NP.

Question is, for most of these hard problems, is there a prompt that can solve them? Better yet, is there a prompt good enough that we collapse all of the hardest problems in NP with a single prompt?

Will we ever know if NP can be reduced to P???
> Funny thing about topics like this is that people of any given country is oblivious to how other countries have solved that problem, or the challenges other countries face, or inturn the problems that they themselves face.

I thought FedNow was explicitly inspired by the success of India's UPI?
It's called find a new job and never look back.
Despite this, mathematical proofs still use a bunch of plain words to define things. In a programming context, if one has an “user” from the database, “user” is usually a better name than “u”.
While I can't speak for what specific tradition GP might have been thinking of, but it seems like a special case of what happens in systems where typically a bride marries "into" a groom's family, with the occasional exception where a groom marries into the bride's family for e.g. inheritance purposes. This is globally quite common in cultures where inheritance is relevant with male preference.
I believe it was Freeman Dyson describing Feynman, and I paraphrase, but some geniuses are like you and me, just much, much smarter. And some geniuses just see the world in a way we never can.
About NT$1.01 trillion, or $33 Billion USD?

https://focustaiwan.tw/business/202303030016
To clarify: they only take wire transfers and not ACH debit/credit? This seems highly unusual.
> I would put Wireguard/Tailscale in the same category as well.

Sometimes the hype exists for a good reason - as a paying enterprise Tailscale customer, I’ll fight you if you ever suggest I have to staff people to admin an IPsec or SSL-based VPN again.
> Is there any theoretical reason why an attention based llm could or couldn't generate an answer to an NP hard problem?

Putting aside for the moment that a Large Language Model (LLM) is a predictive statistical model based on and producing from what consisted its training set, answering whether or not any algorithm can solve an NP hard problem first requires a clarification; is a brute force exhaustive search allowed?

If it is, I am unsure if an arbitrary LLM could find a solution due to the dependence on training. If not, I am confident in saying an LLM could not solve arbitrary NP hard problems in P time as that has yet to be proven possible AFAIK.
Obligatory old parody: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1vXC-vKgKg, they actually touch quite a few of facts from biography.
The ergonomics of most of these AI libraries are built around using whatever models they provide integrations for: according to the file you linked retries won't even work unless you go and roll them in your implementation.

I'm sure someone will open a PR for Anthropic/Cohere/etc. but a quick glance made it pretty clear they made it with OpenAI-first in mind, or even low hanging fruit like retries would have been abstracted away at a higher level.
you can know when a price is too high by adding up the cost of each part of a good or service. if capital detects arbitrage then it enters the market. making this cycle of renewal as frictionless as possible makes markets healthier and prices lower. corruption and poorly designed regulation increase friction.

not just that. discerning and intelligent consumers are key to healthy markets as well.
This brings to mind the whole Aphantasia¹ concept (briefly mentioned in TFA), where some people don't see images in their mind. It always amazes me how people's minds can be so fundamentally different. Sometimes I try to imagine what it would be like to be born blind, but being sighted and still not being able to create mental imagery seems almost stranger.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia
Source available, of client and server, is definitely better than no source

I do think open source business model, especially consumer, is difficult to tackle, while protecting the creator

So congratulations and good luck
We'd be happy to put lots of money into your reelection campaign if you'll hear us out. e.g. Bribery.
Yep, exact same here. It's ridiculous.
Can't you already send money from bank A to bank B without Venmo? Isn't that the whole point of bank transfers?
Domain knowledge is probably more important than most things.
For some reason you can't install the Amazon Kindle App. I dunno what makes it so special, but it's installer won't even open the window for it...
> Bank gets bailed out? That's a dire sign for the fundamental value of the dollar to regular people if this is a regular practice.

"Our insurance system works" is not a bad sign for your financial system.
A typeface is not a copyright protected work in the United States of America at the time that I wrote this [0]. However, files that font rendering programs can use to display typeface glyphs are protected works [1].

[0] https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ33.pdf "Works Not Protected
by Copyright" page 3, section 2 ; though, it does call out limited protections for heavily ornamented calligraphy and the like

[1] https://www.copyright.gov/comp3/chap900/ch900-visual-art.pdf "Visual Art Works" page 13 paragraph 6
Generally speaking, I don't believe anybody's name was permanently tarnished by the red scare, because it turned out to be such an utter farce of a witch hunt.

But, at the time, it of course did derail careers and destroy lives.
Jokes on them, I'm rotating a fleet of high quality shapes in my head.
>> I don't think you have to listen to Russian government propaganda to understand the NATO threat if you have any cognitive empathy whatsoever.

NATO is not a threat to Russia by any objective measure. Prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014, NATO countries in Europe were unilaterally diarming themselves. Just compare the size and composition of UK, French or (West-)German military in 1980s and 2010s - reduction in everything by a factor of 5-10x with a continuing downward trend. This is why NATO is struggling to support Ukraine, former powerhouses like Germany have very little left to share. Over the past two years, Russia has lost 20 TIMES more (visually confirmed) tanks than the whole German army fields. And yet we're somehow supposed to believe that such tiny force could pose a credible threat against Russia.

A person with "cognitive empathy" might actually feel that the truth is exactly the opposite: NATO became so weak over time that Russia stopped fearing it, and became increasingly brazen in pursuing its imperialist goals.

We have by far the most destructive war in Europe since the WWII, whole cities wiped from the earth, civilians executed in mass graves, daily terror attacks on cities where millions live - and to this day NATO's response is what exactly? Sending obsolete tanks and wasting months discussing whether Ukraine deserves modern air defense systems to stop terror raids against civilians? Is this the power you consider an existential threat to Russia? Who's the victim of propaganda here, really?
Code is communication about as much as a septic line is communication to the next plumber or homeowner. It's a part someone will have to maintain after you. But it's also just a septic line.
I've written a version of this in Golang (tied to OpenAI API, mostly): https://github.com/stillmatic/gollum/blob/main/dispatch.go

Define a struct and tag it with golang's json comments. Then, give it a prompt and ...

type dinnerParty struct {
Topic string `json:"topic" jsonschema:"required" jsonschema_description:"The topic of the conversation"`
RandomWords []string `json:"random_words" jsonschema:"required" jsonschema_description:"Random words to prime the conversation"`
}
completer := openai.NewClient(os.Getenv("OPENAI_API_KEY"))
d := gollum.NewOpenAIDispatcher[dinnerParty]("dinner_party", "Given a topic, return random words", completer, nil)
output, _ := d.Prompt(context.Background(), "Talk to me about dinosaurs")

and you should get a response like

expected := dinnerParty{
Topic: "dinosaurs",
RandomWords: []string{"dinosaur", "fossil", "extinct"},
}
Depot: Fast remote container builds and shared caches
Yep. Same for the military industrial complex, unfortunately.
That nerd's web site isn't going to be up to date compared with tech journalism behemoths.
> I find it strange otherwise that the Japanese word is closer in pronunciation to the Spanish "pan", or even the French "pain", than the modern day Portuguese word.

That's because Japanese is extremely phonetically poor.
Developers who enjoy discussing what makes code good are worse developers than those who don't enjoy discussing it? Is that the thrust of your comment?
Does anyone know an order of magnitude for the price of a rack?
No, why it was there is a question for whoever put it there, and only them. You might ask other people why they didn't remove it, but that's a different question from why it was there.