skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GPT3 existed. OCR existed. Object recognition existed.
VTOL takeoff usually reduces payload vs a more normal takeoff.
Throwing another anecdotal example: Everyone in the gym looks at me like I’m twice my age jotting down my lifts in my notebook. It’s so much less stressful than navigating BS mobile UI stat entry between sets. I say that as someone who develops mobile UI on a daily basis. It’s hard to mistype with a pen.
If it's “among friends”, isn't "change the script" out of scope?

You either trust the client to do the requested work, or you don't. If you can't trust the client to use the appropriate CI script version, then you can't trust anything the client responds with.

An example of this is how hacked DVD/BluRay drives work, where they fib to the driver about what byte is in which memory address.

You can issue the work to multiple clients, and treat it like a node failure. If you have a quorum of executions then you can trust that result. However, that's similar to the disallowed proof-of-work requirement.

No matter what, the client has to trust that the server isn't out to get them.
One of the best internet's comment and I can't read it, because it has been deleted
Which hedge fund put you up to this?
> Can anyone explain how this makes a meaningful difference?

See how Ukraine is using roads to hide its warplanes and site decoys.
The modern day version of the car on the right is the card on the left.
That demo is pretty slick. What happens when you go totally off book? Like, ask it to recite the numbers of pi? Or if you become abusive? Will it call the cops?
Is unity used for movie's CGI? I can only think of one example of shows made with unity (it's bad): https://myanimelist.net/anime/38853/Ex-Arm
I think the issue is that people are opting for "engineered stone" over wooden laminate which doesn't have the same issue.

So whether it is engineered or natural stone the problem is that stone cutting has dust that needs to be dealt with. But the emerging issue is that with the rising popularity of engineered stone, a higher percentage of countertops overall are hazardous to cut.
If those were amateur what does professional look like?
I'm not really clear what "supposed to" or "should" mean here. I'm pretty certain the audience would've understood it was expected that Abramović would sustain some sort of injury or discomfort, in line with her other pieces. I very much doubt anybody would subject themselves to a six hour performance without any idea what to expect. If nobody had obliged, I think it's fair to assume Abramović would've left disappointed, and would probably not be the conceptual art superstar she is today.

There's a whole world of consensual injury that to be honest I'm fairly personally prudish about, but nobody is making either of us participate in it. If people want to do it, if I'm honest I'm slightly judgmental but I feel like I should be less so.
I would like to take a moment to address claims that Project Gameface was inspired by anything other than the incredible story of Lance Carr. As we’ve mentioned in previously shared documentation, Project Gameface was the direct output of Lance’s experience and a desire to make the world of computing even more accessible.

When Oz approached me, I was already working on what would become Project Gameface, and had a specific technical problem that I was trying to solve. Oz showed me his impressive demo, and we chatted briefly about the problem I was having. Unfortunately Handsfree.js could not solve it, and thus I didn't use Handsfree.js in any capacity.

As I mentioned to Oz when we spoke, I wish him the best with his open source work. Finding new ways to make computing more accessible is an important space that I hope many projects are successful in.
The problem is whether the optional itself is null, not whether the contained value is.
> Like everyone sane before them they figured N:M scheduling is not the way forward and they ripped it out before going stable.

Why do you think Java recently went from N:M scheduling? Surely there's something to it?
Don't think that is deception, happens rather frequently especially if firms don't have good experience with downturns or changes.

I would agree with the notion that by far not everyone has real choice, hence organized labour as one defense. Reality is, some firms care much more than others, not all run by greedy psychopaths in my experience.

If you want total freedom on what you do then can only do things that don't need clients/customers, though. Some compromise is somewhere is likely.
It's ruling our lives

There is no hope

Thought I'd drop a line

The weather here is fine

But day and night it blares

Commanding through loudspeakers:

"Metal is tough, metal will sheen

Metal won't rust when oiled and cleaned

Metal is tough, metal will sheen

Metal will rule in my master scheme"

-- Siouxsie and the Banshees, "Mittageisen"
“They haven’t got the skills to discuss things, they haven’t got the skills to disagree.”

This article is about something new and different: People with different views are shouted down on college campuses and cancelled on social media, so the young don't learn how to "agree to disagree" or any kind of speech and debate skills. This implies a lowered ability to think critically.
Leaks Can Make Natural Gas as Bad for the Climate as Coal, a Study Says
>It takes as little as 0.2 percent of gas to leak to make natural gas as big a driver of climate change as coal, the study found. That’s a tiny margin of error for a gas that is notorious for leaking from drill sites, processing plants and the pipes that transport it into power stations or homes and kitchens.
Names. One of the two hard problems in computer science, along with cache invalidation. And off-by-one errors.
Effectively no one is choosing airports, there is only 1 near 99% of people.

Also, security screening is partly and can totally be paid by marginal income taxes, it does not need to come from
each passenger.
It's been around two decades since I last did an LFS install, but I still find the knowledge I gained to be useful to understanding how boot loaders, the kernel, init systems, etc. work today—not just bare metal and VMs, but also in containerized environments.
There are open air preschools in the Bay Area. The weather being temperate year round helps a lot as well.
I didn’t know lfs was still around. The last time I played with it was around 2003-2004 I think.
You think "rent seeking" is crass and "enshitification" isn't?

I know which one I would say in polite company.
how is this different from langsmith?
That's still crazy to me that such a powerful operation is done per clock tick.

I appreciate the uops.info table. I've never known about that site, so I'll save that off now. Very nicely presented latency/throughput stats.

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EDIT: Looks like https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/gf2p8mulb also exists. The 0b1'0001'1011 polynomial / x^8 + x^4+x^3+x+1 intrigues me, anyone have any idea why this particular GF-polynomial was chosen?

EDIT2: Looks like its related to AES somehow (https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/51848/why-is-x8-x...). The CPU-chip already has AES-instructions hard coded for modern TLS reasons (and AES-acceleration is going to be in every modern chip). So I'm thinking that these multiplication routines might be "sharing the fundamental units" of the Intel CPU, and Intel is wondering if anyone out there can make due with the individual steps of Rinjadel/AES in other applications.
On a related note, there's a common MYTH that the US highway system was designed to create sections of roadway suitable for emergency airstrip use:

> [...] no law, regulation, policy, or silver [or] red tape requires that one out of five miles of the interstate highway system must be straight.

[0] https://highways.dot.gov/public-roads/mayjune-2000/one-mile-...
Study links blue light from smartphones or tablets to early puberty
The potential for intel to explode is definitely there if intel executes with its AI demand.

I suppose one unknown catalyst with intel is what happens in taiwan/china. If things get crazy over there, suddenly intel seems alot more valuable as the 'US' chip maker (they produce roughly 75% in the US iirc). If the gov starts to even more heaivly subsidize non-reliance on asia, intel could find major gains if TSMC/samsung get shut out.

I mean, just look at the market caps- Intel is worth 6x less than nvidia despite historically having the same or greater gross revenue (not counting the most recent quarter of course).
> Suddenly the fraudulent company would know precisely what it needs to do (in terms of manipulating it's own stock price) to force me to close my position.

I'm guessing you don't work in the equity markets as this sentence doesn't make alot of sense.

What specific mechanism are you refer to that would force someone to close a position?

I mean, right now every single order that is sent to an exchange is stamped with the owner of the order and has been tagged like this since around 2001.

Each brokerage is required not only by law, but also as there is no other way to know who to send shares bough to and whose account to debit.

If you are worried about the SEC chairman, then why is there no concern about the CEO of IB or Ameritrade who can already do this?

Like all systems, this will be audited so if the commissioner of the SEC does decide to look at your order that will be recorded and they will have to explain why the commissioner is doing something that they are not allowed to do.
> but that leadership hates the idea

yeah, like I said. Tim Cook is neither a gamer, nor a programmer, nor an open-source advocate. Any one of these might open the door, but if you have none of them? Best of luck.
_Ea-nasir enters the chat_
I am aware of the occasional purges at some of these companies, and that when the purges happen, often many of the accounts are "found" to be fake.

It is still difficult to determine what is "found" vs we need stats showing responsiveness, or even if its real, how much has been discovered. FB makes those statements, and then I have all of Africa trying to friend me for some reason...

The other issue, is it's still mostly internal numbers, internal statements, "auditors found something," if you find something really egregious then we'll do something, ect... Comparably, I still don't really know they're all not just running a web-ring, and bot farming each other for ad money. I see too many folks at Davos who have mentalities like "how dare the President keep me waiting" for me to believe they don't all collude. [1] Life has had this kind of message for centuries.

"The merchants and the traders have come; their profits are pre-ordained..."

"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public."

https://news.yahoo.com/ex-uber-ceo-travis-kalanick-120014703...
We may be splitting hairs given what this thread is going on about, but I strongly advocate for `--force-with-lease` as a sane default versus `-f` so that one does not blow away unexpectedly newer commits to the branch

The devil's in the details, etc, etc, but I think it's a _much_ more sane default, even for single-user setups/branches because accidents can happen and git DGAF
PostScript’s sudden death in Sonoma
Yep, this is a great point, and while these days people use stuff like @NonNull/@Nullable, it does not help a lot, for the exact same reason.

I wish Java had had non nullable types as default from the getgo, and it's hard to add now for the same reason JS/PY have a hard time adding static typing
No, it's the same just worded differently.
Do you only charge your devices one at a time?
Blood and ashes was a Robert Jordan thing, blasted Sanderson had nothing to do with it.
Another good example is the TeamFortress wiki:

https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Main_Page

Started as a community wiki, and then Valve started hosting it and supporting it a few years later. They leave most of the admin up to the community, but do step in as needed for Terms of Service.
Bound lab books with printed numbers on the pages are, I am led to believe, at the forefront of any technical defence of a patent or discovery. You just can’t fake ‘em.

This is why I record all my ideas in a lab journal — a cargo cult it may be but we’ll see who’s laughing when I finally invent homomorphic encryption / perpetual motion / alchemy!
Even in the absence of all anthropogenic RF noise, the noise floor on larger channels is higher. Specifically, I'm thinking of thermal noise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson%E2%80%93Nyquist_noise
Expect MBAs to show up here condemning the derogatory use of MBA
Military aircraft landing and taking off from roads has happened forever. The F-35 has now done this. Whoopee. Water is wet.

How about fixing that little problem of not being allowed near thunderstorms? Not till 2027 at the earliest? But it can land on flat, straight roads, so that's something. /s
These are 99 times out of 100 an inside job.
If the volunteer organizers of a group don't want to organize the group anymore, the group ceases to exist. If BUG members want BUG to continue to exist, they can volunteer to organize it. Nobody has any obligations past that.
Pen and paper doesn't have many failure modes. Put it in a fireproof safe, and it will outlive most digital media. No hacker in a foreign country will steal it, no one will encrypt it, no cloud provider will lose it, and no government will read it, no SSD will byte-rot it. There's really not much to be said against pen and paper.
I was going to respond to this, only to have found myself at the end of an urban legend (no, there isn't a stipulation in the US to have 1 in every 5 miles straight in the US interstate highway system in order to allow for emergency landing of aircraft: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/landing-of-hope-and-glory/).

I do agree with the other sibling responses, though -- bombs cost money, and there's a lot of roadway that would need to be bombed in order to render entire highway systems unusable. So that's probably where the "win" comes in -- being nimble in takeoff / landing of aircraft locations makes life much more difficult for the enemy.
i dev on main
in teams we build in environments that are very prod like
we have tests that verify code that has been deployed - no matter the location on startup
we build test and deploy from local machines (and test because startup)_- this is very reliable or else our tests woudl regularly fail
because of this we push to main after our deploy has worked

ofc this only works on smallish teams that push / pull very regularly and have good communication around who is deploying when.

it used to be a shout over a desk partition.

we go faster than you and break far far less than you
"Would you like to try the digestive tract remapping first? It's a lot less invasive, but, if it doesn't work you'll be depressed the entire time you're making a mess of yourself."
> If workers refuse to wear masks, then whose fault is this?!

It doesn't matter whose fault it is; it remains the employers responsibility to ensure that it does not happen, if necessary by dismissing the worker concerned.
Canada also has one of the highest immigration rates in the world
That sounds like a Musk job
Thanks. IIUC, there there are shortcomings in regulation/policing, which creates a very market-based/libertarian opportunity for private parties to also police fraud, but that private policing might be defeated if those private parties had to disclose their positions to the SEC (because some SEC personnel could leak/collude with the fraudster)?

Is the core difficulty here that people don't trust government enough to handle the fraud problem? Or is it more appeal of profiting from the private policing of fraud? (Both are understandable.)

On the trust angle, would it be possible for the government to earn sufficient trust? Or is there some fundamental reason people with government jobs couldn't conduct the same research these private parties are?
This is super helpful
It won't unlock if you don't look at the sensor- so you can either look away or close your eyes. This behavior can be enabled or disabled in Settings -> Face ID & Passcode -> "Require Attention for Face ID".

If you hold the sleep button and either volume button for a few seconds- until the power off/emergency call screen shows- it will disable Face ID and you'll need to enter your PIN.
That’s not a problem either.
That's why it happens so often though -- the very people who are directly enriched by doing it (holders of the majority of the company's equity) are the only ones asked to decide to do it (board votes).

Canonical example: MailChimp

The founders retained essentially all the equity (Atlanta), so when push came to shove they decided "Fuck it, we'd rather be rich than work" and sold the company.

It feels like the only way to avoid this would be aligning the equity structure with employees and customers in a better way.
Just close your eyes. The Face ID on an apple device won't unlock if you have your eyes closed.
There are 3 models that roughly breaks down like so:

A - Standard runway takeoff, carries the second most amount of fuel
B - VTOL, carries the least amount of fuel
C - Carrier launched, carries the most amount of fuel.

There are tradeoffs each version makes. The F35 is the plane of the future for NATO and other US allies. Having the A variant able to take off and land from a highway allows (theoretically) you to have the less expensive to maintain A variant and deploy it all over your highway areas (Norway) for example.
Dope branding idea for an AI Agent
Second this. Absolutely fantastic show, with a great theme song.
My opinion means very little, but AI like to see a solution that preserves generative AI progress while giving incentives to use licensed content.

E.g.

"The burden of proof when republishing the output of AI generated content is on the person publishing the generated content. All unlicensed sources must be cited in a public searchable index."

With this, if you're a company and you accidentally use the output of Generative AI you have liability if the work is infringement.

This gives companies an incentive to have licenses for their content but doesn't strictly prohibit ~linking~ sourcing from publically available content.

This will also allow the industry to use publicly viewable content to push the boundaries of generative AI in a research capacity without fear of liability.

A person could tell a sufficiently advanced generative AI trained on licensed data to recreate something under copywrite by just describing it. You would not be able to publish that output.
Instead of having your backend download and retransmit the file, you could return a redirect to it instead? Plus maybe lower the poll rate from a few times per minute to once an hour or so to avoid the need for caching to save battery.
In 1283 London you could buy a Big Mac for a shilling and a twopence, so it's not that hard to calculate.
I am actually using Avalonia+ReactiveUI for my current project (MAUI doesn't support Linux or F# last I checked), which I understand is similar to WPF... what a hot mess it is to wire up models to views in just the right way, especially in F#.
This doesn’t look like a special part of a highway that’s prepared to be an airstrip, but just a stretch of road without any obstacles such as road lighting.

This being Norway, I expect they have quite a bit of that. The country is reasonably large (385,000km²), population density is fairly low (15 persons/km²), so in large parts of the country roads won’t be busy and don’t need much infrastructure.
Maybe this video about how the Swedish Air Force uses the JAS-39 Gripen helps?

https://youtu.be/eEX8JJ0eXL4 (part of it at around 3m30s)
Housing is expensive, especially in the american, low density suburbian way. You need to build a large infrastructure around housing for it to be viable, and if the housed can't pay taxes, everyone will end up paying for it.

Also, I don't understand: why not move to a place without zoning? Not all homeless have to live in SF right?
That's more or less what I was getting at; the cool new GANN and LLM models have a certain set of problems that they will solve exceptionally well, and then another set of problems that they will solve "pretty well", but I don't think they'll solve every problem.
One of the reasons that artists want their tickets to be accessible for less-wealthy fans is that those fans are often more invested. Expensive tickets lead to a lot of rich people who are there to be seen and to experience an exclusive event rather than people who are specifically interested in that artist.

You find similar effects at sporting events (which is part of why nearly every soccer club has a "supporters' section" with ticket prices deliberately kept very low).
I think I was clear - that the critiques are overblown and that these problems aren't nearly as significant as portrayed. Sure, there may be some "holding it wrong" going on, idk. A couple of blog posts aren't really representative of the overall feeling from devs like myself - that things are more or less fine.

As for changing things, I wouldn't really change any issues brought up here. I'd like to see some things smoothed out, like async traits, tooling to identify hot loops that are blocking without yielding, and things like that. Otherwise, nope, working as intended as far as I'm concerned.
I know that this article is talking about a lower level of "convenience", but I have to say this about .NET and C#: it's probably the most "convenient" platform and language at the moment.

Around 2020, I left a company that was building .NET Framework and barely started transitioning into .NET Core.

Then I spent two years working at various startups doing full-stack, primarily TypeScript on Node on the backend. And within the last year, spent a stint at one of the very few SV, VC-backed startups using .NET Core and came away pretty convinced that .NET Core and C# are what most teams want when they want some non-Node platform alternative.

1. C# is syntactically very similar to TypeScript so it's not difficult to pick up. Generics, try-catch, async/await, type inference, Array ops vs LINQ, etc. It means if your team is already doing TS, it's easy to pick up C#. If you're hiring, it's easy to train TS devs for C#
2. It has a nice mix of OOP + functional programming support owing to F#. Pattern matching, lambdas, records, tuples, destructuring, etc.
3. Entity Framework Core is arguably the best, most mature ORM out there. It supports a variety of backing stores and programming styles.
4. The language and platform are foundationally sound and stable. Go just got generics within the last year. Async Rust is still evolving. .NET and C# are 20 years old at this point and very stable.
5. Building .NET micro-apps now is so simple with the out-of-the-box templates. `dotnet new webapi -minimal` and you get an Express-like web API without needing to add any imports or do any additional setup.
6. Whether you want to believe the TechEmpower benchmarks or not, it is decidedly higher throughput than Node which translates to real $ saved on runtime costs at scale.
7. .NET and the large corpus of first-party libraries are maintained by an army of professional engineers at Microsoft that are constantly monitoring and patching it. You reap the benefits.
8. Platform tooling is really good. Builds are fast. Hot reload works reasonably well. Cross platform support for most common use cases is really good; I've been doing all of my .NET work on an M1 Mac for almost 2 years now and deploying into AWS and GCP on x64 and Arm64 targets.

I've interviewed with some teams that ended up investigating Go and Rust once TypeScript and Node became cumbersome -- always end up skipping .NET and C# for some reason. It's odd because these same teams embraced TypeScript, VS Code, and GitHub but then give C# the side-eye.
I have never activated Face ID on my iPhone. I do have an Apple Watch that displays notifications and allows me to use Apple Pay independently of the phone.