skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the past few days, I have been trying to fix a bug in a closed-source Mac app. I otherwise love the app, but this bug has been driving me crazy for years.

I was pretty sure I knew which Objective-C method was broadly responsible for the bug, but I didn't know what that method did, and the decompiled version was a nonsensical mess. I felt like I'd hit a wall.

Then I thought to feed the decompiler babble to GPT-4 and ask for a clean version. The result wasn't perfect, but I was able to clean it up. I swizzled the result into the app, and I'm pretty sure the bug is gone. (I never found reproduction steps, but the problem would usually have occurred by now.)

I never could have done this without GPT-4.
The benches are designed to be used for on average 4-5mins, maybe 20mins if having to wait for a special train. Their purpose is to serve commuters using the trains. Not as an alternative to proper social housing (which the UK has lots of).
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Same issue as UX and features in enterprise software. When a product is sold to people who don't have to use it then optics are more important than practicality
I’m not sure how political HN is allowed to get - but since this post is here, I’ll bite…

So it was found that an extra £20 payment to state benefit claimants sharply reduced the usage of food banks.

Yet, the UK government has invested £600,000 in curbing the rise of these organised food thieves.

This move feels like treating the symptom, not the problem.

It feels like blatant disregard for a starving population.
I have no problem trying to kill criticism. I'm just trying to do what I love as a hobby(academic).

Or maybe it's better for me to do things like fishing, swimming as a hobby.
Correlating with water and electricity bills could raise suspicion, but yeah, it's probably harder.
what's advanced speech recognition?
The concept of voting includes the possibility that a plurality of voters reject your preference. You consent to this outcome by participating.

When half[1] the population refuses to participate (perhaps they're tired of being lied to, or the candidates are slime, or there are too many selectively-interpreted, arbitrarily-enforced "laws" to count[2], or the idea one person should represent 617,000 is absurd, or they just don't like bossing their neighbors around)...

Maybe the government doesn't have consent.

[1] https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/02/19/knight-non...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Code#Number_and_...
But unlikely to be the plane's fault.
Earlier today it was very slow, and often timing out, from the EU too. I haven't tried again since.
Victorian clothing was considered flattering to shape and form. It's not about how much skin is showing.

Zoomer fashion is about de-accentuation. Looking goofier/dumpier/lankier/etc. Baggy in the wrong places.
> invasion

you mean incursion
The inconvenience vs risk threshold here is similar to bucking a seatbelt which is hard to argue is a poor investment.

Aircraft may be very safe on a per mile basis, but those risks are extremely concentrated around takeoff and landing. Which are fast events, so the risk per second is relatively high even though flying is generally much safer than driving.
I want to be hopeful, but these corporations will never do anything for the consumer. At their core they think in terms of squeezing the customer as much as they can. As Steve Jobs said, when the sales people run the company don't expect a good product.

A wonderful thing would be a GPU with open source drivers and a standartized API. AMD could do that and it would kill nVidia marketshare in a few years, but they don't do that because they want the server gpu money at a very inflated margin. Maybe Intel will do it but that depends who runs the company. With open source often corporations publish a feture stripped solution and keep the full drivers closed source. Sad reality we live in.
Legend of the Red Dragon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_Red_Dragon

Also WildCat! BBS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat!_BBS
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> Let's say you initially configure port 2222, restart sshd, everything works well, so you remove port 22, restart one more time, and stop thinking about it.

> Then, on your next reboot, it turns out that port 2222 is actually the preferred port of some other automatically starting service that just happened to not be running during your experiment, but which is now racing sshd for port 2222: That's bad.

Isn't it sysadmin 101 "How not to get locked out"? You should know already what else might be running on the box, or learn the hard way.

> And just as many applications including an SSH client won't pick up the config from .ssh/config (for example because they can't read that directory because they're sandboxed).

Put the relevant config where the sandbox can see it.

> SSH is used by all kinds of people, not all of them condescending sysadmins.

SSH should be used by people who at least know what a file is and how to protect their private key, I think that putting in a few lines of configuration (or having a provisioning tool do it for them) is a non-issue. Except if you are willing to die on that hill and think up artificial obstacles.
You need to get 113F/45C to kill bed bugs and eggs within 90 minutes. 105F actually sounds too low. But its harder to kill eggs, which you need to get up to 118F. They are resillient and evil creatures.
It isn't the only way, COM based APIs and similar approaches in Apple and Google platforms, allow for a more rich ABI without being constrained to C.
> In other words— Don’t stop talking. Don’t stop sharing. Don’t stop writing. It’s what we need the most right now.

What did I just read? Stop using their products, it is simple. Your plan will fail because it involves being mad at something you're still addicted to, and hoping that fixes it.
A new blog for 2024
My last interactive blog post, from a couple of years ago, went down really well, so thought you might like this one!

Here's the last one:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31987713
US quarters cannot be picked up by magnets.
Cool! I like the idea. This would also be possible to implement as a custom view in Schedule-X. If you want I can bump this thread once I've documented how to build a custom view? Or you could also join the Discord chat where I'll try and post new feature releases.
Yup, control counts a lot! Working at IBM just our of college, someone several levels up was getting a promotion for discovering an interesting loophole. Apparently, he'd discovered a way that four people could collaborate to exfiltrate just under $25 million (several decades ago) on Friday, and could be out of the country by Monday before it was noticed. The controls were previously good enough that it would take no less than 4 people cooperating. Obviously, he reported it, and this was good for a skip-level promotion.
I believe that people have the opportunity to learn about banks' dealings, which is to an extent mandated by law. This can't be said about the person stealing the funds for their high-risk investment.

Consent is a difficult topic though, I agree. For example, what choice does a person have, not use banks at all? I don't think that's realistic.
Because homeowners CAN vote out politicians who reduce their house value.
If you check the timestamp on this post, it was submitted before the other one you linked. A mod manually gave this one a second-chance bump to the front page.
Not really, some C compilers have language specific extensions that exposed SIMD, C as defined by ISO and POSIX, does not.

Rust has them as part of the language, as does .NET, D, as will C++26 get, eventually Java as well,...
Possibly. I'm in the US and UberEats is easily the worst offender on my phone. I get multiple notifications a day nudging me to order things.
Complicit would be another word to consider.
From Black Holes Entropy to Consciousness:The Dimensions of the Brain Connectome
> The lack of camaraderie among studios in the industry today makes it difficult for Muppet Babies to find a streaming platform home due to copyright royalties and trademark concerns.

Or in other words, they now have to follow the same rules as creators outside this clique and have to pay royalties if they want to use copyrighted material in their work.

EDIT: If you haven't read the article and think I'm being crass: the problem isn't that there are disputes over who holds the copyright. The problem is that the show liberally used live action clips that were in the public domain as well as live action clips that still aren't. And they only got away with it because at the times the people involved in the show were on good terms with the people involved with those movies. They could still release the show without those clips.
No?

Tether is an insanely profitable company, they would be able to fill any hole in a few years purely from profit. That is besides the point though.

There is no (literally 0) evidence that Tether is not solvent. Tether itself has been audited [0] and has hundreds of millions MORE reserves than USDT issued. Tether is the opposite of the fractional reserve banks in America. Tether is MORE solvent than major US banks (before federal bailouts.)

> "Tether is a well known scam."
Huh? Hundreds of thousands of real people use Tether to transact monthly. Seems pretty legit to me?

I will concede that Tether has made some strange choices by choosing a smaller Italian firm to conduct their audits, but this is very different than a "well known scam."

[0] https://tether.to/en/transparency/#reports

P.S. if you want to discuss 1 on 1 my socials are in my bio
> One thing that makes programming especially well suited for LLMs is that it's often trivial to verify the correctness.

is this why software never has any bugs?
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The leap year law translated to English doesn't just say "Every year divisible by 4 has a leap day.", it also says, "Unless the year is divisible by 100, then it's not a leap year". But then it also says "But if it's divisible by 400, it's a leap year again!"

So maybe some of the programmers only knew the first 2 rules...
I've just reread the article and I'm having trouble finding anything saying that, "Meta is going to imminently collapse".

Can you clarify please?
You're allowed to use phones during landing; they don't present much of a challenge for evacuation.

You're not allowed to use laptops or have the tray down.
Fully-managed and scalable service for unstructured data indexing and retrieval
This was quite common in the UK in the `80s, in pubs a chap would wonder in and discreetly ask "Want some meat? Sausage? Bacon? I've got some gammon in the van ..."
Sure, and the answer is similar - the best system we had is evidenced by the best outcomes. Countries with monarchies had the best outcomes so we can conclude from the data that the best system discovered and utilized at the time was monarchy.

If we're not using empirical data to rank these systems, I'm not sure what else we could use to gain any confidence.
Red meat causes heart disease. Except when it doesn't?
There is a similar situation with The Adventures of Pete & Pete from Nickelodeon that is preventing it from being put on Paramount+. Paramount and (I think) Sony both claim some amount of ownership, and instead of hashing it out they've just canned the whole show. It goes back as far as when shows were released on DVD, the 1st and 2nd seasons were released on DVD, the 3rd was pressed and ready to go but never actually shipped
They're SoMoLo (Social-Mobile-Local)! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-GVd_HLlps
Scientists Translated Spiderwebs into Music, and It's Absoutely Stunning
until you release the source, it will never be used by someone, so I guess you are stuck in a loop and it will enver be opened.
Or turn that around: the service was providing insufficient value for the user to bother looking at how to opt in for their notifications.
How to Start (and Keep) a Healthy Habit
Interesting, even more interesting is the linked article about the age distribution of marathon finishers: https://runrepeat.com/12-percent-more-likely-to-run-a-marath...

I can confirm this "milestone age", by looking at some relatives who started running and participating in marathons at an older age.
I bet the owner of that domain could earn a good payout by selling it.
>show your short position!

I've heard this before from crypto boosters.

Shorting doesn't work that way: you cannot hold a short forever just because you think something is a scam. In order to short anything, you need to borrow it first, and that comes with recurring fees. The profit margins on most short plays are thin enough that holding a short for longer than a week or two would eat up fees. So just because you know something is a scam or about to collapse is useless for profitably shorting it - you also need to know when exactly that bubble is going to burst or you will lose lots of money.

Meanwhile, the market is full of people high on hype, loading up on the stock, and frustrating any attempt at a profitable short. Even when a short play is perfectly warranted (e.g. GameStop late 2020), people might barrel into the stock you're shorting just to fuck you. It's not enough for there to be bad news about a stock, it has to be salient to the investor class to get them to sell.

So no, shorting is not a way to "put your money where your mouth is".
Chrome asks me to verify the CVC prior to it filling in the card details. I’m surprised yours doesn’t.
> this time I used the 4 function calculator mode of Windows 10's calculator

AFAIK, that calculator has “Infinite precision for basic arithmetic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division) so that calculations never lose precision” (https://github.com/microsoft/calculator)
See! I am learning even more because of this.
Eventually it will be public domain
The US was specifically designed as a Republic and those institutions you mention specifically designed to be anti-democratic. Democracies are subject to mob rule and historically unstable, republicanism adds a layer of stability and a check on majority rule.
> Man, if you have sshd that likes to die a lot, you've got bigger problems already.

This one.

One amusing thing what these apologists completely ignore (because they don't know shit?): just fucking DNAT a high port to localhost:22 and drop externalip:22. Bam, works.
From a political and strategic standpoint - It makes no sense for China to attempt an invasion of Taiwan in 2024. If anything, they're better off waiting to see who wins the U.S presidential election in November. Because huge policy difference on involvement there between Biden and Trump.

Edit: One caveat being how badly China's economy does in the first half of 2024.
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Thought this section would be helpful to highlight:

> If you’d like to stop this insanity...:identify the worst version of yourself.

> For me, it was 7pm Bryan who would eat everything in sight to try and momentarily escape life pain. He is a monster, overpowering, and indifferent about all other Bryans needs. A sweet talker and expert rationalizer. 7pm Bryan ruins life quality for all other Bryans:

> - awful sleep

> - overweight

> - poor health

> - accelerated aging & disease

> - turbulent emotions

> - depressing life outlook

> The solution: revoking 7pm Bryan’s authority to eat food.

> Now your turn:

> - Step 1: identify your 20% rascal..

> - Step 2: list what decisions they are and are not authorized to make

> - Step 3: wait for them to appear

> - Step 4: approve or deny their requests using step 2 list

> - Step 5: celebrate happy you for stopping self harm.

> Believe it or not, this is your most consequential and powerful life intervention.
Slicks 'n' Slide, still my gold standard for multiplayer 2D racing, Super Cars 2 on Amiga is the only one that came close: https://www.slicksnslide.com
Local inference of LLMs is essentially free. There doesn’t exist a sufficiently deep pool of experts of all knowledge spaces who are also willing to work for free, who can be trivially identified, contacted, and scheduled.
We used 3DMenu for a long time, it was great, I eventually learned how to add menu entries and had a bit of fun with it too.
On Research Software Engineering – De Programmatica Ipsum
If the copies survive
Yes. Specifically, both his father and his son.
Reminds me of the salami slicing technique in the movie Office Space.
The CMoy can affect the sound, which is a hazard if you're a purist and fun if you're not. It's biggest win is being a fun and accessible (cheap and simple) entry into electronics. A good audio circuit should have low output resistance. Granted you can get that with a CMoy, but the popular/expensive models don't meet that criteria.

https://nwavguy.blogspot.com/2011/08/op-amps-myths-facts.htm...

https://nwavguy.blogspot.com/2011/05/cmoy-ebay-headphone-amp...
Real Estate 'Visionary' Allegedly Behind Viral Airbnb Fraud Charged
When should you give up on a book?
Neovim v0.9.5 Released
Currently, what I get out from it is a good quick overview with some hallucinations. You have to actually know what you're doing to check the code. However, this is a fast moving target and will in no time be doing that part as well. I think stepping back and thinking maybe this thing is just giving us more and more agency and what can we do with that? We need to adapt to not constrain ourselves to just being programmers. We are humans with agency and if we can adapt to this, we can be more and more powerful having our technical insight that we've gained over the years to do some really cool things. I have a startup and with ChatGPT I've managed to do all parts of the stack with confidence and used it for all sorts of business related things outside of coding that have really helped move the business forward quickly.
There are far more countries than the U.S. so I'm not sure I understand your point, or maybe you misunderstand my point.

My point is simply that you can use and list you want that ranks countries in the order of most/least democratic and you'll find the citizens of the most democratic countries are consistently doing much better than those in the least democratic, which is evidence that democracy is far from the worst system.
Definitely get that software uploaded, and ideally LLM'd (whats the proper word) - the medical inmaging stuff might be really interesting to teach on.

The crystalography stuff sounds interesting as well.

I first went to school (Mesmer Animation Labs, Seattle (later became UW's animation department) and learned on INDYs, O2s and a couple Octanes. I chose Softimage over Alias|Wavefront (Maya) at the time.

I wish I still had my .DAT tape of my work - but those machines were beautiful.

Later, when I worked on a big Animation Studio's HQ build - we threw hundred-thousand dollar rack-sized SGI cabinets in the trash.... :-(
In this case, however, the impact is knowable:

https://etsc.eu/increasing-the-survival-rate-in-aircraft-acc...

Furthermore, distracted or unprepared passengers impact the evacuation of others trapped behind them. I’ve participated in evacuation training for flight attendants and have personally witnessed how a bungled jump down evacuation slide led to a 5-10 second delay. This was equated with ~20 fatalities due to smoke inhalation in the simulation.
That's fairly vague though. What red flags? How were they novel?
Turn Mac mini into a CD player
Enjoy all your CDs without GUI!
Hattip – An Express-compatible runtime for Cloudflare, Netlify, Vercel, etc.
Useful if connecting higher end headphones, not useful if you're only going to connect simple low power in ears.

The moment you connect any sort of bigger headphones that do not have their own amplifier to "standard" 3.5mm on most portable devices (even laptops), you find yourself benefitting from such pocket amplifier.

The power available on those outputs tends to be quite low, so attaching higher impedance headphones means the resulting sound is quieter, which results in user cranking volume up to compensate, which makes the usable range of volume smaller for adjustments, but also that often quality noticeably falls down because most amps have more distortion at upper ends of power.

Depending on devices, sometimes you even get noticeable difference in power drain.
Not the OP but I wouldn't call lifesaving medical equipment like an EpiPen a convenience.

Though it would be better to just stick it in a pocket. I always carry a flashlight on my keychain as well.
I definitely don't disagree, although I typically do about double that count (albeit on the lower range).

I'm not a fan of subscriptions, but a search engine is definitely something I can understand requiring a subscription fee. Something like my calendar app? Nope (had to drop... some app because they moved from a perpetual license to a subscription).
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Introduction to My Longevity Tactics
Have you tried prompting it to ask clarifying questions and be that partner? Perhaps no (extra) training required.
One of the funny things about Bible translations is that more modern translations are based on older manuscripts than older translations, due to advances in archeology. SE can't carry any translations that incorporate the insights of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and having access to some of the oldest Hebrew manuscripts is a pretty big deal when it comes to translating the Tanakh.

It's true, modern versions of War and Peace can't be hosted at SE, but those modern versions generally don't reflect revolutionary leaps in archeology :)
On Publishing: Festschrifts
Terminate, One Must Fall 2097
Assuming Jim Henson is the legal creator, it will enter the public domain in 2085.
Why do you have months on separate pages that scroll left to right, instead of a continuous vertical scrolling view?

It's so weird, I don't know why almost all calendars have this bonkers design. We don't paginate web documents anymore. Why calendars?

Google actually got this right at one point with their Android app (the open source one), but then they broke it again with the newer closed source app!
Well I was about to say correction but I think I got caught by a false cognate so it was indeed a critique but you weren't criticizing the previous post if my understanding of those words is correct.
Just as well I got the DVD boxed set then. Err...
>There is a similar situation with The Adventures of Pete & Pete from Nickelodeon that is preventing it from being put on Paramount+

The upside to things being stuck in permissions-purgatory is that it's usually all available in bootleg format on Youtube (albeit in terrible quality), as there's no one directly responsible to copyright strike it. The full series has been up there for a while.