skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was linked in a few commends so I look at the readme:

> Setup
> ChatGPT
> Other LLM backends
> Azure

Llama.cpp is down to the end, so I think it's for those having priorities than freedom.
We don't have statistics on the number of crimes committed. We have FBI statistics which are statistics on the number of crimes that local law enforcement agencies reported to the FBI. Not all crimes are reported to law enforcement, not all law enforcement agencies report to the FBI, and not all crimes reported to law enforcement agencies that do report to the FBI are included in their reports.

We also have surveys of the public asking if they have been a victim of crime, for example the National Crime Victimization Survey.

According to the FBI statistics, crime is down recently, according to the victimization survey, crime is up recently (both say that crime is down since the 1990's). According to the victimization survey, the majority of crimes are not reported to law enforcement.

From the 2022 victimization survey summary, https://bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/criminal-victimizat...:

"The violent victimization rate increased from 16.5 victimizations per 1,000 persons in 2021 to 23.5 per 1,000 in 2022.

From 1993 to 2022, the overall rate of violent victimization declined from 79.8 to 23.5 victimizations per 1,000 persons age 12 or older.

In 2022, about 2 in 5 (42%) violent victimizations were reported to police.

Motor vehicle theft victimization increased from a rate of 4.3 victimizations per 1,000 households in 2021 to 5.5 per 1,000 in 2022."

So whether you believe crime is up or down is going to depend on what data you choose to believe. In the victimization survey data, crime is slightly down recently in rural areas, about the same in suburban areas, and up by a large amount in urban areas.

According to my security cameras, crime in my neighborhood is down this year, but still at a much higher level than 2019.
> Surely you barely interact with it anyway while gaming, only to get into Steam?

I'm a Linux desktop user and I drop into a game once in a while while I'm waiting for another meeting or waiting for a build to finish or whatever. My work desktop doesn't use VRR (the just-for-games PC uses Windows), otherwise I'd be in the same boat as 'jorvi because it quite matters to me that games on my desktop integrate into everything else at a passable level. For me, GNOME does a better job of integrating my different activities than KDE (which wasn't always the case! I was a KDE3 user for a long time!), so I use GNOME. And it remains an unsolved pain in the ass that the Linux desktop experience isn't coherent enough to mean that we should only be thinking about desktop environments if we want to.

Coherent, holistic switching between tasks is a thing that people are allowed to want and attempting to convince people that they don't is a bad look.

> If this is a machine you use for something else too, you could just have a gaming user that logs in to KDE and your normal user that uses Gnome?

This is a really sad observation on the state of the Linux desktop. Still.
The only thing incredible is how upset people are for pointing out that it’s hostile to tell someone the game they enjoy playing is garbage and is not worth playing because it has anticheat.
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> You don't need to be a member of the EU to be a member of the EU customs union.

Yes you do. Read the ToR.

> Monaco is not an EU member state, yet it is a member of the EU customs union.

That is _a_ customs union with the EU, not _the_ EU customs union. c.f. that with Turkey.

As to being in a customs union with the EU, it would have been pointless given the existence of the SM. Negotiating to be in the SM would have been much more useful. The SM was created because the CU had been stretched as much as it could, and could not really add any more value.

The major changes, and improvements in movements of goods came post '94, once the SM was operational. Being in the SM, together with (unilateral) customs duties alignment would have been sufficient, and rendered moot any additional gain from being in a CU. Having an additional standalone VAT agreement would have removed any remaining barriers.

However, that is all rather moot now.
One man's Wall Street Journal article is another's lemonade.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/mavericks-surfin...
There's nothing "esports" about wanting to avoid wallhacks/aimbots in games like Tarkov, Rust, or Destiny, which completely ruin the entire game for every player in the lobby in an instant. It has nothing to do with "esports" and everything to do with actually being able to play the game. Do you also think it's because of "esports" when you're forbidden from cheating at a game of chess in person? When my friend plays Rust and gets upset because a flying aimbot hacker raids his base, gets banned, and comes back 1 hour later (buying a hot key off some shady 3rd party site), is he thinking "Damn, esports is really ruining this game"? No. The players are expected to fundamentally abide by the same rules. That's what a game is.

Realistically these days with how expensive most of these games are to run and make, if you do not keep cheaters away it can tank the entire project, e.g. Cycle: The Frontier basically had to shut down because they couldn't keep cheaters at bay, in a system that heavily relies on player count to remain healthy and fun. Once the cheating gets bad enough, people stop playing the game, which leads to a death spiral: it starts with bad queue times, which leads to people playing other games, and that spiral further diminishes the playerbase beyond a point of no return. Cycle barely made it 12 months and the result was a multi-million dollar project getting flushed down the drain.
> Do you do the thing where you hit it a bunch of times to blast the horn and show off that 90s tech because you need people to see how cool you are?

Heh, I do this but it's because depressing the button on my remote doesn't guarantee that the alarm will arm. The sound of the chirp is key to whatever mode I put it in. I could also just use my phone, but the app is stupidly slow and I kind of hate that my car has an app. I'd much prefer the equivalent of dance dance revolution on a 90s key fob than accept all the things that come with an app.
> Do you do the thing where you hit it a bunch of times to blast the horn and show off that 90s tech because you need people to see how cool you are?

This line was unwarranted. What part of steelframe's response suggested that steelframe likes letting other people hear the parked car's location, never mind honking?
I'm sure this, and other LLM/IDE integration has it's uses, but I'm failing to see how it's really any kind of major productivity boost for normal coding.

I believe average stats for programmer productivity of production-quality, debugged and maybe reusable code are pretty low - around 100 LOC/day, although it's easy to hit 1000 LOC/day or more when building throwaway prototypes/etc.

The difference between productivity in terms of production quality code and hacking/prototyping is because of the quality aspect, and for most competent/decent programmers coding something themselves is going to produce better quality code, that they understand, than copying something from substack or an LLM. The amount of time it'd take to analyze the copied code for correctness, lack of vulnerabilities, or even just decent design for future maintainability (much more of a factor in terms of total lifetime software cost than writing the code in the first place) would seem to swamp any time gained in not having to write the code yourself (which is basically the easiest and least time consuming part of any non-trivial software project).

I can see the use of LLMs in some learning scenarios, or for cases when writing throwaway code where quality is unimportant, but for production code I think we're still a long way from the point where the output of an LLM is going to be developer-level and doesn't need to be scrutinized/corrected to such a degree that the speed benefit of using it is completely lost!
It's not just conventional wisdom, there have been genetic studies: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1222218

A mutation of the SlGLK2 gene results in significantly less sugar in the fruit while slowing down ripening for transport.
BMW recently settled a water damage suit for hundreds of millions of dollars, they're not a startup
Some questions from an economic analysis standpoint.

If someone can predict the future reliably, why don't financial firms hire them?
If a firm did hire them, how much money are they getting paid? why so little?
Is the economic value of correct predictions lower than you'd think?
Does the market believe "past performance is no guarantee of future results"?
Yes but for what? Why should I install a profile instead of just scanning a QR?
All of those cities have average or below average crime among US cities.
Like with everything else, one should make sure one’s heirs have all the relevant information.
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Was gpt4 used (with paying subscription)?
That’s really clever!
It would be nice if this generator also added options for WPA3 and (disabling) MAC randomisation. Plus generating a per-SSID encrypted DNS (DoH/DoT) configuration, those profiles are actually tedious to assemble.
That’s nice! I would like to do something similar but my vim session are all remote over ssh, can we make it work without browser?
Did anyone notice that Kagi showed as barely better than Google in the article?
> repeatable and exact are sort of similar concepts

Oh my, no. Exact number is a term that makes a statement about precision and error, and repeatable is not. They are orthogonal terms.

> No. Quantum computers are not analog. The have qbits

Oof, you might want to read up a little.

> Analog computing is the thing where analog has virtually no practical usage. [..] in general it’s not practical [..] Literally the area where I said analog could be better. Speed and energy.

Wait is analog compute practical and useful or not? Make up your mind, you’re contradicting yourself, speed and energy is useful and practical. Those are the primary advantages for all computing hardware developments. Anabrid, the company than makes THAT, is building analog compute chips. Lots of companies are building analog compute chips for AI and signal processing, because there are practical uses. Just google “analog chip startup” and see how many companies you can find releasing new analog chips in the last 2 years alone.
Yeah that's one perspective of the tradeoff. I'm neutral on this actually. I think both perspectives are correct depending on your angle.

The mouse and keyboard still haven't been replaced by a touch screen.
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I get the same vfork message on Apple Silicon (M3), even though I can run the llamafile from the command line. And I can't find an "assimilate" binary for my machine.
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It would suppress linking to malware executables, but just general programs I don't see why they would.
Sorry I am not going down this low brow path. We can agree to disagree. I just don’t think it helps an ecosystem to tell people the software they want to run is garbage.
Ugh. This annoys me.

Can we predict things super accurately? Often no. But you know what’s better than anecdotes about times predictions were bad? Training and testing sets to judge how good we expect models and predictions to be from the beginning. Because a lot of these are not high confidence predictions.

And no, it’s not “black swans”. Are those a thing? Sure. It’s ok that models can’t account for things that are not modeled or seen before. But if these things are common enough that they’re systemic and the mode is just not actually accommodating for the world of relevant factors, then it’s not going to have been a good model on the test set to begin with. And we would know that.
Thanks for this detailed breakdown. I didn't know they published a victimization survey.
For personal networks this doesn’t make sense but does seem like a fun project to build.
The profiles are really most powerful for enterprise networks.
> * Person used characters that you no longer want to accept in nicknames

Why would you refuse certain characters? My last name contains a dash and one letter with a diacritic. I am beyond tired of playing whack-a-mole trying to guess what rule I violated with my "invalid name."

And fuck companies who have the gall to call my name "invalid" to my face, too. Have some thought before you write an error message. "Contains an invalid character" wouldn't be insulting, for example.
Making it easier to drink on the road, easier to buy, etc. would make it better for this use case. So "better" is contextual.
Can you recommend a resource for learning socket programming?
Honestly it's the reverse for me, but I guess that's down to personal preference. "Gnome" apps keep updating with the "new" GTK style, which means the title bar becomes a conglomeration of a bunch of weird controls, the familiar dropdown menus vanish, everything gets moved into a tiny little hamburger menu and, often, the layout breaks in subtle ways.

The calculator app just recently did this, and now I have to type and enter one line of numbers before the text control realizes it's too small and resizes itself. That first line of numbers is nearly invisible. Happens again every time it's opened.

I'm not sure who decided that desktop apps need to look and feel like touchscreen-first mobile apps, but I don't particularly like it. KDE still feels like a desktop environment, so it's my strong preference. I'll put up with a very slightly less polished experience if it means stuff stops rearranging itself just for the sake of change every couple of weeks.

(Aside from KDE, Cinnamon is pretty solid and less feature packed, maybe give it a whirl?)
> Can you imagine a hypothetical education system where students leave secondary school with an advanced-undergraduate level of mathematical maturity?

That would have been my dream.

> Why or why not?

Mathematics is the foundation of science, so that would have been helpful for my (then) future studies.

> What would such a system have to look like?

Not teaching algorithms to resolve problems, teaching from the source of the mathematical principles, I mean the practical issues that caused scientist to develop Math. I suppose that the Russian School of Mathematics[1] teaches Math that way, like in some Soviet books that were mainly practical.

Also, it is needed to have 5 hours per week of Math, to not have a fast pace when teaching kids. Math needs some time to "assimilate", and IMHO, 3 hours/week was not enough.

In this system, once you get out high school you could pursue the proofs of each theorem or a more inner and rigorous approach to learning Math.

[1] https://www.mathschool.com/
> It is however typical HN mentality to assume that nobody wants tracking whereas it is a matter of individual choice.

Indeed. Which is why car manufacturers should make it easy for individual drivers to disable tracking in a way that can't be remotely reenabled by car companies.
The last point is the case with my Steam account. I'll never be able to shed it given how much money is essentially associated with it. Granted, I think only I will ever see the name but boy do I wish I could change it.
What a thorough and interesting post. I would personally never do something like this. The most tinkering I've ever done with Linux was in my RaspberryPi era and that's 1% at most. So props to the author
As another cool trick, you can host a mobileconfig file and use QR codes for fairly quick (10 taps on iOS or so) enrolment.

I’ve used them for enrolling users to custom CardDAV/CalDAV servers and it is so cool - going from scanning a QR code to magically seeing new events and contacts showing up in the calendar and contact book.
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I don't see why we should assume that apple must open iMessage users to others out of pure, market-based economic incentive, or even out of the goodness of their heart. We can just make them do it regardless of what they want.

It'd be better for people (maybe not apple), and the people can decide how their country is run, including requirements on tech interoperability for businesses operating in that country.
Yeah so that’s the best case scenario, but it’s an absurd estimate.

I can assure you the first years doing this were hard work and low pay.

What point are you trying to make, that he was just doing it for the money?
For your other gripe: I modded two of my X230 to 1080p screens using a small-run add-on board and the right LCD panel from eBay. The board I got was made and sold by someone in Russia (by the name nitrocaster), so I don't know the availability with the war now (or for that matter, if he's been shipped off to the meat grinder to die pointlessly. fuck putin)

Also I personally think the keyboard topic is totally oversold. I'm quite content with the stock X230 keyboard, and I would swap in a heartbeat if I wanted to (it's two screws). And my previous laptops were T22/T60/T61, so I do know the difference.
It's not that we can't forecast heavy tailed processes -- it's just that the forecasts are used wrong.

The appropriate layman's forecast of a recession within the next year is something like a constant 11 %. I'm willing to bet this outperforms most "predictions" out there.

But! When people see that number they go, "right, so it's vastly more likely it does not happen" and then completely ignore the possibility. The problem is not in the probability, but in the failure to adequately assign a cost function to the less likely outcomes.
My understanding of the article is:

1. Use a guid-like value as your internal identifier. All internal references in your databases to a user should use that.

2. Use a second user friendly identifier for the user to login (i.e. Email). Feel free to rebind this if the user needs to change it. Keep a 1-to-1 relationship between the two.
> Anti-cheat only serves the consumer if it is well-designed. However, if someone is able to design a game (technically) well, anti-cheat is unnecessary.

That silly "speed of light" thing? Just design better.
> I'd jokingly say "ed" or "windows notepad"

Then I would take you to heart because I love Notepad and its minimal set of features. SciTE is nice too

> I have no idea what that second sentence means.

Nothing, I have confused you with someone else.
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I think that there are very few tasks in competitive multiplayer games that humans perform better than machines[1], I don't think your statement holds true unless you exclude a huge amount of game genres or you take all the fun out of them. (E.g. no FPSs or ..FPSs with no aiming?)

[1] Unless we're talking about captcha solving competitions, for now, maybe. :)
This is only going to increase the job crisis
Metafilter still runs on ColdFusion

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If you have a second, I'm much more interested in the particular research method you adopted to allow you to stumble across those papers.
For DIY efforts, sure.

Blatantly untrue for commercial modification though. There is no shortage of performance shops that will take a car that makes a couple hundred HP from the factory, replace a bunch of internals, completely void the warranty, and bump it up to the 4-digit range of horsepower, albeit mostly with a small handful of the overall number of makes and models, as not all cars are good platforms for high performance.

I suspect the reason that we don't see much of a commercial privacy modding scene for cars is that there simply isn't sufficient demand.

The manufacturers may be educated, listening, and watching us, but most people would simply prefer to bury their heads in the sand and choose to act ignorant, deaf, and blind in the face of this problem.

It's almost like non-technical folks have developed a "learned hopelessness" over their privacy, which is really sad in some ways. That's the same thing people living under many brutal, murderous, totalitarian dictatorships developed too after their privacy was obliterated, like in the former Soviet Union.
Meanwhile he spent a bunch of money on unnecessary employees. Foreseeing the end of zirp and how it will impact the business is part of the job.
> It is easy to sit and the west and imagine that Russia regrets its actions deep down, but as bad as this outcome is, I think you have to ask if there are worse outcomes that were considered even worse from inaction.

I agree. Russia does not regret anything. Russia was carrying out genocide in Chechenya in late 1990s and early 2000s while the west was giving them free money in the form of development aid. The invasion of Georgia didn't see any reprecussions either, nor did the invasion of Ukraine in 2014 see any meaningful response.

If the west retreats, then this once again validates their strategy of expanding Russia with regional wars, and they will attack Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland next.

The western fear of escalation is escalating the wars, because it lowers the risk for Russia.
I don’t want to tweak stuff for a week to get a comparable experience playing games to a fresh W11 install.
Adobe CF also definitely uses an XML configuration as well.
Maybe one day, when I have the resources to get into training, I'll do something like that in order to create ChatJustine :-) Until then I like to keep the technique behind my code craft private, which is one of many reasons why I love Emacs.
The unicycle idea is actually interesting, I could imagine that working well for a game where you play a little robot character, or a guy stuck on a unicycle. I guess with all the existing biological limitations that hinder immersion, it's smarter to explore ways to get the human mind/body to accept other standards, so that you lean into the limitations
Happy new year to you too.
How much research has been done on lossy text compression? As in, would it be possible to rewrite text with fewer words that conveys the same meaning? I'd imagine AI could do it.
> stale links:

how about automagically checking if archive.org has that link near-about-the-date it was marked? or.. just find the last one there?

btw i have quite some links on me site that are more than 10 years old, and 20-30% of them are now dead.. (and i guess more and more will be gone.. any research on that ?).. so archive.org on the rescue.. (luckily the articles have been of big-enough interest, and in english web-sphere.. YMMV with non-english or non-popular sites)
Commercially grown tomatoes are harvested while they are hard and green, transported and stored in that state, artfically reddened by exposing to them to ethylene in a gas chamber, then presented for sale in the marketplace as "ripe."

Would you like to know how "Not From Concentrate" orange juice is manufactured? It may not be concentrated, but it involves many industrial processes and can be up to a year old when you buy it.

Fake food.
Just chiming in to say gnome is wonderful to use and I miss it every time I have to use something else
How to run a small social network (2019)
If the US was actually trying for moderate appeasement, it would have advocated for a militarily neutral Ukraine, and independence referendums in eastern Ukraine.

Total appeasement would have been taking an isolationist position, ignoring the situation entirely, and not being dragged into the war.

It is indisputable that the US didn't choose either of those options because it has incentives and interests that favor the current war over those outcomes. Reasonable people can discuss and debate what exactly those interests are (geoploticial, moral, economic, ect), and if they agree.