skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole point is the implementation and runtime for any safe language _requires_ code that is fundamentally unsafe.

If you write a safe interpreter your safety is still dependent on the compiler and runtime for your safe language having no errors.

This specific bug is in the implementation of a safe language, and the same can happen in any other (safe) language. People file bug reports on rustc, clang, llvm, etc all the time, and the only difference is that targeting them as an attack vector is not not particularly valuable as it's much harder to get a target to run your attack code, and the methods for doing so are much harder to hide. Note that these errors do not have to be any kind of safety error in the compiler for those languages, they can easily be erroneous codegen. These things happen.

As another example, I've seen use after free bugs in WebKit and JSC come up on HN over the years, and people blame C++ memory management, when the use after failure is incorrect management of the JS GC state in the GC runtime. If you have a GCd language, then code written in that language is definitionally incapable of making memory management errors, but if you are implementing the runtime that provides that safety you are inherently and unavoidably doing things that are "unsafe" under the definition of the hosted language.

The decision of many people is that JS needs to be fast, but if you disagree you can always see what the perf delta is. IIRC for non-hot code the JSC baseline JIT is maybe 10x faster than the interpreter (which is written in a pseudo assembly, so it's not taking any C/C++ overhead), and if the code is hot enough that it starts getting optimized that number just gets larger.

I'm not sure what language you were compiling where your interpreter was holding its own to LLVM, but the options that would make that plausible all imply the dominant component of the runtime was not the code being interpreted. e.g. along the same lines of people comparing python performance by benchmarking C and fortran math libraries.
What field of academia are you in?
There is power in the old magicks...
That was on my reading list for one of my classes at CCSF. There’s a hidden treasure of amazing instructors at that community college, though it is or was the largest community college in the world by number of students.

I’m not sure what it says about the state of the world or about me that I’m already familiar with all of these things, but I do sincerely appreciate you for taking the time to share them with the rest of the class.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_College_of_San_Francisco
Yep, two points, as of... 2015 or so?
I love this, though few thoughts

1. Enable multiple branches to show different simulations

2. Allow me to save it and share it via a link
Bootstrapping requires a rare breed of founder who is financially secure enough (or frugal enough) to manage life on a reduced salary, capable of building useful products on a budget, and willing to risk the missed opportunity cost of a cushy Big Co position. In my experience, the hardest thing to master is the actual building - plenty of people are bootstrapping "theoretically useful" inventions in basements/garages/etc, that don't solve actual problems. Such people can really benefit from VC oversight and business acumen.
I would still fly on a 737 MAX.

I've read about (and watched the Mayday episode) about dozens of air disasters. You can't be 100% safe, but I don't think the MAX is that much riskier either.
https://archive.is/2eXMS
Unfortunately intel has discontinued the NUC product line
Do you know about SQLite DB Browser ? It's a multi platform application that would perfectly fit your use case :).

https://sqlitebrowser.org/
So... is React dead? :-)
Bingo! Has anyone read their terms of service?
"Computers don't argue"
How about covering "Everybody's Fancy"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My84I3ZjHv0 But come up with other chords?
I opened a discussion about that here: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/4442
(And actually I do now and then think of Harding in two contexts: Mencken's mockery of his inaugural address; the poetry Harding addressed to his mistress.)
Why are people surprised that openAI is closed since we know they don’t share anything since chatGPT was launched and they got billion in investments
Already happened with brightness and contrast controls
3 to 10 times cheaper runners for GitHub Actions
There’s been a lot of conversations about moving off the traditional cloud for companies to save tremendously on infrastructure bills. Famously DHH and 37signals moved off AWS to their own hardware to save millions.

We are doing something similar with Cirrus Runners...

Cirrus Runners team controls, develops and optimizes every layer of the infrastructure involved, from provisioning the fastest bare-metal servers off traditional clouds to building state of the art virtualization solutions for macOS called Tart and for Linux called Vetu.

This vertical integration allows us to provide the most cost-efficient infrastructure for your GitHub Actions. Unlimited monthly usage for a fixed price. No hidden fees. No surprises.
I'm just too used to naming variables things like "list"

Having variables that shadow functions, that are later used somewhere causes rather inscrutable jvm backtraces to appear in Clojure.
As someone who hires contractors for our business:

It feels bland, but it is not bad. A great-looking portfolio page isn't going to get you a job, but it definitely is something that keeps you on my mind - especially if I can tell you made it yourself and it's a front-end/creative role. It also loads kinda slow, but that might be the geography of the situation. Consider your website to be the thing that telegraphs a lot about your business in subliminal ways.
Woa! That's quite a bit. What do you use for your static site generator? Or is a custom tool you built for yourself?

Curious, how do you organize or keep track of all your scripts? I assume you have them easily accessible so you can trigger them quickly?
The article mentioned shell companies "The methods to acquire the land also give rise to issues and speculation. Zuckerberg initially hid the purchases of land using shell companies and brokers to disguise them. Those shell companies are now involved in several lawsuits claiming they pressured locals with ancestral land rights to sell the land or get into a bidding war at auction with one of the richest men in the world"
Nexo Files $3 Billion Damage Claim Against Bulgaria
While it's true that there are U.S. states where it's illegal, there are many places (maybe most?) where it's not. Presumably due to the fact that it's near impossible to prove in court unless they were giving out receipts that said "bribe for business deal" on them or something. Otherwise there's almost no scenario where you can't say "we're friends and they gave me a gift, I chose their company for the contract because I thought they were the best choice."
http://web.archive.org/web/20240124062144/https://www.nytime...
Eh, an abusive system inside of an abusive system. It's best to look at it in its entirety to get a view of the systemic abuse.
Is your cron running locally or do you have it set up on a server?
I believe zero-rating was contested in at least one EU country (the Netherlands) as well. I can find at least one source, which also references net neutrality legislation: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-deutsche-telekom-netherla...
Asia is discovering coffee. There are 6500+ of Starbucks stores in China. They sell tea too, but it is a sign.
Yep. Heck I am a part of the tech industry and have pretty much lost all trust in the tech industry. It's hard to see and experience widespread misbehavior without beginning to expect it.
I tried to get into emacs a few years ago and just got fed up with the incredible regularity with which packages broke during routine updates. It was at least an hour a week on average, I feel, conducting bug hunts for either minor (this or that keybind/function doesn't work) or major (I can't get any packages to load) bug hunts. Was I doing something wrong? How do emacs people deal with this?

Admittedly, I was using Spacemacs which probably has way more packages than a bespoke emacs configuration, but you must understand if people get turned off when they ask you how to use an editor and your answer is "first, spend a few weeks setting it up and understand how each of your many packages works".
zed's great but they need to prioritise remote ssh like vscode. literally the main way most people do dev
Good question. I might have been projecting my hopes to make it sound more formal, but the only thing I could find following my cookie crumbs was the mention in https://without.boats/blog/why-async-rust/
>As far as I can tell, the only difference between those with and without an accent is conscious effort.

In my completely unscientific sampling, I'm going to agree with you. This holds true too for native speakers who make no effort to improve their grammar and vocabulary. If one wants to be a better speaker, writer, and communicator, they will be by effort.
Protoweb – Relive the 90s Internet
Adding to the points made by others, military-only missions are such a hard fought and profitable portion of SpaceX's launch manifest, it's highly unlikely they'd be unwilling to do almost anything to meet the security clearance requirements.
Interesting, when I saw the title i thought it's an article about self censorship of entertainment in order to not offend any possible pressure group. Seems to be about present day dictatorships though.
Trust in and Maintenance of Filesystems
Take a look at https://sqliteviz.com/ to do exactly this.
I looked into that on GitHub earlier because I was curious about exactly this, and yes it looks like they did roll their own.
> So there should be a high bar for this, and I hope Login.gov is really the last time.

Me too.
I'm stuck in a captcha loop...
That's true, although my 10k loc elisp config will be the last thing I will ever put on Github. Way too personal ;)

Incidentally elisp does a lot better in new Issue count too, although clojure narrowly beats it PR count. On the whole though, I think if you define mainstream to be number of people using it, then elisp probably edges clojure.
Can drugs duplicate a healthy lifestyle?
podcast interview.

Note, this is not breaking news - they've been working on this for decades. Still, it was new to me, fascinating, and GLP-1 therapeutics (ozempic) have been around for a long time too.

for reference, New Yorker story from 2017:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15610489
Duplicacy for me has been amazing - I use it to backup all of my machines nightly all consolidated into 1 repo that is copied to B2 and it works amazingly. I've restored plenty and have not had any issues.
Gift article link here: https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/television/jon-stewart-retu...
This stuff is sick. If we had a real-time upscaler on a zoom telescope it would be a fantastic tool while traveling. I'd get a kick out of that.
This happens to me semi-regularly. There's a mode difference where if you're reviewing, the comments don't get sent, when normally those comments are sent immediately.

It's rare that I complete reviews in a single session, so I often don't realize I'm in the middle of a review when I go back to the PR.
FairBerry Brings the PKB Back to Your Smartphone
I give Marcia Lucas so much credit. Always overshadowed by George but the first two films are great because of her influence. And her ability to control her husband.

Star Wars got self-indulgent after she left.
It's best to view OpenAI as any other private tech company even though they try to appear as a non-profit company in the public's eye.
So… he’s not running for President ? :-/
I have the same issue in Yandex Browser (based on Chrome) on Android.
Is there a country or a system of government that doesn't have this class of problems? I sure can't find one and I've been to quite a few.
I think the conversation misses the fact that Apple has become a world leader in logistics and manufacturing scaling.

They literally ramp up production in less than a year and producing 100's of millions of new widgets that they distribute internationally and they successfully make sure that they get depleted by September each year. (You never find old apple inventory).

These are competitive advantages that apply to the car industry as well.
Well if you really want it:

https://acoup.blog

This is how you make history entertaining. If you didn't already know about it, it's been linked even here countless times.

When you're a regular reader of that, you're very disappointed when you're linked something like a dry scientific paper instead.
>When the performance of Gemini in bard is compared to GPT-4 for example, it falls far short.

How did people get access to Gemini Ultra? Or are you talking about Gemini Pro, the one that compares to GPT-3.5?
Looks awesome. Doesn't support syntax highlighting for Solidity yet and from a quick search, I couldn't tell if there's any plugin/extension I could install (or how to do it). Any pointers?
Last time I looked into it, ABCL was less performant than more recent JVM hosted languages. I am far from a JVM expert, but I was told that this is due to most development work on ABCL predating JVM enhancements for dynamism.

There is also FOIL, which runs JVM (or CLR) in a separate process and provides a bridge for calling into JVM from lisp. It was written by Rich Hickey (the future author of Clojure), who observed that the reflection overhead was similar in magnitude to the serialization overhead!
They really need a rebranding.
Minimal ads: https://www.axios.com/2024/01/24/jon-stewart-daily-show-host...

Industry perspective (more details): https://deadline.com/2024/01/jon-stewart-to-host-the-daily-s...
Niceee. Reminded me of www.sillycovalley.com
Sure. I meant functions in the modern programming sense of the word, not in the mathematical sense.
> I feel like the people in that issue are doing something wrong.

And there are UX choices that could result in fewer people doing something wrong.
If there was no withholding that is a reasonable bill for a lot of people. If you made $70,000 then that is about what your taxes deductions like 401k)
Show HN: Sveddy – Collaborative Filtering for PostgreSQL
After finishing an intro to ML course, I felt inspired to implement a collaborative filtering algorithm right where it'd be most useful - in the database itself. As of now Sveddy implements only one algorithm: UV decomposition (similar to SVD, which inspired the project name). It also implements continuous learning to efficiently update a model as users express their preferences about items. Despite its simplicitly, it performs quite well on the Netflix Prize dataset, which I am proud of. However, there is still work to be done on the training algorithm's performance - it takes 6 minutes to train on 100 million ratings. I'd appreciate any insight on how to improve this.
Constructive criticism is welcome!
Show HN: A self-hosted GitHub issues notifier
I wrote this simple tool to receive an email each time a Github issue with certain tags is created in a repository I'd like to contribute to.

I thought somebody else might find this useful.
The authors tacked on a mini-survey to DX's regular survey offering, limiting participants to people who work at orgs willing to pay for DX's survey offering. It was not extraordinarily expensive, but the fact that they as recently as a month ago had public pricing and no longer do suggests it's probably more than it was at something like $15 PUPM.

I'm a bit pessimistic that much of this research is being driven by large orgs in collaboration with researchers who aren't sufficiently independent. That's not to say that this sort of work isn't valuable, or that the research is fraudulent, but many people who work on software don't work for these sorts of orgs, and it's not clear to me how those people will be able to participate in research going forward.

Much of this work also feels like it's becoming the industry equivalent of something like the Social Determinants of Health[1]. People with greater job satisfaction and more uninterrupted time are more productive? Is that the best we can do?

[1] https://health.gov/healthypeople/priority-areas/social-deter...
I agree. Good public policy can never be fully rational or science based. There is always a necessary element of emotion, intuition, and forecasting that goes beyond science.
Ask HN: What is a decent US state to create an LLC in?
Hi Hacker News,

I'm santy and i'm not from the US.

I'd like to create an LLC with Stripe Atlas (Yc Company).

I understand that stripe creates the registered agent in Delaware for me, but I can still use stable (another YC company) to get a permanent business address in any other US state.

I'm quite ignorant as to what is best. Should I also pick Delaware? Or is there a trick? Maybe Wyoming is a good idea?

I'm sorry about my ignorance and quite grateful for any info.
Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughtful feedback. Bluntness and even harshness are appreciated as they help us to (re)consider what is potentially not well explained or not well designed.
I’m pretty sure there is more to be desired from the description, but part of it is that such concept does not exist. Similar to how alien seemed to offer a service where users can upload pictures of their lunch or stay at strangers’ homes, it’s probably unclear why is this necessary/useful.
Trying to simplify the description takes away some of the dimensions to it, but the platform is like a professional league for social media content creators.
Another example, what the platform does: For example Nike had brick and mortar stores and great sales even before the Internet, but doing their business online greatly expanded their sales and brand awareness. Sports teams to this day don’t have this opportunity - to compete online (not just sell some merch). It would be too long to list all the ramifications/benefits from this, but they are similar to before and after businesses started to engage with customers on social media.
As for the outdated design, we like to think of it more as classic, but we understand your point.
We’ll definitely consider your recommendations
Cheers
Why don't we use this hack IRL?
Ah, I missed that this was your second home. Was your first home purchase 10+ years ago?
People are out of ideas.
I don't really want to take away from the point that this is a very bad incident, but, US law enforcement has always been this broken. There is nothing particularly new about this behavior other than the "+ AI" portion.
Because the problem isn't actually the jury, it's the structural incentives that mold the system as a whole, including the judiciary.

People like to point out that this applies to trials for violent crimes etc. too, but it was really the war on drugs that did this, because it required the government to prosecute crimes with no victim -- the drug buyer and the drug seller have no reason to turn each other in, as opposed to the mugging victim who can be generally expected to go straight to the police.

Because convicting people when there is no cooperating victim is so much harder, they went and corrupted the system in order to make it easier, and here we are.
You could say that. No one has even a decade of experience with transformers. Most of this stuff is pretty new.

More broadly though, it’s because there aren’t great first principles reasons for why things work or not.
Yes, it seems to be the case; only the data in the server is encrypted, while the key is shared between clients sharing the same repository.

I'm not sure if content-addressed storage is feasible to implement otherwise. Maybe use the hash of the the unencrypted or shared-key-encrypted as the key, and then encrypt the per-block keys with keys of the clients who have the contents would do it. In any case, I'm not aware of such backup tools (I imagine most just don't encrypt anything).
Does that mean we've isolated who the protagonist of TPM is? Because I'm still not a hundred percent sure of that.

I've now met so many prequel lovers - some of them people I deeply respect - that I can't chalk it up to dumb, or faulty aesthetics, or hype bandwagoning. I genuinely think there's been a generational shift[0] in how people experience the medium of film. It's a shift that the prequels themselves are no small part of. Blocking, eyelines, camera placement, diegetic/nondiegetic, continuity - these just aren't part of a visual grammar for many among the young and growing part of the population. Although the prequels do make a lot of (really bad) mistakes from a screenplay perspective, you can potentially recover from those with something as simple as camera placement. But the kids don't really care - it's not how the medium speaks to them.

The newer Star Wars films[1], while at least cognizant of the film discipline, do entirely throw continuity into the thunder bucket, make a hash of character motivations, and then, after that, still do freaky, weird, film-school-reject editing. But people love those, too, and again, I think there's that generational thing again.

And I've more or less made my peace with it. But please don't expect me to lavish any kind of praise on the prequels. They are terrible, terrible films. Not the worst films, but close enough to sight without scopes, and certainly the worst films to have such a hype machine attached. Like if LotR came out, and Frodo turned out to be played by Adam Sandler, and Gollum was just really flatulent, and everyone involved suddenly forgot how to make movies all at the same time.

[0] Hanging out with a bunch of undergrads, we watched 1980's The Shining together for Halloween, and - to a man and woman - they were universally bored out of their skins. The movie did not work on these people. That was my "aha!" moment. While I can't prove this, I think that a lot of film basics are obsoleted by the fact that the new generation regards camera position as more or less arbitrary. So a reveal might be just as likely to be frustrating as suspenseful.

[1] With the exception of TFA, which is an absolutely perfectly made soft reboot of ANH. I mean, seriously. It's the same movie, a sleazy cheap move that makes me feel all greasy. I think it's the cynicism of that decision that gave me the bad taste. No, wait, it was when I realized that none of the events of TLJ mattered, at all. None of the characters accomplish anything - the movie did not have to exist. So that was a bad taste too. Still watchable. There's like, a good ninety minute movie hiding in there somewhere. The third one, I just kind of lost track of anything, like watching a compilation of unrelated music videos.
That’s because we’re all cyclists ;)
Just on Mondays. The rest of the week will be a rotating cast.
They heavily rely on Chinese and other Asian partners for that. While that is great for the tech stack, the tariffs involved make it not likely that they will make their car in China, and will have to work with existing automotive supply chains far away from the centers they are currently leveraging. Their experience still counts, but the advantage isn't as overwhelming as if they were producing another iWidget.
Speaking of which, Nvidia has built-in live AI upscaling on the Shield TV android box.

- Is there any stand-alone live AI upscaling / 'enhance' alternative for android or any other platform?