skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> From what I can see the flag at [EAX+4] is somehow switched on when debugged.

I wonder if a look into the leaked Windows kernel source code files (I _think_ the most current dump is still old Win2k?) could help out to decipher what these two RESERVED flags are used for?

PEB_LDR_DATA still has them named as RESERVED1/2 [1].

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/de-de/windows/win32/api/winternl...
Been thinking about it, but our industry is a service industry and we prefer to get paid to offer our expertise. If I go out on my own and find myself lacking clients, I might.
Anything low stakes in a popular language (e.g. Python). I write a lot of ephemeral code in Python and for that it's perfect.
This person is also the creator of the marvellous "endless acid banger" which you can waste hours with in your browser, and which made me get my own physical 303 clone to start derping around with.

https://www.vitling.xyz/toys/acid-banger/

Also of note: all the demos open to a silent "click to start" screen, and all the autoplaying videos are muted by default even, like on TFA.
It does indeed, but from my experience it comes far often from marketing and management.
TikTok may indeed be a contributing factor to the current collective brain rot, but I’ve learnt more so far from YouTube and access to random PDF documents on any technical subject I can imagine than I probably would have done in one lifetime without.
A bit of Column A, a bit of Column B probably
If you're referring to some comment that should have been moderated but wasn't, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. If you want to link to it, I can take a look.

"The site in general has gotten increasingly $FOO lately" is the sort of thing people have been saying for 15 years. Such perceptions are notoriously unreliable for a lot of reasons—one is that it's human nature to overgeneralize from randomness, and another is nostalgia bias. It's hard to extract signal. Most likely what you're observing is random fluctuation, but of course I can't be sure.

When I say I don't want to ban you I mean it! You're a good user generally. I'd rather persuade you to follow HN's rules, such as not attacking other users, and it's my preference to try for a long time before giving up on someone.
Good point. The real risk in skipping days is that you might forget altogether some of the cards that were due for review. But the Anki default is to review often enough that probability of recall for each card is very high, so if you're only skipping a few days at a time this is not a huge concern. Capping the amount of cards you do per day has a similar effect; Anki will prompt you with the highest-risk cards first, and some will be left unreviewed for the day (hence, practically skipped).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hustler_Magazine_v._Falwell

You're right that it's not about her but wrong that she's a good candidate.
>You've linked one of worlds worst nuclear disasters there.

Not at all, it was a mere 93 grams of misplaced material and just one of many many examples of this happening all over the world.
The US generates 20 000 000 times as much high level waste every year, and luckily they spend the money required to keep it safe and not end up in the wrong places.

>It isn't that dangerous.

Think about it for a second - a nuclear fire during a few weeks in Ukraine has caused reindeer over 1000 miles away to be deemed unsuitable for human consumption for over 35 years. It really is mindboggling how far-reaching in both time and space that accident has been, and it wasn't even a worst-case scenario!

Ignoring the facts and just stating out of the blue that "It's not that dangerous" might be a good coping mechanism but it's not factual.

So, it's dangerous - and the danger should be weighed against the benefits compared to the options.

As of at least now in 2024 we get cheaper electricity from solar panels even after converting solar electricity to hydrogen gas and back to electricity. So nuclear is not cost-competitive even when we ignore the trillion dollar risks it carries (No estimates for the cost of nuclear includes the cost of a disaster, governments take that risk from the operators).

As we have seen the past few years in Europe it's also not very reliable. Plants in France, Finland and Sweden have gone offline several times during the year, taking with them a large percentage of the total electricity production of the countries they are in. Nuclear means many eggs in each basket so to speak.

Why should we aim to build electricity sources that are expensive and vulnerable in addition to carrying a proven risk to food production for decades in a 1000 mile radius, when we already have cheaper options in the form of renewables and storage?

If nuclear was 1/10th the cost of the safer options, I could see a point in debating the risks. But when it is actually MORE expensive? It makes absolutely no sense IMO.
Sometimes you really need the old hardware. A few years ago I was called in to help out a company that couldn't get 30 year old embedded code for an industrial PC platform running on modern replacement hardware. With my trusty old MS-DOS V2.11 version of DEBUG.COM I eventually managed to break into the hard loop I suspected the code was stuck in, to trace and disassemble it. It was communications code to talk to OG PC Uart hardware. For reasons best known to God or at least someone who probably retired 20 years ago they were using a scratchpad register in one of the chips instead of a byte of RAM to hold a timing variable to implement a delay/timeout. The modern [ASIC/FPGA/System on a chip/I don't know what] that was emulating the collection of OG PC hardware chips didn't bother providing that scratchpad register. A little big of creative assembly language rework and voila, the system worked like a charm. I really felt like invoicing for $10,000 or something ridiculous instead of 4 hours at my usual very reasonable hourly rate :-)
> I also don’t quite understand the “Software update sucks” sentiment.

Software updates don't always go according to plan:

https://www.thedrive.com/news/tesla-owners-say-autopilot-ada...
Spoonfed Chinese.
The challenge there is that reducing boilerplate comes with opinionated magic, which rubs a lot of people the wrong way. So the creators add configs and code level config, and pretty soon you're back in boilerplate hell.
Caffeine and VSCode are two essential tools. For web browser I use Chrome or Firefox. For note taking I use Notion.

Since my laptop is only used for work, other than the Jetbrain tools (I use Pycharm, Datagrip and IntelliJ) I don't need anything else.
> the US is a relatively libertarian project where "high taxes and free healthcare" are anathema.

Isn't that just the last 4 decades though? Before that, US had very high taxes and was not against spending on social programs. That all changed with Reagan and after, but it's not some set of core American values, but rather just the current, and relatively recent, dogma.
Hmm, couldn't quite get the use of it - I did see it's a 100% python - maybe use pypi package for it instead?
I gotchu and I understand what you mean, just assisting with clarity because it is more fair to say "Mac OS X has continued the lineage of NeXTSTEP" than it is to say "Mac OS X is basically NeXTSTEP."

Think about everything Mac OS X has or has had which NeXTSTEP has never had. DTrace, HFS+ and then APFS, Quartz replaced Display PostScript, OpenGL and Metal, IOKit replaced DriverKit and is now being functionally replaced (at least in part) by something called Driver Kit, Catalyst, SwiftUI, Quick Look, Spotlight, Safari/WebKit, Keychain, Xcode has replaced both Project Builder and Interface Builder, Core Audio, Core Animation, QuickTime and then QTKit and then AVFoundation, I mean the list goes on. Unicode is everywhere now too, which is neat; NeXTSTEP and Mac OS had their own character encodings.

Carbon was also a significant technology for the first few years, as was the first Rosetta (and we have Rosetta 2 now), and the Classic environment.

So, clarifying more than disagreeing. :)
Renewing any certificate that requires a manual import is not fun. Why are wildcard certs less fun to manually import than individual certificates?
They should focus on straight forward hydrogen combustion engines. If Ev's survive then they should survive on their own tech battery advancements. Don't mix the two together. That's just silly
Conspiracies can be dismissed if they are presented without convincing evidence. After all, the space of possible conspiracies is vast; all but a tiny fraction must be nonexistent.
The author cited many product issued with the car, which he attributed to some degree the CEO’s actions. If the CEO isn’t accountable for the product, who is?
If I can program it to execute a sequence of arithmetic and logical operations that approximate a Turing machine (with a finite band), and reprogram it at a later date to execute a different sequence of such operations, that's a computer to me. I wouldn't count ASICs, but the PIC12F508 or the 3-cent microcontroller referenced in the post definitely count.

Though by my definition of requiring reprogrammability and Turing completeness I am purposefully excluding many things that have historically been considered computers, like the many mechanical computers of the 19th and 20th century. From that standpoint I can see how some people might count ASICs as computers, even if I don't think that fits modern usage.
It isn't possible to exist as an ego without some form of spiritual belief. Existing as some sort of 'happy' ego, insofar as that is possible, requires that to be developed. Even if it is as simple as we float along responding to instincts - sometimes we have to make choices about what instincts to enable and to make such a decision we need faith-based assumptions.

If a model like Maslow's hierarchy is useful, it is reasonable to add in a spiritual layer. However, anything related to faith is automatically controversial.

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This comment does not assume an organised religion is involved.
I love languages, but I've been scared off of Finnish because I have heard that it has impossibly complicated grammar. Is this true? Or is there a logic to it that can be easily understood?
Knoxville and Chattanooga I can see, but not Nashville or Memphis.

The former are close enough that I understand their inclusion. But the latter are not.
That comma went to Oxford, it can handle it.
White American culture is also kind of dominated by descendants of German immigrants. I recall seeing some historical racist media that was praising Anglo-German supremacy in contrast to Irish, southern and eastern Europeans etc. People forget this because the latter groups are all considered white now.

I personally think this puts some weight into the "race is a social construct" theory. That and the existence of mixed race people, and the stories of how they and their families have been arbitrarily treated based on varying perceptions. It's all pretty absurd.
I likewise had the opposite intuition: low SES brains will have higher reward response to make the most out of fewer opportunities. Smoke ‘em if ya got ‘em. That would track nicely with the erratic, easily distractible ADHD behavior that began in my childhood.

Oh well. To quote The FairlyOdd Parents: “You win some, you lose a lot!”
This is the problem with using AI for generating SQL statements; it doesn't know the semantics of the your database schema. If you are still open for a solution, I recently deployed a solution[1] that combines AI, db schema and simple way train AI to know your database schema.

Essentially, you "like" correct (or manually corrected) generations and a vectorized version is stored and used in future similar generations. An example could be tell which table or foreign key is preferred for a specific query or that is should wrap columns in quotes.

From my preliminary tests it works well. I was able to consistently make it use correct tables, foreign keys and quotes on table/column name for case-sensitivity using only a couple of trainings. Will open a public API for that soon too.

[1]: https://www.sqlai.ai/
Was it not always about a tax loophole that applied to PCs, that went away during the PS3 era?

https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/why-the-ps3-is-a-comp...
> One pernicious part of growing up poor is that the moment a child gets a bit of money it is taken away.

A lesson I’ve not forgotten to this day. A family member set up a deal where me and my sisters had to feed three pigs for a period and look after them, the reward? The money when the little piggies were eventually sold.

And so we did, and we did it well, and were excited, as we’d never had money before due to how poor we were.

When the time came, our parents instead took the money, and told us they were entitled to it, and that we should be more grateful as it wa s our fault in the first place we had very little money and that we should think of this as doing our bit to pay a bit of that back. We were like…10-12.

That lived with me for a very long time.
Hummer EV isn't really a representative EV though, is it? There are less than 3,000 EV Hummers on the road, compared to, for example, almost a million Tesla Model 3s. The Model 3 battery is about 1,000 lbs.
As far as I can tell, the reason why science is continually trying to prove black people inferior (let's not bury the lede) is in order to put the current condition of black people in America as a result of nature and not of hundreds of years of slavery and slave breeding, and of the current condition of black people in Africa to their inferior brains instead of the violent takeovers of their countries, mass enslavement and massacres, and the installation of friendly dictators to ship their resource wealth overseas.

Normally you look for deficits in people in order to account for them with special help, but this is a science just looking to shed blame. It's like testing for dyslexia to find kids that you shouldn't bother trying to teach to read. Or even worse, retroactively justifying your decision not to teach redheaded kids how to read by doing a survey of redheaded kids who were never taught to read, over a dozen generations, and finding them stupid.

That's the problem. The field is hopelessly tainted, and being an area that would be difficult under any circumstances (due to mass social effects rather than mass genetic effects), meaningful designs would be hard to find even if the researchers were motivated by something other than justifying the past.

In my experience, the people most obsessed with arguing and proving the usefulness of IQ are somewhere between 110-120. The people obsessed with the heritability of IQ and the supposed dominance of nature over nurture are often people who have raised terrible children.

aside: one thing I'm curious about and haven't found is that there are a number of researchers who show differences between American black achievement (slave descendants) and black immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean (who started arriving in 1965.) I haven't seen a lot of race science speculating about that: did slavers (either Western or the Africans who sold them) have some sort of filter that only put the stupid blacks into slavery? Were all the smart ones culled, and/or their intelligence intentionally bred out of them over generations? Did the admixture of the genetics of so many white slavers into their slave stock lower slave intelligence, or raise their propensity to violence? Or does that entire line of inquiry (or intense study of slave breeding in general) hold no interest for people trying to justify 18th century race science?
Apple Vision SDK: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/vision
Have you ever seen any even moderately detailed specification of what the DRAM manufacturers do in this regard? I have not, and I looked. I am deeply sceptical ....

I don't believe that Rowhammer mitigations happen inside the DRAM chips themselves, I think that they are being put into the memory controller that talks to DRAM. Since DRAMs with built-in Rowhammer defences would have to spend transistors on this defence, those transistors would be 'wasted' in situations where Rowhammer is not part of the attacker model.
It's really hard to compare them. Just like it's hard to compare one country to another. So many factors.
You’re right that a normal toilet can have an appropiate physical handle. Howver normal toilets are easy to push open as they aren’t moving. Opening a large (and thus heavy) swing door, wide enough to allow a chair to get in, manoeuvre, and close, without it smashing back when the train lurches, doesn’t work, meaning a sliding doors which isn’t appropriate.

As such the solution is an electronic sliding door (as many couldn’t provide enough strength over distance to open a sliding door manually), meaning an open/close button

Once you have that feature adding an electric lock makes sense. A physical lock would be trickier to incorporate.
5 people(myself included) announced we resign the following day, so you better believe it.
The leech feature can also be dangerous if you're unaware of it, because AIUI Anki does not ask you whether to remove a difficult card or not, it just goes ahead and does it.
And trackpads or mice that let you hover.
Yes. It seems that the proportion of people for whom 50% of their beliefs constitute unfounded, unjustified nonsense is actually far lower than it was before the internet. One of the main things that has changed, though, is how quickly ideas (including bonkers ones) spread. So whereas we used to see a significantly new bonkers idea only every few centuries, we seemingly now see several a week.
This doesn't necessarily apply to every situation, but drawing, cutting out, and positioning paper takes more manual dexterity (and potentially artistic ability) than moving things around on a computer.

Pieces of paper are also likely to shift if you need to move things around frequently.

In a small apartment, surface space could be limited.
What are some of your basic questions about the legal system? Happy to take a shot at answering.
I swear there must be one person at Mozilla with power and a massive sunk cost complex surrounding their pocket acquisition. if they actually cared, it wouldn't be built-in and so offensively un-disableable.
I worked for a company 4/5 years ago that had a Windows 2000 machine connected to a dial-up modem which sent all of the company's payroll data to ADP four times a month. It sat on top of a filing cabinet in the HR office.

One time I got a phone call when I worked in the NOC at about 11pm from the director of HR in a panic because the machine wasn't working and payroll was going to be sent out in 55 minutes. Luckily he just forgot his password and had gotten locked out.
In actuality, WAFs hurt more than help. They give a false sense of security since they are so easily bypassable, plus they have a significant performance cost and a significant chance of blocking legitimate traffic: https://www.macchaffee.com/blog/2023/wafs/
This article seems to cover little new ground and struggles to find a real... point? voice? authority? to me. Like, okay, yes, proprietary applications exist and have limited Linux support. This has been true for my literal entire human life, and will probably remain true for much of the rest of it.

The article gets so close to talking about some of the real problems (network effect, notably on messaging and social apps), but then skirts around the issue rather than tackling it head-on, talking about how to bridge iMessage into other workflows in ways Apple may well shut down (see Beeper) rather than discussing the difficult, but possible, work of encouraging a friend group to use plenty-viable alternatives (for example, even without going into the FOSS space like we could/arguably-should, even Discord is less locked-up than iMessage, and is a trivial lift to get folks to move over to).
Presumably, a deep knowledge of Erlang wouldn't be amiss when working there.
Boston Dynamics robot demo [video]
> For the latter, I normally have to roll out a quote I can't remember well enough to google, that's something along the lines of "your dog is juggling, filing taxes, and baking a cake, and rather than be impressed it can do any of those things, you're complaining it drops some balls, misses some figures, and the cake recipe leaves a lot to be desired".

Something can be very impressive without actually being useful, but that still doesn’t make it useful. There’s no market for a working dog that does a bad job of baking cakes and filing taxes, while dogs that can retrieve game birds or tackle fleeing suspects are in high demand.
Polis
I have similar sentiment and looking at how mixed takes are, I think it depends on what you do. I write a lot of research code so I think it's unsurprising that GPT isn't too good here. But people I see that write code more in line with the "copy and paste from stackoverflow" style, get huge utility out of this. (This isn't a dis on that style, lots of work is repetitive and redundant).

So I changed how I use GPT (which I do through API. Much cheaper btw). I use it a lot like how I would use SO in the first place. Get outlines, understand how certain lines might work (noisy process here), generate generic chunks of code especially from modules I'm unfamiliar with. A lot of this can just be seen as cutting down time searching.

So, the most useful one: using it as a fuzzy search to figure out how to Google. This one is the most common pattern. Since everything on Google is so SEO optimized and Google clearly doesn't give a shit, I can ask GPT a question, get a noisy response that contains useful vernacular or keywords which I can then use to refine a Google search and actually filter out a decent amount of shit. I think people might read this comment and think that you should just build a LLM into Google, but no, what's going on is more complicated and requires the symbiosis. GPT is dumb, doesn't have context, but is good at being a lossy compression system. The whole reason this works is because I'm intelligent and __context aware__, and importantly, critical of relying on GPT's accuracy[0]. Much of this can't be easily conveyed to GPT and isn't just a matter of token length. So that said, the best way to actually improve this system is actually for Google to just get its shit together or some other search engine to replace them. Google, if you're listening, the best way you can make Google search better with LLMs is to: 1) stop enabling SEO bullshit, 2) throw bard into the side and have the LLM talk to you to help you refine a search. Hell, you can use a RL agent for 1 to just look how many times I back out from the links you send me or look at which links I actually use. Going to page 2 is a strong signal that you served shit.

[0] accuracy is going to highly depend on frequency of content. While they dedupe data for training, they don't do great semantic deduping (still an unsolved problem. Even in vision). So accuracy still depends on frequency and you can think of well known high frequency knowledge as having many different versions, or that augmentation is built in. You get lower augmentation rates with specific or niche expert knowledge as there's little baked in augmentation and your "test set" is much further from the distribution of training data.
> SSDs are not guaranteed to keep data longer than 30-90 days without electricity.

SSD retention claims vary depending on the drive; and it's a trade-off between speed, durability, total writes, etc.

At reasonable room temperatures, powered-off SSDs will keep data for years.
Twitter blocks searches for Taylor Swift after explicit AI images go viral
What does the acronym DS mean? Digital Systems?
Bad UI/UX and hardware support.

There is no incentive for these to be fixed by the community hence people will not switch.

For smartphones where Google fixed them, people adopted overnight.

In data centers where companies have the incentive to fix hardware support of raid controllers etc, and UI is not important, we also saw complete dominance.