skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I work with customers daily to help to move to 11

What issues are your customers having that they need profesional help to upgrade to a new Windows OS?
> in the months since Mr. Beast hasn’t continued posting…

In the one month (Jan 15, 2024) since, he has posted two full length videos he had previously released on Youtube onto X, ‘Train vs Giant Pit’ (two weeks ago) and ‘100 Abandoned Dogs’ (5 days ago). For the sake of an accurate and complete context, those were originally released to Youtube 7 months ago and 1 month ago respectively. Also of note that Mr. Beast is an active user and poster on X regardless of video content.

Why did you think something completely different?
Not an answer to your question, but GET OUT, GET OUT, GET OUT.

(One of my three major regrets in life that I did not.)
This adds a factor of enshittification for NT, NT doesn't need 88 line PowerShell scripts, this "sudo for Windows" thing makes Windows seem like a teenager's high school project. Windows NT already has runas, let NT be NT and let POSIX have sudo/doas. Previously Microsoft hired the best of the best operating systems engineers in the USA who were from Digital and they proved to be people capable of making an operating system able to scale from MIPS to PowerPC/DEC Alpha/IA-32/amd64/Itanium with any combination of hardware and peripherics, now they're allowing random people to push 88 line scripts and calling it a day. Very few people in this world deserve the privilege of touching any Windows NT code and even more few people deserve the possibility of pushing things to the build lab of Windows NT 10/11 builds
I saw this yesterday, and joined. I have not seen an ED ad so far! Giant improvement.
I have a system that takes it one step further and both reduces the awkwardness and false-positive rate at the same time: I add the people that I know to the contacts on my phone. When a call comes in as a number instead of a name, I simply decline to pick it up. If it's not a spam call, they will either leave a voice message or send a text. If they do neither, then either it was a spam/scam call, or whatever they had to say probably wasn't that important in the first place. Win/win.

I've been doing this for a little over a decade and it hasn't let me down yet.
Well, sometimes. Sometimes not. https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.17567
If you stopped using the app and didn't replace it with social media that would be a good outcome, if it improved your habits to the point of doing something creative or productive instead.
Disk I/O isn't relevant here since you're testing the performance of the parser, not the speed of reading the string from disk. I would expect a file this small to be read into a buffer up-front & the benchmark code just invokes the parse function on it. Indeed, the document is small enough, that I'd be worried about it hanging out in L3 cache the entire time which would overestimate the parsing performance which would typically see strings in random spots in memory being parsed.
'Zombie offices' spell trouble for some banks
Implying that those who have never touched Rust cannot solve problems in Rust.
Well yes I can, because it's part of the theory I concocted above.

You're welcome to espouse alternative theories of course.
https://github.com/awslabs/llrt/blob/e2cc8237f4bd04e161d46b3...

This wraps QuickJS and there is not a single mention on their front page. At least a hello or shout-out to Fabrice Bellard would have been nice.

But I guess it's AWS and they do this with other projects, so not too surprising.
eh you’d be surprised
Same. Probably from playing too much Uplink, where calling the sysadmin was the easy way to circumvent the voiceprint authentication.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uplink_(video_game)

"I am the systems administrator. My voice is my passport. Verify me."

(Which is itself a callback to the 1992 movie Sneakers.)
I've been using Unison over Christmas.

I'm not affiliated with the company at all.

I built the start of a very basic site with Unison and HTMX.

https://cross-stitch-alphabet.netlify.app

In my day job I'm a Rails developer. I've been consistently frustrated at how few languages are truly composable and been getting increasingly disillusioned with mainstream languages.

So that's my context.

The not so great:

The language and principles are hard to learn. I've had to throw away what I already know about a lot of programming.

Coding inside ucm requires a very different mentality to how we build software.

The tooling is still early days and has many rough edges.

Performance is currently poor but will get much better shortly.

Abilities are incredible but demand the user to be very familiar with recursion.

Like many on here, I have lots of questions. It's not clear how migrations will work. I don't understand BTrees. If unison corp goes under what happens to my code?

Now for the good.

Unison is, hands down, the most radically joyful language I've ever used.

It's caused me to realise that most tools we use in software are faulty primitive compared with what they could be.

The fact is that even the benefits in the marketing of Unison are a scratching the surface of what's possible in this language.

For example, by spending a few hours I made the basics of an end to end testing library that emulates HTMX with local function calls.

This, if fleshed out, would mean the holy grail for me - fast cacheable end to end tests that do not require a browser to be spun up.

The possibilities are mind boggling.

I was utterly delighted with the deploy in a single function feature, something I'm now never going to be able to go back from having.

And deploying a database with schema in two lines is just jaw dropping.

Every time I use Rails now it's clear how much better our coding experience could be.

By building in Unison you get ports and adapters for free. Never have to wait for a test suite again. No infrastructure as code. No JSON. No yaml. Bliss.

In summary, it's radical. Would I run a production system on it yet? Nope.

Would I watch it keenly until it amasses a bit more momentum? You bet.

I believe whether unison succeeds or fails, this is the future of programming.

Oh and they're a delightful group of people to be around. The discord community has been beyond supportive to me whilst learning the language.
And the very first sentence of the Wikipedia article says "Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities.".

I first understood atheism to mean an absence of belief in god as a child, and I wasn't hanging out in intellectual circles at the time!

But it is certainly true that the meaning of it has shifted over time.

I wouldnt say that the complication is for debate purposes only. It is a rather fundamental difference to me.
> ..there's enough that's different about the permissions structure between OS's that just a straight port wouldn't make sense.

Does this mean that the feature set of sudo for Windows can't be similar to the feature set found on sudo for *nix e.g. for BSD, MacOS, Linux..?
Incorrect. All powers that the Federal government has are explicitly granted in the Constitution. All powers not explicitly granted to the Federal government belong to the States or the people.

Way to attempt to be dismissive of a literal reading of the Constitution that ostensibly governs this country. If a sovereign citizen is somebody that believes in self-governance of the people then, thank you. This country was created and defended by people that believe this. I am proud to be part of that tradition.

10th Amendment The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

So, 10th Amendment says that later caselaw and legislation that gives more power to Federal government than was defined in the Constitution is illegal. The only way the Federal government can legally get more power is through Constitutional amendments.
Great insights, thanks alot.
Laptop Ban? In 2024? What About My Facetop?
If anybody wanted to take a dominant place in the industry they’d buy Valve but Valve is not for sale. For instance, if Gamestop has bought Valve at the top they’d have an answer to the problem of digital downloads eliminating both the buy and sell sides at Gamestop.
None of this is unique to payments or the financial sector.

And it is bizarre to me that you could run a payments system without high-availability or immutability at its core.

Also putting logs in a database alongside your core data is such a bad idea. There are plenty of solid, proven systems for log management that allow you to correlate against other databases. And it avoids the issue of you wasting limited write I/O on a non-priority task.
Can't some lawyer just be used as a proxy for holding the real estate?
This should be their web site http://www.biyubi.com/eng_principal.html
Bard just sounds terrible phonetically. Bard. Like something you find in Home Depot or some kind of old timey woodworking tool. Barf. Bored. Bard.

Yes I know what it really means but it doesn't change the fact that it's a terrible word.
Could you tell me what's actually wrong with the article? What about the source that they cite?

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2024/02/07/cisa-and-...
> Disney & sky resorts are private and are free to charge who they want how they want.

Many ski areas, while private bushiness often operate on public lands through long-term leases [1]. Some amount of public access (eg free uphill access to the lands) are often requirements as a part of the lease; I don't see why certain business terms shouldn't be able to be regulated in the interest of the general public.

[1] https://www.snow.com/info/colorado-forest-service-informatio...
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> Disney & sky resorts are private and are free to charge who they want how they want. You don't like it? Don't use it.

that's all well and good until essential services are privatized because "free market good" and now you're dead because someone outbid you for the next available ambulance.

ERCOT can get away with charging $10k+ to a single customer during a "surge" in demand during a massive snowstorm... but "don't like it, don't use it"?
It seems unlikely that Power completely lacked atomics. This is a very vague recollection since it's been a long time, but I feel like there were some differences. I think PowerPC used a load-linked/store-conditional with a stronger guarantee than a CAS (compare and swap) on x86. For example, if x = 1 and you CAS it to a new value, another thread might have changed it to 8 and then back to 1 in the meantime and it'll still succeed (the ABA problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABA_problem).

I think x86 also has a stronger memory model providing less flexibility, but greater consistency.
> the proponents of self-driving cars tout the fact that computer driven cars are way safer than human drivers. And they're not.

It sounds like you conflating two claims: safety(computer car) == 100% and safety(computer car) > safety(human driver). Refuting the former (which is easy) does not refute the latter, though the converse would be true of course. But is it true that human driver is safer or the same?

> because if they can brake 100ms faster than a human would, in practice it makes no difference

That claim would be stronger with some better substantiation. I think it makes sense that faster reaction time and better focus leads to better safety record. That's why we prosecute people for DUI - because we have reasons to believe that slower reaction and more distracted driving when under influence leads to worse safety. Consequently, faster reaction and less distracted driving would lead to a better one. It will still be imperfect, but likely less imperfect than human driver, with lesser failure rate.

> What would make a difference would be to be fully aware of anything that might happen,

You make impossible demand - no mechanism or system could be ready for "anything that might happen", and nobody - at least nobody not having super-natural clairvoyance - could be aware of absolutely everything everywhere. There will always be weird coincidences and hidden things, the question is how fast the system can adapt and find a safe(r) solution.

> Self-driving cars don't have three things that humans have: instinct, experience and contextual awareness

They certainly have a system analogous to "instinct", and they can learn (even if not in the same way as humans, but who says it's the only way?). It is true that they don't really understand the context, but I wonder how important that is compared to the speed of reaction, lack of distractions and ability to control the vehicle? I would estimate most of the accidents happen because the driver either didn't notice something, or didn't react in time, or reacted not in the way that is optimal (like slamming the brakes on an icy road, or swerving too hard and losing control). A computerized driver would be much better on those dimensions. It would be worse on deciphering complex and unusual scenarios, but I don't think most of the accidents are of that nature.
Gemeni, or the twins, is a deeply symbolic name for anyone who knows Greek history. It’s the story of Castor and Pollux, and in many versions of the story one brother killed the other only to beg for them to come back. It’s ominous to use this brand name for AI.

It’s also associated to the Gemini killer and Joseph Testa and Anthony Senter who were famous as the mafia’s Gemini twins hitmen.

I think better brands could have been had.

It does sound like some battlefield AI system from Robotron. “Sir, Gemini is charged and ready for battle.”
"Bard" always struck me a bad naming - unfamiliar, unfriendly, too cerebral. I think the name was an impediment against establishing a household brand.
Naked Lunch? Unsubscribe. Burroughs, the degenerate murderer -- literally -- is the most overrated writer of all time.
Or it is people that are employed where traveling a lot is a requirement. And most likely a company would pay for this upgrade.

But why even argue about this, the people that FLY are either wealthy or have a company that is paying for the flight.
Why asynchronous Rust doesn't work (2021)
If it's just an alias for "runas" that presents a UAC prompt window I will be disappointed.
Clear doesn't avoid the TSA and in fact, the TSA isn't directly involved with Clear aside from setting the requirements for the "trusted traveler" program that Clear operates under. It's the airports who control the lines up until that first TSA agent and it's the airports that Clear is paying to ensure their customers are prioritized. In most cases those airports are owned by the local city or state government.
Developer space? Isn’t that like Unity, Unreal, everybody except Microsoft?

I think the whole point of XBOX, GAME PASS and all that is to convince people who don’t play games (stock market analysts) that Microsoft is relevant. It’s vice signalling.
OpenSPARC is apparently used as a base for the Elbrus CPU line in Russia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbrus-8S

That specific chip I linked to the article about has the ability to run x86 code via translation and they claim it can run Windows. Guess that solves the chicken and egg issue, but the biggest problem is who would be willing to fab it for them, sad that politics and war interrupted this.
> [...] but if we ignore all science from the past 20 years, we're still left with pretty good science

But what if the people of 20 years ago had made that same choice? And the people 20 years before then? Etc.

It's not a tenable long-term position.

> Popular media runs with it. People make products based on it. The underlying science is nonsense.

This has always been the case, though. A majority of people are dumb and/or lazy. Consequently, the quickest way to make a buck off them is the above.

But that trash science gets popularly communicated doesn't opine on the advancement of the academic practice.

> And for all the anti-vaxxers and flat earthers, those are still minorities since recognizing established science is actually not especially hard.

This feels like something we degree pretty strongly on.

(1) I don't think it should ever be easy to tell bad science, (2) I certainly don't think established science should hold an especially privileged place (heliocentrism!), & (3) I do think that the anti-vaxxers and flat earthers deserve a place in any true scientific practices (there's a myriad of ways they generally demonstrate their ineptitude, but ideas should not be verboten).
Rich people don’t get the electric vehicle subsidies, at least not the consumer facing ones. There is an income limit that is fairly low by rich people standards.
As an aside, TechCrunch is just so obviously The gateway for people who are trying to get into venture capital.

I find this type of thing very distasteful.
> This is why there are VoIP services that will give you a free inbound-only number and why others only charge for outbound calls.

This is the norm for standard carriers in Europe too.
There is public benefit to knowing the beneficial owner of real estate. It is the physical assets of a community and the community benefits from knowing who ultimately owns those assets.
> one of the big causes of housing inflation is using it to launder money

I'd love a link backing this bold assertion.
Apple Vision Pro review: Eyes on the future
In an increasingly commodity game (the big player LLM game), it’s already starting to hit the asymptote on the main levers: ties to NVIDIA and/or TSMC, serious financing capacity, and enough engagement channel to push it through. (There is much great work happening outside of the Peninsula).

I always thought GPT-4 was a little “HAL 9000” of a name for broad-based adoption, but the jury seems in, and the jury rules “cyberpunk is in”.
I almost can't comprehend it. It's like the MIT lab doing the ITS operating system or something, but in an alternative fork of reality.
> I think most people think it's just a fancy answering machine, they don't realize I'm controlling it.

FWIW, I'm betting it is just a fancy answering machine for most people. I use this feature (couldn't live without it), but I've never once been in-the-loop. My phone acts autonomously! I checked the logs for a few months, but I don't even bother anymore. It's never had a false positive.
Thanks! I think the team we're on has a very clear focus on making developers happy. Like, we're all ourselves, developers, so a lot of it is very self-serving. Anything we can do to make our own lives better is probably going to be a good thing for a lot of other developers too.
> Populace keep voting for the same set of kleptocrats, so they get what they vote for.

Probably not an original idea on my part... but if the # kleptocrats (elected officials) is approximately constant, and the # of decisions made per kleptocrat goes up* (I can't actually say if this is true or not), as an individual the ability to direct change goes down it seems.

*or the number # of changes the aggregate lawmakers agree on goes down (i.e. more things left unaddressed)
A rechargeable calcium–oxygen battery that operates at room temperature
(Edit, only referring to Disney / other private businesses here, not the TSA part)

Is this not a good thing? People, perhaps reductively, complain about how the affluent are hogging all of their wealth, that it's locked up in a way that doesn't flow back into the economy. Is this not one antidote?

Have a ton of cash and want to pay 10x for a first class seat? Yes please. Want to buy veblen goods to status signal? Sure thing. Want to hire hundreds of people to build yourself a castle? Lovely.
Rose or not. The current future of suits letting go of valuable talent to get a 0.2% higher quarterly earnings statement sure doesn't appeal to me. At least if some power hungry techy rants at me there's usually some technical fault I made instead of simply being a pawn on the board. There's nothing to learn or reflect on in a layoff.
That's one of the reasons I've not been huge on the recent (within the last several years) increase in "scam baiters" and stuff. As much as it does waste the time of the scammer and as helpful as some of the big ones are, normal people who do it are having little effect and ultimately just putting themselves on more and more lists.
I don't think it's a trivial thing to do outside of work. At most you can play with kubernetes and cloud but in an interview the lack of experience will come out because I think some stuff can only be learned at work. Especially scalability.
"the damage and trauma he caused"?

Really? That's a celebration?
Does he get to an answer in the book?
I don’t agree that this is “obviously intended” to make people think it’s AI. Theres lot of possibilities besides AI; it could be old footage, the parties could be misidentified, it could be from a different conflict, it could be taken out of context. “Unverified” is a pretty standard way to characterize a video when you haven’t vetted its source.
> path-dependent nature of our hardware architecture, not anything fundamental

Anyway, there's no reason entities in a physics simulation would have such direct access to the primitives of the underlying computer, and trying to crash your host simulation does not seem like a reliable, healthy, or in any other way advisable approach to finding out if you're in one.
Location: Portland, OR

Remote: Yes, comfortable with primarily remote work

Willing to relocate: Yes, potentially to NYC, Seattle, or SF

Technologies: Python, Django, Nextjs + React, EHR, lab automation

Resume/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ercpxQTeLWR2TU3AfvutDcMWmD0...

Email: hi@rowan.earth

Hi there! I'm Rowan. I recently built the in-house team for a molecular diagnostics lab and set technical direction there. Previous projects include working with health researchers at Stanford, drug discovery startups visualizing the entire human metabolome, activists monitoring Chinese Internet censorship, Microsoft's edtech division, and investigative reporters. I'm most interested in early engineer roles in small companies in biotech or healthcare, but open to roles at larger companies.
Digging is expensive the way it is done today, which is essentially artisanal scale. We get economies of scale at the municipal level. At least 2 neighborhoods in neighboring cities are doing it locally, more as tests but still doing it.

Also, I can get ground source heat pumps installed including vertical wells for about 50k out of pocket, at current energy rates I'd recoup in about 12 years. Not sure where 50 years comes from, unless you are talking about geothermal and not ground source, in which case I have no insights in to as it's not a reasonable option around here.
There are a series of gates. At the end is the scam. Each gate is designed to filter out those who will reach the end and not fall for the scam. Or in other words, by the time you are making the scam pitch, the scam is already done, because you know by then it will work.

The calls are just one of the early gates, as someone screening your call is likely not to fall for the eventual scam.

The gates don’t have to be clever for this to work. There merely has to be enough people that you are going to find that 0.1% who will fall for it.
Ok, imagine the cost is driven by underutilized fixed costs. How does the supply curve model the decrease in cost as demand increases?
Wayland is not enabled by default if your system has Nvidia graphics card.
The point of these AIs is that they don't need precise programming like a computer and that they understand real human language, which is imprecise but has general conventions and simplifying assumptions to make communication easier.
Gemini was a stepping stone to a moonshot, which is almost certainly why the name was chosen.

Edit: another poster shared the etymology, the merger between Google Brain and DeepMind. I shall eat my words.
Yes, that's usually what interviews with presidents involves. People tuned in to watch George w bush too, and Netanyahu is also interviewed on tv. Do you think that interviews are endorsements? Because that's not the case.