skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you assume a starting point that writing is to communicate clearly (as in delivering a thesis or argument) and your writing does not do that, then it's bad writing.

You might not want to assume that. There are other reasons to write ambiguously with excessive and unnecessary ornamentation:

* Everyone else in your field does it, and you want to write in a familiar style

* You hope people confuse the advanced vocabulary in your writing with an advanced argument and it will bolster your credibility

* Pretension: you want to feel clever whilst writing it, or appeal to those who will feel clever whilst reading it

All of those are perfectly valid to my mind - even writing verbosely for the sheer love of the language is fine.

I just don't think this article does any of that well.
My wife is and I’ve picked up on a few tells. Thanks.
The year of the OpenSource AGI any minute now.
For good reason. The colon directs your attention, typically to a list or quote.

“…chatbot of Lou Reed: 100%, sadly addicted”

I read this as directing our attention to the punchline of a bad joke or deeply strange project manifesting a deceased person in a chatbot which generated text somehow emblematic of addiction.
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I am a self taught programmer that turned into devops/sysadmin, but never fully took programmer hat off - I am still maintaining few commercial projects I developed over past few years.

As a sysadmin I was hired for various projects, most recently I was a de-facto co-lead of a group of 7 admins - our job was to maintain (with on-call duties) fleet of applications spread over 300 servers making sure it works, troubleshooting and reporting to management when it didn't. The technology stack was a mix of old and new - HP-UX, Solaris, Linux, Windows, Docker, Kubernetes, Weblogic, Wildfly, Tomcat, Java, Python, Shell scripting.

Looking for a job where I could wear my both programmer and sysadmin hats.
If that's a concern for you, there are themes for GTK3 and GTK4 that replicate classic 3D widgets and remove much of the excess padding in modern apps. https://github.com/B00merang-Project/Windows-95 https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95 (You should install both; Chicago95 is more actively developed, but B00merang gives you a GTK+4 theme that's currently missing from Chicago95.) Works reasonably well as a daily-driver, giving you a similar look to the modern SerenityOS GUI on a standard Linux system. Even the modern GTK+4 "responsive" apps work as designed, though with some non-critical graphical quirks.
United Airlines Crew Closes Down the Lavatory – "This Is for Pilots Only"
Buyers are also market actors. Also, suppliers who haven't been part of the cartel don't have access to their pricing strategy, and so can't profit as much. Defectors know exactly for some time, and can use that information to beat the market and the cartel in the short term.
Where I think Helion approach is missing something big is Helion attempts to "force" the plasma with magnets, contrast to Safire where the plasma forms self-containing magnetic fields. Plasma, like fire, which is a "cold plasma" in a way, is something found in nature. Leveraging plasma that has self-containing magnetic fields is "going with nature" rather than trying to run against it.

Suppose one were trying to take advantage of heat provided by fire, they would want to exploit how fire naturally behaves to get the benefit, rather than attempt to force fire to behave a certain way to get the benefit.
Research compares LLM responses based on politeness and finds quality difference
I come from an EE background. I didn't understand the importance of computation in general until entering industry, and I want to understand compilers before I leave this earthly plane, just for the sake of understanding them.
Guns don't kill people; people with ready access to murder weapons kill people
Georgia's Largest County Is Still Repairing Damage from January Cyberattack
Not really the same as app packager, but your comment reminded me of this tool: https://fpm.readthedocs.io/en/v1.15.1/
OpenMediaVault 7.0 Released for Debian 12 Powered NAS Platform
Sand is a terrible thermal conductor. It's one of the worst materials you can use if you're building a heat bank for a masonry stove or mass heater. The problem is that the air in between the grains of sand acts as insulation, so there is very very bad thermal transfer between what is on the surface and what is below.

That, coupled with the lack of moisture, is why deserts can be extremely hot during the day and freezing at night.
You're advocating creating policy based on emotion, not numbers. That is what I mean by creating policy in the heat of the crisis—the argument goes that it's better to do something than nothing, so we just throw surveillance at the wall and hope it reduces the number of tragedies.

I'm not advocating doing nothing, but I am advocating against arguments in favor of surveillance that lean heavily into emotions surrounding anecdotes and ignore questions of actual incidence rates, causality, and efficacy of the proposed solutions.
This is a war, just a cyber war.. these groups are russian backed.
In Your Ear: Audiobook Pros and Cons
The State of the Internet Operating System by Tim O'Reilly, 2010
Endemic to X means that it's geographical distribution is confined to X. The (original) geographical distribution of basically all bird species is fairly well known, due to the efforts of 19th and 20th century scientists and their collection of museum specimens. The reference work here is the "Peters check list", completed over the course of several decades in the 20C by various ornithologists.

Of course, you have to check when they say "species" whether they're referring to a subspecies "elevated to species status" by dodgy "phylogeography" genetics studies.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_L._Peters
Safire is pure pseudoscience. Helion is not.

And the only naturally occurring plasma hot enough for fusion is in the cores of stars, where gravity, not magnetic fields, keep it contained.
You might be interested in the documentary Divisible (2023)[1] that talks about redlining [2].

I caught it at the Omaha Film Festival and it has caused me to take a second look at the way our cities are organized in to "good" and "bad" parts.

[1] https://www.divisibledoc.com

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining
thanks, makes sense then
Well, that's the point of the article, right? Whenever ChatGPT / Gemini say the "wrong" thing, their parent company gets negative publicity. And there's nothing these companies dread more than bad publicity.
Could you expand or provide a link to a good resource for me to understand this?

If the judge program should say terminates yes/no and the program given is `while True: continue`, I guess the argument is that in the finite case, you could in principle just enumerate all programs that don't terminate and identify them as such?
If ffmpeg is statically linked then code isn't leaving the sandbox.

Browsers don't use the OS's scrollbars because browser scrollbars are themeable in ways that the system scrollbars are not.

I do agree with you in principle but in practice, we aren't talking about a wide attack surface if you're using an older OS + modern browser vs a modern OS + modern browser. It's certainly drifting into the realm of a targetted attack. And if you're the kind of individual that is likely to be targetted in this kind of way, then you'd have a lot more secure defaults than just "modern OS + modern browser".

So it all boils down to what your threat model is. If you're Satya Nadella then this would be stupid. But if you're just some random Joe Bloggs who plays a few retro games, then realistically this should be safe enough to load GOG.
Feds hack LockBit, LockBit springs back. Now what?
Both of these are good things. They create human prosperity without burning coal.
I've only ever been inconvenienced by HTTPS/SSL 99% of the time because 99% of my browsing doesn't involve transmitting sensitive information like my credit cards.

Passwords? I couldn't care less if someone were to waylay 99% of my passwords.

For the remaining 1% HTTPS/SSL definitely serve a legitimate purpose, but as for the other 99% it's a fucking nuisance and I find websites that don't force the issue a breath of fresh air.
A braille embosser is pretty much the soundtrack to my childhood (along with the dectalk pronouncing “c colon backslash greater-than”). My dad is blind and I’m so appreciative of the technologies that helped him succeed alongside his sighted colleagues. I also credit his love of technology for my own career.
>Windows XP is the last version of Windows that's generally thought to be free of backdoors and US spyware

On what basis? Depending on your crankiness level you could argue that "backdoors" far predate that[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY
Wouldn’t all of this go away if you just turned off iCloud? Yes, the free tier comes with advertisements. That’s a very common pricing model.
The US Buried Nuclear Waste Abroad. Climate Change Could Unearth It.
Transformers go brrr
Sidenote: Book publishers seem to refuse to embrace digital.

I just love going to my local library to "rent" a digital book on my Kindle only to be told that there's no availabile "copies"

Is love to read more on Kindle or other book readers if there was an actual good platform that was embraced by both national and international authors. Same with audio books for that matter. It's even worse than streaming somehow
You're welcome! If you use this, please consider sponsoring the developer if you can. I daily drive Chromium Legacy and I'm perpetually terrified its one very talented developer will abandon the project. As of this writing, the project only has two sponsors, one of which is me.
Aren't they correlated?
Iron-on biosensor uses sweat to monitor health in real-time
Thanks a lot!

> I've been dissatisfied with all of them actually!

What are some of your dissatisfaction points? Do you know of better alternatives in other languages ?
“ Direct Page Register

One of the things that had made the 6502 so successful, was its extensive use of ‘zero page’, or memory locations 0 to 255. With a very limited number of registers, the 6502 relied on the use of ‘zero page’ to access frequently used values. Access to these values was faster as only a single address byte was needed to specify the address. The 6809 enhanced the use of the zero page by adding a new 8-bit ‘Direct Page’ register which allowed the ‘zero page’ to be moved to anywhere in the 16-bit address space.”

From https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/motorolas-6809-the-best...
An intriguing answer, but I'm afraid I didn't know enough terms of art to really understand it. Here are some definitions for the interested:

ArF: argon fluoride. ArF lasers emit at 193nm

EUV (Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography): A type of lithography that uses light with a wavelength of 13nm

DUV (Deep Ultraviolet Lithography): Refers to lithography techniques that use deep ultraviolet light, such as 193nm ArF, for patterning.

NA (Numerical Aperture): A measure of the light-gathering ability of an optical system, like a lens, used in lithography to improve resolution.

Water Immersion: A technique where water is used between the lens and the wafer to enhance resolution in immersion lithography.

Multi-patterning: A method where multiple exposures are used to create smaller features. (Would like to know more)

Pitch: The distance between identical features in an array, crucial for determining the density of components on a chip.

Gate Length: The length of the gate in a transistor - affects its performance and power consumption.

Fin-FETs (Fin Field-Effect Transistors): Transistors with a fin-like structure that improve control over current flow, commonly used in advanced nodes.

Nano-sheets: a three-dimensional transistor structure that utilizes thin horizontal sheets of semiconductor material stacked vertically.

GAA means: "gate all around" - the gate surrounds the channel on all four sides with stacked horizontal nano-sheets.
The same thing may have occurred with an office just sitting in his squad car on a street corner. Will we now pull them off the streets for that reason? Will we require them to keep their windows rolled up or wear noise cancelling ear muffs?

The cases you cite are of people who did things wrong. The cases you cite have nothing to do with the advantages this gives to the police in protecting citizens and solving crimes.

Why do people keep fighting against the police who are trying to defend us against crimes? In general, these tools help and don't hurt anyone. Lest anyone forgets, the police are on our side.
Did not expect to see this! This was recording during Ente's early days, and that was a very special time. Thank you for jogging my memories, and thank you for the wishes. You're very kind :)
There's always the third option: first make a simple machine that works but looks crap, and then gradually upgrade the aesthetics of the worst looking part until it's "cool enough".

Or, in Software development terms:

Make it work, make it right, make it [cool]
I have trouble finding the FastX project you mentioned. Can you tell me its website?

The top results I get are for the Fast and Furious movie. After specifying the context ("API", "web", "framework") I get hits for remote desktop software which also has API:

https://www.starnet.com/fastx/
https://www.starnet.com/help/fastx-v3-api/

And "fastx python" returns a module for parsing FASTA files

https://pypi.org/project/pyfastx/
> with shellcheck and good habits, bash can be readable and safe as well.

My favorite thing to do with shellcheck: add it to CI. Developers hate this one trick!

A lot of times CI and Dockerfiles have inline bash scripts. My next favorite thing to do is to move all of that inlined bash to their own script files. Now that CI has shellcheck: all that stuff gets checked too! Developers seem to hate this though because it's "less readable". Less readable my ass, it's way more safe.

Next problem: the same bash scripts are now in the same files in multiple repositories (a distributed build). I'm open to ideas for improvements here.
> but kernel exploits have been crafted out of scrollbars in the past.

But that would be a Chromium CVE, wouldn't it?

Zero days of course happen, but I think it's reasonable for a normal consumer to leave them out of their threat model.
> Windows XP is the last version of Windows that's generally thought to be free of backdoors and US spyware. This is possibly why Putin seems to still use it

Although it is very possible that more recent proprietary OSes contain spyware, Putin showing himself using XP is almost certainly propaganda to fuel distrust towards Microsoft and western governments/corporations in general. They have top notch FOSS developers in Russia, and I'm sure he can obtain a 100% spyware free Linux/BSD/whatever PC, unless he doesn't trust the hardware itself which can be bugged just like OSes and software (firmware, binary blobs etc.) so that he uses very old iron that most certainly don't contain malware but can run only ancient OSes. If that's the case, then it could make sense.
Panasonic Toughbook CF-54 mk2. Rock solid, as you may imagine. Everything is supported in Arch Linux.
I agree, in fact being a sovereign state allows one to get away with many things.
Every single app on the App Store gets device sync for free via iCloud.

I can drop my iPhone in the ocean, buy a new iPhone and and my new iPhone will have all of the data that my old iPhone had within the last 24 hours.

How exactly do you do “device sync” without an account somewhere?

> It objectively increases attack surface and is unnecessary for the majority of apps, and most users (myself included) don't want one.

Because for the majority of users - they don’t need a separate account because all of their state can either be saved by the app just saving locally and letting iCloud take care of it. By logging the state in Game Center or some apps like Overcast use the users app specific iCloud token (each app gets a unique token per user not shared across apps) and stores state server side.

I can guarantee you that most users expect to have everything backed up automatically and expect to be able to move between devices.

> Some of us actually like that we can do things like type into a text editor and know the text document will still be there when we come back to our computers, and that it doesn't have to get synced to somebody else's servers to guarantee that.

That must be why no one uses Google apps so their data is accessible across devices, Office 365 and why Chromebooks are so unpopular because people don’t like cloud backup….
But why have fallbacks for unsupported OSes, which are hard to even test (as the OSes themselves probably shouldn’t be attached to the internet due to possible security issues).
>> The easiest way to make things go faster is to do less work

This is a great rule of thumb. I've seen junior engineers (and even senior in some cases) try to parallelize existing solutions before first optimizing the single threaded case.
A department of poultry science?
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You're doing queries to a db, the fact that it's python is not your bottleneck
I get the sense for the responses (and downvoting) that I will eventually learn to dislike helm!
Congrats on the demo. I must say the game becomes quickly difficult, which is nice IMO.

I may suggest you provide a tiny bit of information about the symbols (walls, full circles vs empty ones, ...)
Why are so many comments working so hard to dismiss this article? There’s a mountain of research showing how social media is damaging kids and the increases in suicides back this up. Yet somehow tearing this article apart is the solution? Is it just a mass of AI apologists who think it is just a harmless tool, like a gun or an atom bomb? Or is it just “this is something I like and the consequences don’t hurt me so everyone else can eff off.”
I don't think the main problem backend developers have with frontend work is the language. As you say, Typescript is a really good language - in many ways better than Python. I don't think it's even the tooling, although becoming basically competent with two very large tooling stacks is not a trivial matter either.

I think there's a fundamental verbosity to the way most SPAs do data management - I've seen it said elsewhere that when you build a SPA, you basically end up having to reinvent the database, by which it is meant that an inordinate amount of your code is dedicated to extracting data from the backend via an API and then keeping track of that state using mountains of front end code.

At some point, you have to decide - is this really two separate applications (a backend and a frontend), or is it actually just one? If you don't have a need for multiple different clients, and you already have a backend written in Python (or some other backend language, e.g. Elixir, Kotlin), then maybe you can get away with writing a whole lot less code if you can find a framework that fills in that whole in-between layer for you and lets you stick with the language you already have.
> Until very recently, re-rendering with virtual DOM diffing was considered more performant than direct, incremental DOM manipulation. This too, may no longer be true.

Actually wasn't strictly true even when React came out, but it was true enough with the code that most JS developers actually wrote to lead to a change in dominant JS framework.

DOM manipulation even in 2013 used a dirty-bit system. Calling element.appendChild would be a few pointer swaps and take a couple ns. However, if you then called any of a number of methods that forced a layout, it would re-render the whole page at a cost of ~20ms on mobile devices of the day. These included such common methods as getComputedStyle(), .offsetWidth, .offsetHeight, and many others - there was a list of about 2 dozen. Most JS apps of the day might have dozens to hundreds of these re-layouts triggered per frame, but the frame budget is only 16.667ms, so that's why you had slow animations & responsiveness for mobile web apps of 2013.

React didn't need a full virtual DOM layer. It just needed to ensure that all modifications to the DOM happened at once, and no user code ran in-between DOM manipulations within a certain frame. And sure enough, there are frameworks that actually do this with a much lighter virtual DOM abstraction (see: Preact) and get equal or better performance than React.

The lesson for performance tuning is to understand what's going on, don't just take benchmarks at face value. If a call is expensive, sometimes it's conditionally expensive based on other stuff you're doing, and there's a happy path that's much faster. Learn to leverage the happy paths and minimize the need to do expensive work over and over again, even if the expensive work happens in a layer you don't have access to.
Treating all audiobooks equally is a mistake. Audio books are a transformation function applied to physical books. Asking whether they count as books is asking the wrong question. The more important question is: "what am I trying to get out of reading this book? And will an audiobook help me to do this better?"

The answer to this question will be unique to every person and every book. I read quite a few books for the entertainment value they provide - I like getting lost in a good novel occasionally without having to reflect too seriously on each passage. Audiobooks provide a convenient means of enabling me to enjoy the book, especially if driving, commuting, or performing some other task. However, if I am reading a nonfiction book, I want the book in front of me so I can double back to certain passages, check references and footnotes, write in the margins, skip to chapters and pages. I want more control over the reading experience. The audiobook forces me to trade all of that for an experience it provides.

I think for some people, audiobooks can end up like podcasts. People will sometimes listen to podcasts with intelligent people in the hopes that they learn something from the podcast. Maybe by listening to interviews with a famous mathematician or startup founder, one can learn some crucial aspect of becoming a successful mathematician or founder. However, the main value one gets out of podcasts is entertainment. Because you typically engage passively with a podcast, you are less likely to retain some useful bit of information that you hope to get.
we just need the next place, so the cycle can continue. it is far easier to ride the waves than to fight the ocean.
Where exactly did I say Roman interests were pure and valid? They were interests, empire building and such. Not sure if rape was a stated goal... Never heard that.
Very much this. I really want Linux to prevail but Apple is just too hard to beat at this point with so I just cave in. Don't get me wrong, I use Linux on a X1 Carbon Lenovo and I love it, I think it's the only OS I feel fast and have total control and but unfortunately Apple hardware and software has come a long way because of its totalitarian regime and it shows. It just works.
> You end up with people that can write assembly but have no idea what a functor is

New challenge to self: write a functor in pure assembly.