skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't a US Government problem though, it's an "average voter" problem. The US Government implementing an actual form of secure ID for government use would be treated a gigantic conspiracy to do <insert already possible thing here>.

But they still actually need to be able to securely identify residents, so here we are (well, and there is the victims of identity fraud due to the use of social security numbers as unique resident identifiers, a role they were never intended for).
Yes, the long term roadmap for Swift is to bootstrap it, minus the LLVM backend, which is always a matter of not re-inventing the optimization algorithms that half of the world is putting into LLVM, whose contributions are at similar level as the Linux kernel.
Right, my comparison was rather production vs consumption. Creation is different from production and it can exist without consumption.
IRC as a protocol is indeed incredibly simple and easy to get started with. Years ago did discover this when I was able to make [this atrocity](https://github.com/creesch/discordIRCd) bridging IRC and discord where for IRC I effectively did a simple server implementation.

There is a caveat, though. Like many older protocols (ftp) there is a lot that was not initially written down or left up to clients and server implementations. This, does lead to a lot of edge cases you need to be aware of once you want to actually support a wider user group.

Also, as this is apparently is still a discussion. IRC is not simple from a modern user UX perception. Registration can be complex and confusing, though hidden a bit through clients. Managing channels with various flags is a whole other thing. Then there is also the fact that these days people are no longer used to the fact that they can't see messages from periods where they were not connected. Of course, the latter can be easily handled by a BNC or fancy clients like https://thelounge.chat . But, that is only easy for technically inclined folks.
AI as a reconstruction of UX is one of the more interesting angles in the next few years.
The problem, which the article somehow manages to avoid mentioning:

> In this work, we study the problem of finding local minima in quantum systems under thermal perturbations. While local minima are much easier to find than ground states, we show that finding a local minimum is computationally hard for classical computers, even when the task is to output a single-qubit observable at any local minimum. In contrast, we prove that a quantum computer can always find a local minimum efficiently using a thermal gradient descent algorithm that mimics the cooling process in Nature.

(I have no idea what most of that means)
I'm also learning. The models get more accurate when they have more parameters, say 7b (7 billion parameters) vs 8x7b (56 billion parameters). They also take more time and resources at higher parameters. TheBloke at Huggingface uploads quantized models, which means they can run on lower spec computers but with a possible hit on quality, he offers multiple configurations per model depending on what you prefer. Big models can be too heavy and slow, the sweet spot is probably something like 13b. You can try different gguf models with this program: https://github.com/madprops/meltdown
One thing I disagree is that Google is not terrified being unfair. They are terrified because their bias would be unveiled so funny they will be shamed and ridiculed by it.
The twitter link only shows one snippet for me. Do you have the others?

He mentions being forced to write an outline before the essay, and doing it the other way around. I've heard this so many times that it makes me wonder, why is that even a thing? Like, where did that practice come from, and why are we still using it in schools?

Are there really people who prefer to do it that way? Is it even possible to do it that way? It sounds like, first you come up with the software architecture, and then you write the software, and of course the architecture is perfect the first time! Whereas, in reality, any time you build something nontrivial, the process of building it inevitably reveals flaws in your initial best guess about how to build it... just as nontrivial writing will reveal gaps in your knowledge, or flaws in your logic.
> The GDPR says, for example, that refusal should be just as easy as acceptance.

Not true, actually! GDPR is a framework, and every EU country implements a national law according to that framework (e.g. the Dutch implementation is called "AVG"). The specific requirement that refusal must be as easy as acceptance is not in the GDPR, but several countries added it to their national implementation of the GDPR.
My dear friend Bowerick asked me about this and maybe someone can help him out:

Is there a site that lists everyone in the entire universe in alphabetical order?

Bowerick would like to use it for a project he is working on in his spare time - and he has a lot of that since his accident.
Edward A. Lee: The Problem with Threads (2006) [pdf]
Very nice! Congrats on the release.

Side note: I find it funny how we go to such lengths in order not to write JavaScript.
However actually establishing those DCC connections in the first place might need some configuration in a typical consumer internet setup?

I've been playing with the idea of adding IRC support to my prototype Matrix WebRTC transfer tool mxrxtx, but I haven't touched that for a while.. And I wouldn't have any use for it anyway.
I'm probably not gonna use these for my passwords, but there are some pretty awesome insults generated here!

Is the source code available somewhere, and if so, under what license?

I'm currently working on a tiny game, and this gave me the idea of having generated insults in the banter!
Worth noting this is not truly "choose your own" moderation. People who do things like advocate for a lower age of consent will still be banned: https://bsky.social/about/support/community-guidelines

EDIT: though it seems like you could in theory make your own client... I'm unclear how that would work in practice. Presumably content they dislike would not be stored on BlueSky servers?
Rereading, I can see why it was unclear.

For small crewed ships, shielding will be the dominant part of the overall cost; for large ships it will be a negligible part of the whole cost.
The memory footprint of your Python application
I've seen adverts for Chinese luxury apartments touting the built-in HEPA filtration systems. Seems to be a must-have if the air outside is polluted. Nobody seems to even think about this in building codes in the West. Especially, as you say, for apartments near major roads.
I'm glad I stuck with Apache httpd whilst everyone was moving to nginx. None of this drama with httpd.
Correct, newreview is specific to the second chance pool. I think it’s the main way that stories are found for it — a reviewer digs through newreview, and when enough reviewers agree a story is good, it’s accepted into the pool. That’s not the only way (you mention another), just the main way.

If you’re interested, I encourage you to email and ask if you can join. They’ve probably long filled the team that does it, but it’s always worth asking if you want to do some yeoman work. But one tip: it’s work, not fun, so if you do pursue it, be sure to go into it with that mindset.

To be honest, I doubt they need any help nowadays. The system has been working well for nearly a decade. But you never know till you try.
What theories are you using to solve for:

- consciousness?

- the unknown?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necessity_and_sufficiency

- the misunderstood?

https://plato.stanford.edu/Entries/perception-problem/

The Science of the Gaps will do I suppose?

Culture could do it though I think.
I'm fairly certain "extreme left" aren't the ones pushing for Biden this election cycle, they're the ones voting "uncommitted" in the primaries.
Isn't Rust really well suited as the main extension language of functional-preferring, strongly-dynamically-typed, interactive languages, such as Racket, Guile, OCaml, or F#?
I never understood why render to texture looks so bad in mirrors if it works so good in Portal (not a reflection but it seems like the same problem?)

Isn't it just a matter of properly calculating the camera position/frustum so that it is perspective-correct? Portal has the same issue[0] until you properly position the camera.

What makes reflections different?

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NGeZCAi2bJs 2:50, 4:05, 5:06, 6:58
This seems very familiar.. Isn't there a plotline in The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy about someone travelling around apologising to the entire universe in alphabetical order, using a time machine iirc?

Edit: Hah, my bad, I thought Bowerick was a HN user
Google set me straight!

Good one!
Both. The capacity needs to handle peak traffic during holiday season, so if you travel at a less busy time, you can easily end up in an almost empty train car with several empty rows of seats between each passenger. AFAIK, except for Beijing-Shanghai and maybe a few others in the wealthy, densely-populated east, most connections are operating at a loss. Connecting all the western provincial capitals was definitely just a prestige project.

But it did accelerate the economy for places that are now a lot more convenient to reach. I doubt that it's enough to justify the enormous construction costs, but it's also not nothing.
This guy's article on infosys is good too:
https://susam.net/infosys-tcs-or-wipro.html
Yes, indeed.
But 90% of my very own GPU usage is for WebRTC based applications and web-based videos.

Which leads to what I said: no hw-assisted encoding/decoding actually available.

I use intel_gpu_top (from intel-gpu-tools) to monitor my GPU usage: only VLC shows usage.

Anyone has success with browsers?
Not only that, but IRC server protocol(s) are much more underwhelming. If my last recollection is correct (and I gave up with IRC before IRCv3 became viable enough, which was too late IMO), pretty much every surviving server implementation had their own server protocol.
Google is also kind of shit at this. To be safer, it's advised to block web ads so that the sometimes scammy first result is hidden in the search results.
Well if that's what they did, then then using NATS over HTTP in that scenario is just switching a single point of failure for two single points of failure with no feedback on the second point, did they just pick it for the convenience of the NATS interface and only later realize their mistake?
Googles gemini has no knowledge cutoff, it knows events from the past few days, I asked it about Oppenheimer the movie and it knew it won 7 oscars at the academy awards. Also asked about some famous people that died recently and it knew about those as well.

So no, that is only a limitation of some chatbots, not gemini, it could absolutely be used to ask about election events.
Love how Opus 1.5 is now actually transparent at 16kbps for voice and 96kbps is still beats 192kbps MP3. Meanwhile xHE-AAC still feels like It was farted out since It 96 ~ 256kbps area Is legit worse than AAC-LC(Apple, FDK) are at ~160kbps.
It depends on how tech-savvy they are. My dad used a password manager. My mom and grandparents keep a handwritten notebook. Just bookmark https://www.random.org/passwords/?num=1&len=12&format=plain&... for them to generate a password.
>I think x86 has like pshufb for LUTs

There is also VPERMI2B [0] which operates on a 128 byte LUT.

[0] https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/x86/avx512_vbmi
Which software would use video decoding?
I did not say "terrified [of] being unfair"

I said "Google is terrified of BEING SEEN AS being unfair or taking a side"
Counterpoint: https://login.gov/
But ASICs perform way faster and more efficiently. I doubt even the gain that you would get from "retuning" the FPGA would not increase enough compared to the benefit from a general purpose processor, GPU, or an ASIC
Another (flagged) discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39688590
The superpower is to write the notes before the meeting. It may sound cynical but sometimes it's worth trying.
> the left wings wants to make the AI biased and tell you to vote left, while the [very technical] meritocracy side hates that.

Any source on that to justify such a wild claim?

What does "left" even mean in this context, what would be a topic that an LLM would rationally respond to in such a hard "right-wing" view that it requires someone to step in and tune it to make it respond with a "left" stance?
Boston, USA or Boston UK?
You keep saying puberty blockers have no negative side effects because you think something that's been used in a certain context automatically equates to no side effects but that is simply not true. You might as well argue that radiation therapy is safe for everyone because it's been used on cancer patients for decades. This sort of narrow minded, unscientific and extremely ignorant argumentation is exactly what people are sick of and why this whole trans movement is becoming such a clown show. If we would be more honest about the real risks and trade offs then perhaps people wouldn't be so anti woke nowadays.
Except it directly reveals your IP to the other peer. Might as well share a magnet link.

Though I would indeed like direct file transfer for more usual purposes in other chat clients. Would be great with Matrix/Element.
Show HN: Just implemented Solid.js signal in Swift
Signal is a great way to write reactivity code, and I found it just can be used everywhere. So I made it available in Swift. You can try it with SwiftUI, and explore how signals change the state management patterns of it.
Can confirm with my devices.
Writing is difficult as it is a third order exercise, you are imagining the readers and then writing about them.

https://alandix.com/academic/papers/writing-third-order-2006...
Really? Mine is v1.3.2 and doesn't show Intel Iris Xe Graphics!

{UPDATE}
I see: no Intel GPU support yet!
Going by the look of the images on it's wikipedia page, most of the people next to that road aren't at/near ground level. I don't how many stories up you'd have to get before the pollution and noise aren't a problem, but I'm guessing the air only gets fresher the higher you go.

Some of the reason why poor areas in the US are around highways and busy streets have to do with the history of redlining (https://phys.org/news/2024-02-highways-historically-redlined...). Even today when a city wants to build a loud/smelly/polluting highway or a factory or a landfill or a sewer treatment plant it's the poorest areas that are the least able to fight back, and putting them in the areas where poor people are will mean the least amount of inconvenience for the wealthy who often live far away from those neighborhoods. After a source of pollution is in place, very few people want to move in right next to it, so any houses there tend to be inexpensive and may be the only housing poor people can afford which further concentrates them into those areas.
Every computable function can be represented by a (possibly infinite)¹ lookup table.

Computer programs can only compute computable functions. Therefore any computer program is (in theory) equivalent to a table lookup.

¹ For finite inputs, the lookup table can be finite, and for infinite inputs, the lookup table can be infinite but still countable, as the set of computable functions is countable.
Sure, but to lend your bitcoin you have to transfer it to a lending platform, which is to say, to a trusted third party (TTP). The whole point of bitcoin is supposed to be that it does not rely on a TTP. If you're going to trust a TTP to administer your loan, you might as well trust them to keep the ledger too. As soon as you lend your bitcoin you lose all of its purported advantages, including inflation protection. All you're left with is a ridiculously high electric bill.
I don't understand how the domain name has any relevance here. Are you worried that Montenegro will somehow MITM this company's credentials to steal a bunch of passport photos, or just "foreign bad"?
Thank you for your insight!

By the way, I asked about it previously on their repo before, if you're interested.

No replies yet though, since the development of the lib isn't very active to begin with.

https://github.com/dbader/schedule/issues/614
You as a consumer or business cannot do the interpretation. Courts do. When there is ambiguities in the law (i.e. if the CTF is a valid fee or not), the higher courts (like the CJEU) decide how the law is to be interpreted and their decision sort of amend the word of the law.
This not counting that limiting carbon emissions would likely have huge health benefits worldwide.

Now, of course, short term health benefits might be limited. I guess there's less risk of bacteria contamination for lab raised meat, which is always good to take (edit: maybe not, see children comments about this). I would guess that like meat, not eating too much of it would be advisable.

But why limit benefits to such a narrow thing? This feels like a way to say "ok, but apart all the nice and obvious benefits this has, what are the benefits?"

Just recognize the benefits, it doesn't mean there are no drawbacks :-)
The LLM could reply “Ethnicity X is dumb and stinky”. That’s a racist reply. As I’ve said over and over, we agree that LLMs can’t literally hold racist beliefs (or beliefs of any kind), but it’s not difficult to understand what the article is talking about or why one would want to avoid it.
ooh, mxrxtx sounds interesting - is this solving https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/189?
Unlocked Motorola Moto Power 5G?

TAKE MY MONEY!!!

Here comes Linux OS... and mah FREED ...

"Never will be unlocked"? PAAASSSSSS.
Or, we can say that all of them are dumpster fires, even if Apple is maybe the best of the shitty app stores.

On Apple though, you don't have anything other the App store. That's something to consider. On Android, you have the chance to install F-Droid for example.
Maybe I should have said, "simple code is hard to write and complex code is easy to get wrong".

As an aside, I'm not going to post an AI generated essay, but pasting that quote into the new Claude gives an essay well worth reading if anyone cares.
I don't think so AI will replace SW jobs. It will definitely change the way engineers work.

Software development involves:

1. Understanding the requirement

2. Solving the problem with given constraints (and thereby innovate)

3. Talking to stakeholders

4. Code (& unit tests)

5. Review #4

6. Troubleshoot in testing

7. Troubleshoot in prod, both perf & subtle issues (this is hard)

8. Take the input from #6 & #7 and use it as a feedback back to #2

9. Answering questions from users/support which involve suggesting workarounds and not just factual answers. Suggesting a workaround itself is a mini-problem solving which is an intersection of domain knowledge, knowing code at hand, understanding customer's situation, etc.

Coding is hardly taxing and time consuming when there is clarity what needs to be done and how it needs to be done.

Point #4 itself has sub-dimensions like performance, maintainability, test-ability, security, etc and it involves lot of subjective calls. Sometimes you have to deal with undocumented behavior of an API which is a tribal knowledge.

To troubleshoot in prod (esp subtle issues) require deep knowledge of the code at hand. This itself is a challenge when you are dealing with generated code and something you have not written yourself. Think about a human dealing with an existing large code-base when joining a team.

I understand all of the above is a spectrum and there are jobs in SWE which do not require so much rigor.

Key ability for breakthrough and the rest will fall in place: Code generated by AI is consistently put to production without human intervention for a sufficiently complex problem considering all good attributes (like backward compatibility, performance, etc)
> The best paid was modifying some existing source for a torrent site that brought in ~$13m.

...Wow. How does one even find such a gig?
The really impressive thing here, to me, is how fast all the pages load. It might be a location thing (or good caching?) but it's noticeable even when I click away to sites like Wikipedia - which aren't generally slow!

I know speed isn't everything, and the content on a blog is more important than just getting the bytes out ASAP, but it's nice to see software that seems able to provide both content and efficiency.
> what would be a topic that an LLM would rationally respond to in such a hard "right-wing" view that it requires someone to step in and tune it to make it respond with a "left" stance?

Basically anything, if you don't tune these things you get lots of porn and racist rants. You also get a lot of anti racist rants and such, but not much middle ground, and that isn't a good experience for the user.
Haha, I also still have the manual which I printed on my Epson LQ-400 24 needle printer when no one was home because it was so loud and took forever.
https://docs.opal.ac/

Universally, people I've met and worked with (20-30) hate writing rego (OPA).

I'm always skeptical of Styra's analysis; they are literally selling you something.

AuthZed looks interesting and they have good "ride along" videos in YouTube, e.g. replicating GitHub auth.

https://authzed.com/
Jim Cramer Meltdown during GFC (2007) [video]
This is a kind reminder that the stock market can be very irrational sometimes.

If you're young and have not lived through this period, you may think that this recording was made when the stock market crashed during the GFC.

Actually, the stock market hit an all time high ~3 months AFTER this video. Only later it crashed ~50%.
I can't recommend enough straight up reading Lucretius'sNature of Things.

But one of the examples in there of how their methodology ends up successful is when he's discussing the possible reasons lighting and thunder occur at different times.

One possibility thrown out is that they are actually occurring at different times. But another is that they occur at the same time but one takes longer to reach the viewer than the other.

On its own, these two ideas don't indicate the correct answer.

But then Lucretius ties the latter to another observation - that this seems similar to how a drummer in the distance can be seen to beat the drums before you would hear the drums.

Essentially in an age without the methodology of testable predictions, they circumvented that shortcoming by considering multiple hypotheses for multiple naturally occurring observations and looking for overlaps between them.

This seems to have pointed them in the correct direction on a number of major topics, especially relative to their contemporaries who were generally arguing for a particular hypothesis with various appeals to rhetoric or principle (like Aristotle claiming the leader of a bee hive couldn't be female because it had a stinger and "the gods don't give women weapons").

The times the Epicureans completely miss the mark is generally when they disregarded their principle of avoiding false negatives and discounted things with insufficient observational evidence (for example, they had pretty bad cosmology and they rejected the Stoic pre-gravity due to their incorrect base assumption of infinite amounts of matter). The times they kept an open mind and considered how concepts overlapped, even when they were wrong about the 'why' of an initial assumption they were often correct in secondary assumptions when tying it into multiple other systems and observations.
Specifically, GDPR requires consent before you do (some) things the user might not want. You could simply not try to do those things and then you won't need to obtain consent at all.

It's absurd how used we have become to wantonly collecting user data that some people can't even imagine not doing that.
NHS England to stop prescribing puberty blockers