skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You make a very interesting point. Human understanding and logic can be very rationally explained. A judge can for example give a very though response of exactly why they made their verdict. I think that would be an excellent benchmark for AI.

This seems rather impossible when your understanding of the world is connection of billions of messy and uncertain parameters. But perhaps this is the first step? Maybe we can take the neural nets trained by Ml and create constructions on top of it.
Superdielectrics storage tech hailed as precocious
I haven't used duckdb since I got OOM on my dataset too. I think I will try again on 1.0.
You can create this in the same amount of code it takes to implement it.
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We need

Realistically, has that ever worked in the world? Like someone said “we all need” and everyone was like “oh, yeah, right” and started (stopped) doing it. I don’t get how otherwise intelligent people can make such statements sometimes.
I think you can make tar.zst pretty easily in Android?
Proof of the Singular Value Decomposition
Reddit used to be really easy to scrape. I haven't really had the need to do it after the API changes drama, but the trick of appending `.json` to the URL apparently still works, example:

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheWire/comments/1aqvtoz/every_year...

Not sure if this only works on posts or also entire subreddits.
I love the Eclipse IDE. It's a shame the Eclipse Foundation doesn't treat it better.

Last time I tried to contribute to it, I ended up giving up. They wanted me to sign paperwork simply to report a bug. There was no documentation about how to build the IDE, which is scattered across dozens of repositories. Maybe that has improved, but I doubt it.

They seem to be putting all their eggs into the Theia basket, which is an IDE framework similar to VSCode. Would have been nice to see that energy go towards improving Eclipse instead of reinventing the wheel.

Improving the UI's handling of HiDPI would be nice. One can but dream.
What a bold conclusion. I remind you that you don’t know anything about me. But perhaps your characterization is to protect the comfort you draw from your world views.

What kind of person thinks that the people whose “brilliance” led them to invent weapons of mass destruction are better than anyone that cannot solve technical problems as fast as they can? Do you apply the same reasoning for wealth also? I suppose might is right for you?

You might not see this — for whatever reason — but it is indisputable: history is filled with the types of “geniuses” who in their rush to the prestige of being first they leave in their wake destructive effects on humanity. I argue that when people say “these are 1 in a hundred million” that yeah, because most of the people with similar aptitudes would pause and consider the implications of their actions while you argue that they are gods amongst men that we are “lucky to have met”.
Well you can look into how DFHack for Dwarf Fortress was redone. It involved a C++ decompiler written in clisp.

Since then Ghidra was released, so the process is somewhat simpler, if not as much *fun*.
Your argument isn't very strong either. Gaza wasn't walled off forever. The walls were built in response to attacks from Gaza into Israel. No attacks and there'd be no wall.

Israel didn't occupy Gaza so how is an "occupier" controlling everything? What about Egypt? If Israel controlled everything then how did lathes for making rockets, trucks, machine guns, RPGs, grenades, assault rifles, mines, get to Gaza?

Your "open air camp" is my "Singapore". It was up to the Gazans to decide what to do on this piece of land they were given control over. Even if they aspire to have the entire of Mandatory Palestine they could have chosen not to do this using violence.

Israel didn't destroy airports or seaports. Gaza never had a deep seeport, the water is shallow, and the fishing ports exist. Israel does have a naval blockage on Gaza so that Hamas couldn't get tanks and artillery and more weaponry in to attack it with, a fairly reasonable position. Similarly Israel will not allow airplanes to fly in either, for the same reasons.

I'm not following on "non-governmental party", didn't Hamas win the elections and rule Gaza as its government?
If you were to read a some critiques of neoliberalism you would understand how free market utopianism can lead to authoritarianism/is used as a cover for it. The idea of the absolute duty to shareholders is newer that you would think. It’s an ideological standpoint.
So already you are quoting a political line

Regulatory capture and monopoly are both things shareholders might want but are bad for society.

‘Just doing your job’ doesn’t cut it, we’re are part of a community and should feel a civic duty. That’s what i mean
Okay, then find me the economist who believes in "literally infinite" growth. If you have a hard time finding _one person_ who is both a published economist and has no grasp of the basic laws of thermodynamics, then that view is probably not representative. This is the weakest possible form of the argument, hence the "straw".
I guess I don’t know what you are suggesting
Well written and highly detailed description, as always with Fabien's work.

I remember seeing the investigation on this iPhone protection back at the time, what a journey it has been since this work.

Also, I hope someone can provide more information about that minus 0x400 shift before data write so it would be completely explained.
I’m so confused. So I ping rlimit, then if I’m limited I don’t proceed with a request I’d normally make next to my real API? Do “while” or “for” loops not exist? Sleep (5)?
Is this written by an AI? Its just so bad written.
This has no way of enforcing the rate limit, right? Wouldn’t it be far better to actually enforce the rate limit at the request instead of having to make an extra request for each actual request? Is this even serious?
To clarify a bit. The worry was not so much it was showing where a military base was as it was reveling details interior to a base that are intentionally not on a map and leaking details on where people moved and concentrated. Honestly, like the parent said, probably harmless info for the most part. But it is an additional set of data points that could be useful to an attacker.
Someone is out to paint open-core in a bad light. But what's the solution, when you've been told "won't happen, because it's how we make money?" Unless you give them money, no amount of HN venting will change that.

Perhaps contributing extension points and a plugin system? Would tooljet et al. say no to that? Modularity is generally considered a good thing.
They did the same thing in "Space: 1999" which came out in 1975. Computers were printing out receipt paper instead of using proper displays. It was very curious to me, because IIRC, real computers at that time already had displays. And Star Trek, which came out in the decade before, didn't have printouts either.
Jet Brains care? Do they? In my experience their tools are some of the ugliest out there. Granted, that's highly subjective, but there is "something" off about IntelliJ that I can't really put my finger on. Maybe the lack of whitespace. Maybe the weird tabs.
“To meet demand”
Wild, so the service slash you did in 2022 wasn’t a good idea in the long run?!?

Seriously, I wish there was better trains in the US than this contracted out crap.
Except I'm not interested in ad homineming the incentives of the salesperson, of which I am well aware.

I am interested in if there is a valid argument, which entails the last bit of what you yourself said:

> Just examine the devices yourself, their prices, their suitability for your uses, and their capabilities

Their "capabilities" include the capability to be future-proof. To the extent that a salespersons asserted the future-proofing issue, even though they did not explain their assertion, is what begs me to ask the very reasonable question as to how to critically analyze this particular capability.

You can help the other commenters dodge this question or not, I don't care if the salesperson is trustworthy or not, because that was not the question I care about.
"My kingdom for a horse!"

...but go on then, it's better than nothing I suppose.
Please stop manipulating the HN frontpage for personal gain. Your account is just juicefs posts sprinkled with cheap news from CNN, NYT, etc. No comments, too.

How do you guys do it?
Oh the process and procedure for generating that documentation exists, it was just not followed.

The process for checking that the door plug bolts are correctly installed was simply skipped, as nominally no work had been done on it due to it not being marked as worked on.
So it was not re-inspected.
I wonder how much SaaS will cost when every small, FOSS library is replaced by another $5/mo service.
HN has a lot of people who are quite smart but have not been through graduate school or academia, so they don't realize just how niche the type of training and topic-specific knowledge you get in that world is relative to a classic university-to-industry track. I think that is true for the general populace too - it takes doing the depth of learning and research you have to do for a PhD to realize just how much there is to be known about even the narrowest slice of a topic even relative to the most intense casual enthusiasts. I suspect this is a major reason for the high levels of impostor syndrome seen in academia, but that is a tangent.

Neuroscience is also a field that mostly happens within academia, unlike something like computer science where a ton of work legitimately is being done at the types of companies many HN users work at, so where you can indeed get something approaching expert-level knowledge on the job in some cases in the latter, almost no one on the forum has enough exposure to be an expert in the former. Couple that with the previous thesis and you end up with a bunch of people who don't know what they don't know (I will not be engaging on Dunning Kruger in this thread). That plus, perhaps, a bit of hubris and you're gonna get a wonky comment section.
There are lots of reasons why some people don't think about "creating", maybe they had childhood issues or are too stressed, too mentally drained with other areas in life, never got nourished to love creativity or never had an inner self belief that they can create.

Or they simply got "stuck" in something, never to get out and find some passion. What even is creating, some people (unlike many programmers or scientists) create social groups, organisations, humor.

I think your idea that there are special "creators" and "regular people" is way off and honestly just a way to feel special and unique. I know people that finally found passion after they retired.. but they were too bogged down to ever figure it out earlier in life.
Ok naive question, but how did they reverse engineer the source code comments?
A useful resourse is ITJobsWatch which has historical trends and bands for contractor rates (as well as perm)

Eg
https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/contracts/london/software%20en...
I think you're right, historically we've not had to think this way, but our thinking needs to evolve if we want to get through the next century.
I think the brain is a computer.

But I don't know how "computers" work nor do I know how brains work. (I do know a fair bit about the types of computers we are talking to one another and that host HN, but a computing machine is more than that) In fact, that's what got me into ML in the first place. What a crazy computer, that we've been studying it for thousands of years but still so much remains a mystery. How even extremely basic questions have baffled us for centuries. We still stumble over the nature of consciousness, sentience, and sapience. We still can't even agree on the definitions of these things!

And by computer, I mean that there is a mechanistic process. One that is void of magic and beholden to the laws of physics. Which means, we should be able to replicate it. But this is also true for planets, galaxies, and so much more. So that does not mean it is within our capacity now or anywhere in the near future.
My favourite eponymous structure is the Vandermonde matrix, as used to get nice approximations to noisy data.
Civilian casualties may be unavoidable, but a necessary evil is still evil. And, because I'm an outsider who doesn't identify with either party, I don't see the difference between Israeli and Palestinian casualties. Civilian casualties are civilian casualties.

Justifications similar to yours have been used to support the actions of Hamas. Many Palestinians, maybe even most of them, genuinely believe so. If the same arguments can be used in good faith to support both sides, such arguments must be worthless. They can only lead to more violence and more deaths.

WW2 was a rare war, because it was so conclusive. The Allies didn't only defeat the Axis, but they also had a plan for the aftermath. A plan how to reorganize the states on the losing side and how to win over the people and make them support the new regime. Without such a plan, a war today can only lead to another war tomorrow.
Anybody involved with OSM? Just the other day I was wondering if there were any deceptive information campaigns targeting the map. It would make a good article if there were.
Holy shit, I thought this was a proxy that enforces the limit for you, at least that would have been reasonable. This is an API you call to tell you whether you should rate-limit that request!

Wow, I almost respect how terrible this is.
> Or is there something wrong with it?

So you're basically saying it made sense at the time (and perhaps it still does) but it also created a mess with the Palestinians? I can agree with that.

Yet here we are, what are we going to do now? Going back in history to prevent the holocaust and many other atrocities towards Jews before (and even after) is not possible. Preventing Zionism is not possible. For some reason the intellectual elite seems to be convinced the only possible way out of this is the elimination of Israel - how come? I can understand why Palestinians or the Iranians would want that, I don't understand the huge support in the West for this type of thinking though.
"The hour of judgment shall not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them, so that the Jews hide behind trees and stones, and each tree and stone will say: 'Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him,' except for the Gharqad tree, for it is the tree of the Jews. (Hamas Charter, Article 7)."

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/10/ha...

If Islam does not allow the killing of civilians then what exactly happened at the Nova festival or in all the settlements attacked on Oct 7th?
The way a color looks can depend greatly on context and expectations, for example on clothes sometimes a very slight blue tinge can make things look whiter
Of course it is: it's a box which has the word "search" in its hint, can't be more literal than that!
It helps your DDoSer bring down your services with fewer requests.
> pander to conservative moral panics around trans people

There are legitimate discussions to be had about whether the replacement of female-only spaces with therapeutic venues for gender-dysphoric males is a reasonable policy goal, particularly when the negative impacts upon women and girls is considered. It's not a "conservative moral panic" to have these discussions.
If you want high performance people who do work that requires a lack of interruptions, open office ass-in-seat mentality with lots of pointless meetings is the worst. Open offices promote interruptions and make them socially "acceptable". "Collaboration" is an urban legend. Work gets done when people aren't bothered.

Give workers doors and headphones.
They didn't, they added them in while reverse engineering.
As trust breaks down, it seems like any problem is a reason to suspect it's Boeing's fault...
> Privacy Policy of rlimit.com

> This Application collects some Personal Data from its Users.

> Personal Data processed for the following purposes and using the following services:

> Advertising

> Clerk.io

> Personal Data: email address; first name; last name

Why advertising? And where in a service like this? Maybe it slipped a checkbox in the Iubenda template.
What are some killer apps for FPGAs? What major products do they enable?
It doesn't. There's plenty of anaerobic life on earth.
The nuance here is that the best _proven_ lower bound is n^2. ~Everybody suspects that the real lower bound is higher, but nobody seems to know how to prove it.
How do you add a GH page to a repo?
I did consider that, and what you're implying is the M2/M3 wouldn't matter for now*. The issue is which one would be future proof 5+ years later.

It seems the answer is M3 by 2 years, because yesterday's Ars Technica review says Apple phases out its OS/browser upgrades by model year, so the M2 would lose upgradeability 2 years earlier if purchased today versus the M3. The article ends recommending the M3 for this reason. It's not a great reason IMO but the one that makes sense to me.
Trees in SQL (2000)
Is that against the rules on HN?
I think sudo done well could be exactly what you're advocating for: configure all possible commands that a user should be allowed to execute as superuser for ordinary and extra-ordinary maintenance and prohibit everything else (especially sudo -i).
Not only that, was AT&T not forbiddenn to profit from Bell Labs, UNIX would have been a commercial OS right from the start, with at very different outcome than offering source tapes at symbolic price turned out to be.

As seen by their BSD lawsuit right after they were allowed to sell UNIX.
Nah. How would any civilization be able to distinguish it from any other tiny piece of material moving through space.

As far as radio waves go, no way.

Anything that we have sent out from Earth is indistinguishable from background noise of the universe.This propagation follows the inverse square law, which states that the intensity of the wave decreases as the square of the distance from the source increases. If you double the distance from the source, the intensity of the radio wave decreases by a factor of four. This means that the wave disperses and weakens as it travels away from its source. Its intensity diminishes according to the square of the distance.
Good comment. It surprised me that a definition of essay wasn't sought before asking questions about the supposed best. But that tentative approach actually struck the essence in an interestingly performative manner.
Brendan Gregg will get a Turing Award for this, congrats!
P(are we alone) = more less
Also all the other things that wouldn't be present in a pure decompilation, like preprocessor macros.
I have no idea whom this guy is, and have no thoughts here on his opinions or their falsifiability (happy to agree with you on that aspect if it matters), but just to reply to this particular point here:

> This is well beyond what was considered possible at the time. We're certainly not at 'everything' but shrug. Maybe in ten years.

This feels a lot like what people were saying about self-driving cars being imminent circa... 2015 or so? [1] The skeptical folks rolled their eyes at suggestions that we'd have self driving cars everywhere in a few years, but lo and behold, they were right. Just because we had a massive amount of progress in the years before, that doesn't mean we were on the cusp of achieving the goal. Turns out going from 99.9% accurate to 99.99% accurate (or whatever the numbers were) is harder than all the believers wanted to admit.

This feels like the same thing all over again. Yes, there's been a lot of progress in LLMs. No, that doesn't mean we're anywhere close to deep learning being able to do 'everything' in 10 years, whatever that means.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/24065447/self-driving-car-autonomou...
Yes, a typical NYT way of portraying the sense of adventure and exploration in a negative 'boohoo bad humans kill planets' way, as if people need more things to darken their future with.

People look for Mars because they're looking for a new frontier, not because of 'the planet dying'. They long for a revival of the days of exploration when maps were filled with 'here there be dragons'. They do not want to 'flee' earth, they want to expand beyond it.

This newly revived wanderlust is a positive thing, not a negative. It is far better for people to be looking forward to rockets to Mars than to rockets to their capital cities. Let's make it happen and let's ignore the doomsayers of the NYT who'd rather have us repent, all ye sinners for the end is nigh.
Architecture independent eBPF "rescue binaries" could be an interesting part of a distribution toolset.. or attack rootkit. It's hard to have nice things.
But none of it is intelligent. Anaerobic processes are drastically slower and less efficient than aerobic ones. I wonder if a functioning brain could even work anaerobically. 20% of our oxygen consumption is done by our brain.
Who does, Kayak? The airline? I don't know about Kayak but that's not a thing with any airline contract of carriage that I'm aware of. In fact a lot of airlines explicitly say that their ticket does not guarantee particular equipment, seats, etc. Just that the airline will get you from the origin to the destination(s) in the cabin class you paid for.
>"GTA 3 and Vice City were originally written in C++," aap explains. "The compiled executables that are shipped are in machine code. So the general task is to go from machine code back to C++.

>"Machine code can be (more or less) mapped 1:1 to a human readable form called assembly language, but it's still very tedious to read.

>"To go back to C++ is by no means a simple 1:1 mapping, but over the last 10 or so years decompilers have appeared that help with this process.

>"So what we typically do is work with the output of the decompiler and massage it back into readable C++. This is sometimes quite easy and sometimes hard, but in any case it's a lot of code and you're bound to make mistakes."

>Thankfully, the code for GTA 3 on PS2 and Android includes debug symbols. Debug symbols contain all the extra information needed to debug a game during the development process, but are often stripped out for release executables to avoid bloat. For whatever reason, Rockstar left these symbols in, giving the reverse-engineering team a huge leg-up.

>"We were very lucky we had symbols for the games," aap says. "PS2 [GTA] 3 and all the Android releases have names for the global stuff (functions and global variables). This was a huge help and I don't think we'd be anywhere near reversed GTA without them."

https://www.eurogamer.net/how-a-small-group-of-gta-fanatics-...
Hamas's on Oct 7th aimed to kill civilians. Not only did they aim to kill them they aimed to rape, torture and mutilate them. Oh and kidnap some of them.

https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-un-rape-oct7-...

You assertion is also ridiculous because it ignores the order in which things happened. First Hamas attacked civilians. Then Israel responded. During that response civilians were killed.

Israel's killing of civilians is a war crime only under certain conditions. Killing of civilians during war isn't automatically a war crime. If there are war crimes, then we should certainly condemn them.
What would be non-personal data in this case?
> “We are still a long way from machines that can genuinely understand human language”. Still true

It's crazy how you can just say things. If by his standards he himself can genuinely understand human language, even given how much of what he says is just smart-sounding hallucinations, then surely Claude 3 well surpasses that threshold.

The secret to grifting is to only highlight your vacuous, unfalsifiable claims. He, like many AI skeptics, is a full-time goalpost mover.