skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s just how often the local dark forest reaper aliens fire a relativistic velocity impactor at every biosphere they can detect within range. Keep resetting to make sure nothing too complex evolves.

How much longer do we have to bug out before the next one?
"Readable."
In the early 2000s one of my friends bought TV B Gone which was basically a universal tv remote with an off button. We had a lot of fun confusing the hell out of family and friends who were trying to peacefully enjoy their show. We also had fun at bars and restaurants when sport games were on.
Learn About Batteries
Jumping on the bandwagon of this is a pretty ridiculous "article".

If the advice is "learn how things work before using some kind of automation" that's valid guidance but this article seems to assume using an IDE or something like that is a substitute for using your brain, which is pretty bogus. Not everyone who uses an IDE is doing it because they want fancy "code completion" or "AI-enabled write a for-loop for me".

I didn't get the hype around VSCode until I ended up working on a project where I was forced to use a Windows PC but the machines I was interacting with were Linux-hosts.

The "Remote SSH" capability wasn't just "slightly helpful" it was realistically the only way (along with VSCode IDE) to navigate a project that had thousands of files of proprietary, non-open source code (i.e. you couldn't use github or something "offline" to traverse the code base).

Remote SSH enabled me to go from hating life using grep / ripgrep and nano/vim/emacs to figuring out a crazy complex code base to being able to wrap my head around the design thanks to VSCode's "jump to definition" and other really helpful features.

I use VSCodium and open-source plug-ins now for personal work and I'm constantly finding new and useful features.

Addendum: If you work in languages like Python, the single-step and debug experience in VSCode (haven't tried it in VSCodium) is also really impressive. You're not using some strange Python IDE which has its own ideas about how do "single-step" and "watch variables".
This is ridiculous: "Look: the fact that they complained and talked with their users like any other company would do in this situation prove that they are guilty". Do you think that Facebook would not lobby if it were being banned? You are also dismissing the users intelligence calling that they "are being manipulated" just because they are upset because they may lost access to the social media that they like. This new McCarthysm in USA looks ridiculous here from outside.
How DSLR Cameras Work
I've found it significantly better than GPT4 for code and it's become my go-to for coding.

That's actually saying something, because there's also serious drawbacks.

- Feels a little slower. Might just be UI

- I have a lot of experience prompting GPT4

- I don't like using it for non-code because it gives me to much "safety" pushback

- No custom instructions. ChatGPT knows I use macos and zsh and a few other preferences that I'd rather not have to type into my queries frequently

I find all of the above kind of annoying and I don't like having two different LLMs I go to daily. But I mention it because it's a fairly significant hurdle it had to overcome to become the main thing I use for coding! There were a number of things where I gave up on GPT then went to Claude and it did great; never had the reverse experience so far and overall just feels like I've had noticeably better responses.
"no, we don't want to deal with chemical weapons right now, we need work on dealing with air defenses and adding in WMDs would complicate things too much right now"

Sure, but then why add them in the first place?

And no, when everyone is already there, it does not make sense to send them home, after the initial failure. But what they then did, was not a "wargame" anymore.
But they still called it like that and still had a US "victory" in the end. That sounds fake to boost moral (while ignoring serious flaws).
You don't stop an old system before proving the new one in practice, and you don't disrupt logistic channels, ever.

Those don't take any hindsight.
Elon's actually done it. He's released Grok under an open source license. Link leads to Github.
I’m sure the Down voters watched the entire lecture I linked before casting their votes. /s
The optimize fn attr causes other unintended side effects. Its usage is banned on the Linux kernel.
> War thinky types divide the "battle space" into zones of danger, and stealth platforms justify their cost by being able to penetrate highest threat areas. It's an idea that hasn't really been tested yet, not really, not since 1993.

Not sure entirely how you mean, as "stealth" has been utilized multiple times since then. For example, using a stealth platform to penetrate high threat areas was tested over Yugoslavia in 1999 with the F-117. Stealth failed that test and it was confirmed that more than just low observability was needed (an issue addressed by the F-22 and F-35).
SM has been producing good quality hardware for decades. I remember them from catalogues of my childhood. Obscure is not the right word here.
This is a thing; it's called shadow call stack. Both ARM and now Intel have extensions for it.
Strategic Mobilization and Potential Unrest in Russia, May 2024
Spotify works in offline mode for 30 days. So it will stop working 30 days after the apocalypse but it's a downside I'm willing to accept to have almost any music available in my pocket up until then.
Definitely more wise, even if accidental.

More knowledgeable? No
How much vram is needed? And computing power? To open a webpage you soon need 24gb and 2 seconds of 1000 watts energy to uncompress images. Bandwidth is reduced from 2mb to only 20kb.
The machinery can be moved to another site.
Ah, that R3 does bear some resemblance to an AMC Gremlin. Especially one that someone tried to make into a 4wd vehicle.

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/86/1e/cc/861ecc6c38614bba6c29d67a1...

There's some I like about it, but plenty I don't. I think the not-round steering wheel would be a showstopper for me. https://media.rivian.com/image/upload/c_fill,q_auto:best,g_a...
The brain builds emotions regardless of the senses, neuroscientists find
Could you link to information on this? I am searching but maybe missing the right keywords.
I get some of this (have an unused Pinephone), but I'm still thankful they tried (built up a stir) and, FWIW, the PineTime is OK and the Pinecil is the best soldering iron I've seen anyone use
Depreciation is available for any company that purchases equipment; the "unique" thing as described in that article is simply that most of the value for car washes is in the equipment, so depreciation strategies are very important, but any business can and should write off equipment, or any other expense against net profits.
That is value add. People want to know that the salesperson is on their wavelength.

The role of a good salesperson is to understand the customer's problems as best they can, then explain how the product will help resolve them. That is good for everyone - the business and the customer. It is helpful if they show the customer that they are trying to understand their emotional frame.

To make that clearer; imagine the opposite - if the salesperson purposefully adopts different body language that'd make the customer uncomfortable and less likely to buy a product even if it could have been useful and cost-effective for them. Value would be destroyed.
I think this article reaches a valid conclusion based on the wrong evidence. It claims hackintosh is dead because they are dropping Wifi drivers. Hackintosh is dead because the number of major versions that will support x86 are 2-3 at best and after that, the OS will only run on apple silicon. Maybe if we’re lucky an arm chip similar enough will come along but I don’t see many motherboards socketed for arm chips. It is dead, but not because of WiFi driver support.
It's not like he needs boosting, he was one of Twitter's top followed accounts long before he bought them. He's pretty good at getting attention.
No idea about the current state, but the open sourcing did show, they were favoring elon:

https://mashable.com/article/twitter-releases-algorithm-show...

And personally I never used Twitter much, but I certainly did not follow Elon Musk when I did - yet I had to see lot's of his posts in my feed. Surely just coincidence.
> The industry’s growing footprint has not gone unnoticed. Complaints have erupted about traffic tie-ups, noise and chemical odors around locations, among other issues... City leaders have a limited number of car wash countermeasures at their disposal, such as withholding special use permits and enacting zoning changes to limit new locations.

A nice summary of why things don't get fixed. There are legitimate problems with car washes: traffic tie ups, pollution. Instead of regulating to fix those problems, they regulate to limit the number of locations instead. So, the demand that exists isn't met, and nothing gets better because the existing businesses can continue being nuisances just like always.
For those not in the know, Grok's claimed goal is to be an "anti woke" AI.
No problem. I hope more people try these things out, it's the best way to push the industry forward! We can't let the researchers have all the fun.

Apple had plenty of reasons to move forward with their Apple Silicon CPUs and GPUs in the mac, but they really did seem to get lucky with the unified memory architecture. It was kind of just an artifact of their design, but ends up serving the needs of deep neural net models really well!
We already have that. It is the Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation, ISO 15408. Most large software developers already certify products against it such as Windows [1], iOS [2], Android, Linux, etc. It is the primary certification presented in "About Security" and "Certification" pages by almost every company if they have any certifications at all.

The thing is that they all certify at the lowest possible levels which certify that the systems ensure no meaningful security because they are unable to certify the presence of any meaningful security in those products even after decades of attempts. You do not establish any audited security until you reach a level comparable to EAL5, and most companies opt for EAL1 with all of the big names maxing out at EAL4 historically. For some reason, people are happy using products that are certified to be insecure and inadequate which is why we are in this insecure hellscape.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/security-...

[2] https://support.apple.com/en-my/guide/certifications/apc3fa9...
You don't have a mechanism of trust in Javascript. Typescript up to this point is just sugar syntax. npm is a dumpsterfire (see npm everything package)

If you are not intimidated by the complexities of this Babel tower, it's up to you. For me, this was just a personal catharsis in my personal blog that I wrote mostly for me (and I didn't share it here)

I believe there's no point on discussing this with particularly you since you have been commenting all around trying to just confirm your view instead of just comprehend that this is not sustainable for new developers (try to follow the conversations on packaging, lol)

It's simply too much burden just to maintain someone else mess. We will pay a high bill in the future for all of this.
How Secure Is an Airplane's Wi-Fi?
Complicit in what exactly?
Even f16s are too fragile to give to ukraine. They can only land on perfect runways because their engines are slung low.

Most of the modern USA weapons only work under condition of being totally dominant and being able to have your supply chain work perfectly. This story really is a very good analogy.

One further point - and this is what makes this war even more tragic - say Ukraine do get all the super weapons annd they do work as expected, and are on their merry way to Moscow, what would Russia do? Most likely their military doct9rine of dropping some tactical or not-so-tactical nukes.

As Sean Bean knows, one does not simply invade a nuclear power.
> It's already likely all those rules are separated in modules

Have you seen much COBOL code? I had some dealings with a public school budgeting and payroll system back in the 80's, and I can tell you, it was a complete mess, with each program in its own source file (except some COPYs for record layouts). Here's just a simple " example:

COBOL has statements divided into paragraphs, each with a paragraph name. You can have for example, PARA-A down through PARA-D, one after the other. You can say PERFORM PARA-A and it's somewhat like calling a function, where it executes the paragraph and then comes back. Or you can say PERFORM PARA-A THROUGH PARA-C, and that's like calling a function made up of those 3 paragraphs. Or you can fall into PARA-A, and it executes the paragraphs one after the other until a GOTO occurs.

Another completely annoying thing is looping: PERFORM PARA-A VARYING IX FROM 1 BY 1 UNTIL IX > 10 is a for loop. The thing is, the code you execute is somewhere else, maybe 10 pages away. Nowadays there are probably some fancy code editors to help with these kinds of issues, but "back in the day", they were annoying as hell, and how good of a COBOL programmer you were depended on the depth of your mental execution stack.

The main advantages I think COBOL had/has is:

- no memory allocations; you spelled it all out in the DATA DIVISION.

- no various sizes of integers, floats, etc. You spelled it out with PICTUREs, like S99V99 is a signed number with 2 digits to the right and left of the decimal point. That's what it was on every machine.

- no buffer overflows; if you have PIC X(25), the thing is 25 characters, period. You try to move a PIC X(30) to a PIC X(25), and it just chops off the last 5 bytes. You move a PIC X(10) to a PIC X(25) and it pads with spaces. Very simple rules.

Combined, these fairly unique features make COBOL extremely portable.
Pretty sure unwinding thumb generated by GCC is still non-unwindable via FPs. That's been a pain.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/inflight-wifi-securit...
We better find the Planet B.
Milankovitch cycles describe the collective effects of changes in the Earth's movements on its climate over thousands of years. The term was coined and named after the Serbian geophysicist and astronomer Milutin Milanković. In the 1920s, he hypothesized that variations in eccentricity, axial tilt, and precession combined to result in cyclical variations in the intra-annual and latitudinal distribution of solar radiation at the Earth's surface, and that this orbital forcing strongly influenced the Earth's climatic patterns.[1]

1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles
Living in the North of England increases risk of 'death of despair'
A typical case would be C++ virtual member functions. (They can sometimes be devirtualized, or speculatively partially devirtualized, using LTO+PGO, but there are lots of legitimate cases where they cannot.)
Try adding the response header:

Vary: HX-Request
If you have a warranty, you may be obligated to go to the dealer or forfeit the warranty if I'm not mistaken. I never had this issue though. If the dealer wants you to gtfo with that garbage, a nearly new vehicle with their name on it, why do you think anyone else would be better able to do the job? I think a particular dealer not able to do the work would refer you to another dealer who could, if it was just a skill issue.

The problem with the Rivian was the body is all in one piece and made of aluminum, which is not easily reworked. Making the bed of a truck out of a soft metal that is hard to rework is a bad idea. But perhaps there is someone out there who could do it cheap.
Can you expand on that argument, because I dont' get it.

If I open a large mall in the physical world where drug vendors roam free and I give them cover to hide, because I like the money they pay on ads, that's OK too? When someone complains, I just say "I have the right to change society, who are you to tell me I can't".
I was going to say it looks like a ‘91 VW Golf Country.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Vo...
$20 is 2 car washes. Around here moo moo car wash chain is all over and you cat get unlimited washes for like $30/month. Anywhere there is a moo-moo’s there is also a line of cars. Some people get obsessed with keeping their cars squeaky clean here.
Also helps keep prices in line. Perhaps a local car wash owner wants to maintain their monopoly (that was actually alluded to, but not greatly discussed, in the article!)
This a national company? I’d love to find someone around me that does this.
Still takes time to parse and apply the styles though.

CSS is probably a much smaller concern than JS but in the world of 5G networks and fast WiFi I feel like we’re nearing a world where device CPU can be a bigger bottleneck than bandwidth at times.
dang will get his own layer...
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Hey Elon, It's Time to Cease and De-Grok – Groq (2023)
Doesn’t the car display the reversing cameras and make the reversing noise when in reverse? It’s pretty obvious in a Model Y when you’re in reverse.
For at least some of the BOINC (ang GridCoin Proof-of-Research coin) projects, IIRC you need to already have virtualbox installed.

Virtualbox supports KVM but not sure whether virtualbox+KVM is supported by the BOINC projects?
One of the subtler but quite dangerous risks of refactoring, is making the output more “correct” but different from what it was.

Clients of the application likely have adapted to the less correct output in ways that will break in unanticipated ways if it changes. I’ve seen this lead to production issues, and the explanation that the new behavior was more correct did not go over well.
Sorry it's conservative propaganda that illegal immigrants will work for very low wages at crappy jobs?
I’ve built entire DC’s out of Super Micro hardware, they rock.

For example, their quad opteron boards allowed me to make 64 core systems in 2013-era!
do you think motion in X is always dependent on motion in Y?
Nevertheless, mass is a separate quantity, which means that the original claim that orbital speed is determined solely by mass and orbital radius is not supportible in the context of dark matter.
What I wish I knew about ESPP and RSUs sooner
They're legit, and they make big tips when they work hard.
I think some people have misplaced expectation of Pine64 hardware, because some of their products (e.g. Pinecil) have been very polished. Most of it is a better documented and more open alternative to random gadgets from AliExpress. If you want a lot more than that, it's not for you.

Maybe they should make a different brand for their products that end up being usable and polished. I think this mixed offering approach is hurting their image, which is a shame, as I see value in "cheap no-name HW, but hackable".
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One near us does this. It’s like $100 now though.
It matters to me why people do things. I’m happy it’s open, but it doesn’t change my mind about the guy.
The solipisist can't find reason to form agreements with others. Others are mindless in his view.

He can't define consciousness in terms of what we agree, there's nobody to agree with.

So the game of describing the color red to others, cannot be played to any meaningful end. Red is red to the solipsist.

Coming up with your own interpretation of consciousness is an ability truly conscious people have.

It can never be completely agreed upon in a philosophical conversation without dogma or compromise.

Both solipsism and total agreement, cannot be truthfully used as philosohical tools to contain consciousness.
The many flavors of edible ants
OpenAI is valued at 90 billion and all they do is make GPT; Twitter is valued at 40 billion and this was essentially a vanity side-project by a cowboy CEO. Presuming that benchmarks and general “it’s about the level of 3.5” is accurate, it’s inefficient, but not incredibly inefficient imho
> I mean it's possible to have large scale programs that offer treatment and support for those who need it and decriminalization or a diversion focused approach to drug laws, while also making it illegal to shoot up in parks or defecate in public, and to enforce those laws.

> It's really not all that complicated. The only places I see people breathlessly explaining that it's impossible are a few specific cities on the west coast of the United States.

You've certainly destroyed that straw man thoroughly! Now that we're agreed on the obvious that shooting up in parks and defecating in public should not be allowed, would you care to explain why you disagree with anything I've actually said?

I'm sure you can find some crazy person who believes that defecating in public should be legal, but there does not exist any significant movement of people who think that. If you think there is, that indicates a problem with your understanding of the situation.
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People sell access to Plex libraries now. Why have a NAS when a few dudes have a preexisting library of thousands of movies and shows that you can access for $20/month.
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DSLinux[1] used a 4x6 font for the terminal, I found that surprisingly usable.

[1] https://www.dslinux.org/dslinux-cpuinfo.jpg
In Iraq those tanks were already old and crucially didn’t have night vision so they just blew them up in the night.

We did give them long range missiles. And now quite a lot of tanks. But - and this a has been admitted to by the pentagon - they didn’t think though or provide for servicing them. The poor buggers have all these different western tanks with parts that don’t match. And the Abram’s is powered literally by a jet engine and needs constant servicing. It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so completely tragic.
Sadly (as much of a cynic as this makes me seem) I kinda figured this is exactly what would happen when the Pine people decided to partner/use MediaTek or name any other vendor who doesn't truly embrace or care about open-source. I'd spotlight Chinese SoC vendors here but that's biased, Qualcomm's track record isn't awesome here either, but it's my understanding people inside ARE trying to change that culture.

My high-level observation is the Pine people are basically selling what's effectively a "reference design" built around some questionable hardware under the guise of making an open-source hardware/phone/etc. Whether or not the device actually works as a phone, has good battery life, works reliably is kind of a secondary goal and ends up mostly resting on the shoulders of a community of unpaid software developers.

People here might be too young to remember, but there was a prior attempt at an open-phone called "OpenMoko". Despite using silicon that was more open-source friendy, it didn't really work out. It's REALLY challenging to build custom hardware, get the details right and build it on open-source software unless you're super well funded and very coordinated.

It's however not hard to sell "kits" that give you the idea they'll do something but end up tricking the end-user who doesn't find out until after the money is spent.
wazero had a big update this week:
https://github.com/tetratelabs/wazero/releases/tag/v1.7.0

This includes the final release of the new optimizing compiler, which is a big improvement over the previous one.

The new version also adds experimental support for threads and snapshot/restore (setjmp/longjmp).

This is already being used by go-pgquery, which means that sqlc won't need to ship 2 almost copies of wazero (these features had been implemented on a friendly fork, and have now been up-streamed).