skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Frustrating enough since it feels like in JavaScript, you never have control over what’s going on.

> In C, you can go ahead and misconfigure a makefile to output debug files, a segfault, or a bad reference, but at the end of the day, it’s your fault.

> The same goes for any serious language ecosystem out there.

> But JavaScript is quite the opposite: it works like magic (and not as a compliment!) even though you know it’s pure software!

I think we can recognize from these comments what is happening here. If you think that the tools you are working with are magic (whether because of bias, unfamiliarity or whatever), it will be much harder to pin down problems. If you understand that you're dealing with very complex, but deterministic systems, you will be able to work systematically, observe things carefully and carry out experiments to check your hypotheses, and you have a chance of actually discovering what's going on.
The fact that LLMs can recognise ASCII-art letters is actually the most impressive part of this story to me! Yes, they're trained on text, but they mostly only "see" byte sequences. They don't "see" letter shapes in the text they're given.

I wonder what parts of their training data helped with that skill?
I've tried to use DuckDB with node in Alpine, and I had problems that needed time to work around.

No problems with SQLite.

I ended up putting the code in Debian because of other problmes I found but the decision was already made.
The email is about Valve's platform cut and how it reduces the cut only if you get X million sales. Sweeney does make a good point on how inverse the model is ; the rich get richer while the little guy pays more of the money they don't have.

(but I get it: AAA studios can and have made their own stores, Valve wants to entice them. While indies are more or less caputured).
Coincidentally, Two days ago I was trying to adapt a flake to include a docker derivation. I came across with xelaso's page and inspired by the example provided (and after a few tries) I manage to compose a docker image. That was very cool!
BTW: Thanks Xelaso.
> The attack can deduce responses with perfect word accuracy 29 percent of the time.
This is just proof of concept of how to get around the tacked on prompt filters. A demonstration that a more robust alignment mechanism is required. An agentic LLM (e.g. tree of thoughts) with web access likely can produce a more detailed plan to achive the goal be it counterfeit currency, a home made dirty bomb, bioweapon, or whatever. The point is not what harms LLM can cause but that current safeguards are inadequate.
Did you know that HN has an API? Technically all your HN posts could be downloaded and used for AI training as well.

I don’t think we’ll be safe anywhere.
Bloggers, please replace Medium with anything now.
Are algorithms on a Real RAM [1] countable? That would mean that there are constants you can't express.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_RAM
Yes. There is something wrong with cheaping out on a critical element of your business them attacking the people who warned you the cheaping out would cause issues when it causes issues.

Whilst there's nothing wrong with frugality, there's definitely something wrong with abusing those who try and show you the cause of the problem you're unhappy with.

I'm unsure if maybe you misunderstood the article, or if I'm being too narrow lensed here?
I almost never remember my dreams. When I do, it means I had a really bad night's sleep and I don't feel rested.

4 to 6 dreams every night sounds exhausting. You should probably check it out with a doctor, it seems you're subconsciously waking up too often during the night.
It's even funnier when you remember that a good chunk of their users are addicts. They're guaranteed to be the worst ambassadors for the app.
For me, any one of the issues would be a problem in isolation but the combination of issues makes it so going to the movies isn't something I really consider.

Oppenheimer was the first movie I considered going to in a long time but still did not. I am going to finally watch it Sunday. Even if I love it, I know I won't think about how much better it could have been at the movies. I will actually just be grateful it wasn't ruined for me by some negative aspect of going to the movies.
frankly that sentiment comes across as deeply arrogant and unpleasant

I don't care what you think about me.
> None of that sounds normal and makes me think there is more to the story.

It's a reader-contributed column. I give that as much credibility as the fiction on AITA and similar subreddits.
harmful response… no, harmful headline
After learning this and reading about lion’s mane reversing plaque induced dementia in rats I started taking it as “brain washing detergent” before bed. It gives me some wildly vivid dreams and I always wake up more refreshed.
Some stuff

>Baden issued a report stating that Epstein's neck injuries were much more consistent with "homicidal strangulation" than suicide

>Baden also said that the wound was much thinner than the strip of bedsheet, and although there was blood on Epstein's neck, it was absent on the bed-sheet ligature.

from the wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jeffrey_Epstein

which has photos of his neck and it does look he was strangled by something very much narrower than the bed sheets. I'm reminded a bit of the movie The Act of Killing where one of the former government guys explained how they killed hundreds of people by strangulation with a wire. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Act_of_Killing)

I'd say on balance of probability Epstein was murdered but the Boeing guy is quite likely a suicide. Maybe he made the statements about if he dies it's not suicide as a way of getting at Boeing?
Doesn't the Reddit TOS give them a license to do basically whatever they want with your submissions?
It's actually spent more years as a self hosted only application than as an online only one.
a lot of what hazel mentioned is something that charity majors defined too, but one new perspective definitely is incorporating capability into the definition of observability rather than a process/strategy/tool that makes the system observable

although some parts of it seemed to be not well formed yet, like "disagree and commit" section
So Google?
I know it sucks living in the US without a car, I do think it is important to know that it can be done. You are going to have to prioritize though. I've lived carless in some of the most car dependent places of the earth, including the US so I know what makes that a great deal.
`cond*` reads more like `do` notation in Haskell than `match`.
I've seen actual psychiatrists suggesting meditation or yoga as additional ways to help with certain issues (eg anxiety) along with medicine, and the benefits of say, just conscious, controlled breathing as is involved in both are obvious to anyone who has a temper.

I wouldn't be surprised if the idea that it's completely useless because it can't be scientifically observed in a traditional sense is highly correlated with people who think that mental health issues aren't real in general.
Thank you Skyhook Holdings, Inc.
Prussia lasted until 1947 (de jure) even if it had been subsumed into the German Reich in 1932:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussia
I’d love it to have face detection as well. The cameras and the “GPU“ are there.
I do not yet, no.

I plan to, but I'm still in the discovery phase.
On OVH you can sort per renewal price: https://www.ovhcloud.com/fr/domains/tld/

Looks like the .ovh is the cheapest there, 3€, if you can handle that.
I've never heard of DuckDB. I haven't used SQLite a lot, but one thing that I noticed it lacks, and this is pretty important, is that you can't add a foreign key constraint after a table is created, which is bad if you change your schema later. I don't even understand why this limitation exists.
I was reading this thread and now I finally understood what you mean by plugins.
Plugins kind of exist in Nix, except they're not called that. They are functions available in some specific module.

For example, `dockerTools` provides different functions like creating an image and other things. There is a module of fetchers, functions that retrieve source files from GitHub and other sources.

But I don't think there are many language-specific functions, like the ones you are describing. I can't think of any, except for the ones that build a Nix package from a language-specific package.
Moral of the story: Fire bad clients.
Companies have moved off PagerDuty? To where?
You haven't seen the demolition man, have you?
< 10% of people who use my (solo dev) published apps are in the EU, so if I don't provide the "Are you a trader?" information they're asking for, will the apps eventually just get de-listed in the EU?

I'll take that as a tradeoff for not having my name, home address and phone number all published together on the App Store
The root problem is that somebody is entering your house and stealing your car

Modulo stray bullets, shooting does in fact seem to address this
Yes please. Substack seems more user-friendly
"I’m thinking about opening a restaurant now."

That was really funny! I feel your frustration ;-)
Yup, I can’t imagine switching to a language that doesn’t have something like that, since in C# you have a similar feature in the form of Span<T> and ReadOnlySpan<T>, to which all manners of sources can be coerced: heap-allocated arrays, stack-allocated buffers, inline arrays, strings, native memory, etc.
The book is good but not useful if you take it as FUD.
Incredibly bad advice.
Why can't the scheduler just do its job and let applications enjoy the highest performance they can achieve? I assume DuckDB is making good use of those cores, not just spinning wildly ;).
> Researchers, please replace SQLite with DuckDB now

I really don't like the tone of this article. Author, please change the tone to something more less aggressive.
One data point that really highlights this is that it is used in the flight software in Airbus planes. This alone is a very strong indicator that it is extremely robust, and also that it will be around for a very long time. There's a whole list of additional industry use-cases [1] that support this claim even more.

[1] https://www.sqlite.org/famous.html
About the proper quine the author says

> While both these programs take care not to read the same memory region that is being executed by the CPU, the data bytes they read look exactly like the executable bytes. This is what I meant when I mentioned earlier that the lines between code and data are blurred in an exercise like this. This is why I don't really see a point in keeping the executable bytes separate from the data bytes while writing machine code quines.

Which I though was an interesting philosophical point. There is no difference at all between the embedded data and the code. They are the same bytes in the same memory. What is the point of duplicating the code? Why not just read the first copy as the first quine does.
>or from a torrent...

Classic HN
Why not combine both worlds? Have the AI (slow) figure out the path to your goal and write the (fast) script. Whenever the script breaks due to changes in the site, the AI will update it. Might take it half an hour. But no more human “janitor” in the loop. And no more broken scripts.
I think the point would be if you could replace ~8 hours of sleep with ~1-2 hours of meditation. I very much doubt it's a like-for-like replacement, but it might go some way to reducing the need for full sleep, e.g. 2 hours meditating + 2 hours sleeping = 8 hours sleeping.
I don’t find node_modules exceeding even a few hundred megabytes very often. But Rust target directories can easily reach multiple gigabytes.
> Maybe he had two Ferraris because he was frugal with his business?

There are differences between efficient, frugal, and cheap.

Article:

> The Ferrari-owning boss got wind of this mess and would berate Aaron and his crew whenever the server became unavailable, citing the enormous cost of outages.

"Enormous cost".

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_economy
It is a shakedown and a repeat of Trump's ban 4 years earlier.

An attempt to force a sale at a suppressed price to politically connected US investors.

Funny thing is that if the US allowed TikTok to IPO in the US, Bytedance probably would be happy to do so.

Only it would be at a price closer to that of Meta than that of Reddit.
The article is rather long and I didn’t manage to read it all. But why wouldn’t this be done like a lock, where the shape of the key determines how far (or in this case which) pins are pushed? That way, you never have to touch the rotating wheel directly.

The key then would just be an internal wheel that rotates and pushes out the right pins. If it works for a lock, surely it would work for something with much less resistance?

Edit: nvm, they discussed this and dismissed it, although I don’t fully agree with the reason.
> it's as legal as garden tomatoes

It's not legal at the federal level.

Marijuana is a commodity/cash crop like any other, making it perfect for large scale grows like tobacco.

The issue is you have to play in a black market because banks will not give loans under the fear of sanctions as Marijauna is still a classified drug in the US federally.

The only organizations with a large amount of black money are gangs
OP here; thanks for reading!

While I agree with everything you have said, and it's been my motto since I read, "I'm sure you're joking, Mr. Feynman." The point of the post was to point out (maybe I did it wrongly) that those things you have described are pretty impossible given the ecosystem we have nowadays in Javascript (as a whole!). Of course, you can try to theorize and try to get a hypothesis on things and then try to prove those, but it's just too hard to keep track of everything.

Another random story from this week: we have been using `nanoid` to generate IDs internally for an internal tool. Apparently, they did a breaking change release, and now you cannot use it anymore on commonJS env. See my point? where's the hypothesis we can make? It's hours and hours spent tinkering with code and other people's dependencies, and if, as you said, put a theory that theory won't match if you think how real systems work (the networking section on the blog post)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sims

If you've ever observed girl gamers (such as a little sister) at the turn of this century - such virtual torments and genocide of AI has been going on for a long time already.

The horror!
I think the Wikipedia page [1] agrees with your main point.

I said pipelining allowed you to increase the clock rate, which isn't the best thing to say.

The wiki page says, "instruction pipelining is a technique for implementing instruction-level parallelism within a single processor. Pipelining attempts to keep every part of the processor busy with some instruction by dividing incoming instructions into a series of sequential steps (the eponymous "pipeline") performed by different processor units with different parts of instructions processed in parallel."

And, "This arrangement lets the CPU complete an instruction on each clock cycle. It is common for even-numbered stages to operate on one edge of the square-wave clock, while odd-numbered stages operate on the other edge. This allows more CPU throughput than a multicycle computer at a given clock rate, but may increase latency due to the added overhead of the pipelining process itself."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instruction_pipelining
Can you please not take HN threads into programming language flamewar? We're trying to avoid that kind of thing here - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39710822.
I sometimes use a digital wristwatch just to mix things up and I have a tough time sometimes translating how long to wait for pasta to cook - on an analog face, 11 minutes is easy to represent visually, but with a digital I have to do math in my head.
I am surprised to hear your experience here. Many of my friends have them and only one has ever mentioned a fit issue. He bought larger tips and they now fit perfectly apparently.

Researching I can indeed see such products exist, although given Apple appear to be selling over 100 million pairs a year[0] (also surprising to me!), I suspect your estimate is inflated. Note this is over 300,000 pairs per day.

Anecdotally, I see people with Airpods daily but have not once ever seen hooks on them. Maybe there's a cultural element at play?

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirPods#Sales
And if you test this on a laptop, which is more likely what they have (rather than a server)?

Does this work on Windows (which is more likely what they're using)?

Does it come with conda (which pandas does)?

I'm not sure the author is familiar with researchers, nor if this is just an ad...
Anyone know where on the spectrum of "Fair enough. That's clever" to "Oh come on! FFS..." these patents fall?
I'm not surprised this drifted into disuse.

Both Apple and Android smartphones come with a built in location service, which also has GPS. Firefox OS, which might have needed this service, is no longer around.

Desktops and laptops are rarely used for navigation - the only uses of the geolocation api for desktop web browsers I've encountered are when you go to a retailer's store finder page, and they have a button to use your current location. And even then, the geolocation api is competing with IP geolocation (which doesn't show the user an ominous consent popup)

And I don't imagine it was easy for Mozilla to get quality data - if their service is mostly used by the most privacy-focussed users, I don't imagine those users were lining up to submit their geolocation and wifi data to a public database.
Neal Ford – Granularity and Communication in Microservice Architectures
This is so true and adds to the prev prev argument
"Except for the not saying it part" is interesting. I wonder if that's because these LLMs can't "think", they can only generate text; in order to perform a multi-step algorithm, it must write the result of one step in order for it to become an input to the next step.
"""
The fact that observability is often sold as a tool to infrastructure teams is throwing out the entire point of the idea by burying it in the implementation. Nobody buys PowerBI because they need to invest in “super fancy ass spreadsheet generation capabilities” or some shit like that, and likewise you shouldn’t be buying an observability vendor because you need a way to store system diagnostic information, it literally doesn’t make sense–observability is not a data problem.
"""

I really liked this justification for involving people into the definition, but one could also argue that people are what powers "observability" rather than "observability" consisting of people's ability to use it for its intended goal

almost all definitions of processes/platforms/tools could be redefined to involve the peoples ability to use it for its intended goal i.e chaos testing is not a platform but the ability of people to pose meaningful hypothesis of real life chaos and test that chaos on the system. probably they should?
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Maybe make them seaplanes if making airports is too expensive? I just want to bring seaplanes back any way we can really ;)
I am sure part of the reason we have popcorn at the movies is that popcorn was easy to scale.

I guess tastes just change. Dinner and a movie did not use to mean dinner AT the movie.

If you want a full restaurant at the movies why not also have an oil change as part of the deal? Watch the movie, all you can eat soup, salad, breadsticks with your meal and at the same time someone changes the oil in your car.
On a related note to MD5 and spam, I remember in the pre-TLS days when Yahoo's login page did the following (over regular http):

- login page opened

- there was a seed value embedded in the form

- the page also loaded a Javascript implementation of MD5

- use enters their password

- the page hashes the seed and the password

- the POST only sends the hashed value above

Everything is https these days so you don't really see this anymore but I've always liked this piece of internet history.
Delusions shape our reality
High Schooler Invented an A.I.-Powered Trap That Zaps Invasive Lanternflies
I misremembered, as @wiredfool mentions, it’s Netatalk https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk
That's probably a fair argument at the pace of innovation pre-AVP. Depending on how quickly they iterate in this (and as the article says, push developers), they may be a self-fulfilling prophecy to significantly reduce the time until this market exists.
Executives who own a business cannot be surprised when employees with no equity don't treat company money as their own, because it isn't. It's a different relationship. If they want people to care, give them a real stake in things. Not a no-vote, no liquidation preference exit-only share class either - real, genuine equity. Pay dividends too, even if they're small. Show employees the value of working at a financially responsible business.
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Uh, SQLite is the only database that is recommended by the Library of Congress, it's not a bit iffy: https://sqlite.org/locrsf.html
Try learning to count in Danish.
> And unfortunately that how things really work.

Yes, definitely. The cost to build out and maintain any middle ground solution must be unprofitable for the majority of business models.

Ultimately this creates opportunities for down-market service providers. Mid-large companies outsource support to contractors who will provide support for terraform in addition to 20 other things.