skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I make a conscious effort to avoid attributing the behaviour of others to malice, unless they're clearly a psychopath in the sense of literal mental illness.

People's attitude to Elon especially cracks me up. Before he acquired Twitter he could do no wrong. He was Tony Stark, and the Internet loved him. Then he fired thousands of overpaid Silicon Valley developers that were failing to properly engineer a chat platform that sends 1KB text messages, and suddenly he become the Antichrist and could do no good.

Elon has several strong personality traits that make him effective. One of these is being an technological optimist and setting aggressive timelines for his employees instead of letting things twist in the wind for decades.

E.g.: if Elon put his mind to it, he could probably get a working fusion power plant in a decade, instead of five decades like ITER. Oh sure, he might claim it'll take only three years, but that's just puffery or pep-talk.

Seriously though: if Elon went up on a stage tomorrow and claimed to have clean fusion energy solved in three years, delivered it in ten, then people like you would be on the Internet bemoaning that he's some sort of liar and a cheat because he didn't deliver as promised.
It depends on how you define overhead. Runtime overhead and memory usage is absolutely marginal, and the tightest, most perfect implementation will have trouble beating it.

Instead people are trying to optimize install size of dependencies, which while maybe a fun hacking project...who really cares?
Not sure what the advantage is, relative to the tables as CSV files.
there are obv alternatives from both intel and amd, performant blas/dnn packages, but small teams don’t use them bc cuda is easier to use and has more support, and larger teams don’t use them bc they have deals w/ nvidia or not enough GPUs are available or they’re after the absolute best performance (which is still nvidia) or bc of other stuff like unstable drivers or smth
There must be some psychic link, I was tempted to quote Biggie in my post. I kept waiting for Satan stand up in front of his crew and say "Raise your hands in the air if youse a true player"
Dramatic audio: Southwest pilot declaring emergency after engine cover rips off
FWIW, I've used zshell for years now and had a great experience. When vetting it against the other zinit fork, it seemed better documented and more active (new features still being added) while the other fork was simply archival. The dev has been extremely responsive whenever I've had issues or questions.

This is all that is in my zshrc:

# Install Zi if not already installed
if [[ ! -f $HOME/.zi/bin/zi.zsh ]]; then
print -P "%F{33} %F{160}Installing (%F{33}z-shell/zi%F{160})…%f"
command mkdir -p "$HOME/.zi" && command chmod go-rwX "$HOME/.zi"
command git clone -q --depth=1 --branch "main" https://github.com/z-shell/zi "$HOME/.zi/bin" && \
print -P "%F{33} %F{34}Installation successful.%f%b" || \
print -P "%F{160} The clone has failed.%f%b"
fi

This seems like a bit of an overreaction to someone contributing open source software. Every component of zshell is open (including the website) under the github organization. If they fucked up the checksum version of the download (didn't exist when I started using zshell), submit a PR maybe? As far as the accusation that they're trying to look like official Zsh: the description for the website and repo is literally "A Swiss Army Knife for Zsh - Unix Shell." You cannot miss it.

I don't have a dog in this but this is clearly an overreaction. ss-o has put a lot of time into this and made the best zsh plugin manager imo. Calling it "scammy looking" and "boo hoo he works in marketing" is a cheap blow.
We'll, TIL that the Zenfone 11 is now a big phone. So I guess I'm going back to Pixel whenever I buy my next phone.

https://www.phonearena.com/phones/size/Asus-Zenfone-10,Asus-...
6 characters per date on the suggested tape record.
At some point you start to fear changing too much, because of all the tests you will have to rewrite, which can be tedious, especially, when the code mutates things all over the place and you have to mock 5 things per unit test.
True, every bad technology is just ford's car, wright brother's plane, more than 256MB of RAM, and the internet. From blockchain to generative ai to FSD. No don't think about all the other bad technologies that have a similar profile to these and never went anywhere (or worse), only think about the extreme edge cases that don't have a similar profile.
I think you missed a word. "Good" tests is a crucial part of the statement. It's totally possible to write bad tests, the same way it's possible to write bad code.
I'm tired of this mentality and all of the broken things it produces. Obviously it's important that it works for the people using it. That doesn't mean we should all shovel a bunch of crap together and sell it like it's some perfectly polished creation. Find a balance between the two extremes.
I just do programming for fun but I built a web app for a bike valet service to make checking bikes in and out easier.

It’s neat to get an automated email everyday telling me how many people parked their bike using it.
Yep! The next post would be on Kernel density estimation -- wanted to start from histograms as they are still a useful tool in 1-D and 2-D density estimation, and you don't have to store the data either (unlike KDE)
Hello OLMo: A truly open LLM
> Meanwhile heaven is pretty bland and the angels come of as a bunch of milquetoasts.

You reminded me of that Simpsons bit about Protestant Heaven vs Catholic Heaven:

https://youtu.be/-4IletJ7-Tw
What modern language doesn’t have those?

Go kind of cheats and has maps play double duty as sets.
The same has been said of OpenAI for a couple of years now (that they're just a platform to prototype on before moving on to open source models)...

... and yet, they're still leading the field.

I think it's a bit early to think the field is getting commoditized yet.
I saw a german after-midnight guy setup postgresql like this once, on linux.. rather quickly ;-) All the significant system parts were in an alternate LD_LIBRARY_PATH plus the postgresl libs
Per brushstroke is interesting but per unit area in the average font size is also key.
You can disconnect whenever you need privacy.
Never used dating apps. Is there a way to filter by weight? Just came to my mind while researching the book's author
Could train birds of prey to actively hunt down and rip apart drones.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-05/the-milit...
I agree with the societal stuff. There's also the hell that's going to arise as more and more "cost centers" - basically anything dealing with people - get pawned off on chatbots. I'm still trying to find what I guess you could call "acute" danger.

One of the reasons I'm interested is because there seems to be this overemphasis on what bad actors could use it for, when nobody is watching out for the real "bad" uses like destroying the internet and denying people proper service.
Check out his zero to hero series. Which builds this with python and later pytorch, then probably his other mini C based projects.
Yes, but if one process is writing its history to ~/.bash_history_1, and some time later you spawn a new shell whose history file points to ~/.bash_history_2, you won't have the commands from the previous session available, right?
Even there, there's a lot of weasel word statements and even language on the order page that doesn't say, but heavily implies that the only hurdle is "regulatory approval, which may take longer in some jurisdictions".
What I've Learned After Two Years on Substack (April 2024)
Yeah, the example was artificial to illustrate that it does come up in search results. I think I noted this later in the thread, but I originally stumbled onto this while specifically searching for some stuff on zprof. I don't recall the exact query I used, since I got pretty deeply sidetracked once I landed here.
There is a free and open source project aiming to replace these services: https://pretendo.network/
I had the idea for MVP Forge when I encountered many non-technical founders who are struggling to build MVPs for their startup ideas in order to start pitching and raising funds, etc.

One of my clients personally had an idea and needed an MVP for it. We designed and built him a functional website with all the APIs and features he needed to demonstrate how the idea worked.

We completed it in around 3 weeks, and he has since gone on to raise a handsome investment amount. So, I thought of replicating this for a fixed amount, maybe around $5k, with a development timeframe of 2-4 weeks. Would you be interested in such a thing? If so, please join the waitlist below so I can determine if this is worth pursuing or not. Thank you.
have u tried https://github.com/martinvonz/jj

??
Why then is the opposite true? Just playing devils advocate. Do you see the lopsidedness between the two? They [the 'rights'] don't extend infinitely into space. okay, fair enough. Why does theirs extend all the way to the ground? Exceptions / loopholes could be made to accommodate non-visually penetrable mediums and means, like weather technology. And if the government really wanted to spy on their own (as if), they could just say it was a weather balloon that had the legal clearance. if it ever crashed, I mean. point is, there's lots of language that could be defined in order to allow spying, allow air traffic, but not allow a telescope, nay-- microscope, effectively--of studying us down here on earth. while naked. (us, I mean, maybe them, too). the government is just going to do whatever the hell it wants anyway, just put that in the legal work, gov: do as you will. problem solved

question: can a spy telescope, when it comes to apertures, lenses, focal point and scale, but most importantly perhaps, intent, be considered a microscope depending on which way its pointing? it seems to me that given the size of earth, the size of humans in realtion to that, how is it any different than monitoring a bacterial colony Wirth a microscope? functionally. its not different, right? or perhaps its more nuanced than functionally, but surely its closer to being a microscope, than a "telescope"?

street maps could definitely still exist. I saw a project here on hn that showed a land surveying satellite that was able to track land parcels and shade them accordingly using AI. and, if they can blur faces out I know they can blur rooftops and naked bums.
Thanks for responding, glad it's working for you. F# is a very cool language
> The author went in with a negative attitude opening with hate for the CEO

I hate to break it to you, but that's going to be a lot of people. He's made himself extremely hateable by the general public.
Nothing will prevent that. The question is, what would you do with the stolen credentials in terms of privilege escalation? Suppose we are in a situation where the UAC is on and asks for every action on the secure desktop. Even if you were to authenticate with the stolen credentials, you would end up in an unprivileged session due to UAC's token filtering mechanisms. If you were then to request elevation, the UAC would prompt the user on the secure desktop, which you cannot control from within the user session. It is therefore not enough to imitate the prompt. You also need to convince the user to accept the real prompt.
Just a nitpick - the website for the app flashes the UI for a split second and then goes to white screen (except the banner at the top to install the app from the app store) on iOS Safari.
I'd argue for the following chain: the failure of NATO in Afghanistan and US+allies in Iraq to (re)build a democratic nation led to a rise of radical Islamism. That in turn led to the Arab Spring and the Syrian civil war, causing not just a truckload of effort for Europe to deal with the refugees on top of those we already had from Afghanistan, but especially Assad was left free to ignore any and all "red lines", especially the 2012 warning of Obama against chemical weapons usage [1], and Russia itself was allowed to act with impunity as well.

Then came the 2014 invasion of Russia in Crimea - IMHO a direct "test bed" to see if the Western nations were willing to step up this time, and they didn't despite Russia literally shooting a passenger plane out of the sky. Syria completely exploded, and Russia slowly kept increasing the pressure on Ukraine. Had covid not happened, Russia would have invaded some time in 2020 to take over Ukraine, but the pandemic derailed their plans.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_the_Use_of_M...
Me too! I've been using it for 20 or so years, and it's one of those pieces I didn't know it was still developed or what features were added, because the feature set from 20 years ago is still enough for me. IOW: maybe it doesn't need a maintainer at all.
Investors aren't robots that take everything a CEO or founder says as facts and then start cutting checks. They can choose to either invest in Elon's ventures, or not, by their own free will. The overwhelming consensus is investors have faith in Tesla and have deliberately chosen to give him money.

That's why it's called the Free Market.

If you think Volkswagen or Kia is going to deliver a better self driving technology, you can take advantage of the free market and use your knowledge to make millions. In fact it would be much more entertaining if the OP actually put some of his own cash on the line so we could watch, instead of making a glorified Tweet aggregator.
Stanislaw Lem had a story about that too (surprise!), read by many of in Hofstader & Dennett's "The Minds Eye". The simulation-runner expresses wonderment that the denizens of the simulation would imagine that he cared in any way about them.
Swift’s reference counting is exactly what C code on Apple’s platforms were already doing.

And Vala’s is exactly what GObject code was already doing.
In all fairness, the person had obviously been awake for over 24 hours and was on their 1,001st cup of coffee. And since earlier in the summer I had crashed the entire ticket scanner network the night before the opening of the weekend festival we had put on by creating a network loop between a couple of non-spanning-tree-speaking network devices, I didn't feel I was in a place to be snarky about it!
Yes, I know. But having many IDs means that your information cannot be found by the same ID in all offices and actually many companies, too. That's the way it works in Finland (Sweden, too). While that is a data protection nightmare from a German perspective it should at least allow efficient processes. But as I wrote efficiency is increasingly suffering in Finland, too.
My cohorts and I chat regularly in Slack about things software developer related as well as the occasional joke, gripe about work, etc. We put a bot in place scripted to give some responses to certain keyword, as well as a Marcov chain for fun. After a while, it would trigger on things and we'd laugh as it tried explain some solution to a tech problem and just butchered the idea or take on about family it didn't have. But, what was surprising to me was the jokes.

Just how little it took swap a few words or add in some unrelated context easily turn some phrase or punchline into something truly racist, misogynistic, etc. It gave me a better appreciate of being careful about what I say and we took the bot down.
Medium article responding to a few programmer apologist points.
thank you!

if it helps, my last commit touches the primary aspects of modules.

overall, i’m integrating a test payment flow on https://thelanding.page

this commit[0] i export two functions from my payment debugger module (i am intentionally overloading the word module to additionally bind a view; this is a personal hot take and not general guidance, just in case you see how i use ‘@sillonious/module’).

so i expose payment-debugger.js in the index.html file import map as @sillonious/payments.

i import that module in the message-pay component.

when the user clicks buy now, i call the newPayment function (which ultimately lands in client.js, after traversing the network; in case you’re curious about the full route). i also set a timer that’ll check the payment status every five seconds for 15 minutes. displaying a timeout message is a not yet implemented edge case.

[0]: https://github.com/tylerchilds/plan98/commit/db3c037345077fe...
The US is making hay while the sun shines.

Yes. The US is bankrupt. Yes the US still manages to sell UST. One morning we will wake up to find that the World refuses to buy any more US Dollars.

Just as the World one day decided that the Zimbabwe dollar was just confetti, The World is rapidly approaching the point where the World decides that the US dollar is also just confetti.

(I estimate the US of 2024 is in roughly the same situation as Britain was in around 1960.)
That's not the point they were trying to make. They were asking what would prevent malware from imitating the UAC prompt to steal administrator privileges.
Totally agree. There has been a neo-academic attempt to redefine racism independent of intent. Structural racism is real, but it can exist without every person within it necessarily being a racist.
I predict that by next year, Musk's Tesla still won't be able to produce a car that is smart enough to drive itself.
This weekend I mostly upgraded it to play the mp3 files using the HTML audio tag, which provides both a player and playlist in HTML form. This is the only rational way I have found to play MP3 files on my IPhone. Before coming to this conclusion I tried the following:

* MP3 player apps from the app store suck. Most of them want up charge on everything or expect to stream music from some external source. I only found one that allowed accessing files by directory, as opposed to manually picking files one by one. WTF, I have over 4000 files.

* I tried writing a dynamic play list in HTML format using the input type files with the webkitdirectory attribute. Despite webkit in the name its not allowed in iOS.

* I couldn't just create a play list file and access it from SMB share. IPhone does support SMB file shares with a file preview feature, but that file preview feature does not execute JavaScript.

So instead I am running an SMB server which contains my media files, a web server which contains a symlink to the media files, and a pihole DNS server to create vanity local domains. The least level of restriction occurs when running in a web browser, under a domain accessed via DNS, with a prior formulated list of music. That domain can be a vanity domain name as the browser cannot tell the difference. That way the file list and html file are relative to each other under the same domain (which passes the audioContext security check in the browser), not downloaded to the phone, and still playable without Apple phone restrictions.
> but you can only imagine, what kind of accounting shenanigans this guy is doing behind the scenes where nobody can watch, if he's willing to lie so blatantly in the open.

Tesla released advertising in Australia that claimed that they were now the most popular selling car there, outselling the Camry. Which lead to some investigations and (Australia has some strong truth-in-advertising laws) retraction when it was shown that Tesla's definition of "sold" somehow in no way equated to the numbers of vehicles or VINs registered with the varying state databases.

Also note the non-zero numbers of "new" Teslas delivered that have been previously registered and delivered. What do we think the odds are that Tesla subtracts a sale from their numbers on returns?

I fully believe many announcements from Tesla serve no other purpose than to provide a "shield" for unlocking value from the books.
there's a download link. could upload that to, eg imgur
For data rates, as in bandwidth per IO pin, distance is really only a secondary factor. HBM memory, for example, runs at substantially lower data rates than GDDR, yet it sits right next to the GPU die compared to centimeters for the GDDR. And high-speed serial links run at speeds that are an order of magnitude higher than even the internal register files of a CPU.
You can always tell, eh?
The assumption here is that when it gets really bad we will still be able to act. The problem is that the earth system is incredibly complex and may be able to absorb a lot of energy in ways that aren’t easy to reverse (at least in ways that are comfortable to humans.) There’s a reason we call these things “tipping points”: like unbalancing a piece of heavy furniture, you might not have the strength to catch it once it’s gone past a certain point.
TIL that self-updating mobile apps are a thing. It is quite surprising to me that the app store gatekeepers don't force all app changes through their vetting process! Has this always been the case, or is this a new development?
The muscle of doing pointless bullshit without understanding that it’s pointless… are you kidding? This has got to be the most troll comment I ever saw in this website.
Yes general LLM models can be used for time series forecasting:

https://github.com/KimMeen/Time-LLM
Seems great, but unfortunately it’s JavaScript. Would’ve loved if it were Python
I think on one extreme you have the failures of neutrality that contributed to WW2, and on the other you have trumped up "moral crises" that characterized much of the Cold War.

Arguably, the reason the Nazis came to power was that a great many right-leaning German voters looked at their options and thought "this Hitler guy seems pretty crazy, but that'll probably cook off, so long as he helps us beat the communists", which is a special kind of neutrality that people can never seem to shake free of.

I get what Kennedy was responding to, his sin was in failing to understand (just like the German right) that "leftist" != Stalinist/Maoist, and that a communist takeover need not look like the October Revolution, and the regime need not look like Russia ca. 1935, nor China ca. 1960.
Like tying a shoelace: the long grey cord goes around the backside of the desk, turns and comes around the front, and back into its own powerstrip.

..Wait why won't it turn on?
Sitting under the cloud cover just praying that some of the gaps in the clouds would buddy up and make bigger gaps, I found myself looking forward to this view of being able to distinctly see the shadow racing across the cloud tops preventing the terrestrial views. While the moment of totality was reached was obscured so that I barely made out the diamond ring effect, the majority of totality was behind very thin clouds.

As luck would have it, within minutes after totality completed, it was blue sky with pretty much no clouds. I swear the gawds hate me or someone in my town!
LoJack stays in business mainly by selling their product to dealers who then demand auto buyers pay for it whether they want it or not.
> I don't remember ever seeing them saying it was ready

If you read down a bit in TFA, you'd see Elon addressing this exact issue:

"1,115 days since Elon Musk announced the FSD button and v9 of FSD would be 'uploaded' soon. (3/20/2021)"

"Given significant architectural changes, including fundamental improvements to pure vision, there is limited value to testing 8.x. Hoping to upload V9.0 & button next month." Elon Musk in a Tweet

So a year into Covid he was claiming they were a month away from FSD.
> even if the series was going to end with deaths and depression and cliffhangers, it wasn’t going to end with the Animorphs losing

The series ends with the Animorphs committing suicide