skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Galactus is deprecated.

It's been replaced by Omnious all knowing all seeing user provider, made by famous xz contributor NotCIA.
Cape Horn is quite hazardous, so it's not a journey to prefer anyways.
> Hire me for a penetration test

When does the blogspam end?
The biggest problem I have had since I switched my parents to Mac is just my brother in-law who lives with them and regularly loudly proclaim about Macs being a waste of money. He’s installed “virus scanners” multiple times that were themselves if not viruses, at the very least adware. He’s also attempted to defrag my moms ssd-having Mac Mini with some sort of software that claims to do so.

They don’t have admin rights anymore most because of this. For some reason though their printer driver regularly pops a notification asking for admin privileges.
This is a good point. And the danger of looking at a single case. Governments often put a $ value on a life to measure if something is worth doing. Would you divert the philosophical train to another track? I think the NHS in the UK calculates these stats for all treatments to decide what treatments to offer. Of course those with money can go further. Jeff Bezos could probably fund the trials for any cancer he gets.
What's interesting to me is that the regular TV networks show the clip every day on the news.

They only show the leadup, not the actual stabbing, but you would think that they would not be permitted to show any of it at all, since it has been defined as "content that promotes or incites violence or is likely to cause offence to a reasonable person".

But no, it's shown every evening.

If I didn't know better, I would be inclined to think that the TV channels were trying to incite violence and cause offence.
You joke, but you would not blame redis for not doing joins. Vector databases are really more like caches that do similarity search. Maybe we should call them vector stores.
Loving it so far :) Right up my alley, thanks!
If you don't want to change OS. Simply creating a non-admin account and installing ad-blockers will go a long way. Tell them most software on Internet have virus so install is blocked. Also enable remote desktop on all.

Edit: For some issues like airplane mode, see if you can remove them from quick access.
My grandma's pretty good with her Android phone, but every month, she calls us totally lost because apps like WhatsApp keep messing with the UI. Why do they have to change the interface so often? Most times, these changes seem pointless and just confuse her.
Tale as old as time.

At the end of the day, Walmart or AT&T or Disney or JPMorgan or Pfizer or Raytheon or Google are all engineered to make choices that increase their market power not reduce it. Anyone or group within these orgs even hinting at decisions that imply loss of market power, will be marginalized and pushed out.

You can argue talking about it is necessary, and as long as they need your skill and expertise, the corporate robots are programmed to nod their heads and act as if they care. They will bribe you with goodies you can't get anywhere else, overload your surroundings with rituals of conspicuous luxury and conspicuous leisure, fund your conferences and side projects where you can feel important, build a golden cage around you, all the while extracting whatever they can. Even circus lions are allowed to roar, but they are still circus lions.

Moral of the story is don't work for a corporation if you value integrity and your mental health. Large systems, like a Hurricane, require a whole lot of activity to be kept alive but don't mistake activity for control of the path of the hurricane. Nothing is controlling the path. As these complex dynamic systems get larger and larger they will collapse by themselves as contradictions accumulate.
Insurance companies have dealt with much worse; they got their start insuring ships trying to make the hazardous journey to the Far East.
It's more absurdist. Programmers are also human is way more on tech point in his jokes.
Imagine having a coordinate system be owned by a private company.
I have had this snippet in my .zshrc for years,

autoload -U compinit && compinit
{
# Compile the completion dump to increase startup speed. Run in background.
zcompdump="${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zcompdump"
if [[ -s "$zcompdump" && (! -s "${zcompdump}.zwc" || "$zcompdump" -nt "${zcompdump}.zwc") ]]; then
# if zcompdump file exists, and we don't have a compiled version or the
# dump file is newer than the compiled file
zcompile "$zcompdump"
fi
} &!

Using `zmodload zsh/zprof`, I can see about 50% (16ms) of my start up is compinit (its about 28ms without the `zcompile`).

Do you have any pointers for the "load on tab" idea? I didn't turn up any good results in DDG and LLMs were just hallucinating.

BTW I believe `-C` will disable some cache checking, caching is enabled by default

> To speed up the running of compinit, it can be made to produce a dumped configuration that will be read in on future invocations; this is the default, but can be turned off by calling compinit with the option -D.

> ...

> ... The check performed to see if there are new functions can be omitted by giving the option -C. In this case the dump file will only be created if there isn't one already.
> The people who have the robots will be able to set whatever price they like.

If no one has a monopoly on robots, they will not, because customers will take the lowest price and all of the competing suppliers with robots won't want to lose market share.

If someone has a monopoly on robots, that is very bad, because then they can charge up to the cost of doing the work another way. But the other way is by having humans do it, which is the status quo. So they can't make it worse than the status quo or people would just go back to doing it that way -- the point of buying things made by robots was supposed to be that it would cost less, so why would you do it if it didn't?

> As we've seen in so many "collusion" cases - some deliberately negotiated but many simply naturally settled into - the price of things is determined by "what the market will bear", which I see more cynically as "what the market can extract".

Collusion is caused by market concentration. When an industry has only two or three companies, it's easy for them to collude with each other. When there are dozens or thousands, it isn't. So the most important thing in the world is to make sure there are at least dozens of companies in every industry.

The other major problem of the same nature is regulatory capture. This is the method used by landlords. They don't have a secret chamber where they agree to fix prices in dark of night, they just control the zoning board and prevent new housing from being built.

These things have nothing to do with automation. If you have market concentration and regulatory capture, they must be annihilated regardless of any robots or people will end up screwed and poor.
Unsure if the video is less desirable. Just a different mode to consume it.

Sometimes you want to listen without having to watch.

Other times you want to read a summary to see if it’s worth watching instead of lighting 20 minutes of your life on fire that you’ll never get back.

Time is the ultimate currency and it’s not so bad to consider how to protect it by using it with the length of time you’re choosing to invest.
Censorship isn’t inherently a bad thing, and the freedom to speak anything isn’t inherently good. Learning to self-censor is one of the first steps in becoming a functioning adult in a social species (which we certainly — but perhaps excluding Elon, as it appears there may be some serious developmental or other brain damage involved there — are), and where and when governments exist they must enforce some level of censorship within and across borders in order to maintain safety (and even more mundane things, like the operation of copyright and contracts and treaties and to allow for systems like peer review to function). The problem isn’t censorship, the problem is censorship that is malign and seeks to harm, vs that which is benign and seeks to protect from harm, and where precisely to draw that line.

Now, I don’t trust the Australian government’s ideas or motivations enough to want them to draw that line for the world… but I trust Elon Musk’s ideas on motivations on where to draw it way less.
No doubt anon
That is not that different from inflation?

https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=100&year1=2014...
No. DynamicPGO was first introduced in .NET 6 but was not mature and needed two releases worth of work to become enabled by default. It needs no user input and is similar to what OpenJDK Hotspot has been doing for some time and then a little more. It also is required for major features that were strictly not available previously: guarded devirtualization of virtual and interface calls and delegate inlining.

Also, IIS hosting through Http.sys is still an option that sees separate set of improvements, but that's not relevant in most situations given the move to .NET 8 from Framework usually also involves replacing Windows Server host with a Linux container (though it works perfectly fine on Windows as well).

On Regex, compiled and now source generated automata has seen a lot of work in all recent releases, it is night and day to what it was before - just read the articles. Previously linear scans against heavy internal data structures (matching by hashset) and heavy transient allocations got replaced with bloom-filter style SIMD search and other state of the art text search algorithms[0], on a completely opposite end of a performance spectrum.

So when you have compiler improvements multiplied by changes to CoreLib internals multiplied by changes to frameworks built on top - it's achievable with relative ease. .NET Framework, while performing adequately, was still that slow compared to what we got today.

[0] https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/tree/main/src/libraries/Sy...
> On March 27, an administrative law judge published a proposed decision that, if approved in May, will impose a new fixed $24.18 monthly charge on residential customers not eligible for low-income discounts.

To not only end solar net metering but then to have a significant charge even for low-import solar/battery sites... ugh. I hope this doesn't go through.
I’m renting a polestar 2 and it’s great.
Jsfxr: 8-Bit sound maker and sfx generator
Huh – I didn't know he'd left MSR for Epic Games.
> And probably, that reason is performance.

That's the first problem I see with the article. C++ isn't a fast language, as it is. There are far too many issues with e.g. aliasing rules, lack of proper vectorization (for the runtime arch), etc.

If you wish to have a relatively good performance for your code, try ISPC, which still allows you to get great performance with vectorization up to AVX-512, without turning to intrisics.
What do you mean a tech grifter?
It’s a shame someone as insightful as you has to make a throwaway just to post criticism of megacorps in general.
Give us a blog link!
Pixel "small Pro"? This is fantastic news if true. I absolutely hate how large phones have become. I bought the 6a mostly because its small(er).

Edit: or by "small pro" did they mean the non-XL pro? Awh shucks... I got my hopes up
Slayer, The Interrupters, Bad Religion, Pennywise, Metallica
But if you accidentally exposed your calibre-web online, they may be able to DMCA you?
Linking to the video would provide some seo juice for the video creator if it was for the site owner.

YouTube channels routinely analyze each other for content and doing it as well “in their own way”

Packaging content in a different way is similar to repurposing content for different social media platforms.

Heck some people share other peoples content on different platforms.

This site is putting a particular lens on a video and sharing the perspective it generates for those who like it.

If it became a product for video creators to generate content for a better description they might never need the site.
Unless the number of "else if" statements somehow grows e.g. linearly with the size of your input, which isn't plausible, the "else if" statements also execute in O(1) time.
Ah, okay, makes perfect sense. .NET stopped me from moving out at the very last moment by getting good around .NET Core 3.1 time :)

(also by giving enough low level toys to stay interested)
The clinical trial might very well shorten your life and/or make your quality of life worse. It might not only not save your life, but it might be the case that not joining the clinical trial saves your life (at least for a little while longer).
Since you are othering the parties concerned, mind sharing more info on the attacker?
In terms of difficulty/complexity, nothing you've listed there comes anywhere close to the r&d required to go from the original oculus prototype to volume shipping the meta quest 3.
Crappy idea.

Say a fire inspection doesn't prevent a business opening so it opens and promptly burns down the building its in, innocent people living in apartments above the business die. I'm sure they will appreciate that while their personal position isn't great their sacrifice is contributing to the regeneration of the city as a whole.

Likewise say an electrical inspection doesn't prevent the business opening, so some poor schmoe gets cooked while plugging in a vaccum cleaner or whatever.

Most of this so called "red tape" exists for a reason and people who are affected by it complain a lot but as in Bastiat's "broken window" fallacy, we never see the people who benefit from these regulations because they are protected from injury and thus the events never happen.

At the margin I'm sure regulation does put some people off running some businesses, but it's really debatable whether removing regulation would be enough to regenerate lots of businesses in cities. The headwinds they are facing seem structural - people are going into offices less are working from home more and so are using different goods and services and in different places from those they were using back pre-pandemic.
> What are chances we’ll have a <100B parameter GPT4/Claude Opus model in the next 5 years?

In 5 years time we'll have adaptive compute and the idea of talking about the parameter count of a model will seem as quaint as talking about the cylinder capacity of a jet engine.
> UnitedHealth likely paid around $22 million in bitcoin to the attackers

$22-million???!!!

I'm guessing they'll recoup through some sort of insurance for this type of thing. But honestly, what insurer would pay out for that? It's like they didn't even try to secure their systems.
The author makes a point of avoiding letters that are hard to distinguish even when spelled out in handwriting, but the example table includes the number 7. I can not count the number of times I have found it hard to distinguish between someone's 7 and 1.

It helps if you draw a horizontal bar on the 7 but many don't, so you can never really be sure if a 7 is in fact a 1 with the serif or vice versa.
Tele2 secure collaboration hub for public sector keeps Swedish data in Sweden
> People say that if public libraries didn't already exist and were proposed today as a new thing, they'd be found illegal

ARPANET was gracefully turned over, for the most part, to the commons, as was GPS. Public libraries are a millenium old as a concept [1], but only half a century (EDIT: millenium) old as a continuous practice [2]. We're not at the tail end of a collective-action halcyon; we're in the centre of it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Knowledge

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malatestiana_Library
Inflation over that time frame was ab ut 1.35 so a 1.5 increase is only slightly above inflation. Is that really outrageous? I'd wager that e.g. Infrastructure and labour costs increased more than that over the last 10 years.
Official notice: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/04/17/2024-08...
The extended play Ibiza techno version is better /s
Limiting or undermining literacy remains important to those who benefit from it.
The post talks about “intent” which is pretty vague.

A more common definition is that imperative code specify a sequence of steps to execute while declarative code specify the desired end state, and the engine have to figure out how to arrive there.

By this definition Excel is declarative because you don’t specify in which order to execute the operations. Excel has to figure out when and in which order to execute the formula, presumably by building a dependency graph.
Good idea, Elon!
I do this easily but with anydesk. It's always on on his Linux Mint laptop and I just start the session, he clicks accept on his popup and we're off.
In Germany we already have a deposit scheme for a long time. You can actually return PET bottles anywhere. That does not mean that the company that gets the bottles back recycles them. However, it is an opportunity because you will get back rather pure PET.
Crows are social animals, and it would be very strange for the two factions to not intermingle (let alone just observe) and know what was really going on. Also they are opportunistic animals, and won’t give up the chance to get a treat even if they consider you an enemy; where I live the crows consider me a threat and caw loudly and angrily peck at plants and the windows if they see me, but will take any food that I leave outside.

The crow war is a good story, if only a bit suspect.
> I vehemently disagree that doctors should remain silent on their opinions. I think doing so would be very unethical and deceitful, by way of omission.

But do those opinions have any scientific basis? If there isn’t any evidence of efficacy yet, then should a doctor say there is because it’s his or her opinion?
If you use both upper and lower case, you are likely to eventually be surprised by some third party system or protocol that is case insensitive. I even found a commercial system which allowed users to choose IDs with case sensitivity (iD and id being distinct) but if you query it for one which does not exist they do case insensitive matching and return the wrong data.

When I reported this bug they said it was for convenience!
Jane Street's $1B Trade Puts Spotlight on Indian Options
By ship is still by far the cheapest way of transporting cargo, and the proposed route would involve the shortest land distances.

More importantly the Sierra Madre ranges are large geographic barriers throughout most of Mexico but are relatively flat in the area of the Chivela pass, where this rail line is.
Who on earth bothers to use google maps any more?

They are so retro 1950's.

Organic maps on me blower and openstreetmaps on the old Puter.

Blinding mucker!
I can get the anger against publishers, who seem to add almost no value to the process. But what’s wrong with the authors charging a licensing fee as described here? They deserve a right to charge what the market will support for their work, like everyone else. Personally I don’t even think this change matters - reducing the number of holds to 10 is very reasonable and I bet most will not even do enough reading to make those holds “worth it”
> You're not wrong that the consumer of food manages the grocery store.

I think this is the key to our miscommunication. I don't call that management. That is what I am referring to as the free market model of self-organization: one customer doesn't dictate what the convenience store does, they only give very indirect signals that the convenience store can choose to respond to or not (say, this customer didn't buy any cheese; they can drop the price of cheese, or drop cheese from their inventory, or keep offering cheese and hope that others will buy it).

In contrast, a rigid hierarchy is what happens inside most corporations: your manager tells you to make cheese, you either make cheese or you get fired. Your manager is telling you to make cheese because a different team is planning to make cheese toast, and the manager wants to ensure they have cheese available. I would refer to this as a planned economy model, and call this business a monolith in the sense that, while it has internal parts, they are "fixed in place", they don't get to decide what to work on.

Similarly, Apple's relationship to its suppliers is closer to the planned economy model than to the free market: Apple doesn't go shopping around various suppliers and getting some milk here and some cheese there. They investigate some market and pick some suppliers, and form contracts with them that demand specific amounts at specific times at specific prices. After signing the contract, the supplier is not free to take Apple's feedback or balance it with their own desires or other customers: they have to execute on the contract or risk penalties and fines. They are now effectively under Apple's management, for at at least some portion of their business, and not operating as an independent market agent that uses pricing signals to elaborate their strategy.

Of course I do agree that at no step of the way is there a 1000 person team working on something. But neither is anyone else: the discussion we are having, as I see it, is whether you can organize 1000 people into many small teams that only coordinate voluntarily, where team A decides what to work on themselves and team B decides whether to use team A's work or not; or you need to impose a more rigid management hierarchy that tells team A to work on this and team B to work use team A's output.

The second model is FAR more pervasive in how companies organize internally. And even in the economy at large, contrary to what you're saying, large organized groups like Samsung easily outcompete a network of small businesses. There are almost 0 industrial consumer products supplied by a myriad of small manufacturers, in fact. From phones to cars to appliances, everything is produced by huge conglomerates. And they don't have any special moats, only money and the inherent efficiencies of being able to run a planned economy internally.
Libby/Overdrive are a big part of the problem as they're VC owned https://buttondown.email/ninelives/archive/the-coming-enshit...
> We know this attack has caused concern and been disruptive for consumers and providers, and we are committed to doing everything possible to help and provide support to anyone who may need it.

Translation: One year of free credit monitoring.
>the idea that consciousness is a mechanical process somehow produced by atoms.

Other than a few religious individuals I don't know anyone who expects otherwise. Where else would it come from?

>And since AI is the greatest of all machines...

What is intended to come after the ellipsis?
Steve Reich's "Music for 18 Musicians" marks out an hour with bars, it served as a metronome for the odd lengthy project or three in the past: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXJWO2FQ16c
You're free to create your own, or not use theirs.
1) is the bit I seem to have trouble finding good resources for. It seems every
"intro to assembly" tutorial spends all this time talking about instructions, and never seems to get to something as basic as "how do I create and call a function in assembly?".

Any suggestions there?
It's likely some arbitrary jargon that someone made up. I have my own method of reading, which since we're throwing out pretentious flowery prose, I'm going to call "predictive perusal".

For each chapter or titled section, I read the first sentence or title and then mentally position myself as the writer of that section and attempt to predict the contents. For convergence I attempt to traverse further plies. For divergence, I attempt to figure out the root of the difference.

EDIT: For the record, I have never felt the need to scribble in the margins of a book. It's far better to take notes on separate media to prevent "preloading" your existing thoughts at the time should you choose to re-read the book years later.
I use tailscale and ssh+RDP/vnc setup on all my machines. Makes maintaining them super easy.
What is zero-knowledge, end-to-end encryption?