skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your anecdote versus mine.

As an example, there are 12 different bus lines that are directly adjacent to Millennium Station. You barely even have to step outside to use them.

Hell, you don’t have to step outside at all to transfer from the blue or red line to Millennium station trains.

All loop CTA lines are a 10 minute walk to Union Station and Ogilvie.

You really think with these kind of stats that nobody is transferring?

Not to mention the fact that the Metra runs express trains during rush hour to high population suburbs. You can get from Downer’s Grove to non-downtown neighborhoods like Lincoln Park or Wrigleyville faster than a car during rush hour via express trains + purple line.
And we'll cure them too.
Before we delve into everything else...

> Risk-sharing mutual aid societies are now among the largest and best-funded organisations on the planet - we call them "governments".

I'm not aware of any mutual aid society that shot an unarmed man SEVEN TIMES IN THE HEAD because they misidentified him. The Metropolitan Police did, and none of the officers were disciplined.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Jean_Charles_de_Me...

That right there is a great example of the bias of the BBC.

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The article is engaging but doesn't give a good explanation of the difference between "insurance" and "gambling".

At the very end it brings up financial derivatives but again does not explain them well or the danger they caused.

Is "insurance" a type of "gambling"? Maybe. But it's quite different from gambling in a US casino (and I presume UK casino).

In the US, "gambling" refers to wagers placed at known odds, sometimes against other players; legal gambling has limitations on how much money the House can take: e.g. if a casino "wins" $100, they must also pay $80 to someone.

Again in the US, "insurance" (excepting health "insurance", which is mostly not insurance) is someone paying a regular premium and the insurer promising to pay if certain events happening to the person, with the government requiring that the insurer keep financial reserves to pay out claims. If you stop paying your premiums, you lose your insurance. If the insured events never happen, the insurer keeps your money.

In a sense, insurance is a type of gambling, but closer to buying an umbrella in the morning in case it rains in the afternoon.

Financial derivatives were portrayed as insurance but were not regulated as such, and the banks did not keep reserves to pay them out; because folks were also taking "insurance" against events that happened to third-parties (i.e. not themselves) it looks a lot like gambling (though they weren't regulated as that, either).

I highly recommend the film "The Big Short" to explain the 2008 financial crisis in fairly plain terms. (I finally picked up the book but it's in the queue on my shelf.)
This was covered by PBS spacetime:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy8MdewY_TY&t=67s

Still possible, but increasingly unlikely due to the narrowing size range in which these black holes are allowed to exist in.
After 2 decades in scouting, I had picked up a ton of trash. An actual ton.

Military folks are similarly good citizens.

The opposite of that are smokers.
In vitro fertilization (IVF) combined with preimplantation genetic screening (PGS) is becoming increasingly mainstream. This advanced technique allows us to select embryos with healthy genes, thereby ensuring that babies are born healthy or at least reducing the risk of genetic diseases. Very expensive in US but is getting very affordable in Eastern Europe and Asia.

Another alternative is selective abortions after early genetic testing (though ethic and morale concerns here are huge).
Yeah but they just added

> through both automated and manual methods ...

to how they access content and everyone immediately jumped to the conclusion that automated means LLM training.
The rules and mechanisms for SMC detection are essentially the same in both modes as far as I am aware.

Both Intel and AMD implement SMC detection that is a bit stronger than required by the specification as well.
TigerSwift: Write Swift Apps for Mac OS X Tiger
If you've upvoted that HN story/comment that mentioned that tool, you may be able to find it via:

https://news.ycombinator.com/upvoted?id=fatbrowndog

https://news.ycombinator.com/upvoted?id=fatbrowndog&comments...

Both links are only visible to you
The RealJukeBox monitoring system (1999)
oh! the art of dealing with toxic chemicals for the enviroment, having no privacy if you don't have time &/or a laboratory (specially if you want to process color) & super tidy manipulation that don't have C-z if you screw stuff is so: T.T

/s
Webhooks? Slack automation? GitHub actions?
Junicode is a TrueType/OpenType font for medievalists
Fun fact, there was so much technological momentum behind water power, that for a time the primary use of steam power was to pump water uphill to power a water wheel.
Don't tell Terrence Howard...
agreed; 'genocide' has a derogatory connotation absent from 'race war', and people actually promoting genocide tend to use other rhetoric entirely
One of Bazels core principles is mass-scale distributed caching, and lots of the design decisions such as repeatability, correctness and deterministic building exist to that effect.

For individuals it's a pain to setup, but it's not built for them, or startups. Instead for enterprises who can dedicate a fully manned team to its maintenance
> A horse will never betray you

I'm guessing you don't have much personal experience with horses.
I can’t wait for a geneCAD where we for example, design wings for a human body and then it works out the rest and generates a CRISPR based AAV that you can inject yourself with. True race and sex changes too.

Hopefully in the next 50 years but that’s wishful thinking.
it blew up to that amount virtually overnight- like maybe a week at the most. I don't even think they had the time to do anything.

after using it for a year already, I really need this site to succeed. It's one of the few I'd happily pay money to use, even if I don't get anything back.

a while ago, before Bluesky or Cara or anything, a similar issue happened with a site called Hive iirc, it did a great job at fostering a userbase right away and things went great but because they couldn't keep the site up and also develop it, they decided to shutter the entire thing for a month and buckle down.... and it completely lost its entire userbase, its momentum was destroyed, everyone moved on. I don't want to see that happen to Cara.
What I learned from the UN's "AI for Good" summit
> I came to notice that existing solutions[5] were incorrect and hard to use.

Didn't see you mentioning wine, are you not aware of it?
I've seen multiple people say this exact thing, as well
Bootstrapping is fun. There's a youtuber who does amazing stuff in the Queensland rainforest of a more primeval nature.

The so called "black start" function for the electricity grid can fail: the contracted gas turbines in South Australia (after a storm knocked the grid offline) failed under load and the subsequent court case fined the operator massively for failure to deliver to contract.

UCL compsci in London in the mid 80s had problems coming back from complete power down because the immediate post mainframe era computer systems still exceeded the fuse ratings as the disk platters spun up. It took a few attempts to work out what load to accept and what sequence.
Look at Sendy. I'm not affiliated and if it is what you are looking for I'm delighted. www.sendy.com
> Would you be able to take a screenshot of what you're seeing?

https://i.postimg.cc/MK7PJwRk/Screenshot-20240608-165330.png

(the link will expire in 7 days)
How to Learn Hardware
There are 52! possible decks of cards— if you don’t have more than 230 bits of entropy in your prng per deck shuffled things go badly pretty quick. You also tend to share deck state so far with the adversary.

Shuffling cards is a surprisingly demanding prng application.
Yes unfortunately, but they unfortunately even split before the YouTube channel [1]

Here is an translated interview with Wolfgang Back [2] about the early days.

[1] https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Back

[2] https://sceneworld.org/blog/2019/07/23/video-interview-with-...
Probably. Though if aliens arrive…
A Mersenne twister or another PRNG with a long sequence length is fine for deck shuffling. A CSPRNG is more comfortable.

As to the idea that it's superstition not to trust CSPRNGs: sometimes, you want to eliminate the variable, and sometimes your CSPRNG is actually worth attacking. A lot of CSPRNGs also involve secret state, so if you are worried that this state might get exfiltrated, some paranoia is ok.

The post here recommends using Intel's RDSEED, which is ironically trusted far less than /dev/urandom by most people who have a secret to keep or a process to protect.
Damn. Might as well just kill ourselves because our children inherit our problems. My parents need glasses, I’ll need glasses. Fuck.

/s
My 2 cents - There is no anti-pattern specific to event driven. It is essentially asynchronous nature. It means you start with understanding the business needs and SLA. Question often comes in my experience is "can they wait?" and what's the risk of dirty data or data fetched with delay ( worst case ). event driven is always about worst case scenario and will it work then.
Gene therapy is coming on well. Hopefully it'll help my kid when he's older. From what I'm being told, the gene that effects him is very large and difficult to fit into the viruses they use for gene therapy.
My understanding is very limited so I could be very wrong here.
In my experience NX is hot garbage.
There are potential serious downsides if these inserted genes end up on a different chromosome than normal and become carried by gametes to offspring who may suffer from overexpression.
Makes sense. Do you have any particular implementations in mind that work this way?

I think this depends on the random number generator. For a counter-based RNG, the "internal state" is just a counter, so adding 1 or 2 would result in reusing random numbers in different streams.
Chinese companies exploiting sanctions loophole by accessing GPUs in the US
I thought you used htmx when complexity was already too high and you wanted to simplify…
I remember when seeing it for the first time and like... whoa you could do that? It still amazes me how much things I don't know exist
I don't think op meant this as "making fun of" people who don't know what a siphon is or how to do it

I think it's more a criticism levelled at society not teaching people such a basic concept, which arguably should be a part of elementary school, or maybe junior high school, science classes
That's not exactly true.

A crime can always be tried, regardless of monetary damages.
everyone says the Kanepixels stuff is the best, but in my opinion, establishing a lore and a story with this big corporate overlord and science fiction stuff was a mistake and only erodes the mysterious and malevolent nature of the entire thing.

There's a youtube account called "mattstudios" who does his own take, and generally spearheaded the "poolrooms" variant of this genre, that is far more grounded and tries to present the concept from the point of view of an everyday guy who "noclips" into it purely by mistake.

for me, this is the best backrooms take, not just for how realistic the video artifacts are, but because of how it captures just a guy recording something on his handicam in 1997 and how he'd realistically act: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KenTOGFwLpU
We need to keep away biotech OpenAI-wannabes apparently.
Any different from people needing glasses?
But the best thing about Bluesky is that it's not full of the type of people from Threads or Twitter.
Is it just me or the “Read in other languages” links in the article are just plaintexts that don’t link to anywhere?
I presume at the point we can generate CAD like designer gene modifications, overexpression would just be another problem that can be fixed by more modification.
Complexity breeds complexity
You mentioned an employment contract which is very open and shut. It's a very simplifying argument which unfortunately isn't mentioned by anyone else involved and such a clause wouldn't even be legal in California where Replit is based.

A logical conclusion is that the breach doesn't exist and arguments that rest on it are unfounded
I remember chatting with a guy growing a decent garden on y his property. He had these tubes he’d force into the water, place his hand on the end, and pull back. He’d repeat the motion rapidly a few times and then lay the pipe down from the source into trenches between his plantings. It was obvious once you saw it, but not a technique I would think intuitive.
Nowhere did I say that isn't the case. A crime cannot always be tried _via jury_, though.
Kids who were born right when Google neé Alphabet came out with "Don't be evil." back in 2000 or so, can drive cars and legally drink now. I don't know how much of your ramblings as a human being and not a corporation from 2000 hold up, but I know many of mine don't.
I'm wondering if anyone has published a good battery life breakdown?

it's hard given all the variations of hardware but screen, graphics and CPU should be doable as a good benchmark.
O the hours I set ablaze in supplication to the shape-tween-hinting gods (for all the good it did)
Improper PC time breaks Vladimir Kramnik's clock on Chess.com
TA's can say things like "I dont know, lets figure it out together". LLMs will spit out false information as easily and confidently as true information.
My prediction is it’s going to increasingly call traditional software under the hood but credit the AI as innovation.
I take 4.5mg cialis (tadalafil) every day.

I think a lot of people do. Viagra is slightly different of course.

Both "hims" and "blue chew" now offer a daily mint "multivitamin" of tadalafil.
This move deserves big credit for them. These NPUs are otherwise blackboxes you can access only through some high level APIs like DirectML on windows or NNAPI on Android. Although Qualcomm's NPU (Hexagon) is relatively open as their compiler is also based on LLVM and their arch is upstreamed to a certain degree, it is inherently limited as it demands code signing. Other CPU vendors are worse.
You know, for a place as respectable as HN when it comes to internet discourse, it is odd how any commitment to the truth gets thrown off the window when it comes to religions and Christianity specifically...
Well ccache (and C builds in general) isn't exactly a bundle of kittens
That's manufacturing of solar modules, specifically. Is it safe to assume that most of them are made from Chinese solar cells?
Is this saying that dark matter can be modeled well as defects in the topology of spacetime itself?
Well, we're getting a gameplay reveal in August, and 6-12 months of further marketing before you'll be able to buy it next year.
Synapse bankruptcy trustee says $85M of customer savings is missing
> That is a common misconception that only occurs in software and is exceptionally common to JS. If you want to avoid foot guns set validation criteria: lint, test automation, strong types, and so forth.

The thing is, a developer can do all these things and make ugly UXes. They could also do none of them and make brilliant ones.

> My repeated failure is not getting out of JS sooner.

Have to agree. You sound like a strong backend engineer who was trapped in a frontend engineers body for years.
> Unfortunately, the emulated VT102 is not connected through a real serial port, it’s connected through a PTY which (at least compared to what the VT102 expects) is basically infinitely fast.

I’ve thought before that you could have a couple of USB-to-RS232 adapters and connect them together?

What Linux needs is a real virtual serial driver. PTY isn’t it because it doesn’t fully emulate lower level aspects of RS-232 - it behaves differently from “connecting two RS-232 ports together”
most things work (better) on the server. makes sense to shift back there. React served a purpose, making the web feel more interactive in the early 2010s, but it's not an all in one solution. moreover, the web is just a frankenstein...
siphons are unintuitive.

Heck tons of M.E. is unintuitive. Maybe its because I grew up in a world with plastic trim covering everything. Only after being a practicing mechanical design engineer for a few years did I start to pick up on this stuff. They barely teach it in school, the barely teach it in the real world, exposure is the only real way. If there isnt an economic reason to learn it, what is the point?

"its kewl"

uh... right.. lots of stuff is cool
Is matchmaking the process of players "always [being] sent to the datacenters with the best chance of having low latency"?

EDIT: No, it seems that it's literally grouping players together in multiplayer games (but doing so in a way where latency between players is minimized.)
The same reasoning that makes mountain climbing legal but street drugs illegal, I imagine.
CVTs are universally reviled by the people I associate with, but we're all "car people", so it might just be bias.

The problem is they only really work in anemic drive-trains because they can't handle high amounts of torque.
The AGI party might be cancelled. But the current strengths of LLMs still are summarization, analogy, templating and search. Which can solve a lot of business problems already.

My hot take is that UX is the biggest limiter for current LLM products other than chatGPT. Chat has too much friction for many use cases, we need to find better interfaces that are more visual and faster to interact with. Spending $100M to gain .1% on MMLU is a waste of time in comparison.
Reuters.
It needs prescription, correct?
How hard is it to introduce permanent mutations to DNA in adults, across every cell in the body? That seems like the holy grail of gene editing to me!
Can a ramp pump be used as a booster pump?
I feel the word "impact" is used to justify bending the role of engineering. It's like going to a restaurant and instead of ordering from the menu you ask for "something that will satisfy me and is worth my money"... to which the response would be "just tell me what you want". In the same way software companies ask engineers to create "impact" and "business value"... how about you just tell the engineer what you want.
The Napoleon of Your Living Room
You take it for this purpose or why?
What a weird article with weird statements and conclusions. If GPT-5 or whatever it would be called comes out as a failure, only then you could have a chance at concluding what the title says. Also multimodality, sensor input data, etc besides just text for the same model has a potential to generate a lot more training data. Eventually the model could get the exact same input as we humans get from sight, hearing and other sensors.

To me there is still so much left to do.

And even if we truly did multiple laps over all the data in the World there are still different new architectures and strategies left to try.
TL;DR:

The author, working at eEye in 2006, found what seemed like a big zero-day in Office 2007, but it only worked with a debugger attached.

Not wanting to admit it wasn't a real exploit, the eEye team pulled all-nighters for several days and found a real bug in Microsoft Publisher where SafeInt wasn't enabled for a specific structure.

They found a valid exploit (CVE-2007-1754) which got patched in MS07-037. And he regrets causing Microsoft's David LeBlanc to cut his vacation short.
"Event driven architecture ". Mēh!

There is no avoiding it when dealing with, erm, events.

Events are things that happen that you cannot predict exactly when, where, and what.

The user clicked the mouse

The wind changed direction

Using Events to signal state change from one part of a system to another is a bad idea. Use a function call.

A rule of thumb is if the producer and the consu,er are in the same system then "Event Driven Architecture " is the anti pattern
Except for the many that seem to be fiction...

Anyway, good point of view that you brought up.
such laws are unlikely to be implemented as temporary measures, which op specifically talks about.
From the article: "Now ME firmware includes a full-fledged operating system with processes, threads, memory manager, hardware bus driver, file system, and many other components."
This was a very helpful explanation. I appreciate it.
...happen too late
Yes, but much more too.

The example here is really simplified to focus mostly on the finding datacenters with low latency problem, but it could also include things like matching players of similar skill together, finding a set of players that would make balanced teams, making sure that players who are partied up together play in the same match and so on.

Basically, just like matchmaking in real life. It's the thing that works out groups of players who should play together in a match.
Thanks! No idea what happened here but it's prob a css breakpoint glitch. I'll try to repro.
This is one of the dumbest and most obvious journal articles I've ever read.
There are a few people who are genetically immune to HIV, but it's quite rare. Whether everyone else is therefore genetically deficient is sort of a matter of perspective, I suppose.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innate_resistance_to_HIV
Foreign Components in Russian Weapons
Expect a new tsunami of Viagra spam in 3...2...1...
what are some of the highlights you learned? sorry werid phrazing right now
How dare you be pedantic about my pedantry
Sccache (from Mozilla is a drop in replacement)
It costs more to determine who should receive the benefit than to simply provide it for everyone. Who gives a shit if a rich kid gets a free school lunch? They have to be at school. Feeding everyone should be a cost of the education system, the same way keeping the lights on and the temperature moderate is. Or should kids start having to pay for the light above their desk? For each drink at the water fountain? Maybe we can use cameras and some AI to tally up the expected utilities bill for each student and send that to the parents.
What specifically? Topics here are very diverse.
whose the best supplier of calculator panels? do they grow on trees yet?
I've been fascinated by the genre of creepy "liminal space" pictures for ages because the universal nature of how offputting they are seems to transcend a lot of cultural barriers

I think that it actually boils down to a very deep seeded similar animalistic fear all of us have: the agoraphobic open spaces with no place to hide, lack of furniture or shelving to hide behind either, unreliable lighting with stark shadows that could hide danger, no windows or inability to judge the passage of time or ostensibly escape through. They're always desolate with no people around, and what's more, evidence that nobody's been through in ages so you can't even hope to stumble upon anyone. Abandoned places, dangerous decrepit old buildings, places too large to count on passing by another person, places abandoned at night because people have left.

In the end, you feel trapped like a rat in a shoebox with nowhere to go. If something trying to get you appeared, you'd have no options to run or fight back, and nobody to call out to for help.

one of my favourite series of images were of an american suburb, rows of identical houses with fences, far apart from each other so interaction with neighbours was minimal, short little trees, so everything is exposed. Because the construction was so new, nobody had moved in yet, so there were no cars, no lit up windows, absolutely no life. In lieu of walls keeping you trapped, the sheer size was the isolating factor: you could run away for 10 minutes and get nowhere.
What if one event should trigger many actions?
Idk about PS2, but N64 (a generation older, much slower) still doesn't have a cycle perfect emulator that runs in real time.

Remember that you can't just perfectly emulate the CPU, you must also perfectly emulate the GPU, since they share the memory bus so one can slow the other.